Release v0.7.7

🎉 Crawl4AI v0.7.7 Released!

This release introduces a complete self-hosting platform with enterprise-grade real-time monitoring. This release transforms Crawl4AI Docker from a simple containerized crawler into a production-ready platform with full operational transparency and control.

🚀 What's New

Major Feature: Real-time Monitoring & Self-Hosting Platform

Docker deployment now includes:

• 📊 Interactive Monitoring Dashboard (/dashboard)
• 🔌 Comprehensive Monitor API
• ⚡ WebSocket Streaming
• 🔥 Smart Browser Pool (3-tier architecture)
• 🧹 Janitor System
• 📈 Production-Ready

🐛 Critical Bug Fixes

• Fixed async LLM extraction blocking issue (#1055) - now supports true parallel processing
• Fixed CDP endpoint verification with exponential backoff (#1445)
• Fixed arun_many to always return a list, even on exception

Configuration & Features

• Updated browser and crawler config documentation to match implementation
• Enhanced DFS deep crawl strategy with seen URL tracking
• Fixed sitemap parsing and URL normalization in AsyncUrlSeeder (#1559)
• Fixed viewport configuration in managed browsers (#1490)
• Fixed remove_overlay_elements functionality (#1396)

Docker & Infrastructure

• Fixed LLM API key handling for multi-provider support
• Standardized Docker port to 11235 across all configs
• Improved error handling with comprehensive status codes
• Fixed fit_html serialization in /crawl and /crawl/stream endpoints

Security

• Updated pyOpenSSL from >=24.3.0 to >=25.3.0 (security vulnerability fix)
• Added verification tests for security updates

📦 Installation

PyPI:

pip install crawl4ai==0.7.7

Docker:

docker pull unclecode/crawl4ai:0.7.7
docker pull unclecode/crawl4ai:latest

Note: Docker images are being built and will be available shortly.
Check the Docker Release workflow for build status.

📝 What's Changed

See CHANGELOG.md for details.