release: 0.4.0 (#281)

* release: 0.4.0

* stagehand-alpha -> stagehand

Author: monadoid

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.3.1"
+  ".": "0.4.0"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.4.0](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/compare/v0.3.1...v0.4.0) (2026-01-13)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* don't close new opened tabs ([#161](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/issues/161)) ([#169](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/issues/169)) ([f68e86c](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/commit/f68e86c90d9e5f30d2f447ada65cc711ac531baa))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* active page context ([#251](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/issues/251)) ([d61e118](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/commit/d61e118ccc8845ac95e4579f6137a91abb004943))
+* set injected Stagehand cursor position to fixed for correct viewport tracking ([#121](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/issues/121)) ([#122](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/issues/122)) ([93c16e3](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/commit/93c16e392d754227f9bec47ee9d9f26046bfb770))
+
 ## 0.3.1 (2026-01-13)
 
 Full Changelog: [v0.3.0...v0.3.1](https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand-python/compare/v0.3.0...v0.3.1)

README.md

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ uv run python examples/local_example.py
 ```
 
 ```bash
-pip install stagehand-alpha
+pip install stagehand
 uv run python examples/local_example.py
 ```
 
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ By default, the async client uses `httpx` for HTTP requests. For improved concur
 Install `aiohttp`:
 
 ```sh
-uv run pip install stagehand-alpha[aiohttp]
+uv run pip install stagehand[aiohttp]
 ```
 
 Then instantiate the client with `http_client=DefaultAioHttpClient()`:

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
-name = "stagehand-alpha"
-version = "0.3.1"
+name = "stagehand"
+version = "0.4.0"
 description = "The official Python library for the stagehand API"
 dynamic = ["readme"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"

src/stagehand/_version.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
 
 __title__ = "stagehand"
-__version__ = "0.3.1"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "0.4.0"  # x-release-please-version