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1.13.0

crewAIInc/crewAI1.13.0Apr 2, 2026by lorenzejay

AI Summary

This release refactors core classes like Flow and LLM to Pydantic BaseModel and enhances enterprise release resilience. It also adds support for A2UI extension and telemetry spans to improve observability.

Key Highlights

  • Convert Flow and LLM classes to Pydantic BaseModel
  • Add A2UI extension with v0.8/v0.9 support
  • Enhance event listener with new telemetry spans
  • Reduce framework overhead with lazy event bus
  • Add RuntimeState RootModel for unified state serialization

New Features

  • Flow and LLM Pydantic conversion
  • A2UI extension support
  • Telemetry spans for skills and memory events
  • Lazy event bus
  • Enterprise release resilience and UX improvements

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

### Features
- Add RuntimeState RootModel for unified state serialization
- Enhance event listener with new telemetry spans for skill and memory events
- Add A2UI extension with v0.8/v0.9 support, schemas, and docs
- Emit token usage data in LLMCallCompletedEvent
- Auto-update deployment test repo during release
- Improve enterprise release resilience and UX

### Bug Fixes
- Add tool repository credentials to crewai install
- Add tool repository credentials to uv build in tool publish
- Pass fingerprint metadata via config instead of tool args
- Handle GPT-5.x models not supporting the `stop` API parameter
- Add GPT-5 and o-series to multimodal vision prefixes
- Bust uv cache for freshly published packages in enterprise release
- Cap lancedb below 0.30.1 for Windows compatibility
- Fix RBAC permission levels to match actual UI options
- Fix inaccuracies in agent-capabilities across all languages

### Documentation
- Add coding agent skills demo video to getting started pages
- Add comprehensive SSO configuration guide
- Add comprehensive RBAC permissions matrix and deployment guide
- Update changelog and version for v1.13.0

### Performance
- Reduce framework overhead with lazy event bus, skip tracing when disabled

### Refactoring
- Convert Flow to Pydantic BaseModel
- Convert LLM classes to Pydantic BaseModel
- Replace InstanceOf[T] with plain type annotations
- Remove unused third_party LLM directory

## Contributors

@alex-clawd, @dependabot[bot], @greysonlalonde, @iris-clawd, @joaomdmoura, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @thiagomoretto