Tool Rework

Hi everyone, I've been working on a rework of tools to bring a new way of interacting with your models!

New

• New feature: Chat templates
• New command line arguments
• New system for tools with manual selector
• Improved transcriber tool
• Added option to delete all chats
• Added option to export tables as spreadsheets
• Added option to export code scripts directly
• General redesign of UI

Fixes

• Fixed error when filtering models being pulled
• Fixed random crashes on startup caused by the model fetcher
• Fixed camera activity not working properly in Quick Ask
• Restore xlsx support
• Added socket support to httpx library

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Update tr.po by @YusaBecerikli in #1009

Full Changelog: 8.1.1...8.2.0

Removal of Xlsx

Hi everyone, due to errors with the Gnome 49 runtime I've decided to remove xlsx support temporally.

Fixes

• Removed Pandas and xlsx support to prevent error

Full Changelog: 8.1.0...8.1.1

Runtime Update

Hi everyone, today Gnome 49 got released into Flathub, I already had work done on porting Alpaca to this new version so I wanted it to be the first app to do the jump besides Gnome apps.

New

• Updated runtime to Gnome 49
• Added folder creation dialog
• Improved background remover activity
• Improved image viewer activity
• Updated Ollama model list
• New Gnome 49 shortcut dialog

Fixes

• Automatically scroll to top when dragging a chat or folder
• Set zoom on launch

Back-end

• Removed usage of Pixbuf for images since it is deprecated in Gnome 49
• Switched from using .ui to .blp for interface files
• New translation tooling

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• [l10n] Update kab.po translations by @BoFFire in #973
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #970
• Update it.po by @edo0 in #969
• add support for CompactifAI by @olumolu in #972
• Updating gnome49 branch by @Jeffser in #974
• Update branch by @Jeffser in #975
• Simplified Chinese: Update translation to 8.0.0 by @8ar10der in #976
• Update Indonesian by @nofalbriansah in #982
• Full update to Gnome49 by @Jeffser in #991

Full Changelog: 8.0.0...8.1.0

Folder and Activities Update

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

Background Remover Tool

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

Quick Fix

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

Fixes

• Fixed TTS being disabled internally

Full Changelog: 7.7.0...7.7.1

Instance Update

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

Metadata Update

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

Ran Out of Title Ideas

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

Thread Fixes

Fixes

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

Full Changelog: 7.5.3...7.5.4