Arvital Soft updates AudioRoute to v0.2.5

Arvital Soft has updated AudioRoute to v0.2.5.

Release Notes

Menu bar icon now Retina-quality (was noticeably softer than the SF Symbols alongside it on high-DPI displays).
Floating overlay gets a hover-revealed close button in the top-right corner — hidden while recording so it can’t be accidentally clicked mid-capture.

Plug-in editor now shows trial/license state directly in the DAW — previously the “Trial Expired” info only lived in the menu-bar tray, which could get hidden behind a full-screen DAW window.
Level meters freeze at 0 when unlicensed — unambiguous “not operational” signal without any modal.
Daemon-level license enforcement — single gate covers plug-in + virtual-device capture, no bypass path.
License-activation flow tightened — dialog dismisses reliably, no re-firing when the DAW triggers plug-in events.
Ableton-specific stability fixes on macOS 15.7 (LSUIElement + modal window-level interactions).
CPU efficiency — no more background spin loop between tray and plug-in when trial state changes.

MacOS 14.2 minimum floor lowered from 14.5 (the actual Core Audio process-tap API floor).
HAL driver sample-rate sync fix — Audacity capturing from AudioRoute device while Logic also had it open no longer produces artefacts.
Dynamic SHM channel count — proper mono/stereo interop when multiple clients join at different channel configs.
WAV-open failure surfaces real reason (permission, disk, etc.) instead of a generic message.
Windows WelcomeWindow use-after-free fix on Skip / Get-Started.

IPC version handshake — plug-in and tray/daemon now exchange versions on connect; you get a host-named dialog if the loaded plug-in doesn’t match the installed daemon (“Restart Cubase 15 to load the new AudioRoute version”).
Windows installer soft-blocks when a supported DAW is running — no more “why isn’t my update taking?” from file-locked DLLs.
Crashpad crash-reporting backend on Windows — proper minidumps, not the InProc single-thread stack Sentry was capturing before.
Defensive exception handling across daemon + tray + plug-in — no more silent crashes on unexpected paths.