Model Manager Tweaks

Hi everyone, I have a nice update for you guys today!

Note

The MacOS version might be missing some features due to Adwaita 1.7 not being available yet on Homebrew, once it becomes available the features will be restored.

New

• Updated runtime to Gnome 48
• Added back 'category pills' to model manager
• Better appearance for model manager sidebar
• New models

Fixes

• Fixed bad title generation with chain-of-thought models
• Hide page switcher in model manager if there's only one page (online instances)

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Update fr.po by @loulou64490 in #602
• Update and improve German translations by @mags0ft in #605
• Translations by @Jeffser in #609
• Fix wrong rendering of OpenThinker reasoning output by @mags0ft in #608
• Update by @Jeffser in #611
• Update (#620) by @Jeffser in #621
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #624

Full Changelog: 5.2.0...5.3.0

Bug Fixes and More

Note

Due to the error relating to CSS, the Snap package will no longer be supported until a solution is found, I suggest installing Alpaca using Flatpak since it's the main package format, thanks for your understanding.

New

• Option to delete all chats
• Button to refresh sample prompts

Fixes

• Fixed saving Ollama (Managed) instance might crash it
• Fixed stop button
• Fixed model search not working if there are only pulling models
• Fixed sample prompts sometimes not appearing

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Patch key error when using vision models (temporary hotfix) by @mags0ft in #593
• Update zh_CN.po by @8ar10der in #594
• Overhaul of sql_manager.py to improve long-term maintainability by @mags0ft in #590
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #598
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #599
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #600

Full Changelog: 5.1.0...5.2.0

5.1.0

Note

MacOS and Snap packages will be postponed until the next release

New

• Alpaca no longer includes Ollama by default

Fixes

• Don't clear the building output of C++ scripts
• Better handling of attachments
• Handle remote Ollama instance's API Key better
• Remove '\n' characters in instance edit page

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #574
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #573
• Add all missing German translation strings by @mags0ft in #577

Full Changelog: 5.0.5...5.1.0

Small Update

Hi everyone, just a small update

New

• Dynamic chat loading (only load messages from a chat once it's selected)
• Updated Ollama instance

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• update(l10n): Updated Telugu (te) Translation by @SpaciousCoder78 in #562
• i18n: Add Georgian translation by @EkaterinePapava in #568
• Minor refactoring and encapsulation of constants, add .gitignore by @mags0ft in #570

New Contributors

• @EkaterinePapava made their first contribution in #568

Full Changelog: 5.0.1...5.0.5

Model Manager Tweaks

Hi everyone I have a quick update that tweaks the model manager appearance!

New

• Tweaked appearance of models in model manager
• Updated Ollama instance to 0.5.11
• Added new models

Full Changelog: 5.0.0...5.0.1

Instance Manager

Hi everyone, Alpaca 5 is finally here!

Discussion

New

• Instance manager
• New welcome screen

New Instances

• OpenAI ChatGPT
• Google Gemini
• Together AI
• Venice

Fixes

• Fixed profile pictures not updating at launch
• Much better implementation of Gnome search

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Fix chat names for reasoning models by @issacdowling in #522
• Update it.po by @edo0 in #524
• Extend security policy to reflect where to disclose vulnerabilities by @mags0ft in #527
• Add missing comma causing bug (+ further specify translator) by @mags0ft in #529
• Fix bug causing code blocks to be rendered inconsistently by @mags0ft in #530
• Update contribution link for Flathub appearance by @mags0ft in #547
• Minor README improvements by @mags0ft in #546
• Use human-like counting starting from 1 instead of 0 for imported document pages by @mags0ft in #544
• Update Indonesian id.po by @nofalbriansah in #525
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #551
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #550
• added translations for tamil by @harimanish in #552
• name chages by @harimanish in #558
• Update it.po by @edo0 in #557
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #555
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #554

New Contributors

• @issacdowling made their first contribution in #522
• @nofalbriansah made their first contribution in #525
• @harimanish made their first contribution in #552

Full Changelog: 4.0.1...5.0.0

Quick Fixes

Hi, there were some bugs in the last version

• Fixed attachment filters
• Fixed 'Thought' attachment not exporting to MD

What's Changed (Other contributors)

• Add all missing German translation strings by @mags0ft in #516

Full Changelog: 4.0.0...4.0.1

Model Manager Update

Hi everyone, just rewrote the model manager, not a big deal hahaha

Discussion

New

• New Model Manager
• Changed GtkSpinner to AdwSpinner
• Better handling of launch process
• New loading screen at launch
• Better handling of file types
• Better regex expression for LaTeX equations
• Confirmation dialog if user closes Alpaca whilst a model is downloading
• Better handling of think tags in messages
• Default model is now in charge of generating titles
• Message header is now shown whilst the message is being generated
• Better handling of model profile pictures
• New models in 'available models'

What's Changed (Other contributors)

• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #504
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #505
• Update small just version chnaged by @olumolu in #506

Full Changelog: 3.5.0...4.0.0

Dev and Math Update

Hi everyone, This is the first update of the year, I hope you guys like it!

Discussion

New

• Added option for attaching screenshots
• Basic LaTeX math equations are now rendered in messages
• HTML and C++ scripts can now be run inside Alpaca
• Added option to open the environment directory from the terminal
• Added option to edit code blocks directly
• Complete keyboard shortcut list
• Images are now attached in 640p resolution
• Website attachments now use extracted titles
• Better chat title generation
• Added option to attach any plain text files
• Added spellchecker to message entry
• Alpaca's parameters are now stored using SQLite3
• Small appearance changes in text entries

Fixes

• Alpaca's launch process is more reliable
• Closing the terminal now kills the script subprocess

What's Changed (Other contributors)

• Update it.po by @edo0 in #437
• po/cs: Initial by @Kreyren in #443
• Update ja.po by @sh1d0re in #448
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #451
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #453
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #452
• Update ja.po by @sh1d0re in #455
• Update it.po by @edo0 in #459
• Quick update it.po by @edo0 in #463
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #460
• small Update bn.po by @olumolu in #462
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #461
• Update it.po by @edo0 in #469
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #467
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #466
• Update nl.po by @Henkster72 in #468
• small Update hi.po by @olumolu in #472
• small Update bn.po by @olumolu in #471

New Contributors

• @Kreyren made their first contribution in #443
• @sh1d0re made their first contribution in #448
• @Henkster72 made their first contribution in #468

Full Changelog: 3.2.0...3.5.0

New Year's Update

Hiii everyone, happy new years eve.

I made a nice final 2024 update!

New

• Transitioned chat storage backend from JSON to SQLite3
• Changed appearance of messages
• Added the option to add profile pictures to models

Fix

• Changed override HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES to ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• small Update bn.po by @olumolu in #426
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #425
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #424
• Update Simplified Chinese by @8ar10der in #431
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #430
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #429
• small patch by @olumolu in #434
• Update hi.po by @olumolu in #435
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #433

Full Changelog: 3.1.0...3.2.0