v0.4 Release Tracker

[kfswain]

Required for release (Target: Mid-Late June)

Documentation improvement

• Docs versioning #422
• EPP upgrade/downgrade guide #693

EPP refactor focused on extension

• support filters and scorers registration in build-time #718
• EPP should allow configurable metrics collection #703
• Refactor Ext-proc server logic to better reflect EPP Layers #733

Production hardening of reference implementation

EPP

• Support setting fallback endpoints in EPP picking #414
• Support endpoint subsetting #415
• EPP HA deployment #692
• Hitless Rollout Investigation #557

Algorithm development improvement

• Implement Lightweight Scheduler Simulation Tests for Inference Gateway #709
• Benchmark Test Harness #732

Prefix-aware routing

• Prefix Cache Aware Routing #497

Queuing/Criticality Enforcement

• Introduce EPP-Level Queuing/Fairness for InferenceModels #674

Stretch

BBR improvements

• Remove k8s dependency from BBR #535

Conformance testing

• GW Conformance Testing #500

LoRA Syncer issues

• A metric in LoRA syncer tracking loaded adapters #600
• lora-syncer tool's error handling needs improvement #584

Concrete example of a multi-workload InferencePool in use

InferenceModel extensible routing

• Not just LoRA (ex. RAG, Sys prompts, leave room for potential expansion for things such as Activation Engineering )

[ahg-g]

A couple more suggestions:

• Support setting fallback endpoints in EPP picking #414
• Support endpoint subsetting #415

[kfswain edit] Added these to the EPP refactor section, though they could be seen as Net New features and warrant their own bullet

[danehans]

@kfswain do you have a target date range for this release?

[kfswain]

Yeah, the goal is May 14th, updated description

[danehans]

xref #787 to complete benchmark testing before releasing v0.4.