Crawlee releases v4.0.0-rc.1 pre-release with breaking changes and new features
This release moves packages out of the monorepo, introduces DomCrawler and OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and fixes HTTP redirect handling for credentials and cookies.
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In short: Crawlee released v4.0.0 release candidates and v3.18 versions with new features and fixes.
This release moves packages out of the monorepo, introduces DomCrawler and OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and fixes HTTP redirect handling for credentials and cookies.
Introduces AI-powered StagehandCrawler for natural language web interactions, async iterators for Dataset and KeyValueStore, discoverValidSitemaps utility, and enhanced Cloudflare handling.
It moves from beta to stable and follows semantic versioning. New features include unified storage clients, AdaptivePlaywright, Impit HTTP client, sitemap loader, robots.txt support, fingerprinting, and OpenTelemetry.
This release includes bug fixes and new features such as the maxCrawlDepth crawler option and improvements in request queue validation. The update was published on 2025-07-25.
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