Croppa::render() was not working and was returning false. I traced the problem to the parse function in the URL class. The issue was the const PATTERN. I deleted the last character and from this:
const PATTERN = '(.+)-([0-9_]+)x([0-9_]+)(-[0-9a-zA-Z(),\-._]+)*\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|JPG|JPEG|PNG|GIF)$';
became
const PATTERN = '(.+)-([0-9_]+)x([0-9_]+)(-[0-9a-zA-Z(),\-._]+)*\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|JPG|JPEG|PNG|GIF)';
and now works like a charm.