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.