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Claude Code v2.1.136 adds hard-deny auto mode classifier rules and an OTel survey toggle for enterprises.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v2.1.136 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v2.1.136
└──▷ USE IT
Enforce a hard block on a category of auto mode actions that no allow rule or user intent can override.
Re-enable the session quality survey when your enterprise pipelines session telemetry through OpenTelemetry.
$ CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY_FOR_OTEL=1 claude
›Adds CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY_FOR_OTEL env var to re-enable the session quality survey for enterprises capturing responses via OpenTelemetry.
›Adds settings.autoMode.hard_deny for auto mode classifier rules that block requests unconditionally, regardless of user intent or allow exceptions.
›WSL2: image paste from Windows clipboard now works via a PowerShell fallback when xclip/wl-paste cannot read image data.
›New flat_rate provider config option in crush.json lets you skip cost calculation for subscription-based providers where per-token billing doesn't apply.
OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.0 defaults RealtimeAgent to gpt-realtime-2 and tightens sandbox path controls via SandboxPathGrant
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v0.17.0 https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v0.17.0
└──▷ USE IT
Grant a trusted host directory outside the SDK process base_dir so a sandbox manifest can read it as a LocalDir source.
python
from pathlib import Path
from agents.sandbox import Manifest, SandboxPathGrant
from agents.sandbox.entries import Dir, LocalDir
TRUSTED_DOCS_ROOT = Path("/opt/my-app/docs")
manifest = Manifest(
extra_path_grants=(
SandboxPathGrant(path=str(TRUSTED_DOCS_ROOT), read_only=True),
),
entries={
"fixtures": LocalDir(src=Path("fixtures"), description="Local test fixtures."),
"docs": LocalDir(src=TRUSTED_DOCS_ROOT, description="Trusted local documents."),
"output": Dir(description="Generated artifacts."),
},
)
›Adds SandboxPathGrant to Manifest.extra_path_grants so trusted host paths outside the SDK process base_dir can be explicitly granted (optionally read_only=True) for sandbox source materialization.
›Changes the default model for RealtimeAgent sessions to gpt-realtime-2.
└──▷ BREAKING ON UPGRADE
!Sandbox local source materialization now constrains LocalFile.src and LocalDir.src to the SDK process current working directory (base_dir) unless the path is covered by Manifest.extra_path_grants. Applications that copy host files or directories from outside base_dir into a sandbox workspace must add a SandboxPathGrant for each trusted host root.
PydanticAI v1.92.0 adds Anthropic task budget support and a runtime output_retries override for agents.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch v1.92.0 https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout v1.92.0
›Adds runtime output_retries override on agent runs, allowing per-call control of output retry counts without reconfiguring the agent; retries is now deprecated in favour of output_retries.
llama.cpp b9080 adds GGUF conversion support for the Gemma4 26B A4B NVFP4 (NVIDIA FP4) checkpoint format.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch b9080 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout b9080
›Adds GGUF conversion support for the Gemma4_26B_A4B_NVFP4 HuggingFace checkpoint format, enabling the Gemma 4 26B mixture-of-experts model with NVIDIA FP4 quantization to be used with llama.cpp.
Phoenix 15.5.0 adds x-project-name HTTP header support for OTLP trace ingestion and wires agent tools into /chat-v2.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch arize-phoenix-v15.5.0 https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout arize-phoenix-v15.5.0
└──▷ TRY IT
Route OTLP traces to a specific Phoenix project without changing the endpoint — useful in multi-project CI pipelines.
Milvus Go SDK v2.6.4 adds struct-array vector sub-field columns, EmbeddingList/MAX_SIM search types, and gRPC authority routing.
└──▷ GET THIS VERSION
$ git clone --branch client/v2.6.4 https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:$ git checkout client/v2.6.4
└──▷ USE IT
Insert rows into a struct-array field without manually building sub-columns — useful when ingesting multi-vector documents.
›Adds ColumnFloatVectorArray, ColumnFloat16VectorArray, ColumnBFloat16VectorArray, ColumnBinaryVectorArray, and ColumnInt8VectorArray column types for struct-array vector sub-fields supporting ArrayOfVector sub-fields inside struct arrays.
›Adds entity.FloatVectorArray, entity.Float16VectorArray, entity.BFloat16VectorArray, entity.BinaryVectorArray, and entity.Int8VectorArray search vector types, dispatched to matching PlaceholderType_EmbList* values, enabling MAX_SIM / EmbeddingList search against struct-array vector sub-fields such as clips[clip_emb].
›Adds WithStructArrayColumn(name, structSchema, rows) helper to column-based insert/upsert options, accepting []map[string]any row data and inferring scalar/vector sub-column types from the provided struct schema.
›Adds ClientConfig.WithGrpcAuthority(authority) to set the gRPC :authority header for proxy-based routing.
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