v0.12.74+12074-macos

BasedHardware/omiv0.12.74+12074-macosJul 15, 2026by mdmohsin7

AI Summary

Focusing on stability, this release resolves multiple crash scenarios during launch and recording, introduces a redesigned screen recording setup, and optimizes app startup performance.

Key Highlights

  • Crash Fixes: Resolved crashes on launch, audio device changes, and BLE data packet handling.
  • Screen Recording UI: Redesigned with a compact animated drag-to-enable helper.
  • Startup Performance: Reduced freeze on first launch and prevented slow launches from pinning to stable channel.
  • Voice Reliability: Improved push-to-talk recovery and clearer failure notices.
  • Import Fixes: Resolved issues with Calendar, Gmail, and Apple Notes imports.

New Features

  • Maintainer-approved desktop preview apps for side-by-side testing.
  • Push-to-talk transcription progress indicators and backup-transcription notices.

Full Release Notes

## OMI Desktop v0.12.74

### What's New
- Fixed a crash on launch that could occur when preparing an empty local database for agent sync
- Fixed a rare crash when stopping a recording or changing audio devices mid-capture
- Fixed an intermittent crash when stopping recording caused by audio teardown racing the live capture thread
- Fixed chat answers inserting a stray space into code like <code>pd.DataFrame</code> when normalizing sentence spacing
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a paired BLE device sent a corrupt or malformed data packet
- Fixed a crash when a window reported a zero-area frame while the app was capturing screen context
- Redesigned Screen Recording setup with a compact animated Omi drag-to-enable helper
- Improved recovery guidance when the desktop AI runtime or a selected local provider cannot start
- Fixed clear voice delegation requests to start the requested agent directly without repeated confirmation
- Improved recording reliability when reconnecting after a conversation finishes.
- Fixed the Home screenshot counter appearing unavailable during app startup
- Fixed the app freezing for several seconds on its first launch when the network was slow, and stopped a slow first launch from pinning beta installs to the stable update channel
- Improved push-to-talk recovery after silent microphone capture
- Push-to-talk now shows transcription progress, clearer failure reasons, and backup-transcription notices when realtime falls back
- Fixed push-to-talk turns spoken while the voice connection was still warming up getting stuck thinking with no reply
- Fixed realtime voice to prioritize fresh screen captures and reliably handle the first push-to-talk after launch
- Fixed Calendar, Gmail and Apple Notes imports failing to extract anything, and chat turns erroring out, when a message merely mentioned something like "today" plus "schedule"
- Fixed duplicate sign-in prompts appearing in Home chat after a session expires
- Added maintainer-approved desktop preview apps that can be installed and tested side-by-side
- Improved PTT higher-model answers by preserving the current conversation context

### Downloads
- **DMG Installer**: For fresh installs, download the DMG below
- **Auto-Update**: Existing users will receive this update automatically via Sparkle

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