Added non-API key authentication options
Added custom HTTP client options
Updated docstring
Updated embeddings creation to use deployment name (as Azure OpenAI takes deployment name, not model name)

Added hint to skip sorting on base encoders as this was causing circular imports

fix: catch RuntimeError for missing torch import

chore: update pyproject

chore: fix numerical inconsistencies

test: add tests for tokenizers

chore: fit sparse encoders after route modifications in HybridRouter

fix: remove decorator around the HybridRouter.__init__

fix: give the functional BM25 a distinct filename

fix: fix route fitting for add/strategy

fix: _async_encode should take a sparse encoding function

fix: empty sparse embeddings

fix: _encode / _async_encode match superclass signature

- Set X-Pinecone-API-Version header for cloud API endpoints
- Ensure compatibility with Pinecone's latest API versioning

- Refactor base URL assignment to prioritize environment variable
- Ensure consistent base URL configuration for Pinecone index
- Maintain existing logging behavior for remote API usage

- Update PineconeIndex to handle both local and cloud Pinecone index configurations
- Add base_url default to Pinecone cloud API
- Improve logging for base URL selection
- Update documentation notebook to reflect new configuration approach

- Uncomment and enable multiple Python versions (3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13)
- Enable Poetry caching in GitHub Actions
- Remove local path addition comment
- Simplify workflow configuration

- Deleted `pinecone_local.py` and `10-pinecone-local.ipynb`
- Updated `pinecone.py` to handle both cloud and local Pinecone index scenarios
- Modified test files to use `PineconeIndex` instead of `PineconeLocalIndex`
- Updated GitHub Actions workflow to simplify Python version testing
- Improved error handling and host URL management in Pinecone index methods

refactor: linter + formatter

- Corrected string stripping and URL construction for localhost and base URL scenarios
- Ensured consistent URL formatting across multiple methods
- Minor code cleanup for host URL generation