v9.7.0

What's Changed

• Branding updates for 9.7 by @joperezr in #6495
• Fix name of genai input/output tokens tag by @stephentoub in #6494
• [main] Update dependencies from dotnet/arcade by @dotnet-maestro[bot] in #6503
• Improve handling of RawRepresentation in OpenAI{Response}ChatClient by @stephentoub in #6500
• Bring back AsIChatClient for OpenAI AssistantClient by @stephentoub in #6501
• Add resiliency to Resource Monitoring in Linux by @amadeuszl in #6489
• Merging changes from the internal fork by @joperezr in #6508
• Workaround OpenAI assistant's RunCreationOption's tools override by @stephentoub in #6512
• Add ChatOptions.Instructions by @stephentoub in #6505
• Introduce evaluators for agentic workflows by @shyamnamboodiripad in #6514
• Allow a CachingChatClient to control per-request caching by @stephentoub in #6524
• Tweak OpenAI JSON schema transforms by @stephentoub in #6523
• Merging changes from release/9.6 branch by @joperezr in #6516
• Augment AIJsonUtilities.CreateJsonSchema for more types and annotations by @stephentoub in #6540
• Added conversions from AIFunction to various OpenAI tools by @KrzysztofCwalina in #6539
• Add SpeechToTextResponse.Usage by @stephentoub in #6546
• Implement BLEU score evaluation for NLP tests by @peterwald in #6537
• [main] Update dependencies from dotnet/arcade by @dotnet-maestro[bot] in #6553
• #5962 Change to early return of OS instead of throwing by @juliankock in #5963
• Mark log sampling & buffering API as stable by @evgenyfedorov2 in #6534
• Update GenAI otel impl for v1.35 by @stephentoub in #6557
• Implement GLEU and F1 NLP evaluators by @peterwald in #6555
• Update tokenizer algorithm to use is [..] by @peterwald in #6561
• Rename some constants to match convention by @shyamnamboodiripad in #6562
• Add DistributedCachingChatClient/EmbeddingGenerator.AdditionalCacheKeyValues by @stephentoub in #6558

New Contributors

• @KrzysztofCwalina made their first contribution in #6539
• @juliankock made their first contribution in #5963

Full Changelog: v9.6.0...v9.7.0