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+# OPEA Release Notes v1.1
+We are pleased to announce the release of OPEA version 1.1, which includes significant contributions from the open-source community. This release addresses over 470 pull requests.
+
+More information about how to get started with OPEA v1.1 can be found at [Getting Started](https://opea-project.github.io/latest/index.html) page. All project source code is maintained in the [repository](https://github.com/opea-project). To pull Docker images, please access the [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/u/opea). For instructions on deploying Helm Charts, please refer to the [guide](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/tree/v1.1/helm-charts#readme).
+
+## What's New in OPEA v1.1
+This release introduces more scenarios with general availability, including:
+- Newly supported Generative AI capabilities: [Image-to-Video](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/465), [Text-to-Image](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/729), [Text-to-SQL](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/tree/main/DBQnA) and [Avatar Animation](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/775).
+- [Generative AI Studio](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIStudio) that offers a no-code alternative to create enterprise Generative AI applications.
+- Expands the portfolio of supported hardware to include [Intel® Arc™ GPUs](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/641) and [AMD® GPUs](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/issues/1153).
+- Enhanced monitoring support, providing real-time insights into runtime status and system resource utilization for [CPU and Intel® Gaudi® AI Accelerator](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/issues/195), as well as [Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/pull/531).
+- Helm Chart support for 7 new GenAIExamples and their microservices.
+- Benchmark tools for long-context language models (LCLMs) such as [LongBench](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/pull/179) and [HELMET](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/pull/182).
+
+### Highlights
+#### New GenAI Examples
+- [AvatarChatbot](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/tree/main/AvatarChatbot): a chatbot that combines a virtual "avatar" that can run on either Intel Gaudi 2 AI Accelerator or Intel Xeon Scalable Processors.
+- [DBQnA](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/tree/main/DBQnA): for seamless translation of natural language queries into SQL and deliver real-time database results.
+- [EdgeCraftRAG](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/tree/main/EdgeCraftRAG): a customizable and tunable RAG example for edge solutions on Intel® Arc™ GPUs.
+- [GraphRAG](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/tree/main/GraphRAG): a Graph RAG-based approach to summarization.
+- [Text2Image](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/tree/main/Text2Image): an application that generates images based on text prompts.
+- [WorkflowExecAgent](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/tree/main/WorkflowExecAgent): a workflow executor example to handle data/AI workflow operations via LangChain agents to execute custom-defined workflow-based tools.
+
+#### Enhanced GenAI Examples
+- Multi-media support: [DocSum](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/eb91d1f), [MultimodalQnA](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/bbc95bb)
+- Multi-language support: [AudioQnA](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/658867f), [DocSum](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/b0f7c9c)
+
+#### New GenAI Components
+- Text-to-Image: add [Stable Diffusion microservice](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/729)
+- Image-to-Video: add [Stable Video Diffusion microservice](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/465)
+- Text-to-SQL: add [Text-to-SQL microservice](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/736)
+- Text-to-Speech: add [GPT-SoVITS microservice](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/784)
+- Avatar Animation: add [Animation microservice](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/775)
+- RAG: add [GraphRAG with llama-index microservice](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/793)
+
+#### Enhanced GenAI Components
+- Asynchronous support for microservices ([28672956](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/28672956), [9df4b3c0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/9df4b3c0), [f3746dc8](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/f3746dc8))
+- Add vLLM backends for [summarization](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/550325d8), [FAQ generation](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/f5c60f10), [code generation](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/24b9f03f), and [Agents](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/4638c1d4)
+- Multimedia support ([29ef6426](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/29ef6426), [baafa402](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/baafa402))
+
+#### GenAIStudio
+[GenAI Studio](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIStudio), a new project of OPEA, streamlines the creation of enterprise Generative AI applications by providing an alternative UI-based processes to create end-to-end solutions. It supports GenAI application definition, evaluation, performance benchmarking, and deployment. The GenAI Studio empowers developers to effortlessly build, test, optimize their LLM solutions, and create a deployment package. Its intuitive no-code/low-code interface accelerates innovation, enabling rapid development and deployment of cutting-edge AI applications with unparalleled efficiency and precision.
+
+#### Enhanced Observability
+Observability offers real-time insights into component performance and system resource utilization. We enhanced this capability by monitoring [key system metrics](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/pull/541), including [CPU](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/pull/541), host memory, storage, network, and accelerators (such as [Intel Gaudi](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/pull/541)), as well as tracking [OPEA application scaling](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/pull/541).
+
+#### Helm Charts Support
+OPEA examples and microservices support Helm Charts as the packaging format on Kubernetes (k8s). The newly supported examples include [AgentQnA](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/blob/v1.1/helm-charts/agentqna/README.md), [AudioQnA](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/tree/v1.1/helm-charts/audioqna/README.md), [FaqGen](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/blob/v1.1/helm-charts/faqgen/README.md), [VisualQnA](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/blob/v1.1/helm-charts/visualqna/README.md). The newly supported microservices include [chathistory, mongodb, prompt](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/881e2b5), and [Milvus for data-prep and retriever](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/d289b4e). Helm Charts have now option to get Prometheus metrics from the applications.
+
+#### Long-context Benchmark Support
+We added the following two benchmark kits to response to the community's requirements of long-context language models.
+
+- [HELMET](https://github.com/princeton-nlp/HELMET): a comprehensive benchmark for long-context language models covering seven diverse categories of tasks. The datasets are application-centric and are designed to evaluate models at different lengths and levels of complexity.
+- [LongBench](https://github.com/THUDM/LongBench): a benchmark tool for bilingual, multitask, and comprehensive assessment of long context understanding capabilities of large language models.
+
+#### Newly Supported Models
+- llama-3.2 (1B/3B/11B/90B)
+- glm-4-9b-chat
+- Qwen2/2.5 (7B/32B/72B)
+
+#### Newly Supported Hardware
+- Intel® Arc™ GPU: [vLLM powered by OpenVINO](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/pull/729) can perform optimal model serving on Intel® Arc™ GPU.
+- AMD® GPU: deploy GenAI examples on AMD® GPUs using AMD® ROCm™: [CodeTrans](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/pull/1138), [CodeGen](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/pull/1130), [FaqGen](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/pull/1126), [DocSum](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/pull/1125), [ChatQnA](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/pull/1122).
+
+### Notable Changes
+
+GenAIExamples
+
+- Functionalities
+ - New GenAI Examples
+ - [AvatarChatbot] Initiate "AvatarChatbot" (audio) example ([cfffb4c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/cfffb4c), [960805a](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/960805a))
+ - [DBQnA] Adding DBQnA example in GenAIExamples ([c0643b7](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/c0643b7), [6b9a27d](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/6b9a27d))
+ - [EdgeCraftRag] Add EdgeCraftRag as a GenAIExample ([c9088eb](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/c9088eb), [7949045](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/7949045), [096a37a](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/096a37a))
+ - [GraphRAG] Add GraphRAG example [a65640b](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/a65640b)
+ - [Text2Image]: Add example for text2image [085d859](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/085d859)
+ - [WorkflowExecAgent] Add Workflow Executor Example [bf5c391](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/bf5c391)
+ - Enhanced GenAI Examples
+ - [AudioQnA] Add multi-language AudioQnA on Xeon [658867f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/658867f)
+ - [AgentQnA] Update AgentQnA example for v1.1 release [5eb3d28](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/5eb3d28)
+ - [ChatQnA] Enable vLLM Profiling for ChatQnA ([00d9bb6](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/00d9bb6), [7adbba6](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/7adbba6))
+ - [ChatQnA] Add Terraform and Ansible Modules information [7c9ed04](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/7c9ed04)
+ - [ChatQnA] Add chatqna wrapper for multiple model selection [fb514bb](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/fb514bb)
+ - [DocSum] Supported multimedia and added new GUI powered by gradio ([eb91d1f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/eb91d1f), [0cdeb94](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/0cdeb94))
+ - [DocSum] Support Chinese for Docsum [b0f7c9c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/b0f7c9c)
+ - [DocIndexRetriever] Update DocIndexRetriever Example to allow user passing in retriever/reranker params [62e06a0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/62e06a0)
+ - [MultimodalQnA] Image and Audio Support Phase 1 [bbc95bb](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/bbc95bb)
+ - [Text2Image] Add Text2Image UI, UI tests, Readme, and Docker support [c6fc92d](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/c6fc92d)
+ - update examples accuracy [088ab98](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/088ab98)
+ - Add one-button benchmark launcher ([5720cd4](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/5720cd4), [ced68e1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/ced68e1))
+ - Removed GenAI Pipelines
+ - [ChatQnA] remove ChatQnA vllm-on-ray [40386d9](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/40386d9)
+ - Changed Defaults
+ - [ChatQnA] Set no wrapper ChatQnA as default [619d941](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/619d941)
+ - [Codegen] Replace codegen default Model to Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct. [2332d22](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/2332d22)
+ - [CodeTrans] update codetrans default model to Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 [a2afce1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/a2afce1)
+
+- Enhanced Security
+ - upgrade setuptools version to fix CVE-2024-6345 [2b2c7ee](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/2b2c7ee)
+
+- New Hardware Support
+ - [ChatQnA] Add compose example for ChatQnA AMD ROCm deployment [6d3a017](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/6d3a017)
+ - [CodeGen] Adding files to deploy CodeGen application on AMD GPU [83172e9](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/83172e9)
+ - [CodeTrans] Adding files to deploy CodeTrans application on AMD GPU [7e62175](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/7e62175)
+ - [DocSum] Add compose example for DocSum amd rocm deployment [b1bb6db](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/b1bb6db)
+ - [FaqGen] Add compose example for FaqGen AMD ROCm [5648839](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/5648839)
+
+- Dependency Versioning
+ - [gradio] Bump gradio from 4.44.0 to 5.0.0 in /MultimodalQnA/ui/gradio [f2f6c09](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/f2f6c09)
+ - [TGI-CPU] Update TGI CPU image to latest official release 2.4.0-intel-cpu [0306c62](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/0306c62)
+ - [TGI-Gaudi] Upgrade TGI Gaudi version to v2.0.6 [1ff85f6a](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/1ff85f6a852785a3abad7a5b286e020592dfd2b7)
+ - [TEI-Gaudi] Use fixed version(1.5.0) of TEI Gaudi for stability [9ff7df9](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/9ff7df9)
+ - [vLLM-Gaudi] align vllm hpu version to latest vllm-fork [e9b1645](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/e9b1645)
+
+- Deployment
+ - [ChatQnA] Add instructions of modifying reranking docker image for NVGPU [2587179](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/2587179)
+ - [ChatQnA] setup ollama service in aipc docker compose [def39cf](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/def39cf)
+ - [ChatQnA] Make rerank run on gaudi for hpu docker compose [3c164f3](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/3c164f3)
+ - [ChatQnA] Added the k8s yaml for vLLM support [e2f9037](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/e2f9037)
+ - [ChatQnA] manage your own ChatQnA pipelines. [d16c80e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/d16c80e)
+ - [ChatQnA] docker install instruction for csp [75df2c9](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/75df2c9)
+ - [ChatQnA] ChatQnA with Remote Inference Endpoints (Kubernetes) [56f770c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/56f770c)
+ - [ProductivitySuite] Simplify the deployment ProductivitySuite on kubernetes [afc39fa](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/afc39fa)
+
+- Fixed Issues
+ - [AvatarChatbot] Fix left issue of tgi version update [393367e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/393367e)
+ - [ChatQnA] Fix the service connection issue on GPU and modify the emb backend [944ae47](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/944ae47)
+ - [ChatQnA] Fix AIPC docker container network issue [95b58b5](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/95b58b5)
+ - [ChatQnA] Fix top_n rerank docs [4a265ab](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/4a265ab)
+ - [ChatQnA] fix chatqna accuracy issue with incorrect penalty [b0487fe](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/b0487fe)
+ - [ChatQnA] Fix AIPC retriever and UI error [773c32b](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/773c32b)
+ - [DocSum] Fix docSum ui error in accessing parsed files [3744bb8](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/3744bb8)
+ - image build bug fix [82801d0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/82801d0)
+
+- Documentation
+ - [AudioQnA] Update AudioQnA README.md for its workflow [63bad29](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/63bad29)
+ - [AudioQnA] Update AudioQnA README to add a couple usage details [184e9a4](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/184e9a4)
+ - [AgentQnA] Update Agent README.md for workflow [23b820e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/23b820e)
+ - [AgentQnA] Update README.md for usage experience [a8f4245](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/a8f4245)
+ - [ChatQnA] Add steps to deploy opea services using minikube [6263b51](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/6263b51)
+ - [ChatQnA] Update ChatQnA Readme for LLM Endpoint [aa314f6](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/aa314f6)
+ - [ChatQnA] Update ChatQnA AIPC README [b056ce6](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/b056ce6)
+ - [CodeGen] Update CodeGen README for its workflow [12469c9](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/12469c9)
+ - [DocSum] Update DocSum README.md for its workflow [fbde15b](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/fbde15b)
+ - [FaqGen] Update FaqGen README.md for its workflow [0c6b044](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/0c6b044)
+ - [InstructionTuning] instruction finetune README improvement [644c3a6](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/644c3a6)
+ - [MultiModalQnA] Update MultiModal README.md for workflow [40800b0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/40800b0)
+ - [ProductivitySuite] Update Productivity README.md for workflow [0edff26](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/0edff26)
+ - [DocIndexRetriever] Update DocIndexRetriever README.md for workflow [a3f9811](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/a3f9811)
+ - [SearchQnA] Update SearchQnA README.md for its workflow [bf28c7f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/bf28c7f)
+ - [Translation] Update Translation README.md for workflow [35a4fef](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/35a4fef)
+ - [VideoQnA] Update VideoQnA README.md for workflow [1929dfd](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/1929dfd)
+
+- CI/CD/UT
+ - Add nightly image build and publish action [78331ee](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/78331ee)
+ - optimize hardware list for test [3b1a9fe](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/3b1a9fe)
+ - open manifest test in CI when dockerfile changed [620ef76](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/620ef76)
+ - Optimize path and link validity check. [7dec001](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/commit/7dec001)
+
+
+GenAIComps
+
+- Functionalities
+ - New microservices:
+ - Add stable diffusion microservice [5d0c4367](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/5d0c4367)
+ - Add image2video microservice (Stable Video Diffusion) [a03e7a55](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/a03e7a55)
+ - Text to SQL microservice [827e3d40](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/827e3d40)
+ - Add GPT-SoVITS microservice [6da7db9e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/6da7db9e)
+ - Add image2image microservice [52c1826f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/52c1826f)
+ - Initiate "animation" component [c26d37e7](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/c26d37e7)
+ - GraphRAG with llama-index [19330ea2](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/19330ea2)
+ - Enhanced microservices:
+ - Add DPO support in finetuning microservice [37f35140](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/37f35140)
+ - Support Chinese for Docsum [9a00a3ea](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/9a00a3ea)
+ - Support file upload summary for DocSum microservice [fa2ea642](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/fa2ea642)
+ - Add support for Audio and Video summarization to Docsum [baafa402](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/baafa402)
+ - vLLM support for FAQGen [f5c60f10](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/f5c60f10)
+ - vLLM support for DocSum [550325d8](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/550325d8)
+ - vLLM support for Codegen [24b9f03f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/24b9f03f)
+ - Enable vllm for Agent [4638c1d4](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/4638c1d4)
+ - Multiple models and remote service support for langchain vLLM text-generation [e3812a74](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/e3812a74)
+ - Set a higher default value(1.2) about repetition_penalty for codegen example to reduce repetition [5ed428f4](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/5ed428f4)
+ - MultimodalQnA Image and Audio Support Phase 1 [29ef6426](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/29ef6426)
+ - refine codetrans prompt, support parameter input [0bb019f8](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/0bb019f8)
+ - add dynamic batching embedding/reranking [518cdfb6](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/518cdfb6)
+ - Embedding compatible with OpenAI API [7bf1953c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/7bf1953c)
+ - Update RAGAgentLlama and ReActLlama [c8e36390](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/c8e36390)
+ - [Agent] support custom prompt [3473bfb3](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/3473bfb3)
+ - agent short & long term memory with langgraph. [e39b08f3](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/e39b08f3)
+ - support faqgen upload file in UI [453ff726](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/453ff726)
+ - Add E2E Prometheus metrics to applications [a6998a1d](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/a6998a1d)
+ - Multiple models support for LLM TGI [e879366c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/e879366c)
+ - Add RAG agent and ReAct agent implemention for llama3.1 served by TGI-gaudi [e7fdf537](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/e7fdf537)
+ - Support Llama3.2 vision and vision guard model [534c227a](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/534c227a)
+ - Add Intel/toxic-prompt-roberta to toxicity detection microservice [f6f620a2](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/f6f620a2)
+ - Refactor milvus dataprep and retriever [84374a57](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/84374a57)
+ - Removed microservices
+ - Remove vllm ray [617e119f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/617e119f)
+ - Async support for microservices
+ - Support async for embedding micorservice [28672956](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/28672956)
+ - TEI rerank microservice async support [9df4b3c0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/9df4b3c0)
+ - Async support for some microservices [f3746dc8](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/f3746dc8)
+- Performance
+ - Fix vllm microservice performance issue. [2159f9ad](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/2159f9ad)
+ - [Dataprep] Reduce Upload File Time Consumption [71348998](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/71348998)
+- New Hardware Support
+ - Add vLLM ARC support with OpenVINO backend [a2b9d95f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/a2b9d95f)
+- Enhanced Security
+ - Prediction Guard Guardrails components [4bbc7a2f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/4bbc7a2f)
+ - Add WildGuard Guardrail Microservice [5bb4046b](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/5bb4046b)F
+ - upgrade setuptools version to fix CVE-2024-6345 [6518c0f0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/6518c0f0)
+ - Remote TGI/TGI services with OAuth Client Credentials authentication [74df6bb7](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/74df6bb7)
+- Validation
+ - Combine CI/CD docker compose. [23c99c11](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/commit/23c99c11704cfcd0b13b3b463819f633ba02b42d)
+
+
+GenAIEvals
+
+- New Benchmark
+ - Support HELMET [4c8f048](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/4c8f048)
+ - Support Longbench [021193f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/021193f)
+- Performance
+ - Add new constant loader & Fix poisson loader issue [e11588c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/e11588c)
+ - Support Poisson distributed requests for benchmark [7305ea3](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/7305ea3)
+ - Support customized prompts and max new tokens in chatqna e2e test [79a4ad3](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/79a4ad3)
+ - Add namespace support for k8s performance test [70697d1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/70697d1)
+ - Support sharegpt dataset in chatqna e2e test [028bf63](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/028bf63)
+ - [Benchmark] Get benchmark reports. [946c439](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/946c439)
+- Accuracy
+ - Control the concurrent number of requests in codegen acc test. [84e077e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/84e077e)
+ - integrate deepeval metric with remote endpoint, like tgi server. [ffa65dc](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/ffa65dc)
+ - Ragaaf - adding new metric 'context recall' [cc7cebd](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/cc7cebd)
+ - Ragaaf - adding new metric 'context relevance' [f995c9c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/f995c9c)
+ - Ragaaf (RAG assessment annotation free) [2413e70](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/2413e70)
+ - Adding new metrics to ragas offering [d1c1337](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/d1c1337)
+ - add crud ragas evaluation. [f2bff45](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/f2bff45)
+ - Minimize requirements for user data for OPEA ragas [f1593ea](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/f1593ea)
+- Monitoring
+ - Add node metrics Grafana dashboard [a19f42e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/a19f42e)
+ - Add CPU Grafana dashboard [38e69eb](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/38e69eb)
+ - add the grafana dashboard json file for Gaudi metrics [6c9ae91](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/6c9ae91)
+ - Enhance the Grafana JSON file [8653efb](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/8653efb)
+- Fixed Issues
+ - [ChatQnA Benchmark] Fixed the output token in chatqnafixed.py [2c8ca26](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/2c8ca26)
+ - Fix test duration time inaccurate issue [9d76832](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/9d76832)
+ - Fix llm output token length issue [99ef325](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/99ef325)
+ - Fix llm serving benchmark issue [d6bafbd](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/d6bafbd)
+ - Fix input token size(1024) [30adcbe](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/30adcbe)
+ - Ragas fix for use of metrics argument [0cf3631](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/0cf3631)
+ - fixed the number of ouput token & fixed the top_k=1 [4af0a62](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/4af0a62)
+ - Fix JSON Return Format in getReqData Function [a4be366](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/a4be366)
+- Documentation
+ - Add setup guide of gaudi prometheus exporter [e9b8637](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/e9b8637)
+ - Add README for running OPEA ragas using HF endpoint on Gaudi [0dff0d3](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/commit/0dff0d3)
+
+
+GenAIInfra
+
+- GMC
+ - Add manifests for new components [e51fd62](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/e51fd62)
+
+- HelmChart
+ - [AgentQnA] Helm Chart for AgentQnA [66de41c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/66de41c)
+ - [AudioQnA] helm: Add audioQnA e2e helm chart [9efacee](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/9efacee)
+ - [AudioQnA] helm-charts: Add gpt-sovits support [1f55e1a](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/1f55e1a)
+ - [ChatQnA] Implement the nowrapper version chatqna [71c81d0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/71c81d0)
+ - [FaqGen] Add FaqGen helm chart [f847e05](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/f847e05)
+ - [FaqGen] helm: Add llm-faqgen-tgi support [325126e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/325126e)
+ - [HPA] helm/manifest: Sync HPA related k8s probe settings [c399578](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/c399578)
+ - [VisualQnA] Add helm chart for VisualQnA example [b077d44](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/b077d44)
+ - [UI] support variants for multiple examples [96af2ad](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/96af2ad)
+ - [Nginx] helm-chart: Make nginx service type configurable [a5c96ab](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/a5c96ab)
+ - [Milvus] Add milvus support for data-prep and retriever-usvc [d289b4e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/d289b4e)
+ - Add helm chart for 3 components [881e2b5](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/881e2b5)
+ - accelerate also teirerank with Gaudi [620963f](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/620963f)
+
+- CSP
+ - terraform: add AWS/EKS deployment for ChatQnA [bdb9af9](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/bdb9af9)
+
+- Monitoring
+ - Add Grafana dashboard for monitoring OPEA application scaling in k8s [691bbc5](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/691bbc5)
+ - Add ServiceMonitors for rest of OPEA applications [fc6235a](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/fc6235a)
+ - Add monitoring option to (ChatQnA) Helm charts [dbd607e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/dbd607e)
+ - Support alternative metrics on accelerated TGI / TEI instances [cdd3585](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/cdd3585)
+ - Expose options such as collector.interval of memory bandwidth exporter in k8s manifests and docker for user configuration. [2517e79](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/2517e79)
+
+- Dependency Versioning
+ - [TEI-Gaudi] Upgrade tei-gaudi version to 1.5.0 [c6a9c90](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/c6a9c90)
+ - [TGI-CPU] Update tgi cpu image version to 2.4.0-intel-cpu [f6c180e](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/f6c180e)
+ - [TGI-Gaudi] Upgrade tgi-gaudi to version 2.0.6 [915baa0](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/915baa0)
+ - Update the image version for ChatQnA examples [593458c](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/593458c)
+
+- Changed Defaults
+ - Change default model of codegen and codetrans [74476b7](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/74476b7)
+
+- Documentation
+ - Update observability README + fix typos [1d77b81](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/1d77b81)
+ - Monitoring, Observability and HPA doc improvements [14198fe](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/14198fe)
+ - Update GMC manifest changes and misc fixes [87dc673](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/87dc673)
+ - Improve Helm charts README [7b8c510](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/7b8c510)
+ - Create troubleshooting.md [d55ded4](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/d55ded4)
+ - Enhance helm chart repo usage in README [0de5535](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/0de5535)
+
+- CI/CD/UT
+ - Refactor CI scripts to support more components [e09270a](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/e09270a)
+ - Add github workflows to release helm chart [3910e3b](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/3910e3b)
+ - Fix link check failure (#481) (5 weeks ago) [fc87ef3](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/fc87ef3)
+ - Fix CI failures (#477) (5 weeks ago) [7e7b8ab](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/7e7b8ab)
+ - Optimize path and link validity check. [91bd163](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/91bd163)
+ -Enable image build process for memory-bandwidth-exporter [ddeac46](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/ddeac46)
+ - Add hyperlinks and paths validation. [d8cd3a1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/commit/d8cd3a1)
+
+
+### Full Changelogs
+- GenAIExamples: [v1.0...v1.1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIExamples/compare/v1.0...v1.1)
+- GenAIComps: [v1.0...v1.1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIComps/compare/v1.0...v1.1)
+- GenAIInfra: [v1.0...v1.1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIInfra/compare/v1.0...v1.1)
+- GenAIEval: [v1.0...v1.1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIEval/compare/v1.0...v1.1)
+- GenAIStudio: [...v1.1](https://github.com/opea-project/GenAIStudio/compare/3df407115e079622428c17978719ce782a25927a...v1.1)
+
+## Contributors
+This release would not have been possible without the contributions of the following organizations and individuals.
+
+### Contributing Organizations
+- `AMD`: AMD CPU/GPU support.
+- `Capital One`: Contributions to CI/CD process.
+- `China Unicom`: Contributions to the deployment of GenAI examples.
+- `Huawei`: Contributions to OPEA services deployment.
+- `Intel`: Development and improvements to GenAI examples, components, infrastructure, evaluation and studio.
+- `Nascenia Ltd.`: Contributions to documentation.
+- `National Chiao Tung University`: Contributions to documentation.
+- `Princeton University`: Integration of HELMET.
+
+### Individual Contributors
+For a comprehensive list of individual contributors, please refer to the "Full Changelogs" section.
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