[Release] openai/openai-agents-python v0.21.1: v0.21.1

OpenAI Agents Python v0.21.1 is a maintenance release featuring enhanced sandbox capabilities, improved timeout handling, and critical bug fixes across core, chat completions, realtime, and session management. Key additions include model call timeouts, run-scoped sandbox directories, Docker networking controls, and Modal sandbox resource options. The release addresses issues with call approval decisions, audio truncation, path normalization, and SQLite conflicts.

Key Points

• •Add model call timeouts to prevent hanging requests and improve reliability
• •Implement run-scoped sandbox working directories for better isolation and cleanup
• •Allow Docker sandboxes to disable networking for enhanced security controls
• •Add Modal sandbox resource options for flexible deployment configurations
• •Fix call approval decision handling to honor exact user choices
• •Resolve chat completions reasoning replay issues for consistent behavior
• •Normalize file paths to POSIX format across sandbox operations for cross-platform compatibility
• •Fix SQLite structure table conflicts in advanced session management
• •Improve audio handling in realtime by truncating at zero elapsed time
• •Ensure proper cleanup of MultiProvider children after failures

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