Release v0.5.0

Curated summary: CHANGELOG.md

What's Changed

• fix(webui): bounded buffer to resolve 10 minute crashout, player stat… by @remsky in #471
• feat(api): add POST /dev/unload to release model from GPU VRAM by @sageframe-no-kaji in #474
• fix(audio): implement audio source swapping for stream playback/seeking by @remsky in #475

New Contributors

• @sageframe-no-kaji made their first contribution in #474

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

Release v0.4.0

Curated summary: CHANGELOG.md

What's Changed

• feat(gpu): adds clear cu128 opt-in via compose, setup for Blackwell /… by @remsky in #466
• fix(audio): drop WAV close()-time junk trailer that caused chunk-end click #463 by @remsky in #467
• chore(docker): add oci metadata, copy VERSION for web ui, prebuilt image for tts-client tests by @remsky in #468
• fix(rocm): persist MIOpen cache and add FIND_MODE=2 default +warmup script by @remsky in #469

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

Release v0.3.0

What's Changed

• docs: added a note for Apple Silicon users regarding GPU build by @FotieMConstant in #232
• converted CRLF ending lines to LF ones in api/src/structures/custom_responses.py by @blakkd in #199
• Fixes and Features by @fireblade2534 in #235
• Add Direct Windows support scripts by @kimnzl in #241
• Added support for MPS on Apple silicon by @rampadc in #233
• use local js file instead of the unpkg cdn by @mpnsk in #244
• Fixes not returning a download link if streaming is off and return_download_link is true by @fireblade2534 in #240
• Segfault fixes by @fireblade2534 in #253
• Fixes relating to parsing money and tests. Also readme stuff by @fireblade2534 in #256
• Fix Helm charts health check, ingress, and values by @richardr1126 in #257
• start-gpu_mac.sh: removed duplicated env and align with other shell scripts by @rampadc in #266
• Maintenance/automations by @remsky in #276
• Minor change to trigger new release by @remsky in #278
• Update Dockerfile to install Rust by @RigleGit in #291
• Fixing normalization by @fireblade2534 in #303
• Fixed phenomes by @fireblade2534 in #304
• Added some better saftey checks to captioned speech by @fireblade2534 in #310
• feat(text): add Chinese punctuation-based sentence splitting for bett… by @jiaohuix in #321
• Improve Audio Pause Handling, MP3 Encoding, and Robust Text Normalization/Splitting by @mylukin in #322
• Update paths.py by @mbailey in #311
• Add a volume multiplier setting by @JCallicoat in #316
• Release by @fireblade2534 in #339
• Fix custom phenomes and make them much more robust by @fireblade2534 in #350
• Update PyTorch to 2.7.1+cu128 for RTX 50 Series GPU Support by @MiggiV2 in #354
• Smaller docker image by @faltiska in #361
• Use torch 2.8 for compatibility with 50 series by @garciadias in #390
• feat: add configurable logging level with environment variable support by @ryan-steed-usa in #404
• Fix(cpu/docker): install Rust for appuser, set PATH, and increase uv timeouts to stabilize build by @nRanzo in #383
• build: add cmake to fix pyopenjtalk dependency and sync CI deps with Docker by @ryan-steed-usa in #412
• Use #!/usr/bin/env bash in start-gpu.sh for better compatibility by @basnijholt in #419
• build: add support to override docker-bake.hcl variables with GitHub Action Environment Variables by @ryan-steed-usa in #413
• Pr 420 by @remsky in #429
• Improve build times by parallelising the various Docker targets by @kprinssu in #420
• Add AMD GPU support by @kprinssu in #432
• Pin the ROCBlas version and update ROCm docker compose to build locally by @kprinssu in #435
• fix: Add reverse proxy support for web-ui by @sahlex in #398
• Fix test_initial_state() test failure on apple silicon. by @jcheek in #370
• Adds gpt-4o-mini-tts by @AlistairKeiller in #433
• fix: OGG/Opus audio truncation — final page lost in write_chunk finalize by @will-assistant in #448
• fix: use weights_only=True for voice tensor torch.load calls by @dashitongzhi in #460
• fix: cache voice tensors to prevent per-request memory leak (#453) by @KeloYuan in #459
• fix: downgrade PyTorch CUDA version from cu129 to cu126 by @ryan-steed-usa in #407
• Fix Firefox WebUI playback by falling back when audio/mpeg MSE is unsupported by @JiminyScript in #458

New Contributors

• @FotieMConstant made their first contribution in #232
• @blakkd made their first contribution in #199
• @kimnzl made their first contribution in #241
• @rampadc made their first contribution in #233
• @mpnsk made their first contribution in #244
• @RigleGit made their first contribution in #291
• @jiaohuix made their first contribution in #321
• @mylukin made their first contribution in #322
• @mbailey made their first contribution in #311
• @JCallicoat made their first contribution in #316
• @MiggiV2 made their first contribution in #354
• @faltiska made their first contribution in #361
• @garciadias made their first contribution in #390
• @ryan-steed-usa made their first contribution in #404
• @nRanzo made their first contribution in #383
• @basnijholt made their first contribution in #419
• @kprinssu made their first contribution in #420
• @sahlex made their first contribution in #398
• @jcheek made their first contribution in #370
• @AlistairKeiller made their first contribution in #433
• @will-assistant made their first contribution in #448
• @dashitongzhi made their first contribution in #460
• @KeloYuan made their first contribution in #459
• @JiminyScript made their first contribution in #458

Full Changelog: v0.2.3...v0.3.0

Release v0.2.4-master

What's Changed

• Fix custom phenomes and make them much more robust by @fireblade2534 in #350
• Update PyTorch to 2.7.1+cu128 for RTX 50 Series GPU Support by @MiggiV2 in #354
• Smaller docker image by @faltiska in #361
• Use torch 2.8 for compatibility with 50 series by @garciadias in #390
• feat: add configurable logging level with environment variable support by @ryan-steed-usa in #404
• Fix(cpu/docker): install Rust for appuser, set PATH, and increase uv timeouts to stabilize build by @nRanzo in #383
• build: add cmake to fix pyopenjtalk dependency and sync CI deps with Docker by @ryan-steed-usa in #412
• Use #!/usr/bin/env bash in start-gpu.sh for better compatibility by @basnijholt in #419
• build: add support to override docker-bake.hcl variables with GitHub Action Environment Variables by @ryan-steed-usa in #413
• Pr 420 by @remsky in #429
• Improve build times by parallelising the various Docker targets by @kprinssu in #420

New Contributors

• @MiggiV2 made their first contribution in #354
• @faltiska made their first contribution in #361
• @garciadias made their first contribution in #390
• @ryan-steed-usa made their first contribution in #404
• @nRanzo made their first contribution in #383
• @basnijholt made their first contribution in #419
• @kprinssu made their first contribution in #420

Full Changelog: v0.2.4...v0.2.4-master

Release v0.2.4

What's Changed

• docs: added a note for Apple Silicon users regarding GPU build by @FotieMConstant in #232
• converted CRLF ending lines to LF ones in api/src/structures/custom_responses.py by @blakkd in #199
• Fixes and Features by @fireblade2534 in #235
• Add Direct Windows support scripts by @kimnzl in #241
• Added support for MPS on Apple silicon by @rampadc in #233
• use local js file instead of the unpkg cdn by @mpnsk in #244
• Fixes not returning a download link if streaming is off and return_download_link is true by @fireblade2534 in #240
• Segfault fixes by @fireblade2534 in #253
• Fixes relating to parsing money and tests. Also readme stuff by @fireblade2534 in #256
• Fix Helm charts health check, ingress, and values by @richardr1126 in #257
• start-gpu_mac.sh: removed duplicated env and align with other shell scripts by @rampadc in #266
• Maintenance/automations by @remsky in #276
• Update Dockerfile to install Rust by @RigleGit in #291
• Fixing normalization by @fireblade2534 in #303
• Fixed phenomes by @fireblade2534 in #304
• Added some better saftey checks to captioned speech by @fireblade2534 in #310
• feat(text): add Chinese punctuation-based sentence splitting for bett… by @jiaohuix in #321
• Improve Audio Pause Handling, MP3 Encoding, and Robust Text Normalization/Splitting by @mylukin in #322
• Update paths.py by @mbailey in #311
• Add a volume multiplier setting by @JCallicoat in #316
• Release by @fireblade2534 in #339

New Contributors

• @FotieMConstant made their first contribution in #232
• @blakkd made their first contribution in #199
• @kimnzl made their first contribution in #241
• @rampadc made their first contribution in #233
• @mpnsk made their first contribution in #244
• @RigleGit made their first contribution in #291
• @jiaohuix made their first contribution in #321
• @mylukin made their first contribution in #322
• @mbailey made their first contribution in #311
• @JCallicoat made their first contribution in #316

Full Changelog: v0.2.3...v0.2.4

v0.2.3

What's Changed

• Disable --reload on unicorn/fastapi to avoid pegging a CPU core by @randombk in #171
• Add a .gitattributes by @fireblade2534 in #186
• Normalization changes by @fireblade2534 in #179
• Streaming word timestamps by @fireblade2534 in #173
• Fix low quality because audio was being encoded at a lower bitrate by @fireblade2534 in #207

New Contributors

• @randombk made their first contribution in #171

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3pre

v0.2.2

Fixes

• speak not engaging reliably on the CPU image as a fallback
• audio quality bumped up by adjusting compression settings, bug with webui format selection
• advanced normalization settings added @fireblade2534

What's Changed

• Add Helm chart by @zucher in #157 #162
• fixed a bunch of stuff by @fireblade2534 in #152
• added settings based override of default lang_code by @Krurst in #155
• docs update @eltociear in #156

New Contributors

• @zucher made their first contribution in #157
• @Krurst made their first contribution in #155
• @eltociear made their first contribution in #156

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

v0.2.1

What's Changed

• adjustment to improve compatibility with espeak-loader dependency on misaki #127
• added v1/models dummy endpoint for compatibility #144
• fixed issue with duplicates captions, swapping to a stream on audio + tempfile download at completion for caption files #139
• fixed some problems in the build system and model download system by @fireblade2534 in #131

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

v0.2.0

• Complete Model Overhaul:
  • Upgraded to Kokoro v1.0 model architecture, deprecated V0.19 support
  • Integration with hexgrad/kokoro and hexgrad/misaki packages
  • Pre-installed all multi-language support from Misaki:
    • English (en), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Chinese (zh), Vietnamese (vi)
    • Note: This will likely controlled via env variable in upcoming versions
  • All voice packs included for supported languages, along with the original versions
• Enhanced Audio Generation Features:
  • Per-word timestamped caption generation
  • Phoneme generation, Phoneme-Based Audio Generation (510 token cap)
• Web UI Improvements:
  • Weighted voice mixing
  • Text file upload support
  • Improved text editor, user interface changes

What's Changed

• Combine Voices endpoint now returns a .pt file, with generation combinations generated on the fly otherwise
• Bumping PyTorch version to 2.6.0, CUDA 12.4
• Adjustments to Docker workflows + Incorporating Docker Bake

Contributors

• @fireblade2534
• @eschmidbauer
• @jteijema
• @dino65-dev
• @Galunid
• @JoshRosen
• @richardr1126

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v0.2.0

v0.1.4

• Changes to simplify streaming/async inference pathways still somewhat in progress.
• WebUI added as a lighter-weight alternative to the Gradio UI
• More of the configuration variables are exposed, temporary file management settings
• Added new debug endpoints for system and storage information (threads, sessions, etc)
• Significant restructuring towards concurrency, decoupling inference workflows, more flexibility

What's Changed

• Update README.md with new local endpoint usage example by @jteijema in #50
• Update UI access with environment URL and PORT by @jteijema in #51
• Fixed python tests by @fireblade2534 in #69
• Try to add AAC audio format w/ updated test by @richardr1126 in #74
• Fixed thread leak because of excessive E-speak backends by @fireblade2534 in #87
• Fix truncated playback issue in streaming WAV responses by @JoshRosen in #94
• Fixes auto downloading models by @fireblade2534 in #99
• V0.1.4 by @remsky in #102
• V0.1.4 - CI updates by @remsky in #104

New Contributors

• @jteijema made their first contribution in #50
• @richardr1126 made their first contribution in #74
• @JoshRosen made their first contribution in #94

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.4