Kōrero v1.42.0 — Today, Ctrl K search, and a new Meetings page

Kia ora! 1.42 is the biggest change to how Kōrero looks and works since the fork: one consistent design, a home page that tells you what's happening, search across everything, and meetings you can run from a small window beside your call.

New in 1.42.0

• Today. The new home page. Start a meeting, a note or an import, see what's running and what just finished, and check that Kōrero is ready (microphone, New Zealand English, speech model, notes model and call audio), with a fix button for anything that isn't.
• Search everything with Ctrl K. Meetings (titles, transcripts and notes), notes, dictations and settings in one box. Macrons are optional: "whanau" finds "whānau".
• A new Meetings page. Your meetings sit in a list beside the one you're reading, with Transcript, Notes, Audio and Ask tabs. While you record, the live view shows both sides' levels and the transcript as it arrives.
• Flag a moment. Press F (or Flag moment) during a meeting, and the notes give each flagged moment its own line.
• Pop-out recorder. A small window that stays on top of your call, with the clock, Pause, Flag and Stop. Recording now carries on whichever page you're on.
• A short wrap-up after Stop says what was saved, how much was heard from each side, and anything to check.
• The dictation pill says more. It shows NZ when New Zealand English is on, a clock and a real Stop button in hands-free mode, and the prompt it's cleaning up with. If a paste fails, your text goes to the clipboard and the pill tells you. If there's no microphone, the pill says so, and its Fix button opens the right setting.
• Activity. One panel for what's running, what needs a look, and what finished.
• Notes keep your dictation. A dictation always lands in the note it started in, even if you change page, and Cancel now works.
• Clean-up with local thinking models works. Ollama models such as gemma4 think by default and ran past the time limit. Kōrero now turns thinking off, so clean-up and meeting notes finish.

Fixes

• "Check for updates" in the tray works again.
• Moving recordings to a new folder can no longer save an empty meetings list when your meetings failed to load.
• Dates read the New Zealand way, and settings use plain-English names.
• Security: rustls updated to 0.23.45 (RUSTSEC-2026-0285).

Installing

Download Korero_1.42.0_x64-setup.exe below, or let Kōrero update itself. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you: choose More info → Run anyway. Your settings, meetings, notes and recordings are kept. The window opens larger once, to fit the new layout.

Ngā mihi!