v9.8.0

badges/shieldsv9.8.0Apr 29, 2026by davidmezzetti

AI Summary

A maintenance release focusing on security, compatibility, and performance improvements, including support for new streaming features and bug fixes for specific libraries.

Key Highlights

Added support for last token pooling
Added support for streaming Labels pipeline
Added safeopen parameter for Textractor
Security issue fix with LiteLLM
Performance improvement using JOIN for JSON fields

New Features

Last token pooling support
Streaming Labels pipeline support
Safeopen parameter for Textractor
Authorization tokens with MCP endpoints support
Optimized JSON field handling

Full Release Notes

**This release is primarily a bug fix, security and compatibility release.**

See below for full details on the new features, improvements and bug fixes.

New Features
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- Add support for last token pooling (#1072)
- Add support for streaming Labels pipeline (#1075)
- Add safeopen parameter for Textractor (#1077)

Improvements
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- Support Authorization tokens with MCP endpoints (#899)
- Update embeddings documentation to mention loading ONNX vector models (#1071)
- Performance Improvement: Use JOIN when JSON fields being used (#1078)
- Limit template scope with Agents (#1080)

Bug Fixes
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- Security issue with LiteLLM (#1065)
- Issue with latest version of llama-cpp-python (#1066)
- Issue with latest version of Model2Vec (#1067)
- UnsupportedProtocol: Request URL is missing an 'http://' or 'https://' protocol (#1073)