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Evan Mattson b55992bb67 Bump Python package versions for 1.9.0 release (#6583)
Selective, CHANGELOG-driven version bumps for the 2026-06-18 release.

Released tier: agent-framework-core and the root agent-framework go to 1.9.0
(minor). Core ships new public APIs (agent-loop middleware, tool-approval
middleware and harness integration, shell-tool harness integration, AG-UI
thread snapshot persistence, context-provider telemetry) plus two behavioral
breaking changes on evolving surfaces: MCP sampling now denies server-initiated
requests by default, and the FileAccess tools were aligned with the .NET
implementation. These are treated as within-1.x changes because every package
caps core at <2; a major bump would require rewriting those caps. The foundry
and openai packages go to 1.8.2 (patch, bug fixes only). The root
agent-framework-core[all] pin was moved to 1.9.0 in lockstep with core.

Release-candidate tier: ag-ui to 1.0.0rc5 and declarative to 1.0.0rc2 for their
respective changes. orchestrations is promoted to stable 1.0.0; PACKAGE_STATUS
and the README install hint were updated accordingly.

Prerelease tier (new Pacific date stamp 260618): anthropic (beta),
azure-contentunderstanding (alpha) and foundry-hosting (alpha). No beta cohort
bump was applied; only packages with changes this cycle were stamped.

Dependency floors: following the established convention, the core floor was
raised to >=1.9.0 on every non-core package bumped this cycle, preserving the
existing <2 upper bound.

Also resolves two pre-existing failures in the dependency-bounds validator that
are unrelated to the version bumps. Hosted-environment detection now catches a
bare ImportError so optional Foundry hosting probing cannot crash user-agent
setup. The harness shell-tool integration, which lazily imports the separate
agent-framework-tools package to avoid a circular runtime dependency, is now
type-checked and tested in isolated environments via a core dev
dependency-group, with the shell-tool tests guarded to skip when that package
is absent.
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# Python Package Status
This file tracks the current lifecycle state of the Python packages in this workspace. Some packages at later stages might have features within them that are not ready yet, these have feature stage decorators on the relevant APIs, and for `experimental` features warnings are raised. See the [Feature-level staged APIs](#feature-level-staged-apis) section below for details on which features are in which stage and where to find them.
Status is grouped into these buckets:
- `alpha` - initial release and early development packages that are not yet ready for general use
- `beta` - prerelease packages that are not currently release candidates
- `rc` - release candidate packages, these are close to ready for release but may still have some breaking changes before the final release
- `released` - stable packages without a prerelease suffix, these are stable packages that should not have breaking changes between versions
- `deprecated` - removed or deprecated packages that should not be used for new work
## Current packages
| Package | Path | State |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `agent-framework` | `python/` | `released` |
| `agent-framework-a2a` | `python/packages/a2a` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-ag-ui` | `python/packages/ag-ui` | `rc` |
| `agent-framework-anthropic` | `python/packages/anthropic` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-azure-contentunderstanding` | `python/packages/azure-contentunderstanding` | `alpha` |
| `agent-framework-azure-ai-search` | `python/packages/azure-ai-search` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-azure-cosmos` | `python/packages/azure-cosmos` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-azurefunctions` | `python/packages/azurefunctions` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-bedrock` | `python/packages/bedrock` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-chatkit` | `python/packages/chatkit` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-claude` | `python/packages/claude` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-copilotstudio` | `python/packages/copilotstudio` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-core` | `python/packages/core` | `released` |
| `agent-framework-declarative` | `python/packages/declarative` | `rc` |
| `agent-framework-devui` | `python/packages/devui` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-durabletask` | `python/packages/durabletask` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-foundry` | `python/packages/foundry` | `released` |
| `agent-framework-foundry-local` | `python/packages/foundry_local` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-gemini` | `python/packages/gemini` | `alpha` |
| `agent-framework-github-copilot` | `python/packages/github_copilot` | `rc` |
| `agent-framework-hyperlight` | `python/packages/hyperlight` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-lab` | `python/packages/lab` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-mem0` | `python/packages/mem0` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-mistral` | `python/packages/mistral` | `alpha` |
| `agent-framework-monty` | `python/packages/monty` | `alpha` |
| `agent-framework-ollama` | `python/packages/ollama` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-openai` | `python/packages/openai` | `released` |
| `agent-framework-orchestrations` | `python/packages/orchestrations` | `released` |
| `agent-framework-purview` | `python/packages/purview` | `beta` |
| `agent-framework-redis` | `python/packages/redis` | `beta` |
## Deprecated / removed packages
| Package | Previous path | State | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `agent-framework-azure-ai` | `python/packages/azure-ai` | `deprecated` | The client classes within the `azure-ai` package were renamed, sometimes changed, and moved to `agent-framework-foundry`. |
## Feature-level staged APIs
The following feature IDs have explicit feature-stage decorators on public APIs in the packages
listed below.
### Experimental features
#### `DECLARATIVE_AGENTS`
- `agent-framework-declarative`: declarative agent loading APIs from
`agent_framework_declarative`, including `AgentFactory`,
`DeclarativeLoaderError`, `ProviderLookupError`, and `ProviderTypeMapping`
from `agent_framework_declarative/_loader.py`
#### `EVALS`
- `agent-framework-core`: exported evaluation APIs from `agent_framework`, including
`LocalEvaluator`, `evaluate_agent`, `evaluate_workflow`, and the related evaluation types and
helper checks defined in `agent_framework/_evaluation.py`
- `agent-framework-foundry`: `FoundryEvals`, `evaluate_traces`, and `evaluate_foundry_target`
#### `SKILLS`
- `agent-framework-core`: exported skills APIs from `agent_framework`, including `Skill`,
`SkillResource`, `SkillScript`, `SkillScriptRunner`, and `SkillsProvider` from
`agent_framework/_skills.py`
### Release-candidate features
There are currently no feature-level `rc` APIs.