From a0d47808c5191db68e71433bc1e308352b129503 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Sweeting <git@sweeting.me>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 05:58:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] release: archivebox 0.9.33rc46

---
 archivebox/config/collection.py | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 etc/package.json                |  2 +-
 pyproject.toml                  |  8 ++++----
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archivebox/config/collection.py b/archivebox/config/collection.py
index 97f82fc7..bfe2303d 100644
--- a/archivebox/config/collection.py
+++ b/archivebox/config/collection.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 __package__ = "archivebox.config"
 
 import io
+import json
 import os
 from typing import Any
 
@@ -43,12 +44,28 @@ def _coerce_to_str_dict(config: Any) -> dict[str, str]:
     INI files only round-trip strings, so we normalize Machine.config values
     to strings on the way out and accept the same shape on the way back.
     Pydantic re-coerces types at read time inside ``get_config``.
+
+    Composite values (``dict`` / ``list`` / ``tuple``) are JSON-encoded so
+    they round-trip back through pydantic-settings — ``str(some_dict)``
+    would produce Python's repr (``{'k': 'v'}`` with single quotes), and
+    pydantic-settings refuses to parse that as a ``dict`` field, causing
+    e.g. ``ABX_INSTALL_CACHE`` to crash with ``ValidationError: Input
+    should be a valid dictionary``.
     """
     if not config:
         return {}
-    if hasattr(config, "items"):
-        return {str(key).upper(): "" if value is None else str(value) for key, value in config.items()}
-    return {}
+    if not hasattr(config, "items"):
+        return {}
+    flat: dict[str, str] = {}
+    for key, value in config.items():
+        upper_key = str(key).upper()
+        if value is None:
+            flat[upper_key] = ""
+        elif isinstance(value, (dict, list, tuple)):
+            flat[upper_key] = json.dumps(value, default=str)
+        else:
+            flat[upper_key] = str(value)
+    return flat
 
 
 def _load_file_config_dict() -> tuple[dict[str, str], float | None]:
diff --git a/etc/package.json b/etc/package.json
index ac542daf..5dd24625 100644
--- a/etc/package.json
+++ b/etc/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "archivebox",
-  "version": "0.9.33rc45",
+  "version": "0.9.33rc46",
   "repository": "github:ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox",
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 55ec99eb..2e51a907 100755
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "archivebox"
-version = "0.9.33rc45"
+version = "0.9.33rc46"
 requires-python = ">=3.13"
 description = "Self-hosted internet archiving solution."
 authors = [{name = "Nick Sweeting", email = "pyproject.toml@archivebox.io"}]
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ dependencies = [
     ### Extractor dependencies (optional binaries detected at runtime via shutil.which)
     ### Binary/Package Management
     "abxbus==2.5.8",          # EventBus API
-    "abxpkg>=1.11.72",        # for: detecting, versioning, and installing binaries via apt/brew/pip/npm
-    "abx-plugins>=1.11.78",  # shared ArchiveBox plugin package with Chrome/Puppeteer dependency wiring
-    "abx-dl>=1.11.78",       # shared ArchiveBox downloader package with blocking install preflight
+    "abxpkg>=1.11.73",        # for: detecting, versioning, and installing binaries via apt/brew/pip/npm
+    "abx-plugins>=1.11.79",  # shared ArchiveBox plugin package with Chrome/Puppeteer dependency wiring
+    "abx-dl>=1.11.79",       # shared ArchiveBox downloader package with blocking install preflight
     ### UUID7 backport for Python <3.14
     "uuid7>=0.1.0; python_version < '3.14'",  # provides the uuid_extensions module on Python 3.13
 ]