v1.36.0

v1.36.0

Features

• Auto-stop on silence — recording can now stop itself automatically after a period of continuous silence, in both toggle and auto modes. In auto mode, auto-stop arms on tap-confirm (key release) rather than press, so holding to talk behaves as expected. Thanks @ailakshya! (#203)

Fixes

• Microphone failures are now classified and reported to the desktop directly, and "Recording started" is only announced once the audio stream is actually verified open — no more false-positive start notifications on a dead mic.
• If the transcription backend fails to load, recording is blocked and initialization is retried instead of silently failing.
• Last-resort audio stream teardown is now timeout-protected so a wedged device can't hang shutdown.
• ExecStopPost cleanup no longer kills its own control shell via pkill.
• Silenced ALSA stderr spew during stream open, and the stream-open outcome is now recorded for diagnostics.
• Better auto-stop monitor lifecycle

Performance

• Skip the per-keypress pactl poll while the PulseAudio event monitor is healthy — less latency and churn on every hotkey press.
• Audio ducking is now only logged when streams were actually affected.

Community PRs

• feat: auto-stop recording on silence (silence_timeout) — refs #201 by @ailakshya in #203

New Contributors

• @ailakshya made their first contribution in #203

Full Changelog: v1.35.0...v1.36.0