Highlights

• Summary of recent updates.
• Support customized speaker selection method: example.
• Improvement in nested chats and code execution.
• Improvement in doc, notebooks and docker file.
• Bug fix for clear history and custom client.
• Fix message processing order for proper combination of agent capabilities.

Thanks to @kevin666aa @ekzhu @jackgerrits @GregorD1A1 @KazooTTT @swiecki @truebit and all the other contributors!

What's Changed

• Remove default trigger value for register_nested_chats by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1833
• Split apart ecosystem page, update sidebar, other website tweaks by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1812
• Upgrade Quarto and use notebook metadata for frontmatter by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1836
• Fix for bugs appeared when using function calls with clear history functionality by @GregorD1A1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1531
• revert quarto upgrade by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1840
• adjust the order of message processing by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1841
• add doc about effects for capabilities by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1842
• Upgrade quarto and include mitigation for title issue, fix links by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1851
• Create topics dir and move llm config by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1853
• Raise errors if incompatible args are used with an executor by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1855
• Add documentation for jupyter code executor by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1809
• summary of recent updates by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1850
• Small edits to update blog post by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1869
• Fix docs for. EmbeddedIPythonCodeExecutor by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1871
• Resolve warning on port binding by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1870
• Move executor diag print to conversable_agent by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1867
• Change name from LocalCommandlineCodeExecutor to LocalCommandLineCodeExecutor by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1873
• fix: update the docs link by @KazooTTT in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1879
• Fix devcontainer Dockerfile for arm by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1866
• Resolve type issues in redis cache by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1872
• UPDATE: Fixed broken examples links by @swiecki in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1886
• Add test to confirm that executor timeout preserves kernel state by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1885
• Add annoucement bar for what's new blog post by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1884
• fix ModelClient create function signature error by @truebit in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1865
• Fix issue with git checkout main by @ekzhu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1876
• Download lfs in website build by @jackgerrits in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1894
• Allow user to pass in a customized speaker selection method by @kevin666aa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1791

New Contributors

• @swiecki made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1886
• @truebit made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/1865

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.16...v0.2.17