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+# 2025-12
+
+- ab4b09d dependabot[bot] 2025-12-29 Build(deps): Bump next from 15.4.9 to 15.4.10 in /frontend/nextjs-frontend in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#201)
+- 03576dc dependabot[bot] 2025-12-12 Build(deps): Bump next from 15.4.8 to 15.4.9 in /frontend/nextjs-frontend in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#200)
+- cf38402 Palaniappan R 2025-12-04 Chatbot TUI and DB enhancements (#197)
+- aefbcd2 dependabot[bot] 2025-12-04 Build(deps): Bump next from 15.4.7 to 15.4.8 in /frontend/nextjs-frontend in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#199)
+- 01cee9e kevinwguan 2025-12-02 Tool call accuracy and Optimizer (#195)
+- 7f390b1 ProCodec 2025-12-02 Add mock Flask backend with validation and fix frontend message IDs (#194)
+- 73bc3ab dependabot[bot] 2025-12-02 Build(deps): Bump mdast-util-to-hast from 13.2.0 to 13.2.1 in /frontend/nextjs-frontend in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#198)
+
+# 2025-11
+
+- 524ea5c dependabot[bot] 2025-11-28 Build(deps): Bump pypdf from 6.0.0 to 6.4.0 in /backend in the pip group across 1 directory (#196)
+- 270a882 Song Luar 2025-11-16 Bump react-syntax-highlighter (#193)
+- 7bb07c8 dependabot[bot] 2025-11-16 Build(deps-dev): Bump js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /frontend/nextjs-frontend in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#192)
+- 5071615 ProCodec 2025-11-16 feat: connect new backend conversation with frontend (#182)
+- d7f3827 Song Luar 2025-11-15 Use correct endpoint for evals (#189)
+- abf1b8a Song Luar 2025-11-15 Fix chat route, add more logging on CI failure (#188)
+- 0b6e35b dependabot[bot] 2025-11-15 Build(deps): Bump js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /frontend/nextjs-frontend in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#187)
+- cb4d1bd Palaniappan R 2025-11-15 PostgreSQL database integration for conversation persistence (#181)
+
+# 2025-10
+
+- 0b2032b dependabot[bot] 2025-10-23 Build(deps): Bump pypdf from 6.0.0 to 6.1.3 in /backend in the pip group across 1 directory (#180)
+- 2cc4d3c Song Luar 2025-10-20 Seed secret CI with .env.test (#179)
+- 769c771 kevinwguan 2025-10-20 [Feature] Dynamic Makefile with RAG tools (#174)
+- 3524fef Song Luar 2025-10-18 Migrate `evaluation` to uv backend (#178)
+- f5dd23b Song Luar 2025-10-18 bump deepeval (#177)
+- cf17738 Song Luar 2025-10-18 Update Google Gemini model versions (#176)
+- 185deda RayChang987 2025-10-18 add support for Gemini 2.5 Flash model and update README (#175)
+
+# 2025-09
+
+- f4eddbd Song Luar 2025-09-11 Fix secret CI with uv (#173)
+- be3b050 Palaniappan R 2025-09-10 Update install instructions to use uv sync instead of pip (#169)
+- 6046e2a Song Luar 2025-09-11 fix default retriever routing behavior (#172)
+- 66cbfd0 kevinwguan 2025-09-07 [Feature] MCP Client/Server (#146)
+- e839e9b dependabot[bot] 2025-09-04 Build(deps): Bump next from 15.3.5 to 15.4.7 in /frontend/nextjs-frontend in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#170)
+
+# 2025-08
+
+- 6b82596 dependabot[bot] 2025-08-16 Build(deps): Bump pypdf from 5.6.0 to 6.0.0 in /backend in the pip group across 1 directory (#168)
+
+# 2025-07
+
+- 8cb1ec0 Song Luar 2025-07-11 Backend: Add unit tests (#163)
+- 1dafd4f Song Luar 2025-07-08 Restore docker-compose healthcheck (#162)
+- e4d2abd Song Luar 2025-07-07 Dependabot fixes (#161)
+- 68f7b1c Kannav Sethi 2025-07-06 Backend Proxy For Suggested Question (#123)
+- 3c3a721 Song Luar 2025-07-06 Changelog workflow: add signing key (#158)
+- 051f3b8 Song Luar 2025-07-06 Add CLAUDE.md (#156)
+
+# 2025-06
+
+- af5eb30 Palaniappan R 2025-06-20 Fix support for models that do support inbuilt function calling. (#151)
+- 2eb108d Song Luar 2025-06-14 Remove overlapped dependencies from backend and frontend requirements (#150)
+- 59bd707 Song Luar 2025-06-11 Bump evaluation reqs (#144)
+- 02e3b12 dependabot[bot] 2025-06-10 Build(deps): Bump requests from 2.32.3 to 2.32.4 in /frontend in the pip group across 1 directory (#142)
+- 2bd9ab6 Song Luar 2025-06-07 CI: increase seeding timeout to 25 mins (#141)
+- a2d22cd Song Luar 2025-06-06 Fix backend build docs (#140)
+- 7c8e269 Song Luar 2025-06-06 Improve sanity_check robustness (#138)
+- a36cc3e Palaniappan R 2025-06-06 chore: Remove old hosted version section from README (#139)
+- 7ec0541 Song Luar 2025-06-06 Update eval schema (#137)
+- c1024a4 Kannav Sethi 2025-06-05 Integration of MongoDB for feedbacks - Revised (#107)
+- ebfd6df Song Luar 2025-06-05 Fix `llm-tests` target (#133)
+- d262d3a Song Luar 2025-06-04 Fix CI tests 2 (#132)
+- 9531957 Song Luar 2025-06-04 Fix CI tests (#130)
+- 60f68a9 Song Luar 2025-06-01 Fix CI linting  (#128)
+- 15f7eab Song Luar 2025-06-01 CI Cleanup (#126)
+
+# 2025-04
+
+- 918b996 kevinwguan 2025-04-02 persistent database fix (#124)
+
+# 2025-03
+
+- d0c189d Palaniappan R 2025-03-17 Add docs for ollama setup (#122)
+
+# 2025-01
+
+- 1441a9f Kannav Sethi 2025-01-15 Documentation for Backend (#120)
+- 5f57e2e Song Luar 2025-01-06 CI Cleanup (#115)
+- becf508 ProCodec 2025-01-05 feat: add script-based auto-evaluation with Streamlit analysis (#114)
+
+# 2024-12
+
+- e882c5c Song Luar 2024-12-21 Feature: Add feedback reaction button and add chat history v2 (#112)
+- 423d70e Song Luar 2024-12-18 CI: separate secret workflow (#113)
+- aefe7d4 Palaniappan R 2024-12-18 Add streaming support (#111)
+
+# 2024-11
+
+- e2af48f dependabot[bot] 2024-11-23 Build(deps): Bump pymongo from 4.6.2 to 4.6.3 in /common in the pip group across 1 directory (#105)
+- 75b486c Kannav Sethi 2024-11-21 Design and add a MongoDB schema (Issue 75) - Revision (#101)
+- 9af54cc Song Luar 2024-11-20 CI Fixes (#103)
+- ab64aa2 Song Luar 2024-11-20 Fix ci.yaml (#102)
+- a236203 Song Luar 2024-11-12 Fix changelog: fetch-depth 0 and fixed committers (#99)
+- b17336d Song Luar 2024-11-12 Fix changelog: use cpr v7 (#97)
+- 73aa50e Song Luar 2024-11-12 Fix changelog action: sign commits (#96)
+- d99326a Song Luar 2024-11-11 GH Action fixes (#94)
+- 7090704 Song Luar 2024-11-11 Frontend updates (#92)
+- 260bba5 Song Luar 2024-11-11 DeepEval CI integration (#86)
+- b850af4 Palaniappan R 2024-11-09 Fix muliple tool calling (#89)
+- bb5a300 Song Luar 2024-11-08 Evaluation module refactor (#85)
+
+# 2024-10
+
+- dce7db2 dependabot[bot] 2024-10-31 Build(deps): Bump langchain from 0.2.12 to 0.3.0 in /backend in the pip group across 1 directory (#83)
+- a0f952d Song Luar 2024-10-30 repo stats ci (#81)
+- 94dcc78 Song Luar 2024-10-30 Revert docker-compose.yml (#80)
+- 6ecddc0 Song Luar 2024-10-27 Update docs (#79)
+- 8f65a79 Song Luar 2024-10-27 Pyproject packaging (#74)
+- d040878 Song Luar 2024-10-27 Move build docs functionality to workflow (upload.yml) 2 (#78)
+- 84bfc37 Song Luar 2024-10-26 Remove unused data dir (#76)
+- 322d569 Song Luar 2024-10-26 Smoke tests (#73)
+- cb86b3e Palaniappan R 2024-10-10 Tool changes (#63)
+- b229e6c Song Luar 2024-10-10 Add link to wiki and citation (#72)
+
+# 2024-09
+
+- 8cef3ad Song Luar 2024-09-01 Manpages HF integration (#66)
+- a84380f Song Luar 2024-09-01 Upload manpages CI (#65)
+
+# 2024-08
+
+- a5c439f Palaniappan R 2024-08-24 Add chat history, Ollama support (#54)
+- ddac14d Song Luar 2024-08-16 Upgrade streamlit vers for security updates (#53)
+- dce4611 Song Luar 2024-08-08 Update requirements.txt to remove nltk (#48)
+- 7ff3bff Palaniappan R 2024-08-08 Agent updates (#46)
+
+# 2024-07
+
+- a05863a dependabot[bot] 2024-07-25 Build(deps): Bump langchain-community from 0.2.7 to 0.2.9 in /backend (#45)
+- 56be656 Palaniappan R 2024-07-24 Agent Retriever Updates (#43)
+- 5ad41d4 Palaniappan R 2024-07-15 Fix: Add a text-splitter, fix the graph's tool router  (#42)
+- 79d38f4 Song Luar 2024-07-15 Feat: Automate building of manpages (#31)
+- 53af4db Palaniappan R 2024-07-15 Add an agentic graph workflow (#30)
+- 715dfce Song Luar 2024-07-12 Feat: add pre-commits (#35)
+- 0b80442 Song Luar 2024-07-11 Feat: mypy ci (#26)
+- 2807dd2 Song Luar 2024-07-10 Feat: Backend docker CI (#28)
+- 5ad0ed6 ProCodec 2024-07-10 Ruff pep8 fix N806 (#23)
+- 8b940f2 Song Luar 2024-07-10 Docs: Update README.md (#22)
+- f64c791 ProCodec 2024-07-09 Feature: Add Ruff GitHub Workflow (#12)
+- 8ec4b28 ProCodec 2024-07-08 Fix: Human Eval for new endpoints (#29)
+- 2050f6e Palaniappan R 2024-07-05 Add support for multiple endpoints (#21)
+
+# 2024-06
+
+- b60bd24 ProCodec 2024-06-29 feat: added human evaluation (#11)
+- 1bf1ee7 ProCodec 2024-06-29 feat: Add Streamlit Frontend (#10)
+- f9e8d05 Song Luar 2024-06-29 Feat: Mypy checks (#15)
+- 23f6a31 Palaniappan R 2024-06-22 Fix local build (#13)
+- 6841044 Palaniappan R 2024-06-21 Add an updated hybrid retriever (#6)
+- 58c1a58 Palaniappan R 2024-06-14 feat: add ensemble retriever backend (#2)
+- 6197b65 luarss 2024-06-06 Initial commit