This is a minor release, the main reason for which is that there hasn't been an official release for a few months now and some small things have accumulated on the master branch that would be nice to be upstreamed. I am planning a major v1.5.0 release with some new and long-waited functionality soon:
- Full CUDA offloading
- Efficient Beam-Search implementation
- Grammar support
The current version v1.4.3 should be considered in beta as I haven't worked intensively on whisper.cpp recently and there might be some issues that made their way in the code. I'll try to polish things in the next days and prepare a stable v1.5.0 release. In the meantime, any feedback will be highly appreciated.
Detailed API changes, features and new contributor recognitions will be included in the v1.5.0 release.