[Release] openai/openai-agents-python v0.16.1: v0.16.1

OpenAI Agents Python v0.16.1 is a maintenance release focusing on stability and reliability improvements. Key fixes address chat completion streaming indexes, MCP policy validation, session history recovery, corrupt state handling, and function tool input validation. The release includes documentation updates covering tool execution concurrency and changelog entries.

Key Points

• •Stabilized chat completions stream output indexes to ensure consistent ordering in streaming responses
• •Added validation for MCP require_approval policies to prevent invalid configurations
• •Restored session history after compaction replacement failures to maintain data integrity
• •Implemented rejection of corrupt Dapr session state updates to prevent state corruption
• •Clean up temporary git repository clones on failure to prevent resource leaks
• •Count only valid encrypted session items for limits to ensure accurate quota tracking
• •Reject non-object function tool input JSON to enforce strict input validation
• •Documented tool execution concurrency behavior for developers using parallel tool calls
• •Updated translated documentation pages to maintain multi-language support

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