The post was written against the first draft of the release notes, when the
cycle stood at 214 PRs over thirteen days. It closed at 321 PRs over eighteen
days, and three of the larger user-facing changes landed after it was written.
- Correct the counts throughout: 321 PRs, eighteen days, 24 contributors
(11 first-time), gallery 1,221 to 1,505.
- Add sections for the three new capabilities: 3D generation as a modality
(Generate3D, FLAG_3D, /v1/3d/generations, trellis2cpp), audio.cpp serving
six audio endpoints from one process, and the operations bar becoming the
Activity page.
- Cover the two further hardening fixes (tar hardlink escape, cyclic $ref
stack overflow) alongside the TRL one.
- Note the Valkey store, systemd socket activation, persistent trace history,
in-place chat edits, the self-contained SYCL backend and the site split.
- Group the new-engine sections together rather than splitting them across
the operational ones.
Embeds the existing vllm-race and magpie clips, and adds a 3D generation clip
cut from the demo recording to the conventions in .agents/preparing-a-release.md
(no audio track, 14s, named for the feature). blog.css styled figure img but
not figure video, so a clip in a post rendered outside the card; both selectors
now share the rule.
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The timeline set six 15rem columns in a flex row with overflow-x:auto, which
needs 90rem and so scrolled sideways on any normal laptop. It is a wrapping
grid now, and the rule that carries the dots moves from the container onto
each item so a wrapped row still gets a line above it. Column gap is zero and
the items carry their own right padding, so the rule stays continuous.
Integrations move from a card grid to a reel. Any single integration is a weak
signal and the whole moving line is the strong one, so the count is doing the
argument. It pauses on hover and on keyboard focus, since the names are links.
The list grows from 8 to 26: Open WebUI, Dify, LibreChat, RAGFlow, Continue,
big-AGI, Nextcloud, Frigate, promptfoo, Mods, TypingMind, baibot, k8sgpt-
operator and others. Each was admitted only after opening that project's own
repository or docs and reading the line that names LocalAI. The ones that
failed that test are listed in the data file so nobody re-adds them.
The blog cards were hand-written, which is how one of them came to advertise
"Porting vLLM to C++", a post that does not exist, and how all three linked to
the blog index instead of an article. They range over the posts now.
The section intro used the "a changelog tells you what moved, these posts show
you what it does" shape, which is the standard machine-written antithesis. It
states what the posts contain instead, including the perplexity regression
that APEX costs, because publishing the price is the actual claim.
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The band led with three sentences of hedging and printed a commit count
next to each employer, so a one-commit entry beside a large name read as
weakness rather than as the modest, true claim it was. It now opens on the
contributor count, sets the employers as a sentence instead of a pill wall,
and keeps the caveat to one line. The counts stay in ecosystem.yaml, since
they are the provenance for the list and anyone re-checking it needs them.
Two "coverage" cards were not about this project. The modelslab.com piece
reviews Frikallo/parakeet.cpp, an unrelated project of the same name, and
the snailtext.app benchmark measures Parakeet through ONNX Runtime without
mentioning LocalAI at all. Both are removed, along with the contributor
card that duplicated the band's opening line.
Press was four posts from one vendor, which read as the whole of the
coverage rather than one enthusiastic outlet. SUSE collapses to a single
series entry, and Pulumi, Semaphore and Spectro Cloud join it. Each was
opened and checked against the project before being added. K8sGPT and
LlamaIndex join the integrations; both document LocalAI as a backend.
The quotes move above the lists so the section opens on its strongest
line, which is somebody else's. The hero gains a GitHub call to action,
the APEX collection link was returning 404 and is corrected, and the
footer no longer describes the site as a design mock.
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Adds the "who turns up around this project" section, split into three lists
because the evidence behind each one is a different strength and collapsing
them into a single logo wall would overclaim.
Contributors 21 companies whose engineers have commits here. Evidence is
the commit history plus the employer on that person's public
GitHub profile, so it is a claim about the person. Commit
counts are shown next to each name, including the ones that
are a single patch, because hiding that would be the whole
problem.
Integrations six projects that reference LocalAI in their own repository
or documentation, which anyone can verify without asking us.
Press four SUSE Communities articles about running LocalAI.
Names are set in type rather than fetched as logos. A logo reads as
endorsement, and a one-line typo fix from somebody who happens to work at a
large company does not support that, quite apart from what their trademark
policy says about it.
ADOPTERS.md is the mechanism for the stronger claim. An organisation that
wants to be listed as a user opens a pull request adding itself, which is both
the evidence and the permission, and is publicly auditable afterwards. The
file says plainly what the website does and does not claim, so the next person
to ask "can we add some big names" has the answer in the repository.
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* feat(website): split the site, move docs to /docs, add a landing page
The Hugo docs site has always been localai.io itself, which left nowhere to
explain what LocalAI is or show what the team builds. This adds a separate
marketing site at the root and moves the documentation under /docs/.
Docs:
The existing site keeps its content tree and its Relearn theme, and now
builds with baseURL <root>/docs/. Its _index.md, which held a hand written
landing page, becomes a real documentation home.
Every previously published URL keeps working. GitHub Pages has no server
side rewrites, so .github/ci/gen-redirects.sh walks the built docs output
and leaves a meta refresh plus a canonical link at each old root path. It
covers bare .html files too, which is what keeps /gallery.html alive, and
it never overwrites a path the marketing site already owns.
Website:
A second Hugo site under website/ with its own layouts and no external
theme, so the marketing side does not have to fight Relearn's home rooted
menu and asset pipeline. CI builds both and merges them into one Pages
artifact.
The design is derived from the project logo rather than invented: the navy
of the triangle, the cyan of the llama, the purple of the speed bars. Those
offset bars became the motion signature. The background renders a real
depth-anything.cpp depth map as contour lines and switches to a
locate-anything.cpp style detection overlay over the engines section.
Also included: an /engines/ index driven entirely by data/engines.yaml, a
/blog/ section with five posts written from the release notes and the
engine benchmark suites, install.sh and a Kubernetes manifest since the
site advertises both, and a rule in .agents/ that release preparation now
includes a blog post and demo clips.
Every figure on the site is derived from the repository or the GitHub API,
not from memory. Correcting them against their sources found one error in
README.md: voxtral-tts.c is text to speech, not speech to text.
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* feat(website): add a star history chart, rewrite the history post in first person
The history post read like a changelog written by a committee. It is now in
Ettore's voice, first person, with the admissions left in.
The numbers paragraph in particular read like a directory listing. It now says
what the figures mean rather than which file they came from.
Adds an interactive star history chart, built from the GitHub stargazers API
rather than embedded from a third party, so the page makes no external request
and cannot break when someone else's service is down. The four releases the
post is organised around are marked on the curve, and the labels stack into
rows because three of them land within two months of each other.
The API stops paginating at 40,000 items, so the curve is measured up to
December 2025 and the segment from there to today's total is drawn dashed,
labelled as an estimate in the caption and in the tooltip. It is a straight
line between two known points, and the chart says so rather than implying it
is data.
Also drops "marketing site" from the README heading and everywhere else it
appeared, and calls it the main site instead.
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