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 # Changelog
 
+## v1.7.99-alpha (2026-06-17)
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+- Your node can now hold Fedimint ecash as well as Cashu. Wallet Settings now has tabbed sections for each: keep your list of trusted Cashu mints, or paste a Fedimint invite code to join a federation, and the home wallet card shows both your Cashu and Fedimint balances side by side. A new "Fedimint Client" app in the catalog powers the federation side.
+- You can now buy files shared by another node, right from their cloud. When you open a peer's paid file you get a simple "Buy this file" picker with several ways to pay — instantly from this node's ecash balance, from your node's own Lightning wallet, on-chain from your node, or by scanning a Lightning QR code with any outside wallet. Once payment settles, the file downloads automatically.
+- Your node can now act as an AI assistant on the off-grid mesh radio network. If your node has a local AI model available (via Ollama), other people on the mesh can ask it a question by starting their message with "!ai" and get an answer back over the radio — handy where there's no internet. A new Mesh assistant panel lets you turn this on or off and shows whether a local AI model was detected.
+- You can now view your node's 24-word recovery phrase whenever you need it. Settings has a new "Recovery phrase" option that, after you confirm your password (and 2FA code if you use one), reveals the words behind a tap-to-show blur with a copy button — so you can write them down and store them safely offline.
+- Setting up a brand-new node is smoother and less alarming. If the node is still starting up while you generate or confirm your recovery phrase, it now quietly waits and retries instead of flashing a scary error, and offers a clear "Try again" button only when something genuinely goes wrong. The final setup screen also shows a gentle "securing your private connection…" status that turns to "ready" on its own, so you can tell the encrypted transport is coming up rather than stuck.
+- The NetBird VPN app now actually logs in. It was failing to reach its sign-in screen because the dashboard needs a secure (HTTPS) connection that wasn't being provided; the node now serves it over HTTPS and opens it in a browser tab, so the login flow completes.
+- When you use your phone to remote-control a node's attached screen, two-finger scrolling now works inside apps and panels, not just the main page. And tapping an app that's meant to open in an external browser now hands the link to your phone to open there, instead of trying to open it on the (often unattended) attached display.
+- You can now choose whether your node shares Bitcoin block headers over the mesh. The Mesh Bitcoin panel has new switches to announce headers to peers and to accept headers from them, and your choices are remembered.
+- Version numbers now display cleanly everywhere. In a few places the interface was showing a doubled "v" (like "vv1.7.98"); it now always shows a single, tidy version label.
+- The "Back" buttons throughout the cloud and other detail screens now look and behave consistently on both desktop and mobile, including when browsing another node's files.
+- For advanced testing, Settings now includes an optional "update & app source" choice between the usual trusted origin and an experimental peer-to-peer (DHT swarm) mode that pulls updates and app content from other nodes first, falling back to the origin automatically. The trusted origin remains the default.
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 ## v1.7.98-alpha (2026-06-16)
 
 - Apps that crash now recover on their own. Multi-part apps like Immich and IndeedHub could have one of their pieces stop and stay stopped until the whole node was rebooted; the node now checks every couple of minutes and restarts any crashed piece automatically (while still leaving apps you deliberately stopped alone).