v7.8.0 - NUMBER ONE
Version 7.8.0 changes (from 7.7.0):
infly-retriever-v1-1.5b
is currently the number one MTEB ranked embedding model
Chat Models
Added GLM4Z - 9b
- excellent thinking model
Added Phi 4 Mini - 4b
Added Seed Coder - 8b
- excellent coding-focused model
Embedding Models
Added gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct
Added infly-retriever-v1-1.5b
Added infly-retriever-v1-7b
Removed Alibaba-gte-base
- superseded
Removed Alibaba-gte-modernbert-base
- superseded
Removed Alibaba-gte-large
- superseded
Removed stella_en_1.5B_v5
- superseded
Removed stella_en_400M_v5
- superseded
General Improvements
- Improved the speed and accuracy of adding files that will be put into the database (symlink creation).
- Fine-tuned embedding model key word arguments
- Improve text extraction.
- Correct PDF page citations
- Refactor
gui_tabs_database_query.py
- Improve thinking indicators and displays
- Improve scraper
- Refactor
metrics_bar.py
- Refactor
module_chat.py
Installation
- Just follow the installation instructions on the github readme.
Upgrading from a Prior Version
INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPGRADING FROM A PRIOR VERSION
To upgrade from a prior version while still keeping your databases and models that were downloaded, perform the following steps:
- In your directory that contains all of the files currently...delete the
Include
,Lib
,Scripts
folders. (pertain to your virtual environment) - Delete the
pyvenv.cfg
file. (pertains to your virtual environment) - At this point, any and all files pertaining to your virtual environment are gone.
- Delete the
Assets
andCSS
folders. (new ones will be provided in their entirety further below) - Extract all the files from the
.zip
file for this release v7.8.0 and go into thesrc
folder. - Copy all files and folders EXCEPT THE CONFIG.YAML FILE into the aforementioned folder where you virtual environment USED TO BE. If there are any prompts indicating that files will be overwritten, CLICK YES since we're only updating necessary files now.
- EXCEPT THE CONFIG.YAML FILE!
- EXCEPT THE CONFIG.YAML FILE!
- last time...EXCEPT THE CONFIG.YAML FILE!
Afterwards, open a command prompt and run the installation instructions on this repository's page; specifically:
python -m venv .
.\Scripts\activate
python setup_windows.py