2024-01-23: Evaluation tool, Lllamafile support, other bug fixes

This release contain small fixes to the optional authentication, GPT-4-Vision integration, prepdocs script, and local hot reloading.

It also includes a link to a new evaluation tool for evaluating app response quality and new documentation about running the app locally against a llamafile server.

What's Changed

• Add support for local OpenAI-compatible server, fix local hot reloading, add docs on local dev by @pamelafox in #1148
• Link to evaluation repo by @pamelafox in #1061
• Fix prepdocs by @mattgotteiner in #1064
• [BugFix] Fix logic in prepdocs to always update search index by @pamelafox in #1066
• [BugFix] Use default font when a specific font cannot be found by @pamelafox in #1069
• Explain the vision tabs by @pamelafox in #1067
• Add more tests for prepdocslib by @tonybaloney in #1082
• Correct pwsh command and location by @diberry in #1114
• bugfix: fix the same variable was used twice in the judgment by @swanypro in #1086
• Update Authentication to use local storage and easy auth refresh by @mattgotteiner in #1117
• bug #1152: Fix for indexing small docs by @marekjakimiuk1 in #1155
• Cast event as ChatAppResponse by @pamelafox in #1130
• Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #1075
• Bump jinja2 from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 in /app/backend by @dependabot in #1128
• Bump pillow from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0 in /scripts by @dependabot in #1168
• Bump vite from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 in /app/frontend by @dependabot in #1161

New Contributors

• @diberry made their first contribution in #1114
• @swanypro made their first contribution in #1086
• @marekjakimiuk1 made their first contribution in #1155

Full Changelog: 12-12-2023-automate-auth...23-01-2024