chore: release 0.3.0v0.3.0

2 files changed, 44 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ddfc863..451092f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,10 +5,51 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [0.3.0] - 2026-08-01
+
+### Changed
+
+- `max_searches` now defaults to 2, up from 1. The empty-reply failure that
+  forced the lower cap has two causes, both now understood: the model was
+  never told its last search was spent, fixed below, and llama-server's
+  quantized KV cache degrades tool calling, which is a server setting rather
+  than something this client can control. With `f16` KV and the final-round
+  note, a question needing two searches answered 4 and 5 times out of 6 on
+  two runs, against 3 of 3 broken before. Single-search turns are solid, 6
+  of 6. Lower it back to 1 when running a quantized KV cache, or if empty
+  replies are more annoying than a second search is useful.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- A turn that used its last search no longer ends with an empty reply. The
+  final round's tool result now states that the search tool is gone and the
+  answer is due. Withdrawing the tool schema was invisible to the model,
+  which asked for another search regardless: this model's chat template
+  defines its own `<tool_call><function=...>` XML dialect, so the request
+  came back either as literal text in the reply or buried in the thinking
+  block, and in both cases the reply itself was empty. The note rides on the
+  tool result because a trailing system message is rejected outright, the
+  template raising "System message must be at the beginning". Measured on
+  the question that first showed the bug: 3 of 5 turns broken before, 5 of
+  5 answered after.
 
 ### Added
 
+- Conversation titles are written by the model. Once a reply finishes in a
+  session still carrying its placeholder title, the exchange is sent back in
+  a short side request asking for a title of at most six words, and the
+  answer replaces the opening words of the question the entry was created
+  with. The trigger is the placeholder rather than the turn number, so a
+  first reply that comes back empty does not forfeit titling for the rest of
+  the session, and a one-shot window, which appends every question to the
+  same entry until New is pressed, is titled from the question that actually
+  got answered. It runs on its own thread and is silent about failure: an
+  unreachable router or an unusable reply leaves the original title in place
+  rather than raising.
+  Thinking is disabled for that request through the chat template, since a
+  reasoning model otherwise spends the whole token budget on its thoughts
+  and returns an empty answer.
+
 - Web search through a SearXNG instance. The model is offered a `web_search`
   tool and decides for itself when a question needs current information;
   llamachat runs the query and feeds the results back. Off by default, and
@@ -22,11 +63,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Six configuration keys: `search_enabled`, `search_url`, `search_results`,
   `search_snippet_chars`, `search_timeout` and `max_searches`. Searches are
   capped per turn, after which the tool is withdrawn and the model must
-  answer. The cap defaults to 1: a second tool call, issued once the model
-  has seen the first results, comes back as literal `<tool_call>` text
-  rather than a structured call, and a turn that ends on one leaves the
-  reply empty. Raise it when the model and llama.cpp build handle
-  follow-up calls.
+  answer.
 - Searches are stored per message in a new `searches` column, so reopening a
   conversation still shows what was looked up. They are deliberately kept
   out of the full-text index, or web text nobody wrote would compete with
diff --git a/llamachat/__init__.py b/llamachat/__init__.py
index 9dbd5c5..04fc36e 100644
--- a/llamachat/__init__.py
+++ b/llamachat/__init__.py
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 # GNU General Public License for more details.
 
-__version__ = "0.2.1"
+__version__ = "0.3.0"