v4.5.6

SkyworkAI/SkyReels-V2v4.5.6Jun 30, 2026by mudler

AI Summary

This release focuses on enhancing distributed capabilities with a new SyncedMap component and introduces native GGML backends for voice and face detection. It also includes various dependency updates and fixes for distributed agent permissions and binary launcher stability.

Key Highlights

  • New GGML backends for voice-detect and face-detect replacing Python implementations
  • Distributed improvements including SyncedMap component and LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS flag
  • Robust binary download and upgrade UX for the launcher
  • Fix for missing agent NATS permissions in distributed environments
  • Semantic VAD EOU token for realtime features

New Features

  • Native GGML voice-detect backend
  • Native GGML face-detect backend
  • SyncedMap component for cross-replica state
  • LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS environment variable
  • Semantic VAD EOU token

Full Release Notes

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## What's Changed
### 👒 Dependencies
* chore(deps): bump actions/cache from 4 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10593
### Other Changes
* docs: :arrow_up: update docs version mudler/LocalAI by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10560
* fix(distributed): missing agent NATS permission by @ALameLlama in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10549
* feat(distributed): SyncedMap component + migrate finetune/quant/agent-tasks to cross-replica state by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10542
* chore(fish-speech): drop the darwin/metal build target by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10561
* fix(config): fall back to DefaultContextSize for unparseable GGUFs; pin NVFP4 gallery context_size by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10563
* ci(vibevoice): skip the ASR transcription e2e on release tag builds by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10567
* fix(gallery): match mmproj/model quant as a whole token so F16 no longer selects BF16 (#10559) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10564
* fix(distributed): return empty backend list for agent nodes instead of failing backend.list (#10545) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10565
* feat(distributed): add LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS to skip staging on shared volumes (#10556) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10566
* chore: :arrow_up: Update leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp to `9956436c925a367daeab097598b1ea1f32d3503f` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10533
* fix(openresponses): bound resume-stream buffer and enforce response ownership by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10569
* chore: :arrow_up: Update ggml-org/whisper.cpp to `0ae02cdb2c7317b50991367c165736ce42ed96ac` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10532
* chore: :arrow_up: Update CrispStrobe/CrispASR to `6514c9da00b03a2f0f1b49a43fae4f3a01a41844` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10535
* chore: :arrow_up: Update ggml-org/llama.cpp to `0ed235ea2c17a19fc8238668653946721ed136fd` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10536
* fix(ik-llama): port multimodal path to mtmd API and bump to f96eaddb (#10534) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10568
* feat(backends): add voice-detect + face-detect ggml backends (replace Python insightface/speaker-recognition) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10441
* fix(kokoro): add explicit click dep so spacy CLI works on intel build by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10572
* fix(launcher): robust binary download/upgrade (resume, rate-limit, UX) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10575
* fix(distributed): missing agent NATS permissions by @ALameLlama in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10571
* fix(fish-speech): allow invalid_reference_casting so tokenizers builds on darwin by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10573
* fix(oci): retry layer downloads on transient network errors by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10579
* chore(model-gallery): :arrow_up: update checksum by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10585
* chore: :arrow_up: Update leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp to `c1790754d31bec0731ed5fddc9d5b9ff22ee19cd` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10584
* chore: :arrow_up: Update CrispStrobe/CrispASR to `6b50f76e59700665358a1aabf5295597fa318e06` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10583
* chore: :arrow_up: Update ggml-org/llama.cpp to `dbdaece23de9ac63f2e7ca9e6bfcdc4fc156a3fa` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10582
* chore: :arrow_up: Update mudler/voice-detect.cpp to `3d510772357538c5182808ac7de2278b84824e24` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10581
* chore: :arrow_up: Update mudler/face-detect.cpp to `06914b077d52f90d5421299138e7be6bdd06b5e8` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10580
* chore: :arrow_up: Update vllm-metal (darwin) to `v0.3.0.dev20260628073537` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10562
* chore(recon): re-pin voice/face-detect to squashed release commits (+ graph-cache fix) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10591
* fix(sglang): parse tool_call function arguments before applying the chat template by @pos-ei-don in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10558
* feat(realtime): Semantic VAD EOU token by @richiejp in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10444
* fix(openai): stop max_tokens streaming retry loop on reasoning models (#9716) by @Dennisadira in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10448
* fix(import): derive model name from selected GGUF for repo-root URIs by @Dennisadira in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10589
* fix(functions): avoid quadratic-time debug logging in CleanupLLMResult / ParseFunctionCall by @pos-ei-don in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10592
* chore: :arrow_up: Update leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp to `3b6c9ca97cfcda8e68e719e6670d06379fcbe943` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10594
* chore: :arrow_up: Update ggml-org/llama.cpp to `6f4f53f2b7da54fcdbbecaaa734337c337ad6176` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10595
* chore: :arrow_up: Update localai-org/privacy-filter.cpp to `595f59630c69d361b5196f2aba2c71c873d0c13c` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10596
* chore: :arrow_up: Update CrispStrobe/CrispASR to `3b93758f9725d400eca82976f895e4cec3f31260` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10597
* chore: :arrow_up: Update ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp to `f74a6fb87b315b2c3154166e075360e15021a61d` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10598
* fix(import): strip file:// scheme from model path for local imports by @Dennisadira in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10599
* fix(tests): align openresponses test model name with GGUF-derived naming (#10589) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10609
* fix(macos): staple the notarization ticket to the .app, not just the dmg by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10606
* fix(watchdog): persist UI-saved Check Interval across restarts (#10601) by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10605
* feat(config): default swa_full:true for sliding-window-attention models by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10611

## New Contributors
* @ALameLlama made their first contribution in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/10549

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/compare/v4.5.5...v4.5.6