Highlights

• New capability TransformMessage: a generalization of previous long context handling capabilities. The previous capabilities will be deprecated.
• New research AutoDefense: Defend against jailbreak attacks with AutoGen.
• New support for non-OpenAI models:
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Mistral for Group chat.
  • Tips for non-OpenAI models.
• New user guide for custom speaker selection in group chat
• Update of StateFlow blogpost and paper.
• New notebook on web scraping with tool use.
• New example in gallery: Create Issues from Code Commits.

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