v2026.9.3.0 livekit-agents@1.8.0
UNITRONIX/BetterDeskSep 3, 2026 → Sep 5, 20261 day between releases
What's New
Focuses on stability fixes for major providers, improved voice agent interruption handling, and introduces new TTS/STT models and telemetry conventions.
Breaking Changes
- AWS Bedrock models that reject temperature/topP parameters will have these omitted by default
- XAI FileSearch usage is restricted and rejects combinations with other file search types
New Features
- Vakyam TTS plugin
- AssemblyAI universal-3-6-pro streaming model
- Deepgram Flux numerals, profanity_filter, and redact options
- Twilio connector warm transfer
- Full OTel GenAI semantic conventions
Improvements
- Improved voice agent interruption handling and microphone track replacement
- Enhanced telemetry with full OTel GenAI semantic conventions
- Fixed parameter handling for AWS Bedrock and Nova Sonic models
- Improved stability across AWS, OpenAI, and Google providers
Bug Fixes
- Tolerate unparseable stored tool-call arguments in Anthropic/Google/AWS formatters
- Correctly handle SIGTERM/SIGINT signals
- Fix microphone track replacement in RoomIO
- Handle incomplete Responses events for OpenAI
- Update Bedrock import for bedrock-runtime 0.10+
Upgrade Notes
Update AWS Bedrock configurations if models reject temperature/topP parameters. Review XAI FileSearch usage as it now rejects combinations with other file search types. No code migrations required beyond package update.
The Two Releases
v2026.9.3.0
Sep 3, 2026· 2 months ago
Focuses on service migrations to the gateway, new layout updates, and calendar enhancements.
Full release noteslivekit-agents@1.8.0
Sep 5, 2026· 2 months ago
This release focuses on stability fixes for major providers (AWS, OpenAI, Google), improvements to voice agent behavior (handling interruptions, microphone tracks), and introduces new features like Vakyam TTS and updated STT models (AssemblyAI, Deepgram).
Full release notes