Minor on the stable line. Faster Whisper and Parakeet extras, Speech Model simple setup, Snap uinput, Flatpak bundles on the tag, and QA fixes from the release branch.
Fixes tracked in the PR. Post-release follow-ups: #834.
* fix(packaging): derive the Flatpak and AUR dependency sets from the lock
* test(packaging): add return annotations on new packaging tests
Greptile asked for -> None on the new tests, matching AGENTS.md.
* test(packaging): type parametrized Flatpak source arguments
Greptile asked for type hints on the source parameter, matching AGENTS.md.
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* feat(release): attach Flatpak bundles to v* GitHub Releases
On each version tag, build x86_64 and aarch64 .flatpak assets with the
same builder pins as flatpak.yml, upload them as workflow artifacts, and
attach Vocalinux-${VERSION}-{arch}.flatpak next to the AppImages.
SHA256SUMS now checksums *.flatpak as well.
The Flathub builder image has no GitHub CLI, so attach is a follow-up
job on ubuntu-latest using gh release upload --clobber. Snap jobs are
unchanged.
Fixes#784
* fix(ci): pin privileged Flatpak builder to an immutable digest
The gnome-50 tag is mutable; both release Flatpak jobs and flatpak.yml
now pull the image by OCI index digest. The integrity test requires
@sha256 rather than the tag alone.
Bump version metadata and series-aware notes for the 0.16.2 patch:
KDE leftover IBus, Wayland/IBus shortcuts, BackSpace delete that,
installer glslc, nightly stamp, release integrity, and CI/docs gates.
* feat(ci): gate AUR PKGBUILD builds on every PR
Nothing ever ran makepkg on the PKGBUILD before a tag pushed it to AUR
users, and the channel broke twice that way (#736, #757) — a PKGBUILD
change did not even start a CI job, because no paths filter matched
packaging/aur/**.
The gate (packaging/aur/build-test.sh, run in archlinux:latest — the
AUR is a rolling channel, so the image stays deliberately unpinned):
- swaps the tag-archive source= for a git archive of the checkout under
the same filename and prefix, so build()/package() run unchanged and
the gate answers "does this commit build on Arch"
- installs depends/makedepends from the repos; python-pywhispercpp
(virtual, provided by the AUR backends, #579) and python-pynput (AUR)
are satisfied by a stub so makepkg still verifies the full depends
set, and pip-installed from the hash-pinned requirements/runtime.txt
for the import smoke
- runs namcap on the PKGBUILD and the built package, failing on errors
only (its warnings are noise around lazy imports and virtual depends)
- installs the package and imports the whole UI/recognition stack, plus
the vocalinux --version entry point
Part of #701 (phase 6).
* fix(ci): stop partial-upgrading in the AUR gate and correct the #736 attribution
AUR --no-isolation uses extra python-setuptools 84, so the <82 cap blocked the 0.16.0 rebuild. AUR pywhispercpp backends are still 1.4 and crash if we pass context_params; skip that argument below 1.5.
Bump the stable line from 0.16.0 to 0.16.1. README and UPDATE keep the 0.16 series highlights and add the patch-only fixes. Website changelog, schema, AppStream, and AUR PKGBUILD follow.
* build(appimage): pin the interpreter, packages and tooling
* ci(appimage): build inside a pinned ubuntu 22.04 image
* test(appimage): guard the pins and the base image
* docs: state the AppImage glibc floor
* fix(appimage): bundle libibus with its typelib
* ci(appimage): let the container run the isolated GI smoke test
* fix(appimage): keep the bundle's libraries out of host binaries
* fix(appimage): bundle libgpg-error with the libgcrypt that needs it
* docs(agents): require host_env() for spawned binaries
* ci: run the AppImage jobs when its other inputs change
* fix(appimage): check every bundled typelib, not just the seeded ones
* fix(ibus): keep the bundle when respawning our own interpreter
* fix(injection): pass host_env() to setxkbmap and notify-send
* test(ibus): wait for the IBus warmup thread before asserting
* fix: leftover engine repair, just --no-sync, and ggml verify from #713#713 only rewrote a broken config.json toward whisper_cpp, so a reinstall
that kept the old engine still died when vosk was the extra that installed.
verify_configured_engine now prefers SELECTED_ENGINE, then any working extra,
and the vosk fallback rewrites an existing file.
just recipes use uv run --no-sync so they do not prune extras from
just deps-all. CONTRIBUTING lists libgirepository-2.0-dev for Ubuntu 24.04.
An unverified ggml file is not loaded if unlink fails, and an unpinned name
is refused rather than deleted.
* fix(appimage): retry tooling downloads on curl reset
* fix(build): bootstrap .venv for --no-sync just recipes and cover the contributor path in CI
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* chore(build): migrate justfile tooling to uv
All recipes now run through 'uv run' against .venv, with a shared
DEV_EXTRAS variable (dev + vad) because uv syncs the environment
exactly and would otherwise uninstall the dev tools between
recipes. 'deps' installs dev+vad; new 'deps-all' covers every
extra. 'build' switches to 'uv build'; 'version' uses --no-sync.
Bump [tool.uv] required-version to >=0.12,<0.13 for uv 0.12.x, and
raise the mypy python_version target to 3.12: mypy 1.19 in the lock
cannot target 3.9 and numpy 2.x stubs need a 3.12 target to parse
(mypy is not run in CI or pre-commit; this only affects 'just
typecheck').
* fix(tests): isolate test runs from real XDG state; fix Arch model-path crash
Local test runs failed en masse (185 failures) while CI stayed
green: tests picked up the developer's real ~/.local/share/vocalinux
models via the default XDG paths and switched IBus/keyboard code
paths through the desktop session env (XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP/
XDG_SESSION_TYPE on GNOME/Wayland, issue #478 branches). conftest
now points XDG base dirs at a throwaway session-wide directory and
clears session variables at import time, mirroring a fresh CI
runner (paths like MODELS_DIR freeze at first import during
collection, so fixture-time isolation is too late).
Also guard the Arch branch of _get_system_model_paths(): it removed
/usr/local/share/vocalinux/models unconditionally and crashed with
ValueError on Arch hosts when a custom XDG_DATA_DIRS never added
that path. Add regression tests, and make the lock-file test assert
the actual $XDG_DATA_HOME/vocalinux contract instead of the
hardcoded ~/.local/share default.
* fix(tests): keep the IBus engine double a plain class
Python 3.14's unittest.mock re-instantiates a user subclass when it builds
child mocks (klass(name=...)). VocalinuxEngine inherits from whatever
IBus.Engine resolves to, and the test module bound that to the MagicMock
class itself, so every engine instantiation raised
TypeError: VocalinuxEngine.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'name'
on 3.14 while passing on 3.13. Replace it with a plain stand-in class that
still hands out per-instance MagicMocks for the IBus API surface the engine
touches.
The same pattern remains in test_ibus_engine.py, test_ibus_engine_utils.py,
test_ibus_active_engine_guard.py and test_ibus_xkb_wayland.py; those never
instantiate the engine, so they are unaffected for now.
* fix(install): build the venv from the system Python
install.sh looked up a bare `python3` from PATH. Started from an activated
virtualenv — a shell left in uv's .venv after `just deps` — it built venv/
from that interpreter, where distro PyGObject is invisible even with
--system-site-packages, and the run aborted with
Distro PyGObject (python3-gi / python3-gobject) is not importable in the venv.
A mismatched venv/ then survived every retry, because the installer reuses
whatever venv it finds.
- drop an inherited VIRTUAL_ENV (and its bin from PATH) before any
interpreter lookup
- select the interpreter explicitly: $SYSTEM_PYTHON (default
/usr/bin/python3) or PATH python3, preferring one that can import gi,
and create the venv with it instead of `python3`
- recreate venv/ when it was built by a different interpreter
- name the interpreter in the PyGObject guard's error
Documents the two environments (uv's .venv for tooling, venv/ for the
installed app) in CONTRIBUTING, the justfile header and AGENTS.md, and adds
the mismatch symptom to the INSTALL troubleshooting section.
* chore(python): raise the supported floor to 3.11
requires-python promised 3.9 while the CI matrix ran 3.9/3.10/3.11/3.13,
the classifiers advertised up to 3.14, mypy targeted 3.12 and install.sh
enforced 3.9 — five different answers to "which Python does this support".
Settle on 3.11 everywhere: pyproject (requires-python, classifiers, black
targets), install.sh's MIN_VERSION, check-system-deps.sh, the distro package
map, the CI matrix (now 3.11-3.14, matching the classifiers), the release and
nightly workflows, and the docs.
mypy now targets the floor instead of 3.12, so type checking covers what we
promise; numpy 2.x ships stubs in 3.12 syntax that a 3.11 target cannot
parse, so its imports are skipped. (mypy has 71 pre-existing errors either
way; no CI job gates on it.)
uv.lock and the requirements/* exports are regenerated — dropping 3.9/3.10
removes most of the version-conditional resolution branches.
tests/test_python_version_policy.py pins the invariant: install.sh's floor,
requires-python, the classifiers and the CI matrix must agree.
* ci: run lint and tests from uv.lock
The lock file and the hash-pinned exports were not enforced anywhere: CI
still built a venv by hand and installed unpinned `PyGObject` plus
`-e ".[dev,vad]"`, so the tool versions it checked against had nothing to do
with the ones `just lint` uses locally.
Both Python jobs now use astral-sh/setup-uv and run through `uv sync
--locked` / `uv run --locked`, which also fails the build when uv.lock drifts
from pyproject.toml.
Partially covers phase 5 of #701 (tests install from the lock, lock freshness
gate); trusted publishing, artifact checksums and action SHA pinning are
still open there.
* ci: lint from a dedicated dependency group
The lint job failed on this branch: `uv run --extra dev` syncs the whole
project, so it tried to build pyaudio from source on a runner that installs
no system dependencies.
src/pyaudio/device_api.c:9:10: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory
Move black/isort/flake8 out of the `dev` extra into a `lint` dependency
group. CI runs `uv run --locked --only-group lint`, which installs the three
pure-Python tools and skips the project entirely — no portaudio or
girepository headers needed. `just deps` and DEV_EXTRAS request the group
alongside the dev extras, so the local environment still carries test and
lint tooling at once and `just lint` matches CI version for version.
pre-commit is unaffected: its hooks pin their own tool versions upstream.
* fix(install): never configure an engine the venv cannot import
vosk became an optional extra in #705, but the installer still writes
`"engine": "vosk"` into config.json on the whisper.cpp fallback path even
when installing the extra only produced a warning. config.json also survives
reinstalls — every writer guards on "file does not exist" — so an engine
picked by an earlier attempt outlives the venv that supported it. Either way
Vocalinux dies at startup:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vosk'
- the fallback now writes the vosk config only when `import vosk` actually
succeeds, and otherwise leaves the engine configuration alone
- a new verify_configured_engine() runs near the end of the install: if
config.json selects vosk and the venv cannot import it, it says so and
prints both fixes instead of leaving a broken install behind
* feat(models): verify every model download against a pinned digest
Pins a sha256/md5 per downloadable speech model in
src/vocalinux/utils/model_checksums.txt and verifies against it in both
install.sh and the runtime downloaders, before the file is moved into place.
Verification fails closed. Covers phase 2.5 of #701; see the PR for details.
* docs(agents): rebase AGENTS.md onto the #727 rewrite
* fix(install): hash models that are already on disk instead of trusting them
* refactor(models): one download path per engine, and fix Whisper's
* docs(install): drop distros that cannot meet the 3.11 floor
* docs: retire the distros and Python versions the 3.11 floor rules out
* fix(install): abort instead of warning when Python is below the floor
* fix(install): fall back to the system Python, not the one on PATH
* fix(install): match an existing venv by installation, not by X.Y
* fix(install): repair a config naming an engine the venv cannot import
* fix(models): pin VOSK by the sha256 of bytes we fetched, not upstream's md5
* fix(justfile): request the dev set in every recipe that syncs
* test(version): scan the docs and website trees for a stale Python floor
* docs: correct the stale model-checksum and distro claims
* fix(models): stamp the VOSK tree the app extracts, as the installer does
* fix(install): replace an unverified VOSK model only once its successor is ready
* docs(install): align the Fedora floor with the rest of the tree
* test(install): drop an f-string with no placeholders
* test(models): stub the downloader probe the VOSK installer test relies on
* docs: drop the long dashes from two model-checksum comments
* fix(install): gate on the interpreter, not on the distro release label
* fix(justfile): export the lint group into requirements/dev.txt
* fix(models): unpack the VOSK tree into staging and stamp it before the swap
* fix(whisper): adopt a checkpoint an earlier release stored under the catalog name
* docs(settings): state what a stray Whisper copy really means for deletion
* fix(models): hash a whisper.cpp model found on disk before it reaches ctypes
* docs(contributing): stop telling readers to uninstall their linters
* fix(install): stop warning off distros the project documents as supported
* docs(distros): file the supported derivatives under supported
Stable minor since v0.15.0. Bumps version to 0.16.0 across app, web, AUR, and Flatpak AppStream, and refreshes docs, changelog, and SECURITY.
Tag v0.16.0 after this lands on main.
* feat(ui): About page for this app, VocaHQ, and talk to us
Settings About now has three groups. Vocalinux keeps the existing icon,
version, AGPL-3.0, updater, and What's New. The website button opens
vocalinux.com.
Part of VocaHQ lists the family sites with PRODUCT.md status. Talk to us
opens GitHub issues, Discord, X, and email. Official Design marks from
VocaHQ/.github are vendored as-is and painted with iron-white ink.
* fix(ui): unique About Open names and pin Design SVG hashes
Open buttons on About still say Open. Each one now uses its tooltip as
the accessible name so a screen reader can tell vocahq.com from
vocalinux.com from Latest Release.
The Talk-to-us SVG test pins sha256 of the four official marks from
VocaHQ/.github 61c8eee.
* fix(ui): circular app icon and About source code link
The launcher and About header used the square teal fill. Switch
both to the circular family logo (voca-logo.svg). Website stays
vocalinux.com; Source code next to it opens the GitHub repo.
* fix(appimage): pin pywhispercpp to the version install.sh declares
* fix(appimage): pin pywhispercpp at both install sites
* test(docs): match AGENTS.md uv.lock wording
#727 dropped "unused until those phases land". The test still
looked for that line, so any PR that runs Python tests against
current main failed. Pin the current contract instead: uv.lock
is authoritative, and requirements/*.txt are not hand-edited.
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Co-authored-by: Sergey Silaev <hello@8am.dev>
* fix(whisper): use bundled GPU libs and skip software Vulkan devices
AppImage 0.15.0 shipped a CPU-only pywhispercpp wheel, so the Settings
GPU picker and host vulkaninfo never moved inference off the CPU. Rebuild
pywhispercpp with Vulkan in the AppImage, log the libraries that actually
load, skip llvmpipe in auto-select, and document how to verify.
Fixes#604
* fix(appimage): pin gcc/g++ for Vulkan pywhispercpp rebuild
Hosts that default cc/c++ to clang fail CMAKE's C++ test because clang
does not search gcc's libstdc++ path. Default the rebuild to gcc/g++.
Repo links, install one-liners, and release checks now use
github.com/VocaHQ/vocalinux. The site mentions VocaHQ without a redesign.
The Codeberg mirror, personal email, and X handle are unchanged.
* fix(appimage): ship transitive GI typelibs for non-Debian hosts
The 0.15.0 AppImage pruned girepository down to a partial allowlist and
dropped xlib/Dbusmenu/GModule. On Ubuntu the missing typelibs fell back
to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0; on openSUSE/Fedora that
path does not exist, so Gtk failed to import and startup reported
missing GTK3/AppIndicator (#585).
Keep linuxdeploy's typelib extras, seed the full transitive set, bundle
AppIndicator/Notify shared libs, and smoke-test GI imports with host
typelibs hidden.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* style(test): format appimage packaging regression test
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(ci): avoid libappindicator/ayatana apt conflict
Ubuntu packages libappindicator3-1 and libayatana-appindicator3-1
conflict. Rely on gir1.2-* to pull a single implementation and keep
libdbusmenu/libnotify explicit for bundling.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(ci): install gir1.2-dbusmenu-glib for AppImage typelib seed
Dbusmenu-0.4 is a required transitive typelib for AppIndicator; without
the GIR package the build fails the required-typelib check.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(appimage): require only one AppIndicator typelib variant
Runtime accepts AppIndicator3 or AyatanaAppIndicator3. Treat them as
alternates in the AppImage typelib check so single-stack build hosts
do not fail require_all.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(appimage): prefer Ayatana after rebase onto main
Align AppImage typelib seeding and GI smoke order with main's
Ayatana-first tray preference from #621/#638.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(appimage): accept lowercase AyatanaAppindicator3 typelib
Match tray_indicator.py's three-step fallback so AppImage builds and
GI smoke succeed on hosts that only ship AyatanaAppindicator3-0.1.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(main): accept lowercase AyatanaAppindicator3 in dep check
Align check_dependencies with tray_indicator.py and the AppImage GI
smoke path so a lowercase-only typelib host does not fail at startup.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
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* docs(packaging): prefer Ayatana AppIndicator in Fedora/Arch hints
Follow-up to #621: align docs, AUR depends, package map, dependency
check messages, and troubleshooting copy with the Ayatana-first install
path so manual installs and AUR users get a working KDE tray icon.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* style(main): black-format Ayatana install hint lines
CI black --check failed on the multi-line logger.error calls for the
Fedora/Arch package hints.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* chore(release): prepare v0.15.0
Bump version across app, web, AUR, and Flatpak metainfo. Document GitHub
release-notes rules, refresh README/UPDATE/INSTALL/USER_GUIDE for the 0.15
series (sidebar settings, AppImage, auto-pause/keepalive, Vulkan device
selection), and align website product surfaces with shipped features.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs(release): fold latest main into v0.15.0 notes
Include dictation capitalization/trailing-space, ibus-wayland injection,
IBus teardown, and settings notice polish landed on main after the initial
release prep rebase.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs(release): include Bluetooth mic crash fix in v0.15.0 notes
Fold #599 (PortAudio Bluetooth SCO probe heap corruption) into README,
UPDATE, changelog, AppStream, and release history after rebasing onto main.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs(release): include language catalog expansion in v0.15.0 notes
Fold #616 (Hungarian and expanded speech languages, Fixes#565) into
README, UPDATE, changelog, AppStream, PRODUCT.md, and release history
after rebasing onto latest main.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs(release): fold settings footer and language follow-ups into v0.15.0
Include #618 sidebar dictation footer, #619 Custom Shortcut Record/Set
restore, and #617 English (India) Whisper language mapping after rebasing
onto latest main.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
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* fix(ui): AppImage smoke fixes for tray icons, labels, and identity
Replace placeholder mic tray SVGs with opaque branded icons, show
whisper.cpp instead of Whisper_cpp, set GLib/AppIndicator identity to
Vocalinux (not main.py), and give About dialog buttons enough padding
so labels are not clipped under Adwaita.
* fix(packaging): harden AppImage build for Wayland and tray deps
Pin the build interpreter, install onnxruntime into the bundle, set
desktop Exec=AppRun + StartupWMClass, prune typelibs to an allowlist
after linuxdeploy, and stop forcing GDK_BACKEND=x11 on Wayland
(VOCALINUX_FORCE_X11=1 remains as an escape hatch). CI AppImage jobs
also pull Ayatana AppIndicator and librsvg SVG loader packages.
* fix(packaging): bundle full stdlib from base_prefix in AppImage
When build.sh runs under a venv, sys.prefix only has site-packages, so
the AppImage was missing encodings and crashed on start. Copy the
interpreter and stdlib from sys.base_prefix, force pip
--ignore-installed into AppDir, set Gdk program class to Vocalinux, and
tone down the muted tray slash so small StatusNotifier icons stay slate.
* fix(tray): use absolute icon paths so stale hicolor icons lose
XFCE StatusNotifier resolves IconName through the system theme and can
ignore IconThemePath. A leftover ~/.local/share/icons placeholder
(vocalinux-microphone-off.svg filled #e74c3c) was winning over the
AppImage's bundled icons. Outside Flatpak, pass absolute SVG paths to
set_icon_full / new_with_path instead of bare theme names.
Demote xclip, wl-clipboard, and wtype from hard depends to optdepends.
These are injection/clipboard fallbacks (alongside existing xdotool);
IBus and other primary paths may not need them on every install.
Responds to AUR feedback (Ataraxy, comment #1079450). Follow-up to #579
(virtual python-pywhispercpp); AUR picks this up on the next v* publish.
The PKGBUILD hard-depends on python-pywhispercpp-cpu by name while
optdepends tells GPU users to "replace" it with the -cuda variant.
That swap is impossible in a normal pacman transaction: the -cuda
package conflicts with -cpu but only provides the virtual
python-pywhispercpp name, so removing -cpu breaks vocalinux's
dependency and pacman aborts. The only workaround is pacman -Rdd,
which leaves a broken dependency record that re-breaks on every
vocalinux upgrade.
All three AUR backend packages (-cpu, -cuda, -rocm) declare
provides=('python-pywhispercpp'), so depending on the virtual name
lets any variant satisfy the dependency. AUR helpers prompt for a
provider on fresh installs, the standard Arch pattern for
swappable backends.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAF9BkcSzwcMjTzkBxdx6k
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(packaging): add self-contained AppImage build
Bundles the wheel plus PyGObject/GTK3/AppIndicator/IBus typelibs into a
relocatable x86_64 AppImage via linuxdeploy + linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk, so
users get a zero-install, no-sandbox-negotiation alternative alongside
AUR/PyPI. Wired into nightly and tagged releases, plus a smoke-test job
in the PR pipeline since AppImage/ELF bundling can't be verified on a
macOS dev machine.
* feat(packaging): add aarch64 AppImage builds
Parameterizes build.sh on uname -m instead of hardcoding x86_64 (both
linuxdeploy and appimagetool publish aarch64 continuous builds, and
pywhispercpp ships manylinux_aarch64 wheels, so no from-source compile
needed). Adds an arch matrix to the PR smoke-test job, and a second
job in nightly.yml/release.yml that builds on GitHub's free
ubuntu-24.04-arm hosted runner and attaches the aarch64 AppImage to
the same release the x86_64 job already created.
* chore(release): prepare v0.14.2
IBus stability patch on the 0.14 series: engine process launch after XDG
import (#534) and FocusIn gate for first dictation on GNOME Wayland (#533).
Keep 0.14 series feature list in README/UPDATE for patch releases; changelog
and AppStream note only the delta. Document that rule in RELEASE_PROCESS.
* fix(release): address 0.14.2 review findings
- Dates: v0.14.2 uses 2026-07-17 (not before 0.14.1)
- AUR: sha256sums=SKIP until tag; document updpkgsums in RELEASE_PROCESS
- Single version source: package __init__ re-exports version.py; User-Agent uses __version__
- Docs: drop redundant series recaps; shrink AppStream/changelog delta
- README ecosystem status: Stable v0.14.2 (not Beta)
* docs(release): include settings scroll fixes in 0.14.2 notes
Cover #538 and #541 (scrollable settings tabs / wheel polish) in README,
UPDATE, website changelog, AppStream, and version history after rebasing
onto main.
Patch release for Flatpak/AUR packaging and post-0.14.0 fixes:
installer wrappers, ydotool dual API and Flatpak socket probe, model
download timeouts, layout-aware hotkeys, and related docs/web bumps.
* feat(flatpak): add Flatpak packaging for universal distribution
Adds a Flathub-ready Flatpak for the whisper.cpp engine, plus the minimal
runtime adaptations Flatpak actually needs — deliberately scoped down from the
earlier attempts (#416, #428), which bundled unrelated whisper.cpp GPU, audio,
and clipboard changes.
Packaging (packaging/flatpak/):
- app manifest, AppStream metainfo, and desktop entry (com.vocalinux.Vocalinux)
- generated offline Python dependency modules (flatpak-pip-generator)
- bundled shared modules: PortAudio, libayatana-appindicator, xdotool, xsel
Runtime changes (Flatpak-only, behaviour unchanged outside a sandbox):
- utils/paths.py: honour XDG_CONFIG_HOME/XDG_DATA_HOME so config, models and
runtime data live under ~/.var/app/<app-id> in the sandbox
- autostart uses `flatpak run <app-id>` (the host launcher is always on PATH)
- text injection and keyboard backend detect a Wayland host reached via XWayland
(no Wayland socket granted) and route through xdotool / pynput-on-X11
- tray indicator references the exported `<app-id>-*` host icon theme names
Also: a CI workflow building x86_64 + aarch64 bundles, and README / packaging
README / distro-compatibility doc updates.
Verified with a full flatpak-builder build + bundle install on aarch64:
pywhispercpp loads its native libraries without LD_LIBRARY_PATH, XDG paths
redirect correctly, bundled tools are present, and the entrypoint runs.
Manifest and builddir lint are clean and AppStream metadata validates.
Closes#167
* chore(flatpak): sync metainfo version to 0.14.0-beta
Also ignore flatpak-build-dir/ so local builder output stays untracked.
* refactor(flatpak): trim docs and comments after ponytail review
Drop redundant packaging README command blocks, shrink path/tray/autostart
comments, and stop ignoring a non-canonical build-dir name.
* fix(flatpak): close readiness gaps for v0.14.0-beta
Route log files through XDG data dirs so Flatpak keeps them under
~/.var/app, refresh AppStream screenshots to vocalinux.com, and use
the SPDX GPL-3.0-only license id.
* fix(flatpak): enable global hotkeys via evdev and --device=input
pynput over XWayland only receives keys for the focused X client. Prefer
evdev inside Flatpak and grant /dev/input so shortcuts work app-wide.
* fix(flatpak): inject text with ydotool/uinput on Wayland
xdotool only reaches XWayland clients, so typing appeared to succeed but
never hit native apps. Ship ydotool, grant --device=all for uinput, start
ydotoold on demand, and type via uinput inside the Flatpak.
* fix(flatpak): paste via wl-copy + Ctrl+V instead of typing
ydotool type injects character-by-character. Ship wl-clipboard, grant
--socket=wayland, and prefer clipboard paste for instant insertion.
* test(text-injection): expect ydotool default key-delay of 2
Matches the shipped VOCALINUX_YDOTOOL_KEY_DELAY default used when
clipboard paste falls back to character typing.
* feat(packaging): add AUR release package and CI publish
Ship packaging/aur/vocalinux for yay installs of tagged releases, wire
AUR publish into the release workflow (skipped until secrets are set),
and document one-time maintainer setup.
Fixes#116
* refactor(packaging): slim AUR PR to PKGBUILD + CI
Drop systemd unit, install script, website edits, and long docs.
Keep release PKGBUILD, minimal publish job, and short AUR setup notes.
