New
Surprise me — the backdrop's Gradient tab can now generate a fresh gradient for you. It draws a random hue, pairs it with a harmonious partner, and keeps saturation and lightness in ranges that flatter a recording sitting on top, so every result is usable. Recent draws are kept as swatches, so one you liked a few presses ago is still one click away.
Fixed
Auto-update now works. Releases up to v1.5.2 shipped installers without the update manifest electron-updater reads, so no installed copy could ever see a new version. This release carries the full metadata for both platforms. If you are on an older build, this is the release that reconnects you — after installing it, future updates arrive on their own.
The cursor no longer flickers when you click. With native cursor styling, an OS cursor-type change landing mid-click would swap the drawn cursor — and because different cursors have different hotspots, it jumped rather than just re-skinned. The shape is now held for the length of the click animation.
Update failures are no longer invisible. They are recorded in diagnostics.log instead of a console the production build strips.
For AI / MCP users
The apply_edits contract gained the backdrop value vocabulary it never had, so an assistant can now set wallpapers, colours and gradients correctly. Captions gained a polish loop: generate_captions {apply: false} transcribes without touching your document, and get_transcript {format: "json"} round-trips cues losslessly, so an AI can clean up the transcript and write it back. Several settings that silently reset their siblings when patched now merge properly.
Known limitation
Caption generation runs on Apple-silicon Macs only — the bundled Whisper binary ships for darwin-arm64. On Windows and Intel Macs the feature reports that it is unavailable rather than failing oddly. Writing captions still works everywhere; only generating them from audio does not.