v0.2.1

This release is the first update since v0.2.0.

Headsup: the sample app AutoGen Assistant will be renamed as AutoGen Studio in future.

Highlights

• An initial version of AutoBuild for automatically building multi-agent systems.
• v0.1 features that are added back to the new client-based inference: teachable agent, cost calculation and summary, raise content filter error.
• Function Inception: Enable AutoGen agents to update/remove functions during conversations. - View Notebook
• Improvement to group chat: termination,
• Improvement to teachable agent: progress bar for learning.
• Improvement to retrieve chat: more informative warning.
• Improvement to gpt assistant agent: verbose flag for allowing more output to be printed.
• Improvement to testbed: utilize OPENAI_API_KEY; adding GAIA benchmark.
• Improvement to multimodal: generalize the data structure to incorporate gpt-4v message format.
• Improvement to the sample app (will be renamed as AutoGen Studio in future).
• Allow async human input.
• Temporary fix to the breaking change introduced by openai 1.3: limit openai dependency to <1.3.
• Improvement in test, documentation and website: Examples are moved to a standalone tab and a new tab Ecosystem is added.

Thanks to @LinxinS97 @JieyuZ2 @rickyloynd-microsoft @kevin666aa @elecnix @afourney @thinkall @IANTHEREAL @BeibinLi @ShobhitVishnoi30 @olaoluwasalami @hodgesmr @skzhang1 @cpacker @victordibia @joshkyh @PyroGenesis @axa99 @momuno and all the other contributors!

What's Changed

• Restore TeachableAgent tests by @rickyloynd-microsoft in #761
• Add links to newly added notebooks in the website #756 by @olaoluwasalami in #772
• how to register a rely function Issue-478 by @olaoluwasalami in #579
• Remove version condition to fix issue #775 by @thinkall in #777
• Update application figure by @qingyun-wu in #352
• add cost calculation to client by @kevin666aa in #769
• Progress bar for learn_from_user_feedback by @rickyloynd-microsoft in #776
• Quick fix for 765 by @afourney in #809
• Improve docstring of query_texts and search_string by @thinkall in #795
• GroupChat handle is_termination_msg by @afourney in #804
• Fix Langchain link in examples doc by @hodgesmr in #811
• Add a warning message if docs_path not explicitly set by @thinkall in #814
• Testbed folders by @afourney in #792
• Add ecosystem page for website by @skzhang1 in #803
• update about pyautogen 0.2 by @sonichi in #826
• Update Ecosystem.md (MemGPT + AutoGen integration) by @cpacker in #838
• Improvements to AutoGen Assistant by @victordibia in #828
• Enable defining new functions after agent creation by @elecnix in #285
• Add a Blog Post on the AutoGen Assistant by @victordibia in #834
• update the news for v0.2 release by @sonichi in #844
• fix citations by @qingyun-wu in #843
• improve ecosystem page by @qingyun-wu in #823
• Message "content" now supports both str and List in Agents by @BeibinLi in #713
• Register async human input handler by @ShobhitVishnoi30 in #794
• Add cost summary to client.py by @kevin666aa in #812
• Add examples by @qingyun-wu in #851
• Testing AutoBuild by @LinxinS97 in #846
• Fix blog title display error by @LinxinS97 in #855
• Minor grammar and wording issues by @qingyun-wu in #854
• AutoBuild blog refinement by @LinxinS97 in #856
• add a verbose flag to let gpt assistant print more log by @IANTHEREAL in #717
• Testbed can now read the OPENAI_API_KEY in addition to OAI_CONFIG_LIST by @afourney in #848
• fix 0.2 release tag link by @PyroGenesis in #872
• Clarifies the phrasing in notebook agent_hierarchy_flow_using_select_speaker by @joshkyh in #876
• Add details to AutoBuild's blog and fix test error. This PR is related to #846 by @LinxinS97 in #865
• corrected openai utils example by @axa99 in #869
• bump version to 0.2.1 by @sonichi in #867
• Adds the GAIA benchark to the Testbed. This PR depends on #792 by @afourney in #810
• Update position of registered custom generate_reply functions for contrib/ agents per PR #794 by @momuno in #871
• raise error for content_filter by @sonichi in #849

New Contributors

• @hodgesmr made their first contribution in #811
• @cpacker made their first contribution in #838
• @elecnix made their first contribution in #285
• @ShobhitVishnoi30 made their first contribution in #794
• @LinxinS97 made their first contribution in #846
• @PyroGenesis made their first contribution in #872
• @axa99 made their first contribution in #869
• @momuno made their first contribution in #871

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1