v2.1

iluwatar/java-design-patternsv2.1Dec 10, 2024by thomashacker

AI Summary

This release focuses on fixing bugs, introducing new AI provider integrations (Upstage, Groq), and improving deployment options and UI usability.

Key Highlights

Added new AI providers: Upstage, Groq, and AssemblyAI for audio files.
Improved Markdown chunking and added language detection capabilities.
Enhanced Docker support with Ollama integration and Docker Hub publishing.
UI improvements including a system message textarea and skip-login option.

Breaking Changes

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

New Features

Upstage Reader, Embedder, and Generator integration.
Custom deployment type and port configuration.
AssemblyAI Reader for audio files.
Language detection for multiple languages.
Recursive and Markdown chunking improvements.

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)