AI day: 14 releases, two security fixes elsewhere

Bitcoin#

• Alby Hub 1.24.3. UX refresh plus a Postgres-to-SQLite migration path; useful if consolidating an Alby Hub's backend storage.
• Keystone 3 3.1.4. Optimized SOL transaction parsing; Optimized TRON transaction parsing.
• NodeGuard 0.33.1. Adds auto-liquidity fill and per-provider max swap routing fee, useful for node operators managing liquidity providers.
• Lightning Terminal 0.17.7. Bundles Taproot Assets v0.8.6 and flips default Loop mode off on regtest/simnet; check config if testing Loop locally.
• Taproot Assets 0.8.6. Tightens proof verification and fixes RFQ/address-decoding edge cases; relevant for node operators running Taproot Assets with Lightning Terminal.

Nostr#

• Nostream 3.6.0. Minor Changes - 814 d11faf4 Thanks @Ferryx349!
• Chronicle 0.7.0. Dockerfile and entrypoint that build the.env file from the container environment, with a Docker README; The relay info reports the release number and the build commit.
• Nostream Website 1.2.4. Patch Changes - 837 ee7e06b Thanks @chappie-daemon!

Privacy#

• OnionShare 2.7. Security fix: a shared single file could be a symlink pointing at another file on disk.
• Element Web 1.12.32. Removes support for NEB starter links in messages, closing a spoofing/abuse vector.
• Obtainium 1.7.0. Lets users pick Shizuku or Dhizuku as the installer backend, giving more control over app install permissions on Android.
• Element X iOS 26.10.4. Run search index backfilling when the device is idle; Suggest recently visited rooms when forwarding messages.
• Bitwarden iOS Authenticator 2026.10.0. PM-43334 Add a sync-specific failure dialog to the vault list; PM-43440 Require "Text to share" for text send.
• Bitwarden iOS Password Manager 2026.10.0. Adds a clearer sync-error message with retry option; minor UX fix, no security change.
• Standard Notes Desktop 3.202.10. Fixes backups copy styling (7a6f8b8); Version bump only for package @standardnotes/desktop.
• Standard Notes Mobile 3.202.10. Version bump only for package @standardnotes/mobile
• Signal Android 8.32.1. A new and improved keyboard for emojis, stickers, and animated GIFs is our GIFt to you; For automatic updates, we recommend using Obtainium.

Self-hosting#

• StartOS start-cli 2.4.1. Start-cli 2.4.1 packs services built on images with absolute or..
• ntfy 2.31.1. Fixes the database-load bug that forced ntfy.sh to roll back v2.31.0.
• Home Assistant 2026.10.2. Fix IndexError on out-of-range heater levels in Tesla Fleet ( @sebr - 178049 ) ( tesla fleet docs ); Deduplicate sleepers within a single SleepIQ bed ( @derekcentrico - 181461 ) ( sleepiq docs ).
• N8n 2.43.7. 2.43.7 (2026-10-16) Features core: Suspend in-flight production executions at worker shutdown

AI#

• Open WebUI 0.12.3. Adds end-to-end encrypted chats, relevant for self-hosters wanting transport-level privacy on their instance.
• Cline Desktop 0.0.48. GPT-6 models (such as gpt-6-sol and gpt-6.1-sol) work on OpenAI and Azure OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
• Cline CLI 3.0.73. GPT-6 models (such as gpt-6-sol and gpt-6.1-sol) work on OpenAI and Azure OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
• Qwen Code 0.25.2-nightly.20261016.b4614845f0. Admit team plan approval into the journal-only interrupted-turn settle; Add bounded generated failure explorer views (PR4).
• Hugging Face Transformers 5.20.1. Adds support for Reflection AI's Beam model, a coding/agentic model.
• Ollama 0.40.6. Win: prevent orphaned runners; Gguf: add the q2 0 tensor and file types.
• langchain-core== 1.6.12. Changes since langchain-core==1.6.11 release(core): 1.6.12 propagate extras on content-block-start events
• opencode 1.19.3. Core Improvements - Configure model reasoning options to generate reasoning variants, replacing catalog variants while preserving your configured variant overrides.
• HelixML 2.12.35. Report sandbox OOM kills with ownership labels; Sync caps lock state and release held keys per viewer.
• Deepseek Harness 0.2.1-rc.1. "" @turtle1999; Agent,; @ZiyaZhang.
• llama.cpp b11706. MacOS Apple Silicon (arm64); MacOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED.
• OpenAgentCore 0.0.12-rc.2. PostgreSQL now comes from ghcr.io/minimax-ai/openagentcore/postgres, the official postgres:16-alpine image pinned by digest, so installs no longer need Docker Hub.
• Claude Code Action 1.0.252
• Cli 1.6.0. Install elevenlabs-cli 1.6.0 Install prebuilt binaries via shell script curl --proto ' =https ' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf | sh Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script powershell...

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