What's Changed
* feat: added cortex documentation by ivanleomk in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1225
* chore(deps): bump the poetry group across 1 directory with 24 updates by dependabot in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1236
* docs: Add missing section headers and fix broken links by devin-ai-integration in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1232
* feat: added a new dag article by ivanleomk in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1246
* feat: added new article on generating llm metadata by ivanleomk in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1249
* fixes 1252 by hnalla in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1254
* Update google.md by Filimoa in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1251
* fix: BatchJob is updated to work with current OpenAi batch request format by aomi in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1240
* Update simple_type.py by stevenbedrick in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1247
* Fixing Pyright Errors by ivanleomk in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1267
* feat: add Parallel Tool mode for Vertex AI by devjn in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1217
* fix: Updated broken contributors profile link in README.md by gokborayilmaz in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1275
* Adding support for Gemini-8b and 2.0 by ivanleomk in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1274
* fix: update poetry.lock by ivanleomk in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1278
New Contributors
* hnalla made their first contribution in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1254
* Filimoa made their first contribution in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1251
* aomi made their first contribution in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1240
* stevenbedrick made their first contribution in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1247
* devjn made their first contribution in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1217
* gokborayilmaz made their first contribution in https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/pull/1275
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/instructor-ai/instructor/compare/1.7.0...1.7.1