crewAIInc/crewAI 0.186.0

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What's Changed

Core Improvements & Fixes

• Fixed support for defining MCP connection timeout on CrewBase
• Resolved issue where tools were being called twice
• Addressed rebranding in Azure docs: Azure AI Studio → Azure AI Foundry

New Features & Enhancements

• Added support for crewai_trigger_payload auto-injection
• Introduced centralized configuration for embedding types and base embedding client
• Implemented generic clients for ChromaDB and Qdrant
• Introduced RAG configuration system with optional imports
• Added support for Qdrant as a RAG provider
• Enabled partial flow resumability
• Displayed task names in verbose output
• Introduced crewai config reset to allow token reset
• Added additional parameters to Flow.start() methods

Documentation & Guides

• Expanded webhook event types with detailed categorization
• Moved Bedrock tool docs to the integrations folder
• Added documentation for CrewAI automation tools
• Added hybrid search alpha parameter to the docs
• Updated number of memory types and other doc cleanups

Cleanup & Deprecations

• Removed deprecated Auth0 login (no longer requires typing email)
• Added deprecation warning for Task.max_retries
• Cleaned up and modernized typing across modules (LLM, types, agents, tasks, security, etc.)
• Centralized and optimized GitHub Actions and uv caching
• Refactored telemetry module and executor logic

New Contributors

• @kimtth made their first contribution
• @samarthrawat1 made their first contribution