v0.7.6b1

Highlights

• 🚀 LLM provider streamlining and updates:
  • OpenAI package now optional (pip install ag2[openai])
  • Cohere updated to support their Chat V2 API
  • Gemini support for system_instruction parameter and async
  • Mistral AI fixes for use with LM Studio
  • Anthropic improved support for tool calling
• 📔 DocAgent - DocumentAgent is now DocAgent and has reliability refinements (with more to come)
• 🔍 ReasoningAgent is now able to do code execution!
• 📚🔧 Want to build your own agents or tools for AG2? Get under the hood with new documentation that dives deep into AG2:
  • How AG2 Works
  • Creating an agent
  • Creating a tool
• Fixes, fixes, and more fixes!

Thanks to all the contributors on 0.7.6!

New Contributors

• @NeoByteXx made their first contribution in #1072
• @comfsrt made their first contribution in #1116
• @marufaytekin made their first contribution in #1101
• @Fallengirl made their first contribution in #1136
• @liminma made their first contribution in #1090
• @futreall made their first contribution in #1150
• @ghoto made their first contribution in #1155

What's Changed

• Manually notify codecov to make PR comment with coverge percentage by @kumaranvpl in #1063
• Support for loading response format as a pydantic model from configuration files by @sternakt in #1023
• Update PR comments automatically after 30 reports by @kumaranvpl in #1066
• Fix LLM parameter propagation and refactor BrowserUseTool by @rjambrecic in #1033
• Fix typing for RAG and Graph RAG by @davorrunje in #1065
• Refactor query engine interface by @AgentGenie in #1058
• Remove after_n_builds param by @kumaranvpl in #1071
• Crawl4ai tool refactoring by @rjambrecic in #1070
• Grammar and Clarity Fixes by @NeoByteXx in #1072
• Remove accidentally committed RFC by @kumaranvpl in #1079
• [Docs] Add google analytics to the gh-pages domain by @harishmohanraj in #1082
• Require permit-tests environment approval for non llm tests by @kumaranvpl in #1084
• Reduce LFS usage in CI by @davorrunje in #1081
• Update a_generate_reply function call with correct params in a_receive by @kumaranvpl in #1076
• Fix Mistral running in LM Studio by @rjambrecic in #1086
• Remove merge_group check from unnecessary workflows by @kumaranvpl in #1085
• [Docs] Fix broken links by @harishmohanraj in #1046
• Preserve chat history when using 'agent.run' by @rjambrecic in #1087
• [Docs] Fix broken image path by @harishmohanraj in #1089
• DocAgent rename and demonstration documentation by @marklysze in #1059
• Further improvements to DocAgent and demo by @marklysze in #1093
• Correct hook processing order on ConversableAgent.a_generate_reply by @marklysze in #1096
• Disable workflow runs for all branches except on main branch on schedule by @kumaranvpl in #1104
• Enhance typing and docs in oai client by @CAROLZXYZXY in #1106
• Fix failing core llm tests because of missing websockets dependency by @kumaranvpl in #1100
• [Docs] Generate initial mkdocs site with static pages by @harishmohanraj in #1108
• Pin browser-use version to specific version by @kumaranvpl in #1109
• [Docs] Fix favicon and mkdocs cleanup by @harishmohanraj in #1112
• Add interoperability user guides by @rjambrecic in #1113
• Update dependency versions by @kumaranvpl in #1111
• Fix typos and improve documentation formatting by @kilavvy in #1117
• [CI/CD] Only check tracked files in git pre-submit by @CAROLZXYZXY in #1107
• Filter out transfer messages in swarm by @yiranwu0 in #1119
• fix minor error transforms.py by @comfsrt in #1116
• Update Cohere client library to V2 with Structured Outputs by @marklysze in #370
• Fix serialization of TextMessage containing PIL image by @rjambrecic in #1126
• Add jsonl files and use it to initiate falkordb by @kumaranvpl in #1125
• Remove permission requirement for non llm tests by @kumaranvpl in #1128
• Fix path comparison for Windows compatibility by @harishmohanraj in #1130
• Fix check_termination_and_human_reply() when called with empty list as messages by @davorrunje in #1132
• Move PIL to optional import block by @kumaranvpl in #1134
• [Bug Fix] Tool signature error for Anthropic #1091 by @marufaytekin in #1101
• fix function errors by @Fallengirl in #1136
• Reasoning Agent can execute code now. by @BabyCNM in #545
• Swarm and Google Gemini client test fixes by @marklysze in #1139
• Fix agents and agents tests checks by @marklysze in #1141
• Pass system message as system_instruction to Gemini #1011. by @liminma in #1090
• rename ysaml to yaml by @futreall in #1150
• Voice hooks fixes by @davorinrusevljan in #1154
• Solves issue with SwarmResult.agent AfterWorkOption -> str by @ghoto in #1155
• Remove detect-secrets from pre-commit by @davorrunje in #1158
• Add LiteLLM user guides by @rjambrecic in #1152
• [Infra] Remove openai dependency from base dependencies by @sternakt in #1149
• [Docs] Add API reference section by @harishmohanraj in #1144
• [Docs] Add docs versioning by @harishmohanraj in #1151
• Set default value for GroupChat messages by @rjambrecic in #1148
• Enable tool removal by name by @marklysze in #1143
• Update Discord/Slack/Telegram Agent inits by @marklysze in #1159
• Bump version to 0.7.6b1 by @davorrunje in #1160
• How AG2 Works documentation for agent and tool builders by @marklysze in #1098
• GPT Assistant tests - cater for openai dependency by @marklysze in #1162
• Further test updates to cater for openai dependency by @marklysze in #1163
• Further changes to accommodate openai as dependency (P3) by @marklysze in #1164
• OpenAI exception handling and httpx dependency by @marklysze in #1165
• Deepseek tests update for openai dependency by @marklysze in #1166

Full Changelog: v0.7.5...v0.7.6b1