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Version: v0.18.0

Releases

Key features, improvements and bug fixes in the latest releases.

v0.18.0​

Released on April 23, 2025.

New features​

  • MCP server: enables access to RAGFlow's knowledge bases via MCP.
  • DeepDoc supports adopting VLM model as a processing pipeline during document layout recognition, enabling in-depth analysis of images in PDFs.
  • Agent version control: all updates are continuously logged and can be rolled back to a previous version via export.
  • Team collaboration: Agents can be shared with team members.
  • OpenAI-compatible APIs: Agents can be called via OpenAI-compatible APIs.
  • User registration control: administrators can enable or disable user registration through an environment variable.

Improvements​

  • Enhanced answer referencing: Citation accuracy in generated responses is improved.
  • Enhanced question-answering experience: users can now manually stop streaming output during a conversation.

Documentation​

Added documents​

v0.17.2​

Released on March 13, 2025.

Compatibility changes​

  • Removes the Max_tokens setting from Chat configuration.
  • Removes the Max_tokens setting from Generate, Rewrite, Categorize, Keyword agent components.

From this release onwards, if you still see RAGFlow's responses being cut short or truncated, check the Max_tokens setting of your model provider.

Improvements​

  • Adds OpenAI-compatible APIs.
  • Introduces a German user interface.
  • Accelerates knowledge graph extraction.
  • Enables Tavily-based web search in the Retrieval agent component.
  • Adds Tongyi-Qianwen QwQ models (OpenAI-compatible).
  • Supports CSV files in the General chunk method.

Fixed issues​

  • Unable to add models via Ollama/Xinference, an issue introduced in v0.17.1.

HTTP APIs​

Python APIs​

v0.17.1​

Released on March 11, 2025.

Improvements​

  • Improves English tokenization quality.
  • Improves the table extraction logic in Markdown document parsing.
  • Updates SiliconFlow's model list.
  • Supports parsing XLS files (Excel97~2003) with improved corresponding error handling.
  • Supports Huggingface rerank models.
  • Enables relative time expressions ("now", "yesterday", "last week", "next year", and more) in the Rewrite agent component.

Fixed issues​

  • A repetitive knowledge graph extraction issue.
  • Issues with API calling.
  • Options in the PDF parser, aka Document parser, dropdown are missing.
  • A Tavily web search issue.
  • Unable to preview diagrams or images in an AI chat.

Documentation​

Added documents​

v0.17.0​

Released on March 3, 2025.

New features​

  • AI chat: Implements Deep Research for agentic reasoning. To activate this, enable the Reasoning toggle under the Prompt engine tab of your chat assistant dialogue.
  • AI chat: Leverages Tavily-based web search to enhance contexts in agentic reasoning. To activate this, enter the correct Tavily API key under the Assistant settings tab of your chat assistant dialogue.
  • AI chat: Supports starting a chat without specifying knowledge bases.
  • AI chat: HTML files can also be previewed and referenced, in addition to PDF files.
  • Dataset: Adds a PDF parser, aka Document parser, dropdown menu to dataset configurations. This includes a DeepDoc model option, which is time-consuming, a much faster naive option (plain text), which skips DLA (Document Layout Analysis), OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and TSR (Table Structure Recognition) tasks, and several currently experimental large model options.
  • Agent component: (x) or a forward slash / can be used to insert available keys (variables) in the system prompt field of the Generate or Template component.
  • Object storage: Supports using Aliyun OSS (Object Storage Service) as a file storage option.
  • Models: Updates the supported model list for Tongyi-Qianwen (Qwen), adding DeepSeek-specific models; adds ModelScope as a model provider.
  • APIs: Document metadata can be updated through an API.

The following diagram illustrates the workflow of RAGFlow's Deep Research:

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The following is a screenshot of a conversation that integrates Deep Research:

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HTTP APIs​

Adds a body parameter "meta_fields" to the Update document method.

Python APIs​

Adds a key option "meta_fields" to the Update document method.

Documentation​

Added documents​

v0.16.0​

Released on February 6, 2025.

New features​

  • Supports DeepSeek R1 and DeepSeek V3.
  • GraphRAG refactor: Knowledge graph is dynamically built on an entire knowledge base (dataset) rather than on an individual file, and automatically updated when a newly uploaded file starts parsing. See here.
  • Adds an Iteration agent component and a Research report generator agent template. See here.
  • New UI language: Portuguese.
  • Allows setting metadata for a specific file in a knowledge base to enhance AI-powered chats. See here.
  • Upgrades RAGFlow's document engine Infinity to v0.6.0.dev3.
  • Supports GPU acceleration for DeepDoc (see docker-compose-gpu.yml).
  • Supports creating and referencing a Tag knowledge base as a key milestone towards bridging the semantic gap between query and response.
IMPORTANT

The Tag knowledge base feature is unavailable on the Infinity document engine.

Documentation​

Added documents​

v0.15.1​

Released on December 25, 2024.

Upgrades​

  • Upgrades RAGFlow's document engine Infinity to v0.5.2.
  • Enhances the log display of document parsing status.

Fixed issues​

This release fixes the following issues:

  • The SCORE not found and position_int errors returned by Infinity.
  • Once an embedding model in a specific knowledge base is changed, embedding models in other knowledge bases can no longer be changed.
  • Slow response in question-answering and AI search due to repetitive loading of the embedding model.
  • Fails to parse documents with RAPTOR.
  • Using the Table parsing method results in information loss.
  • Miscellaneous API issues.

HTTP APIs​

Adds an optional parameter "user_id" to the following APIs:

v0.15.0​

Released on December 18, 2024.

New features​

  • Introduces additional Agent-specific APIs.
  • Supports using page rank score to improve retrieval performance when searching across multiple knowledge bases.
  • Offers an iframe in Chat and Agent to facilitate the integration of RAGFlow into your webpage.
  • Adds a Helm chart for deploying RAGFlow on Kubernetes.
  • Supports importing or exporting an agent in JSON format.
  • Supports step run for Agent components/tools.
  • Adds a new UI language: Japanese.
  • Supports resuming GraphRAG and RAPTOR from a failure, enhancing task management resilience.
  • Adds more Mistral models.
  • Adds a dark mode to the UI, allowing users to toggle between light and dark themes.

Improvements​

  • Upgrades the Document Layout Analysis model in DeepDoc.
  • Significantly enhances the retrieval performance when using Infinity as document engine.

HTTP APIs​

Python APIs​

v0.14.1​

Released on November 29, 2024.

Improvements​

Adds Infinity's configuration file to facilitate integration and customization of Infinity as a document engine. From this release onwards, updates to Infinity's configuration can be made directly within RAGFlow and will take effect immediately after restarting RAGFlow using docker compose. #3715

Fixed issues​

This release fixes the following issues:

  • Unable to display or edit content of a chunk after clicking it.
  • A 'Not found' error in Elasticsearch.
  • Chinese text becoming garbled during parsing.
  • A compatibility issue with Polars.
  • A compatibility issue between Infinity and GraphRAG.

v0.14.0​

Released on November 26, 2024.

New features​

  • Supports Infinity or Elasticsearch (default) as document engine for vector storage and full-text indexing. #2894
  • Enhances user experience by adding more variables to the Agent and implementing auto-saving.
  • Adds a three-step translation agent template, inspired by Andrew Ng's translation agent.
  • Adds an SEO-optimized blog writing agent template.
  • Provides HTTP and Python APIs for conversing with an agent.
  • Supports the use of English synonyms during retrieval processes.
  • Optimizes term weight calculations, reducing the retrieval time by 50%.
  • Improves task executor monitoring with additional performance indicators.
  • Replaces Redis with Valkey.
  • Adds three new UI languages (contributed by the community): Indonesian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Compatibility changes​

As of this release, service_config.yaml.template replaces service_config.yaml for configuring backend services. Upon Docker container startup, the environment variables defined in this template file are automatically populated and a service_config.yaml is auto-generated from it. #3341

This approach eliminates the need to manually update service_config.yaml after making changes to .env, facilitating dynamic environment configurations.

IMPORTANT

Ensure that you upgrade both your code and Docker image to this release before trying this new approach.

HTTP APIs​

Python APIs​

Documentation​

Added documents​

v0.13.0​

Released on October 31, 2024.

New features​

  • Adds the team management functionality for all users.
  • Updates the Agent UI to improve usability.
  • Adds support for Markdown chunking in the General chunk method.
  • Introduces an invoke tool within the Agent UI.
  • Integrates support for Dify's knowledge base API.
  • Adds support for GLM4-9B and Yi-Lightning models.
  • Introduces HTTP and Python APIs for dataset management, file management within dataset, and chat assistant management.
NOTE

To download RAGFlow's Python SDK:

pip install ragflow-sdk==0.13.0

Documentation​

Added documents​

v0.12.0​

Released on September 30, 2024.

New features​

  • Offers slim editions of RAGFlow's Docker images, which do not include built-in BGE/BCE embedding or reranking models.
  • Improves the results of multi-round dialogues.
  • Enables users to remove added LLM vendors.
  • Adds support for OpenTTS and SparkTTS models.
  • Implements an Excel to HTML toggle in the General chunk method, allowing users to parse a spreadsheet into either HTML tables or key-value pairs by row.
  • Adds agent tools YahooFinance and Jin10.
  • Adds an investment advisor agent template.

Compatibility changes​

As of this release, RAGFlow offers slim editions of its Docker images to improve the experience for users with limited Internet access. A slim edition of RAGFlow's Docker image does not include built-in BGE/BCE embedding models and has a size of about 1GB; a full edition of RAGFlow is approximately 9GB and includes both built-in embedding models and embedding models that will be downloaded once you select them in the RAGFlow UI.

The default Docker image edition is nightly-slim. The following list clarifies the differences between various editions:

  • nightly-slim: The slim edition of the most recent tested Docker image.
  • v0.12.0-slim: The slim edition of the most recent officially released Docker image.
  • nightly: The full edition of the most recent tested Docker image.
  • v0.12.0: The full edition of the most recent officially released Docker image.

See Upgrade RAGFlow for instructions on upgrading.

Documentation​

Added documents​

v0.11.0​

Released on September 14, 2024.

New features​

  • Introduces an AI search interface within the RAGFlow UI.
  • Supports audio output via FishAudio or Tongyi Qwen TTS.
  • Allows the use of Postgres for metadata storage, in addition to MySQL.
  • Supports object storage options with S3 or Azure Blob.
  • Supports model vendors: Anthropic, Voyage AI, and Google Cloud.
  • Supports the use of Tencent Cloud ASR for audio content recognition.
  • Adds finance-specific agent components: WenCai, AkShare, YahooFinance, and TuShare.
  • Adds a medical consultant agent template.
  • Supports running retrieval benchmarking on the following datasets:

v0.10.0​

Released on August 26, 2024.

New features​

  • Introduces a text-to-SQL template in the Agent UI.
  • Implements Agent APIs.
  • Incorporates monitoring for the task executor.
  • Introduces Agent tools GitHub, DeepL, BaiduFanyi, QWeather, and GoogleScholar.
  • Supports chunking of EML files.
  • Supports more LLMs or model services: GPT-4o-mini, PerfXCloud, TogetherAI, Upstage, Novita.AI, 01.AI, SiliconFlow, PPIO, XunFei Spark, Baidu Yiyan, and Tencent Hunyuan.

v0.9.0​

Released on August 6, 2024.

New features​

  • Supports GraphRAG as a chunk method.
  • Introduces Agent component Keyword and search tools, including Baidu, DuckDuckGo, PubMed, Wikipedia, Bing, and Google.
  • Supports speech-to-text recognition for audio files.
  • Supports model vendors Gemini and Groq.
  • Supports inference frameworks, engines, and services including LM studio, OpenRouter, LocalAI, and Nvidia API.
  • Supports using reranker models in Xinference.

v0.8.0​

Released on July 8, 2024.

New features​

  • Supports Agentic RAG, enabling graph-based workflow construction for RAG and agents.
  • Supports model vendors Mistral, MiniMax, Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI.
  • Supports DOCX files in the MANUAL chunk method.
  • Supports DOCX, MD, and PDF files in the Q&A chunk method.

v0.7.0​

Released on May 31, 2024.

New features​

  • Supports the use of reranker models.
  • Integrates reranker and embedding models: BCE, BGE, and Jina.
  • Supports LLMs Baichuan and VolcanoArk.
  • Implements RAPTOR for improved text retrieval.
  • Supports HTML files in the GENERAL chunk method.
  • Provides HTTP and Python APIs for deleting documents by ID.
  • Supports ARM64 platforms.
IMPORTANT

While we also test RAGFlow on ARM64 platforms, we do not maintain RAGFlow Docker images for ARM.

If you are on an ARM platform, follow this guide to build a RAGFlow Docker image.

HTTP API​

Python API​

v0.6.0​

Released on May 21, 2024.

New features​

  • Supports streaming output.
  • Provides HTTP and Python APIs for retrieving document chunks.
  • Supports monitoring of system components, including Elasticsearch, MySQL, Redis, and MinIO.
  • Supports disabling Layout Recognition in the GENERAL chunk method to reduce file chunking time.

HTTP API​

Python API​

v0.5.0​

Released on May 8, 2024.

New features​

  • Supports LLM DeepSeek.