Setup & Infrastructure

OpenClaw v2026.5.26 is a major release focused on performance, reliability, and security. Key improvements include faster Gateway startup through caching, transcript-backed meeting summaries as a core feature, production-ready channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal), enhanced voice/Talk capabilities with real-time inspection, and stronger content boundaries with SSRF policy enforcement. The release also hardens installation/update paths, improves observability with Activity tabs and OpenTelemetry spans, and stabilizes provider integrations.

OpenClaw v2026.5.26-beta.1 delivers significant performance improvements through reply optimization and metadata caching, enhances voice and multi-channel capabilities with realtime Talk inspection and improved channel support (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal), strengthens agent safety with better auth and sandbox handling, and introduces new observability features including Activity tabs and OpenTelemetry LLM spans. The release also replaces Sharp with Rastermill for image processing, adds transcript capture support, and hardens installation/update reliability across Windows, macOS, and Docker platforms.

OpenClaw v2026.5.25-beta.1 is a maintenance release focusing on bug fixes and platform compatibility improvements. Key fixes address iMessage attachment handling, Windows native support for package scripts, Alpine Linux installer compatibility, and MCP server timeout issues. The release includes numerous test infrastructure improvements and configuration enhancements to ensure stability across Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

OpenClaw v2026.5.24-beta.2 introduces significant performance optimizations across Gateway, caching, and lazy-loading mechanisms, while expanding real-time capabilities for Discord voice and WebUI interactions. New features include iMessage thumb-approval reactions, adaptive image compression, a Meeting Notes plugin for Discord voice capture, and enhanced CLI/onboarding workflows. The release also includes extensive documentation improvements, diagnostics enhancements for observability, and Plugin SDK modernization with deprecated target helpers.

OpenClaw v2026.5.24-beta.1 introduces significant performance optimizations across the Gateway layer through caching and lazy-loading strategies, adds real-time collaboration features for WebUI and Discord voice callers, expands the Meeting Notes plugin with Discord integration, and includes extensive documentation improvements and CLI enhancements. Key additions include adaptive image compression, improved diagnostics with sanitized telemetry, and refined sub-agent bootstrap context management. The release also modernizes the Plugin SDK with updated messaging APIs and adds new maintainer tooling for bug-sweep workflows.

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 v2026.5.20-beta.2 introduces significant improvements to Discord voice sessions with context-aware profile integration, adds device-code OAuth for xAI provider authentication, implements a bundled Policy plugin for workspace conformance checks, and includes numerous bug fixes across CLI tasks, Codex app-server, provider integrations, and agent message handling. The release enhances security by removing legacy skill-file compatibility paths and warning about plaintext secrets in configuration, while improving stability through better error handling, timeout management, and diagnostic reporting.

OpenClaw v2026.5.20-beta.1 introduces Discord voice session improvements with user following and profile context, adds a bundled Policy plugin for channel conformance checks, enables per-agent local model configuration, and implements device-code OAuth for xAI. The release includes 40+ bug fixes spanning WhatsApp, browser image handling, cron scheduling, agent messaging, plugin performance, and platform-specific improvements across Discord, Mattermost, Matrix, and Windows.

OpenClaw v2026.5.19 is a major release focusing on agent architecture improvements, dependency updates, and enhanced QA testing capabilities. Key updates include refined plugin SDK deprecation paths, Docker/Podman build argument standardization, Gateway startup optimization, new skills (meme-maker, Python debugging, node inspector), and comprehensive runtime parity testing through QA-Lab. The release also improves Mac app UI consistency, browser modal dialog handling, and adds typed tool plugin support via `defineToolPlugin`.

OpenClaw v2026.5.19-alpha.1 introduces significant enhancements across agents, dependencies, Docker/Podman support, gateway performance, plugins, skills, browser automation, QA testing, and platform-specific features. Key updates include refactored agent fixes with clean bounded refactors, new skill capabilities (meme-maker, Python debugging, node inspector), improved Settings UI on Mac, enhanced browser dialog handling, and comprehensive QA-Lab runtime parity scenarios. The release also addresses critical fixes for port validation, plugin tool auth profiles, and memory search performance optimization.

OpenClaw v2026.5.19-beta.2 release introduces improvements to agent fix strategies, updates critical dependencies including @openclaw/proxyline to 0.3.3 and Pi packages to 0.75.1, raises Node.js minimum version to 22.19, and enhances Docker/Podman image building with a new runtime-neutral APT packages build argument. Gateway/ACPX startup probe handling is also improved to better track resource costs in restart traces.

Google ADK Python v2.0.0 achieves General Availability with production-grade support for multi-agent workflows and dynamic collaboration. The release introduces a flexible, model-agnostic execution engine for orchestrating complex agent patterns including non-linear, conditional, and cyclical workflows. Key features include intelligent task delegation with parallel sub-agent workers, hierarchical team structures, and native inter-agent routing with seamless messaging and context propagation.

OpenAI Agents Python SDK v0.17.3 is a maintenance release focused on bug fixes and stability improvements. Key fixes address sandbox credential handling, memory dependency imports, output schema validation, and tool parameter mutation issues. The release includes documentation updates for SDK review guidance and API references, plus CI/CD hardening for release workflows.

Claude Code v2.1.144 introduces background session management improvements, including `/resume` support for sessions started via `claude --bg`, elapsed duration notifications, and model selection changes that now apply per-session. The release fixes critical bugs affecting terminal rendering, file handling, MCP server integration, and remote session authentication, while improving performance for startup times and streaming recovery.

OpenClaw v2026.5.16-beta.3 introduces xAI Grok OAuth authentication, enhanced cron scheduling with wait controls, multilingual onboarding support, and significant performance improvements through skill caching. The release includes numerous fixes for gateway diagnostics, session management, channel integrations (Telegram, Discord, Matrix, Slack), and context handling to improve reliability and security across the platform.

OpenClaw v2026.5.16-beta.2 introduces xAI Grok OAuth authentication, enhanced cron scheduling with wait/timeout controls, multilingual CLI onboarding (English, Simplified/Traditional Chinese), skill caching optimizations, and Telegram ambient chat handling. The release includes 40+ fixes addressing media MIME validation, plugin metadata integrity, session persistence, MCP tool cancellation, and config repair workflows to improve stability and reliability.

OpenClaw v2026.5.16-beta.1 is a maintenance and stability release featuring improved skill caching, multi-language onboarding support, and numerous bug fixes across agents, providers, and integrations. Key improvements include resolved token counting for OpenAI APIs, enhanced Telegram reliability, better config validation, and fixes for critical issues in cron jobs, Discord, LINE, and local agent execution. The release strengthens platform robustness through better error handling, lifecycle management, and provider compatibility.

OpenClaw v2026.5.14-beta.2 introduces significant enhancements to agent configuration, channel integrations, and platform stability. Key improvements include per-agent bootstrap profile overrides, WhatsApp status reactions, voice call support via Telnyx, lazy-loading of Canvas modules for faster startup, and comprehensive dependency management. The release also strengthens maintainer tooling, adds Docker-based release validation, and fixes critical issues in provider routing, media handling, and protocol compilation.

Claude Code v2.1.142 introduces enhanced agent configuration flags for background sessions, upgrades fast mode to Opus 4.7, improves plugin skill surfacing and LSP server visibility, and fixes critical issues with daemon stability, background session persistence, and cross-platform compatibility. Key improvements include better MCP tool timeout handling, macOS sleep/wake resilience, Windows network drive support, and numerous UI/UX refinements for plugin management and session handling.