> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://helix-claude-document-return-objects-rxi6v.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Python SDK

> Python SDK Release Notes

# July 2025

<Update
  label="July 7, 2025"
  description="v0.2.19"
  rss={{ 
title: "Version 0.2.19 Python SDK", 
description: "Version 0.2.19 released on July 7, 2025" 
}}
>
  ## Client Verbosity

  * Fixed verbose request progress bar in Client.
</Update>

<Update
  label="July 6, 2025"
  description="v0.2.18"
  rss={{ 
title: "Version 0.2.18 Python SDK", 
description: "Version 0.2.18 released on July 6, 2025" 
}}
>
  ## Simplified Query Client

  * Added a simple method for executing queries while retaining support for customizable queries.
  * Improved bulk request logic.
  * Updated and added demos for both query methods.
  * Updated error messages for failed queries to only print if verbose is set.

  ## Knowledge Graph

  * Added OpenAI-driven knowledge graph extraction with deduplication and improved insertion logic. (`apps/kg1.py`)
  * Added spaCy-driven knowledge graph extraction for entity/relationship extraction. (`apps/kg2.py`)
</Update>

<Update
  label="July 2, 2025"
  description="v0.2.17"
  rss={{ 
title: "Version 0.2.17 Python SDK", 
description: "Version 0.2.17 released on July 2, 2025" 
}}
>
  ## Client Verbosity

  * Progress bars in query execution can now be toggled via the verbose flag (default True).

  ## Providers

  * Added support for OpenAI models (gpt-4o) for knowledge graph extraction.

  ## Knowledge Graph

  * Used OpenAI for entity/edge extraction and improved deduplication and insertion logic.
  * Added FastAPI-based HTTP service for embedding text using HuggingFace transformers in `apps/texttovec.py`.
  * Added a new example for vector insert operations in `examples/vec.py`.
</Update>

# June 2025

<Update
  label="June 26, 2025"
  description="v0.2.16"
  rss={{ 
title: "Version 0.2.16 Python SDK", 
description: "Version 0.2.16 released on June 26, 2025" 
}}
>
  ## Providers

  * Added Ollama provider to interface with Ollama for language model tasks.

  ## Knowledge Graph

  * Added a script to use the new Ollama provider to extract entities and relationships from text.
</Update>

<Update
  label="June 23, 2025"
  description="v0.2.15"
  rss={{ 
title: "Version 0.2.15 Python SDK", 
description: "Version 0.2.15 released on June 23, 2025" 
}}
>
  ## Instance Management

  * Fixed port not updated after deploy.
  * Added auto stop instance on script exit.
  * Removed auto-start instance on client creation.

  ## UV Installation

  * Added support for UV installation.

  ## Knowledge Graph

  * Added a script to take a PDF file as input, extract text from it, and then use a local model to generate embeddings for text chunks.
</Update>

<Update
  label="June 21, 2025"
  description="v0.2.11"
  rss={{ 
title: "Version 0.2.11 Python SDK", 
description: "Version 0.2.11 released on June 21, 2025" 
}}
>
  ## Instance Management

  * Added instance management via Python script.
</Update>

# May 2025

<Update
  label="May 8, 2025"
  description="v0.2.1"
  rss={{ 
title: "Version 0.2.1 Python SDK", 
description: "Version 0.2.1 released on May 8, 2025" 
}}
>
  ## Initial Release With Official Rag Support

  * This release includes initial support for creating AI RAG agents.
  * Supplied are 2 new default queries `ragloaddocs` and `ragsearchdocs` with which you can load your chunks of documents and vectors and then vector search for them all in helix-db.
  * Release also contains some bug fixes and more examples + rag demos that can be found in the examples/ directory.
</Update>