**🟣 Nostr – Friday, 2 October 2026** **0xchat patches gift-wrap forgery bug** 0xchat shipped 1.5.6 on September 30/October 1 fixing a gift-wrap forgery flaw in its NIP-17 implementation, plus a Cashu P2PK oracle and WebView-signing fix, and stopped logging upload credentials and ecash tokens on release builds, a concrete hardening of the mainstream DM scheme rather than a shift between schemes.

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0xchat 1.5.6

0xchat 1.5.6 fixes relay reconnection backoff, security logging, failed message handling, and NIP-55 signer connection issues

**Amethyst, Buzz test interop live** Vitor Pamplona merged PR 4295 fixing cross-client bugs found testing Amethyst against Buzz Desktop: images weren't arriving (needed authenticated Blossom uploads), relay rejections showed as stuck "waiting," and nostr:nprofile mentions rendered as raw links instead of names, a rare direct two-client interop pass rather than a spec fight.

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fix(buzz): Buzz Desktop interop fixes from a live two-way test by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4295 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Drove Buzz Desktop (v0.5.26, test workspace test-amy-buzz) against Amethyst on the emulator and tested both directions: messages, reactions, edits,...

**Amethyst extends NIP-17 groups** Amethyst also merged a NIP-17 group chat subject-rename system message (PR 4304) on October 1, continuing to build out gift-wrap group features alongside its Marmot and Concord group tracks rather than retiring NIP-17 for groups.

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Add NIP-17 group chat subject rename system message by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4304 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Summary Adds support for rendering NIP-17 group chat subject (name) changes as system messages. When a participant renames a conversation, the chan...

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