What's Changed Optimizers Fix Evaluate call bug in GEPA by @LakshyAAAgrawal in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8647 Lazy import of gepa package by @TomeHirata in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8638 LMs & Adapters Use pydantic's `ConfigDict` for config; filter litellm warnings by @kurtmckee in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8659 Remove hardcoded model list from OpenAIProvider file by @chenmoneygithub in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8649 Raise explicit error on not meeting reasoning model's requirement by @chenmoneygithub in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8650 Flexible handling of `dspy.ToolCalls` parsing by @chenmoneygithub in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8563 Maintenance fix(evaluate): Raise TypeError on return_outputs in evaluate kwargs by @isaacbmiller in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8644 Add type hints for UsageTracker by @TomeHirata in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8636 New Contributors @bogireddytejareddy made their first contribution in https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/pull/8646 Full Changelog: https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/compare/3.0.0...3.0.1