Faraday.dev is now Backyard AI
Changelog
Latest Updates & Improvements to Backyard AI
0.25.20
Jul 25, 2024
beta
- Hofix
- Fixed "Your system is missing the requisite DLL(s)." error
0.25.18 - 0.25.19 Internal
0.25.17
Jul 25, 2024
beta
- Hofix
- Disabled experimental bins on MacOS that were preventing app startup
0.25.1 - 0.25.16 Internal
0.25.0
Jul 24, 2024
stable
- Homepage Folders & Custom Sorting
- Create folders on the homepage
- Sort characters via drag & drop
- Mobile App & Mobile Web Updates
- Improved mobile chat page UI
- UI updates to better match desktop app
- General performance improvements for mobile
- Better hub navigation
- Search improvements on mobile
- Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed issue with cursor jumping to the end of text inputs
- Added Gemma2 prompt template
0.24.4 - 0.24.6 Internal
0.24.3
Jul 16, 2024
beta
- Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed issue causing Windows app to crash while tethering
- Fixed Gemma2 on Windows
0.24.2
Jul 9, 2024
beta
- Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Support wildcards in lore keys
- Updated "Experimental" backend to support Gemma models
- Fixed inaccurate example dialogue token count
- Fixed broken button to disconnect tethering
- Improved Windows desktop app UI
0.24.0
Jul 3, 2024
stable
- Added Status Page on Web
- We now have a public status page that shows the current uptime of the web app, character hub, and our cloud models
- It also includes the average wait time and tokens/second for all cloud models
- Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Speedup of message response time when using context sizes above 6k
- Various fixes for mobile tethering
- Fixed issue where uploading/downloading characters images to/from the hub would be out of order
- Fixed issue where GIFs were not correctly displayed
- Fixed issue with chat message edits not saving
- Fixed User personas not saving correctly
- Fixed "Minor Version Updates" toggle on the settings page
- Fixed issue where chosen Avatar image would not stay selected
- Fixed incorrect Avatar image dimensions on download
- Fixed issue where updating Characters would break images
- Character avatar image carousel order is remembered when navigating back to the Chat Page
- Fixed incorrect image dimensions after downloading a character
- Fixed issue where images wouldn't correctly download from the Character Hub
- Fixed issue where the "Minor Version Updates" settings toggle state wasn't correctly reflected
- Fixed rare render issues with dropdown menu
- Fixed issue where deleting a character would delete a saved persona's image
- Fixed issue where editing responses occasionally deleted the response on save
Updates from 5 beta releases included
0.23.2
Jun 24, 2024
stable
- Character Page on the Hub
- UI updates to the Character Pages on the Hub
- Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed bug causing the app homepage to load slowly when the app has over 100 characters
- Fixed bug causing stop button to break when using the "Experimental" backend
- Improved loading times for large models
- Fixed 'cublas_12.1.0_avx2-v0.2... has stopped working' error on Windows
- Fixed issue causing image controls to jump around on characters with multiple different-sized images
0.23.0 - 0.23.1 Internal
0.22.3
Jun 21, 2024
stable
- Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed under allocation of VRAM on some Windows devices
- Fixed "Client Stale Error" on the Desktop chat page
- Fixed issue with CUDA device detection
- Improved model loading speeds on CUDA
- Removed Basic mode from character creation to support upcoming features
- Fixed issue with uploading characters to the Hub
- Fixed IP rate limiting issue on Free Plan
- Text-to-Speech fixed on web
- Fixed occasional 400 errors on long chats using Cloud models
0.22.0 - 0.22.2 Internal
0.21.0
Jun 17, 2024
stable
- Backyard Cloud Revamp
- Free plan - increased quota on Fimbulvetr to 50 free messages per day (up from 100 per week)
- Every registered user receives 25 message credits per week that can be applied to any Cloud model (including Pro)
- Promoted Fimbulvetr to the default model on Free and Standard plans
- Added new "Advanced" subscription plan
- Added Fimbulvetr 10.7B at 8,192 context tokens to Advanced and Pro plans
- Standard plan - Mythomax-Kimiko 13B added at 4,096 context tokens
- Pro plan - Llama 3 Jamet MK.V Blackroot 8B added at 10,240 context tokens
- Pro plan - Midnight-Rose 70B upgraded to a higher quality format
- Pro plan - Psyonic-Cetacean 20B replaced with Psyonic-Cetacean Ultra 20B
- Pro plan - early access to iOS app is now available
- Advanced plan - Chunky Lemon-Cookie 11B added at 8,192 context tokens
- Desktop App Updates
- Added ability to opt out of minor release auto-updates in the settings
- Updated Stable backend to support IQ quants
- Fixed bad outputs on certain Mac devices using Apple Metal
- Respect "iogpu.wired_limit_mb" setting on Apple devices
- Better auto-GPU detection for large parameter models
- Modest performance improvements for CUDA and AMD
- Added support for quantized KV cache on Experimental Backend (Nvidia GPUs only)
- CLBlast will begin to be phased out of future releases (use Vulkan instead)
- App Improvements
- Added input field caching on Character creation page to prevent unsaved edits from being lost
- Added popup dialogue to disable undo confirmation
- Significantly improved load times across the Character Hub
- Fixed trending algorithm breaking on the Character Hub
- Added more descriptive error messages to chat page
- Added login options for Apple and Twitter/X
- Added ability to upload characters from the web app
- Lore item keys can now be up to 300 characters in length
- During lore injection, only the matching key is inserted into context
0.20.2 Internal
0.20.1
May 28, 2024
stable
- App updates
- Added ability to reorder lorebook entries
- Increased max lore tokens for large context sizes
- Increased primary tag limit from 3 to 5
- Added character category links to top of the hub homepage
- Added global max context setting to web users (allows for longer character prompts)
- Improved load time on hub homepage
- Fixes to "Experimental" backend
- Fixed issue where detected VRAM was inaccurate
- Modest performance boosts for CUDA
- Bug fixes
- Fixed "Connecting to server..." chat page warning
- Fixed issue where TTS would return errors on Windows
- Fixed issue preventing rebrand banner from closing
- Fixed errors relating to large character uploads
- Fixed Google Translate causing web page bugs
Tethering: Disabled
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