# LocalAI v2.8.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v2.8.1
- **Released:** Feb 15, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v2.8.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v2.8.1. Source highlight: This is a patch release, mostly containing minor patches and bugfixes from 2.8.0.

## New Features
- feat(tts): respect YAMLs config file, add sycl docs/examples
- ci: add cuda builds to release

## Bug Fixes
- fix(vall-e-x): Fix voice cloning
- fix: drop unused code
- fix(llama.cpp): disable infinite context shifting
- fix(llama.cpp): downgrade to a known working version
- fix(python): pin exllama2