# LocalAI v2.12.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v2.12.1
- **Released:** Apr 09, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v2.12.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v2.12.1. Source highlight: I'm happy to announce the v2.12.1 LocalAI release is out!

## New Features
- feat(aio): add intel profile
- Enhance autogptq backend to support VL models
- feat(assistant): Assistant and AssistantFiles api
- feat: Openvino runtime for transformer backend and streaming support for Openvino and CUDA
- feat(welcome): add simple welcome page
- feat(webui): add partials, show backends associated to models

## Improvements
- The build time of LocalAI was speed up significantly! thanks to @cryptk for the efforts in enhancing the build system
- @thiner worked hardly to get Vision support for AutoGPTQ
- ... and much more! see down below for a full list,  be sure to star LocalAI and give it a try!

## Bug Fixes
- fix: downgrade torch
- fix(aio): correctly detect intel systems
- fix(swagger): do not specify a host
- fix(tools): correctly render tools response in templates
- fix(grammar): respect JSONmode and grammar from user input
- fix(hermes-2-pro-mistral): add stopword for toolcall