v1.7.0

🚀 Notable Features and Improvements

• Add AI coding agent skills for NeMo Agent Toolkit
• Add consent-gated runtime telemetry for NeMo Agent Toolkit CLI commands

What's Changed

🚨 Breaking Changes

• chore: migrate openai dependency from 1.x to 2.x by @willkill07 in #1849
• chore: dependency cleanup - drops optuna chain and openinference from core by @bbednarski9 in #1902
• Remove the nvidia-nat-vanna integration package by @dagardner-nv in #1926

✨ New Features

• Add ATIF trajectory exporter for Phoenix visualization and debugging by @yczhang-nv in #1869
• Add Exa Search API support as internet search tool by @maxwbuckley in #1846
• Add OCI LangChain support for hosted Nemotron workflows by @fede-kamel in #1804
• ATOF v0.1: Agentic Trajectory Observability Format (aligned spec) by @bbednarski9 in #1890
• feat(cli): add consent-gated runtime telemetry for NAT CLI commands by @yczhang-nv in #1897
• feat(observability): Arize AX OTLP exporter, docs, and examples by @ryoung562 in #1898
• Feature: token streaming support for ReAct Agent by @thepatrickchin in #1851

🔧 Improvements

• Misc CI improvements by @dagardner-nv in #1866
• Misc CI improvements by @dagardner-nv in #1867
• Support client-id-only MCP OAuth2 and refine Outlook auth example config by @AnuradhaKaruppiah in #1885
• Misc test improvements and update model in the workflow template by @dagardner-nv in #1884
• Widen the version range for starlette by @dagardner-nv in #1887
• Filter AIMessage state updates from streaming output by @MylesShannon in #1863
• Add optional --client-id and --client-secret flags to nat mcp client sub-commands by @dagardner-nv in #1891
• dependency fix: remove flask as a hard dependency of nat-core by @bbednarski9 in #1895
• dependency cleanup: move aioboto3, plotly, and wikipedia to dependent subpackages by @bbednarski9 in #1896
• fix(tool): stop leaking exception details in chat_completion error response by @ColinM-sys in #1876
• fix(example): Improve ADK-demo example with dynamic weather and time tools by @yczhang-nv in #1927
• chore: bump dependency versions by @willkill07 in #1931
• chore: bump dependency versions by @dagardner-nv in #1936
• chore: Replace llama-3.2-nv-embedqa-1b-v2 with llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2 by @dagardner-nv in #1937
• chore: set dependency version range for azure-identity by @dagardner-nv in #1942
• Replace llama-3.2-nv-rerankqa-1b-v2 with llama-nemotron-rerank-1b-v2 by @dagardner-nv in #1944
• Update older models by @dagardner-nv in #1960
• Adopt latest changes from NAT-UI by @dagardner-nv in #1963
• Update model_health_check.py to check for deprecation header by @dagardner-nv in #1974

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix(memmachein): preserve conversation message order in add_items by @fede-kamel in #1856
• Add an expiration time to cached MCP auth credentials by @dagardner-nv in #1872
• Fix observability_evaluation_and_profiling example notebook by @dagardner-nv in #1874
• Fix shutdown on Cntrl+c for ci/scripts/run_tests.py by @dagardner-nv in #1886
• fix: preserve tool_calls in _stream_llm for native tool calling by @getglad in #1864
• fix(mcp-client): set proper httpx timeouts for streamable-http transport by @yczhang-nv in #1889
• fix(front-end): Fix HTTPInteractiveRunner streaming cleanup on client disconnect by @yczhang-nv in #1916
• fix(deps): update selected dependency floors by @mnajafian-nv in #1923
• fix(haystack): update urllib3 dependency floor by @mnajafian-nv in #1922
• fix(agno): update Agno dependency stack by @mnajafian-nv in #1919
• fix(fastmcp): update FastMCP to 3.2.4 by @mnajafian-nv in #1918
• Remove currency A2A example from release validation by @AnuradhaKaruppiah in #1924
• Update RL OpenPipe example by @dnandakumar-nv in #1925
• fix(Phoenix): Fix Phoenix telemetry API key support by @yczhang-nv in #1928
• fix(example): Fix typing.Any runtime checks in function conversion by @yczhang-nv in #1949
• Fix MCP schema model reuse for Kaggle tools by @AnuradhaKaruppiah in #1954
• fix(example): Fix auto-memory wrapper user ID lookup by @yczhang-nv in #1948
• fix(mcp): Fix MCP reconnect lifecycle after local server crash by @yczhang-nv in #1935
• Update LLM used in simple_auth_mcp example by @dagardner-nv in #1966
• fix(example): Fix typing.Any and string input handling in NAT LangChain tools by @yczhang-nv in #1965
• Fix auto memory recall scoping by @willkill07 in #1968
• fix: improve auto memory wrapper example and code by @willkill07 in #1976
• fix(server): emit canonical {"value": ...} envelope from /generate/full by @matthewgrossman in #1980

📝 Documentation Updates

• Update LLMs used in the profiler documentation by @dagardner-nv in #1904
• docs(memory): add Synap third-party memory plugin by @visy-ani in #1906
• Add AI coding agent skills for NAT by @yczhang-nv in #1921
• fix(skills): Fix skill-evolution routing for skill update decisions by @yczhang-nv in #1970
• Update the Using Local LLMs documentation by @dagardner-nv in #1979

Other Changes

• Forward-merge release/1.6 into develop by @rapids-bot[bot] in #1857
• Forward-merge release/1.6 into develop by @rapids-bot[bot] in #1858
• Forward-merge release/1.6 into develop by @rapids-bot[bot] in #1860
• [RELEASE] NeMo-Agent-Toolkit v1.7.0 by @dagardner-nv in #1984

New Contributors

• @fede-kamel made their first contribution in #1856
• @maxwbuckley made their first contribution in #1846
• @getglad made their first contribution in #1864
• @ColinM-sys made their first contribution in #1876
• @visy-ani made their first contribution in #1906
• @ryoung562 made their first contribution in #1898
• @matthewgrossman made their first contribution in #1980

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0