This release fixes a bug in telemetry collection originate by the generalimport library. Since we already switched to a different library in the unstable branch, we decided to backport to 1.17.x the introduction of lazy_import, thus fixing the bug inherently.

What's Changed

• feat: introduce lazy_import by @ZanSara in https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/pull/5084

Full Changelog: https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/compare/v1.17.1...v1.17.2-rc1