v1.8.0 Major Update - "Spaces"
23rd December 2025, Release Notes
Before we dive into the updates, we want to take a moment to say a huge thank you to our amazing community. Your feedback, ideas, and enthusiasm continue to shape Locai’s journey. This release is packed with features inspired by your suggestions. Whether you've shared thoughts on Discord, reported bugs, or simply been part of the conversation, we see it and we appreciate it!
NEW FEATURES
Spaces
The Spaces feature allows you to organise your conversations into contextual groups, with each space having a unique personality that modifies how the agent responds.
Space Management
- Create Custom Spaces - Build your own spaces with custom names, icons, and descriptions that define the agent's personality and context
- 14 Pre-configured Templates - Quick-start with professionally crafted space templates including:
- 🎲 D&D Table - Run engaging D&D games with character creation and scene descriptions
- 🔍 Detective's Office - Solve noir mysteries with atmospheric detail and logical clues
- 🏕️ The Wilderness - High-stakes survival scenarios testing your judgement
- 🎤 Comedy Club - Get laughs with jokes, roasts, and comedic routines
- 📖 Tutor's Desk - Patient teaching with clear explanations and practice questions
- 🏢 Workspace - Professional help with documents, emails, and work tasks
- 💻 Dev Lab - Programming help with code, debugging, and best practices
- ✍️ Writer's Room - Creative writing partner for stories and characters
- 💪 Fitness Studio - Practical workout plans and sustainable fitness habits
- 👨🍳 Chef's Kitchen - Cooking help with recipes and meal planning
- 🧘 Zen Garden - Find stillness and clarity through mindful presence
- 🍺 The Pub - Friendly chat like having a pint with a mate
- ✈️ Travel Agency - Plan trips with detailed itineraries and logistics
- 🛋️ The Living Room - Casual chat about films, games, books, and hobbies
User Interface Enhancements
- Space Cards on Home Screen - Visual cards displaying your spaces with icons, descriptions, and chat counts for quick access
- Create Space Page - Dedicated page with template selection and custom space creation
- Spaces Page - View and manage all your spaces in one place
- Space Detail Page - Manage individual spaces, view all chats within a space, and search through space-specific conversations
- Enhanced Sidebar - New "SPACES" section with collapsible space groups showing chats organised by space
- Recent Section - Quick access to recent chats across all spaces
Context Switching
- Space-Aware Agent - The agent adapts its personality, tone, and focus based on the active space's description
- Space-Specific Greetings - Personalised welcome messages when starting new chats in a space
- Organised Chat History - Each space maintains its own chat history for better organisation
Other Improvements
User Interface
- Streamlined Navigation - Updated navbar and sidebar to accommodate spaces feature
- Enhanced Chat Interface - Improved chat header to display active space context
- Mobile Responsiveness - All spaces features fully optimised for mobile devices
- You can also suggest features by jumping onto our Discord server.
Known Issues (AKA “WE’RE WORKING ON IT")
- LaTeX Formula Rendering - Some mathematical formulas are not being returned in LaTeX format by the model, affecting proper rendering. We are investigating this behaviour
- Continuous Message Spam - In some cases, the model continuously generates and repeats messages without stopping, requiring users to manually interrupt using the stop button
- Side Panel Width - The side panel is too narrow to read chat titles properly and needs to be made wider
- Browser Cache Not Refreshing - When new updates are deployed, user browsers may not refresh to the latest build automatically. Users may need to hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R / Cmd+Shift+R) or clear their browser cache to see the latest changes
Wishing everyone a happy holidays!
The Locai Tech Team
