Quill Release Notes

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