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livekit/agentsOct 6, 2026 → Oct 9, 20264 days between releases

What's New

Adds Sarvam TTS, Nabrah STT, and Cerebras models while stabilizing IPC and telemetry.

New Features

  • Sarvam bulbul:v4-flash TTS provider
  • Nabrah Arabic STT plugin
  • Cerebras qwen-3.8-27b Chat Model support
  • Speechify stream synthesis and prewarm

Improvements

  • Optimized IPC preload and connection stability
  • Fixed telemetry reporting for loop stalls
  • Bumped dependencies including bithuman and toxiproxy

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed AWS realtime session lifecycle after stream restarts
  • Fixed OpenAI function call replay on reconnection
  • Fixed voice preemptive generation for non-ASCII punctuation
  • Fixed inference temperature/top_p for GPT-5.1+ reasoning effort

Upgrade Notes

New integrations require configuration updates. Internal IPC changes regarding local EOT weights may affect weight loading behavior. Dependency updates include bithuman and toxiproxy.

The Two Releases

livekit-agents@1.8.5

livekit-agents@1.8.5

Oct 6, 2026· 16 days ago

This release introduces support for Gemini 3.8 Live models and sticky LLM fallback routing, alongside significant improvements to telemetry and stability across various providers like Google, ElevenLabs, and AWS.

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livekit-agents@1.8.6

livekit-agents@1.8.6

Oct 9, 2026· 12 days ago

This release focuses on stabilizing core components like STT, TTS, and IPC through various bug fixes, while introducing new integrations for Sarvam TTS and Nabrah STT, and optimizing inference and connection behaviors.

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