Embabel Agent 1.5.3

What's Changed

• Prepare 1.5.3 Dev by @alexheifetz in #2021
• Let the deployment default LLM name a role (#2031) by @jasperblues in #2032
• An embedding default can name a role, and resolve per call by @jasperblues in #2041
• Handle every criteria an embedding model can be asked for by @jasperblues in #2044
• Fix: apply OpenAiHttpClientBuilderCustomizer in OpenAiCompatibleModelFactory by @igordayen in #2030
• Fix: honor nested Jackson annotations in tool schemas by @arnabnandy7 in #1940
• A locally served model is usable when it appears, not after a restart by @jasperblues in #2046
• A test class declared inside a backticked test name breaks every Spring context on JDK 25 by @jasperblues in #2042
• Add durable asset storage contracts by @arnabnandy7 in #1957
• Fix validation responsibility boundaries by @arnabnandy7 in #1996
• Feature: native structured output refinements — strict mode, schema fixes by @igordayen in #2027
• LM Studio no longer ships a stale OpenAI model catalog by @tschuehly in #2065
• Generate llms.txt based on asciidoc/reference/reference.adoc by @deleSerna in #2036
• Forward a configured OpenAI reasoning effort from LlmOptions by @tschuehly in #2063
• A failed embedding batch is retried in halves, and chunks left unembedded fail the write by @jasperblues in #2084
• OpenAI-compatible and Docker model clients take configurable timeouts by @jasperblues in #2085
• The saturated-pool parallelMap test overflows onto the caller every run by @jasperblues in #2090
• Fix: persist immediate agent termination and emit lifecycle event by @arnabnandy7 in #2010
• Add Blackboard prod JDBC persistence configuration by @igordayen in #2070
• Record a returned Tool.Result.Error as a failed ToolCallResponseEvent by @Santoshkumarpuppala in #2068
• Migrate MCP server from deprecated SSE transport to Streamable HTTP by @igordayen in #2071
• Prepare 1.5.3 Release by @alexheifetz in #2115
• Prepare 1.5.3 release by @alexheifetz in #2117

New Contributors

• @tschuehly made their first contribution in #2065
• @Santoshkumarpuppala made their first contribution in #2068

Full Changelog: v1.5.2...v1.5.3