Release Notes

v2.3.0-rc2

Adding a new component allowing to perform sentence-window retrieval, i.e. retrieves surrounding documents of a given document from the document store. This is useful when a document is split into multiple chunks and you want to retrieve the surrounding context of a given chunk.

Enhanced the PyPDF converter to ensure backwards compatibility with Pipelines dumped with versions older than 2.3.0. The update includes a conditional check to automatically default to the DefaultConverter if a specific converter is not provided, improving the component's robustness and ease of use.

Haystack 1.x legacy filters are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the new filter style as described in the documentation - https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/docs/metadata-filtering

Encoding of HTML files in LinkContentFetcher
This updates the components, TransformersSimilarityRanker, SentenceTransformersDiversityRanker, SentenceTransformersTextEmbedder, SentenceTransformersDocumentEmbedder and LocalWhisperTranscriber from_dict methods to work when loading with init_parameters only containing required parameters.
Fix TransformersZeroShotTextRouter and TransformersTextRouter from_dict methods to work when init_parameters only contain required variables.