Autogen

Highlights

* New model support: [Gemini](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/cloud-gemini).
* New notebook: [Writing a software application using function calls](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_function_call_code_writing.ipynb).
* New gallery example from the AutoGPT Hackathon winner team: [AutoTx: Your AI-Powered Transaction Companion](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/Gallery) powered by AutoGen.
* Update price info for new gpt-4-turbo model.

Thanks to BeibinLi GregorD1A1 rihp Mai0313 DustinX skzhang1 and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Update chat-termination.ipynb by DustinX in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2393
* Update code-executors.ipynb by DustinX in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2394
* Update code-executors.ipynb by DustinX in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2396
* add AgentOptimizer test in CI by skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2380
* [Feat] browser should support custom base url for bing search by Mai0313 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2321
* Update code-executors.ipynb by DustinX in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2395
* Code writing with a function call notebook created by GregorD1A1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2121
* DOCS: Add AutoTX to gallery by rihp in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2390
* Merge "Gemini" feature into the main branch by BeibinLi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2360
* update cost info by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2401

New Contributors
* DustinX made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2393
* Mai0313 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2321
* rihp made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2390

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.24...v0.2.25

Highlights

* Generalized and Improved RAG: customizable vector database; adding source to answer.
* [Function call support for Anthropic Claude](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/cloud-anthropic#function-call-in-latest-anthropic-api).
* Usage and cost info are made easier to read.
* Improvement to long context handling, stateflow, agent optimizer, code execution.

Thanks to thinkall kevin666aa WaelKarkoub skzhang1 PyroGenesis wmwxwa levscaut JoshTrim giorgossideris Hk669 and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Add source to the answer for default prompt by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2289
* Add a vectordb module by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2263
* Update StateFlow to use LocalCommandLineCodeExecutor by kevin666aa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2335
* [Fix] Improves Token Limiter by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2350
* support llm_config in AgentOptimizer by skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2299
* fix markdown for long context user guide by PyroGenesis in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2351
* Add extra_require for cosmosdb in setup.py by wmwxwa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2355
* [Fix] Handle Missing Contents in Messages in `MessageTokenLimiter` by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2364
* add support for Anthropic Claude function call by levscaut in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2311
* Add "py" as lang in conversable agent (1062) by JoshTrim in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2144
* Standardize printing of MessageTransforms by giorgossideris in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2308
* Made the cost info easier to read by Hk669 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2356
* fix local test failures by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2386

New Contributors
* wmwxwa made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2355
* JoshTrim made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2144
* giorgossideris made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2308
* Hk669 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2356

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.23...v0.2.24

This is a minor release with cost update for OpenAI models.

Highlights
* New sample app [using websockets with FastAPI and AutoGen](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/tree/main/samples/apps/websockets)
* New user guide for [long context handling](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/long_contexts)

Thanks to liujun121533 davorrunje martinzrrl thinkall WaelKarkoub sethupavan12 and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Use assistant tag to filter config by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2316
* Fix typo in conversation-patterns.ipynb by liujun121533 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2322
* Add Websockets example by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2291
* Improve readability of notebooks by martinzrrl in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2200
* cost update for gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2332
* Add back to top and year by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2324
* Document Migration to `TransformMessages` by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2247
* Fix docs related to Azure OpenAI's "model" by sethupavan12 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2315

New Contributors
* liujun121533 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2322
* martinzrrl made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2200
* sethupavan12 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2315

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.22...v0.2.23

Highlights
* New capability [TransformMessage](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/notebooks/agentchat_transform_messages/): a generalization of previous long context handling capabilities. The previous capabilities will be deprecated.
* New research [AutoDefense](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/03/11/AutoDefense/Defending%20LLMs%20Against%20Jailbreak%20Attacks%20with%20AutoDefense): Defend against jailbreak attacks with AutoGen.
* New support for non-OpenAI models:
* [Anthropic Claude](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/cloud-anthropic)
* [Mistral for Group chat](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/tutorial/conversation-patterns#changing-the-select-speaker-role-name).
* [Tips for non-OpenAI models](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/best-tips-for-nonopenai-models).
* New user guide for [custom speaker selection](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/groupchat/customized_speaker_selection) in group chat
* Update of [StateFlow](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/02/29/StateFlow#for-further-reading) blogpost and [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11322).
* New notebook on [web scraping with tool use](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/notebooks/agentchat_webscraping_with_apify).
* New example in [gallery](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/Gallery): [Create Issues from Code Commits](https://blog.composio.dev/automating-task-creation-with-openai-assistant-from-code-comments-to-linear-issues/).

Thanks to WaelKarkoub ekzhu skzhang1 davorrunje afourney Wannabeasmartguy jackgerrits rajan-chari XHMY jtoy marklysze Andrew8xx8 thinkall BeibinLi benstein sharsha315 levscaut Karthikeya-Meesala r-b-g-b cheng-tan kevin666aa and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Transform Messages Capability by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1923
* Bump express from 4.18.2 to 4.19.2 in /website by dependabot in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2157
* Add website analytics by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2201
* Render AgentOptimzier notebook in web by skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2197
* Replace iostream warning message with info by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2207
* AutoGenBench: Handle Ctrl-C more gracefully. by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2174
* fix the problem config_list_from_dotenv() can't correctly get other p… by Wannabeasmartguy in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2172
* Fix `generate_init_message` for Multimodal Messages by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2124
* Support string based UDFs by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2195
* Ignore protobuf generated files in CAP by rajan-chari in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2215
* AutoDefense Blog by XHMY in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1982
* 2147 - Fix notebook bug to make a copy of configs for each agent by jtoy in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2176
* Improve Image Generation Notebook by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2213
* Added ability to specify 'role' field for select speaker messages for Group Chats (Replaces PR 2167) by marklysze in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2199
* Fixed types related to function calling by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2230
* Replace unofficial with official pre-commit hook for ruff by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2229
* Re-commit of 2182: Customisation of speaker select message and prompt in GroupChat by marklysze in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2233
* Fix websockets demo notebook by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2227
* Fixed spelling in agentchat_transform_messages.ipynb by Andrew8xx8 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2234
* Improving website navigation and help click-through analytics collection by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2205
* Dont include api ref tree in docs sidebar by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2244
* Fix unstructured deps installation error by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2248
* Add PNG and JPEG files to LFS automatically by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2226
* Allow custom name for functions module by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2241
* Reduce sleep() in CAP library code by rajan-chari in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2189
* Notebook on web scraping with tool use by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2192
* Break up contributor guide for better navigability by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2250
* Update vision capability test: create dummy image before testing by BeibinLi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2258
* Auto collapse side bar entries when selecting other sections by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2257
* Fix Vision Capability Test for MacOS by BeibinLi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2260
* Update listdir() in sample code docs to take correct args by benstein in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2261
* Multiline docstrings fix by sharsha315 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2130
* Add in memory cache class by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2266
* Add support for Anthropic Claude models by levscaut in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2245
* Composio: add new example by Karthikeya-Meesala in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2237
* Re-commit of 2222: Expanded speaker name matching during speaker selection by marklysze in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2267
* RetrieveUserProxyAgent, use context_max_tokens from retrieve_config if provided by r-b-g-b in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2259
* fix logging cost flaky test by cheng-tan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2277
* Remove subdirectory .gitattributes files and add relevant files to lfs by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2270
* Update RetrieveChat blog to fix some outdated APIs by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2273
* Add support for system message in Claude Notebook by levscaut in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2280
* add composio to ecosystem page by Karthikeya-Meesala in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2272
* Add isort by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2265
* Remove info log for IOStream using default. by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2281
* Fix LMM test in CI by installing lfs by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2282
* Fix FileNotFoundError english-words.txt in RetrieveChatTest by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2284
* Add html parser for RAG and some improvements by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2271
* Composio: update text - "Composio Logo" -> "Composio Example" by Karthikeya-Meesala in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2288
* bump version to 0.2.22 by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2256
* Copy llm_config to avoid external changes by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2290
* Fix typo in websockets notebook by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2287
* Fix types in tool tests by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2285
* [Bug Fix] [CAP] Sleep removal introduced an Actor resolution bug. by rajan-chari in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2296
* Add Custom GroupChat Speaker Selection to tutorial by kevin666aa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2219
* Update StateFlow blog by kevin666aa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2262
* Fix cost calculation when completion_token is None by kevin666aa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2292

New Contributors
* Wannabeasmartguy made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2172
* XHMY made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1982
* jtoy made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2176
* Andrew8xx8 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2234
* benstein made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2261
* sharsha315 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2130
* levscaut made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2245
* Karthikeya-Meesala made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2237
* r-b-g-b made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2259

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.21...v0.2.22

Highlights
* New feature from research: AgentOptimizer
- [Blog](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2023/12/23/AgentOptimizer)
- [Notebook](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_agentoptimizer.ipynb)
* New feature in code execution: Support [user defined functions](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/code-execution/user-defined-functions) in local CLI executor - similar functionality to the "skills" in AutoGen Studio.
* New agent capability: [Vision Capability](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/notebooks/agentchat_lmm_gpt-4v/) for ConversableAgents allows them to "see" images.
* New IOStream protocol and support for [web sockets](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/notebooks/agentchat_websockets)!
* New custom model: Mistral AI API with native tool call support. [conversational chess game powered by mistral](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/cloud-mistralai)
* New benchmarking tool: [WebArena](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/tree/main/samples/tools/webarena). Run agents in the WebArena benchmark.
* Doc improvement
- Tutorial about [tool use](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/tutorial/tool-use)
- Simplified [quick start](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/Getting-Started#quickstart)
- Link to [notebook rendering](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/contributing.md#how-to-get-a-notebook-displayed-on-the-website)
* Other improvements such as silencing pip install messages, parsing HTML style tags, getting list of actors from directory service.

Thanks to skzhang1 jackgerrits BeibinLi davorrunje ekzhu olgavrou WaelKarkoub rajan-chari eltociear jamesliu shouldnotappearcalm and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Fix link in non-openai model doc by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2106
* mypy in pre-commit fixed by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2117
* Silences Pip Install Messages in Code Executors by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2105
* Update agentchat_nestedchat_optiguide.ipynb by eltociear in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2122
* Removing tool use from Use-Cases/agent_chat by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2120
* Update docs for new executors by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2119
* missing jupyter when import JupyterCodeExecutor by jamesliu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2132
* Add vision capability by BeibinLi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2025
* Native tool call support for Mistral AI API and topic notebook. by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2135
* New conversational chess notebook using nested chats and tool use by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2137
* add webarena in samples by olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2114
* context to kwargs by qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2064
* Bump webpack-dev-middleware from 5.3.3 to 5.3.4 in /website by dependabot in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2131
* Parse Any HTML-esh Style Tags by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2046
* Integrate AgentOptimizer by skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1767
* Introducing IOStream protocol and adding support for websockets by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1551
* [CAP] [Feature] Get list of actors from directory service. by rajan-chari in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2073
* Mark cache as a protocol and update type hints to reflect by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2168
* fix(): fix word spelling errors by shouldnotappearcalm in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2171
* Implement User Defined Functions for Local CLI Executor by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2102
* simplify getting-started; update news by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2175
* update AgentOptimizer docs by skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2178
* Fix formatting of admonitions in udf docs by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2188
* Fix iostream on new thread by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2181
* Add link for rendering notebooks docs on website by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2191

New Contributors
* jamesliu made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2132
* shouldnotappearcalm made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2171

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.20...v0.2.21

Highlights

* New research: [StateFlow - Build LLM Workflows with Customized State-Oriented Transition Function in GroupChat](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/02/29/StateFlow)
* New feature in `contrib`: [Image Generation Capability](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_image_generation_capability.ipynb)
* New sample app: [Composable Actor Platform for AutoGen](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/tree/main/samples/apps/cap)
* New example added to [Gallery](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/Gallery): [Multimodal Webagent created with AutoGen and OpenAI's Assistants API](https://github.com/schauppi/MultimodalWebAgent)
* AutoGen Studio improvement
* Upload/Dowload of Skills/Workflows
* Streaming Agent Replies
* Agent Message Summarization
* Support Azure AI Search
* Documentation improvement
* Tutorial about [Tool Use](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/tutorial/tool-use)
* Topic about Alternative Models:
* [Overview](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/about-using-nonopenai-models)
* [Together AI](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/cloud-togetherai)
* [LiteLLM with Ollama](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/local-litellm-ollama)
* [LM Studio](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/local-lm-studio)
* [vLLM](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/non-openai-models/local-vllm)
* Topic about [RAG](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/topics/retrieval_augmentation)
* More [Notebooks](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/notebooks)
* Improvement of using customized reply functions, nested chat, code execution, GPTAssistantAgent, and AutoGenBench
* Bug fix of async multi-chats and async reply functions

Thanks to kevin666aa WaelKarkoub rajan-chari schauppi victordibia ekzhu Dave2011 LittleLittleCloud jackgerrits davorrunje qingyun-wu christianladron lalo huskydoge afourney IANTHEREAL cheng-tan gagb randombet abhaymathur21 panckreous veh3546 marklysze and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* added new example in gallery.json by schauppi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1955
* Rename tutorial chatper "Termination" to "Chat Termination" by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1962
* Redirect from /docs/tutorial/termination to /docs/tutorial/chat-termination by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1991
* Feature: Composable Actor Platform for AutoGen by rajan-chari in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1655
* Rename tutorial chapter: "what is next" --> "what next" by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1992
* fixed typo by Dave2011 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1997
* [.Net] add release to nuget pipeline by LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1989
* Fix file not being flushed bug by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2003
* Fix type issues in exception_utils.py by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1972
* Fix type and default value of the code_execution_config parameter in UserProxyAgent by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1996
* add RAG under topics by qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1990
* Add extra_body field to LLMConfig dataclass for Azure AI Search support on Autogen studio by christianladron in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2011
* fix: [autogenbench] writing to stdout encoding error in win-os by lalo in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2002
* StateFlow Blog by kevin666aa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1826
* Update chat-termination.ipynb by huskydoge in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2019
* Update link to AGS repo in AGS blogpost by victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2022
* refactor: [conversable_agent] remove raise from property access by lalo in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2006
* Bump autogenbench version to 0.0.2 by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2027
* Add another batch of notebooks to the website by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1969
* [Feature] Adds Image Generation Capability 2.0 by WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1907
* Allow different senders in nested chat by qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2028
* Autogenstudio Updates [Upload/Dowload of Skills/Workflows, Streaming Agent Replies, Agent Message Summarization] by victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1801
* Separate openai assistant related config items from llm_config by IANTHEREAL in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2037
* Bump follow-redirects from 1.15.4 to 1.15.6 in /website by dependabot in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2035
* bug fix: fix agent_logging test by cheng-tan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2036
* Improve doc formatting of initiate_chats by gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2041
* Fix a initiate chats by randombet in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1938
* Request for longer response to make cache test more robust. by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2043
* adjust order of side bars by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2040
* code_utils.py powershell command bugfix in MacOS by abhaymathur21 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1963
* Add docs about how to use docker for when autogen itself is run in docker by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2052
* Use nested exceptions in get_powershell_command by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2058
* Update pre-commit by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2067
* Fix typo in conversation-patterns.ipynb by panckreous in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2066
* fix test_human_input by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2063
* Resolve types issues in coding by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2055
* Add LM Studio Example in Topics by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2044
* Encapsulate colored into a module by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2057
* refactor: [conversable_agent] remove list of func pointers by lalo in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2005
* Fix type issues in openai_utils.py by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2062
* Pin databind version to fix pydoc-markdown failure in CI by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2091
* Add mypy to pre-commit by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2068
* Add links to roadmap issues from README, Getting-Started, Contribute and Tutorial by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2072
* Bug Fix: Icons centered on homepage by veh3546 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2089
* Consolidate separate caching docs by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2054
* Pin databind package versions in gh-release CI by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2094
* Simplify creating a new agent with custom reply function by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2095
* Update GitHub actions by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2078
* Add tool use chapter to tutorial by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2079
* [Documentation] Using non-OpenAI models by marklysze in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2076
* Print slow tests in CI by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2082
* Ignore deprecated files from mypy test by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2103

New Contributors
* schauppi made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1955
* rajan-chari made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1655
* Dave2011 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1997
* christianladron made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2011
* huskydoge made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2019
* panckreous made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2066
* veh3546 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2089
* marklysze made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2076

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.19...v0.2.20