v0.9.8

tashfeenahmed/freellmapiv0.9.8Sep 7, 2026by tashfeenahmed

AI Summary

This release significantly improves the desktop application's security by removing manual sign-in forms and introduces first-class adapters for ElectronHub and Experiential Labs. It also implements routing controls to prevent system-wide lockouts and enhances documentation with translated content.

Key Highlights

Desktop dashboard now runs as a hidden local account to prevent sign-in lockouts.
New first-class adapters for ElectronHub and Experiential Labs with proxy error detection.
Introduced a 'Cooldown ceiling' to prevent router lockouts from temporary failures.
Added a 'Clear all' button to instantly reset router penalties and cooldowns.

New Features

Hidden local account authentication mode for desktop app.
Integration of ElectronHub and Experiential Labs as first-class providers.
New routing 'Cooldown ceiling' setting.
Router pressure 'Clear all' button.
Updated documentation tree with Chinese translations and credits.

Full Release Notes

## Desktop
- **The dashboard window never shows a sign-in form any more.** The desktop app runs as a hidden local account with a random password nobody knows. Whenever its session was rejected, after a month of uptime or a stray 401, the window fell through to the web login form, which nobody could fill in, and guessing at it tripped the 15-minute lockout. The window now asks the app for a fresh session and carries on. If that ever fails it says so and asks you to quit and reopen. Browsers reaching a desktop or self-hosted server keep the normal login. (#1171)
- **Password reset copy tells the truth.** The reset form now says the code is written to the server log and is never emailed, with a Docker hint, in all 60 dashboard languages. The lockout message says how long to wait and that a restart clears it. (#1171)

## Providers
- **ElectronHub and Experiential Labs** join the router with first-class adapters: key validation against the authenticated account endpoint, shared-quota grouping, dashboard entries, and detection of proxy error banners that arrive inside HTTP 200 responses, including split streaming chunks. Model rows come from the live catalog as usual. (#1169)

## Routing
- **Cooldown ceiling.** A new routing setting caps the router's own bench guesses (the 2 min / 10 min / 1 h / 24 h escalation ladder and the day-long 402/403 benches) so a few relay-style failures cannot park a whole pool for a day. Provider-stated retry times are never shortened. Fallback page → routing options → "Longest automatic cooldown". (#1166, fixes #952)
- **Router pressure "Clear all".** One button drops every penalty, cooldown and bench at once instead of one key at a time. (#1166, addresses #1049)

## Docs
- Per-language docs tree under `docs/en` and `docs/zh-cn`, the four remaining Chinese stubs translated, and a sweep of stale link texts and changelog hashes. (#1138, #1167, #1168)
- README credits @qatcod, @CooperSheroy and @shahidbeig-a11y. (#1165)

Full changelog: https://github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi/compare/v0.9.7...v0.9.8

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