Changelog #033

Announcing Changelog #033

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

🔧 Improvements

  • The console now shows more billing detail, including metered usage and balance breakdowns, effective concurrency limits, and scrape costs in spend calculations.

  • Steel now supports a new session ID format across session creation and connect routing.

  • Anti-bot sessions picked up a CDP input-event stealth layer to reduce synthetic typing signals, and Steel Browser now preserves native request headers during challenge handling.

  • Managed browsers now run on Chromium 150 with updated fingerprints.

  • The leaderboard added OSWorld 2.0 as a separate long-horizon computer-use benchmark and re-ranked entries on partial score.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a CLI daemon bug for self-hosted servers where sessions with timeout: 0 or inactivityTimeout: 0 could expire immediately and break steel browser start.

  • Fixed billing provisioning races during signup.

  • Fixed the mobile docs header so opening search closes the hamburger menu instead of leaving the search dialog covered.

🏡 Housekeeping

  • Infra added shared APT package publishing and started shipping internal packages through it.