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 # CHANGELOG
 
+## 2.16.0 (2024-08-21)
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+MLflow 2.16.0 includes several major features and improvements
+
+Features:
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+- [Tracking] Support saving LlamaIndex engine directly via model-from-code (#12978, @B-Step62)
+- [Tracking] Support model-from-code in LlamaIndex flavor (#12944, @B-Step62)
+- [Tracking] Initial AutoGen Tracing Implementation (#12913, @B-Step62)
+- [Tracking] Tracing performance improvement (#12885, @B-Step62)
+- [Tracking] Async support for trace decorator (#12877, @MPKonst)
+- [Deployments] Support Gateway plugin LLM provider (#12611, @gabrielfu)
+- [Projects] Make MLflow project Databricks spark job supporting setting param-list and entry-point CLI argument (#12854, @WeichenXu123)
+- [Model Registry] Create rest store for UC OSS (#12888, @artjen)
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+- [] Fix device when loading transformers model (#12977, @serena-ruan)
+- [Models] Fix evaluate for LlamaIndex flavor (#12976, @B-Step62)
+- [Tracking] Fix sftp get connection deadlock (#12938, @WeichenXu123)
+- [Tracking] langchain: load code from code_paths to system path (#12923, @harshilprajapati96)
+- [Tracking] [BUG] Fix mlflow.log_metrics value type error (#12876, @beomsun0829)
+- [Tracking] Catch NVML error when collecting GPU metrics (#12903, @chenmoneygithub)
+- [Deployments / Server-infra] Improve gateway schema support for OpenAI provider (#12781, @danilopeixoto)
+- [] Fix deletion of artifacts when downloading from a non-standard DBFS location during UC model registration (#12821, @smurching)
+- [Tracking] Add `**kwargs` to the new span handler in the LlamaIndex Tracer (#12890, @B-Step62)
+
+Documentation updates:
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+- [Docs] Add additional documentation for models from code feature (#12936, @BenWilson2)
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+Small bug fixes and documentation updates:
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+#12985, #12964, #12962, #12960, #12953, #12951, #12937, #12914, #12929, #12907, #12897, @harupy; #12968, @bbqiu; #12956, @mickvangelderen; #12975, #12932, #12893, @serena-ruan; #12899, @BenWilson2; #12939, #12950, #12915, #12931, #12919, #12889, @B-Step62; #12903, @chenmoneygithub; #12905, @Atry; #12898, @daniellok-db; #12884, @WeichenXu123
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 ## 2.15.1 (2024-08-06)
 
 MLflow 2.15.1 is a patch release that addresses several bug fixes.