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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

0.1.0 - 2026-05-25

Added

  • Initial public release.
  • Hotkey-driven recording (hold / tap / double-tap state machine).
  • Streaming faster-whisper ASR with silero VAD.
  • Cleanup pipeline (off by default for privacy): opt-in Ollama local cleanup and opt-in OpenRouter cloud cleanup, toggled per backend in Settings.
  • Per-app vocab presets: code, work, personal, projects.
  • Voice commands: scratch that, new line, new paragraph, spell that ….
  • Replacement dictionary layer (config/vocab/replacements.txt).
  • Regex-driven secret redaction layer.
  • Synthetic Cmd+V insertion with always-restore clipboard.
  • Secure-input guard (refuses to paste into password fields).
  • Click-through HUD + rumps menubar with status badges.
  • First-run onboarding wizard.
  • dictate doctor diagnostic subcommand.
  • dictate --version and dictate --dry-run CLI flags.
  • dictate:// URL scheme handler.
  • AppleScript dictionary (assets/dictate.sdef).
  • Loopback-only WebUI for reviewing history (dictate-web, default port 47843).
  • Stable SHA-256 entry IDs.
  • CSP, nosniff, referrer-policy headers.
  • fcntl advisory file locking for concurrent writes.
  • Empty state, dark mode (prefers-color-scheme), mobile-responsive nav.
  • Keyboard shortcuts and a11y landmarks.
  • macOS conflict detection (built-in Dictation, Voice Control, other dictation apps, hotkey interceptors).
  • Runtime resilience: AVAudioEngine reset on sleep/wake; audio route-change rebuild; Ollama circuit breaker; disk-full callback; invalid-YAML recovery.

Documentation

  • README, CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, SECURITY (via GitHub Security Advisories), CHANGELOG, ROADMAP, FAQ.
  • THREAT_MODEL and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.
  • docs/architecture.md with Mermaid diagrams.
  • docs/pre-launch-checklist.md.

Tooling

  • MIT license.
  • CI on macos-14 with Python 3.11 + 3.12 (ruff + pytest + advisory pip-audit + bandit).
  • pyproject.toml with hatchling build backend and [project.scripts] for dictate and dictate-web.
  • justfile, py.typed (PEP 561), pre-commit config, CODEOWNERS, dependabot.