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@rkinas rkinas released this 02 Nov 20:05
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v2.5.1
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basal 2.5.1 (2 November 2026). This release fixes one bug. Defaults and answers are the same as in 2.5.0.

  • --prepared auto now loads the start-up kernels shipped in the model repositories. In 2.5.0, the server's
    first download (metadata only) put a repository's prepared/<key>/manifest.json into the model's local copy
    without its inductor.bin. The server then treated that directory as found, never fetched the kernels, and
    compiled as on a cold start. You got the same answers but no shorter start-up.
  • What changed: no download takes prepared/ along any more. A prepared directory counts only when every file
    its manifest lists is present, so the server fetches the missing files. This also repairs local copies that 2.5.0
    left incomplete. 2.5.1 loads the directories already shipped for 2.5.0, because its compiled code is unchanged.
  • If you stay on 2.5.0: download the directory once before the first start, for example
    hf download Remek/basal-omni-1.0-mini --include "prepared/*".
  • Directories that basal-prepare wrote on your own machine were not affected.

Install: uv pip install "basal[fp8] @ https://github.com/rkinas/basal/archive/refs/tags/v2.5.1.tar.gz"

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