Overview

This release contains various bug fixes and feature improvements for the Python API.

Related news: our .NET API website is up and running: https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/dotnet/dev/. Our .NET Core API now has dev releases. Check it out!  

Important

Starting from v0.4.7, ModelInfo's required fields will be enforced. So please include all required fields when you use model_info when creating model clients. For example,

from autogen_core.models import UserMessage from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient model_client = OpenAIChatCompletionClient( model="llama3.2:latest", base_url="http://localhost:11434/v1", api_key="placeholder", model_info={ "vision": False, "function_calling": True, "json_output": False, "family": "unknown", }, ) response = await model_client.create([UserMessage(content="What is the capital of France?", source="user")]) print(response)

See ModelInfo for more details.  

New Features

• DockerCommandLineCodeExecutor support for additional volume mounts, exposed host ports by @andrejpk in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5383
• Remove and get subscription APIs for Python GrpcWorkerAgentRuntime by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5365
• Add strict mode support to BaseTool, ToolSchema and FunctionTool to allow tool calls to be used together with structured output mode by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5507
• Make CodeExecutor components serializable by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5527

Bug Fixes

• fix: Address tool call execution scenario when model produces empty tool call ids by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5509
• doc & fix: Enhance AgentInstantiationContext with detailed documentation and examples for agent instantiation; Fix a but that caused value error when the expected class is not provided in register_factory by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5555
• fix: Add model info validation and improve error messaging by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5556
• fix: Add warning and doc for Windows event loop policy to avoid subprocess issues in web surfer and local executor by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5557

Doc Updates

• doc: Update API doc for MCP tool to include installation instructions by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5482
• doc: Update AgentChat quickstart guide to enhance clarity and installation instructions by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5499
• doc: API doc example for langchain database tool kit by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5498
• Update Model Client Docs to Mention API Key from Environment Variables by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5515
• doc: improve tool guide in Core API doc by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5546

Other Python Related Changes

• Update website version v0.4.6 by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5481
• Reduce number of doc jobs for old releases by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5375
• Fix class name style in document by @weijen in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5516
• Update custom-agents.ipynb by @yosuaw in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5531
• fix: update 0.2 deployment workflow to use tag input instead of branch by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5536
• fix: update help text for model configuration argument by @gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5533
• Update python version to v0.4.7 by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5558

New Contributors

• @andrejpk made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5383
• @yosuaw made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5531

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/python-v0.4.6...python-v0.4.7