v0.3.17

The polish release. The dubbing workspace can no longer trap you — an interrupted dub session used to relaunch into an eternal spinner that even reinstalling couldn't clear (thank you @nanai97 for the screenshot that cracked it). A 58-finding audit of every Settings panel got fixed end to end, **FFmpeg and yt-dlp stopped being your problem** (the app provisions its own, with a new Audio tools panel when you want control), the Engines and Models pages went compact and tabbed, the launcher stopped trusting half-dead backends, and the app finally opens at 100% scale.

### Added

- **FFmpeg, FFprobe, and yt-dlp stopped being your problem.** The setup wizard no longer lists them as system requirements with "brew install" homework — the app provisions them itself: shipped installs already bundle them, and when nothing is found the backend downloads its own checksum-pinned static build in the background, showing a single actionable card only if that fails. A new **Settings → Audio tools** panel gives back the control: per-tool version and origin (App package / Bundled / System / Custom), update / use-system / choose-file / restore-bundled — and **one-click yt-dlp updates** that survive app upgrades, because video-site support changes faster than releases. Install docs updated to match. (#1071)

- **The Engines and Models pages got compact and tabbed.** Engines is now one section with TTS / ASR / LLM tabs; every engine is a strict two-line, fixed-height row with truncated text and aligned status / GPU / isolation / action columns, so the whole engine list fits one screen — details like "Why unavailable?" expand below the row instead of stretching it. Models rows tightened the same way. (#1072)

- **The Engines and Models pages got a full readability-and-features pass.** Every engine row now carries a small identity mark and honest capability badges (voice cloning, device routing with the reason on hover, sidecar isolation), and engines that are ready-but-have-advice finally say so — upgrade hints used to be dropped before reaching the UI. The model store gains a filter, disk-space context next to downloads, "in memory — safe to unload" indicators, copyable setup snippets for opt-in engines, and empty states that tell you what to do next. (#1058)

### Fixed

- **The app no longer attaches to a "zombie" backend that looks alive but fails everything.** If a backend process survived while its install was replaced or deleted underneath it, it kept answering health checks from memory — so the next launch attached to it and every real request failed with a confusing access-control error. The launcher now runs a deeper probe (an endpoint that actually touches the database) before attaching, and replaces any backend that fails it. The local dev/test scripts also now terminate running instances before wiping data, which is how this state was produced. (#1077)

- **The app opens at 100% scale by default.** New installs rendered everything at 130% zoom, which read as oversized on typical displays. Fresh sessions now start at native size; if you already picked a scale in Settings → Appearance, your choice is kept. (#1074)

- **The app no longer relaunches into a dead "generating" dub session — the blank-pane-and-spinner trap.** The saved dub session was restoring its in-flight state verbatim: quit (or crash) while a dub was generating and every subsequent launch waited forever for work that died with the process — and reinstalling couldn't clear it. Interrupted sessions now reopen on the segment editor with all your work intact (or the upload screen if nothing was transcribed yet). Thanks to @nanai97 for the screenshot that told the whole story. (#1067)

- **A 58-finding audit of every Settings panel, fixed end to end.** Highlights: the About page linked to the wrong project's GitHub; Arabic rendered left-to-right (RTL wiring was missing); a saved proxy could never be cleared after a reload; the HF-mirror and refinement panels vanished entirely when the backend was down; "Test now" on the HF token served five-minute-old cached results; factory reset only cleared part of what it promised; pronunciation previews ignored language-scoped entries; the hotkey recorder swallowed invalid presses in silence; Settings search could strand you with an empty sidebar — plus first component tests for previously untested panels, full i18n for five all-English panels, accessible names across inputs, confirmed destructive actions, deep links instead of dead-end advice, temp-file reclaim, and log-sharing workflows. (#1059, #1060, #1061, #1063, #1064)
### macOS Apple Silicon artifacts

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