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@EthDawg EthDawg released this 01 Oct 03:45
v2.4.0
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Workbench 2.4.0

Keep dictation, capture and presentation controls close to the work you are doing.

  • A clearer floating toolbar. The three-dot menu is gone. Each tool shows its next action, and Switch tool keeps running jobs and their controls together.
  • A live Persona camera bubble. Show a mirrored webcam over your other apps, with Start, Hide, Show again and End controls. Nothing is recorded by the bubble; camera availability depends on other apps using the device.
  • Pick up unfinished captures. Snap & Talk brings capture, narration and review into one workspace. Review unfinished Snap reopens its draft directly, and a narration that hears nothing keeps the screenshot.
  • More useful speech controls. Meetings has its own page with Pause and Stop & transcribe. Sublime dictation uses one guarded paste and keeps your words copied; a changed or unreadable destination retains the copied fallback.
  • Consistent everyday actions. Timer uses the same Start, Pause, Resume and Stop controls across surfaces. Stop drawing closes a whiteboard while keeping its ink, and microphone-refusal messages offer the relevant settings shortcut.

Choose Settings → Workbench updates when you are ready. Your saved work stays in this edition’s library.

First download: unzip Workbench, move it to Applications in your home folder, then open it there. When replacing an existing copy, quit it and use the same Applications folder.

Verification

  • Stable 2.4.0, build 20261001032329, Apple Silicon (arm64), bundle com.ethdawg.workbench.
  • Built from clean main commit d6b36af, including #235, #236 and test-suite isolation #234. Both required jobs passed on that exact commit.
  • Developer ID team GHVAAH9P5Z. Apple notarization Accepted, submission b554eb0c-673f-4ead-83f4-24580b0e758b. Stapling, signature, native Shortcuts metadata and Gatekeeper checks passed on the final extracted ZIP.
  • Full release regressions passed: 338 package tests (2 skipped), StageKit's 273 tests / 5,229 assertions, 197 synthetic meeting checks, 139 Snap checks and 64 synthetic text-delivery checks. The Preferences guard confirmed no new test settings suites were left behind. These checks do not establish physical keyboard, live-call or camera-sharing acceptance.
  • All configured packaged self-checks passed, including reading resources, reading packs and transcript handoff from the final extracted archive.
  • ZIP SHA-256: b1852d9270f0f6ea353af6ae15325ccf85b2ebc7aa46675f36b8c25edef9bd63.

Known limits

Fresh-Mac setup, macOS 14/15, camera sharing with Zoom, camera disconnect/permission changes, additional displays and full VoiceOver were not newly certified for this release. Remaining click-through refinements stay in issue #134; this release does not claim every physical-input scenario passed.

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