openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.5

openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.5

on Node.js NPM

2026.4.24

Highlights

• Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports, and recovery tooling for already-open Meet tabs.
• DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are in the bundled catalog, V4 Flash is the onboarding default, and DeepSeek thinking/replay behavior is fixed for follow-up tool-call turns.
• Talk, Voice Call, and Google Meet can use realtime voice loops that consult the full OpenClaw agent for deeper tool-backed answers.
• Browser automation gets coordinate clicks, longer default action budgets, per-profile headless overrides, and steadier tab reuse/recovery.
• Plugin and model infrastructure is lighter at startup: static model catalogs, manifest-backed model rows, lazy provider dependencies, and external runtime-dependency repair for packaged installs.

Fixes

• Packaged installs: preserve package-root runtime dependencies and their exported subpaths when bundled plugin runtime mirrors fall back to copying shared chunks, fixing Windows npm updates that could fail to load copied dist modules.
• Heartbeat: clamp oversized scheduler delays through the shared safe timer helper, preventing every values over Node's timeout cap from becoming a 1 ms crash loop. Fixes #71414. (#71478) Thanks @hclsys.
• Telegram: remove the startup persisted-offset getUpdates preflight so polling restarts do not self-conflict before the runner starts. Fixes #69304. (#69779) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar.
• Browser/Playwright: ignore benign already-handled route races during guarded navigation so browser-page tasks no longer fail when Playwright tears down a route mid-flight. (#68708) Thanks @Steady-ai.
• Browser/aria snapshots: bind format=aria axN refs to live DOM nodes through backend DOM ids when Playwright is available, so follow-up browser actions can use those refs without timing out. (#62434) Thanks @MrKipler.
• Telegram: prevent duplicate in-process long pollers for the same bot token and add clearer getUpdates conflict diagnostics for external duplicate pollers. Fixes #56230.
• Browser/Linux: detect Chromium-based installs under /opt/google, /opt/brave.com, /usr/lib/chromium, and /usr/lib/chromium-browser before asking users to set browser.executablePath. (#48563) Thanks @lupuletic.
• Sessions/browser: close tracked browser tabs when idle, daily, /new, or /reset session rollover archives the previous transcript, preventing tabs from leaking past the old session. Thanks @jakozloski.
• Sessions/forking: fall back to transcript-estimated parent token counts when cached totals are stale or missing, so oversized thread forks start fresh instead of cloning the full parent transcript. Thanks @jalehman.
• OpenAI/Codex: send Codex Responses system prompts through top-level
  instructions while preserving the existing native Codex payload controls.
• MCP/CLI: retire bundled MCP runtimes at the end of one-shot openclaw agent and openclaw infer model run gateway/local executions, so repeated scripted runs do not accumulate stdio MCP child processes. Fixes #71457.
• OpenAI/Codex image generation: canonicalize legacy openai-codex.baseUrl values such as https://chatgpt.com/backend-api to the Codex Responses backend before calling gpt-image-2, matching the chat transport. Fixes #71460.
• Control UI: make /usage use the fresh context snapshot for context percentage, and include cache-write tokens in the Usage overview cache-hit denominator. Fixes #47885. Thanks @imwyvern and @Ante042.
• GitHub Copilot: preserve encrypted Responses reasoning item IDs during replay so Copilot can validate encrypted reasoning payloads across requests. (#71448) Thanks @a410979729-sys.
• Agents/replies: recover final-answer text when streamed assistant chunks contain only whitespace, preventing completed turns from surfacing as empty-payload errors. Fixes #71454. (#71467) Thanks @Sanjays2402.
• Feishu/TTS: transcode voice-intent MP3 and other audio replies to Ogg/Opus before sending native Feishu audio bubbles, while keeping ordinary MP3 attachments as files. Fixes #61249 and #37868.
• Telegram/webhook: acknowledge validated webhook updates before running bot middleware, keeping slow agent turns from tripping Telegram delivery retries while preserving per-chat processing lanes. Fixes #71392. Thanks @joelforsberg46-source.
• MCP: retire one-shot embedded bundled MCP runtimes at run end, skip bundle-MCP startup when a runtime tool allowlist cannot reach bundle-MCP tools, and add mcp.sessionIdleTtlMs idle eviction for leaked session runtimes. Fixes #71106, #71110, #70389, and #70808.
• MCP/config reload: hot-apply mcp.* changes by disposing cached session MCP runtimes, and dispose bundled MCP runtimes during gateway shutdown so removed mcp.servers entries reap child processes promptly. Fixes #60656.
• Gateway/restart continuation: durably hand restart continuations to a session-delivery queue before deleting the restart sentinel, recover queued continuation work after crashy restarts, and fall back to a session-only wake when no channel route survives reboot. (#70780) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
• Agents/tool-result pruning: harden the tool-result character estimator and context-pruning loops against malformed { type: "text" } blocks created by void or undefined tool handler results, serializing non-string text payloads for size accounting so they cannot bypass trimming as zero-sized. Fixes #34979. (#51267) Thanks @cgdusek, @alvinttang, and @coffeexcoin.
• Daemon/service-env: add Nix Home Manager profile bin directories to generated gateway service PATHs on macOS and Linux, honoring NIX_PROFILES right-to-left precedence and falling back to ~/.nix-profile/bin when unset. Fixes #44402. (#59935) Thanks @jerome-benoit.