The Ollama setup guide still led with two retired models while the app already
defaults to the newer one, so a fresh setup would install a model the app does
not use. The guide now recommends the same model as the rest of the app and
lists current lightweight alternatives.
Installing the previous build left an app that could not update itself: the
packaging path used to guarantee the native module build does not create the
updater configuration file, so the update client had nothing to read.
That file is now written from the single feed source and its presence in the
packaged app is checked before anything is published, so an installer that
cannot update can no longer be released.
The released installer could not start: it carried a better-sqlite3 build for the
host Node runtime instead of Electron, so the app died immediately with a module
version mismatch when it opened its database.
Packaging now proves the Electron build of every runtime-sensitive native module
before an installer or archive exists, and installers are produced only from that
verified tree, so the mistake cannot pass silently. The release pipelines run the
same check.
The default local model also pointed at a retired model: a *.gguf name that
Ollama cannot serve, while the settings, onboarding, and guide screens
recommended an older model. All of them now use the model the service code
already preferred.
Auto-update could not work at all: the installer was 189 MB because it carried
the local speech engine and ffmpeg, and the download feed rejects uploads over
about 100 MiB, so update metadata could never be published.
The installer now leaves those components out and the app fetches them the first
time they are needed, verifying every part and the joined archive before
installing. The installer is 90.6 MiB, the update feed is published again, and
updates stay small because the engine is not re-sent on every release.
The fetch is visible and recoverable: the download runs with progress, a failed
install cleans up after itself, and Settings > STT shows the runtime status with
a manual download action for when the automatic one cannot run.
The manual install path still needed 7-Zip, which the target machine does not
have, so "installable without a certificate" was not yet true.
The channel now also publishes the app as byte-split zip parts, and the install
script joins them and extracts with the built-in Windows Expand-Archive after
verifying every part and the joined archive. Version 1.3.1 republishes the
channel from a single build, because a version's artifacts can only match one
build and published volumes are never overwritten.
Local dictation had never produced a transcript on an installed build. The
engine itself was healthy; every connection to it was broken.
Installed builds shipped no speech engine at all: the packaging config had no
entry for the faster-whisper sidecar and no pipeline step built one, so the app
always fell back to a system Python without the runtime. Development was broken
too, because the sidecar and SoX paths were resolved against the Vite output
directory instead of the app root, which also meant recording failed with a SoX
ENOENT. On hosts where localhost resolves only to IPv6, every local request was
refused outright, which silently disabled both local transcription and the local
LLM.
The sidecar is now built and bundled (including the Silero VAD data it needs),
gated by a packaging check that fails when the engine or its data is missing.
Paths are discovered from the app root and fail loudly when the engine is
absent. Local engine URLs are normalized to the IPv4 loopback, decoding is tuned
so repeated hallucinations cannot compound (the same transcript now takes about
a fifth of the time), the engine is warmed up at startup, and holding the hotkey
now shows the text forming live in the recording tip.
Version 1.1.0 was published on 2026-09-15, so its tag is closed. Every commit
since then, the update-feed rework, dictionary import and export, the extra
push transports, and entitlement gating, needs its own immutable version.
Product version, Android version code, iOS build number, and all package and
store surfaces move to 1.2.0 / 1020001, with Korean and English store notes for
the new version code. The download centers read that version and its release
date from one place instead of repeating them inline.
Models, pipelines, users, subscriptions, usage, audit log, ads, and releases
still rendered placeholder or duplicated implementations from the earlier
admin split. They now read the live back-office API, share one sidebar and
console theme, and the license issuer dialog uses the rotated signing key.
