3.18.0 (2026-08-04)

Bug Fixes

• allow any clickOptions in enqueueLinksByClickingElements (#3823) (abcbfb1)
• avoid duplicate final crawler persistence (#3866) (79dd6c4), closes #3167
• basic-crawler: declare @apify/datastructures as a dependency (#3815) (4e9d227)
• core: avoid re-submitting already-enqueued requests in addRequestsBatched (#3843) (704c269), closes #2456 #2456 #2456 #3120
• core: cap retries for unprocessed requests in addRequestsBatched (#3765) (b3170a6), closes #3764
• core: clear AutoscaledPool.pause() polling interval on timeout (#3847) (42b8914)
• core: ignore explicitly undefined baseUrl in enqueueLinks helpers (#3924) (a58a9c1)
• core: keep crawler enqueue limits when options carry explicit undefined (#3927) (5f1b0ab), closes #3924 #3924
• core: keep same-domain filtering after an off-domain redirect (#3923) (9b312ef), closes #3921
• core: remove RequestList persist state listener on teardown (#3846) (63394ee)
• core: skip malformed cookie fragments in mergeCookies (#3822) (b3c3ef2)
• core: unblock backpressured sitemap load on persistState (#3863) (0b31a8b)
• declare missing dependencies (#3817) (5a9a661)
• filter sitemap-derived URLs by enqueue strategy (#3797) (9dc3160)
• impit-client: honor redirect handler for session cookie parity (#3938) (9371301)
• make crawler terminal status message reliably delivered (#3733) (7aed264)
• memory-storage: don't increment handledRequestCount when updating a handled request (#3827) (4739d48)
• memory-storage: prevent storage names from escaping the storage directory (#3715) (a04c297)
• memory-storage: use platform basename in key-value store warning (#3864) (dcefe01)
• playwright,puppeteer: only intercept requests for non-GET methods or payloads (#3819) (1942f1e)
• playwright: silence transient errors in enqueueLinksByClickingElements (#3732) (7b98cc3), closes #3216
• read properties directly from GotScrapingHttpClient response (#3807) (c673c8d)
• respect falsy transformRequestFunction return in context enqueueLinks (#3925) (6cb4fc3), closes #3920
• sitemap: recognize sitemap_index as a valid input sitemap url (#3909) (eacab5e)
• stagehand: wait for Stagehand to register a page before using it (#3865) (238214f)
• update handleCloudflareChallenge for new Cloudflare challenge markup (#3717) (5baa8bd), closes #3629 apify/camoufox-js#283 #3629
• utils: advance the CPU tick baseline in systemInfoV2 getCurrentCpuTicks (#3824) (bb23800)
• utils: allow apostrophes and asterisks in extracted URLs (#3790) (e9baffd), closes #2755
• utils: prevent ReDoS in social email regex (#3845) (d6a2b39)
• utils: prevent sitemap metadata leak across url without loc (#3795) (895ed62)
• utils: use article:* selectors for article Open Graph properties (#3789) (b660506)

Features

• core: infer default-route handler userData from its schema (#3919) (37d0ccb)
• impit-client: add cacheClients option to disable Impit client reuse (#3771) (af9cb8c), closes #3769 #3769
• opt-in schema validation of request userData per router label (#3851) (c7347f9), closes #3747 #3748 #3747 #3082
• support puppeteer@25 (#3869) (1430062), closes #3772
• type-safe router labels via per-label userData map (#3747) (1124aca), closes #3082

Performance Improvements

• core: improve RequestList initialization speed on large arrays (#3754) (c451c13), closes #3750