Announcements

OpenClaw v2026.7.1-beta.5 introduces major features including conversational AI-guided onboarding through Crestodian, a new ClawRouter provider for dynamic model discovery and quota management, redesigned Control UI with session-first navigation, offline/spoken capabilities for mobile platforms, and support for GPT-5.6 models. The release emphasizes improved user experience across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Apple Watch with features like auto-generated session titles, external harness attachment via Claude Code, and Telegram workflow enhancements.

OpenClaw v2026.7.1-beta.2 introduces GPT-5.6 support, external harness attachment via `openclaw attach`, Telegram Codex workflows with login and steering, event-driven cron runs with `on-exit` scheduling, and native app improvements including iOS 26 visual system adoption. The release also adds ClawRouter for dynamic model discovery with credential-scoped routing, richer iMessage messaging with native polls, safer scoped conversations via capability profiles, and enhanced Control UI navigation with reasoning-effort controls. Extensive fixes address Telegram durability, agent reliability, provider safety, channel delivery, cron correctness, and memory recovery across multiple platforms.

OpenClaw v2026.6.11-beta.1 introduces enhanced channel control with Slack relay mode and Mattermost native commands, richer operator workflows via file-driven message handling and remote wake-up paths, safer plugin distribution with externalized plugins and icon metadata, stronger mobile operations with improved Android settings, and more reliable agent turns through Codex partial deltas and prompt-cache stability. The release includes 305 merged PRs addressing channel delivery reliability, WhatsApp message identity preservation, gateway session safety, agent fallback behavior, provider model edge cases, and configuration guardrails across Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Mattermost, and other integrations.

AILA is a local-first autonomous agent platform built by Marco, a Berlin paramedic, that runs 100% on user hardware with zero remote override capability. The system uses a "Sovereignty Key" (physical hardware anchor) to ensure true ownership and prevent external control, even by the creator. Unlike cloud-based AI that users merely rent access to, AILA enables users to modify their agent's reasoning in plain language while maintaining complete autonomy and privacy.

Claude Code v2.1.158 introduces auto mode availability across multiple cloud platforms (Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry) for the latest Opus models (4.7 and 4.8). Users can enable this feature by setting an environment variable. This expansion makes auto mode more accessible across different deployment environments.

OpenClaw v2026.5.25-beta.1 is a maintenance release focusing on bug fixes and platform compatibility improvements. Key fixes address iMessage attachment handling, Windows native support for package scripts, Alpine Linux installer compatibility, and MCP server timeout issues. The release includes numerous test infrastructure improvements and configuration enhancements to ensure stability across Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

OpenClaw v2026.5.24-beta.2 introduces significant performance optimizations across Gateway, caching, and lazy-loading mechanisms, while expanding real-time capabilities for Discord voice and WebUI interactions. New features include iMessage thumb-approval reactions, adaptive image compression, a Meeting Notes plugin for Discord voice capture, and enhanced CLI/onboarding workflows. The release also includes extensive documentation improvements, diagnostics enhancements for observability, and Plugin SDK modernization with deprecated target helpers.

OpenClaw v2026.5.24-beta.1 introduces significant performance optimizations across the Gateway layer through caching and lazy-loading strategies, adds real-time collaboration features for WebUI and Discord voice callers, expands the Meeting Notes plugin with Discord integration, and includes extensive documentation improvements and CLI enhancements. Key additions include adaptive image compression, improved diagnostics with sanitized telemetry, and refined sub-agent bootstrap context management. The release also modernizes the Plugin SDK with updated messaging APIs and adds new maintainer tooling for bug-sweep workflows.

OpenClaw v2026.5.22 is a performance and stability release focused on optimizing Gateway startup, improving plugin metadata caching, and lazy-loading unused components. The release includes extensive documentation updates across channels, configuration, and troubleshooting; new features like meeting-notes plugin support and enhanced session management; and QA improvements including observability enhancements and runtime parity audits. Dependencies are refreshed and several SDK contracts are added for embeddings and session workflows.

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.

OpenClaw v2026.5.19-alpha.1 introduces significant enhancements across agents, dependencies, Docker/Podman support, gateway performance, plugins, skills, browser automation, QA testing, and platform-specific features. Key updates include refactored agent fixes with clean bounded refactors, new skill capabilities (meme-maker, Python debugging, node inspector), improved Settings UI on Mac, enhanced browser dialog handling, and comprehensive QA-Lab runtime parity scenarios. The release also addresses critical fixes for port validation, plugin tool auth profiles, and memory search performance optimization.

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 v2026.5.14-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.