Dependency conflict: teams-ai==1.8.1 requires openai<2.0.0, breaks installs with openai~=2.1.0

[realAnth0ny]

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Dependency conflict: teams-ai==1.8.1 requires openai<2.0.0, breaks installs with openai~=2.1.0

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Summary

When installing teams-ai==1.8.1 alongside openai~=2.1.0, pip’s resolver fails with ResolutionImpossible because teams-ai depends on openai >=1.52.0,<2.0.0. This blocks standardizing on OpenAI SDK v2.

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Affected Versions

• teams-ai: 1.8.1
• openai: 2.1.0 (any >=2.0.0 version)
• Python: 3.12.11
• pip: 25.2

Environment: GitHub Actions (ubuntu-latest).

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a minimal requirements.txt:

   pip==25.2
   setuptools~=80.9.0
   wheel~=0.45.1
   teams-ai==1.8.1
   openai~=2.1.0

2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt (e.g., in GitHub Actions or locally).

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Actual Behavior

Pip fails dependency resolution:

ERROR: Cannot install -r requirements.txt (line X) and openai~=2.1.0 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    The user requested openai~=2.1.0
    teams-ai 1.8.1 depends on openai<v2.0.0 and >=v1.52.0

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible

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Expected Behavior

One of the following:

• teams-ai supports OpenAI SDK v2 (preferred), or
• The docs/README clearly call out that teams-ai==1.8.1 is limited to OpenAI SDK v1.x

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Workarounds Tried

• Pinning OpenAI SDK to v1.x (e.g., openai>=1.52.0,<2.0.0 or openai~=1.109.1) allows installs to succeed.

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Additional Context

We’re building a Microsoft Teams assistant bot that uses Teams AI 1.8.1 and OpenAI Responses API. Our CI/CD (GitHub Actions) standardizes on OpenAI SDK v2 for other services, so the hard <2.0.0 range causes friction.

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