lemonade-sdk/lemonade candidate-v2026.46.2

v2026.46.2 (release candidate)

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Headline

⚠️ These notes are AI generated and will be revised by a human ⚠️

• Benchmark results can now be submitted from lemonade bench to the public leaderboard with a single --submit flag, and a claim link lets others verify your setup.
• New classification and decision-model capabilities: zero-shot text classification via POST /v1/classify with a labels parameter, and SystemOne decision models for typed, image-based, or score-based questions.
• Image generation expands to CUDA on Linux x86_64 and older NVIDIA GPUs (Pascal/Volta), with TheNoise models now accepting custom fractional upscale factors.
• Container backends for AMD Strix Halo grow to five variants — including DS4 with speculative decoding, ROCm FP4, Halogen Flash, Gufo, and a community llama.cpp fork — bringing new model families to the platform.

Breaking Changes

⚠️ These notes are AI generated and will be revised by a human ⚠️

• image_defaults and audio_defaults are no longer returned in the /models API response; their values are now nested under recipe_options, so clients reading the old keys will find them absent.
• A new user_configurable boolean flag on backend descriptor options may expose technical knobs such as soft_pixel_cap, pcm_sample_rate, and pcm_channels to users — filter on this flag to hide internal settings.
• FLM v1.0.11 returns max_tokens exactly as requested rather than max_tokens+1, so chat completions that relied on the extra token will now stop one token early.
• FLM v1.0.11 streams token usage counts only when stream_options.include_usage is set; without it, the /api/v1/stats endpoint records no token counts or throughput for FLM streams.
• FLM v1.0.11 returns 400 for previously-accepted invalid fields including invalid tool_choice, forced tool calls on small Qwen3 models (up to 1.7B), conversation history on *-flash models, and requests with no messages or prompt.

Lemonade Server

Other platforms? See our Installation Options for Docker, Snap, Arch, Debian, and more.

Embeddable Lemonade

Portable binaries for bundling into your own installer. Run lemond ./ as a subprocess.

What's Changed

Thanks @Zorro-Zhang, @bitgamma, @fl0rianr, @iswaryaalex, @jeremyfowers, @kenvandine, @meghsat, @mike2307, @pwilkin for your awesome contributions to this release!

New Contributors

• @Zorro-Zhang made their first contribution in #4002

Full Changelog: v2026.45.3...candidate-v2026.46.2

The Windows installers in this release candidate are not signed; Windows SmartScreen will warn before installing. Stable releases are signed.