v1.0.0 — The Stable Foundation

ADK-Rust v1.0.0 — The Stable Foundation

The first stable release of the Rust Agent Development Kit. 39 crates. 130K+ downloads in 6 months. Semver stability guarantee.

Highlights

• Semver stable — pin to 1.x and your build won't break
• All former Beta crates promoted to Stable
• 4.6× faster cold start than Python ADK (measured by adk-bench)
• 7 model providers — Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Groq, Ollama, Bedrock
• 6 session backends — SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Firestore, Neo4j
• A2A v1.0.0 protocol — Agent-to-Agent communication
• Real-time voice — OpenAI, Gemini Live, LiveKit
• Graph workflows — Durable, resumable, with HITL interrupts
• MCP integration — rmcp 1.2, server lifecycle, elicitation, resources

New in This Release

• adk-bench — Cross-framework benchmarking (vs Python ADK, LangChain, CrewAI)
• adk-managed — Managed Agent Runtime with durable execution and checkpointing
• adk-enterprise — Enterprise client SDK (HTTP/SSE, zero runtime deps)
• Gemini Interactions API (Beta) — server-side stateful history
• Functional Graph API — write workflows as async functions
• Background Runs & Cron Scheduling for adk-server
• Lock poison recovery across session, runner, and tool layers
• Security hardening — .cargo/audit.toml, dependency advisories documented
• MSRV enforcement — rust-toolchain.toml pins Rust 1.94.0

Getting Started

cargo add adk-rust
# or scaffold a full project:
cargo install cargo-adk
cargo adk new my-agent
cargo run

Or try the ADK Playground — 120+ agents, no install.

Links

• 📚 Documentation
• 🎮 Playground
• 📦 crates.io
• 🗺️ Roadmap
• 📋 CHANGELOG
• 🎬 Launch Video (Episode 2)

Contributors

Many thanks to everyone who made v1.0.0 possible:

@mikefaille @rohan-panickar @dhruv-pant @tomtom215 @danielsan @CodingFlow @ctylx @poborin @chillin-capybara @baotao2006

And dozens more in discussions, issues, and pre-release testing. 🙏