# LocalAI v2.21.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v2.21.0
- **Released:** Sep 24, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v2.21.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v2.21.0. Source highlight: LocalAI v2.21 release is out!

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking Changes 🛠 * chore(exllama): drop exllama backend by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/3536 * chore(aio): rename gpt-4-vision-preview to gpt-4o by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/3597

## New Features
- feat: elevenlabs `sound-generation` api
- feat(vllm): add support for embeddings
- feat: add endpoint to list system informations
- feat: extract output with regexes from LLMs
- feat: allow setting trust_remote_code for sentencetransformers backend
- feat(api): allow to pass videos to backends

## Bug Fixes
- fix(p2p): correctly allow to pass extra args to llama.cpp
- fix(model-loading): keep track of open GRPC Clients
- fix(tts): check error before inspecting result
- fix(shutdown): do not shutdown immediately busy backends
- fix(parler-tts): fix install with sycl
- fix(ci): fixup checksum scanning pipeline