🔔 Haystack 2.17 is here with extended multimodality & flexible routing This release expands Haystack's multimodal capabilities and makes core components more powerful and flexible for building dynamic AI pipelines. 🖼️ Image support for more model providers Building on the image support introduced in Haystack 2.16, we now support even more providers: @amazon Bedrock, @AnthropicAI, @Azure, @Google, @huggingface API, @Meta Llama API, @MistralAI, @nvidia, @ollama, @OpenAI, @OpenRouterAI, and STACKIT. 🧩 Extended components • MetadataRouter can now route not only Documents but also ByteStream objects. • SentenceWindowRetriever is more flexible now: its source_id_meta_field now accepts multiple fields, enabling retrieval only for documents matching all specified meta fields. 📘 Full release notes 👉 haystack.deepset.ai/release-notes/… 🙌 Huge thanks to our contributors and community for driving Haystack forward!