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title: "Jan v0.6.8: Engine fixes, new MCP tutorials, and cleaner docs"
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version: 0.6.8
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description: "Llama.cpp stability upgrades, Linear/Todoist MCP tutorials, new model pages (Lucy, Jan‑v1), and docs reorganization"
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date: 2025-08-14
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ogImage: "https://catalog.jan.ai/docs/mcplinear2.gif"
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---
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import ChangelogHeader from "@/components/Changelog/ChangelogHeader"
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import { Callout } from 'nextra/components'
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<ChangelogHeader title="Jan v0.6.8: Engine fixes, new MCP tutorials, and cleaner docs" date="2025-08-14" ogImage="https://catalog.jan.ai/docs/mcplinear2.gif" />
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## Highlights 🎉
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v0.6.8 focuses on stability and real workflows: major llama.cpp hardening, two new MCP productivity tutorials, new model pages, and a cleaner docs structure.
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### 🚀 New tutorials & docs
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- Linear MCP tutorial: create/update issues, projects, comments, cycles — directly from chat
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- Todoist MCP tutorial: add, list, update, complete, and delete tasks via natural language
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- New model pages:
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- Lucy (1.7B) — optimized for web_search tool calling
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- Jan‑v1 (4B) — strong SimpleQA (91.1%), solid tool use
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- Docs updates:
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- Reorganized landing and Products sections; streamlined QuickStart
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- Ongoing Docs v2 (Astro) migration with handbook, blog, and changelog sections added and then removed
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### 🧱 Llama.cpp engine: stability & correctness
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- Structured error handling for llama.cpp extension
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- Better argument handling, improved model path resolution, clearer error messages
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- Device parsing tests; conditional Vulkan support; support for missing CUDA backends
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- AVX2 instruction support check (Mac Intel) for MCP
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- Server hang on model load — fixed
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- Session management & port allocation moved to backend for robustness
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- Recommended labels in settings; per‑model Jinja template customization
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- Tensor buffer type override support
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- “Continuous batching” description corrected
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### ✨ UX polish
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- Thread sorting fixed; assistant dropdown click reliability improved
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- Responsive left panel text color; provider logo blur cleanup
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- Show toast on download errors; context size error dialog restored
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- Prevent accidental message submit for IME users
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- Onboarding loop fixed; GPU detection brought back
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- Connected MCP servers status stays in sync after JSON edits
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### 🔍 Hub & providers
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- Hugging Face token respected for repo search and private README visualization
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- Deep links and model details fixed
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- Factory reset unblocked; special chars in `modelId` handled
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- Feature toggle for auto‑updater respected
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### 🧪 CI & housekeeping
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- Nightly/PR workflow tweaks; clearer API server logs
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- Cleaned unused hardware APIs
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- Release workflows updated; docs release paths consolidated
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### 🤖 Reasoning model fixes
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- gpt‑oss “thinking block” rendering fixed
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- Reasoning text no longer included in chat completion requests
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## Thanks to new contributors
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· @cmppoon · @shmutalov · @B0sh
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---
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Update your Jan or [download the latest](https://jan.ai/).
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For the complete list of changes, see the [GitHub release notes](https://github.com/menloresearch/jan/releases/tag/v0.6.8).
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