Improvements

• Account & Billing added to Settings to make it easier to find.
• Home polish improved design on the home screen so you can see your day at a glance
• Smarter contact voice recognition

Stability & Reliability

• Startup integrity checks Quill re-verifies installation integrity in case of interrupted or corrupted downloads during install.
• More reliable AI titling & classification
• Graceful offline behavior Calendar attendee bios now degrade gracefully when offline.

Bug Fixes

• Improved deliverability for billing notification emails for users who have them enabled.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed meeting titles showing stale text after being edited.
• Fixed the speaker list not refreshing after an inline speaker change.
• Fixed live minutes stalling during long-single-speaker segments in languages without spaces between words
• Fixed AI chat failing for certain BYO LLM models that don't support tool selection.
• Connected tools (MCP) now handle authentication failures gracefully with a clear notification and automatic reconnect, and recover correctly after a token refresh.
• More resilient macOS audio capture: The audio pipeline now rebuilds automatically when the system audio format changes, detects sample-rate anomalies, and better deduplicates recovery, reducing dropped or corrupted recordings.
• Windows audio reliability: Fixed recording for machines that have an outdated version of Visual C++ Redistributable installed.

Bug Fixes

• Speakers: Fixed an issue that could leave speakers labeled as "Unknown."
• Calendar: Contact bios now degrade gracefully when you're offline, instead of failing.

Changes

• YouTube Import: Removed YouTube import. You can still transcribe by playing a video and transcribing with Quill live.

Bug Fixes

• Live minutes for Chinese (and other non-spaced languages): Fixed a stall that could prevent live minutes from generating during meetings conducted in Chinese when a single speaker monologues for more than 3 minutes.
• Speaker labeling: Resolved a crash that could occur when labeling speakers with missing names in the quick-pick menu.
• Speaker list updates: Fixed an issue where the speaker list could become stale after making an inline speaker change, so your edits now appear immediately.

Windows

• Audio reliability: Fixed an issue for computers that have an outdated Visual C++ runtime installed at the system level

UI/UX Improvements

• Notes Editor: Enhanced readability & typography
• Actions Tab: Removed sparkles and badge count from Actions tab

Bug Fixes

• Meeting Calendar Integration: Added null-check protection for meeting records after database updates to prevent crashes
• Audio Capture (macOS): Added liveness watchdog for system-audio to prevent audio capture failures

Security & Performance

• Memory Management: Enhanced utility process stability by improving handling for memory-recycle exit conditions
• Network Requests: Improved network request routing

Bug Fixes

• Fixed LLM router stability & error handling: Resolved issue where users using Quill's default LLMs could hang instead of properly failing over to backup providers
• Improved network reliability: Fixed networking issues that could cause connections to become stuck or unresponsive

🔧 Maintenance Release

v2.4.5 is a maintenance release with no user-facing changes. This release focuses on internal build processes.

📋 What's Changed

• Internal build and packaging improvements

• Follow-ups are more reliable and includes a concise description
• Search handling of special characters improved
• Fixed crash related to trying to identify speakers in audio files that had been deleted
• Auto-updater improved for more controlled release process
• Improved shutdown performance for subprocesses
• Various security patches across the desktop app and supporting services

Recording & Transcription

• Improved audio format conversion for more reliable transcription
• Resolved crash that could occur when retranscribing a meeting
• Improved audio engine progress reporting on Windows

Features

• Meetings that are actively recording now show a "Current" prefix in the meeting list for easier identification
• Added MCP server support to slash commands in AI chat
• Fixed context badges, thread hydration, and history colors in chat
• Calendar link rewriting feature removed in favor of native link handling

Connectivity & Reliability

• Improved network request handling reduces unnecessary connectivity checks
• Settings screen no longer flashes a "download models" link while the model check is still pending

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash caused by Button + ConfirmDialog component rendering with multiple children
• Fixed keyboard navigation shortcuts unexpectedly firing while typing in input fields

Highlights

Audio reliability overhaul

A series of fixes to ensure meeting audio is not lost and to recover audio from your device in case of unexpected issues. Comprehensive regression tests to prevent regressions.

Browser-style navigation

Move through your history with new back/forward buttons in the header, mouse side-buttons, and Cmd+[ / Cmd+] shortcuts.

Airgap mode improvements

We call this "Disable Quill services" in the advanced settings menu. We did an audit to ensure that other than checking for a subscription, no other requests go to Quill's servers (eg no error reporting when native code crashes, etc.)

If interested in a fully-offline license to eliminate even the weekly subscription check, feel free to reach out.

AI & Quilliam Chat

• Chat recovers from client-side errors with a toast notification instead of going blank.
• Added explicit timeouts and retries to all AI calls for better reliability.
• Better error handling and reporting across all AI streaming paths (errors, aborts, tool errors).
• BYOLLM logs debugging information to a local log visible on the settings page.
• Ensured that BYOLLM chat works with all internet connection disabled when the provided AI endpoint is on localhost.
• Redesigned MCP search ranking for more relevant results both in-app and in MCP clients.

Imports

• Found that importing M4A files with invalid headers that could result in very long reported meeting lengths for short audio files. Added some code to detect these situations to prevent using up AI quota for users on lite plans erroneously.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Space-key playback regressions in the speaker labeling view.
• Fixed incorrect border color on shortcut rows.
• Fixed a Whisper Vulkan out-of-memory issue on certain windows machines.

Improvements

• Progress reporting during audio mixing is now smoother and more accurate
• Custom transcription servers no longer require an API key during configuration, e.g. for servers inside your own network
• Fixed an error that caused custom servers to reject empty audio segments
• Fixed schema validation failures when custom servers return slightly different response formats from OpenAI
• Toasts with buttons in the upper right are now clickable - previously toasts in the wrong location would drag the window instead of clicking
• Fixed a repeated error toast when opening or saving the transcript editor for a meeting with no detected speech

Chat Improvements

• Redesigned Quilliam chat input with a smarter mention dropdown
• User messages now stay sticky while scrolling through conversation history
• New keyboard shortcut to send a message in a new thread directly from the chat input

Bug Fixes

• Fixed speaker colors not updating correctly when toggling between light and dark themes
• Fixed an issue causing unnecessary sign-outs
• Fixed audio aggregate device configuration issues that could cause capture failures
• Rewrote screenshot library to reduce latency and memory usage across Mac and Windows
• Updated transcription behavior on windows ARM64 machines

UX Improvements

• Refreshed publish note UI with new brand colors, improved readability, etc.
• Improved speaker identification UX. Refined the interface for identifying and labeling speakers in meeting transcripts
• Updated project experience with a rearchitected data layer for better reliability and performance
• Removed audio import length cap for free users. The 45-minute limit on audio file imports has been lifted for free accounts.
• The AI agent is better at searching for the right tools to use

Stability & Bug Fixes

• MCP tools that use dynamic field definitions were sometimes incorrectly sending empty objects; this is now resolved
• Added handling for missing file errors that were surfacing as unhandled exceptions

Features and improvement

• UX polish to the speaker labeling flow
• Incremental find in-notes and transcripts with Cmd+F
• Find "Recently Deleted" meetings on the meetings homepage. 30-day auto-deletion or permanently delete immediately with a button.

Bug fixes & Stability

• Resolved an edge case that could cause crashes when speaker embeddings were missing
• Fixed seek forward/backward shortcuts when playing audio from meeting page
• Windows users with touch screens can now interact with the recording overlay using touch gestures
• Obsidian export now always shows the folder picker with a default path vs. always saving to the default path immediately
• Smarter retry logic and auto-recovery when encountering networking system crashes
• Fixed an agent search tool failure when querying meeting transcripts with an empty search

Improvements

• Speaker Labeling: Full keyboard-based flow for triaging speakers: label, fix, teach Quill voices quickly
• Note Editing: New AI extensions in the note editor let you act on and approve changes to highlighted text or the your entire note. Highlight individual words to replace and teach Quill how to spell them.
• Broken meeting indicator: Meetings that had issues processing locally now show a clear indicator in the sidebar and pro-actively offer to re-transcribe.

Stability & Performance

• Transcription process now recovers gracefully from memory allocation failures instead of crashing.
• Embeddings memory usage is significantly reduced.
• ONNX runtime memory has been optimized to reduce footprint. We are continuing to research ONNX performance on certain Windows configurations.
• Multiple improvements to increase startup speed.

Bug Fixes && Stability

• Improved memory usage in voice activity detection (VAD)
• Fixed potential stuck meeting hang
• Improved performance of audio conversions across macOS and Windows

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Audio processing stability improvements & better error logging
• Meeting timestamps corrected: Fixed an issue where note creation timestamps could display incorrectly due to timezone offset format mismatches
• Fixed a deadlock issue on Windows during audio capture that could cause recordings to freeze

UI Improvements

• Cleaner meeting sidebar

Reliability & Diagnostics

• Improved error reporting & tracking making it easier to diagnose and fix issues faster in future updates

Features

• New Mobile Sync Status page makes it easy to configure and monitor syncing between your devices.
• Disable Quill Services setting lets you run Quill without any Quill services other than authentication. No error logging, no telemetry, no encrypted cloud sync, requires your own LLM backend.
• Capture screenshots directly from the meeting notepad.

AI Fixes

• Fixed streaming crashes that could occur mid-generation.
• Meeting minutes now incorporate your calendar event title for better context.

Bug fixes & Stability

• Fixed several Windows audio crashes for more reliable recording.
• New audio permission banner surfaces early when missing microphone or system audio access.
• Expanded the auto-start settings screen to show and allow configuring all detected meeting apps (Zoom, Teams, etc.).
• Keyboard shortcuts work more naturally with text input fields.
• Prevented the app from double-launching when clicking "Restart Now" twice in quick succession.
• Fixed highlight badges in the notepad editor bleeding across note sections.

New Features

• Transcript Imports - Import meetings from transcript files, including SRT and VTT subtitle formats.
• Bulk import audio files or transcripts

Bug Fixes & Performance

• Fixed Notion MCP integration errors
• Fixed deep links to mobile setup page
• Smoother, faster experience in new UI

UI & Design

• Improved dark mode color consistency

New Features

• ElevenLabs transcription support - Added ElevenLabs as a cloud transcription provider option, alongside support for more local transcription providers
• Cancel processing meetings - Added a cancel button in the sidebar for meetings that are currently being processed
• Improved meeting follow-up - Increased focus on meeting context and takes your in-meeting private notes into account when suggesting actions

Bug Fixes, Performance, & Stability

• Mobile app setup wizard now available in new UI
• Fixed a bug where saving a contact's bio could erase their summarized notes
• Fixed a search issue where specially crafted queries could produce malformed results
• Improved internet connectivity checks
• Vulkan crash recovery - Automatically falls back to CPU transcription if the GPU transcription crashes or hangs indefinitely, preventing stuck meetings on Windows
• Decreased latency for follow-up actions -> note pipeline
• Sharing & sync reliability improved
• Improved Quilliam AI feedback experience after note creation

UI Improvements

• Tab navigation now consistently returns to the root of each section -> Making it easier to find the "import" function for importing audio and text files.

• Contacts can now store multiple email addresses
• New contact merge dialog lets you combine duplicate contacts into one record
• Added application zoom and font size settings - Cmd + -/+, Ctrl+scroll, and discrete options in Settings

Bugfixes

• Silent minutes generation failures now show a clear inline error
• Fixed crashes that could occur after retranscribing a meeting or when a screenshot file was missing
• Validated BYOLLM model configuration on save to prevent unexpected crashes when using custom models

• Retranscribe poor or missing transcriptions
• Bugfix: Calendar crash in old UI
• Bugfix: display multiple options for sending email address in new UI when multiple accounts connected
• Performance: Audited new UI for performance improvements. Should reduce CPU usage, especially during meetings

Audio Improvements

• Added real-time audio status indicators and power meters, giving you live visual feedback on audio capture levels during recordings

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Export Audio button
• Fixed the plan page on web showing
• Fixed subscription status caching and not recognizing plan changes in the app
• Fixed a few toasts that could get stuck on screen permanently without a dismiss button

New Quill UI & Agent - default for new user

The new Quill UI is now the default for new users. If you are an existing user of Quill, you can choose when to update, but new users will start with the new experience first.

✨ New Features

• Task export/share buttons work from any note - Quilliam can help parse your notes into tasks for Todoist, Linear, Trello, Jira, and more.
• "Browser didn't open?" fallbacks - Calendar and MCP OAuth flows now show a manual fallback option if the browser doesn't launch automatically
• Redesigned onboarding experience - Fully rewritten onboarding flow in the new React UI for a smoother setup process
• Updated app icons - Refreshed application icons

🐛 Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements

• Fixed transcription process potentially being killed when some computers go to sleep and wakes up
• Fixed custom AI model input field losing focus
• Fixed export using stale cached content
• Fixed a crash when a calendar attendee has a blank email address
• Improved React rendering performance with memoization fixes and a split MeetingsPage component for faster load times

Performance & Stability

• Upgraded transcription engine
• Improved GPU support for AMD Ryzen - faster and more accurate transcriptions

Agentic Quill Beta Opt-In

• Visit Settings > Advanced to opt in to our new design & experience
• Join Discord for early updates: https://discord.gg/34V9RHw6t5
• Connect other tools via MCP for smart post-meeting recommendations, cross-meeting context & conversations, and more

Performance & Stability

• Added native voice activity detection (VAD) as a fallback option on macOS for improved audio processing reliability
• Improved search indexing

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Disk Usage - Sped up automatic cleanup of transcription audio files after processing & added local log rotation to prevent log files from growing too large
• Transcription Stability Fixed issue where transcriptions could get stuck by implementing chunking fallback mechanism
• GPU Fallback Added automatic fallback when Vulkan device is lost during transcription, preventing crashes
• Optional Cloud Transcription Fixed error handling in cloud transcription flow
• Integration Authentication Improved authentication flow for integrations

New Features & Improvements

• MCP Server enabled for all users - Model Context Protocol server integration is now available to everyone
• Improved Full-text search for transcripts - Search through meeting transcripts to quickly find specific discussions and topics
• Bedrock and Vertex BYOLLM Support - Easily use models from AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex when configuring your own LLM backend. Improved error messages and simplified configuration.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Overlay window transparency restored
• Networking stack robustness
• Support request modal error
• Default AI note language support restored - so you don't have to ask specifically for a language other than English

🚀 Performance & Stability

• Transcription improvement on low-end Windows machines

New Features

• Launched Global Search UI for finding content across all meetings and notes

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Fixed private note retention when overlay auto-stops meeting due to silence
• Display backup login URL to users when system is configured to disallow redirecting between Quill and the default browser, which prevented login for some users
• Improved handling of malformed LLM-generated JSON
• Improved handling of mid-chain fetch failures to reduce error noise
• Reduced GPU-related crashes
  • Reduced possible conflicts in screenshot system
  • Disconnected backup networking system from electron GPU process
• Improved reliability of "Quill Weekly" email
• Do not automatically deleted email for meetings where transcription encounters an error, enabling recovery
• Added diagnostic logging and progress-based timeout to diarization step post-meeting
• Increased transcript limit for dictionary misspelling detection
• Began rewrite of audio code to more memory-efficient architecture

Beta Features (email support@quillmeetings.com for access)

• "Quilliam" agent - search across all meetings and control Quill via chat

Bring Your Own LLM: AWS Bedrock & Google Vertex AI Support

• Connect Quill to your enterprise AI infrastructure with native AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI authentication

Performance Improvements

• Reduced CPU usage during search indexing

✨ Features & Improvements

• Account Dashboard: Added new https://app.quillmeetings.com/app account dashboard
• Organization Admin: Improved UX in admin UI
• Referrals: New referral system with clean URLs and $20 credit for both referrer and referree
• Invoice History: Individual users can now view their invoice history on the /app/plan page
• Task Management: Replaced task save confirmation modals with cleaner toast notifications

Bug Fixes

• Windows MCP Server: Fixed MCP connection issues on Windows in preparation of rolling out more widely
• Integrations: Fixed integration modal immediately closing when trying to share to Notion or other integrations
• Search: Fixed hyphenated search terms not working properly in full-text search
• Weekly Emails: Fixed weekly summary emails being skipped

Happy New Year! 🎉

UX Improvements

• Window State Persistence: Notes window now remembers its position and size across application restarts
• Enhanced ShareBar: Improved styling and user experience for sharing functionality

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Windows ARM Compatibility: Fixed selection issues on Windows ARM devices
• Windows + Ryzen Transcription: Fixed issue with AI inference on Ryzen processors
• Cross-Platform Compatibility: Resolved various small Windows-specific bugs
• Mobile Upload Optimization: Added reserved concurrency to mobile upload functions for better performance

• Bugfix: Updated Claude extension for faster installation

BYOLLM (Bring Your Own LLM) Improvements

• Simplified BYOLLM configuration for organizations and individuals
• Increased availability of OpenAI models
• Added user-facing debugging & logging for BYOLLM errors
• Rewrote BYOLLM networking stack to support more enterprise environments with custom proxies & certificates

Features

• Improved MCP (Model Context Protocol) server installation and management (still beta - email support@quillmeetings.com for access)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Stability

• Rewrote transcription pipeline for improved reliability and logging
• Resolved payment method update errors in billing system
• Improved reliability of weekly summary email generation on local computer

✨ New Features

• MCP Server Support: Quill can expose a local MCP server for use with AI assistants like Claude Desktop, Windsurf, or custom agents. Search for meetings & contacts, create notes, automate and connect to other tools!
• Claude Desktop Extension: One-click install into Claude Desktop. Local-connection only so your information is not shared through Quill's servers.
• What's New: Added release notes into Settings > "What's new"

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Audio Deletion Prevention: Prevent audio deletion when transcription fails to improve recovery
• Dark Mode Improvements:
  • Fixed dark mode styles for developer debug data table in Settings
  • Resolved light gray text display issue on published notes for users with system dark mode
• Network Error Handling: Expanded network error fallback to handle more transient connection errors
• Memory Optimization: Improved memory usage during app load to prevent memory spike

Billing & Subscription Updates

• Enhanced Plan Management: Improved Plan Modal UX and added easy plan management at https://app.quillmeetings.com/app/plan

📱 Mobile Syncing Improvements

• Mobile app update: Sync meetings incrementally to improve resilience and allow recovery even in situations of network instability.

Release Notes - v1.10.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash in thread note viewer when meetings are missing or corrupted
• Improved GPU device type checking to prevent compilation errors on certain systems
• Improved transcript accuracy by filtering out additional common AI hallucinations

🏗️ Platform Support

• Enhanced Windows compatibility with expanded testing coverage for both x64 and ARM64 architectures
• Improved AMD processor support for Windows audio processing tests

🔧 Stability Improvements

• Resolved null pointer exceptions that could occur when viewing meeting threads
• Enhanced transcript processing to reduce false positive content from audio analysis

Release Notes - v1.10.0

GPU Selection for Windows Users

• Choose which GPU handles transcription on multi-GPU Windows systems
• Automatically detects and recommends your best GPU (discrete over integrated)
• Find the new GPU selector in Settings → General

iOS Sync Progress Notifications

• See real-time progress when meetings recorded on your iPhone are syncing to desktop
• Know when your mobile recordings are ready to view

Transcription Engine Upgrade

• Updated with stability improvements
• Fixed rare crashes during audio processing
• Smarter GPU detection prefers dedicated graphics cards

Beta / Roadmap Work

Claude Desktop Extension

• Settings page with cleaner enable/disable flow and status

Faster, More Reliable Search

• Search now works more efficiently across large meeting libraries
• Major search indexing performance improvements
• Fixed participant name indexing for better search results

Dark Mode

• Full dark mode support across the app for easier viewing in low-light environments
• Improved contrast in Contact List and Contact Details pages for better readability

Note Versioning & Undo/Redo

• New note version history lets you see how your notes evolved
• Undo and redo support for more confident editing

Collapsible Meeting List

• Drag to collapse the meeting list sidebar for a cleaner, more focused view

Custom Webhook Configuration

• Configure custom webhooks for advanced integrations and automation workflows

Fully Offline Support

• Quill now works completely offline with local LLMs (Ollama, LM Studio)
• Perfect for air-gapped environments or when traveling without internet

Organization Admin Controls

• New setting to disable Quill Cloud for all organization members
• Organization-wide auto-start disable setting for calendar meetings
• Soft-delete support for custom organization templates

Improved Audio Device Selection

• Native device picker UI for more reliable device switching

Windows Improvements

• Prevents multiple Quill installations running simultaneously
• Fixed combined M4A audio file creation in Windows Store build
• Improved cross-platform filename sanitization

Bug Fixes & Performance

• Fixed UI memory leaks for smoother long-running sessions
• Fixed error when taking screenshots
• Fixed VAD (voice activity detection) issues
• Cancel in-progress transcription properly when meeting is canceled
• Fixed clicking textarea in suggest edits mode

AI & Integrations

• Added GPT-5 model integration with improved fallbacks
• Pipedrive CRM integration support
• Custom LLM model strings now configurable by admins (BYOLLM improvements)

Transcription & Audio

• Improved transcript timestamps for better accuracy
• Timestamp toggle now available to all users
• Reduced pre-start buffer to 45 seconds for faster recording starts

Platform & Compatibility

• Upgraded to Electron v32 (Node.js 20)
• Added Vivaldi browser support
• Obsidian compatibility: removed colons from default file names
• Windows: automatic restore from backup on restart
• Windows: improved device name guessing and crash reporting

User Experience

• Redesigned Ask Quill dropdown with better styling and interaction
• Embedded onboarding call booking directly in-app
• Cleaner organization-controlled LLM provider UI with hidden keys

Voice I/O Detection on macOS

• Automatically detects when system voice input/output is active to improve audio handling

Unicode Character Support on Windows

• Fixed proper handling of Unicode characters, improving support for international text and special characters, especially in filenames

Screenshot Reliability

• Fixed screenshot functionality for macOS 14.5 and above

Contact Management

• Added ability to delete contacts from your address book
• Improved contact management workflow

Meeting Type Sync

• Made meeting type syncing more robust and non-blocking
• Added manual refresh option for meeting types

Electron Upgrade

• Updated to newer Electron version for improved performance and security

Security & Infrastructure

• Multiple security updates and npm audit fixes
• Improved error tracking and differentiation

Bug Fixes

• Improved handling of network disconnection scenarios
• Fixed various TypeScript compiler issues
• Better error handling for edge meetings