Articles tagged #foundation

Thu, Jul 9, 2026

Two security patches headline the wire: BitBox02 Firmware 9.26.2 ships a bootloader update, SecureDrop 2.16.1 closes out the Privacy security work. The rest scatters across five beats without a unifying theme. Bitcoin Core 31.1 arrives with no visible summary detail. Foundation Envoy 2.3.0 and Passport Prime 1.3.0-beta land on the same day, both major releases. Stratum v2 SRI 1.11.0 focuses on binary reliability and fuzz coverage. LNbits 1.5.5 adds Revolut and Square as fiat funding methods. AI sees four maintenance items from LangChain and llama.cpp, no model work. The remaining releases are incremental: Yubico Authenticator, rclone, Nextcloud Desktop, Obtainium, Cashu TS. Vector 0.4.0 is the lone Nostr entry with no technical detail in the notes.

Freedom.Tech · Jul 09, 2026

Wed, Jul 8, 2026

Privacy and AI each claim four releases. The privacy slate is light: Tuta ships sync improvements and the first beta of email migration, Vexl bumps to 1.43.9, Logseq issues a nightly build. The YubiKey item is enterprise noise, not a technical release. AI is all infrastructure: llama.cpp fixes speculative-decoding model loading, MLX bumps to 0.32.0, and the VLA harness adds a LeRobot bridge with reproducible Docker. SeedSigner ships 80 PRs from 20 contributors and 13 new translation teams. Aqua Wallet patches bugs. Nym Binaries publishes 2026.13-ziller. No Lightning protocol changes, no Bitcoin Core movement, no model releases.

Freedom.Tech · Jul 08, 2026

Tue, Jul 7, 2026

Eight of fifteen items came from the privacy beat. Bisq 1.10.3 closes trade protocol and message authentication gaps found during audit. The rest are maintenance: Pi-hole shell script fixes, Thunderbird Android crash patches, Standard Notes Super editor tweaks, and a Radicale CalDAV extension. The AI cluster is shallow: Mistral's Python client adds telemetry PII redaction, llama.cpp merges a Metal kernel, and three minor versioning bumps. Bull Bitcoin propagates a BDK dependency update. Jumble issued a Nostr client tag. Anthropic published a Claude case study covering Alberta government security scanning. No Lightning, no protocol work.

Freedom.Tech · Jul 07, 2026

Mon, Jul 6, 2026

Four releases across two beats. restic 0.19.1 is the sole privacy item. AI infrastructure supplies the rest: two LangChain partner modules and a llama.cpp fix for tensor-split parameters affecting draft models. No protocol work, no CVEs, no Lightning. The signal is shallow. Sunday's inactivity carried forward.

Freedom.Tech · Jul 06, 2026

Fri, Jul 10, 2026

Seven AI releases dominate the count, but most are maintenance: koboldcpp fixes terminal output for thinking traces, llm CLI patches a JSON error on empty tool-call arguments, ElevenLabs JS bumps to 2.57.0, and llama.cpp adds Hexagon tiling for unary ops. Dify ships an experimental Agent interface with a malicious-user warning. The sole AI news item is an Anthropic reflection feature. Privacy logs four entries: OpenAI now requires hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members, BAT Roadmap 4.0 introduces agentic payments and a BravePay stablecoin protocol, BasicSwap DEX hits 0.17.0, and Session Desktop patches to 1.18.1. Nostr contributes five releases, headlined by Lightning.Pub's first tagged version, a Nostr-native LND wrapper for account operators.

Freedom.Tech · Jul 10, 2026