What's Changed

• Allow generating arbitrary (schemaless) JSON by @hudson-ai in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/892
• [Bug] Fix Llama3ChatTemplate by @jjkjkj in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/884
• Use python's re module instead of pyformlang to build regex ASTs by @hudson-ai in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/854
• [Feature] Add Support for Phi-3-small by @ambisinister in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/935
• [Feature] Constant elements in JSON schemas by @wjn0 in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/886
• [Bug] Fix for LlamaCpp tokeniser prepending spaces by @riedgar-ms in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/903
• New Benchmarking system by @nopdive in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/843
• Mistral chat template integrated by @Harsha-Nori in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/919
• [Bug] Passing through kwargs to TransformersTokenizer by @riedgar-ms in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/922
• [Feature] Add extra support to JSON string schema by @riedgar-ms in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/927
• Update protobuf definitions for remote list_append fix by @nking-1 in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/937
• Downgrade protobuf required version using protoc 25.3 by @nking-1 in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/946
• [Bug] Fix regex for urls in image function by @kklemon in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/928
• Dedent fixes for Python 3.12 by @Harsha-Nori in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/959
• Refector TransformersTokenizer and change fallback behavior for byte_tokens by @hudson-ai in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/973
• Fix Transformer models with bos_token null by @Mihaiii in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/990

New Contributors

• @nopdive made their first contribution in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/843
• @jjkjkj made their first contribution in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/884
• @wjn0 made their first contribution in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/886
• @kklemon made their first contribution in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/928
• @ambisinister made their first contribution in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/935
• @Mihaiii made their first contribution in https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/pull/990

Full Changelog: https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/compare/0.1.15...0.1.16