Fixes

• Fixed error on first run (welcome dialog)
• Fixed checker for Ollama instance (used on system packages)

Fixes

• Fixed 'clear chat' option
• Fixed welcome dialog causing the local instance to not launch
• Fixed support for AMD GPUs

New

• Model, message and chat systems have been rewritten
• New models are available
• Ollama updated to v0.3.9
• Added support for multiple chat generations simultaneously
• Added experimental AMD GPU support
• Added message loading spinner and new message indicator to chat tab
• Added animations
• Changed model manager / model selector appearance
• Changed message appearance
• Added markdown and code blocks to user messages
• Added loading dialog at launch so the app opens faster
• Added warning when device is on 'battery saver' mode
• Added inactivity timer to integrated instance

• The chat is now scrolled to the bottom when it's changed
• Better handling of focus on messages
• Better general performance on the app

New

• New duplicate chat option
• Changed model selector appearance
• Message entry is focused on launch and chat change
• Message is focused when it's being edited
• Added loading spinner when regenerating a message
• Added Ollama debugging to 'About Alpaca' dialog
• Changed YouTube transcription dialog appearance and behavior

Fixes

• CTRL+W and CTRL+Q stops local instance before closing the app
• Changed appearance of 'Open Model Manager' button on welcome screen
• Fixed message generation not working consistently
• Fixed message edition not working consistently

New

• Model manager opens faster
• Delete chat option in secondary menu
• New model selector popup
• Standard shortcuts
• Model manager is navigable with keyboard
• Changed sidebar collapsing behavior
• Focus indicators on messages
• Welcome screen
• Give message entry focus at launch
• Generally better code

Fixes

• Better width for dialogs
• Better compatibility with screen readers
• Fixed message regenerator
• Removed 'Featured models' from welcome dialog
• Added default buttons to dialogs
• Fixed import / export of chats
• Changed Python2 title to Python on code blocks
• Prevent regeneration of title when the user changed it to a custom title
• Show date on stopped messages
• Fix clear chat error

New

• Changed shortcuts to standards
• Moved 'Manage Models' button to primary menu
• Stable support for GGUF model files
• General optimizations

Fixes

• Better handling of enter key (important for Japanese input)
• Removed sponsor dialog
• Added sponsor link in about dialog
• Changed window and elements dimensions
• Selected model changes when entering model manager
• Better image tooltips
• GGUF Support

New

• Regenerate any response, even if they are incomplete
• Support for pulling models by name:tag
• Stable support for GGUF model files
• Restored sidebar toggle button

Fixes

• Reverted back to standard styles
• Fixed generated titles having "'S" for some reason
• Changed min width for model dropdown
• Changed message entry shadow
• The last model used is now restored when the user changes chat
• Better check for message finishing

New

• Added table rendering (Thanks Nokse)

Fixes

• Made support dialog more common
• Dialog title on tag chooser when downloading models didn't display properly
• Prevent chat generation from generating a title with multiple lines

New

• Bearer Token entry on connection error dialog
• Small appearance changes
• Compatibility with code blocks without explicit language
• Rare, optional and dismissible support dialog

Fixes

• Date format for Simplified Chinese translation
• Bug with unsupported localizations
• Min height being too large to be used on mobile
• Remote connection checker bug

Fixes

• Models with capital letters on their tag don't work
• Ollama fails to launch on some systems
• YouTube transcripts are not being saved in the right TMP directory

New

• Debug messages are now shown on the 'About Alpaca' dialog
• Updated Ollama to v0.3.0 (new models)

Fixes

• Models with '-' in their names didn't work properly, this is now fixed
• Better connection check for Ollama

Stable Release

The new icon was made by Tobias Bernard over the Gnome Gitlab, thanks for the great icon!

Features and fixes

• Updated Ollama instance to 0.2.8
• Better model selector
• Model manager redesign
• Better tag selector when pulling a model
• Model search
• Added support for bearer tokens on remote instances
• Preferences dialog redesign
• Added context menus to interact with a chat
• Redesigned primary and secondary menus
• YouTube integration: Paste the URL of a video with a transcript and it will be added to the prompt
• Website integration (Experimental): Extract the text from the body of a website by adding it's URL to the prompt
• Chat title generation
• Auto resizing of message entry
• Chat notifications
• Added indicator when an image is missing
• Auto rearrange the order of chats when a message is received
• Redesigned file preview dialog
• Credited new contributors
• Better stability and optimization
• Edit messages to change the context of a conversation
• Added disclaimers when pulling models
• Preview files before sending a message
• Better format for date and time on messages
• Error and debug logging on terminal
• Auto-hiding sidebar button
• Various UI tweaks

New Models

• Gemma2
• GLM4
• Codegeex4
• InternLM2
• Llama3-groq-tool-use
• Mathstral
• Mistral-nemo
• Firefunction-v2
• Nuextract

Translations

These are all the available translations on 1.0.0, thanks to all the contributors!

• Russian: Alex K
• Spanish: Jeffser
• Brazilian Portuguese: Daimar Stein
• French: Louis Chauvet-Villaret
• Norwegian: CounterFlow64
• Bengali: Aritra Saha
• Simplified Chinese: Yuehao Sui

Fix

Removed DOCX compatibility temporally due to error with python-lxml dependency

Big Update

• Added compatibility for PDF
• Added compatibility for DOCX
• Merged 'file attachment' menu into one button

Quick Fix

There were some errors when transitioning from the old version of chats to the new version. I apologize if this caused any corruption in your chat history. This should be the only time such a transition is needed.

Huge Update

• Added: Support for plain text files
• Added: New backend system for storing messages
• Added: Support for changing Ollama's overrides
• General Optimization

Big Update

• Added: Support for GGUF models (experimental)
• Added: Support for customization and creation of models
• Fixed: Icons don't appear on non Gnome systems
• Update Ollama to v0.1.39

Fix

• Fixed: app didn't open if models tweaks wasn't present in the config files

Big Update

• Changed multiple icons (paper airplane for the send button)
• Combined export / import chat buttons into a menu
• Added 'model tweaks' (temperature, seed, keep_alive)
• Fixed send / stop button
• Fixed app not checking if remote connection works when starting

Daily Update

• Added text ellipsis to chat name so it doesn't change the button width
• New shortcut for creating a chat (CTRL+N)
• New message entry design
• Fixed: Can't rename the same chat multiple times

The fix

• Fixed: Ollama instance keeps running on the background even when it is disabled
• Fixed: Can't pull models on the integrated instance

Quick tweaks

• Added progress bar to models that are being pulled
• Added size to tags when pulling a model
• General optimizations on the background

Quick fixes

• Fixed: Scroll when message is received
• Fixed: Content doesn't change when creating a new chat
• Added 'Featured Models' page on welcome dialog

Nice Update

• UI tweaks (Thanks Nokse22)
• General optimizations
• Metadata fixes

Quick fix

• Updated Spanish translation
• Added compatibility for PNG

New Update

• Updated model list
• Added image recognition to more models
• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (Thanks Daimaar Stein)
• Refined the general UI (Thanks Nokse22)
• Added 'delete message' feature
• Added metadata so that software distributors know that the app is compatible with mobile
• Changed 'send' shortcut to just the return/enter key (to add a new line use shift+return)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed: Minor spelling mistake
• Added 'mobile' as a supported form factor
• Fixed: 'Connection Error' dialog not working properly
• Fixed: App might freeze randomly on startup
• Changed 'chats' label on sidebar for 'Alpaca'

Cool Update

• Better design for chat window
• Better design for chat sidebar
• Fixed remote connections
• Fixed Ollama restarting in loop
• Other cool backend stuff

Huge Update

• Added Ollama as part of Alpaca, Ollama will run in a sandbox
• Added option to connect to remote instances (how it worked before)
• Added option to import and export chats
• Added option to run Alpaca with Ollama in the background
• Added preferences dialog
• Changed the welcome dialog

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

Yet Another Daily Update

• Added better UI for 'Manage Models' dialog
• Added better UI for the chat sidebar
• Replaced model description with a button to open Ollama's website for the model
• Added myself to the credits as the spanish translator
• Using XDG properly to get config folder
• Update for translations

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

Quick Fix

• The last update had some mistakes in the description of the update

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

Another Daily Update

• Added full Spanish translation
• Added support for background pulling of multiple models
• Added interrupt button
• Added basic shortcuts
• Better translation support
• User can now leave chat name empty when creating a new one, it will add a placeholder name
• Better scalling for different window sizes
• Fixed: Can't close app if first time setup fails

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

Really Big Update

• Added multiple chats support!
• Added Pango Markup support (bold, list, title, subtitle, monospace)
• Added autoscroll if the user is at the bottom of the chat
• Added support for multiple tags on a single model
• Added better model management dialog
• Added loading spinner when sending message
• Added notifications if app is not active and a model pull finishes
• Added new symbolic icon
• Added frame to message textview widget
• Fixed "code blocks shouldn't be editable"

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

Big Update

• Added code highlighting
• Added image recognition (llava model)
• Added multiline prompt
• Fixed some small bugs
• General optimization

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

Fixes and features

• Russian translation (thanks github/alexkdeveloper)
• Fixed: Cannot close app on first setup
• Fixed: Brand colors for Flathub
• Fixed: App description
• Fixed: Only show 'save changes dialog' when you actually change the url

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

0.2.2 Bug fixes

• Toast messages appearing behind dialogs
• Local model list not updating when changing servers
• Closing the setup dialog closes the whole app

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

0.2.1 Data saving fix

The app didn't save the config files and chat history to the right directory, this is now fixed

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

0.2.0

Big Update

New Features

• Restore chat after closing the app
• A button to clear the chat
• Fixed multiple bugs involving how messages are shown
• Added welcome dialog
• More stability

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.

0.1.2 Quick fixes

This release fixes some metadata needed to have a proper Flatpak application

0.1.1 Stable Release

This is the first public version of Alpaca

Features

• Talk to multiple models in the same conversation
• Pull and delete models from the app

Please report any errors to the issues page, thank you.