Heartbeat Protocol

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.).

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.4 is a maintenance release addressing runtime issues, authentication flows, and provider integrations. Key fixes include resolving MODULE_NOT_FOUND errors in Codex migrations, improving WhatsApp/Telegram message handling, and normalizing Google Gemini model IDs. The release also enhances session management, adds per-agent tool policies, and improves error messaging across multiple channels and providers.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.2 releases critical fixes and enhancements across authentication, provider streams, memory management, and UI/UX. Key improvements include auth-profile-backed media tools availability, subagent session visualization, error handling in auto-reply, and provider stream reliability. The release also upgrades to pnpm 11, adds per-agent tool policies, expands Slack/Gemini/Fal provider support, and strengthens TypeScript/linting standards.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.3 is a maintenance release addressing authentication, provider compatibility, and UI improvements. Key fixes include auth-profile-backed media tools availability, WhatsApp/Baileys dependency resolution, memory-wiki permission scoping, and provider stream handling. The release introduces per-agent tool policies, improved subagent session visualization, better error messaging, and expanded configuration options for Slack, Google Gemini, and local model providers.

OpenClaw v2026.5.5 is a maintenance release focused on fixing critical bugs across multiple messaging platforms (Feishu, LINE, Telegram, Discord, Matrix, Slack), improving control UI responsiveness and session management, resolving provider integration issues (xAI/Grok, Fireworks), and enhancing diagnostic tools. Key improvements include fixing message routing, webhook validation, tool progress rendering, approval delivery retries, and heartbeat timeout handling. The release also addresses plugin management, media handling, and gateway stability issues.

OpenClaw v2026.4.29-beta.4 introduces significant enhancements across messaging, memory, provider coverage, and reliability. Key additions include active-run steering by default, a people-aware wiki with provenance views, NVIDIA provider onboarding, and improved gateway/channel reliability. Security improvements include OpenGrep scanning and sharper GHSA triage policies, while multiple channel fixes address Slack, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams edge cases.

OpenClaw v2026.4.29 is a major release introducing active-run steering for messaging, people-aware memory wiki with provenance tracking, expanded provider coverage (NVIDIA, Bedrock), and enhanced reliability across gateway, channels, and security. Key improvements include opt-in follow-up commitments with heartbeat delivery, per-conversation Active Memory filters, faster model manifest paths, and comprehensive channel fixes for Slack, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams. Security enhancements add OpenGrep scanning and safer exec/pairing handling.

OpenClaw v2026.4.29-beta.2 introduces significant enhancements across messaging, memory, provider coverage, and reliability. Key additions include active-run steering for messaging, a people-aware wiki with provenance tracking, NVIDIA provider onboarding, and improved channel resilience across Slack, Telegram, Discord, and others. Security improvements include OpenGrep scanning and stricter tool-scope handling, while operational reliability focuses on slow-host startup diagnostics and session recovery.

OpenClaw v2026.4.24-beta.3 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, sessions, and gateway restart handling.

OpenClaw v2026.4.24-beta.4 introduces Google Meet as a bundled participant plugin with real-time voice capabilities, adds DeepSeek V4 models to the default catalog, and significantly improves browser automation, plugin infrastructure, and session management. The release includes 20+ bug fixes addressing packaged installs, heartbeat scheduling, Telegram polling, browser navigation, and MCP runtime management. Key improvements focus on startup performance through lazy loading and manifest-backed catalogs, plus enhanced stability for multi-platform deployments.

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 v2026.4.14-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.