whisper.cpp: Releases and Overview
C/C++ port of OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition on ggml. Transcribes at practical speed even on CPU.
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At a Glance
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | ggml-org/whisper.cpp |
| License | MIT |
| Main language | C++ |
| GitHub stars | 53,721 (as of 2026-09-17) |
| Latest release | v1.9.4 (2026-09-11) |
| Install / docs | official documentation |
The project describes itself as: “Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++”
Release History
Compiled by Local Model Watch from the project’s GitHub releases. Pre-releases are omitted. Where we wrote an article about a release, it is linked in the last column; smaller releases are tracked here only.
| Version | Released | Release notes | Our article |
|---|---|---|---|
| v1.9.4 | 2026-09-11 | GitHub | — |
| b4938 | 2026-08-20 | GitHub | — |
| v1.9.2 | 2026-08-05 | GitHub | — |
| v1.9.1 | 2026-06-19 | GitHub | — |
| v1.9.0 | 2026-06-17 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.7 | 2026-06-16 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.6 | 2026-06-02 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.5 | 2026-05-29 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.4 | 2026-03-20 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.3 | 2026-01-15 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.2 | 2025-10-15 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.1 | 2025-10-12 | GitHub | — |
| v1.8.0 | 2025-10-01 | GitHub | — |
| v1.7.6 | 2025-06-25 | GitHub | — |
| v1.7.5 | 2025-04-02 | GitHub | — |
| b2365 | 2025-04-01 | GitHub | — |
| v1.7.4 | 2025-01-06 | GitHub | — |
| v1.7.3 | 2024-12-19 | GitHub | — |
| v1.7.2 | 2024-11-20 | GitHub | — |
| v1.7.1 | 2024-10-07 | GitHub | — |
| v1.7.0 | 2024-10-05 | GitHub | — |
| v1.6.2 | 2024-05-27 | GitHub | — |
| v1.6.1 | 2024-05-22 | GitHub | — |
| v1.6.0 | 2024-05-15 | GitHub | — |
| v1.5.5 | 2024-04-16 | GitHub | — |
| v1.5.4 | 2024-01-06 | GitHub | — |
| v1.5.3 | 2024-01-04 | GitHub | — |
| v1.5.2 | 2023-12-15 | GitHub | — |
| v1.5.1 | 2023-11-24 | GitHub | — |
| v1.5.0 | 2023-11-16 | GitHub | — |
| v1.4.0 | 2023-05-01 | GitHub | — |
| v1.3.0 | 2023-04-15 | GitHub | — |
| v1.2.1 | 2023-03-01 | GitHub | — |
| v1.2.0 | 2023-02-04 | GitHub | — |
| v1.1.1 | 2023-01-24 | GitHub | — |
| v1.0.4 | 2022-12-18 | GitHub | — |
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Last updated 2026-09-18 (JST). Facts above come from the GitHub API; the one-paragraph summary is written by the site’s editors.