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// HOW THIS ISSUE IS MADE
We read every release from the 174 tools on our watchlist at the source — GitHub and GitLab release notes, vendor release pages and changelogs, project blogs and feeds, vendor press releases, and the source code behind the tag. Bug-fix-only releases and non-product newsroom noise are dropped; what's left is summarized down to the new capability, how to try it, and any screenshots or videos the release itself published. Every entry links to the sources it was built from.
Continue 1.13.0 adds a continuous AI Guide, image-paste instructions, and CLI tips for practitioners.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch @continuedev/[email protected] https://github.com/continuedev/continue.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout @continuedev/[email protected]
›Adds a continuous AI Guide to surface contextual AI assistance inline.
›Shows users how to paste images into the chat interface.
›Adds tips UI for the CLI to help users discover available actions.
$ git clone --branch v0.3.0-preview.3 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v0.3.0-preview.3
└──▷ TRY IT
Install, list, and remove a CLI extension without leaving the terminal.
›Adds LOCALAI_BACKENDS_SYSTEM_PATH environment variable (and equivalent command-line argument) to specify a read-only system backend directory, defaulting to /usr/share/localai/backends, enabling package-manager-friendly and system-wide installations.
›New mlx-audio backend (backend: mlx-audio) enables text-to-speech on macOS using MLX-powered Kokoro voice models.
›New mlx-vlm backend (backend: mlx-vlm) supports vision-language models (VLMs) on macOS via MLX.
›New mlx backend brings MLX-accelerated LLM inference to macOS.
›New WanPipeline pipeline type in the diffusers backend enables text-to-video and image-to-video generation with Wan2.1 and Wan2.2 models using config keys pipeline_type: WanPipeline, num_frames, and guidance_scale.
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›Diffusers backend now supports CPU and macOS MPS execution, removing the GPU requirement for image generation.
›Whisper backend rewritten in Purego with integrated Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for speech detection, improving efficiency and macOS compatibility.
›Stablediffusion backend converted to Purego, improving architecture and enabling macOS CI builds.
›Adds automatic P2P model synchronization across federated LocalAI instances for models installed via the gallery.
›WebUI gains a 'Get Config' button to download a model's YAML configuration file without installing the model.
›WebUI adds a manual model refresh button to reload on-disk YAML configurations without restarting.
›WebUI gains model import and edit screens for managing model configurations directly in the browser.
›WebUI now displays the list of currently installed backends.
›WebUI surfaces SSE streaming errors directly to the user for improved debugging visibility.
›New LocalAI Launcher app (Alpha) for Linux and macOS simplifies installation, startup, shutdown, updates, and WebUI access.
›Diffusers backend prioritizes ref_images over src for image source selection, enabling more robust image input handling.
Arize Phoenix client v1.17.0 adds methods to log document annotations.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch arize-phoenix-client-v1.17.0 https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout arize-phoenix-client-v1.17.0
›Adds new methods to the Phoenix client for logging document annotations.
Phoenix v11.31.0 adds methods to log document annotations for retrieval tracing.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch arize-phoenix-v11.31.0 https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout arize-phoenix-v11.31.0
›Adds new methods to log document annotations, enabling practitioners to attach structured annotations to retrieved documents within traces.
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