0.5.x dev

[CalebCourier]

0.5.0 Release

0.5.0a0 TODO

• [x] Remove Validators - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/842
• [x] Remove Pydantic 1.x - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/789
• [x] Remove OpenAI 0.x - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/788
• [x] Remove async flows from Guard in favor of AsyncGuard - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/841
  • [x] Remove async and awaitable types from Guard
  • [x] Override class methods on AsyncGuard for proper type hinting
  • [x] Update async tests from openai 0.x to 1.x (likely will experience failures afterwards)
• [x] Remove Python 3.8 support - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/842
• [x] Run Notebooks
• [x] Release 0.5.0a0
• [x] Regression Test

0.5.0a1 TODO

• [x] Merge constrained decoding feature - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/835
• [x] Merge additional litellm support feature - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/813
• [x] Merge tools structured json support - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/840
• [x] Run Notebooks
• [x] Release 0.5.0a1
• [x] Regression Test

0.5.0 TODO

• [x] Comb through docs, replace deprecated syntax, test examples
• [x] Migration Guide - https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/859
  • [x] Use Hub validators
  • [x] args vs kwargs
  • [x] with_*_validation -> use(on=)
  • [x] json prompt primitives to xml prompt primitives
• [ ] Release

Feature List

• Guard().use() syntax now works for all Guard types
• Constrained Decoding support when using HuggingFace models
• New interface for using JSON schema-based function calling
• New option to run Guardrails as a server
• Easier LiteLLM integration by only passing the model name

Notable Bug Fixes

• Validators are no longer initialized twice

Notable Removals

• Validators are no longer a part of the core library and must be installed from the hub
• Async LLMs must be used with an AsyncGuard
• We no longer explicitly support Python 3.8
• We no longer explicitly support Pydantic 1.x
• We no longer explicitly support OpenAI 0.x

[CalebCourier]

Notebook run for 0.5.0a0: https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/actions/runs/9603601666

[CalebCourier]

One of the notebooks keeps failing to download the sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model; it looks like huggingface is having some issues right now.

But the same run was performed on the docs-and-notebooks branch which is the latest commit onto this branch: https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/actions/runs/9601954646

[CalebCourier]

0.5.0a1 Notebook run: https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/actions/runs/9645691322

[CalebCourier]

Notebook run after merging start command branch: https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/actions/runs/9654416672

[kaushikb11]

hey @CalebCourier, could we try to get #915 in for this release?

[CalebCourier]

hey @CalebCourier, could we try to get #915 in for this release?

@kaushikb11 I repointed https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/pull/915 to this release branch. Please address any merge conflicts, then we'll run the checks and merge in when everything is passing. Thanks for the contribution!

[CalebCourier]

Final Notebook Run: https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/actions/runs/9975132687