# LocalAI v2.17.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v2.17.0
- **Released:** Jun 17, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v2.17.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v2.17.0. Source highlight: Ahoj! this new release of LocalAI comes with tons of updates, and enhancements behind the scenes!

## New Features
- feat(images): do not install python deps in the core image
- feat(hipblas): extend default hipblas GPU_TARGETS
- feat(build): add arm64 core containers
- feat(functions): allow parallel calls with mixed/no grammars
- feat(image): support `response_type` in the OpenAI API request
- feat(swagger): update swagger

## Improvements
- Enhancements to mixed grammar support
- Major improvements to transformers
- Temperature = 0 correctly handled as greedy search
- Handles custom words as stop words
- Phi 3 no more requires `trust_remote_code: true` flag

## Bug Fixes
- fix: gpu fetch device info
- fix(watcher): do not emit fatal errors
- fix: install pytorch from proper index for hipblas builds
- fix: pin version of setuptools for intel builds to work around #2406
- bugfix: CUDA acceleration not working
- fix: `pkg/downloader` should respect basePath for `file://` urls