Setup & Infrastructure

OpenClaw v2026.4.10 introduces major features including Codex provider integration for GPT models, an Active Memory plugin for context-aware conversations, experimental local MLX speech support for macOS, and expanded QA testing capabilities with Matrix and Telegram lanes. The release includes extensive security hardening across browser navigation, tool execution, and WebSocket handling, plus numerous fixes for Microsoft Teams integration, WhatsApp media delivery, gateway startup stability, and agent-based tool use.

Claude Code v2.1.101 introduces significant improvements to team collaboration, enterprise security, and user experience. Key additions include a `/team-onboarding` command for generating ramp-up guides, OS CA certificate store trust for enterprise TLS proxies, and auto-creation of cloud environments for remote sessions. The release focuses on enhancing error messaging, fixing critical bugs in session management, and improving plugin/MCP tool reliability across various authentication providers and platforms.

Google ADK Python v1.29.0 introduces significant enhancements to authentication, security, and tooling capabilities. Key additions include auth scheme/credential support for MCP toolsets, configurable resource limits and shell metacharacter blocking in BashTool, new EnvironmentToolset for file I/O and command execution, and improved BigQuery logging with configurable view prefixes. The release also adds support for model endpoints in Agent Registry, regional endpoints for SecretManager, and enhanced session management with custom session IDs and shallow-copy options.

Claude Code v2.1.98 introduces significant security enhancements, including subprocess sandboxing with PID namespace isolation, Perforce mode for read-only file protection, and fixes for multiple Bash permission bypass vulnerabilities. The release adds interactive Google Vertex AI setup, improved monitoring capabilities, and numerous UI/UX improvements including better `/resume` picker functionality and Vim mode navigation. Critical fixes address permission rule evaluation, MCP OAuth token refresh, and cross-user prompt caching.

This tutorial introduces the Claude Managed Agents API by walking through a practical debugging workflow where an agent iteratively fixes failing tests in a Python package. It covers the three core resources (Agent, Environment, Session), file mounting, and the streaming event loop pattern. The example demonstrates how agents autonomously discover the iterate-observe-fix loop by running tests, reading failures, editing code, and repeating until all assertions pass.

Claude Code v2.1.96 is a patch release that fixes a critical Bedrock authentication regression introduced in v2.1.94. The fix addresses 403 authorization errors when using AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK or CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_BEDROCK_AUTH environment variables. This release restores proper header handling for Bedrock API requests.

The Claude Agent SDK provides built-in session management functions to build conversation history sidebars without writing custom parsers. This cookbook demonstrates how to list, read, rename, tag, and fork sessions stored as JSONL transcripts on disk. By leveraging SDK primitives like list_sessions(), get_session_messages(), and rename_session(), developers can implement session browsers for desktop apps, IDE extensions, and chatbots without managing file I/O directly.

OpenClaw v2026.4.5 is a major release introducing breaking config changes with migration support, new media generation tools (video, music, image), expanded provider integrations (Qwen, Fireworks AI, StepFun, Amazon Bedrock Mantle), multilingual control UI support, enhanced approval workflows for iOS and Matrix, experimental memory dreaming features with weighted recall, and improved prompt caching stability across multiple dimensions.

Claude Code v2.1.91 introduces MCP tool result persistence overrides supporting up to 500K characters, adds shell execution disabling options, enables multi-line prompts in deep links, and allows plugins to ship executables. The release includes critical fixes for transcript chain breaks, terminal key handling, plan mode persistence in remote sessions, and JSON schema validation, plus performance improvements and enhanced API guidance.

OpenClaw v2026.4.2 is a major release featuring significant architectural improvements including restoration of the core Task Flow substrate with managed sync modes, migration of plugin configurations (xAI and Firecrawl) from legacy core paths to plugin-owned paths, and numerous provider/channel fixes. Key additions include Android assistant integration, enhanced Matrix mentions, Feishu comment workflows, and centralized provider transport policy handling. The release includes breaking changes requiring config migration via `openclaw doctor --fix`.