Fixed edits not saving on most recent message

Fixed "Fetch failed" error on Mobile Apps and Website

Fixed continue not working on sentences that end in punctuation.

Fix for people, especially in non-US regions, who have had issues sending messages on the chat page

Refactored model loading & streaming to recover from errors more easily

Under the hood improvements to improve stability across Desktop, Mobile, and the Website

Fix for people who are unable to sign in on the Desktop app

Fix for people who are having issues viewing settings pages on the Desktop app

Under the hood improvements to prepare for Backyard Parties 👀

Lore Items are now displayed in the sidebar

Character, Model, and Chat Settings are now individual overlays on desktop to make editing easier and faster

Better spacing for full-width mode

Chat messages now only display one empty line between paragraphs

Improved spacing for full-width mode on desktop & web

Added support for importing chat logs from JSON files on Web & Mobile

Added linked external accounts to the Accounts Settings page

Discord accounts can now be linked to your Backyard.ai account, regardless of your sign-in method

Due to an issue with the X API, new accounts can no longer be created with X (Twitter). We will still support existing accounts but will phase out the ability to sign in with X in the future

Fixed issue where Desktop apps would have UI rendering issues on the chat page

Fixed issue where chat dropdown menu was partially obscured on some mobile devices

Fixed issue preventing uploading characters to the Hub on some mobile devices

Fixed issue where regen buttons would sometimes be hidden after loading older messages

Fixed issue where the "Upgrade" button failed to redirect to the subscription management page

Fixed issue where copy/system menu was disabled on the chat items on Desktop App & Web

Added support for in-app payments on iOS and Android

Performance fixes across Desktop, Web, and Mobile to make the app feel snappier

Augmented mute capability on voice calls to manually stop mic input in noisy environments

Fixed issue where voice calls would not start correctly on the MacOS Desktop app

Fixed incorrect character counts for homepage folders

Fixed long-press menu on homepage occasionally crashing mobile app

Various performance fixes across all platforms

Fixed issue where the edit chat overlay was too tall on some mobile devices

Added copy message button to right click menu

Lowered swipe sensitivity for regenerating responses on mobile

Cleaned up chat background images on Desktop

Fixed issue with stop locking chat actions until after page refresh

Fixed delays when clicking stop button on Android

Fixed issue with chat messages disappearing until after page refresh

Fixed issue with chat messages being cut off at the bottom on Android

Fixed issue causing chat message to be uneditable on mobile

Fixed chat deletions failing silently

Fixed account deletion

Fixed issue where uppercase {User} and {Character} in character settings would not be replaced with the actual user/character name

Added undo button under the last message

Fixed long-press menu not showing on the Android app

You can now add a full-height background image to any chat and upload them to the Hub alongside your characters

Added chat bubbles and full width chat display modes (toggleable in the settings)

Moved author's note and impersonate buttons below the input box

Moved model selection to a dedicated tab on the chat settings page

Added right click menu for undo and upvote actions

Added Cmd+Enter shortcut to save author’s note and messages edits

First shipped in version 0.28.4, now available for all non-beta clients

Chats are now independent of each other and can be saved with different settings

Added 24 new Character voices powered by StyleTTS2, an advanced model for human-level text-to-speech

Updated UI for voice selection

Voice selection can now be uploaded to the Hub alongside your characters

To use StyleTTS2, you will need to sign in to your account on web, mobile, or desktop (not available locally/offline)

Piper voices will still be available for offline use

Ability to select which chat settings to include with Character upload

Improved visual highlighting for selecting tags

First shipped in version 0.28.22, now available for all non-beta clients

Improvements to token rate and prompt processing on some machines

Vulkan optimizations

Nemotron/Minitron model support

Gemma2 flash attention support except on Vulkan

You can edit banned hub characters and resubmit them for approval

你好; こんにちは; Bonjour; Google Translate is now supported on the web for chat messages

Increases maximum response length to 384 tokens

Added button to delete account on the Settings page

Improved Windows header dragging

Added ability to sort user personas in the App Settings

Added ability to swipe to regenerate a response

Moved edit button and other menus to long-press popup menu

Performance improvements across the app

Editing messages is should be much easier now

Scrolling issues on message are fixed now

UI Toasts have been updates to be larger so the message is not cut off

Light mode is now supported

Dozens of other stability improvements

Fixed Desktop shortcut being created every update on Windows

Fixed model download progress not updating while chatting

Fixed issue where some characters would not appear on the home page

Fixed issue where uploading images for Characters from the desktop app would not appear in the Hub

Fixed bug causing broken message streams

Fixed "invalid state transition" errors on desktop chat page

Fixed issue where the chat dropdown list was not scrollable

Fixed issue where tethering toggle would not save on mobile

Fixed issue where character images would not display on tethering

Fixed accounts that could not create characters

Fixed auto-speech starting after "Write for Me" finishes

Fixed {char} and {user} being swapped on character import/export

Fixed out of order chat imports

Fixed blinking cursor during "Write for Me" response

Fixed "invalid state transition" errors

Fixed issue preventing certain chats from loading

Fixed issue where creating a new chat would reset model & character settings

Fixed issue where the character changes were not reflected correctly in the UI after saving

Fixed issue where the user persona could not be changed on a character

Fixed issue where the "Docs" button in the error page was not working

Fixed "Primary chat not found" error message

Fixed issue on ios when opening characters on the Hub

Fixed out of order "other chats" in the chat page dropdown

Updated the internal data model to support upcoming features and improvements

User personas created on the General Settings page are now shared across Characters. If you update a persona, it will update for all Characters using that persona.

Improved the Character Hub UI

Minor color palette update across dark/light mode

Pro/Advanced/Standard plan users are prioritized over Free plan users in the message queue

When a cloud model is deprecated, there is now a dropdown to select a replacement model

Improved error messages for malformed models

Fixed issue where dark/light mode preference would not save

Fixed sidebar overflow on small screens

Fixed issue where changing the folder name in the sidebar would not reflect on the homepage

Fixed missing "Backyard Bot" default image on the chat page

When loading a Character, the most recently used chat is now selected

Fixed Character settings UI not updating after edits in the mobile app

Fixed prompting issues for Mistral-Instruct

Fixed MLock settings not saving

Fixed slowdowns on Nvidia cards ("Experimental" backend only)

Fixed model initialization slowdowns on Vulkan backends

Fixed prompt regression from the last update

Fixed Mistral-Instruct prompt templating

Added support for Command-R and Mistral-Instruct prompt templates

Free plan: Unlimited messages for Fimbulvetr 10.7B model

Referral program (see blog post)

iOS & Android apps are now in public beta (see Discord)

Fixed user persona images not updating

Fixed incorrect limit for Author’s Note text input

Fixed issue where subfolders would be hidden when deleting a parent folder

Fixed app updates hanging at 99%

Fixed various issues relating to homepage folders

Fixed model initialization failing on Intel Macs

Mistral-NeMo support

Performance improvements across all GPU types

Fixed chats not loading for certain models (DarkForest)

Character folder Bug Fixes

Fixed chat startup issues on Intel Mac machines

Fixed "Your system is missing the requisite DLL(s)." error

Disabled experimental bins on MacOS that were preventing app startup