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Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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About LM Studio

LM Studio is an easy to use desktop app for experimenting with local and open-source Large Language Models (LLMs). The LM Studio cross platform desktop app allows you to download and run any ggml-compatible model from Hugging Face, and provides a simple yet powerful model configuration and inferencing UI. The app leverages your GPU when possible.

What's new in 0.4.13+1

- [MLX] mlx-engine v1.8.1 significantly improves performance and adds parallel predictions for vision-capable models such as Qwen 3.5/3.6 and Gemma 4 - Fixed a bug where newlines were compacted in the chat input on paste - Bug fixes and security hardening. This update is recommended for all users.

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
0.4.13+1 Unknown - [MLX] mlx-engine v1.8.1 significantly improves performance and adds parallel predictions for vision-capable models such as Qwen 3.5/3.6 and Gemma 4 - Fixed a bug where newlines were compacted in the chat input on paste...
0.4.12+1 Unknown - Support for Qwen 3.6 - Improved style in chat PDF exports - Fixed bug where MCP servers with OAuth would not work on some Windows environments - Improved Qwen 3.5 performance with OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions...
0.4.11+1 Unknown - Support for updated Gemma 4 chat template
0.4.10+1 Unknown - Improve Gemma 4 tool call reliability - Add OAuth support for MCP servers
0.4.9+1 Unknown - Improve Gemma 4 tool call reliability - Add support for Anthropic-compatible v1/messages output_config.effort (low, medium, high, max) - Fixed a bug where deleting a chat folder would sometimes freeze the UI - Fixed a...
0.4.8+1 Unknown - Add support for reasoning_effort and reasoning_tokens in OpenAI-compatible v1/chat/completions - Adds a reasoning field to the /api/v1/models API response, indicating each model's supported reasoning capabilities/REST...
0.4.7+4 Unknown - Fixed a bug when trying to edit an empty chat message
0.4.6+1 Unknown - ✨🎉 Introducing LM Link - Connect to remote instances of LM Studio, load your models, and use them as if they were local. - End-to-end encrypted. Launching in partnership with Tailscale. - Fixed a bug where auto update...
0.4.5+2 Unknown - Fixed a bug where LM Link connector was not included in in-app updater
0.4.5+1 Unknown Release notes
0.4.4+1 Unknown - Fixed a bug where thinking tags were not being emitted correctly through v1/chat/completions OpenAI-compatible REST API - Fixed a bug where RAG will sometimes get stuck in "Deciding how to handle the document(s)..." -...
0.4.3+2 Unknown - Fixed bug causing TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'backendInfo')
0.4.2+2 Unknown - Introducing Parallel Requests with MLX! 🎉 - Added support for continuous batching in mlx-engine 1.0.0 - At the moment this capability is text-only, with VLM support in the works - Fixed a scroll bug on plugin lists - F...
0.4.1+1 Unknown - New: Anthropic API compatibility endpoint: /v1/messages - Use Claude Code with LM Studio 👾 - Added a new "Deep Dark" theme option for the UI - Added --parallel <N> flag to lms load command to allow loading a model with...
0.4.0 Unknown Release notes
0.3.39 Unknown 0.3.39 - Release Notes Build 1 - Support for image_url input in OpenAI-compatible v1/chat/completions REST endpoint - Support for top_logprobs in OpenAI-compatible v1/responses REST endpoint - Output cached_tokens statis...
0.3.37 Unknown 0.3.37 - Release Notes Build 1 - Support for the LFM2 tool call format - Fix "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'architecture')" when using a generator
0.3.36 Unknown 0.3.36 - Release Notes Build 1 - FunctionGemma Support
0.3.35 Unknown 0.3.35 - Release Notes Build 1 - [MLX] Support for Devstral-2 and GLM-4.6V - Fixed a bug where the default system prompt was still sent to the model even after the system prompt field was cleared. - Fixed a bug where exp...
0.3.34 Unknown 0.3.34 - Release Notes Build 1 - Support for EssentialAI's rnj-1 model - Fix jinja prompt formatting bug for some models where EOS tokens were not being included properly