v2.1

Manisso/fsocietyv2.1Dec 10, 2024by thomashacker

AI Summary

This release focuses on expanding integrations with new AI providers like Upstage and Groq, while addressing stability issues related to environment variables and client initialization.

Key Highlights

Added Upstage integration (Reader, Embedder, Generator)
Fixed collection name conflicts to prevent data issues
Added Groq support and AssemblyAI for audio files
System message is now a textarea in the frontend
Upgraded to the latest Weaviate Client

Breaking Changes

Changed Collection names to prevent conflicts with other older Verba version generated collections
Change Python version range below 3.13

New Features

Custom deployment type
Port configuration
Language Detection
Markdown Chunking
Skip login screen by default

Full Release Notes

## [2.1.0] Fixing Bugs and Adding Friends <3

## Added

- Added Upstage: Reader, Embedder, Generator (https://www.upstage.ai/)
- Added new deployment type: Custom
- Added new port configuration (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/308)
- Added Groq (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/278)
- AssemblyAI Reader for audio files (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/283)
- Language Detection for languages like chinese, english, french, german and dutch (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/302)
- Improve Markdown Chunking (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/323)
- Upgrade to latest Weaviate Client
- Added Ollama to Docker Compose
- Added Verba to Docker Hub
- Added default deployment to skip login screen (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/305)

## Fixed

- Catch Exception when trying to access the OpenAI API Embedding endpoint to retrieve model names
- Fixed reading empty string as environment variables (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/300)
- Fixed default Unstructed URL (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/295)
- Changed Collection names to prevent conflicts with other older Verba version generated collections
- Ensure Ollama URL is parsed correctly (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/327)
- Fixing typos (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/pull/329)
- System Message is now a textarea in the frontend (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/334)
- Race Condition when multiple requests try to create same client (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/335)
- Fix wrong data types when querying additional chunks
- Remove legacy code (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/284)
- Change Python version range below 3.13
- Firecrawl Reader missing metadata (https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/280)