Hi everyone - we hope you're enjoying the new LiveKit Agents 1.0 for Node.js release! Now that the 1.x versions of LiveKit Agents for both Python and Node.js are stable and serving production workloads, we are planning to wind down support for v0.x versions of these SDKs. To streamline the agents documentation we will be dropping v0.x starting next week. Existing links will redirect to the latest documentation for v1.x. The v0-v1>migration guides will remain on the site for a while longer. This is a change only to documentation and not community support. Any existing v0.x agents will continue to work, as they are still built on a supported versions of the underlying LiveKit SDK.

Hi everyone-- We've just added a new #C09GBJY83C7 channel for documentation site bugs reports and feedback. Our Developer Products team will monitor this channel and investigate reported issues.

Introducing LiveKit Inference: A unified model interface for voice AI https://blog.livekit.io/introducing-livekit-inference/

If you have questions about the inference services be sure to check out the #C09J2AYGN0M channel

LiveKit CLI version requirements Heads up that starting this Friday, 10/10/25, you'll need to keep your LiveKit CLI up-to-date to manage agent deployments to LiveKit Cloud. This ensures that the CLI remains compatible with upstream breaking changes as the deployment API evolves to support new features. The current minimum supported version is 2.6.2. For upgrade instructions, visit the documentation: https://docs.livekit.io/home/cli/#updates Other features of LiveKit CLI are not affected. Let us know if you have any questions!

🚀 Official LiveKit Docs MCP Server --> https://docs.livekit.io/mcp This server gives LiveKit expertise to coding assistants like Cursor or Claude Code. It includes tools to browse and search the documentation, with more functionality coming soon. 1. Talk to it: Visit this live demo voice agent which has the new server installed. (Fun fact: Cursor built this agent from scratch, using this very MCP server!) 2. Install it: Click here to install it in Cursor, or run

claude mcp add --transport http livekit-docs <https://docs.livekit.io/mcp>

to install it in Claude Something extra While the MCP server adds expertise, a good AGENTS.md can add wisdom. So we've added a default AGENTS.md to both of our agent starter templates for Python and Node.js. Use these files so your coding assistant can build LiveKit Agents like a pro: --> https://github.com/livekit-examples/agent-starter-python --> https://github.com/livekit-examples/agent-starter-node If you have any feedback on the MCP server or the updated starter templates, please share it in the new #C09GBJY83C7 channel!

We just launched a new EU region for agents deployed to LiveKit Cloud! This means there are now two available regions: us-east and eu-central.. You must choose which region to deploy to at agent creation time. If you are using an older version of livekit-cli the decision of where the agent is placed is based on your nearest geo-region. In livekit-cli >= v2.12.7 you will be able to pass a flag on agent-create, or if none is passed, you'll be prompted to select a region. If you're using the https://github.com/livekit/deploy-action you can also set a region, otherwise the same dns rule will apply.

We’re hosting our first LiveKit DevDay, and would love for community members to attend! Join us to meet the team and fellow builders, and see what’s next for voice AI. At the event, you will learn about new product capabilities, experience live demos, and engage in deep dives with the engineers who build LiveKit. Event Highlights: • Keynotes from the founders • Product launches and demos • Office Hours with the Developer Success team • Happy Hour and networking Agenda: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Check-in & Booth Demos 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Opening Keynote 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Demos, Deep Dives & Happy Hour If you can’t join us in person, we will have a livestream and virtual experience so that you can participate remotely. Stay tuned for more info after you register through the virtual option. Thank you for being a part of our wonderful community. We hope to see you there! Reserve your spot today at https://luma.com/live-kit-dev-day

https://livekit-users.slack.com/archives/C0940P9MZR9/p1762459205255079 Some bugs are still to be expected in this RC but we’re excited to share some of the features we are working on. To try it yourself, please install the specific version

1.3.0rc1

. This is the Python release python, JavaScript will follow shortly. • We have improved the console mode with a new look so you can more easily test your agent - try running any of our examples in

console

mode. • We have added a new SessionReport and on_session_end callback, giving you access to the whole chat history at the end of a session. You can see this in action in our drive-thru demo. • We have improved our turn detection model to work better for user inputs like email addresses and phone numbers. • Our new TaskGroup workflow lets you run multiple tasks concurrently. See this in action in our new SurveyAgent example, which will also demonstrate email capture. • We have added a new AgentHandoff class to give you better visibility into multi-agent setups. The session history will now contain entries of type

agent_handoff

# Agent on_enter
  handoff_items = [
      item for item in self.session.history.items if item.type == "agent_handoff"
  ]

• We have a new example showing how agents can navigate an IVR system, bank-ivr.

We hope you are excited about our upcoming LiveKit DevDay on November 18th. If you haven’t registered yet, there is still time at https://luma.com/live-kit-dev-day. Alongside the in-person event, the keynote will be livestreamed and we will be hosting a virtual event in this Slack community, please join the #C09RV65F6BX channel to: • Find out more about our new product releases as they are announced • Join the live Q&A • Give your feedback Anyone is welcome to join - the keynote will be livestreamed at 3pm PST on November 18th and members of the LiveKit team will be around on Slack during and after the event to answer your questions.

The LiveKit DevDay keynote live stream starts in 50 minutes at https://www.youtube.com/live/Ly8_qOgPoBk. Please join us there and also we'll be hosting Q&A with additional info in #C09RV65F6BX - see you there!

Thank you to everybody who attended DevDay last week, either in person or on the livestream. If you missed any of the announcements, you can see everything here: https://livekit.io/events/dev-day • Livestream recording • Blogs for our new feature releases: Agent Builder, LiveKit Phone Numbers, Agent Observability • Video demos for each of the new features • Self-serve demos with source code, videos, and live previews (where appropriate)

🧪 Many of you have expressed interest in Twilio and/or WhatsApp connectors. Our beta is now open for those features. You can signup here: https://forms.gle/sxaGiqKCv8nQcgoi7 🗒️ If you previously signed up and have not been added to the beta yet please reach out to me

Excited to launch our updated end-of-turn detection model! https://x.com/livekit/status/1999598916136804848

Hi everyone! We just shipped a big update to the LiveKit docs site! We've added and reorganized the content to make it easier for agents developers to consistently find the right information and resources to build your voice, video, and physical AI apps. Producing excellent documentation is an iterative process and we are continuing to invest in documentation other learning resources. Check it out at docs.livekit.io, and let us know what you think about the new layout over in #C09GBJY83C7.

Hi everyone, if you missed the announcement email about our xAI integration:

Today, we're <https://blog.livekit.io/xai-livekit-partnership-grok-voice-agent-api/

|partnering> with xAI on the <https://x.com/xai/status/2001385958147752255

|launch> of the Grok Voice Agent API, a speech-to-speech model already operating at scale across Grok's family of apps, Tesla vehicles, and Starlink's customer support lines.

With our Grok Voice Agent API plugin in LiveKit Agents for Python, you can create a custom voice agent with the same expressiveness and speed as Grok Voice Mode in just a single line of code. The model supports custom tools calls and has an array of voice options with distinct, humanlike personalities.

Check out our <https://grok.livekit.io/

|live demo> to see the model in action, or visit our <https://docs.livekit.io/agents/integrations/xai/

|docs> on how to get started.

Also, check out the video on YouTube:

Happy holidays from LiveKit! Grateful for this community. Here's to building much more in 2026! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/livekitco_happy-holidays-from-livekit-2025-was-incredi[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABS1WYBL_BfiJ4J79T4PrzIfLymnECZ2g4

🚨 Attention: LiveKit's X/Twitter account compromised Hi all, We discovered that the official LiveKit X/Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We're actively working with X support to regain access and secure the account. In the meantime, please do not engage with or trust any posts, messages, or links coming from LiveKit's X/Twitter account until we confirm everything is back under our control. We’ll share an update here as soon as access is restored. No other social or production accounts are compromised. Thanks for your patience.

interested in the recording as well!

We strive to have zero downtime for you. But sometimes things happens so we are improving the process of letting us know in the off chance you notice something before we do. In the past when folks have suspected a service outage it often gets buried as a Slack message here. Here is an improved process that can help you identify if there really is a service level issue and let us know quickly. If you experience a genuine service outage please check https://status.livekit.io/ to see if there is an ongoing incident. If your issue is not currently listed on the status page then log into the cloud portal, cloud.livekit.io, and select the ‘R_eport Service Outage’_ option, which is shown after you click on the “_Support_” button in the lower left. The service outage reporting feature is designed for users with an existing deployment who experience a loss or prolonged degradation to their LiveKit services. For development questions, transient errors, or other technical questions, please use this support forum.| This is in our FAQ here if you need it. Also on the left of our community portal there is a quick link to get you to that FAQ .

Nice, this one has a video of the meetup 🙂 Thanks!

Introducing Agents UI, an open-source Shadcn component library for building polished React frontends for your voice agents. Audio visualizers. Media controls. Session management tools. Chat transcripts. All wired to LiveKit Agents. See our blog post here: https://blog.livekit.io/design-voice-ai-interfaces-with-agents-ui/ Tutorial:

LiveKit community, Today marks LiveKit’s 5-year anniversary, and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you. What started as an idea - that realtime communication infrastructure should be flexible, reliable, and developer-friendly - has grown into something much bigger. Over the last five years, thousands of developers (including many of the folks in here in this Slack) have built incredible things with LiveKit, and this community has been a huge part of that journey. This space has always been one of our favorite parts of the LiveKit ecosystem. From sharing feedback on docs and new products to contributing new plugins, we're so grateful for your support. Here's a reflection on how far we've come as a company and what lies ahead -- X: https://x.com/livekit/status/2031101292567806223 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/livekitco_today-marks-five-years-of-livekit-when-activity-7436867237816426496-7ycO/ As always, we appreciate your support amplifying on socials. Thanks for building with us, and cheers to the next five years. 🙏 🙇 💜 🚀🍻

Be sure to check Solving unwanted interruptions with Adaptive Interruption Handling for handling back channel and false interruptiosn https://livekit.com/blog/adaptive-interruption-handling

In addition to adding LiveKit MCP server to your coding tools another great resource to get answers is our new "Ask AI" on our docs page: https://docs.livekit.io/intro/overview/ As you use it click the 👍🏼 / 👎🏼 to help us make it even better.

We’re trying something new, the LiveKit Dev Roundtable The first session is happening on 9th April 2026, full details here: LiveKit Developer Roundtable | LiveKit. Hope to see you there! 🎉 Not a webinar - just a small, open call with people building on LiveKit. We will kick things off with a couple of topics from our side, such as new features, demos, or plugins we have shipped. From there, the goal is to open things up into a two-way discussion. Come prepared to bring something to the table, for example: • A feature you’re building (or stuck on) and want quick feedback on • A real problem you’ve hit (latency, scaling, UX, edge cases, etc.) • Tradeoffs you’re thinking through (architecture, tooling, approaches) • Or nothing, if you just want to listen in, that’s fine too! And of course, we’d love to hear your feedback on LiveKit - feature requests, rough edges, or anything we could do better.

We released DataTracks Introducing Data Tracks: Realtime Streaming Beyond Audio and Video Data tracks extend LiveKit's realtime track infrastructure beyond audio and video. Publish binary frames from sensors, control systems, or other high-frequency sources. LiveKit handles selective forwarding to subscribers with low latency and high throughput, just like it does for media.... https://livekit.com/blog/livekit-data-tracks-realtime-streaming

You can now automatically detect voicemail and IVR with outbound phone agents

Outbound phone calls don't always reach a human. Voicemail boxes and IVR menus come up far more often than most teams expect, and some lines never stop ringing. An agent only has a few seconds of the call to gather enough context on how to interact.

More here: https://livekit.com/blog/answering-machine-detection Also, check out the demo on YouTube:

Following the success of our first session, we are repeating our LiveKit Dev Roundtable The second session is happening on 28th May 2026 at a time friendly to our US developers, full details here: LiveKit Developer Roundtable | LiveKit. Hope to see you there! Not a webinar - just a small, open call with people building on LiveKit. We will kick things off with a couple of topics from our side, such as new features, demos, or plugins we have shipped. From there, the goal is to open things up into a two-way discussion. Come prepared to bring something to the table, for example: • A feature you’re building (or stuck on) and want quick feedback on • A real problem you’ve hit (latency, scaling, UX, edge cases, etc.) • Tradeoffs you’re thinking through (architecture, tooling, approaches) • Or nothing, if you just want to listen in, that’s fine too! And of course, we’d love to hear your feedback on LiveKit - feature requests, rough edges, or anything we could do better.

The transition to our new developer community for technical discussions is now complete 🙌. Please post all questions to our new forum at https://community.livekit.io/ I have archived all the old technical channels in Slack, including agents, cloud, robotics, and SDKs Two technical channels remain in Slack: • #C07FVFL1H3P for discussions about hosting LiveKit open source. You can also post questions to https://community.livekit.io/c/self-hosting/ • #C025KM0S1CK as a catch-all on Slack for any other technical discussions. Note that LiveKit support will always prioritize questions posted to https://community.livekit.io/ and will not regularly monitor this channel.