Welcome to Haystack 1.17!

Great news! In Haystack 1.17, there are some new great features that will help your NLP applications get to a new level!

Here's an overview of what happened in this version:

• There is a new type of Agent in town – a ConversationalAgent! It is specifically implemented to quickly create chat applications by simply selecting an LLM to work with.
• Haystack now depends on the latest version of the transformers library 4.29.1
• Haystack now supports command from Cohere and claude from Anthropic!
• Streaming support was added for PromptNode
• Some deprecations to be aware of:
  • MilvusDocumentStore was removed from Haystack core and moved to haystack-extras repo.
  • Knowledge Graph was removed
  • PDFToTextOCRConverter node was removed

If you're interested in learning more about the changes in this version, you can check out the release notes on GitHub.