Release

OpenClaw’s latest release lands with a handful of features that significantly expand what you can do with headless and long-running agents. Version 2026.4.8 — a hotfix over 4.7 — ships four meaningful upgrades: the new openclaw infer unified CLI, Git-like session branching and restore, webhook-driven TaskFlows, and the experimental memory-wiki plugin. It also officially retires the legacy Claude CLI backend from the onboarding flow. If you’re running OpenClaw in production, this one is worth a careful read. ...

It’s been a long road from “interesting prototype” to “production-ready.” As of April 3, 2026, Microsoft Agent Framework has officially reached version 1.0 — and with it comes a long-term support commitment, stable APIs for both .NET and Python, and a clear answer to the question developers have been asking for a year: is this thing safe to build on? The answer is now yes. What Ships in 1.0 Agent Framework 1.0 brings together several threads that Microsoft has been developing in parallel. The framework unifies the enterprise-ready foundations of Semantic Kernel with the orchestration capabilities of AutoGen into a single, open-source SDK. That consolidation has been the core promise since the project launched last October — and 1.0 is the first release that fully delivers on it. ...

OpenClaw just dropped its most substantial release in months, and if you’ve been watching the agentic AI space closely, v2026.4.5 is worth your full attention. This update ships three headline features — Dreaming Memory, built-in media generation, and a prompt caching overhaul — plus a significant provider shift that reflects where the LLM landscape actually stands today. Dreaming Memory: Background Consolidation While You Sleep The biggest conceptual leap in v2026.4.5 is Dreaming Memory. Inspired by how biological memory consolidates during sleep, the feature runs background memory processing sessions that compress, link, and surface important context across long-running agent deployments. The output surfaces in a new Dream Diary UI — a timeline of what the agent “processed” overnight, complete with connection maps between memories. ...

If you’ve been building Claude Code subagents, you’ve probably hit the same friction point: you spawn an agent, and then you have to manually kick it off with a first message. As of the latest Claude Code release (v2.1.9x, published this morning), that extra step is gone. What’s New: initialPrompt in Frontmatter Claude Code now supports a new initialPrompt field in YAML frontmatter. When an agent is invoked as a subagent, this prompt is automatically submitted as the first turn — no human input required. ...

Claude Code’s April 2026 update is developer-dense. Six meaningful features across rendering, subagent management, permissions, and interactivity. Here’s the breakdown. Flicker-Free Alt-Screen Rendering Enable CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 to switch to flicker-free alt-screen rendering. If you’ve been running Claude Code in terminal sessions with frequent output updates and experiencing rendering flicker, this is the fix. The alt-screen approach keeps the output stable during rapid updates rather than repainting the full terminal — a quality-of-life improvement that matters disproportionately in pipeline contexts where Claude Code is producing continuous output while running tasks. ...

OpenClaw v2026.4.2 shipped April 2nd and it’s a big one. Three headline features: Task Flow is restored, Android users can now launch OpenClaw hands-free via Google Assistant, and Firecrawl plus xAI plugin configs have been migrated to cleaner paths. Alongside all of that: 70+ bug fixes. Here’s what actually changed and why it matters. Task Flow Is Back Task Flow — OpenClaw’s durable flow orchestration substrate — is restored in this release after being pulled in an earlier version. The restoration isn’t just a revert; the implementation has been substantially rebuilt. ...

OpenClaw 2026.4.2 landed yesterday with what might be its most consequential architectural change in months: a fully restored Task Flow substrate with durable state tracking, managed sync modes, and native inspection primitives. This isn’t just a patch — it’s the foundation that autonomous agent workflows have been waiting for. What’s New in Task Flow The centerpiece of 2026.4.2 is PR #58930, which restores the core Task Flow engine with two distinct sync modes: ...

OpenClaw shipped version 2026.4.1 today, and it’s a substantial release — over 40 pull requests merged, a handful of significant feature additions, and a simultaneous ClawHub China mirror announcement that signals continued international expansion. Here’s what’s actually in the release, drawn directly from the changelog. AWS Bedrock Guardrails Support The biggest enterprise story in this release is native AWS Bedrock Guardrails integration in the bundled provider. This lets teams using OpenClaw on AWS infrastructure apply Bedrock’s policy enforcement layer — content filters, topic deny lists, PII redaction, and grounding checks — directly to model calls routed through the Bedrock provider. ...

OpenClaw shipped v2026.3.31 on March 31st, and it’s one of the more substantive releases in recent months. Three security fixes over the prior stable version (v2026.3.28), a rethought approach to background task management, and two new platform integrations — including one that opens the China market. If you’re running OpenClaw in production, this release warrants a careful read before you upgrade. The Security Story: Trust Is No Longer Automatic The headline change in v2026.3.31 is a security model overhaul that makes implicit trust explicit across the stack. ...

Two days after shipping the security-heavy v2026.3.22, OpenClaw dropped version 2026.3.24 — and this one is all about expanding where and how you connect. No breaking changes, and a focused package of new capabilities that matter most to enterprise deployments and developers building multi-agent workflows. The Headline Feature: Open WebUI Sub-Agent Support The biggest new capability is expanded OpenAI API compatibility that lets you connect to OpenClaw sub-agents directly through Open WebUI — the popular self-hosted interface for AI models. This works because v2026.3.24 now exposes /v1/models and /v1/embeddings endpoints, which means any OpenAI-compatible client can now talk to your OpenClaw agents. ...