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A fix has been implemented to prevent crashes in the command-line interface when encountering invalid UTF-8 in prompts or files, with assistance from Claude. This update is part of the b12177 release of llama.cpp, which includes various binary distributions for macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, and other platforms.
The server update addresses slot processing order by ensuring parent slots are visited before child slots, preventing delays caused by child tasks landing on lower slot IDs. This change ensures all child tasks join the same batch after being woken by their parent. Additionally, new test tags have been introduced for monitoring: __TEST_TAG_WAIT_PARENT_SLOT__ for child slot waits, __TEST_TAG_PROMPT_CACHE_RESTORE__ for prompt cache restores, and __TEST_TAG_PROMPT_CACHE_FULL_RESTORE__ when a cached prompt is fully contained in a new one based on token counts.
The llama.cpp release b12098 includes accurate support for Qwen3-VL video prompt format and provides precompiled binaries for multiple platforms including macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, and openEuler, with various backend options such as CUDA, Vulkan, ROCm, OpenVINO, SYCL, and Snapdragon-specific optimizations. The release also features a standalone UI package and detailed setup guides for specific hardware configurations.
server : add realtime conversation and transcription on /v1/realtime (#31269) * server : add realtime conversation and transcription on /v1/realtime Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * examples : default the realtime client to the server port 9931 Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * server : sample realtime responses right after their own decode Slots respond in turns on one context: sampling at the start of the next step read the logits of whichever slot decoded last, so concurrent sessions mixed their outputs. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * move more stuff to server-realtime, making it self-contained * examples : fix the type check of the realtime client Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * examples : use the model card prompts in the realtime client Assisted-by: Claude O
model: Add MiniCPM-OCR-Jev (#30980) * model : add MiniCPM-OCR-Jev support The model is a Qwen3.5-VL trunk with a value head read at the last token: it scores an OCR text against an image rendered from it, it does not generate. Add the openbmb-minicpm-ocr-jev decision type, served by POST /v1/systemone. The class scores are the pooled output of the sequence, read with last pooling, so the conversion turns score.weight into cls.output and sets embedding_length_out. The checkpoint has no LM head, so text generation is rejected instead of using the output weights duplicated from the token embeddings. The task is fixed, so its prompt is entirely in the systemone template, the same way h2o-lightning keeps its default there. The processor of the checkpoint allows up to 16384 merged tokens per ima
CUDA: fuse FFN gate/up matmuls and GLU in MMQ with interleaved gate/up rows (#29948) * cuda: fuse FFN gate/up and GLU in MMQ with interleaved gate/up rows For prompt processing, run the gate and up matmuls of a dense FFN as one mul_mat_q launch and apply the GLU in the write-back. - The loaders take the gate weights as a second pointer and fill the weight tile with up and gate rows interleaved in chunks of 8, so each thread holds an up value and the matching gate value (rows r and r + 8 of an MMA tile). - The MMA loop is unchanged: same tile, warp layout, vec_dot and one sum[] per thread. The fused write-back computes the GLU from registers and writes half the rows. - The fused path uses the regular tiling (no stream-k) with the column tiles innermost so that neighbouring blocks share weig
