Highlights

• Guide for GPTAssistantAgent and function calling example.
• New feature: resumable group chat.
• New transformation capability: text compression using LLMLingua.
• Experimental integration of AgentEval.
• New notebook examples:
  • Azure Cognitive Search and Azure Identity.
  • Mitigating Prompt hacking with JSON Mode in Autogen.
  • DBRX (Databricks LLM)
• New gallery example: AutoGen Virtual Focus Group. A virtual consumer focus group with multiple custom personas, product details, and final analysis created with AutoGen, Ollama/Llama3, and Streamlit.
• Improvement in code execution, RAG, logging, studio, reflection, CAP, nested chat, group chat, function call.

Thanks to @beyonddream @ginward @gbrvalerio @LittleLittleCloud @thinkall @asandez1 @DavidLuong98 @jtrugman @IANTHEREAL @ekzhu @skzhang1 @erezak @WaelKarkoub @zbram101 @r4881t @eltociear @robraux @thongonary @moresearch @shippy @marklysze @ACHultman @Gr3atWh173 @victordibia @MarianoMolina @jluey1 @msamylea @Hk669 @ruiwang @rajan-chari @michaelhaggerty @BeibinLi @krishnashed @jtoy @NikolayTV @pk673 @Aretai-Leah @Knucklessg1 @tj-cycyota @tosolveit @MarkWard0110 @Mai0313 and all the other contributors!

What's Changed

• Remove unneeded duplicate check for pydantic v1 since we are already checking that in the else block. by @beyonddream in #2467
• Update token_count_utils.py by @ginward in #2531
• feat: add bind_dir arg to DockerCommandLineExecutor + docs update by @gbrvalerio in #2309
• use conditional check to replace path filter in build and dotnet-ci workflow by @LittleLittleCloud in #2546
• Fix chroma import error by @thinkall in #2557
• Docker multilanguage executor saver with policy by @asandez1 in #2522
• Adding an action to set workflow as success when no change is made in target paths by @LittleLittleCloud in #2553
• Update dotnet-build.yml to add merge_group trigger by @LittleLittleCloud in #2567
• [.Net] Support raw-data in ImageMessage by @DavidLuong98 in #2552
• [.NET] Return ChatCompletions instead of ChatResponseMessage for token usage. by @DavidLuong98 in #2545
• Function Calling with GPTAssistantAgent by @jtrugman in #2375
• Add a guide doc for GPTAssistantAgent by @IANTHEREAL in #2562
• Add note in the lfs check action to help contributors fix Git LFS check failure. by @ekzhu in #2563
• add faq for autogen and openai assistant compatible version by @IANTHEREAL in #2587
• Fix for http client by @AbdurNawaz in #2579
• [.Net] refactor over streaming version api by @LittleLittleCloud in #2461
• Update AgentOptimizer BibTeX by @skzhang1 in #2578
• Correct link to Jupyter Code Executor in code-executors.ipynb by @erezak in #2589
• Text Compression Transform by @WaelKarkoub in #2225
• notebook showing assistant agents connecting azure ai search and azur… by @zbram101 in #2594
• Update to correct pip install for litellm by @r4881t in #2602
• docs: update tutorial.ipynb by @eltociear in #2606
• fix: event logging with nested chats by @robraux in #2600
• [.Net] fix #2609 by @LittleLittleCloud in #2618
• [.Net] Add an example to show how to connect to third party OpenAI API endpoint + upgrade Azure.AI.OpenAI package by @LittleLittleCloud in #2619
• [.Net]: Introduce ChatCompletionAgent to AutoGen.SemanticKernel package by @DavidLuong98 in #2584
• Fix chess example by @thongonary in #2631
• [.Net] Add KernelPluginMiddleware in AutoGen.SemanticKernel by @LittleLittleCloud in #2595
• [.Net] release note for 0.0.13 by @LittleLittleCloud in #2641
• Update graph_utils.py by @moresearch in #2601
• Add instructions for Docker issue with hash mismatch to FAQ by @shippy in #2639
• [.Net] Fix 2652 && 2650 by @LittleLittleCloud in #2655
• Resuming a GroupChat by @marklysze in #2627
• fix notebook doc typo by @ACHultman in #2642
• Feature: Add ability to use a separate python environment in local executor by @Gr3atWh173 in #2615
• Rewrite AutoGen Studio Database Layer to Use SQLModel ORM by @victordibia in #2425
• [.Net] Remove Workflow class && bump version to 0.0.14 by @LittleLittleCloud in #2675
• [.Net] Fix #2660 and add tests for AutoGen.DotnetInteractive by @LittleLittleCloud in #2676
• Add role to reflection with llm by @MarianoMolina in #2527
• Agenteval integration by @jluey1 in #2672
• AutoGen Virtual Focus Group by @msamylea in #2598
• Adding gpt-4o to pricing by @r4881t in #2674
• pricing url fixed by @Hk669 in #2684
• [.Net] feature: Ollama integration by @iddelacruz in #2693
• [.Net] Fix #2687 by adding global:: keyword in generated code by @LittleLittleCloud in #2689
• update news by @sonichi in #2694
• [.Net] Set up Name field in OpenAIMessageConnector by @LittleLittleCloud in #2662
• Custom Runtime Logger <> FileLogger by @Hk669 in #2596
• Update groupchat.py to remove Optional type hint when they are not ch… by @ruiwang in #2703
• Add gpt4o token count to the utils. by @Hk669 in #2717
• [CAP] Improved AutoGen Agents support & Pip Install by @rajan-chari in #2711
• [.Net] fix #2722 by @LittleLittleCloud in #2723
• [.Net] Mark Message as obsolete and add ToolCallAggregateMessage type by @LittleLittleCloud in #2716
• Add nuget package badge to readme by @LittleLittleCloud in #2736
• Update human-in-the-loop.ipynb by @michaelhaggerty in #2724
• [CAP] Refactor: Better Names for classes and methods by @rajan-chari in #2734
• Avoid requests 2.32.0 to fix build by @ekzhu in #2761
• Debug: Gemini client was not logged and causing runtime error by @BeibinLi in #2749
• [Add] Fix invoking Assistant API by @krishnashed in #2751
• Add silent option in nested chats and group chat by @robraux in #2712
• Fix the assistant test case error caused by openai incompatible change by @IANTHEREAL in #2718
• add warning if duplicate function is registered by @jtoy in #2159
• Ability to ignore Select Speaker Prompt for GroupChat by @marklysze in #2726
• added Gemini safety setting and Gemini generation config by @NikolayTV in #2429
• Update Deprecation Warning for CompressibleAgent and TransformChatHistory by @WaelKarkoub in #2685
• Fix for runtime logging not supported with GPTAssistantAgent by @pk673 in #2659
• Ignore Some Messages When Transforming by @WaelKarkoub in #2661
• [.Net] rename Autogen.Ollama to AutoGen.Ollama and add more test cases to AutoGen.Ollama by @LittleLittleCloud in #2772
• [.Net] add AutoGen.SemanticKernel.Sample project by @LittleLittleCloud in #2774
• [.Net] add ollama-sample and adds more tests by @LittleLittleCloud in #2776
• Create JSON_mode_example.ipynb by @Aretai-Leah in #2554
• Add packaging explicitly to fix build error in macos by @thinkall in #2780
• Introduce AnthropicClient and AnthropicClientAgent by @DavidLuong98 in #2769
• actions version update for the TransformMessages workflow by @Hk669 in #2759
• allow serialize_to_str to work with non ascii when dumping via json.d… by @jtoy in #2714
• PGVector Support for Custom Connection Object by @Knucklessg1 in #2566
• Remove duplicate project declared in AutoGen.sln by @DavidLuong98 in #2789
• Fix import issue with the file logger by @Hk669 in #2773
• DBRX (Databricks LLM) example notebook by @tj-cycyota in #2434
• Blogpost and news by @sonichi in #2790
• Update Getting-Started.mdx by @tosolveit in #2781
• Improve the error messge of RetrieveUserProxyAgent import error by @thinkall in #2785
• fix links and tags from databricks notebook by @sonichi in #2795
• fix conversation-pattern.ipynb type object 'ConversableAgent' has no attribute 'DEFAULT_summary_… by @MarkWard0110 in #2788
• print next speaker by @sonichi in #2800
• [.Net] Release note for 0.0.14 by @LittleLittleCloud in #2815
• [.Net] Update website for AutoGen.SemanticKernel and AutoGen.Ollama by @LittleLittleCloud in #2814
• [CAP] User supplied threads for agents by @rajan-chari in #2812
• set client default to None, then if None, init a chromadb.Client() by @Mai0313 in #2830
• fix typo and update news by @sonichi in #2825

New Contributors

• @beyonddream made their first contribution in #2467
• @ginward made their first contribution in #2531
• @gbrvalerio made their first contribution in #2309
• @DavidLuong98 made their first contribution in #2552
• @AbdurNawaz made their first contribution in #2579
• @erezak made their first contribution in #2589
• @zbram101 made their first contribution in #2594
• @r4881t made their first contribution in #2602
• @robraux made their first contribution in #2600
• @thongonary made their first contribution in #2631
• @moresearch made their first contribution in #2601
• @shippy made their first contribution in #2639
• @ACHultman made their first contribution in #2642
• @Gr3atWh173 made their first contribution in #2615
• @MarianoMolina made their first contribution in #2527
• @msamylea made their first contribution in #2598
• @iddelacruz made their first contribution in #2693
• @ruiwang made their first contribution in #2703
• @michaelhaggerty made their first contribution in #2724
• @krishnashed made their first contribution in #2751
• @NikolayTV made their first contribution in #2429
• @pk673 made their first contribution in #2659
• @Aretai-Leah made their first contribution in #2554
• @tj-cycyota made their first contribution in #2434
• @tosolveit made their first contribution in #2781
• @MarkWard0110 made their first contribution in #2788

Full Changelog: v0.2.27...v0.2.28