OPEA Release Notes v1.5

We are excited to announce the release of OPEA version 1.5, which includes significant contributions from the open-source community.

More information about how to get started with OPEA v1.5 can be found on the Getting Started page. All project source code is maintained in the opea-project organization. To pull Docker images, please access the Docker Hub. For instructions on deploying Helm Charts, please refer to the guide.

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What’s New in OPEA v1.5

This release includes new features, optimizations, and user-focused updates.

GenAI Examples

  • Browser-use Agent: a new use case to empower anyone to automate repetitive web tasks. It controls your web browser to perform tasks like visiting websites and extracting data. (GenAIExamples#2312)

  • Arbitration Post Hearing Assistant Application: a new use case designed to process and summarize post-hearing transcripts or arbitration-related documents. (GenAIExamples#2309)

  • Polylingua Translation Service: a new use case for translation. (GenAIComps#2298)

  • OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint Support: ChatQnA now supports OpenAI API-Compatible endpoints. (GenAIComps#2091)

GenAI Microservices

  • Text2Query: a specialized, independent service designed to translate natural language queries into structured query languages. (GenAIComps#1931)

  • Arbitration Post-Hearing: a new microservice for Arbitration Post-Hearing with LLM-Based Entity Extraction. (GenAIComps#1938)

  • FunASR/paraformer: Add a FunASR toolkit-based backend to ASR microservice to support Paraformer, a non-autoregressive end-to-end speech recognition model. (GenAIComps#1914)

  • LLM Scaler: Boosted LLM/LVM performance on ARC GPU by llm-scaler-vllm v0.10.0-b4. (GenAIComps#1914)

  • openEuler OS Support: Enabling openEuler OS Support for OPEA Components. (GenAIComps#1813, GenAIComps#, GenAIComps#, GenAIComps#, GenAIComps#)

  • MCP Compliance: Enabled MCP server for some of the OPEA components. (GenAIComps#1849, GenAIComps#)

  • OPEA Store: Enhanced data access using OPEA Store for ChatHistory, FeedbackManagement, and PromptRegistry. (GenAIComps#1916)

Productization

Validated Hardware

  • Intel® Gaudi® AI Accelerators (2nd)

  • Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor (3rd)

Validated Software

  • Docker version 28.5.1

  • Docker Compose version v2.40.3

  • Intel® Gaudi® software and drivers v1.22.1

  • TEI v1.7

  • TGI v2.4.0 (Xeon), v2.3.1 (Gaudi)

  • Ubuntu 22.04

  • vLLM v0.10.1 (Xeon), opea/vllm-gaudi:1.22.0 (Gaudi)

Full Changelogs

Contributors

This release would not have been possible without the contributions of the following organizations and individuals.

Contributing Organizations

  • Bud: Polylingua Translation Service, Components as MCP Servers.

  • Intel: Development and improvements to GenAI examples, components, infrastructure, evaluation, and studio.

  • openEuler: openEuler OS support.

  • Zensar: Arbitration Post Hearing Assistant.

Individual Contributors

For a comprehensive list of individual contributors, please refer to the Full Changelogs section.