# LocalAI v3.5.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** LocalAI (https://localai.io)
- **Version:** v3.5.1
- **Released:** Sep 17, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/localai/updates/v3.5.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v3.5.1. Source highlight: fix: make sure to turn down all processes on exit

## New Features
- feat(launcher): show welcome page
- feat: support HF_ENDPOINT env for the HuggingFace endpoint
- chore(model gallery): add nousresearch_hermes-4-14b
- chore(model gallery): add MiniCPM-V-4.5-8b-q4_K_M
- feat(whisper): Add diarization (tinydiarize)
- chore(model gallery): add baidu_ernie-4.5-21b-a3b-thinking

## Bug Fixes
- fix: make sure to turn down all processes on exit
- fix(p2p): automatically install llama-cpp for p2p workers
- Point to LocalAI-examples repo for llava
- fix: runtime capability detection for backends
- fix(chat): use proper finish_reason for tool/function calling
- fix(rocm): Rename tag suffix for hipblas whisper build to match backend config