rigspark v3.1.2

RigSpark now lives at https://github.com/rigspark/rigspark. 3.1.1 reached
crates.io, but its downloads and desktop update were never published, so
3.1.2 is the first app release with the 3.1.1 changes below.

Changes

• New home: rigspark/rigspark. Update checks, the desktop updater,
  catalog updates, model requests and every link now use the new address.
  Container images from this release are at ghcr.io/rigspark/rigspark.
  Apps older than 3.1.2 may stop showing "Update to …" on their own; use
  Runtime › Check for updates in the desktop app, or download 3.1.2 from the
  releases page.

Fixes

• A test that compared a path with forward slashes failed on Windows and
  stopped the 3.1.1 release.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

Desktop: download RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon), RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel Mac) or RigSpark_x64-setup.exe (Windows). The Mac app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.

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rigspark v3.1.0

Features

• First-run notice. The GUI and desktop app open with a short notice that
  states, in bold, the MIT licence terms, the "as is" warranty disclaimer,
  that each model's licence and every generated output are the user's
  responsibility, that the licence covers the code and not the RigSpark name
  or logo, and that data stays on the device. It is shown until confirmed and
  can be reopened from Runtime › Terms and licences.
• Image chat makes the shape you need, in several versions. The
  composer's Image mode picks thumbnail (16:9), wallpaper (9:16) or square and
  1, 2 or 4 versions, each on its own seed; keep a seed to steer one picture.
  Results download, copy to the clipboard, or go to a connected app (Canva,
  Figma, a file store) through the chat and its approvals; RigSpark does not
  re-implement editors. Generation jobs and rigspark generate --aspect take
  square, landscape or portrait and report their seed; time per picture
  is measured, never estimated.
• Voice in the workspace (Community Edition). Models gains a Voice
  tab: a curated catalog of speak models (kokoro-82m, chatterbox via
  mlx-audio on Apple Silicon) and listen models (Whisper large-v3-turbo q8_0,
  small q8_0 and base.en via whisper.cpp, pinned and SHA-256 verified), each
  with a memory-only fit and its licence. Chat can speak replies, read any
  reply aloud, take dictation from the microphone, and a new Voice mode
  writes a script with the text model and reads it, or reads your exact
  text, with an inline player and WAV download. Any loopback server with
  OpenAI's audio endpoints can be attached instead.
• Runtime view revamp. A live memory bar shows what voice models take
  next to everything else, voice engines show their state, endpoint and stop
  control, and voice settings cover spoken replies, microphone, audio output
  and attaching a server.

Changes

• A quieter composer. Reply mode (Text, Image, Video, Voice), image shape
  and versions, voice options and Speak replies now sit behind the +
  button. A non-text mode shows as one chip ("Image · Thumbnail 16:9 · 4
  versions") that reopens the menu, with × back to text.
• Menu bar icon is a one-hood macOS template image that follows light and
  dark menu bars, so RigSpark and RigSpark Crew are easy to tell apart. The
  Dock icon is unchanged.
• Contributor guide. CONTRIBUTING.md and a pull request template cover
  the MIT licence of contributions, DCO sign-off, setup, the checks CI runs and
  the house rules.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

Desktop: download RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon), RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel Mac) or RigSpark_x64-setup.exe (Windows). The Mac app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.

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rigspark v3.0.8

Features

• llama.cpp replies carry the server's own timings. ChatResult.timings
  holds what llama-server measured for that reply: prompt and generated tokens,
  their milliseconds, cached prompt tokens and speculative draft tokens
  accepted. prompt_tokens_per_second() and generated_tokens_per_second()
  give exact speeds, with no client-side estimate. Other backends leave it
  empty.
• KV slots can be saved, restored and erased. A llama.cpp server rigspark
  starts gets a private kv-slots/ directory beside its state file
  (--slot-save-path). ChatInput.slot pins a request to a slot (id_slot,
  with prompt caching), and kv_slot_with_config saves a slot's KV cache to a
  named file, restores it into any slot, or erases it. That frees a slot during
  a long pause such as a tool call and brings the conversation back without
  re-reading the prompt.
  • Slot names are 1 to 64 letters, digits, - or _; slots are 0 to 15.
  • The server is re-identified before and after each slot action, as for chat.

Changes

• The website moved to its own repository. The www.rigspark.si source
  (site/) and its Pages deploy now live in the private rigspark-web repo,
  with their history. The brand kit the README, GUI and design kit use moved
  from site/brand/ to assets/brand/.
  • cargo catalog-site now takes --output and --site explicitly and is
    run by rigspark-web's daily catalog sync, not by catalog admission here.
  • The site checks (download links, FAQ structured data, canonical URL,
    catalog counts) run in rigspark-web's CI.

Fixes

• Stopping a model server no longer gives up while it shuts down. After the
  stop signal, an identity probe can fail briefly while the server exits (seen
  on macOS with Ollama). rigspark up and down used to stop with "process
  identity unavailable after signal" and keep a stale record, even though the
  server then exited. Now they keep waiting: up to 3 s for a clean exit (model
  servers unload weights) before forcing.
  • Still fails closed: a process is only signalled, and only force-stopped,
    after its identity matches the one RigSpark started.
  • If nothing listens any more and the recorded process is gone, or its PID
    now belongs to another program, the server counts as already stopped.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

Desktop: download RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon), RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel Mac) or RigSpark_x64-setup.exe (Windows). The Mac app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.

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rigspark v3.0.7

Features

• Signed and notarized Mac app. RigSpark_aarch64.dmg and
  RigSpark_x86_64.dmg are signed with a Developer ID, use the Hardened
  Runtime and are notarized and stapled by Apple, so macOS opens them without
  the "Open Anyway" step.
  • The bundled llama-server is signed with the same identity.
  • Tagged releases fail instead of shipping an unsigned dmg when the signing
    or notarization secrets are missing; see
    docs/references/macos-signing.md.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

Desktop: download RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon), RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel Mac) or RigSpark_x64-setup.exe (Windows). The Mac app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.

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rigspark v3.0.6

Features

• Windows installer. Releases include RigSpark_x64-setup.exe, the desktop
  app as a per-user NSIS installer with no admin prompt. The download section
  on the site offers it to Windows visitors.
  • It bundles a CPU-only (AVX2) llama-server built from the same pinned
    llama.cpp commit, with a static C runtime, so the starter model runs
    without installing anything else.
  • While that bundled build serves llama.cpp, model advice ignores discrete
    GPUs, so verdicts reflect how it actually runs.
  • Before uploading, the release job installs it silently and checks that
    the app and llama-server.exe were installed and that llama-server.exe
    runs.
  • In-app updates cover Windows: latest.json gains windows-x86_64.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

Desktop: download RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon), RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel Mac) or RigSpark_x64-setup.exe (Windows). The app is not notarized yet; on first launch open System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

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rigspark v3.0.5

Features

• Ready to run after install. The Mac app bundles a llama-server built
  from pinned llama.cpp v0.8.0 (Metal, no other dependencies), so a model runs
  without installing Ollama or llama.cpp.
  • A user-installed llama.cpp still takes precedence over the bundled one.
  • On first launch the chat screen offers a starter model that runs well on
    this machine (Qwen3 8B, 4B or smaller), with one Download & start
    click. On llama.cpp it starts at an 8K context.
  • qwen3:4b and qwen3:8b gain pinned official Qwen GGUF sources, with
    cited records in docs/references/catalog-corrections.json.
• Launch at login is on by default after the first launch, starting in the
  menu bar. Turn it off in Tools.

Fixes

• The Mac app is no longer reported as damaged. Release bundles are now
  sealed with an ad-hoc signature, and the release job verifies the seal with
  codesign --verify --deep --strict. macOS asks once to approve the
  un-notarized app (Open Anyway) instead of refusing to open it.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

Desktop: download RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon) or RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel). The app is not notarized yet; on first launch open System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

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rigspark v3.0.4

Features

• Mac desktop app. Releases include RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon)
  and RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel). They are unsigned and not yet notarized,
  so on first launch Control-click the app and choose Open.
  • RigSpark stays in the menu bar when its window closes, and can launch at
    login.
  • In-app updates install only after their signature is verified against the
    key built into the app.
  • When opened from Finder, it finds runtimes in /opt/homebrew/bin and
    /usr/local/bin.
• Add from Hugging Face. rigspark add and the Add from Hugging Face
  button at the top right of Models search GGUF repositories and list every
  single-file quantization with a fit verdict.
  • The chosen quantization is pinned to its commit and SHA-256 in a local
    catalog (~/.rigspark/catalog/local.json) and marked added by you.
  • It runs on llama.cpp or Ollama with the usual fail-closed digest check.
  • Only repositories with a recognized open-weight license are accepted.
• Speculative decoding on llama.cpp: models with a catalog drafter use it
  by default (qwen3:0.6b for Qwen3 14B, 30B-A3B and 32B).
  • The drafter's SHA-256 is verified, and its memory is reserved before the
    fit check.
  • --speculative auto|draft|ngram|off overrides the default.
  • Catalog schema v4 adds the optional drafter field; catalogs without
    drafters are still published as v3.
• Parallel slots. --parallel N runs concurrent requests: one unified KV
  pool on llama.cpp, and OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL on Ollama, with memory sized
  per slot.
• rigspark bench measures the active server with fixed, versioned
  prompts: time to first token, prefill and decode tok/s, draft acceptance,
  and combined throughput across concurrent requests. Figures the runtime
  does not report show as unknown.
• rigspark connect <agent> starts Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode against
  the active server without editing their config files, and prints setup
  steps for Pi, Hermes, OpenClaw and Cline.
• GUI.
  • A Coding agents panel in Tools.
  • Speculative and Parallel slots settings under Fit settings.
  • In the desktop app, the theme follows the macOS appearance until you
    choose one.

Fixes

• New models reach users again. The weekly model-admission job had failed
  since Oct 12, because a test hard-coded a date that went stale once the job
  re-stamped the catalog.
• Upgrading uses the newer catalog. A newer catalog bundled with an
  upgrade now replaces an older downloaded one, instead of staying pinned to
  the last catalog --update.
• A gone model server no longer blocks you. After a reboot or a daemon
  exit, up, switch and down clear its stale record instead of refusing
  to continue. No running process is ever signalled. Chat errors now name
  the cause and the next step.
• Ollama 0.40+. rigspark reads Ollama's new content-addressed manifest
  store (manifests-v2) and the upstream manifest digest Ollama now reports.
  A linked blob must hash to its address, and an embedded digest is trusted
  only when its blob verifies.
• Start catches models the runtime can't run. After switching to an
  Ollama model, rigspark loads it once, so a runtime that cannot run it (for
  example an unknown architecture) fails at start with Ollama's reason
  instead of on the first chat.
• Safer context defaults. A model whose memory at a given context can't be
  sized now starts at 8K, instead of a percentage of its maximum or a runtime
  default that fills free memory. llama.cpp accepts an explicit context
  window.
• Chat memory without an embedding model. Chat no longer drops the
  conversation when nomic-embed-text is missing or unreachable: the turn
  and facts are saved, and chat explains how to enable recall search.
• Download progress shows the file's real size instead of the limit used
  to check it.
• Command-line fixes.
  • rigspark bench and rigspark connect no longer panic.
  • connect --dry-run is accepted.
  • The Homebrew PATH fallback applies only to the desktop app.
• Dialog. Escape closes Add from Hugging Face even after focus has left
  the dialog.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

Desktop: download RigSpark_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon) or RigSpark_x86_64.dmg (Intel). The app is not notarized yet; on first launch, Control-click RigSpark in Applications and choose Open.

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rigspark v3.0.3

Generation

• Enable Ming Image 0.1 Design INT8 for UI/UX mockups in the CLI and browser GUI.
  The verified pairing uses the 19.51 GB INT8 text encoder (25.94 GB total weights),
  not the smaller W4A8 fit-only estimate. Other Ming variants remain fit-only.
  Real generation and inline GUI preview passed on a 36 GiB Apple Silicon Mac with
  ComfyUI 0.38.0. CUDA and peak inference memory remain uncertified; generated
  lettering may be garbled. The default image model is unchanged.
• Accept native ComfyUI single-choice COMBO capability schemas while rejecting
  malformed options and unsupported multiselect inputs before downloading weights.
• Retry failed download-resume requests within the existing bounded retry budget,
  preserving exact range, commit, size, and final SHA-256 verification.
• Website and README show a real locally generated Ming UI/UX example.

Fixes

• GUI: on narrow screens a long conversation could make the whole page
  scrollable, adding blank space under the chat and stopping the reply from
  following new text. The screen-reader-only "You"/"Assistant" labels now stay
  inside their message.

CI

• Desktop verification runs on main again (it only targeted retired migration
  branches), uses the same --test-threads=2 as CI, and finds ChromeDriver even
  when the runner image doesn't set CHROMEWEBDRIVER.
• Browser journeys retry clicks on list items that were re-rendered, and the
  narrow-screen scroll checks use the chat's real scroller.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

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rigspark v3.0.2

Support the project

• brew install now ends with a short note: if Sparky helps you, please
  consider sponsoring the project at https://buymeacoffee.com/shashanksw9.
  Cargo can't print messages after an install, so rigspark --help ends with
  the same note. The README, guide and site link to it too, and the repository
  shows a Sponsor button.

Fixes

• GUI: the "Skills this agent loads" checkboxes in the Library agent editor no
  longer stretch to half the row and squeeze each skill name onto several lines.

Tests

• The gui_launcher process tests no longer time out under parallel load on
  macOS.

Docs

• The guide's agents/skills and connectors recordings show the 3.0 interface.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

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rigspark v3.0.1

Licensing

• Release archives now include fonts.OFL.txt, the SIL Open Font License 1.1
  for the Inter and JetBrains Mono fonts that rigspark-gui has embedded since
  3.0.0. THIRD-PARTY.md lists both fonts with their versions and upstreams.
• Correct the copyright notices in the font license shipped with the GUI and
  the site: they named Bricolage Grotesque instead of the fonts RigSpark
  actually ships (Inter 4.001 and JetBrains Mono 2.211).

Tests

• The full-catalog ranking test no longer depends on the CI runner's live
  memory. Route tests check the limit bounds, and the full-catalog properties
  are checked against fixed hardware.

Install

brew install shashankswe2020-ux/tap/rigspark
cargo binstall rigspark-cli rigspark-gui
cargo install rigspark-cli --locked --bin llmup --bin rigspark && cargo install rigspark-gui --locked

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