Setup & Infrastructure

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.7 introduces significant improvements to dependency management by externalizing AWS SDK and plugin dependencies, enhances user experience with persistent auto-scroll controls and ACP fallback backends, and fixes critical issues across Telegram polling, security sandboxing, provider authentication, media handling, and session management. The release addresses 30+ bugs and improvements spanning CLI, gateway, plugins, and multiple integrations while maintaining backward compatibility through deprecated package aliases.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.8 introduces significant improvements to dependency management by externalizing AWS SDK and plugin dependencies, enhances user control with persistent auto-scroll modes in the UI, adds fallback runtime backends for ACP, and fixes numerous issues across Telegram integration, session management, security sandboxing, and media handling. The release focuses on performance optimization, security hardening, and improved reliability across multiple subsystems including CLI, gateway, and agent spawning.

Claude Code v2.1.141 is a maintenance release featuring enhanced notification capabilities through `terminalSequence` field, improved environment variable support for workspace identity and HTTPS cloning, and numerous bug fixes across permission handling, plugin management, MCP servers, and UI rendering. Key improvements include better feedback mechanisms, rewind context compression, background agent management, and fixes for terminal compatibility issues on Windows and Linux platforms.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12-beta.5 is a comprehensive bug-fix release addressing gateway protocol improvements, security hardening, plugin dependency management, channel integrations (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, WeCom), session transcript redaction, and agent execution reliability. Key fixes include OAuth token exchange for Copilot, device pairing approval requirements, media size enforcement across plugins, and LLM idle watchdog timeout escalation. The release improves stability across multiple integrations while strengthening security controls for trusted proxies, admin scopes, and sensitive data redaction.

Claude Code v2.1.140 releases multiple bug fixes and improvements focused on agent tool matching, background service reliability, settings management, and terminal behavior. Key enhancements include case-insensitive subagent type matching, fixed `/goal` command hanging issues, improved background service startup on enterprise networks, and resolved event-loop stalls on Windows. The release also addresses validation issues with the Read tool and improves plugin diagnostics.

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.1 is a maintenance and feature release addressing security, UI/UX, and provider integrations. Key improvements include memory-wiki admin scope requirements, subagent session hierarchy visualization, Gemini 3 model normalization, enhanced tool policies, and expanded Slack/iMessage channel support. The release also upgrades build infrastructure to pnpm 11 and refines plugin SDK public APIs.

Google ADK Python v1.33.0 introduces BufferableSessionService, configurable environment tool truncation limits, and enhanced LlmResponse with function call/response accessors. The release includes 11 bug fixes addressing session state management, video event filtering, authentication error handling, and async event loop blocking. Code refactoring improves workflow metrics computation and removes deprecated input/output type attributes from ADK metrics.

Claude Code v2.1.136 is a maintenance release focused on stability and bug fixes across multiple platforms. Key improvements include fixes for MCP server persistence, OAuth token handling, extended thinking compatibility, and numerous UI/UX refinements in the VS Code extension and JetBrains plugin. The release addresses critical issues with file picker matching, dialog rendering, terminal output formatting, and plugin management while enhancing visual consistency and keyboard navigation.

OpenAI Agents Python SDK v0.17.0 introduces gpt-realtime-2 as the default model for RealtimeAgents and implements a critical security fix for sandbox local source materialization. The update constrains local artifact sources to remain within the SDK process base directory unless explicitly granted via SandboxPathGrant, closing a local artifact boundary vulnerability. Applications relying on copying trusted files from outside the base directory must now explicitly grant those paths at the manifest level.

Claude Code v2.1.133 introduces enhanced worktree configuration with `worktree.baseRef` settings, improved sandbox path management for Linux/WSL, and critical fixes for parallel sessions, proxy handling, and effort level synchronization. The release addresses memory efficiency, credential management, and cross-session consistency issues while improving focus mode behavior and MCP OAuth flow support.

LangChain Classic version 1.0.7 has been released with deprecation changes. The primary update involves deprecating the hub functionality and limiting loads/dumps operations. This release represents a maintenance update focused on cleaning up legacy features and improving API stability.

Claude Code v2.1.131 addresses two critical bugs: a VS Code extension activation failure on Windows caused by a hardcoded build path in the bundled SDK's createRequire polyfill, and Mantle endpoint authentication failures due to a missing x-api-key header. These fixes improve cross-platform compatibility and API authentication reliability.

OpenClaw v2026.5.3 introduces a bundled file-transfer plugin with secure binary file operations, hardens plugin installation workflows, and optimizes Gateway startup performance through lazy-loading. The release improves channel reliability across Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other platforms, adds new agent steering commands, and fixes critical issues in realtime transcription, plugin updates, and systemd secret management.

OpenClaw v2026.5.3-beta.3 introduces a bundled file-transfer plugin with secure binary file operations, hardens plugin installation workflows, and optimizes Gateway performance through lazy-loading. Major improvements include enhanced channel support (WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram), improved agent runtime reliability, and numerous fixes for edge cases in streaming, transcription, and configuration management. The release emphasizes security (default-deny policies, symlink traversal protection), performance (startup optimization, hot-path trimming), and operational robustness (doctor command enhancements, state recovery).

OpenClaw v2026.5.3-beta.2 introduces a bundled file-transfer plugin with secure binary file operations, hardens plugin installation and updates, and improves gateway performance through lazy-loading. The release enhances channel reliability across Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other platforms, while fixing critical issues in agent runtime, memory status reporting, and macOS upgrades. Key improvements focus on security (path policies, symlink traversal), performance (startup optimization), and reliability (streamed replies, session recovery).

OpenClaw v2026.4.27 introduces major enhancements across Codex Computer Use setup, new provider integrations (DeepInfra, Tencent Yuanbao, QQBot), and a shift toward manifest-first plugin metadata architecture. Key improvements include GPU passthrough for Docker sandboxes, authenticated node presence tracking for iOS/Android, outbound proxy routing, and comprehensive reliability fixes across Telegram, Slack, and gateway startup. The release emphasizes reducing boot overhead through manifest-driven plugin discovery and model catalogs.

Claude Code v2.1.123 is a patch release that fixes a critical OAuth authentication bug. When the experimental betas feature flag was disabled via the `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS=1` environment variable, OAuth authentication would enter a 401 retry loop, preventing successful login. This fix resolves the authentication failure and allows users with experimental features disabled to authenticate properly.

OpenClaw v2026.4.26 introduces major enhancements to real-time communication, plugin architecture, and migration tooling. Key additions include a generic browser real-time transport contract, Cerebras provider integration, asymmetric embedding support for memory search, and bundled importers for Claude and Hermes configurations. The release also includes numerous stability fixes for gateway operations, plugin discovery, and device token handling.

This guide demonstrates how to build Claude Managed Agents with persistent memory capabilities that learn and retain user preferences across multiple sessions. Users create a memory store, configure a shopping agent with file access tools, and show how the agent automatically reads and updates customer preferences on repeat visits. The memory system uses a simple file-based approach mounted at /mnt/memory/ that both the agent and application can access via API.