Changelog

We're excited to announce Hyprnote 1.0.0, our first stable release! This release consolidates all the improvements from our nightly builds into a polished, production-ready experience.

Platform Support

• macOS support for Apple Silicon (aarch64) and Intel (x86_64)
• Linux support with AppImage and .deb distributions
• Standardized artifact naming with architecture info

Speech-to-Text Providers

• Deepgram - Full support with API key validation and keyword handling
• Gladia - Complete support with code switching, partial transcripts, multi-channel audio, custom vocabulary, and speaker diarization
• OpenAI - Realtime and batch transcription
• AssemblyAI - Streaming and batch transcription
• Soniox - STT provider support
• Whisper Large V3 - Local STT option
• Language detection and multi-language support across providers

AI & LLM Support

• Google Generative AI provider
• OpenAI and Anthropic model providers
• Ollama support with CORS fix
• LLM configuration error rendering in editor

Audio & Recording

• Scrolling waveform visualization in the listen button
• Fixed recording issues with headphones (sample rate, distortion)
• VAD (Voice Activity Detection) improvements with continuous masking
• AGC (Automatic Gain Control) with VAD integration
• Dual-websocket mode for multichannel support with local STT
• 24k sample-rate on macOS to minimize resampling
• Linux audio support via PulseAudio with headphone detection

Search & Indexing

• Tantivy-based full-text search replacing Pagefind
• Language detection and language-aware tokenization
• Multi-collection indexing for scalable search
• Search results with highlighted matches

Folder Management

• Create, rename, delete, and move sessions between folders
• Reveal session in Finder
• Folder detection based on directory structure

Export

• PDF export with typst-based formatting
• JSON export with batch support
• VTT export with speaker information
• Transcript export improvements
• Tab-aware export menu (memo, enhanced, transcript)

Editor

• Tiptap document JSON validation
• List navigation and backspace behavior improvements
• Tab and shift-tab support for list indentation
• Prompt editor with readonly ranges support
• 20x faster tiptap JSON to markdown export with custom Rust implementation

Chat

• Dedicated chat editor with slash command support
• Chat trigger on hover near bottom
• Resizable chat window

Settings

• Unified settings.json configuration
• Prompt, shortcut, template, and extensions tabs
• Custom template support
• App settings organized into tabs

Window & UI

• Window size based on screen size
• Persistent window position and size across restarts
• macOS traffic light button positioning
• Native menu support
• Keyboard shortcuts for tab navigation
• Tab restore functionality
• Progressive blur effect at scroll ends
• Responsive search with manual expansion
• 20% rendering optimization for long transcripts
• Fancy NotFound and ErrorBoundary components

Onboarding

• Redesigned onboarding experience with background music
• Free trial support
• Auto model and provider selection for Pro trial
• Back navigation in permissions and configuration screens

Updates & Distribution

• OTA (Over-the-Air) updates with cache support
• Tray menu with update check, status dialogs, and settings
• Changelog tab shown automatically after updates
• CLI update command
• Homebrew distribution

Notifications

• macOS notification enhancements
• Notification collapse animation
• Auto-start trigger improvements

Plugins

• JS Plugin - JavaScript code evaluation via rquickjs
• Notify Plugin - Filesystem watching with debouncing
• Overlay Plugin - Floating controls with click-through behavior
• Hooks Plugin - Event handling with 5-second timeout for user scripts
• Listener2 Plugin - Batch and subtitle functionality
• Updater2 Plugin - Update check functionality
• Deeplink2 Plugin - Type-safe deep link handling
• Network Plugin - Network availability monitoring

Calendar

• Calendar picker UI with permission handling
• Contact view opens in new tab when clicking participant chip

CLI

• Experimental CLI support
• CLI installer in app menu
• --help and --version flags

Developer Experience

• Deno-powered extensions runtime with iframe-based isolation
• Separate devtool window
• E2E tests using Linux WebDriver
• PostHog analytics fixes
• Sentry monitoring integration

Other Improvements

• Prevent closing tab or quitting app during active listening
• Session failure error surfacing in listen button tooltip
• Disable listen button when offline with non-local model
• Title generation after meetings
• Inline codeblock wrapping
• Sound effects playback fixes
• Keyboard navigation improvements

Search & Indexing

• Replace Pagefind plugin with Tantivy-based full-text search plugin
  • Implement Tantivy search engine as Orama replacement for better performance and scalability
  • Add language detection and language-aware tokenization for improved search accuracy
  • Support multi-collection indexing for scalable search across different document types
  • Merge search and search_fuzzy into single unified search function with options
  • Simplify API to expose only search and reindex commands
  • Refactor tantivy and language crates for better organization
  • Improve orphan removal error handling in search index

Folder Management

• Add new folder plugin for organizing sessions
  • Implement folder operations: create, rename, delete, and move sessions between folders
  • Add unified folder operations layer for bidirectional persistence
  • Remove _default folder concept - sessions without folders now live directly under sessions/
  • Add folder migration persister to handle legacy folder structure
  • Implement folder detection based on directory structure (folders don't contain _meta.json)
  • Add reveal session in finder command

Persistence & Storage

• Major persister refactoring
  • Refactor with createSessionDirPersister helper for consistent session directory handling
  • Add createSingleTablePersister helper for simpler single-table persistence
  • Migrate existing persisters to use new helper functions
  • Refactor local persister, folder persister, chat persister, setting persister
  • Refactor calendar and event persisters with store merging
  • Remove PersisterMode enum
  • Remove legacy enhanced_md from session store
  • Add per-path content hashing to reduce unnecessary file writes
  • Fix folder persistence issues and add missing save-only persisters

Plugins

• Add JS plugin with eval command using rquickjs

  • Enable JavaScript code evaluation from Rust backend
  • Useful for scripting and automation

• Add notify plugin for filesystem watching

  • Implement filesystem change notifications with debouncing
  • Add start/stop commands for watching file changes
  • Emit FileChanged events when files are modified
  • Add default permission set for notify plugin

• Add overlay plugin extracted from windows plugin

  • Implement overlay window functionality for floating controls
  • Add fake window bounds tracking for click-through behavior
  • Support overlay listeners with configurable options

• Remove pagefind plugin (replaced by tantivy)

Export

• Add JSON export support in export plugin
  • Support exporting sessions and data as JSON format
  • Add exportJsonBatch command for batch JSON exports
  • Make overflow menu export tab-aware (memo, enhanced, transcript)

UI & UX Improvements

• Chat UI design cleanup

  • Polish empty view appearance
  • Show chat trigger when hovering near bottom
  • Improve chat input UI and interactions
  • Update chat window minimum width
  • Resize window on right chat toggle

• Profile menu improvements

  • Polish expandable profile menu
  • Remove keyboard shortcuts from profile menu items

• Settings improvements

  • Add tabs to app settings tab
  • Add trial expiration modal in dev panel

• Notification improvements

  • Refactor notification-macos with rustbridge
  • Reorganize Swift file structure for better maintainability
  • Add macOS notification enhancement with serialized arg passing
  • Adjust close button in notification and add timer
  • Fix notification collapse animation
  • Fix notification UI and auto-start trigger
  • Make path relative in notify event

• Title generation

  • Add title generation button
  • Improve auto-title generation
  • Update title generation prompt
  • Generate title after meeting

• Other UI improvements

  • Fix inline codeblocks to wrap instead of overflow
  • Surface session failure error in listen button tooltip
  • Disable listen button when offline with non-local model
  • Add root supervisor in listener for better session failure handling

Audio & Transcription

• Note enhancing changes
• Various refactors in audio actor system

Control Window

• Add overlay plugin architecture improvements
• Add Control window UI for quick access to recording controls
• Add widget expand/collapse functionality to control window
• Various control window visibility groundwork

Developer Experience

• Write AGENTS.md to base directory on app startup
• Add permission check troubleshooting utils in frontend and dev
• Preserve inner tab scroll; skip transcript restore during meetings

Other Improvements

• Improve orphan removal error handling
• Various refactors and code cleanup
• Fix tests and improve error handling

• Fix file upload and batch transcription
• Various refactors in audio actor system
• Fix outdated navigation event from tray icon.
• Fix session deletion logic.
• Improve WebSocket error handling. E.g. no retry on auth error.
• Keyboard navigation improvements.
• Other UI improvements and refactors.

• Fix search results to display proper UI with highlighted matches instead of raw JSON.
• Hide floating action buttons (FABs) when typing near the bottom of the editor.
• Fix native menu item panic and action handling.
• Fix most of the problems existed in the onboarding flow.
• Enable the open -a "Hyprnote Staging" --args --onboarding $(date +%s) command for reliable QA in staging environment.

• Fix race condition in Windows command operations.
• Refine template rendering, including proper output language instructions.

• Fix onboarding freeze issue.
• Separate data folder for staging environment.

• Add calendar picker UI with permission handling.
• Improve templates tab view.
• Add draggable header region to error and 404 screens.
• Add scroll fade overlay for better scrolling UX.
• Open contacts view in new tab when clicking participant chip.
• Add speaker information to VTT export.
• Fix traffic light position.
• Fix sound effects playback issues.
• Migrate to TinyBase 7.3.

• Fix fatal error around keywords handling for Deepgram and Gladia.
• Optimize tiptap json to markdown export performance by 20x with custom rust implementation.
• Await beforeListeningStarted hook before starting session.
• Add 5 second timeout for user-provided hook scripts.

• New onboarding experience with background music.
• Add PDF export with typst-based formatting.
• Fix transcript export.
• Add tab restore functionality.
• Add keyboard shortcuts for tab navigation and new tabs.
• Show keyboard shortcut badges on sidebar menu items.
• Add progressive blur effect at scroll ends in AI view.
• Use native menu.
• Fix spoken language configuration for live STT.
• Migrate from Typescript to Rust for Hyprnote Cloud Proxy.

• Fix OTA update check interval.

• Remove react-scan that was accidentally included in the production build.
• Add OTA updates installed from cache.

Session

• Prevent closing tab during active listening.
• Prevent quitting app during live session.
• Add Deepgram API key validation.

Window

• Fix window sizing validation.
• Add min/max size caps to prevent oversized windows.
• Fix traffic light position for macOS.

Others

• Rendering optimizations for long transcript. (around 20% improvement)
• Responsive search with manual expansion.
• Various UI fixes and refactors.

Notification

• Fix handlers for notification events.

Window

• Window size is now decided based on the screen size.
• Window position and size are now persisted across restarts.
• Traffic lights are now positioned correctly across different macOS versions.

Others

• Mostly UI fixes and refactors.

Onboarding

• Auto set model and provider when Pro trial is enabled during onboarding.

Others

• Fix auto-update flow.
• Fix deep-link event registration.
• Fix small UI issues.

Onboarding

• Redesign onboarding UI.
• Add back navigation to permissions and configuration screens.
• Fix onboarding login flow.

Editor

• Improve list navigation and backspace behavior.
• Add tab and shift-tab support for list indentation.

Others

• Add sub-menus to settings menu in tray.

OTA

• Extract update check functionality into a new updater2 plugin.
• Add "Check for Updates" and "Settings" menu items to the tray with icons and status dialogs.
• Add update command to CLI.
• Add new updater behaviors and UI, including a 3-state conditional update menu in the tray.
• Show changelog tab automatically after app update.

Settings

• Replace Settings window with multiple dedicated tabs for better organization and user experience.
• Implement unified settings.json by merging hooks.json into settings.json with top-level merging.

Others

• Fixed Homebrew distribution.
• Conditionally hide tab chat button based on tab type.
• Add refresh button to model combobox when list is empty.
• Improve transcript auto-scroll behavior when user scrolls up.
• Fix handling of stale sessions on app launch and during sign out.
• Remove email login functionality.
• Add Lithuanian language support.
• Add Pro icon and runtime dock icon modification.
• Adjust traffic light position for better macOS window controls alignment.
• Update ONNX runtime to latest version.
• Add autocorrect=off attribute to disable browser autocomplete in editors.
• Various UI fixes and improvements.

• Add app info to MicStopped event, so that the app ignored list can also be applied to MicStopped events, consistent with MicStarted events.
• Fix store data loading from disk in non-main windows (e.g., Settings), eliminating a 1-2 second delay.
• Fix analytics app_version to use the APP_VERSION environment variable.
• Add scrolling waveform visualization showing audio amplitude in the listen button.

• Add Export Transcript menu item to session overflow menu.
• Extract device-heuristic crate with improved channel mode detection for audio devices.
• Remove unused calendar crates (outlook, google) and inline apple-calendar crate.
• Remove large unused dependencies (kalosm, graph-rs-sdk, apalis-sql) for smaller builds.
• Fix PostHog analytics (Stale API key, empty version)

• Implement free trial support in desktop app with new onboarding flow.
• Add full Gladia STT support with code switching, partial transcripts, multi-channel audio, custom vocabulary, and speaker diarization.
• Fix hooks plugin functionality and improve event handling.
• Introduce keys.json for better state management in TinyBase store.
• Improve profile name rendering in sidebar.

• Fix Ollama CORS error by adding Origin header for requests.
• Use different deeplink schema per bundle for proper app routing.
• Apply clippy fixes to Rust crates (whisper-local, analytics, vvad, buffer, llama).
• Fix onboarding flow issues.

• Unify VAD logic with StreamingVad for better audio processing.
• Fix batch audio processing bugs in listener2 plugin.
• Update onboarding flow with new model selection.
• Fix release name for Sentry monitoring.

• Add Gladia STT provider with realtime and batch transcription support.
• Add OpenAI STT provider with realtime and batch transcription support.
• Add prompt, shortcut, template, and extensions tabs in settings.
• Add custom template support to template plugin.
• Update DMG background image for macOS installer.
• Small UI fixes.

• Add .deb build for Linux x86_64.
• Add network availability monitoring plugin.
• Add NetworkContext for network status in desktop app.
• Add dedicated chat editor with slash command support.
• Add AssemblyAI adapter for streaming and batch transcription.
• Add main language configuration support.
• Add fancy NotFound and ErrorBoundary components with animations.
• Skip permissions step in onboarding on Linux.
• Improve language support in Deepgram-compatible adapters.
• Refactor STT adapter selection.
• Fix model download issues.
• Small Linux fixes.

• Add Intel macOS (x86_64) support.
• Add Deno-powered extensions runtime with iframe-based isolation and TinyBase sync.
• Add calendar extension. (not included yet)
• Add VTT export functionality to listener2 plugin.
• Add macOS-style traffic light buttons for Linux.
• Add Whisper Large V3 support to STT settings.
• Add Soniox STT provider.
• Remove native titlebar on Linux for custom titlebar support.
• Improve STT health check status in listen button.
• Improve language handling per STT adapter.
• Fix Linux notification window issue.
• Fix deeplink for Linux.
• Fix infinite loop in TranscriptContainer selectors.

• Remove memory settings from preferences.
• Fix macOS audio tap.
• Fix CLI --help and --version flags handling.
• Add listener2 plugin with batch and subtitle functionality.

• Fix AGC with VAD and config modification.
• Add Linux implementation for app listing features and device monitoring using PulseAudio.
• Add Linux headphone detection support for automatic channel mode switching.
• Dynamic linking ONNX runtime for improved performance.
• Replace alphabetic speaker labels (A, B, C) with numeric indexing (1, 2, 3) for unknown speakers.
• Add streaming state to VadAgc for cross-call framing.
• Ensure Summary tab always renders when transcript exists.
• Add dual-websocket mode as multichannel workaround for local STT providers.
• Add prompt editor with readonly ranges support.
• Improve Linux system audio permission check.
• Fix audio autoplay issues by adding URL guard in AudioPlayerProvider.
• Implement continuous VAD masking for microphone stream.
• Add deeplink2 plugin for type-safe deep link handling.
• Fix shutdown handling during realtime audio and await control sends.
• Fix duplicated enhanced tab and enhance streaming UI.
• Add amplitude floor in VAD masking.
• Add root supervisor in desktop app.
• Enhance transcript store with partial hints preservation and channel-aware speaker hints.

• Add "Show in Finder" option to overflow menu.
• Fix recording issues when using headphones. (Wrong sample rate, Distorted recording)
• Add CLI installer in app menu.
• Fix sample drop in resampler on rate change boundary.
• Add basic E2E tests using Linux WebDriver.
• Initial Linux support with AppImage distribution. (Not functional yet)
• Standardize artifact naming with architecture info (hyprnote-macos-aarch64.dmg, hyprnote-linux-x86_64.AppImage).

• 1.0.0-nightly.5 add experimental CLI, which breaks the app in release builds. This release fixes the issue.

• Show only version string for OTA status.
• Use 24k sample-rate in macOS to minimize resampling.
• Prevent drag-and-drop by default.
• Add experimental CLI support.

• Add Google Generative AI provider support.
• Fix OpenAI and Anthropic model provider support.
• Add separate window for devtool.
• Add LLM config error rendered in editor area.
• Introduce hooks plugin.

• Validate Tiptap document JSON before initializing editor.

• Fix app icon padding.

• Initial release.