v0.40.0

Mesh-LLM/mesh-llmv0.40.0Mar 24, 2026by michaelneale

AI Summary

Introduces the Blackboard MCP server and changes default reasoning behavior for performance.

Key Highlights

Thinking disabled by default (`--reasoning-budget 0`) for 2x speed
Blackboard MCP server exposes tools (`blackboard_post`, `blackboard_search`)
Web UI improvements with automatic retry on 500/502/503 errors
Community banner for hosted instances

New Features

Thinking disabled by default for agentic workloads
Blackboard MCP server integration
Web UI automatic retry logic
Community banner for hosted meshes
Reasoning compatibility test script

Full Release Notes

## What's new

- **Thinking disabled by default** — `--reasoning-budget 0` on all llama-servers. Same answer quality, 2x faster for agentic workloads. API users can still opt in per-request with `chat_template_kwargs: {"enable_thinking": true}`.
- **Blackboard MCP server** — `mesh-llm blackboard --mcp` exposes blackboard as MCP tools (`blackboard_post`, `blackboard_search`, `blackboard_feed`) for agent collaboration across the mesh.
- **Web UI improvements** — no hidden thinking in chat responses, automatic retry with backoff on 500/502/503 errors.
- **Fly community banner** — hosted instances (mesh-llm.com, anarchai.org) show a 'community demo' notice with live busy indicator when the mesh is under load.
- **Reasoning compatibility test** — `tests/test_reasoning_compat.sh` validates the thinking on/off API contract.

### Install (macOS Apple Silicon)

```bash
curl -fsSL https://github.com/michaelneale/decentralized-inference/releases/latest/download/mesh-llm-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz | tar xz && sudo mv mesh-bundle/* /usr/local/bin/
```