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b12191

The latest update to llama.cpp introduces enhanced MoE (Mixture of Experts) cache functionality, enabling computation of cache misses on the CPU with a configurable CPU share. A new tuning script, moe-cache-tune.py, automatically determines optimal cache size and CPU share settings based on system performance. The update also improves scheduling efficiency, removes redundant sync operations, and refactors code for better maintainability, while maintaining compatibility across multiple platforms including macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android.

b12180

The release adds the Kimi-K3.1-Pro text model to llama.cpp, replacing full-attention MLA layers in K3 with DSA (Dynamic Sparse Attention) layers featuring a lightning indexer. The indexer uses an additive mask over the cache and reuses sparse flash attention paths, while preserving existing KDA layers and MoE components. The model's architecture includes four indexer tensors per DSA layer, hybrid memory for caching, and maintains quantization integrity by excluding indexer parameters from quant overrides. Verified against HF checkpoint with identical PPL beyond context length, and supports multiple platforms including macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, and iOS.

b12136

The update addresses an issue in llama.cpp where the number of GPU layers was incorrectly calculated by not accounting for skipped NextN layers, leading to improper layer distribution between CPU and GPU. The fix ensures that skipped NextN layers are included in the n_gpu_layers count and properly assigned during model loading, resolving a bug where layer 0 remained on the CPU despite offloading all other layers.

b12170

The llama.cpp v1.21.70 release includes enhancements to the moe-cache system, introducing an LRFU/MQ-inspired hybrid cache with improved token handling, key computation, and decay calculations. Changes include adjusting the half-life parameter, increasing the number of classes to 8, refining score computation based on age, removing redundant branches, and improving documentation around unused slots and sorting. The release also features updated build binaries for multiple platforms including macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, and openEuler, with support for CUDA, Vulkan, ROCm, OpenVINO, SYCL, and other backends.

b12122

The update introduces optimizations for CUDA by fusing NVFP4 gate/up operations and GLU within MMQ, honoring requested precision in fused gate/up MMQ, sharing scale checks for NVFP4, skipping unused FP4 kernels, testing with W4A8 configurations without scales and with batching, and adding checks for gate_scale before loading fused NVFP4 gate scale.

b12094

Optimized TOP_K performance on Hexagon backend by skipping bitonic sort for tiles whose maximum cannot surpass the k-th best value, replacing tile sort with top_k_scan() to reduce 256-float blocks using HVX max-reduce, and inserting only surviving elements into a sorted k-entry list. Supports k values from 2 to 64 and row widths over 1024 in both single-row and multi-row paths. NaN treated as -INF, ties preserve first-seen index. Eliminated scalar reads from VTCM in hex-top-k.

b12101

The gguf writer now writes host-buffer tensor data directly to the file, skipping the temporary staging vector, which eliminates per-tensor allocation, zero-initialization, and memcpy operations.

v0.44.0

ComfyUI v0.44.0 introduces multiple new partner nodes for tools like Patina, VEED, BFL, Ideogram, Pruna, MiniMax, Topaz, Sonilo, and OpenAI, adding features such as higher resolution video upscaling, context window editing, and new models. Enhancements include support for ProRes and custom chroma subsampling in video saving, improved frontend handling with pinned versions, optimized tensor comparisons, and better VAE compute dtype control. Performance optimizations address redundant concatenations and memory management, while bug fixes resolve crashes related to VAE decoding and prefetch queue cleanup. The release also updates workflow templates, embedded documentation, and default settings, with contributions from new developers.

b11923

ggml : relax scale to non-contiguous views (#31146) * ggml : relax scale to non-contiguous views SCALE requires src0 to be 1D-contiguous. Relax this to dim-0 contiguity with arbitrary row strides (ggml_is_contiguous_rows), same as the unary ops in the Metal backend. - ggml: relax the assert in ggml_scale_impl - cpu: address src0 rows through their byte strides (f32, bf16) - cuda: stride-aware kernel, fastdiv row decomposition - metal: support bf16 scale (guarded unary instantiations) - sycl: keep the gate at contiguous, the kernel is flat f32 Add view variants to test_scale. Verified on CPU, Metal and CUDA. Assisted-by: dsh:llama.cpp/ggml-org/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF (RTX 5090 32GB, DDR5 128GB) * cuda : skip the softcap fusion on non-contiguous views The fused softcap kernel reads src and w

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n8n@3.0.0

# [3.0.0](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/compare/n8n@2.45.0...n8n@3.0.0) (2026-10-27) ### Bug Fixes * Add file-type tooltip to artifact download button ([#41490](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41490)) ([4a74f02](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/4a74f027e612f31098b354dd3a77b2c2ab98281c)) * **ai-builder:** Check execution:read in Assistant execution reads ([#41863](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41863)) ([a967486](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/a9674866d075e989a5ce896432262c9a7dc8b0c7)) * **ai-builder:** Send Assistant model calls through the configured AI transport ([#41948](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41948)) ([9b63561](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/9b63561cbb48f06d216f27be3b77722d97e4e74a)) * Allow custom OAuth2 scopes ([#41249](https://github.com/n8n-

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n8n@2.46.0

# [2.46.0](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/compare/n8n@2.45.0...n8n@2.46.0) (2026-10-27) ### Bug Fixes * Add file-type tooltip to artifact download button ([#41490](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41490)) ([4a74f02](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/4a74f027e612f31098b354dd3a77b2c2ab98281c)) * **ai-builder:** Check execution:read in Assistant execution reads ([#41863](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41863)) ([a967486](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/a9674866d075e989a5ce896432262c9a7dc8b0c7)) * **ai-builder:** Send Assistant model calls through the configured AI transport ([#41948](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41948)) ([9b63561](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/9b63561cbb48f06d216f27be3b77722d97e4e74a)) * Allow custom OAuth2 scopes ([#41249](https://github.com/n8

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b11909

hexagon: MUL_MAT_ID row skipping optimizations and improvements (#31169) * hex-mmid: vectorize skipped row zeroing and added zeroing to fused MM_ID_NX * hex-mmid: remove scalar div **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11909/llama-b11909-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11909/llama-b11909-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz) - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11909/llama-b11909-xcframework.zip) **Linux:** - [Ubuntu x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11909/

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b11905

vulkan: rms norm optimization using subgroup reductions (#29882) * RMS Norm Subgroup reductions optimizaton * Fix build error * Improved optimization * Make usage of BLOCK_SIZE consistent * Add fast path to skip 2nd subgroupAdd * Add AMD Vendor to subgroup reduction opt * Add comment clarifying rms_dict and merge_maps behavior * Add unroll * Rebase * Fixed syntax issue * Add 128/256/512 block sizes to non-subgroup path * Remove trailing whitespace **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11905/llama-b11905-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.c

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Release: v5.21.0

# Release v5.21.0 ## New Model additions ### MiniCPM-OCR MiniCPM-OCR is a document-understanding model from OpenBMB's MiniCPM-V family. It keeps the MiniCPM-V 4.6 architecture, which pairs a SigLIP vision encoder and a window-attention merger with a Qwen3.5 language model. It is specialized for reading text-dense images such as scanned pages, screenshots, receipts and tables. **Links:** [Documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/minicpm_ocr) | [Paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2509.18154) * Feat test (#49920) by @guarin in [#49920](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/49920) ### Flint Flint is Recursive's mixture-of-experts language model. Compared to a standard SwiGLU MoE transformer such as Qwen3-MoE, it uses hybrid attention (sliding-windo

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b11900

common: pin model resolution on real HF repo layouts (#30548) * tests: pin model resolution on real repo listings Extend test-model-resolution with 63 repo listings captured verbatim from the HF API, chosen to cover every file naming pattern found across 1237 GGUF repos of the major publishers and pruned to whole quant groups. Each repo pins its resolved plans and its cache listing. The expectations follow what each file really is per its GGUF header, not what the current resolver picks, so a mismatch is a resolution bug. Mismatches are collected and reported together before the test fails. * tests: leave the listing unchecked on paths the filesystem refuses Some real split names (DevQuasar's Model.Q2_K.gguf-00001-of-00012.gguf under a quant folder) exceed MAX_PATH once materialized in the

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