0.1.44.1-poly.1

Strata's 0.1.44 and 0.1.44.1 are in, and Qwen3.6 can now run on either engine.

What changed since 0.1.43.1-poly.2

• The Strata project's 0.1.44 and 0.1.44.1 are merged (0.1.44, 0.1.44.1). Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, which runs on Strata's own engine, takes everything in them: Unsloth's UD-Q4_K_XL to Q8_0 files and the NVFP4 packs in setup, the faster AMD and Arc paths, and the fixes. For the five added models what reaches you is the server and setup: a literal <tool_call> or <tool_response> in a message is text, a picture in a long conversation keeps the cached state, the Responses API (Codex) follows the config's reasoning_effort, and running setup again keeps the size you installed.
• Strata's 0.1.44 runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on an engine of its own. Setup now has both: --family qwen36 is Qwen3.6 on strata-poly, as before, with the small sizes for 8 GB cards, and --family qwen36-strata is Qwen3.6 on Strata's engine, UD-Q4_K_XL and up with 32 GB of RAM or more. Strata's engine refuses files with Q3_K experts, which Qwen3.6's UD-Q2_K_XL and UD-Q3_K_M and every Tiel Coder size have, so those stay on strata-poly.
• Both engines on the same UD-Q4_K_XL file on an RTX 5090: strata-poly writes faster with every expert on the card (400 against 379 tokens/s), Strata's engine writes faster with 3 GiB of experts (196-201 against 180-183) and reads a 4K prompt 1.6 times as fast; at 31K the two read about as fast. The table is in docs/BACKENDS.md.

The engine's shared CUDA kernels changed with the merge, so the zip below is a new ready-made Windows engine; the installer downloads it and checks its SHA-256. On an RTX 5090 it gives the same tokens as 0.1.43.1-poly.2's on Tiel Coder and GLM 5.3 Flash, at the same speed.

How fast

The tables did not change: 0.1.42-poly.3, the README and docs/BACKENDS.md.

Install

Download the source below, or git clone the repository. Then run START-HERE.bat on Windows or ./setup.sh on Linux. An earlier install updates with UPDATE.bat or ./update.sh.

Limits

• The five added models are experimental, measured on two machines, a pair of RTX 3080s and one RX 7600.
• The ready-made engine is for Windows and CUDA 13 only; CUDA 12 and AMD cards compile on your PC.
• GLM 5.3 Flash needs about 100 GB of RAM, and about 8 GB more than its file in a container.
• AMD cards on Windows run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next only.

Most of this project is the work of Strata's author and contributors.