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📦 Release Notes OpenClaw 2026.5.20 📅 May 21, 2026 · By Tony Slavin OpenClaw 2026.5.20 brings stability improvements, security enhancements, and quality-of-life updates. Improvements & Fixes CLI/tasks: include stale-running task maintenance decisions in `openclaw tasks maintenance –json` so retained and reconcile candidates explain backing-session, cron, CLI, and wedged-subagent state Codex app-server: keep system-prompt reports working

📦 Release Notes OpenClaw 2026.5.19 📅 May 20, 2026 · By Tony Slavin OpenClaw 2026.5.19 brings stability improvements, security enhancements, and quality-of-life updates. What’s New This release includes stability improvements, security enhancements, and performance work. Ready to upgrade? Start your 30-day free trial or contact us for help. Put OpenClaw to work Ready for the

What Happened OpenClaw 2026.5.18 ships a focused but powerful set of improvements — new skills, a dramatically expanded QA testing framework, better plugin tooling, tighter security defaults, and dozens of stability fixes across every major channel and runtime. Key Highlights 🛠️ Plugin SDK: defineToolPlugin A brand-new defineToolPlugin API lets developers build typed simple tool plugins

What Happened OpenClaw 2026.5.12 is one of the most architecturally significant releases in the 5.x cycle. Instead of flashy features, it fundamentally restructures how plugins, dependencies, and runtime components work together — making your gateway leaner, faster, and more modular. Key Highlights 🔌 Plugin Independence — No More Bloat The biggest change: external providers like

What the latest release really means for AI agent builders — and why the boring fixes matter most.

📦 Release Notes OpenClaw 2026.5.7 📅 May 7, 2026 · By Tony Slavin OpenClaw 2026.5.7 brings stability improvements, security enhancements, and quality-of-life updates. Improvements & Fixes Release/plugin publishing: retry transient ClawHub CLI dependency install failures, keep preview-passing plugins publishable when one preview cell flakes, and verify every expected ClawHub package version after publish so maintenance

📦 Release Notes OpenClaw 2026.5.6 📅 May 6, 2026 · By Tony Slavin Recovery docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/openai#check-and-recover-codex-oauth-routing Improvements & Fixes Doctor/OpenAI Codex: revert the 2026.5.5 `doctor –fix` repair that rewrote valid `openai-codex/*` ChatGPT/Codex OAuth routes to `openai/*`, which could break OAuth-only GPT-5.5 setups or accidentally move users onto the OpenAI API-key route. If 2026.5.5 already changed