Releases

OpenClaw v2026.4.25-beta.3 introduces major upgrades to text-to-speech (TTS) with new providers and chat-scoped controls, migrates plugin management to a cold persisted registry for faster startup, expands OpenTelemetry observability across model calls and tool loops, enhances browser automation safety with iframe-aware snapshots, and hardens installation/update processes across multiple platforms. The release also adds PWA/Web Push support to the control UI and includes new CLI tools for setup and diagnostics.

OpenClaw v2026.4.25-beta.4 introduces major upgrades to text-to-speech (TTS) with new providers and chat-scoped controls, migrates plugin startup paths to a cold persisted registry for faster performance, expands OpenTelemetry observability across model calls and tool loops, hardens browser automation with safer URLs and iframe awareness, and strengthens installation/update processes across multiple platforms. The release also adds PWA/Web Push support to the control UI and includes new CLI tools for plugin management and diagnostics.

OpenClaw v2026.4.25-beta.1 introduces major upgrades to text-to-speech (TTS) with multi-provider support and per-agent overrides, migrates plugin management to a cold persisted registry for faster startup, expands OpenTelemetry observability across model calls and tool execution, enhances browser automation safety with iframe-aware snapshots and CDP tuning, and hardens installation/update processes across multiple platforms. The release also adds PWA/Web Push support to the control UI and includes new provider integrations (Azure Speech, Xiaomi, Volcengine, ElevenLabs v3) alongside improved CLI tooling and diagnostics.

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.2 addresses critical runtime issues on Windows by fixing package-root dependency resolution in bundled-plugin installations. The release ensures compatibility during updates from v2026.4.23 by temporarily disabling future bundled plugins until the updater completes. This prevents npm update failures and compatibility breakage in copied-runtime environments.

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 v2026.4.24-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`.

OpenAI Agents Python v0.14.6 is a maintenance release that updates examples and defaults to GPT-4.5, relaxes websockets dependency constraints, and hardens dependency resolution. The release includes new MongoDB session documentation and translation updates. Two new contributors joined the project with dependency management improvements.

langchain-openai version 1.2.1 is a hotfix release that bumps minimum core versions and adds support for GPT-5.5 Pro in the Responses API. The release includes content-block-centric streaming improvements (v2) and refreshed model profile data. Key changes focus on API compatibility, new model support, and streaming enhancements.

OpenClaw v2026.4.23 introduces significant enhancements to image generation across multiple providers (OpenAI, OpenRouter), adds optional forked context for subagents, implements per-call timeout support for generation tools, and includes configurable local embedding context sizes. The release also fixes numerous issues related to Codex harness routing, media handling, provider authentication, and streaming behavior across multiple platforms including WhatsApp, Slack, and Telegram.

OpenClaw v2026.4.23-beta.5 introduces significant enhancements to image generation across multiple providers (OpenAI, OpenRouter), adds optional forked context for subagents, implements per-call timeout support for generation tools, and includes configurable local embedding context sizes. The release fixes numerous issues across Codex harness routing, media handling, provider authentication, and UI persistence, while updating Pi dependencies to v0.70.0 and improving debug logging for harness selection decisions.

langchain-core version 1.3.1 is a minor release that enhances output formatting for ToolOutputMixin instances, improves tracer metadata inheritance behavior for special keys, and includes dependency updates for nbconvert and langsmith. The release focuses on improving tool integration and tracing capabilities within the LangChain core library.

Claude Code v2.1.118 introduces vim visual mode selection, consolidates `/cost` and `/stats` into `/usage`, enables custom themes with JSON editing, and allows hooks to invoke MCP tools directly. The release includes significant improvements to MCP OAuth authentication, auto mode configuration with defaults merging, and numerous bug fixes across WSL integration, plugin management, credential handling, and remote sessions.

langchain-openai version 1.2.0 release includes a critical fix to prevent silent streaming hangs in ChatOpenAI, along with CI improvements and standardized integration test invocation. This update addresses streaming reliability issues that could cause applications to hang silently during OpenAI API calls. The release also includes housekeeping changes to improve the testing and CI/CD pipeline.

OpenAI Agents Python v0.14.5 release includes three key fixes and features: Modal sandbox idle timeout configuration, HITL resume tool output serving, and streamed terminal output backfilling. Documentation improvements clarify lazy skill source host paths. This patch release addresses sandbox management, human-in-the-loop workflows, and output streaming reliability.

Google ADK Python v2.0.0-beta.1 marks the transition to Beta phase with significant architectural improvements. Key additions include a full Workflow graph orchestration system with NodeRunner for execution isolation, explicit ReAct loop nodes for agent execution, and Human-in-the-loop resumption capabilities. The release also addresses a critical RCE vulnerability in YAML configuration handling and optimizes performance for single-turn LLM agents.

crewAI 1.14.3a3 introduces e2b support and Azure credential fallback functionality while addressing a critical security vulnerability in lxml. The release achieves a ~29% improvement in cold start time through lazy-loading optimizations of MCP SDK and event types. Documentation updates include removal of pricing FAQs across all locales.

OpenClaw v2026.4.21 release updates the default image-generation provider to gpt-image-2 with enhanced 2K/4K size hints, fixes critical security and functionality issues including owner command enforcement, thread preservation in Slack, and dependency resolution in plugin installations. Key improvements address authentication bypass vulnerabilities, logging visibility for provider failures, and npm dependency chain optimization.