0.12.0 - LLama3

Major Changes

• May 2024 Binary Update (Take 2) by @martindevans in #712
• Logging interceptor by @martindevans in #649
• fix: add cuda llava native libraries. by @AsakusaRinne in #647
• Added Whisper.net x LLamaSharp examples for Speech Chat by @Lyrcaxis in #656
• Extension LLava with in memory images by @zsogitbe in #653
• Llava Initial approach to clear images by @SignalRT in #664
• BatchedExecutor Save/Load by @martindevans in #681
• Interruptible Async Model Loading With Progress Monitoring by @martindevans in #702
• LLava Async Loading by @martindevans in #703
• Optional IHistoryTransform added to ChatSession.InitializeSessionFromHistoryAsync by @Norne9 in #711
• Implement context shifting in executor base by @ksanman in #714
• Llama Text Templater by @martindevans in #715
• Make LLamaKvCacheView Safe by @martindevans in #721

Documentation

• Removed ContextSize from most examples by @martindevans in #663
• Add issue templates. by @AsakusaRinne in #700
• Add LLaMA3 chat session example. by @AsakusaRinne in #708
• Improved Example Docs by @martindevans in #728

Bug Fixes

• fix: llava backend ignores avx and cuda. by @AsakusaRinne in #642
• Embeddings correction by @zsogitbe in #674
• Fix context params defaults by @dlyz in #729
• Made special tokens included in prompts tokenize as intended by @Lyrcaxis in #677
• Fixed Minor Issues With Model Loading by @martindevans in #697
• Empty batch check by @martindevans in #691
• Optimize Semantic Kernel LLamaSharpChatCompletion when running with StatefulExecutorBase models by @kidkych in #671
• SemanticKernel: Correcting non-standard way of working with PromptExecutionSettings by @zsogitbe in #689
• Fix cublas build action by @martindevans in #725

Other Changes

• build(deps): bump System.Text.Json from 8.0.2 to 8.0.3 by @dependabot in #636
• build(deps): bump Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi from 8.0.2 to 8.0.3 by @dependabot in #638
• build(deps): bump Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1 by @dependabot in #637
• April 2024 Binary Update by @martindevans in #662
• Slightly Safer Quantize Params by @martindevans in #698
• Removed Unnecessary Constructor From Safe Handles by @martindevans in #696
• ci: add workflow to check the spellings. by @AsakusaRinne in #710
• ci: add a workflow to check code format. by @AsakusaRinne in #709
• Remove Conversation.Prompt(String) by @martindevans in #719
• ci: add benchmark test. by @AsakusaRinne in #720

New Contributors

• @Lyrcaxis made their first contribution in #656
• @Norne9 made their first contribution in #711
• @ksanman made their first contribution in #714
• @dlyz made their first contribution in #729
• @eltociear made their first contribution in #730

Full Changelog: 0.11.1...v0.12.0