Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Safe 2.0.0. Compact Block Filters now default; existing users see migration prompt.
- Keystone 3 2.5.0. Improved Dice Roll Entropy Validation; Improved Unlock Passcode Verification.
- Specter Desktop 2.1.10. Deps: bump hwi 2.4.0 - 3.1.0 (drops Python 3.7/3.8); Bump Spectrum to 0.8.0.
Lightning
- NodeGuard 0.25.2. Fixes probe kill races, oscillation, double-pay, and same-peer rebalance attempts.
Freedom Tech
- Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data. Supreme Court rules Fourth Amendment covers short-term location tracking.
Privacy
- Thunderbird for Android Thunderbird Beta 21.0b2. Fixes wrong-account folder management and color-change crash.
- Proton Mail Android 7.10.1. Sidebar folders now collapse and expand; fixes long screenshot and expiration picker bugs.
- Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release 20260629. This is a nightly release of the Logseq desktop app; It's unstable compared to the official releases, use it with caution !.
- The GPT-5.6 rollout is another example of why European businesses can’t rely on US tech. Commentary on US government restrictions affecting GPT-5.6 release in Europe.
AI
- Vla Evaluation Harness 0.3.0. Adds SQLite recording and experiment tracking for observability.
- vLLM 0.24.0. 571 commits, 77 new contributors; no specific feature called out in summary.
- llama.cpp b9840. Adds DeepSeek V4 conversion, graph input, rope, and state save-load; supports pro model.
- Open WebUI 0.10.0. Adds team folder sharing.
- InvokeAI 6.13.5. Bug fixes and stability; no feature work.
- Checkpoint Engine 0.4.2-rc0. Exposes ParameterServer metadata via HTTP for cross-process join.
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