Changelog

Track every improvement, fix, and new feature in HECTOR.

v1.4.0

July 2026
  • Nemotron neural reranker via NIM API
  • LLM-primary answer synthesis
  • Smart template filtering
  • Vehicle theft query expansion

v1.3.0

July 2026
  • Pinecone Cloud vector database migration
  • 13,479 chunks indexed across 38 bare acts
  • IPC-to-BNS cross-reference map (496 entries)
  • CI pipeline with Ruff lint + pytest

v1.2.0

June 2026
  • Chain-of-Verification pipeline
  • Multi-layer citation verification
  • BNS 2023, BNSS, BSA ingestion
  • Hindi multilingual support

v1.1.0

May 2026
  • Hybrid BM25 + semantic retrieval
  • Query intelligence classifier
  • Entity extraction for legal terms
  • IPC section parsing

v1.0.0

April 2026
  • Initial release
  • 38 bare acts ingested
  • Basic legal research queries
  • IPC-to-BNS cross-referencing