Release Policy
OpenClaw has three public release lanes:- stable: tagged releases that publish to npm
latest - beta: prerelease tags that publish to npm
beta - dev: the moving head of
main
Version naming
- Stable release version:
YYYY.M.D- Git tag:
vYYYY.M.D
- Git tag:
- Beta prerelease version:
YYYY.M.D-beta.N- Git tag:
vYYYY.M.D-beta.N
- Git tag:
- Do not zero-pad month or day
latestmeans the current stable npm releasebetameans the current prerelease npm release- Beta releases may ship before the macOS app catches up
Release cadence
- Releases move beta-first
- Stable follows only after the latest beta is validated
- Detailed release procedure, approvals, credentials, and recovery notes are maintainer-only
Public references
Maintainers use the private release docs inopenclaw/maintainers/release/README.md
for the actual runbook.