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[1.8.0] - 2026-06-04

agent-framework-core: Add MCP-based skills discovery (McpSkillsSource) (#6169)
agent-framework-core: Progressive tool exposure via FunctionInvocationContext (#6233)
agent-framework-core: Add background agent support to harness agent (#6155)
agent-framework-core: Add AgentFileStore and FileAccessProvider for file access operations (#6099)
agent-framework-core: Coalesce code interpreter history chunks (#5801)
agent-framework-core: Run sync tools off the event loop (#5773)
agent-framework-bedrock: Implement native structured output support via Converse API (#6052)
agent-framework-foundry: Add Foundry Adaptive Evals integration for rubric-generation (#6101)
agent-framework-foundry: Add timeout parameter to FoundryAgent to fix ConnectTimeout on multi-turn conversations (#6263)
agent-framework-mistral: Add Mistral AI embedding client package (#5480)
agent-framework-a2a: Expose supported_protocol_bindings as configurable parameter (#6098)
agent-framework-a2a: Set message_id on AgentResponseUpdate for message-bearing paths (#6163)
agent-framework-foundry-hosting: Persist hosted MCP call/results as canonical mcp_call output (#6070)

agent-framework-github-copilot: [BREAKING] Upgrade github-copilot-sdk to v1.0.0 (stable) (#6292)
agent-framework-core: [BREAKING — experimental] Refactor Skill API to async resource and script lookup (#6135)
agent-framework-github-copilot: Promote to release candidate (1.0.0rc1)
agent-framework-declarative: Promote to release candidate (1.0.0rc1) (#6256)

agent-framework-core: Fix compaction message-id collisions and tool-loop summary persistence (#6299)
agent-framework-core: Fix observability unsafe serialization of function-call arguments containing dataclass/framework objects (#6026)
agent-framework-core: Consolidate MCP reliability fixes (#6145)
agent-framework-core: Backfill chat span request model if unknown and response model is available (#6160)
agent-framework-anthropic: Skip orphan anthropic thinking signatures (#5784)
agent-framework-foundry: Fix FoundryAgent stripping model from PromptAgent requests (#5526)
agent-framework-foundry-hosting: Fix toolbox consent flow in hosted agent (#6249)
agent-framework-foundry-hosting: Drop hosted MCP calls when reasoning is stripped (#6210)
agent-framework-openai: Fix OTLP HTTP base-endpoint losing /v1/{signal} auto-append (#5913)
agent-framework-openai: Drop hosted MCP calls when reasoning is stripped (#6210)
agent-framework-orchestrations: Fix spurious Magentic custom manager warning (#6261)
agent-framework-azurefunctions: Fix integration test worker crashes on Py3.13 (#4260)