v2.4

Changes

• Installer: do not redownload .whl requirements during updates unless they have changed, or the commit in the local repo has changed since the last time the update script was executed (e.g. you switched to a different branch manually)
• UI: add "Continue" and "Remove" buttons below the last chat message
• Downloader: make progress bars not jump around in the terminal. They look much nicer after this change.
• Add a helpful error message when llama.cpp fails to load the model (telling you to lower the context length)
• Update/fix some API examples in the documentation
• Add strftime_now to JINJA to sattisfy LLAMA 3.1 and 3.2 (and granite) (#6692). Thanks @FartyPants.
• Give SillyTavern a bit of leaway the way the do OpenAI (#6685). Thanks @FartyPants.

Bug fixes

• Workaround for a convert_to_markdown bug
• Training pro- removed monkeypatch references (#6695). Thanks @FartyPants.

Backend updates

• llama-cpp-python: bump to 0.3.7 (llama.cpp commit 794fe23f29fb40104975c91fe19f23798f7c726e, January 28th, 2025).