release: 0.78.0

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Automated Release PR

0.78.0 (2026-07-13)

Full Changelog: v0.76.0...v0.78.0

Features

• Add exact-match name filter to list endpoints (6011556)
• Add name-only rename for profiles and proxies (1d38266)
• Auto-default refresh_on_profile_update when browser pool profile changes (4771197)
• Document name uniqueness and query match semantics (e27f37d)
• Expose telemetry exception message in API/SDK (6575dd2)
• Make the browser pool OpenAPI contract truthful (20b3a7e)
• Persist and echo deployment source identity (5db2b01)
• Support multiple audit log method exclusions (f9decdd)

Documentation

• openapi: describe unified concurrency limit, deprecate max_pooled_sessions (CUS-275) (8c85318)

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Medium Risk
exclude_method is now a sequence (callers must pass lists), and deprecated max_pooled_sessions plus stricter proxy-by-name behavior can break integrations that relied on old semantics.

Overview
Release 0.78.0 bumps the package and OpenAPI snapshot (127 endpoints) and reflects the latest Kernel API in generated clients and types.

New client methods: profiles.update and proxies.update (PATCH) for name-only renames, with new ProfileUpdateParams, ProxyUpdateParams, and ProxyUpdateResponse exports and matching tests/raw/streaming wrappers.

List filtering: Many list calls gain an optional name query param for exact-match filtering (API keys, browser pools, extensions, profiles, projects, proxies). query docstrings are tightened to describe substring vs ID matching instead of generic “search by name or ID.”

Audit logs: exclude_method on list and export_chunk changes from a single string to SequenceNotStr[str] so multiple HTTP methods can be excluded at once (tests now pass a list).

Deployments: Create/list/retrieve/state types add optional source provenance fields (source_type, source_url, source_ref, source_path, source_checksum).

Browser pools & limits: Pool create/update/list types and docstrings describe replace-vs-omit PATCH semantics, refresh_on_profile_update defaulting when a profile is attached, and chrome policy size caps. Org/project limit copy now describes a unified concurrency limit; max_pooled_sessions is documented as deprecated (may 400 when unified limits are enabled).

Other API surface tweaks: Auth connection proxy docs require unambiguous name resolution; console error event text docs are expanded; API key name is documented as a non-addressable label.

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🧪 Testing

To try out this version of the SDK:

pip install 'https://pkg.stainless.com/s/kernel-python/6575dd21919b092a77de88e4ee8d037f601edadc/kernel-0.76.0-py3-none-any.whl'

Expires at: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:14:30 GMT
Updated at: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:14:30 GMT

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Release version edited manually

The Pull Request version has been manually set to 0.78.0 and will be used for the release.

If you instead want to use the version number 0.77.0 generated from conventional commits, just remove the label autorelease: custom version from this Pull Request.

[IlyaasK]

lgtm

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🤖 Release is at https://github.com/kernel/kernel-python-sdk/releases/tag/v0.78.0 🌻