agents Releases

A major update introducing full OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions, in-process PII stripping, and comprehensive improvements across STT and TTS providers including ElevenLabs, AWS, and Google.

Sep 5, 2026

Aug 28, 2026

A maintenance release focusing on bug fixes and stability improvements across various providers (OpenAI, Google, ElevenLabs, etc.) and adding new model support for Sarvam, Palabra, and Speechmatics.

Aug 27, 2026

Major release introducing PII Redaction Support for Agent Observability and Expressive Mode for voice agents to enable natural prosody and emotion.

Aug 20, 2026

Bug fix release addressing stability issues, including Cartesia error handling, STT error handling, and telemetry improvements.

Aug 20, 2026

Feature-rich release adding Deepgram Flux TTS, Bland TTS, and various STT provider updates including Google credentials and OpenAI gpt-5.5.

Aug 7, 2026

This release focuses on performance optimizations for the QueryNode and coordinator components, including improved GIS query speed and fixes for various accuracy issues in GIS, JSON, and encrypted storage.

Aug 4, 2026

Release includes a major deprecation warning and a critical fix for Ink-2 speech onset detection in STT.

Aug 3, 2026

This release adds a WhatsApp contact checking tool and improves error reporting for message sends by surfacing local history failures as warnings instead of silent divergences. Documentation was also aligned to standards.

Aug 3, 2026

This release introduces pacing options for sync sends, adds new webhook events, and fixes issues regarding session revocation and self-chat storage. It also resolves quoted direct messages across chat aliases.

Aug 2, 2026

This major release introduces a lake-native architecture with External Collections, flexible schema management for online add/drop/backfill, a complete overhaul of the sparse vector index using SINDI, and new capabilities like StructArray support, faceted search, and long-text handling.

Jul 29, 2026

Focus on avatar plugins, voice isolation, and telemetry improvements, adding Spatius and Fish Audio TTS support.

Jul 25, 2026

This release focuses on improving task scheduling, concurrent future registration, and query readiness. It introduces enhancements for load balancing across DataNodes and fixes several critical bugs related to WAL switching, index reconstruction, and GPU CAGRA search normalization.

Jul 24, 2026

Stability and feature additions including MCP support, runtime model swapping, and provider updates like ElevenLabs and Google.

Jul 18, 2026

Significant release adding Expressive Mode, Deepgram updates, and avatar support for LemonSlice.

Jul 9, 2026

Bug fix release focusing on Turn Detector and STT handoffs to prevent data loss during agent handoffs.

Jun 24, 2026

Minor bug fix release regarding SLNG speed, Google realtime tool rejection, and AssemblyAI inference params.

Jun 22, 2026

This release enhances Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities with new models and parameters, while fixing critical bugs in OpenAI reasoning, workflows, and Azure metrics.

Jun 19, 2026

Introduces LiveKit Turn Detector v1.0 to optimize response timing and includes various fixes for IPC processes, voice session deadlocks, and Azure STT recognition metrics.

Jun 19, 2026

Major release introducing asynchronous tools that allow long-running tasks to stream updates back to the LLM without blocking, along with filler phrases to manage silence during execution.

Jun 11, 2026