Recording, Transcription & Audio

• Capture mode is now inferred automatically per provider and model instead of being forced from the UI
• Providers and models that do not support live transcription now fall back to batch capture automatically
• OpenAI STT capture now defaults to batch mode
• Pyannote capture now defaults to batch mode
• Local Cactus capture now defaults to batch mode
• Spoken-language compatibility warnings now check the correct mode for the selected provider, using live checks for live-capable providers and batch checks otherwise
• Pyannote was added to the desktop batch transcription provider map
• OpenAI batch transcription now emits smoother synthetic progress updates while partial text is streaming in
• OpenAI batch SSE parsing now handles CRLF-delimited streams correctly
• Diarized OpenAI batch results now use the mixed-capture channel consistently, improving downstream speaker labeling
• Direct-mic transcripts with provider-supplied speaker indices are no longer mislabeled as the local speaker
• Very short captures are no longer automatically discarded just for missing an old duration or word-count threshold; post-capture handling now keys off usable transcript and audio output
• Microphone device enumeration was hardened to avoid panics on problematic device lists

Calendar, Sidebar & Window Behavior

• Calendar pickers can now refresh manually when no calendars are found
• Apple calendar selection now supports a force refresh that cancels pending debounced sync before running a fresh sync
• OAuth calendar selection now supports the same force-refresh flow
• OAuth calendar refresh also invalidates integration status before reloading calendars
• Calendar sidebar and provider rows were restyled with clearer borders, spacing, and hover behavior
• The same refreshable calendar selection behavior now applies during onboarding
• The main shell now uses the dedicated windows plugin to expand and restore width for the left sidebar and right chat panel
• Closing the right chat panel now restores the previous window width automatically
• Showing custom sidebars or starting search can now expand the window width automatically and restore it afterward
• Cmd/Ctrl+W now closes the desktop window when no tab is open

Session Flow & Updates

• The Home header's record control was replaced with a compact ad-hoc session button
• Starting an ad-hoc session now creates a session immediately, adds the current user as a manual participant, titles it from the current local time, and opens it with auto-start capture enabled
• Ad-hoc session handling was refined across the main shell and related chat CTA flow
• The large update banner is now shown only on the Home surface instead of every tab
• Update actions in both the Home banner and sidebar now show an installing state and prevent repeated clicks while an update is being applied