Crawl4AI v0.9.2: Maintenance Bug Fixes

July 14, 2026 · View on GitHub

July 2026 - 2 min read

I'm releasing Crawl4AI v0.9.2, a small maintenance patch that cleans up a dispatcher resource leak and fixes a handful of Docker and GPU build issues. No new features, no breaking changes.

If you're on v0.9.1, upgrade freely.

What's new at a glance

  • Dispatcher cleanup: MemoryAdaptiveDispatcher no longer leaves crawl tasks and browser pages running after a streaming crawl is closed
  • Docker Playground: "Advanced Config" no longer returns a 400
  • Docker Monitor: the dashboard WebSocket no longer returns a 500 under JWT auth
  • Docker image: Playwright headless shell is now included
  • GPU builds: ENABLE_GPU=true Docker builds no longer fail on the CUDA toolkit

Bug fixes

Dispatcher (1 fix)

  • Streaming cleanup leak: When the async generator from MemoryAdaptiveDispatcher.run_urls_stream() was closed or cancelled mid-stream, its per-URL crawl tasks kept running in the background. A later arun_many() on the same crawler could then overlap the old tasks while they still held the same browser, contexts, and pages — leaking pages and emitting stray Playwright TargetClosedErrors. Closing the stream now cancels and awaits every in-flight task and drains any queued-but-unstarted URLs before returning. (#2071, thanks @reallav0)

Docker (3 fixes)

  • Playground "Advanced Config" 400: /config/dump requires a type, but the playground's pyConfigToJson only sent code. The request now includes the config type, aligns the stream fallback with the dump shape, and teaches shouldUseStream both nestings. (#2059, thanks @Pitchfork-and-Torch)
  • Monitor WebSocket 500: the monitor dashboard's /monitor/ws endpoint 500'd because a router-level token_dep is HTTP-request-only and can't inject into WebSocket scopes. Auth is now enforced solely by AuthGateMiddleware; admin routes keep require_admin. (#2060, thanks @Pitchfork-and-Torch)
  • Headless shell packaging: the Playwright headless shell is now installed in the Docker image. (#2067, thanks @reallav0)

GPU / Build (1 fix)

  • CUDA toolkit on Bookworm: ENABLE_GPU=true builds failed with "Package has no installation candidate" because nvidia-cuda-toolkit lives in Debian Bookworm's non-free component, which the python:3.12-slim-bookworm base image omits. The Dockerfile now adds the non-free (and contrib) apt sources before the GPU install block. (#2020, thanks @harshmathurx)

Tests

  • Regression test added for the dispatcher stream-close cleanup, asserting in-flight tasks are cancelled, the queue is drained, and session count returns to zero.
  • Updated the monitor auth test for the WebSocket-safe router config, and corrected a regex group name and the Playwright cache-copy target in the Docker tests.

Breaking changes

None.

Upgrade

pip install -U crawl4ai
crawl4ai-doctor  # verify installation

Docker users: pull the latest image once the Docker release workflow finishes.

Verification

python docs/releases_review/demo_v0.9.2.py

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the community contributors who made this release possible: @reallav0 (#2071, #2067), @Pitchfork-and-Torch (#2059, #2060), @harshmathurx (#2020).

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