Daily Brief
Wed, Sep 16, 2026
3 min read
Privacy leads with eleven items, Bisq 2 ships Tor security patch
Privacy took the wire with eleven releases. Tor Browser reached 15.0.23. Bitwarden shipped web and server builds; Standard Notes pushed Desktop 3.202.5 and Clipper 1.1.600; Notesnook Android hit 3.4.13. Mullvad VPN tagged an Android release with a first-connection failure note for quantum-resistant and DAITA modes. SimpleX Chat issued beta.3 of 7.1.0. Logseq posted a nightly. BasicSwap DEX released 0.18.9 and Nostr VPN updated to 4.1.12. AI logged eight items, mostly tooling updates: llama.cpp, llamafile, ComfyUI, Ollama, Claude Agent SDK, Kimi Code, Maple, and an ElevenLabs CLI. Bitcoin had eight: Bisq 2 2.1.13 bundles the latest Tor security release. Cashu TS added draft Nutroot, BitBoxApp 4.52.0 introduced a mobile-only beta Lightning hot wallet, phoenixd fixed an electrum-client hang, and Envoy, Keystone 3, lightning-kmp, and Arkade TS SDK Swap all shipped point releases. Self-hosting brought four: n8n, Immich 3.2.2, Coolify, and Syncthing-Fork Android. Nostr had one: NYM Chat 3.75.545, a security hotfix.
Bitcoin Nostr Privacy Self-hosting AI
Bitcoin
Bisq 2 2.1.13 . Bundles latest Tor security release; operators should upgrade promptly.
Cashu TS 5.0.0-rc.10 . Adds draft Nutroot spec, gated behind version 3 BLS keysets.
BitBoxApp 4.52.0 . Bundles firmware v9.27.1 and adds a mobile-only beta Lightning hot wallet with send, receive, top-up, and withdrawal.
Envoy 2.3.4 . Envoy Android releases are now reproducible.
Keystone 3 3.0.8 . Details Web3: What's new 1.
Arkade TS SDK Swap 0.0.18 . Schedules delegation before VTXO expiry; enforces negotiated Lightning send refund delay.
Phoenixd 0.9.1 . Fixes hang issue with electrum client in native binaries.
lightning-kmp 1.13.1 . Publishes Linux arm64 binaries; uses CSPRNG in Noise handshake; updates electrum.acinq.co public key.
Nostr
Privacy
Self-hosting
N8n 2.40.0 . Preserves Anthropic thinking blocks across tool calls; guards against 429 errors on AI builder.
Immich 3.2.2 . Fixes reassign faces feature.
Coolify 4.3.21 . Restart limits now opt-in for applications, preview deployments, and service applications.
Syncthing-Fork Android 2.1.6 . Targets Android 17; adds local network permission in onboarding; NDK 30, Go 1.27.1.
AI
Ollama 0.34.2 . llama.cpp updates only.
Claude Agent Sdk Typescript 0.3.272 . Parity with Claude Code v2.1.272.
Kimi Code 0.43.1 . 3780 486dcd2 Thanks @Grapedge !
Maple 3.4.0 . New encrypted Transport V2 client; queued chat follow-ups; Agent Mode and account management improvements.
ComfyUI 0.36.0 . New model blueprints; AMD Windows VA quota bumped to 4TB.
llamafile 0.10.6 . llama.cpp update to b10441; zip entry window validation; guard against malformed zips.
llama.cpp b10988 . OpenCL MoE expert matmul selection by batch size for speculative decoding; gated prebuilt q4 0 MoE GEMM on routing count.
Cli 1.3.0 . Install elevenlabs-cli 1.3.0 Install prebuilt binaries via shell script curl --proto ' =https ' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf | sh Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script powershell...