COMMIT_LOG.md

v0.8.2 - 05/04/2023

• Wed Apr 05 2023: enable console/file debugging for --debug arg, print backtrace on command exceptionn when --debug enabled
• Tue Apr 04 2023: add shell.history_file config option

v0.8.1 - 03/04/2023

• Mon Apr 03 2023: add support for listing incompatible backends in plugins
• Mon Apr 03 2023: abstract prompt prefixing for REPLS, add model prefix for browser backend
• Mon Apr 03 2023: add warning message for broken stream interruption on API backend
• Mon Apr 03 2023: abstract launching browser context, add warning streaming not working properly on browser backend
• Sun Apr 02 2023: support interrupting streaming on API backend
• Sun Apr 02 2023: add current datatime util function
• Sun Apr 02 2023: convert backends to use langchain custom chat LLM
• Sun Apr 02 2023: move LLM class/object creation methods to base backend class
• Mon Apr 03 2023: fix ctrl-c/ctrl-d functionality with prompt thread
• Sat Apr 01 2023: reorg install section
• Sat Apr 01 2023: update doc for backend installation
• Sat Apr 01 2023: update sample config
• Sat Apr 01 2023: register cleanup function for browser backend

v0.8.0 - 01/04/2023

🚒Breaking Changes🚒

• All async functionality has been removed
  • Async functionality was determined to be overly complex and buggy for the common use cases in this project.
  • If you were using any async Python modules, switch to their sync version, and consider implementing your own async wrapper or using multithreading if necessary.
• Browser backend and ChatGPT module usage have been deprecated
  • No support will be provided for ChatGPT module usage
  • API backend is now the default
  • Browser backend will remain for now, but may be removed in a future release

Commit log

• Sat Apr 01 2023: tweak config instructions
• Sat Apr 01 2023: update docker entrypoint instructions
• Sat Apr 01 2023: deprecate browser backend, ChatGPT module usage, default to API backend
• Sat Apr 01 2023: make conversation_data_to_messages() consistent in browser backend
• Sat Apr 01 2023: fix set_title(), cleanup get_history() on API backend
• Sat Apr 01 2023: add helper func to convert SQLAlchemy objects to plain dicts
• Sat Apr 01 2023: dynamically fetch history for older chats on switch/chat/title
• Fri Mar 31 2023: completely rip out all async functionality
• Fri Mar 31 2023: Add new_conversation to ChatGPT
• Thu Mar 30 2023: add interactive arg to launch_backend(), fixes #265
• Thu Mar 30 2023: add /copy command, fixes #264
• Wed Mar 29 2023: fix broken template tests
• Wed Mar 29 2023: add file/directory util functions
• Tue Mar 28 2023: add LLM base methods for plugins to leverage

v0.7.2 - 28/03/2023

• Tue Mar 28 2023: add support for .jsonl/.xml to data_query plugin
• Tue Mar 28 2023: add config options to shell plugin
• Tue Mar 28 2023: small logic improvements to database/data_query plugins
• Tue Mar 28 2023: extend /config with edit/section args
• Mon Mar 27 2023: add data_query plugin
• Mon Mar 27 2023: more robust filename to class conversion
• Mon Mar 27 2023: snake_to_class() util function
• Mon Mar 27 2023: bump langchain required version
• Mon Mar 27 2023: add database plugin
• Mon Mar 27 2023: add agent:verbose config value to zap plugin
• Mon Mar 27 2023: tighten up prompt template for generating shell commands
• Mon Mar 27 2023: allow plugins/users to access configuration for plugins
• Mon Mar 27 2023: return None on missing value in config.get()
• Sun Mar 26 2023: add unit tests for util functions
• Sun Mar 26 2023: reorg docs
• Sun Mar 26 2023: convert to Pytest framework
• Sun Mar 26 2023: fix SQLAlchemy deprecation warnings

v0.7.1 - 26/03/2023

• Sun Mar 26 2023: per profile playwright sessions for browser backend
• Sun Mar 26 2023: no password for test users
• Sun Mar 26 2023: clean up errant console references, fixes #256
• Sun Mar 26 2023: allow custom style for util.print_status_message()

v0.7.0 - 25/03/2023

🚒Breaking Changes🚒

Lots of file/class/function reorganization:

• Shell usage should be unaffected

• Basic use cases of Python module should be unaffected

• More complex use cases of Python module will probably need code adjustments

• Sat Mar 25 2023: abstract template functionality, abstract common functions to util module

• Sat Mar 25 2023: user found/not found message helper

• Sat Mar 25 2023: reorg file structure, group modules into core/backends

v0.6.6 - 24/03/2023

• Fri Mar 24 2023: add troubleshooting section to docs
• Fri Mar 24 2023: add 'chatgpt reinstall' one shot command
• Thu Mar 23 2023: add shell plugin

v0.6.5 - 22/03/2023

• Wed Mar 22 2023: inject id into get_conversation() result, add timeout logic for api requests, use for gen_title()
• Tue Mar 21 2023: add comment, ctrl-c interrupt generation not working on windows
• Tue Mar 21 2023: add support for interrupting streaming by ctrl-c
• Mon Mar 20 2023: fix issue writing awesome prompts CSV file
• Mon Mar 20 2023: restore ability of /template-edit to create new templates
• Sun Mar 19 2023: attempt to fix sync wrapper when loop is always running
• Sun Mar 19 2023: add upgrading section to doc

v0.6.4 - 19/03/2023

• Sun Mar 19 2023: add all core plugins to example config
• Sun Mar 19 2023: add init file to plugins dir, fixes #239
• Sun Mar 19 2023: add langchain dependency
• Sun Mar 19 2023: add doc for current core plugins
• Sun Mar 19 2023: add zap plugin

v0.6.3 - 18/03/2023

• Sat Mar 18 2023: clean up template display/workflows
• Sat Mar 18 2023: extract description separate from overrides, fixes #238

v0.6.2 - 18/03/2023

• Sat Mar 18 2023: /templates command improvements
• Sat Mar 18 2023: fix secondary invocations with browser backend, fixes #236

v0.6.1 - 17/03/2023

🚒Breaking Changes🚒

The --config-dir and --data-dir arguments have changed how they interpret locations:

• Both now point to the root chatgpt-wrapper directory instead of a profile directory

• Config and data are still stored under profiles/[profile] subdirectories inside these directories

• Installations that use the default locations instead of providing CLI arguments for the locations are unaffected

• See the output of chatgpt config with no other arguments to see these updates reflected in the File configuration section

• Fri Mar 17 2023: find version in version.py

• Fri Mar 17 2023: doc for template front matter

• Fri Mar 17 2023: refactor config/data dir implementation, support non-profile specific templates/plugins dirs BREAKING CHANGE

• Thu Mar 16 2023: pretty up templates list output

• Thu Mar 16 2023: add descriptions to example templates

• Thu Mar 16 2023: better formatting of template front matter, use description key from front matter in /templates list

• Thu Mar 16 2023: enable debug logging for test scripts

• Thu Mar 16 2023: check for running event loop, use if found

• Thu Mar 16 2023: clarify how to use the sample config

v0.6.0 - 16/03/2023

• Thu Mar 16 2023: fix crash after initial user creation on api backend
• Wed Mar 15 2023: Basic plugin functionality (alpha, subject to change)
• Wed Mar 15 2023: improvements to model handling
• Tue Mar 14 2023: set new backend model after user edit
• Tue Mar 14 2023: add set_model method to API backend, error handling/logging for API requests
• Tue Mar 14 2023: bump openai version requirement
• Tue Mar 14 2023: Minor bug fix: model option was not used in the wrapper (default option was hardcoded)
• Tue Mar 14 2023: added gpt4 model option
• Tue Mar 14 2023: move signal handling to base shell class, fixes #226
• Tue Mar 14 2023: repl_history file use platform agnostic temp dir, fixes #227
• Mon Mar 13 2023: Convert commands from underscore to dash
• Mon Mar 13 2023: don't start gen_title thread if title already exists
• Mon Mar 13 2023: only add check_same_thread for sqlite connections
• Sun Feb 26 2023: added flask to requirements
• Sun Feb 26 2023: improvement to docker (speed up in debugging and adding api port)

v0.5.5 - 13/03/2023

• Mon Mar 13 2023: fix threading error with SQLite connections
• Mon Mar 13 2023: updates to example config
• Sun Mar 12 2023: add note about adding EDITOR env var in Windows
• Sun Mar 12 2023: try to get windows editor from env first
• Sun Mar 12 2023: add install notes for windows users

v0.5.4 - 12/03/2023

• Sun Mar 12 2023: launch backend after check for config CLI arg
• Sun Mar 12 2023: fix ask/ask_stream signatures to support custom titles
• Sun Mar 12 2023: add prompt-engineer example
• Sun Mar 12 2023: add 'Backend configuration' section to config output
• Sun Mar 12 2023: temp workaround for issue #224
• Sat Mar 11 2023: allow overriding system message in template front matter
• Sat Mar 11 2023: add support for frontmatter in templates

v0.5.3 - 11/03/2023

• Sat Mar 11 2023: add some example templates and API scripts
• Sat Mar 11 2023: allow passing custom title to ask/ask_stream in api backend
• Sat Mar 11 2023: init defaults for templates
• Sat Mar 11 2023: try to discover env editor on osx
• Sat Mar 11 2023: template_copy/template_delete commands
• Sat Mar 11 2023: kill special sauce for linux editor filetype, no longer needed
• Fri Mar 10 2023: ensure self.templates is a list
• Fri Mar 10 2023: add link to new video walkthrough
• Fri Mar 10 2023: fix markdown filetype for vim syntax highlighting

v0.5.2 - 09/03/2023

• Fri Mar 10 2023: HOTFIX for broken templates directory location
• Fri Mar 10 2023: indicator for current conversation in /history list
• Fri Mar 10 2023: tweak /chat help
• Fri Mar 10 2023: set new conversation in API backend on user login
• Fri Mar 10 2023: add default_user_id arg to init of API backend
• Fri Mar 10 2023: add tests for chatgpt-api Python module
• Fri Mar 10 2023: output user id in users list
• Fri Mar 10 2023: add utility scripts for commit log and pypi release

v0.5.1 - 09/03/2023

• Add completions for many more commands
• Show/set system message (initial context message for all conversations)
• System message aliases
• Template management system. See below for details (alpha, subject to change)
• Set 'markdown' filetype for editor invocations (supports syntax highlighting)
• Add built template variables, see below for details
• Native editor module (removes vipe dependency)

v0.5.0 - 08/03/2023

🚒Breaking Changes🚒

• The return values for the public methods of the ChatGPT/AsyncChatGPT classes have changed, they are now tuple with the following values:

  • success: Boolean, True if the operation succeeded, False if the operation failed.
  • data: Object, the data the command generated.
  • message: Human-readable message about the outcome of the operation.

• Introduced the concept of multiple 'backends' -- see below for the currently supported ones

• Added the 'chatgpt-api' backend, communicates via the official OpenAI REST endpoint for ChatGPT

  • Basic multi-user support (admin party at CLI)
  • Data stored in a database (SQLite by default, any configurable in SQLAlchemy allowed)
  • Allows full model customiztion
  • Numerous new shell commands and enhancements

v0.4.3 - 03/03/2023

🚒Breaking Changes🚒

• ChatGPT/AsyncChatGPT classes have changed how they receive configuration values, be sure to investigate the new function signatues for their init() and create() methods.

What is new?

• New configuration system
• Added '/config' command

v0.4.2 - 01/03/2023

• Fix broken ChatGPT sync class
• Removed nest_asyncio dependency
• Convert CLI to use AsyncChatGPT class
• Initial implementation of stop generating text response

v0.4.1 - 28/02/2023

• REVERT BREAKING CHANGE: Asyncio module requirement removed from usage of ChatGPT class, it is now a sync wrapper around the async class

v0.4.0 - 27/02/2023

🚒Breaking Changes🚒

• Command leader changed from '!' to '/'
• Asyncio module is now required to use ChatGPT class directly (refer to Python usage)

What is new?

New commands

• Added '/quit' command
• Added '/delete' support for history IDs/UUIDs
• Added '/chat' command
• Added '/switch' command
• Added '/title' command
• Added limit/offset support for '/history'

New features

• Migrated to async Playwright
• Initial API in Flask (see How to use the API)
• Added tab completion for commands
• Added '/tmp' volume for saving Playwright session
• Added CI and CodeQL workflows
• Added simple developer debug module
• Improved session refreshing (/session now works!)
• Migrated to Prompt Toolkit

See commit log for previous updates

OLDER RELEASES

• 21/02/2023: v0.3.17
  • Added debug mode (visible browser window).
  • @thehunmonkgroup fixed chat naming.
  • @thehunmonkgroup added !delete command to remove/hide conversations.
  • @thehunmonkgroup added --model flag to select model ('default' or 'legacy-paid' or 'legacy-free').
  • @thehunmonkgroup added !editor command to open the current prompt in an editor and send the edited prompt to ChatGPT.
  • @thehunmonkgroup added !history command to show the list of the last 20 conversations.
  • @NatLee added docker support.
• 17/02/2023: v0.3.16
  • Ability to open multiple sessions in parallel.
  • Code now works with ChatGPT Plus subscription.
• 14/02/2023: v0.3.15 - Updated model to text-davinci-002-render-sha (turbo model).
• 14/02/2023: v0.3.11
  • Fixed many bugs with installation. Code is refactored.
  • Now able to use the python wrapper with a proxy.
• 18/01/2023: v0.3.8 - Commands now are run only using !. For instance to enable read mode (for copy-paste and long prompts) you need to write now !read instead of read. This is to avoid conflicts with the chatgpt prompts. Fixed timeout issue.
• 17/01/2023: v0.3.7 - Added timeout to ask method to prevent hanging. Fixed return to terminal breakdown. Streaming output now is activated by default.