Bump version: 0.4.3 → 0.4.4

.bumpversion.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.4.3
+current_version = 0.4.4
 commit = True
 tag = True
 tag_name = v{new_version}

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.4.4] - 2026-04-21
+
+Hotfix for a regression in 0.4.3 where generation and transcription could fail outright with "offline mode is enabled" even when the user was online.
+
+### Reliability
+
+- **Inference no longer fails with "offline mode is enabled" while online** ([#524](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/524), reverts the inference-path guards from [#503](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/pull/503)). 0.4.3 wrapped every inference body (`generate`, `transcribe`, `create_voice_clone_prompt`) with a process-wide `HF_HUB_OFFLINE` flip to stop lazy HuggingFace lookups from hanging when the network drops mid-inference ([#462](https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/issues/462)). That flag also blocks legitimate metadata calls (e.g. `HfApi().model_info` for revision resolution) so online users started seeing generation fail outright. Inference now runs with the process's default HF state. Load-time offline guards — which weren't the source of the regression — stay in place.
+
+**Known caveat**: users generating without an internet connection may see brief pauses during inference while HuggingFace metadata lookups time out (typically ~30s, after which the library recovers). A proper offline-mode toggle is planned for 0.4.5.
+
 ## [0.4.3] - 2026-04-20
 
 A patch focused on two user-impacting reliability fixes: macOS DMG notarization (unblocks `brew install voicebox` on macOS 15 Sequoia and fixes spurious "app isn't signed" Gatekeeper dialogs on older Intel Macs) and Kokoro Japanese voice initialization on fresh installs.
@@ -638,7 +648,8 @@ The first public release of Voicebox — an open-source voice synthesis studio p
 
 Tauri v2, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, FastAPI, Qwen3-TTS, Whisper, SQLite
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/compare/v0.4.3...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/compare/v0.4.4...HEAD
+[0.4.4]: https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/compare/v0.4.3...v0.4.4
 [0.4.3]: https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/compare/v0.4.2...v0.4.3
 [0.4.2]: https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/compare/v0.4.1...v0.4.2
 [0.4.1]: https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/compare/v0.4.0...v0.4.1

app/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@voicebox/app",
-  "version": "0.4.3",
+  "version": "0.4.4",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {

backend/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Backend package
 
-__version__ = "0.4.3"
+__version__ = "0.4.4"

landing/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@voicebox/landing",
-  "version": "0.4.3",
+  "version": "0.4.4",
   "description": "Landing page for voicebox.sh",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "next dev --turbo",

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "voicebox",
-  "version": "0.4.3",
+  "version": "0.4.4",
   "private": true,
   "workspaces": [
     "app",

tauri/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@voicebox/tauri",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.4.3",
+  "version": "0.4.4",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",

tauri/src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "voicebox"
-version = "0.4.3"
+version = "0.4.4"
 description = "A production-quality desktop app for Qwen3-TTS voice cloning and generation"
 authors = ["you"]
 license = ""

tauri/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://schema.tauri.app/config/2",
   "productName": "Voicebox",
-  "version": "0.4.3",
+  "version": "0.4.4",
   "identifier": "sh.voicebox.app",
   "build": {
     "beforeDevCommand": "bun run dev",

web/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@voicebox/web",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.4.3",
+  "version": "0.4.4",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",