Changelog / release

0.8.13 — Audio launch

Upgrade: pip install -U rapid-mlx · brew upgrade rapid-mlx · or grab the desktop app.

Audio support shipped. 26 aliases — 13 TTS (Kokoro, Chatterbox, VibeVoice, VoxCPM, Dia) and 13 STT (Whisper, Parakeet) — via /v1/audio/speech and /v1/audio/transcriptions. Install with pip install 'rapid-mlx[audio]'.
Audio CLI: --audio-mode + comprehensive alias registry (R10-A, PR #854).
Responses: emit reasoning item on max_output_tokens cutoff (R11-M-F1, PR #866).
Embeddings: [embeddings] extra + 503 on missing model + /v1/models visibility (H-08 + H-09 + H-13, PR #861).
VLM penalties: frequency / presence / repetition penalties now pass through to the VLM sampler (closes #512, PR #864).
Tool-choice=required: finalize invariant pinned in streaming (R11-V1 + R11-V2, PR #859).
UI-TARS: accumulator-anchor + honour enable_thinking=false (R10-F, PR #850).