nostr.blue 0.8.16 is now live on the web and zapstore! This release brings two major new features alongside a significant wallet upgrade and a host of reliability improvements. The first big addition is a Quran Reader, powered by the generous free API at https://alquran.cloud/api. You can browse all 114 surahs with Meccan, Medinan, and Juz tabs, read Arabic alongside your choice of translation in a split view, and listen to verse-by-verse audio from multiple reciters integrated right into the music player. Surahs can be downloaded for offline reading (IndexedDB on web, SQLite on desktop). You can highlight ayahs using NIP-84 and share them as notes, or select passages and ask AI about them. There's also full-text search across cached surahs. The second is Places — an interactive Leaflet map that queries Nostr for kind 37515 place events using geohash prefixes, cross-references them with BTCmap for bitcoin-accepting merchants, and enriches listings with OpenStreetMap data. You get amenity filtering (restaurants, cafes, pharmacies, etc.), distance sorting, opening hours with live open/closed status, and reverse geocoding for location search. You can add new places right from the map with full GeoJSON support. On the podcast side, V4V boosts now support multi-recipient splits with direct keysend payments. If you have a wallet connected via NWC, hitting boost pays every recipient their fair share — node pubkeys get keysend with bLIP-0010 TLV metadata, and lightning addresses get resolved automatically. The zap dialog shows per-recipient progress so you can see exactly who got paid. The Cashu ecash wallet has been upgraded to CDK's new WalletRepository API, replacing the deprecated MultiMintWallet. This brings two-phase melt operations (prepare + confirm), IndexedDB persistence for sagas/proof reservations/KV store, crash-proof saga recovery, and offline token auto-redemption when you come back online. There's also new P2PK and P2BK locking support with configurable lock durations for sending locked ecash. Behind the scenes, feed loading is lighter with reduced page sizes and memoized rich content parsing. Thread display uses BFS discovery with root-based streaming for more reliable replies. Pagination now detects 6-hour gaps to prevent skipping content, and future-dated events are filtered out across all viewers. Note card modals have been simplified to a single state machine, embedded notes now use the profile cache chain instead of hitting relays, and reposts include proper relay URL hints per NIP-18. As always, we're continuing to expand our tester base for Google Play. If you'd like to help, enroll at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.nostr.blue

nostr.blue 0.8.15 is now live on the web and zapstore! This release introduces a unified address routing system that changes how content is shared and discovered. Every Nostr event type — notes, articles, streams, polls, calendar events, wiki pages, code repos, and more — now resolves through a single /:naddr route instead of separate per-type URLs. Old-style links like /calendar/:naddr still work and automatically redirect, so nothing breaks. Alongside this, NIP-50 search has been completely overhauled with a query parser supporting operators like since:7d, kind:1, from:npub..., and #tag, with engagement-ranked results and saved history. New features include NIP-29 group chat with full messaging, admin management, and sidebar integration; a /games section with NIP-64 chess; and a weather dashboard with geocoding, hourly/weekly forecasts, and a NIP-66 relay discovery explorer. NIP-70 protected events are also now supported for creating and viewing authorization-required content. We'd love to expand the games section — if you have a favorite Nostr-based game or game-related NIP, send it our way! On the performance side, feeds now use virtualization for smoother scrolling, publishing is optimistic so posts appear instantly while relays confirm in the background, and reply loading is instant from local cache. Drafts now auto-save with debounced persistence, and radio and event streams have automatic retry logic. This release also fixes MPRIS lock contention on desktop, persists the media player bar across sessions, restores scroll position when navigating back, and fixes profile bios wrapping with clickable nostr links. We're always working on the next round of improvements — if there's anything you'd like to see changed or added, please share with us!

nostr.blue 0.8.12 is now live on the web and zapstore! This release brings a major round of performance improvements along with some exciting new features. The biggest addition is Relay Feeds, which lets you browse content from a specific relay or relay set. You can now select any of your favorite relays from the feed dropdown and see a real-time stream of notes from just that source. It's a great way to explore what different communities and relays have to offer. Profiles also received a significant upgrade. You'll now see NIP-05 verification badges next to usernames, showing which identities have been cryptographically verified. The profile page also has a new Zaps tab so you can see all zaps received by a user, a retry button for profiles that fail to load, and much faster follower counts on mobile and desktop. On the performance side, reply loading is now instant. When you open a note, cached replies from your local database appear immediately while relay responses stream in the background. Interaction counts (reactions, reposts, zaps) are also dramatically faster thanks to a new local database fast-path and batched relay fetching. Videos now display thumbnails across all platforms using blurhash decoding and canvas frame capture, and articles now render nostr URIs (npub, note, naddr) as interactive embeds right in the text. This release also fixes detail pages failing with "too many relays" errors, improves post-login initialization timing, fixes RSS podcast and music image loading, and resolves several Android-specific issues including scroll-to-top and music player crashes. We're always working on the next round of improvements. If there's anything you'd like to see changed or added, please share with us!

nostr.blue 0.8.14 is now live on the web and zapstore! The headline feature is our initial Nests support. You can create rooms, join the stage as a speaker or listen from the audience. The full room lifecycle should be there: real-time chat, reactions, a speaker queue, stage grid, and participant gallery. The audio engine is platform-specific with WebTransport on web, and native audio via moq-lite + cpal + opus on desktop. Android supports background audio with Picture-in-Picture so you can keep listening while using other apps. On the fixes side, profile loading no longer shows stale data when switching between accounts, and the privacy policy has been updated with a Google User Data section for API compliance (plus it no longer 404s for bots). We're continuing to expand our tester base for Google Play. If you'd like to help us widen the release path, please enroll at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.nostr.blue