#Amethyst v1.12.0: Cashu, CLINK, Private Posts, Music, Podcasts, Apps & Workouts
Highlights:
- Adds Cashu wallet: in-app NIP-60 wallet.
- Adds CLINK payments: a new Lightning rail
- Adds App Store Feed form ZapStore
- Adds Private posts: post, reply, react, and zap privately via NIP-59.
- Adds Workout Feed: record and browse NIP-101e workouts in a dedicated feed.
- Adds Reaction cards: likes, zaps, and nutzaps render as rich gradient cards.
- Adds Music Feed: publish and browse music tracks and playlists.
- Adds Podcasts Feed: a new NIP-F4 podcast feed with favorites and an inline player.
- Adds support for hashtag labels to posts after they're published.
- Adds AppFunctions to allow Gemini to call Amethyst locally.
## New Features
### Payments
- Adds unified zap popup for lightning, CLINK, on-chain, and Cashu in one place
- Quick 3-state toggle to quickly pick the source of your zap
- Defaults to options that both receiver and sender can use
- The payment rails now appear live as they resolve.
- Adds full Cashu support (NIP-60/61)
- A full in-app ecash wallet, beyond the previous redeem-only support.
- Create and add a Cashu wallet, with its own screen and settings.
- Browse and pick mints from a mint directory.
- Mint ecash from Lightning and melt it back to Lightning.
- Send and receive ecash tokens.
- Top up a mint from a standalone screen.
- See per-mint balances on the wallet.
- Send NIP-61 nutzaps from the wallet, with a Lightning-style send progress bar.
- Cashu top-up is crash-safe on retry.
- Funds are checkpointed the instant they leave the wallet.
- Adds full CLINK support
- Pay and get paid through CLINK Offers and Debits.
- Render all schemas inside of Notes
- Profiles can show a tappable CLINK Offer chip.
- Set one-time or recurring limits.
- Resolve a person's payment offer by NIP-05.
- A debit connection pulls funds only up to the cap you set.
- Adds Unified Send Payment screen.
- Long-press any chip in the Profile or this screen to copy that destination.
- Use Lightning, CLINK, on-chain Bitcoin, and Cashu/nutzaps from one place.
- A "Pay from" selector chooses which wallet the money leaves.
- Pay Bitcoin payment targets from the in-app on-chain wallet.
### Posting & Privacy
- Adds private posts and private replies
- Create and view private posts, replies, and reactions.
- Customize who the receivers are for posts and replies.
- Adds support for Private reactions to all feeds
- React and un-react privately automatically.
- Safeguards prevent private content from leaking publicly.
- Enhances support for Private zaps
- Zaps on private notes are forced private.
- Replies to a private zap route into the sender's DM room.
- Adds support for NIP-32 hashtag labels.
- Add first-class hashtag labels to posts.
- Follow-hashtag labels publish through your outbox relays.
- They surface in the hashtag feed.
- Enhances post's compose screen
- Richer notify chips in the new-post screen.
- Modernized inline payment cards that show their descriptions.
- Enhances hidden words screen
- A per-row unblock button on the Hidden Words screen.
- Remove a single muted word without clearing the whole list.
### Chat & DMs
- Re-engineers DM bootstrapping with dynamic loading
- Only loads the last 7 days worth of DMs.
- Per-relay download windows realign when DMs are pruned.
- A slow Tor connect is no longer mislabeled as "stalled".
- The paused-history card shows parked relays.
- The sync marker is now tappable.
- Adds support for pinning DM conversations
- Pins sync across devices via a NIP-78 app-data event.
- Adds support for @-mention search in Marmot (MLS) group chats
- Search and tag users in the group composer.
- Conversation participants rank first.
- They are marked with an "In this chat" chip.
- Fixes quoted chat messages being rendered as posts
- Quotes render inside chat bubbles with the proper chat-reply design.
- The redundant reply row is skipped when the quote is already inline.
- Fixes MLS reliability
- Unread state now persists across app restarts.
- The kind:445 backlog is no longer refetched on every launch.
- Adds Share to DM ("Send as DM") flow
- A new Android share-sheet target, alongside "New Post".
- Share text, an image, or a video from another app into a DM.
- Pick a recent conversation; the chat composer opens pre-filled and editable.
### Reading & Feeds
- Enhances Tor reliability and connection speed
- Connects faster by reusing the network directory between launches (about 3× quicker on warm starts).
- Watchtower rebuilds Tor automatically when it looks connected but no relay traffic is flowing.
- Recovers from stuck entry guards that could leave Tor unable to connect across app restarts.
- No longer hangs on a hostile network — bootstrap gives up after 60s and retries instead of wedging.
- Holds Tor-routed relays until the proxy is ready, cutting wasted battery and network on launch and Wi-Fi/cellular switches.
- Stays stable through self-heal resets and network changes.
- Adds new Notifications top nav filter
- The old "Global" tab is split into "Curated" and a raw "Global".
- Curated is the current system that requires your involvement on a thread to notify you.
- Global shows everything, including all hell threads.
- Replies to likes/zaps now reach the notifications feed.
- Adds Reply to zaps and reactions from the notification screen
- Pre-loads reply threads from the feed so opening a thread is faster.
- Adds support for LaTeX math in notes.
- Use `$...$` for inline equations.
- Use `$$...$$` for block equations.
- Adds support for first-class reaction rendering
- Reactions and zaps anchor their own thread view.
- Reactions, zaps, likes, and nutzaps render as gradient cards.
- Each card embeds the post it's about.
- A single tap on a like/zap chip opens that event's thread.
- Adds support for Workouts (new, NIP-101e)
- Create and publish workout records (kind 1301), interoperable with the RUNSTR dialect.
- Browse a dedicated Workouts feed.
- Filter by exercise type, author, community, or hashtag.
- Richer workout cards: a hero metric, a fixed stats grid, splits-style breakdowns, and the source app.
- Adds support for Music (new)
- First-class support for tracks (kind 36787) and playlists.
- Browse Music Tracks and Music Playlists feeds.
- Publish a new track and create playlists.
- Add a track to a playlist from a bottom sheet.
- Adds support for Software Apps directory (new, NIP-82).
- Browse software applications (kind 32267).
- Filter by follows, author, hashtag, or global.
- An app detail screen shows screenshots and the author.
- Tap a screenshot to open it fullscreen.
- Enhances support for App recommendations (NIP-89).
- Editable recommendations on your profile.
- Tiered ordering in the recommendations editor.
- Richer app cards with author attribution.
- Adds support for Birdex species collections (kind 12473).
- Adds support for Agora fundraiser campaigns (kind 33863).
- Adds Audio visualizer picker
- A live visualizer for audio-only notes.
- Real-time FFT spectrum from the track's decoded audio (no mic, no new permission).
- Styles: Classic (default), Spectrum Bars, Color Waves, Radial Ring, Aurora Glow, Static, and Off.
- Each style has a live preview in the settings picker.
- Your choice syncs across devices via NIP-78.
- Fills the art area in fullscreen and shows a fixed strip in the feed.
- Adds support for Podcasts (new, NIP-F4)
- Dedicated podcast and episode feeds, filterable by follows, authors, communities, or hashtags.
- Mark podcasts as favorites.
- Tap a podcast to open a show screen with all its episodes and an inline player.
- Translatable show and episode descriptions on the feed cards.
- The episode audio player is squared so the controls get room.
## Improvements and Bug fixes
- Adds Searchable settings.
- A search box filters rows by title and curated keywords.
- Supports prefix matching and an empty-state.
- Adds Swipe for brightness and volume in fullscreen video.
- Fixes Quote-reposts (NIP-18) not counting in the repost counter.
- Hides reposts of unsupported kinds instead of showing blank cards.
- Fixes URLs glued to other words: the "fix missing spaces" pass now indexes URLs by their first character.
- Search no longer matches text in `p`, `e`, `a`, `alt`, or `client` tags.
- Media uploads in anonymous posts use the ephemeral signer.
- Fixes anonymous profile zaps being encrypted as private zaps.
- The Cashu wallet row shows the Cashu logo instead of a generic icon.
- On-chain zaps highlight the bolt and show as pending in the counter.
- Removed the wallet options reordering drag-and-drop UI.
- De-duplicates preset amounts in Zap Settings
- Fixes the chip-drag interaction in Zap Settings.
- Fixes the live-stream chat relay fallback
- Zap and non-zap polls now share the same option text when composing a post
- Fixes Legacy NIP-71 videos to resolve their address from the real `d` tag.
- Fixes the default media server resetting on every launch.
- Fixes account cache: Deleting an account now clears its cached entry.
- Adds support for birthdays on profile
- Fixes cache child back-references when deleting notes
- Detaches on-chain-zap, nutzap, and channel sources on cache deletion
- Honors relay connection backoff during Tor bootstrap.
- Heals sockets opened on the wrong transport by rebuilding them.
- Recovers relay connections after the device wakes from sleep.
- Keeps a relay's reconnect backoff from resetting on a momentary connection.
- Honors the "Money operations via Tor" setting for payments and wallet relay connections
- Reduces runtime log noise.
- Fixes several edge-case crashes.
- Fixes IPv6-literal URLs in posts
- Reorganizes changelog into versioned files
- Audit fixes across the private-posts, CLINK, and MLS paths.
- Adds off-main-thread crypto and leak prevention.
- Hides share/bookmark on private notes.
## Desktop
- Adds image compression on upload:
- An Image Compression settings panel.
- Per-post quality presets.
- Batch progress in the composer.
- A preview-then-publish gate.
- A fail-loud dialog if compression fails.
- Adds new media player.
- Replaced vlcj with kdroidFilter's ComposeMediaPlayer.
- Uses a JCodec/FFmpeg backend.
- Adds Group DM parity with Android.
- Set and update a group name (subject) on encrypted group chats.
- Create a group by selecting multiple recipients in the New DM dialog.
- Rooms are marked read when opened.
- Messages from muted authors no longer mark a room unread.
- Desktop now handles group direct messages the same way.
- Adds Replies tab on the user profile.
- Feeds also show reply context (parent embed plus label) inline.
- Adds Feed refresh.
- Inline card expansion.
- A "New posts" chip that slides in from the top.
- Stick-to-top on prepend.
- Wired-up like/zap/comment actions.
- Smaller fixes.
- Copy a Blossom image URL on click, with a hover tooltip and snackbar.
- Collapsed-sidebar polish: tighter ripple and hover tooltips.
- Amethyst logo on the Tor and account-loading splashes.
- Restored inter-word spacing in rich text with mentions/hashtags.
- Fixed parent-author metadata loading.
- Adds Unhealthy-relay review.
- A banner and popup that flag relays behaving poorly.
- Adds Namecoin diagnostics.
- The diagnostics card was ported from the Android settings.
## Cli
- Adds `amy offer` — CLINK offer info and request, including `--payer-data`.
- Adds `amy debit` — CLINK debit info, pay, and budget.
- Adds `amy zap --with <ndebit>` — settle a zap invoice via a CLINK debit.
- Adds `amy offer discover <nip05>` — resolve a profile's offer through NIP-05.
- Closed CLINK parity gaps (profile offer, follow, offer pay, GFY detail).
- Adds a clink-headless interop harness.
## Quartz
- Adds Relay-server toolkit.
- Added a `Flow<Event>` REQ-responder SPI with a storage-free dispatch engine.
- Added NIP-50 search parsing.
- Added suspendable auth hooks.
- Split engine/backend/policy packages.
- Adds NIP-45 approximate COUNT
- Added HyperLogLog with wire support.
- Enhances NIP-11 documents.
- Added the missing `banner` field.
- Relay limits are now a single source of truth served over NIP-11.
- Adds Relay Connection observability.
- Stable per-connection ids.
- A per-connection `RequestContext` threaded into the event source.
- Auth identity moved from policy into connection scope.
- Fixes NIP-46 double-resume and retry id-reuse race
- Fixes NIP-46 error serialization issues
- Fixes `q` (quote) tags being dropped by an inverted guard.
- Fixes `CommunityRulesEvent` and CLINK DTO serializers
- Improves Relay failure logs
- Fixes disk cache to recreate cache dir if cleared at runtime
## Build & Documentation
- **Dependency updates.**
- Bumped Kotlin, Compose Multiplatform 1.11.1, Coil 5, OkHttp 5, Jackson, AndroidX, Firebase, and more.
- Adapted the Blossom interceptor test to OkHttp 5's `Interceptor.Chain`.
- **iOS CI.**
- `commons` `commonTest` now compiles and runs on iOS targets.
- CI runs the shared `commonTest` on iOS for `:commons`.
- **Amethyst → commons migration (KMP/iOS).**
- Moves shared, CLI-safe code out of the Android app into `commons`.
- Decryption caches (Mute/People/Community, Hashtag, Favorite-algo, Trust-provider).
- Models: InterestSet, LabeledBookmarkList, NwcWalletEntry, CashuToken, OwnedEmojiPack.
- The link-preview fetcher, relay broadcast tracker, and CLI-safe util extensions.
- `HtmlParser` made KMP (dropped its Java `Charset` dependency).
- A consolidated package taxonomy with a new architecture doc.
- **Licensing.**
- Replaced the GPLv3 `TarsosDSP` dependency with an in-house pitch shifter for the voice anonymizer.
- Keeps the project MIT-clean.
- **Misc.**
- Added a monochrome outline Cashu icon to the Material Symbols set.
- Renamed `ReplaceableVideoEvent` to `AddressableVideoEvent` for spec accuracy.
- Split the monolithic CHANGELOG into per-version files under `docs/changelog/`.
- `versionName` branch detection sets the git cwd, so it works inside git worktrees.
- **SonarQube cleanup (S1871).**
- Merged duplicate `when`/`if` arms across the codebase.
- Migrated `Log` calls to the lambda overload.
- **Documentation.**
- Updated Privacy Policy to the new requirements from the PlayStore
- Documented an Amethyst→commons migration plan and target package hierarchy.
- Refreshed several Claude skills, documentation and the Namecoin design doc.
- Added a rule requiring a license check when adding any new dependency.
## Contributors
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@Vitor Pamplona
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@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
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@Minced Beef Energy
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@greenart7c3
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@KotlinGeek
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@v
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