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Municipal wastewater (MWW) produced in a stable and huge amount is increasingly regarded as a valuable resource for generating clean water, bioenergy and nutrients. Efficient bioenergy and bioresource recovery from the MWW are challenging in conventional aerobic and anaerobic biotechnologies due to technical limitations. The emerging anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) show great potential to overcome such limitations by integrating the merits of anaerobic digestion and membrane filtration. In this review, the fundamental aspects regarding MWW quality and process properties of AnMBRs are briefly introduced. Recent developments in AnMBRs towards performance enhancement, fouling mitigation and energy demand reduction are assessed in terms of process characteristics and energy efficiency. The promising AnMBR configurations targeted include biogas-sparging AnMBR, particle …