Heartbeat Protocol

OpenClaw v2026.4.14-beta.1 is a maintenance release addressing 30+ security fixes, stability improvements, and feature enhancements across messaging platforms, browser automation, scheduling, memory systems, and agent tooling. Key improvements include replacing markdown parsing to prevent ReDoS attacks, fixing Telegram forum topic handling, correcting cron scheduler behavior, and enforcing SSRF/security policies across multiple integrations. The release emphasizes background task optimization and proper context preservation across system components.

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.

crewAI 1.8.0 introduces production-ready Flows and Crews architecture with native async chain support for agent-to-agent (a2a) communication, including poll/stream/push update mechanisms. The release adds human-in-the-loop (HITL) feedback capabilities for Flows, streaming tool call events, and enhanced event handling through improved EventListener and TraceCollectionListener.

OpenClaw v2026.2.23 release adds first-class Kilo Gateway and Moonshot provider support, introduces prompt caching documentation and per-agent parameter overrides, and hardens session maintenance with disk-budget controls and security headers. The release includes numerous fixes for browser SSRF policies, Telegram polling/reactions, context overflow detection, and agent reasoning/compaction behavior.

OpenClaw v2026.2.24-beta.1 release introduces enhanced auto-reply/abort shortcuts with multilingual support, Android native onboarding with new tab-based navigation, and provider-agnostic Talk configuration. The update includes critical security and routing fixes for cross-channel session isolation, heartbeat delivery improvements, and extensive channel-specific reliability enhancements across Discord, WhatsApp, Matrix, and Telegram.

OpenClaw v2026.2.24 release introduces enhanced auto-reply/abort shortcuts with multilingual support, improved Android UX with native onboarding, and critical security hardening including multi-user trust model detection and Docker namespace restrictions. The release includes breaking changes to heartbeat delivery targeting and sandbox security, along with extensive fixes for routing isolation, channel-specific message delivery, Discord voice reliability, and cross-platform messaging stability.

OpenClaw v2026.2.25-beta.1 release includes improvements to Android chat streaming and startup performance, UI enhancements for mobile compose actions, and a major refactor of heartbeat configuration policy. The release addresses numerous critical fixes across Telegram, Slack, Discord, and LINE channels, including subagent delivery state machine improvements, webhook handling, session threading, media routing, and typing indicator management.

OpenClaw v2026.2.25 release includes improvements to Android chat streaming and startup performance, UI enhancements for mobile compose actions, and a breaking change to heartbeat direct message delivery policy (now `allow` by default). The release contains numerous bug fixes across Telegram, Slack, Discord, LINE channels, agent routing, cron scheduling, and model fallback logic.