https://freedom.tech/project/localai/ Every LocalAI release and update tracked by Freedom.Tech. en Freedom.Tech is a Foundation project. https://foundation.xyz Freedom.Tech, a Foundation project (https://foundation.xyz) https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-20-localai-4-9-0/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-20-localai-4-9-0/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:59:49 GMT Authentication now deny-by-default, chat adds context compression, MiniMax-H3 video generation, and improved operator visibility across 146 pull requests https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-07-localai-4-8-2/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-07-localai-4-8-2/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:53:43 GMT LocalAI 4.8.2 adds NVIDIA NeMo-Speech.cpp backend for speech processing and improves model gallery resilience with mirror fallbacks https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-06-localai-4-8-1/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-06-localai-4-8-1/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:36:06 GMT LocalAI 4.8.1 fixes VRAM handling for malformed GGUF metadata, restores vllm-cpp backend ABI compatibility, and adds Qwen3.5 variants to model gallery https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-05-localai-4-8-0/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-08-05-localai-4-8-0/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:24:01 GMT LocalAI 4.8.0 ships vllm.cpp (C++20 inference engine), 3D generation, audio.cpp multi-family backend, VRAM budgets, and distributed mode hardening across 386 merged PRs https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-07-14-localai-4-7-1/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-07-14-localai-4-7-1/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:09:28 GMT Scopes llama.cpp serving options to the llama.cpp code path only https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-07-06-localai-4-6-2/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-07-06-localai-4-6-2/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:41:52 GMT Use slices.Contains to simplify code; Shard single-arch backend ma https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-07-04-localai-4-6-0/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-07-04-localai-4-6-0/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:20:05 GMT AMD ROCm backends now offload to GPU correctly, distributed worker failures no longer lock model loads, and realtime sessions warm pipelines eagerly to eliminate cold-start stalls https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-30-localai-4-5-6/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-30-localai-4-5-6/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:59:18 GMT LocalAI adds native voice and face detection backends, improves distributed state management across replicas, and fixes GGUF context sizing and gallery matching https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-27-localai-4-5-5/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-27-localai-4-5-5/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:42:04 GMT Fixed CI build failures across multiple backends, whisper macOS library loading, and added new gallery models https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-27-localai-4-5-4/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-27-localai-4-5-4/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:06:11 GMT LocalAI 4.5.4 fixes Darwin backend binary derivation from exec lines, resolving macOS model execution issues https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-26-localai-4-5-2/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-26-localai-4-5-2/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:20:35 GMT LocalAI 4.5.2 fixes the Opus backend to build and package correctly on macOS/Darwin https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-23-localai-4-5-0/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-23-localai-4-5-0/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:31:26 GMT LocalAI 4.5.0 adds depth perception, sound-event tagging, on-device multilingual TTS, PII filtering via NER, speaker-aware realtime conversations, and prefix caching for concurrent multi-user serving without configuration https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-11-localai-4-4-1/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-11-localai-4-4-1/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:33:15 GMT LocalAI 4.4.1 restores vLLM 0.22+ compatibility and adds streaming pipeline stages for realtime LLM, TTS, and transcription workflows https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-10-localai-4-4-0/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-06-10-localai-4-4-0/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:10:10 GMT LocalAI 4.4.0 adds multimodal capabilities: parakeet.cpp and CrispASR audio backends, video understanding, object detection, LTX-2 video generation, distributed prefix-cache routing, and security hardening https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-30-localai-4-3-6/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-30-localai-4-3-6/ Sat, 30 May 2026 21:23:53 GMT LocalAI 4.3.6 adds NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet ASR backend, hardens HTTP clients against redirects, and updates core dependencies https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-29-localai-4-3-5/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-29-localai-4-3-5/ Fri, 29 May 2026 23:18:59 GMT LocalAI 4.3.5 fixes tool-calling bugs with streaming and tokenizer templates, adds per-request reasoning effort control, and updates dependencies https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-28-localai-4-3-3/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-28-localai-4-3-3/ Thu, 28 May 2026 13:04:11 GMT LocalAI 4.3.3 updates core inference backends, fixes OpenAI API response compatibility, and optimizes UI bundle performance https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-25-localai-4-3-1/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-25-localai-4-3-1/ Mon, 25 May 2026 07:28:08 GMT Fixes build break in kokoros backend. Upgrade if that backend is in use https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-16-localai-4-2-5/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-16-localai-4-2-5/ Sat, 16 May 2026 16:44:56 GMT LocalAI 4.2.5 fixes Ollama model listing, TTS output handling, parameter parsing, and improves OpenAI API compliance with upstream dependency updates https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-13-localai-4-2-4/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-13-localai-4-2-4/ Wed, 13 May 2026 22:32:06 GMT LocalAI 4.2.4 fixes distributed node cleanup, proxy prefix handling, agent job persistence races, and OpenAI tool_choice parsing, plus adds Vulkan VRAM detection and Liquid Audio speech models https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-11-localai-4-2-0/ https://freedom.tech/posts/2026-05-11-localai-4-2-0/ Mon, 11 May 2026 12:48:17 GMT LocalAI 4.2.0 adds voice and face recognition, diarization, Ollama-compatible API, video generation, and eleven new backends for multimodal local AI workloads