v2026.10.2

Dictating no longer wipes the clipboard.

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This release covers 5 pull requests.

Highlights

Dictating no longer wipes the clipboard. (#153)
The window connects to the engine in about a second instead of waiting for the speech model to load, and shows "Getting ready…" until it can dictate. (#158)
Decoding starts the moment the shortcut is released, instead of up to 100 ms later. (#160)
Each dictation adds one Dictation timing: line to the log, with how long each step took and never the text. (#159)

Each dictation adds one Dictation timing: line to the log, with how long each step took and never the text. The status line now reads "Transcribing N s of audio", because the old wording looked like a processing time. (#159)

Dictating no longer wipes the clipboard. Dictate pastes through the clipboard, then puts back exactly what was there before, once the app has read the dictation: text, images, file lists and rich text on Windows, and the copied item on Linux. If you copy something yourself mid-dictation, Dictate leaves it alone. On Windows, dictated text stays out of Win+V clipboard history and cloud clipboard sync. (#153)
The window connects to the engine in about a second instead of waiting for the speech model to load, and shows "Getting ready…" until it can dictate. A model that fails to load is shown in the window instead of the engine exiting. (#158)
Decoding starts the moment the shortcut is released, instead of up to 100 ms later. (#160)

CHANGELOG/records/2026.10.2.md lists every pull request in this release once, with its related issues and thanks.