What's New

OpenAIAgent supports all built-in tools

• Feat/OpenAI agent builtin tools 6657 by @tejas-dharani in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6671

Support nested Team as a participant in a Team

• Supporting Teams as Participants in a GroupChat by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5863

Introduce RedisMemory

• Adds Redis Memory extension class by @justin-cechmanek in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6743

Upgrade to latest MCP version

• Upgrade_mcp_version by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6814
• Expand MCP Workbench to support more MCP Client features by @tylerpayne in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6785

Upgrade to latest GraphRAG version

• Upgrade GraphRAG to v2.3+ by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6744

include_name_in_message flag to make the use of name field optional in chat messages sent via the Open AI client.

• Add include_name_in_message parameter to make name field optional in OpenAI messages by @Copilot in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6845

All Changes

• Feat/OpenAI agent builtin tools 6657 by @tejas-dharani in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6671
• Setup publishing for pyautogen package by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6813
• In Add required termination condition and missing agent_e by @dave-howard in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6809
• Fix JSON serialization of team state by handling datetime objects in message dump by @Copilot in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6797
• Upgrade_mcp_version by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6814
• Update AGS (Support Workbenches ++) by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6736
• feat: add timeout for http tools by @lo5twind in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6818
• Expand MCP Workbench to support more MCP Client features by @tylerpayne in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6785
• Deprecating openai assistant agent. Apply version conditioned import for open ai version < 1.83 by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6827
• Fix OpenAI UnprocessableEntityError when AssistantAgent makes multiple tool calls by @Copilot in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6799
• fix: use correct format when adding memory to mem0 by @savy-91 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6831
• Adds Redis Memory extension class by @justin-cechmanek in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6743
• Add support for "format": "json" in JSON schemas by @onematchfox in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6846
• docs: correct function spelling by @savy-91 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6849
• Add include_name_in_message parameter to make name field optional in OpenAI messages by @Copilot in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6845
• upgrade graphrag sample to v2.3+ by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6744
• fix: load agent correctly in test service by @zrquan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6860
• Update installation guide in _openai_assistant_agent.py by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6863
• fix: use ```sh consistently by @zrquan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6864
• Supporting Teams as Participants in a GroupChat by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5863
• Update version to 0.7.0 by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6865
• Bring back OpenAIAssistantAgent by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6867
• Update version to 0.7.1 by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6868

New Contributors

• @dave-howard made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6809
• @lo5twind made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6818
• @tylerpayne made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6785
• @savy-91 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6831
• @justin-cechmanek made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6743
• @onematchfox made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6846
• @zrquan made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/6860

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/python-v0.6.4...python-v0.7.1