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v0.1.802-beta

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13 features🐛 17 fixes🔧 14 symbols

Summary

This bug fix release introduces significant improvements including experimental auto compaction for longer chats, preview of remote & LAN access, and enhanced hardware support with Intel XPU. It also resolves numerous bugs across MLX, AMD, and UI components.

Migration Steps

  1. Change generated admin password for LAN access.
  2. Update install.sh / install.ps1 to pin to unsloth>=2026.8.19.

✨ New Features

  • Auto Compaction (Experimental) for longer chats beyond context limits, allowing evicted turns to remain searchable.
  • Remote & LAN Access (Preview) for easy network access without Cloudflare links.
  • Improved streaming performance, reduced UI lag, and smoother long conversations for faster chat.
  • Support for custom llama.cpp builds with toggles for Cache RAM, Mmap, Mlock, Checkpoints, Speculative Decoding KV Cache, and Vision On/Off.
  • Release of Unsloth Dynamic v3.0 GGUFs for Qwen3.8-27B, delivering >10% higher top-1 accuracy.
  • Responses API now supports structured output formatting.
  • Added OpenCode V2 support for `unsloth start`.
  • Hub supports more image/video workflows.
  • Added prompt queueing and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Added `edit_file` tool for partial file modifications.
  • Projects to organize chats, files, and workspaces together.
  • Chats remember composer settings, system prompts, and model sampling options.
  • Intel XPU support added.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • MLX and Mac runtimes now run correctly.
  • AMD bug fixes for Strix Halo and all RDNA GPUs.
  • Fixed stale libappindicator3-dev guard blocking desktop releases.
  • Fixed UI wrapper script reporting a bare 143 error.
  • Fixed MLX PRNG in the KV quantization probe.
  • Fixed chart metric formatters truncating values of 1000 and up.
  • Fixed server chats visibility when legacy IndexedDB stalls.
  • Fixed a deadlocked test in Backend CI.
  • Fixed a menu dismissal deleting a chat message.
  • Fixed Tensor Parallelism switch on diffusion models.
  • Fixed imatrix exclusion from local models route.
  • Fixed fallback to legacy --swa-checkpoints spelling.
  • Fixed desktop ownership id read concurrency issue.
  • Fixed SDK major installs and probes.
  • Fixed GGUFs fitting carved-out Vulkan UMA.
  • Fixed attachment preview modal to open every type.
  • Fixed OpenDocument MIME constants import.

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