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SherlockEQ 0.7.2

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@smbrownai smbrownai released this 01 Jul 20:57
v0.7.2
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SherlockEQ 0.7.2

A code-quality and security-hardening release. It fixes a crash on importing certain audiogram files, closes several findings from a focused security review — including a case where a downloaded headphone-correction file could push the volume to unpredictable levels — and stops your tinnitus and profile settings from being written to the system's debug logs. Nothing changes in how EQ, profiles, or safe-listening work.

Fixes

  • Importing a damaged audiogram file no longer crashes SherlockEQ. A corrupted or hand-edited audiogram file with an invalid measurement could crash the app on import. SherlockEQ now skips the bad measurement and imports the rest of the file normally.

Security

  • Headphone-correction files can no longer set an unsafe volume. A malformed or tampered ParametricEQ.txt file — whether picked manually or downloaded from the online AutoEQ catalog — could contain a preamp value extreme enough to drive the volume far beyond a safe level. That value is now kept within the same safe range as every other EQ setting.
  • Your tinnitus and profile settings stay out of the system logs. Applying a profile used to write your tinnitus notch frequency and profile name to the system's unified log in plain text, where they could end up in a diagnostic report. That detail is now redacted from the log.
  • Your hearing profiles and listening history are excluded from backups. Profiles and your listening-dose history are now marked so Time Machine and similar tools skip them, and each file is readable only by your account — so this data doesn't linger in old backups you have no way to clean up from within the app.
  • The audio engine is more resilient to unusual buffer sizes. During a device switch or sleep/wake, the audio engine could momentarily receive an unexpected buffer size. It's now validated before use, closing a theoretical memory-safety gap in that path.

Under the hood

  • Smoother real-time spectrum analysis. The spectrum analyzer's internal buffering was tightened to reduce the chance of a stall on the audio thread. No user-facing change.

Not a medical device

SherlockEQ is not a healthcare or medical application. It does not diagnose, treat, measure, or monitor any hearing condition, tinnitus, or disability. For concerns about your hearing, consult a doctor, audiologist, or licensed healthcare professional.

Previous release

See the 0.7.1 release notes for what shipped in the prior version.

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