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v2.1

bknd-io/bkndv2.1Dec 10, 2024by thomashacker

AI Summary

Focuses on bug fixes and adding new AI integrations like Upstage, Groq, and AssemblyAI, along with improvements to markdown chunking and deployment configuration.

Key Highlights

  • Added Upstage Reader, Embedder, and Generator
  • Added Groq and AssemblyAI support
  • Language detection for major languages
  • Improved Markdown Chunking
  • Added Custom deployment type and Docker Hub support

Breaking Changes

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

New Features

  • Upstage Reader, Embedder, and Generator
  • Groq integration
  • AssemblyAI Reader for audio files
  • Language detection (Chinese, English, French, German, Dutch)
  • Improved Markdown Chunking
  • Custom deployment type
  • Port configuration
  • Ollama in Docker Compose
  • Default deployment to skip login screen

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)