CrewAI Release Notes

What's Changed

Features

• Enhance StdioTransport to prevent environment variable leakage
• Enhance planning configuration and observation handling
• Declare env_vars on DatabricksQueryTool
• Add Agent Control Plane docs

Bug Fixes

• Fix structured output leaks in tool-calling loops
• Drop unroundtrippable callbacks and adapter state in checkpoint
• Serialize type[BaseModel] fields as JSON schema in checkpoint
• Avoid orphan task_started on resume scope restore
• Allow AgentExecutor to restore from checkpoint
• Correct mongodb typo to pymongo in package_dependencies

Documentation

• Add ACP (Beta) docs navigation block to Agent Control Plane pages
• Remove consensual process references from processes page
• Restructure checkpointing page
• Document one-time admin package install step
• Migrate Secrets Manager / Workload Identity from replicated-config
• Remove {" "} JSX expressions breaking render

Refactoring

• Move Skills Repository to experimental + CREWAI_EXPERIMENTAL gate

Contributors

@akaKuruma, @alex-clawd, @github-actions[bot], @greysonlalonde, @heitorado, @iris-clawd, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @mattatcha, @thiagomoretto, @vinibrsl

What's Changed

Features

• Deprecate CrewAgentExecutor, default Crew agents to AgentExecutor
• Improve Daytona sandbox tools
• Add restore_from_state_id kickoff parameter
• Add highlights to ExaSearchTool, rename from EXASearchTool

Bug Fixes

• Fix memory leak in git.py by using cached_property
• Surface streamed tool calls when available_functions is absent
• Ensure skills loading events for traces
• Correct status endpoint path from /{kickoff_id}/status to /status/{kickoff_id}
• Restore missing code block in pt-BR first-flow guide
• Prevent result_as_answer from returning hook-block or error messages as final answer
• Preserve task outputs across async batch flush
• Always restore task.output_pydantic in finally block
• Handle BaseModel input in convert_to_model

Documentation

• Update changelog and version for v1.14.5
• Add OSS upgrade & crew-to-flow migration guide
• Document additional env vars for devtools
• Add docs for TavilyGetResearch

Refactoring

• Extract CLI into standalone crewai-cli package

Contributors

@NIK-TIGER-BILL, @akaKuruma, @cgoeppinger, @github-actions[bot], @greysonlalonde, @heitorado, @irfaan101, @iris-clawd, @lorenzejay, @manisrinivasan2k1, @minasami-pr, @mislavivanda, @theCyberTech, @theishangoswami, @wishhyt

What's Changed

Features

• Deprecate CrewAgentExecutor, default Crew agents to AgentExecutor
• Improve Daytona sandbox tools

Bug Fixes

• Fix missing code block in pt-BR first-flow guide
• Log HITL pre-review and distillation failures, add learn_strict
• Patch urllib3 for security vulnerabilities
• Patch gitpython and langchain-core; ignore unpatched paramiko CVE
• Refresh all published workspace packages on uv lock/sync

Documentation

• Add migration guide for inputs.id to restoreFromStateId
• Add OSS upgrade and crew-to-flow migration guide
• Update changelog and version for v1.14.5a4

Contributors

@akaKuruma, @greysonlalonde, @iris-clawd, @lorenzejay, @mislavivanda

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix task output restoration in finally block
• Include thoughts_token_count in completion tokens
• Preserve task outputs across async batch flush
• Forward kwargs to loader calls in CrewAIRagAdapter
• Prevent result_as_answer from returning hook-block message as final answer
• Prevent result_as_answer from returning error as final answer
• Use acall for output conversion in async paths
• Prevent shared LLM stop words mutation across agents
• Handle BaseModel input in convert_to_model

Documentation

• Document additional environment variables
• Update changelog and version for v1.14.5a1

Contributors

• @NIK-TIGER-BILL, @greysonlalonde, @lorenzejay, @minasami-pr, @theCyberTech, @wishhyt

What's Changed

Features

• Add support for custom persistence key in @persist
• Add Responses API support for Azure OpenAI provider
• Forward credential_scopes to Azure AI Inference client
• Add Vertex AI workload identity setup guide
• Add Tavily Research and get Research
• Add You.com MCP tools for search, research, and content extraction

Bug Fixes

• Fix fall through when JSON regex match isn't valid JSON
• Fix to preserve tool_calls when response also contains text
• Fix to forward base_url and api_key to instructor.from_provider
• Fix to warn and return empty when native MCP server returns no tools
• Fix to use validated messages variable in non-streaming handlers
• Fix to guard crew chat description helpers against LLM failures
• Fix to reset messages and iterations between invocations
• Fix to forward trained-agents file through replay and test
• Fix to honor custom trained-agents file at inference
• Fix to bind task-only agents to crew for multimodal input_files
• Fix to serialize guardrail callables as null for JSON checkpointing
• Fix renaming of force_final_answer to avoid self-referential router
• Fix bump of litellm for SSTI fix; ignore unfixable pip CVE

Documentation

• Update changelog and version for v1.14.4a1
• Add E2B Sandbox Tools page
• Add Daytona sandbox tools documentation

Contributors

@EdwardIrby, @dependabot[bot], @factory-droid-oss, @factory-droid[bot], @greysonlalonde, @kunalk16, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @manisrinivasan2k1, @mattatcha, @vinibrsl

What's Changed

• feat(flow): support custom persistence key in @persist by @lucasgomide in #5649
• fix(llm): use validated messages variable in non-streaming handlers by @greysonlalonde in #5655
• feat(azure): add Responses API support for Azure OpenAI provider by @kunalk16 in #5201
• fix(mcp): warn and return empty when native MCP server returns no tools by @greysonlalonde in #5657
• fix(instructor): forward base_url and api_key to instructor.from_provider by @greysonlalonde in #5658
• feat(azure): forward credential_scopes to Azure AI Inference client by @mattatcha in #5661

New Contributors

• @kunalk16 made their first contribution in #5201

Full Changelog: 1.14.4a1...1.14.4a2

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

Fix crew chat description helpers against LLM failures.

Reset messages and iterations between invocations in executor.

Forward trained-agents file through replay and test in CLI.

Honor custom trained-agents file at inference in agent.

Bind task-only agents to crew to ensure multimodal input_files reach the LLM.

Serialize guardrail callables as null for JSON checkpointing.

Rename force_final_answer in agent_executor to avoid self-referential router.

Bump litellm for SSTI fix and ignore unfixable pip CVE.

Documentation

Add E2B Sandbox Tools page.

Add Daytona sandbox tools documentation.

Add Vertex AI workload identity setup guide.

Add You.com MCP tools for search, research, and content extraction.

Update changelog and version for v1.14.3.

Contributors

@EdwardIrby, @dependabot[bot], @factory-droid-oss, @factory-droid[bot], @greysonlalonde, @lorenzejay, @manisrinivasan2k1, @mattatcha

What's Changed

Features

Add lifecycle events for checkpoint operations

Add support for e2b

Fall back to DefaultAzureCredential when no API key is provided in Azure integration

Add Bedrock V4 support

Add Daytona sandbox tools for enhanced functionality

Add checkpoint and fork support to standalone agents

Bug Fixes

Fix execution_id to be separate from state.id

Resolve replay of recorded method events on checkpoint resume

Fix serialization of initial_state class references as JSON schema

Preserve metadata-only agent skills

Propagate implicit @crewbase names to crew events

Merge execution metadata on duplicate batch initialization

Fix serialization of Task class-reference fields for checkpointing

Handle BaseModel result in guardrail retry loop

Preserve thought_signature in Gemini streaming tool calls

Emit task_started on fork resume and redesign checkpoint TUI

Use future dates in checkpoint prune tests to prevent time-dependent failures

Fix dry-run order and handle checked-out stale branch in devtools release

Upgrade lxml to >=6.1.0 for security patch

Bump python-dotenv to >=1.2.2 for security patch

Documentation

Update changelog and version for v1.14.3

Add 'Build with AI' page and update navigation for all languages

Remove pricing FAQ from build-with-ai page across all locales

Performance

Optimize MCP SDK and event types to reduce cold start by ~29%

Refactoring

Refactor checkpoint helpers to eliminate duplication and tighten state type hints

Contributors

@MatthiasHowellYopp, @akaKuruma, @alex-clawd, @github-actions[bot], @github-advanced-security[bot], @greysonlalonde, @iris-clawd, @lorenzejay, @mattatcha, @renatonitta

What's Changed

Features

• Add support for e2b
• Implement fallback to DefaultAzureCredential when no API key is provided

Bug Fixes

• Upgrade lxml to >=6.1.0 to address security issue GHSA-vfmq-68hx-4jfw

Documentation

• Remove pricing FAQ from build-with-ai page across all locales

Performance

• Improve cold start time by ~29% through lazy-loading of MCP SDK and event types

Contributors

@alex-clawd, @github-advanced-security[bot], @greysonlalonde, @iris-clawd, @lorenzejay, @mattatcha