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@EthDawg EthDawg released this 27 Oct 01:15
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Workbench Preview 2.8.0

Four familiar tools, with a simpler way to move between them.

  • Find the tool you need. Annotate, Voice to Text, Snap and Present are the core navigation. Profile cards, live camera and voice reaction controls live with Present.
  • Copy a Snap while you work. Copy the image with your current edits, keep working, undo or save it later. Saved images reopen ready to copy and reuse.
  • Choose when to use Snap & Talk. Turn it on in Settings → General → Experimental features. It starts off, keeps its saved sessions, and stays inactive until enabled.
  • Meetings has its own app. Meetings 1.0.1 is available separately through the private Meetings repository; downloading it requires repository access. Existing transcripts remain in Workbench History. The separate app can copy your recordings and transcripts without moving or deleting the Workbench originals. If you do not have Meetings, Settings retains Show saved recordings for recovery.

Your saved work and settings remain in this edition’s library. Meetings uses its own library and manual updates; installing Workbench does not move your recordings or install Meetings.

Use Settings → General → Updates in Workbench Preview for this edition’s updates. For a first download, unzip, move Workbench Preview.app to Applications and open it there. When replacing an existing copy manually, quit the app and replace it at the same Applications location. Keep your Application Support data.

Verification and limits

This exact archive is Developer ID signed and Apple notarized. Package signature, stapled ticket, Gatekeeper and packaged-content checks passed.

Fresh native checks on this exact signed Preview covered opening and build identity, retained permissions and saved work, four-tool navigation, Snap capture/copy/export/cancel, Snap & Talk off/on/off with its saved session retained, Annotate exit, Persona show/hide/end, Present without a phone, and live-camera start/hide/end. Copy from the retained dictation draft into TextEdit also passed. These are bounded observations on one Apple silicon Mac running macOS 26.5.1.

Automatic-paste success reuses the maintainer’s short TextEdit observation from Workbench 2.5, with an independent review of the exact old and new delivery source. Fresh 2.8 recognition, Copy and recovery checks are separate evidence: no new microphone-to-automatic-paste success or physical global-shortcut dispatch is claimed. Automatic paste depends on the destination and permissions; Copy and manual paste remain the fallback.

Receiving-app image drag delivery remains unverified; the automation also failed a Finder-to-Finder control drag. Physical iPhone/USB and Continuity Camera, external call receivers, measured voice-wave amplitude, sustained audio load, and a fresh Mac or minimum-supported-macOS install are not newly certified. Public first-install and live update-feed delivery are checked separately after publication.

Release identity

  • Version: 2.8.0; build: 20261026215541
  • Edition: preview; bundle: com.ethdawg.workbench.preview
  • Source: 02941dda946959f15cf7d663bf0a4c2bca8533a4
  • ZIP SHA-256: bf630d418bde1ee47d825c32b9e1b67ee6fbf55521d8e266a25f75586c71b815
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