Release v1.6.1
- ADK Go is now available to everyone (Preview). The
adk_gotemplate ("Go agent with A2A") now appears inagents-cli scaffold createwith no experiment override, and Go projects get the toolchain Python already has:- Deploy to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run and GKE, with session methods exposed to
agent_engines.get()clients. - CloudSQL, Agent Platform and in-memory session services.
- Prompts and responses in BigQuery Agent Analytics, and telemetry through OTLP.
- CI/CD templates at parity with Python.
- The bundled skills cover Go and Python.
- Deploy to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run and GKE, with session methods exposed to
- Scaffolds now default to
gemini-3.8-flash. - Pin
google-adkbelow 2.9.0. On 2.9.0 a Cloud Run agent's prompts and responses stopped reaching BigQuery Agent Analytics. agents-cli scaffold createno longer asks for a region when the deployment target isnone.- The one-off
agents-cli runno longer prints stop and resume hints for a server it did not leave running. agents-cli deployprints how to talk to a Cloud Run agent once the deploy finishes.agents-cli deploycan change the identity type on an existing agent.agents-cli deploynow reports the correct identity after a deploy, instead of the wrong principal for agents using Agent Identity.- Exclude vendored extensions from the deploy payload, where they could add megabytes to every deploy.
agents-cli infra single-projectnow correctly enables the Service Usage API, so a new project bootstraps without enabling it by hand.- Fix remote ADK samples generating two agent directories and an unbuildable project.
- Scaffolded Dockerfiles install uv from a pinned image instead of
pip install. agents-cli runandagents-cli evalno longer stop a background server they only borrowed.- Startup and version notices now go to stderr, so
--jsonoutput stays machine-readable. agents-cli eval generateno longer silently drops per-case session state.agents-cli run --mode a2anow shows status updates, errors and empty turns instead of staying silent.- The
runresume hint includes--urland the other routing flags. agents-cli info --jsonreportsroot_agent_name.agents-cli extension addno longer copies ignored files from alocal@source.- Fix the macOS-only
sedin the Starter Pack migration guide and spell out the dry-run and apply steps.