Add v8.5 What's New

Author: mythz

MyApp/MyApp.csproj

@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.RuntimeCompilation" Version="8.*" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <Folder Include="wwwroot\img\posts\kamal-deployments\" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
   <!--  <ItemGroup>-->
   <!--    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\ServiceStack\ServiceStack\ServiceStack.Text\src\ServiceStack.Text\ServiceStack.Text.csproj" />-->
   <!--    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\ServiceStack\ServiceStack\ServiceStack\src\ServiceStack.Client\ServiceStack.Client.csproj" />-->

MyApp/Pages/Index.cshtml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
         <a href="whatsnew" class="inline-flex space-x-6">
           <span class="rounded-full bg-indigo-500/10 dark:bg-indigo-400/10 px-3 py-1 text-sm font-semibold leading-6 text-indigo-400 ring-1 ring-inset ring-indigo-500/20">What's new</span>
           <span class="inline-flex items-center space-x-2 text-sm font-medium leading-6 text-gray-300">
-            <span>Just shipped v8.4</span>
+            <span>Just shipped v8.5</span>
             <svg class="h-5 w-5 text-gray-500" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true">
               <path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M7.21 14.77a.75.75 0 01.02-1.06L11.168 10 7.23 6.29a.75.75 0 111.04-1.08l4.5 4.25a.75.75 0 010 1.08l-4.5 4.25a.75.75 0 01-1.06-.02z" clip-rule="evenodd" />
             </svg>

MyApp/_podcasts/2024-11-27_kamal-deployments.md

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ templates utilize Kamal, a CLI tool simplifying deployments to any Linux server
 Kamal automates tasks such as reverse proxy setup and TLS certificate management. 
 
 The integration with GitHub Actions maintains CI/CD benefits while improving local management via Kamal's commands. 
-The authors express enthusiasm for Kamal's ease of use and potential for community growth.
 
 ### Videos
 

MyApp/_posts/2024-11-26_ai-server.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Introducing AI Server
 Designed as a one-stop solution to manage an organization's AI integrations for all their System Apps,
 by utilizing developer friendly HTTP JSON APIs that supports any programming language or framework.
 
-[![](https://openai.servicestack.net/img/overview.svg)](https://openai.servicestack.net)
+[![](/img/svgs/ai-server-overview.svg)](https://openai.servicestack.net)
 
 ### Distribute load across multiple Ollama, Open AI Gateway and Comfy UI Agents
 

MyApp/_whatsnew/2024-11-26_v8.5/ai-server.md

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+title: Introducing AI Server
+url: /posts/ai-server
+image: /img/posts/ai-server/ai-server-splash.png
+order: 1
+---
+
+We're excited to announce AI Server - an open-source, self-hosted Docker gateway for managing API access 
+to various AI services. It offers centralized management of LLMs, Ollama endpoints, media APIs, Comfy UI
+and FFmpeg agents, distributing loads across multiple servers.
+
+It's initial V1 release comes packed with features, including:
+
+ - **Centralized Management**: Manage all your AI services from a single Admin UI
+ - **Load Balancing**: Distribute loads across multiple servers
+ - **Native Typed Integrations**: For 11 popular programming languages
+ - **Synchronous, Queued, and Callback-based APIs**: For different use-cases
+ - **Monitoring and Analytics**: Live monitoring, analytics and full history
+ - **Protected Access**: With simple API keys
+  

MyApp/_whatsnew/2024-11-26_v8.5/kamal-deployments.md

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+title: .NET 8 Templates now using Kamal for deployments
+url: /posts/kamal-deployments
+image: /img/posts/kamal-deployments/kamal-splash.png
+order: 2
+---
+
+We've updated the built-in GitHub Actions for all Identity Auth templates to use the [Kamal deployment](https://kamal-deploy.org/) tool
+for customers considering their potential [cloud exit cost savings](https://world.hey.com/dhh/our-cloud-exit-savings-will-now-top-ten-million-over-five-years-c7d9b5bd)
+by exploring the shift in deployment strategy for self-hosting their .NET Docker Apps on their own servers or 
+in-expensive cloud providers like [hetzner.com](https://www.hetzner.com) 
+
+Previously, a less streamlined process involving [SSH and Docker Compose](https://docs.servicestack.net/kamal-deploy) was used. 
+Now, all Identity Auth templates utilize Kamal, a CLI tool simplifying deployments to any Linux server accessible via SSH.
+Kamal automates tasks such as reverse proxy setup and TLS certificate management whilst providing useful 
+local management tools via Kamal's commands.

MyApp/_whatsnew/2024-11-26_v8.5/swift-6.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+title: ServiceStack.Swift client library rewritten for Swift 6
+url: /posts/swift6-upgrade
+image: https://docs.servicestack.net/img/pages/servicestack-reference/swift-logo-banner.jpg
+order: 4
+---
+
+All generic service client libraries have been upgraded to support multiple file uploads with API requests 
+to take advantage of AI Server APIs that accept file uploads like Image to Image, Speech to Text or its 
+FFmpeg Image and Video Transforms.
+
+ServiceStack.Swift received the biggest upgrade, which was also rewritten to take advantage of Swift 6 features, 
+including Swift promises which replaced the previous PromiseKit dependency - making it now dependency-free!

MyApp/_whatsnew/2024-11-26_v8.5/typed-openai-chat-apis.md

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+title: Typed Open AI Chat & Ollama APIs in 11 Languages
+url: /posts/typed-openai-chat-ollama-apis
+image: /img/posts/ai-server/ai-server-languages.png
+order: 3
+---
+
+AI Server's `OpenAiChatCompletion` API - is an OpenAI compatible Chat API with ChatGPT and
+other LLMs like Ollama, the benefit of which allows developers to use its Typed DTOs and ServiceStack
+generic Service Clients to call any Open AI Chat compatible API directly, in all of ServiceStack's
+11 supported popular programming languages.
+
+This allows developers to easily integrate typed access to different LLMs into their applications.
+Instructions are provided for each language demonstrating how to install necessary packages, download DTOs,
+and send API requests.