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 # CHANGELOG
 
+## 2.18.0 (2024-11-12)
+
+MLflow 2.18.0 includes several major features and improvements
+
+Features:
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+- [Tracking] [2/x] Support non-OAI providers as LLM judges for GenAI metrics. (#13717, @B-Step62)
+- [UI] MLflow UI sync (#13685, @daniellok-db)
+- [Tracking] [1/x] Support custom headers and proxy URL for LLM-as-a-Judge model (#13715, @B-Step62)
+- [Tracking] Adding to_dict as a method for model config (#13660, @sunishsheth2009)
+- [] Add environment variable detection in model logging (#13584, @serena-ruan)
+- [Tracking] Make autolog enabling / disabling thread-safe (#13419, @WeichenXu123)
+- [Models] Add Huggingfaces Evaluate BLEU metrics (#12799, @nebrass)
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+- [] Cascade deletes to datasets when deleting experiments (#13741, @daniellok-db)
+- [Tracking] Fix async logging batch splitting validation rule (#13722, @WeichenXu123)
+- [] Fix langchain pyfunc predict input conversion (#13652, @serena-ruan)
+- [Tracking] Fix LangChain autologging thread-safety issue (#13672, @B-Step62)
+- [Tracking] Fix tracing source run (#13610, @WeichenXu123)
+- [Tracking] [2.18 release-blocker] Fix spark autologging (#13599, @WeichenXu123)
+- [Models] Fix RunnableBinding saving (#13566, @B-Step62)
+
+Documentation updates:
+
+- [] Add docstring warnings for upcoming changes to ChatModel (#13730, @stevenchen-db)
+- [Docs] Add doc on how to use code paths for custom library (#13702, @TomeHirata)
+- [Docs] Improve sparkML log_model doc (#13684, @WeichenXu123)
+- [Tracking] [Docs] Updating the docs for model config in logging model as code (#13631, @sunishsheth2009)
+
+Small bug fixes and documentation updates:
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+#13764, #13761, #13738, #13737, #13735, #13734, #13723, #13726, #13662, #13692, #13689, #13688, #13680, #13674, #13666, #13661, #13625, #13460, #13626, #13546, #13621, #13623, #13603, #13617, #13614, #13606, @harupy; #13699, #13742, #13703, #13669, #13682, #13567, #13580, @serena-ruan; #13705, @williamjamir; #13632, @shichengzhou-db; #13755, #13712, #13595, @BenWilson2; #13745, #13743, #13697, #13548, #13549, @WeichenXu123; #13749, #13733, #13678, #13721, #13611, @B-Step62; #13708, @smurching; #13739, @fedorkobak; #13728, #13719, #13695, #13677, @TomeHirata; #13736, #13649, @daniellok-db; #13711, @bhavya2109sharma; #13693, #13658, @aravind-segu; #13553, @dsuhinin; #13663, @gitlijian; #13657, #13629, @parag-shendye; #13630, @JohannesJungbluth; #13613, @itepifanio; #13480, @agjendem; #13627, @ilyaresh
+
 ## 2.17.2 (2024-10-31)
 
 MLflow 2.17.2 includes several major features and improvements