First, the finding that changes how this post should be read, because I checked it first: the repository at PygmalionAI/aphrodite-engine no longer exists under that name. The GitHub API returns a permanent redirect for it (repository id 657414607 - the same id behind dphnAI/sonar , created 23 June 2023); the README at main now describes the project as Sonar, and the one at tag v0.22.0 reads "Sonar (formerly Aphrodite Engine)". This is not a successor project that claims to continue it: it is the same repository, renamed in place. The commit that did it - "feat!: rename Aphrodite Engine to Sonar", dated 7 November 2026 - landed in v0.25.0, released 8 November 2026, the first release whose wheels are named sonar-*.whl .…