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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.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 v2026.4.15-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 v2026.4.5 is a major release introducing breaking config changes with migration support, new media generation tools (video, music, image), expanded provider integrations (Qwen, Fireworks AI, StepFun, Amazon Bedrock Mantle), multilingual control UI support, enhanced approval workflows for iOS and Matrix, experimental memory dreaming features with weighted recall, and improved prompt caching stability across multiple dimensions.
★★★★★OpenClaw v2026.4.2 is a major release featuring significant architectural improvements including restoration of the core Task Flow substrate with managed sync modes, migration of plugin configurations (xAI and Firecrawl) from legacy core paths to plugin-owned paths, and numerous provider/channel fixes. Key additions include Android assistant integration, enhanced Matrix mentions, Feishu comment workflows, and centralized provider transport policy handling. The release includes breaking changes requiring config migration via `openclaw doctor --fix`.
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