v0.9.4 2026-10-05

What's Changed

• docs: add plans/README.md documenting the plan-document convention (#753) by @chethanuk in #918
• fix: render degenerate judge histograms instead of raising (#905) by @chethanuk in #919
• docs: fix conflicting lazy heavy import guidance in STYLEGUIDE.md (#759) by @chethanuk in #920
• fix(engine): bound request fair queue selection state by @andreatnvidia in #954
• feat: support pandas 3 by @andreatnvidia in #937
• fix: don't crash prompt validation on literal braces (valid Jinja text) by @ManoharPaturi in #923
• fix: shard async HTTP connection pools by @andreatnvidia in #955
• docs: add Word document generation Colab notebook by @mvansegbroeck in #884
• chore: close PRs without triaged issues by @nabinchha in #957
• ci: bump the all-actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #958
• fix: update vulnerable anyio and cryptography dependencies by @nabinchha in #961
• docs(agentic-ci): fix malformed Args entry for no_extra_properties by @github-actions[bot] in #960
• fix(ci): omit notebook runtime from Fern preview by @nabinchha in #976
• refactor(config): RunConfig hygiene pass by @chethanuk in #941
• docs(agentic-ci): document name arg in ast_count_name_references by @github-actions[bot] in #975
• fix: accept bare JSON in structured responses by @lipikaramaswamy in #972
• ci: bump NVIDIA-NeMo/FW-CI-templates/.github/workflows/_semantic_pull_request.yml from 1.10.1 to 1.12.2 in the all-actions group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #973
• fix: update vulnerable dependencies from October report by @nabinchha in #977

New Contributors

• @chethanuk made their first contribution in #918
• @ManoharPaturi made their first contribution in #923
• @lipikaramaswamy made their first contribution in #972

Full Changelog: v0.9.3...v0.9.4