0.19.0

This release migrates from the legacy OpenAI function calling to general tool calling.

Any provider that also has Langchain tool integration should now be able to use a standardized tool calling interface.

🚒Breaking Changes🚒

• The configuration of 'functions' in presets has changed to a 'tools' configuration, see #345 for migration instructions.
• Provider.display_name is now a property instead of a method

Deprecations

The following are deprecated, and will be removed in a future release:

• '/functions' CLI command is now '/tools'
• Environment variable 'LWE_FUNCTION_DIR' has been renamed to 'LWE_TOOL_DIR'
• Configuration variable 'directories.functions' has been renamed to 'directories.tools'

Major fixes

• Refactored OpenAI function calling to general tool use
• Add gpt-4o model, use as default
• Add support for passing message list to make_request() Enables Python module usage to pass a string (one user message), or a list of messages
• Bump textract rev to support python 3.12
  • NOTE: Existing installs will need to force reinstall the textract package for this upgrade, as it is a git install:
    • pip install --force-reinstall textract@git+https://github.com/thehunmonkgroup/textract@2109f34b4f3615004de1f2b2e635cfd61dae3cb7
• Support custom title in lwe_llm Ansible module
• Fixed broken command line args for --template-dir, --preset-dir, --plugin-dir, --workflow-dir, function-dir
  • Renamed to --templates-dir, --presets-dir, --plugins-dir, --workflows-dir, --tools-dir
• More robust message type detection for display in CLI
• Add optional transform_tool() method to base Provider class

Commit log

• Sat May 18 2024: add optional transform_tool() method to base Provider class
• Sat May 18 2024: add func_to_json_schema_spec placeholder function
• Sat May 18 2024: script for quickly checking tool calling across providers
• Sat May 18 2024: tweak request unit tests
• Sat May 18 2024: pretty up upgrade output
• Sat May 18 2024: kill dead code
• Sat May 18 2024: add deprecation warnings for /functions -> /tools CLI command
• Sat May 18 2024: deprecation warning for directories.functions config option
• Sat May 18 2024: make tool config change in presets a breaking change
• Sat May 18 2024: remove unneeded metadata arg
• Sat May 18 2024: more robust message type detection for display in CLI
• Sat May 18 2024: clarify tool summary in doc
• Sat May 18 2024: upgrade request unit tests for tools
• Sat May 18 2024: fix broken util tests
• Sat May 18 2024: remove dead test code
• Sat May 18 2024: fix arg order
• Sat May 18 2024: tweak docs for tool use
• Fri May 17 2024: upgrade unit tests for request/token_manager/tool_cache/util for tool upgrade
• Fri May 17 2024: upgrade system tests for tools
• Fri May 17 2024: upgrade request integration tests for tools
• Fri May 17 2024: remove dead code
• Fri May 17 2024: clean up token counting calculation
• Fri May 17 2024: fix broken check for forced tool calls
• Fri May 17 2024: fix example workflow for new tools config
• Fri May 17 2024: more robust handling of user metadata fields
• Fri May 17 2024: fix streaming for tool calls
• Fri May 17 2024: clean out private customization keys before building LLM class
• Fri May 17 2024: abstract selection of title generation provider and llm
• Fri May 17 2024: abstract transform of AIMessage messages
• Fri May 17 2024: get tool call working in non-streaming case
• Thu May 16 2024: tool call submission working, return broken
• Thu May 16 2024: fix/rename broken CLI args
• Thu May 16 2024: schema upgrade code
• Thu May 16 2024: starting tool refactor, mostly renaming
• Wed May 15 2024: fix fake_llm plugin to support latest arg structure
• Wed May 15 2024: bump textract rev to support python 3.12
• Mon May 13 2024: add function docstring
• Mon May 13 2024: add gpt-4o model, use as default
• Fri May 10 2024: add support for passing message list to make_request() Enables Python module usage to pass a string (one user message), or a list of messages
• Fri May 10 2024: add build_message_from_template() support function to backend
• Fri May 03 2024: add doc for Fireworks chat provider plugin
• Tue Apr 30 2024: clarify file-summarizer new features in comments
• Tue Apr 30 2024: improvements to file-summarizer workflow
• Tue Apr 30 2024: support custom title in lwe_llm Ansible module

0.18.11

• Fri Apr 26 2024: pass missing config object during title generation
• Fri Apr 26 2024: add doc for backend_options.title_generation.provider
• Thu Apr 25 2024: fix broken request class unit tests
• Thu Apr 25 2024: improve check for custom provider in request logic
• Sat Apr 20 2024: add doc for openrouter provider plugin
• Sat Apr 20 2024: fix for Python 3.9 compat
• Sat Apr 20 2024: update chat_openai provider args

0.18.10

• Sat Apr 20 2024: migrate from pkg_resources to importlib.metadata
• Sat Apr 20 2024: add [dev] extra for development packages
• Mon Apr 15 2024: add link to chat groq provider plugin
• Tue Apr 09 2024: add latest gpt-4-turbo models to available models list
• Tue Apr 09 2024: switch to newest gpt-4-turbo
• Thu Mar 14 2024: add get_raw_template(), use in template edit/run
• Thu Feb 08 2024: check for full path in windows editor env var, more robust line splitting from where call
• Thu Feb 08 2024: fix #340: fix langchain deprecation warning
• Thu Feb 08 2024: add openai_api_base config option to chat_openai provider
• Thu Feb 08 2024: switch to gpt-3.5-turbo for default model

0.18.9

• Thu Feb 08 2024: enhance file-summarizer workflow, larger character limit for paper, add a fourth question
• Thu Feb 08 2024: adjust presets for new OpenAI models
• Thu Feb 08 2024: add gpt-4-0125-preview, gpt-4-turbo-preview, gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 models
• Wed Feb 07 2024: sync with patched FakeMessagesListChatModel langchain class
• Tue Jan 16 2024: Fix 404 link in templates.rst - "example templates"
• Mon Jan 08 2024: fix commit log link
• Mon Jan 08 2024: clean up formatting and date format

0.18.8

• Mon Jan 08 2024: fix bad reference to langchain tools
• Mon Jan 08 2024: fix broken token manager test
• Mon Jan 08 2024: allow capabilities override in provider_fake_llm

0.18.7

• Mon Jan 08 2024: fix edge cases around setting provider/model
• Mon Jan 08 2024: fix conditional logic
• Mon Jan 08 2024: check validate_models when verifying tokenizer
• Mon Jan 08 2024: fix docker compose command in docs
• Mon Jan 08 2024: move to langchain_openai partner package

0.18.6

• Mon Jan 08 2024: loosen up openai/langchain requirements
• Mon Jan 08 2024: fix test warnings
• Mon Jan 08 2024: bump langchain/openai deps
• Sat Dec 23 2023: add link for Github Gist plugin
• Tue Dec 19 2023: add plugin link to provider_chat_google_genai
• Tue Dec 19 2023: doc: add chat anthropic and chat mistralai plugin links
• Tue Dec 19 2023: fix doc build error
• Sun Dec 17 2023: remove dead pydantic-computed dep

0.18.5

• Fri Dec 15 2023: bump langchain to 0.0.350
• Sun Nov 26 2023: allow provider-specific token calculation
• Sat Nov 18 2023: add Ollama plugin to doc
• Fri Nov 17 2023: add chat-anyscale and chat-cohere plugin links
• Fri Nov 17 2023: fix #332: force backend setting, throw user warning on legacy settings

0.18.4

• Thu Nov 16 2023: exclude example dirs that start w/ an underscore
• Thu Nov 16 2023: fix examples plugin to work with non-dev installs

0.18.3

• Thu Nov 16 2023: upgrade to latest langchain, openai 1.x
• Thu Nov 16 2023: add provider_azure_openai_chat to plugins list
• Thu Nov 16 2023: lock openai package to legacy version for now
• Mon Nov 06 2023: upgrade default model to gpt-3.5-turbo-1106
• Mon Nov 06 2023: add new OpenAI provider models dated 1106, default to them in presets
• Fri Oct 20 2023: remove zap plugin from plugin list