[Release] openclaw/openclaw v2026.4.24-beta.4: openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.4

OpenClaw v2026.4.24-beta.4 introduces Google Meet as a bundled participant plugin with real-time voice capabilities, adds DeepSeek V4 models to the default catalog, and significantly improves browser automation, plugin infrastructure, and session management. The release includes 20+ bug fixes addressing packaged installs, heartbeat scheduling, Telegram polling, browser navigation, and MCP runtime management. Key improvements focus on startup performance through lazy loading and manifest-backed catalogs, plus enhanced stability for multi-platform deployments.

Key Points

• •Google Meet integration: bundled plugin with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, artifact/attendance exports, and recovery tooling for existing Meet tabs
• •DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro models added to bundled catalog with V4 Flash as onboarding default; fixed thinking/replay behavior for follow-up tool-call turns
• •Realtime voice loops now available across Talk, Voice Call, and Google Meet for deeper tool-backed answers using full OpenClaw agent
• •Browser automation enhancements: coordinate clicks, longer action budgets, per-profile headless overrides, and improved tab reuse/recovery
• •Lighter startup performance: static model catalogs, manifest-backed model rows, lazy provider dependencies, and external runtime-dependency repair
• •Fixed packaged installs: preserve package-root runtime dependencies and exported subpaths when bundled plugin mirrors fall back to copying shared chunks
• •Heartbeat scheduler fix: clamp oversized delays through safe timer helper to prevent Node timeout cap crashes
• •Telegram improvements: removed startup preflight conflicts, added duplicate poller prevention, and webhook acknowledgment before middleware execution
• •Browser/Playwright fixes: ignore benign route races during navigation, bind ARIA snapshot refs to live DOM nodes, and improved Chromium detection on Linux
• •Session management: close idle browser tabs on rollover, fall back to transcript-estimated token counts for oversized forks, and durable restart continuation handling

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