What's Changed
* Update version.txt after 0.2.3 release by mrwyattii in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/434
* Update GH workflow and workflow runner requirements. by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/456
* Update pyzmq in requirements.txt by ccoulombe in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/447
* Add `accelerate` to requirements to improve MII-legacy model load times by mrwyattii in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/415
* Update create a PR workflow to latest version withh node js 20 fixes by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/461
* fix max_ragged_sequence_count check in _schedule_prompts by dc3671 in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/470
* Update mistral tests to fully open source version. by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/476
* Fix deprecation warning on escaped characters by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/478
* Remove Conversation from MII as it was deprecated and removed from transformers. by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/492
* Always Flush UIDs after Exceptions by weiqisun in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/491
* Allow model to generate added tokens - fix generation issue in Llama3 models by weiqisun in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/473
* Add explanations of MII code into comments by mrwyattii in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/493
* Update workflow task to use Ubuntu 22.04 by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/508
* Pin to use a specific version of transformers by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/510
* Update MII to switch from modelid to id by loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/507
* Update model support by mrwyattii in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/429
New Contributors
* ccoulombe made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/447
* dc3671 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/470
* weiqisun made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/pull/491
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII/compare/v0.2.3...v0.2.4