2.6.0 (2026-09-04)
Features Added
- Added supporting AgentInsight* models and enums covering monitors, runs, generated insights, proposed fixes, highlighted and linked traces, costs, token usage, severity, status, and run triggers.
- Added Microsoft 365 agent publishing.
- Added optional Hosted Agent session defaults through
HostedAgentDefinition.session_configurationandSessionConfiguration, including idle-timeout configuration. - Added content-safety moderation support for custom request, response, and streaming invocation body formats.
- Added the optional
authorizationargument to.beta.routines.create_or_update, withRoutineAuthorizationandRoutineDispatchIdentityfor selecting the agent or routine creator identity. - Added
ShellToolboxTooland supporting container environment and network policy models, with the newToolboxToolType.SHELLenum member. - Added
WebIQPreviewToolandWebIQPreviewToolboxTool, with newToolType.WEB_IQ_PREVIEWandToolboxToolType.WEB_IQ_PREVIEWenum members. - Added the optional
external_web_accessproperty toWebSearchToolandWebSearchToolboxToolfor disabling live internet access.
Sample updates
- Added
sample_toolbox_with_shell.pyundersamples/agents/tools/, demonstrating a Prompt Agent invoking aShellToolboxTool. - Added
sample_toolbox_with_shipping_skill.pyundersamples/agents/tools/, demonstrating a Prompt Agent using a skill through a Toolbox MCP endpoint. - Added
sample_toolbox_with_shell_and_skill.pyundersamples/agents/tools/, demonstrating a Prompt Agent using a skill with aShellToolboxToolthrough a Toolbox MCP endpoint. - Added
sample_synthetic_multiturn_evaluation.pyundersamples/evaluations/, demonstrating simulation seed generation from an agent followed by multi-turn conversation simulation and evaluation. - Added
sample_responses_model_router.pyundersamples/responses/, demonstrating a Responses API request to a model router deployment and selection of a model by the router.
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed Responses API instrumentation for
with_raw_responsestreaming calls (GitHub issue 48646).