Quill Release Notes

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

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

• 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

• 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