News and developments around Openclaw — the open-source claw controller for AI agents.
Openclaw v2026.5.26 elevates transcripts from a plugin-level concern to a core system capability, ships a substantially faster gateway with smarter caching, brings four major channels to production-grade stability, and delivers...
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Openclaw v2026.5.22 delivers a staggering 4,100× speedup in model-listing calls, a brand-new Meeting Notes plugin with Discord voice capture, and a comprehensive packaging overhaul including shrinkwrap integrity checks and smaller...
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Openclaw ships v2026.5.20-beta.1 with a groundbreaking Policy Plugin that brings compliance-as-code to agent orchestration — enabling policy-backed channel conformance checks, lint-driven workspace repair, and enterprise-grade governance. The release also introduces...
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Openclaw ships v2026.5.18 — its first full stable release in weeks — building on the [plugin externalization work]({% post_url 2026-05-14-openclaw-plugin-externalization-security-hardening-beta7 %}) from earlier beta cycles — with a redesigned Mac...
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Openclaw's latest beta cycle delivers a major architectural shift — externalizing Amazon Bedrock, Slack, OpenShell, and Anthropic Vertex into optional plugins, slimming the core install while simultaneously shipping over 50...
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Openclaw shipped five beta releases across May 10-11 — v2026.5.10-beta.1 through beta.5 — in an aggressive weekend release train that touches every layer of the stack. Agent-to-agent ping-pong turns are...
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Openclaw shipped two back-to-back releases on May 6 — v2026.5.5 with extensive platform fixes across Discord, Telegram, and provider integrations, followed hours later by v2026.5.6 to hotfix a critical doctor...
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Openclaw hits v2026.5.4 with Google Meet voice call integration, a bundled file-transfer plugin, OpenRouter caching, WhatsApp Newsletter support, and over 120 fixes. The project now sits at an astonishing 368,455...
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Openclaw brings fine-grained control and safety guardrails to autonomous AI agents — an open alternative to proprietary agent controllers.
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