2.5.5 v1.7.0

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abhinavxd/libredeskSep 16, 2026 → Sep 17, 20261 day between releases

What's New

Introduces unified batching and pipeline validation features, marking a major shift from the previous maintenance release.

Breaking Changes

  • Version jump from 2.5.5 to 1.7.0 implies a major API overhaul; verify compatibility.

New Features

  • Unified batching interface for embeddings, NER, POS tagging, and dependency parsing
  • Robust validation for step configuration in the Pipeline class
  • Enhanced accuracy for detecting informal Persian text
  • Improved character-level encoding and decoding for transliteration
  • Better handling of special tokens in ALBERT tokenizer

Improvements

  • Significant performance improvements through bulk processing across ONNX models
  • Expanded test suite and developer tooling improvements
  • Enhanced error handling across pipeline stages for better debugging

Upgrade Notes

This represents a major version jump; expect breaking changes in the API and configuration schema. Review the new unified batching interface, as input/output formats have been updated to support bulk processing.

The Two Releases

2.5.5

2.5.5

Sep 16, 2026· 1 month ago

Minimal release notes: "### 🐞 Bug Fixes - #7848 fix: Memory leak from tcp monitor"

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v1.7.0

v1.7.0

Sep 17, 2026· 1 month ago

This release introduces unified batching across ONNX models for efficient bulk processing, enhances pipeline validation and Persian text classification, and expands the test suite.

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