What's new? 🎉📣

• ⚙️ Your settings stick again — every setting reverted to its default on restart in 3.1.1. The file on disk was always correct; the app simply never read it back. If you gave up re-setting your preferences, they are safe now
• 🔍 Failures say why — a sidecar that dies now reports its exit code and signal instead of a bare "sona process died", and a crash mid-transcription reads as a crash rather than "error decoding response body". Whisper's own diagnostics reach the log again, after being silently discarded by a no-op callback
• 📦 Broken model downloads are caught — files are verified before they are used, incomplete ones are detected on startup and offered a re-download, and an interrupted download can no longer masquerade as an installed model
• 🧠 Half the memory to load a model — measured 294 MB → 216 MB on a small model, and roughly one model copy less on large ones. Machines that used to run out of memory mid-load have room now
• 🖥️ A CPU without AVX2 is named — instead of dying anonymously, Vibe says the processor is unsupported and why
• 📱 The phone pairing QR scans — one wrong character in the QR generator misplaced the alignment patterns on any code past a certain size, and the pairing code was just past it. No scanner could read it
• 🎙️ Recordings are 9 dB louder — mixing in system audio was quietly halving the level, then halving it again. Every recording made with system audio selected was far quieter than it should have been
• ⌨️ Dictation defaults to a two-key shortcut — Option+Space on macOS, Ctrl+Space elsewhere, instead of a three-key chord
• 🔗 yt-dlp stops nagging — the update prompt appeared on every launch and forgot "Later" each time. It is now a dismissible toast at most once a week, and it offers the update when a download actually fails, which is when it helps
• 🤖 Install the agent skill — Settings → API & Agents writes it to Claude Code and Codex so it is available in every session, with the transcripts folder and the local API baked in
• 🪟 Windows: the VC++ runtime is version-checked — the installer only asked whether any runtime was present, so machines with an old one were skipped and crashed later with no message
• 🌍 The product name and a mistranslated setting fixed across all 22 languages Signed and notarized on macOS and Windows. Full Changelog: v3.1.1...v3.1.2