General Availability of SWIRL AI Connect 3.5.0, Community Edition!

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Team SWIRL is excited to announce General Availability of SWIRL AI Connect 3.5 Community edition!

The release includes a production Pinecone connector, support for running SWIRL in the VS Code debugger, plus GDPR and dataset visualization support in Galaxy.
Thank you to simsong, deg and others in the SWIRL community who contributed feedback addressed in this release.

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New Features

🔹 The Galaxy UI now renders a chart visualization for results from SearchProviders with the DATASET option specified in the result_mappings field.

🔹 Added GDPR cookie consent to the Galaxy UI.

🔹 Use the new PineconeDB Connector and SearchProvider to search vector database sources.

🔹 Developers can now run SWIRL in the VSCode debugger.

Improvements

🔹 The default SearchProvider configurations that ship with SWIRL have been updated; the multiple Google PSEs were consolidated into a new, simple provider definition, and many freely available sources are now enabled by default.

🔹 The Elastic and OpenSearch Connectors were refactored.

🔹 SWIRL's public API documentation was updated and is now generated by the drf-spectacular package with support for the OpenAPI v.3 schema.

🔹 Scripts and other supporting utilities have been moved to the new DevUtils/ directory in the repository.

🔹 Logging has been refactored; detailed messaging can be selectively enabled using the new SWIRL_LOG_DEBUG entry in SWIRL's .env file. For example:

SWIRL_LOG_DEBUG='swirl.page_fetch.web_page, swirl.processors.rag'

🔹 CSRF support now available via the new CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS entry in SWIRL's .env file. For example:

CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS='http://localhost:8000'

🔹 SWIRL was validated on Python 3.12.2.

Resolved Issues

🔹 The Galaxy UI now reports the total number of results returned for a search instead of the total number of results configured in the active SearchProviders.

🔹 The URL presented with each Galaxy results is now clickable, just like the result title.

🔹 The .install.sh script was adjusted to keep pip and other essential packages properly updated.