Release Agent Lightning v1.0.2 · microsoft/agent-lightning

Highlights

MoE coding-agent training: Added Qwen3.5-35B-A3B training with CISPO and R3 expert-routing replay, plus a runnable example and guide (#601, #607). In the published pure-RL experiment, SWE-bench Verified performance rose from 47.8% to 61.6% after 1,792 training examples (#608).
Multimodal training: Image inputs now flow from rollout traces into VERL training batches, fixing a case where the model saw images during rollout but not during training. A multimodal QA example is included (#560).

Updated the v1 PyPI release and test workflows, version checks, and package metadata (#548, #556).
Added a contributing guide (#598).

Drop invalid multimodal rollout rows before PPO training (#588).
Disable prefix caching in the multimodal QA example (#577).
Make request cancellation effective with vLLM versions earlier than 0.9 (#590).
Preserve gateway requests without valid prompt token IDs (#573).
Reject non-object JSON request bodies with a clear HTTP 400 response (#587).
Cancel gateway requests when agents disconnect (#604).
Honor the configured agent URL for local workers (#582).
Avoid spawning rollouts during controller shutdown (#580).
Preserve timeout reasons across report retries (#585).
Fail fast when the local runner is used on native Windows (#583).
Replace Authorization headers case-insensitively (#584).
Correctly parse ANSI-colored pytest statuses in SWE-smith (#599).
Fix documentation deployment dependencies (#543) and the ALFWorld benchmark chart (#554).

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