journal releases

journal 0.8.9

july 17, 2026

Added

your journal can now keep older media in your backup instead of on disk. it's off until you turn it on: you set a media budget and a free-space floor, and when the original screen and audio files pass them, the oldest fully-processed media your backup has confirmed moves out, oldest first, with the local copy removed only after that confirmation. transcripts and everything else your journal holds stay where they are, and any offloaded day restores on demand. once media has moved, your backup holds the only copy of it: turning offload on walks through your recovery key first, offloaded media is pinned so your backup's normal rotation can't age it out, and a weekly read-back check samples the backup itself. if a backup lapses or a check fails, offload halts with nothing deleted and says so on the backup page, and turning your backup off now tells you what it holds the only copy of and offers to restore everything first.
timeline, search, speakers, and reflections now show your days as a calendar grid. timeline reaches back through your whole journal instead of stopping twelve months ago, search lets you drag a date range right on the grid, speakers shows which days still need names, and reflections shows which weeks have one.

Changed

analysis that stops partway now picks itself back up. your journal sizes its analysis work to what your model can actually serve, treats a busy endpoint as busy rather than unreachable, and re-runs a failed day on the next daily pass, paying only for the frames that failed and keeping the ones that already worked. before, the densest screen days could sit unanalyzed indefinitely, and a day that failed stayed failed until you re-ran it by hand. after three tries your journal stops and the day completes with the gap named in its health summary rather than holding the day open.

Fixed

a segment whose analysis had failed could still be marked finished, and the check that removes raw media once it's processed trusted that mark. the mark is now written after every stage completes, and any unresolved error holds the raw media in place. your journal keeps raw media unless you've asked for it to be removed after processing, so that setting is who this reached. it's the same mark offload reads before any media moves.
changing your retention settings from the backup page now saves. if you tried and got an error, this resolves it.
naming yourself as a speaker now works on a fresh journal. before your voice had been identified, tagging a sentence as you failed on every sentence, which left no way to seed it. when detection can't find your voice, the speakers page and the sol command now name the next step rather than stopping.
journal doctor now detects when the macOS app and the legacy background service both target one journal, and points to the single service removal step before other repair actions.

journal 0.8.8

july 16, 2026

Added

your journal now keeps pages from the solstone browser extension: what you read in the browser shows up in the timeline and transcripts, site by site, and sol's thinking works from pages along with everything else.

Changed

journal audio transcription now uses only the local Parakeet paths or the confidential lane; legacy Rev.ai/Gemini STT, default transcript enrichment, noisy-audio cloud upgrade, and the google-genai dependency were removed.
machines below the local STT memory floor now surface a local/confidential setup requirement instead of falling back to hosted Google transcription.
thinking now has one active brain for every task: bundled local by default, a personal OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google AI Studio key, or an owner-supplied OpenAI-compatible endpoint. legacy split lanes, tier and talent routing, Vertex support, and duplicate cloud-provider adapters have been removed.

Fixed

a key set for an owner-supplied thinking endpoint could appear in error details when a request failed. keys are now removed from every error, event, and trace.
the settings page's data included whether cloud thinking keys were set. it no longer does; thinking is the only place that holds provider configuration.
pointing thinking at your own compatible endpoint is more dependable: requests no longer carry local-only fields some endpoints rejected, and an endpoint that can't be reached now says so quickly instead of timing out.
the bundled local model now downloads at full speed on first setup; some installs saw it crawl at a fraction of their connection's speed.

journal 0.8.7

july 15, 2026

Added

older journals with repeated copies of the same segment can now preview and safely remove only proven duplicates, including copies filed under different start times.

Changed

pdf imports now handle each page separately, keep extracted text distinct from model-assisted text, and preserve a page image anywhere a model helps.
dated journal views now use one in-page date control, with day, month, and year zoom plus week-by-week movement for reflections.

Fixed

when sol sends the same moment again, your journal now reuses what it already has instead of creating extra copies.
text, markdown, and document imports that produce nothing now say so clearly and can be retried without a false "already imported" result.
private-network errors now stay contained, so one failed request no longer drops the whole link or forces repeat pairing.

journal 0.8.6

july 14, 2026

Fixed

on a fresh install, checking your thinking providers now reaches every provider instead of stopping before the checks begin.

journal 0.8.5

july 14, 2026

Added

confidential processing can now be enabled from the thinking app and includes a separate audio transcription switch. when audio transcription is on, that step uses the same verified confidential connection as thinking; the rest of audio processing stays local.
you can now bring Apple Health exports and Oura into your journal, then explore sleep, activity, heart, recovery, and other signals by day or across trends. your raw-retention choice is enforced when the import is saved, saved health material has owner-only file access, and its summary cards stay out of sol's thinking.
the home and entities views now show how people and organizations connect. identity changes keep a history, merges can be undone, and an ambiguous name waits for your choice before the journal changes anything.
when you add a Google, Anthropic, or OpenAI key, the thinking app checks it before anything is saved. then you can choose from three model options or name a specific model, which is checked before it becomes sol's active brain.

Changed

sol now uses one brain chosen in the thinking app for each lane and no longer ranks or switches engines behind the scenes. older tier, routing, and fallback settings remain untouched but no longer steer model choice. if you bring a paid vendor key, some frequent work may cost more because it now uses the model you chose.

Fixed

long hosted backups and restores no longer lose access partway through. each job now uses narrowly scoped access that lasts for the operation, while older snapshots remain append-only.

journal 0.8.4

july 12, 2026

Added

when solstone suggests merging duplicate people or companies in your journal, you can now review several of those suggestions at once. select a batch and accept or dismiss them together instead of one by one; if some can't be merged, the rest still go through and the ones that need attention stay listed.

Changed

sol's chat replies now display formatting properly, so lists, emphasis, and code render instead of showing as raw text, and long code blocks stay contained inside the reply rather than stretching it wider. when you ask sol about your own life or history, it also now checks your journal by default instead of answering from general knowledge, while everyday conversation like greetings and follow-ups still answers directly.
setting up local thinking now shows live progress while the model downloads and installs, picks up where it left off if you reload the page, and shows a clear error with a retry if an install doesn't finish.

Fixed

the words in your transcripts are never meant to appear in solstone's internal error reports. we closed a gap where a failed transcription could put a short fragment of that text into one, and made the guarantee structural: those reports now carry only the kind of error, never any of your content.
local thinking and transcription handle their limits more honestly now. when a request is too long for the local model or your machine is busy, sol says so in plain words instead of showing a raw code; when local transcription can't finish a clip, sol keeps the audio and retries next time instead of quietly treating it as finished; and truncated local runs no longer leave partial results in your journal.

journal 0.8.3

july 10, 2026

Added

the journal now builds a rebuildable relationship layer from evidence already in your journal. it connects people, projects, decisions, and documents without invented links.

Changed

setup and thinking settings now separate the three ways for sol to think: local on this machine, confidential processing, or an engine you bring yourself. on capable machines, local setup starts in the background; when no engine is chosen, sol says so plainly instead of choosing one silently.

Fixed

local thinking on your own machine is steadier under busy stretches and backlogs. sol now keeps repeat loops from taking over a run, waits out brief overload, and avoids starting more work than the local engine can handle.
on machines where local model work shares system memory, sol now waits for memory to free up before starting heavy work, instead of launching into out-of-memory failures.
speaker review can get through the first speaker setup on fresh or migrated journals. it finds a starting voice sample quickly, plays audio from mac journals, and offers your own name when the journal is new.

journal 0.8.2

july 8, 2026

Added

sol now notices calendar and scheduling moments and files them as their own category in your journal, so appointments and plans are easier to find.

Fixed

the screen and combined-transcript tabs no longer go blank when a moment comes through in an unexpected shape. if you'd seen either tab empty out, this resolves it.
the home page no longer shows the same thing to do twice across its "needs you" and "needs attention" lists.
adding an alternate name to a person or company no longer trips a false "name already in use" warning against that same person or company. real conflicts between different ones still flag.
local thinking on your own machine is more reliable. sol now uses the right runtime for your hardware instead of quietly falling back to cpu, and local requests that use time-like patterns no longer fail before the model starts.
on linux, sol check no longer reports "no usable gpu" when the gpu is present but the current user lacks permission to reach it. it now flags this as a permission problem you can fix instead of a wrong "no gpu" verdict.

journal 0.8.1

july 7, 2026

Fixed

sol-only installs now render provider readiness in sol call health summary without importing journal-only model setup code.

journal 0.8.0

july 7, 2026

Added

journal search now starts with exact matches for agent calls and returns an honest zero when nothing matches, so agents can broaden their own query instead of getting silent near-misses.
sol can now add local media, social, and ambient-sound hints to material already kept in your journal, using local model installs that stay on your machine.
the journal can prepare and verify local vision and audio helper models from settings, including host-fit checks before a download starts.

Changed

journal screens now stay in one app frame, so moving between home, health, settings, search, transcripts, and the other screens is faster and steadier.
media and social classification now use one shared prompt, so the same moment is described more consistently across install paths.

Fixed

search totals and segment details are now de-duplicated, so agent and journal search results no longer over-count the same stretch of the day.
settings pages no longer flash or blank when switching views in the new app frame.

journal 0.7.0

july 5, 2026

Added

sol doctor and journal doctor now check that the installed packages fit together, and name the exact fix when they don't. the checks read only what's installed locally, nothing goes over the network.
the journal command now refuses to start when an upgrade left packages out of step, and prints the fix command instead of running with mismatched pieces.

Changed

the journal is now its own package: install solstone-journal (or solstone-journal-cuda for NVIDIA GPUs) and sol comes included. bare solstone still installs just sol.
the old install spellings (solstone[journal], solstone[journal-cuda], and solstone-journal-host) are retired. they now stop at install time with a message pointing at the new packages, instead of quietly producing an install missing the journal command.
a sol-only install is much smaller: the speech models that used to ship inside every install now come with the journal, so a plain solstone install (and uvx solstone one-shots) drops from about 34 MB to about 3 MB, and journal upgrades no longer re-download models that haven't changed.

migrating from an earlier version

if you already have solstone installed, run the one line that matches how you installed it:

`

pip uninstall solstone-journal-host && pip install solstone-journal

pipx uninstall solstone && pipx install solstone-journal && pipx install solstone

uv tool uninstall solstone && uv tool install solstone-journal && uv tool install solstone

`

journal 0.6.24

july 4, 2026

Fixed

if screen processing fell a few days behind, sol now catches up instead of stalling. it used to chip away at a backlog in one short nightly window, one piece at a time, so a pile could sit for days; sol now works through more at once and keeps going until the backlog clears.
a stretch of the day still being processed is no longer mistaken for an empty one. sol used to sometimes mark that stretch done too soon, so what was on your screen never made it into the day's summary; it now waits and comes back, so the summary in your journal reflects the full day.

journal 0.6.23

july 4, 2026

Added

a browser observer can now sync to your journal even when the journal runs on a different machine. it reaches your home over the private relay and seals what it sends end to end, so the relay only moves the bytes and can't read them.

Changed

the journal's own screens and the customer-facing docs now follow the sol naming model: sol lives on your devices and keeps everything in your journal.

Fixed

sol reports its own health and a day's processing truthfully. status and health views now show a real state instead of an optimistic guess, a day where every image read failed is marked done-until-you-redo instead of looking stuck, and work that already retried and finished is no longer counted as a problem.
your journal holds onto your data more safely. a single corrupt reading no longer aborts the whole day, imported data is checked against its fingerprint before it's trusted, a segment copy either finishes or leaves nothing half-written, backups keep the health record they used to drop, and older media is only cleared once sol can confirm the results derived from it are safely stored.
hardened the journal's local connections. the local web surface now turns away requests from unexpected sites, audio and segment files are only served from inside your journal, and searching with an apostrophe no longer errors out.

journal 0.6.22

july 3, 2026

Added

you can now pair a device to your journal over a Tailscale network, not only a shared wi-fi. if your phone and your journal are on the same Tailscale network but different wi-fi, that direct connection now works for pairing.

Fixed

sol's summary of a day's processing now reflects what actually happened. the 'yesterday's processing' view used to flag problems on nearly every normal day, counting work that had already retried and finished, or that belonged to a different day, and cutting long lists short. it now shows only what genuinely didn't finish for that day, grouped by name with an honest count.
sol gets through a full day's processing more reliably. scheduled work that didn't run at its set time is now retried instead of waiting out a full cycle, the switch to a new day at midnight no longer gets stuck, and if one step runs into trouble sol keeps going with the rest instead of stalling. work that sol used to occasionally lose track of now either finishes or is recorded as a clear failure.

journal 0.6.21

july 2, 2026

Changed

on linux, sol now uses a single local engine to turn your speech into text. it runs entirely on your own machine, and your audio never leaves it.
the first time that engine runs, it downloads the model files it needs to work, the same as the previous engine did. that download only brings files in; nothing from your journal goes out.

journal 0.6.20

july 2, 2026

Added

on linux, you can now opt into an alternative local transcription engine. the default engine is unchanged.

Changed

sol now does less repeated work on the video and on-screen activity it takes in. it skips near-identical moments while keeping the ones where something on screen changed, so nothing that changed gets missed.

Fixed

catching up on past days is steadier. sol re-does only the parts of a day that didn't finish rather than walking the whole day from the start, and it skips audio it has already turned into text.
if one audio file in your day couldn't be read, it used to be able to stop the rest of the day from being transcribed. now sol sets that one file aside and keeps going, so the rest of your day still becomes text in your journal.

journal 0.6.19

july 1, 2026

Fixed

a stretch of your day with nothing for sol to think about, like a quiet passage with no speech or one where your phone only had your location, used to keep the day from finishing. sol would keep re-trying that stretch and never mark the day done. now sol recognizes there's nothing there to read, marks that stretch done, and moves on, so the day completes.
if one step sol runs on a stretch of your day kept failing, it could hold the whole day open, re-attempted each time solstone caught up and never finishing. now sol sets a step aside after it fails enough times in a row, so the day completes, and leaves it there to try again later. your transcript and media stay in your journal the whole time.
asking sol to re-process part of a day is steadier now. it used to be able to get wedged partway and not restart, and now it recovers. and if an earlier version already left days stuck this way, running journal backfill-processing-records clears them so they can finish, previewing the change before you apply it.

journal 0.6.18

june 30, 2026

Added

you can now pair a device to your journal over your private network from the command line, even when that device isn't on the same local network as your home. your home opens a brief pairing window directly to do it, instead of relying on a short code that kept rotating, so it's more reliable and there's no shared code sitting anywhere in between. if the window isn't ready yet, pairing waits for it and tells you plainly when it's unavailable, rather than failing with a confusing error.

Fixed

your private network's status now stays honest while it's running. it used to be able to read as connected while the link that reaches your journal from afar was actually failing. now it tells those apart, recovers on its own when the link goes stale, and never puts access tokens or connection secrets into its status or logs.
a local command that talks to your journal no longer waits forever if the journal stops responding. it now stops after a set wait and tells you "the journal didn't answer in time," instead of hanging.
status about finishing up your days is honest now too. when sol re-processes part of a day or re-analyzes a transcript, a step that had only started, or hadn't been verified, used to be able to read as done. your health could even read as well while it hadn't. anything that hasn't truly finished and produced a result now shows as still running or as a clear error, and a day that didn't finish re-processing no longer reads as fully caught up.
catching up on your days is steadier when something goes wrong. if sol gets stuck finishing one day, solstone now keeps working through the rest of your days instead of letting that one hold everything up, and a single stalled step can no longer tie up sol's daily work.

journal 0.6.17

june 29, 2026

Added

you can now begin pairing over your private network without waiting for the whole pairing to finish first. start it and carry on while it completes.

Changed

your home screen now shows your solstone's health as a single honest verdict. it rolls every signal into one line, always reflects the most serious thing happening, and never reads "everything's working" while something is failing or can't be checked. anything it flags is now a link you can follow to learn more or fix it, and it will tell you if sol has no working way to think. day-to-day activity counts moved off the glance so it stays focused on what needs your attention.

Fixed

deleting a location source now also removes location data that was bundled inside mixed mobile observations, where it used to be left behind.
if an observer was running but its observations were silently never reaching your journal, solstone used to show it as fine, unknown, or stale. that state now shows up clearly wherever you check on solstone, in red, with what went wrong and how to recover.
observations from a terminal or screen-only observer, which have no separate media to send, were being turned away and set aside. they're now accepted into your journal.
when turning on your private network runs into a problem, you now get the specific reason and what to do about it, instead of one generic error message.

journal 0.6.16

june 28, 2026

Added

setting up solstone now gives your journal its own identity. you'll see your journal's mark, a small visual of two icons and two words derived from your journal's own key, and you can regenerate it until you like the one you get, then lock it in. your journal id comes from that same key, so it's unique to your journal and the same wherever it appears. after setup, your mark and journal id also stay visible where your devices connect to your journal.

Changed

if you run solstone fully on your own device, sol's local work, like summarizing your day and your weekly reflection, now stays on your device as intended even when no cloud key is set up. before, some of it could stop with a setup error. this keeps more of sol's work on your device.
re-registering an observer after a restart or reinstall no longer creates a duplicate entry; it reuses the one already there. a new observer reconcile command also collapses any duplicate observer entries you already have.

Fixed

re-pairing a device after a reinstall or restore used to leave its previous credential active, so old credentials could accumulate over time. re-pairing now retires the credential it replaces, leaving one current credential per device.
a chat reply that took too long to finish could later appear as the answer to a different message. that no longer happens. a reply that times out is now closed out cleanly and can't carry into your next message.
when sol prepared a message to solstone support for you to review, it could be described as a failure to reach support even though the draft was ready. the wording now matches what happened: your draft is prepared for you to review and send.

journal 0.6.15

june 27, 2026

Added

you can now give any facet its own icon. open a facet's appearance settings, search the icon set, see each option in your facet's color, and apply the one you want. your emoji stays the default, so you can switch back to it anytime.

Changed

the menu in your journal's web app and your facets now show clean, consistent icons. each facet's icon comes from its emoji by default; the icons are simply a crisper way to render it.
for new owners, the welcome now sets a more accurate expectation: sol's insight starts to feel useful after about a week, not the third or fourth week.

journal 0.6.14

june 26, 2026

Added

pairing a new device to your journal now matches how you're pairing it. pick phone, computer, or glasses, and solstone shows the right hand-off for each: a large QR code for glasses to point at, a copy-to-clipboard link for a computer, and the usual flow for a phone. and when your journal can be reached more than one way, you can pick which to use.
solstone can now tidy up its own behind-the-scenes logs and caches on a schedule, so they don't pile up over time. in your storage settings there's a cleanup that removes only these dated housekeeping files (health logs, run logs, and similar caches) once they age out, on by default at 30 days. it never touches what sol has taken in or anything in your memories, only solstone's own bookkeeping. you can preview exactly what a cleanup would remove before anything is deleted, and run it by hand anytime.

Changed

your journal's web app is easier to read. text that used to sit on bright facet-colored fills (a selected facet, your chat bubble, the active settings tab) now has stronger contrast, the app matches sol pbc's current look, and a spot where the home screen could get clipped on a narrow window is fixed.
sol now scopes each lookup in your journal to just the part it needs, rather than reaching across the whole journal at once. this keeps what sol reads tightly scoped, and keeps sol quick to respond even when your journal has grown large.

Fixed

a piece of work sol finished could show as failed even though it completed and saved its result. that's resolved; each run now reflects its true outcome.
when a single activity spanned several facets, each of those facets' history could end up showing the same description copied from one of them. each facet now keeps its own accurate activity history.

journal 0.6.13

june 25, 2026

Changed

importing the same thing twice no longer doubles it up in your journal. when you import a file or paste text, whether from the web import page or sol import, solstone now recognizes content it has already taken in and skips it instead of creating a second copy. re-running an import that got interrupted picks up where it left off rather than starting over.
imported items now get the right date straight from the file when solstone can tell. for filenames that already carry a full timestamp, exports from tools that stamp their own times, and media that carries the time it was taken, solstone reads the date directly instead of asking a model to guess it. anything ambiguous still falls back to a best guess as before.

journal 0.6.12

june 24, 2026

Added

a new way to run sol on a box that can't keep up with heavy local analysis in real time. pick "deferred" in your processing settings and solstone takes in your day exactly as before, in real time, nothing dropped, while the heavier analysis waits and runs in a window you choose (overnight by default) or while your display is asleep. your journal's health view shows how many segments are waiting and when they last caught up. built for owners running sol on their own hardware, like a single GPU, who want to observe all day and let the deep work happen while the machine is idle.
while you're in deferred mode, if you ask sol about today and the answer would come up empty, sol now tells you it has taken your day in but hasn't analyzed it yet and will during your chosen window, instead of just coming back with nothing.

Changed

your journal's activity records read cleaner. a single moment used to spawn several near-duplicate entries that all shared one summary, including minor ones that didn't warrant their own; now only the ones worth their own entry get one, each described in its own words. existing records are untouched.

Fixed

running sol on a local model no longer stalls or comes back empty on a dense, busy day. on constrained hardware a packed day could overflow the local model and produce nothing for that stretch with an opaque error; the local model now sizes itself to your graphics card and fits each request to what it can hold, so a long day finishes cleanly. surfaced by an owner running this on an AMD card.
the row of active-work dots next to the chat bar reflects what's actually running again. it had been collecting grey "finished" dots and replaying them every time you reloaded or restarted; now it shows only work in flight and clears each item as it finishes.

journal 0.6.11

june 23, 2026

Changed

a plain solstone install now carries only the thin client commands, sol and solstone. it no longer puts journal-host commands on your PATH. the journal and mlx-vlm-server host commands now come with solstone[journal] or solstone[journal-cuda], through the new solstone-journal-host package. with uv tool, install with uv tool install --with-executables-from solstone-journal-host 'solstone[journal]'; with pipx, use pipx install --include-deps 'solstone[journal]'; with pip, pip install 'solstone[journal]' exposes them on its own.
a couple of settings rough edges are smoothed. naming sol in the sol identity section now commits the name you typed when you press Enter, instead of quietly resetting it to "sol," and a quiet notification in the status-icon list now opens to its full text instead of clipping to a one-line snippet you couldn't expand.
a day waiting on a local model that's still loading or installing now reads "try again" rather than "a setting's missing," so the days-that-need-a-hand list points you at the right next step.

Fixed

observer uploads are being saved to your journal again. on a 0.6.10 install, everything your observers took in returned an error and nothing new landed in your journal; this restores it. if you upgraded to 0.6.10, please install this update.
on a Mac, your local "how sol thinks" choice sticks. on Apple Silicon it could silently fall back to "no provider chosen" even with a working on-device model; it now reads the actual model state on your Mac. linux is unchanged.
a partial journal-host install now tells you what to do instead of looping. if the host pieces aren't fully in place, setup stops with reinstall guidance up front rather than starting and failing over and over.

journal 0.6.10

june 22, 2026

Changed

the feature that connects all your devices to your journal is now called your private network, in the labels, the setup screens, and the toggle. it's the same encrypted connection among your devices it has always been, just named for what it does. you'll see "your private network" where it used to say "private link."
the journal backup feature is now called encrypted backup, and its setup copy reads the same way: only you can read your backup, not even sol pbc. nothing about how it works changed, just the name and the wording.
your health page now reads "all data stored locally on your device" wherever it shows where your journal lives, and notifications now show as built in rather than coming later. the trust details didn't change, the wording is just clearer and current.

Fixed

the "minimum requirements" help link now opens a live page. if you're on linux without a supported gpu, the link shown when local models can't run pointed at a page that no longer existed; it now goes to the right support article so you can see what you need.

journal 0.6.9

june 20, 2026

Fixed

the error view on your health page now opens the way you'd expect. the "errors today" count jumps you to recent errors every time you click it, not just the first time, and each error row opens in place to show the full plain-language message (and the technical detail when there is one). before, some rows wouldn't open at all. the "api keys" link in settings also now jumps you to the right section on a repeat click.

journal 0.6.8

june 19, 2026

Added

you can now import a single image, and sol describes what's in it and adds the entry to your journal. drop in a png, jpeg, webp, gif, or tiff from the web interface or the command line, the same way you import a recording.

Changed

chatting with sol no longer makes you wait. when sol kicks off a longer piece of work from a chat, it tells you what it's doing right away and keeps the conversation open, then folds the answer back in once it's ready. the chat shows how many jobs sol has running so you can keep going in the meantime.

Fixed

settings now save again. for the past several days, changes you made in settings would quietly revert on reload, with no save button and no error to tell you why. this resolves the underlying cause, so every section saves and sticks.
finishing the private link setup no longer looks unfinished. when you turned link on and paired a device, a leftover "continue to approve" prompt could linger next to the success message, and the pairing screen could show the wrong text and a code that didn't refresh. the screen now reflects what's actually happening.
on linux, installing solstone with gpu support no longer fails partway through. some installs pulled a graphics runtime that didn't match the rest of the install, so transcription couldn't load. the install now keeps the pieces in step.
previewing an import no longer imports it for real. on the command-line importer, asking for a preview while also passing the save flag would import the media live instead of just showing you what it found. a preview now always wins, so you can look before you commit.

journal 0.6.7

june 18, 2026

Changed

stretches where nothing on your screen changes (a long overnight, a static window left open) now fold into a single continuation entry in your journal instead of many near-identical ones. sol skips re-describing what hasn't moved, so those stretches process faster and your journal reads cleaner.

Fixed

imported recordings now get their own activity record. before, an imported meeting that ran as one continuous stretch could finish without an activity record for it; now it gets one like everything else.
scheduled tasks that had quietly stopped running now run again on their own, with no action needed from you. an earlier change to how commands are named had left some saved schedules pointing at a form that no longer worked, and this repairs them.
a settings change you made could be lost if another change landed at the same moment. settings now save one at a time, so concurrent edits all stick.
your weekly reflection now completes and writes its summary reliably. before, it could spend its whole time budget looking in the wrong place and finish with nothing; it now reads from the right source and lands every time.

journal 0.6.5

june 17, 2026

Added

you can mark a single day to be processed again with journal reprocess DAY --mark-updated. it re-queues that day even if it already finished, so you can pick up a day that needs another pass without re-running everything.

Changed

when sol files something with solstone support on your behalf, you now see and confirm the exact message before it leaves your machine. sol drafts the report, your journal shows you the full contents plus the diagnostic details that would be attached, and nothing is sent until you press send. sol has no path to send on its own; pressing send is the only way anything reaches support, and you can cancel instead and nothing leaves.
the local web interface no longer has its own password, login page, session cookie, or localhost-trust switch. once setup is complete, the local interface serves directly on the journal machine; linked devices continue to use their paired-device identity through link.
the connection-and-health indicator now shows the sol ring, with the ring itself carrying live status: whether your journal is reachable, whether observing is healthy, and whether a quiet notification is waiting. it updates continuously while the page is open.

Fixed

closed a window during device pairing where someone on your local network could have placed themselves in the middle of the exchange. when a new device pairs with your journal over the local network, it now cryptographically verifies it is talking to your real journal and refuses to continue if anything doesn't match. if you pair devices on shared or untrusted wi-fi, please update.
pairing a phone or tablet to your journal now works when the journal's machine has more than one network connection. before, the pairing code could advertise an address your other device couldn't actually reach, so the pairing would fail; it now offers every local address so your device can find one that works.
your journal keeps making progress even when one piece of work stalls. before, a single stuck step (transcribing a clip, thinking through a day, or a model call that never returned) could quietly freeze that part of your journal for hours or days while everything behind it waited; now every piece of work has a time limit, a stall surfaces instead of hiding, and the rest keeps flowing. re-processing a day that had no new activity also no longer loops on itself.
setting up a hosted service (private link or scout) from the web interface now works when your journal runs on a remote or headless machine. before, the approval step could stall at "setting up…" and never show you the link to continue; it now always gives you a one-tap link to approve.
installing from source on an aarch64 nvidia machine no longer fails partway through, and transcription works there. if you ran into this, this resolves it.