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Release Notes ​

User-facing product updates, new docs coverage, and notable workflow improvements.

How To Read These Notes ​

Each note answers four questions — in this order:

  • What you can do — concrete capabilities with specifics. Names, numbers, limits.
  • Where this shows up — real moments you'd actually hit this, in your voice.
  • Try it — copy-ready prompts you can paste today.
  • Heads up — only when there's something you genuinely need to know: pricing, limits, breaking behaviour, migration.

Current Releases ​

May 29, 2026 ​

  • Claude Opus 4.8 Is Live — Anthropic's New Frontier Flagship — Claude Opus 4.8 is in the picker: Anthropic's most capable frontier model with adaptive thinking, a 1M-token context window, and the highest quality rating of any model Alfrada offers. Built for strategic planning, financial analysis, and deep research; swarm-capable; EU-only geofencing supported for in-region data residency. Replaces Opus 4.7 and 4.6 at the same price. Available on every package.

May 23, 2026 ​

  • Qwen 3.7 Max Is Live — Alibaba's New Frontier Flagship — Qwen 3.7 Max replaces Qwen 3.6 Max Preview in the picker: frontier MoE for agentic tool use and long-horizon reasoning, 256K context, swarm-eligible, same pricing as the preview. Pinned 3.6 Max Preview sessions autoupgrade on the next message; not in Auto routing yet.

May 20, 2026 ​

  • Auto Just Got Cheaper — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Is The New Default, Gemini 3.5 Flash Joins The Picker — Auto's default model swaps from gemini-3-flash-preview to gemini-3.1-flash-lite at half the per-token cost, with the same 1M context and tool support. Background intent/Q&A/summarisation moved off Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite onto 3.1 Flash-Lite in the same step. Separately, Gemini 3.5 Flash lands as a Workhorse-tier pick — 1M context, reasoning on at medium effort, swarm- and worker-eligible — for harder agentic loops where you want frontier Flash quality at a Workhorse band cost.
  • xAI Grok Imagine Joins Image Lab Through OpenRouter — pin provider: "xai" in Image Lab to render 1K/2K posters, ads, packaging, menus, social graphics, and reference-image edits through x-ai/grok-imagine-image-quality on OpenRouter. Gemini remains the default path, Higgsfield Soul remains the moderation fallback, and xAI's named-entity rendering is documented as capability rather than legal clearance.

May 19, 2026 ​

  • xAI Imagine Video Joins Video Lab — Native-Audio Clips With A Safety-Net Fallback Chain — Video Lab now talks to three providers (Runway, Higgsfield, xAI). Pin provider: "xai" for short native-audio clips on x-ai/grok-imagine-video via OpenRouter (1–15s, 480p/720p, eight aspect ratios, up to seven reference images). provider: "auto" now runs a three-stage fallback chain — xAI → Runway → Higgsfield — with an Image Lab bridge so a text-to-video request never silently falls back to a Google image search. Every auto response carries a fallback_chain block showing which provider succeeded.

May 18, 2026 ​

  • Image Lab Now Auto-Falls-Back To Higgsfield Soul When Gemini Blocks — when Gemini's safety filter refuses an image (named franchises, IP overlap, silent refusals), Alfrada now quietly re-runs the same prompt on Higgsfield Soul and tells you which model produced the file. Pre-emptive prompt rewriting catches known-blocking combos (real person + named IP + photoreal) before submission, and you can chain refinements ("darker lighting", "more rain") through Soul without ever going back to Gemini.
  • Higgsfield Joins Video Lab — Cinematic Camera Moves Runway Can't Quite Do — pin provider: "higgsfield" on any video_lab call for native cinematic camera arcs and landscape pans. Four Higgsfield models ship today: DOP Lite for previews, DOP Turbo for working drafts, DOP Standard for keepers, and Kling 2.1 Pro for landscape pans (5 or 10 seconds). The new video_provider_routing playbook explains when to pick which provider; failures surface with retry suggestions and never silently fall back to Runway.
  • Google News — Localised News Search That Cites Itself — google_news runs Google News via SearchAPI with country/language auto-localised to your detected location (Berlin → German edition, London → UK edition, Karachi → Pakistan edition). Top 5 articles auto-save as .news.json citations in the session out/ folder, indexed for report_generator and presentation. Thumbnails decode from SearchAPI's base64 data once on the backend so they render in the chat card without inflating LLM token cost. Filters: recency (last_hour through last_year), sort order (most_recent or relevance), pagination. Per-row inline citation surfaces the publisher hostname + saved filename next to each article.

May 16, 2026 ​

  • Google Images — Localised Image Search That Saves Straight Into Your Session — google_images runs Google Images via SearchAPI with country/language auto-localised to your detected location; top 5 results download into out/ by default and are indexed for presentation, video editor, and report generator. Filters cover image size (16 options including megapixel thresholds), color (15), image type (photo, clipart, line_drawing, gif, face), aspect ratio, recency, usage rights (Creative Commons / commercial), SafeSearch, and pagination. Each saved file ships with a credit line for inline rendering.
  • Amazon Search & Amazon Product — Localised Shopping On Your Storefront — amazon_search and amazon_product ship together; both auto-route to the user's local Amazon (amazon.de from Berlin, amazon.co.uk from London, amazon.in from Bangalore) across 21 storefronts. Results are filtered to items deliverable to the user's country. Search supports sort orders (featured / price / review / newest / bestsellers), price min/max, and pagination. Product takes an ASIN or full Amazon URL and returns title, brand, rating, buybox (price + availability), feature bullets, attributes, and variants. URL form auto-detects the storefront.

May 12, 2026 ​

  • Argus Owner Gets Ludicrous Mode, Group Members Get The Builder Bundle — owner Argus auto-merges every active tool in the catalog, no tool pre-selection needed; group/external senders now get a curated 33-tool allowlist covering research, analysis, and artifact generation (PDF/DOCX/XLSX/PPTX, code execution, image/music/video, finance and social search, medical_vision) while remaining locked out of owner data, owner state, and every Composio MCP.
  • Discord — Identity, Servers & Invites — connect your Discord account for a 10-tool read-only account surface: profile, server (guild) listing with member counts, invite resolution (codes, vanity codes, discord.gg URLs), widget/template inspection, third-party connection inventory, username/avatar management, and leave-guild. No channel messaging (Composio toolkit limitation); routes you to Slack/Teams/Gmail for that.
  • Argus Is A Full WhatsApp-Powered Agent — Argus now has a full operating guide, clearer setup path, autonomous heartbeat check-ins, model selection, expanded tool access, and use cases for running a capable agent from WhatsApp.

May 10, 2026 ​

  • Autonomous Workflows Are More Dependable — scheduled tasks run with fewer approval dead-ends, long-form briefs get expanded when too short, presentation creation retries drop, mobile chat controls stay in frame, and artifact outputs now end with concrete next-step offers

May 05, 2026 ​

  • Grok 4.3 Lands In The Picker — xAI's newest reasoning model is selectable now: 1M context, always-on reasoning, image input, tool calling, workhorse pricing; manual-pick only for now (not yet in Auto or Swarm)

May 04, 2026 ​

May 03, 2026 ​

April 30, 2026 ​

  • Qwen 3.6 Family Goes Live — Flash, 27B, Max Preview — three new Qwen 3.6 models in the picker today; Flash with 1M-token context (new tier), 27B dense reasoner, and Max Preview ~1T frontier MoE; three Qwen 3.5 entries retired with automatic autoupgrade for pinned sessions; every credit band stayed the same

April 29, 2026 ​

  • Argus On WhatsApp — dedicated Argus operating guide now live (activation flow, ACL/group mode rollout, sender trust boundaries, and whitelist/blacklist warnings), Tool Library now links directly to the Argus page, and the default server model for Argus sessions moves to Kimi K2.6

April 27, 2026 ​

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April 23, 2026 ​

  • Medical Vision — AI Second Opinion On Your Scans (Local, Experimental) — new medical_vision tool runs MedGemma 4B locally via Ollama for X-rays, CT/MRI, ultrasound, dermatology, lab reports; inspect mode re-reads any image with forensic detail; 50k context window, pinned-warm residency, UI tagged Experimental, always disclaimed
  • Runway Gen-4.5 Takes Over Video Generation — video_lab now calls Runway Gen-4.5 for every clip (2-10s, preset aspect ratios, first+last keyframe, optional watermark); video_editor is fully NVENC-accelerated; retake/extend/upscale/ic_lora/id_lora/create_from_audio return temporarily_unavailable with migration guidance

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April 17, 2026 ​

April 16, 2026 ​

  • Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic's frontier model with adaptive thinking, 1M context, swarm support

April 15, 2026 ​

Writing Standard ​

Each release note follows a human-centred template:

  1. Title and date at the top — title is the change, not the jargon for the change.
  2. Lede — one or two sentences in the user's voice, answering: what is this and why would you use it today?
  3. What you can do — concrete capabilities with specifics (names, numbers, limits). List every meaningful thing the feature lets the user do — don't abbreviate the capability list. Name sub-tools or sub-tasks where relevant.
  4. Where this shows up — two or three real moments where someone would actually hit this, in their voice. "You want X. You used to have to Y. Now you just Z."
  5. Try it — copy-ready prompts the user can paste.
  6. Heads up — only when there's something the user genuinely needs to know. Skip the section if there isn't.

The template lives at _template.md.

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