CrewAI Release Notes

What's Changed

Features

• Add crewai eval to print a markdown brief when run by an agent
• Queue relevant background replies
• Add experimental turn and reply identities
• Add Oracle Integrations
• Add experimental job lifecycle and runner
• Add crewai eval --models, and llm_overlay to swap models as well as roles

Bug Fixes

• Fix train filename error message in CLI
• Allow a start step to re-run on the events it listens to
• Let human_feedback emit steps expose the review in outputs
• Ensure crewai eval exits with code 1 unless the gate passed and prompt to log in when nothing was traced unattended
• Report tracing sent usage from the grant exporter
• Address multiple dependency advisories and update relevant packages

Refactoring

• Move message summarization into SummarizeMessages
• Centralize and refresh context windows

Contributors

@Velmet44, @Vidit-Ostwal, @dependabot[bot], @fileames, @gabemilani, @github-actions[bot], @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay

What's Changed

Features

• Add support for native Gemini 3.8 Flash
• Implement evaluation of the last traced run through AMP in crewai eval
• Record the last traced run for crewai eval instead of printing it
• Improve platform integration setup UX
• Prioritize popular platform integrations
• Enhance tracing task spans to include declared output format and results

Bug Fixes

• Fix visibility of the panel for viewing traces
• Resolve issue with turning tracing on and add an Evaluate button in the TUI
• Retry throttled provider calls in LLM
• Fall back to synchronous calls from acall in Bedrock
• Print areas graded by the evaluation in CLI
• Ensure link is shown after finalizing traces
• Keep Selenium driver reusable
• Close S3 response bodies properly
• Collapse multimodal content with shared helper
• Match roles in LLM overlay that differ only by surrounding whitespace
• Close SQLite connections in flow persistence and SQLite provider
• Preserve directory listing paths

Documentation

• Update guides for assistants to platform tools

Contributors

@Copilot, @Mairaarshad19, @SharoonSharif, @Vidit-Ostwal, @gaoanze888, @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay, @sclfcz, @stepchanges, @vinibrsl

What's Changed

Features

• Support aliases as connection identifiers
• Record reasons for deployment creation failures
• Collect human feedback and pause events in tracing
• Add llm_overlay context variable to route agent roles to models
• Carry task_prompt and output in agent execution payloads
• Validate platform integrations during crew setup
• Add platform tools to JSON crew wizard
• Expose CrewAI Platform application catalog
• Add OpenRouter as a supported embedding provider

Bug Fixes

• Accept CRLF in inline skill definitions
• Load text file URLs through the safe fetcher
• Close SQLite connections in kickoff task outputs storage
• Carry from_cache on the native tool path's ToolUsageFinishedEvent
• Raise ValueError instead of bare raise in uploader
• Support non-primitive types in SQLiteFlowPersistence
• Improve coding agents instructions
• Read JSON checkpoints as UTF-8
• Overwrite stale poetry.lock backup on Windows
• Key streamed tool calls by wire index in Azure
• Preserve file data content parts in Gemini
• Honor read_only on update() and recall() access times
• Send reasoning_effort to every OpenAI reasoning model
• Prevent crashes in the run TUI when streamed output contains a literal [...]
• Reject replay when stored tasks differ
• Use sys.platform guards for mypy compatibility on Windows
• Request the forced final answer as a user turn
• Keep null in the task output schema embedded in the prompt …

What's Changed

Features

• Add telemetry to track checkpoint runtime and CLI usage.

Bug Fixes

• Fix gateway errors reported inside an HTTP 200 response.
• Keep deploy push on the AMP create source.
• Report scrape failures instead of raising IndexError in the Oxylabs integration.
• Route all DashScope models through the native provider.
• Persist JSON checkpoints as UTF-8.
• Drop stray $ in f-string search URLs for BrightData.
• Support list-form type arrays in JSON schema conversion.
• Correct gpt-4o-mini context window from 200000 to 128000.
• Preserve streaming tool call arguments at contentBlockStop.
• Make pre-commit hooks portable on Windows.

Documentation

• Clarify that tracing is managed separately from telemetry.
• Fix parallel search reference link.
• Remove stale parameters from handle_llm_stream_chunk docstring.
• Fix streaming output docstring examples.
• Use organization UUIDs in the skill install reference.

Contributors

@Alphaxiaoteng, @DrewWhittleNZ, @Ghraven, @Shxiao101, @Vaishnavi220506, @Vidit-Ostwal, @danielfsbarreto, @georgeatparallel, @github-actions[bot], @jessemiller, @joaomdmoura, @kimnamu, @kiwoongyoon, @liang0417, @lorenzejay, @oxy-giedrius, @simpleqt, @uoparaji

What's Changed

Features

• Add Clipper integrations client
• Add now() to the CEL expression environment
• Record how a crew run ended for every user
• Report machine size as a coarse band, not a core count
• Add injectable client for CrewAI platform tools

Bug Fixes

• Fix reading of octet-stream and xlsx URLs in urlreadtool
• Fix appending trailing user turn in native Gemini provider
• Normalize scheme and port in Ollama base URL
• Preserve reusable scope configs in memory
• Bump pypdf to 6.16.2 for security vulnerability
• Bump nltk to 3.10.3 for security vulnerability
• Fix native structured outputs for current Claude models and Snowflake CVE floor
• Run model call hooks on every path and propagate a deny

Documentation

• Remove CodeInterpreterTool from AI/ML overview examples
• Point prompt-template link at its current path
• Update channels guide to current CopilotKit channels API
• Refresh retired Gemini model IDs

Contributors

@Vidit-Ostwal, @a-yeyang, @github-actions[bot], @hvlcrs, @joaomdmoura, @kikifrost, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @parthiban-sivakumar, @ranst91, @tandede, @thiagomoretto, @vinibrsl

What's Changed

Features

• Promote conversational flows to stable
• Record a created deployment with the given UUID
• Enhance conversational flow documentation and APIs
• Let a declaration name the router's response format
• Let a chat flow declare its own state shape
• Accept crew-style LLM config in a conversational declaration
• Report project creation with the minted ID
• Record whether a run had inputs, without recording the inputs
• Backfill project ID from every user-invoked project command

Bug Fixes

• Preserve tool results when the final answer is empty
• Map default Claude Sonnet 4.6 to its 1M context window
• Raise Anthropic default max_tokens for large tool calls
• Render message content parts as text, not as a Python repr
• Keep message roles when Agent.kickoff gets a conversation
• Skip interception hooks on crewai-internal flows
• Record task failures as failures, not successes
• Emit the flow lifecycle on a suppressed resume
• Open the conversational TUI for a declarative chat flow
• Record crew_memory as a string, not a bool
• Always emit project_id so absent and empty stay distinct

Documentation

• Clarify Arize Phoenix observability docs

Contributors

@Vidit-Ostwal, @arizedatngo, @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide

What's Changed

Features

• Add declarative conversational flows documentation
• Synthesize built-in conversational methods for declarations
• Enable declarations to drive conversational mode
• Make conversational opt-in unmistakable
• Carry the AMP slug on tools resolved from a slug reference
• Handle oversized single messages during chunking

Bug Fixes

• Fix usage of the URL hostname as MCP HTTP and SSE server_name
• Close the agent scope on every failed attempt
• Attribute tool errors to the tool that failed
• Pin SSRF checks to each redirect hop and peer IP
• Resolve issues with native tool calls broken over OpenAI Responses API

Documentation

• Update documentation with a snapshot and changelog for v1.15.16

Contributors

@Copilot, @Vidit-Ostwal, @github-code-quality[bot], @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @theCyberTech

What's Changed

Features

• Report flow outcome, duration, and human-in-the-loop signals.

Bug Fixes

• Emit FlowStartedEvent when a boundary hook aborts the flow.
• Scope span export to our own tracer provider.
• Bump torch to version 2.13.0 to address security vulnerability.
• Bump gitpython to version 3.1.58 in crewai-tools[github].

Refactoring

• Update date injection functionality in agents.
• Standardize CLI flags to kebab-case.

Documentation

• Snapshot and changelog for v1.15.14.

Contributors

@Vidit-Ostwal, @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @theCyberTech

What's Changed

Features

• Track interception-hook dispatches in telemetry
• Add project_id to link OSS usage to an enterprise account
• Surface AMP in AGENTS.md and detect coding agents in telemetry
• Add IBM Db2 search tool

Bug Fixes

• Clear CodeQL incomplete URL substring sanitization alerts
• Bump aiohttp and cryptography to clear six GHSA advisories
• Report the real CEL error for failures inside map literals
• Correctly skip code CI for docs-only PRs

Documentation

• Snapshot and changelog for v1.15.10

Contributors

@PawanThakurIBM, @Vidit-Ostwal, @gabemilani, @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @theCyberTech