- Removed __del__ method in AsyncPlaywrightCrawlerStrategy to ensure reliable browser lifecycle management by using explicit context managers.
- Added process monitoring in ManagedBrowser to detect and log unexpected terminations of the browser subprocess.
- Updated Docker configuration to expose port 9222 for remote debugging and allocate extra shared memory to prevent browser crashes.
- Improved error handling and resource cleanup for browser instances, particularly in Docker environments.
Resolves Issue #256
Major changes:
- Add browser takeover feature using CDP for authentic browsing
- Implement Docker support with full API server documentation
- Enhance Mockdown with tag preservation system
- Improve parallel crawling performance
This release focuses on authenticity and scalability, introducing the ability
to use users' own browsers while providing containerized deployment options.
Breaking changes include modified browser handling and API response structure.
See CHANGELOG.md for detailed migration guide.
Significant improvements in text processing and performance:
- 🚀 **Dependency reduction**: Removed dependency on spaCy model for text chunk labeling in cosine extraction strategy.
- 🤖 **Transformer upgrade**: Implemented text sequence classification using a transformer model for labeling text chunks.
- ⚡ **Performance enhancement**: Improved model loading speed due to removal of spaCy dependency.
- 🔧 **Future-proofing**: Laid groundwork for potential complete removal of spaCy dependency in future versions.
These changes address issue #68 and provide a foundation for faster, more efficient text processing in Crawl4AI.
Major improvements in functionality, performance, and cross-platform compatibility! 🚀
- 🐳 **Docker enhancements**: Significantly improved Dockerfile for easy installation on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
- 🌐 **Official Docker Hub image**: Launched our first official image on Docker Hub for streamlined deployment (unclecode/crawl4ai).
- 🔧 **Selenium upgrade**: Removed dependency on ChromeDriver, now using Selenium's built-in capabilities for better compatibility.
- 🖼️ **Image description**: Implemented ability to generate textual descriptions for extracted images from web pages.
- ⚡ **Performance boost**: Various improvements to enhance overall speed and performance.
This commit updates the Crawl4AI version from v0.2.7765 to v0.2.76. The version number is updated in the README.md file. This change ensures consistency and reflects the correct version of the software.
