SillyTavern weekly news. We’re going to ignore that there was no SillyTavern weekly news for the entire month of May. Or any post, really (Did I say I was sorry?)
The SillyTavern weekly news of June 8 to 15, 2026 was a model release week, which is also the only kind of week that matters around here. *GLM 5.2* finally hit OpenRouter, a few days late but no less hyped for the wait. *DeepSeek v4* turned out to be, against all odds, actually good. *Fable 5* launched and immediately started a culture war. Anthropic put new safeguards on old models in the kind of move that makes you check the date twice. And underneath it all, the SillyTavern GitHub ship sat quiet for the sixth week running.
Let’s get into it.
glm 5.2
The biggest model news of the week was absolutely *GLM 5.2* finally landing on OpenRouter. The release schedule slipped a day, but the hype didn’t. The community had been watching the leak on June 9 all week, refreshing threads and arguing about whether the model was real or a particularly cruel LARP. It was real. “GLM-5.2 coming within hours” dropped on the 13th, the actual rollout happened on the 16th, and the thread count on r/SillyTavernAI this week is mostly GLM 5.2.
Early takes are running the usual mix. “GLM 5.2 is making me enjoy a card I normally only use for testing” is the kind of quote that means more than any benchmark number. Others are running NSFW tests with the now-standard “DEAD DOVE” warning tags and the conclusions look mostly positive for the audience that matters. If you haven’t tried GLM 5.2 yet, the rollout is real, the price is reasonable, and the community already has a few presets in the works.
Worth noting: WTF is this GLM5.1??? is also trending, which is a different story. The gap between 5.1 and 5.2 is apparently visible to anyone with eyes. I will not be editorializing further.
DeepSeek v4: Surprisingly Good
DeepSeek v4 dropped and the community consensus is, against all reasonable expectation, surprisingly good. Multiple “first time DeepSeek made me laugh HARD” type posts in the same week, which is a low bar in some sense and a high bar in every other. V4 seems to be hitting a sweet spot for humor, character voice, and not being mid. Mileage may vary, as always.
And the rumor mill is already turning. Someone asked the DeepSeek V5 “Mythos destroyer” wen? question and got the usual “soon, probably” answers. The fact that this is a meme at this point is part of the brand.
Fable 5: The Censorship Wars Begin Anew
Fable 5 officially released on June 9 and the threads came fast. A new level of censorship complaint dropped within hours, followed by the Fable 5 NSFW test results and a whole lot of “I knew it” energy from the doomsayers. The actual content of the Fable 5 release is fine. The political situation around it is the story.
The bigger story, frankly, is the statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable that landed on June 13. This is the kind of thing that doesn’t get enough attention. If you’re running Fable and you hadn’t seen the directive thread, go read it. I’m not going to explain the geopolitics of it. You had to be there. SillyTavern Weekly: DeepSeek V4, Kimi
SillyTavern: Still Quiet
The most recent commit on the SillyTavern GitHub is from May 3. That is six weeks ago. The 1.18.0 release that landed at the end of April brought the extension management refactor, basic auth rate limiting, and the JSON extraction option that I am shamelessly not going to explain again because the GLM vs MiniMax article is the place for that.
So either the team is in a deep work cycle on something bigger, or the project has just hit a quiet stretch. Both are plausible. The 1.18.0 release is stable. Nothing is broken. The repo just isn’t moving. If you’re waiting for 1.19.0 like I am, this is your weekly reminder that it’s not here yet. Sorry.
New Tools Worth Knowing About
A few things shipped this week from the community that deserve a callout.
Megumin Suite V8 dropped June 16 with inline image gen, a 700-token preset option, a new NPC dossier system, and token save toggles. The release post is on Reddit and the headline feature is inline image gen. The 700-token preset is going to be the saving grace for anyone running on a tight context window. If you haven’t tried the Megumin Suite, this is probably the version to start with.
Freaky Frankenstein Micro is a new preset from the Freaky Frankenstein family, billed as the smallest, most compact version yet. I haven’t run it yet but the size claim is interesting if you care about prompt economy. The Frankenstein presets have always leaned into “more is more” territory, so a “less is more” sibling is worth a look.
Yozakura is a new open source LLM social sim / RP engine that landed on June 13. This one is adjacent to SillyTavern rather than part of it, but if you’re into structured social sims and multi-character stat tracking, it’s worth a look. Open source, so the usual caveats apply: it’ll be at 0.95 forever.
Saga: Fandom Loresystem is a lorebook system for binding favorite characters and worlds into reusable presets. I haven’t poked at this one yet but the framing is appealing if you RP across multiple fandoms and are tired of rebuilding lorebooks from scratch. Looks like it pairs well with LoreProfiles if you’re already using that workflow.
Anthropic Quietly Tightens Old Models
One thread worth flagging even if you missed it: Anthropic has been putting new safeguards on their old models via the API. This is the kind of move that doesn’t get a press release but does break character consistency in production setups. If you’re running Claude 3.x for RP and suddenly hitting refusals that weren’t there last month, this is probably why. Worth checking the model ID you’re on.
Quick Mentions
KIMI 2.7 code is getting roasted for its coding output. Story of the year in AI twitter continues to be “coding benchmarks are not roleplay benchmarks.” 5 Best SillyTavern Extensions
Gemma 4 31B is quietly becoming a favorite cheap model on the assumption that “cheap” still means “under ten bucks a month” rather than “free.” Spoiler: it does. I use it. I love it.
Mimo is getting revised reviews. The “I was wrong, I LOVE it” energy is the kind of reverse course that happens when a model quietly gets better in a way the benchmarks didn’t catch.
Weekly SillyTavern News Ep. 9 showed up in the feed. Someone in the community is also doing a weekly news roundup, posted June 9. Worth subscribing to, and not just because they beat me to the format.
API endpoint security: a Reddit user flagged a routing discrepancy with multiai.store and reminded everyone to audit their own API endpoints. This is a good time to go look at the providers in your SillyTavern config and confirm you’re pointing at the URLs you think you’re pointing at. I checked mine. You should check yours.
That’s The Week
GLM 5.2 is the headline. DeepSeek v4 is the underdog story. Fable 5 is the controversy. Anthropic is the quiet shift. The community is, as always, producing tools faster than I can catalog them. And the official SillyTavern repo is sitting quiet, which is its own kind of story.
Next week’s digest will tell us whether GLM 5.2 holds up under sustained use, whether Fable 5’s censorship concerns calm down or escalate, and whether 1.19.0 starts showing up in the version bump PRs. Probably none of those, but we can hope.
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