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Google ADK Python v2.1.0 introduces significant enhancements for data agents, sandbox management, and telemetry tracking. Key additions include chart generation capabilities, template/snapshot-based sandbox creation, and improved user tracking via telemetry. The release addresses multiple bug fixes across CI/CD workflows, CLI functionality, tool argument conversion, and import optimization to enhance stability and performance.

Claude Code v2.1.149 introduces enhanced usage analytics with per-category breakdowns, improved keyboard navigation in diff views, and GFM task list rendering. The release includes enterprise features for MCP connectors and fixes numerous security vulnerabilities in PowerShell execution, sandbox permissions, and file system operations. Additionally, UI/UX improvements address transcript freezing, argument hints, and feedback reporting for better debugging in long sessions.

Claude Code v2.1.147 introduces significant improvements to background session management, renames the `/simplify` command to `/code-review` with enhanced bug detection capabilities, and delivers numerous bug fixes across the auto-updater, shell tools, PowerShell integration, and UI rendering. Key enhancements include better session persistence, improved diff performance, and fixes for enterprise login enforcement. The release addresses 40+ issues spanning headless mode compatibility, plugin management, and cross-platform stability.

OpenClaw v2026.5.20 is a maintenance and feature release that enhances Discord voice session handling with context awareness, adds device-code OAuth for xAI, introduces a bundled Policy plugin for workspace conformance checks, and includes numerous bug fixes across CLI tasks, provider integrations, and agent configurations. Key improvements focus on security (symlink validation, plaintext secret warnings), reliability (task maintenance tracking, image timeouts, hook timeouts), and user experience (model pinning clarity, typing indicators, Discord button preservation).

OpenClaw v2026.5.20-beta.2 introduces significant improvements to Discord voice sessions with context-aware profile integration, adds device-code OAuth for xAI provider authentication, implements a bundled Policy plugin for workspace conformance checks, and includes numerous bug fixes across CLI tasks, Codex app-server, provider integrations, and agent message handling. The release enhances security by removing legacy skill-file compatibility paths and warning about plaintext secrets in configuration, while improving stability through better error handling, timeout management, and diagnostic reporting.

Claude Code v2.1.146 introduces a command rename from `/simplify` to `/code-review` with effort levels, fixes critical regressions in Windows PowerShell and MCP pagination, and resolves multiple UI/UX issues including full-screen strobing, permission re-prompting, and auto-updater reliability. The release also improves diff rendering performance and fixes several edge cases in background sessions, theme management, and multi-agent configurations.

OpenClaw v2026.5.20-beta.1 introduces Discord voice session improvements with user following and profile context, adds a bundled Policy plugin for channel conformance checks, enables per-agent local model configuration, and implements device-code OAuth for xAI. The release includes 40+ bug fixes spanning WhatsApp, browser image handling, cron scheduling, agent messaging, plugin performance, and platform-specific improvements across Discord, Mattermost, Matrix, and Windows.

Claude Code v2.1.145 introduces JSON output for session listing, enhanced plugin discovery with command/agent/skill previews, improved OTEL tracing with agent_id attributes, and fixes for critical issues including permission bypass vulnerabilities, MCP command errors, voice input, task rendering, and cross-platform compatibility. The release also adds GitHub repo/PR detection in status lines and improves terminal UI responsiveness with mouse support in fullscreen mode.

Google ADK Python v2.0.0 achieves General Availability with production-grade support for multi-agent workflows and dynamic collaboration. The release introduces a flexible, model-agnostic execution engine for orchestrating complex agent patterns including non-linear, conditional, and cyclical workflows. Key features include intelligent task delegation with parallel sub-agent workers, hierarchical team structures, and native inter-agent routing with seamless messaging and context propagation.

OpenClaw v2026.5.16-beta.4 introduces security audit suppressions, improved subagent handoff workflows, new media generation providers (fal, OpenRouter), enhanced Control UI with quota usage display, Mac app remote preconfiguration, xAI Grok OAuth support, and localized CLI setup for multiple languages. The release includes significant fixes for memory scanning, provider authentication, gateway performance, and various platform-specific issues across Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and GitHub Copilot integrations.

OpenClaw v2026.5.16-beta.3 introduces xAI Grok OAuth authentication, enhanced cron scheduling with wait controls, multilingual onboarding support, and significant performance improvements through skill caching. The release includes numerous fixes for gateway diagnostics, session management, channel integrations (Telegram, Discord, Matrix, Slack), and context handling to improve reliability and security across the platform.

OpenClaw v2026.5.16-beta.1 is a maintenance and stability release featuring improved skill caching, multi-language onboarding support, and numerous bug fixes across agents, providers, and integrations. Key improvements include resolved token counting for OpenAI APIs, enhanced Telegram reliability, better config validation, and fixes for critical issues in cron jobs, Discord, LINE, and local agent execution. The release strengthens platform robustness through better error handling, lifecycle management, and provider compatibility.

Claude Code v2.1.143 introduces plugin dependency enforcement, projected context costs in the marketplace, and improved background session management. Key fixes address credential corruption, PowerShell execution policies, stop hook infinite loops, and Windows Terminal compatibility issues. The release enhances session persistence across idle states and adds new configuration options for agent dispatching.

OpenClaw v2026.5.14-beta.2 introduces significant enhancements to agent configuration, channel integrations, and platform stability. Key improvements include per-agent bootstrap profile overrides, WhatsApp status reactions, voice call support via Telnyx, lazy-loading of Canvas modules for faster startup, and comprehensive dependency management. The release also strengthens maintainer tooling, adds Docker-based release validation, and fixes critical issues in provider routing, media handling, and protocol compilation.

Claude Code v2.1.142 introduces enhanced agent configuration flags for background sessions, upgrades fast mode to Opus 4.7, improves plugin skill surfacing and LSP server visibility, and fixes critical issues with daemon stability, background session persistence, and cross-platform compatibility. Key improvements include better MCP tool timeout handling, macOS sleep/wake resilience, Windows network drive support, and numerous UI/UX refinements for plugin management and session handling.

OpenClaw v2026.5.14-beta.1 introduces significant improvements to dependency management, UI/i18n tooling, maintainer workflows, and channel integrations. Key additions include WhatsApp status reactions, voice call support via Telnyx, browser-local text sizing, and enhanced release validation through Docker user-journey lanes. The release also refactors Codex CLI integration, improves gateway startup tracing, and fixes critical issues with UTF-16 surrogates, HTTP/2 session errors, and memory file discovery.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.6 is a comprehensive bug-fix and security-hardening release addressing 50+ issues across messaging channels, agent sessions, gateway protocols, plugin management, and authentication. Key improvements include fixing iMessage media handling, agent-to-agent messaging reliability, OAuth token exchange for GitHub Copilot, plugin dependency management, and enforcing stricter security controls for device pairing and proxy access. The release prioritizes stability in multi-agent communication, transcript redaction consistency, and dependency isolation while maintaining backward compatibility.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.5 is a comprehensive bug-fix release addressing gateway protocol improvements, security hardening, plugin dependency management, channel integrations (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, WeCom), session transcript redaction, and agent execution reliability. Key fixes include OAuth token exchange for Copilot, device pairing approval requirements, media size enforcement across plugins, and LLM idle watchdog timeout escalation. The release improves stability across multiple integrations while strengthening security controls for trusted proxies, admin scopes, and sensitive data redaction.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.4 is a maintenance release addressing runtime issues, authentication flows, and provider integrations. Key fixes include resolving MODULE_NOT_FOUND errors in Codex migrations, improving WhatsApp/Telegram message handling, and normalizing Google Gemini model IDs. The release also enhances session management, adds per-agent tool policies, and improves error messaging across multiple channels and providers.

Claude Code v2.1.140 releases multiple bug fixes and improvements focused on agent tool matching, background service reliability, settings management, and terminal behavior. Key enhancements include case-insensitive subagent type matching, fixed `/goal` command hanging issues, improved background service startup on enterprise networks, and resolved event-loop stalls on Windows. The release also addresses validation issues with the Read tool and improves plugin diagnostics.