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