github OpenWhispr/openwhispr v1.9.2
1.9.2

5 hours ago

OpenWhispr 1.9.2

A repair release for 1.9.1. If you are on Windows, this one matters — sign-in was completely broken.

🌟 Highlights

  • 🔑 Windows sign-in works again — Every provider button on the Windows desktop app had gone dead since 1.9.1. Connecting a calendar and Stripe checkout broke the same way.
  • 📝 Transcription works in packaged builds again — xAI dictation, re-transcribing a saved recording, and bring-your-own-key file uploads all failed on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Only development builds were unaffected, which is how it reached release.
  • 🔊 Windows meetings capture everyone again — Some machines recorded your microphone and nobody else, with no error anywhere in the app.
  • 🔔 Meeting prompts survive the first call — Closing a prompt any way other than its own buttons stopped every later meeting from ever prompting again.

🛠 Fixes

  • Windows sign-in — Browser links were routed through explorer.exe, which silently opens a File Explorer window instead of the browser for any URL carrying a query string — and every sign-in URL carries one. Those links now open directly, while the ones explorer.exe can deliver still go through it, so a browser launched from a meeting link keeps being captured. (#1932)
  • Transcription — A model-registry import added in 1.9.1 was missing the attribute Node's module loader requires for JSON, so three transcription paths threw needs an import attribute of "type: json" in packaged builds while ordinary dictation kept working. (#1908)
  • Meetings — On Windows the system-audio helper could start up reporting itself healthy and then capture nothing but digital silence. It now compares its own output against what your speakers or headphones are really playing, and a recording that hits this switches to the working fallback a few seconds in and keeps the rest of the call. (#1935)
  • Meetings — A prompt closed by a compositor, a failed load, or onboarding taking the screen left its detection marked as still on screen, so nothing prompted again for the rest of the session. On Linux the prompt also fired on OpenWhispr's own microphone use, and now waits until the audio server has said which application owns the capture. A second call raises a fresh prompt once the first one's microphone has gone quiet, while an ongoing call still prompts only once. (#1918)
  • Meetings — Meeting cards dismiss with an 80px horizontal swipe, like desktop notifications. Detection prompts, calendar reminders, and the auto-end restart offer all take the same path as their close button. (#1906)

🙏 Thanks

Thanks to @greatcoat, @Chadpiha and @IdrisGit for their work on this release — @IdrisGit both reported and fixed the meeting-prompt bug — and to @VictorZhang01 and @KishenG for the reports behind two more of these fixes. 🎉

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