- (**Improvement**) Dependency updates. This version is based on [mxlink](https://crates.io/crates/mxlink)@1.4.0 (which is based on the newly released [matrix-sdk](https://crates.io/crates/matrix-sdk)@[0.8.0](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/releases/tag/matrix-sdk-0.8.0)). Once you run this version at least once and your matrix-sdk datastore gets upgraded to the new schema, **you will not be able to downgrade to older baibot versions** (based on the older matrix-sdk), unless you start with an empty datastore.
- (**Improvement**) Improves fallback user mentions support for old clients (like Element iOS) which use the bot's display name (not its full Matrix User ID). ([d9a045a5e4](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/d9a045a5e41d2b99694f92ec9e90f47529546d89))
**TLDR**: you can now use OpenAI's [o1](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o1) models, benefit from [prompt caching](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-caching) and mention the bot again from old clients lacking proper [user mentions support](https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#user-and-room-mentions) (like Element iOS).
- (**Feature**) Introduces a new `baibot_conversation_start_time_utc` [prompt variable](./docs/configuration/text-generation.md#️-prompt-override) which is not a moving target (like the `baibot_now_utc` variable) and allows [prompt caching](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-caching) to work. All default/sample configs have been adjusted to make use of this new variable, but users need to adjust your existing dynamically-created agents to start using it. ([85e66406dc](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/85e66406dc6f430741c7819f420e2df4ae6e8d3b))
- (**Improvement**) Allows for the `max_response_tokens` configuration value for the [OpenAI provider](./docs/providers.md#openai) to be set to `null` to allow [o1](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o1) models (which do not support `max_response_tokens`) to be used. See the new o1 sample config [here](./docs/sample-provider-configs/openai-o1.yml). ([db9422740c](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/db9422740ceca32956d9628b6326b8be206344e2))
- (**Improvement**) Switches the sample configs for the [OpenAI provider](./docs/providers.md#openai) to point to the `gpt-4o` model, which since 2024-10-02 is the same as the `gpt-4o-2024-08-06` model. We previously explicitly pointed the bot to the `gpt-4o-2024-08-06` model, because it was much better (longer context window). Now that `gpt-4o` points to the same powerful model, we don't need to pin its version anymore. Existing users may wish to adjust their configuration to match. ([90fbad5b64](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/90fbad5b643cd06c23179f055a309ec6a7cba161))
- (**Bugfix**) Restores fallback user mentions support (via regular text, not via the [user mentions spec](https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#user-and-room-mentions)) to allow certain old clients (like Element iOS) to be able to mention the bot again. Support for this was intentionally removed recently (in [v1.2.0](#2024-10-01-version-120)), but it turned out to be too early to do this. ([b40226826f](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/b40226826fe914d0d5d265230ebc5bac8058b6f7))
- (**Feature**) Adds support for [on-demand involvement](./docs/features.md#on-demand-involvement) of the bot (via mention) in arbitrary threads and reply chains ([9908512968](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/990851296828168c2106eb3f4668833e9e5a7463)) - fixes [issue #15](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/issues/15)
- (**Bugfix**) Fixes speech-to-text replies rendering incorrectly in certain clients, due to them confusing our old reply format with [fallback for rich replies](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.11/client-server-api/#fallbacks-for-rich-replies) ([e6aa956423](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/e6aa95642376ee7d87932d0e66dcfedf261b188b)) - fixes [issue #17](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/issues/17)
- (**Bugfix**) Fix thread messages being lost due to lack of pagination support ([d4ddd29660](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/d4ddd29660d9f51d248119dd6032e68ab29e7d35)) - fixes [issue #13](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/issues/13)
- (**Bugfix**) Fix Anthropic conversations getting stuck when being impatient and sending multiple consecutive messages ([8b12bdf2b3](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/8b12bdf2b3196abea0e8db33d7c50fff48341cb9)) - fixes [issue #13](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/issues/13)
- (**Improvement**) [Dockerfile](./Dockerfile) changes to produce ~20MB smaller container images ([354063abb7](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/354063abb79035069bd3b26c53214874e9cdd95d))
- (**Improvement**) [Dockerfile](./Dockerfile) changes to optimize local (debug) runs in a container ([c8c5e0e540](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/c8c5e0e540ab981e849452eb3ddb0378105e1fc6))
- (**Improvement**) CI changes to try and work around multi-arch image issues like [this one](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/issues/2) ([5de7559ed6](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/5de7559ed685a41c22dfc12283681f02f4c2ee00))
Further [improves](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/commit/3b25b92a81a05ebaf1c6dbabf675fbfbe6c9f418) the typing notification logic, so that it tolerates edge cases better.
Contains [fixes](https://github.com/etkecc/rust-mxlink/commit/f339fc85e69aa7f614394ad303d1614cd307319c) for [some](https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/issues/1) startup failures caused by partial initialization (errors during startup).
