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  1. docs(blog): cover the terminal agent, and fix the counts in the intro 

    The 4.8 post never mentions that `local-ai chat` stopped being a REPL
and became an agent (#11291): the nib harness compiled into the binary,
with tool use behind an approval gate, sub-agents, MCP servers, plugins
and skills, auto-configured against the local instance. It also ships a
shell integration script for zsh, bash and fish that binds Ctrl+Space.

That is one of the larger user-facing changes in the release and it was
missing from both the post and the release-notes highlights. Added a
section after 3D generation, including the breaking changes for anyone
who had habits around the old REPL: `/clear` is gone in favour of
`/compact`, and a model switch now keeps the conversation.

While in the intro, corrected the counts. The post said 374 pull
requests in twenty-one days, which was accurate when it was drafted on
the 4th but not once v4.8.0 was tagged on the 5th. The published release
notes say 386 in twenty-two days, and the intro now matches them rather
than contradicting them.

For the record, neither figure is exactly right: `git log --format=%s
v4.7.1..v4.8.0 | grep -cE '\(#[0-9]+\)$'` counts 388 squash-merged pull
requests, and 389 from v4.7.0. The notes were cut before the last few
landed. Matching the published notes was the priority here, since that
is the artifact everyone else quotes, and 386 is the number already in
circulation.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 [Claude Code]
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  2. docs(blog): cover 4.7 as well, since it never got a post 

    4.7 shipped on 14 July and never got a blog post or an announcement.
Everything in it has reached only the people who read release notes,
which is a release worth of work nobody has seen.

Added a section near the end covering it: managed voice cloning as a UI
workflow with reusable localai://voice-profiles/<id> URIs, the
longcat-video backend with audio-driven avatars and talking-head
continuation, streaming TTS in vibevoice-cpp taking time to first audio
from 39.96s to 2.38s, one-pass diarized transcription in
moss-transcribe-cpp, F5-TTS in the CrispASR build, interleaved thinking
that survives the tool-result loop, context_size: -1, and per-GPU
offload selection.

Retitled to "What landed in LocalAI 4.7 and 4.8" and said so in the
intro, since a post that silently covers two releases is worse than one
that admits it. The filename is unchanged, so the published URL still
resolves.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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