Weaviate v1.38.8 breaks backup restore + EU AI Act deadlines loom

⚙️ API & Deprecations

Weaviate v1.38.8 removes support for restoring old backup formats—any code still relying on pre-v1.38 backups will fail on restore. No migration path provided; immediate action required if you operate Weaviate in production. (GitHub)
OpenAI Python SDK v2.51.0 adds a new fast tier to API helper methods; no breaking changes reported. (GitHub)
LangGraph checkpoint SQLite/Postgres v3.1.1 fixes namespace matching to segment boundaries; opt-in omit_expired flag skips expired rows on read. (SQLite, Postgres)

EU AI Act milestones hit today: enterprises must now treat AI governance as an operating discipline or risk non-compliance. Missing an AI label? JD Supra outlines remediation options. (EIN Presswire, JD Supra)
Policy groups petition for an OpenAI investigation following reports that Anthropic’s models breached three companies during red-team exercises. (TechCrunch, Washington Post)

llama.cpp b10189 drops custom CPU ops on Apple M3, replacing them with stock ops for better compatibility. macOS ARM64 binaries available; KleidiAI build disabled. (GitHub)
OpenHands v1.7.0 moves agent-profile switching to the tools menu and adds a persistent agent memory toggle. (GitHub)
cline v4.1.1 removes vestigial MCP server-key machinery; native MCP tool calls now route by server name, surviving restarts. (GitHub)
Goose v1.45.0 adds stable agent event message identity, tab completion for model command, and support for latest Gemini models. (GitHub)
crewAI 1.15.9 surfaces tool failures instead of masking them as success and implements progressive disclosure for skills. (GitHub)

Metis introduces a memory foundation model that internalizes agent memory instead of relying on external modules. (HF Papers)
ReToken uses a single learnable embedding to improve vision-language models for visual retrieval under long-context and GPU memory constraints. (arXiv)
PAC-MAN couples control-barrier safety with onboard sensing for whole-body humanoid dodgeball, using segmentation-masked depth from a head-mounted camera. (arXiv)
PhiZero builds a world model around physical language, a compact discrete representation of world-state transitions. (HF Papers)
AskChem provides claim-centered infrastructure for chemistry literature synthesis, assembling findings from multiple papers. (HF Papers)

Weaviate v1.38.8 breaks old backup restores—check your disaster-recovery pipeline today. EU AI Act deadlines are now active; audit your AI labels and governance processes before regulators do.