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.
Evan Mattson
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