What's new in 0.12.3

• Long meetings no longer lose most of their transcript: a name-matching step could send the transcriber into a repetition loop that silently dropped everything after the first few minutes, and it has been removed.
• A meeting that was already confirmed can now be transcribed again, so a bad reading can be replaced as long as the recording is still on disk.
• Re-transcribing clears the old draft, summary, published notes, search entries and extracted todos, facts and topic entries first, then returns the meeting to Reviewing with its audio, timestamps and identity intact.
• Your own notes and chat history on a meeting are kept when it is re-transcribed.
• Re-transcription is refused with a clear reason when the meeting's audio was not retained or another job on it is still running.

What's new in 0.12.2

• Long chat threads no longer freeze the app: the transcript's scroll pin was re-measuring itself in a loop, which could hang the window for minutes once a conversation grew.
• The Assistant rail now has Sessions, Runs, and All filters, so your own sessions stay readable instead of being buried under routine runs.
• Asking the assistant to write something to the Library now actually puts it there, instead of reporting success while the shelf stayed empty.
• Unattended routine runs that had nothing to do now leave nothing behind: no run record, no Today card, no diary entry, and no empty write-up.
• Event-triggered routines can carry a precise matching rule, so a routine only starts when the meeting genuinely matches instead of firing first and then declining.

What's new in 0.12.1

• Playing back a freshly transcribed meeting now works right away: the play button and the guided queue's snippet buttons arm as soon as the recording is ready, instead of staying dead until you leave the meeting and come back.
• Auto-start and Remind now skip calendar events you hold alone, so focus time and other solo blocks no longer trigger a recording of nobody talking or send a reminder.
• Today's "up next" card no longer promises auto-capture for a solo block and offers manual arming instead.

What's new in 0.12.0

• Topic health cards now say why a topic is at risk and what to do about it, with up to three suggested moves that link back to the moment in a meeting they came from.
• The app moves to six tabs: Notes and Workflows lose their own tabs, Chat becomes Assistant, and Library gathers Meetings, Notes, and Artifacts as three shelves.
• Artifacts are a new kind of item: written documents produced by a routine run, kept as markdown files in your workspace, with a page showing where each one came from and buttons to open it or show it in Finder.
• Workflows are now called Routines, and they live in the Assistant rail instead of a tab of their own.
• The Assistant opens in its own window with Cmd-Shift-A, sharing sessions, routines, Soul, Diary, and Skills with the tab so work started in one appears in the other.
• Routines are authored by asking for them in a session, and the app now confirms before turning an event-triggered request into a routine, with a "Just answer once" button for when you only wanted the answer.
• The Dreams page folds into the Dream routine, where its settings, kept themes, and run history now sit together, each theme showing what the journal read to produce it.
• A briefing run on Today now opens the meeting it prepared, and routine reports link straight to the artifact they wrote.

What's new in 0.11.1

• The curated local model catalog adds Qwen 3.8 27B for Macs with 48 GB or more of memory, in both the standard and Apple silicon builds, alongside Qwen3 14B at 32 GB and Qwen3 8B as the default.
• The bundled Ollama runtime moves to a newer version so it can serve the added model.
• The recommended local model for a given amount of memory is now picked consistently when several models share the same memory tier.

What's new in 0.11.0

• Maintenance and internal improvements.

What's new in 0.9.9

• Notes on a completed meeting now sit as the first section of the "Out of this meeting" rail, next to todos and participants, instead of hiding behind a toolbar button and squeezing the summary into a strip.
• Meeting summaries now recognize your own notes as yours and point out where they shaped the result, rather than treating them as another speaker turn in the transcript.
• Confirming a meeting now processes its notes pad too, so notes get cleaned text, a tag, and links to the people they mention.
• The chat composer no longer crashes the app on Shift-Return or when pasting a multi-line block.

What's new in 0.9.8

• Speaker review now follows the guided queue through the transcript, so the focused speaker's turns are the ones on screen and the filter moves along as you work through the queue.
• A "Follow queue" checkbox turns that behavior off, and closing the filter bar by hand turns it off too, with the choice remembered for future reviews.
• The audition snippet now picks the speaker's longest spoken turn instead of the longest audio span, so short filler lines no longer stand in for the passage that actually identifies a voice.
• Speaker labels in the focused card and the resolved list read "Speaker 10" instead of "S10", matching the chips shown in the transcript.

What's new in 0.9.6

• Topics triage now shows each HEARD line as a receipt with speaker, meeting, and moment, plus a WHY NOW line explaining what put the case in front of you today, and its links jump straight to the cited point in the recording.
• A new triage queue at the top of the People rail works through every pending person fact in one place instead of one profile at a time, with confirm, not true, and skip on the keyboard.
• Confirming a person fact in a meeting or thread rail keeps it on that page as a settled row, so the meeting that produced the fact no longer looks empty afterwards.
• Todos whose owner is not yet known now read as one clear placeholder name everywhere, on the board, in the inspector, in briefings, and on the phone, instead of showing an internal identifier.
• Typing in the Todos search field no longer triggers single-key shortcuts, so a query containing n, i, w, x, or a digit stops filing or deciding todos behind your back.
• Health filters and the filter field in the Topics rail now take you to the filtered board instead of applying invisibly behind the triage surface.
• The Topics and People tabs now light up when proposals or person facts are waiting, without needing you to open the surface first.
• The owner picker in Todos triage gains hover and keyboard selection, a clear button, and a pinned "Someone, resolve later" row.

What's new in 0.9.5

• Triage owner picker: typing a name into the search field no longer triggers keyboard shortcuts behind the popover, so you can search for a person without setting off unrelated actions.
• "Someone owes me" now files the item directly with the person already detected from the meeting, and only asks you to pick an owner when nobody could be identified.
• Release notes in the update dialog and on the download page are now written for users instead of being a raw list of commit subjects.

What's new in 0.9.4

• fix(macos): make Topics triage a back/forward history step (#692)
• chore(ci): clear pre-existing Rust gate failures (#730)
• macOS chat + meeting fixes: async threads in chat/@, calendar @-refs, persistent draft, proposed facts on meeting page (#729)

What's new in 0.9.3

• Companion: pin CloudKit Production + opt-in calendar picker (Settings + onboarding) (#728)
• release: abort on Ctrl+C and fail-fast when a delivery leg fails
• ios(companion): declare exempt encryption (ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption=false)

What's new in 0.9.2

• Maintenance and internal improvements.

What's new in 0.9.1

• Maintenance and internal improvements.

What's new in 0.9.0

• Local release: build macOS and iOS in parallel, deliver iOS to TestFlight (#727)
• Companion v2 rebuild plus delete-synced-data-from-iCloud (#726)
• Companion v2: import designer note, add ADR-0010, update glossary
• Unify the filter/assign type-ahead popovers into one better component (#711)

What's new in 0.8.2

• Purge employer references from the app, docs, and tests (#710)
• Clear the stale People tab-state ball after fact review (#709)
• Add the macOS Phone app as a recording source (#708)
• Trust section: drop the founder line and the Little Snitch placeholder (#706)

What's new in 0.8.1

• Tolerate missing draft in playback metadata for complete meetings (#705)
• fix(todos): scope rail Pinned/Recent filters per workspace (#703) (#704)
• Tab state: replace top-bar badge counts with the lighthouse ball (#700)
• Landing page conversion fixes: product-first hero, trial-first CTA, plain labels, trust proof, demo slot (#702)
• Bring the site docs up to date with v11 Todos, v12 Topics, threads, and add all screenshots (#699)

What's new in 0.8.0

• Diagnostics: reassess all topic health on demand (#697)
• Render markdown-link chat citations as their label instead of raw markup (#698)
• Topics filter field recipe alignment and inspector due date picker (#696)
• Let the curation output tool carry the v12 health judgment (#695)
• Rail section headers, full-height triage with inline rename and user-chosen merge target (#691)
• Topics v12: triage-gated portfolio board, health model, glance and triage surfaces (#690)
• fix(macos): keep meeting document tabs fixed across tab switches (#677)
• Topics v12 design docs: designer note, clickdummy, ADR 0009, glossary, intent (#688)
• Async confirm progress screen, meeting-width thread page, inspector auto-close (#676)
• Light mode sweep: adaptive tokens, spec shell chrome, unified search and selection styling (#675)
• Async/meeting parity round 4: meeting-style thread page, shared rail, glued-message split (#673)
• fix(macos): remove focus ring from top tab group (#674)
• Async captures: LLM-primary parse with processing stage, re-process, cascade deletes (#672)
• fix(threads): survive Slack no-break spaces and glued reply counts in pasted conversations (#671)
• fix(todos): inspector single-key layer goes inert while the person typeahead is open (#670)
• fix(meetings): surface, auto-retry, and manually retry failed summary generation (#669)
• Async threads round 2: single-message parse, auto-title on confirm, meeting-parity page (#668)
• Todos v11 polish: focus ring, inspector slide, row delete, theirs date chips (#667)
• Rebuild Todos to v11: perspectives, filters, forecast, app-wide inspector (#654) (#666)
• Async thread parity: Slack bracketed-time parse, guided name review, thread todo extraction (#664)
• docs: todos v11 glossary terms and ADR 0008 (perspectives + app-wide inspector)
• docs: import Todos v11 designer note and v11 clickdummy from design project
• Add horch_create_skill agent tool so chat-created skills land in horch's skills directory (#652)
• fix(macos): present AI setup as a sheet with adaptive, scrollable content (#651)
• feat(release): add --local mode for building a notarized install DMG without releasing (#650)
• fix(macos): route chat and palette meeting: span links in-app to the referenced turn (#649)

What's new in 0.7.7

• Meeting cmd+F find, todo provenance transcript jump, todo editor column fixes (#648)

What's new in 0.7.6

• fix(local-ai): auto-heal an installed-but-not-activated local provider

What's new in 0.7.5

• fix(local-ai): activate an already-installed model so chat works

What's new in 0.7.4

• feat(shell): toolbar pill for an in-flight local model download
• feat(onboarding): make the local-AI step quick and non-blocking
• fix(local-ai): write the local provider's auth entry so summaries and chat work

What's new in 0.7.3

• fix(local-ai): pull local models from Ollama's native root, not the /v1 surface

What's new in 0.7.2

• fix(onboarding): break the wizard window resize/relayout feedback loop

What's new in 0.7.1

• todos: plain-text notes with clickable links
• cli: update people-list and chat-search tests for their new behavior
• triage: collapse the open todo editor on click-outside

What's new in 0.7.0

• todos: mark owed-to-me commitments received with a checkbox
• meeting: show the date and time in the completed-meeting header
• todos: keyboard person picker, more date chips, and typed dates
• todos: keep the ASK TODAY tag on one line in Owed rows
• chat: map the meeting-excerpt event in the bridge event key match
• chat: passage-scoped retrieval tools to bound context

What's new in 0.6.4

• chat: open the mention typeahead upward above the input

What's new in 0.6.3

• Maintenance and internal improvements.

What's new in 0.6.2

• today: list distinct attendees with an open-item count
• shell: navigate with the mouse back and forward buttons
• people: order the directory alphabetically by name
• chat: copy any message and float the mention typeahead
• chat: Return sends, Shift-Return inserts a newline
• capture: keep the Quick Notes hotkey working alongside the conversation hotkey

What's new in 0.6.1

• todos: surface review-gated todos on the meeting page
• people: allow renaming any person from the profile page
• thread page: Summary and Conversation tabs
• async capture: parse Slack desktop copies and summarize blob fallbacks
• licensing: rotate signing key and fail fast on missing web config

What's new in 0.6.0

• feat(agent-surface): streamable HTTP transport with bearer token, replacing the socket helper
• feat(agent-surface): bundle the helper, Agent access settings, one-click agent setup, site docs and marketing
• async improvements
• feat(agent-surface): v1 Agent surface (MCP) and public Skill (#647)
• chore(downloads-analytics): mark the worker cron-only (workers_dev=false) (#633)
• feat(downloads-analytics): scheduled worker mirroring R2 downloads into PostHog (#632)
• Async capture: threads join the timeline (Designer Note v10) (#631)
• feat(web): capture license, purchase, and pipeline-health events server-side (#630)
• feat(web): close the conversion funnel, add masked session replay and error capture (#629)
• fix(web): serve the PostHog key at runtime so site analytics works in production (#628)
• feat(people): lay the person profile out in two columns (#625)
• People profile rework: profiles, receipted facts, extraction, consumers, and Companion sync (#623)
• web: add /docs, the complete product and CLI documentation page (#612)
• docs: import People Designer Note v10 and add People glossary terms (#602)
• Add script-managed debug workspace with curated seed data (#601)
• app: debug canary for the shell layout balloon class (#599)

What's new in 0.5.7

• shell: pin column content ideal size so the split view cannot outgrow the window (#598)

What's new in 0.5.6

• app: declare the unified toolbar chrome on the scene, not post-layout (#596)
• Overnight UX batch: todo review gate, unified rows, markdown, loading states (#597)

What's new in 0.5.5

• app: repair the main window when the shell takes over from the wizard (#595)

What's new in 0.5.4

• Fix model download and retranscribe UI feedback (#594)
• Task/speakrs diarization (#593)
• meetings: let a reviewed meeting be transcribed again

What's new in 0.5.3

• onboarding: show the calendars after access was already allowed (#592)

What's new in 0.5.2

• release: keep R2 inside its storage limit, and stop Finder aborting the DMG (#591)
• recording: let recovery see a recording another process owns (#590)
• onboarding: add a calendar selection step, and surface denied capture permissions (#589)

What's new in 0.5.1

• docs: add the rollout plan and the horch vs Granola comparison draft
• ai: drop an em dash from the recovery doc comment
• ai: install the managed Pi runtime from the app (#588)
• web: anchor cookie banner bottom-right and tighten copy
• web: pass VITE_POSTHOG_KEY into the Docker build
• web: add consent-gated PostHog analytics

What's new in 0.5.0

• release(publish): drop obsolete template-heading validation from notes
• release: increment the build number every release

What's new in 0.4.0

• feat: Improved CLAUDE.md
• web/downloads: markdown notes, collapsible releases, and download size (#587)
• release: auto-generate release notes from commit history

horch 0.3.0 (1)

Release metadata

• Version: 0.3.0
• Build: 1
• Git tag: <v0.3.0-build.1>
• Git commit: cf06c8f1330e11030701cef7efd0cfc573e79423
• Minimum macOS version: macOS 14 or newer
• Validation status: <notarized-dmg-validated | smoke-validated | blocked>
• Install/launch smoke outcome: <pass | fail | blocked | not-run>
• Smoke tester/date/environment: <tester>, <date>, <clean macOS profile | VM | test machine>
• Artifact: horch-0.3.0-1-macos.dmg
• Checksum: horch-0.3.0-1-macos.dmg.sha256

User-visible changes

• <Summarize changes that users can observe.>

Install requirements

• Requires macOS 14 or newer.
• Download both files from this GitHub Release:
  • horch-0.3.0-1-macos.dmg
  • horch-0.3.0-1-macos.dmg.sha256
• Verify the checksum before opening the DMG.
• Open the DMG and drag horch.app into /Applications.
• Launch /Applications/horch.app and accept the standard macOS Gatekeeper confirmation if prompted.
• Local launch does not require a remote account. Recording, review, local storage, and local setup surfaces remain local-first.

Artifact verification

From the directory containing the downloaded DMG and checksum file, run:

shasum -a 256 -c horch-0.3.0-1-macos.dmg.sha256

Expected result:

horch-0.3.0-1-macos.dmg: OK

Do not install the artifact if checksum verification fails, the checksum file references a different DMG name, or the checksum file references a local build path.

Known issues

• <List known limitations, or write "None currently known." after verification.>

Validation performed

• Notarization ticket stapled and validated on the DMG.
• Gatekeeper assessment passed for the DMG.
• SHA-256 checksum verified before draft publication.
• Install/launch smoke checklist completed: <pass | fail | blocked | not-run>.
• Draft release artifact downloaded and checksum verified: <yes | no | blocked>.
• DMG mounted and drag-installed into /Applications: <yes | no | blocked>.
• First launch and Gatekeeper user flow passed: <yes | no | blocked>.
• Quit/reopen passed: <yes | no | blocked>.
• Setup Doctor opened and checks ran or reported actionable guidance: <yes | no | blocked>.
• Settings opened: <yes | no | blocked>.
• Menu bar indicator verified: <yes | no | blocked>.
• Privacy checks passed: no telemetry prompt, no unexpected network requirement for local flows, no meeting content in diagnostic/log surfaces: <yes | no | blocked>.
• Conditional short recording smoke: <pass | fail | skipped>; reason if skipped: <hardware unavailable | permissions unavailable | other>.

Support and diagnostics

When requesting support, share only metadata needed to identify the release and failing step:

• horch version, build, tag, and GitHub Release URL;
• macOS version;
• machine type or VM profile;
• DMG filename and checksum verification result;
• install, Gatekeeper, launch, Setup Doctor, Settings, or menu bar step where the failure occurred;
• Setup Doctor check names and statuses only;
• screenshots only after redacting meeting content and secrets.

Do not share meeting content, audio, prompts, credentials, calendar bodies, summaries, chats, transcript text, raw provider responses, signing/notarization credentials, private key material, or raw logs containing those values.

See docs/release/macos-support-diagnostics.md for the maintainer support policy.

Rollback guidance

• Keep the release as a draft until validation and maintainer approval pass.
• If install/launch smoke validation fails before publication, keep or delete the draft and leave the previous published release as current.
• If a published release must be pulled, follow docs/release/macos-release-rollback.md before changing public artifacts.
• Prefer publishing a fixed patch/build release over replacing assets on a published release.
• Do not execute destructive rollback commands without explicit maintainer confirmation.

Maintainer publication checklist

Before publishing the GitHub draft release:

• [ ] All placeholders in these release notes are replaced with real values.
• [ ] The DMG and checksum are attached to the draft release.
• [ ] Downloaded draft assets pass shasum -a 256 -c horch-0.3.0-1-macos.dmg.sha256.
• [ ] docs/release/macos-install-launch-smoke.md passed or publication is blocked.
• [ ] User-facing install requirements and minimum macOS version are correct.
• [ ] Known issues are accurate.
• [ ] Support instructions ask for metadata only and no meeting content or credentials.
• [ ] Rollback path has been reviewed without executing destructive actions.
• [ ] A maintainer has approved final publication.