Agent Development Kit (ADK) 2.13.0 released
Stability: Access 12 mature experimental features now promoted to stable status. See the unit guide for more details. (ea298d4); Classifiers: Route workflows with TypeSafe's Jev models via the new TypesafeClassifier and ClassifierNode. Jev returns calibrated…
What changed
- Stability: Access 12 mature experimental features now promoted to stable status. See the unit guide for more details. (ea298d4)
- Classifiers: Route workflows with TypeSafe's Jev models via the new TypesafeClassifier and ClassifierNode. Jev returns calibrated probabilities in a single forward pass, much faster than an LLM.
- Live Audio: Enable natural real-time voice interactions with barge-in support alongside Gemini speech-to-text and text-to-speech integration. See the unit guide for more details. (2e7ef92)
- MongoDB Sessions & Memory: Persist sessions in MongoDB and share them across runner replicas with the new MongoDbSessionService.
- MongoDB: Deploy MongoDbToolset to Agent Engine without packaging your connection string, and let Atlas Automated Embedding embed search queries server-side, with no Google embedding call or…
- Performance: Enjoy up to 8x faster execution turns for string-model agents and reduced event-loading overhead. (772f139)
- Telemetry: Defaults to OpenTelemetry GenAI v2 (otel_semconv_1_44, removing call_llm); set ADK_TELEMETRY_SCHEMA_VERSION_OPT_IN=otel_semconv_1_36 to keep the legacy v1 schema.
- telemetry: deprecate call_llm span and OpenTelemetry 1.36 GenAI semconv
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Agent Development Kit (ADK) at a glance
| What it is | Google's open-source, code-first toolkit for building, evaluating and deploying AI agents, with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Kotlin. |
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| Latest version | 2.14.0, Nov 7, 2026. This page is about an earlier release. |
| Release pace | 3 stable releases in the last 30 days; 2.13.0 came 10 days after the previous one |
| Price | Free (OSS). Agent Development Kit (ADK) is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on. (checked Oct 14, 2026) |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 2.9M up 4.0% |
| Gid Score | 54 #9 in Agent frameworks and SDKs |
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