Merge branch 'main' into qq/langchain

Author: mrDzurb

.github/workflows/run-unittests-default_setup.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: "[Py3.8-3.11] - Default Tests"
+name: "[Py3.9-3.11] - Default Tests"
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4

pyproject.toml

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ aqua = ["jupyter_server"]
 # Revisit this section continuously and update to recent version of libraries. focus on pyt3.9/3.10 versions.
 testsuite = [
   "arff",
-  "autogen-agentchat~=0.2",
+  "autogen-agentchat<0.4",
   "category_encoders==2.6.3",  # set version to avoid backtracking
   "cohere==4.53",  # set version to avoid backtracking
   "faiss-cpu",