v1.4.0

bol-van/zapretv1.4.0Jan 6, 2026by dogancanbakir

AI Summary

This release introduces headless mode support for the web crawler, enabling dynamic application crawling with browser visualization. It also addresses a concurrency issue within the hybrid crawler mode to improve stability.

Key Highlights

Added headless mode support with browser visibility
Enabled diagnostic logging for debugging headless operations
Fixed concurrency issues in the hybrid crawler

New Features

Headless mode with browser visualization (`-show-browser`)
Headless mode with depth exploration and affinity (`-depth`, `-aff`)
Diagnostic logging support for state failures (`-enable-diagnostics`)

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