v2.6.3

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.6.3

v2.6.1

What's Changed

• Release/v2.6.1 by @ashpreetbedi in #1521

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1

v2.6.0

Changelog

This update introduces exciting new features, performance enhancements, and crucial fixes to ensure better usability and functionality.

Highlights

• Multimodal Agents: Agents now natively support image and audio with video capabilities coming soon.
• Agentic Workflows : Build deterministic multi-agent pipelines using Workflows, now generally available.
• State Sharing: New session_state variable allows agents to share state across function calls.
• Direct Responses: Agents in teams can now respond directly to users, bypassing the team leader.
• Context Injection: Real-time context resolution for enhanced execution.
• Human-in-the-Loop: Tool calls can now be confirmed or approved before execution.
• Advanced Chunking (#1507): Added support for Semantic, Agentic, Document, Recursive, and Fixed chunking strategies.

New Features

Playground Updates

• Show Reasoning: Gain insights into the agent's decision-making process.
• Show Tool Calls: View results and metrics on hover.
• Sessions Page Enhancements: Added reasoning, context, and tools integration.
• Delete Custom Endpoint: Manage endpoints directly within the Playground.
• Show References: Sources used for RAG are now viewable.

Additional Features

• Chunking Strategies in RAG (#1507): Five levels of chunking introduced to enhance processing.
• Unified Reranker (#1417): CohereReranker enables consistent reranking across vector databases like LanceDB.
• Milvus Vector Database Integration (#1506): Milvus support added as a vector database option.
• Support for Multi-Modalities: Enhanced agent capabilities with audio, video, and image data support.
• Pre- and Post-Hook Functions: Validate arguments, enable human-in-the-loop flows, and validate results of tool calls.

Improvements

• Workflow Session Logging (#1513): Improved logging mechanisms for better workflow tracking.
• Ollama Tool Call Streaming (#1494): Enhanced call streaming capabilities for the Ollama tool.
• Logging Updates for Gemini (#1495): Improved logging functionality for Gemini models.
• Ollama LLM Class Updates (#1205): Resolved reliability issues in tool calling.
• Duplicate Endpoint Prevention: Enhanced logic to prevent creating duplicate custom endpoints.
• Dynamic Prompts: System prompt, user prompt, and instructions can now be passed as functions resolved at runtime.
• Knowledge Base Updates (#1472, #1474): Fixed terminology updates and improvements to knowledge cookbooks.
• Vertex AI Gemini Model Class (#1489): Added support for Google Vertex AI models with cookbooks.

Bug Fixes

• Session Read-All Issue: Resolved an issue where titles weren’t created with a list of messages.
• Ollama Tool Response Fix: Fixed empty responses from Ollama tools (#1205).
• Empty Context Creation Prevention (#1471): Prevented creation of contexts when no knowledge base is provided.

Breaking Changes

• Agent.add_context renamed to Agent.add_references to align with context injection terminology.
• context_format is now references_format.

New Contributors

• @zc277584121 made their first contribution in #1506
• @ofri made their first contribution in #1205

Full Changelog: v2.5.34...v2.6.0

v2.5.34

Changelog

Features

• InternLM Model Class
  PR: #1475
  Author: Yash Solanky
• Vertex AI Gemini Model Class and Cookbook
  PR: #1489
  Author: Yash Solanky
• Add Discord Integration Tool
  PR: #1337
  Author: vishkrish200
• Add Baidu Search Tool for Phidata
  PR: #1468
  Author: Vist233

Improvements

• Sync the Monitoring of Reasoning Agent with Main Agent
  PR: #1479
  Author: Yash Solanky
• S3 Knowledge Cookbooks
  PR: #1474
  Author: Yash Solanky
• Updates to Embedder Cookbooks
  PR: #1473
  Author: Yash Solanky
• Document Knowledge Base Cookbook
  PR: #1469
  Author: Manthan Gupta
• Update License
  PR: #1458
  Author: Ansub Khan
• Update README.md
  PR: #1457
  Author: krenax c
• Qwen2.5 Coding Agent
  PR: #1446
  Author: Anurag
• Example on how to use LanceDB as vectorDB
  PR: #1491
  Author: MANISH007700
• Added "psycopg[binary]" in Install Command
  PR: #1487
  Author: MANISH007700

Bug Fixes

• Updates to Knowledge Base Cookbooks
  PR: #1472
  Author: Yash Solanky
• Prevents Creation of Empty Context When No Knowledge Base Is Provided
  PR: #1471
  Author: Yash Solanky
• Fixed ollama knowledge example
  PR: #1463
  Author: vodkar

Detailed change log

v2.5.33

v2.5.33

v2.5.32

v2.5.32

v2.5.31

Merge branch 'main' of https://github.com/phidatahq/phidata

v2.5.30

v2.5.30

v2.5.29

v2.5.29

v2.5.28

v2.5.28