v2.1.0

Welcome to the 27 April 2025 release of Gptcmd! This release focuses on improving model handling and compatibility (especially for "OpenAI-like" provider configurations), increasing stability, and refining the user experience.

Important notes

Python 3.7 deprecation

Python 3.7 reached end-of-life on 27 June 2023. This is the final release with 3.7 compatibility. Future releases will require Python 3.8.6 or later.

New features

• Gptcmd can now disambiguate partial model names (for instance, resolving 4o to gpt-4o if appropriate), simplifying model selection.
• Ongoing API requests can now be cancelled by pressing Ctrl+c.
• Added cost estimation support for the gpt-4.1 model family, o3, and o4-mini.
• LLMProvider implementations can now opt out of model validation, improving support, for instance, for "OpenAI-like" providers that don't implement a model listing endpoint.
• The automatic creation of new named threads by the retry command is now configurable via the create_new_thread_on_retry configuration setting (set to ask by default). To restore the previous behaviour, set this option to always.
• To prevent data loss, Gptcmd now attempts to save messages and some application state to a JSON file in the current directory when an unexpected application failure occurs.

Changes

• On OpenAI accounts, gpt-4.1 is now used by default if available.

Bug fixes

• Improved handling of edge cases in OpenAI responses, enhancing stability especially when interacting with "OpenAI-like" providers.
• General improvements to stability and performance.