2.12.0

2.12.0 (2026-03-25)

Feature

• feat: Evaluate Compression Methods on Retrieval Tasks (#3950)

• Add quantization support

• Refactor quantization support into wrapper class

• Remove quantization from CLI and update compression wrapper

• Change quantization level to string enum

• Change enum type to HelpfulStrEnum

• Use torch.dtypes for compression levels

• Fix linter

• Always quantize queries

• Fix linter

• Define quantization levels as enum

• Rename variables

• Rename variables and add documentation

• Update docs for adding models and what's new section

• update docs

• better handle of kwargs

• fix typing

• Raise error on invalid clipping margins

• Fix lint

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• model: Add qihoo360/Zhinao-ChineseModernBert-Embedding (#4266)

• add: sbert zhinao_modernbert.

• add: sbert zhinao_modernbert.

• update: zhinao-chinesemodernbert training datasets.

• update: zhinao-chinesemodernbert info.

• update: zhinao-chinesemodernbert info.

• lint

• update: zhinao-chinesemodernbert contacts.

• lint

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Co-authored-by: Roman Solomatin <36135455+Samoed@users.noreply.github.com> (5ecdd29)