Key Features
Audio & TTS Enhancements
- Streaming Playback: Introduced streaming for TTS, significantly reducing latency. (by @Pento95)
- Improved Management: Centralized text chunking and improved audio resource management for smoother playback. (by @Pento95)
- Expanded Support: Added Microsoft SAPI support (by @Javedz678) and a TTS volume override setting (by @failerko).
- Consistent Speed: Better control over playback speed across different devices. (by @Pento95)
Image Generation
- Pollinations.ai Integration: Added Pollinations as a new image provider. (by @Pento95)
- UX Improvements: Aspect ratio fixes for character portraits and lazy loading for better performance. (by @munimunigamer)
UI & Experience
- Sidebar & Drawers: Added resizable sidebar in story (by @failerko) and intuitive drawer components (by @munimunigamer).
- Library & Gallery: A new gallery tab for integrated images (by @Javedz678) and improved story card views (by @munimunigamer).
- Themes: Expanded customization with 16 new themes. (by @munimunigamer)
- Autoscroll: Intelligent autoscrolling during suggestion generation, including a manual "scroll to bottom" button. (by @failerko)
Lorebook & Worldbuilding
- Wizard Improvements: Major cleanup of the character/story creation wizard (by @munimunigamer)
- Interactive Lorebook Fandom: Added fandom wiki page support for interactive lorebook creation (by @unkarelian).
- Organization: Better lorebook import/export and improved entry list management. (by @munimunigamer)
Bug Fixes & Refinement
- Core Logic: Fixed critical issues where lorebook activations weren't reset during retries or cross-contaminated other sessions. (by @unkarelian and @munimunigamer)
- Reliability: Resolved "matched duplicates" in story logic and improved retry behavior (only deleting the target entry). (by @munimunigamer and @failerko)
- UI Polishing: Fixed countless minor bugs in dropdowns, click areas, and modal layouts (especially the "maximize" feature for lorebooks). (by @failerko and @munimunigamer)
- Cleanup: Underwent a MASS reorganization of the index and settings structures to improve maintainability. (by @munimunigamer)