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+# Changelog
+
+## 0.0.53
+
+### Added
+- Resource-oriented design for models, shields, memory banks, datasets and eval tasks
+- Persistence for registered objects with distribution
+- Ability to persist memory banks created for FAISS
+- PostgreSQL KVStore implementation
+- Environment variable placeholder support in run.yaml files
+- Comprehensive Zero-to-Hero notebooks and quickstart guides
+- Support for quantized models in Ollama
+- Vision models support for Together, Fireworks, Meta-Reference, and Ollama, and vLLM
+- Bedrock distribution with safety shields support
+- Evals API with task registration and scoring functions
+- MMLU and SimpleQA benchmark scoring functions
+- Huggingface dataset provider integration for benchmarks
+- Support for custom dataset registration from local paths
+- Benchmark evaluation CLI tools with visualization tables
+- RAG evaluation scoring functions and metrics
+- Local persistence for datasets and eval tasks
+
+### Changed
+- Split safety into distinct providers (llama-guard, prompt-guard, code-scanner)
+- Changed provider naming convention (`impls` → `inline`, `adapters` → `remote`)
+- Updated API signatures for dataset and eval task registration
+- Restructured folder organization for providers
+- Enhanced Docker build configuration
+- Added version prefixing for REST API routes
+- Enhanced evaluation task registration workflow
+- Improved benchmark evaluation output formatting
+- Restructured evals folder organization for better modularity
+
+### Removed
+- `llama stack configure` command