Release notes

Local Hoist v0.0.25

April 15, 2026

v0.0.25 makes image-heavy chats more resilient and improves a few important tool and sign-in workflows. This release adds automatic fallback for models that cannot accept image input, improves multi-path file search feedback, and fixes a device-verification sign-in issue on newly recognized devices.

Improved

Improved image-heavy chats by automatically falling back to temporary image-to-text conversion when the selected model cannot accept image input, so requests can keep going instead of failing immediately.
Improved image recovery and compression behavior so automatic image reduction follows the normal compression thresholds more consistently and avoids misleading no-op compression messages.
Improved search_files so it can search across multiple files or folders in one request and gives clearer feedback when requested paths are missing.

Fixed

Fixed a sign-in issue where some newly recognized devices could require an emailed verification code but fail to keep the code-entry prompt visible in the app.
Fixed a few streaming and retry edge cases so empty or failed model responses surface as clearer errors instead of appearing to finish silently.