Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp

.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml

@@ -33,17 +33,17 @@ on:
 jobs:
   spark34:
     if: "! contains(toJSON(github.event.commits.*.message), '[skip test]')"
-    runs-on: macos-latest
+    runs-on: macos-13
     env:
       TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL: 3
       JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx4096m -XX:+UseG1GC"
     name: Build and Test on Apache Spark 3.4.x
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-java@v4
         with:
-          distribution: 'adopt'
+          distribution: 'temurin'
           java-version: '8'
           cache: 'sbt'
       - name: Install Python 3.7
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ jobs:
           python3.7 -m pytest -v -m fast
   spark35:
     if: "! contains(toJSON(github.event.commits.*.message), '[skip test]')"
-    runs-on: macos-latest
+    runs-on: macos-13
     env:
       TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL: 3
       JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx4096m -XX:+UseG1GC"
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
 
   spark33:
     if: "! contains(toJSON(github.event.commits.*.message), '[skip test]')"
-    runs-on: macos-latest
+    runs-on: macos-13
     env:
       TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL: 3
       JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx4096m -XX:+UseG1GC"

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+========
+5.4.0
+========
+----------------
+New Features & Enhancements
+----------------
+* Added OpenVINO Runtime integration for various models, enabling enhanced inference performance. (#14246)
+* Added Python APIs to incorporate OpenVINO support. (#14242)
+* Introduced support for ONNX models and average pooling in ONNX-based annotators. (#14245)
+* Implemented MPNet for token classification. (#14244)
+* Added support for MistralAI LLM and LLAMA2. (#14243)
+* Improved caching mechanisms in Streamlit demos. (#14241)
+* Enhanced models' card and README documentation for Models Hub. (#14240)
+* Added OpenVINO GPU dependencies. (#14236)
+* Locked macOS version for runners and added missing SBT setup. (#14235)
+
+----------------
+Bug Fixes
+----------------
+* Fixed bugs in Colab notebooks. (#14239)
+* Resolved issues with BERT backend and broken annotators. (#14238)
+* Corrected LLAMA2 position ID and generation bug. (#14237)
+
+
 ========
 5.3.3
 ========