Release notes
Cinder v1.0.60
A transcription reliability update that prevents affected Apple Speech crashes, preserves microphone audio through fallback, and rejects silent local input.
Fixes
Crash-safe transcription startup
Cinder now avoids Apple Speech on the affected macOS 26.3 build and moves directly to a supported fallback without opening the unstable system recognizer.
Stronger microphone continuity
Capture start, stop, device recovery, and backend handoff now share stricter lifecycle ownership so stale audio work cannot disrupt a later call or discard genuine microphone speech.
Silence-aware local transcription
Local transcription rejects empty and malformed audio evidence while preserving legitimate short phrases, including speech after muting and unmuting the microphone.
Known issues
No known issues have been published for this release.
This release hardens the complete transcription boundary: native audio capture, Apple-first fallback, cloud capability negotiation, and local whisper.cpp input validation. It retains Cinder's privacy boundary—raw audio never reaches the renderer and no transcript or waveform content is added to diagnostics.