v2.7.1

What's Changed

• Completely revamp model loading to support explicit unload/reload (#1969)
  • We no longer load a model by default on application start
  • We no longer load a model by default on chat context switch
• Save and restore of window geometry across application starts (#1989)
• Update to latest llama.cpp as of 2/21/2024 and add CPU/GPU support for Gemma (#1992)
  • Also enable Vulkan GPU support for Phi and Phi-2, Qwen2, and StableLM

Fixes

• Fix visual artifact in update reminder dialog (16927d9)
• Blacklist Intel GPUs as they are still not supported (a1471be, nomic-ai/llama.cpp#14)
• Improve chat save/load speed (excluding startup/shutdown with defaults) (6fdec80, nomic-ai/llama.cpp#15)
• Significantly improve handling of chat-style prompt templates, and reupload Mistral OpenOrca (#1970, #1993)

New Contributors

• @simonw made their first contribution in #1964

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.7.1