Release Overview
OpenClaw 2026.4.24 is a major update focusing on multimodal collaboration and efficiency. The addition of Google Meet as a first-class participant, DeepSeek V4 as the new onboarding default, and Realtime Voice Loops marks a significant step toward more natural human-agent interaction. It also brings crucial fixes for heartbeat stability, browser automation reliability, and plugin memory management.
Headline Features
Google Meet Participant Plugin
OpenClaw can now join Google Meet sessions. This bundled participant plugin supports personal Google authentication, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, and even paired-node Chrome support. It can handle attendance, export artifacts, and recover already-open Meet tabs.
Meet Capabilities
- Join via URL or meeting code
- Realtime audio interaction via voice loops
- Automatic attendance tracking and participant logging
- Artifact export (transcripts, shared links) after meeting end
DeepSeek V4 Flash & Pro
The bundled model catalog now includes DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro.DeepSeek V4 Flash is now the default model for new onboardings, providing an excellent balance of speed and reasoning depth. This release also fixes thinking/replay behavior for follow-up tool-call turns specifically for DeepSeek models.
Realtime Voice Loops
Talk mode, Voice Calls, and Google Meet now support realtime voice loops. Instead of waiting for a full audio block to process, the agent can maintain a continuous interaction loop, consulting its full toolset in the background to provide deep, verified answers while staying in the flow of conversation.
Browser Automation Upgrades
Coordinate Clicks & Budgets
The browser tool now supports coordinate-based clicks, allowing agents to interact with non-standard UI elements that lack traditional selectors. Default action budgets have been increased, and per-profile headless overrides are now supported.
Tab Recovery & Reuse
Tab management is now more robust. OpenClaw handles tab reuse and recovery more gracefully, and a new fix ensures that tracked browser tabs are closed when a session is archived, rolled over, or reset, preventing memory leaks over long durations.
System Reliability & Fixes
Heartbeat Crash Prevention
A critical fix for the heartbeat system prevents 1ms crash loops caused by oversized scheduler delays. The system now clamps these delays through a shared safe timer helper, ensuring stability even with long-term scheduling.
Telegram Polling Fixes
Polling restarts no longer self-conflict, and duplicate in-process pollers for the same token are prevented. This resolves several long-standing issues where Telegram agents would stop responding after a gateway restart.
MCP Process Reaping
Bundled MCP runtimes are now retired immediately after one-shot executions, and idle runtimes are evicted after a configurable TTL. This prevents zombie MCP child processes from accumulating on the host system.
Developer & Infrastructure
Lighter Plugin Startup
Plugin and model infrastructure is now lighter. Using static model catalogs and manifest-backed rows, OpenClaw reduces startup time and memory footprint. Dependencies are now loaded lazily when a provider is first called.
Windows Dependency Fixes
For packaged installs, runtime dependencies and their subpaths are now properly preserved during updates, fixing issues where Windows npm updates could fail to load bundled plugin modules.
Upgrade Guide
Immediate Upgrade Recommended If:
- You participate in Google Meet sessions
- You want faster, more reliable reasoning with DeepSeek V4
- You use voice interaction or Talk mode
- You have experienced Telegram polling or Heartbeat stability issues
- You use complex browser automation workflows
Upgrade Commands
# Via CLI
openclaw update
# Or ask your agent
Update OpenClaw to the latest versionFull changelog available on GitHub.
FAQ
How do I use Google Meet with OpenClaw?
Google Meet is now a bundled participant plugin. It supports personal Google auth, paired-node Chrome support, and artifact exports. You can join meetings as a participant or use the new realtime voice loops for a more interactive experience.
What is DeepSeek V4?
DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro are now available in the bundled catalog. V4 Flash is the new onboarding default, offering high speed and improved tool-calling behavior, especially for multi-turn reasoning.
What are 'Realtime Voice Loops'?
This feature allows Talk, Voice Call, and Google Meet to use a continuous voice interaction loop. The agent listens and responds in realtime, consulting the full tool-backed agent for deep answers without breaking the conversation flow.
Is this a stable release?
Yes, 2026.4.24 is the latest stable release. It follows several beta rounds to ensure reliability for Google Meet and the new DeepSeek models.
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