# LocalAI v1.21.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v1.21.0
- **Released:** Jul 16, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v1.21.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v1.21.0. Source highlight: fix: make first stream message to send empty content

## New Features
- feat: [whisper] Partial support for verbose_json format in transcribe endpoint
- feat: LocalAI functions
- feat: `gRPC`-based backends
- feat: falcon support (7b and 40b) with `ggllm.cpp`

## Bug Fixes
- fix: make first stream message to send empty content
- fix(deps): bump go-llama.cpp
- fix(deps): update module github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai to v1.13.0
- fix(deps): update module github.com/otiai10/openaigo to v1.5.2
- fix(deps): update github.com/tmc/langchaingo digest to a875e6b
- fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to ffa57fb