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Anthropic and OpenAI Python SDKs both move to the httpx2 fork, breaking changes in v1.0/v3.0

2026-08-20

Anthropic released Python SDK v1.0, moving the HTTP layer from httpx to a maintained, API-compatible fork called httpx2, requiring Python 3.10+, and removing long-deprecated surface (legacy Text Completions API, temperature/top_p/top_k on Messages, client-side compaction_control). OpenAI made the equivalent httpx2 move in its own v3.0 SDK release two weeks earlier.

Significance 2: Routine SDK maintenance with real breaking-change impact for API consumers, but it does not move any tracked model score or verdict.

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