1.4.0

What's Changed

• Free up some space for GH actions by @adriangonz in #1282
• Introduce tracing with OpenTelemetry by @vtaskow in #1281
• Update release CI to use Poetry by @adriangonz in #1283
• Re-generate License Info by @github-actions in #1284
• Add support for white-box explainers to alibi-explain runtime by @ascillitoe in #1279
• Update CHANGELOG by @github-actions in #1294
• Fix build-wheels.sh error when copying to output path by @lc525 in #1286
• Fix typo by @strickvl in #1289
• feat(logging): Distinguish logs from different models by @vtaskow in #1302
• Make sure we use our Response class by @adriangonz in #1314
• Adding Quick-Start Guide to docs by @ramonpzg in #1315
• feat(logging): Provide JSON-formatted structured logging as option by @vtaskow in #1308
• Bump in conda version and mamba solver by @dtpryce in #1298
• feat(huggingface): Merge model settings by @jesse-c in #1337
• feat(huggingface): Load local artefacts in HuggingFace runtime by @vtaskow in #1319
• Document and test behaviour around NaN by @adriangonz in #1346
• Address flakiness on 'mlserver build' tests by @adriangonz in #1363
• Bump Poetry and lockfiles by @adriangonz in #1369
• Bump Miniforge3 to 23.3.1 by @adriangonz in #1372
• Re-generate License Info by @github-actions in #1373
• Improved huggingface batch logic by @ajsalow in #1336
• Add inference params support to MLFlow's custom invocation endpoint (… by @M4nouel in #1375
• Increase build space for runtime builds by @adriangonz in #1385
• Fix minor typo in sklearn README by @krishanbhasin-gc in #1402
• Add catboost classifier support by @krishanbhasin-gc in #1403
• added model_kwargs to huggingface model by @nanbo-liu in #1417
• Re-generate License Info by @github-actions in #1456
• Local response cache implementation by @SachinVarghese in #1440
• fix link to custom runtimes by @kretes in #1467
• Improve typing on Environment class by @krishanbhasin-gc in #1469
• build(dependabot): Change reviewers by @jesse-c in #1548
• MLServer changes from internal fork - deps and CI updates by @sakoush in #1588

New Contributors

• @vtaskow made their first contribution in #1281
• @lc525 made their first contribution in #1286
• @strickvl made their first contribution in #1289
• @ramonpzg made their first contribution in #1315
• @jesse-c made their first contribution in #1337
• @ajsalow made their first contribution in #1336
• @M4nouel made their first contribution in #1375
• @nanbo-liu made their first contribution in #1417
• @kretes made their first contribution in #1467

Full Changelog: 1.3.5...1.4.0