## embabel/embabel-agent — v0.5.0…v1.0.0-RC1

_32 commits._

### Features
- **feat(mcpserver): expose MCP server health via Spring Boot Actuator (#1773)** (33ee7b7)
- **Add chat message events and event-publishing in-memory conversation t… (#1777)** (949042a)
- **Add appropriate error message to the log whenever a goal is not reachable (#1769)** (c9c0582)
- **Add code comments.** (a4123b6)
- **update for new DeepSeek model names (#1749)** (d993c64)
- **Introduce Generic Media and Document support (#1737)** (ceaeba3)

### Fixes
- **Fix 1774: Use Have Subagent to inherit Verbosity Settings of parent process (#1778)** (929f455)
- **Fix regex: path matcher to normalize separators cross-platform (#1772)** (d1c1f83)
- **fix(tools): glob '**/' now matches zero or more directories (root & direct children) (#1770)** (f6bbb29)
- **fix(mistral): #1757 - two independent bugs in `embabel-agent-mistral-ai-autoconfigure` (#1767)** (5eddea9)
- **Fix #1557: close MCP SSE connections before Tomcat graceful shutdown to prevent 30s stall on exit (#1766)** (6cb9722)
- **fix: #1759 drop retired Gemini 2.0 models, add all-models smoke ITs (#1761)** (482b022)
- **fix: remove unreachable null checks flagged by Sonar (S2583) (#1755)** (695e727)

### Backend
- **[maven-release-plugin] prepare release v1.0.0-RC1** (4fd0b22)
- **Update build parent 0.1.15 and common 0.1.14 (#1785)** (10c395e)
- **Propagate tool failures as ToolExecutionException so MCP clients see isError (#1781)** (a003485)
- **#1783 - enhancement: reduce logging level to DEBUG to minimize low-value log messages: ToolGroupsConfiguration : MCP is available. Found 0 clients: (#1784)** (5a17bb5)
- **Resolve target class for CGLIB-proxied beans in @LlmTool discovery (#1782)** (10ace58)
- **Address duplicate logging and logging of 'null' (#1776)** (fa54729)
- **Configure planner behavior for multiple goals with the same or different return types (#1775)** (fa6f7b1)
- **Skip fenced code blocks in skill file-reference extraction (#1658)** (4fb246e)
- **Feature/zai GLM  model integration (#1768)** (a754874)
- **Update copyright footer** (fd67794)
- **Promote Experimental APIs and update docs (#1753)** (89eaab6)
- **Remove deprecated methods (#1750)** (143e296)
- **Sonar blockers - missing asserts in tests (#1748)** (d618298)
- **Netty High Vilnerability Jun-26 (#1745)** (24bcc34)
- **Remove references to deprecated features in Asciidoc and KDOC (#1743)** (9af788e)
- **Improve error message when default llm is not available (#1736)** (5c61a70)
- **Prepare for 1.0.0-RC1 dev cycle (#1734)** (7da9f39)
- **[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration** (aecc8c6)

### Chore
- **refactor(anthropic): extract AnthropicModelFactory into plain embabel-agent-anthropic module for starter-free BYOK (#1752)** (5535222)

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