v1.5.6

feyninc/chonkiev1.5.6Feb 16, 2026by chonk-lain

AI Summary

This release extends the Visualizer to support lists of strings and includes various dependency updates, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Key Highlights

Universal Visualizer now supports a list of strings as input
Dependency updates for protobuf, pillow, and langchain-core
Performance improvements with HF Hub request caching
Bug fix for handling empty list inputs in Pipeline.run()

New Features

Visualizer support for lists of strings

Full Release Notes

## Universal Vizulizer 👀 
The visulizer now has support for a list of strings as well, allowing it to extend beyond the scope of the current library
```python
from chonkie import Visualizer, RecursiveChunker
viz = Visualizer()
texts = ["hello, ","world"]
viz(texts)
```
<img width="100" height="40" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8bdbe433-c97f-4874-b997-a3d70167f8d7" />



## What's Changed
* chore(deps): bump protobuf from 6.32.1 to 6.33.5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/484
* chore: switch to debug by @chonk-lain in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/485
* chore: bump version by @chonk-lain in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/486
* chore(deps): bump pillow from 11.3.0 to 12.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/494
* chore(deps): bump langchain-core from 0.3.81 to 1.2.11 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/493
* chore(deps): bump langsmith from 0.4.32 to 0.6.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/490
* perf: cache all HF Hub requests during test run by @akx in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/419
* chore(deps): bump cryptography from 46.0.2 to 46.0.5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/492
* docs: improve language support documentation for code chunker by @samyak1729 in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/451
* Remove completed TODO comments from NeuralChunker by @anaslimem in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/488
* Fix anchors in readme to point to the correct heading. by @CKolkey in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/433
* fix: handle empty list input in Pipeline.run() (Issue #460) by @hannibal-lee in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/496
* Improve test by removing whitespace stripping in chunk index  by @anaslimem in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/489
* fix: remove duplicate code in CohereEmbeddings by @akx in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/414
* feat(visulizer): support list of strings for visulizer by @chonk-lain in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/497

## New Contributors
* @CKolkey made their first contribution in https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/pull/433

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie/compare/v1.5.5...v1.5.6