Release v2.1.18 · iOfficeAI/AionUi

Highlights

This release adds live streaming voice input, a redesigned Assistant governance page, and significant team-mode and update-flow reliability work.

Speech now transcribes live as you talk — partial and final text appears in the input box in real time, in both the chat send box and the home page (powered by streaming-capable presets like Deepgram and OpenAI).
macOS fix: the microphone now works under the hardened runtime. Previously Speech-to-Text silently recorded nothing and the app never appeared under Privacy & Security → Microphone.

Assistant Settings is now a full-page governance area: builtin and custom assistants live in one list, with a full-page editor replacing the old drawer, and assistant-bound conversations are clearly separated from plain agent chats.

Team-mode conversations now share one message contract between live and restored sessions, so history renders consistently, with send-box gating kept in sync with the latest runtime state.

More compact desktop defaults (smaller default fonts and 95% zoom, tighter line spacing) for a denser, tidier chat view. Existing custom font/zoom settings are untouched; Reset and Cmd/Ctrl+0 return to the new defaults.
The send box now correctly stays busy while a request is being cancelled, so you can't fire a new message into a runtime that's still tearing down.

WebUI: Office (PPT/Word/Excel) previews no longer return 404 — every Office preview in browser mode was broken before this fix (desktop was unaffected).
WebUI: the workspace folder picker is clickable again in the cron and team-create dialogs, instead of degrading to a plain text field.
Windows: recover from upgrade failures where the installer wrongly reported "AionUi cannot be closed" due to a long-path cleanup error in the old uninstaller.
Updates now wait for the backend to fully shut down before installing, avoiding mid-install lifecycle errors.

fix(preview): office watch proxy url 404 in webui mode by @lornestack in #3287
test(bootstrap): stop clobbering real out/ artifacts in build-with-builder test by @lornestack in #3289
feat(stt): streaming voice input with live transcript by @lornestack in #3291
fix(macos): add audio-input entitlement so microphone works under hardened runtime by @szafranski in #3294
fix(windows-installer): recover from old uninstaller atomic cleanup long-path failures by @TCP404 in #3296
fix(workspace): enable clickable folder picker in webui by @IceyLiu in #3301
feat(assistant): deliver phase-1 governance settings by @kaizhou-lab in #3277
polish(conversation): compact display defaults & tidier chat UI (#21–#24) by @IceyLiu in #3306
test(e2e): cover cron busy retry flow by @kaizhou-lab in #3298
Fix send gating during cancelling runtime by @piorpua in #3307
feat: stabilize team mode conversation runtime by @piorpua in #3309
fix(updater): wait for backend shutdown before install by @TCP404 in #3270
chore: bump version to 2.1.18 by @piorpua in #3311
fix(ci): increase web-cli build heap by @piorpua in #3313

Full Changelog: v2.1.17...v2.1.18