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localai-org-maint-bot 1e0baec2a7 fix(ci): repair nightly backend dep bumps for renamed localai-org repos (#11012)
The "Bump Backend dependencies" workflow has failed every night for over
ten days. Four upstreams — ced.cpp, moss-transcribe.cpp, voice-detect.cpp
and rf-detr.cpp — moved from the mudler org to localai-org, so the GitHub
API answers 301 for the old slugs. ced.cpp additionally renamed its
default branch to main.

bump_deps.sh fetched without -L or -f and never checked the response, so
the redirect's JSON body was passed straight to sed, which died with
"unterminated `s' command". The loud failure was luck: an error body
without slashes would have been substituted into the Makefile as the new
pin, silently corrupting the version and shipping it in a bump PR.

Point the matrix at the new slugs and branch, and harden the script so a
bad response can never reach sed: follow redirects, fail on HTTP errors,
and require a bare 40-hex SHA before rewriting anything. Also refresh the
now-stale repository URLs in the backend Makefiles, test scripts,
backend/index.yaml and the docs.

Verified all 25 matrix entries resolve to a commit SHA and that the four
previously-failing jobs run end to end against the real API.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <306269227+localai-org-maint-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-21 09:40:10 +02:00

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Release notes have been now moved completely over Github releases.

You can see the release notes here.

2026 Highlights

  • July 2026: LongCat video and avatar generation - dedicated CUDA backend for LongCat-Video text/image-to-video and LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5 speech-driven avatars. Includes multi-segment continuation, portrait and recorded-audio inputs in Studio, and an SDPA CUDA 13 ARM64 build for DGX Spark.
  • April 2026: Audio Transform - generic audio-in / audio-out endpoint with optional reference signal. First implementation: LocalVQE C++ backend (joint AEC + noise suppression + dereverberation, DeepVQE-style). Both batch (POST /audio/transformations) and bidirectional WebSocket streaming (/audio/transformations/stream). Studio "Transform" tab with synchronized waveform players for input / reference / output.
  • April 2026: Face recognition backend - insightface-powered 1:1 verification, 1:N identification, face embedding, face detection, and demographic analysis. Ships both a non-commercial buffalo_l model and an Apache 2.0 OpenCV Zoo alternative.
  • May 2026: Speaker diarization - new /v1/audio/diarization endpoint returning "who spoke when" segments. Backed by sherpa-onnx (pyannote-3.0 + speaker embeddings + clustering) for pure diarization, and vibevoice-cpp for diarization bundled with long-form ASR. Supports json / verbose_json / rttm response formats.
  • June 2026: Sound classification - new /v1/audio/classification endpoint for audio tagging / sound-event classification, returning scored AudioSet labels (baby cry, glass breaking, alarms, ...). Backed by ced.cpp, a 527-class AudioSet tagger ported to ggml.
  • June 2026: PII analyze / redact API - the PII detection pipeline (NER + restricted-regex pattern tiers) is now a standalone service: POST /api/pii/analyze returns detected entity spans and POST /api/pii/redact returns the sanitised text (or 400 pii_blocked), without routing a chat request through the middleware. Events gain an origin (middleware / proxy / pii_analyze / pii_redact) so /api/pii/events can be filtered by source.
  • July 2026: Model capabilities endpoint - GET /v1/models/capabilities, an additive superset of /v1/models that reports each model's capabilities plus its input_modalities / output_modalities (text / image / audio / video). Lets clients route attachments using inferred or explicitly declared model modalities instead of backend-name checks.
  • June 2026: Concurrent scoring and PII NER on llama.cpp - the Score (router classifier) and TokenClassify (PII NER) primitives now ride llama.cpp's server task queue instead of locking the context, so they run concurrently with chat/completion/embedding traffic and with each other. The known_usecases restriction that forced dedicated scorer/NER model configs on llama-cpp is lifted, repeated scoring calls reuse the prompt KV cache across candidates, and scoring inputs are no longer capped by the physical batch size.

2024 Highlights