v0.2.23
PaddlePaddle/Paddlev0.2.23Jul 9, 2026by QuentinFuxa
AI Summary
This release adds Qwen3-ASR backends, introduces prebuilt Docker images, adds API token authentication, and fixes various bugs related to session stability, timeouts, and memory usage.
Key Highlights
- New Qwen3-ASR backends (streaming and vLLM)
- Prebuilt Docker images available
- API token authentication support
- Fixes for long session timeouts and memory growth
New Features
- Qwen3-ASR backends (qwen3-streaming, qwen3-vllm, qwen3-vllm-metal)
- Prebuilt Docker images on GHCR
- Optional API token auth (`--api-token`)
- Per-session language and translation target via WebSocket query params
Full Release Notes
Qwen3-ASR backends, latency work and bug fixes. ## Added - Qwen3-ASR backends: `qwen3-streaming` (PyTorch, CUDA/MPS/CPU), `qwen3-vllm` (CUDA), `qwen3-vllm-metal` (Apple Silicon), via the new [qwen3-asr-causal](https://github.com/QuentinFuxa/Qwen3-ASR-causal) package. The causal streaming mode uses 3x less compute, at constant cost per audio second (English only). - Prebuilt Docker images on GHCR: `ghcr.io/quentinfuxa/whisperlivekit`. - Optional API token auth (`--api-token`). - Per-session language and translation target via WebSocket query params. ## Fixed - `mode=full` sessions no longer lose early lines after 5 minutes (#372). - REST transcription of long files no longer times out silently (#374). - qwen3-vllm word timestamps and CJK spacing (#375, thanks @samx81). - Sortformer memory growth on long sessions (#349). - Local Sortformer weights: `--sortformer-model-path` (#378, thanks @felixmr1).