livekit-agents@1.6.4

gitbutlerapp/gitbutlerlivekit-agents@1.6.4Jun 24, 2026by chenghao-mou

AI Summary

This release focuses on stabilizing agent handoffs and speech recognition by fixing input anchoring and error handling, while also introducing new avatar plugins.

Key Highlights

Fix for STT input anchor preservation during agent handoff
Disable retry logic for EOT errors to prevent connection issues
Addition of Protoface avatar plugin
Updates to local-inference and LiveKit dependencies

New Features

Protoface avatar plugin

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

### Bug fixes

**Turn Detector**
* disable retry for eot errors by @chenghao-mou in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6195
* disable eot connection error retry too by @chenghao-mou in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6196

**Turn handling/committing**
* fix(agents): keep STT input anchor on the pipeline across handoff by @chenghao-mou in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6207 

>[!WARNING]
> users are advised to upgrade if you use agent handoff with STT and are on 1.5.14 ~ 1.6.3

### Other updates

**Core**
* chore(deps): update livekit dependency by @chenghao-mou in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6194
* chore(example): update otel trace example by @chenghao-mou in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6178
* chore(dep): update local-inference dep by @chenghao-mou in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6214
* update livekit version by @chenghao-mou in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6217
* Hotel Receptionist Scenario Expansion by @ShayneP in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6186

**Plugins**
* chore(elevenlabs): update `language_code` doc to remove error case by @inickt in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6197
* (xai realtime): set text modality by @tinalenguyen in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6198
* fix(google): clean up STT input frame task by @gyx09212214-prog in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6193
* feat: add Protoface avatar plugin by @protoface-team in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6164

**Version update** 
* livekit-agents@1.6.4 by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6218

## New Contributors
* @gyx09212214-prog made their first contribution in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6193
* @protoface-team made their first contribution in https://github.com/livekit/agents/pull/6164

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/livekit/agents/compare/livekit-agents@1.6.3...livekit-agents@1.6.4