Latest Updates & Improvements to Backyard AI
- Bug fixes
- Fixed issue where copy/system menu was disabled on the chat items
- Improvements
- Added support for in-app payments on iOS and Android
- Performance fixes across Desktop, Web, and Mobile to make the apps feel snappier
- Augmented mute capability on voice calls to manually stop mic input in noisy environments
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where voice calls would not start correctly on the MacOS Desktop app
- Fixed incorrect character counts for homepage folders
- 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 wrong 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
- Improvements
- Added copy message button to right click menu
- Lowered swipe sensitivity for regenerating responses on mobile
- Cleaned up chat background images on Desktop
- Bug fixes
- 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
- Bug fixes
- 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
- Bug fixes
- Fixed prompt regression from the last update
- Fixed Mistral-Instruct prompt templating
- Improvements
- Added support for Command-R and Mistral-Instruct prompt templates
Updates from 6 beta releases included
- Backyard Cloud - Summer Special Promotion
- Free plan: Unlimited messages for Fimbulvetr 10.7B model
- Referral program (see blog post)
- iOS & Android apps are now in public beta (see Discord)
- Bug Fixes & Improvements
- 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
- New “Experimental” Backend
- Mistral-NeMo support
- Performance improvements across all GPU types
- Hotfix
- 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
Updates from 27 beta releases included
- 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