What's Changed
* Devanshu's Blog Added in Doc's community folder. by DevanshuBrahmbhatt in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/869
* Update data_preparation doc link in evaluation.md by ragul-kachiappan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/874
* docs: langchain.document_loaders is deprecated by bioerrorlog in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/881
* chores: change cal link by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/892
* chore: added issue manager by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/907
* fix: Feat/issue closer by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/909
* fix(docs): update document regarding langfuse usage by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/904
* docs: clean up integrations by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/919
* doc: Updated vertexai python notebook to use langchain wrapper approach for vertex ai by shawnmittal in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/915
* Add new RAG evaluation articles by Yongtae723 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/932
* Fix/ci: fix the broken CI by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/933
* reproducibility PR1 : introduce ensembler by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/924
* Cleaned installation step in README by andreped in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/921
* reproducibility PR2: add new statement creation 930 by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/941
* Update generator.py - Redundant code by omkar-334 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/942
* docs: improve vertex ai docs by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/951
* docs: small fixes in vertex ai docs by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/952
* Update discord invite link by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/953
* fix: sentence segmenter for multi languages by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/946
* answer-correctness : fix edge cases by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/970
* Fix ensembler : handle edge cases by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/972
* feat: adding new defaults to openai Model and embeddings by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/973
* Improve grammar and punctuation in critique prompts: addresses 971 by ruankie in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/974
* Fix testset generator issue on context selection by Jovillios in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/937
* feat: Ragas CI/CD by jjmachan in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/976
* fix: patch type issue in evolution parsing by shahules786 in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/980
New Contributors
* ragul-kachiappan made their first contribution in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/874
* bioerrorlog made their first contribution in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/881
* shawnmittal made their first contribution in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/915
* andreped made their first contribution in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/921
* omkar-334 made their first contribution in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/942
* ruankie made their first contribution in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/974
* Jovillios made their first contribution in https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/pull/937
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas/compare/v0.1.7...v0.1.8