Tool Use

OpenClaw v2026.6.1-beta.2 introduces significant stability improvements for agent runtimes, channel delivery, and skill management. Key enhancements include better recovery from interrupted tool calls, steadier multi-channel support (Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), and a new Skill Workshop UI for governed skill creation and review. The release also externalizes plugins (Tokenjuice, GitHub Copilot), improves provider coverage with new models like MiniMax M3, and optimizes hot paths to reduce repeated work while maintaining stability.

OpenClaw v2026.6.1-beta.1 introduces significant stability improvements for agent runtimes, channel delivery, and skill management. Key enhancements include better recovery from interrupted tool calls, steadier multi-channel support (Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), and a new Skill Workshop feature with proposal-based skill creation and review flows. The release also externalizes plugins (Tokenjuice, Copilot), improves SQLite-backed state persistence, and adds comprehensive bounds on timers, retries, and resource consumption to prevent runtime hangs.

OpenClaw v2026.5.31-beta.4 introduces significant stability improvements for agent runtimes, channel delivery across multiple platforms, and a new Skill Workshop feature for governed skill creation. The release enhances recovery mechanisms from interrupted tool calls, strengthens mobile and messaging integrations, and adds SQLite-backed state management for more reliable restarts. Key improvements include better plugin/skill loading error handling, expanded provider support (MiniMax M3, Copilot Claude 1M), and a comprehensive Control UI overhaul with improved chat composition and navigation.

OpenClaw v2026.5.31-beta.1 introduces major stability improvements for agent runtimes, channel delivery, and plugin orchestration. Key enhancements include better recovery from interrupted tool calls, steadier multi-channel support (Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), bounded timers and retries to prevent hangs, and new Skill Workshop features for governed skill creation. The release also externalizes Tokenjuice and GitHub Copilot as official plugins, adds Workboard orchestration primitives, and significantly improves CI/E2E testing infrastructure with better log bounding and failure reporting.

OpenClaw v2026.5.31-beta.2 introduces significant stability improvements for agent runtimes, channel delivery, and plugin management. Key enhancements include better recovery from interrupted tool calls, steadier multi-channel support (Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), bounded timers and retries to prevent hangs, and new Skill Workshop orchestration features. The release also externalizes Tokenjuice and GitHub Copilot as official plugins, adds iOS push relay improvements, and strengthens CI/E2E testing with comprehensive logging caps and artifact validation.

OpenClaw v2026.5.30-beta.1 introduces significant stability improvements for agent runtimes, CLI tools, and multi-channel delivery across Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and other platforms. Key enhancements include better recovery from interrupted tool calls, bounded timers and retries to prevent hangs, and new orchestration primitives through Workboard and SecretRef integrations. The release externalizes Tokenjuice and GitHub Copilot as official plugins, adds Skill Workshop proposal lifecycle management, and improves iOS push relay reliability. Extensive fixes address cron migrations, provider media downloads, session cleanup, and CI/E2E test coverage routing.

OpenClaw v2026.5.28 delivers major stability and safety improvements across agent runtime recovery, channel delivery, mobile/chat surfaces, and provider coverage. Key enhancements include steadier subagent workspace separation, safer session identity handling across multiple channels (Matrix, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), broader mobile UI refresh with state preservation, stricter input validation, and expanded provider support (Claude Opus 4.8, Fal Krea, NVIDIA models). The release also improves CLI/auth paths, reduces repeated work in plugin hot paths, and strengthens E2E validation.

Claude Code v2.1.158 introduces auto mode availability across multiple cloud platforms (Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry) for the latest Opus models (4.7 and 4.8). Users can enable this feature by setting an environment variable. This expansion makes auto mode more accessible across different deployment environments.

Claude Code v2.1.157 introduces automatic plugin loading from `.claude/skills` directories, enhanced agent management with worktree switching, improved telemetry with tool parameters, and numerous bug fixes across terminal UI, image handling, session management, and IDE integrations. Key improvements include plugin scaffolding commands, autocomplete enhancements, better worktree cleanup, and performance optimizations for long conversations.

OpenClaw v2026.5.28-beta.4 delivers significant stability and safety improvements across agent runtime recovery, channel delivery, mobile/chat surfaces, and provider coverage. Key enhancements include steadier subagent workspace separation, safer session identity handling across multiple platforms (Matrix, Slack, Discord, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage), broader mobile UI refresh, stricter input validation, expanded provider support (Claude Opus 4.8, Fal Krea, NVIDIA models), and faster CLI/auth failure detection with clearer recovery paths.

OpenClaw v2026.5.28-beta.3 delivers significant stability and safety improvements across agent runtime recovery, channel delivery, mobile/chat surfaces, and input validation. Key enhancements include steadier subagent workspace separation, safer session identity handling across multiple channels (Matrix, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), expanded provider coverage (Claude Opus 4.8, Fal Krea, NVIDIA models), and stricter input validation for browser tools, gateways, and automation. The release also improves CLI/auth paths, reduces repeated work in plugin/gateway hot paths, and strengthens QA/E2E validation.

OpenClaw v2026.5.28-beta.2 delivers major stability and safety improvements across agent runtime recovery, channel delivery, mobile/chat surfaces, and provider coverage. Key enhancements include steadier subagent workspace separation, safer session identity handling across multiple channels (Matrix, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.), broader mobile UI refresh, stricter input validation, expanded provider support (Claude Opus 4.8, Fal Krea, NVIDIA models), and faster CLI/auth failure detection with clearer recovery paths.

OpenClaw v2026.5.28-beta.1 delivers major stability and safety improvements across agent runtime recovery, channel delivery, mobile/chat surfaces, CLI/auth tooling, and performance optimization. Key enhancements include steadier subagent workspace separation, safer session identity handling across plugins and messaging platforms, broader mobile UI refresh with state preservation, faster CLI failure modes with clearer recovery guidance, and reduced repeated work in hot paths through improved caching. The release also expands documentation, adds ClawHub plugin features, and strengthens QA/E2E validation with bounded logging and cross-OS artifact handling.

langchain-anthropic version 1.4.4 is released with a critical fix for cross-provider tool-call ID normalization, improved test reliability through retry logic for transient failures, and multiple dependency updates including langsmith, langchain-core, and security patches for urllib3 and idna. The release maintains compatibility with langchain-core 1.3.3 and langsmith 0.8.5, with infrastructure improvements to Dependabot version-bound preservation.

crewAI 1.14.6 release introduces enhanced security measures for environment variable handling in StdioTransport, fixes critical bugs in structured output and checkpoint serialization, and improves documentation across planning, checkpointing, and Agent Control Plane features. Key improvements include preventing environment variable leakage, correcting serialization of BaseModel type fields, and restructuring documentation for better clarity. The Skills Repository has been moved to experimental status behind a feature gate.

Claude Code v2.1.154 introduces Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows for orchestrating multi-agent tasks, fast mode at reduced costs, and a lean system prompt as default. Key improvements include enhanced safety controls, better plugin management with directory-aware suggestions, and numerous bug fixes for background sessions, terminal rendering, and MCP server handling. The release also deprecates legacy environment variables and improves the user experience across multiple platforms including Bedrock, Vertex, and Chrome integration.

Claude Code v2.1.153 introduces Git LFS skip options, improved terminal environment variable handling, enhanced agent autocomplete, and numerous bug fixes. Key improvements include better MCP server handling, fixed memory leaks in session resumption, improved background agent stability, and better Windows update rollback support. The release also refines the model picker behavior to save defaults and fixes various UI/UX issues across macOS, Windows, and terminal environments.

langchain-fireworks version 1.4.2 was released with a critical fix that strips non-wire keys from all content parts before serialization. The release also includes refreshed model profile data and updated infrastructure dependencies. This patch addresses serialization issues that could occur when processing content with extraneous keys.

langchain-perplexity version 1.3.1 has been released with updates to the Perplexity AI integration. The primary change involves bumping the underlying `perplexityai` dependency to version 0.34.1. This release maintains compatibility with the LangChain ecosystem while ensuring the latest Perplexity AI client library features and fixes are available.

crewAI 1.14.6a2 release introduces enhanced security for environment variable handling in StdioTransport, improves planning configuration and observation handling, and fixes critical bugs in structured output, checkpointing, and MongoDB dependencies. The release includes comprehensive documentation updates for checkpointing, Agent Control Plane, and secrets management. Key improvements focus on preventing data leaks, enabling proper checkpoint restoration, and correcting package dependencies.