v1.4.0

OpenBB-finance/OpenBBv1.4.0Jan 6, 2026by dogancanbakir

AI Summary

This update brings significant improvements to the Katana web crawler, primarily adding a new headless mode for automated browsing and fixing concurrency issues in the hybrid crawler implementation.

Key Highlights

Added headless mode support for automated crawling with browser display options
Fixed concurrency issues in the hybrid crawler
Added diagnostic logging support for debugging headless operations

New Features

Headless mode with browser control (-headless, -show-browser)
Headless mode with depth control (-depth, -aff)
Diagnostics mode for debugging (-enable-diagnostics)
Fixed concurrency in hybrid crawler

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

### 🎉 New Features
* Added headless mode support by @Ice3man543 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1396

You can try out the headless crawler today with the below steps:

```
# Simple headless crawl, show the browser as well
katana -u https://cloud.projectdiscovery.io -headless -show-browser

# Deeper exploration
katana -u https://ginandjuice.shop -headless -depth 5 -aff

# With debug logging (for investigating state failures, etc) writes diagnostic information in a new directory for debugging purposes along with more verbose logging.
katana -debug -u https://www.github.com -headless -enable-diagnostics
```

### 🐞 Bug Fixes
* Fixed concurrency not working as expected in the hybrid crawler by @majiayu000 in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1488



## New Contributors
* @majiayu000 made their first contribution in https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/pull/1488

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0