1.13.0

CrewAI Releases / 4/3/2026

📰 NewsDeveloper Stack & InfrastructureTools & Practical Usage

Key Points

  • v1.13.0 introduces unified state serialization via a RuntimeState RootModel, adds richer telemetry spans for skill/memory events, and extends A2UI with v0.8/v0.9 support plus schemas and docs.
  • LLM eventing is expanded by emitting token-usage data in LLMCallCompletedEvent, while release workflows are improved by auto-updating the deployment test repo and increasing enterprise release resilience and UX.
  • Bug fixes address credentials handling (crewai install, uv build/publish), configuration changes (fingerprint metadata via config), and model/API compatibility issues (GPT-5.x stop parameter support; additional multimodal vision prefixes).
  • Performance and reliability improvements include reducing framework overhead with a lazy event bus and skipping tracing when disabled, plus cache busting for freshly published enterprise packages and Windows compatibility adjustments.
  • Refactoring migrates Flow and LLM classes to Pydantic BaseModel, simplifies type handling, removes unused directories, and updates documentation including SSO/RBAC guides and a new coding-agent skills demo.

What's Changed

Features

  • Add RuntimeState RootModel for unified state serialization
  • Enhance event listener with new telemetry spans for skill and memory events
  • Add A2UI extension with v0.8/v0.9 support, schemas, and docs
  • Emit token usage data in LLMCallCompletedEvent
  • Auto-update deployment test repo during release
  • Improve enterprise release resilience and UX

Bug Fixes

  • Add tool repository credentials to crewai install
  • Add tool repository credentials to uv build in tool publish
  • Pass fingerprint metadata via config instead of tool args
  • Handle GPT-5.x models not supporting the stop API parameter
  • Add GPT-5 and o-series to multimodal vision prefixes
  • Bust uv cache for freshly published packages in enterprise release
  • Cap lancedb below 0.30.1 for Windows compatibility
  • Fix RBAC permission levels to match actual UI options
  • Fix inaccuracies in agent-capabilities across all languages

Documentation

  • Add coding agent skills demo video to getting started pages
  • Add comprehensive SSO configuration guide
  • Add comprehensive RBAC permissions matrix and deployment guide
  • Update changelog and version for v1.13.0

Performance

  • Reduce framework overhead with lazy event bus, skip tracing when disabled

Refactoring

  • Convert Flow to Pydantic BaseModel
  • Convert LLM classes to Pydantic BaseModel
  • Replace InstanceOf[T] with plain type annotations
  • Remove unused third_party LLM directory

Contributors

@alex-clawd, @dependabot[bot], @greysonlalonde, @iris-clawd, @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @thiagomoretto

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