Loom Alpha 6.0

Hey there,

Alpha 6 contains many quality-of-life upgrades as well as many visual changes. This changelog includes all of the changes since the last main release, 5.0. Some of these changes first appeared in alphas 5.1 or 5.2.

Changes:

New Font and Spacing changes

The font has changed from Classic Console to Courier New and whitespace has been reduced leading to better looking nodes.

Tab bar

Loom can now open multiple files with open files displaying in a traditional tab bar

Settings menu

Added a settings menu where various global and project settings are located. Settings can be opened from Edit > Settings.

Global Node

The global node can be used to "ship" values to other parts of a system. Additionally, these globals can be accessed in the Code node.

New OpenAI Engines

Updated the GPT-3 node to use the new OpenAI engine names. If a name of an engine was changed, it will be automatically updated to the new name when the file is opened.

Replace and Extract Nodes

Replace and extract nodes now have ways to quickly set their inputs without needing to connect a node to them

Undo/Redo

Undo and redo keyboard shortcuts now work for nodes. 

Cut/Copy/Paste

Cut, copy, and paste keyboard shortcuts now works for highlighted nodes.

Refresh

Press Ctrl+R to refresh the UI to fix visual glitches.

And that's it for this update. My focus for 7.0 will be community building and integration. I plan to add a way to report bugs as well as a way to share and find Loom modules created by others. I've started working on a subreddit (r/loomnlp) and Discord server where I hope to build a community with everyone helping each other sharing their projects and providing feedback. Please join these communities as they become available, and I'll see you there. As always, thank you for your support and interest!

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