Quill Release Notes

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

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

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