Highlights

• New research: StateFlow - Build LLM Workflows with Customized State-Oriented Transition Function in GroupChat
• New feature in contrib: Image Generation Capability
• New sample app: Composable Actor Platform for AutoGen
• New example added to Gallery: Multimodal Webagent created with AutoGen and OpenAI's Assistants API
• AutoGen Studio improvement
  • Upload/Dowload of Skills/Workflows
  • Streaming Agent Replies
  • Agent Message Summarization
  • Support Azure AI Search
• Documentation improvement
  • Tutorial about Tool Use
  • Topic about Alternative Models:
    • Overview
    • Together AI
    • LiteLLM with Ollama
    • LM Studio
    • vLLM
  • Topic about RAG
  • More 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