ragflow/docs/release_notes.md

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# Releases

Key features, improvements and bug fixes in the latest releases.

:::info
Each RAGFlow release is available in two editions:
- **Slim edition**: excludes built-in embedding models and is identified by a **-slim** suffix added to the version name. Example: `infiniflow/ragflow:v0.18.0-slim`
- **Full edition**: includes built-in embedding models and has no suffix added to the version name. Example: `infiniflow/ragflow:v0.18.0`
:::

## v0.18.0

Released on April 23, 2025.

### Compatibility changes

From this release onwards, built-in rerank models have been removed because they have minimal impact on retrieval rates but significantly increase retrieval time.

### New features

- MCP server: enables access to RAGFlow's knowledge bases via MCP.
- DeepDoc supports adopting VLM model as a processing pipeline during document layout recognition, enabling in-depth analysis of images in PDF and DOCX files.
- OpenAI-compatible APIs: Agents can be called via OpenAI-compatible APIs.
- User registration control: administrators can enable or disable user registration through an environment variable.
- Team collaboration: Agents can be shared with team members.
- Agent version control: all updates are continuously logged and can be rolled back to a previous version via export.

![export_agent](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infiniflow/ragflow-docs/main/images/export_agent_as_json.jpg)

### Improvements

- Enhanced answer referencing: Citation accuracy in generated responses is improved.
- Enhanced question-answering experience: users can now manually stop streaming output during a conversation.

### Documentation

#### Added documents

- [Set page rank](./guides/dataset/set_page_rank.md)
- [Enable RAPTOR](./guides/dataset/enable_raptor.md)
- [Set variables for your chat assistant](./guides/chat/set_chat_variables.md)
- [Launch RAGFlow MCP server](./develop/mcp/launch_mcp_server.md)

## v0.17.2

Released on March 13, 2025.

### Compatibility changes

- Removes the **Max_tokens** setting from **Chat configuration**.
- Removes the **Max_tokens** setting from **Generate**, **Rewrite**, **Categorize**, **Keyword** agent components.

From this release onwards, if you still see RAGFlow's responses being cut short or truncated, check the **Max_tokens** setting of your model provider.

### Improvements

- Adds OpenAI-compatible APIs.
- Introduces a German user interface.
- Accelerates knowledge graph extraction.
- Enables Tavily-based web search in the **Retrieval** agent component.
- Adds Tongyi-Qianwen QwQ models (OpenAI-compatible).
- Supports CSV files in the **General** chunking method.

### Fixed issues

- Unable to add models via Ollama/Xinference, an issue introduced in v0.17.1.

### Related APIs

#### HTTP APIs

- [Create chat completion](./references/http_api_reference.md#openai-compatible-api)

#### Python APIs

- [Create chat completion](./references/python_api_reference.md#openai-compatible-api)

## v0.17.1

Released on March 11, 2025.

### Improvements

- Improves English tokenization quality.
- Improves the table extraction logic in Markdown document parsing.
- Updates SiliconFlow's model list.
- Supports parsing XLS files (Excel 97-2003) with improved corresponding error handling.
- Supports Huggingface rerank models.
- Enables relative time expressions ("now", "yesterday", "last week", "next year", and more) in chat assistant and the **Rewrite** agent component.

### Fixed issues

- A repetitive knowledge graph extraction issue.
- Issues with API calling.
- Options in the **PDF parser**, aka **Document parser**, dropdown are missing.
- A Tavily web search issue.
- Unable to preview diagrams or images in an AI chat.

### Documentation

#### Added documents

- [Use tag set](./guides/dataset/use_tag_sets.md)

## v0.17.0

Released on March 3, 2025.

### New features

- AI chat: Implements Deep Research for agentic reasoning. To activate this, enable the **Reasoning** toggle under the **Prompt engine** tab of your chat assistant dialogue.
- AI chat: Leverages Tavily-based web search to enhance contexts in agentic reasoning. To activate this, enter the correct Tavily API key under the **Assistant settings** tab of your chat assistant dialogue.
- AI chat: Supports starting a chat without specifying knowledge bases.
- AI chat: HTML files can also be previewed and referenced, in addition to PDF files.
- Dataset: Adds a **PDF parser**, aka **Document parser**, dropdown menu to dataset configurations. This includes a DeepDoc model option, which is time-consuming, a much faster **naive** option (plain text), which skips DLA (Document Layout Analysis), OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and TSR (Table Structure Recognition) tasks, and several currently *experimental* large model options.
- Agent component: **(x)** or a forward slash `/` can be used to insert available keys (variables) in the system prompt field of the **Generate** or **Template** component.
- Object storage: Supports using Aliyun OSS (Object Storage Service) as a file storage option.
- Models: Updates the supported model list for Tongyi-Qianwen (Qwen), adding DeepSeek-specific models; adds ModelScope as a model provider.
- APIs: Document metadata can be updated through an API.

The following diagram illustrates the workflow of RAGFlow's Deep Research:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f65d4759-4f09-4d9d-9549-c0e1fe907525)

The following is a screenshot of a conversation that integrates Deep Research:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/165b88ff-1f5d-4fb8-90e2-c836b25e32e9)

### Related APIs

#### HTTP APIs

Adds a body parameter `"meta_fields"` to the [Update document](./references/http_api_reference.md#update-document) method.

#### Python APIs

Adds a key option `"meta_fields"` to the [Update document](./references/python_api_reference.md#update-document) method.

### Documentation

#### Added documents

- [Run retrieval test](./guides/dataset/run_retrieval_test.md)

## v0.16.0

Released on February 6, 2025.

### New features

- Supports DeepSeek R1 and DeepSeek V3.
- GraphRAG refactor: Knowledge graph is dynamically built on an entire knowledge base (dataset) rather than on an individual file, and automatically updated when a newly uploaded file starts parsing. See [here](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/construct_knowledge_graph).
- Adds an **Iteration** agent component and a **Research report generator** agent template. See [here](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/iteration.mdx).
- New UI language: Portuguese.
- Allows setting metadata for a specific file in a knowledge base to enhance AI-powered chats. See [here](./guides/dataset/set_metadata.md).
- Upgrades RAGFlow's document engine [Infinity](https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity) to v0.6.0.dev3.
- Supports GPU acceleration for DeepDoc (see [docker-compose-gpu.yml](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/docker/docker-compose-gpu.yml)).
- Supports creating and referencing a **Tag** knowledge base as a key milestone towards bridging the semantic gap between query and response.

:::danger IMPORTANT
The **Tag knowledge base** feature is *unavailable* on the [Infinity](https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity) document engine.
:::

### Documentation

#### Added documents

- [Construct knowledge graph](./guides/dataset/construct_knowledge_graph.md)
- [Set metadata](./guides/dataset/set_metadata.md)
- [Begin component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/begin.mdx)
- [Generate component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/generate.mdx)
- [Interact component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/interact.mdx)
- [Retrieval component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/retrieval.mdx)
- [Categorize component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/categorize.mdx)
- [Keyword component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/keyword.mdx)
- [Message component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/message.mdx)
- [Rewrite component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/rewrite.mdx)
- [Switch component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/switch.mdx)
- [Concentrator component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/concentrator.mdx)
- [Template component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/template.mdx)
- [Iteration component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/iteration.mdx)
- [Note component](./guides/agent/agent_component_reference/note.mdx)

## v0.15.1

Released on December 25, 2024.

### Upgrades

- Upgrades RAGFlow's document engine [Infinity](https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity) to v0.5.2.
- Enhances the log display of document parsing status.

### Fixed issues

This release fixes the following issues:

- The `SCORE not found` and `position_int` errors returned by [Infinity](https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity).
- Once an embedding model in a specific knowledge base is changed, embedding models in other knowledge bases can no longer be changed.
- Slow response in question-answering and AI search due to repetitive loading of the embedding model.
- Fails to parse documents with RAPTOR.
- Using the **Table** parsing method results in information loss.
- Miscellaneous API issues.

### Related APIs

#### HTTP APIs

Adds an optional parameter `"user_id"` to the following APIs:

- [Create session with chat assistant](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#create-session-with-chat-assistant)
- [Update chat assistant's session](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#update-chat-assistants-session)
- [List chat assistant's sessions](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#list-chat-assistants-sessions)
- [Create session with agent](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#create-session-with-agent)
- [Converse with chat assistant](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#converse-with-chat-assistant)
- [Converse with agent](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#converse-with-agent)
- [List agent sessions](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#list-agent-sessions)

## v0.15.0

Released on December 18, 2024.

### New features

- Introduces additional Agent-specific APIs.
- Supports using page rank score to improve retrieval performance when searching across multiple knowledge bases.
- Offers an iframe in Chat and Agent to facilitate the integration of RAGFlow into your webpage.
- Adds a Helm chart for deploying RAGFlow on Kubernetes.
- Supports importing or exporting an agent in JSON format.
- Supports step run for Agent components/tools.
- Adds a new UI language: Japanese.
- Supports resuming GraphRAG and RAPTOR from a failure, enhancing task management resilience.
- Adds more Mistral models.
- Adds a dark mode to the UI, allowing users to toggle between light and dark themes.

### Improvements

- Upgrades the Document Layout Analysis model in DeepDoc.
- Significantly enhances the retrieval performance when using [Infinity](https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity) as document engine.

### Related APIs

#### HTTP APIs

- [List agent sessions](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#list-agent-sessions)
- [List agents](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#list-agents)

#### Python APIs

- [List agent sessions](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/python_api_reference#list-agent-sessions)
- [List agents](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/python_api_reference#list-agents)

## v0.14.1

Released on November 29, 2024.

### Improvements

Adds [Infinity's configuration file](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/docker/infinity_conf.toml) to facilitate integration and customization of [Infinity](https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity) as a document engine. From this release onwards, updates to Infinity's configuration can be made directly within RAGFlow and will take effect immediately after restarting RAGFlow using `docker compose`. [#3715](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/pull/3715)

### Fixed issues

This release fixes the following issues:

- Unable to display or edit content of a chunk after clicking it.
- A `'Not found'` error in Elasticsearch.
- Chinese text becoming garbled during parsing.
- A compatibility issue with Polars.
- A compatibility issue between Infinity and GraphRAG.

## v0.14.0

Released on November 26, 2024.

### New features

- Supports [Infinity](https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity) or Elasticsearch (default) as document engine for vector storage and full-text indexing. [#2894](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/pull/2894)
- Enhances user experience by adding more variables to the Agent and implementing auto-saving.
- Adds a three-step translation agent template, inspired by [Andrew Ng's translation agent](https://github.com/andrewyng/translation-agent).
- Adds an SEO-optimized blog writing agent template.
- Provides HTTP and Python APIs for conversing with an agent.
- Supports the use of English synonyms during retrieval processes.
- Optimizes term weight calculations, reducing the retrieval time by 50%.
- Improves task executor monitoring with additional performance indicators.
- Replaces Redis with Valkey.
- Adds three new UI languages (*contributed by the community*): Indonesian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

### Compatibility changes

From this release onwards, **service_config.yaml.template** replaces **service_config.yaml** for configuring backend services. Upon Docker container startup, the environment variables defined in this template file are automatically populated and a **service_config.yaml** is auto-generated from it. [#3341](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/pull/3341)

This approach eliminates the need to manually update **service_config.yaml** after making changes to **.env**, facilitating dynamic environment configurations.

:::danger IMPORTANT
Ensure that you [upgrade **both** your code **and** Docker image to this release](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/upgrade_ragflow#upgrade-ragflow-to-the-most-recent-officially-published-release) before trying this new approach.
:::

### Related APIs

#### HTTP APIs

- [Create session with agent](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#create-session-with-agent)
- [Converse with agent](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#converse-with-agent)

#### Python APIs

- [Create session with agent](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/python_api_reference#create-session-with-agent)
- [Converse with agent](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/python_api_reference#create-session-with-agent)

### Documentation

#### Added documents

- [Configurations](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/configurations)
- [Manage team members](./guides/team/manage_team_members.md)
- [Run health check on RAGFlow's dependencies](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/run_health_check)

## v0.13.0

Released on October 31, 2024.

### New features

- Adds the team management functionality for all users.
- Updates the Agent UI to improve usability.
- Adds support for Markdown chunking in the **General** chunking method.
- Introduces an **invoke** tool within the Agent UI.
- Integrates support for Dify's knowledge base API.
- Adds support for GLM4-9B and Yi-Lightning models.
- Introduces HTTP and Python APIs for dataset management, file management within dataset, and chat assistant management.

:::tip NOTE
To download RAGFlow's Python SDK:

```bash
pip install ragflow-sdk==0.13.0
```
:::

### Documentation

#### Added documents

- [Acquire a RAGFlow API key](./develop/acquire_ragflow_api_key.md)
- [HTTP API Reference](./references/http_api_reference.md)
- [Python API Reference](./references/python_api_reference.md)

## v0.12.0

Released on September 30, 2024.

### New features

- Offers slim editions of RAGFlow's Docker images, which do not include built-in BGE/BCE embedding or reranking models.
- Improves the results of multi-round dialogues.
- Enables users to remove added LLM vendors.
- Adds support for **OpenTTS** and **SparkTTS** models.
- Implements an **Excel to HTML** toggle in the **General** chunking method, allowing users to parse a spreadsheet into either HTML tables or key-value pairs by row.
- Adds agent tools **YahooFinance** and **Jin10**.
- Adds an investment advisor agent template.

### Compatibility changes

From this release onwards, RAGFlow offers slim editions of its Docker images to improve the experience for users with limited Internet access. A slim edition of RAGFlow's Docker image does not include built-in BGE/BCE embedding models and has a size of about 1GB; a full edition of RAGFlow is approximately 9GB and includes both built-in embedding models and embedding models that will be downloaded once you select them in the RAGFlow UI.

The default Docker image edition is `nightly-slim`. The following list clarifies the differences between various editions:

- `nightly-slim`: The slim edition of the most recent tested Docker image.
- `v0.12.0-slim`: The slim edition of the most recent **officially released** Docker image.
- `nightly`: The full edition of the most recent tested Docker image.
- `v0.12.0`: The full edition of the most recent **officially released** Docker image.

See [Upgrade RAGFlow](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/upgrade_ragflow) for instructions on upgrading.

### Documentation

#### Added documents

- [Upgrade RAGFlow](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/upgrade_ragflow)

## v0.11.0

Released on September 14, 2024.

### New features

-  Introduces an AI search interface within the RAGFlow UI.
-  Supports audio output via **FishAudio** or **Tongyi Qwen TTS**.
-  Allows the use of Postgres for metadata storage, in addition to MySQL.
-  Supports object storage options with S3 or Azure Blob.
-  Supports model vendors: **Anthropic**, **Voyage AI**, and **Google Cloud**.
-  Supports the use of **Tencent Cloud ASR** for audio content recognition.
-  Adds finance-specific agent components: **WenCai**, **AkShare**, **YahooFinance**, and **TuShare**.
-  Adds a medical consultant agent template.
-  Supports running retrieval benchmarking on the following datasets:
    - [ms_marco_v1.1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/microsoft/ms_marco)
    - [trivia_qa](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mandarjoshi/trivia_qa)
    - [miracl](https://huggingface.co/datasets/miracl/miracl)

## v0.10.0

Released on August 26, 2024.

### New features

- Introduces a text-to-SQL template in the Agent UI.
- Implements Agent APIs.
- Incorporates monitoring for the task executor.
- Introduces Agent tools **GitHub**, **DeepL**, **BaiduFanyi**, **QWeather**, and **GoogleScholar**.
- Supports chunking of EML files.
- Supports more LLMs or model services: **GPT-4o-mini**, **PerfXCloud**, **TogetherAI**, **Upstage**, **Novita AI**, **01.AI**, **SiliconFlow**, **PPIO**, **XunFei Spark**, **Baidu Yiyan**, and **Tencent Hunyuan**.

## v0.9.0

Released on August 6, 2024.

### New features

- Supports GraphRAG as a chunking method.
- Introduces Agent component **Keyword** and search tools, including **Baidu**, **DuckDuckGo**, **PubMed**, **Wikipedia**, **Bing**, and **Google**.
- Supports speech-to-text recognition for audio files.
- Supports model vendors **Gemini** and **Groq**.
- Supports inference frameworks, engines, and services including **LM studio**, **OpenRouter**, **LocalAI**, and **Nvidia API**.
- Supports using reranker models in Xinference.

## v0.8.0

Released on July 8, 2024.

### New features

- Supports Agentic RAG, enabling graph-based workflow construction for RAG and agents.
- Supports model vendors **Mistral**, **MiniMax**, **Bedrock**, and **Azure OpenAI**.
- Supports DOCX files in the MANUAL chunking method.
- Supports DOCX, MD, and PDF files in the Q&A chunking method.

## v0.7.0

Released on May 31, 2024.

### New features

- Supports the use of reranker models.
- Integrates reranker and embedding models: [BCE](https://github.com/netease-youdao/BCEmbedding), [BGE](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding), and [Jina](https://jina.ai/embeddings/).
- Supports LLMs Baichuan and VolcanoArk.
- Implements [RAPTOR](https://arxiv.org/html/2401.18059v1) for improved text retrieval.
- Supports HTML files in the GENERAL chunking method.
- Provides HTTP and Python APIs for deleting documents by ID.
- Supports ARM64 platforms.

:::danger IMPORTANT
While we also test RAGFlow on ARM64 platforms, we do not maintain RAGFlow Docker images for ARM.

If you are on an ARM platform, follow [this guide](./develop/build_docker_image.mdx) to build a RAGFlow Docker image.
:::

### Related APIs

#### HTTP API

- [Delete documents](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#delete-documents)

#### Python API

- [Delete documents](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/python_api_reference#delete-documents)

## v0.6.0

Released on May 21, 2024.

### New features

- Supports streaming output.
- Provides HTTP and Python APIs for retrieving document chunks.
- Supports monitoring of system components, including Elasticsearch, MySQL, Redis, and MinIO.
- Supports disabling **Layout Recognition** in the GENERAL chunking method to reduce file chunking time.

### Related APIs

#### HTTP API

- [Retrieve chunks](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/http_api_reference#retrieve-chunks)

#### Python API

- [Retrieve chunks](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/python_api_reference#retrieve-chunks)

## v0.5.0

Released on May 8, 2024.

### New features

- Supports LLM DeepSeek.