Maekon v0.0.1-rc.8

Maekon v0.0.1-rc.8 — Released August 13, 2026

Built: 2026-08-13 UTC · Commit: 0a2c9960c

What's Changed

Fixed

• Windows release artifacts are published again. v0.0.1-rc.7 was tagged but
  produced no downloads: the release build failed its Windows PE closure check
  on maekon.exe -> mmdevapi.dll, so Create GitHub Release never ran.
  mmdevapi.dll is the Windows Multimedia Device API that the WASAPI capture
  enumerator imports. It ships in %SystemRoot%\System32 on every supported
  Windows version and is never redistributable, so it now belongs to the
  closure validator's system allowlist beside winmm.dll rather than to the
  payload. The guard is not weakened — it still fails closed on any
  redistributable import, including the libcrypto-3-x64.dll omission that
  made rc.6 unlaunchable.
• Release verification now inspects the binary that actually ships. The
  pre-tag CI build compiled --features grpc while the release build compiled
  the full shipped feature set, so the very same closure check passed on a
  binary that never links the audio/STT subsystem and failed for the first
  time after the tag was already irreversible. CI, build-smoke and
  release-smoke now build the shipped per-OS feature set and verify the
  Windows PE closure of what they built, and pre-release-check.sh refuses to
  clear a tag unless all four shipped-platform builds are already green on the
  exact commit being tagged.

There is no application behaviour change relative to v0.0.1-rc.7; this
release publishes the artifacts that tag was meant to deliver.

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Downloads

Maekon is the app display name. Release filenames intentionally retain
maekon-* for installer, updater, and checksum compatibility.

Platform	Architecture	File	Format
macOS	Universal (arm64 + x64)	maekon-macos-universal.dmg	DMG Installer (signed)
macOS	Universal (arm64 + x64)	maekon-macos-universal.pkg	PKG Installer (signed)
macOS	Universal	maekon-macos-universal.tar.gz	Binary
macOS	Apple Silicon	maekon-macos-arm64.tar.gz	Binary
macOS	Intel	maekon-macos-x64.tar.gz	Binary
Windows	x64	maekon-*.msi	MSI Installer
Windows	x64	maekon-windows-x64.zip	Binary
Linux	x64	maekon-*.deb	DEB Package
Linux	x64	maekon-linux-x64.tar.gz	Binary

Quick Install

This is a prerelease. GitHub's latest release endpoint does not include
prereleases, so install commands are pinned to v0.0.1-rc.8.

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL -o /tmp/maekon-install.sh \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pseudotop/maekon-client/v0.0.1-rc.8/scripts/install.sh
MAEKON_VERSION=v0.0.1-rc.8 bash /tmp/maekon-install.sh --require-signature

Windows (PowerShell):

$tmp = Join-Path $env:TEMP "maekon-install.ps1"
Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pseudotop/maekon-client/v0.0.1-rc.8/scripts/install.ps1" -OutFile $tmp
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $tmp -Version v0.0.1-rc.8 -RequireSignature

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md