What's Important

• Fixed console user input bug that affects m1 and other apps that use console user input. #4995
• Improved component config by allowing subclassing the BaseComponent class. #5017 To read more about how to create your own component config to support serializable components: https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/stable/user-guide/core-user-guide/framework/component-config.html
• Fixed stop_reason related bug by making the stop reason setting more robust #5027
• Disable Console output statistics by default.
• Minor doc fixes.

All Changes since v0.4.0

• Update magentic-one-cli version to 0.2.0 by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4973
• Update switcher versions and make 0.4.0 stable by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4940
• Fix version switcher rendering by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4974
• Don't show banner on stable by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4976
• Remove accidentally added character by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4980
• Update README.md to fix spelling error by @guinaut in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4982
• Minor API doc update for openai assistant agent by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4986
• Add guidance for docstrings when adding an API by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4981
• Fix typo in Multi-Agent Design Patterns -> Intro docs by @timrogers in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4991
• Add missing py.typed in autogen_ext, fix type issue in core by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4993
• Minor Updates to AGS Docs by @victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5010
• Fix: Properly await agent.run() in README Hello World example by @Programmer-RD-AI in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5013
• Add python version requirement to frontpage and readme by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5014
• Disable output usage stat summary in Console as the stats is often inaccurate. by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5021
• Add AGS to README.md by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5019
• fix: fix user input in m1 by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4995
• Typo in teams.ipynb by @SudhakarPunniyakotti in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5028
• fix: Normalize openai client stop reason to make more robust by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5027
• Add tiktoken as a dependency in pyproject.toml by @JohanForngren in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5008
• fix: Fix provider string for AzureTokenProvider by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4992
• Split apart component infra to allow for abstract class integration by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5017
• Update version to 0.4.1 by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5029
• Fixup autogen-ext version by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5030

New Contributors

• @guinaut made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4982
• @timrogers made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/4991
• @Programmer-RD-AI made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5013
• @SudhakarPunniyakotti made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5028
• @JohanForngren made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/5008

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.4.0...v0.4.1