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NVIDIA AI-Q v2.2.1
AI-Q 2.2.1 is a focused maintenance release that improves runtime correctness, release packaging, citation handling, model output capacity, and documentation accuracy.
Highlights
- More reliable asynchronous jobs: Adds readiness checks before submission, prevents invalid jobs after intent-provider failures, and avoids retrying authentication failures.
- Stronger release packaging: Restores required runtime prompt assets and validates all 11 shipped workflows from an installed, VCS-less release artifact.
- Configurable citation enforcement: Shallow research returns the sanitized generated answer by default while retaining strict fail-closed behavior with
enforce_citations: true. - Expanded Lightning output capacity: Raises the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning shallow-research output limit to 32,768 tokens across shipped default configurations.
- Safer connector output: Improves web-search content escaping and citation handling for escaped URLs and titles.
- Security and documentation maintenance: Updates the MCP production lock for the latest pip security advisory and corrects stale references across deployment, integration, profiling, architecture, and contributor documentation.
Published artifacts
| Artifact | Versioned reference |
|---|---|
| Backend container | nvcr.io/nvidia/blueprint/aiq-agent:2.2.1 |
| Frontend container | nvcr.io/nvidia/blueprint/aiq-frontend:2.2.1 |
| Helm chart | nvidia/blueprint/aiq2-web:2.2.1 |
Configuration notes
- Shallow citation enforcement remains backward-compatible by default. Set
enforce_citations: trueto require strict fail-closed citation validation. - The 32,768-token Lightning output limit applies to shipped default profiles. Benchmark profiles intentionally remain at 8,192 tokens.
- This patch release contains release-scoped fixes and does not introduce develop-only AI-Q 3.0 features.
- The Brev getting-started notebook follows the maintained
release/2.2branch.
What's Changed
Runtime reliability and packaging
- #460 Restore release packaging and harden connector, asynchronous-job, and intent-provider behavior by @KyleZheng1284
Backports #454 and #455.
Research and documentation
- #462 Add configurable citation enforcement, raise the Lightning shallow output limit, update the MCP production lock, and correct stale documentation references by @AjayThorve
Backports #456 and #461, with original contributions from @shubhadeepd and documentation corrections from @thanhpt1110.
Deployment and release
- #451 Update the Brev notebook repository and architecture references for the maintained release branch by @soumilinandi
- #463 Prepare the AI-Q 2.2.1 Python packages, Compose deployment, Helm chart, documentation metadata, SBOM expectations, and release validation by @AjayThorve
Release stats
- 4 merged release PRs
- 5 release-branch commits
- 87 files changed
- 2,138 additions and 295 deletions