v2026.9.25-2

The Linux dock and app menu show the Dictate icon instead of a generic microphone.

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This release covers 17 pull requests.

Highlights

The Linux dock and app menu show the Dictate icon instead of a generic microphone.
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 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.

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.

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.

CHANGELOG/records/2026.9.25-2.md lists every pull request in this release once, with its related issues and thanks.