MLflow 2.4.2 is a patch release containing the following bug fixes and changes:

Bug fixes:

• [Models] Add compatibility for legacy transformers serialization (#8964, @BenWilson2)
• [Models] Fix downloading MLmodel files from alias-based models:/ URIs (#8764, @smurching)
• [Models] Fix reading model flavor config from URI for models in UC (#8728, @smurching)
• [Models] Support feature_deps in ModelVersion creation for UC (#8867, #8815, @AveshCSingh)
• [Models] Add support for listing artifacts in UC model registry artifact repo (#8803, @smurching)
• [Core] Include resources for recipes in mlflow-skinny (#8895, @harupy)
• [UI] Enable datasets tracking UI (#8886, @harupy)
• [Artifacts] Use MLFLOW_ENABLE_MULTIPART_DOWNLOAD in DatabricksArtifactRepository (#8884, @harupy)

Documentation updates:

• [Examples / Docs] Add question-answering and summarization examples and docs with LLMs (#8695, @dbczumar)
• [Examples / Docs] Add johnsnowlabs flavor example and doc (#8689, @C-K-Loan)

Small bug fixes and documentation updates:

8966, @BenWilson2; #8881, @harupy; #8846, #8760, @smurching