EXO v1.0.71 Release Notes

This is a small patch release, with better defaults for sampling and bug fixes for M5 series Macs and RDMA, along with support for the new Kimi K2.6.

Models

• Add Kimi K2.6, including support for multimodality (#1952)
• Add model cards for Qwen3.6 27B, GLM 5.1 and Kimi K2.6 quantisations (#1970)

Performance

• Add recommended sampling defaults (from model providers) to improve model output quality, including min_p and top_k (#1947)
• Prevent JACCL all_sum from corrupting output (#1952)

Quality of Life

• Add a Pi integration tab! (#1925)
• Handle multiple tool calls correctly in the Claude and Responses APIs (#1952)
• Add a friendly context message for bug reporting (#1959)

Bug Fixes

• Fix vision models on M5 series Macs by fixing addmm on NAX (#1927)
• Fix prefix cache for Qwen3.6 (#1952)
• Prevent complete downloads from losing their Completed status (#1956, #1958)
• Populate the image cache from events to prevent crashes (#1961)
• Fix DeepSeekV32 parsing and tensor parallelism for Gemma 4 models with effective parameters (#1967)

New Contributors

And a thank you to @nhwaani who made their first contribution here!

Full Changelog: v1.0.70...v1.0.71