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@EthDawg EthDawg released this 29 Sep 04:51
v2.3.1
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Workbench 2.3.1

A calmer Mac toolbar and clearer navigation, with fixes for captured work, reading and Persona controls.

  • Floating toolbar: a quiet resting handle reveals compact controls for the current tool. Contextual Tools, Prompts, Review and Appearance controls stay alongside their tool. Tab and Shift-Tab move through the row, and shortcut hints describe the actual action.
  • Recording and results: dictation, narration, reading and their results share the same floating host. Older recovery notices remain available while you work. Starting Persona, Draw, Present, Timer or a screenshot handoff preserves an unrelated dictation failure and clipboard receipts.
  • Home and navigation: Home brings current work and recent History together. Settings stays at the bottom of the sidebar, and one Floating toolbar switch controls its visibility. Page and menu names agree.
  • Persona: clearer Selected and Shown states, editable portrait drafts, Circle / Card / Original appearance choices, and handles for moving and resizing a shown persona.
  • Everyday reliability: rejected copied text preserves the Read draft; stale timer controls cannot trigger a different step; capture, recovery and delivery checks cover more combined states.

This Apple Silicon download requires macOS 14 or later. Use Settings → Workbench updates, or replace Workbench in the same Applications folder. Stable and Preview retain separate libraries and settings.

Verification

Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple and stapled. The final extracted archive passes signature verification and Gatekeeper. Build 20260929044112, source 6aac0cb.

Verified on an Apple M5 running macOS 26.5.1: the full regression suite (292 Swift tests, one opt-in keyboard test skipped; 239 StageKit tests and 4,761 assertions), packaged speech/reading/capture checks, and an actual Sparkle upgrade from 2.2.0 to 2.3.1. The updater rejected an unavailable feed and an invalid signature, deferred restart during drawing, then installed the exact archive when idle. Saved state, boards and update preferences were retained. Signed Preview acceptance covered native keyboard traversal and pending-failure preservation across Persona and Present transitions.

Fresh-Mac first-run permissions, external displays/receivers, USB device video, VoiceOver and routed/headphone call capture were not separately verified for this release. Existing capability and hardware limits remain in the guide.

The archive checksum and exact provenance are included in SHA256SUMS.txt and release.json alongside the download.

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