2025 v2.5.1

medium risk

ai-job-search-dev/ai-job-searchFeb 6, 2026 → May 26, 2026109 days between releases

What's New

New release introduces Dream Talk portal, bootstrap resume support, and lifecycle hardening.

New Features

  • Bootstrap full-model downloads now preserve partial files and support resume
  • Dream Talk owner-portal adds streamed SSE replies, TTS streaming, and mobile routing
  • Hermes local-provider calls now use longer request timeouts for slow backends
  • Lifecycle hardening includes compose health waits and delayed port reuse
  • LAN web guidance now points to proxy surfaces instead of raw API ports

Improvements

  • Release documentation, security policies, and contribution guidelines expanded
  • Bundle service CPU limits and fallback model serving added
  • Stale cloud compose-cache invalidation implemented
  • CLI roadmap documentation added

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Strix Halo timeout cascade with extended request timeouts
  • Bootstrap downloads now cap progress display at 100%
  • Recover cleanly on next start/restart after failed downloads

Upgrade Notes

The provided release notes are for different repositories (speech-to-speech vs Dream Server), so upgrade guidance cannot be provided.

The Two Releases

2025

2025 release

Feb 6, 2026· 9 months ago

A large rollup release for Hugging Face speech-to-speech consolidating the project's foundational development. It spans Dockerization, MPS support, multilingual pipelines, multiple ASR and TTS backends, and a REST API.

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v2.5.1

Dream Server 2.5.1 - Fresh Install & Bootstrap Recovery

May 26, 2026· 5 months ago

A fresh-install and bootstrap-recovery patch release following the 2.5.0 audit hardening cycle. It hardens model download resumption, local-provider timeouts, lifecycle paths, and includes Dream Talk owner-portal functionality.

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