v2.1

usestrix/strixv2.1Dec 10, 2024by thomashacker

AI Summary

This release introduces new AI integrations such as Upstage, AssemblyAI, and Groq, alongside updates to deployment configurations and the Weaviate client.

Key Highlights

Added Upstage Reader, Embedder, and Generator support
Added Custom deployment type and port configuration
Upgraded to latest Weaviate Client
Fixed collection name conflicts with older versions
System message is now a textarea in the frontend

Breaking Changes

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

New Features

Added Groq integration
AssemblyAI Reader for audio files
Language Detection for multiple languages
Improved Markdown Chunking
Added Ollama to Docker Compose
Added Verba to Docker Hub
Added 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)