# LocalAI v3.12.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v3.12.0
- **Released:** Feb 20, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v3.12.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v3.12.0. Source highlight: 🎉 LocalAI 3.12.0 Release! 🚀

## New Features
- feat(stablediffusion-ggml): Improve legacy CPU support for stablediffusion-ggml backend
- feat(voxtral): add voxtral backend
- feat(diffusers): add experimental support for sd_embed-style prompt embedding
- chore: improve log levels verbosity
- feat(realtime): Allow sending text, image and audio conversation items"
- chore: compute capabilities once

## Improvements
- 🆕 **Cogito** - Go library for building intelligent, co-operative agentic software and LLM-powered workflows, focusing on improving results for small, open source language models that scales to any LLM. Powers LocalAGI and LocalAI MCP/Agentic capabilities
- chore(ui): improve navigation and buttons placement

## Bug Fixes
- security: validate URLs to prevent SSRF in content fetching endpoints
- fix(realtime): Use user provided voice and allow pipeline models to have no backend
- fix(realtime): Sampling and websocket locking
- fix(realtime): Send proper image data to backend
- fix: prevent excessive logging in capability detection
- fix(voxcpm): pin setuptools