swirl-search Releases

This release adds support for the latest Claude models (Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6) featuring 1M context windows and advanced reasoning capabilities.

Apr 9, 2026

This release focuses on dependency updates, security patches, and bug fixes, including a critical fix for build failures and chat visibility issues.

Apr 8, 2026

This release introduces a new command-line interface feature for authenticating with Spider Cloud, allowing users to store API keys locally for remote crawls and headless browser operations.

Mar 31, 2026

A patch release that addresses shell alias conflicts by removing the automatic setup of `hamster` and `ham` aliases during initialization.

Mar 31, 2026

This release introduces continuous batching by default, support for Qwen3.5 and M5 Pro/Max chips, and various quality-of-life improvements like mobile-friendly UI and API enhancements for cancellation and reasoning parameters.

Mar 27, 2026

Introduces a new MCP (Model Context Protocol) server crate, spider_mcp, enabling direct integration of Spider's web scraping capabilities into Claude Code and Claude Desktop. It provides tools for scraping, crawling, and transforming HTML content.

Mar 25, 2026

Adds the ability to run multiple browser engines in parallel during a crawl, allowing the best HTML result to be selected. It introduces ParallelBackendsConfig and supports engines like LightPanda and Servo with zero performance overhead when disabled.

Mar 25, 2026

A significant performance and feature update focusing on extensibility and speed. It introduces trait abstractions for crawl pipelines and proxy support for LLMs. Performance optimizations include SIMD-accelerated scanning and zero-alloc DNS caching.

Mar 20, 2026

Focuses on low-level optimization for high-performance environments. It adds NUMA thread pinning support for multi-socket servers and enables zero-copy wire parsing for HTTP status lines, cache headers, and DNS records.

Mar 19, 2026

This is a major release focusing on stability improvements, new model support (including HuggingFace custom models and various AI providers), and significant UX enhancements to the web dashboard and API.

Feb 25, 2026

Introduces the MCPB bundle for easier installation, verbose output mode for the loop command, and a metadata field for tasks.

Feb 4, 2026

Adds support for Kimi-K2.5 and introduces tensor sharding support for MiniMax M2.1.

Jan 28, 2026

Fixes xstate version compatibility issues and updates dependencies for security.

Jan 26, 2026

Adds filtering options to identify parallelizable tasks and introduces cross-process file locking to prevent data loss during concurrent access.

Jan 15, 2026

Updates urllib3, @smithy/config-resolver, and react-router-dom for security fixes and validation improvements.

Jan 13, 2026

Introduces a new 'loop' command to automate task execution using Claude Code in a Docker sandbox with built-in workflow presets.

Jan 11, 2026

Improves CLI startup speed and project root detection to prevent incorrect folder detection in monorepos.

Dec 28, 2025

SWIRL AI Search 4.4 Community Edition release featuring enhanced source selector functionality with partial selection support per CUA protocol and clickable SearchProvider tags. The release also expands RAG model support to all OpenAI and Azure/OpenAI models.

Dec 9, 2025

Nov 9, 2025

SWIRL AI Search 4.3 Community Edition release enabling Community users to select any OpenAI or Azure/OpenAI model including GPT-5, with various Galaxy UI improvements and bug fixes.

Aug 21, 2025