v0.4.2

JinhuaLiang/WavCraftv0.4.2Apr 21, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

This release focuses on full internationalization support across four languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese) and significantly improves reliability, particularly for offline mode and macOS system audio capture. It also introduces a dedicated download page and fixes several MLX backend and Chatterbox issues.

Key Highlights

  • Full end-to-end localization for four languages (EN, zh-CN, zh-TW, ja) with 559 translation keys.
  • Reliability fixes including stable offline mode and macOS system audio surviving backgrounding.
  • MLX Qwen 0.6B model path corrected to ensure downloads on Apple Silicon.
  • Chatterbox reference samples now preprocess and accept various sample rates instead of rejecting them.
  • New `/download` landing page and reverse proxy support for installers.

New Features

  • In-app language switcher with lazy-loaded component updates.
  • Offline mode enforcement for HuggingFace inference paths.
  • macOS system audio capture fix (WKWebView).
  • New `/download` page for visitors.
  • Preprocessing of Chatterbox reference samples.

Full Release Notes

This release localizes the entire app. English, Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), Traditional Chinese (zh-TW), and Japanese (ja) are wired up end-to-end across every tab, modal, dialog, and toast — 559 translation keys per locale, parity verified. Plus a batch of reliability fixes: offline-mode now actually stays offline, Chatterbox accepts reference samples it used to reject, MLX Qwen 0.6B points at the right repo, and macOS system audio survives backgrounding.

### Internationalization ([#508](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/508))
- **i18next foundation** with an in-app language switcher that re-renders the tree on change — lazy-loaded components were holding stale strings without an explicit key-bump on the React root.
- **Four locales** at full coverage: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese. No partial/English-fallback surfaces.
- **Every user-visible surface translated**: Stories (list, content editor, dialogs, toasts), Effects (list, detail, chain editor, built-in preset names), Voices (table, search, inspector, Create/Edit modal, audio sample panels), Audio Channels (list, dialogs, device picker), history + story dropdown menus, ProfileCard / ProfileList / HistoryTable, and the unsupported-model note.
- **Relative dates** localize via `date-fns` locale objects (`3 days ago` → `3 天前` / `3 日前`) — `Intl.RelativeTimeFormat` doesn't produce the phrasing we use in the history table.
- **Dev-build version suffix** (`v0.4.2 (dev)` / `(开发版)` / `(開發版)` / `(開発版)`) is now locale-aware.
- **559 translation keys** across all four locales.

### Reliability
- **`HF_HUB_OFFLINE` now guards every inference path** ([#503](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/503)) — some engines were still attempting a HuggingFace metadata roundtrip on first load when offline mode was enabled, causing hangs on airgapped or flaky networks.
- **Chatterbox reference samples are preprocessed instead of rejected** ([#502](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/502)) — samples outside the expected sample rate or channel layout are resampled to match, rather than failing with an opaque error.
- **MLX Qwen 0.6B repo path fixed** ([#501](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/501)) — now points at the published `mlx-community` repo so the model actually downloads on Apple Silicon.
- **macOS system audio survives backgrounding** ([#486](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/486), closes [#41](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/issues/41)) — WKWebView was tearing down the audio session when the app lost focus, silently killing system-audio capture.
- **MLX backend `miniaudio` dependency pinned** ([#506](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/506)) — `mlx_audio.stt` needs it at runtime and nothing else transitively pulled it in, so `--no-deps` installs were breaking on first use.

### Landing / Docs
- **New `/download` page** ([#487](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/487)) — no more dumping first-time visitors onto the GitHub releases list. The API example snippet on the landing page also got an accuracy pass.
- **Download redirects work behind reverse proxies** ([#498](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/498)) — uses the public origin instead of `localhost` when resolving platform-specific installer URLs.
- **MDX docs audited against the multi-engine backend** ([#484](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/484)) — stale single-engine assumptions removed.
- **Three more tutorials + mobile navbar / hero CTA fixes** ([#483](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/483)).

### Linux
- **Still not shipping.** The re-enable attempt ([#488](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/488)) landed on `main` but CI still hangs in the `tauri-action` bundler step on `ubuntu-22.04` — no output for 25+ minutes after `rpm` bundling, even with `createUpdaterArtifacts: false` and `--bundles deb,rpm`. The matrix entry is disabled again for 0.4.2; the ubuntu-specific setup steps stay in the workflow so re-enabling is a one-line change once we identify the hang. Next release will take another pass.

### New Contributors
- [@shekharyv](https://github.com/shekharyv) — download redirects behind reverse proxies ([#498](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/498))