This release focuses on improving command reliability and fixing bugs from version 0.4.0. Some internal changes have been made that pave the way for the highly anticipated 0.5.0 major release.

As usual, this release cannot have happened without Auto-GPT's ever-enthusiastic community. Hop over to the discussion boards to discuss this release and more.

This time round, we're highlighting "New Contributors" before the longer changelog details, and including testers, PR-reviewers and other active community members. We may keep this new format in future releases.

Highlights ✨

• Directory-based plugins! - Great news! Plugins no longer have to be compressed into zip files. Simply placing a plugin in a subfolder or repository clone within the plugins directory will now allow it to be recognized and loaded.
• Keyboard navigation! - People who are "less mouse, more keyboard" will love this.
• JSON fixes - Several prompts and JSON problems have been resolved, leading to a more dependable selection and execution of commands.
• More dependable search - Internet searching is now more reliable and less prone to errors thanks to Auto-GPT's improved ability to detect duckduckgo rate limits. The tool now automatically retries searches when these limits are reached.
• Better read_file - Building on the expansion of the read_file command in version 0.4.0, further improvements have been made to Auto-GPT's reading and writing of files.
• More reliable Python code execution - Similarly, Auto-GPT should choke less when creating or executing Python code, and now has the ability to do so within a Docker install
• To round up the highlights, the configuration of allowed/denied shell commands has been simplified and made less confusing, and batch summarization of LLM message history should address some identified crashes caused by the summarization process.

New Contributors & Notable Catalysts

• @DrMurx made their first contribution in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/2821
• @BorntraegerMarc made their first contribution in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/1569
• @javableu made their first contribution in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4167
• @scenaristeur made their first contribution in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4561
• @shrektwo (Discord) - Release testing
• @Boostrix - PR Triaging, code contributions, release testing
• @Wladastic - PR Triaging, code contributions, release testing

Changelog

• Cache Python Packages in the CI pipeline by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4488
• Skip flaky challenges by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4573
• Add replace_in_file command to change occurrences of text in a file by @bfalans in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4565
• Sync release v0.4.0 back into master by @Pwuts in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4585
• Fix "update cassettes" step by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4591
• Rearrange tests & fix CI by @Pwuts in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4596
• Fix inverted logic for deny_command by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4563
• Update cassette submodule by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4601
• Fix duckduckgo rate limiting by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4592
• Increase thresholds for PR autolabeler by @Pwuts in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4602
• Fix issues with file reading and writing with Python code by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4567
• Dockerfile: reduce layer bloat by @DrMurx in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/2821
• Update .gitignore by @Androbin in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/882
• feat: log new-line so user can differentiate sections better in console by @BorntraegerMarc in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/1569
• Update .gitignore by @ntindle in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4610
• Feat set token limits based on model by @BaseInfinity in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4498
• Set proxy headers as secrets by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4620
• Inform users that challenges can be flaky by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4616
• Make challenge "write file" harder + add level 2 by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4481
• Fix "debug code" challenge by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4632
• Decrement information retrieval challenge a so that it doesn't break the CI by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4637
• Add command for directly executing python code by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4581
• Fix issues with information retrieval challenge a by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4622
• Streamline / clarify shell command control configuration by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4628
• False believes challenge based on sally anne test. by @javableu in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4167
• Quicker logs in pytest by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4486
• Clean up and fix issues with env configuration and .env.template by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4630
• Fix prompt issue causing 'No Command' issues and challenge b to fail by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4623
• Decrement memory challenge c by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4639
• Add settings for custom base url by @DGdev91 in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/2594
• Implement directory-based plugin system by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4548
• Add config as attribute to Agent, rename old config to ai_config by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4638
• Upload logs as artifact by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4640
• Create benchmarks that will run Regression Tests and unbeaten challenges by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4647
• Pass agent to commands instead of config by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4645
• Retry regression tests by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4648
• Fix benchmark logs by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4653
• Implement Batch Summarization in MessageHistory Class to manage context length under model's token limit by @kinance in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4652
• Use prompt_toolkit to enable keyboard navigation in CLI by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4649
• Change memory challenge c expectations by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4657
• Update setup.md fix typo by @digger-yu in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4613
• make run.sh more compatible by @scenaristeur in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4561
• Add basic Netlify config by @Pwuts in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4662
• Remove extra spaces in summarization prompt by @kinance in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4660
• Remove unused function split_file from file_operations.py by @Pwuts in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4658
• Add challenge identifiers to pytest by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4661
• Strip spaces from the end of truncated ai_name in log_cycle.py by @Pwuts in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4672
• Incorporating current summary length in token count calculation for the update_running_summary function by @kinance in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4670
• Correct and clean up JSON handling by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4655
• Make Benchmarks write cassettes without using them by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4664
• Fix autogpt docker image not working because missing prompt_settings by @merwanehamadi in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4680
• Rework plugin config to be file-based by @erik-megarad in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/4673
• Extract openai API calls and retry at lowest level by @collijk in https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pull/3696

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/compare/v0.4.0...v0.4.1