AIQ v2 RC7

What's Changed

• Add more pre-commit hooks by @drobison00 in #105
• Helm chart updates for 2603.4.rc6 by @drobison00 in #124
• Fix for reduced-motion breaking panel show/hide bug by @exactlyallan in #127
• Update DeepResearcherAgent report handling and citation verification by @AjayThorve in #128
• Fixing table display & visibility in Brev by @aadesoba-nv in #123
• Resolve various SonarCube issues. by @drobison00 in #131
• Doc fixes by @AjayThorve in #132
• Add documentation for observability and port forwarding by @pastorsj in #129
• update docs, remove nat evaluator by @cdgamarose-nv in #130
• Fix logging by @AjayThorve in #133
• update HW requirements by @AjayThorve in #134
• Frontend changes to enable faster upstream to internal repo by @exactlyallan in #126
• update researcher model as well as docs by @cdgamarose-nv in #136

Full Changelog: 2.0.0.rc6...2.0.0.rc7

AIQ v2 RC6

What's Changed

• feat: add more example configs by @cdgamarose-nv in #117
• changed depreciated embed model in llamaindex by @KyleZheng1284 in #120
• Fix: Stale workflow responses leaking to reconnected WebSocket clients by @exactlyallan in #114
• resolve notebook hanging during docker deployment in Brev Launchable by @aadesoba-nv in #115
• Bug fixes aiq-agent by @AjayThorve in #119
• Fix citation verification regression: session-scoped SourceRegistry by @AjayThorve in #118

Full Changelog: 2.0.0.rc5...2.0.0.rc6

AIQ v2 RC5

What's Changed

• fix: repo root path for launchable by @cdgamarose-nv in #106
• providing the fix for the FileNotFoundError that persists in Brev launchable, by @aadesoba-nv in #108
• Fix backend silently dropping WebSocket messages after DB pool failure by @AjayThorve in #109
• Strip dev dependencies from frontend prod container by @drobison00 in #111
• AIQ UI session storage fixes by @exactlyallan in #97
• AIQ UI/UX Fixes Batch 2 by @exactlyallan in #107
• Fix chat responses by @pastorsj in #113
• support local NIM endpoints via configurable base URLs by @tanleach in #110
• Citation tracking and verification in research agents by @AjayThorve in #112

New Contributors

• @aadesoba-nv made their first contribution in #108
• @tanleach made their first contribution in #110

Full Changelog: 2.0.0.rc4...v2.0.0.rc5

AIQ v2 RC4

What's Changed

• Update docs to reflect that DB credentials need to exist in the cluster secrets by @drobison00 in #104
• updated knowledge docs to sync up with supported files types + instru… by @KyleZheng1284 in #102
• Fix Knowledge Layer File Upload Bugs by @exactlyallan in #99

Full Changelog: 2.0.0.rc3...2.0.0.rc4

AIQ v2 RC3

What's Changed

• UI/UX Fixes & Polish for AIQ Frontend by @exactlyallan in #91
• fix: notebook links and naming by @cdgamarose-nv in #92
• fix the deep researcher 1 notebook by @KyleZheng1284 in #95
• Update readme to us 'ns-aiq' namespace instead of 'aiq' by @drobison00 in #93
• Update docs to remove references to inference-api by @naimnv in #98
• Fix postgres container versioning and init script. by @drobison00 in #94
• Move deployment chart up one level by @drobison00 in #96
• Add Helm/Kubernetes deployment documentation by @AjayThorve in #101
• Clean up documentation references by @pastorsj in #100
• Add Helm deployment documentation and restructure README files by @AjayThorve in #103

Full Changelog: 2.0.0.rc2...2.0.0.rc3

AIQ v2 RC2

What's Changed

• bugfix: notebook and README updates by @cdgamarose-nv in #87
• Revise branch information in readme by @raykallen in #88
• Add helm charts and README by @drobison00 in #89

AIQ v2 RC1

What's New in AIQ 2.0.0

Added

• Multi-agent architecture with intent-based routing across chat orchestrator, shallow researcher, deep researcher, and clarifier agents
• Open-source Next.js web UI with TypeScript, NVIDIA Foundations design system, and 1,075+ unit tests
• CLI frontend for terminal-based research workflows
• Debug console for inspecting deep research runs
• Unified REST + WebSocket API with real-time streaming of thinking steps, tool calls, and citations
• Knowledge layer abstraction with pluggable adapters for LlamaIndex and NVIDIA Foundational RAG
• Google Scholar paper search via Serper API as a new data source plugin
• SQLite and PostgreSQL backends for LangGraph state checkpointing
• Standalone evaluation benchmark packages: deepresearch_bench (RACE/FACT), deepsearch_qa, and freshqa
• Comprehensive test suite across all agents, common utilities, API routes, and job management
• CI workflows for Python linting, testing, coverage, and UI lint/type-check/build
• Update documentation with getting started, API, and architecture guides

Changed

• Renamed from aiq-aira to aiq-agent
• Upgraded NeMo Agent Toolkit from 1.2 to 1.4 with async endpoint support
• Restructured codebase into a uv workspace with independently installable packages for agents, sources, frontends, and benchmarks
• Broadened Python support from 3.12-only to 3.11-3.13
• Replaced monolithic single-agent pipeline with intent classification that routes simple queries to a fast shallow researcher
• Switched linting/formatting tooling to ruff
• Deployment no longer requires a running NVIDIA RAG Blueprint stack; supports NVIDIA API Catalog endpoints for GPU-free development

Removed

• Closed-source frontend Docker container dependency
• Hardcoded RAG and Tavily integration in agent code (now pluggable data sources)
• Embedded evaluation code in agent source (moved to standalone benchmark packages)

v1.2.1

What's Changed

• Upgraded llama-3.3-70b-instruct NIM from version 1.13.1 to 1.14.0
• Aligned Helm values and referenced Docker image tags with the new nim-llm version
• Adopted RAG 2.3.2
• Removed manual NIM_MODEL_PROFILE configuration from Helm values and Docker Compose to rely on automatic profile detection, updated documentation accordingly

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.2.1

v1.2.0

What's Changed

• Added support for Helm deployments
• Add support and documentation for evaluation
• Simplified the configuration and integration with RAG, removing nginx
• Adopted RAG 2.3.0
• Tested for compatability with RTX Pro 6000

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.2.0

v1.2.0.rc5

Full Changelog: v1.2.0.rc4...v1.2.0.rc5