Changelog

This release adds a light theme and optional session recordings, plus billing notifications and fixes for sessions, browser actions, and the CLI.

This release makes the billing pages faster and clearer, and fixes bugs in payments, session settings, and session recording.

Mostly billing and Wallet work, more detail in the session viewer, and a run of reliability fixes across session routing, archives, and browser connections.

Mostly session visibility and docs plumbing this week, plus a small API addition and a new Stripe Projects recipe in the cookbook.

This week was mostly docs and console polish, plus a new overview for Stripe Projects and a couple of fixes around that rollout.

Mostly billing visibility and session ID plumbing this week, plus some anti-bot and browser updates.

Mostly session observability this week, plus a couple of browser and recorder fixes and some pricing-doc cleanup to make plan behavior clearer.

Launch Week v3: Stealth Browser, Dedicated IPs, Rust and Go SDKs, Atlas, pricing updates, and new cookbook recipes.

This was a docs week: more FAQs, an agent-friendly 404 page, updated x402 examples, and a new benchmark on the leaderboard.

This week was mostly about project scoping, browser behavior, and a couple of session and viewer upgrades.

This was a session-and-CLI week. A browser session can now release itself when your agent goes quiet, so you stop paying for tabs nobody's using.

A dedicated Agent Traces docs section, a rebuilt leaderboard results browser, and llms.txt delivery fixes.

Agent traces in the session viewer, bearer-token API auth, broader stealth coverage, and a new browser tools docs section.

Fullscreen browser sessions, new cookbook examples, a click-to-interact viewer overlay, and live viewer and WebRTC playback fixes.

Deep research cookbook examples using Claude Agent SDK subagents, plus a round of Files API docs corrections.

New Claude Agent SDK, PydanticAI, Mastra, and LangGraph integrations, plus Steel CLI forge improvements and infra fixes.

Agent-native Steel Cloud onboarding, AI SDK and OpenAI Agents examples, the beta x402 pay-per-use endpoint, and CLI shell completion.

Unified UI/API deployment in steel-browser via a single Dockerfile, plus a batch of extension API fixes.

A quiet week of QoL fixes: a Steel Extensions cookbook example, a new CDP onBrowserReady hook, and UI load-speed improvements.

Launching the CAPTCHAs API for real-time CAPTCHA detection, solving progress, and direct image-CAPTCHA solving via XPath selectors.

Chrome extension support from files or the Web Store, enhanced scraping capabilities, and 25+ bug fixes across the platform.

A major DevEx release: the Steel CLI, OpenAI computer-use integration, and a centralized code template system across the ecosystem.

Dynamic proxy handling, user-defined browser preferences in the Steel API, and antibot leak patches.

Geographic proxy targeting by country, state, and city, plus stealth and plugin architecture improvements.

Copy/paste support for manual browser control, expanded CAPTCHA solving, and a batch of reliability fixes.

OpenTelemetry support for steel-browser, a dashboard feedback button, and stealth and session player improvements.

A cleanup-focused week: WebSocket and session recording fixes, user-agent handling, and dashboard performance improvements.

Launch Week recap: Credentials Beta, Steel Playground, multi-region browser deployments, and a new pricing plan.

More steel-browser DevEx work: improved Chrome args via env variables, custom CDP lifecycle hooks, and faster API boot times.

DevEx fixes and improvements to steel-browser, including better Chrome args handling, custom CDP lifecycle hooks, and faster API boot times.

Extended session contexts now cover indexedDB and sessionStorage for more reliable state persistence and authentication handling.

A new Files API for sessions to upload, use, and download files in your automation workflows, plus browser stability fixes.

Session viewer flicker and steel-browser startup fixes, plus a new SKIP_FINGERPRINT_INJECTION override for using your own stealth logic.

Enhanced stealth and fingerprinting fixes plus Cloudflare Turnstile solving to keep browser sessions from being flagged as bots.

Introducing npx create-steel-app for spinning up full Steel projects from any cookbook recipe, including pure Python projects.

Launching the Browser Agent Leaderboard and lightning-fast ~400ms session creation through new hot-session scaling logic.

A redesigned Steel Cloud dashboard and onboarding experience, plus docs and cookbook updates focused on developer UX.

Introducing Surf.new, an open-source playground for web agents, plus a revamped debugURL for embedding and interacting with live browser sessions.

The inaugural Steel changelog: a new MCP server for Claude Desktop with Web Voyager browsing, plus 40+ bug fixes.