Episode Details

### News - **0:00 Intro** This episode follows Nostr Compass #22 across top stories, shipping releases, in-development work, five new NIP proposals, and deep dives on NIP-78 and NIP-98. - **0:20 Nostr VPN v4.0.10 — eight releases, full FIPS migration** Nostr VPN shipped v4.0.1 through v4.0.10, with v4.0.8 swapping AEAD to BoringSSL ChaCha20-Poly1305 in ring 0.17 for roughly 2x TCP throughput. The week also rebuilt device pairing in v4.0.1, improved LAN discovery in v4.0.2, fixed NAT traversal in v4.0.6, added sendmmsg batching in v4.0.9, and overhauled pairing UX in v4.0.10. - **3:18 Marmot / White Noise — user blocking, video attachments, 31 MDK PRs** White Noise v2026.5.7+24 completes Marmot user blocking across invites, timelines, search, and notifications, with video attachments and offline notice coverage. Supporting work spans 31 merged PRs including MDK PR #258 and frontend fixes in PR #653, PR #644, and PR #635. - **5:31 Grain v0.6.0 — NIP-40, NIP-50, NIP-70, NIP-45** Grain v0.6.0 adds NIP-40 expiration, NIP-50 search, NIP-70 protected events, and NIP-45 count queries, plus safer defaults and improved backpressure handling. ### Releases - **7:33 Citrine v3.0.0-pre1 — built-in Tor, relay aggregation, Negentropy** Citrine v3.0.0-pre1 adds built-in Tor, relay aggregation, and NIP-77 Negentropy sync in PR #139, with Tor URL routing in PR #137 and battery improvements in PR #132. - **11:51 Amber v6.1.0-pre2 — new-app connection flow improvements** Amber v6.1.0-pre2 fixes bunker dialog lifecycle, invalid-request handling, intent rate limiting, and signing hot-path leaks in PR #430. - **13:38 Alby Hub v1.22.2 — AI & Agents page, Core Lightning support** Alby Hub v1.22.2 adds an AI and Agents page for MCP-compatible tools, on-chain wallet mode, transaction label improvements, settings redesign, and Core Lightning backend support alongside LND and LDK. - **14:54 Mostro — concurrent taker bonds, mostro-core v0.11.0** Mostro merged concurrent taker bonds in PR #733 with spec alignment in PR #735. mostro-core v0.11.0 adds bond actions and statuses in PR #144 and PR #143, with mostro-cli v0.15.0 following. - **16:29 Jumble — five releases, grouped notifications, Mac support** Jumble shipped v26.5.2 through v26.5.6 with grouped notifications, macOS zip auto-update support, emoji picker, recent search, and account persistence fixes after moving to a stable app:// origin. - **17:42 Nostrord — NIP-29 group share, media upload, Arch Linux packages** Nostrord shipped v1.0.0 through v1.0.2 with Arch packages in PR #44, media paste in PR #46, and NIP-29 group sharing in PR #49. - **19:37 FIPS v0.3.0 — cross-platform, Nostr peer discovery, LAN gateway** FIPS v0.3.0 adds Nostr-mediated peer discovery with STUN-assisted NAT traversal via kind 37195 adverts and NIP-59 signaling, plus a fips-gateway binary for unmodified LAN hosts and the same BoringSSL throughput improvements contributed from Nostr VPN. - **23:58 Camelus v1.10.1 — desktop builds for Windows & Linux** Camelus v1.10.1 adds Windows and Linux desktop builds beyond its Android distribution. - **24:36 Flotilla v1.8.0 — video calls, email rendering, room mentions** Flotilla 1.8.0 adds video calls in voice rooms, HTML email rendering via welshman updates, room mentions, expanded space search, native invite sharing, and always-visible calendar event dates in NIP-29 rooms. - **26:27 Calendar by Formstr v1.5.1 — appointment scheduling, Android sync** Calendar by Formstr shipped v1.5.0 and v1.5.1 with appointment scheduling in PR #89, Android calendar sync in PR #123, notifications in PR #130, and relay publish feedback in PR #118. ### Project Updates - **29:57 Amethyst — scheduled posts, NIP-9A community rules, desktop local relay** Amethyst merged 78 PRs including scheduled posts in PR #2765, embedded desktop relay support in PR #2841, and first client-side NIP-9A enforcement in PR #2798 through PR #2800. Security and media updates include log redaction in