v2.1

coderamp-labs/gitrulesv2.1Dec 10, 2024by thomashacker

AI Summary

A comprehensive update that introduces multiple new AI providers (Upstage, Groq, AssemblyAI), a custom deployment type, and significant bug fixes regarding stability, configuration, and user interface.

Key Highlights

Added multiple new AI providers (Upstage, Groq, AssemblyAI)
Added Custom deployment type and port configuration
Fixed race conditions and improved UI with system message textarea

Breaking Changes

Changed Collection names to prevent conflicts with older versions
Changed Python version range below 3.13

New Features

Upstage Reader, Embedder, Generator
Custom deployment type
Port configuration
Groq generator
AssemblyAI Reader
Language Detection
Improved Markdown Chunking
Weaviate Client upgrade
Ollama in Docker Compose
Verba on Docker Hub
Default deployment to skip login

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)