Notable Changes
- Python Version Support Update: Dropping Support for Python 3.8 and 3.9
- Python 3.8 will reach its end-of-life in October 2024. As a result, we will no longer support Python 3.8 and 3.9.
- Reasoning: Python 3.10 introduces a new typing system crucial for KernelFunctionFromMethod. Maintaining backward compatibility with older versions adds significant complexity and limits our ability to innovate. Thus, support for Python 3.9 will also be discontinued.
- Python 3.8 will reach its end-of-life in October 2024. As a result, we will no longer support Python 3.8 and 3.9.
- Enhanced Function Calling Support for ChatMessages. You may view this ADR for more information.
- New Content Types:
- FunctionCallContent
- FunctionResultContent
- Chat Role Changes:
- ChatRole has been renamed to AuthorRole.
- Content Adaptation:
- ChatMessageContent now supports one or more content types, such as TextContent and the new function calling content types.
- OpenAI Classes Changes:
- Removed OpenAIChatMessageContent and AzureChatMessageContent.
- Enhanced the OpenAI classes to create and parse FunctionCallContent and other new content types.
- New Content Types:
- Improved Sample Organization: Reorganized Sample Folders:
- Moved all notebooks to samples/getting_started.
- Reorganized previous kernel syntax examples by topic in samples/concepts.
- New Prompt Template Samples Folder:
- Renamed the previous root-level prompt template samples in samples/plugins to a root-level folder called prompt_template_samples.
What's Changed
- Python: added kwargs to embedding and text memory by @eavanvalkenburg in #5885
- Python: mypy coverage for functions by @eavanvalkenburg in #5883
- Python: Bump idna from 3.6 to 3.7 in /python by @dependabot in #5848
- Python: Refactor environment variable naming for clarity and consistency by @bx-h in #5686
- Python: add mypy to python lint checks by @eavanvalkenburg in #5905
- Python: fix lint mypy by @eavanvalkenburg in #5906
- [Python Getting Started] Update
base_urltoendpointby @andrewDoing in #5765 - Python: mypy coverage for contents folder by @eavanvalkenburg in #5904
- Python: reduce the amount of complex classes in the serialization to xml by @eavanvalkenburg in #5907
- Python: fixing python readme by @LazaroHurtado in #5903
- Python: drop support for python before 3.10 by @eavanvalkenburg in #5947
- Python: (Astra DB) Include caller identity as user-agent when issuing HTTP request to Astra DB's Data API by @hemidactylus in #5921
- Python: Bump ruff from 0.3.7 to 0.4.1 in /python by @dependabot in #5966
- Python: move Hugging Face tests to integration by @eavanvalkenburg in #5983
- Python: updated Chat Message Content with Function Call and Result Content by @eavanvalkenburg in #5946
- Python: Replace 'import_plugin_from_object' with 'add_plugin' by @adityagesh in #6025
- Python: Fix typo in line to instantiate Kernel. by @rcleveng in #6020
- Python: Remove references to text-davinci-003 text models as it causes tests to hang. by @moonbox3 in #6089
- Python: Update import paths for OpenAI settings functions by @demaen in #6059
- Python: Update 04-kernel-arguments-chat.ipynb by @qlycool in #5910
- Python: add new samples and fix streaming tool call FunctionCallContent formation by @moonbox3 in #5877
- Python: Restructure samples into new folders to make things more clear. by @moonbox3 in #6116
- Python: Add PF learn path resources by @moonbox3 in #6122
- Python: added embedding dimensions support by @sinyubonnie-ho in #6111
- Python: Bump py version for release by @moonbox3 in #6123
New Contributors
- @bx-h made their first contribution in #5686
- @andrewDoing made their first contribution in #5765
- @LazaroHurtado made their first contribution in #5903
- @hemidactylus made their first contribution in #5921
- @adityagesh made their first contribution in #6025
- @rcleveng made their first contribution in #6020
- @demaen made their first contribution in #6059
- @qlycool made their first contribution in #5910
- @sinyubonnie-ho made their first contribution in #6111
Full Changelog: python-0.9.6b1...python-0.9.7b1