New Features
- add optional tqdm progress during index creation (6583)
- Added async support for "compact" and "refine" response modes (6590)
- [feature]add transformer tokenize functionalities for optimizer (chinese) (6659)
- Add simple benchmark for vector store (6670)
- Introduce `llama_index.llms` module, with new `LLM` interface, and `OpenAI`, `HuggingFaceLLM`, `LangChainLLM` implementations. (6615)
- Evaporate pydantic program (6666)
Bug Fixes / Nits
- Improve metadata/node storage and retrieval for RedisVectorStore (6678)
- Fixed node vs. document filtering in vector stores (6677)
- add context retrieval agent notebook link to docs (6660)
- Allow null values for the 'image' property in the ImageNode class and se… (6661)
- Fix broken links in docs (6669)
- update milvus to store node content (6667)