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v4.8.1

lancedb/lancedbv4.8.1Aug 6, 2026by mudler

AI Summary

Introduces elastic dataloader support and new object stores, alongside bug fixes and performance improvements.

Key Highlights

  • Introduction of an elastic dataloader as an iterable dataset.
  • Support for Tencent COS and GooseFS object stores.
  • OpenTelemetry integration for metrics.
  • Blob v2 fetch API.

Breaking Changes

  • feat(python)!: align `Permutation.with_format("torch")` with HuggingFace `set_format("torch")`

New Features

  • Elastic dataloader
  • Date, datetime, bytes, and Decimal literals
  • Get LSM write spec to read installed configurations
  • Tencent COS and GooseFS object store support
  • OpenTelemetry metrics integration
  • Blob v2 fetch API
  • WatsonxReranker component support
  • Table FTS query tokenization
  • Distributed analyze plan metrics
  • Compat wheels for pre-Haswell x86_64 hosts
  • Job skill references
  • Remote branch diff and merge client APIs

Full Release Notes

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## What's Changed
### Other Changes
* docs(blog): cover the terminal agent in the 4.8 post by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11372
* fix(vram): contain malformed GGUF metadata by @richiejp in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11374
* docs: :arrow_up: update docs version mudler/LocalAI by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11377
* chore: :arrow_up: Update 0xShug0/audio.cpp to `7efbb58def443722ea540d931dd3debee3e4d5e8` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11378
* chore: :arrow_up: Update ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp to `cf1aa57e1a0fabfd015831718fc99d1aec01ada5` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11380
* chore: :arrow_up: Update leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp to `c6beeef35526c6dc94b74a7fb69f9d2e6a2a7a12` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11384
* chore: :arrow_up: Update CrispStrobe/CrispASR to `21901d3f7c23554f072964828363e49ddbc2dc68` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11383
* fix(vllm-cpp): mirror the engine's ABI v10 so the backend loads again by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11386
* fix(react-ui): stop traces page crash when switching trace tabs by @nandanadileep in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11387
* chore: :arrow_up: Update antirez/ds4 to `b0309611041655f4e45671cfd9c9886aff161406` by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11381
* chore(model-gallery): :arrow_up: update checksum by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11382
* gallery: add Qwen3.5 9B HauhauCS variants by @localai-org-maint-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11339
* gallery: add Qwen3.5 9B Defiant Fable variants by @localai-org-maint-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11335
* feat(vllm-cpp): wire the full engine config surface through engine_args by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11159
* fix(react-ui): restore 3D Studio results and history by @richiejp in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11393
* fix(cli): ignore a half-populated socket activation environment by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/11394


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/compare/v4.8.0...v4.8.1