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solstone 1.3.5

may 30, 2026

Added

  • you can now reach your journal from your phone or laptop even when they're away from your home machine. a single connections page shows how you connect, your network access, and your paired devices. pair a new one with a fresh code, give each device a name, and remove any device with one tap.
  • the local model that runs entirely on your machine can now take in images as well as text. nothing new leaves your machine.

Changed

  • the local model now stays ready in the background instead of starting on demand, so sol doesn't wait on it; fresh installs start it reliably the first time, and downloading a model shows real progress.
  • update status is now a first-class signal. the Updates row in Settings and the menu flag when an update is waiting or a check didn't go through, and clear once you're current.

Fixed

  • the health panel in Settings now shows each individual check, so you can see exactly which permission or service needs attention. if you saw a single "doctor failed" warning on 1.3.4, you'll now see the specific check instead, with the rest still passing.
  • your journal now shows when a moment has been transcribed but not yet thought through, instead of looking finished, and catches those moments up on its own.

solstone 1.3.4

may 28, 2026

Changed

  • the bundled solstone is updated.

Fixed

  • your segment audio now stays with its segment. on 1.3.3, if a recording finished in a way solstone couldn't fully process, the segment could reach your journal with its screen but without its audio, even when a good recording was sitting on your machine. now those recordings are kept safe on disk and the segment is marked for another pass instead of going up incomplete.
  • the upgrade-failed notice no longer lingers once you're current. if an earlier upgrade ran into trouble, the notice could stay up after the problem was resolved, and an outdated install could stop retrying the upgrade on launch. solstone now re-runs the upgrade when it's behind and clears the notice once you're on the latest.

solstone 1.3.3

may 27, 2026

Added

  • a new newsletters page in the sidebar. read the facet newsletters sol writes for you from their own surface, with copy and PDF download.

Changed

  • the bundled solstone is updated. the activity participation tab now renders as a structured list, with attendees and mentioned grouped separately, per-entry provenance, and a "less certain" tag on lower-confidence entries. previously it rendered as a raw JSON block.
  • the chat surface gets a small refresh: sol's thinking summary now appears alongside the response when the AI provider returns one, a liveness placeholder shows while sol is working, errors offer a retry, and labels for what sol is doing read in plain language.

Fixed

  • the weekly reflection page now fills in. on busier journals, sol was stopping before it got to the writing, so the page rendered empty. that's resolved.
  • a name that only appeared in a transcript, without other corroboration, no longer surfaces as a meeting attendee on the activity participation tab. it shows up under "mentioned" instead.
  • some of sol's background work running through google could fail silently on the default configuration. a request-budget calculation was landing one over the supported maximum, rejecting every call; the calculation is corrected.
  • sidebar labels for apps like "transcripts," "activities," and "settings" no longer truncate when the sidebar is expanded.

solstone 1.3.1

may 25, 2026

Fixed

  • per-display segment videos now contain that display's actual pixels. earlier builds always wrote the primary display's pixels into every per-display file, so anyone running solstone on a multi-display Mac was recording the wrong screen until now.

solstone 1.3.0

may 22, 2026

Added

  • you can now run sol's on-screen analysis entirely on your own Apple Silicon Mac. choose the on-device option in settings, and the part of sol that makes sense of what's on your screen runs locally, with nothing about those frames going to a cloud provider. it's opt-in, vision-only for now, and needs a Mac with at least 16 GB of memory. a one-time model download happens the first time you turn it on.
  • the menu bar now tells you when sol's background pipeline has stopped and lets you restart it in place. if the pipeline goes quiet, you'll see "pipeline stopped" with a click-to-restart action, so you can recover without leaving the app.
  • you can now power sol with your Anthropic or OpenAI account without installing anything separately. enable the provider in settings and paste your key, and solstone installs what it needs on its own.

Changed

  • the timeline view is rebuilt. it fits any window width, shows where each entry came from with a link to that day, and refreshes in place as new days roll up.
  • long todo lists load faster. solstone now shows a focused first screen with a "show more" control, instead of rendering the entire list up front.
  • pairing a phone is more reliable, and the paused state in the menu now reads "paused - 8 min left" so you can see at a glance when sol resumes.

Fixed

  • videos and audio in your journal that wouldn't play now play correctly, with a clearer message on the rare file that still can't.
  • when transcription hit a dense stretch of speech it could fail outright; it now recovers on its own, and segments that did fail are surfaced instead of disappearing silently.
  • pages occasionally got stuck loading on a cold start, and the paused and error menu-bar icons had lost their sun in 1.2.1. both are resolved, alongside internal stability improvements.

solstone 1.2.1

may 18, 2026

Changed

  • the bundled solstone is updated. results are more consistent across AI providers, and your provider-tier defaults move to each provider's current model. nothing about how you use solstone changes.

Fixed

  • a name from your own contacts could be written into your journal as if it had appeared on your screen, when sol had little else to go on for a frame. that no longer happens.
  • on a rare frame, sol could write a long run of repeated text into your journal. that output is now bounded before it's saved, and normal entries are unaffected.
  • when sol fell back to its backup AI provider for a screen or document, the image wasn't reaching the provider, so the journal entry was a guess instead of grounded in what was on screen. the image now reaches every provider.
  • updating solstone on a Mac that already had it installed could fail partway through. some upgrades over an existing install hit this — this resolves it, and updating now completes cleanly.

solstone 1.2.0

may 18, 2026

Added

  • a plain-language data-flow page now ships with solstone. it lays out what's sent to your AI provider for each task, what stays on your machine, and the Article 8 covenant for what is never sent. linked from setup, the install guide, and the readme.
  • first-run setup now walks through how to power sol: a hosted key to start, your own provider account (a developer key, not a consumer chat plan), and where local-only is headed.

Changed

  • installing solstone now happens inside settings → journal, not a separate window. pick the bundled solstone or connect to your own, see each step as it runs with a details view, and a single badge points you to whatever still needs attention. when it finishes, an "open journal dashboard" button opens it on your terms instead of a browser opening on its own.
  • the menubar and settings wording now follows one model: your observers experience your day along with you, and everything goes to your journal, where sol keeps it. clearer language for what each part does. nothing about how solstone works changed.
  • bundled solstone updated. fresh setup is clearer, the starting nav rail comes ready instead of blank, timezones resolve correctly on Macs, and help points to support.solstone.app.

solstone 1.1.3

may 14, 2026

Added

  • Failure card now surfaces a show-details disclosure with the captured subprocess log (uv stderr, sol setup rendered transcript, or observer-create output) — monospaced, selectable, copyable. Diagnosing a failed install no longer requires Console.app.

Changed

  • Bundled solstone backend pinned to 0.3.2, which makes sol doctor PATH-independent. Fresh-Mac installs no longer need a launchctl-PATH workaround.
  • uv tool install now passes --refresh so freshly published solstone versions install reliably from the first attempt (no stale PyPI index cache).

Fixed

  • Subprocess environment inheritance: Foundation.Process.environment = nil did not deliver the .app's PATH to subprocesses in practice. The installer now passes ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment explicitly. This was the root cause of npx_on_path / journal_sync / port_5015_free doctor failures in earlier installer builds.

solstone 1.1.2

may 5, 2026

Added

  • Updates tab anchored with current version + last-checked line, and surfaces auto-update preferences.
  • Polished DMG window layout via create-dmg (brand background, window bounds, icon positions).

Changed

  • Settings switched from TabView to NavigationSplitView for a native-feeling sidebar.
  • Menu-bar icons now ship as vector PDF templates — crisp at any density.
  • SettingsView seeds its selected tab from init for snapshot stability; snapshot frame widened.

Fixed

  • Menu-bar icons load from the nested SwiftPM Resources/ subdirectory.
  • UpdatesTabView no longer shows a duplicate transient block while checking.