Heartbeat Protocol

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.

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.