MLflow 2.17.1 released

[Serena Ruan]

Hi all, we're excited to announce the release of MLflow 2.17.1! This release includes several major features and improvements

Features:

• [Tracking] Support custom chat endpoint without endpoint type set as llm judge (#13538, @B-Step62)
• [Tracking] Support tracing for OpenAI Swarm (#13497, @B-Step62)
• [Tracking] Support UC Connections as model dependency and resources (#13481, #13491 @sunishsheth2009)
• [Tracking] Support Genie Spaces as model resources (#13441, @Aravind Segu)
• [Models] Support new Transformers task for llm/v1/embedding (#13468, @B-Step62)

Bug fixes:

• [Tracking] Fix tool span inputs/outputs format in LangChain autolog (#13527, @B-Step62)
• [Models] Fix code_path handling for LlamaIndex flavor (#13486, @B-Step62)
• [Models] Fix signature inference for subclass and optional dataclasses (#13440, @bbqiu)
• [Tracking] Fix error thrown in set_retriever_schema's behavior when it's called twice (#13422, @sunishsheth2009)
• [Tracking] Fix dependency extraction from RunnableCallables (#13423, @Aravind Segu)

Documentation updates:

• [Docs] Fixed typo in docs: endpoing -> endpoint (#13478, @JAMNESIA)
• [Docs] Improve CLI docs - attention about setting MLFLOW_TRACKING_URI (#13465, @BartoszLitwiniuk)
• [Docs] Add documentation for infer_signature usage with GenAI flavors (#13407, @Serena Ruan)

For a comprehensive list of changes, see the release change log, and check out the latest documentation on mlflow.org.