v0.1.0

0.1.0 (2026-10-11)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• the published image moves from ghcr.io//sparklingkit to ghcr.io//sparkfire, and distribution/install.sh is gone.
• dgx: start-dgx-spark.sh no longer builds, downloads or starts the video service unless --video-backend fasth3 is passed, and a restart without it stops a running video service.

Features

• asr: add a Parakeet adapter with the OpenAI transcription route (d7553e3)
• asr: build sentences, subtitle cues and paragraphs from word timestamps (151970d)
• asr: make Parakeet the default speech recognition backend (a90ab75)
• asr: package parakeet.cpp for the DGX Spark (611b327)
• asr: request word timestamps from Parakeet (7b56582)
• asr: write sentence lines and subtitle cues from word timestamps (23ff788)
• chat: let the model search the web and read pages (85eabd0)
• dgx: add an opt-in SearXNG for chat web search (b9ee3ae)
• dgx: drop the bundled LLM, Qwen3-ASR and grounding services (79bad49)
• dgx: drop the bundled LocateAnything grounding service (6e3a8c9)
• dgx: drop the bundled Qwen3.6 LLM from the reference stack (51c8ded)
• dgx: drop the Qwen3-ASR backend; Parakeet is the only speech service (4bb1bdf)
• dgx: make FastH3 video generation opt-in (f41e66a)
• dgx: make Parakeet the default speech backend of the start script (c52e28e)
• dgx: run FastH3 video generation in the reference stack (03ff048)
• read SPARKFIRE_* environment variables (a4ffe6f)
• ui: add the Sparkfire mark (d2e3f3a)
• ui: add the Sparkfire mark (3423884)
• ui: hide grounding until a grounding endpoint is configured (662f0c2)
• ui: hide grounding until a grounding endpoint is configured (145980e)
• ui: offer video generation on the workbench instead of grounding (f3372a6)
• ui: rename the product to Sparkfire (dac7baa)
• video: add a FastH3 video service driven through ComfyUI (5c50f1f)
• video: add FastH3 text-to-video with sound (c063bd8)
• video: add the text-to-video module (8b7bb24)
• video: offer 10-second videos (6430549)
• video: offer 10-second videos (d8932db)

Bug fixes

• asr: drop Parakeet's <unk> marks from words (ad960b5)
• asr: keep chunk text when an ASR returns no word times (46888aa)
• asr: keep subtitle cues within their caps when punctuation tokens follow (22012fa)
• asr: run the Parakeet container without root and with a health check (b6baee3)
• asr: send Parakeet chunks of at most 30 seconds (3d5c35f)
• asr: strip Qwen3-ASR language tags anywhere in a transcript (bc69103)
• chat: keep answers going when the page leaves the chat (887cfc4)
• chat: keep answers going when the page leaves the chat (e776c88)
• deps: patch security advisories in production dependencies (980c5c2)
• dgx: default split installs and the demo to the Parakeet model id (2941be1)
• dgx: name the Parakeet engine from its command line (fd0d639)
• dgx: report only the services the stack runs in status (03e95a3)
• dgx: start Parakeet through its readiness variables (f0c6a61)
• dgx: stop and remove containers of the retired services (2445239)
• media: forward only the status route through the demo proxy (e257921)
• patch dependency advisories, add CI/CD and make the fork public-ready (cfd3145)
• ui: point footer, update check and onboarding at the fork (403ac9a)
• video: create ComfyUI's base folders before starting it (12e4999)

Dependencies

• dgx: bump python-multipart to 0.0.31 in the adapters (eed61c5)

Documentation

• add per-container memory tables and Saluki's context size (f095164)
• add the Sparkfire notice above SparklingKit's (00bb9c8)
• advise keeping the queue at two workers on a Spark (acfe2d6)
• agents: fix the memory rule after the stack lost its LLM (396b088)
• asr: design Parakeet as the default speech recognition backend (531cd6e)
• asr: document Parakeet as the default speech backend (5790d88)
• asr: plan the Parakeet backend and refine its timing rules (43256b3)
• describe chat web search (89ecd7d)
• describe FastH3 video as on by default (37bdeed)
• describe Sparkfire and credit SparklingKit (cb9aff0)
• describe the CI and release process and Conventional Commits (1dd91c1)
• dgx: explain upgrading from the six-model stack (373d980)
• media: record the tour with video and web search at full resolution (8ce6928)
• readme: explain the video trade-offs and credit its authors (bb0c3cd)
• readme: rewrite the README around a feature tour recorded from the real app (9e2e71e)
• readme: rewrite the README around what Sparkfire does today (1f51b01)
• validation: check parakeet.cpp v0.6.1 and load the Parakeet stack (7df5b23)
• validation: correct the Parakeet chunk lengths and long-file figures (cbf4b12)
• validation: mark removed services in the memory tables (99e183f)
• validation: record Parakeet results through the app (6d1cc3b)
• validation: record Parakeet with 30-second chunks against Qwen3-ASR (5b95d41)
• validation: record the FastH3 video bake-off on the Spark (b6d5081)
• validation: record the FastH3 video bake-off on the Spark (4236d6c)
• validation: record the FastH3 video service on the Spark (291e338)
• video: document text-to-video, its service and its license (32c13de)

Build

• drop upstream's installers and release workflows (c7cd5ff)