Release 3.0.0a0

Author: reekitconcept

CHANGELOG.md

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 <!-- towncrier release notes start -->
+## 3.0.0a0 (2026-08-24)
+
+### Backend
+
+
+#### New features:
+
+- Support the new Volto editor's (Plate) block storage in the RAG chunking - both kinds of pages coexist in the same site. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Ship the German RAG test corpus as a plone.exportimport dump in setuphandlers/examplecontent (curated export of the fictional intranet demo site: 409 objects, 80 images, 7 example users), with an import-example-content make target, an importer script that skips uninstalled portal types, and a SITE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE option for create-site. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Hybrid retrieval for the RAG search: parent-level Reciprocal Rank Fusion of the knn chunk ranking with the classic keyword query (an exact copy of the @solr main query incl. searchwords boost and showinsearch exclusion); prompt context labeled by document title instead of leaking bracketed reference numbers. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Add the @rag-search endpoint: single-turn RAG search on a query pipeline (embed, permission-trimmed knn chunk retrieval, parent collapse, grounded answer generation) with structured error results. Exclude Image content from chunking. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Suggest: support the ``extra_conditions`` filter parameter - the same
+  mechanism and encoding as the ``@solr`` endpoint - so livesearch
+  consumers can filter by type, creator, modification date or review
+  state. An explicit type filter wins over the built-in type exclusion
+  list. @reebalazs [#121](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/121)
+
+
+#### Bug fixes:
+
+- RAG: strip the model's reasoning also when the completion contains only a
+  closing ``</think>`` tag (some model templates consume the opening tag,
+  observed with qwen3:4b via Ollama), so chain-of-thought is never shown to
+  users. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- RAG: fix Plate chunking, by extracting text also from blocks that are not listed in
+  ``blocks_layout`` @reebalazs [#112](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/112)
+
+
+
+### Frontend
+
+#### Feature
+
+- solrSearchSuggestions accepts encoded extra conditions (new
+  encodeExtraConditions helper), and the search page keeps the
+  extra_conditions URL parameter across in-page interactions. @reebalazs [#121](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issue/121)
+- A local (subtree) search on the search page also scopes the AI retrieval, so the answer's grounding matches the classic results: the ragSearch action takes an optional pathPrefix. @reebalazs 
+
+
+
+### Project
+
+
+#### Feature
+
+- Add the foundations of the RAG AI search: LLM client (embeddings + chat), the AI search toggle with LLM endpoint configuration, structure-aware chunking, index-time chunk embedding into Solr, and full-reindex support. The feature is off unless configured. @reebalazs
+  Add the @rag-search endpoint: single-turn RAG search returning a generated answer with the source documents, permission-trimmed vector retrieval, structured errors. @reebalazs
+  Hybrid retrieval for the RAG search: keyword (BM25) and vector rankings fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/pull/79)
+- Ship the German RAG test corpus as a plone.exportimport dump (curated export of the fictional intranet demo site) with an import-example-content make target. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/pull/79)
+
+
+#### Internal
+
+- Run the changelog check also for pull requests against maintenance branches (`*.x`), not only `main`. @reebalazs 
+
+
+#### Documentation
+
+- Add specification and implementation plan for the AI search (RAG) feature. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/pull/79)
+
+
+
 ## 2.0.0 (2026-08-22)
 
 ### Backend

backend/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,31 @@
 
 <!-- towncrier release notes start -->
 
+## 3.0.0a0 (2026-08-24)
+
+
+### New features:
+
+- Support the new Volto editor's (Plate) block storage in the RAG chunking - both kinds of pages coexist in the same site. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Ship the German RAG test corpus as a plone.exportimport dump in setuphandlers/examplecontent (curated export of the fictional intranet demo site: 409 objects, 80 images, 7 example users), with an import-example-content make target, an importer script that skips uninstalled portal types, and a SITE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE option for create-site. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Hybrid retrieval for the RAG search: parent-level Reciprocal Rank Fusion of the knn chunk ranking with the classic keyword query (an exact copy of the @solr main query incl. searchwords boost and showinsearch exclusion); prompt context labeled by document title instead of leaking bracketed reference numbers. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Add the @rag-search endpoint: single-turn RAG search on a query pipeline (embed, permission-trimmed knn chunk retrieval, parent collapse, grounded answer generation) with structured error results. Exclude Image content from chunking. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- Suggest: support the ``extra_conditions`` filter parameter - the same
+  mechanism and encoding as the ``@solr`` endpoint - so livesearch
+  consumers can filter by type, creator, modification date or review
+  state. An explicit type filter wins over the built-in type exclusion
+  list. @reebalazs [#121](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/121)
+
+
+### Bug fixes:
+
+- RAG: strip the model's reasoning also when the completion contains only a
+  closing ``</think>`` tag (some model templates consume the opening tag,
+  observed with qwen3:4b via Ollama), so chain-of-thought is never shown to
+  users. @reebalazs [#79](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/79)
+- RAG: fix Plate chunking, by extracting text also from blocks that are not listed in
+  ``blocks_layout`` @reebalazs [#112](https://github.com/kitconcept/kitconcept-solr/issues/112)
+
 ## 2.0.0 (2026-08-22)
 
 

backend/news/112.bugfix

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import logging
 
 
-__version__ = "2.0.0"
+__version__ = "3.0.0a0"
 
 PACKAGE_NAME = "kitconcept.solr"
 _ = MessageFactory(PACKAGE_NAME)