livekit-agents@1.8.6

What's Changed

• fix(sarvam): close the streams the STT collects by @dhruvladia-sarvam in #7058
• fix(aws): keep realtime session active after stream restart by @uuzzrm in #6811
• fix(telemetry): format a loop stall report without reading source files by @zdurm in #7616
• update deps by @davidzhao in #7655
• fix(deps): bump bithuman in uv.lock for Windows wheel support by @abhijeetgaur-dev in #7559
• fix(voice): keep preemptive generation when only non-ASCII punctuation changes by @ahmad65saad in #7507
• fix(ipc): allow opting out of the local EOT weights in the preload by @Zaygal in #7580
• fix(openai): prewarm Responses API connections by @nikhiljangid120 in #7584
• feat(speechify): stream synthesize(), reuse the HTTP connection, add prewarm() by @vitalragaz in #7543
• fix(tests): pin toxiproxy to v2.12.0 by @1egoman in #7676
• fix(inference): keep temperature/top_p for gpt-5.1+ at reasoning_effort none by @adrian-cowham in #7650
• fix(ipc): skip the EOT preload in spawned job processes by @longcw in #7665
• fix(voice): enforce max_tool_steps on the realtime tool loop by @longcw in #7555
• fix(mcp): tell the server when a tool call is cancelled by @longcw in #7542
• fix(voice): store only the spoken part of a reply when the TTS fails by @longcw in #7670
• fix(llm): diff a chat context in O(n log n) when its item ids are unique by @zdurm in #7626
• fix(ipc): let one flag skip the whole local-inference preload by @longcw in #7681
• fix(ipc): close the job loop when the runner exits by @zdurm in #7630
• fix(gpt-live): remember the mute across a reconnect by @Zaygal in #7675
• fix(tts): keep TTS.sample_rate in sync when update_options changes it by @Rehansanjay in #7135
• bithuman: fix package description casing and add bitHuman docs URL by @sgu-bithuman in #7677
• fix(voice): skip the AEC warmup in simulations by @chenghao-mou in #7674
• fix: migrate soniox websocket authentication by @chenghao-mou in #7698
• feat(sarvam): add bulbul:v4-flash TTS by @dhruvladia-sarvam in #7335
• feat(nabrah): add Nabrah Arabic STT plugin by @MagdiWaleed in #7337
• feat(cerebras): add qwen-3.8-27b to CerebrasChatModels by @abhijeetgaur-dev in #7680
• docs(microsoft_ai): correct MAI STT/TTS availability in README by @tinalenguyen in #7704
• livekit-agents@1.8.6 by @github-actions[bot] in #7707

New Contributors

• @abhijeetgaur-dev made their first contribution in #7559
• @ahmad65saad made their first contribution in #7507
• @Zaygal made their first contribution in #7580
• @vitalragaz made their first contribution in #7543
• @MagdiWaleed made their first contribution in #7337

Full Changelog: https://github.com/livekit/agents/compare/livekit-agents@1.8.5...livekit-agents@1.8.6