Deployment

OpenClaw v2026.5.28-beta.2 delivers major stability and safety improvements across agent runtime recovery, channel delivery, mobile/chat surfaces, and provider coverage. Key enhancements include steadier subagent workspace separation, safer session identity handling across multiple channels (Matrix, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), broader mobile UI refresh, stricter input validation, expanded provider support (Claude Opus 4.8, Fal Krea, NVIDIA models), and faster CLI/auth failure detection with clearer recovery paths.

OpenClaw v2026.5.28-beta.1 delivers major stability and safety improvements across agent runtime recovery, channel delivery, mobile/chat surfaces, CLI/auth tooling, and performance optimization. Key enhancements include steadier subagent workspace separation, safer session identity handling across plugins and messaging platforms, broader mobile UI refresh with state preservation, faster CLI failure modes with clearer recovery guidance, and reduced repeated work in hot paths through improved caching. The release also expands documentation, adds ClawHub plugin features, and strengthens QA/E2E validation with bounded logging and cross-OS artifact handling.

crewAI 1.14.6 release introduces enhanced security measures for environment variable handling in StdioTransport, fixes critical bugs in structured output and checkpoint serialization, and improves documentation across planning, checkpointing, and Agent Control Plane features. Key improvements include preventing environment variable leakage, correcting serialization of BaseModel type fields, and restructuring documentation for better clarity. The Skills Repository has been moved to experimental status behind a feature gate.

Claude Code v2.1.153 introduces Git LFS skip options, improved terminal environment variable handling, enhanced agent autocomplete, and numerous bug fixes. Key improvements include better MCP server handling, fixed memory leaks in session resumption, improved background agent stability, and better Windows update rollback support. The release also refines the model picker behavior to save defaults and fixes various UI/UX issues across macOS, Windows, and terminal environments.

crewAI 1.14.6a2 release introduces enhanced security for environment variable handling in StdioTransport, improves planning configuration and observation handling, and fixes critical bugs in structured output, checkpointing, and MongoDB dependencies. The release includes comprehensive documentation updates for checkpointing, Agent Control Plane, and secrets management. Key improvements focus on preventing data leaks, enabling proper checkpoint restoration, and correcting package dependencies.

OpenClaw v2026.5.26 is a major release focused on performance, reliability, and security. Key improvements include faster Gateway startup through caching, transcript-backed meeting summaries as a core feature, production-ready channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal), enhanced voice/Talk capabilities with real-time inspection, and stronger content boundaries with SSRF policy enforcement. The release also hardens installation/update paths, improves observability with Activity tabs and OpenTelemetry spans, and stabilizes provider integrations.

OpenClaw v2026.5.26-beta.2 introduces significant performance improvements through caching and transcript-backed architecture, expands production-ready channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal), enhances voice and real-time Talk capabilities with better inspection and control, strengthens security boundaries across content handling and authentication, and improves observability with new Activity tab and OpenTelemetry spans. The release hardens installation/update paths and adds reaction approval support across mobile platforms.

Claude Code v2.1.152 introduces significant enhancements to code review workflows, skill management, and user interface. Key additions include `/code-review --fix` for automatic code improvements, dynamic skill reloading via `SessionStart` hooks, new hook events for message transformation, and improved Vim mode navigation. The release also addresses numerous bug fixes related to terminal rendering, plugin management, MCP server connectivity, and session state handling.

OpenClaw v2026.5.26-beta.1 delivers significant performance improvements through reply optimization and metadata caching, enhances voice and multi-channel capabilities with realtime Talk inspection and improved channel support (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal), strengthens agent safety with better auth and sandbox handling, and introduces new observability features including Activity tabs and OpenTelemetry LLM spans. The release also replaces Sharp with Rastermill for image processing, adds transcript capture support, and hardens installation/update reliability across Windows, macOS, and Docker platforms.

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 v2026.5.22-beta.1 is a comprehensive release focused on documentation improvements, performance optimizations, and QA enhancements. Key updates include reducing package size by excluding documentation assets, improving model listing performance by ~4,100x through auth-state pre-warming, adding session pagination to the chat UI, and expanding QA-Lab test coverage with new runtime parity scenarios. The release also refines plugin SDK capabilities, updates dependencies including protobufjs to 8.4.0, and clarifies configuration guidance across multiple integrations (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, xAI/Grok, etc.).

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.

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.

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 is a major release focusing on agent architecture improvements, dependency updates, and enhanced QA testing capabilities. Key updates include refined plugin SDK deprecation paths, Docker/Podman build argument standardization, Gateway startup optimization, new skills (meme-maker, Python debugging, node inspector), and comprehensive runtime parity testing through QA-Lab. The release also improves Mac app UI consistency, browser modal dialog handling, and adds typed tool plugin support via `defineToolPlugin`.

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.