Fri, May 22, 2026

The wire splits across four beats with no dominant theme. Lightning sees two protocol releases: Core Lightning ships a second release candidate for v26.06, Eclair finalizes splicing, taproot channels, and zero-fee commitments. Bitcoin tools add Silent Payments receiving support in Sparrow and patch Ledger Live on desktop and mobile. Privacy work spans three categories: Cashu TS adds onchain mint and melt, Vanadium updates Chromium and sensor permissions, Mostro Mobile and Tuta Calendar ship minor updates, Logseq pushes a nightly. AI releases bundle infrastructure changes in llama.cpp, Jan, and ElevenLabs JS, plus a DeepMind program announcement without code. No coordination between items. No security advisories.
Fri, May 22, 2026

Bitcoin

  • Sparrow Wallet 2.5.0. - Add Silent Payments (SP) receiving wallets, including support for airgapped hardware wallet signers - Add frigate.2140.dev as an SP-capable public Electrum server and auto-select it as required - Add a BIP32 derivat…

Silent Payments receiving wallets now supported, including airgapped hardware signers. Use frigate.2140.dev as the SP-capable Electrum server.

Lightning

Second RC for v26.06; removed deprecated fields from GRPC and docs. Test before the stable cut.

  • Eclair 0.14.0. This release contains the final version of channel splicing, taproot channels and zero-fee commitments.

Final release of splicing, taproot channels, and zero-fee commitments. Operators should upgrade to production-ready versions of all three features.

Privacy

Library now supports onchain mint and melt operations. Mints running Cashu TS can add Bitcoin L1 flows.

  • Vanadium 149.0.7827. Changes in version 149.0.7827.22.0: update to Chromium 149.0.7827.22 hide removed settings from search results properly integrate permission check for the GrapheneOS per-app Sensors permission with the per-site Motion…

Chromium updated to 149.0.7827.22. GrapheneOS users should upgrade for sensor permission integration fixes.

  • Mostro Mobile 1.2.7. Mostro Mobile v1.2.7 A new version of the Mostro P2P Bitcoin trading app is here!
  • Tuta Calendar 348.260519.0. What’s new - Always allow creating event repeating on the fourth occurrence of a weekday 10833 - Handle event and alarm creation as one seamless operation 10568 Bugfixes - Error when duplicating events with alarms 988…
  • Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release 20260522. This is a nightly release of the Logseq desktop app.

AI

  • llama.cpp b9277. tests : move save-load-state from examples to tests ( 23336) tests : move save-load-state from examples to tests - Move examples/save-load-state/ to tests/test-save-load-state.cpp - Remove subdirectory reference from…

Moves save-load-state from examples to tests directory. No functional change for inference workflows.

  • Jan 0.8.0. What’s Changed feat: add MiniMax as a predefined cloud provider with M2.7 default by @octo-patch in https://github.com/janhq/jan/pull/7738 feat: replace Foundation Models Swift HTTP server with direct Rust FFI via fm-…

Replaces Swift HTTP server with direct Rust FFI via fm-rs. Foundation model workflows may see latency changes.


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