[Release] crewaiInc/crewAI 1.12.0a1: 1.12.0a1

CrewAI 1.12.0a1 introduces native OpenAI-compatible provider support (OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, vLLM, Cerebras, Dashscope), agent skills, and automatic hierarchical memory isolation via root_scope. The release includes Arabic language support for documentation and tooling, a new docs-check command, and significant refactoring to decouple from LiteLLM while resolving mypy type-checking errors across all packages.

Key Points

• •Native support for OpenAI-compatible providers (OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, vLLM, Cerebras, Dashscope) reduces LiteLLM dependency
• •Automatic root_scope implementation enables hierarchical memory isolation for better agent state management
• •New docs-check command analyzes changes and generates documentation with multi-language translation support
• •Arabic language support added to changelog, release tooling, and complete documentation translation
• •Agent skills feature enables modular capability composition for agents
• •Decoupling from LiteLLM for token counting, callbacks, and feature detection improves flexibility
• •All mypy strict type-checking errors resolved across crewai, crewai-tools, and crewai-files packages
• •New logout CLI command for session management
• •Refactored sync/async task execution to eliminate code duplication in agent kickoff
• •LiteLLM pinned to v1.82.6 as upper bound for stability

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