From 11f43ad8b096dead178251eb9f4d8e1d9d60d77f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ettore Di Giacinto Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 16:40:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs(readme): refresh News section for 4.0-4.3 and split Past sponsors Walk down the release history and add per-release one-liners for 4.3.0, 4.2.0, 4.1.0, and 4.0.0 in the Latest News section, leading with the headline win for each release. Move Prem into a collapsible "Past sponsors" block under the active sponsors row. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.7 [claude-code] --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9f405442a..2f4a2960d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -149,8 +149,10 @@ For more details, see the [Getting Started guide](https://localai.io/basics/gett ## Latest News -- **April 2026**: [Voice recognition](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9500), [Face recognition, identification & liveness detection](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9480), [Ollama API compatibility](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9284), [Video generation in stable-diffusion.ggml](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9420), [Backend versioning with auto-upgrade](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9315), [Pin models & load-on-demand toggle](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9309), [Universal model importer](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9466), new backends: [sglang](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9359), [ik-llama-cpp](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9326), [TurboQuant](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9355), [sam.cpp](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9288), [Kokoros](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9212), [qwen3tts.cpp](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9316), [tinygrad multimodal](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9364) -- **March 2026**: [Agent management](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8820), [New React UI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8772), [WebRTC](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8790), [MLX-distributed via P2P and RDMA](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8801), [MCP Apps, MCP Client-side](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8947) +- **May 2026**: **LocalAI 4.3.0** - `llama.cpp` [prompt cache on by default](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9925) (repeated system prompts collapse from minutes to seconds), [keyless cosign signing of backend OCI images](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9823), [per-API-key + per-user usage attribution](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9920), Distributed v3 with [per-request replica routing](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9968). [Release notes](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v4.3.0) +- **May 2026**: **LocalAI 4.2.0** - LocalAI sees and hears: [voice recognition](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9500), [face recognition + antispoofing liveness](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9480), speaker diarization. Plus [drop-in Ollama API](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9284), [video generation](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9420), redesigned UI with i18n + admin-configurable branding, vLLM at feature parity with llama.cpp, and 11 new backends. [Release notes](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v4.2.0) +- **April 2026**: **LocalAI 4.1.0** - LocalAI becomes a control tower: distributed cluster mode with VRAM-aware smart routing + autoscaling, multi-user platform with OIDC and API keys, per-user quotas with predictive analytics, in-UI fine-tuning with TRL (auto-export to GGUF), on-the-fly quantization backend, visual pipeline editor. [Release notes](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v4.1.0) +- **March 2026**: **LocalAI 4.0.0** - native agentic orchestration with the new [Agenthub](https://agenthub.localai.io) community hub, full React UI rewrite with Canvas mode, [MCP Apps + client-side](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8947) with tool streaming, [WebRTC realtime audio](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8790), [MLX-distributed](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8801). [Release notes](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v4.0.0) - **February 2026**: [Realtime API for audio-to-audio with tool calling](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/6245), [ACE-Step 1.5 support](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8396) - **January 2026**: **LocalAI 3.10.0** — Anthropic API support, Open Responses API, video & image generation (LTX-2), unified GPU backends, tool streaming, Moonshine, Pocket-TTS. [Release notes](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v3.10.0) - **December 2025**: [Dynamic Memory Resource reclaimer](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7583), [Automatic multi-GPU model fitting (llama.cpp)](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7584), [Vibevoice backend](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7494) @@ -236,11 +238,22 @@ A huge thank you to our generous sponsors who support this project covering CI e +

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+ ### Individual sponsors A special thanks to individual sponsors, a full list is on [GitHub](https://github.com/sponsors/mudler) and [buymeacoffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/mudler). Special shout out to [drikster80](https://github.com/drikster80) for being generous. Thank you everyone!