v0.1.527-beta

## What's Changed
* Studio: judge the cached-pipeline signals on the snapshot the row actually loads by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7851
* Bump install.sh / install.ps1 pin to unsloth>=2026.8.3 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7860
* Studio: make the sidebar menu separators visible in dark mode by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7865
* Studio: run sandbox matplotlib headless by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7789
* Don't send desktop startup requests to an unvalidated port 8888 by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7852
* Support independent prompt queues across parallel chats by @Imagineer99 in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7629
* add a background image to the macos dmg install window by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7827
* Studio: keep Video under More until a user pins it by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7863
* Studio: show generated media unrounded, and fix the selected thumbnail by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7883
* Studio: drop the New badge from the Video nav row by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7890
* Studio: stop a clicked tooltip from hanging over dialogs by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7836
* Desktop: move update controls to Settings > General by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7807
* Fix the stale response-model label assertion that has main red by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7874
* Studio: detect stalled Deep Research output streams by @alkinun in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7839
* Guard the release-desktop version input and document the Cargo version by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7889
* Studio: add Qwen3-ASR dictation, cancellable downloads, and a download prompt by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7835
* Studio: even out the gap around the More flyout's rule by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7899
* Studio: stop the New chat row looking hovered on a blank new chat by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7898
* Studio: fix remaining translation defects after #7797 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7850
* Studio: fix download card alignment and surface the stop button by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7848
* Keep the file-edit turn 2 prompt to one instruction, and stop waiving its cap by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7846
* Studio: align Tauri sidebar spacing by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7901
* Fix sidebar bottom fade cutting off the last row mid-glyph by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7902
* Bump install.sh / install.ps1 pin to unsloth>=2026.8.4 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7906
* Answer GGUF variants from the cache the request names, and skip an unreadable one by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7857
* Desktop: warn before quitting during an update and skip installer fallback on cancel by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7793
* Desktop: publish drafts without rebuilding by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7907
* Studio: restore locale parity and gate it in CI by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7904
* Studio: make training and model-picker copy name UI that exists by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7905
* fix(studio): run bash and name the real platform for the terminal tool on Windows by @LeoBorcherding in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7885
* Desktop: fix Linux release asset names by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7911
* Unsloth Studio: keep the Images and Video headers clear of the custom titlebar by @LeoBorcherding in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7918
* fix(studio): keep child spawns alive under a pid-1 parent by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7894
* Ask uv for a Python that can import torch, and skip the one that cannot by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7830
* Improve desktop startup status by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7924
* Tauri smoke: stop uploading the whole target/debug tree (350GB of artifacts) by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7930
* Restore warnings_issued for trl trainers on transformers 5.1+ by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7854
* Fetch a sentence-transformers model's subfolder weights instead of pruning them by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7855
* Do not enter CUDA autocast for a float32 model during generate by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7900
* Locate the dictation model search box by test id, not by placeholder copy by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7909
* Record a stopped repair update as canceled rather than failed by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7910
* Bound dataset_num_proc by memory, and stop treating 1 as "no multiprocessing" by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7831
* Studio: quiet the image and video generation progress polls by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7869
* Studio: stop the Images Train settings columns overlapping by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7895
* Fake the Windows blocklist in the mangled-switch test so it runs off Windows by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7934
* Refine desktop media header alignment by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7859
* Read the GGUF context length from the snapshot that answered, not the repo cache dir by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7920
* Tighten remaining artifact uploads (follow-up to #7930) by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7939
* Studio: prevent long streaming Markdown stalls by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7892
* Fix studio server crash when launched without a console (Windows) by @legobele in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7932
* Fix GGUF export writing outside the chosen save directory on Windows (#7897) by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7937
* Fix Windows PowerShell resource path authorization by @Imagineer99 in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7943
* Desktop: fix the mobile-layout fallout of Windows text scaling by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7927
* Desktop: make the close button quit outside macOS by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7929
* Desktop: pin the shipped backend package version so a shared venv gets upgraded by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7926
* Studio: screen the detached-window test against the Windows blocklist too by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7936
* Require every declared denoiser, and every shard of it, before a cached pipeline reads as complete by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7871
* Fix the Windows-only snapshot path assertion in the diffusion prefetch test by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7933
* Studio: paint the image and video pickers from the curated catalog by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7896
* Bump install.sh / install.ps1 pins to unsloth>=2026.8.5, unsloth-zoo>=2026.8.4 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7967
* Studio: consistent rounded hover boxes for nav icon buttons by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7970
* Studio: lead the Context Length note with the automatic fit by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7988
* Studio: test the Windows launcher shape, not just the path normalizer by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7969
* Studio: stop model rows staying lit after the dots menu closes by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7987
* Update the nav icon button size contract to the 30px box by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7979
* Studio: fetch the gated diffusion bases from ungated unsloth mirrors by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7952
* Studio: fix training stuck at 100% when the worker will not exit by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7938
* Report the real cause when a save or GGUF export fails by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7861
* Locate the dictation model search box by test id, not by its copy by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7914
* CI: drop three macOS legs that assert nothing a Linux runner does not by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7974
* CI: fold the mac API smoke into the UI smoke, drop the subsumed install leg by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7975
* Installer: preserve rollback state and merge on partial venv move (#7810) by @namdamdoi68-oss in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7891
* CI: fold the mac update smoke into the same job, running last as teardown by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7980
* CI: save caches only on main, so PR runs stop evicting the caches they need by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7990
* Studio: drop the streaming animation wrappers once a message completes by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7949
* Skip a test module with a missing optional dep instead of exiting pytest by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7971
* Studio: restore the MLX gradient-norm chart by matching CUDA's clipping default by @Lyxot in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7917
* Studio: stop a GGUF pick from pulling the wrong companion bytes by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7870
* Studio: rework the media pane headings and tidy the Create controls by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7986
* Studio: keep the sidebar fade in sync on resize and centre the profile row by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7977
* CI: run the three mac inference smokes as phases of one job by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7978
* Studio: link the Train page across to image training by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7996
* fix(studio/install): keep the rollback reference when a venv move stops partway (#7810) by @Anai-Guo in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7823
* Studio: format profile stat numbers with the chosen locale by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7916
* Settle deferred compile-mode switches between training steps by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7955
* Studio: simplify desktop setup progress UI by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8011
* Tighten the gated-base preflight comments by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8003
* CI: point rust-cache at the real v2.9.1 tag and label the unlabelled pins by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8005
* CI: move macOS runners off the retiring macos-14 image by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8004
* Studio: fetch the sd.cpp companion assets from unsloth mirrors, not community repacks by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7995
* Studio: make the fp8 smoke probe catch a missing activation scale floor by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8008
* Diffusion: four fixes salvaged from the stale #7021 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8006
* studio: persist the settings dialog picks that reset on every tab switch by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7991
* Studio: bound every teardown await so a swallowed cancel cannot wedge the API by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7881
* feat(studio): rework train page setup flow by @Sneakr in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7633
* Give the Windows sandbox bash a userland, and honour TEMP/TMP by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8009
* Screen the cmd spellings the blocklist lexer quotes by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8010
* CI: extract the POSIX local install into a composite action by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8015
* Add option to launch Studio without opening the default browser by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7016
* Stop the rapid-submit chat UI check failing on a fast runner by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7972
* CI: run the three Windows inference smokes as phases of one job by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8013
* fix(studio/rocm): don't install for a shadowing iGPU on mixed AMD hosts (#7776) by @Anai-Guo in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7778
* Diffusion: replace the attention perf claims with re-measured numbers by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8021
* Desktop: fix Linux AppImage compatibility on newer distributions by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7953
* Model hub: report why Hugging Face is unreachable instead of claiming you are offline by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7829
* Studio: stop two backend tests from asking the host what the answer is by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8022
* Studio: do not let the default tool policy reject every plain Anthropic message by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8023
* Fix desktop window chrome by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8025
* Order the Mac inference phases so the gates stop fighting each other by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8024
* Extract the API-only Studio boot into one script by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8029
* Fix the desktop clean-machine CI: asset patterns and the retired #7547 pins by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8026
* Studio: center sheet header close buttons by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7957
* feat(studio): add settings-managed remote access by @Lyxot in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7875
* Studio: add opt-in DSpark speculative decoding by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7968
* Bump install.sh / install.ps1 pin to unsloth>=2026.8.6, unsloth-zoo>=2026.8.5 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8038
* fix studio responsiveness across desktop and mobile web by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8016
* Revert "Add option to launch Studio without opening the default browser" by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8040
* Bump install.sh / install.ps1 pin to unsloth>=2026.8.7 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8041
* Studio: send the GGUF filename when a collapsed On Device row is picked by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8053
* Validate an explicit GGUF variant before unloading the resident model by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7862
* fix(studio): stop showing manifest-less cache entries as downloading (#7858) by @Anai-Guo in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7864
* release-desktop: skip the Defender scan when Defender is unavailable by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8059
* Report min_length as 0 when no sample has content by @vineethsaivs in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7872
* Stop the health watchdog bypassing the backend startup grace period by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7958
* Studio: honor MLX KV cache quantization and chat template overrides by @Lyxot in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8007
* test: isolate the no-version gfx-override test from a real /opt/rocm by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7397
* Studio: stop /api/inference/status raising on every loaded GGUF by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8074
* CI: share the gemma-3-270m-it model cache across Linux, macOS and Windows by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8068
* CI: share the Qwen3.5-2B tool-calling GGUF cache across Linux, macOS and Windows by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8069
* Fix the four Studio reds on main by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8072
* Studio: harden DSpark/MTP drafter detection and companion reclaim by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8037
* Studio: keep the stdio MCP session alive when a tool call is cancelled by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7625
* Reuse the torch2.10 prebuilt accelerator wheels on torch 2.12 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7495
* Studio: line up every sidebar row pill with New Chat by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8079
* Normalize the /api/health wait and extract it into one script by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8060
* Make a fatal X11 error visible in the Linux desktop legs by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8063
* Studio: call XInitThreads so the Linux desktop app stops exiting on startup by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8075
* Studio: bound Deep Research first output waits by @alkinun in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7998
* Allow current MLX dependencies with valid Studio sidecars by @Lyxot in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7061
* Desktop: keep slide-in panels below the custom titlebar by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7954
* CI: stop running workflows on the pip branch, and mirror push path filters for the non-Studio workflows by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8085
* CI: always run Studio export/load-orchestrator and the security audit by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8086
* release-desktop: cache trusted-signing-cli and add job timeouts by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8087
* Show the public model id in the selector when the loaded model isn't in the picker list by @LeoBorcherding in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7966
* Explain why the gated-deltanet fast kernels were disabled by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8073
* Studio: fix the Windows desktop setup log mojibake and double-printed steps by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8083
* Installer: keep status messages off the progress bar line by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8052
* Fix the status runtime-fields contract test left stale by #8074 by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8088
* Studio: pin the /status chat template echo behaviour by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8080
* Desktop: Fix unresponsive model selector on Images/Video pages on macOS by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8048
* Fix Swagger UI and ReDoc being blanked by the studio CSP by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8042
* Stop referencing a TAURI signing password secret that does not exist by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8095
* CI: add an inert cross-repo capacity sweeper (do not merge yet) by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8071
* tests: extend the version-compat matrices to the current PyPI releases by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8020
* Scope the security suite's offline guard to the tests that want it by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8054
* Compare the drafter path with forward slashes on Windows too by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8056
* Desktop: start at login, hidden in the menu bar by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8033
* CI: stop main and nightly runs cancelling each other by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8070
* Studio: stop the macOS launcher killing a warming backend, and the Mac tab blackout by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8076
* Security: baseline seven reviewed scan_packages findings by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8096
* Studio: label the chat model bar by repo, not the HF cache path by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8090
* Security: pin the credential-send allowlist entry to the reviewed file by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8104
* CI: move the capacity sweeper off the retiring ubuntu-22.04 image by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8105
* release-desktop: add a VirusTotal pre-flight scan of the release bundles by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8089
* release-desktop: fail closed when trusted-signing-cli is missing or broken by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8106
* Desktop: avoid WebKitGTK dmabuf crashes on Wayland by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8028
* Studio: cap llama.cpp source build parallelism by RAM by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8061
* Match the LM Studio GGUF suffix case insensitively by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8100
* Bump the actions group across 1 directory with 11 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8101
* Guard Windows Studio installs against active runtimes by @Etherll in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7764
* Desktop: prevent thin AppImage environment failures by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8055
* Studio: preserve the Windows launcher during updates by @Etherll in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8092
* Desktop: fit windows within the monitor work area by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8047
* Studio: keep dictation status reads off the sidecar lock by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8017
* Desktop: Fix "Copy path" failing in the desktop app by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7959
* Uninstall: remove WebView runtime data so reinstalls don't serve a stale frontend by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7360
* Fail CI on new yes/no prompts in the installers by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8094
* Studio: continue a response that stopped early by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8064
* Studio: say what a failed launcher move-aside costs by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8109
* Keep up with transformers 5.x, TRL 0.22.x and peft by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7866
* Setup: clear stale WebView caches on install and update, keep user settings and data by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7361
* Studio: find models already on the device before downloading, and make the first download cancellable by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7379
* [Bug] Unsloth Studio: let fenced HTML canvases honor the canvas network-access setting by @LeoBorcherding in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8098
* Studio: keep chat titles whole so a wider sidebar shows more of them by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8078
* Studio: keep the composer tool pills on one line by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8111
* Preflight the Codex GGUF check before loading the model by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7873
* Studio: keep the upgrade intent when the pip fallback runs by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8112
* Improve desktop installer progress UX by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8102
* studio: expose llama-server batch and micro-batch sizes as first-class load settings by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7973
* Bump install.sh / install.ps1 pin to unsloth>=2026.8.8 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8114
* Clamp Deep Research max_tokens to loaded context window by @Souravrajvi0 in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7985
* Desktop: block HTTP loopback requests from untrusted images by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8046
* Studio: keep inference status probes off the event loop by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7944
* Add Model memory settings to keep a loaded model in VRAM by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8002
* perf(studio): make local model inventory scans linear by @Lyxot in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8043
* Repair seven tests left behind by their own subjects by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8132
* fix(security): re-baseline the huggingface-hub HTTP backoff loop for 1.x by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8135
* Studio: check llama.cpp cache access before setup by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8032
* studio: fix deep research progress reporting, loopback auth and model retries by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8129
* Reserve host RAM for AMD unified-memory APUs on the ROCm probe by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8131
* fix(AMD): let diffusion load on Windows ROCm, and say what a gated repo needs by @LeoBorcherding in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7981
* Desktop: ensure backend ownership for Tauri installs by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8034
* Studio: keep row actions clear of overlay scrollbars by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8031
* Report a denied UNSLOTH_LOCAL_LLAMA_CPP_DIR instead of aborting on errexit by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8143
* Studio: per-request perf stats and slot usage in the API monitor by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8045
* fix(studio): harden training setup, lifecycle, and audio loading by @Sneakr in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8103
* Pin the accelerator gates in the DiT precision preflight test by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8155
* Studio: fix STT download progress and cache safety by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8035
* Fix desktop image drops for chat attachments by @Souravrajvi0 in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7982
* Studio: fall back to CPU when auto-selected Vulkan crashes by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8050
* Studio: stop research threads 409-ing on autosave, keep server-managed messages intact by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7956
* Studio: retry Xet once on a stall before falling back to HTTP by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8166
* Deduplicate the scan-packages baseline, and gate it with tests by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8110
* Add Markdown conversation export by @ousamabenyounes in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7664
* Bump the cargo-tauri group across 1 directory with 18 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8107
* CI: prune superseded Actions caches by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8167
* Publish studio_install_id without clobbering a concurrent writer by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8145
* Desktop: refuse to republish an existing release version by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7941
* Studio: surface API errors and align audio limits by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7946
* Stop the CUDA test spoofs reporting an exhausted card by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8123
* Keep download scopes out of the GGUF quantization list by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8153
* Do not choose flex attention on a card that cannot run its kernel by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8137
* Render a static prefix when default_system_message is None by @vineethsaivs in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8117
* Studio: rate the API monitor Throughput tile on the decode window by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8139
* [Fix] Unsloth Studio: Strip ANSI escape codes from Studio tool output panes by @Souravrajvi0 in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7976
* Attach save_lora without a vLLM engine by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8127
* Studio: bring back the sidebar scrollbar without losing row width by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8147
* Studio: exempt shared top-level trees from the integrity check for our own wheels too by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8179
* Do not stage diffusion files that are already in the cache by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8154
* Catch the llama-prebuilt validator stubs up with rocm_gfx by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8182
* Pin the auto-load success toast by its branch, not by one spelling by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8183
* Studio: route every Windows installer line through the UTF-8 stdout sink by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8148
* Studio: hold the Mac capability verdict while an MLX repair can still overturn it by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8152
* Count a RECORD path claim before the row is filtered out by @Imagineer99 in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8181
* Fix on-device GGUF image/video picks asking for a quantization by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8149
* Enforce the interface's video resolutions in the API too by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8159
* Studio: add a loaded models indicator with per-model eject by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8082
* Desktop: show a closing overlay while the backend shuts down by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8151
* Studio: make the gallery video link absolute so the desktop app can play and save it by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8173
* Bump install.sh / install.ps1 pin to unsloth>=2026.8.9 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8189
* Studio: eliminate Cargo and Clippy warnings by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8192
* studio: serve the deep research event stream over post so proxies stop buffering it by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8205
* Desktop release: build the three platform legs in parallel by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8191
* Desktop release: start the publish job alongside the build matrix by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8193
* tests: make `pytest tests` collect cleanly and drop the deleted QVQ registry mirror by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8206
* Desktop release: run the VirusTotal scan after publishing, in its own job by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8194
* tests: build the hub-error fixtures without calling __init__ (huggingface_hub 1.x) by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8207
* Studio: stop MTP forcing llama-server to a single parallel slot by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8172
* test(studio): stop the backend suite depending on a live Hub by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8174
* Repin six UI contracts on what they guard, not how it was spelled by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8197
* Studio: only dodge an overlay box that reaches the corner stack by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8210
* Studio: surface an MLX completion-masking miss as a warning, not a status line by @BardiaKoopah in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8133
* Desktop: block accidental reloads in the Windows WebView by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7945
* Studio: preserve training config values across YAML load and save by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7942
* Stop a finished download reporting 0 B and offering Retry by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8160
* Install a CUDA-matched xFormers on Windows instead of whatever PyPI serves by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8156
* fix(studio): release the inference subprocess's VRAM when its last model unloads by @LeoBorcherding in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8221
* fix(studio): reserve a bounded OS headroom on unified ROCm APUs, not a flat 20% by @LeoBorcherding in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7960
* Studio: fix Windows desktop updates failing integrity checks by @Etherll in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8185
* Report the precision actually in use, and refuse an explicit one we cannot honor by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8165
* Pin the training precision, video preset and image metadata contracts by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8162
* Say when xFormers is installed but its kernels cannot load by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8157
* Revert "Say when xFormers is installed but its kernels cannot load" by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8237
* Studio: stream oversized diffusion components on low-VRAM GPUs by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8141
* fix(studio): wire llama's OpenMP runtime into slim whisper installs by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8230
* fix(studio): verify TLS against the OS trust store at runtime (corporate TLS-inspection proxies) by @Cesarsk in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8108
* Tell users to upgrade the dependency, not transformers, when a --no-deps install leaves a floor unmet by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8212
* Repo tests: pin the post-publish VirusTotal contract instead of the old pre-flight one by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8240
* Let the pipeline gate survive a diffusers whose lazy submodule cannot import by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8227
* Stop the idle-unload TTL test racing a loaded runner by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8175
* Let the floating monitor paint over the notification stack by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8199
* Format the release permissions test to the kwarg-spacing hook by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8245
* Format the release-permissions test so pre-commit.ci stops failing on main by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8247
* add folder picking and drag-drop for paired image and caption datasets by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8216
* Backfill the conversion symbols peft imports and transformers 5 dropped by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8051
* Studio: only clean up GGUF artifacts the export owns by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7940
* Resume diffusion training from a stop-and-save checkpoint by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8163
* Stop padding-free SFT from tripping the TRL >= 1.0.0 max_length guard by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7951
* Fix Studio loaded-model GGUF quant label by @Imagineer99 in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8238
* Do not scan vendored packages that refuse to import on our floor by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8252
* Desktop: confirm quit during training  by @NilayYadav in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7790
* Fetch the llama.cpp validation model only when the smoke test reads it by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8248
* Make install.ps1 work with the user's PowerShell profile loaded by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8161
* Name a torchvision whose compiled ops do not match torch by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8128
* Diffusion: source every image family's companions from unsloth mirrors by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8030
* studio: infer splits for metadata-free cached datasets by @Ricardo-M-L in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8144
* Reject an incompatible GGUF and base pair before the download, not after by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8158
* Make the desktop release contract tests fail when the contract breaks by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8228
* GRPO: wrap the model that owns the head when falling back to hidden states by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8231
* Diffusion: allow fp8 on Qwen-Image again, and split the training deny by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8018
* Report the network error when the offline retry finds nothing cached by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8121
* Keep an explicitly requested float32 model in float32 without bfloat16 by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7867
* Do not let a broken TensorFlow install break the Unsloth import by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8124
* Carry the sliding window into SDPA, and treat a zero window as no window by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8253
* Resolve latest mlx-vlm and route its new processors by @Lyxot in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8251
* Studio: align Images and settings layouts by @wasimysaid in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8164
* Studio: realign the image precision contracts with the fail-closed refusal by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8257
* Studio: name the quant a diffusion GGUF pick actually loaded, instead of the compute dtype by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8241
* Studio: budget a pre-cast fp8 text encoder at the size it actually loads by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8218
* Desktop: keep probing the announced backend port instead of discarding it by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8211
* Stop the CPU fake-train tests from spoofing torch for the whole session by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8259
* Studio: grey the sidebar dot a finished chat leaves by @shimmyshimmer in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8258
* Studio: stop leaking child processes on an abnormal exit by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8170
* Restore SFT loss_type='nll' default over TRL 1.7.0 chunked_nll by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8261
* Assert the image family's pipeline class in the training preflight, before the GPU teardown by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8236
* Studio: let image generation be stopped by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8219
* Studio: make the image memory plan resolution-aware and stop reserving the text encoder during sampling by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8224
* remove the unused images train dialog and fix media page responsiveness by @mahiatlinux in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8215
* Studio: size FLUX.2-klein 9B LoRA training from its own weights, not the 4B family number by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8263
* Studio: LTX-2 video LoRA training from still images by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8196
* Say when attention has no fused kernel, and log the request behind a failed video by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8233
* Turn off embedding offload when the model is dispatched across devices by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8272
* Studio: keep the overlay stack off a maximised Live monitor by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8190
* Make the diffusion checkpoint-resume tests describe the host they run on by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8273
* Install the Linux CUDA sd-cli, and bump the pin two releases forward by @danielhanchen in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/8208
* Studio: add MiniMax H3 video generation by @oobabooga in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7989

## New Contributors
* @namdamdoi68-oss made their first contribution in https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7891

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/compare/v0.1.52-beta...v0.1.527-beta