Two things in this stretch matter more than the version numbers. Capture now writes fragmented MP4, so a recorder that dies halfway through leaves you a playable file instead of a corrupt one. And the app finally installs the way people on each platform expect it to.

That is v1.10.0, August 24. Before it, v1.9.0 through v1.9.6 in under two weeks.

Exporting a 1080p60 project with full effects used to run at about 8 fps. The same project now exports at about 126 fps on the same laptop. The bottleneck was never the encoder, which is the part of this worth writing down.

v1.8.0 shipped that on August 4, alongside an optional AI editing layer that transcribes and edits entirely on your own machine.

Two releases in the first month, v1.6.0 on July 4 and v1.7.0 on July 19. The second one is the one worth writing about. Eight people who had never touched the project shipped most of it, and several of those changes fix things that had been broken since before the archive.

The last commit on siddharthvaddem/openscreen landed on June 6, 2026. It bumped the Nix package to v1.5.0. Then the repo went read-only, like the README had been warning it would for a while. 39k stars, and v1.5.0 as the final release.

I picked it up on June 15, with the original author's approval. Same name, same MIT license, new URL. This post starts a journal of what happens next.