Tool Use

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.

Claude Code v2.1.143 introduces plugin dependency enforcement, projected context costs in the marketplace, and improved background session management. Key fixes address credential corruption, PowerShell execution policies, stop hook infinite loops, and Windows Terminal compatibility issues. The release enhances session persistence across idle states and adds new configuration options for agent dispatching.

LangChain version 1.3.1 has been released with a focus on bug fixes and stability improvements. The primary change addresses an issue with Bedrock provider aliases in summarization token checking. This patch release ensures better compatibility and reliability for users working with AWS Bedrock integration in LangChain's summarization features.

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.

OpenClaw v2026.5.14-beta.1 introduces significant improvements to dependency management, UI/i18n tooling, maintainer workflows, and channel integrations. Key additions include WhatsApp status reactions, voice call support via Telnyx, browser-local text sizing, and enhanced release validation through Docker user-journey lanes. The release also refactors Codex CLI integration, improves gateway startup tracing, and fixes critical issues with UTF-16 surrogates, HTTP/2 session errors, and memory file discovery.

OpenClaw v2026.5.12 is a maintenance release focused on dependency externalization, UI improvements, and stability fixes. Key changes include externalizing AWS Bedrock and plugin dependencies to reduce bloat, adding persistent auto-scroll controls in the UI, implementing ACP fallback backends, and fixing numerous issues across Telegram, Slack, authentication, and session management. The release addresses 40+ bug fixes spanning security, performance, and user experience improvements.

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.

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.

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.

crewAI 1.14.5a5 is a pre-release update that deprecates CrewAgentExecutor in favor of AgentExecutor, improves Daytona sandbox tools, and addresses multiple security vulnerabilities in dependencies. The release includes bug fixes for HITL workflows, logging enhancements, and comprehensive documentation updates including migration guides for state restoration and crew-to-flow transitions.

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 v2026.5.12-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.

LangChain version 1.3.0 introduces support for `version="v3"` in the `stream_events` and `astream_events` methods, enabling enhanced event streaming capabilities for LangChain agents. This update allows developers to access improved event streaming functionality with better control and visibility into agent execution. The release includes comprehensive documentation in the event streaming guide for implementation details.

OpenAI Agents Python v0.17.2 is a maintenance release focused on bug fixes and documentation improvements. Key fixes address OpenAI Conversations reasoning persistence, realtime tool handling, tracing retry behavior, approval rejection reasons, session settings, and chat tool outputs. The release includes documentation clarifications on retry mechanisms, sandbox archive limits, and memory cross-references.

langchain-core version 1.4.0 release includes numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and feature additions across the LangChain core library. Key updates involve hardening security (SSRF protections, deserialization safety), improving streaming with content-block-centric v2 support, enhancing tracer metadata handling, and updating dependencies. The release spans from version 0.3.86 through 1.4.0 with multiple intermediate releases (1.2.x, 1.3.x series) containing incremental improvements to tool handling, token counting, and model integrations.

Claude Code v2.1.139 introduces significant new features including an agent view for managing multiple sessions, a `/goal` command for multi-turn task completion, and enhanced MCP server support with environment variables. The release includes numerous UX improvements like transcript navigation shortcuts, plugin token cost estimation, and fixes for critical issues such as credential deadlocks, memory leaks in MCP servers, and terminal interaction bugs.