Ginger v1.6.2

Small update with community suggestions and bug fixes.

• Lorebooks names are shown, and can be changed
• Keep window position and size between sessions
• Fixed incorrect example chat formatting in certain situations

Ginger v1.6.1

• Added support for Backyard Archive Format (.byaf) files.
• Bug fixes

Ginger v1.6.0

• Improved support and tools for editing multi-character cards and groups.
• Options in the side panel are now collapsible.
• Added new Background panel to the side panel.
  • Added light image manipulation functions for backgrounds (blur, dim, desaturate)
• Added new Advanced options panel to the side panel.
• Can now use escape sequences (\", \*, \\) in text to circumvent auto-formatting.
• Detail level and nsfw can now be toggled on or off for individual recipes (is no longer a card-wide setting).
• Some special/ornamental punctuation marks are now normalized when importing cards to better align with standard formatting.
• Text style-specific grammars are now available as a setting rather than as part of the standard recipes.
• Recipes can now provide descriptive adjectives and nouns, that can be used for generate brief character summaries.
• Function to manually check for application updates (no auto-update).
• Multiple fixes for issues that users have been kind to report.

Ginger v1.5.3

• Hotfix: Fixed an issue that prevented Ginger from connecting to Backyard AI for some users.

Ginger v1.5.2

• Bug fixes

Ginger v1.5.1

• Hotfix: Fixed inability to enter a custom gender.

Ginger v1.5.0

• Support for WebP images
• Improved support for animated portraits (gif, apng, webp) with supported card formats
• Standard recipes have been reorganized to make it easier to find them (hopefully)
• Added 13 new recipes
• Updated Backyard AI integration
  • Change model settings, with user-defined presets
  • Bulk operations (Import, export, etc.)
  • Improved backup feature
  • New repair utilities
  • and more...
• Bug fixes and system improvements

Ginger v1.4.0

• Updated Backyard AI integration.
  • Added option to set portrait image as the chat background.
  • Include background images in character backups.
  • Improved version detection and compatibility.
• Added recipe: Text adventure.
• Minor interface tweaks.
• Recipe creation tutorials (in the help docs).
• Bug fixes:
  • Broken syntax highlighting since v1.3.0.
  • Potential crash when saving card without a portrait image.
  • And more...

Ginger v1.3.1

• Hotfix

Ginger v1.3.0

• Added dark theme option
• Added user-defined variables
• Added 4 recipes: Antagonistic relationship, Chat format (short), Chat format (long), Paragraph format.
• Allow comments in grammar
• Fixed bug related to word search