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0.48.1 ​

  • Swift: Make desktopIndependentWindow macOS 13.1+ only

0.48.0 ​

  • Swift: Add crop option to display recording.
  • Keep Mac awake during a recording.
  • Swift: RKRunningApplication now exposes the bundle identifier of the app.
  • Add videoDimensions to the bundle format, deprecating recordingScale.
  • Swift: Add support for recording a window independent of the desktop.

0.47.1 ​

  • Fix potential issue when recording microphones with more than 2 channels.

0.47.0 ​

  • Fix bug when recording left audio recording.
  • Fix bug in input recorder when it's momentarily disabled by macOS.

0.46.0 ​

  • Fixes for SCKAudioRecorder on Intel Macs.

0.45.0 ​

  • Restart input recording when interrupted.
  • Swift: Add minimumFrameInterval and maxVideoDimensions options to screen and webcam recorders.
  • Swift: Add the option to record the mic left channel only
  • Prevent webcam from changing it's resolution unexpectedly.

0.44.0 ​

  • Fixed an issue M4A files didn't have the correct container format.

0.43.0 ​

  • Enable segmented file recording for audio recorders.
  • Workaround for non-working Studio Display camera in RKCameraPreview

0.42.0 ​

  • RKDisplay identifier changed to prevent collisions.
  • Include device name in error message where relevant.
  • Fixed a multithreading issue in the recorder.

0.41.0 ​

  • Exclude Apples TipKit view when screenRecordingIndicator exclude option is used.

0.40.0 ​

  • Added low disk space error to SCKAudioRecorder.
  • Swift: Added option to exclude specific processes from screen recordings.

0.39.0 ​

  • Swift: Improve performance of switching cameras in RKCameraPreview.
  • Swift: Improve performance of switching microphones in MicrophonePowerMeter.

0.38.0 ​

  • Major performance improvements in top window tracking.

0.37.3 ​

  • Prefixed all Objective-C code with RK to avoid name collisions.

0.37.0 ​

  • Additional minor logging improvements.

0.36.0 ​

  • Improved logging.
  • Improve window tracking when new windows are created.

0.35.0 ​

  • Fix correctly stopping input event capturing once a recording is stopped.
  • Fix incorrectly aborting the recording when using input recording.

0.34.0 ​

  • Reduce CPU usage when window discovery isn't used anymore.
  • Fix memory leak in JSON writer.

0.33.0 ​

  • Prevent memory load in macOS 13 when using segmented file output.
  • Added window title change tracking.
  • Swift: Only trigger camera prompt when preview is visible

0.32.0 ​

  • Improved audio recording reliability.

0.31.0 ​

  • Swift: Add accessibilityProcessTrusted to RKAuthorizationStatus
  • Minor top window tracking improvements.

0.30.0 ​

  • Swift: Allow custom content in RKCameraPreview.
  • Fixed memory leak while capturing user input.
  • Performance improvements in top window tracking.

0.29.0 ​

  • Fix possibly incorrect recordingSize in RKBundleInfo.
  • Fixed an ordering issue in the top window detection.

0.28.0 ​

  • Added recordingSize & recordingScale to the recordkit.json file.

0.27.0 ​

  • Swift: Update RKMicrophonePreview, only render when window is visible on screen.
  • Swift: Add promptForAuthorization option to RKCameraPreview.

0.26.0 ​

  • Improved top window detection logic.

0.25.0 ​

  • Swift: Microphone preview support, monitoring power levels.
  • Swift: Use cameraID in RKCameraPreview.

0.24.1 ​

  • Swift: Fixes RKCameraPreview background color and start/stop behaviour.

0.24.0 ​

  • Swift: Renamed RKAuthorizationStatus to RKAuthorization.
  • Made streaming JSON writing atomic to be more robust in case of a crash.
  • Renamed RKWindow onlyOnScreen filter option to allOnScreen.

0.23.0 ​

  • Fixed an issue where tracking the top window didn't always correctly stop.

0.22.0 ​

  • SwiftUI: Improve display highlighting.

0.21.0 ​

  • Clearer logs when discovery of Apple devices fails.
  • Swift: Improved the API around authorization status.

0.20.0 ​

  • Added RKCameraPreview to preview a camera in SwiftUI.
  • Apple device recordings now also capture audio from the device.
  • Recorder is more robust when prepare/start/stop are called multiple times.
  • The start method on a recorder can now throw an error if something fails.
  • Improved precision of recorder start/stop.
  • Improved window filtering when listing available windows.
  • Improved resillience of all audio recorders when audio gaps occur.
  • Segmented output now has correct video dimensions for Apple device recordings.
  • Improved error messages through the SDK.
  • Improved log messages through the SDK.
  • Swift: Options to exclude windows when recording a display.
  • Swift: Improved device discovery API.
  • Swift: Ability to store/retrieve prefered microphone, camera and display.

0.19.0 ​

  • Electron: Add option to receive RecordKit logs through recordkit.on('log', (logEvent) => { }).

0.18.1 ​

  • Fixed missing types from API documentation.

0.18.0 ​

  • Added support for segmented media streams (HLS) output.

0.17.0 ​

  • Improved output file when screen recording starts or ends with static video.
  • Electron: Add option to set log level per category.

0.16.0 ​

  • Electron: Log RecordKit log message to console.
  • Electron: Add option to set log level for RecordKit.
  • Improved stability of RKRecorder.getWindows.

0.15.1 ​

  • Fix: Occasional crash when starting multiple keyboard recorders after each other.

0.15.0 ​

  • Electron: Add explicit cancel method on Recorder.
  • Support for mp4 and mov video container file types.

0.14.0 ​

  • Fix: Issue where preferred microphone would sometime return no microphone.

0.13.0 ​

  • Added additional debug logging around discovered devices.
  • Fixed a potential deadlock.

0.12.1 ​

  • Resolved an issue preventing some camera and screen recordings from finalizing.

0.12.0 ​

  • New allowFrameReordering setting on recorder to disable generation of B-frames in output files.
  • Length of recorded videos is much more accurate to the start/stop of the recorder.
  • Several thread safety improvements.
  • Swift: New RKSources property wrapper to discover recording sources like microphones.
  • Swift: New RKMicrophone (async) discovery methods microphone and updates.
  • Swift: New RKMicrophone.preferred property to get the preferred microphone.
  • Swift: New RKUserPreferred class to manage and access preferred recording sources.
  • Swift: Removed RKRecorder.Scheme the API; Use the RKRecorder initializer that takes [RKRecorder.SchemaItem] instead.
  • Electron: Updated availability type information for several recording sources.

0.11.0 ​

  • Swift: Add RKSources property wrapper to list available recording sources

0.10.0 ​

  • Swift: Add System Audio recorder

0.9.0 ​

  • Swift: Add Display recorder
  • Swift: Add Microphone recorder
  • Swift: RKRecorderScheme has been renamed RKRecorder.Scheme

0.8.1 ​

  • Fix: Don't show window sharing indicator in WindowBasedCrop recorder

0.8.0 ​

  • Fix: Other windows are no longer being recorded in WindowBasedCrop recorder

0.7.0 ​

  • Add support keyboard input recording

0.6.0 ​

  • The cursor type is now recorded when mouse events are being captured
  • Correctly close connection to iPhone/iPad when recording is stopped

0.5.1 ​

  • Minor documentation improvements

0.5.0 ​

  • Add support for recording iPads (without support for rotation during the recording)

0.4.0 ​

  • Electron: Live camera preview is supported

0.3.4 ​

  • Reduced the amount of calls to ScreenCaptureKit, improving performance
  • Improved error reporting when external devices fail to initialize

0.3.3 ​

  • Cleaned up log messages
  • Fix timeout errors not immediatly being thrown
  • Cancel internal tasks correctly when they time out

0.3.2 ​

  • Electron: Fix issue where RecordKit stopped responding when a 3rd party webcam wrote to the error output
  • Swift: RecordKit is now available as SPM package

0.3.1 ​

  • Electron: Group types logically in API documentation
  • Electron: Remove internal types from API documentation

0.3.0 ​

  • First publicly available release

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