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v1.6.0

FoundationVision/VARv1.6.0May 4, 2026by dogancanbakir

AI Summary

This release introduces automatic login support, per-domain page budgets, and per-host rate limiting with adaptive backoff to enhance crawling control. It also adds configurable page load strategies and fixes critical bugs related to headless Chrome behavior and resource cleanup.

Key Highlights

  • Added automatic login support
  • Implemented per-domain page budget (0 = unlimited)
  • Added per-host rate limiting with adaptive backoff
  • Introduced configurable page load strategies (heuristic, load, domcontentloaded, networkidle, none)
  • Made JSLuice cgo-free for improved compatibility

New Features

  • Automatic login support
  • Per-domain page budget
  • Per-host rate limiting with adaptive backoff
  • Page load strategy options
  • JSLuice cgo-free implementation
  • Support for 'none' filter

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

### 🎉 New Features
* Added automatic login support by @dogancanbakir in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1620
* Added per-domain page budget to limit pages crawled per domain (0 = unlimited) by @dogancanbakir in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1612
* Added per-host rate limiting with adaptive backoff by @dogancanbakir in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1614
* Made jsluice cgo-free by @Mzack9999 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1570
* Added page load strategy by @fail-open in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1514

`-pls, -page-load-strategy string  page load strategy (heuristic, load, domcontentloaded, networkidle, none) (default "heuristic")`

### 🐞 Bug Fixes
* Fixed cleanup of crawler resource lifecycles by @x-stp in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1634
* Fixed headless Chrome profile persistence with `-no-incognito` and `-chrome-data-dir` by @iamkunal9 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1608
* Fixed gracefully handling DOM retrieval timeout in headless mode by @trasnake87 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1592
* Fixed ignored headless options since v1.4.0 by @dogancanbakir in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1622
* Fixed onclick link discovery for dynamic JS navigations by @dogancanbakir in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1624
* Fixed preserving response body/raw and waiting after form submission in headless mode by @XTeam-Wing in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1585
* Fixed output of unvisited urls by @Mzack9999 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1595

### Other Changes
* Added `none` to filters by @Mzack9999 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1594
* Added helper functions + tests by @Mzack9999 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1596
* Added deduplication of headless mode output by @dogancanbakir in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1602
* Updated Ubuntu installation instructions by @ecdeveloper in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1628



## New Contributors
* @trasnake87 made their first contribution in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1592
* @iamkunal9 made their first contribution in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1608
* @ecdeveloper made their first contribution in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1628
* @x-stp made their first contribution in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1634
* @XTeam-Wing made their first contribution in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1585

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/compare/v1.5.0...v1.6.0