Vella 2.1.0

• Models table: one row per model. A bolt and bf16/fp16, int8, int4; the Standard row is gone. Every model runs the optimized path and falls back to plain MLX by itself when your Mac cannot run it. A Standard choice saved by 2.0 becomes the same precision and switch position. The Exact/Fast switch is unchanged.
• Recommended for your Mac, in gold: the smallest precision that keeps 16-bit accuracy and runs on your GPU's matrix hardware. An orange triangle marks precisions your Mac runs in software. A model you have not chosen a precision for starts on the recommended one, and Get downloads and loads that; saved choices are kept.
• Figures on every Mac. Peak RAM, WER and Format always show. Speed and J / min show the M5 Max figure for reference, with a triangle, where your Mac was not measured.
• vella select --path and the API's path field are refused: send precision and mode. vella models --json adds the recommended precision and each cell's hardware support; vella status still reports the path that actually runs.
• Transcripts… in the menu opens your past transcripts, newest first. Click a transcript or Copy to copy it; long ones expand, and Show more loads older ones.
• Shorter download, recovery, delete, quit and update prompts.
• The first-dictation Get offer clears once its model is ready, also when it falls back to plain MLX.
• Parakeet v3's Get tooltip and first-dictation offer show its real download size instead of Zero kB.
• Support the Developer… opens the support page on tobynoskillson.com: GitHub Sponsors and Buy Me a Coffee.
• Homebrew: brew install --cask tobynoskillson/tap/vella. Publishing a release updates the cask in TobyNoSkillSon/homebrew-tap (.github/workflows/homebrew.yml).
• Benchmark references with restrictive or unclear redistribution terms are fetched locally, with the frozen text hashes checked before scoring. Suite clips and scoring rules are unchanged.
• Corrects dataset attribution and bundled-audio documentation; clarifies model-card licence terms and the Parakeet licence link in model tooltips.

Install or update with scripts/install.sh from a checkout of this tag (see the README): it downloads this zip and checks it against SHA256SUMS before installing. To check the zip's build provenance:

gh attestation verify Vella-2.1.0-arm64.zip --repo TobyNoSkillSon/Vella

Signed with Vella's own certificate "Vella Release Signing" (SHA-1 2CA2587C8B85EF687E68950E405EC58CE31FC1C7), the same in every release. Microphone and Accessibility permissions carry over between releases signed with this pinned identity; the first migration from a development or other identity requires granting them again.