What's New in WireLang™

Version 1.2.3 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Expanded Settings & Single-Line Toggles: Widened and heightened default Settings window dimensions with single-row inline layout for session history controls.
• Quick Play Recap & Audio Channel Controls: Added a Play recap mini-button directly to collapsed session cards and introduced a 3-way audio source toggle (Translated vs Original vs Both) in the Recap player.
• Floating Bar App Picker & Icons: Streamlined process selection by moving audio source picking exclusively to the floating toolbar, featuring clean application icons and hidden process IDs.
• Recap Player Duration Sync: Synchronized playback timelines with actual audio track lengths, fixing NaN/Infinity progress formatting and end-of-track replay.

Version 1.2.2 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Guided Key Onboarding in Settings: Enabled the "Get a free key →" link and automated clipboard detection watcher inside the Settings BYO tab layout.
• Input Textbox Context Menus: Added custom context menu overrides on all Gemini key input fields to allow easy right-click cut, copy, and paste commands.

Version 1.2.1 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Pro Checkout Warning Modal: Replaced the hard block during checkout with a 3-button modal prompt allowing users to proceed to checkout, navigate directly to the BYO tab to add a key first, or cancel.
• Paywall Smart Recommendations: Keyless users are automatically recommended Platform Credits in the paywall as it requires zero setup, while keeping the Pro checkout as a secondary option.
• Dialog UI Alignment: Standardized button borders and expanded modal widths to prevent layout wrapping.

Version 1.2.0 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Local Session History: Added an opt-in settings preference to save translation transcripts locally in the app, with custom search filters, pagination, and deletion controls.
• Local Audio Storage: Save translated loopback audio to your device to play back or download later as WebM/Opus.
• On-Demand Summaries: Generate AI-powered topic titles and conversation summaries powered by Gemini.

Version 1.1.2 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Native WASAPI Capture Enhancements: Optimized loopback audio capture logic in `SystemAudioDumpWindows.cpp` for improved stability and lower latency on Windows.
• Audio Capture Engine Improvements: Updated rendering loop and audio chunk handlers in `engine.js` for smoother subtitle and stream output.
• Dialog Layout & Settings Polish: Refined user profile settings cards and compact layout elements for cleaner first-run workflows.

Version 1.1.1 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Unified Theme System & wl-dialog: Built a native shared design system with theme variables (`theme.css` / `theme.js`) and created a custom modular dialog system (`wl-dialog`) for settings, about, and audio setup screens.
• Z-Index & Window Stacking Restructure: Restructured dialog window z-indexes so that settings and configurations do not float forcedly on top of user background applications, while ensuring the captions and floating toolbox widgets keep their overlay placement.
• Captions Window Overlay: Added a native captions window (`captions.html` / `captions.js`) to display system-wide loopback audio translation streams in real-time.

🌐 Chrome Extension

• Standard Overlay & Offscreen Logic: Restructured the floating browser overlay and integrated offscreen rendering modules for high-fidelity audio pipeline handling.

Version 1.0.5 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Microsoft Store Update Suppression & URL Encoding: Auto-hides standard web installer update buttons when running in the sandboxed Windows Store environment (since the Store manages updates natively). Also integrated URL encoding for installer download paths to resolve HTTP 404 download failures caused by spaces in filenames.

Version 1.0.4 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Fallback Start Translation on Permission Warn/Fail: Configured the app to proceed with starting the translation pipeline even if the local microphone permission prompt fails or is rejected. This prevents the app from blocking startup on PCs without physical recording hardware, allowing loopback system-audio translation to function normally.

Version 1.0.3 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Fixed Sandboxed Windows Store Microphone Permission Block: Integrated Electron session permission request and check handlers in the main process to allow media access queries. This permits the packaged app (MSIX/AppX) to successfully request and trigger the native Windows OS microphone permission prompt on launch instead of failing silently.

Version 1.0.2 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Background Auto-Updates (Standalone): Added support for inline background download and detached update execution, allowing users to restart-to-update seamlessly.
• Dynamic Banner Resizing & Layout: Resizes the app window height on the fly when the dynamic update/announcement banner is shown or hidden, and resolved right-alignment controls styling.
• 20s Silence Auto-Pause & Resume: Replaced early silence stops with a continuous 20-second silence detector that suspends active translation and billing without hiding the window, offering a clickable Resume overlay.
• Strict Update Target Version Matching: Integrated semver checks directly on server-profile and login response pipelines to suppress stale "Update Available" indicators on matching/older versions.
• Polished Interface Contrast: Refined icon button styling, borders, and contrast colors to improve control visibility in dark header themes.
• English Default Translation: Configured English as the default target language for first-run users.
• Regional Pricing & Error Bypasses: Formatted regional billing metrics and bypassed standard permission dialog warnings.

Version 1.0.1 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• DPI & Resolution Auto-Recovery: Added a dynamic screen metrics change listener to automatically reposition, resize, and repaint the popup and toolbox overlays when the screen resolution or DPI scale shifts, preventing layout distortion without requiring process restarts.
• Polished Settings Layout: Compacted the user profile card and tightened internal margins within the Billing tab to resolve a vertical scrollbar issue, keeping the UI clean and fully visible.

Version 1.0.0 · July 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Background Volume Ducking: Re-introduced source volume controls inside the floating overlay tool, permitting you to dynamically lower background app audio from 100% down to 10% in real-time.
• Translation Volume Independence: Excluded translation process audio from being ducked, guaranteeing the translated voice stays clear and audible.
• Defensive Volume Limit: Added a 10% safety volume boundary to prevent accidental total muting of loopback captures.
• Zero-Config VC++ Runtime: Recompiled the native helper with static library links (/MT) to eliminate MSVC redistributable errors on fresh Windows installations.
• Expanded Interface Dimensions: Enlarged the floating overlay viewport to 380px to accommodate additional volume controls cleanly.

Version 0.3.2 · June 2026

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Advanced Audio Support: Added support for 24-bit and 32-bit WASAPI audio stream formats for broader hardware compatibility.
• Overflow & Crackle Fix: Clamped floating-point audio samples to range [-1.0, 1.0] to prevent signal overflow and crackling distortion on high volume.
• Language Selector Warning: Added helper guidance under the target language dropdown to remind users to select a translation target different from the playing audio.
• Permission & Logging Checks: Added automatic microphone permission verification, silence detection, and enhanced diagnostics.
• Azure Trusted Signing: Fully integrated Microsoft Azure Trusted Code Signing for the Windows installers to eliminate SmartScreen warnings.

Version 0.3.0 · June 2026

💳 Credits & Pricing

• New pay-as-you-go bundles: Simpler credit packs — Spark, Stream, Marathon, and Limitless — with a lower per-hour rate as you go bigger. You only pay for the minutes you translate, and credits never expire.
• Free trial minutes: New accounts start with free translation time so you can try it before buying.
• Instant balance updates: After a purchase your balance refreshes automatically, and a new refresh button next to your credits lets you update it on demand.

💻 Windows & macOS Desktop Apps

• In-app Help: A new “?” button opens the WireLang™ Help center right from the app.
• Cleaner header & sign-in guidance: Refreshed the top bar and added a clear prompt to sign in before starting a translation.
• Smoother checkout: Promo-code support at checkout and a more reliable post-payment experience.

🌎 Website & Support

• New Help center: Getting-started guides and answers to common questions at wirelang.com/help.
• Contact us: A new contact form to send feedback, report a problem, or request a feature.

🌐 Chrome Extension

• Bring-Your-Own-Key edition: The extension is now a streamlined, privacy-first build that runs entirely on your own Gemini API key — your key stays on your device. Refreshed branding and interface to match the apps.

Version 0.2.0

🏁 Windows Desktop App

• Fixed Audio Translation Loop: Addressed a bug where the translated voice played back from your speakers would loop back into the audio capturer and get translated again in an infinite loop. We now use a native process-excluded capture system.
• Capture Volume Boost: Added an audio pre-gain boost stage to automatically boost quiet background/original video audio, so translation remains accurate even if you lower the video volume.

🍏 macOS Desktop App

• Fixed Audio Translation Loop: Switched system audio capture to a native macOS helper utilizing ScreenCaptureKit to prevent echo feedback loops by excluding the Electron app.
• Capture Volume Boost: Added the same digital gain boost stage to automatically restore quiet background audio signals for the AI translator.

🌐 Chrome Extension

• General Updates: Internal performance optimizations and security compliance updates for the Chrome Web Store.

Version 0.1.0

💻 Windows & macOS Desktop Apps

• Desktop Launch: Officially launched the standalone WireLang™ Live application, enabling low-latency translation outside the browser.
• System-Wide Translation: Added support for translating Zoom calls, video playback, gaming, and local audio.

🌐 Chrome Extension

• Extension Launch: Launched the WireLang™ browser extension on the Chrome Web Store, enabling live tab-audio translation.