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# WhispAssist v0.5.2
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**Privacy-first, Windows-native meeting assistant — everything on-device, nothing leaves unless you say so.**
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A small but important bug-fix release. v0.5.2 fixes a startup crash that could stop WhispAssist
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from opening after an upgrade, and makes any future database problem show a clear message instead
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of failing silently. No feature or privacy changes — everything optional stays off-by-default and
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local-first.
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One universal installer (**MSI** and **NSIS**) covers every machine: **Vulkan** for all GPUs
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(NVIDIA/AMD/Intel), the Intel **NPU** (OpenVINO), a **DirectML** fallback, and **CPU**.
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---
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## 🐛 Fixes
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### Fixed: app failing to launch after an upgrade
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On some machines, upgrading could leave the app unable to open at all — no window, no message,
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just nothing. The cause was a database-migration mismatch during startup: WhispAssist would hit
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the error while opening its local database (`wa.db`) and, because the failure happened before the
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window existed, the process exited silently and Windows reported only a generic crash.
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### Startup database errors now explain themselves
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Instead of that silent exit, a failure to open `wa.db` now shows a **native error dialog** naming
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the problem and pointing at the database location, then exits cleanly. Your recordings and notes
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are never touched — the message tells you exactly what happened and how to recover, rather than
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leaving you with an app that won't start.
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## 📦 Install
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**Requirements:** Windows 10 or 11 (x64). WhispAssist needs **WebView2** (preinstalled on Windows 11;
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the installer fetches it on Windows 10). Importing from a file/URL additionally needs **`ffmpeg`**
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(and **`yt-dlp`** for URLs) on your PATH — install those separately.
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1. Download **`WhispAssist_0.5.2_x64_en-US.msi`** (or the NSIS **`WhispAssist_0.5.2_x64-setup.exe`**).
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2. Run it and accept the UAC prompt. If SmartScreen appears, choose **More info → Run anyway**.
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3. Launch **WhispAssist** from the Start menu.
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On first run WA picks the best transcription backend (**NPU → NVIDIA → AMD → Intel → CPU**). It runs
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without admin rights, never adds itself to startup, and keeps all data under
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`%LOCALAPPDATA%\WhispAssist`.
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## 🔐 Checksums (SHA-256)
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```
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b173b6b15590a65e96d3b24d0ad97666b8d1da905169d807ecc1c51df0584d3e WhispAssist_0.5.2_x64_en-US.msi
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441b2e7ec7c68be39f9d2381af59ab9eadf916d6d23d0c5541d78bdd88c588b2 WhispAssist_0.5.2_x64-setup.exe
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```
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Verify after download:
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```powershell
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Get-FileHash .\WhispAssist_0.5.2_x64_en-US.msi -Algorithm SHA256
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```
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---
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## Privacy, unchanged
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Everything optional is **off by default**. With nothing configured, WhispAssist makes **no content
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egress at all**. Recording is opt-in; sync/AI credentials live only in the OS credential store; the
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MCP server is loopback-only and adds no egress. The reachable-host allowlist is derived from your
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settings and enforced in the core.
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