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

Model Category Update

Hii, just a quick update, I was going to add more stuff but there was an important bug that needed to be fixed asap.

New

• Added categories to models
• Specified model's languages
• Added warning when downloading embedding models

Fixes

• YouTube integration fixed
• Replaced low ram warning with big model warning

What's Changed (Other contributors)

• update bn and hi by @olumolu in #418
• docs: update README.md by @eltociear in #419

New Contributors

• @eltociear made their first contribution in #419

Full Changelog: 3.0.1...3.1.0

Hot Fixes

So it turns out there were a couple of things that didn't work as expected, oops.

Fixes

• Correctly escape markup before rendering message
• Fixed 'about' dialog not working if log file was missing

Full Changelog: 3.0.0...3.0.1

Thanks for the reports

The Big One

Hiii, happy holidays, I prepared a really nice update for you guys.

I opened a discussion for this version, please check it out to see the changes with screenshots and comment on the release!

This is the third big version of Alpaca (3.0.0) 🎉

And that means a lot of new stuff and fixes~

New

• Stable Snap release
• Experimental MacOS release
• System messages can now be sent directly from Alpaca
• New redesign for messages and smaller minimum size
• New models included in 'available models list'
• Added symbolic icon when attaching code files
• When exporting a chat it now includes a markdown file
• Refresh button in model manager when using a remote instance
• Assistant messages are now editable
• Updated Ollama to v0.5.2
• New option to change model directory
• File previewer now resizes dynamically to content
• Adapted Alpaca to work without integrated Ollama instance
• Compatibility added with ODT files

Fixes

• Restored ROCm compatibility
• Added long press gesture to chat rows so actions can be done in touchscreens
• Fixed edit button not saving changes
• Changed max temperature value to 2
• Made seed 0 actually random
• Fixed Gnome search provider not working outside of Flatpak installations

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Allow attaching more code filetypes, include symbolic symbol for "code" documents by @helpvisa in #386
• French update by @loulou64490 in #387
• update by @olumolu in #391
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #384
• Rename the Simplified Chinese locale code back to zh_CN by @8ar10der in #392
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #393
• Update fr.po by @loulou64490 in #402
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #400
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #404
• feat: pt-br updated by @antun3s in #415
• update bn.po hi.po only by @olumolu in #414
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #407

New Contributors

• @helpvisa made their first contribution in #386

Full Changelog: 2.9.0...3.0.0

Quick Ask Update

Hiii this update mainly added the option --ask MESSAGE

Try it out like this flatpak run com.jeffser.Alpaca --ask "What can you do?"

New

• New option --ask MESSAGE, to open a new 'Quick Ask' window
• Gnome Search integration now works whilst the app is opened
• New option to set default model

Full Changelog: 2.8.0...2.9.0