SonicInput v0.8.1 Release Notes

Release date: 2026-07-12

Highlights

Promoted Local Lexicon Memory to a top-level settings page. Candidates and saved vocabulary now use separate tabs and independently scrolling lists.
Made History refresh whenever the page is entered, re-entered, or selected again. Pagination now prefetches until the viewport is filled.
Tightened lexicon review to extract the smallest complete reusable term instead of saving surrounding context.
Added deterministic provenance checks: every candidate must cite existing raw transcription records that contain the proposed mistaken form.
Added controlled homophone and near-homophone acceptance while rejecting semantic jumps, cross-script pairs, formatting-only changes, and unsupported evidence.
Fixed runtime recall after lexicon edits through explicit cache invalidation, removed the fixed active-entry limit, and allowed multiple mistaken forms for one canonical term.
Fixed the Windows onefile package to include pypinyin dictionaries, staged QML plugins, and their required Qt runtime libraries.
Fixed the pynput event-filter closure so packaged hotkey handling does not repeatedly fail on an unbound time import.

Removed the nested Local Vocabulary card from AI Processing.
Removed the secondary-page state, Manage entry, and Back button. Local Lexicon Memory is now always visible in the primary navigation.
Accepting, rejecting, ignoring, or removing an item preserves the active list's scroll position.
Candidate and saved-vocabulary scrolling no longer moves the surrounding page.

This release intentionally hard-cuts the obsolete review implementation. If the review/lexicon schema is incompatible, its tables are rebuilt rather than migrated.
Existing v0.8.0 pending review candidates and accepted local lexicon entries are not guaranteed to survive the schema rebuild. Export the lexicon before upgrading if those entries are needed.
Pending candidates generated by pre-v3 review prompts are archived and no longer shown.
Application configuration and transcription history are not part of the review schema rebuild.
Automatic lexicon review remains disabled by default. Accepted lexicon memory remains enabled by default.

uv run ruff check src tests
uv run ruff format --check src tests
uv run pytest -m "not gui and not gpu and not e2e" -v
uv run bandit -r src -ll -ii -f json -o bandit-report.json
Offscreen QML interaction tests for top-level navigation, history refresh, tab scrolling, and lexicon mutations
Packaged onefile --help, --validate, and 12-second offscreen GUI startup smoke