October 6, 2026

Tuesday

Version 1.12.0 & Reliable Web Releases

• Bumped the official application display version to 1.12.0, consolidating Miron's Realtime voice upgrade, bot-human co-attributed kills, the limited-edition Boss Jev release, and the TypeSafe Jev benchmark report (/jev).
• Restored production web releases on the local prebuilt deploy runner: environment settings are now pulled outside the app bundle so secrets never ship with a build, and local developer settings are set aside during every build and restored afterwards.
• Hardened release verification so a web deploy reports success only once Vercel confirms the deployment is ready, and shows Vercel's own failure reason and inspector link when it is not.

October 5, 2026

Monday

Miron's Voice Upgraded to OpenAI Realtime

• Moved Miron's voice to OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1-mini over the Realtime API ahead of the January 6, 2027 retirement of the legacy text-to-speech models, keeping the same voice, persona, and subtitles with no app update required.
• Introduced verified speech: every line is checked against its on-screen subtitle before any audio plays, so Miron only ever says exactly what the caption shows, and a line that strays from it appears as a subtitle only.
• Kept commentary timely, with first audio arriving in about 1.6 to 2.7 seconds, on par with or faster than the previous voice model.
• Capped the voice budget for every line and kept voice speed within the supported range, so an out-of-range speed setting can no longer silence Miron.