API Changelog

👾 LM Studio 0.3.9 • 2025-01-30

Idle TTL and Auto Evict

Set a TTL (in seconds) for models loaded via API requests (docs article: Idle TTL and Auto-Evict)

curl http://localhost:1234/api/v0/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b",
    "messages": [ ... ]
+   "ttl": 300,
}'

With lms:

lms load --ttl <seconds>

Separate reasoning_content in Chat Completion responses

For DeepSeek R1 models, get reasoning content in a separate field. See more here.

Turn this on in App Settings > Developer.

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👾 LM Studio 0.3.6 • 2025-01-06

Tool and Function Calling API

Use any LLM that supports Tool Use and Function Calling through the OpenAI-like API.

Docs: Tool Use and Function Calling.

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👾 LM Studio 0.3.5 • 2024-10-22

Introducing lms get: download models from the terminal

You can now download models directly from the terminal using a keyword

lms get deepseek-r1

or a full Hugging Face URL

lms get <hugging face url>

To filter for MLX models only, add --mlx to the command.

lms get deepseek-r1 --mlx