app 1.15.1 -> 1.15.2, appCode 459 -> 460. That single edit drives Android's versionName/versionCode, Desktop and CLI packageVersion, quartz's Maven version and geode's RelayInfo.VERSION. Three substantive PRs since v1.15.1, plus Crowdin translations and the packaging syncs the bump workflows opened after the last tag: - #4092 media previews: an extension match now requires a real dot, so a player page whose path merely ends in the letters `_mp3` stops going to the video player, and `og:audio`/`og:video` are read and played with the page's `og:image` as poster. A declaration whose type is `text/html` -- YouTube's -- is refused. - #4095 nested NIP-22 replies: engagement subscriptions asked only for the lowercase `e`/`a` tags, so a comment two or more levels deep was invisible until ThreadScreen opened its own subscription. Each relay gets a second, root-scoped filter on `E`/`A`. Kind 1619 moves there too -- NIP-34 gives PR updates only an uppercase `E`, so it had been in a filter it could never match. - #4096 Health Connect: a rationale screen Play requires, reachable from the composer, from Health Connect's permission screen and standalone without an account; reads moved off the UI thread; source names memoized; and the workout form is replaced rather than merged when a second suggestion is picked. Verified on a Pixel 9 emulator before cutting, since two of the three are only observable on device: the og:audio track plays in a thread with real transport controls (00:30 / 05:00) where it used to buffer forever, and the Health Connect rationale opens from all three routes -- including the one that matters for review, where Health Connect's own permission screen launches our ViewPermissionUsageActivity through the START_VIEW_PERMISSION_USAGE-guarded filter. RELEASE_NOTES_ID deliberately stays on the v1.15.0 note: RELEASE_OPS has it repointed on x.y.0 only. Left alone deliberately: everything under */packaging/ and translators.json's tag, which the bump workflows and the Crowdin job write after the tag exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VgVDQQXAg4cmzsWHoJj61k
geode
A standalone Nostr relay for the JVM, built on Quartz's relay-server code (Ktor CIO). It speaks the core relay protocol plus NIP-11 (info doc), NIP-42 (AUTH), NIP-45 (COUNT), NIP-50 (full-text search), NIP-77 (Negentropy sync), and NIP-86 (relay management), stores events in SQLite (or a filesystem backend), and can mirror upstream relays strfry-router style.
geode depends only on :quartz — no Android, no Compose. amy serve (the
Amethyst CLI) embeds the same engine in-process.
Install
Pick the channel that matches how you deploy. For a real relay, the Docker
image or the .deb/.rpm + systemd are the two production paths;
Homebrew and the portable tarball are handy for local testing.
Docker (recommended for servers)
Images are published to GHCR on every release:
# Ephemeral — in-memory store, events vanish on restart:
docker run --rm -p 7447:7447 ghcr.io/vitorpamplona/geode:latest
# Persistent + configured:
docker run -d --name geode -p 7447:7447 \
-v $PWD/geode.toml:/etc/geode/geode.toml:ro \
-v geode-data:/var/lib/geode \
ghcr.io/vitorpamplona/geode:latest --config /etc/geode/geode.toml
with in_memory = false and file = "/var/lib/geode/events.db" in your
geode.toml. Pin a version (:1.15.2) instead of :latest for reproducible
deploys. To build the image yourself, from the repo root:
docker build -f geode/Dockerfile -t geode:local .
Debian/Ubuntu (.deb) and Fedora/RHEL (.rpm)
Download geode-<version>-linux-x64.deb (or .rpm) from the
release page and install
it — a minimal JRE is bundled, so no system Java is required. It installs to
/opt/geode/ with the launcher at /opt/geode/bin/geode.
sudo dpkg -i geode-1.15.2-linux-x64.deb # or: sudo rpm -i geode-1.15.2-linux-x64.rpm
To run it as a managed service, wire up the shipped systemd unit
(/opt/geode/share/geode/geode.service) — the unit file's header comment has
the copy-paste steps (create the geode user, drop your config in
/etc/geode/geode.toml, systemctl enable --now geode).
Homebrew
brew install vitorpamplona/tap/geode-relay # from the tap, once published
The formula depends on openjdk and installs the no-JRE jar bundle. Reference
formula: packaging/homebrew/geode-relay.rb.
Portable tarball (any Linux/macOS, no system Java)
Download geode-<version>-<os>-<arch>.tar.gz, unpack, and run:
tar xzf geode-1.15.2-linux-x64.tar.gz
./geode/bin/geode --config geode/share/geode/config.example.toml
The tarball bundles a jlink'd JRE plus share/geode/config.example.toml and
share/geode/geode.service.
From source
./gradlew :geode:run --args="--config /etc/geode.toml"
Configure
geode runs with zero config (binds 0.0.0.0:7447, in-memory SQLite). For
anything real, copy config.example.toml and edit it —
the sections mirror nostr-rs-relay's config.toml so existing configs port
almost verbatim. Precedence is CLI flags > TOML > built-in defaults.
geode --config /etc/geode/geode.toml
geode --help # full flag list
geode --version
Key sections: [info] (NIP-11 doc), [network] (bind + thread pools),
[database] (SQLite path/tuning), [options] (AUTH / verify / search),
[authorization] (allow/deny lists), [[mirror]] (upstream mirroring), and
[admin] (NIP-86 management). See the example file for every knob.
Verbs
geode [relay] [flags] serve the relay (default)
geode import [flags] [FILE…] bulk-load NDJSON events into the store
geode export [flags] dump the store as NDJSON to stdout
import/export are geode's strfry import / strfry export — one JSON event
per line, for seeding, migrating, or backing up a relay. Both stream, so a
multi-million-event corpus round-trips in roughly constant memory.
Release process
geode ships on the same tag-driven pipeline as the rest of Amethyst: pushing a
v* tag runs .github/workflows/create-release.yml, whose build-geode job
produces the tarball + .deb/.rpm + Homebrew jvm bundle, docker-geode
builds and pushes the GHCR image, and bump-homebrew-geode-formula.yml syncs
the reference formula. Design notes:
plans/2026-07-24-geode-release.md.