LocalAI v2.6.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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✨ Features 4 ⚡ Improvements 1 🔧 Bug Fixes 2

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

LocalAI v2.6.0. Source highlight: move BUILD_GRPC_FOR_BACKEND_LLAMA logic to makefile: errors in this section now immediately fail the build

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (4)

minor: replace shell pwd in Makefile with CURDIR for better windows compatibility
Makefile: allow to build without GRPC_BACKENDS
feat: 🐍 add mamba support
feat(extra-backends): Improvements, adding mamba example

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)

docs/examples: enhancements

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)

move BUILD_GRPC_FOR_BACKEND_LLAMA logic to makefile: errors in this section now immediately fail the build
prepend built binaries in PATH for BUILD_GRPC_FOR_BACKEND_LLAMA

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## What's Changed ### Bug fixes :bug: * move BUILD_GRPC_FOR_BACKEND_LLAMA logic to makefile: errors in this section now immediately fail the build by @dionysius in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1576 * prepend built binaries in PATH for BUILD_GRPC_FOR_BACKEND_LLAMA by @dionysius in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1593 ### Exciting New Features 🎉 * minor: replace shell pwd in Makefile with CURDIR for better windows compatibility by @dionysius in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1571 * Makefile: allow to build without GRPC_BACKENDS by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1607 * feat: 🐍 add mamba support by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1589 * feat(extra-backends): Improvements, adding mamba example by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1618 ### 👒 Dependencies * :arrow_up: Update docs version mudler/LocalAI by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1567 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1568 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1573 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1578 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1583 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1587 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1590 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1594 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1599 ### Other Changes * Moving the how tos to self hosted by @lunamidori5 in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1574 * docs: missing golang requirement for local build for debian by @dionysius in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1596 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1597 * docs/examples: enhancements by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1572 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1604 * Update README.md by @lunamidori5 in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1601 * docs: re-use original permalinks by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1610 * :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1612 * Expanded and interlinked Docker documentation by @jamesbraza in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1614 * Modernized LlamaIndex integration by @jamesbraza in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1613 ## New Contributors * @dionysius made their first contribution in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1571 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/compare/v2.5.1...v2.6.0

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