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Release 5.0 2026.06.30.1

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New Features 🚀​

New AI Services​

Vision Service​

Serenity* Star now includes a dedicated Vision service you can use directly from the API or in the playground. Automate image analysis and get detailed, structured insights without wiring up a full agent. It's a fast way to add image understanding to your workflows and integrate the results into your own applications.

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Text to Speech​

A new Text-to-Speech service lets you generate high-quality speech audio files straight from the API or in the playground. Turn any text into natural-sounding audio on demand.

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Skills​

Prompt Skill — New Mode​

The Prompt skill now supports a new Instruction Mode. It lets the agent read additional instructions on demand for extra context. This keeps your main behaviour lean while still giving the agent the guidance it needs, exactly when the situation calls for it.

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Vision Skill​

The new Vision skill gives any agent the ability to analyze and understand images within its flow. Add vision to models that don't support it natively, or bring in a more capable vision model when the situation calls for it. Your agents can now inspect screenshots, documents, and photos as part of a task and act on what they see.

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Chat Widget Reasoning​

The Chat Widget now can show the agent's reasoning, giving end users better insight into how each response was produced. Showing the steps behind an answer builds trust and helps users understand the logic that led to it, right inside the conversation.

Showing reasoning must be enabled in the Chat Widget channel configuration.

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Enhancements ✨​

Web Search — New OpenAI Models and Citations​

Web Search now supports the latest OpenAI models, bringing more capable and up-to-date reasoning to your agents' searches. Answers that draw on Web Search results are supported for in citations, so users can trace each response back to its sources and verify where the information came from.

Reasoning Tokens in Instances​

The instance detail now reports reasoning tokens, giving you clearer visibility into how reasoning models consume tokens. With this breakdown you can better understand and forecast the cost of reasoning-heavy executions across your agents.

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Successor Model Email Notifications​

Get notified by email when a successor model is announced, keeping you up to date with the latest, state-of-the-art models. Plan your migrations ahead of time and adopt newer, better-performing models before older ones are retired.

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Volatile Datasets and Excel Support​

Datasets now support Excel files. Compatible CSV and Excel files attached as volatile Knowledge are automatically converted, when their schema is suitable, into a volatile dataset that the agent can query on demand, improving accuracy, context usage, and response quality.

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Bring Your Own Embedding Model​

The Bring Your Own Model feature now supports embedding models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Connect your own embedding infrastructure to power Knowledge search keeping data within your control, strengthening compliance and governance.

Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements 🛠️​

  • Updated the JavaScript and .NET SDKs to use the new per-agent Volatile Knowledge endpoints.
  • Improved handling of vendor errors.
  • Improved logging of skill failures caused by unhandled errors.
  • Fixed an incorrect Knowledge separator indicator that was not producing section breaks.
  • Fixed an issue with enabling/disabling "enable thinking" on Alibaba models.
  • Performed a full review of AI model configurations to ensure all capabilities are up to date, and fixed several vendors to support advanced thinking capabilities.
  • The Demo Page side panel now shows a link to copy the page URL.
  • Added a streaming indicator in the instance detail.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented sorting by price in the Store.
  • Enabled Adaptive Thinking configuration for Anthropic models.
  • Added the ability to delete your own models when they haven't been used, along with the option to enable/disable them.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented loading the same AI model with a different mode for a vendor.
  • Adjusted the services catalog to group services by type.
  • Improved JSON extraction for the jsonContent field in agent responses.
  • Fixed an issue with the fallback model when the same vendor was configured for both models.
  • The Serenity* Store now supports Markdown in your listings for clearer, richer presentation.
  • API Key Pooling is now available for embedding services, providing more stable operation.
  • We continue to strengthen platform security, with enhanced encryption of sensitive data throughout Serenity* Star.
  • Serenity* AI Chat now initializes with ready-to-use skills, with no manual configuration needed.