Sat, May 16, 2026

AI volume continues. Five of twelve items came from AI tooling: vLLM, llama.cpp, InvokeAI, Cline CLI, and a Databricks GPT-5.5 integration. The rest scattered across three privacy releases, two Nostr clients, one Lightning channel manager, and one Bitcoin hardware wallet. Bisq shipped a hardening release after a recent security incident. Miniflux now requires discoverable WebAuthn credentials for login. No protocol layer work. No Core. No Lightning spec activity.
Sat, May 16, 2026

Bitcoin

  • Bitkey App 2026.9.1. Release Notes Access the Bitkey release notes to view the features included in this release.

Lightning

Fixes invoice expiry calculation in rebalance flows; check logs if rebalance operations have been timing out unexpectedly.

Nostr

  • Alby JS SDK 8.0.0. chore: update publish workflow to support npm OIDC ( 559 ) chore: update publish workflow to support npm OIDC fix: re-enable test and use correct setup-node
  • Amethyst 1.09.1. What’s Changed Rename onRefresh callback to avoid shadowing parameter by @vitorpamplona in https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/pull/2912 Fix desktop app ProGuard build with Compose 1.11.0 by @vitorpamplona in ht…

Privacy

  • Miniflux 2.3.0. Security Only discoverable WebAuthn credentials (resident keys / passkeys) are supported for login.

Login now requires discoverable WebAuthn credentials. Non-passkey workflows will break; enroll a passkey before upgrading.

  • Bisq 1.10.0. Bisq 1.10.0 follows the recent security incident with a focused hardening release that improves trade protocol security, network message validation, release verification, and hardening against supply chain attacks.

Security-focused release following a recent incident. Hardens trade protocol, network message validation, and release verification. Upgrade recommended.

AI

  • vLLM 0.21.0. Highlights This release features 367 commits from 202 contributors (49 new)!
  • llama.cpp b9174. ui: Restructure repo to use tools/ui folder and ui / UI / llama-ui / LLAMA UI naming ( 23064) webui: Move static build output from tools/server/public to build/ui directory refactor: Move to tools/ui refactor: rename…

Moves web UI output directory and renames CMake variables. Existing build scripts may need path adjustments.

  • InvokeAI Version 6.13.0. InvokeAI v6.13.0 (release candidate 3) This release of InvokeAI offers support for a variety of new models, including those that are remotely hosted by external providers such as GPT Image.

Adds support for remotely hosted models including GPT Image. No change if running local-only workflows.

  • Cline CLI 3.0.3. - Add –worktree flag that auto-creates a fresh git worktree under /.cline/worktrees/ and runs the task there.

Adds a worktree flag for isolated task execution. Useful for parallel task runs without branch pollution.

  • Databricks brings GPT 5.5. Databricks uses GPT-5.5 for enterprise agent workflows after the model set a new state of the art on the OfficeQA Pro benchmark.

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