Agnes Video Generator

6.4.0 — Release Notes

Changelog for Agnes Video Generator: new features, improvements and bug fixes for every release.

MinorReleased on August 31, 2026View on GitHub ↗

What's New

Features & Improvements

  • Preview ("dry-run") endpoints for creative and manuscript tasks — POST /api/creative/preview-script and POST /api/manuscript/preview-split let you inspect the generated script or manuscript segments before submitting a full task. Synchronous, no task created. Preview calls share the Chat API rate limiter and have a lightweight in-process concurrency cap (429 + Retry-After) to prevent abuse. (Credit: @Khaled97Sho, PR #33)
  • Arabic tashkeel for TTS narration — creative and manuscript pipelines now automatically apply Arabic diacritic marks (harakat) to narration text before TTS synthesis, improving pronunciation quality. Tashkeel only affects TTS input; subtitle text and narration.txt remain clean. (Credit: @Khaled97Sho, PR #33)
  • Manuscript reference images — per-segment reference images for manuscript tasks are now supported via reference_images + reference_images_map parameters, matching the same feature used in creative pipelines. (Credit: @Khaled97Sho, PR #33)
  • Language-aware narration budget — narration length for non-CJK languages now uses a language-specific characters-per-second rate (Arabic: 4.0, CJK: 5.0, others: 12.0), fixing the "narration too short for non-CJK text" issue. (Credit: @Khaled97Sho, PR #33)
  • Configurable CORS origins — the AGNES_CORS_ORIGINS environment variable (comma-separated) allows any companion tool to call the core API cross-origin. AGNES_CORS_ENABLED can force-enable or disable; auto-detects when origins are set.
  • China domestic API domain — the cn domain in AGNES_DOMAIN_MAP now correctly points to api.agnes-ai.cn (the official China service endpoint), updated from the incorrect apihub.agnes-ai.cn (international-site fallback). The frontend domain picker reflects the correct hostname.

Refactoring & Optimizations

  • `split_manuscript_text()` extracted as a public utility — the manuscript-splitting algorithm is now available as a standalone function, used by both the manuscript pipeline and the new preview-split endpoint.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed rate-limiter live-lock — a rare synchronous acquire path race condition could stall all pipelines indefinitely. The token bucket's async path is now the primary path, with the sync path hardened to prevent the live-lock. (Credit: @Khaled97Sho, PR #33)
  • Fixed image save not persisting — POST /api/images/generations now awaits the image download, ensuring the generated image is actually written to disk before the response.
  • Fixed GitHub CodeQL alerts #43 and #47 — path-injection and information-disclosure security alerts resolved.
  • Fixed PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 for config key IDs — config key IDs are now hashed with a proper key-derivation function instead of weaker hashing.
  • Fixed Docker Hub Cloudflare WAF blocking — the Docker Hub overview update script now strips <script> blocks and escapes < in the JSON payload to bypass the WAF XSS rule.
  • Fixed China domestic site domain — AGNES_DOMAIN_MAP["cn"] corrected to api.agnes-ai.cn per the official Agnes model catalog. (Issue #37)
  • Compatibility notes: The core/audio/tashkeel.py module adds a new optional dependency (mishkal). It is installed by default via requirements.txt; if missing, tashkeel silently falls back to the original text. Existing task state files are forward-compatible; no migration needed.

About Agnes Video Generator

A completely free, open-source AI video generator: turn text into multi-scene AI videos with narration and subtitles.

  • Free and open source — no payment, no high-end GPU required
  • Text-to-video, image-to-video, digital anchor and image generation
  • Powered by free Agnes AI models, rendered entirely in the cloud
  • Runs via Web UI, Docker or npm, and supports self-hosting

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