Kai Release Notes
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These Release Notes contain important Kai information based on each RAD Studio version.
Kai version 1.1
The Kai version 1.1 release changes how Kai interacts with the various AI agents and local CLI engine.
The following are the core new features for Kai 1.1:
- ACP Registry Integration: The integrations with the different CLI AI engines don't ship with Kai anymore, but they are downloaded after the installation from a public registry. This registry provides access to dozens of AI integrations, offers a direct update mechanism when new releases become available, and will add new options as they are added to the registry, without requiring a Kai update.
- MCP Servers Update: This release divided the MCP Servers configuration settings into two categories: Built-in and Custom options, where users can select their preferred IDE MCP tools.
- UX Improvements: Kai 1.1 has a large number of UX and UI improvements across all screens to bring it more in line with RAD Studio UI and standard behavior.
- Quality Enhancements: The new Kai version improves quality and addresses nuances and issues, specifically focused on the chat window.
For more information on these features, see the Kai Version 1.1 documentation.
Kai version 1.0.2
The Kai 1.0.1 update focuses on improving compatibility, installation reliability, internationalization, and overall product quality.
This version update primarily addresses international language support and other enhancements, including support for completions using additional AI engines.
RAD Studio strongly recommends that all Kai users install this update, regardless of whether they use a paid license or a trial version.
Expanding Completions Support
This release expanded Kai completions (Ghost test, Code Completions, and Code Suggestions) to integrate with additional local AI engines.
With this update, you can make different engines work by configuring a new Kai parameter: FMI tokens. Navigate to Tools > Options > Kai > Completions, select a local model tab, and select the URL as before, but now users can also pick the backend engine to use. Because different model families use different special tokens, Kai now lets you pick predefined options or manually customize the FIM tokens.
Quality and Reliability Improvements
The following are the main improvements:
- Better international language support. Improved compatibility with non-English Windows environments, including systems using ANSI code pages, extended European characters, and Japanese and Korean input methods (IME), making Kai work more naturally for developers around the world.
- Expanded support for additional AI deployment scenarios, including improvements for LiteLLM environments and GitHub Enterprise Cloud authentication when using GitHub Copilot.
- Improved usability by adding small enhancements to everyday workflows, such as the ability to copy content directly from the Kai chat window and improved handling of Windows user profiles containing spaces.
- This release includes internal security improvements that strengthen Kai’s MCP communication infrastructure.
Kai version 1.0.1
The Kai 1.0.1 update focuses on quality, stability, and usability improvements. The following are the new features and quality improvements for this version.
RAD Studio strongly recommends that all Kai users install this update, regardless of whether they use a paid license or a trial version.
Authenticated Connections for Local AI Engines
The 1.0.1 update adds support for authenticated local AI servers, allowing Kai to authenticate when connecting to them, such as Ollama and LM Studio. This improves security by enabling secure connections to AI models hosted on remote or cloud-based infrastructure.
Quality and Stability Improvements
The following are the main improvements:
- Improved stability and reliability.
- Improved authentication and connectivity for both local and cloud AI models, including Ollama, LM Studio, and Claude.
- Improved inline completions, ghost text, suggestion rendering, clipboard operations, and compatibility with both modern and Classic Code Insight.
- Visual and user interface issues have been addressed, including layout, theming, font sizing, icon rendering, resizing behavior, navigation controls, and clearer terminology.
Kai Known Issues in RAD Studio Versions
RAD Studio Florence 13.1
Stability Issues with Gemini version:
The 0.42.0-preview.0 release of Google Gemini CLI is included as part of the Kai 1.0 release. Reports indicate stability issues in some environments with this version of the Google Gemini CLI.
Customers experiencing stability-related behavior can manually downgrade to version 0.35.3 to mitigate the issue in affected environments. However, downgrading may reintroduce security vulnerabilities or dependency issues that were addressed in later releases, such as the 0.42.0-preview.0 release.