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OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.0

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.0
Primary source github.com ↗

Published July 7, 2026 · Category: AI Agents

Overview

Key Changes

RealtimeAgent's default is now gpt-realtime-2.1

Since this version, the default model for RealtimeAgents is gpt-realtime-2.1: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime-2.1

What's Changed

  • feat: update default realtime model to gpt-realtime-2.1 by @seratch in #3740
  • feat: add Unicode storage option to SQLAlchemySession by @seratch in #3746
  • fix(visualization): keep fillcolor on handoff nodes by merging style attributes by @comp in #3744

Documentation & Other Changes

  • docs: updates for v0.17.8 release by @seratch in #3737
  • Release 0.18.0 by @github-actions[bot] in #3742

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v0.17.8...v0.18.0

Source

Originally published at github.com.

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