v0.13.0

[Pouyanpi]

What's Changed

This release adds support for multimodal input and output rails, allowing users to check for the safety of both text and image prompts and vision-language model outputs. We introduce new support for models with reasoning traces, such as Deepseek-R1, and we have added support for the NemoGuard JailbreakDetect NIM.
This release adds a new integration with Fiddler Guardrails, providing access to Fiddler’s low-latency hosted guardrail models for content safety, hallucination detection, and more. We also added support for Python 3.12 .

🚀 Features

• Support models with reasoning traces (#996) by @trebedea
• Add SHA-256 hashing option (#988) by @mdambski
• Add Fiddler Guardrails integration (#964, #1043) by @copperstick6
• Add generation metadata to streaming chunks (#1011) by @Pouyanpi
• Improve alpha to beta bot migration (#878) by @schuellc-nvidia
• Support multimodal input and output rails (#1033) by @Pouyanpi
• Add support for NemoGuard JailbreakDetect NIM. (#1038) by @erickgalinkin
• Set default start and end reasoning tokens (#1050) by @Pouyanpi
• Improve output rails error handling for SSE format (#1058) by @Pouyanpi

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Ensure parse_task_output is called after all llm_call invocations (#1047) by @Pouyanpi
• Handle exceptions in generate_events to propagate errors in streaming (#1012) by @Pouyanpi
• Ensure output rails streaming is enabled explicitly (#1045) by @Pouyanpi
• Improve multimodal prompt length calculation for base64 images (#1053) by @Pouyanpi

🚜 Refactor

• Move startup and shutdown logic to lifespan in server (#999) by @xiaobo8204

📚 Documentation

• Add multimodal rails documentation (#1061) by @mikemckiernan
• Add content safety tutorial (#1042) by @tgasser-nv
• Revise reasoning model info (#1062) by @mikemckiernan
• Consider new GS experience (#1005) by @mikemckiernan
• Restore deleted configuration files (#963) by @Pouyanpi

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Add Python 3.12 support (#984) by @Pouyanpi

New Contributors

• @mdambski made their first contribution in Feat: Add SHA-256 hashing option #988
• @copperstick6 made their first contribution in feat(community): add Fiddler Guardrails integration into NeMo #964
• @xiaobo8204 made their first contribution in replace FastAPI lifecycle management to use lifespan context manager #999
• @tgasser-nv made their first contribution in doc: Add content safety tutorial #1042

Full Changelog: v0.12.0...v0.13.0

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