v1.6.1

What's Changed

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

New Contributors

• @yuanwu2017 made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/245
• @kaixuanliu made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/386
• @Narsil made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/501
• @pi314ever made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/493
• @baptistecolle made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/518
• @lightsofapollo made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/512
• @anton-pt made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/519
• @obloomfield made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/481
• @StrayDragon made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/pull/505

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference/compare/v1.6.0...v1.6.1