Changelog / release

0.8.18

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

Tmax-9B + Tmax-27B aliases added. First-mover MLX support — see the Tmax docs page (PR #899).
tool_call promotion in reasoning ported from upstream into the refactored think_parser (closes #344, PRs #896 + #898).
Auto-disable thinking on casual chat completions (matches the M-2 / #891 pattern, PR #895).
Auto-disable thinking when tools are provided — strict-JSON pattern carried over to reasoning models (PR #891).
Audio: _serve_audio_mode now honours --embedding-model and --served-model-name (closes R11-K #258, PR #894).
Tool parser: prevent deepseek_v3 parser from binding to non-V3 Qwen2 distills + warn on misbind (PR #887).
Tempfile leak fix: managed_tempfile helper applied across leak sites (closes #719, PR #888).
Strict JSON schema retry on context-length re-check before the repair retry (closes #267b, PR #886).