What Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm shipped
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Week of September 21, 2026
What shipped
- AnythingLLM v1.16.2 released with LLMman OSS as a local provider, Google Vertex AI support, image generation agent skill, and You.com as the default web search provider. Release
- Firecrawl added as an agent web-search provider. Pull request #6480
- AnySearch added as an agent web-search provider for real-time web search. Pull request #6439
- Provider search menus now support keyboard navigation and autofocus. Pull request #6483
- Workspace settings now autosave when edited. Pull request #6343
- Generated images are now included in chat exports. Pull request #6482
- TogetherAI provider now allows configuring
max_tokensto prevent response truncation. Pull request #6463 - Multi-sheet XLSX uploads now preserve all sheets instead of losing non-ASCII sheet names. Pull request #6450
- Weaviate and AstraDB vector scoring now uses cosine similarity consistently with other providers. Pull request #6488
Why it matters
v1.16.2 brings new LLM provider options and web search capabilities, while fixes address data loss in uploads, vector scoring consistency, and document re-syncing. These improvements expand provider choices and fix critical bugs affecting data integrity.
Changelog entry
- Added LLMman OSS as local LLM provider Release
- Added Google Vertex AI as LLM provider Release
- Added generate-image agent skill Release
- Set You.com as default web search provider Release
- Added Firecrawl as agent web-search provider Pull request #6480
- Added AnySearch as agent web-search provider Pull request #6439
- Added keyboard navigation and autofocus to provider search menus Pull request #6483
- Workspace settings now autosave on edit Pull request #6343
- Chat exports now include generated images Pull request #6482
- Fixed multi-sheet XLSX uploads losing non-ASCII sheet names Pull request #6450
- Fixed Weaviate and AstraDB vector scoring to use cosine similarity Pull request #6488
- Fixed text uploads being read incorrectly when using non-UTF8 encoding Pull request #6486
AnythingLLM v1.16.2 ships with new LLM and web search providers, autosaving workspace settings, image generation skills, and fixes for multi-sheet uploads and vector scoring.
AnythingLLM v1.16.2 is out. New features include LLMman OSS and Google Vertex AI as LLM providers, Firecrawl and AnySearch for web search, image generation agent skills, autosaving workspace settings, and exported chat images. Fixes address data loss in multi-sheet uploads, vector scoring consistency across providers, document re-syncing, and encoding issues.