## 2026.9.25-3

### Highlights

- Right Ctrl dictation works on X11 without extra libraries.
- The Linux dock and app menu show the Dictate icon instead of a generic microphone.
- Pasting into a terminal uses plain text.
- The dictation list and **Copy last dictation** follow when the words were spoken.
- A `.deb` update downloads while Dictate stays open.
- Stable and beta are separate builds.

### Changes

- The About dialog no longer shows a model name. Version, package, and the update channel stay.
- Starting a meeting, and the All / Meetings / Quick filter, are on the beta channel only. The normal channel is dictation, and every saved note stays in the one list.
- Dictation into a terminal, including the Grok CLI, is inserted with Shift+Insert as plain text. Ctrl+V in that CLI treats a WebKit clipboard as a file chip.
- A `.deb` update downloads while Dictate stays open. The app installs that package and restarts only after a second click.
- Stable and beta are separate builds. The installed version decides which one you have. About no longer switches between them.

### Fixes

- Right Ctrl dictation works on X11 without extra libraries. The 2026.9.25-1 fix named pynput but not the X11 backend it loads at runtime, and the build machine has no display, so the packaged engine still shipped without it.
- The Linux dock and app menu show the Dictate icon instead of a generic microphone. The packaged app's own launcher entry used a fallback icon that hid the one the `.deb` installs. Existing entries are repaired on next start.
- The packaged engine includes the X11 hotkey library, so a normal desktop session can dictate without being in the `input` group.
- Pasting into a terminal uses plain text. The focused window is recognized from its process and window class, including Ghostty, not from a single app name.
- A disconnected engine no longer writes stock demo sentences into the dictation list.
- Dictation stays on CPU when every NVIDIA GPU is bound to vfio for a VM. The RTX 4090 passed through to Windows is not taken.
- The dictation list and **Copy last dictation** follow when the words were spoken. A crash recovery that stamped old notes with a later finish time no longer floats those notes above a new dictation.
- A saved backend this build does not ship, including the removed xAI, OpenAI, and Gemini backends, is rewritten to Parakeet when the desktop UI loads. The window was reporting `faster-whisper` for that stale setting even though the engine was already running Parakeet.

### Complete contribution record

This audited record covers the complete 74121b7bfa989c4ce0bfbd162d65e6ffc3237d13..58886e06de77b641ba33551e8df7528d908956f4 history: 19 in-range PRs + 0 retained seed-only PRs = 19 unique PRs. The generation manifest also supplies direct commits as editorial input; the grouped notes above prioritize user impact.

#### Pull requests

- **PR #54**
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