Release v2.4.0

What's Changed

In this version, we've incorporated support for Milvus 2.4, which introduces numerous new features. These include additional vector data types like bf16, f16, sparse, Multi-vector, and Hybrid Search. There's also the introduction of a new GPU Index - CAGRA, as well as functionalities like grouping search and Inverted Index. Furthermore, we've included a new httpClient in the package, along with various bug fixes to enhance stability and performance.

• Bump follow-redirects from 1.15.2 to 1.15.4 in /examples/LangChain by @dependabot in #271
• support expr for count by @shanghaikid in #274
• feat(example): upgrade nextjs by @zhanshuyou in #277
• Support return Long for int64 type by @shanghaikid in #279
• [Issue-276] fix(example): next.js production runtime error by @zhanshuyou in #280
• fix: vercel deploy error by @zhanshuyou in #281
• add loadPartitionSync by @shanghaikid in #282
• add listIndexes by @shanghaikid in #283
• change default metric type by @shanghaikid in #284
• adjust default grpc keepalive time by @shanghaikid in #288
• throw more errors if create collection failed with high level api by @shanghaikid in #289
• New retry logic by @shanghaikid in #291
• Bump express from 4.18.2 to 4.19.2 in /examples/milvus by @dependabot in #292
• remove 2200 retry code check by @shanghaikid in #299
• Support Milvus v2.4 by @shanghaikid in #306

Full Changelog: v2.3.6...v2.4.0