v0.60.0 — Runtime diagnostics you can trust

Highlights

• See the whole audio path. Runtime diagnostics now distinguish the captured stream, render/DSP graph, and physical output device, including effective sample rates, channel counts, device identity, lifecycle state, and recovery counters (#157).
• Unavailable stays honest. The CLI and diagnostics window consume the same immutable status snapshot, preserve missing telemetry as Unavailable, and provide a copyable report without guessing or interrupting playback.
• Measure before changing behavior. Structured status logs publish at lifecycle, device-change, sleep/wake, teardown, recovery, and helper-failure boundaries, providing the evidence needed to investigate automatic USB DAC sample-rate switching separately (#158).

Install

Download the .dmg, open it, and drag iQualize to Applications. Universal build: Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 14.2+. Signed and notarized. It opens without a Gatekeeper workaround.

On first launch, allow audio capture when macOS asks. iQualize cannot process system audio without that permission.

For the iqualize command line tool: Settings (⌘,) → General → Install Command Line Tool.

What's Changed

• ci: restore curated release titles and highlights by @dariuscorvus in #161
• ci: validate every pull request and push to main by @dariuscorvus in #183
• fix: take the warning baseline to zero, fixing a CFString leak by @dariuscorvus in #184
• fix: clamp imported preset parameters before they reach the DSP by @dariuscorvus in #185
• fix: deliver CLI protocol frames whole and report truncation accurately by @dariuscorvus in #187
• docs: correct the Gatekeeper dialog wording in the install section by @dariuscorvus in #188
• fix: harden audio runtime lifecycle by @dariuscorvus in #189
• fix: land M3 real-time state architecture by @dariuscorvus in #191
• docs(release): add v0.58.0 prerelease highlights by @dariuscorvus in #192
• docs(release): add v0.58.0 release song by @dariuscorvus in #193
• fix(release): include v0.58.0 prerelease highlights by @dariuscorvus in #194
• Fix stale OPRA details when search is cleared by @dariuscorvus in #196
• feat: harden capture and persistence boundaries by @dariuscorvus in #197
• docs: add v0.59.0 prerelease highlights by @dariuscorvus in #198
• feat(audio): add runtime diagnostics telemetry by @dariuscorvus in #199
• docs(release): add v0.60.0 highlights by @dariuscorvus in #200

Full Changelog: v0.57.0...v0.60.0

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Release song: Melvin Spix — Strike of Determination — https://music.apple.com/de/album/strike-of-determination/1566848460?i=1566848462