• 🧪 #2407 Experimental support for large language models (https://docs.chatterbot.us/large-language-models/)
• ⬆️ 8d27a8b Pin upper bounds for the chatterbot-corpus package. Starting in chatterbot-corpus >= 1.3.0 strings longer than 255 characters will be present.

• 296809e Fix for postgres compatibility for the SQLStorageAdapter
• #2412 Generate response search index when in_response_to key is present in files (such as json files passed to the .train() method when using the JsonFileTrainer

• #2408 Django migrations (added help_text attributes to all model fields for the Django admin)
• #2408 Various Django-related bug fixes
• #2410 Fix for loading single files specified by the JsonFileTrainer and CsvFileTrainer

• #2405 Add support for Python versions 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
• #2403 Additional support for loading data from CSV, TSV, and JSON formats.
• #2404 Improved documentation around taggers and more descriptive exception messages
• 387a689 Add a --help flag to python -m chatterbot invocations

• #2397 - Add Redis storage adapter with support for vectors 📈 (docs: https://docs.chatterbot.us/storage/redis/)
• #2398 SpecificResponseAdapter: Accept patterns using spaCy's rule-based matching: https://spacy.io/usage/rule-based-matching
• #2398 SpecificResponseAdapter: Accept a function for the output_text parameter that can be called to generate the output text.

• #2395 - Performance improvements by centralizing search-text generation
• #2395 - Miscellaneous fixes related to searching and matching for response generation

• Use bulk processing from spacy pipeline for improved performance #2392
• Modify TimeLogicAdapter to use SpaCy PhraseMatcher instead of NLTK NaiveBayesClassifier #2394

This release brings chatterbot significantly up to date for comparability with the latest versions of its dependencies, as well as dropping support for older versions of Python that are no longer maintained. As noted in #2389, the minimum supported version of Python will be version 3.9, with newer versions being added soon.

Along with this release, we also have a new documentation site: https://docs.chatterbot.us

This release makes a handful of ChatterBot's dependencies optional as described in #2027

Add support for Python 3.8