v1.6.0FeatureLatest
Auto-Update Finally Works, Plus a Gradient That Designs Itself
- Auto-update is repaired. Every release up to v1.5.2 shipped without the update manifest electron-updater reads, so no installed copy could ever see a new version. This build carries the full metadata for both platforms — install it once and future updates arrive on their own.
- Surprise me: the backdrop’s Gradient tab can now generate a gradient for you. It draws a random hue, pairs it with a harmonious partner, and holds saturation and lightness in ranges that flatter a recording sitting on top, so every result is usable. Recent draws stay as swatches.
- The cursor no longer flickers when you click. With native cursor styling, an OS cursor-type change landing mid-click used to swap the drawn cursor — and because cursors have different hotspots, it jumped rather than just re-skinned. The shape is now held for the length of the click animation.
- Update failures are no longer invisible: they are recorded in diagnostics.log instead of a console the production build strips.
- For AI and MCP users: apply_edits gained the backdrop value vocabulary it never had, so an assistant can set wallpapers, colours, and gradients correctly. Captions gained a polish loop — generate_captions {apply: false} transcribes without touching your document, and get_transcript {format: "json"} round-trips cues losslessly. Several settings that silently reset their siblings when patched now merge properly.
- Known limitation: caption generation runs on Apple-silicon Macs only, because the bundled Whisper binary ships for darwin-arm64. On Windows and Intel Macs the feature reports that it is unavailable rather than failing oddly. Writing captions still works everywhere.