Autogen

Highlights

* New extensible agent capability for long context handling. [Example](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_capability_long_context_handling.ipynb)
* New extensible code execution interface and stateful executors. Examples upcoming.
* Documentation improvement and bug fix.
* Improvement in web surfer.

Thanks to gagb ekzhu jackgerrits mrwadams LittleLittleCloud olgavrou davorrunje and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Add quarto install to Contribute.md by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1585
* Fix a couple of tiny issues in blog posts by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1578
* Fix typo in title by mrwadams in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1594
* Fix: check response usage is not None by olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1599
* add other language drop down link to AutoGen website by LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1573
* Proxy PR for Long Context Capability 1513 by gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1591
* Hide table of contents on notebooks page by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1600
* Code executors by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1405
* Refactoring web surfer to use function decorators by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1435
* add long context handling notebook by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1618

New Contributors
* mrwadams made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1594

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.12...v0.2.13

Highlights
- Introducing [AutoAnny](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/02/02/AutoAnny): A New Discord Bot Built with AutoGen
- Enhancing [Multiple sequential chats](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_multi_task_chats.ipynb), a newly introduced interface that allows one to program a sequence of chats and carry previous chat results to new chats
- Allowing SocietyOfMind agents to work with function
- Documentation and usability improvements

Thanks to gagb afourney jackgerrits sonichi joshkyh amihalik and all the other contributors.
What's Changed
* Allow SocietyOfMind agent to work with function calling and tools. by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1569
* Error handling in getting LLM-based summary by qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1567
* Quick Fix on the Google Colab Link by joshkyh in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1571
* Update devcontainer.json with copilot extension by gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1556
* Introducing AutoAnny: A New Discord Bot Built with AutoGen by gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1501
* Using a more robust "reflection_with_llm" summary method by qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1575
* Expose filter_config function by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1582
* Adding max_tokens to autogenstudio LLMConfig by amihalik in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1574
* Add mypy config to pyproject.toml by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1543
* Add more descriptive error message in the presence of OpenAI API timeouts by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1577
* Update base container for website by gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1584
* avoid access private variable by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1592

New Contributors
* amihalik made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1574

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.11...v0.2.12

Highlights
Two major upgrades of conversation programming (experimental features under active development):
* [Finite state machine (FSM) based group chat](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/notebooks/agentchat_groupchat_finite_state_machine): allow more fine-grained control of speaker order transition in group chat.
* [Multiple sequential chats](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_multi_task_chats.ipynb): program a sequence of chats and carry previous chat results to new chats.

AutoGen Studio updates:
* Workflow export.
* Skill editing.
* CSV support.
* Windows testing.

Other improvements:
* Allow timeout for code execution in windows.
* Make every agent receive the termination message in group chat.
* Improvement in documentation.
* Fix an import issue.

Thanks to joshkyh freedeaths qingyun-wu victordibia pretherford ekzhu jackgerrits samuelogboye Xtrah olgavrou thinkall abhaymathur21 and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Disable default code execution on society_of_mind and web_surfer. by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1516
* Add notebooks section on website by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1495
* Update pyproject.toml for Poetry mismatch by agamm in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1454
* Update tests for code_utils and use ThreadPoolExecutor for code execution in windows by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1472
* remove useless code in groupchat; simplify the handling of termination msg by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1532
* Fix example for LLM configuration docs by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1528
* fix(path): Update Installation.md -Update Dockerfile path for Autogen base image build by samuelogboye in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1425
* Update outdated link in README.md by Xtrah in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1541
* Fix formatting of notebook contributing.md by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1540
* Custom Model Client docs follow-up by olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1545
* Fix docstrings of a_initiate_chat by thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1539
* Autogenstudio Updates [CSV support, Workflow Export, Skill Editing, Windows Testing ] by victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1475
* Graph group chat by joshkyh in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/857
* Update Docker.md by abhaymathur21 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1554
* patch to graph groupchat by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1555
* Import `oai.client` directly in `ConversableAgent` by AkashKulkarni4444 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1557
* New `initiate_chats` Interface for Managing Dependent Chats in ConversableAgent by qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1402

New Contributors
* agamm made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1454
* samuelogboye made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1425
* Xtrah made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1541
* abhaymathur21 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1554
* AkashKulkarni4444 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1557

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.10...v0.2.11

Breaking change
Change `code_execution_config` default in `ConversableAgent` to False to match the default value change of `last_n_messages`.

Highlights
* [Custom model client](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/01/26/Custom-Models) for extensibility of the inference mechanism
* [SocietyOfMindAgent](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_society_of_mind.ipynb): demonstrating using nested chat to compose a more capable single agent based on multi-agent chat
* Improvement of tool call and function call and GPTAssistantAgent
* Documentation improvement for function call, gallery, FAQ, notebooks etc.

Thanks to olgavrou afourney davorrunje jtrugman ekzhu namanbarkiya maxim-saplin jackgerrits Yanni8 victordibia eltociear pmalarme and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Update function call doc with example of not using decorator syntax. by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1441
* Improve docs/gallery card component by namanbarkiya in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1445
* FAQ, working with LLM endpoints and explaining why config-list is a list by maxim-saplin in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1451
* fixed wrong doc link by Yanni8 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1449
* Removed "Tool Call Id" from main content string. by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1471
* docs: initial Jupyter support for website docs, move config notebook by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1448
* Adds a SocietyOfMindAgent that presents as a single agent, but runs GroupChat as an inner-monologue by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/890
* Function calling upgrade by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1443
* fix: unit test should not call private function by olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1494
* Bump autogenbench version. by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1485
* update readme to add note on required Quarto Version. Update readme t… by victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1493
* Update README.md by eltociear in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1491
* Implement Overwrite Tools Functionality in GPTAssistantAgent by jtrugman in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1434
* Update Contribute.md, 1502 by victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1508
* Fix image print for auto feedback from code notebook by pmalarme in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1389
* deprecate using `None` for `code_execution_config` by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1506
* Added new models to token_count_utils by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1511
* change code_execution_config default by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1518
* Fix tests for GPT assistant by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1505
* fix broken links from moving oai utils notebook by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1497
* Custom Model Client support by olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1345

New Contributors
* namanbarkiya made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1445
* jtrugman made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1434
* pmalarme made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1389

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.9...v0.2.10

Highlights

* GroupChat support in AutoGen Studio.
* Introducing [AutoGenBench](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/01/25/AutoGenBench), A Tool for Measuring and Evaluating AutoGen Agents.
* (Experimental) Allow agents to send history cleaning commands in [group chat](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/reference/agentchat/groupchat).
* Notebook [example](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_sql_spider.ipynb) for SQL agent and Spider environment.
* New examples added to [Gallery](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/Gallery), such as stateful development environment in Jupyter Notebook and X-Force IDE.

Thanks to victordibia afourney GregorD1A1 byronxu99 cemtu olimoz randombet and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* Autogenstudio - Add GroupChat Support to UI by victordibia in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1352
* Cleanup and unify Dockerfiles by gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1333
* Fixed skipping code execution in docker test if already running in a container by davorrunje in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1383
* docs: new gallery item added. by cemtu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1365
* add blog and warning in readme for new breaking changes by olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1380
* test permissions by olaoluwasalami in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1264
* Fix permission block for deploy-website.yml by ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1397
* Introduces AutoGenBench by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1048
* Fixed broken links. by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1408
* bump version to 0.2.9 by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1430
* Add SQL agent and Spider environment by byronxu99 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1218
* Add A Stateful Dev Environment by Jupiter example to gallery by randombet in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1376
* Correct small typos in system messages by pbadeer in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1410
* docs: split apart installation docs into parts by jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1420
* functionality of manual history cleaning by user proxy added by GregorD1A1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1230

New Contributors
* cemtu made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1365
* byronxu99 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1218
* pbadeer made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1410
* jackgerrits made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1420
* GregorD1A1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1230

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.8...v0.2.9

Breaking changes
1. `use_docker` defaults to True.
2. `last_n_messages` defaults to "auto".

Highlights
1. Support both redis cache and diskcache for [agent chat](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/Use-Cases/agent_chat#llm-caching) and [client](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/docs/Use-Cases/enhanced_inference#caching).
2. [Web surfer agent](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_surfer.ipynb)
3. Allow `initiate_chat` with no message to take human input.
4. Add dev container for AutoGen Studio.

Thanks to olgavrou afourney vijaykramesh ekzhu balakreshnan bitnom gagb and all the other contributors!

What's Changed
* set use_docker to default to True by olgavrou in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1147
* Add dev container for AutoGen Studio by gagb in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1241
* Allow initiate_chat without passing message by bitnom in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1244
* [Core] implement redis cache mode by vijaykramesh in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1222
* More documentation for Cache. Updated FAQ to include database Locked error by balakreshnan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1291
* Add a web surfer agent that can search and browse the web. by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1093
* bump version to 0.2.8 by sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1349
* fix website production css by cheng-tan in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1366
* Add an AutoGen UI example powered by Panel by randombet in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1348
* Change last_n_messages to default to 'auto' by afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1356

New Contributors
* olgavrou made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1147
* vijaykramesh made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1222
* balakreshnan made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1291
* randombet made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1348

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.7...v0.2.8