Quill Release Notes

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• Windows audio reliability: Fixed recording for machines that have an outdated version of Visual C++ Redistributable installed.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

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• Audio reliability: Fixed an issue for computers that have an outdated Visual C++ runtime installed at the system level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

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.