This release introduces three new integrations (Got It AI, AutoAlign and Patronus Lynx), streamlined NIM and NVIDIA API Catalog integration, support for registering custom embedding models, improvements and fixes to Colang 2.0, and many other bug fixes. This release also includes better out-of-the-box support for Llama-3 and Llama-3.1 models.

What's Changed

Added

• Colang version 2.0-beta.2
• #370 Add Got It AI's Truthchecking service for RAG applications by @mlmonk.
• #543 Integrating AutoAlign's guardrail library with NeMo Guardrails by @abhijitpal1247.
• #566 Autoalign factcheck examples by @abhijitpal1247.
• #518 Docs: add example config for using models with ollama by @vedantnaik19.
• #538 Support for --default-config-id in the server.
• #539 Support for LLMCallException.
• #548 Support for custom embedding models.
• #617 NVIDIA AI Endpoints embeddings.
• #462 Support for calling embedding models from langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints.
• #622 Patronus Lynx Integration.

Changed

• #597 Make UUID generation predictable in debug-mode.
• #603 Improve chat cli logging.
• #551 Upgrade to Langchain 0.2.x by @nicoloboschi.
• #611 Change default templates.
• #545 NVIDIA API Catalog and NIM documentation update.
• #463 Do not store pip cache during docker build by @don-attilio.
• #629 Move community docs to separate folder.
• #647 Documentation updates.
• #648 Prompt improvements for Llama-3 models.

Fixed

• #482 Update README.md by @curefatih.
• #530 Improve the test serialization test to make it more robust.
• #570 Add support for FacialGestureBotAction by @elisam0.
• #550 Fix issue #335 - make import errors visible.
• #547 Fix LLMParams bug and add unit tests (fixes #158).
• #537 Fix directory traversal bug.
• #536 Fix issue #304 NeMo Guardrails packaging.
• #539 Fix bug related to the flow abort logic in Colang 1.0 runtime.
• #612 Follow-up fixes for the default prompt change.
• #585 Fix Colang 2.0 state serialization issue.
• #486 Fix select model type and custom prompts task.py by @cyun9601.
• #487 Fix custom prompts configuration manual.md.
• #479 Fix static method and classmethod action decorators by @piotrm0.
• #544 Fix issue #216 bot utterance.
• #616 Various fixes.
• #623 Fix path traversal check.

New Contributors

• @mlmonk made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/370
• @rgstephens made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/504
• @abhijitpal1247 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/543
• @nicoloboschi made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/551
• @elisam0 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/570
• @vedantnaik19 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/518
• @cyun9601 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/486
• @don-attilio made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/463
• @varjoshi made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/622

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/compare/v0.9.0...v0.9.1