Lemonade – v10.2.0
Lemonade just dropped a massive v10.2.0 update! 🍋 If you’ve been looking for a high-performance way to run LLMs locally using your GPU or NPU (like AMD Ryzen AI), this toolkit is essential for maximizing your hardware.
What’s New in v10.2.0:
- Expanded Integrations: New dedicated user guides for Claude Code integration, plus support for OpenCode via launchpad. 🚀
- Developer-Friendly Artifacts: New embeddable release artifacts are now available for both Ubuntu and Windows—perfect if you’re bundling Lemonade into your own custom installers.
- Enhanced Resource Management: The system tray now features a “Max Loaded Models” submenu, making it much easier to manage your VRAM and system resources on the fly.
- Improved Model Handling & Vision Support:
- Complete overhaul of the multi-checkpoint storage strategy.
- Added support for Qwen Image with extra `sd-cpp` parameters.
- Fixed device reporting bugs in `llamacpp` and `whispercpp` stats.
- Smart Automation: Introduced a “Smart CLI pull” command to streamline fetching models, along with auto-detection for GPU backends during ESRGAN upscaling. 🛠️
Platform Availability:
This release is ready to go across almost every major environment:
Windows: `.msi` installers (Server + App or Server Only). Note: Windows installers are now officially signed!* ✅
- Linux: Ubuntu 24.04+ (via Launchpad PPA or AppImage), Fedora 43 (`.rpm`), and Docker/Snap/Arch options.
- macOS: Beta support is available via `.pkg`.