chore: update package versions to 0.4.5 and remove deprecated requirements

python/packages/autogen-agentchat/pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "autogen-agentchat"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.4.5"
 license = {file = "LICENSE-CODE"}
 description = "AutoGen agents and teams library"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "autogen-core==0.4.4",
+    "autogen-core==0.4.5",
 ]
 
 [tool.ruff]

python/packages/autogen-core/pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "autogen-core"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.4.5"
 license = {file = "LICENSE-CODE"}
 description = "Foundational interfaces and agent runtime implementation for AutoGen"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ dev = [
     "pygments",
     "sphinxext-rediraffe",
 
-    "autogen_ext==0.4.4",
+    "autogen_ext==0.4.5",
 
     # Documentation tooling
     "diskcache",

python/packages/autogen-ext/pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "autogen-ext"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.4.5"
 license = {file = "LICENSE-CODE"}
 description = "AutoGen extensions library"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "autogen-core==0.4.4",
+    "autogen-core==0.4.5",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
@@ -28,24 +28,24 @@ azure = [
 docker = ["docker~=7.0"]
 openai = ["openai>=1.52.2", "tiktoken>=0.8.0", "aiofiles"]
 file-surfer = [
-    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.4",
+    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.5",
     "markitdown>=0.0.1a2",
 ]
 graphrag = ["graphrag>=1.0.1"]
 web-surfer = [
-    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.4",
+    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.5",
     "playwright>=1.48.0",
     "pillow>=11.0.0",
     "markitdown>=0.0.1a2",
 ]
 magentic-one = [
-    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.4",
+    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.5",
     "markitdown>=0.0.1a2",
     "playwright>=1.48.0",
     "pillow>=11.0.0",
 ]
 video-surfer = [
-    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.4",
+    "autogen-agentchat==0.4.5",
     "opencv-python>=4.5",
     "ffmpeg-python",
     "openai-whisper",

python/samples/core_distributed-group-chat/README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@ This example runs a gRPC server using [GrpcWorkerAgentRuntimeHost](../../src/aut
 ### Setup Python Environment
 
 1. Create a virtual environment and activate it. (e.g. `python3.12 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate`)
-2. Run `uv pip install -r requirements.txt` to install compiled set of dependencies.
+2. Install dependencies.
+
+```bash
+pip install "autogen-ext[openai,azure,chainlit,rich,pyyaml]"
+```
 
 ### General Configuration