Local AI helper version history - 25 versions
Local AI helper by Ivo Stoykov
Local AI helper version history - 25 versions
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Latest version
Version 1.29.65
Released Apr 21, 2026 - 204.82 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Fixed
Select And Attach Elementso newly attached snippets are sent in full to the model even on later turns - Current attachments are now included directly with the model-facing final user message for better model attention
- Separated transient model context from persisted UI chat history so restored sessions show only the user prompt and model answer
- Added a compatibility filter for older sessions that may already contain model-only page or attachment context blocks
- Focused background-memory and background regression suites pass at
89/89
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Fixed
Older versions
Version 1.29.63
Released Apr 19, 2026 - 204.44 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Cloud models are now fetched live whenever the picker opens
- Cached cloud data is now used only as a fallback when the live cloud fetch fails
- Cloud tab shows the active model by default when the active model is cloud-routed
- Cloud rows already known by the local daemon are badged without duplicating them in Local
- Removed a stale commented model-switch handler from the ribbon code
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.59
Released Apr 18, 2026 - 202.76 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Cloud tab now shows the full Ollama cloud catalogue, not only previously used models
- Last cloud model list update timestamp stored in local storage
- Cloud tab title attribute shows staleness: "Cloud models updated today", "last updated N days ago", or "never loaded — click to refresh"
- Timestamp is written and title updated automatically after every successful cloud fetch
- Fixed false "Failed to load model" error on every model switch
- Replaced status checks so any 2xx response is treated as success
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.56
Released Apr 17, 2026 - 202.48 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Added inline rename button to each session history menu item
- Separated session title to handle properly the click, confirmed on Enter or blur
- Added
renameSession— saves the new title and prevent later auto-title overwriting - Session element structure refactored to accommodate the rename button
- Added separate styles for the buttons to distinguish it from each other
- Title generation is now fire-and-forget so it no longer blocks the UI after the first turn
- No longer appends a stale session fragment — the generated title replaces it wholesale
- Added clean raw model output: strips leading
title:labels, removes punctuation and quotes, limits to 5 words
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.50
Released Apr 14, 2026 - 201.16 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- The static model-list structure is no longer recreated on every open
- Extracted tab-click and refresh-button handlers into standalone functions and registered them properly
- Model List now receives the full response payload and splits models into local/cloud group once; both panels are targeted and repopulated in place instead of being recreated
- Active tab is now always derived from where the active model lives
- Active Tab is now synced on every list open, not only on tab click
- Bug fixed with refresh button location - now it is resolved from the shadow DOM
- The model list tab resolves now properly on click
- Active model indicator refactored to be consistent
- Guard for missing model name moved before filling the name
- Refresh button spin animation fixed
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.45
Released Apr 13, 2026 - 199.18 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterModels And Ollama Cloud- Added a provider-aware model catalogue backed by Ollama with cached per-model metadata
- Added grouped local and cloud model browsing in the sidebar and options page
- Added remembered local/cloud model-tab state in the sidebar model picker
- Added a safe cloud fallback state instead of failing when no cloud models are available
- Documented the signed-in local Ollama path for Ollama Cloud usage without storing API keys in the extension
Context Window- Added automatic context selection for local models when the active model exposes a context length and the user has not set it manually
- Left cloud models on provider defaults for the first pass
Streaming- Added streamed Ollama chat response handling in the background worker
- Added live plain-text progress in the sidebar while a reply is being generated
- Kept the final rich markdown render as a single completion-step render
- Kept raw streamed payloads available for debugging when debug mode is enabled
Validation- Added unit coverage for the new model catalogue, automatic context window, and streamed response helpers
- Verified the local/cloud model browser live in Chrome
- Verified the new streamed response behaviour live in Chrome
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.37
Released Mar 30, 2026 - 194.15 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Fixed content-extractor message passing so extracted page content is returned reliably to the worker instead of occasionally resolving to a bare
true - Refactored the content-script runtime message handler to use a single response path
- Removed redundant
sendResponsehandling, which now returns extracted content directly
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Fixed content-extractor message passing so extracted page content is returned reliably to the worker instead of occasionally resolving to a bare
Version 1.29.34
Released Mar 29, 2026 - 193.97 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Added
search_webinternal tool allowing the LLM to search the web using the user's configured search engine - Search opens a reusable background tab (visible, non-active) and reuses it across requests — tab ID persisted in
chrome.storage.session - Added search engine registry with URL builders, SERP CSS selectors, and URL filters/decoders for DuckDuckGo, Google, and Bing
- Added web search orchestrator handling tab lifecycle, SERP scraping, result page content extraction, captcha/consent detection, and result assembly
- Added search engine setting (default: DuckDuckGo) and search result count setting (default: 3, max: 5) to General Settings
- Fixed save settings in options page not persisting plain values
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Added
Version 1.29.28
Released Mar 27, 2026 - 190.27 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Fixed internal tools silently returning empty results
- Fixed grouped LinkedIn experience entries mislabelling bare tenure strings
- Fixed emitting multi-paragraph promotional blurbs
- Added self-contained LinkedIn profile extractor
- Detects LinkedIn profile pages and replaces the raw section with normalised output
- Handles grouped layout (company header + role list) and standalone layout (role-first entries)
- Uses stable selectors
- Filters "Show all" / "Show less" LinkedIn UI noise
- Updated LinkedIn related content output format
- Removed eager page-content pre-load on navigation and tab activation
@{{page}}parameter now extracts content fresh from the live DOM at request time- Page content is persisted to session history only after it is actually sent to the model
- Removed `redundant message handlers
- Simplified page read from session DB only
- Purge stale page storage keys left by earlier installations — called once at service-worker startup; planned for removal after v1.31.x
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.20
Released Mar 23, 2026 - 187.51 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Fixed content filtering missing some pre-defined elements
- Fixed prompt placeholder bug causing casual empty content
- Other minor fixes
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.18
Released Mar 22, 2026 - 186.79 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterNew Features- Added thinking/reasoning display support for models with thinking capabilities
- Thinking content now rendered as collapsible "🤔 Thought" sections in UI
- Thinking is not stored in database or session history
Bug Fixes- Fixed rendering in thinking blocks
- Fixed critical message passing bug preventing proper returning results
- Fixed await async responses bug
- Enhanced tool error messages
- Tool error messages now list available tools to guide model selection
- Fixed on-demand page capture failure during startup
- Fixed thinking-only replies persistence mismatch
- Thinking-only responses now skipped during display to match history persistence behaviour
- Messages without content or tool_calls are not saved to history
- Eliminated unnecessary latency on first page-tool request for uncached tabs
- Removed duplicate functions
- Unified functions with automatic context detection in utils.js
- Detects service worker context
- Automatically uses proper message depending on the execution context
Code Refactoring- Fixed functions naming conflicts
- Fixed race condition in model capability detection during model swap
- Centralised some helper functions
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.15
Released Mar 18, 2026 - 186.42 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Fixed "no page available" error when model requests page content with
@{{page}}placeholder - Added
validateAndGetTabIdutility to handle missing or invalid tab IDs with fallback to active tab - Added
isValidContentScriptTabutility to validate tabs support content scripts (http/https only) - Transformed
getActiveSessionPageDatafrom passive retriever to active data provider - Added
requestPageDataFromTabto trigger content script page capture when data missing - Modified
setActiveSessionPageDatato return success/failure status instead of void - Added tab ID validation at all entry points (fetchDataAction, execInternalTool, processCommandPlaceholders)
- Added
capturePageDatamessage handler in content script - Imported
jslib/utils.jsinto background service worker - Added comprehensive test coverage for new validation functions (12 new test cases)
- Fixed storage key mismatch issue caused by undefined tab IDs
- Improved error handling for non-http(s) tabs (chrome://, about:, extension pages)
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Fixed "no page available" error when model requests page content with
Version 1.29.11
Released Mar 14, 2026 - 185.63 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterFixed thinking-only responses causing empty content display in UI
Thinking-only responses no longer sent to frontend, only logged in worker console
Added status bar feedback "Thinking completed, awaiting response..." for thinking-only replies
Simplified frontend extraction logic
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.10
Released Mar 4, 2026 - 185.3 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Fixed thinking-only responses causing empty content display in UI
- Thinking-only responses no longer sent to frontend, only logged in worker console
- Added status bar feedback "Thinking completed, awaiting response..." for thinking-only replies
- Simplified frontend extraction logic
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.29.8
Released Mar 3, 2026 - 185.19 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Fixed
thinkingonly responses (withoutcontent) to be handled properly - Thinking-only replies are not stored in the history
- Updated the UI response handler rendering
Empty content!when thinking reply occurs - Output thinking in worker debug console
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Fixed
Version 1.28.98
Released Mar 2, 2026 - 184.89 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Refactored session title generation to execute in background worker after first turn
- Removed redundant message passing between worker and content script for title generation
- Removed obsolete userPrompt message flow and related functions (storeLastGeneratedPrompt, dumpRawContent)
- Added titleGenerated flag to sessions to prevent repeated title generation
- Cleaned up legacy pre-session-handling code
- Added navigation fcilitation shortcuts in the optionts page
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.97
Released Feb 28, 2026 - 184.39 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterModel caching
Added embedding
DB schema upgraded
Bug Fixes
Session Archiving
Improved Page Content Extraction
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.96
Released Feb 28, 2026 - 184.39 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterModel caching
Added embedding
DB schema upgraded
Bug Fixes
Session Archiving
Improved Page Content Extraction
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.94
Released Feb 28, 2026 - 184.58 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterModel caching
Added embedding
DB schema upgraded
Bug Fixes
Session Archiving
Improved Page Content Extraction
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.93
Released Feb 28, 2026 - 184.6 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterModel caching
Added embedding
DB schema upgraded
Bug Fixes
Session Archiving
Improved Page Content Extraction
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.90
Released Feb 24, 2026 - 182.77 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterModel caching
Added embedding
DB schema upgraded
Bug Fixes
Session Archiving
Improved Page Content Extraction
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.87
Released Feb 23, 2026 - 180.94 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and laterModel caching
Added embedding
DB schema upgraded
Bug Fixes
Session Archiving
Improved Page Content Extraction
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.85
Released Feb 22, 2026 - 180.93 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Model caching
- Added embedding
- DB schema upgraded
- Bug Fixes
- Session Archiving
- Improved Page Content Extraction
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.82
Released Feb 22, 2026 - 172.11 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Model caching
- Added embedding
- DB schema upgraded
- Bug Fixes
- Session Archiving
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0
Version 1.28.80
Released Feb 22, 2026 - 171.17 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later- Model caching
- Added embedding
- DB schema upgraded
- Bug Fixes
- Session Archiving
Full list of the changes is available at https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/blob/main/documentation.md
Issues: https://github.com/ivostoykov/localAI/issuesSource code released under Mozilla Public License 2.0