Follow the evolution of HostFabric. Every release documents what's shipping today so streamers and teams can plan upgrades with confidence.
HostFabric reaches v1.0 with rock-solid real-time infrastructure, VPS-powered overlay streaming, bulletproof staleness filtering, and enterprise-grade reliability for live productions.
Current feature set
- VPS-powered SSE streaming delivers sub-100ms overlay updates with automatic fallback to polling when network conditions degrade.
- Staleness filtering at every layer prevents ghost events from previous sessions—no more surprise animations from yesterday's stream.
- Node.js v22 upgrade resolves Supabase Realtime compatibility, eliminating TIMED_OUT subscription errors.
- RLS policy hardening ensures seamless user profile creation during first login without blocking new streamers.
- Queue job lifecycle now fully protected with 4-hour staleness threshold and automatic cleanup of abandoned jobs.
- Content Security Policy updated to support VPS WebSocket connections while maintaining strict security posture.
Emergency stop + ROOM_PAUSED fencing, realtime ack/resume, voice deadlines, idempotency, token enforcement, and new observability endpoints harden HostFabric for launch.
Current feature set
- Emergency stop + ROOM_PAUSED operational state hard-fence output mid-stream without redeploys.
- Realtime overlay reliability adds application heartbeats, acked sequences, and resume-from-last-ack to avoid replays and silent drops.
- Voice pipeline now drops stale audio by default and skips backlog under high lag to prevent "time travel" speech.
- Deterministic playback IDs and idempotency keys prevent duplicate overlay/voice side effects under retries and reconnects.
- Agent loop guard adds origin tagging, cooldowns, and max-turn fencing to prevent runaway agent storms and spend.
- Security + ops add overlay token expiry/revocation enforcement, persistent rate limiting support (Upstash), plus metrics and per-stream flight recorder APIs.
Full Streamlabs Socket API integration brings real-time supporter recognition with AI-powered celebrations for donations, subscriptions, follows, and raids.
Current feature set
- Streamlabs integration connects via Socket API to instantly detect donations, subs, follows, and raids with personalized AI responses.
- Multi-tenant architecture ensures each streamer maintains an independent, persistent connection with automatic reconnection and rate limiting.
- Supporter events trigger animated reactions (celebrate, wow, applause) while awarding loyalty points based on contribution type and amount.
- VPS deployment keeps WebSocket connections alive 24/7, surviving serverless function timeouts and ensuring reliable event delivery.
- OpenAPI specification expanded with full Chat Integrations documentation covering Twitch, YouTube, and Streamlabs endpoints.
- Comprehensive setup guide, FAQ entries, and marketing updates help streamers get started with one-click Streamlabs setup.
Marketing copy refresh, smarter character customization paths, clearer pricing flows, and faster chat tooling for co-host teams.
Current feature set
- Marketing refresh aligns copy, galleries, and demos around the co-host story while cleaning up unused assets.
- Character Studio gains species-aware presets plus smarter color detection for more faithful previews.
- Pricing surfaces highlight the Character Studio launch, clarify tier language, and introduce mix-and-match co-host options.
- Chat command updates add shorthand triggers, richer help output, and better persona-driven responses.
- Workflow clean-up removes unused CSS, improves mobile layouts, and shifts end-to-end tests to a stable manual lane while CI work continues.
Creators can personalize co-host names while speech data access is tightened and groundwork for autonomous banter ships.
Current feature set
- Custom co-host display names update overlays, control panels, and marketing surfaces in real time.
- Speech-to-text records now respect owner-only visibility while backend automation maintains the access it needs.
- New banter endpoint, scheduler strategy, and room-state signals establish the foundation for ambient chatter when streams fall quiet.
- Autonomy settings resolve per room so collaborative productions can opt in on their own terms.
- Indexing and middleware refinements keep these experiences fast without exposing internal schema details.
Adaptive speech-to-text orchestration pairs with hardened security, audio intelligence, and performance instrumentation for enterprise reliability.
Current feature set
- Multi-provider STT orchestration automatically chooses the fastest, most accurate engine based on live performance.
- Confidence-aware retries, voice activity detection, and audio prep keep transcripts sharp even with noisy inputs.
- Health monitoring, predictive failover, and real-time analytics maintain sub-second turnaround at scale.
- Security stack standardizes encryption, validation, headers, and rate limiting across every sensitive route.
- User-facing safeguards deliver friendly errors, automatic recovery, and transparent status when issues arise.
Model refresh improves the performance-to-cost mix across optimization, insight, and debate tasks.
Current feature set
- Optimization and insight jobs now favor a lightweight GPT tier that delivers similar quality for less spend.
- Fallback strategies ensure the new model handles simple scenarios before escalating to premium tiers.
- Debate and analyzer flows share the same model hierarchy for predictable fact-checking and scoring.
- Text optimization routes were tuned to the faster model so responses feel more immediate.
- Documentation and admin tooling now reflect the updated model stack and decision logic.
Delivers a fully interactive Character Studio, create-before-you-commit marketing flow, and APIs for programmatic character management.
Current feature set
- Character Studio unlocks deep visual customization with live animation and speaking previews.
- Visitors can design co-hosts on the marketing site and carry those settings straight into onboarding.
- Read and write APIs let external tools synchronize appearance settings without manual steps.
- Documentation and developer tooling gained better navigation, examples, and stricter type validation.
- Real-time previews keep teams confident that on-stream visuals will match what they configure.
Machine learning-powered queue intelligence, collaboration tooling, and persistent voice customization land for advanced workflows.
Current feature set
- Voice overrides now persist with scoped permissions so creators can safely store custom voices.
- Predictive queue learning analyzes engagement to pre-cache responses, time interruptions, and recommend co-host switches.
- Collaboration mode lets multiple streamers share co-hosts with approval workflows and synchronized context.
- Security and access controls keep shared sessions isolated even as participants change.
- Performance tuning ensures the new learning systems and collaboration features stay responsive at scale.
User-facing controls for avatar speaking effects let teams balance flair with performance.
Current feature set
- Creators can decide whether floating reactions or shimmer effects appear during speech.
- Overlay rendering respects those preferences instantly without extra configuration steps.
- API endpoints make it easy to update preferences from control surfaces or automation.
- Performance optimizations reduce visual load when effects are disabled.
- Preference handling includes robust validation so settings stay reliable over time.
Analytics surfaces, UI polish, marketing pages, status visibility, and backend reliability all saw major upgrades.
Current feature set
- Analytics dashboards gained richer visualizations, fresher data, and better overlay integration.
- UI polish improved avatar management, navigation, voice input reliability, and responsive behavior across devices.
- Marketing pages now showcase interactive demos, clearer team assembly views, and stronger resources content.
- A public status experience reports uptime, incidents, and API health with clearer error responses.
- Backend persistence for overlays, agent preferences, and conversation flow became more resilient, backed by broader automated testing.
Invite-only community launch, advanced avatar customization, and deeper conversation flow controls headline this release.
Current feature set
- Dedicated Discord hub gives streamers a place to trade prompts, overlays, and production advice.
- Avatar custom colors introduce intuitive pickers, expanded themes, and live previews for every persona.
- Conversation flow presets adjust emotional tone, pacing, and collaboration dynamics per room.
- Speech and provider pipelines received reliability improvements for smoother lip sync and response formatting.
- Marketing and resources pages gained new submission tools, showcase layouts, and better design token management.
Voice responsiveness, analytics fidelity, Twitch authentication, and real-time stability all move forward in this release.
Current feature set
- Speech-to-text now times out faster, logs richer diagnostics, and offers a debug endpoint for support teams.
- Response formatting across voice pipelines was standardized so automation can rely on predictable JSON.
- Analytics dashboards picked up deeper metrics, improved visualizations, and real-time monitoring.
- Twitch OAuth flow was refactored for better reliability, credential handling, and user messaging.
- Voice override verification tooling validates stored assets, while realtime connections recover from network hiccups more gracefully.
- Repository cleanup and testing improvements keep maintenance overhead low.
Performance, analytics, voice accuracy, caching, and platform hardening reach production-ready levels.
Current feature set
- Speech-to-text accuracy improves with upgraded models, better audio quality, and context-aware transcription.
- Enterprise analytics implementation tracks journeys end to end while staying privacy compliant.
- TTS caching and parallel generation cut latency and cost, especially during multi-co-host moments.
- Voice console, OAuth integrations, and provider orchestration all received refinements for reliability.
- Input validation middleware, standardized provider patterns, and optimized response times prepare the platform for sustained production use.
Initial release standardizes the single-host overlay experience, stabilizes chat integrations, and locks in the production toolchain.
Current feature set
- Overlay layouts cover every major streaming setup with adaptive reflow so screen shares and chats stay tidy.
- Core co-host bench includes the major LLM providers with guardrails, fallbacks, and persona tuning.
- Voice system bundles high-quality TTS, push-to-talk controls, and live mic ducking for smooth handoffs.
- Twitch and YouTube chat integrations ship with rate limits, credential fallbacks, structured errors, and reconnection logic.
- Content moderation, per-room orchestration, and WebSocket overlay sync ensure every response lands in order.
- Developer workflow consolidates documentation, API key management, and npm-standard scripts for consistent deploys.
