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The stable build is what the homepage download gives you and what we recommend for real use. Testing builds carry new changes — download one, load it unpacked, and try it. When a testing build passes review and feedback, it becomes the next stable. You can run more than one at once (each loads as its own extension) to compare.

v0.8.5testing2026-07-02

Reports hub + audio overview + polished dashboard

The Meetings dashboard is now a proper meeting-history product: a Reports bar to switch between Transcript, Mixed-language transcript, Summary, Action items, and a new Audio overview — each with clear generate / available / needs-audio states.
New Audio overview (podcast) with a form (two-host / solo / brief · length · language) that writes a spoken-word overview script of the meeting; new Action items report. Both use your Gemini key on the bridge.
The dashboard header now shows the loaded version (e.g. v0.8.5) so you can confirm you're on the newest build. Audio player, Download, Delete, and the browser-only mode are unchanged.

v0.8.4testing2026-07-02

In-dashboard audio player

Play your browser recordings right in the Meetings dashboard — Play/Pause, current time, total duration, and a progress bar that moves as it plays, with click-to-seek.
Fixes the broken timeline: browser recordings have no duration metadata, so the player recovers the real length (and falls back to the recorded duration) instead of showing a stuck bar.
Dashboard polish: a header count, an 'On bridge' badge, and clearer audio loading/error states. Download .webm, Delete, transcripts, and summaries are unchanged.

v0.8.3testing2026-07-01

Security hardening

The Meetings dashboard now only opens http(s) meeting links, blocking a possible javascript: link injected through the local bridge.
Pairs with a bridge update that restricts who can connect to the local bridge (only the Meet tab and the extension), so other websites can't reach it.
No change to recording, transcription, or the dashboard's features.

v0.8.2testing2026-07-01

Mixed-language transcript output

Adds a 'Generate mixed-language transcript' output in the Meetings dashboard for a recorded meeting — a YouTube-like transcript that keeps Persian in Persian and English terms in English (no translation, no summarizing).
Saved as a separate output (never overwrites the raw captions). Requires the bridge + recorded audio + a Gemini key; browser-only mode shows it as 'needs audio'.
Live captions and the existing transcribe/summary paths are unchanged.

v0.8.1testing2026-06-30

Real MeetConnect icon

Adds the MeetConnect brand icon (the amber waveform mark) at 16/32/48/128px, so chrome://extensions and the toolbar show the real icon instead of a gray default 'M'.
Also fixes the toolbar tooltip (was the legacy 'Earshot' codename → 'MeetConnect'). No functional change.

v0.8.0testing2026-06-30

Meetings dashboard v2 + local transcripts

Browser-only recordings now save the live transcript & speaker names too (not just audio) — the Meetings dashboard shows a real meeting detail page with Overview, Transcript, Audio and Outputs sections, all offline.
Transcript card has a 'Download .txt'; Audio card keeps Download .webm / Delete; Outputs shows what's available now vs what needs the bridge or the Lab. The list view gets friendlier titles, times and badges (transcript, speaker count).
Bridge-connected meetings still show cleaned/raw transcript + AI summary as before; browser and bridge meetings are linked by the Meet code. No change to the recording/audio pipeline.

v0.7.2testing2026-06-30

Honest stop/save status

The in-meeting panel now shows 'Saved in browser ✓' as a success when you stop recording, even with the bridge off — with a small 'Bridge offline — AI transcription/summaries unavailable' note instead of a scary red error.
Adds an 'Open recordings ↗' link to jump straight to the Meetings dashboard (never auto-redirects).
Distinguishes three cases: local browser save ✓ (bridge offline), local save failed, and full save ✓ (browser + bridge). UX only — no change to recording, storage, the bridge, or speakers.

v0.7.1testing2026-06-30

Fix silent browser recordings + solo speaker

Fixes silent/empty browser-only .webm downloads — audio chunks now survive the transfer to storage (base64), so the saved file actually contains audio.
Fixes a one-person meeting showing Speaker 2/3/4 for the same person — captions now collapse to a single speaker when there's only one participant.
Fixes only; no change to the bridge path, segmentation, or summaries.

v0.7.0testing2026-06-30

Browser-only recording (no bridge needed)

Records meeting audio directly in the browser and saves it locally (IndexedDB) — basic recording + history now work with the bridge OFF and no ffmpeg.
The Meetings dashboard shows your browser recordings with duration/size and a 'Download .webm' button, and clearly labels Browser-only vs Bridge-connected mode.
Bridge-connected stays the full/pro mode (transcripts, AI summaries, MCP). Audio is also still streamed to the bridge when it's running.

v0.6.1testing2026-06-29

Clear bridge-offline errors

Meetings dashboard no longer hangs on 'connecting…/Loading…' — it times out and shows an actionable 'can't reach the local bridge' panel with steps + a Retry button.
Audio save surfaces a clear bridge-offline message faster (20s).
New tools/doctor.mjs verifies Node, ffmpeg, port 8787, paths, and Gemini key (no secrets). Run: node tools/doctor.mjs

v0.6.0testing2026-06-29

Dashboard button in the toolbar

Adds a dashboard icon in the in-meeting panel header (next to download/settings) that opens the Meetings & history page — the same dashboard the popup opens.
Includes the v0.5.1 audio-save robustness fix. No change to capture, segmentation, summaries, or persistence.

v0.5.1testing2026-06-29

Audio-save robustness

Fixes the panel getting stuck on 'saving audio…': it now times out with a clear message if the bridge can't finalize.
Pairs with a bridge update that preflight-checks ffmpeg and reports a clear 'install ffmpeg' error instead of failing silently.
No change to capture, segmentation, summaries, or persistence. Includes everything in v0.5.0.

v0.5.0testing2026-06-28

AI meeting summaries

In the Meetings dashboard, open a session and click 'Generate summary' — Gemini writes an Overview / Key points / Decisions / Action items summary in the meeting's own language (incl. Persian).
Summaries are saved per session (survive restarts) and download as .md.
Uses your Gemini key (bridge/.env). Includes everything in v0.4.0; needs the matching bridge build.

v0.4.0testing2026-06-28

Meetings & history page

New 'Meetings' dashboard (open it from the extension popup): see every captured session, open one, and view/download its transcript.
Transcripts now persist on disk, so past meetings survive restarts; per-session outputs (cleaned/raw now; summary, action items, audio-overview next).
Includes everything in v0.3.0. Needs the matching bridge build running.

v0.3.0testing2026-06-28

Smarter segmentation

Fixes the 'splits feel inconsistent' issue: pauses are now measured against real silence (last caption activity), so a long single sentence no longer counts as a pause.
Removes arbitrary ~90s mid-monologue cuts — splitting is driven by speaker change and real pauses, with high safety caps only to bound runaway walls.
Stable speaker keying + opt-in debug logging (localStorage 'earshot-debug'=1) for the speaker-identity work.

v0.2.0testing2026-06-28

Turn coalescing

Merge consecutive same-speaker captions into one log entry (one start time) instead of one line per sentence.
Break to a new turn only on speaker change, a long pause (>12s), or a long monologue (>90s / >1200 chars).
Applies to the live panel, the .txt export, and the agent/MCP transcript.

v0.1.0stable2026-06-27

Initial capture core

Live Google Meet caption capture via the WebRTC data channel.
Crash-safe audio recording with pause / resume.
Gemini mixed-language transcription + local MCP bridge.

Load any build in Chrome · 1 min

1. Unzip the download.
2. Open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked and pick the meetconnect-extension folder.
4. Open meet.google.com.

Each version installs under its own name (the version is in the title), so you can keep several loaded and A/B test them. Audio recording + AI transcription need the local bridge — setup on GitHub.