AFM

What's new

Release highlights, at a glance.

A visual record of meaningful AFM releases. Each entry links back to the complete GitHub release history for source-level detail.

Version 0.9.19

Stable release

AFM 0.9.19

Expanded Qwen, GLM, and DeepSeek support; native checkpoint conversion; OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages, and image APIs; stronger cache and runtime reliability; an updated WebUI; and detailed cross-machine qualification evidence.

Models + performance

Improves Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, GLM 5.3 Flash, and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 with MTP, execution optimizations, sparse verification, and bounded-memory fixes.

Native checkpoint conversion

Adds Qwen Next conversion controls, mapped or resident n-gram storage, and safer storage preflight and resume handling.

More API compatibility

Adds OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages and token counting, text completions, and image generation and editing for supported backends.

Cache + runtime reliability

Improves prefix-cache validation, batch dispatch, capability reporting, assistant prefill, tool-call collection, rate limiting, and fatal startup errors.

Updated WebUI + packaging

Updates the bundled WebUI, keeps the runtime-control side panel disabled pending redesign, and strengthens resource and Foundation Models build checks.

Evaluation + observability

Adds feature-specific prompts, complete AI-judge reporting, clearer result categories, live TTFT measurement, and more precise failure attribution.

AFM 0.9.19 release infographic with install commands, native TUI and API highlights, AFMKit architecture, and recently released DeepSeek, Nemotron, Muse, Qwen, and GLM models.Read the release notes on GitHub ↗Open the release test evidence →

Version 0.9.18.1

Stable release

AFM 0.9.18.1

A focused stable hotfix that restores the Apple Foundation Models provider in release builds and adds a hard gate rejecting artifacts that do not link FoundationModels.framework.

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Version 0.9.18

Stable release

AFM 0.9.18

Completes the AFMKit provider-ownership migration, introduces the advanced native terminal chat UI, hardens streamed stop handling, and strengthens installed-package and evaluation-bundle verification.

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Version 0.9.17

Stable release

AFM 0.9.17

Adds automatic, quantization-matched Qwen 3.8 MTP sidecar discovery and expands Qwen 3.8 tool-calling qualification.

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