Summary

Apache StormCrawler 3.5.0 decouples Selenium from the core module (#1604), improving modularity and reducing unnecessary dependencies. The release also introduces an advanced metadata filtering system (#1647) that supports complex logical operations like key=>val OR (key2=>val2 AND key3=>val3), addressing issue #711.

Additionally, multiple dependencies were upgraded, core tests improved, and deprecated code cleaned up, enhancing overall stability and maintainability.

Breaking Changes

Users upgrading and using Selenium now need to add the new Maven module stormcrawler-selenium to their pom.xml as follows:

    <groupId>org.apache.stormcrawler</groupId>
    <artifactId>stormcrawler-selenium</artifactId>
    <version>3.5.0</version>

What's Changed

• Bump testcontainers.version from 1.21.2 to 1.21.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler/pull/1584
• #1580 [Improvement] Convert Tags in GH actions into SHA by @Evergreenies in https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler/pull/1581
• Bump com.microsoft.playwright:playwright from 1.52.0 to 1.53.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler/pull/1582