openclaw 2026.3.8

openclaw 2026.3.8

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Mac assets on this release reuse the beta artifact line from v2026.3.8-beta.1.

Changes

• CLI/backup: add openclaw backup create and openclaw backup verify for local state archives, including --only-config, --no-include-workspace, manifest/payload validation, and backup guidance in destructive flows. (#40163) thanks @shichangs.
• macOS/onboarding: add a remote gateway token field for remote mode, preserve existing non-plaintext gateway.remote.token config values until explicitly replaced, and warn when the loaded token shape cannot be used directly from the macOS app. (#40187, supersedes #34614) Thanks @cgdusek.
• Talk mode: add top-level talk.silenceTimeoutMs config so Talk waits a configurable amount of silence before auto-sending the current transcript, while keeping each platform's existing default pause window when unset. (#39607) Thanks @danodoesdesign. Fixes #17147.
• TUI: infer the active agent from the current workspace when launched inside a configured agent workspace, while preserving explicit agent: session targets. (#39591) thanks @arceus77-7.
• Tools/Brave web search: add opt-in tools.web.search.brave.mode: "llm-context" so web_search can call Brave's LLM Context endpoint and return extracted grounding snippets with source metadata, plus config/docs/test coverage. (#33383) Thanks @thirumaleshp.
• CLI/install: include the short git commit hash in openclaw --version output when metadata is available, and keep installer version checks compatible with the decorated format. (#39712) thanks @sourman.
• CLI/backup: improve archive naming for date sorting, add config-only backup mode, and harden backup planning, publication, and verification edge cases. (#40163) Thanks @gumadeiras.
• ACP/Provenance: add optional ACP ingress provenance metadata and visible receipt injection (openclaw acp --provenance off|meta|meta+receipt) so OpenClaw agents can retain and report ACP-origin context with session trace IDs. (#40473) thanks @mbelinky.
• Tools/web search: alphabetize provider ordering across runtime selection, onboarding/configure pickers, and config metadata, so provider lists stay neutral and multi-key auto-detect now prefers Grok before Kimi. (#40259) thanks @kesku.
• Docs/Web search: restore $5/month free-credit details, replace defunct "Data for Search"/"Data for AI" plan names with current "Search" plan, and note legacy subscription validity in Brave setup docs. Follows up on #26860. (#40111) Thanks @remusao.
• Extensions/ACPX tests: move the shared runtime fixture helper from src/runtime-internals/ to src/test-utils/ so the test-only helper no longer looks like shipped runtime code.

Fixes

• Update/macOS launchd restart: re-enable disabled LaunchAgent services before updater bootstrap so openclaw update can recover from a disabled gateway service instead of leaving the restart step stuck.
• macOS app/chat UI: route browser proxy through the local node browser service, preserve plain-text paste semantics, strip completed assistant trace/debug wrapper noise from transcripts, refresh permission state after returning from System Settings, and tolerate malformed cron rows in the macOS tab. (#39516) Thanks @Imhermes1.
• Android/Play distribution: remove self-update, background location, screen.record, and background mic capture from the Android app, narrow the foreground service to dataSync only, and clean up the legacy location.enabledMode=always preference migration. (#39660) Thanks @obviyus.
• Telegram/DM routing: dedupe inbound Telegram DMs per agent instead of per session key so the same DM cannot trigger duplicate replies when both agent:main:main and agent:main:telegram:direct:<id> resolve for one agent. Fixes #40005. Supersedes #40116. (#40519) thanks @obviyus.
• Cron/Telegram announce delivery: route text-only announce jobs through the real outbound adapters after finalizing descendant output so plain Telegram targets no longer report delivered: true when no message actually reached Telegram. (#40575) thanks @obviyus.
• Matrix/DM routing: add safer fallback detection for broken m.direct homeservers, honor explicit room bindings over DM classification, and preserve room-bound agent selection for Matrix DM rooms. (#19736) Thanks @derbronko.
• Feishu/plugin onboarding: clear the short-lived plugin discovery cache before reloading the registry after installing a channel plugin, so onboarding no longer re-prompts to download Feishu immediately after a successful install. Fixes #39642. (#39752) Thanks @GazeKingNuWu.
• Plugins/channel onboarding: prefer bundled channel plugins over duplicate npm-installed copies during onboarding and release-channel sync, preventing bundled plugins from being shadowed by npm installs with the same plugin ID. (#40092)
• Config/runtime snapshots: keep secrets-runtime-resolved config and auth-profile snapshots intact after config writes so follow-up reads still see file-backed secret values while picking up the persisted config update. (#37313) thanks @bbblending.
• Gateway/Control UI: resolve bundled dashboard assets through symlinked global wrappers and auto-detected package roots, while keeping configured and custom roots on the strict hardlink boundary. (#40385) Thanks @LarytheLord.
• Browser/extension relay: add browser.relayBindHost so the Chrome relay can bind to an explicit non-loopback address for WSL2 and other cross-namespace setups, while preserving loopback-only defaults. (#39364) Thanks @mvanhorn.
• Browser/CDP: normalize loopback direct WebSocket CDP URLs back to HTTP(S) for /json/* tab operations so local ws:// / wss:// profiles can still list, focus, open, and close tabs after the new direct-WS support lands. (#31085) Thanks @shrey150.
• Browser/CDP: rewrite wildcard ws://0.0.0.0 and ws://[::] debugger URLs from remote /json/version responses back to the external CDP host/port, fixing Browserless-style container endpoints. (#17760) Thanks @joeharouni.
• Browser/extension relay: wait briefly for a previously attached Chrome tab to reappear after transient relay drops before failing with tab not found, reducing noisy reconnect flakes. (#32461) Thanks @AaronWander.
• macOS/Tailscale gateway discovery: keep Tailscale Serve probing alive when other remote gateways are already discovered, prefer direct transport for resolved .ts.net and Tailscale Serve gateways, and set TERM=dumb for GUI-launched Tailscale CLI discovery. (#40167) thanks @ngutman.
• TUI/theme: detect light terminal backgrounds via COLORFGBG and pick a WCAG AA-compliant light palette, with OPENCLAW_THEME=light|dark override for terminals without auto-detection. (#38636) Thanks @ademczuk and @vincentkoc.
• Agents/openai-codex: normalize gpt-5.4 fallback transport back to openai-codex-responses on chatgpt.com/backend-api when config drifts to the generic OpenAI responses endpoint. (#38736) Thanks @0xsline.
• Models/openai-codex GPT-5.4 forward-compat: use the GPT-5.4 1,050,000-token context window and 128,000 max tokens for openai-codex/gpt-5.4 instead of inheriting stale legacy Codex limits in resolver fallbacks and model listing. (#37876) thanks @yuweuii.
• Tools/web search: restore Perplexity OpenRouter/Sonar compatibility for legacy OPENROUTER_API_KEY, sk-or-..., and explicit perplexity.baseUrl / model setups while keeping direct Perplexity keys on the native Search API path. (#39937) Thanks @obviyus.
• Agents/failover: detect Amazon Bedrock Too many tokens per day quota errors as rate limits across fallback, cron retry, and memory embeddings while keeping context-window too many tokens per request errors out of the rate-limit lane. (#39377) Thanks @gambletan.
• Mattermost replies: keep root_id pinned to the existing thread root when an agent replies inside a thread, while still using reply-target threading for top-level posts. (#27744) thanks @hnykda.
• Telegram/DM partial streaming: keep DM preview lanes on real message edits instead of native draft materialization so final replies no longer flash a second duplicate copy before collapsing back to one.
• macOS overlays: fix VoiceWake, Talk, and Notify overlay exclusivity crashes by removing shared inout visibility mutation from OverlayPanelFactory.present, and add a repeated Talk overlay smoke test. (#39275, #39321) Thanks @fellanH.
• macOS Talk Mode: set the speech recognition request taskHint to .dictation for mic capture, and add regression coverage for the request defaults. (#38445) Thanks @dmiv.
• macOS release packaging: default scripts/package-mac-app.sh to universal binaries for BUILD_CONFIG=release, and clarify that scripts/package-mac-dist.sh already produces the release zip + DMG. (#33891) Thanks @cgdusek.
• Hooks/session-memory: keep /new and /reset memory artifacts in the bound agent workspace and align saved reset session keys with that workspace when stale main-agent keys leak into the hook path. (#39875) thanks @rbutera.
• Sessions/model switch: clear stale cached contextTokens when a session changes models so status and runtime paths recompute against the active model window. (#38044) thanks @yuweuii.
• ACP/session history: persist transcripts for successful ACP child runs, preserve exact transcript text, record ACP spawned-session lineage, and keep spawn-time transcript-path persistence best-effort so history storage failures do not block execution. (#40137) thanks @mbelinky.
• Docs/browser: add a layered WSL2 + Windows remote Chrome CDP troubleshooting guide, including Control UI origin pitfalls and extension-relay bind-address guidance. (#39407) Thanks @Owlock.
• Context engine registry/bundled builds: share the registry state through a globalThis singleton so duplicated bundled module copies can resolve engines registered by each other at runtime, with regression coverage for duplicate-module imports. (#40115) thanks @jalehman.
• Podman/setup: fix cannot chdir: Permission denied in run_as_user when setup-podman.sh is invoked from a directory the target user cannot access, by wrapping user-switch calls in a subshell that cd's to /tmp with / fallback. (#39435) Thanks @langdon and @jlcbk.
• Podman/SELinux: auto-detect SELinux enforcing/permissive mode and add :Z relabel to bind mounts in run-openclaw-podman.sh and the Quadlet template, fixing EACCES on Fedora/RHEL hosts. Supports OPENCLAW_BIND_MOUNT_OPTIONS override. (#39449) Thanks @langdon and @githubbzxs.
• Agents/context-engine plugins: bootstrap runtime plugins once at embedded-run, compaction, and subagent boundaries so plugin-provided context engines and hooks load from the active workspace before runtime resolution. (#40232)
• Docs/Changelog: correct the contributor credit for the bundled Control UI global-install fix to @LarytheLord. (#40420) Thanks @velvet-shark.
• Telegram/media downloads: time out only stalled body reads so polling recovers from hung file downloads without aborting slow downloads that are still streaming data. (#40098) thanks @tysoncung.
• Docker/runtime image: prune dev dependencies, strip build-only dist metadata for smaller Docker images. (#40307) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Gateway/restart timeout recovery: exit non-zero when restart-triggered shutdown drains time out so launchd/systemd restart the gateway instead of treating the failed restart as a clean stop. Landed from contributor PR #40380 by @dsantoreis. Thanks @dsantoreis.
• Gateway/config restart guard: validate config before service start/restart and keep post-SIGUSR1 startup failures from crashing the gateway process, reducing invalid-config restart loops and macOS permission loss. Landed from contributor PR #38699 by @lml2468. Thanks @lml2468.
• Gateway/launchd respawn detection: treat XPC_SERVICE_NAME as a launchd supervision hint so macOS restarts exit cleanly under launchd instead of attempting detached self-respawn. Landed from contributor PR #20555 by @dimat. Thanks @dimat.
• Telegram/poll restart cleanup: abort the in-flight Telegram API fetch when shutdown or forced polling restarts stop a runner, preventing stale getUpdates long polls from colliding with the replacement runner. Landed from contributor PR #23950 by @Gkinthecodeland. Thanks @Gkinthecodeland.
• Cron/restart catch-up staggering: limit immediate missed-job replay on startup and reschedule the deferred remainder from the post-catchup clock so restart bursts do not starve the gateway or silently skip overdue recurring jobs. Landed from contributor PR #18925 by @rexlunae. Thanks @rexlunae.
• Cron/owner-only tools: pass trusted isolated cron runs into the embedded agent with owner context so cron/gateway tooling remains available after the owner-auth hardening narrowed direct-message ownership inference.
• Browser/SSRF: block private-network intermediate redirect hops in strict browser navigation flows and fail closed when remote tab-open paths cannot inspect redirect chains. Thanks @zpbrent.
• MS Teams/authz: keep groupPolicy: "allowlist" enforcing sender allowlists even when a team/channel route allowlist is configured, so route matches no longer widen group access to every sender in that route. Thanks @zpbrent.
• Security/system.run: bind approved bun and deno run script operands to on-disk file snapshots so post-approval script rewrites are denied before execution.
• Skills/download installs: pin the validated per-skill tools root before writing downloaded archives, so rebinding the lexical tools path cannot redirect download writes outside the intended tools directory. Thanks @tdjackey.