Switch docs.crewai.com from navigation-only versioning (every version
selector entry rendered the same docs/<lang>/* source files) to
Mintlify's directory-based versioning so each version selector entry
renders its own snapshot. Add an "Edge" channel under docs/edge/<lang>/*
that always reflects main HEAD for unreleased work, eliminating
pre-release leakage onto frozen release labels. External links to
canonical /<lang>/* URLs are preserved via wildcard redirects that
always land on the current default version.
Layout:
- docs/edge/<lang>/* rolling source (you edit here)
- docs/edge/enterprise-api.*.yaml
- docs/v<X.Y.Z>/<lang>/* frozen, immutable snapshots
- docs/v<X.Y.Z>/enterprise-api.*.yaml
- docs/images/ shared, append-only
- docs/docs.json nav + redirects
URLs follow the Mintlify-idiomatic shape: /edge/<lang>/<page> for
Edge, /v<X.Y.Z>/<lang>/<page> for every frozen snapshot. The wildcard
redirects /<lang>/:slug* -> /<default>/<lang>/:slug* keep stale links
working, and every freeze rewrites them (plus all per-section/per-page
redirects) so destinations always resolve to the current default
without depending on a second redirect hop.
Release flow integration (devtools release):
- New module crewai_devtools.docs_versioning.freeze() materialises
docs/v<X.Y.Z>/ from docs/edge/, rewrites openapi: refs inside the
snapshot, inserts the version into every language block in
docs.json, and refreshes all redirect destinations.
- _update_docs_and_create_pr() in cli.py now calls that freeze during
Phase 2 of devtools release. Edge changelogs are updated first (so
the snapshot freeze picks them up), then the snapshot is staged
alongside docs.json, branched as docs/freeze-v<X.Y.Z>, and the PR
is titled [docs-freeze] docs: snapshot and changelog for v<X.Y.Z>
— the title prefix the new CI guard reads.
- The PR still gates tag, GitHub release, PyPI publish, and the
enterprise release as before; no new PRs are added.
- Pre-releases (1.X.YaN, 1.X.YbN, ...) skip the snapshot — they ride
Edge — and the docs PR title omits the [docs-freeze] prefix.
- docs_check (AI-generated docs scaffolding) writes to
docs/edge/<lang>/* so newly-generated unreleased docs land in Edge
and never accidentally touch a frozen snapshot.
Migration scripts (one-shot):
- scripts/docs/freeze_historical_versions.py reconstructs all 16
historical snapshots (v1.10.0 .. v1.14.7) from git tags via
git archive | tar, rewriting openapi: MDX refs so each snapshot
reads its own enterprise-api YAML rather than the live one.
- scripts/docs/prefix_version_paths.py one-shot-migrates docs.json:
rewrites every page path in 16 versioned blocks to point under
docs/v<X.Y.Z>/, inserts a new Edge entry per language, tags
v1.14.7 as Latest (default), prunes pages whose target file
doesn't exist in the snapshot (e.g. docs/ar/ didn't exist before
v1.12.0), and writes the wildcard + per-section redirects.
- scripts/docs/freeze_current_edge.py is now a thin CLI wrapper
around docs_versioning.freeze for manual one-off freezes (e.g.
retroactively snapshotting a forgotten release).
CI guards (.github/workflows/docs-snapshots.yml):
- Frozen snapshots under docs/v[0-9]*/ are immutable; only PRs whose
title contains [docs-freeze] (i.e. release-cut PRs generated by
devtools release or the manual wrapper) may modify them.
- Images under docs/images/ are append-only since snapshots share a
single image directory. Deleting or renaming an image breaks every
historical snapshot that still references it.
Restored docs/images/crewai-otel-export.png from PR #3673; it was
deleted in PR #4908 but v1.10.0 / v1.10.1 snapshots still reference
it. Restoring instead of editing the snapshots preserves historical
rendering fidelity and validates the new append-only rule
retroactively.
Tests:
- lib/devtools/tests/test_docs_versioning.py covers the freeze: file
copy, openapi rewrite, version insertion, default demotion, redirect
upserts, per-section redirect rewriting, idempotency, and invalid
inputs.
Verified locally with mintlify broken-links: 0 broken links across
the full site (Edge + 16 frozen versions, 4 locales).
AGENTS.md (repo root) is the contributor guide for the new model;
RELEASING.md is the release-cut runbook; README's Contribution
section links to both.
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* perf: defer MCP SDK import by fixing import path in agent/core.py
- Change 'from crewai.mcp import MCPServerConfig' to direct path
'from crewai.mcp.config import MCPServerConfig' to avoid triggering
mcp/__init__.py which eagerly loads the full mcp SDK (~300-400ms)
- Move MCPToolResolver import into get_mcp_tools() method body since
it's only used at runtime, not in type annotations
Saves ~200ms on 'import crewai' cold start.
* perf: lazy-load heavy MCP imports in mcp/__init__.py
MCPClient, MCPToolResolver, BaseTransport, and TransportType now use
__getattr__ lazy loading. These pull in the full mcp SDK (~400ms) but
are only needed at runtime when agents actually connect to MCP servers.
Lightweight config and filter types remain eagerly imported.
* perf: lazy-load all event type modules in events/__init__.py
Previously only agent_events were lazy-loaded; all other event type
modules (crew, flow, knowledge, llm, guardrail, logging, mcp, memory,
reasoning, skill, task, tool_usage) were eagerly imported at package
init time. Since events/__init__.py runs whenever ANY crewai.events.*
submodule is accessed, this loaded ~12 Pydantic model modules
unnecessarily.
Now all event types use the same __getattr__ lazy-loading pattern,
with TYPE_CHECKING imports preserved for IDE/type-checker support.
Saves ~550ms on 'import crewai' cold start.
* chore: remove UNKNOWN.egg-info from version control
* fix: add MCPToolResolver to TYPE_CHECKING imports
Fixes F821 (ruff) and name-defined (mypy) from lazy-loading the
MCP import. The type annotation on _mcp_resolver needs the name
available at type-check time.
* fix: bump lxml to >=5.4.0 for GHSA-vfmq-68hx-4jfw
lxml 5.3.2 has a known vulnerability. Bump to 5.4.0+ which
includes the fix (libxml2 2.13.8). The previous <5.4.0 pin
was for etree import issues that have since been resolved.
* fix: bump exclude-newer to 2026-04-22 for lxml 6.1.0 resolution
lxml 6.1.0 (GHSA fix) was released April 17 but the exclude-newer
date was set to April 17, missing it by timestamp. Bump to April 22.
* perf: add import time benchmark script
scripts/benchmark_import_time.py measures import crewai cold start
in fresh subprocesses. Supports --runs, --json (for CI), and
--threshold (fail if median exceeds N seconds).
The companion GitHub Action workflow needs to be pushed separately
(requires workflow scope).
* new action
* Potential fix for pull request finding 'CodeQL / Workflow does not contain permissions'
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