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It’s been a long road from “interesting prototype” to “production-ready.” As of April 3, 2026, Microsoft Agent Framework has officially reached version 1.0 — and with it comes a long-term support commitment, stable APIs for both .NET and Python, and a clear answer to the question developers have been asking for a year: is this thing safe to build on? The answer is now yes. What Ships in 1.0 Agent Framework 1.0 brings together several threads that Microsoft has been developing in parallel. The framework unifies the enterprise-ready foundations of Semantic Kernel with the orchestration capabilities of AutoGen into a single, open-source SDK. That consolidation has been the core promise since the project launched last October — and 1.0 is the first release that fully delivers on it. ...

The Model Context Protocol just got its most enterprise-important SDK milestone to date. Microsoft’s official C# SDK for MCP has shipped version 1.0, bringing full compliance with the 2025-11-25 MCP specification and — crucially — improved authorization server discovery. For the .NET-heavy enterprise world, this isn’t a footnote. This is the unlocking event that makes serious production MCP deployments viable in environments that have standardized on Microsoft’s stack. What’s Actually New in 1.0 The headline feature is the improved authorization server discovery, which lands just as enterprises are grappling with the identity and access management questions that come with deploying agents at scale. ...