Merge origin/master into feat/darwin-privacy-filter

Keep both the privacy-filter and merged localvqe includeDarwin entries.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]

Author: mudler

.github/backend-matrix.yml

@@ -4947,6 +4947,12 @@ includeDarwin:
   - backend: "privacy-filter"
     tag-suffix: "-metal-darwin-arm64-privacy-filter"
     lang: "go"
+  # LocalVQE has no Metal path; on Apple Silicon it builds CPU-only (GGML_METAL
+  # OFF) but is still a native arm64 image. Uses the darwin/metal build profile.
+  - backend: "localvqe"
+    tag-suffix: "-metal-darwin-arm64-localvqe"
+    build-type: "metal"
+    lang: "go"
   - backend: "voxtral"
     tag-suffix: "-metal-darwin-arm64-voxtral"
     build-type: "metal"

backend/go/localvqe/Makefile

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),vulkan)
 	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_VULKAN=ON -DLOCALVQE_VULKAN=ON
 else ifeq ($(OS),Darwin)
+	# Apple Silicon: CPU-only (no Metal upstream); built + published as an arm64
+	# image by CI (includeDarwin in .github/backend-matrix.yml) for macOS install.
 	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=OFF
 endif
 

backend/index.yaml

@@ -1057,6 +1057,8 @@
     nvidia-l4t: "vulkan-localvqe"
     nvidia-l4t-cuda-12: "vulkan-localvqe"
     nvidia-l4t-cuda-13: "vulkan-localvqe"
+    # Apple Silicon: CPU build (LocalVQE has no Metal path); still arm64-native.
+    metal: "metal-localvqe"
 - &privacyfilter
   name: "privacy-filter"
   alias: "privacy-filter"
@@ -4160,6 +4162,16 @@
   uri: "quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:master-gpu-vulkan-localvqe"
   mirrors:
     - localai/localai-backends:master-gpu-vulkan-localvqe
+- !!merge <<: *localvqecpp
+  name: "metal-localvqe"
+  uri: "quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:latest-metal-darwin-arm64-localvqe"
+  mirrors:
+    - localai/localai-backends:latest-metal-darwin-arm64-localvqe
+- !!merge <<: *localvqecpp
+  name: "metal-localvqe-development"
+  uri: "quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:master-metal-darwin-arm64-localvqe"
+  mirrors:
+    - localai/localai-backends:master-metal-darwin-arm64-localvqe
 ## kokoro
 - !!merge <<: *kokoro
   name: "kokoro-development"