# LocalAI v3.0.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v3.0.0
- **Released:** Jun 19, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v3.0.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v3.0.0. Source highlight: 🚀 LocalAI 3.0 – A New Era Begins

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- ⚠️ Important: Breaking Changes From this release we will stop pushing `-extra` images containing python backends. You can now use standard images, and you will have only to pick the ones that are suited for your GPU. Additional backends can be installed via the backend gallery.
- Breaking Changes 🛠 * feat: Add backend gallery by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/5607 * chore(backends): move `bark-cpp` to the backend gallery by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/5682

## New Features
- Install & remove backends at runtime or startup via API or directly from the WebUI
- Use custom galleries, just like you do for models
- Enjoy zero-config access to the default LocalAI gallery
- feat: Add backend gallery
- feat(llama.cpp): upgrade and use libmtmd
- feat(ui): add error page to display errors

## Improvements
- Enhanced multimodal support via libmtmd
- Improve Comments and Documentation for MixedMode and ParseJSON Functions
- chore: improve tests

## Bug Fixes
- 🐞 Bug Fixes: Streamed runes, template stability, better backend gallery UX.
- Rune streaming is now buttery smooth
- Countless fixes across templates, inputs, CI, and realtime session updates
- Backend gallery UI is more stable and informative
- fix(ci): tag latest against cpu-only image
- fix(flux): Set CFG=1 so that prompts are followed