🎉 RAGLite v1.0: DuckDB, Qwen3, parallel insertion, benchmarking, better retrieval quality

Release Highlights

• 🐤 support for DuckDB (#137)
• 🐻 support for Qwen3 (#124)
• ⚡️ parallel document insertion (#150)
• 🏁 benchmarking with raglite bench (#150)
• 🎯 better retrieval quality with improved multi-vector search, chunk quality, and chunk front matter (#123, [#126], [#132])
• 💎 new and improved query adapter algorithm (#146, [#147], [#149])

What's Changed

• fix: don't convert markdown to markdown by @joachim-Heirbrant-SL in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/116
• fix: fix chunking of single-sentence chunks by @emilradix in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/115
• fix: incorporate headings and prevent windowing chunks by @emilradix in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/117
• fix: improve contextual chunk headings by @SimonJasansky in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/118
• feat: add option to use single chunk embeddings by @emilradix in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/119
• feat: add metadata at the document level by @emilradix in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/122
• feat: add support for reasoning tool use and upgrade to Qwen3 by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/124
• feat: add front matter to chunk content by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/126
• feat: introduce chunklets to improve chunking by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/123
• fix: remove mdformat by @emilradix in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/128
• feat: rank chunks by the L∞ norm of their multi-vector similarity by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/132
• feat: enable weighted reciprocal rank fusion by @emilradix in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/136
• fix: fix off-by-one error in parsing of Markdown headings by @joachim-Heirbrant-SL in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/133
• feat: improve config and API by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/138
• feat: replace SQLite with DuckDB by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/137
• ci: skip slow tests in CI by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/139
• fix: adapt oversampling to chunk size by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/140
• feat: make pandas an optional dependency by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/141
• fix: upgrade rerankers and recommended Cohere model by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/142
• fix: improve token assignment in late chunking by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/144
• fix: run checkpoint after DuckDB inserts by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/145
• feat: improve query adapter algorithm by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/146
• feat: add ability to control the gap in query adapter by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/147
• feat: optimally separate result sets in query adapter by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/149
• feat: parallelize inserts and add benchmarking by @lsorber in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/150
• docs: set Rerankers verbosity to 0 in README by @ThomasDelsart in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/156
• fix: fix parsing of font sizes for pdfs with no headings by @ThomasDelsart in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/155

New Contributors

• @SimonJasansky made their first contribution in https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/pull/118

Full Changelog: https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite/compare/v0.7.0...v1.0.0