• #2448 - Remove pinned click dependency.
• #2449 - Fix symlink containment in UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract() to address GHSA-j5w9-pxxc-fwqh

• Prevent symlink injection when unzipping tar files - #2445

• 🐍 #2429 Add support for Python 3.14 (also drops support for Python 3.9 due to sub-dependency incompatibilities with 3.14)
• 🟥 #2434 Redis vector-store improvements
• 🧠 #2437 Improve support for LLM usage: logic adapters can now be called by an LLM as tools

• 📦 #2433 - Update optional python dependencies: redis, langchain-redis, langchain-huggingface, accelerate, sentence-transformers, pymongo
• 🐍 #2436 - Increase max text length from 255 to 1100

• #2432 - Addresses GHSA-v4w8-49pv-mf72 (CVE-2026-23842) by adding safe default database connection parameters, and ensure database connections are closed when iteration over yielded values terminate early.

• 💿 #2430 - Further development of experimental redis support using vectors for text similarity.

Sponsorships

🎉 A huge thanks to LambdaTest for sponsoring ChatterBot! 🎉

• 🐞 #2425 Fix date parsing case
• 🐜 #2426 Add check for sqlite WAL mode status and execute outside of transaction
• 🏋🏼 #2427 Improve bulk operations in training methods
• 📦 #2428 Dependency updates for redis, ollama, and pymongo

• 👣 #2421 Reduce running time of test suite
• 📜 #2422 Django documentation updates and swappable model improvements
• 🥡 #2423 Allow extra args to be passed to the mongodb adapter
• 🐍 #2406 Python 3.13 support!

• 🧪 #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