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#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
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1. Coracle - 0.6.25
Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to harness the full power of multiple relays, allowing users to browse, filter, zap, and build custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This release, adds the display of “a” tags on highlights and disables imgproxy by default for improved performance and flexibility.
Developed by:
@hodlbod
Source:
GitHub
Release 0.6.25 · coracle-social/coracle
What's Changed
Show a tags on highlights
Disable imgproxy by default
Full Changelog: 0.6.24...0.6.25
2. Mostro - v0.15.0
Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange platform built on the Lightning Network and Nostr, enabling decentralized trading between users without intermediaries. This release introduces the removal of the OpenSSL dependency in favor of Rust TLS for improved security, adds manifest signature support, and refines order request handling. It also fixes issues related to trade index messaging and payment failure calculations, while improving dispute error messages and overall performance. This was the biggest release and the latest release was v0.15.1 last week.
Developed by:
@negrunch,
@Pinball Wizard,
@Catrya, Otso Hirvikangas
Source:
GitHub
Release v0.15.0 · MostroP2P/mostro
Verifying the Release
In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...
3. Flotilla - 1.3.1
Flotilla is an end-user Nostr client designed like Discord, using the concept of “relays as groups” to enable chat and community interactions. This release fixes a memory leak in the storage adapter and reduces the number of annoying toast messages, improving performance and user experience.
Developed by:
@hodlbod
Source:
GitHub
Release 1.3.1 · coracle-social/flotilla
What's Changed
Fix memory leak in storage adapter
Show fewer annoying toast messages
Full Changelog: 1.3.0...1.3.1
4. Bitchat - v1.4.4
Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global messaging, requiring no accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. This release focuses heavily on localization and modularization, adding new languages, unifying string handling, and refactoring modules like Tor and PeerID services. It also improves private chat deduplication, fixes stale messages and ghost peers, optimizes performance for location notes, enhances QR verification, and addresses various test and build issues to ensure a more stable, secure, and efficient messaging experience across platforms.
Developed by:
@jack
Source:
GitHub
Release 1.4.4 · permissionlesstech/bitchat
What's Changed
Include mermaid diagrams for packet structures by @FLAK-ZOSO in #666
Add base localization infrastructure and externalize strings b...
5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.13.25
Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, designed for anonymous and temporary messaging with Bitchat integration. In this release it added the ability to copy user public keys directly from context menus, introduced kind 10000 mute list support for blocking users and keywords, and fixed several bugs, including issues with blocked users’ nicks, geohash explorer resets, and nostr profile data preservation. This was the biggest release and there were also some multiple releases last week.
Developed by:
@Luxas
Source:
GitHub
Release v2.13.25 · Spl0itable/NYM
New: allow copying user pubkey to clipboard from context menu
New: added copy pubkey to user context menu and updated commands to support pubkey
Ne...
6. Gitplaza - v0.14.0
GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in handling Git-related activities within the Nostr ecosystem. In this release it added features to show repository topics, edit repository events, list maintainers, display all Git servers and websites in the repo view, include nutzap events in the inbox, and populate the hashtag filter with followed hashtags, while improving performance by preventing README.md requests from blocking subsequent actions.
Developed by:
@dluvian
Source:
#tools_nostr_recap
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
- Total zaps: 40,668, compared to 37,499 zaps the week before
- Total zap senders: 2,668, compared to 2,847 plebs the week before
- Total zap amount: 8,246,204, compared to 6,831,789 sats the week before
- Total events: 2,764,277, compared to 2,654,882 events the week before
Many thanks to 
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
- Total zaps: 37,499, compared to 35,950 zaps the week before
- Total zap senders: 2,847, compared to 2,677 plebs the week before
- Total zap amount: 6,831,789, compared to 6,292,007 sats the week before
- Total events: 2,651,955, compared to 2,507,267 events the week before
Many thanks to 
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
- Total zaps: 35,950, compared to 34,070 zaps the week before
- Total zap senders: 2,677, compared to 2,609 plebs the week before
- Total zap amount: 6,292,007, compared to 10,279,977 sats the week before
- Total events: 2,502,744, compared to 2,282,427 events the week before
Many thanks to 
