v1.6.0

1.6.0 (2026-07-06)

Features

• Add ADK Issue Monitoring (Spam Detection) Agent sample for Java (fd45dda)
• Add ADK Java Issue Triaging Agent sample (fa94438)
• Add ADK PR Triaging Agent for google/adk-java (f14f644)
• Add chat-completions API support to ApigeeLlm (df73784)
• Add ClassPathSkillSource to load skills from the Java classpath (587073a)
• Adds the ADK Stale Issue Auditor sample (b6bd2dd)
• advance SequentialAgent to later sub-agents after a HITL resume when resumability is enabled (407478b)
• flows: add RunConfig.groupFunctionResponsesInHistory to group function calls before responses (1b9b395)
• Updated Spring AI to 2.0.0, ECJ, build works with Java 25 (3f6665b)

Bug Fixes

• core: allow Long values to match INTEGER schema type (a6d41cf)
• dev: keep '' CORS default, drive WebSocket origins from config, warn on '' (5029081)
• dev: use localhost port wildcard for default CORS/WebSocket origins (cb73317)
• flows: end invocation on a deferred long-running tool call (6dd4594)
• gemini: align streaming function-call handling with ADK Python (37bb5e6)
• ignore usage-only responses outside bidi (a6cb87a)
• Make dry_run configurable for ADK Java PR triage, spam detection, and issue triage workflows (4225b07)
• Make stale issue workflow configurable for dry runs (d0edd41)
• map ChatResponse usage metadata to LlmResponse (71f6929)
• map token usage metadata for Anthropic Claude model (f76c5f9)
• Move @JsonCreator inside LiveRequest Builder (d667db8)
• preserve non-text output in streaming responses (b8be90d)
• prevent cross-user session data disclosure in VertexAiSessionService (d1b1d92)
• Resolve NPE when McpTool description is null (8ed64ea)
• Safely handle empty model in GoogleSearchTool request processor (e255192)
• scope ADK Java docs release analyzer to a single language (07a2ec9)
• skills: prevent path traversal in LocalSkillSource (55392f6)
• use daemon threads in OkHttp dispatchers to allow graceful JVM shutdown (9b046b6)
• Use existing secrets and built-in token in ADK docs release analyzer workflow (456234f)
• widen Integer to Long in castValue() for boxed Long parameter (bc32948)
• subscribe to appendEvent Single in runLive (fe6c683)

v1.5.0

1.5.0 (2026-06-20)

Features

• add avatar config support to the live streaming flow (fb9274e)
• add GitHub release-docs analyzer (Java) (792d2f4)
• Add thought signature support for chat completions (287987a)
• bump google-genai dependency to 1.58.0 (3abcf4f)
• Enhance BigQuery Agent Analytics Plugin with new event types (ec93f50)
• support optional types in function tool parameters (9a06dd3)
• Update token usage reporting to include thoughts and cache tokens (436b802)

Bug Fixes

• Bypass redundant getSession read in ADK Runner (aaedcaf)
• convert unsupported artifact MIME types to text (a60c246)
• initialize event ID when creating compaction events (fc480ec)
• SkillMdPath should be public (29d3203)
• stop dropping the latest event(s) in VertexAiSessionService.getSession (987ef4e)
• wait for the Runner to persist a step's events before the ADK flow's next step (sequential-tool-execution race) (0a40557)

Performance Improvements

• filter session events server-side by afterTimestamp in VertexAiSessionService.getSession (e12baa2)

v1.4.0

1.4.0 (2026-05-29)

Features

• Add GcsOffloader for asynchronously uploading content to Google Cloud Storage (51c9d1a)
• Add GcsOffloader for asynchronously uploading content to Google Cloud Storage (5bad20a)
• Add GcsOffloader for asynchronously uploading content to Google Cloud Storage (a1d2c1c)
• Add JSON cycle detection (1685a4e)
• Add streaming support for ChatCompletionsHTTPClient (384a0c5)
• Add telemetry and metrics recording capabilities (cc3b9ce)
• Add tools and toolset to use SkillSource in ADK agents (198b2fb)
• Add tools and toolset to use SkillSource in ADK agents (5ee51fd)
• Add tools and toolset to use SkillSource in ADK agents (83a4b71)
• Introduce max span limit to ApiServerSpanExporter (ae13073)
• refactor OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation within the ADK core, moving from manual span management to structured helper classes (e6fe9aa)

Bug Fixes

• adjust default ToolExecutionMode to SEQUENTIAL as it was actual and widely used behavior for all ADK Java users before parallel tool execution fix (fe88217)
• inject Dev UI tracer into core engine for embedded telemetry (8bccc3b)
• introduce PARALLEL_SUBSCRIBE ToolExecutionMode; restore previous PARALLEL semantics (d3e7f31)
• mcp: honor custom URL sub-paths in StreamableHttpServerParameters (a0c4b7b)
• pre-merge stateDelta before onUserMessageCallback in Runner (f1155ec)
• Resolve IllegalArgumentException for text MIME types in LangChain4j adapter (6ad2043)
• revert "Suppress empty-text-only chunks from streaming responses while preserving carried metadata" (69638df)
• route HITL confirmation back to originating sub-agent in workflow agents (d608909)
• run tools concurrently in PARALLEL ToolExecutionMode (020499b)
• Suppress empty-text-only chunks from streaming responses while preserving carried metadata (b4791ef)

Documentation

• clarify LlmAgent composition for workflow agents (49ff63b)

v1.3.0

1.3.0 (2026-05-13)

Features

• Add ChatCompletionsHTTPClient and support for non-streaming requests (9529c1a)
• Add conversion from LlmRequest to ChatCompletionsRequest (d37f6ee)
• Add SkillSource interface and implementations for loading skills (509c4aa)
• Add support for refusal content using "[[REFUSAL]]:" prefix (e9184c9)
• Refactor BigQueryAgentAnalyticsPlugin for async in preparation for GCS offloading (d837ef0)

Bug Fixes

• Account for nulls in EventActions and State (582cf7c)
• upgrade Mockito and JaCoCo for Java 25 compatibility (8574fc5)

v1.2.0

1.2.0 (2026-04-24)

Features

• Add telemetry headers (4009905)
• Adding functionality to support customer content formating (52323b4)
• Allowing McpAsycToolset Builder to take in a McpSessionManager (78766c1)
• Forward state delta from all events to parent session instead of just the last event (f4cd1b7)
• Implement BigQuery auto-schema upgrade and view creation (14027d1)
• Make BigQueryAgentAnalyticsPlugin state per-invocation (629c390)
• Support ChatCompletionChunk to LlmResponse conversion (589328e)
• Support plugins in Java AgentTool similar to Python's implementation (02a08a1)

Bug Fixes

• Allow BuiltInCodeExecutor for Gemini 3 models (1a3dd61)
• Fix ADK Runner race condition for sequential tool execution (69680bb)
• Fix ADK Runner race condition for sequential tool execution (9031cad)
• Removing deprecated Optional methods (8ef99f9)

v1.1.0

1.1.0 (2026-04-10)

Features

• Add ChatCompletionsRequest object (88eb0f5)
• Add ChatCompletionsResponse object (55becb8)
• Add ChatCompletionsResponse to LlmResponse conversion (ec88c64)
• add README for ADK LangChain4j integration library (f861ef9)
• add support for Gemma models in LlmRegistry (9d6cc80)
• add transcription in event (cb9d2e3)
• Implement Trace management, add HITL support (7407e37)
• Support Sub-agent Escalation event in Parallel Agent (Issue #561) (88c8b0e)
• Update event IDs in BaseLlmFlow's post processing section (d0e1085)
• Agentic Planning for ADK (076e903)

Bug Fixes

• Fix A2A protocol chunk streaming and task completion states (c95f669)
• Fix critical race condition in ADK Runner (51f4d1f)
• Fix critical race condition in ADK Runner (3091156)
• Fix race condition and stale session in ADK Runner (7964e93)

v1.0.0

1.0.0 (2026-03-30)

Features

• add InMemoryArtifactService to AgentExecutor and update pom.xml dependencies (24f8d5e)
• enabling output_schema and tools to coexist (40ca6a7)

Bug Fixes

• add media/image support in Spring AI MessageConverter (8ab7f07), closes #705
• add schema validation to SetModelResponseTool (issue #587 already implemented, but adding tests from PR #603) (cdc5199)
• Ensure callbackContextData is preserved across session update (d1e05ca)
• firestore: Remove hardcoded dependency version (6a5a55e)
• Fixing tracing for function calls (84dff10)
• handle null AiMessage.text() to prevent NPE and add unit test (PR #1035) (3e21e7a)
• parallel agent execution (677b6d7)
• Removing deprecated methods from Runner (3633a7d)
• resolve MCP tool parsing errors in Claude integration (5a2abbf)
• revert changes to AbstractMcpTool, maintaining backwards compatible text_output field in the response (5f34d59)
• Using App conformant agent names (f3eb936)

Documentation

• add pull request template (6bb721b)

Miscellaneous Chores

• set release version to 1.0.0 (dd1c941)
• set version to 1.0.0-rc.2 (678b496)

v1.0.0-rc.1

1.0.0-rc.1 (2026-03-20)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• remove McpToolset constructors taking Optional parameters
• remove deprecated Example processor

Features

• add handling the a2a metadata in the RemoteA2AAgent; Add the enum type for the metadata keys (e51f911)
• add type-safe runAsync methods to BaseTool (b8cb7e2)
• Enhance LangChain4j to support MCP tools with parametersJsonSchema (2c71ba1)
• fixing context propagation for agent transfers (9a08076)
• Implement basic version of BigQuery Agent Analytics Plugin (c8ab0f9)
• init AGENTS.md file (7ebeb07)
• Propagating the otel context (8556d4a)
• remove McpToolset constructors taking Optional parameters (dbb1394)
• Return List instead of ImmutableList in CallbackUtil methods (8af5e03)
• update requestedAuthConfigs and its builder to be of general Map types (f145c74)
• Update return type of App.plugins() from ImmutableList to List (8ba4bfe)
• Update return type of toolsets() from ImmutableList to List (cd56902)
• update Session.state() and its builder to be of general Map types (4b9b99a)
• update stateDelta builder input to Map from ConcurrentMap (0d1e5c7)

Bug Fixes

• fix null handling in runAsyncImpl (567fdf0)
• improve processRequest_concurrentReadAndWrite_noException test case (4eb3613)
• include saveArtifact invocations in event chain (551c31f)
• prevent ConcurrentModificationException when session events are modified by another thread during iteration (fca43fb)
• Relaxing constraints for output schema (d7e03ee)
• Removing deprecated methods in Runner (0af82e6)
• Use ConcurrentHashMap in InvocationReplayState (94de7f1), closes #1009
• workaround for the client config streaming settings are not respected (#983) (3ba04d3)

Miscellaneous Chores

• remove deprecated Example processor (28a8cd0)
• set version to 1.0.0-rc.1 (dc5d794)

v0.9.0

0.9.0 (2026-03-13)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• refactor ApiClient constructors hierarchy to remove Optional parameters
• remove deprecated LlmAgent.canonicalTools method
• remove deprecated LoadArtifactsTool.loadArtifacts method
• update LoopAgent's maxIteration field and methods to be @nullable instead of Optional
• Remove Optional parameters in EventActions
• remove deprecated url method in ComputerState.Builder
• Remove deprecated create method in ResponseProcessor
• remove McpAsyncToolset constructors
• use @nullable fields in Event class
• remove methods with Optional params from VertexCredential.Builder

Features

• add formatting to the RemoteA2A agent so it filters out the previous agent responses and updates the context of the function calls and responses (0d6dd55)
• add multiple LLM responses to LLM recordings for conformance tests (bdfb7a7)
• add support for gemini models in VertexAiRagRetrieval (924fb71)
• Fixing the spans produced by agent calls to have the right parent spans (3c8f488)
• Fixing the spans produced by agent calls to have the right parent spans (973f887)
• refactor ApiClient constructors hierarchy to remove Optional parameters (910d727)
• Remove deprecated create method in ResponseProcessor (5e1e1d4)
• remove deprecated LlmAgent.canonicalTools method (aabf15a)
• remove deprecated LoadArtifactsTool.loadArtifacts method (bc38558)
• remove deprecated url method in ComputerState.Builder (a86ede0)
• remove executionId method that takes Optional param from CodeExecutionUtils (be3b3f8)
• remove McpAsyncToolset constructors (82ef5ac)
• remove methods with Optional params from VertexCredential.Builder (0b9057c)
• Remove Optional parameters in EventActions (b8316b1)
• replace Optional type of version in BaseArtifactService.loadArtifact with Nullable (5fd4c53)
• Trigger traceCallLlm to set call_llm attributes before span ends (d9d84ee)
• Update converters for task and artifact events; add long running tools ids (9ce78d7)
• update LoopAgent's maxIteration field and methods to be @nullable instead of Optional (e0d833b)
• update return type for artifactDelta getter and setter to Map from ConcurrentMap (d1d5539)
• update return type for requestedToolConfirmations getter and setter to Map from ConcurrentMap (143b656)
• update return type for stateDelta() to Map from ConcurrentMap (3f6504e)
• update State constructors to accept general Map types (c6fdb63)
• use @nullable fields in Event class (67b602f)

Bug Fixes

• Explicitly setting the otel parent spans in agents, llm flow and function calls (20f863f)
• Make sure that InvocationContext.callbackContextData remains the same instance (14ee28b)
• Removing deprecated InvocationContext methods (41f5af0)
• Removing deprecated methods in Runner (0d8e22d)
• Removing deprecated methods in Runner (b857f01)

Miscellaneous Chores

• override new version to 0.9.0 (a47b651)

v0.8.0

0.8.0 (2026-03-06)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• remove methods with Optional params from LiveRequest.Builder
• remove deprecated methods accepting Optional params in InvocationContext
• remove deprecated BaseToolset.isToolSelected method
• remove Optional parameters from LlmResponse.Builder's methods
• remove support for legacy transferToAgent, superseded by transfer_to_agent

Features

• add callbacks functionality to the agent executor (7e8f9dc)
• add example on how to expose agent via A2A protocol (e3ea378)
• Adding a Builder for EventsCompactionConfig (05fbcfc)
• Adding a SessionKey for typeSafety (d899f6f)
• Adding plugin(Plugin... p) helper methods on App and Runner builders (dc1a192)
• implement partial event aggregation in RemoteA2AAgent (e064067)
• remove deprecated BaseToolset.isToolSelected method (d2f1145)
• remove deprecated methods accepting Optional params in InvocationContext (88153c8)
• remove methods with Optional params from LiveRequest.Builder (84c62a4)
• remove Optional parameters from LlmResponse.Builder's methods (a3ac436)

Bug Fixes

• Allow injecting ObjectMapper in FunctionTool, default to ObjectMapper (re. #473) (71b1070)
• downgrade otel.version to 1.51.0 (117fedf)
• Ensure Gemini 3.1 models have events correctly buffered (acffdb9)
• Exit from rearrangeEventsForLatestFunctionResponse if size of events is less than 2 (5bc3ef8)
• Fixed issue where events were marked empty if the first part had an empty text; now checks all parts for meaningful content (a0cba25)
• prepare JSON serialization for Jackson 2.20.2 and Spring Boot 4.0.2 upgrades (8c6591b)

Miscellaneous Chores

• revert: switch release please secret to use adk-java-releases-bot's token (7eafd1b)

Code Refactoring

• remove support for legacy transferToAgent, superseded by transfer_to_agent (c1ccb2e)