Heartbeat Protocol

OpenClaw v2026.6.33 is a major security and reliability release featuring safer network boundaries with response size caps and credential protection, more reliable long-running agents with improved stall detection, stronger channel delivery for Discord and Telegram, safer credential recovery mechanisms, and support for extended-stable package updates. The release includes 169 merged PRs addressing authorization, tool authority, external tooling scoping, and numerous stability fixes across gateway, provider, browser, and webhook systems.

Claude Code v2.1.214 is a security and stability release that fixes critical permission-check bypasses across multiple shells (Bash, PowerShell, zsh), improves command parsing to prevent auto-approval of unsafe operations, and adds new features like the EndConversation tool and OpenTelemetry enhancements. The release addresses 50+ bugs including permission prompt timing issues, background session management, streaming failures, and platform-specific encoding problems on Windows.

OpenClaw v2026.6.8 is a major release focusing on improved channel delivery (Telegram/WhatsApp), enhanced agent and gateway recovery mechanisms, expanded provider/model support (GLM-5.2, Claude Haiku 4.5), better usage hooks with native footer rendering, and UI/mobile stability improvements. The release includes fixes for memory management, state handling, diagnostics, and numerous edge cases across channels, agents, and runtime systems.

OpenClaw v2026.6.8-beta.2 delivers significant improvements across messaging channels, agent recovery, provider/model handling, and UI stability. Telegram and WhatsApp now support richer message formatting with better delivery reliability, while agent and gateway recovery mechanisms are enhanced across multiple failure scenarios. The release includes expanded provider support (GLM-5.2, Claude Haiku 4.5), improved usage hooks with native footer rendering, and numerous fixes for memory, state diagnostics, and mobile UI flows.

OpenClaw v2026.6.8-beta.1 introduces significant improvements to channel delivery (Telegram rich text, WhatsApp ACP bindings), agent and gateway recovery mechanisms, expanded provider/model support (GLM-5.2, Claude Haiku 4.5), enhanced usage hooks with footer rendering, and UI/mobile stability fixes. The release addresses 50+ issues across messaging, runtime reliability, authentication, memory management, and user interface components, with contributions from 30+ developers.

This cookbook demonstrates two async multi-agent orchestration patterns using Claude: a fixed N-agent team with peer messaging through a shared hub, and dynamically spawned async subagents. Built on the Anthropic Python SDK and asyncio, it provides bare messaging and lifecycle mechanics without domain-specific tasks, allowing developers to see exactly which tools fire and in what order before adding their own tools and logic. The patterns run on any API key in under thirty seconds and include a message hub, messaging tools (send_message and wait_for_message), and a base agent loop that handles tool dispatching and inbox management.

OpenClaw v2026.5.28 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 with state preservation, stricter input validation, and expanded provider support (Claude Opus 4.8, Fal Krea, NVIDIA models). The release also improves CLI/auth paths, reduces repeated work in plugin hot paths, and strengthens E2E validation.

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.