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LM Studio 0.3.16 Release Notes

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LM Studio Team

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2025-05-23

LM Studio 0.3.16 is available now as a stable release. This version includes the public preview of community presets, automatic deletion of least recently used Runtime Extension Packs, and a way to use LLMs as text embedding models. It also introduces the lms chat command to the CLI, allowing you to chat with a model in the terminal.

Upgrade via in-app update, or from https://lmstudio.ai/download.

0.3.16 - Full Release Notes

  • Ability to publish your presets to the LM Studio community hub and share them with others

    • Docs: https://lmstudio.ai/docs/app/presets/publish
    • Downloading public presets does NOT require a login. Publishing, liking, forking does
    • Share links with others directly, or on Discord / Reddit / X (No way to browse presets yet)

  • Staff Picks polish: introduce new aggregate format that combines formats (e.g. GGUF and MLX) into a single entry

  • Custom Settings for models

    • A new way for model authors to define custom capabilities for models. For example, Enable Thinking on / off for Qwen3 models
    • At the moment, only available for Qwen3 models under Staff Picks.
      • Later we'll share public docs for doing this with your custom models

  • Add "Offload KV Cache to GPU Memory" option to model load options and GPU settings

  • Add lms chat command to the CLI to chat with a model in the terminal (Thanks @mayfer)

  • LM Studio REST API (/api/v0): return model capabilities in GET /models response

    • e.g. "capabilities": ["tool_use"]

  • Auto-deletion of least recently used Runtime Extension Packs

    • Can disable in App Settings (⌘/Ctrl + ,)

  • Show System Prompt button in chat top bar when sidebar is collapsed

  • Use Cmd / Ctrl + Shift + D to create a duplicate of the current chat

  • Use Cmd / Ctrl + E to open the System Prompt editor

  • Use Cmd / Ctrl + W to close the System Prompt editor tab when it is open

  • App Settings (⌘/Ctrl + ,): sections now have their own tabs for easier navigation

  • Add button to access downloads panel in "User" UI mode

  • Added a dropdown in the model editor (⚙️ in My Models) to allow overriding the domain type of a model

    • This allows you to use an LLM as a text embedding model, or vice versa

  • Add "Reveal in Finder" context menu option on the chat sidebar body

    • Open your conversations folder in your OS native file explorer and reorg files / folders
      • Changes will be reflected live in LM Studio

  • [MLX] Register chat_template.jinja as a source for chat templates

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix Qwen3 jinja template parsing error "OpenSquareBracket !== CloseStatement"

  • Fix nomic-bert-moe, nomic-embed-code not showing under embedding models

  • Fix flickering horizontal line at bottom of generating message

  • Fix inability to be create a new folder when no chat is selected

  • Fix prompt processing % UI not showing

  • Bugfix: [OpenAI-like REST API] Don't add empty function name string after the first packet of streamed function calls

  • Bugfix: Correctly filter out unsupported models when listing downloaded models

  • Bugfix: Don't assume Vulkan iGPU memory is Shared Memory

  • Fix architecture badge text alignment

  • Fix SmolVLM jinja render error "Expected iterable type in for loop: got StringValue"

  • Fixed GTE Qwen embedding models are not recognized as text embedding

  • Fixed a bug where if no engine extension pack for a specific format is installed, the indexing will fail

  • Fixed a bug where some strings were parsed as [object Object] when using RAG

  • Fixed a bug showing duplicate models in Load Model in tray menu

  • [MLX] Fix installation issue that caused ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mlx_engine'

    • You can press the "Fix" button in the runtimes page if you are seeing this error with an existing MLX runtime