v1.14

What's Changed

• Enable SDL2 live mic recording in chat build by @rshemet in #579
• fix gemma4 conversion and cli by @jakmro in #581
• Made non-thinking default for gemma4 & Introduce simultaneous multimodalitiy by @ParkiratS in #582
• gemma4 vision memory optimizations by @jakmro in #590
• added a prompt fix for better vision+audio prompt, removed code that … by @kar-m in #589
• added default confidence and wired that for vlm by @kar-m in #591
• Gemma4 fixes by @ParkiratS in #588
• Gemma4 tool calling and RoPE fixes by @ncylich in #594
• increased rolling window size for gemma4 by @kar-m in #593

Full Changelog: v1.13...v1.14

v1.13

What's Changed

• Improve model publishing error handling in workflow by @jakmro in #546
• Fix VLM prefill cache reuse image path slicing by @KayaanT in #545
• Add cache cleanup for Hugging Face models in export_and_publish_model by @jakmro in #547
• Add branch override option to publish workflow by @ncylich in #548
• Fix Gemma 3n conversion memory usage by @ncylich in #549
• Update blog URL in README.md by @amerkld in #544
• Parakeet streaming fix by @ParkiratS in #551
• Tool call prompt formatting by @jakmro in #558
• Feature Cleanup by @ParkiratS in #559
• Add Whisper v3 (large-v3) support by @ncylich in #557
• Add LFM2.5 VL 450M by @yujonglee in #567
• LFM2-VL-450M: fix garbled output (vision tower, template, kernel) by @ncylich in #565
• Change default transcribe model to parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 by @rshemet in #566
• Expose min_p and repetition_penalty in completion options by @DuFanYin in #560
• Graph save load by @cattermelon1234 in #556
• Pyannote features and optimizations by @jakmro in #571
• Karen/needle by @kar-m in #574
• fix apple i8mm detection to use runtime sysctl check by @DuFanYin in #562
• Fix streaming transcribe by @jakmro in #576

New Contributors

• @amerkld made their first contribution in #544
• @DuFanYin made their first contribution in #560

Full Changelog: v1.12...v1.13

v1.12

What's Changed

• Gemma 4
• Versioned docs with quickstart and SDK chooser by @rshemet in #522
• add CACTUS_CLOUD_API_BASE by @yujonglee in #521
• Model weights discoverability by @jakmro in #520
• fix: set telemetry framework to "rust" for Rust bindings by @rshemet in #519
• fix: prefer local libcactus over system-installed in test build by @rshemet in #516
• Engine updates: tool calling, compute_entropy, converter improvements by @ncylich in #517
• cactus_prefill by @mhayes853 in #512
• Missing torch ops by @cattermelon1234 in #518
• Docs fixes by @jakmro in #524
• docs: document custom vocabulary support for transcription by @ayushmk7 in #525
• Youtu by @jakmro in #530
• Clean up Hugging Face cache after model export by @jakmro in #533
• Added parakeet optimizations for apple by @ParkiratS in #534
• Cactus torch api clean by @cattermelon1234 in #529
• add CACTUS_CLOUD_HEADERS support by @yujonglee in #531
• Parakeet encoder optimization by @ParkiratS in #535
• Update docs site_url to docs.cactuscompute.com by @rshemet in #527
• Custom vocabulary support for Parakeet TDT by @rshemet in #532
• Fix VLM crash when adding multiple images in multi-turn conversation by @FarooqMulla in #539
• New LayerNorm Kernel by @nshejwalkar in #540
• Add pyannote/segmentation-3.0 speaker diarization (10ms, 976× realtime) by @rshemet in #538
• Tinyllama by @ParkiratS in #536

New Contributors

• @cattermelon1234 made their first contribution in #518
• @ayushmk7 made their first contribution in #525
• @FarooqMulla made their first contribution in #539

Full Changelog: v1.11...v1.12

v1.11

What's Changed

• Fix/issue#490 by @lennartvoelz in #491
• simplify and align sdks by @jakmro in #489
• remove models by @jakmro in #492
• Update model configurations and enhance workflow settings in publish_… by @jakmro in #495
• Update workflow to use macos-latest instead of macos-latest-xlarge by @jakmro in #496
• Add dynamic max_tokens estimation based on audio length in cactus_tra… by @jakmro in #499
• macOS: link clang_rt.osx to fix SME2 (_arm_tpidr2*) link failures under rustc by @yujonglee in #498
• Add FFI log control: cactus_log_set_level and cactus_log_set_callback by @yujonglee in #497
• Karen/qwen3p5 by @kar-m in #481
• CLI upgrades by @rshemet in #504
• feat(stt): custom vocabulary biasing for all speech models by @vyomshah05 in #451
• Add Gemma 3N (text-only) model support by @ncylich in #493
• fix: make FunctionGemma prompt formatting strict by @lennartvoelz in #502
• fix: apply logit bias before greedy sampling by @ncylich in #507
• remove redundant file linking for tie_word_embeddings by @jakmro in #506
• Port general engine improvements for TinyLlama by @ncylich in #513
• Speech-to-Text Timestamps by @jakmro in #515

New Contributors

• @lennartvoelz made their first contribution in #491

Full Changelog: v1.10...v1.11

v1.10

What's Changed

• Enhance model publishing workflow with detailed metadata and licenses by @jakmro in #459
• Added parakeet to publish to hf yaml by @ParkiratS in #464
• Update telemetry for supported platforms by @justinl66 in #465
• added back moe weight conversion by @kar-m in #468
• adjust manual workflow for model publish by @jakmro in #470
• Parakeet blog by @ammesatyajit in #467
• perf: add FP16 fast path for LayerNorm by @yujonglee in #433
• Issue #406: Bilinear + Depthwise Optimizations by @PiyawanChaiprasit2006 in #466
• ARM SME2: Accelerate MatMul FP16 by @aarav18 in #457
• build: add Objective-C ARC support for NPU sources by @jakmro in #475
• long transcription by @jakmro in #482
• Language detection by @ParkiratS in #471
• Parakeet tdt by @ParkiratS in #476
• kotlin: expose forceTools in CompletionOptions by @rshemet in #484
• Update model list in README and publish_to_hf.yml with new LiquidAI m… by @jakmro in #487
• test: updated rag test conditions by @nshejwalkar in #488
• optimize scale correction in cactus_attention_f16_h64 by @jakmro in #485
• fix greedy sampler ignoring logit suppression by @jakmro in #486

New Contributors

• @PiyawanChaiprasit2006 made their first contribution in #466
• @aarav18 made their first contribution in #457

Full Changelog: v1.9...v1.10

v1.9

Whats New

1. 50% faster int4
2. Parakeet models
3. LFM2-MOE models
4. BugFixes
5. Hybrid Inference

PRs

• fix stt test and add cpp ci by @yujonglee in #413
• add IRFFT by @yujonglee in #425
• fixed lfm2 vlm lmhead issue that came in with hf 5.0.0 by @kar-m in #426
• raspberry pi numebrs and linux fixes by @kar-m in #437
• Added parakeet model by @ParkiratS in #443
• Adding parakeet graph by @ParkiratS in #446
• Parakeet kernel by @ParkiratS in #445
• added cloud fallback and documentation+tests by @kar-m in #369
• Parakeet FFI by @ParkiratS in #447
• Parakeet convert and tests by @ParkiratS in #444
• Hybrid transcription blog post by @rshemet in #449
• Fixed missing engine changes by @ParkiratS in #453
• feat(python): add context manager support for safe resource cleanup by @yogyam in #412
• Completed ubuntu CICD pipeline by @ncylich in #455
• Tie-embed-conversion-fix by @ncylich in #454
• tiny graph fix and added benchmark by @kar-m in #456

Full Changelog: v1.8...v1.9

Breaking changes

Weights unfortunately need to be refreshed for this :(

v1.8

What's Changed

• Kernel optimisations by @HenryNdubuaku in #397
• Improve INT4 by @ncylich and @jrajala6 in #343
• add einops dependency to requirements by @jakmro in #371
• Add language parameter support for Whisper transcription by @rshemet in #384
• added moe support for lfm by @kar-m in #374
• Add raw FFI binding for Rust by @yujonglee in #382
• fix: handle spaces in paths when running shell commands by @adithya-n05 in #377
• fixing sentencepiece detection for transformers 5.0+ (still backwards compatible) by @ncylich in #373
• Improve Telemetry by @mhayes853 in #372
• proprietry commit by @HenryNdubuaku
• Update performance metrics for iPhone 13 Mini and Galaxy A56 by @jakmro in #386
• fix: improve version sorting and enhance model export tagging by @jakmro in #387
• Add Rust SDK and language parameter documentation by @rshemet in #389
• Basic addition of int4 functionality by @jrajala6 in #343
• add scalar log by @yujonglee in #390
• fix assertion and linux build in rust test by @yujonglee in #392
• Justin/api fixes by @justinl66 in #380
• Update telemetry by @justinl66 in #394
• docs: add compatibility guidelines for runtime and weights by @jakmro in #398
• add STFT_COMPLEX, derive stft_magnitude via graph composition by @yujonglee in #395

New Contributors

• @yujonglee made their first contribution in #382
• @adithya-n05 made their first contribution in #377

Full Changelog: v1.7...v1.8

Note:
This breaks the weights.

v1.7

What's Changed

• Brew setup @HenryNdubuaku
• Cactus auth @HenryNdubuaku
• Hybrid inference by the cactus team
• Karen/vlm fix by @kar-m in #311
• fixed moonshine state resetting and gemma3 4b layernorm loading by @kar-m in #317
• fix: LFM2 multiple tool calls by @mhayes853 in #316
• fix hf publish by @jakmro in #323
• update models list by @jakmro in #324
• Fixing pip command errors by @rshemet in #322
• Add instructions for installing Ruby version for xcodeproj gem by @jakmro in #327
• tests: remove duplicate vlm_multiturn test in runner by @AI-I224 in #332
• fix: replace NSLog with CACTUS_LOG for iOS NPU debuggability by @KayaanT in #328
• Kernel_attention optimization by @Ayan9074 in #319
• M4airbenchmarks by @Ayan9074 in #336
• docs: update cactus test command description for transcribe models (#297) by @AI-I224 in #339
• Accelerate FP16 matmul via cblas_sgemm for Apple AMX by @KayaanT in #340
• Fix hybrid attention sliding window for Gemma (#320) by @jrajala6 in #338
• bench: update README benchmark with M2 MacBook Air results by @vyomshah05 in #335
• docs: add iPad Pro (12.9") (6th Gen) benchmarks (#296) by @AI-I224 in #333
• removed unused graph i/o methods by @ncylich in #345
• feat: cpp-native telemetry by @justinl66 in #326
• Update CPP Telemetry to point to main DB by @justinl66 in #350
• update python bindings for stream transcribe by @jakmro in #351
• Update CPP Telemetry by @justinl66 in #352
• added only flag by @nshejwalkar in #347
• Added warmups and increased iterations for performance testing by @nshejwalkar in #355
• CMF Phone 2 Pro benchmarks by @jakmro in #356
• Vad by @jakmro in #353
• Cli reconvert by @jakmro in #357
• Asr cloud merging by @kar-m in #348
• Add optional cloud key prompt for transcribe by @rshemet in #359
• HF support multiple precision options by @jakmro in #361
• Add precision parameter to download_from_hf by @jakmro in #362
• revert silero download logic by @jakmro in #365
• Cactus clean now clears cache, Session metrics initialized properly for telemetry by @justinl66 in #363
• Curl prepack by @kar-m in #358
• Fix/f16 reduction accum by @vyomshah05 in #344
• Update telemetry by @justinl66 in #366
• Accelerate FP16 attention via cblas_sgemm for Apple AMX by @KayaanT in #346

New Contributors

• @AI-I224 made their first contribution in #332
• @jrajala6 made their first contribution in #338
• @vyomshah05 made their first contribution in #335
• @nshejwalkar made their first contribution in #347

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7

@mhayes853 API has breaking changes

v1.6

What's Changed

• Kernel Optimisations & advanced quantisation by @HenryNdubuaku
• Moonshine by @kar-m
• HF publish by @jakmro
• Streaming API by @jakmro
• Linux ARM support by @ncylich
• Stop generation on model end token by @Ayan9074
• i8MM runtime detection @mhayes853

FFI Note: This break API

v1.5

What's Changed

• Groupwise quantisation by @HenryNdubuaku
• Speech-To-Text streaming by @jakmro
• KV Quntisation by @HenryNdubuaku
• Evals by @justinl66 @ParkiratS
• INT4 support by @HenryNdubuaku
• Rust bindings by @mrsarac

Bindings: Please check Cactus FFIs again @jakmro @mrsarac @mhayes853