EdnunpandClaude Opus 4.8
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- New screen-reader hotkey "Speak the RemSound status information" (issue #13): reads the status line aloud through the active screen reader via Tolk, fires from anywhere (system-wide), unset by default. Built behind an IScreenReaderOutput seam so a future build can swap Tolk for Prism on Windows 10+ without touching callers. Tolk DLLs vendored under tolk/ and shipped next to the exe. - New Logging tab in Preferences: Enable logs + Write logs now moved there, plus opt-in startup "warn if logs folder exceeds N MB" and "delete logs older than N days", and a "Delete all logs" button (Yes/No confirm). New LogMaintenance helper + AppConfig settings drive it. - Manual (readme.html + regenerated MANUAL.md), About changelog and RELEASE_NOTES updated in plain English; csproj <Version> bumped to 4.3. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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RemSound v4.3
Two additions for screen-reader users — hear the status line on demand — and a tidier home for logging.
Hear the RemSound status line on demand
RemSound's main window has a status line that updates every second: how long you've been connected, how many peers you have, whether sound is flowing, and how healthy the link is. Usually your screen reader reads it like any other text — but every so often, for reasons that have nothing to do with RemSound, it loses track of it and says there's nothing there.
There's now a hotkey for it. In the Keyboard shortcuts dialog (Ctrl+K), set a key for Speak the RemSound status information, and pressing it reads the whole status line aloud through your screen reader, from anywhere — even with RemSound hidden in the tray or another program in front. It's unset to begin with, so you pick the key, and it's there purely for screen-reader users.
It speaks through whichever screen reader you're running — NVDA, JAWS, Window-Eyes, System Access, SuperNova or ZoomText — and falls back to Windows' own built-in speech if none of those is on.
A Logging tab, with folder housekeeping
The logging controls now have their own Logging tab in Preferences, and there are three new ways to keep the logs folder from growing without limit — all off unless you turn them on:
- Warn at startup if the logs folder is larger than a size you choose (starts at 100 MB) — a friendly notice, nothing deleted.
- Delete logs older than a number of days you set (1 to 30, starts at 14) — tidied automatically when RemSound starts; today's log is always kept.
- Delete all logs — one button, with a Yes/No confirm, that clears every log except the one in use.
Compatibility
v4.3 talks to v3.3 through v4.2 with no trouble — the over-the-network format is unchanged, so you don't have to update both ends at once. (Everyone still needs v3.3 or newer, where end-to-end encryption came in.)
Install
- Download
RemSound-v4.3.zipfrom this release. - Close RemSound.
- Extract the zip over your existing RemSound folder, overwriting program files when prompted. The zip is program files only — it won't touch your settings, profiles, logs or recordings.
- Run
RemSound.exe.
Upgrading
From v3.6 or newer: Help → Check for updates installs v4.3 with the in-app updater — and if it can't finish, it puts your old version back exactly as it was.
From v1.9–v3.5: Check for updates works, but uses your current version's older updater for this one hop. If auto-update has been failing on your machine, install by hand using the steps above.
v1.8 and earlier: the auto-updater in those versions can't install updates — install by hand using the steps above.