135 indexed release events in one year: agent stacks converged on durable execution, graph workflows and a three-layer protocol stack

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“Generate a detailed report of feature release and distribution by all the agentic frameworks and protocols past 365 days”

A best-effort landscape census of 23 publicly documented projects — 17 agent frameworks/SDKs and 6 interoperability protocols — over the inclusive 365-day window 2 Sep 2025 to 1 Sep 2026. Six projects exposed cleanly indexed release feeds, yielding 135 dated release events; “distribution” here means language/runtime support, package registries, SDKs, hosted channels and ecosystem integrations. Counts are observed indexed release events, not total output.

Release radar: observed indexed events by project and month

Square area scales with the square root of monthly event count so Pydantic AI's very granular tagging (84 events, including its separate harness feed) does not flatten the other series. Hover a cell for the exact versions behind it. An empty cell means no indexed event was recovered — not necessarily inactivity.

Framework / SDKProtocol◆ annotated milestone

What the timeline cannot say alone

Pydantic AI's 84 events across 8 active months are partly a tagging artifact — its main repo and separate harness feed both publish granular tags, ending the window at v2.37.0. github.com
Microsoft Agent Framework moved from nightly-style 1.0.0b betas (Dec 2025) to a steady 1.x cadence ending at 1.16.0, merging AutoGen's abstractions with Semantic Kernel's enterprise features across .NET, Python and Java — while AutoGen entered maintenance and Semantic Kernel is reported deprecated. github.com
MCP shipped two specification milestones inside the window — 2025-11-25 and the stateless-core 2026-07-28 release with MRTR and header-based routing — alongside v2 SDK rewrites in Python, TypeScript and Go. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io
A2A reached 1.0 in March 2026 under the Agentic AI Foundation, absorbed the Agent Communication Protocol, and reports 150 organizations in its first year — the protocol layer is consolidating into MCP (tools/context), A2A (agent-to-agent) and AG-UI (agent-to-user interface). blog.prashantkoirala.info.np
Distribution moved decisively beyond Python: Google ADK spans Python, TypeScript, Java, Go and Kotlin; Strands Agents ships Python and TypeScript; Mastra is TypeScript-native; MCP and A2A ship versioned multi-language protocol SDKs. devtoollab.com
Feature convergence is striking: durable/stateful execution, graph workflows, memory, human-in-the-loop, streaming interfaces and built-in observability/evals recur across LangGraph 1.0, Mastra 1.0, Google ADK's graph runtime and Agno's AgentOS. byteiota.com

Landscape matrix: 23 projects

Grouped by type. Blank cells are unresolved research gaps, kept visible rather than hidden. “Observed events” are indexed release events; zero means no clean feed was recovered, not zero releases. Status terms are source-reported and not uniformly defined.

Frameworks / SDKs

Protocols

Protocol stack, in one sentence each

MCP connects models to tools and context (release candidate toward a stateless core). A2A handles remote agent discovery and task exchange over HTTP + JSON-RPC + SSE (stable at 1.x). AG-UI streams agent state to user interfaces (active development). Agent Client Protocol remains a distinct editor/client-to-agent protocol; Agent Communication Protocol was merged into A2A; ANP remains a draft, discovery-oriented spec.

Release events, row by row

All 135 observed indexed events. Heterogeneous units — spec milestones, monorepo tags, prereleases, harness and SDK releases — should not be compared as identical.

DateProjectVersionDistributionSource

Method: web research across official repositories, changelogs and specification pages plus independent ecosystem sources, over the inclusive window 2025-09-02 to 2026-09-01. Thousands of candidate pages were inspected; release counts exist only where a version and date could be reliably parsed, so the six-project event feed (135 rows) is not a complete activity measure and empty months do not mean inactivity. The 23-project matrix summarizes multiple pages per project and can include end-of-window status; “latest milestone date” may reflect a retrospective or roadmap page, so projects are not ranked by it. For MCP, official spec milestones are distinguished from third-party summaries; for A2A/AG-UI, protocol specifications from language SDK releases. Some long feature and channel texts were shortened in cards for space; every claim links its source row.

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