0.22.0

• Integration with Google Vertex AI by @kuraleta
• Offline text classification with embeddings
• Reworked document splitters
• InMemoryEmbeddingStore can now be easily persisted and restored, see serializeToJson(), serializeToFile(), fromJson() and fromFile()
• Added option to easily extract metadata in HtmlTextExtractor
• Fixed #126 and #127

0.21.0

• Integration with Azure OpenAI by @kuraleta
• Integration with Qwen models (DashScope) by @jiangsier-xyz
• Integration with Chroma by @kuraleta
• Support for persistent ChatMemory

0.20.0

Added an option to setup a proxy for OpenAI models (#93)

Added more pre-packaged in-process embedding models (#91):

• bge-small-en
• bge-small-zh

InMemoryEmbeddingStore: return matches from highest to lowest (#90)

0.19.0

• Weaviate integration by @Heezer
• DOC, XLS and PPT loaders by @oognuyh
• Separate chat memory for each user
• Custom in-process embedding models
• Added lots of Javadoc
• Added DocumentTransformer and it's first implementation: HtmlTextExtractor
• OpenAiTokenizer is now more precise and can estimate tokens for tools/functions
• Added option to force tool/function execution in OpenAiChatModel and OpenAiStreamingChatModel
• Some bugfixes and improvements

0.18.0

• We've added integration with LocalAI. Now, you can use LLMs hosted locally!
• Added support for response streaming in AI Services.

0.17.0

Added in-process embedding models:

• all-minilm-l6-v2
• all-minilm-l6-v2-q
• e5-small-v2
• e5-small-v2-q

The idea is to give users an option to embed documents/texts in the same Java process without any external dependencies.
ONNX Runtime is used to run models inside JVM.
Each model resides in it's own maven module (inside the jar).

0.16.0

Added more request parameters for OpenAi models:

• top_p
• max_tokens
• presence_penalty
• frequency_penalty

0.15.0

You can now try out OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo and text-embedding-ada-002 models with LangChain4j for free, without needing an OpenAI account and keys!
Simply use the API key "demo".

0.14.0

• Simplified API for all models by removing Result class. Now models return results (AiMessage/Embedding/Moderation/etc) directly, without wrapping it into Result object.
• Fixed a bug that prevented using @UserMessage in AI Services.

0.13.0

• Added EmbeddingStoreIngestor
• Redesigned document loaders (see FileSystemDocumentLoader)
• Simplified ConversationalRetrievalChain
• Renamed DocumentSegment into TextSegment
• Added output parsers for numeric types
• Added @UserName for AI Services
• Fixed 24