v1.6.1

What's Changed

• Enable intel devices CPU/XPU/HPU for python backend by @yuanwu2017 in #245
• add reranker model support for python backend by @kaixuanliu in #386
• (FIX): CI Security Fix - branchname injection by @glegendre01 in #479
• Upgrade TEI. by @Narsil in #501
• Pin cargo-chef installation to 0.1.62 by @alvarobartt in #469
• add TRUST_REMOTE_CODE param to python backend. by @kaixuanliu in #485
• Enable splade embeddings for Python backend by @pi314ever in #493
• Hpu bucketing by @kaixuanliu in #489
• Optimize flash bert path for hpu device by @kaixuanliu in #509
• upgrade ipex to 2.6 version for cpu/xpu by @kaixuanliu in #510
• fix bug for MaskedLanguageModel class` by @kaixuanliu in #513
• Fix double incrementing te_request_count metric by @kozistr in #486
• Add intel based images to the CI by @baptistecolle in #518
• Fix typo on intel docker image by @baptistecolle in #529
• chore: Upgrade to tokenizers 0.21.0 by @lightsofapollo in #512
• feat: add support for "model_type": "gte" by @anton-pt in #519
• Update README.md to include ONNX by @alvarobartt in #507
• Fusing both Gte Configs. by @Narsil in #530
• Add HF_HUB_USER_AGENT_ORIGIN by @alvarobartt in #534
• Use --hf-token instead of --hf-api-token by @alvarobartt in #535
• Fixing the tests. by @Narsil in #531
• Support classification head for DistilBERT by @kozistr in #487
• add CLI flag disable-spans to toggle span trace logging by @obloomfield in #481
• feat: support HF_ENDPOINT environment when downloading model by @StrayDragon in #505
• Small fixup. by @Narsil in #537
• Fix VarBuilder handling in GTE e.g. gte-multilingual-reranker-base by @Narsil in #538
• make a WA in case Bert model do not have safetensor file by @kaixuanliu in #515
• Add missing match on onnx/model.onnx download by @alvarobartt in #472
• Fixing the impure flake devShell to be able to run python code. by @Narsil in #539
• Prepare for release. by @Narsil in #540

New Contributors

• @yuanwu2017 made their first contribution in #245
• @kaixuanliu made their first contribution in #386
• @Narsil made their first contribution in #501
• @pi314ever made their first contribution in #493
• @baptistecolle made their first contribution in #518
• @lightsofapollo made their first contribution in #512
• @anton-pt made their first contribution in #519
• @obloomfield made their first contribution in #481
• @StrayDragon made their first contribution in #505

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.6.1