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@github-actions github-actions released this 10 Jun 02:25
v0.8.0
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Added

  • Video recording of a meeting window (Windows & macOS). A session can now
    also record a chosen application window — a Zoom window, a browser meeting
    tab, any app — to an MP4 saved with the session, so a recording produces
    both a transcript and a video. Enable "Record video of a window" on the
    Start screen and pick the window from the list (with a refresh button); the
    existing Start/Pause/Finish controls drive audio transcription and video
    together, and a REC badge shows in the recording widget while video is on.
  • Video audio follows the capture mode. In Meeting mode the MP4's audio
    track is your microphone mixed with the system audio (use headphones — on
    speakers the mic re-records the system sound); in System only mode the
    video records system audio alone (no mic), so videos/music aren't doubled.
  • Playback in the session detail. Sessions with a recording show a built-in
    video player above the AI summary (served via Tauri's asset protocol). The
    MP4 lives in the app data folder under recordings/ and the saved path is
    stored with the session; a session that recorded video is kept even if it
    produced no transcript lines.
  • Live transcription loading & transitional states. The recording widget now
    shows meaningful connecting/listening/finishing states instead of a blank
    panel while the Deepgram session spins up or winds down.
  • Licensing & IP-protection docs: LICENSING.md, COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md
    (commercial-terms outline), TRADEMARK.md (the "sososo" name/logo are
    reserved marks — forks must rebrand), CLA.md (Contributor License Agreement,
    required so the project can keep dual-licensing), plus NOTICE and AUTHORS.
  • SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only headers on source files, and a CLA /
    DCO Signed-off-by requirement in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Changed

  • Relicensed from MIT to GNU AGPL-3.0, and the project is now dual-licensed.
    The community edition is AGPL-3.0 (copyleft — distributing or hosting a
    modified version requires releasing the corresponding source); a separate
    commercial license is available for proprietary use without the AGPL
    obligations. See LICENSING.md and COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md. This change is not
    retroactive — code already published under MIT remains available under MIT.
  • macOS now requires macOS 12.3 or newer (was 11.0): the app links Apple's
    ScreenCaptureKit framework for video recording. Recording itself needs
    macOS 15+ (ScreenCaptureKit direct-to-file + microphone capture) and the
    Screen Recording permission; on older systems the rest of the app —
    transcription, summaries, history — keeps working and video recording reports
    a clear error. macOS video recording has not yet been verified on hardware
    (it compiles and passes CI); treat it as experimental in this release.

Platform / implementation notes

  • Windows capture quality: recording uses Windows.Graphics.Capture with a
    vendored, locally patched windows-capture — the capture frame pool now has
    3 buffers and every frame is copied to a fresh GPU texture before encoding,
    eliminating the flicker/tearing ("broken TV" frames) of the stock encoder;
    capture is capped at 30 fps and encodes H.264 + AAC via Media Foundation.
  • Audio mixing (Windows): the video's 48 kHz mic+system mix only pairs
    available samples and silence-pads beyond ~100 ms of clock drift, fixing the
    crackle that naive per-frame padding caused; sums saturate instead of
    wrapping. The 16 kHz Deepgram transcription pipeline is untouched.
  • macOS: ScreenCaptureKit SCRecordingOutput records straight to MP4 (the
    OS encodes and muxes); the app binary now embeds the Swift-runtime rpaths it
    needs to load, and CI/release select the latest stable Xcode for the Swift
    bridge.
  • Linux video recording is not included in this release (the capture stack
    there — xdg-desktop-portal + PipeWire — is a separate effort); the video
    controls are hidden on Linux and audio transcription is unaffected.

Internal

  • New cfg-gated src-tauri/src/video/ module (Windows / macOS / stub), DB
    migration adding sessions.video_path, list_windows / set_video_options
    commands, and CI that now compiles and tests all three OS backends (with an
    extra Intel-macOS check for the universal build).

Download

  • Windows: sososo_windows_x64-setup.exe
  • macOS: sososo_macos_universal.dmg
  • Linux: sososo_linux_amd64.AppImage (or .deb / .rpm)

The other assets (latest.json, .app.tar.gz) are used by the in-app auto-updater — you can ignore them. Builds are not code-signed yet, so the OS may warn on first run (Windows SmartScreen / macOS Gatekeeper — on macOS, right-click the app and choose Open).

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