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Open WebUI v0.11.4

Article · Open WebUI

Open WebUI v0.11.4

Added 📉 Far smaller slim image. A slim build now comes down at around 175 MB, near enough 89% smaller than the last release, the local models, the packages around them and the tools that installed them all gone from it; what that changes about the way an instance behaves is set o

ComfyUI v0.37.0

Article · ComfyUI

ComfyUI v0.37.0

What's Changed Aimdo 0.5.5 + Auto-detect and enable --fast-disk when the disk is fast (CORE-440) by @rattus128 in

ComfyUI v0.36.0

Article · ComfyUI

ComfyUI v0.36.0

What's Changed Add new model blueprints and reorganize subgraph categories by @comfyui-wiki in

text-generation-webui v4.9

Article · text-generation-webui

text-generation-webui v4.9

Changes MTP speculative decoding support : Add draft-mtp as a new --spec-type option. Auto-enabled when loading MTP GGUFs (e.g. Qwen 3.6 MoE MTP builds). Web search improvements : Add snippet support to the web_search tool: results now include a short text excerpt that often answ

text-generation-webui v4.8

Article · text-generation-webui

text-generation-webui v4.8

Changes Redesigned chat composer : Taller input area with the paperclip and message-action buttons pinned t

Ollama v0.34.4

Article · Ollama

Ollama v0.34.4

What's Changed server: fix intermittent "model not found" errors. by @rick-github in

Ollama v0.34.3

Article · Ollama

Ollama v0.34.3

What's Changed GET /api/show now advertises each model's thinking controls and default: Available in the CLI with: ollama show gemma4

Ollama v0.34.3-rc1

Article · Ollama

Ollama v0.34.3-rc1

server: allow registry cross-host redirects among allowlisted hosts (…

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Article · llama.cpp

b11140

CUDA: enable sparse-fa for dsv4 prefill (again) (

b11139

Article · llama.cpp

b11139

server: fix token counting API crash on sleep ( #

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Article · llama.cpp

b11138

jinja : parse unary +/- before variables ( #29244

Open WebUI v0.11.3

Article · Open WebUI

Open WebUI v0.11.3

Added ♿ Accessibility mode reaches the menus. Accessibility mode now marks the menu entry you are pointing at and the model already chosen with a stronger background, across the dropdown menus, their submenus, and the model picker together with its filter and compare controls, so

Video · Techno Tim

Are Local Models Finally Good Enough?

I have been covering local and self-hosted AI for a few years now - from running models privately at home to what is still running in my homelab today. But to run the larger, more capable models, you need something more specialized than a general-purpose home server with a video

Video · Techno Tim

What Is an NPU Actually Good For?

What is an NPU actually useful for? Is it faster than a GPU, more efficient, or meant for a completely different kind of AI workload? I tested the Intel NPU in the MINISFORUM MS-03 using Frigate and OpenVINO, comparing the same workload across the CPU, GPU, and NPU. MINISFORUM se