Workbench 2.6.0

Workbench 2.6.0

Fewer surprises: every dictation, Snap and meeting now ends with your words kept and a plain answer about where they went.

• Snaps stay sharp and easy to fix. Screen captures keep every Retina pixel. A new caption starts selected, so typing replaces "Your text", and Undo steps back one whole edit, not one keystroke. Copy says "Image copied" where you pressed it.
• Dictation always tells you what happened. If a live insertion stops early or you cancel after words have landed, your words stay copied and the result says so where you acted, with Retry beside it. Light cleanup no longer deletes acronyms like ERM or UM, or mangles "Uh-huh".
• Meetings hold up on long calls. A long call stays responsive with its page open and always saves. Plugging in headphones restarts only the audio that changed, so your microphone keeps recording. If no sound arrives from the call app, Meetings says why and where to allow it. ⌘Q while recording asks first.
• Snap & Talk keeps your take. Quitting mid-narration keeps what you said and transcribes it once speech is ready. A retake that hears nothing keeps your earlier words, and Snaps you add join in the order you captured them.
• Keys that tell the truth. A shortcut another app is holding shows as unavailable, and clears by itself once that app lets go. Every Change shortcut… opens Keyboard on that shortcut.

Also in this release:

• Prepare follow-up… offers the Meeting notes and follow-up skill first, on the runner you've set up, and a meeting is handed off once.
• Presenting is quieter. Present, Draw and Persona successes stop pinning orange lines in the menu-bar panel. The Timer keeps the display awake only while a countdown shows. Board export is reachable while a board is up.
• Updates and installs explain themselves. An update that fails says why and what to do, and long prompts insert in seconds.
• A fresh install reads as ready to set up, not as a failed speech setup, and History's Copy and Copy result confirm beside the button.

When you're ready, update from General › Updates. 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

• Production 2.6.0, build 20261020110933, Apple Silicon (arm64), source 413c989. It carries everything merged since 2.5.0: #323 and #324 (Persona and gallery follow-ups), #353 (the 15 October release train: Meetings on long calls, dictation outcomes, Snap and Snap & Talk, transcripts and follow-ups, presenting, Keyboard, Home, install and updates, Persona and Library, 30 reviewed PRs), #374 (Meetings: per-route device recovery, live words through boundaries, silence explained, Quit asks while recording) and #388 (version and notes).
• Exact-source main CI passed. The signed release run passed 344 Swift package tests (two intentional skips), 343 StageKit tests / 6,811 assertions with no failures, all configured harnesses and the packaged self-checks.
• Developer ID signing, Apple notarization, stapled ticket and Gatekeeper passed on the final extracted ZIP. Apple submission: c10661e9-9cec-4d46-a40a-12d9d2e1b815.
• Native, on the exact package: it replaced an installed production 2.5.0 in place with the same signing identity and designated requirement, opened and stayed running, and kept every saved-work count identical (136 transcripts, 5 meetings, Library, Packs, Snaps, scenes). Report a Problem's keys are present in Stable.
• Archive: Workbench.zip, 76,628,112 bytes. SHA-256: 148b1bfa6c126366cb0a070931e15ce6fedea1a0706cd2e3a5465928398167ef.

Verification limits

This release attests the fresh smoke and the signed 2.5.0 → 2.6.0 upgrade on the package (a bounded slice by the maintainer's decision, #7). He tests dictation (D1) and the other foundation journeys in production and reports through Report a Problem. Meetings' two-sided capture is not attested: it needs System Audio Recording allowed for the edition and a real call. Going back to 2.5.0 is unsupported while a Snap & Talk narration is still transcribing or has failed; let every new take reach Ready first.