Scaled down and converted images before sending them to AI models (#1101)

app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v26.10.1.md

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 - Improved local data sources for folders. You can now choose which files AI Studio indexes, for example, only PDF files, and whether it includes subfolders as well as hidden files and folders. By default, AI Studio now also indexes text files it did not recognize before, such as program code of any kind or a LICENSE file, so a Git repository makes a useful data source. Thanks, Paul Koudelka (`PaulKoudelka`), for this contribution.
 - Improved local data sources for folders, which now leave out hidden files and folders as well as build output and downloaded dependencies, such as the folders `node_modules`, `bin`, and `obj`. You can change this in the expert settings of the data source. When an existing data source contains such files, AI Studio removes them from its index during the next update.
 - Improved the background embeddings page, which now lists the files of a local data source that AI Studio left out, for example, images or files that are too large. It also shows which file types and folders lie outside what the data source selects.
-- Improved the Batch Processing assistant, which now also processes images in JPG, PNG, WebP, and GIF format when the selected model can read images. If you used the assistant before, your saved file patterns stay as they are: click "Restore default patterns" or add patterns such as `*.jpg;*.png` yourself.
+- Improved the Batch Processing assistant, which now also processes images in JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, and TIFF format when the selected model can read images. If you used the assistant before, your saved file patterns stay as they are: click "Restore default patterns" or add patterns such as `*.jpg;*.png` yourself.
 - Improved the Batch Processing assistant, which now leaves out hidden files and folders as well as build output and downloaded dependencies, such as the folder `node_modules`. You can change both in the expert settings of the assistant.
 - Improved local data sources for folders and the Batch Processing assistant, which now leave out files larger than 1 GB, such as images of virtual machines. You can change this limit.
 - Improved local data sources for files and folders. When you move or rename the file or folder, for example, to another drive or a new computer, you can now select its new location when you edit the data source. AI Studio keeps what it has already prepared for every unchanged file, so these files do not go to your embedding provider again. Thanks, Paul Koudelka (`PaulKoudelka`), for this contribution.
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 - Improved the dialogs for managing your data sources, profiles, and chat templates, which you open, for example, from a chat. The buttons for adding and importing now stay at the bottom of the dialog, so you no longer need to scroll past a long list to reach them. Thanks, Paul Koudelka (`PaulKoudelka`), for this contribution.
 - Improved how often AI Studio signs in to the server of an external data source (ERI server). AI Studio now keeps the server's answer to its security check for a minute, so a server which limits sign-ins no longer refuses the searches of the AI.
 - Improved the search results from external data sources (ERI servers), which now tell the AI what kind of content a result comes from, for example, a dictionary or a book chapter, when the server names it.
+- Improved images in chats and assistants. AI Studio now scales large photos down before it sends them to the AI, so they no longer fail at providers with size limits, such as Anthropic. Photos also no longer carry their location data along.
+- Improved attaching images to chats and assistants. AI Studio now converts BMP and TIFF images into a format the AI understands, and it tells you right away when it cannot give an image to the AI, for example, in HEIC or SVG format.
 - Changed the banner on the start page to a fresh design that shows what AI Studio can do today.
 - Changed when a chat you add to a workspace in the workspace list appears there. Like any other new chat, it now appears once there is something to keep, for example, your first message, instead of right away.
 - Fixed a warning about the confidence level that stayed in the dialog for adding a local data source, even after you chose an embedding provider that meets it. The dialog now checks again whenever you change either of them, so a warning also appears when you switch to a provider that falls short.
@@ -111,6 +113,8 @@
 - Fixed sharing plugins when the share dialog of Windows or macOS does not open or stops responding. AI Studio now notices this and offers to save the plugin archive to a location of your choice instead. Until you restart AI Studio, the plugin page then offers this export instead of sharing.
 - Fixed the Batch Processing assistant finding no documents when you chose an output folder that contains the input folder, such as its parent folder.
 - Fixed the Batch Processing assistant processing its own result files again as new documents when you chose the input folder as the output folder.
+- Fixed chats failing with an error from the provider when an attached image could not be read. AI Studio now leaves out such an image and tells you why.
+- Fixed photos taken with a phone appearing rotated in the Visual Briefing assistant when it optimizes images.
 - Updated the code contributions on the supporters page, which now thank everyone who has contributed code to AI Studio so far.
 - Upgraded several libraries to improve security.
 - Upgraded to Rust v1.99.1