Announcements

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.

OpenClaw v2026.4.25 delivers major upgrades across voice synthesis, plugin architecture, observability, and browser automation. TTS now supports multiple providers (Azure Speech, Xiaomi, ElevenLabs v3, etc.) with chat-scoped controls and per-agent overrides. Plugin startup paths move to a cold persisted registry for deterministic operations and reduced manifest scanning. OpenTelemetry coverage expands across model calls, token usage, and tool loops with bounded attributes. Browser automation gains safer tab URLs, iframe-aware snapshots, and improved CDP readiness. Control UI adds PWA/Web Push support and enhanced setup flows.

OpenClaw v2026.4.25-beta.2 delivers major upgrades across text-to-speech (TTS) with new providers and chat-scoped controls, plugin architecture optimization through cold persisted registry, comprehensive OpenTelemetry observability expansion, safer browser automation with CDP improvements, and hardened installation/update processes across all platforms. The release includes PWA/Web Push support in the control UI, per-agent and per-account TTS overrides, and deterministic plugin discovery that eliminates broad manifest scans.

OpenClaw v2026.4.25-beta.1 introduces major upgrades to text-to-speech (TTS) with multi-provider support and per-agent overrides, migrates plugin management to a cold persisted registry for faster startup, expands OpenTelemetry observability across model calls and tool execution, enhances browser automation safety with iframe-aware snapshots and CDP tuning, and hardens installation/update processes across multiple platforms. The release also adds PWA/Web Push support to the control UI and includes new provider integrations (Azure Speech, Xiaomi, Volcengine, ElevenLabs v3) alongside improved CLI tooling and diagnostics.

OpenClaw v2026.4.24 introduces Google Meet as a bundled participant plugin with real-time voice capabilities, adds DeepSeek V4 models to the default catalog, and enhances browser automation with coordinate clicks and improved action budgets. The release significantly lightens plugin and model infrastructure at startup through static catalogs and lazy dependencies, while implementing breaking changes to plugin SDK tool-result transforms that require migration to the new `registerAgentToolResultMiddleware` API.

OpenClaw v2026.4.24-beta.5 introduces Google Meet as a bundled participant plugin with real-time voice capabilities, adds DeepSeek V4 models to the default catalog, and enhances browser automation with coordinate clicks and improved tab recovery. The release includes significant infrastructure improvements for lighter startup times through static model catalogs and lazy provider dependencies, plus numerous bug fixes across Telegram, browser automation, MCP runtime management, and session handling.

OpenClaw v2026.4.24-beta.1 introduces Google Meet as a bundled participant plugin with real-time voice capabilities, adds DeepSeek V4 models to the default catalog, and implements WebRTC-backed realtime voice loops across Talk, Voice Call, and Google Meet. The release includes browser automation improvements (coordinate clicks, longer action budgets, per-profile headless overrides), lighter plugin/model infrastructure at startup, and breaking changes to plugin SDK tool-result transforms requiring migration to `registerAgentToolResultMiddleware`.

OpenClaw v2026.4.20 is a major release featuring UI/UX improvements to the onboarding wizard, enhanced agent prompts with better completion bias and verification, support for tiered model pricing including Moonshot Kimi models, session maintenance optimizations to prevent memory issues, and numerous fixes across plugins, APIs, and provider integrations. Key improvements include streaming thinking in Mattermost, better group-specific system prompts in BlueBubbles, and refined reasoning model handling across OpenAI GPT-5 and other providers.

OpenClaw v2026.4.15-beta.1 introduces significant enhancements across control UI, memory management, and security. Key additions include OAuth token health monitoring, cloud storage support for LanceDB memory indexes, GitHub Copilot embedding provider integration, and experimental lean mode for local models. The release focuses on security hardening with credential redaction, symlink protection, and improved authentication handling, alongside numerous bug fixes for CLI configuration, memory access control, and provider failover logic.

OpenClaw v2026.4.12 is a comprehensive quality release emphasizing plugin loading reliability, memory system improvements, and expanded local model support. Key additions include an Active Memory sub-agent plugin, local MLX speech provider for Talk Mode, LM Studio provider for self-hosted models, and enhanced Feishu setup workflows. The release also addresses critical security fixes, dreaming/narrative stability, and improves gateway lifecycle management and Matrix client streaming support.

OpenClaw v2026.4.12-beta.1 introduces significant improvements to plugin loading, memory recall, and dreaming functionality. Key changes include narrowing plugin activation to manifest-declared needs, improving QMD recall search telemetry, and fixing critical issues with memory retrieval, dreaming narrative cleanup, and gateway authentication. The release also expands documentation for providers and memory-wiki setups while addressing numerous edge cases in CLI updates, Unicode handling, and WebSocket keepalive mechanisms.

OpenClaw v2026.4.1 is a maintenance and feature release introducing chat-native task boards, SearXNG web search integration, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails support, and enhanced channel features (Feishu comments, WhatsApp reactions, Telegram improvements). The release includes significant fixes for task management, execution approvals, session handling, and plugin runtime dependencies, with improved error handling and configuration flexibility across gateways, channels, and agent systems.

OpenClaw v2026.4.1-beta.1 introduces significant enhancements across chat, web search, cloud integrations, and channel management. Key additions include a native `/tasks` background task board, SearXNG web search provider, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails support, and improved Feishu document collaboration. The release also addresses critical fixes for task management, execution approvals, session routing, and channel-specific issues to improve stability and user experience.