SillyTavern 1.7.0

Major Features:

• Partial support of character card v2 spec (optional Character Book part is not implemented yet)
  • per-character prompt injections/overrides
  • multiple selectable first messages
  • creator's notes section (so you can explain your creation to users)
• User Personas (link usernames to an avatar, swap between them both simultaneously)
• Native Claude API support
• Support for GPT-3.5 16k and other new OpenAI models
• KoboldCPP streaming support
• NovelAI API streaming support
• Poe API improvements:
  • connects and responds 2x faster
  • input prompt chunking for unlocked context (enables sending prompts larger than 2k)
  • reply suggestions integration (multiple 'impersonate' options with every message)
• SmartContext 'max injections' and 'kept messages' increased to 500 items each
• Instruct i/o sequencing macros (system variables like {{user}} can now be set as instruct sequences)
• i18n Internationalization architecture for the entire UI
  • currently only for Chinese

Extensions Changes:

• Edge TTS engine (with Extras module)
• Novel TTS (for NovelAI subscribers)
• Auto-trackable Objectives/Tasks for the roleplay
• QuickReplies (buttons above the chat bar to trigger chat inputs or slash commands)
• Multiple Character Expressions in Group Chats in VN mode
• Speech recognition / Voice input

Slash Commands and QoL:

• /autobg - auto-change the background based on chat contents
• /bglock - locks the current background to the chat
• /bgunlock - unlock the chat's background
• /name - quickly change the username
• /sync - force current user persona for all user messages in the chat
• /lock - link a User Persona to the current chat
• /newchat - quickly create a new chat
• /delmode - quickly enter Message Deletion mode
• /roll - dice rolls
• /taskcheck - manually check if the current Objective Task is complete
• /vn - toggle Visual Novel mode (prev. known as Waifu Mode)
• CTRL+SHIFT+UP hotkey to scroll chat up to the Context Line

Improvements and Fixes:

• TTS fixes for Silero
• TTS playback for iOS works
• TTS no longer narrates "CharacterName:"
• SmartContext 'freeze context' toggle
• Prompt Tokenization and Raw Prompt display fixes
• Faster Extras extensions loading
• Character renaming can now optionally be applied to all past chats
• Smartly disable markdown formatting of custom Instruct separators

UI/Display Improvements:

• Overall much more efficient use of space
• Better Extensions panel display
• Greatly streamlined the World Info panel
• Cleaner per-message command/extras buttons
• Optimized character edit panel
• Character List tag cloud visibility toggle-able (starts hidden)
• Hide the Extensions menu button (the wand) if nothing is available or all are disabled

Official Documentation Website https://docs.sillytavern.app/

Community Contributions:

• Objective Extension - Agent-based AI inspired by BabyAGI and AutoGPT by @ouoertheo in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/415
• Objectives: Manual task Add/Remove. Manual Task check. by @ouoertheo in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/437
• Extras: Add API authentication support by @bdashore3 in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/438
• Expressions: Add sprite aliasing for chats by @bdashore3 in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/443
• Feature: i18n for SillyTavern by @LianZiZhou in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/447
• Objective: Refactor Tasks into class by @ouoertheo in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/451
• Fix code blocks style by @mayaeary in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/472
• Markdown escaping and reloading by @bdashore3 in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/475
• Add preset setting to avoid sending empty messages by @breathingmanually in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/480
• Fix swipes etc when send_if_empty is set by @breathingmanually in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/481
• Implement support for koboldcpp SSE streaming. by @zixaphir in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/483
• Fix typo in horde/index.d.ts by @eltociear in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/486
• Fixed possible error with hosting on port 80 or 443 by @duno9 in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/492
• Add keyboard shortcut to accept message edits by @breathingmanually in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/487
• Add Chinese symbols to end_trim_to_sentence by @deedlitelf in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/494
• Send abort signal to koboldcpp server on abort. by @zixaphir in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/498
• Character author's notes + WI individual recursion disabling by @bdashore3 in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/496

New Contributors

• @bdashore3 made their first contribution in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/438
• @LianZiZhou made their first contribution in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/447
• @breathingmanually made their first contribution in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/480
• @zixaphir made their first contribution in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/483
• @eltociear made their first contribution in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/486
• @duno9 made their first contribution in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/492
• @deedlitelf made their first contribution in https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/pull/494

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/compare/1.6.8...1.7.0