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Daily Brief Wed, Oct 21, 2026 3 min read

Privacy and AI dominate, one security patch surfaces

Bitcoin

  • Bitkey App 2026.16.1. Flagged as this cycle's security patch; update without waiting for the next cycle.
  • Eclair 0.14.5. Security hardening patch release; Lightning node operators running Eclair should prioritize this update.
  • Cashu TS 4.12.0. Add verifyMintSignatures ahead of v5, deprecate hasValidDleq; Validate text fields when decoding a v4 token backport v4-dev.
  • Lightning Loop 0.35.1-beta. Instant Out swaps now check server invoices against a caller-set max fee before executing.

Nostr

  • Zap Store 1.1.3. App identity now survives catalog signing-key rotation, and installed files resolve by hash across relays.
  • Alby JS SDK 8.1.0. Add recordEvent handler to NWCWalletService for request deduplication; Add optional since/until filter to NWCWalletService.subscribe.
  • Nostur 1.34.0. Improved navigation and media layouts for iPhone Duo; Option to crop photos to a square before posting.
  • YakiHonne Web 6.0.5. Added highlights, rendered everywhere with reactions, reposts, comments and zaps; Highlight any text in a note or an article and share it in a note.

Privacy

Self-hosting

  • Immich 3.3.4. Missing translation; More efficient person queries.
  • Syncthing 2.1.7. Handle missing max-sequence file entries; Avoid early garbage collection of deleted recv-enc files.

AI

Other

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