[Release] crewaiInc/crewAI 1.14.4: 1.14.4

crewAI v1.14.4 introduces enhanced persistence customization, expanded cloud provider support (Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI), and new research tools (Tavily, You.com MCP). The release includes 12 bug fixes addressing JSON handling, message preservation, credential forwarding, and multimodal input support. Documentation updates cover E2B and Daytona sandbox tools.

Key Points

• •Custom persistence keys now supported in @persist decorator for flexible state management
• •Azure OpenAI Responses API integration with credential_scopes forwarding to AI Inference client
• •Vertex AI workload identity setup guide added for GCP authentication
• •New research capabilities: Tavily Research API and You.com MCP tools for search and content extraction
• •Fixed JSON regex validation to prevent invalid JSON fallthrough errors
• •Tool calls now preserved when response contains both text and function calls
• •Improved message handling: validated messages in non-streaming handlers and reset between invocations
• •Multimodal support: task-only agents now bindable to crew for input_files processing
• •Guardrail callables serialized as null for JSON checkpointing compatibility
• •Security: litellm bump for SSTI fix and CVE mitigation

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