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Changelog
New models, features, and API changes shipped to Venice each month.

Changelog
July 2025
Models
3 changesText models1
Venice Uncensored
Updated to version 1.1 with better tone control, improved ethical reasoning using consequentialist approaches, and fixes for inappropriate responses to minimal inputs.
All users
Deprecated2
- DeepSeek Coder
- Qwen Coder
Features
15 changesChat4
System Prompt Indicator
A notification now appears above the chat box when custom system prompts are enabled.
Thumbs Up/Down Ratings
Rating buttons have been added to responses to help gauge user sentiment on model performance over time.
Character Listings
Updated character listings to prioritize and present highly rated characters.
Simple Mode Reliability
Improved reliability of the simple mode feature in chat by ensuring the latest selected setting is always used, preventing issues from outdated values during asynchronous operations.
Image, video and audio3
Browse Social Feed
Users can access the Social Feed via the left sidebar to scroll through published images, upvote or downvote posts, save them to their collection, and copy prompts when available.
Image Editing (Inpainting)
Image editing (inpainting) is back for Pro users, powered by Flux Kontext DEV with natural language understanding. Users can upload an image or generate one first, then describe edits in plain language.
Pro usersShare on Social Feed
Added a 'Share on Social Feed' icon below images to let users create a post, add tags, and optionally share the prompt used to generate the image.
Account and settings2
Subscription Management
Subscription management pages have been improved with additional tool tips and user surveys.
Subscription Management
Migrated subscription management into the app, moving away from Stripe’s hosted portal to an in-app system.
Wallet and payments1
VCU to Diem Rename
All references to Venice Compute Units (VCU) have been updated to Diem.
General5
Follow Users
Users can now follow creators from their posts. A 'Following' tab shows a personalized feed of followed users, and a 'Saved' tab displays bookmarked images.
Notification Bell
A notification bell has been added to the Venice Social Feed to indicate when other users like posted content.
Social Feed
Launched a new Social Feed feature that allows users to share images they create to a public feed. Other users can browse, upvote, downvote, save, and copy prompts from shared posts.
Tokenized Diem
Diem units will be tokenized and mintable by VVV holders, enabling a compute marketplace. Initially, 1 Diem equals $1 of credit per day.
Loading Keys Performance
Improved performance of the Venice 'Loading' keys.
API
3 changesEdit Image API
Launched the edit image (in-painting) API, allowing users to modify specific regions of an image programmatically. API documentation has been updated.
Image URL Support
Added support for image URLs in the edit image API, enabling users to reference remote images directly.
API Key Details Endpoint
An API key details endpoint has been added. API documentation has been updated accordingly.
Fixes
2 changesEXIF Data Stripping
Fixed a bug that was causing EXIF data to be stripped out when downloading images via the contextual menu.
StudioDuplicate Transaction Toasts
Fixed an issue causing duplicate toasts to be displayed when a transaction fails.
Wallet
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