The Big One

Hiii, happy holidays, I prepared a really nice update for you guys.

I opened a discussion for this version, please check it out to see the changes with screenshots and comment on the release!

This is the third big version of Alpaca (3.0.0) 🎉

And that means a lot of new stuff and fixes~

New

• Stable Snap release
• Experimental MacOS release
• System messages can now be sent directly from Alpaca
• New redesign for messages and smaller minimum size
• New models included in 'available models list'
• Added symbolic icon when attaching code files
• When exporting a chat it now includes a markdown file
• Refresh button in model manager when using a remote instance
• Assistant messages are now editable
• Updated Ollama to v0.5.2
• New option to change model directory
• File previewer now resizes dynamically to content
• Adapted Alpaca to work without integrated Ollama instance
• Compatibility added with ODT files

Fixes

• Restored ROCm compatibility
• Added long press gesture to chat rows so actions can be done in touchscreens
• Fixed edit button not saving changes
• Changed max temperature value to 2
• Made seed 0 actually random
• Fixed Gnome search provider not working outside of Flatpak installations

What's Changed (Other Contributors)

• Allow attaching more code filetypes, include symbolic symbol for "code" documents by @helpvisa in #386
• French update by @loulou64490 in #387
• update by @olumolu in #391
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #384
• Rename the Simplified Chinese locale code back to zh_CN by @8ar10der in #392
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #393
• Update fr.po by @loulou64490 in #402
• Update bn.po by @olumolu in #400
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #404
• feat: pt-br updated by @antun3s in #415
• update bn.po hi.po only by @olumolu in #414
• Update uk.po by @OriginalSimon in #407

New Contributors

• @helpvisa made their first contribution in #386

Full Changelog: 2.9.0...3.0.0