Hi everyone, time for Alpaca 8 ✨

For more information and screenshots please checkout the announcement.

New

• Folders
• Activities

Available Activities

Some of these are features that already existed in Alpaca previous to the introduction of activities.

• Terminal
• SSH Terminal
• Code Editor
• Code Runner
• Attachment Creator
• Camera
• Audio Transcriber
• Web Browser
• Live Chat
• Background Remover
• Image Viewer

Fixes

• Fixed code renderer
• Fixed crashes (not 100% crash proof)
• Updated YouTube transcriber (Flatpak specific)

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• fix: stop/close crashes by @sbe-arg in #964
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #966
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #965
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #967
• [i18n] Add kabyle translaton by @BoFFire in #968

New Contributors

• @BoFFire made their first contribution in #968

Full Changelog: 7.7.5...8.0.0

Hi everyone I cooked a nice new tool and fixed some stuff!

New

• New tool: Image background remover with local processing #948
• Tool runner: You can now run tools directly without the AI

Fixes

• Fixed title generation sometimes not working
• Fixed chat not being selected at launch sometimes

Full Changelog: 7.7.1...7.7.5

I forgot to re enable TTS after some testing, oops.

Fixes

• Fixed TTS being disabled internally

Full Changelog: 7.7.0...7.7.1

New

• Added preference to change max image attachment size
• Added option to change context window in instances and model creator
• Changed behavior of instance preferences
• Added option to expose a managed Ollama instance
• Added 'Keep Alive' option to Ollama instance preferences

Fixes

• Reimplementation of DDG search tool
• Fixed model filtering

Thanks

Special thanks to @ihatemakinganaccount for their help.

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• fix: reimplements DDG search engine to avoid rate limit incidents by using DDGS with backend='lite' and fixes python crashes by @sbe-arg in #937
• Update id.po by @nofalbriansah in #942
• Fix title model selector by @ihatemakinganaccount in #946

New Contributors

• @sbe-arg made their first contribution in #937
• @ihatemakinganaccount made their first contribution in #946

Full Changelog: 7.6.0...7.7.0

New

• Update model list
• Changed design of tool attachments
• Tool usage optimization
• Added metadata attachments for Ollama instances
• Changed Image Attachment Container min width to 240
• Added option to use current model for title generation
• Added option to regenerate tool responses

Fixes

• Made DDG_Search library optional (AUR fix)
• Fixed attachments being rendered to the wrong messages

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Update all German translation strings by @mags0ft in #921
• Update Simplified Chinese Translation to 7.5.5 by @8ar10der in #919
• Add Belarusian language by @PlagaMedicum in #922
• Prevent sending empty messages by @li-lay in #926
• Update German translation by @firleaf in #930
• Add Azerbaijani translation by @0xthe13 in #925
• Add Zoom In/Out shortcuts and ensure Consistent Scaling by @li-lay in #931

New Contributors

• @PlagaMedicum made their first contribution in #922
• @li-lay made their first contribution in #926
• @firleaf made their first contribution in #930
• @0xthe13 made their first contribution in #925

Full Changelog: 7.5.5...7.6.0

Hopefully this is the last 7.5 bug fix update, I'm terribly sorry for all the instability.

Fixes

• Fixed message generation issues relating to threads
• Fixed message rendering issues relating to threads

Full Changelog: 7.5.4...7.5.5

Fixes

• Fixed message generation problems
• Fixed max tokens error with online instances

Full Changelog: 7.5.3...7.5.4

Keeping with the tradition of Alpaca being a mess, I give you the third bug fixes update!

New

• Added option to regenerate AI responses when editing a message

Fix

• Probably most likely I hope, fixed the message rendering issues

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Update id.po by @nofalbriansah in #902
• l10n: Updated Telugu (te) translation by @SpaciousCoder78 in #895

Full Changelog: 7.5.2...7.5.3

Fixes

• Fixed inconsistent rendering of messages being generated
• Fixed random crashes related to instance updater

Full Changelog: 7.5.1...7.5.2

Hi everyone, the hotfixes are ready!

New

• Save message edit with ctrl+enter

Fixes

• Fixed Live Chat and Quick Ask not working sometimes
• Fixed model creation and GGUF import

Full Changelog: 7.5.0...7.5.1