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v4.5.2

Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmyv4.5.2Jun 19, 2026by alyssaxuu

AI Summary

Improves resilience against Chrome extension restarts and speeds up the editor opening process after recording finalization.

Key Highlights

  • Extensions more resilient to Chrome background worker restarts.
  • Fixed errors thrown by Chrome's 'Stop sharing' button.
  • Fixed recording start failures on slower devices.
  • More reliable recording when other apps use hardware encoders.
  • Editor opens quicker immediately after recording is finalized.

New Features

  • Faster editor opening

Full Release Notes

- Recordings are more resilient when Chrome restarts the extension's background worker mid-session.
- Fixed an issue with Chrome's own "Stop sharing", that sometimes threw an error.
- Fixed recordings failing to start on slower devices, where acquiring the capture stream could take a few seconds.
- More reliable recording when another app (Teams, Zoom, etc.) takes over the hardware video encoder.
- The editor opens quicker, as soon as the recording is finalized.