# AIRI v0.12.0-beta.3

- Product: AIRI (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/airi)
- Vendor: AIRI
- Date: 2026-08-27
- Version: v0.12.0-beta.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/moeru-ai/airi/releases/tag/v0.12.0-beta.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/airi/releases/v0.12.0-beta.3
- Labels: Pre-release

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- **added** — Apple Speech is now available for on-device transcription on macOS 26 or later without requiring an API key, with locale selection support
- **added** — Long-press and drag the message input upward on mobile to dock it as a compact keyboard bubble, and tap to restore it
- **fixed** — Sign-in now opens in the system browser on iOS and Android and returns you to AIRI
- **fixed** — AIRI keeps its main window, captions, and widgets visible more reliably on Linux with Wayland
- **fixed** — AIRI now respects explicit X11 and Wayland choices and avoids unsupported media-permission calls on Linux
- **fixed** — Safari no longer loses the software keyboard when tapping the message input while the keyboard closes
- **fixed** — OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible provider checks now support newer completion-token rules, allowing more models to complete setup successfully
- **fixed** — Provider choices now match your sign-in state, with account-backed providers disappearing after sign-out while local and browser providers remain available
- **fixed** — Connection status indicators now use a steady warning animation when AIRI is offline
- **fixed** — Provider settings now show loading and retry states when AIRI discovers runtime options
- **added** — Provider definitions can now load settings schemas, onboarding fields, validators, availability, and runtime instances asynchronously
- **changed** — The hosted authentication UI no longer bundles the Stage renderer, model assets, or local inference runtime
- **changed** — Workspace installs now build FFmpeg binaries for macOS x64 and Linux ARM64

##### v0.12.0-beta.3 Highlights

This cumulative update covers changes since v0.12.0-beta.1.

##### New Contributors
* @mameikagou made their first contribution in https://github.com/moeru-ai/airi/pull/2336
* @aniruddhaadak80 made their first contribution in https://github.com/moeru-ai/airi/pull/2380

###### New features

###### Desktop ver.

- You can now use Apple Speech for on-device transcription on macOS 26 or later. It needs no API key and includes locale selection.

###### Mobile ver.

- You can now long-press the message input and drag it upward to dock it as a compact keyboard bubble. Tap it to restore the input.

###### Important fixes

- Sign-in now opens in the system browser on iOS and Android, then returns you to AIRI.
- AIRI now keeps its main window, captions, and widgets visible more reliably on Linux with Wayland.
- AIRI now respects explicit X11 and Wayland choices and avoids unsupported media-permission calls on Linux.
- Safari no longer loses the software keyboard when you tap the message input while the keyboard closes.
- OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible provider checks now support newer completion-token rules. As a result, more models complete setup successfully.
- Provider choices now match your sign-in state. Account-backed providers disappear after sign-out, while local and browser providers stay available.
- Connection status indicators now use a steady warning animation when AIRI is offline.
- Provider settings now show loading and retry states when AIRI discovers runtime options.

###### To developers

- Provider definitions can now load settings schemas, onboarding fields, validators, availability, and runtime instances asynchronously.
- The hosted authentication UI no longer bundles the Stage renderer, model assets, or local inference runtime.

###### To contributors

- The architecture diagram now reflects the current applications, shared packages, integrations, desktop server channel, and hosted backend.
- The guides now explain upstream setup, secure Base URLs, LAN use with LM Studio, and CometAPI model IDs.
- The Korean documentation now uses corrected spacing and current setup commands.
- The shared Polaroid devtool now lives in stage-pages. Stage UI imports now use public package exports.
- The repository refreshed its dependencies and Nix dependency hash.
- CI now uses pnpm/setup with Node 26 and Wrangler v4. Vitest jobs now use stable local-storage behavior.
- Workspace installs now build FFmpeg binaries for macOS x64 and Linux ARM64.

###### Upgrade notes

- Contributors must use Node.js 26.7.0 and pnpm 11.24.0. The repository pins these versions in .tool-versions and packageManager.

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/moeru-ai/airi/compare/v0.12.0-beta.1...v0.12.0-beta.3