The Dev and Math Update 💻 (3.5.0)

[Jeffser]

Hi everyone, I cooked a nice update to start the year!

Release Date: Jan 12, 2025

Attaching Menu

Now you can long press / right click the attachment button and you will get this nice menu, from here you can attach files, screenshots, websites and YouTube captions!

Of course that means new dialogs for attaching websites and YouTube captions

Note

You can still just paste the URLs in the message entry and it will work as expected.

Attaching Screenshots

Note

Doesn't work in MacOS currently

You probably saw the option in the previous section, you can now attach screenshots!

That button just calls the interactive screenshot tool for your desktop and attaches the result as an image.

Bigger Images

Images are now saved in the database and parsed to models in 640p.

LaTeX Rendering

In the background Alpaca detects LaTeX equations and renders them into tmp images, those images are represented in the UI as buttons, this is the result:

Of course that's kinda slow but it's the only realistic way of doing this.

New Language Runners

You can now run C++ and HTML (with css and js scripts)

C++

It basically saves a .cpp file and then compiles it into a binary, then the terminal runs that terminal.

HTML

This is more complicated, let's say you have a message with multiple code blocks (html, css, js)

You can only run the html code block but when you do Alpaca will look up if there are css or js code blocks in the same message, if it finds any it adds them to the web server directory, really smart, really cool.

Then it runs a small web server using python, you also have access to the logs in the terminal.

Shortcut to Code Runner Directory

There's a new button in the terminal, from there you can open the code runner directory.

Note

In the python directory there's a file named requirements.txt you can edit that to specify which pip packages you need.

Edit Code Blocks Directly

There's now a button in code blocks to edit them directly, that means making the same widget editable and saveable.

Good for making quick adjustments to the code without having to edit the whole raw message.

Complete Keyboard Shortcut Window

The shortcut window now includes pretty much every single shortcut.

Small Stuff

• Website attachments now extracts their own titles instead of being named website.md
• Better chat title generation with optional emojis (models decide that)
• Added option to attach any plain text files
• Added spellchecker to message entry
• Alpaca's parameters are now stored using SQLite3
• Small appearance changes in text entries
• Alpaca's launch process is now more reliable
• Closing terminal now kills the script subprocess

Last Minute Stuff

• Models that are only available at huge sizes are now hidden by default
• Embedding models are now hidden by default

[loulou64490]

WOW ! AMAZING UPDATE§§

[Jeffser]

Working on testing and polishing for the next release.

I also made a new website

The release date is still set for tomorrow (Jan 12, 2025)

[krzemyczek]

The math still sometimes doesn't work

or work like that:

Nevertheless, thank you, great job!