Grain 0.8.0-rc3

Original release notes

GRAIN v0.8.0-rc3

Bringing the client to life - a real signer, a settings overhaul, and grain's own look Release candidate 9.17.2026 Full Changelog: https://github.com/0ceanSlim/grain/compare/v0.8.0-rc2...v0.8.0-rc3

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rc2 hardened the relay - durability, retention, and NIP-66 discovery under the hood. rc3 is the layer you actually touch: a real login flow powered by mill, a settings page reorganized into tabs, the NIP-66 monitors surfaced where you can see and refresh them, an owner-only moderation shortcut, and grain's own palette as the default look. If you're running the dev relay, this is the candidate to click around in.

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A real login - the mill signer (1.8.1)

Signing in is now handled by grain's own mill web component, wired to the relay's identity so the modal wears your relay's branding.

Branded, laid out as a grid. The modal picks up the relay's name and icon from NIP-11, opens with an "I'm new here" path up top, and lays the sign-in options out as tiles.
Platform-aware methods. Desktop leads with pomegranate (Google-backed FROST signing) and a browser extension (NIP-07); Android offers pomegranate + Amber (NIP-55); iOS offers pomegranate + private key. Everything else - remote bunker (NIP-46), private key, read-only - lives in an advanced menu so the front door stays uncluttered.
Terms & privacy links render in the modal footer when the relay advertises them in NIP-11.
The session layer learns two new signing methods (google, pomegranate) so grain can carry those identities like any other.

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Settings, reorganized into tabs

The settings page was one long scroll; it's now five tabs, with your session mode and signing method kept as a header strip.

My Relays Discovery Media Security Account. Each area stands on its own, and My Relays is further split into Mailboxes (NIP-65 outbox/inbox + NIP-17 DM), Lists (search, favorites, blocked, private), and App (plumbing + the fixed-relay override).
Deep links (the header's "Manage relays", the upload flow's "add a server") now open straight to the right tab.

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Monitors, surfaced (NIP-66)

rc2 taught grain to discover relays from NIP-66 monitors; rc3 puts that in front of you.

A live monitor-consensus strip on the Discovery tab - how many monitors grain trusts, how many relays they've reported, and how many are browsable - refreshing on the same interval as the pool overview.
A "Refresh discovery" button that runs a discovery pass on demand (new session-gated POST /api/v1/client/discover) so newly found relays surface without waiting on the periodic roll. The client status endpoint now also reports pool_monitors and pool_discovered.
The settings "Known" count now reflects the browsable set, matching the header instead of the much larger routing-directory union.

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One-click moderation for the relay owner

Viewing any author's profile while signed in as the relay owner now shows a Ban button that adds that pubkey to the relay blacklist via NIP-86 banpubkey. It's owner-only (resolved against the relay's NIP-11 owner) and never appears on your own account.

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grain's own look

Grain is the default theme. First-time visitors land on grain's palette - warm dark "wheat-field" surfaces with a green accent - instead of the old violet. Anyone who's picked a theme keeps their choice.
"Dark" is now a true neutral dark. The Dark theme was really a purple theme; it's been reworked into near-black graphite surfaces, neutral text, and a muted slate accent. Midnight remains the purple option; Matrix the neon-green one.
PWA chrome matches. The installed-app/address-bar color follows the grain palette rather than the old purple.

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Snappier event view

Opening a single event no longer waits out the full query window - the lookup returns as soon as the event id is found instead of blocking on the limit, so event pages load noticeably faster.

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Housekeeping

Recommended media servers and dev-relay references now point at oslim.dev (happytavern is being deprecated).
The roadmap was re-planned: v0.8 scope closed out, v0.9 split into 0.9.0 / 0.9.1 / 0.9.2, and v1.0 refilled.

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Upgrading from rc2

No config migration required. rc3 is client/frontend work on top of rc2's relay hardening - the durability, retention, and NIP-66 fixes from rc2 all carry forward unchanged.
Still a release candidate - please file anything you hit before the final v0.8.0.