1.14.4

crewAIInc/crewAI1.14.4Apr 30, 2026by greysonlalonde

AI Summary

This release adds support for Azure OpenAI Responses API, custom persistence keys, and new research tools from Tavily and You.com. It resolves various bugs related to MCP tools, credential forwarding, and native server handling.

Key Highlights

  • Add support for custom persistence key in `@persist`
  • Add Responses API support for Azure OpenAI provider
  • Add Tavily Research and get Research tools
  • Add You.com MCP tools for search and research
  • Fix to forward base_url and api_key to instructor.from_provider

New Features

  • Azure OpenAI Responses API support
  • Custom persistence key in `@persist`
  • Tavily Research and get Research
  • You.com MCP tools
  • Vertex AI workload identity setup guide

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

### Features
- Add support for custom persistence key in @persist
- Add Responses API support for Azure OpenAI provider
- Forward credential_scopes to Azure AI Inference client
- Add Vertex AI workload identity setup guide
- Add Tavily Research and get Research
- Add You.com MCP tools for search, research, and content extraction

### Bug Fixes
- Fix fall through when JSON regex match isn't valid JSON
- Fix to preserve tool_calls when response also contains text
- Fix to forward base_url and api_key to instructor.from_provider
- Fix to warn and return empty when native MCP server returns no tools
- Fix to use validated messages variable in non-streaming handlers
- Fix to guard crew chat description helpers against LLM failures
- Fix to reset messages and iterations between invocations
- Fix to forward trained-agents file through replay and test
- Fix to honor custom trained-agents file at inference
- Fix to bind task-only agents to crew for multimodal input_files
- Fix to serialize guardrail callables as null for JSON checkpointing
- Fix renaming of force_final_answer to avoid self-referential router
- Fix bump of litellm for SSTI fix; ignore unfixable pip CVE

### Documentation
- Update changelog and version for v1.14.4a1
- Add E2B Sandbox Tools page
- Add Daytona sandbox tools documentation

## Contributors

@EdwardIrby, @dependabot[bot], @factory-droid-oss, @factory-droid[bot], @greysonlalonde, @kunalk16, @lorenzejay, @lucasgomide, @manisrinivasan2k1, @mattatcha, @vinibrsl