Nemoguardrails

Changed

* [453](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/453) Update documentation for NVIDIA API Catalog example.

Fixed

* [382](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/382) Fix issue with `lowest_temperature` in self-check and hallucination rails.
* [454](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/454) Redo fix for #385.
* [442](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/442) Fix README type by dileepbapat.

Added

* [402](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/402) Integrate Vertex AI Models into Guardrails by aishwaryap.
* [403](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/403) Add support for NVIDIA AI Endpoints by patriciapampanelli
* [396](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/396) Docs/examples nv ai foundation models.
* [438](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/438) Add research roadmap documentation.

Changed

* [389](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/389) Expose the `verbose` parameter through `RunnableRails` by d-mariano.
* [415](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/415) Enable `print(...)` and `log(...)`.
* [389](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/389) Expose verbose arg in RunnableRails by d-mariano.
* [414](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/414) Feature/colang march release.
* [416](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/416) Refactor and improve the verbose/debug mode.
* [418](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/418) Feature/colang flow context sharing.
* [425](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/425) Feature/colang meta decorator.
* [427](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/427) Feature/colang single flow activation.
* [426](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/426) Feature/colang 2.0 tutorial.
* [428](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/428) Feature/Standard library and examples.
* [431](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/431) Feature/colang various improvements.
* [433](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/433) Feature/Colang 2.0 improvements: generate_async support, stateful API.

Fixed

* [412](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/412) Fix #411 - explain rails not working for chat models.
* [413](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/413) Typo fix: Comment in llm_flows.co by habanoz.
* [420](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/430) Fix typo for hallucination message.

Added

- [377](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/377) Add example for streaming from custom action.

Changed

- [380](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/380) Update installation guide for OpenAI usage.
- [401](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/401) Replace YAML import with new import statement in multi-modal example.

Fixed

- [398](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/398) Colang parser fixes and improvements.
- [394](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/394) Fixes and improvements for Colang 2.0 runtime.
- [381](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/381) Fix typo by serhatgktp.
- [379](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/379) Fix missing prompt in verbose mode for chat models.
- [400](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/400) Fix Authorization header showing up in logs for NeMo LLM.

Added

- [292](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/292) [Jailbreak heuristics](./docs/user_guides/guardrails-library.md#jailbreak-detection-heuristics) by erickgalinkin.
- [256](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/256) Support [generation options](./docs/user_guides/advanced/generation-options.md).
- [307](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/307) Added support for multi-config api calls by makeshn.
- [293](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/293) Adds configurable stop tokens by zmackie.
- [334](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/334) Colang 2.0 - Preview by schuellc.
- [208](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/208) Implement cache embeddings (resolves #200) by Pouyanpi.
- [331](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/331) Huggingface pipeline streaming by trebedea.

Documentation:
- [311](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/311) Update documentation to demonstrate the use of output rails when using a custom RAG by niels-garve.
- [347](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/347) Add [detailed logging docs](./docs/user_guides/detailed_logging) by erickgalinkin.
- [354](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/354) [Input and output rails only guide](./docs/user_guides/input_output_rails_only) by trebedea.
- [359](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/359) Added [user guide for jailbreak detection heuristics](./docs/user_guides/jailbreak_detection_heuristics) by makeshn.
- [363](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/363) Add [multi-config API call user guide](./docs/user_guides/multi_config_api).
- [297](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/297) Example configurations for using only the guardrails, without LLM generation.

Changed

- [309](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/309) Change the paper citation from ArXiV to EMNLP 2023 by manuelciosici
- [319](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/319) Enable embeddings model caching.
- [267](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/267) Make embeddings computing async and add support for batching.
- [281](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/281) Follow symlinks when building knowledge base by piotrm0.
- [280](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/280) Add more information to results of `retrieve_relevant_chunks` by piotrm0.
- [332](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/332) Update docs for batch embedding computations.
- [244](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/244) Docs/edit getting started by DougAtNvidia.
- [333](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/333) Follow-up to PR 244.
- [341](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/341) Updated 'fastembed' version to 0.2.2 by NirantK.

Fixed

- [286](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/286) Fixed #285 - using the same evaluation set given a random seed for topical rails by trebedea.
- [336](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/336) Fix #320. Reuse the asyncio loop between sync calls.
- [337](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/337) Fix stats gathering in a parallel async setup.
- [342](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/342) Fixes OpenAI embeddings support.
- [346](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/346) Fix issues with KB embeddings cache, bot intent detection and config ids validator logic.
- [349](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/349) Fix multi-config bug, asyncio loop issue and cache folder for embeddings.
- [350](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/350) Fix the incorrect logging of an extra dialog rail.
- [358](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/358) Fix Openai embeddings async support.
- [362](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/362) Fix the issue with the server being pointed to a folder with a single config.
- [352](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/352) Fix a few issues related to jailbreak detection heuristics.
- [356](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/356) Redo followlinks PR in new code by piotrm0.

Changed

- [288](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/288) Replace SentenceTransformers with FastEmbed.

Added

- [254](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/254) Support for [Llama Guard input and output content moderation](./docs/user_guides/guardrails-library.md#llama-guard-based-content-moderation).
- [253](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/253) Support for [server-side threads](./docs/user_guides/server-guide.md#threads).
- [235](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/235) Improved [LangChain integration](docs/user_guides/langchain/langchain-integration.md) through `RunnableRails`.
- [190](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/190) Add [example](./examples/notebooks/generate_events_and_streaming.ipynb) for using `generate_events_async` with streaming.
- Support for Python 3.11.

Changed

- [240](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/240) Switch to pyproject.
- [276](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/276) Upgraded Typer to 0.9.

Fixed

- [286](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/286) Fixed not having the same evaluation set given a random seed for topical rails.
- [239](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/239) Fixed logging issue where `verbose=true` flag did not trigger expected log output.
- [228](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/228) Fix docstrings for various functions.
- [242](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/242) Fix Azure LLM support.
- [225](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/225) Fix annoy import, to allow using without.
- [209](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/209) Fix user messages missing from prompt.
- [261](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/261) Fix small bug in `print_llm_calls_summary`.
- [252](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails/pull/252) Fixed duplicate loading for the default config.
- Fixed the dependencies pinning, allowing a wider range of dependencies versions.
- Fixed sever security issues related to uncontrolled data used in path expression and information exposure through an exception.