[Release] langchain-ai/langchain langchain-exa==1.1.0: langchain-exa==1.1.0

langchain-exa version 1.1.0 introduces a significant change to the default search type from neural to auto, along with dependency updates and maintenance improvements. The release includes bumps to core dependencies like langchain-core (minimum 1.2.21), requests, orjson, and langsmith, ensuring compatibility and security. Various CI/CD improvements and code quality enhancements were made, including typing targets and relative import restrictions across packages.

Key Points

• •Default search type changed from 'neural' to 'auto' for improved flexibility and performance
• •Minimum langchain-core dependency bumped to 1.2.21 for enhanced compatibility
• •Security and stability updates: requests (2.32.5→2.33.0), urllib3 (→2.6.3), orjson (3.11.5→3.11.6)
• •langsmith dependency upgraded from 0.4.31 to 0.6.3 for better observability features
• •CI/CD improvements: suppressed pytest streaming output and optimized dependency installation in lint targets
• •Code quality enforcement: banned relative imports across all packages for better maintainability
• •Added typing target in Makefile for improved type checking and development workflow
• •Enhanced pyproject.toml files with enriched metadata and updated URL entries

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