LocalAI v1.18.0stable Released Jun 06, 2023
โš ๏ธ Breaking Change Impact Score: 7/10

LocalAI v1.18.0 โ€” Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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  • Breaking Changes ๐Ÿ›  * feat: Update gpt4all, support multiple implementations in runtime by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/472 ### Bug fixes :bug:
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LocalAI v1.18.0. Source highlight: feat: Update gpt4all, support multiple implementations in runtime

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๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

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โš ๏ธ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

  • Breaking Changes ๐Ÿ›  * feat: Update gpt4all, support multiple implementations in runtime by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/472 ### Bug fixes :bug:

โœจ New Features & Capabilities (6)

  • feat: Update gpt4all, support multiple implementations in runtime
  • ci: build Docker image variants
  • feat: add LangChainGo Huggingface backend
  • feat: Enable stablediffusion by default in container images
  • feat: add support for `Stream: true` to completionEndpoint
  • feat: Enable static builds for Linux binaries

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • fix: Bump and fix rwkv build
  • fix: display help with correct default values
  • fix: downgrade gpt4all
  • fix gpt4all, add metal GPU support
  • fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to 62b6c07
  • fix(deps): update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.9.7
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<!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at v1.18.0 --> ## What's Changed ### Breaking Changes ๐Ÿ›  * feat: Update gpt4all, support multiple implementations in runtime by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/472 ### Bug fixes :bug: * fix: Bump and fix rwkv build by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/475 * fix: display help with correct default values by @sebastien-prudhomme in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/481 * fix: downgrade gpt4all by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/503 ### Exciting New Features ๐ŸŽ‰ * ci: build Docker image variants by @sebastien-prudhomme in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/456 * feat: add LangChainGo Huggingface backend by @EvilFreelancer in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/446 * feat: Enable stablediffusion by default in container images by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/474 * feat: add support for `Stream: true` to completionEndpoint by @samm81 in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/465 * feat: Enable static builds for Linux binaries by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/487 * feat: add ffmpeg images by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/492 * fix gpt4all, add metal GPU support by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/507 * feat: support upscaled image generation with esrgan by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/509 * feat: add experimental support for falcon-7b by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/516 * feat: update llama.cpp to support k-quants by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/521 ### ๐Ÿ‘’ Dependencies * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/whisper.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/419 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-bert.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/418 * deps: update rwkv, switch back to upstream by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/494 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/whisper.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/520 ### Other Changes * examples: use gallery in chatbot-ui, add flowise by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/438 * examples: keep old example around by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/439 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-llama.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/443 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-ggml-transformers.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/442 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to 62b6c07 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/441 * :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/422 * fix(deps): update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.9.7 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/445 * fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 5f94020 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/435 * fix(deps): update github.com/donomii/go-rwkv.cpp digest to c43cdf5 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/453 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-ggml-transformers.cpp digest to 17b0655 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/454 * fix(deps): update github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go digest to ce6f747 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/450 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/whisper.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/462 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-llama.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/458 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to 10caf37 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/455 * fix(deps): update github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go digest to 3f7436e by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/466 * feat: Add new test cases for LoadConfigs by @Aisuko in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/447 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-bert.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/463 * fix(deps): update github.com/donomii/go-rwkv.cpp digest to 3b28b09 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/467 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/whisper.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/468 * fix(deps): update github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go digest to 5b9e59b by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/469 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-ggml-transformers.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/459 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/whisper.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/473 * fix(deps): update module github.com/urfave/cli/v2 to v2.25.5 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/399 * fix: fix the make run target by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/476 * fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 031d714 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/464 * fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to be9f6ad by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/477 * :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/479 * fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 23391d4 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/478 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-llama.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/482 * :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/483 * :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/488 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to 3f10005 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/485 * fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to bc624f5 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/486 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-ggml-transformers.cpp digest to 6fb862c by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/490 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-bert.cpp digest to 0548994 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/451 * fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to bbe195e by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/497 * fix: correctly assign ffmpeg image tag by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/499 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/bloomz.cpp digest to 1834e77 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/414 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-ggml-transformers.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/501 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to b1a4256 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/505 * fix(deps): update github.com/tmc/langchaingo digest to 4afed6d by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/508 * fix(deps): update module github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai to v1.10.0 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/510 * :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-llama.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/512 * fix(deps): update github.com/mudler/go-stable-diffusion digest to d89260f by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/506 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to cca84ed by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/513 * fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 266f13a by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/500 * fix(deps): update github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go digest to 57543c1 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/514 * fix(deps): update github.com/donomii/go-rwkv.cpp digest to 1e18b24 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/489 * :arrow_up: Update donomii/go-rwkv.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/511 * fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to 37ef81d by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/523 ## New Contributors * @EvilFreelancer made their first contribution in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/446 * @samm81 made their first contribution in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/465 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/compare/v1.17.1...v1.18.0