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Daily Brief Sat, Sep 26, 2026 2 min read

Privacy beat dominates with seven of fifteen releases

Bitcoin

Privacy

  • Nostr VPN 4.1.16. Fixes private exit-node discovery on iOS and Android; auto-collects pending earnings from expired seller channels; adds local wallet transaction history on macOS.
  • Signal Android 8.29.1. Media editor redesigned for tablets and foldables.
  • Joplin 3.7.21. Adds setting to hide AI Chat toolbar button; persists AI conversation history; adds chat switcher.
  • KeePassDX ๐Ÿ Mild Mouse. Fixes history deletion and validation button; adds error message for external database file hash modification.
  • Trilium 0.106.0. Matching; Punctuation-aware exact matching: =sync finds (sync), sync,, "sync".
  • Element Android 1.6.66. Updates banner for excluding insecure devices.
  • Am I Exposed 0.35.9. Am I Exposed v0.35.9

Self-hosting

AI

  • Qwen Code 0.24.6. Add the Hosted Harness private client; Reconcile UNKNOWN tool executions from Runtime evidence.
  • Cline Desktop 0.0.37. Adds About page in Settings.
  • Claude Agent Sdk Typescript 0.3.282. Adds support for strictKnownMarketplaces and blockedMarketplaces in host-supplied managedSettings; allowlist applies where admin policy sets none, blocklist adds to admin's.
  • llama.cpp b11191. Fixes unicode path handling on Windows; directory creation now creates last directory when no trailing separator is present.
  • Qwen Code Desktop 0.24.6. Adds managed runtime attestation client; web-shell can select time range on trajectory overview to narrow table.

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