* feat(mlx-distributed): add new MLX-distributed backend
Add new MLX distributed backend with support for both TCP and RDMA for
model sharding.
This implementation ties in the discovery implementation already in
place, and re-uses the same P2P mechanism for the TCP MLX-distributed
inferencing.
The Auto-parallel implementation is inspired by Exo's
ones (who have been added to acknowledgement for the great work!)
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* expose a CLI to facilitate backend starting
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* feat: make manual rank0 configurable via model configs
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* Add missing features from mlx backend
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* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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feat: add --data-path CLI flag for persistent data separation
- Add LOCALAI_DATA_PATH environment variable and --data-path CLI flag
- Default data path: /data (separate from configuration directory)
- Automatic migration on startup: moves agent_tasks.json, agent_jobs.json, collections/, and assets/ from old config dir to new data path
- Backward compatible: preserves old behavior if LOCALAI_DATA_PATH is not set
- Agent state and job directories now use DataPath with proper fallback chain
- Update documentation with new flag and docker-compose example
This separates mutable persistent data (collectiondb, agents, assets, skills) from configuration files, enabling better volume mounting and data persistence in containerized deployments.
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* docs: Update model compatibility documentation with missing backends
Added the following backends to README.md and compatibility-table.md:
- vllm-omni: Multimodal vLLM with vision and audio support
- nemo: NVIDIA NeMo framework for speech models
- outetts: OuteTTS with voice cloning capabilities
- faster-qwen3-tts: Faster Qwen3 TTS implementation
- qwen-asr: Qwen automatic speech recognition
- voxcpm: VoxCPM speech understanding model
- whisperx: Enhanced Whisper with word-level transcription
These backends exist in the codebase (backend/index.yaml) but were missing
from the documentation. This update ensures accurate reflection of currently
supported backends in LocalAI.
* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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* feat: add documentation for undocumented API endpoints
Creates comprehensive documentation for 8 previously undocumented endpoints:
- Voice Activity Detection (/v1/vad)
- Video Generation (/video)
- Sound Generation (/v1/sound-generation)
- Backend Monitor (/backend/monitor, /backend/shutdown)
- Token Metrics (/tokenMetrics)
- P2P endpoints (/api/p2p/* - 5 sub-endpoints)
- System Info (/system, /version)
Each documentation file includes HTTP method, request/response schemas,
curl examples, sample JSON responses, and error codes.
* docs: remove token-metrics endpoint documentation per review feedback
The token-metrics endpoint is not wired into the HTTP router and
should not be documented per reviewer request.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: move system-info documentation to reference section
Per review feedback, system-info endpoint docs are better suited
for the reference section rather than features.
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feat: add shell completion support for bash, zsh, and fish
- Add core/cli/completion.go with dynamic completion script generation
- Add core/cli/completion_test.go with unit tests
- Modify cmd/local-ai/main.go to support completion command
- Modify core/cli/cli.go to add Completion subcommand
- Add docs/content/features/shell-completion.md with installation instructions
The completion scripts are generated dynamically from the Kong CLI model,
so they automatically include all commands, subcommands, and flags.
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docs: add comprehensive API error reference documentation
Document all error response formats (OpenAI, Anthropic, Open Responses),
HTTP status codes, per-endpoint error scenarios, and client error handling
examples based on actual error handling code in the codebase.
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* feat: add standalone and agentic functionalities
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* expose agents via responses api
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* feat: Add LOCALAI_DISABLE_MCP environment variable to disable MCP support
- Added DisableMCP field to RunCMD struct in core/cli/run.go
- Added LOCALAI_DISABLE_MCP environment variable support
- Added DisableMCP field to ApplicationConfig struct
- Added DisableMCP AppOption function
- Updated MCP endpoint routing to check appConfig.DisableMCP
- When LOCALAI_DISABLE_MCP is set to true/1/yes, MCP endpoints are not registered
When set, all MCP functionality is disabled and appropriate error messages
are returned to users.
Use Cases:
- Security-conscious deployments where MCP is not needed
- Reducing attack surface
- Compliance requirements that prohibit certain protocol support
Environment variable: LOCALAI_DISABLE_MCP=true
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* docs: Add documentation for LOCALAI_DISABLE_MCP environment variable
- Add section explaining how to disable MCP support using environment variable
- Document use cases for disabling MCP
- Provide examples for CLI and Docker usage
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* Add support for multiple voice clones in Qwen TTS
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* Add voice prompt caching and generation logs to see generation time
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This addresses issue #8108 where the legacy nvidia driver configuration
causes container startup failures with newer NVIDIA Container Toolkit versions.
Changes:
- Update docker-compose example to show both CDI (recommended) and legacy
nvidia driver options
- Add troubleshooting section for 'Auto-detected mode as legacy' error
- Document the fix for nvidia-container-cli 'invalid expression' errors
The root cause is a Docker/NVIDIA Container Toolkit configuration issue,
not a LocalAI code bug. The error occurs during the container runtime's
prestart hook before LocalAI starts.
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* docs: add Podman installation documentation
- Add new podman.md with comprehensive installation and usage guide
- Cover installation on multiple platforms (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, macOS, Windows)
- Document GPU support (NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, Intel, Vulkan)
- Include rootless container configuration
- Document Docker Compose with podman-compose
- Add troubleshooting section for common issues
- Link to Podman documentation in installation index
- Update image references to use Docker Hub and link to docker docs
- Change YAML heredoc to EOF in compose.yaml example
- Add curly brackets to notice shortcode and fix link
Closes#8645
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* docs: merge Docker and Podman docs into unified Containers guide
Following the review comment, we have merged the Docker and Podman
documentation into a single 'Containers' page that covers both container
engines. The Docker and Podman pages now redirect to this unified guide.
Changes:
- Added new docs/content/installation/containers.md with combined Docker/Podman guide
- Updated docs/content/installation/docker.md to redirect to containers
- Updated docs/content/installation/podman.md to redirect to containers
- Updated docs/content/installation/_index.en.md to link to containers
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* docs: remove podman.md as docs are merged into containers.md
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* Fix watchdog running constantly and spamming logs
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* Update docs
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* docs: update diffusers multi-GPU documentation to mention tensor_parallel_size configuration
* chore: revert backend/python/diffusers/README.md to original content
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Fixes#8212 - Updated the note about reporting broken models to
reference the main LocalAI repository instead of the outdated
separate gallery repository reference.
* feat(musicgen): add ace-step and UI interface
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* Correctly handle model dir
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* Drop auto-download
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* Fixups
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* Add to models, fixup UIs icons
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* fixups
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* Update docs
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* l4t13 is incompatbile
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* avoid pinning version for cuda12
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* Drop l4t12
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* WIP response format implementation for audio transcriptions
(cherry picked from commit e271dd764bbc13846accf3beb8b6522153aa276f)
Signed-off-by: Andres Smith <andressmithdev@pm.me>
* Rework transcript response_format and add more formats
(cherry picked from commit 6a93a8f63e2ee5726bca2980b0c9cf4ef8b7aeb8)
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* Add test and replace go-openai package with official openai go client
(cherry picked from commit f25d1a04e46526429c89db4c739e1e65942ca893)
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* Fix faster-whisper backend and refactor transcription formatting to also work on CLI
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* feat(tts): add support for streaming mode
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* Send first audio, make sure it's 16
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* feat(realtime): Add audio conversations
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* chore(realtime): Vendor the updated API and modify for server side
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* feat(realtime): Update to the GA realtime API
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* chore: Document realtime API and add docs to AGENTS.md
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* feat: Filter reasoning from spoken output
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* fix(realtime): Send delta and done events for tool calls and audio transcripts
Ensure that content is sent in both deltas and done events for function call arguments and audio transcripts. This fixes compatibility with clients that rely on delta events for parsing.
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* fix(realtime): Improve tool call handling and error reporting
- Refactor Model interface to accept []types.ToolUnion and *types.ToolChoiceUnion
instead of JSON strings, eliminating unnecessary marshal/unmarshal cycles
- Fix Parameters field handling: support both map[string]any and JSON string formats
- Add PredictConfig() method to Model interface for accessing model configuration
- Add comprehensive debug logging for tool call parsing and function config
- Add missing return statement after prediction error (critical bug fix)
- Add warning logs for NoAction function argument parsing failures
- Improve error visibility throughout generateResponse function
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exllama2 development has stalled and only old architectures are
supported. exllamav3 is still in development, meanwhile cleaning up
exllama2 from the gallery.
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* feat(openresponses): support reasoning blocks
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* allow to disable reasoning, refactor common logic
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* Add option to only strip reasoning
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* Add configurations for custom reasoning tokens
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* chore(docs): Add Crush and VoxInput to the integrations
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* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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* feat: allow to set forcing backends eviction while requests are in flight
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* feat: try to make the request sit and retry if eviction couldn't be done
Otherwise calls that in order to pass would need to shutdown other
backends would just fail.
In this way instead we make the request sit and retry eviction until it
succeeds. The thresholds can be configured by the user.
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* add tests
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* expose settings to CLI
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* Update docs
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* feat(loader): refactor single active backend support to LRU
This changeset introduces LRU management of loaded backends. Users can
set now a maximum number of models to be loaded concurrently, and, when
setting LocalAI in single active backend mode we set LRU to 1 for
backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* chore: add tests
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* Update docs
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* Fixups
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* More appropriate place for data storing
The /usr/share subtree in Linux is used for data that generally are not
supposed to change. Conventional places for changeable data are usually
located under /var, so /var/lib seems to be a reasonable default here.
* Data paths consistency fix
* Directory name consistency fix
* feat(ui): add watchdog settings
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* Do not re-read env
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* Some refactor, move other settings to runtime (p2p)
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* Add API Keys handling
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* Allow to disable runtime settings
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* Documentation
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* Small fixups
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* show MCP toggle in index
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* Drop context default
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* feat(llama.cpp): expose env vars as options for consistency
This allows to configure everything in the YAML file of the model rather
than have global configurations
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* feat(llama.cpp): respect usetokenizertemplate and use llama.cpp templating system to process messages
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* WIP
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* Detect template exists if use tokenizer template is enabled
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* Better recognization of chat
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* Fixes to support tool calls while using templates from tokenizer
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* Fixups
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* Drop template guessing, fix passing tools to tokenizer
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* Extract grammar and other options from chat template, add schema struct
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* WIP
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* WIP
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* Automatically set use_jinja
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* Cleanups, identify by default gguf models for chat
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* Update docs
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Added download instructions for macOS DMG file and updated command for Linux and macOS.
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* fix: properly terminate kv_overrides array with empty key
The llama model loading function expects KV overrides to be terminated
with an empty key (key[0] == 0). Previously, the kv_overrides vector was
not being properly terminated, causing an assertion failure.
This commit ensures that after parsing all KV override strings, we add a
final terminating entry with an empty key to satisfy the C-style array
termination requirement. This fixes the assertion error and allows the
model to load correctly with custom KV overrides.
Fixes#6643
- Also included a reference to the usage of the `overrides` option in
the advanced-usage section.
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* doc: document the `overrides` option
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* feat(neutts): add backend
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* chore(ci): add images to CI
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* chore(gallery): add Neutts
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* Make it work with quantized versions
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* Fixups
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* Docs
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* Fixups
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* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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* Apply suggestion from @mudler
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* WIP - add endpoint
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* Rename
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* Wire the Completion API
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* Try to make it functional
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* Almost functional
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* Bump golang versions used in tests
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* Add description of the tool
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* Make it working
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* Small optimizations
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* Cleanup/refactor
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* Update docs
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The binary is now named "llama-cpp-rpc-server" for p2p workers.
We also decrease the default token rotation interval, in this way
peer discovery is much more responsive.
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* feat: split remaining backends and drop embedded backends
- Drop silero-vad, huggingface, and stores backend from embedded
binaries
- Refactor Makefile and Dockerfile to avoid building grpc backends
- Drop golang code that was used to embed backends
- Simplify building by using goreleaser
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* chore(gallery): be specific with llama-cpp backend templates
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* chore(docs): update
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* chore(ci): minor fixes
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* chore: drop all ffmpeg references
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* fix: run protogen-go
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* Always enable p2p mode
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* Update gorelease file
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* fix(stores): do not always load
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* Fix linting issues
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* Simplify
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* Mac OS fixup
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feat: reduce images size and stop bundling sources
Do not copy sources anymore, and reduce packages of the base images by
not using builder images.
If needed to rebuild, just build the container image from scratch by
following the docs. We will slowly try to migrate all backends to the
gallery to keep the core small.
This PR is a breaking change, it also sets the base folders to /models
and /backends instead of /build/models and /build/backends.
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