NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails v0.23.0

NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails releases published NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails v0.23.0. This release-watch entry was generated from the project's official GitHub release feed and is kept separate from human-reviewed editorial analysis. Release notes: What's Changed This release expands tool calling and observability in IORails . Tool calling now works for streaming and non-streaming requests, including local rails that validate model-emitted tool calls and application-returned tool results. The OpenAI-compatible server also supports tool calling and adds a new /v1/checks endpoint for running input or output rails without generating a new model response. NeMo Guardrails 0.23.0 also adds lightweight Hugging Face classifier rails, context bloat detection, and a Polygraf integration for PII detection and masking. Exact NumPy search replaces Annoy as the default embedding index, removing the native C++ dependency while preserving existing similarity-threshold semantics. Distribution wheels are now approximately ten times smaller. IORails OpenTelemetry support now includes opt-in content capture and richer request, response, and…

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