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Impact Score: 7/10
LocalAI v1.25.0 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Breaking Changes ๐ * feat: bump llama.cpp, add gguf support by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/943 ### Bug fixes :bug:
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v1.25.0. Source highlight: feat: bump llama.cpp, add gguf support
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โ ๏ธ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- Breaking Changes ๐ * feat: bump llama.cpp, add gguf support by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/943 ### Bug fixes :bug:
โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- feat: bump llama.cpp, add gguf support
- feat(Makefile): allow to restrict backend builds
- feat(diffusers): various enhancements
- feat: make initializer accept gRPC delay times
- feat(diffusers): add DPMSolverMultistepScheduler++, DPMSolverMultistepSchedulerSDE++, guidance_scale
- feat(diffusers): overcome prompt limit
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- fix: disable usage by default (still experimental)
- fix: drop racy code, refactor and group API schema
- fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 4e55940
- fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to 18f25c2
- fix(deps): update github.com/tmc/langchaingo digest to eb0cbd3
- fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to f03869d
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<!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at master -->
## What's Changed
### Breaking Changes ๐
* feat: bump llama.cpp, add gguf support by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/943
### Bug fixes :bug:
* fix: disable usage by default (still experimental) by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/929
* fix: drop racy code, refactor and group API schema by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/931
### Exciting New Features ๐
* feat(Makefile): allow to restrict backend builds by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/890
* feat(diffusers): various enhancements by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/895
* feat: make initializer accept gRPC delay times by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/900
* feat(diffusers): add DPMSolverMultistepScheduler++, DPMSolverMultistepSchedulerSDE++, guidance_scale by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/903
* feat(diffusers): overcome prompt limit by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/904
* feat(diffusers): add img2img and clip_skip, support more kernels schedulers by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/906
* Usage Features by @dave-gray101 in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/863
* feat(diffusers): be consistent with pipelines, support also depthimg2img by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/926
* feat: add --single-active-backend to allow only one backend active at the time by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/925
* feat: add llama-stable backend by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/932
* feat: allow to customize rwkv tokenizer by @dave-gray101 in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/937
* feat: backend monitor shutdown endpoint, process based by @dave-gray101 in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/938
* feat: Allow to load lora adapters for llama.cpp by @mudler in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/955
### ๐ Dependencies
* :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/878
* fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 4e55940 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/893
* fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to 18f25c2 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/894
* :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/899
* fix(deps): update github.com/tmc/langchaingo digest to eb0cbd3 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/902
* fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to f03869d by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/901
* fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to a630935 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/898
* fix(deps): update module github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3 to v3.23.7 - autoclosed by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/924
* fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 36f7fb5 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/908
* fix(deps): update github.com/tmc/langchaingo digest to fef0821 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/922
* :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/911
* fix(deps): update module github.com/google/uuid to v1.3.1 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/936
* fix(deps): update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.12.0 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/949
* fix(deps): update github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/gpt4all-bindings/golang digest to 27a8b02 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/947
* :arrow_up: Update nomic-ai/gpt4all by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/953
* :arrow_up: Update go-skynet/go-llama.cpp by @ci-robbot in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/954
* fix(deps): update github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp digest to bf63302 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/930
* fix(deps): update github.com/tmc/langchaingo digest to 1e2a401 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/948
* fix(deps): update module github.com/otiai10/openaigo to v1.6.0 by @renovate in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/960
### Other Changes
* infra: add setup-go@4, test against 1.20.x (go.mod) and stable (1.21) by @dave-gray101 in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/935
* Example: Continue (dev) by @gruberdev in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/940
* initial draft of an importable Insomnia profile for developers by @dave-gray101 in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/942
## New Contributors
* @gruberdev made their first contribution in https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pull/940
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/compare/v1.24.1...v1.25.0