# Arize Release Notes: Sep 5, 2024

Published Sep 5, 2024

Welcome to our regular update on new releases, enhancements, and changes.

## What’s New

### Annotations (Beta)

Annotations are custom labels that can be added to traces. Use annotations to: manually label data, categorize spans or traces, curate a dataset for experimentation, log human feedback. Reach out to your account rep to get access.

[Learn more about annotations here.](https://docs.arize.com/arize/llm-evaluation-and-annotations/annotations)

## Enhancements

### Models API Update

Users can now query Model Versions and set the model baseline using GraphQL.

[Learn more about the Models API update here](https://docs.arize.com/arize/api-reference/graphql-api/models-api).

### Metrics API Update

Users can now query for average metrics or metrics over time directly from the model node.

[Learn more about the Metrics API update here.](https://docs.arize.com/arize/api-reference/graphql-api/metrics-api)

## 📚 New Content

🤖 Intro to [Agent Architectures](/content/blog-course/llm-agent-how-to-set-up/agent-architecture/index.html)

🖼️ [Evaluating an Image Classifier](/content/blog/evaluate-image-classifier/index.html)

💂 [Advanced Guardrails](/content/blog-course/advanced-guardrails-for-llm-applications/index.html)

🛠️ Survey: [The State of AI Engineering](/content/blog/state-of-ai-engineering-survey/index.html)

✏️ [LLM Tracing Primer](/content/blog-course/llm-tracing-from-automatically-collecting-traces-to-troubleshooting-your-llm-app/index.html)

🛍️ [Bazaarvoice](/content/blog/how-bazaarvoice-navigated-the-challenges-of-deploying-an-llm-app/index.html): Navigating the Challenges of Deploying an LLM App

👨‍💼 Report: [The Rise of Gen AI in SEC Filings](/content/resource/rise-of-gen-ai-in-sec-filings/index.html)