Changes:

• c798cb7 release: Mark Handoff Orchestrations Experimental (#5065)
• 524c021 .NET: Update release versions (#5059)
• 281661e .NET: Remove timeout from InputWait in OffThread execution (#4996)
• b0613a8 .NET: Bump Azure.AI.Projects to 2.0.0 GA (#5060)
• 79b3804 fix: Update Google.GenAI to verison compatible with M.E.AI 10.4.0+ (#5061)
• a356a16 .NET: Remove OpenAIAssistantClientExtensions class (#5058)

See More

• 628bb1a .NET: Rename Microsoft.Agents.AI.AzureAI to Microsoft.Agents.AI.Foundry and consolidate FoundryMemory (#5042)
• 15e435b Fix telemetry sample bug (#5037)
• 38de991 .NET: Fix RequestInfoEvent lost when resuming workflow from checkpoint (#4955)
• 25696a7 .NET: Replace Azure Foundry/Azure AI Foundry with Microsoft Foundry in .NET samples (#5032)
• 2cb78ea fix and unify devui samples (#5025)
• acaadc9 .NET: Add a verify-samples tool and skill (#5005)
• 3432984 Add Neo4j GraphRAG samples (#4994)
• 2a8c3e2 fixes to azure ai search init, samples (#5021)
• 9c9d81d .NET: Improve README: architecture overview, troubleshooting, and sample links (#5002)
• 47a8a30 Fix environment variable set statement in py DEV_SETUP (#5006)
• 6e7254b .NET: [BREAKING] Rename from ServiceStoredSimulatingChatClient to PerServiceCallChatHistoryPersistingChatClient (#4993)
• 3d09337 Update project name from 'Semantic Kernel' to 'Agent Framework' (#5001)
• 3c727b5 Improve CONTRIBUTING.md with dev setup links and docs guidance (#5000)
• 3f964c4 Removing old code-gen docs from dotnet root (#4997)

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[1.0.0] - 2026-04-02

Added

• repo: Add PACKAGE_STATUS.md to track lifecycle status of all Python packages (#5062)

Changed

• agent-framework, agent-framework-core, agent-framework-openai, agent-framework-foundry: [BREAKING] Promote from 1.0.0rc6 to 1.0.0 (Production/Stable) (#5062)
• agent-framework-core, agent-framework-openai, agent-framework-foundry: [BREAKING] Dependency floors now require released >=1.0.0,<2 packages, breaking compatibility with older RC installs (#5062)
• agent-framework-a2a, agent-framework-ag-ui, agent-framework-anthropic, agent-framework-azure-ai-search, agent-framework-azure-cosmos, agent-framework-azurefunctions, agent-framework-bedrock, agent-framework-chatkit, agent-framework-claude, agent-framework-copilotstudio, agent-framework-declarative, agent-framework-devui, agent-framework-durabletask, agent-framework-foundry-local, agent-framework-github-copilot, agent-framework-lab, agent-framework-mem0, agent-framework-ollama, agent-framework-orchestrations, agent-framework-purview, agent-framework-redis: Bump beta versions from 1.0.0b260330 to 1.0.0b260402 (#5062)
• docs: Update install instructions to drop --pre flag for released packages (#5062)

Removed

• agent-framework-core: [BREAKING] Remove deprecated BaseContextProvider and BaseHistoryProvider aliases (#5062)
• agent-framework-core: [BREAKING] Remove deprecated text parameter from Message constructor (#5062)

Fixed

• agent-framework-core, agent-framework-openai, agent-framework-foundry, agent-framework-azurefunctions, agent-framework-devui, agent-framework-orchestrations, agent-framework-azure-ai-search: Migrate message construction from Message(text=...) to Message(contents=[...]) throughout codebase (#5062)
• agent-framework-devui: Accept legacy payload formats (text, message, content, input, data) and convert to framework-native Message(contents=...) (#5062)
• samples: Fix Foundry samples to use env vars consistently and update install guidance (#5062)

This is part 3 of a 6-part series we’re running about how product managers are using AI tools and vibe coding. Written by and for product managers. Summary The design handoff bottleneck costs PMs days per feature, adding weeks of lag to product development cycles each quarter. Two types of design work exist — exploratory direction-setting and production refinement — and PMs are already equipped to own the first. A 90-minute vibe coding design sprint helps PMs generate, compare, and converge on a direction before involving the design team.

Cursor 3 is a unified workspace for building software with agents.

Microsoft is expanding its roster of in-house AI models, releasing a new speech-to-text system and making two existing models broadly available to developers for the first time.

The moves by Microsoft AI (MAI) are part of a broader effort by the company to expand its proprietary AI capabilities beyond its partnership with OpenAI, giving Microsoft more control over its own destiny in the competition against Google, Amazon, and others.

Microsoft announced MAI-Transcribe-1 on Thursday, a speech-to-text model that it says is the most accurate currently available. The company also released its existing voice and image generation models, known as MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2, for broad commercial use.

It’s Microsoft’s first major model release since a March reorganization, announced by CEO Satya Nadella, in which Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman shifted away from day-to-day Copilot oversight to focus on frontier model development and superintelligence.

Suleyman told The Verge that the transcription model runs at “half the GPU cost of the other state-of-the-art models.” He told VentureBeat that the model was built by a team of just 10 people, and that Microsoft plans to eventually build a frontier large language model to be “completely independent” if needed.

Microsoft also recently hired former Allen Institute for CEO Ali Farhadi and other top AI researchers from the Seattle-based institute to further bolster Suleyman’s team, as GeekWire reported last week.

MAI-Transcribe-1 is designed to handle noisy real-world conditions such as call centers and conference rooms, and Microsoft says it is testing integrations with Copilot and Teams. Microsoft says it offers the best price-performance of any large cloud provider, competing directly with OpenAI’s Whisper and Google’s Gemini on the FLEURS benchmark.

In a blog post, Suleyman called the model “not just the most accurate but also lightning fast.”

MAI-Voice-1 generates natural-sounding speech and now lets developers create custom voices from short snippets of sample audio. MAI-Image-2 ranks in the top three on the Arena.ai image generation leaderboard and is rolling out in Bing and PowerPoint.

All three are available on the Microsoft Foundry developer AI platform and MAI Playground.

Omar Shahine's new Microsoft role focused on bringing OpenClaw and personal agents to Microsoft 365 adds weight to the workplace-assistant story for the open-source AI framework, even as its current VS Code tooling remains early, gateway-centric, and only lightly connected to Microsoft's primary developer environments