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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

• April 2024: Reranker API
• May 2024: Distributed inferencing, Decentralized P2P llama.cpp - Docs
• July/August 2024: P2P Dashboard, Federated mode and AI Swarms, P2P Global community pools, FLUX-1 support, P2P Explorer
• October 2024: Examples moved to LocalAI-examples
• November 2024: Voice Activity Detection (VAD), Bark.cpp backend
• December 2024: stablediffusion.cpp backend (ggml)