Now in LangChain Python: Better content blocks, retry logic, integrations & smarter agent support.

Core updates:

• Standardized multimodal content blocks across providers → more reusable & composable apps. Docs: https://python.langchain.com/docs/how_to/multimodal_inputs/

• ChatPromptTemplate now supports arbitrary content blocks. Docs: https://python.langchain.com/docs/how_to/multimodal_prompts/

• Runnable.with_retry supports custom exponential backoff. Docs: https://python.langchain.com/api_reference/core/runnables/langchain_core.runnables.base.Runnable.html#langchain_core.runnables.base.Runnable.with_retry

New integrations:

• Official packages for: Hyperbrowser, Cloudflare, SingleStore, YDB, OpenGauss, Galaxia

• New Google Calendar toolkit (langchain-google-community)

• Parsed reasoning support for xAI (Grok-3) & Ollama

Other improvements:

• OpenAI docs updated with reasoning summaries

• AWS docs updated for prompt caching

• Removed pandas dependency in DuckDB vector store

• Azure AI Search now supports Managed Identity