v0.4.0

What's new

• Automatic microphone recovery: when your mic disconnects, HushMic falls back to the system default and switches back on its own when the mic returns.
• Per-microphone preferences: each microphone remembers its own model and suppression strength, and the tray follows whichever mic is active.
• Built-in diagnostics: run hushmic --doctor (or click Copy diagnostics in the About window) for a paste-ready report covering versions, devices, and the recent processing log.
• Mic test polish: the A/B window follows mic changes live while it is open, and tells you when a selected device is delivering no audio at all (a switched-off wireless headset, for example).

Fixes

• The A/B window no longer stays locked to the microphone it was opened with; Retry detection genuinely re-detects now.
• Opening the mic test window is robust against transient PipeWire probe failures on busy systems.
• Notices in the mic test window stay up long enough to read; the About card is a single clean action.

Compatibility — x86-64, glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, and newer). Tested on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Linux Mint 22.1, Fedora Kinoite, and Arch.

Upgrading — re-download the AppImage, apt install the new .deb, or re-run the install script; your ~/.config/hushmic settings are kept.

Verify — each artifact's SHA-256 is in sha256sums.txt below; the install script checks it automatically.

Full changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

v0.3.0

What's new

• Flatpak: HushMic can now be built and installed as a Flatpak (see packaging/flatpak/). Aimed at immutable distros (Kinoite, Bazzite, Silverblue) where the native installers can't write to /usr. A Flathub listing is in preparation; until then, build it from the repo (flatpak-builder >= 1.4). Needs a host PipeWire >= 0.3.65.

• Launch behavior (all install methods): Launching HushMic from the application menu now opens the live A/B window; a second launch re-opens it. Autostart still uses hushmic --tray and stays silent.

Fixes

• Background-portal requests (flatpak autostart) are bounded by a timeout in every phase; a hung portal can no longer silently swallow later toggles.

Compatibility — x86-64, glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, and newer); the Flatpak additionally needs a host PipeWire ≥ 0.3.65. Tested this release on Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, Linux Mint, Fedora 44, Arch, and Fedora Kinoite (Flatpak).

Upgrading — re-download the AppImage, apt install the new .deb, re-run the install script, or on Arch yay -Syu; your ~/.config/hushmic settings are kept. If HushMic was still running during the upgrade, quit and restart it once.

Verify — each artifact's SHA-256 is in sha256sums.txt below; the install script checks it automatically.

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.3.0

v0.2.1

What's new

• Arch Linux via the AUR: yay -S hushmic (or paru -S hushmic).
• NixOS via a flake (builds from source): nix run github:Fovty/hushmic-nix -- --tray or nix profile install github:Fovty/hushmic-nix.

Fixes

• Test my mic on older PipeWire: the live side-by-side A/B view isn't available there, so it now records a short before/after sample instead of erroring out.
• Live A/B window on newer PipeWire (Linux Mint): each spectrogram now shows the correct stream instead of both showing the same one, a stalled pane times out and offers Go live instead of hanging blank forever, and the voice-retention figure no longer prints a bogus "quieter" number when one side is silent.
• Microphone selection now reliably pins the mic you chose on both old and new PipeWire: a stale saved mic is dropped first, old PipeWire is pinned via a legacy target, and new PipeWire by device name so the choice survives device churn.
• "No microphone detected" is no longer shown in the A/B window when a mic is actually present.

Compatibility — x86-64, glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, and newer). Tested this release on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Linux Mint (modern PipeWire), Fedora 44, Arch, and NixOS (via the flake).

Upgrading — re-download the AppImage, apt install the new .deb, re-run the install script, or on Arch yay -Syu; your ~/.config/hushmic settings are kept.

Verify — each artifact's SHA-256 is in sha256sums.txt below; the install script checks it automatically.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

v0.2.0

What's new

• Test my mic: a live A/B window with your raw mic and the cleaned output side by side as scrolling spectrograms, plus a 10-second record/replay with measured background-noise and voice-retention numbers. (No display for it? An audio-only record-and-playback test runs instead.)
• Desktop notifications when something fails, so a broken install or a mic that won't come back tells you on screen, not just in a terminal.
• Branded tray icons with live status (active / off / error), an About window, and hushmic --version.

Fixes

• Installing on immutable / ostree distros (Bazzite, Silverblue, Kinoite, SteamOS) now fails fast with real options instead of a cryptic read-only error (#2).
• Hardening found in cross-distro testing: no crash on hushmic --version | head, --enable-once waits for the mic to actually register, crash-safe config and autostart writes, and the tray no longer loses the autostart race on Cinnamon.

Compatibility — x86-64, glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, and newer). Tested this release on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Linux Mint 22.1, Fedora Kinoite, and Arch.

Upgrading — re-download the AppImage, apt install the new .deb, or re-run the install script; your ~/.config/hushmic settings are kept.

Verify — each artifact's SHA-256 is in sha256sums.txt below; the install script checks it automatically.

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v0.2.0

v0.1.4

Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.1.4

v0.1.3

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

v0.1.2

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

v0.1.1

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Fovty/hushmic/commits/v0.1.0