Release v7.8.0

🚀 GPT4Free v7.8.0 Release Notes

— Celebrating 3 Years of GPT4Free & Community Day Tomorrow! —

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📅 Community Day Tomorrow – July 10, 2026!

Join us for the GPT4Free Community Day!
We're celebrating 3 years of GPT4Free and 1 year of g4f.dev with a full event schedule:

Time (CET)	Activity
18:00	Welcome & Opening – Heiner (hlohaus)
18:30	New Providers Showcase – What's new in GPT4Free
19:30	AI & Open Source Talks – Guests from the AI field
21:00	Community Q&A & Open Discussion

What to expect: AI Innovations, Open Source, New Providers, Guests from the AI field, Live Demos & Talks

🎉 Be a participant – join the conversation!
👉 Join Discord
🌐 g4f.dev

Only 1 day to go – don't miss it!

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✨ What's New in v7.7.7

This release is packed with improvements across providers, API stability, developer tooling, and system integration. Here's the full breakdown:

🆕 New Features

• System Tray Integration – Native system tray support with new file and web operation tools (@hlohaus)
• Request Logging Middleware & Logs Inspector API – Full request logging middleware plus a new inspector endpoint for debugging API calls (@hlohaus)
• MCP Server Enhancements – Multiple updates to mcp.py improving model context protocol integration (@hlohaus)
• create_app now accepts compress parameter – More flexible app initialization for deployment scenarios (@hlohaus)
• Browser startup improvements – Added socat command to start-browser.sh for TCP forwarding support (@hlohaus)

🛠 Provider Updates

• DeepInfra – Turnstile Captcha bypass implemented using DrissionPage with async token retrieval refactoring (@kqlio67, @hlohaus)
• Qwen – Enhanced token retrieval logic and model handling improvements (@hlohaus)
• HuggingFace API – Updated provider implementation (@hlohaus)
• Antigravity & Gemini providers – Fixed tool call indexing and yield logic for more reliable streaming (@hlohaus)
• GeminiCLI – Tool call indexing fix (@hlohaus)

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Module lazy loading fix – Intercept module access for lazy loading, resolves string attribute errors and fixes offline GUI crash [#3469] (@kqlio67)
• Debian build script – Replaced nest_asyncio with nest-asyncio2 to fix build dependencies (@kqlio67)
• API key requirement path checks – Fixed path validation logic in the Api class, simplified demo path handling, and refined credential passing in log fetch (@hlohaus)
• Provider registration – Refined model handling, provider registration, and ClientFactory usage in the Api class (@hlohaus)
• MIME type mapping – Added .py file support in safe-types whitelist, with corresponding test cleanup (@hlohaus)
• Test cleanup – Removed unused tests for file listing/appending and .py extension from safe-types whitelist (@hlohaus)

📚 Documentation & Project

• New logo and images in README (@hlohaus)
• FUNDING.yml – Updated and reordered ko-fi contributor list (@hlohaus)
• Overall API and bot enhancements – Improved model handling and general functionality (@hlohaus)

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👏 Contributors

A huge thank you to everyone who made this release possible:

• @hlohaus – Heiner (Project maintainer)
• @kqlio67 – Multiple fixes and features
• All community members filing issues, testing, and supporting the project

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🎉 See You at Community Day!

Tomorrow – July 10, 2026 – 18:00 CET
Join us for talks, demos, and open discussion. We want to hear from YOU.

🌐 g4f.dev • 💬 Discord • 📢 Telegram

Happy coding, and see you tomorrow! 🚀

Full Changelog: v7.7.6...v7.8.0

Download Options

Python Package:

• PyPI: pip install g4f==v7.8.0

Executables:

• Windows x64: g4f-windows-v7.8.0-x64.zip
• Linux x64: g4f-linux-v7.8.0-x64
• Linux ARM64: g4f-linux-v7.8.0-arm64
• macOS x64: g4f-macos-v7.8.0-x64
• macOS ARM64: g4f-macos-v7.8.0-arm64

System Packages:

• WinGet: winget install gpt4free

Docker:

• docker pull hlohaus789/g4f:v7.8.0
• docker pull hlohaus789/g4f:v7.8.0-slim

💻 Having trouble with the .exe from this release?
👉 Check out the Windows launcher for GPT4Free instead:
🔗 https://github.com/gpt4free/g4f.exe 🚀