Highlights

• Generalized and Improved RAG: customizable vector database; adding source to answer.
• Function call support for Anthropic Claude.
• Usage and cost info are made easier to read.
• Improvement to long context handling, stateflow, agent optimizer, code execution.

Thanks to @thinkall @kevin666aa @WaelKarkoub @skzhang1 @PyroGenesis @wmwxwa @levscaut @JoshTrim @giorgossideris @Hk669 and all the other contributors!

What's Changed

• Add source to the answer for default prompt by @thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2289
• Add a vectordb module by @thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2263
• Update StateFlow to use LocalCommandLineCodeExecutor by @kevin666aa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2335
• [Fix] Improves Token Limiter by @WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2350
• support llm_config in AgentOptimizer by @skzhang1 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2299
• fix markdown for long context user guide by @PyroGenesis in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2351
• Add extra_require for cosmosdb in setup.py by @wmwxwa in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2355
• [Fix] Handle Missing Contents in Messages in MessageTokenLimiter by @WaelKarkoub in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2364
• add support for Anthropic Claude function call by @levscaut in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2311
• Add "py" as lang in conversable agent (#1062) by @JoshTrim in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2144
• Standardize printing of MessageTransforms by @giorgossideris in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2308
• Made the cost info easier to read by @Hk669 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2356
• fix local test failures by @sonichi in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2386

New Contributors

• @wmwxwa made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2355
• @JoshTrim made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2144
• @giorgossideris made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2308
• @Hk669 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2356

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.23...v0.2.24