--- title: "Release notes" description: "What changed in each public Recordstead release, newest first." updated: "2026-10-18" canonical: https://docs.recordstead.app/release-notes --- # Release notes Public releases are listed here newest first. Recordstead opens this page after an update. To check which version you have, see [Find the version you are running](https://docs.recordstead.app/troubleshooting/find-your-version). ## 1.8.0 2026-10-18 **New** - [Send each meeting to an Obsidian vault or a folder](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/send-to-obsidian-or-a-folder) by itself once processing is done or as soon as recording stops, and keep the note up to date when the meeting changes. - [Run one of your shortcuts, or a command on this Mac](https://docs.recordstead.app/automation/run-a-shortcut-or-command), for each meeting, with the meeting as JSON. - [Send each meeting to a web address](https://docs.recordstead.app/automation/send-to-a-webhook), such as a Zapier, Make or n8n hook or your own server, as signed JSON. - A webhook is the only integration that sends meeting text off your Mac: nothing leaves until you agree to the address and what it gets, a remote address must use HTTPS, and [what leaves your Mac](https://docs.recordstead.app/your-data/what-leaves-your-mac) now lists it. - Choose for each integration which workspaces it sends from and which parts go: the summary, the transcript, your tasks and your notes. - Meetings you already have, including one still in progress when you set up an integration, can be sent to it in one go. - When an integration's folder is in Documents, Desktop, Downloads, iCloud Drive or on another drive, macOS may ask once whether Recordstead can use it. ## 1.7.0 2026-10-16 **New** - [Take your own notes in a meeting](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/take-notes): they save as you type, a time in brackets links to that moment of the transcript, and your notes are never used to write the summary. - [Add a note from the menu bar during a call](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/take-notes#add-a-note-during-a-call), stamped with the time in the call. - Find text in your notes when you [search your meetings](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/search-meetings), and [export them](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/export-transcript) in their own file. - [Connected assistants](https://docs.recordstead.app/assistants/connect-an-assistant) can read your notes on meetings in the workspaces you turn on for them. - [Edit a meeting's summary](https://docs.recordstead.app/summaries/edit-a-summary) in place; the version it replaced is kept so you can restore it, and an edited summary is labelled as edited by you. - [Rewrite a whole transcript passage](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/correct-a-transcript#rewrite-a-whole-passage) in place, without selecting words first. - [Edit a task's words or due date](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/your-tasks), and searching for tasks again keeps the ones you edited. **Improved** - [Connected assistants](https://docs.recordstead.app/assistants/connect-an-assistant) search every workspace you turn on for them at once, and can look for exact phrases, alternatives or excluded words, sort by date and filter by speaker. - While Recordstead is still working on a meeting, it no longer lets you [delete](https://docs.recordstead.app/your-data/delete-a-meeting) or [move](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/move-to-workspace) it or remove its workspace, offers only the commands that can run, and says why speaker review cannot open yet. - The menu bar shows when an imported file's audio is being copied, and describes waiting meetings in the same words as the Meetings list. - The setup guide no longer promises a summary when the processing you choose does not make one. **Fixed** - After a quit, crash or [battery pause](https://docs.recordstead.app/processing/on-battery), Recordstead no longer asks you to continue processing a meeting that resumes on its own or is only waiting for [speaker names](https://docs.recordstead.app/people/name-speakers). - The menu bar and notifications say a summary is ready only when one was saved, and otherwise say the transcript was saved. - When a summary fails after the transcript was saved, the menu bar says the transcript was kept instead of saying it could not be created. - A failed summary stays marked as failed when you confirm speaker names afterwards, instead of being followed by a success notification. - A summary that cannot start, for example without a license or a summary provider, shows as failed on Home and in the Meetings list instead of waiting. - A missing local summary model sends one notification, the one that offers to download it, instead of two. - Re-analyzing speakers while you review them no longer repeats the review notification and Dock bounce. - Home describes an out-of-date summary in the same words as the Meetings list. - You can no longer move a meeting while its speaker names are saving, which put their voices in the old workspace. - Naming a meeting with AI no longer replaces a name you typed while it was working. - You are told when Recordstead cannot move an imported file's original to the Trash. - Canceling a meeting's processing stops only that meeting's work and no longer leaves it shown as running. - The automation API no longer reports an earlier error for a meeting that finished after a retry. - The built-in summary model no longer risks a crash on an M1 Mac when part of its work runs on the processor. - Open-source license notices in the app name each component's own copyright holder. ## 1.6.0 2026-10-13 **New** - [Choose which workspaces a connected assistant can use](https://docs.recordstead.app/assistants/connect-an-assistant): it reads and changes meetings only in the workspaces you turn on, and learns how many others exist but not their names. - After you update, every workspace starts off for assistants, including access you already allowed, so turn on the ones your assistant should keep using. - A new workspace stays off for assistants until you turn it on, and turning assistant access off turns every workspace off again. **Improved** - Turning a built-in [summary template](https://docs.recordstead.app/summaries/protocol-templates) or its automatic detection on or off now applies only to the workspace you are in, and your earlier choices carry over to every existing workspace. - The agreement you confirm before allowing assistant access is shorter and no longer suggests that the assistant itself stays on your Mac. - Connected assistants can tell which problems they can fix themselves and which only you can, and they stop retrying for a summary or transcript that is not on its way. **Fixed** - Your side of a recording and the live transcript are no longer silent when your microphone has three or more channels or carries your voice on its second channel. - The [live transcript](https://docs.recordstead.app/recording/live-transcript) shows far fewer of the other side's words as yours when sound from your headphones reaches your microphone, and hides fewer of your own replies. - You can move the live transcript pill by dragging any part except its buttons; use its expand button to bring the window back. ## 1.5.2 2026-10-12 **Fixed** - You can delete a meeting that is waiting for a license after [your trial ends](https://docs.recordstead.app/getting-started/start-trial) or your license is removed. - The menu bar no longer shows such a meeting as being written up while it waits for a license. ## 1.5.1 2026-10-10 **Fixed** - You can [finish eligible older meetings](https://docs.recordstead.app/processing/choose-processing-depth) after your trial ends, including their first summary when the original processing level is unknown. - You can continue initial processing after a queue wait, restart or speaker review without losing the meeting’s included access. - Your saved transcript and summary are reused when processing resumes, and a saved task search is not repeated. - You can collapse the live transcript window without an unexpected quit. - You see the appropriate pointer when hovering over expandable and clickable live transcript controls. - Your menu-bar workspace lists have room for names, fit their contents and scroll when needed, with full names available on hover. ## 1.5.0 2026-10-09 **New** - [Follow calls with a live transcript](https://docs.recordstead.app/recording/live-transcript) in a floating window or your meeting's transcript tab, with adjustable text size and copying, processed on your Mac with or without a license. - Your live transcript saves during recording and remains available alongside the final transcript; quitting normally waits for saving to finish. - [Follow a call without recording or saving it](https://docs.recordstead.app/recording/live-transcript-only), and copy any text you need before stopping. - [Connected assistants](https://docs.recordstead.app/assistants/connect-an-assistant) can read your meeting tasks and, with editing allowed, check them off, reopen or remove them, with undo available in Recordstead. - Check assistant connections in Settings and find confirmed problems on Home, with guidance for fixing them. **Improved** - Interrupted recordings retain their original meeting, workspace and processing choice when recovered, while discarded recordings stay discarded. - The Dock icon draws your attention to [pending speaker review](https://docs.recordstead.app/people/name-speakers) and opens it when clicked. - Menu bar toolbar buttons show clearer hover feedback. **Fixed** - Your [automatic call detection](https://docs.recordstead.app/recording/call-detection) choice survives restarting Recordstead. - Saving speaker names completes pending review and resumes processing without repeating the review after a restart. - Export confirmations and other notices keep appearing after you close Settings. - You can [delete saved voices](https://docs.recordstead.app/people/recognize-people) while recognition is off, without changing names in past meetings. - [Opening your latest summary](https://docs.recordstead.app/automation/shortcuts-and-spotlight) works after a restart. - The purchase page's currency label keeps its intended size after the price loads. **Removed** - The ineffective workspace-change action in recording-start notifications; you can still [change the recording's workspace](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/move-to-workspace) from the menu bar. ## 1.4.0 2026-10-06 **New** - Filter Meetings by date, from today or the last 30 days to one day or a range you pick, and narrow the list to meetings that need you. See [Search your meetings](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/search-meetings). - Open Meetings already filtered from Home: a day of your activity, the meeting count for the selected period, or the meetings that need you. **Improved** - An unfinished recording move tries again when you connect the drive, without relaunching Recordstead. See [Recording destinations](https://docs.recordstead.app/your-data/recording-destinations). - The website and documentation use Google Analytics only if you allow analytics cookies, and one choice applies to both, as described in the updated [Privacy Policy](https://recordstead.app/privacy). **Fixed** - The notification asking you to review speakers opens the review again, and it now plays a sound. - Continuing a meeting that was interrupted at speaker naming opens that meeting's speaker review. - The notice about unfinished moves no longer reappears on every launch; it counts meetings and offers to open the destination settings. - Your tasks on Home show a speaker's new name as soon as you rename them. - Pointing at a bar in Home's hours chart says how many calls started in that hour, instead of a number that read like a time. ## 1.3.0 2026-10-05 **New** - [Connect multiple Google Calendar accounts](https://docs.recordstead.app/calendar/connect-google-calendar) to see your next meeting and open its previous recording from Home. - [Assign calendars to workspaces](https://docs.recordstead.app/calendar/choose-workspaces) and route automatic recordings there when the matching event has one clear workspace. - Choose workspaces again when reconnecting cannot confirm the same account, or [remove a connection locally](https://docs.recordstead.app/calendar/disconnect-google-calendar) without revoking Google access. - After you connect, your Mac reads each account's main calendar directly from Google with read-only access. ## 1.2.0 2026-10-03 **New** - See the tasks you took on in your meetings, with the words they came from, on Home and in each transcript. See [See the tasks you took on](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/your-tasks). - Copy a task, check it off, reopen or remove it, undo a change, and open its source line by clicking it. - Find tasks in an older or corrected transcript while keeping the tasks you already finished or removed. - Sort your tasks by when they were said and see how long each has waited. - See your meeting totals, open tasks, activity by day and time, most-used apps, people and dictionary corrections for the selected period and workspace. - See your trial status on Home, enter a license key there, or try your first recording by choosing an audio or video file. - When you choose an external summary provider, your transcript is sent to that provider again to find your tasks, after your confirmation. See [What leaves your Mac](https://docs.recordstead.app/your-data/what-leaves-your-mac). **Improved** - Find meetings waiting for your input and act on them directly from Home, alongside a preview of your latest completed summary that you can copy. - Scroll task and attention lists inside their cards while the rest of Home stays in place. - See how many tasks are yours in the notification when a summary is ready. - Open the download page from the website to see the macOS requirements before installing. - Downloads are counted as aggregate totals, as described in the updated [Privacy Policy](https://recordstead.app/privacy). **Fixed** - Open a transcript at the requested moment immediately, including when you follow a task from Home. - See a refused or unavailable microphone during setup, with a way to open the relevant macOS settings. - License email delivery respects a service's requested wait before retrying. - The trial notice names and links the same current Privacy Policy edition. **Removed** - Home's rotating tips and their setting have been replaced by guidance for your first recording and cards for your meetings. ## 1.1.0 2026-09-30 **New** - Record meetings from any app, transcribe speech and speakers on your Mac, and create a local summary. See [Record your first meeting](https://docs.recordstead.app/getting-started/first-recording). - Transcribe and summarize in 25 languages, and write one meeting's summary in another language. See [Supported languages](https://docs.recordstead.app/transcription/languages) and [Change a meeting's summary language](https://docs.recordstead.app/summaries/change-a-meetings-language). - Correct a misheard word from the find bar, one match or all of them, and remember the spelling for future transcripts. See [Correct a word in a transcript](https://docs.recordstead.app/meetings/correct-a-transcript). - Connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Codex to your meetings from Settings. See [Connect an AI assistant](https://docs.recordstead.app/assistants/connect-an-assistant). - Stop an automatic recording that is not a call and ignore that app, from the menu bar or the main window. See [Stop automatic recording for one app](https://docs.recordstead.app/recording/ignore-an-app). - Start a 30-day processing trial when the first eligible job is ready. See [Start your processing trial](https://docs.recordstead.app/getting-started/start-trial). - Activate a Personal license for version 1.x and its updates on two Macs. See [Activate a license key](https://docs.recordstead.app/getting-started/activate-license) and [Manage Macs](https://docs.recordstead.app/getting-started/manage-macs). - Move encrypted recordings to an external drive, S3-compatible storage or SFTP. See [Move recordings to an external destination](https://docs.recordstead.app/your-data/recording-destinations). ## Related - [Keep Recordstead up to date](https://docs.recordstead.app/getting-started/updates) - [Install Recordstead](https://docs.recordstead.app/getting-started/install) - [Ask for something that is missing](https://recordstead.app/support#ideas-and-missing-features)