Knowledge Vault v0.2.6

Knowledge Vault 0.2.6 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• Ask what changed. "What changed in the Powerhouse stack since September?" gets a short account: how much the
  subject grew and in which areas, the claims that are new, and the ones that changed, with what the vault said before
  beside what it says now, each with its source. A follow-up such as "and in authorisation?" keeps the same period. An
  answer about offline or unavailable things in your vault's subject is no longer mistaken for the vault being down.
• Notes, by where they came from. The Notes page shows each note beside the source it came from, chapter by
  chapter, with the source's kind, date and topics in the margin. It can also group them by topic, or list them all
  (most linked, newest, or A to Z). Each card shows the whole claim, and a note opens in place.
• Workflows follow updates. When an update brings new versions of the steps the app ships, every workflow moves
  to them when the app starts, with nothing to click, so Workflow Studio no longer marks steps as pinned to a version
  that is gone. A workflow with changes you have not published in Studio is left as it is.
• Back and Forward in Workflow Studio step between the workflows you opened. Back used to close the open
  workflow, and Forward went nowhere.
• Your pipelines keep their keys across this update. The workflow engine now gives each saved key only to the
  connection that uses it, and the keys an earlier version saved are handed to their connections when the app starts,
  so pipelines, starter workflows and Studio connections carry on.
• Big vaults answer straight after a start. The engine now keeps its database statistics: on a 930 MB vault, the
  first change after a start held up every read and write for about six minutes; it now takes six seconds.
• A lighter engine. It no longer carries browser wallet libraries it never uses: on Windows, 38,774 files instead
  of 176,693, and 423 MB on disk instead of 818. When the first start of a version unpacks it, the window shows the
  progress, and the previous version is removed only once the app is running.
• On macOS, an update goes to Applications. Opened from its disk image or from Downloads, the new version offers
  to move itself into Applications before it opens your vaults, so the Dock never starts an older copy that would
  refuse them.
• In a narrow window the sidebar folds into a menu button, and the chat takes the full width.
• The engine runs on Node 26, the current long-term support line, and needs about a fifth less memory once it has
  started (about 1.0 GB instead of 1.3 GB, measured on a fresh vault). On Linux the .deb now installs libatomic1
  with it; the AppImage carries its own copy.
• Built on Powerhouse 6.2.3-dev.90 and the vault package 1.0.54-dev.59, with Tauri 2.12.5 and a refreshed model
  catalog (110 OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI models).

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.90
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.59
• Node 26.13.0 (bundled)

Installing

Pick the file named for your system: …_Linux_x86-64, …_macOS_Apple-silicon or …_Windows_x64-setup.

• Linux (glibc 2.34+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora, RHEL 9 and newer): the _Linux_x86-64.AppImage runs as is (chmod +x, then open it); the _Linux_x86-64.deb installs with sudo apt install ./<file>.deb.
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit): run the _Windows_x64-setup.exe. It is not signed yet: if SmartScreen warns you, choose More info › Run anyway.
• macOS 13.5+ (Apple silicon): these builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarised, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open the _macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg and drag the app to Applications, then open it. When macOS says it could not verify the app, choose Done — not Move to Bin, which deletes it. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway next to Knowledge Vault and confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally. (Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Knowledge Vault.app".)

Your vaults live in the app's data folder and are kept across updates; a backup is made before a new version opens them.

Installers

File	Size
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.6_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	257 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.6_Linux_x86-64.deb	197 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.6_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	212 MB

Knowledge Vault v0.2.5

Knowledge Vault 0.2.5 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• Ctrl K answers a question, not just its words. A moment after you stop typing, the palette lists the notes
  and maps closest in meaning, in the order the search page ranks them, so the note that answers is one click
  away. It runs on this computer, offline.
• Your vault keeps itself healthy. After each batch of sources, the pipeline writes the vault's health report,
  the one the Health view shows. Reweave notes then takes exactly what the report flags (notes nothing links to,
  notes with fewer than 2 links, notes in no topic) and links them, and the report is rewritten. On a test vault the
  report went from FAIL (7 orphans) to 1 orphan and 2.2 links per note in ten minutes, without anyone touching it.
• Fewer orphan notes from the start. A link can now run either way between a new note and the vault: when an
  existing note builds on a new one, the link goes into the new note.
• Local AI runs the whole pipeline. A model on this computer (llama.cpp, LM Studio, Ollama) no longer fails in
  Connect notes: a call may take longer than five minutes, the batches go one at a time, and the model is asked for
  low reasoning in the form it reads (gpt-oss on llama.cpp spent 2.5 times the tokens before).
• Pipelines update themselves. When an app update brings a newer pipeline, every vault's pipeline is brought up
  to date at start, its history kept. Nothing to click; a pipeline you switched off, or edited in Workflow Studio,
  is left as it is.
• Files you add in a vault wait for your review, also after the setup guide (they were filed at once).
• The setup guide remembers where you are. A card on its overview, Workflow Studio, or Settings from there: Back
  reads "← Setup guide" and returns you to the step you left, until you finish or skip it. The steps you explored are
  ticked, and Getting started leaves the front page once every step is done.
• A vault's name is in its settings (Vault settings shows it), and renaming the vault renames it there too.
• Readers of a shared vault can open every note. Notes and maps made by the processing pipeline now belong to
  their vault the way sources do, so someone you give read access can open them, not only the vault's sources.
• Notes stay current while open. A note's claim and description update when the note changes elsewhere — in
  another window, or when an agent or the pipeline edits it — without reloading.
• Connecting AI is three buttons. The chat's first screen offers Connect with OpenRouter, Add API key and
  Connect local AI. Someone who has just created an OpenRouter account and comes back unconnected is told so and
  signed in again in one click; while you sign in, the app names your browser and lets you cancel.
• The chat opens even when a vault's knowledge graph does not answer, instead of an error taking the vault down.
• An update on Linux replaces the installed AppImage, so the menu entry or shortcut you start it from opens the
  new version.
• The app says who makes it. On Linux the packages name the app, its developer (liberuum), its license (GNU
  AGPL v3.0) and what it does, for the software centres that read them.
• Signed downloads. The Linux AppImage carries a signature from the release key, SHA256SUMS lists every file's
  SHA-256 and is signed too, and the Linux files carry GitHub build provenance — see
  checking a download.
• Built on Powerhouse 6.2.3-dev.73 and the vault package 1.0.54-dev.47, with its embedding model now shipped
  as its own package (@powerhousedao/knowledge-vault-assets 1.0.0), still installed with the app.

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.73
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.47
• Node 24.21.0 (bundled)

Installing

Pick the file named for your system: …_Linux_x86-64, …_macOS_Apple-silicon or …_Windows_x64-setup.

• Linux (glibc 2.34+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora, RHEL 9 and newer): the _Linux_x86-64.AppImage runs as is (chmod +x, then open it); the _Linux_x86-64.deb installs with sudo apt install ./<file>.deb.
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit): run the _Windows_x64-setup.exe. It is not signed yet: if SmartScreen warns you, choose More info › Run anyway.
• macOS 13.5+ (Apple silicon): these builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarised, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open the _macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg and drag the app to Applications, then open it. When macOS says it could not verify the app, choose Done — not Move to Bin, which deletes it. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway next to Knowledge Vault and confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally. (Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Knowledge Vault.app".)

Your vaults live in the app's data folder and are kept across updates; a backup is made before a new version opens them.

Installers

File	Size
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.5_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	296 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.5_Linux_x86-64.deb	341 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.5_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	391 MB

Knowledge Vault v0.2.4

Knowledge Vault 0.2.4 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• A new vault layout. Everything now lives in one sidebar, with no bar across the top: Ask, Notes, Topics,
  Sources, Work, Graph and Contradictions, your recent chats, and Vault settings at the foot. Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac)
  searches notes, topics, sources and chats from anywhere, and can ask the vault straight from the search box.
• Topics and Contradictions pages. Topics lists every topic largest first, with the overview on top.
  Contradictions shows each pair of conflicting notes side by side, with why they disagree, and opens them to
  resolve or dissolve.
• An easier-to-read chat. The conversation sits on its own card, answers are larger, and what each answer used
  is listed under it.
• Sources open at once. The list, its folder counts and the timeline come from one request instead of reading
  every source first: a vault with over a thousand sources shows its list in a third of a second.
• A timeline of what you added. Sources › Timeline shows each file, paste or feed you added, when, and the notes
  and topics it became.
• Long books convert much faster. A 1,000-page PDF now converts in under 6 minutes instead of 15: big PDFs are
  read in page windows with a progress bar, and the index and glossary are no longer read as tables. Letters the
  reader used to drop ("field" read as "eld") are put back.
• Adding many sources is faster, about twice as fast for a large file, and an add that a restart or reload cuts
  off carries on by itself. Quitting while sources are being added asks first.
• Recordings become sources. Audio files (MP3, M4A, WAV, …) and the soundtrack of videos are transcribed on this
  computer and added as Transcript sources.
• Starter workflows. The setup guide can add a feed, papers or meeting notes to a vault.
• Clearer processing status. The status chip says what the work is doing now, and Update brings a vault's
  pipeline up to date without losing its history.
• Scrolling on Linux keeps pace with the mouse wheel.
• Built on Powerhouse 6.2.3-dev.60 and docling.rs 2.30.1.

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.60
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.40
• Node 24.21.0 (bundled)

Installing

Pick the file named for your system: …_Linux_x86-64, …_macOS_Apple-silicon or …_Windows_x64-setup.

• Linux (glibc 2.34+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora, RHEL 9 and newer): the _Linux_x86-64.AppImage runs as is (chmod +x, then open it); the _Linux_x86-64.deb installs with sudo apt install ./<file>.deb.
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit): run the _Windows_x64-setup.exe. It is not signed yet: if SmartScreen warns you, choose More info › Run anyway.
• macOS 13.5+ (Apple silicon): these builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarised, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open the _macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg and drag the app to Applications, then open it. When macOS says it could not verify the app, choose Done — not Move to Bin, which deletes it. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway next to Knowledge Vault and confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally. (Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Knowledge Vault.app".)

Your vaults live in the app's data folder and are kept across updates; a backup is made before a new version opens them.

Installers

File	Size
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.4_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	250 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.4_Linux_x86-64.deb	188 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.4_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	182 MB

docling.rs 2.30.1 binding for macOS (Apple silicon)

The docling.rs 2.30.1 Node binding for macOS on Apple silicon, built by the converter-binding workflow from docling-project/docling.rs v2.30.1 (MIT). docling.rs publishes no macOS binding on npm; Knowledge Vault's converter installs this one. Integrity: sha512-dlyldhcc0QmCqfy2cCEF/Xc5XL7lTtNGsw2DgNN6HAeDjfm2PwW7yb3SoZDGyWr6Hrwnl/R3RohobiKUYV64DQ==

Knowledge Vault v0.2.3

Knowledge Vault 0.2.3 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• One Add vault button. Create a vault or connect one on a server from the same dialog (Ctrl+N works too). The
  vault you opened last leads the front page, with its graph, what it holds and the notes that arrived since your
  last visit.
• A calmer start. Getting started shows where you are and the one next step instead of a long checklist, and the
  setup guide keeps the focus on one step at a time.
• Faster, gentler file conversion. A document is converted once instead of twice (a 48-page paper in about half
  the time), on half your processor cores at background priority, so the computer stays usable while it works.
  Remove and Cancel stop a conversion for real, and files up to 100 MB are accepted.
• A simpler intake. Each file shows one plain line — Reading, Ready, Added — and a file already in the vault is
  held before it is read again.
• Processing starts sooner. A new source starts within about 15 seconds of being added instead of up to a
  minute, and with a hosted model up to three sources are processed at once. Changing the model while sources
  process no longer fails the run in progress.
• Orphaned notes get a second pass. A new Reweave notes workflow in every vault finds notes that processing
  left on their own — no links, in no map — and connects and places them once the vault has grown around them. It
  also picks up notes that closing the app left half-processed.
• Backups as one file. Settings › Backup & restore saves your vaults as one .kvbackup file that you can take to
  another computer and restore there. Keys are never included.
• Safer storage. Built on Powerhouse 6.2.3-dev.52: every save is written to disk before it counts, so a power cut
  no longer risks a vault, and a full disk stops the engine cleanly instead of hanging it.
• After a crash, processing comes back within about a minute, and the status says Processing starts in a
  moment instead of showing an error.
• Workflow Studio is the latest version: the block picker groups blocks by piece, and +, Back and Forward and
  Delete all work inside the app.
• Remote vaults on an older server say so plainly instead of showing a raw error.

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.52
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.33
• Node 24.21.0 (bundled)

Installing

Pick the file named for your system: …_Linux_x86-64, …_macOS_Apple-silicon or …_Windows_x64-setup.

• Linux (glibc 2.34+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora, RHEL 9 and newer): the _Linux_x86-64.AppImage runs as is (chmod +x, then open it); the _Linux_x86-64.deb installs with sudo apt install ./<file>.deb.
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit): run the _Windows_x64-setup.exe. It is not signed yet: if SmartScreen warns you, choose More info › Run anyway.
• macOS 13.5+ (Apple silicon): these builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarised, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open the _macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg and drag the app to Applications, then open it. When macOS says it could not verify the app, choose Done — not Move to Bin, which deletes it. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway next to Knowledge Vault and confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally. (Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Knowledge Vault.app".)

Your vaults live in the app's data folder and are kept across updates; a backup is made before a new version opens them.

Installers

File	Size
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.3_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	249 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.3_Linux_x86-64.deb	187 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.3_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	181 MB

Knowledge Vault v0.2.2

Knowledge Vault 0.2.2 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• Updates come to you. When a new release is out, a notice drops from the top of the window. Update
  downloads the installer for your computer, with its progress, and installs it; Later keeps your session.
  The app checks when it starts and every 90 minutes while it is open. This works from 0.2.2 on.
• API keys for every service. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and xAI keys now list their models as soon as
  you type the key, inside their card. Each model shows whether it can process sources (fits processing,
  won't work, with the reason, or unchecked), and the best one at a fair price is chosen for you. Anthropic
  and Gemini keys work fully, OpenAI's newest models process sources, and every model is told to answer in the
  format processing needs.
• Clear errors. A vault that can't open says why in plain words and offers the way back — Try again,
  Sign in again or Back to vaults — instead of a raw error. A brief hiccup at Renown is retried by itself.
• The chat keeps going. Switch to another view while the chat answers, come back, and the answer is still
  arriving, or finished, with its sources.
• A new loading screen while a vault, a note or Workflow Studio opens: a small vault graph coming together.
• The setup guide's example is ready on the list of sources from the start, so you can try the app without
  a file of your own.
• Linux: smooth scrolling on machines with a graphics card again; the slower renderer is used only where the
  graphics card's one can't run.

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.44
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.31
• Node 24.21.0 (bundled)

Installing

Pick the file named for your system: …_Linux_x86-64, …_macOS_Apple-silicon or …_Windows_x64-setup.

• Linux (glibc 2.34+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora, RHEL 9 and newer): the _Linux_x86-64.AppImage runs as is (chmod +x, then open it); the _Linux_x86-64.deb installs with sudo apt install ./<file>.deb.
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit): run the _Windows_x64-setup.exe. It is not signed yet: if SmartScreen warns you, choose More info › Run anyway.
• macOS 13.5+ (Apple silicon): these builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarised, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open the _macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg and drag the app to Applications, then open it. When macOS says it could not verify the app, choose Done — not Move to Bin, which deletes it. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway next to Knowledge Vault and confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally. (Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Knowledge Vault.app".)

Your vaults live in the app's data folder and are kept across updates; a backup is made before a new version opens them.

Installers

File	Size
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.2_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	249 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.2_Linux_x86-64.deb	187 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.2_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	181 MB

docling.rs 2.13.0 binding for macOS (Apple silicon)

The docling.rs 2.13.0 Node binding for macOS on Apple silicon, built by the converter-binding workflow from docling-project/docling.rs v2.13.0 (MIT). docling.rs publishes no macOS binding on npm; Knowledge Vault's converter installs this one. Integrity: sha512-sFN3ES4yezKrYAelLdSuAweRuMMVMn/dXY2bFUqhk2uRv/eXw1ICZISa/CxCda5x5GyogzU3rgLwwT9Z/byoRg==

docling.rs 1.58.0 binding for macOS (Apple silicon)

The docling.rs 1.58.0 Node binding for macOS on Apple silicon, built by the converter-binding workflow from docling-project/docling.rs v1.58.0 (MIT). docling.rs publishes no macOS binding on npm; Knowledge Vault's converter installs this one. Integrity: sha512-iMpG0OcQ/jX1kIfmWmolx8ZtQQWCOYymuhSHMcEVdbiLfaJQ8wpqDRTQrv68TWF9ksOeyQT7iamMZM0lONg2oA==