Highlights

• Enhancement to sequential chats programming
  • support custom summary method
  • allow the chats to be initiated by different agents
  • example
• Improvement to GPTAssistantAgent
  • respect termination and human input mode
  • support Azure assistant API
• Runtime logging is back and advanced! Example
• Improvement to group chat: get nested agents and look up by name
• Doc improvement and bug fix.

Thanks to @qingyun-wu @yousonnet @IANTHEREAL @cheng-tan @WaelKarkoub @jackgerrits @bobbravo2 @maxim-saplin @olgavrou @gagb @FarshidShafia @gunnarku @Xtrah and all the other contributors!

What's Changed

• Rewrite and consolidate configuration docs by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1581
• Adding callable summary_method support and enhancements to initiate_chats by @qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1628
• remove print config list by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1637
• return None instead of tuple in _generate_oai_reply_from_client by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1644
• [README] remove duplicated line by @bobbravo2 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1646
• add autogen.initiate_chats by @qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1638
• add GPTAssistantAgent is_termination_msg valid by @yousonnet in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1642
• FAQ, highlight the correct package name is pyautogen by @maxim-saplin in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1665
• Update gallery grid to flow better across screen sizes by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1652
• update dotnet workflow by @LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1669
• Fix custom client registration by @olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1653
• Update Transparency FAQs by @gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1672
• Update agent_chat.md by @FarshidShafia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1677
• Update notebook contrib guidance, update a few notebooks for site by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1651
• Validate the OpenAI API key format by @gunnarku in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1635
• Logging by @cheng-tan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1146
• Validate llm_config passed to ConversableAgent (issue #1522) by @gunnarku in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1654
• do model check properly by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1686
• support azure assistant api by @IANTHEREAL in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1616
• Feature: Get Nested Agents in a GroupChat by @WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1636
• bug fix: logging test may fail if some config fails by @cheng-tan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1695
• Update Azure OpenAI API version to 2024-02-15-preview by @Xtrah in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1692

New Contributors

• @bobbravo2 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1646
• @yousonnet made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1642
• @FarshidShafia made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1677
• @gunnarku made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1635
• @WaelKarkoub made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1636

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.13...v0.2.14