Highlights

• Async version of multiple dependent chats. Example.
• Improvement in chat control:
  • Allow sending introductions in the beginning of group chat for participants to know each other's role.
  • Allow setting max turns when initiating chats.
• Improvement and bug fix in:
  • custom message processing methods: allow processing messages before sending, such as displaying in a custom frontend.
  • multimodal agent: use PIL image internally.
  • code execution: command line executor, powershell etc.
  • long context handling.
  • GPT Assistant Agent: compatibility with azure openai.
  • AutoGenBench.
  • Documentation.

Thanks to @randombet @afourney @qingyun-wu @BeibinLi @jackgerrits @abhaymathur21 @skzhang1 @gunnarku @AaronWard @thinkall @dkirsche @RohitRathore1 @LinxinS97 @IANTHEREAL and all the other contributors!

What's Changed

• update ecosystem by @skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1624
• Check for missing dependencies before building the website by @gunnarku in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1678
• Allow limiting the maximum number of turns in initiate_chat and initiate_chats by @qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1703
• Update example page by @qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1698
• use str for hook key by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1711
• Add agent robot example to gallery by @AaronWard in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1718
• Use PIL Image internally for the Multimodal Agent by @BeibinLi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1124
• Fix issue 1440 by applying new function registration decorator by @thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1661
• Command line code sanitation by @AaronWard in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1627
• news update by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1720
• fix web formats by @skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1728
• Updated code_utils.py & local_commandline_code_executor.py (powershell to pwsh) by @abhaymathur21 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1710
• fix some docstring issues affecting rendering by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1739
• Refactor transform_messages by @dkirsche in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1631
• Async version of multiple sequential chat by @randombet in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1724
• Allow None for sender field in CoversableAgent.generate_reply by @RohitRathore1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1725
• [AutoBuild] fix test error by @LinxinS97 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1750
• Updating code_utils.py to solve issue #1747 by @abhaymathur21 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1758
• Add sidebar for notebooks page by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1766
• Use jupyer-kernel-gateway for ipython executor by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1748
• Handle azure_deployment Parameter Issue in GPTAssistantAgent to Maintain Compatibility with OpenAIWrapper by @IANTHEREAL in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1721
• Groupchat send introductions by @afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/961
• Version 0.0.2 of Autogenbench by @afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1548
• process message before send by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1783

New Contributors

• @dkirsche made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1631
• @RohitRathore1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1725

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.14...v0.2.15