Highlights

• Enhanced tool calling in Cohere
• Enhanced async support

What's Changed

• [CAP] Added a factory for runtime by @rajan-chari in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3216
• [Feature]: Add global silent param for ConversableAgent by @wenngong in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3244
• Fix Issue #2880: Document the usage of the AAD auth by @prithvi2226 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/2941
• [.Net] only add the last message to chat history in GroupChatExtension.SendAsync by @LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3272
• [.Net] Remove Azure.AI.OpenAI from AutoGen.DotnetInteractive package by @LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3274
• Correcting tool calling with Cohere by @jaygdesai in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3271
• Fix #3281 by @thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3282
• Fix autogen circular import error by @wenngong in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3276
• [.Net] Fix #3306 by @LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3310
• [.Net] add DotnetInteractiveKernelBuilder to AutoGen.DotnetInteractive by @LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3317
• [.Net] Add AutoGen.AzureAIInference by @LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3332
• Support async nested chats by @heyitsaamir in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3309
• fix broken link to conversational chess example by @alu042 in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3327
• Add last_speaker to GroupChatManager by @thinkall in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3318
• Fix message history limiter for tool call by @GaoxiangLuo in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3178
• Fix to issue #3295 related to Anthropic bedrock by @makkzone in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3298
• [.Net][AutoGen.DotnetInteractive] add DotnetInteractiveStdioConnector by @LittleLittleCloud in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3337
• Add latest gpt-4o model: gpt-4o-2024-08-06 by @umermansoor in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3329
• Bump version by @qingyun-wu in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3343

New Contributors

• @jaygdesai made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3271
• @heyitsaamir made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3309
• @alu042 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3327
• @GaoxiangLuo made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/pull/3178

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/compare/v0.2.33...v0.2.34