Version: 2.0Vectara Documentation Changelog
August 2025
✨ New Features
- Add content about the Vectara Postman Collection (#487)
- Add comprehensive documentation for new Vectara Python SDK (#471)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Add topic about how to delete an account (#486)
- Add comprehensive documentation for new Vectara Python SDK (#471)
July 2025
✨ New Features
- Add documentation for the Vectara Admin Center, a centralized interface for managing on-premise and VPC deployments (#485)
- New Consistency-Adjusted Index Capability in Open RAG Eval (#479)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Fix body request render in API Reference (#483)
- Enhance API Reference usability with automated API key type badges (#481)
- Add detailed mapping of endpoints to required API key types (#477)
- Update Query History and Configure Queries sections, enhancing descriptions and screenshots (#476)
- Enhance chatbot tutorial with production readiness guidance (#473)
- Add guidance on using expected value formats with Intelligent Query Rewriting (#464)
- Migrate codeblocks to use the new CodePanel plugin formatting (#482)
- Enable syntax highlighting in CodePanel component (#478)
June 2025
✨ New Features
- Add Query-Aware Hallucination Detection and Correction to the Vectara Hallucination Corrector (#468)
- Add new supported languages and enhancements with HHEM 2.3 (#467)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Enhance API Documentation with Production-Ready Examples for Query, Upload, Index, and Chat Endpoints (#472)
- Refresh list of currently available generation presets (prompts) (#466)
- Add tutorial about how to build a chatbot with the Chat API (#463)
- Update screenshots for console updates (#452)
📋 Example Updates
- Enhance API Documentation with Production-Ready Examples for Query, Upload, Index, and Chat Endpoints (#472)
- Create new CodePanel component for customizable code samples with language selection, annotations, and layout configuration (#470)
May 2025
✨ New Features
- Add documentation for the List Hallucination Correctors API (#453)
- Add documentation for the tech preview of the Vectara Hallucination Corrector (#442)
- Add documentation for Table Summarization with Custom Prompts (#436)
📚 API Changes
- Update the Correct Hallucinations endpoint in the API Reference (#456)
- Add Hallucination Correctors endpoint to the API Reference (#454)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Improve API Reference description formatting (#460)
- Update the Correct Hallucinations API Definition (#457)
📋 Example Updates
- Update Hallucination Corrector model example (#459)
- Update Docusaurus configuration to show last date a topic was updated (#462)
April 2025
✨ New Features
- Add documentation for the Chat Completions API (#446)
- Add documentation for the Evaluate Factual Consistency (HHEM) API (#445)
- Add documentation for Mockingbird 2 (#439)
- Add documentation to define a custom LLM configuration to use models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google (#437)
📚 API Changes
- Add the Evaluate Factual Consistency API and the Chat Completions API to the API Reference (#444)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Expand Authentication section with new guides on enterprise access patterns, organizational role scoping, and authorization workflows (#426)
- Refine design of heading styles (#450)
- Install Mermaid for creating diagrams (#443)
- Update package.json with API documentation build script (#438)
- Upgrade Docusaurus Platform from 2.4.3 to 3.7 (#422)
March 2025
✨ New Features
- Add documentation for the tech preview of the Expanded Encoder Management (#425)
- Add documentation for the tech preview of the expanded LLM Management APIs (#420)
- Add content for new integration between Vectara and Confluent (#414)
📚 API Changes
- Add List Table Extractors and Get OAuth Token to the API Reference (#430)
- Add the Delete LLM API, Get LLM API, and Create Encoder API and Chunking Strategy to the API Reference (#423)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Update Encoder parameters (#433)
- Clarify that filterable metadata fields are not encrypted (#427)
- Update content and screenshots for the File Upload UI, the Documents UI, and the Query UI (#421)
- Update model_parameters with new llm_name parameter in the advanced summarization options (#419)
📋 Example Updates
- Update Encoder examples (#431)
February 2025
✨ New Features
- Add documentation for the tech preview of Integrating External LLMs (#413)
- Add documentation for the tech preview of Document Summarization (#412)
- Add documentation for the tech preview of Intelligent Query Rewriting (#408)
📚 API Changes
- Add the Summarize Document API, Create LLM API, and Compute Corpus Size API to the API Reference (#417)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Update UI steps on how to reset or delete the corpus (#404)
January 2025
✨ New Features
- Updated to enable Typescript SDK (#393)
- Update HHEM documentation for HHME-2.2 (#379)
- Add documentation for the new Knee Reranking feature (#378)
- Add new HHEM supported languages and some content enhancements (#352)
📚 API Changes
- Uploading JSON in API v2 (#394)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Improve Getting Started section layout (#396)
- Uploading JSON in API v2 (#394)
- Fix broken links in generative prompts (#391)
- Fix encoder example with correct value (#388)
- Add documentation changelog workflow (#385)
- Fix OAuth2 URL and update screenshot (#384)
- Add a dedicated changelog for documentation updates, API enhancements and bug fixes (#383)
- Add HHEM 2.2 enhancements to Release Notes (#381)
- Add new HHEM supported languages and some content enhancements (#352)
📋 Example Updates
- Fix encoder example with correct value (#388)
🗑 Deprecated
- Uploading JSON in API v2 (#394)
- Update Doc Changelog workflow action (#386)
December 2024
✨ New Features
- Add documentation for the new Update and Replace Metadata API Definitions (#371)
- Add documentation for the querying table data feature (#365)
- Add query observability feature to docs (#362)
- Add documentation for new chunking strategy parameter (#361)
📚 API Changes
- Add documentation for the new Update and Replace Metadata API Definitions (#371)
- Add API Reference updates for the new tabular data extraction feature (#366)
- Add documentation for the querying table data feature (#365)
- Add query observability feature to docs (#362)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Improve information architecture of the Capabilities section and metadata content (#374)
- Update table extract details (#370)
- Update table_extraction_config parameter (#369)
- Fix link to the table data blog in release notes (#368)
- Userfn example supports traditional if statement (#367)
- Add documentation for the querying table data feature (#365)
- Add documentation for new chunking strategy parameter (#361)
📋 Example Updates
- Userfn example supports traditional if statement (#367)
🗑 Deprecated
- Add API v1 deprecation notices (#375)
November 2024
✨ New Features
- Add chunking strategy and update descriptions (#351)
📚 API Changes
- Add chunking strategy and update descriptions (#351)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Update how metadata structuring is handled in API v2 (#358)
- Update descriptions for Pro and Enterprise (#356)
- update
fern.config.json
and generators.yml
to use latest version. (#355)
- Enhance the list of Vectara demos and applications (#354)
- Move Reranking subsection (#353)
- Add chunking strategy and update descriptions (#351)
October 2024
✨ New Features
- Reflect product transition to free trial across documentation (#350)
- Add new Integrations section that highlights community collaborations and partnerships (#346)
📚 API Changes
- Reflect product transition to free trial across documentation (#350)
- updated introduction with proper links (#338)
- Get number of documents and document parts (#332)
- Add search cutoffs, null handing, and refresh API reference (#331)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Reflect product transition to free trial across documentation (#350)
- Incorrect syntax in the null score usage chain example (#349)
- Correct udf page misspelling. (#348)
- Add new Integrations section that highlights community collaborations and partnerships (#346)
- Update docs for handling filenames with non-ASCII characters in API v2 (#345)
- Add Release Notes to the docs (#344)
- Upgrade OpenAPI docs theme. (#340)
- Add Video Tutorials section. (#334)
- Get number of documents and document parts (#332)
- Add search cutoffs, null handing, and refresh API reference (#331)
- Update Chain Reranker topic about the array and examples (#330)
📋 Example Updates
- Incorrect syntax in the null score usage chain example (#349)
- ✨ Add query snippet example (#342)
- Update Chain Reranker topic about the array and examples (#330)
September 2024
✨ New Features
- Add Chain Reranker content (#320)
📚 API Changes
- Add request timeouts in docs (#326)
- Update corpus API documentation (#324)
- Add Chain Reranker content (#320)
- Add Generation Presets content to docs (#318)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Update corpus API documentation (#324)
- Add more UDF examples (#323)
- Update Quick Start (#322)
- Add name and description to Update Corpus (#319)
- Add Generation Presets content to docs (#318)
- Update metadata filter topics (#312)
- Update prompt syntax (#283)
- Update custom prompt topics with Query endpoint details and links (#276)
📋 Example Updates
- Add more UDF examples (#323)
August 2024
✨ New Features
- Add User Defined Functions Reranker content (#314)
📚 API Changes
- Update query order and labels (#310)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Improve grpc example for UDF (#317)
- Add User Defined Functions Reranker content (#314)
- Update introductions to topics in Getting Started and Capabilities (#313)
- Update query order and labels (#310)
📋 Example Updates
- Improve grpc example for UDF (#317)
July 2024
✨ New Features
- Add and update topics for Mockingbird (#308)
- Add GPT 4o to list of summarizers (#303)
📚 API Changes
- Wrap tabs in API reference so they don't get clipped. (#301)
📝 Documentation Changes
- Add note about original BM25 (#309)
- Update corpus key and file upload content (#306)
- Wrap tabs in API reference so they don't get clipped. (#301)
- Fix typos and update screenshots (#299)
- Update part.is_title field description (#216)
📋 Example Updates
- Update part.is_title field description (#216)
June 2024
✨ New Features
- Add new REST API v2 specifications to the documentation (#250)
📚 API Changes
- Rename API Playground references to API Reference. (#295)
- Update API v2 migration guide (#294)
- Put generation_end into the reference. (#291)
- Re-enable accordion transition in API playground, to fix bug in which content height wasn't updated correctly (#287)