openclaw 2026.5.26-beta.1

openclaw 2026.5.26-beta.1

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2026.5.26

Highlights

• Faster replies and startup: visible reply delivery now separates user-facing sends from slower follow-up work, command/model/plugin metadata is reused on hot paths, and Gateway startup avoids repeated plugin, channel, session, usage-cost, and filesystem scans.
• Better voice and Talk: realtime Talk runs can be inspected, steered, cancelled, or followed up from Web UI and Discord voice; wake-name handling is more tolerant without letting ambient speech trigger agents.
• More channels are production-ready: Telegram keeps typing/progress context and forum topics, iMessage handles attachment roots and duplicate local Messages sources, WhatsApp restores group/media behavior, Discord improves voice playback and model picking, and Signal/iMessage get reaction approvals.
• Safer agents: Codex app-server auth, compaction, source replies, sandbox path handling, and usage-limit recovery are more robust; OpenAI-compatible providers avoid empty-tool and malformed payload failures.
• More reliable replay and installs: legacy tool results, subagent spawn payloads, stale lock ownership, Windows stack-heavy startup, macOS restart validation, and Docker package preparation all fail less surprisingly.
• Better install/update/release confidence: Alpine installs, stable update channels, Docker/package timeouts, Windows/macOS proof lanes, Testbox/Crabbox delegation, and plugin publish checks all got hardened.
• New observability: Activity tab, gateway secret-prep traces, tool/model stream progress, OpenTelemetry LLM spans, release performance evidence, and richer missing telemetry signals make failures easier to inspect.

Changes

• Transcripts: add core transcript capture and source-provider support for transcript-backed meeting summaries, including the renamed Transcripts docs and CLI surface.
• Auth: add named model login profiles and supported credential migration for Hermes, OpenCode, and Codex auth profiles, with explicit opt-out and non-interactive controls. (#85667) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
• Diagnostics: trace gateway secret preparation, classify skill/tool usage, surface model stream progress, add OpenTelemetry LLM content spans, and expose alertable telemetry for blocked tools, failover, stale sessions, liveness, oversized payloads, and webhook ingress. (#83019, #80370, #86191)
• Channels: add Signal reaction approvals, iMessage thumb approval reactions, and WhatsApp thumb approval reaction support so mobile approval flows work without textual /approve commands. (#85894, #85952, #85477)
• Agents/API: forward OpenAI sampling params through the Gateway and expose estimated context-budget status for active agent runs. (#84094)
• Android/iOS: add the Android pair-new-gateway action and improve mobile Talk mode surfaces, including iOS realtime Talk mode and Android offline voice/gateway recovery. (#86798, #86355) Thanks @ngutman.
• Performance: cache plugin metadata snapshots, package realpaths, stable gateway metadata, model cost indexes, channel resolution, usage-cost indexes, and session/auth hot-path facts so common Gateway and reply paths do less rediscovery. (#84649, #85843, #86517, #86678)
• Voice: expose shared realtime turn-context tracking through the realtime voice SDK and reuse it for Discord speaker attribution and wake-name context recovery.
• Voice: reuse shared realtime output activity tracking in Google Meet command and node audio bridges, including recent-output checks for local barge-in detection.
• Voice: expose shared realtime output activity tracking through the realtime voice SDK and reuse it for Discord playback activity and barge-in decisions.
• Voice: expose shared realtime consult question matching, speakable-result extraction, and alias-aware forced-consult coordination through the realtime voice SDK, then reuse it in Gateway Talk, Voice Call, and Discord voice paths.
• Voice: share activation-name matching and consult-transcript screening through the realtime voice SDK so Discord, browser voice, and meeting surfaces can reuse one implementation.
• Cron: default cron.maxConcurrentRuns to 8 so scheduled automations and their isolated agent turns can make progress in parallel without explicit configuration.
• QA-Lab: add qa coverage --match <query> so focused proof selection can discover matching scenarios from existing metadata before running live or remote lanes.
• Discord/model picker: surface an alpha-bucket select (e.g. A–G (12) · H–N (18) · O–Z (5)) when the provider list or a provider's model list exceeds 25 items, so configs with provider/* wildcards stay one click from the right page instead of paginating through prev/next; falls back to numeric chunks when every item shares the same first letter.
• Control UI: add an ephemeral Activity tab for sanitized live tool activity summaries without persisting raw telemetry. Fixes #12831. Thanks @BunsDev.
• Build: include ui:build in the full and ciArtifacts profiles of scripts/build-all.mjs so pnpm build always rebuilds dist/control-ui after tsdown cleans dist, removing the second-command requirement and the missing-asset failure mode for source/runtime installs and CI artifact uploads. (#85206)
• iOS: improve Talk mode with direct realtime voice sessions, compact toolbar status, and responsive voice waveform feedback. (#86355) Thanks @ngutman.
• Media: replace the Sharp image backend with Rastermill for metadata, resizing, EXIF orientation, and PNG alpha-preserving optimization so OpenClaw no longer installs Sharp or the WhatsApp Jimp fallback for image processing. (#86437)

Fixes

• Reply/perf: reduce visible reply delivery latency by preserving Telegram typing/progress context, lazy-loading slash-command startup metadata, avoiding hot-path model hydration, flag-gating Codex profiler timing, deferring context compaction maintenance, and tracking delivery timing. (#86989, #86990, #86991, #86992, #86993, #86994) Thanks @keshavbotagent.

• Reply/source delivery: keep TUI, Control UI, media, TTS, transcript, and Codex source-reply finals live without duplicate terminal events or stale replay artifacts.

• Agents/replay: repair legacy tool results before replay, preserve sessions_spawn transcript payloads, restore current guard checks, stage sandboxed workspace media, and keep duplicate transcripts tool display metadata from reappearing. (#82203, #86934, #87025) Thanks @martingarramon, @vincentkoc, and @joshavant.

• Codex: project newer OpenClaw chat history into resumed app-server threads and keep Codex turn timeouts inside the Codex runtime boundary so timeouts do not poison shared app-server clients or fall through to unrelated provider fallback. (#86677, #86476) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle and @pashpashpash.

• Config/doctor/update: narrow profiled tool-section doctor repair, keep runtime-injected legacy web-search provider config out of user-authored config validation, and keep prerelease tags excluded from stable updater resolution. (#87030, #86818, #86559) Thanks @joshavant, @luoyanglang, and @stevenepalmer.

• CLI/Windows: add a Windows-only stack-size respawn for stack-heavy startup paths, default CLI logs to local timestamps, and validate timeout/banner TTY state more strictly. (#87031, #85387) Thanks @giodl73-repo and @vincentkoc.

• Locking/security: require owner identity proof before stale plugin lock removal, memoize session lock owner arguments, and avoid writing default exec approval stores unless policy state actually changed. (#86814, #86964) Thanks @Alix-007 and @vincentkoc.

• Install/release: bound Docker package build, inventory, pack, and tarball preparation with process-group timeouts; pin shrinkwrap patch drift to the pnpm lock; harden macOS restart and dSYM packaging; and run release Docker/live timeout wrappers in the foreground so child processes cannot wedge gates.

• Telegram/network: treat ENETDOWN as a transient pre-connect network failure so Telegram sends, gateway unhandled-rejection handling, and cron network retries follow the same recovery path as sibling network outages. (#86762) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.

• Telegram: preserve inbound text entities, overlapping DM replies, account topic cache sidecars, outbound reply context, targeted bot-command mentions, durable group retry targets, forum topic names, and native progress callbacks. (#83873, #85361, #85555, #85656, #85709, #86299, #86553) Thanks @SebTardif, @luoyanglang, and @neeravmakwana.

• iMessage: read image attachments from local Messages attachment roots, dedupe duplicate local Messages-source accounts, seed direct DM history, fix image/group media attachment commands, advance catchup cursors after live handling, and keep slash-command acknowledgements in the source conversation. (#82642, #85475, #86569, #86705, #86706, #86770) Thanks @homer-byte, @TurboTheTurtle, @swang430, and @omarshahine.

• WhatsApp/QQ/Twitch/IRC/Slack: restore WhatsApp ack identity and group-drop warnings, make QQ Bot media respect OPENCLAW_HOME, serialize Twitch auth disconnects, store IRC channel routes canonically, and keep Slack downloaded files out of reply media. (#83833, #85309, #85777, #85794, #85906, #86318, #86697) Thanks @sliverp, @neeravmakwana, and @Kailigithub.

• Discord/voice: improve voice playback and wake replies, bucket large model picker menus, merge media captions into one message, route metadata through configured proxies, restore numeric channel sends, suppress self-reply echoes, and tighten wake matching without breaking fuzzy wake phrases. (#80227, #86238, #86487, #86571, #86595, #86601)

• Codex: preserve native web-search metadata, keep oversized native thread reuse, bridge CLI API-key auth into the app server, preserve sandbox bootstrap path style, recover context-window prompt errors, honor yolo approval policy, disable native thread personality, and route compaction through Codex auth. (#85378, #85542, #85891, #85909, #86408)

• Agents/runtime: enforce session lock max-hold reclaim, release embedded-attempt locks on all exits, treat aborted subagent runs as terminal, avoid runtime model hydration on hot paths, disclose scoped session list counts, derive overflow budgets from provider errors, and keep fallback errors scoped to the active model candidate. (#70473, #85764, #86014, #86134, #86427, #86944) Thanks @openperf, @fuller-stack-dev, @zhangguiping-xydt, and @ferminquant.

• Config/update/doctor: retry config recovery after failed backup restore, skip shell env fallback on Windows, exclude prerelease tags from the stable git channel, support deep config edits, warn instead of aborting on unreadable cron stores, prune stale bundled plugin paths, and avoid duplicate restart prompts when the Gateway is already healthy. (#85739, #85787, #86060, #86260, #86384, #86533) Thanks @liaoyl830.

• Install/release: support Alpine CLI installs and runtime floors, avoid npm min-release-age installer failures, bound npm/package/Docker install phases, restore config parent ownership in Docker, seed Docker lockfile package tarballs before prune, and make release/plugin prerelease checks fail closed instead of hanging or false-greening. (#85491)

• Security: avoid printing Gateway tokens in Docker, validate plugin model-pattern regexes safely, escape transcript metadata field names, harden session allowlist glob matching, audit Claude permission overrides under YOLO, and require explicit allow for ACP auto approvals. (#85849, #85934, #86046, #86557)

• Media/images: replace Sharp with Rastermill, keep EXIF normalization best-effort, normalize HEIC/HEIF before image descriptions, route Codex image API keys through OpenAI, preserve image compression metadata, and auto-scale live tool result caps. (#85776, #86037, #86437, #86857, #86923)

• Memory: prevent semantic vector indexes from silently degrading when embeddings are unavailable, stop doctor OOMs on large session stores, preserve sidecar hooks/artifacts, write fallback dream diaries, use CJK-aware dreaming dedupe, and avoid per-file watcher FD fan-out. (#80613, #82928, #85060, #85704, #85967, #86701) Thanks @brokemac79, @openperf, and @yaaboo-gif.

• Agents/sessions: include visibility metadata on restricted sessions_list results so scoped counts are clearly reported without widening access or exposing hidden-session counts. (#86944) Thanks @ferminquant.

• Gateway/DNS: validate wide-area discovery domains before deriving zone paths or writing zone files, so invalid discovery.wideArea.domain and dns setup --domain values fail with a DNS-name diagnostic instead of falling through to unrelated configuration errors. Thanks @mmaps.

• Agents/BTW: route fallback side-question streams through the embedded stream resolver so Anthropic-compatible MiniMax requests use the same capped transport as normal chat. (#86312) Thanks @neeravmakwana.

• Telegram: treat /command@TargetBot bot-command entities as explicit mentions for the addressed bot so requireMention groups no longer drop targeted commands or captions. Fixes #84462. (#86553) Thanks @luoyanglang.

• CI: bound Docker/Bash E2E tarball npm installs with OPENCLAW_E2E_NPM_INSTALL_TIMEOUT so package, onboarding, plugin, and upgrade lanes fail instead of hanging on a stuck npm install.

• CI: keep OPENCLAW_TESTBOX=1 pnpm check:changed delegating to Blacksmith Testbox through Crabbox without forwarding local Testbox or worker env into the remote command.

• CI: send KILL after the TERM grace period for manual checkout fetch timeouts so stuck Testbox and workflow checkout retries cannot hang behind a wedged git fetch.

• CI: send KILL after the TERM grace period for Bun global install smoke command timeouts so trapped openclaw child processes cannot wedge the scheduled install smoke.

• iMessage: thread current channel/account inbound attachment roots into the image tool so iMessage-saved attachments under ~/Library/Messages/Attachments (including the wildcard /Users/*/Library/Messages/Attachments root) are read through the existing inbound path policy instead of being rejected as path-not-allowed. Literal localRoots stays workspace-scoped. Fixes #30170. (#86569)

• QQ Bot: respect OPENCLAW_HOME for outbound media path resolution so <qqmedia> sends no longer silently fail when HOME and OPENCLAW_HOME differ (Docker / multi-user hosts). Persisted QQ Bot data (sessions, known users, refs) stays anchored on the OS home for upgrade compatibility. Fixes #83562. Thanks @sliverp.

• Update: report the primary malformed openclaw.extensions payload error without adding a duplicate missing-main diagnostic. (#86596) Thanks @ferminquant.

• Control UI: keep host-local Markdown file paths inert while preserving app-relative links. (#86620) Thanks @BryanTegomoh.

• Gateway: dampen repeated unauthenticated device-required probes per URL while preserving explicit-auth and paired recovery paths. (#86575) Thanks @ferminquant.

• IRC: store inbound channel routes with the canonical channel:#name target and join transient channel sends before writing. (#85906) Thanks @Kailigithub.

• Usage: surface unknown all-zero model pricing as missing cost entries instead of a confident $0 total. (#85882) Thanks @MichaelZelbel.

• Agents/Codex: honor yolo app-server approval policy only for the full never plus danger-full-access case. (#85909) Thanks @earlvanze.

• Gateway/Gmail: clear Gmail watcher renewal intervals on re-entry so hot reloads do not leak lifecycle timers. (#82947) Thanks @SebTardif.

• Logging: exit cleanly on broken stdout/stderr pipes without masking existing failure exit codes. (#80059) Thanks @pavelzak.

• Gateway/security: escape transcript metadata field names while extracting oversized session line prefixes. (#85934) Thanks @SebTardif.

• Plugins/security: validate manifest model pattern regexes with the safe-regex compiler so unsafe patterns are ignored before matching. (#86046) Thanks @SebTardif.

• Discord: route gateway metadata REST lookups through the configured Discord proxy so proxied accounts do not fall back to direct discord.com connections before opening the WebSocket. Fixes #80227. Thanks @Clivilwalker.

• Agents/media: hydrate current-turn image attachments from filename-derived MIME types so active vision can see generated or forwarded images whose source omitted an image content type. (#84812) Thanks @marchpure.

• Agents/fs: point workspace-only scratch-path guidance at in-workspace temp directories while keeping host-root writes rejected by the tool guard. (#86501) Thanks @tianxiaochannel-oss88.

• Agents/media: keep async cron media completions scoped to their run session while preserving direct delivery for stale generated-media success and failure notifications. (#86529) Thanks @ai-hpc.

• Gateway: emit plugin session_end/session_start hooks when agent.send rotates or replaces a session id, keeping hook lifecycle state aligned with sessions.changed notifications. Fixes #83507. (#85875) Thanks @brokemac79.

• OpenShell/SSH: reject malformed generated exec commands before sandbox/session setup so unresolved workflow placeholders fail fast instead of reaching the remote shell. Fixes #72373. Thanks @brokemac79.

• Google: stop normalizing gemini-3.1-flash-lite to the retired preview endpoint and update Flash Lite alias guidance to the GA model id. Fixes #86151. (#86240) Thanks @SebTardif.

• Installer: make Alpine apk installs cover Git, verify the Node runtime floor, try nodejs-current, and report Alpine version guidance when repositories only provide older Node packages.

• Agents/status: prefer the active Claude CLI OAuth auth label over an unused Anthropic env API-key label for equivalent runtime aliases. Fixes #80184. (#86570) Thanks @brokemac79.

• Agents/media: send direct fallback for generated media still missing after an active requester wake fails. (#85489) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

• Agents: derive overflow compaction budgets from provider-reported and synthetic over-budget token counts so confirmed context overflows compact before retrying. (#70473) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

• Agents/Codex: recover Codex context-window prompt errors through overflow compaction and surface reset guidance when recovery is exhausted. (#85542) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

• Agents/Codex: allow Codex app-server runs to bootstrap from CODEX_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY when no Codex auth profile is configured.

• Agents/Codex: keep selected Codex runtime routing on OpenAI-Codex while preserving direct OpenAI API-key compaction fallback. (#86408) Thanks @funmerlin and @VACInc.

• Agent transcript: include OpenClaw agent session logs when finding local transcript candidates.

• Crabbox: bootstrap raw AWS macOS shell commands wrapped in absolute time paths so RSS probes can run Node and pnpm on fresh macOS runners.

• Crabbox: bootstrap raw AWS macOS shell commands even when setup statements precede Node or pnpm usage.

• TUI/local: skip unnecessary secret resolution, gateway model catalog loading, bootstrap, and skill scans in explicit local-model runs so startup reaches the model request faster.

• Sessions/doctor: load large session stores without clone amplification during read-only doctor checks and reclaim stale sessions.json.*.tmp sidecars. Fixes #56827. Thanks @openperf.

• Tests: clean successful plugin gateway gauntlet isolated temp roots while keeping an explicit preservation switch for failed/debug runs.

• Plugins/perf: reuse derived plugin metadata snapshots for the lifetime of the process so reply-time skill setup no longer rescans plugin metadata on every turn.

• Discord/OpenAI voice: keep wake-name master consults using the current speaker context after ignored ambient transcripts and shorten the default capture silence grace.

• Doctor: skip redundant Gateway restart prompts when a recent supervisor restart leaves the Gateway healthy. Fixes #86518. (#86533) Thanks @liaoyl830.

• Cron: restore suspended cron lanes to the configured/default concurrency instead of falling back to one after quota or circuit-breaker auto-resume.

• Gateway: keep session-only Control UI tool-start mirrors flowing during diagnostic queue pressure instead of silently dropping non-terminal tool updates.

• Agents/memory: return optional not-found context for missing date-only daily memory reads instead of logging benign first-run ENOENT failures. Fixes #82928. Thanks @galiniliev.

• Discord: merge streamed text captions into following media block replies so captions and attachments send as one message. (#86487) Thanks @neeravmakwana.

• Gateway: avoid sending duplicate tool-event frames to Control UI connections that are subscribed by both run and session.

• Discord/OpenAI voice: accept broader edge-position fuzzy wake-name transcripts while keeping ambient speech gated.

• Discord/OpenAI voice: accept longer leading wake-name mistranscripts such as "Open Club" for OpenClaw.

• Agents/OpenAI-compatible: stop ModelStudio-compatible chat requests before sending system/tool-only payloads that have no usable user or assistant turn. (#86177) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.

• Gateway/plugins: reuse plugin package realpath checks while building installed plugin indexes so startup avoids repeated filesystem resolution work.

• Kilo Gateway: send string stop sequences as arrays so Kilo accepts OpenAI-compatible chat completions. (#86461) Thanks @SebTardif.

• Discord/OpenAI voice: accept leading fuzzy wake-name transcripts such as "Monty" or "Moti" for a Molty agent while keeping ambient speech gated.

• Media understanding: convert HEIC and HEIF images to JPEG before image description providers run so iPhone photos work in direct and configured image-description flows. (#86037)

• Agents: release embedded-attempt session locks from outer teardown so post-prompt exceptions cannot wedge later requests behind SessionWriteLockTimeoutError. Fixes #86014. Thanks @openperf.

• Discord/OpenAI voice: rotate Realtime sessions at provider max duration without logging the expected session-expiry event as an error.

• Sessions: skip metadata-only entries during QMD-slugified session lookup so one incomplete row does not block transcript hit resolution. (#86327) Thanks @abnershang.

• Agents/media: derive bundled plugin local-media trust from plugin tool metadata instead of importing the full plugin registry on subscription paths. (#84409) Thanks @samzong.

• Image tool: keep config-backed custom-provider API keys usable for auto-discovered vision models, including deferred image-tool execution without env keys or auth profiles. (#85733)

• Memory/local embeddings: run local GGUF embeddings in an isolated worker sidecar and degrade to configured fallback or keyword search on worker failure so native embedding crashes do not take down the Gateway. (#85348) Thanks @osolmaz.

• Gateway: clear the runtime config snapshot before SIGUSR1 in-process restarts so config changes survive the next gateway loop. (#86388) Thanks @XuZehan-iCenter.

• Models: show OAuth delegation markers as configured models.json auth while keeping runtime route usability checks strict. (#86378) Thanks @rohitjavvadi.

• Cron: seed active scheduled and manual cron task rows with a progress summary so status surfaces do not look blank while jobs run. (#86313) Thanks @ferminquant.

• Cron: preserve unsupported persisted cron payload rows during routine store writes while keeping those rows non-runnable. Fixes #84922. (#86415) Thanks @IWhatsskill.

• Updater: exclude prerelease git tags from stable channel resolution so source updates do not check out newer alpha/rc/preview/canary tags. (#86260) Thanks @stevenepalmer.

• Security/Audit: flag webhook hooks.token reuse of active Gateway password auth in openclaw security audit while keeping password-mode startup compatibility. (#84338) Thanks @coygeek.

• QQBot: derive the outbound reply watchdog from configured agent and provider timeouts so slow local model replies are not cut off at five minutes. Fixes #85267. (#85271) Thanks @SymbolStar.

• Agents/heartbeat: stop heartbeat turns after the first valid heartbeat_respond so repeated response loops do not burn tokens. (#86357) Thanks @udaymanish6.

• Tasks: keep retained lost tasks out of default status health counts, explain their cleanup window during maintenance, and prune lost task records after 24 hours instead of the general 7-day terminal retention.

• Memory-core: keep REM dreaming focused on live light-staged memories and mark staged entries as considered so old recall history no longer dominates fresh candidates. (#86302) Thanks @SebTardif.

• Memory: abort sync instead of downgrading an existing semantic vector index to FTS-only when the configured embedding provider is temporarily unavailable. (#85704) Thanks @yaaboo-gif.

• Telegram: propagate forum topic names through the account-scoped topic cache for native command context and topic create/edit actions. (#86299) Thanks @SebTardif.

• Slack: keep downloaded read-only files out of reply media so Slack file reads do not echo files back to the conversation. (#86318) Thanks @neeravmakwana.

• Cron: accept leading-plus relative durations such as +5m for one-shot --at schedules. (#86341) Thanks @mushuiyu886.

• Agents/media: preserve async-started media tool metadata so background generation starts no longer surface generic incomplete-turn warnings while replay stays unsafe. (#85933) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

• Docker E2E: dedupe scheduler lane resources so npm/service package lanes are not over-counted and serialized unnecessarily.

• QA/diagnostics: add a collector-backed OpenTelemetry smoke lane, make the OTLP payload leak check scenario-aware, and keep source QA builds from failing on optional dependency imports resolved through pnpm's temp module path.

• Crabbox: bootstrap Git metadata for sparse remote changed gates so raw synced workspaces can run pnpm check:changed from the intended diff.

• xAI/LM Studio: avoid buffering ordinary bracketed or final prose until stream completion while watching for plain-text tool-call fallbacks.

• Doctor: warn and continue when the cron job store exists but cannot be read so later health checks still run. Fixes #86102. (#86384) Thanks @1052326311.

• Discord: suppress a bot's previous reply body and referenced media from prompt context when a user replies to that bot message, while keeping reply metadata for routing. (#86238) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

• Discord: restore bare numeric channel IDs for outbound message-tool sends while keeping explicit DM targets unambiguous. (#86571) Thanks @joshavant.

• Docker E2E: avoid rebuilding the Control UI twice while preparing the shared OpenClaw package tarball for package-backed scenario runs.

• Tests: avoid rebuilding the Control UI twice during the installer Docker smoke now that pnpm build includes ui:build.

• Tests: give QA config mutation RPCs enough native Windows budget to finish gateway config writes and restart settle after hot scenario runs.

• Tests: keep the gateway restart-inflight QA scenario focused on restart recovery on native Windows by allowing expected embedded prompt handoff errors and using the Windows-safe timeout budget.

• QA-Lab: make the synthetic OpenAI provider honor generic reply exactly: directives after required kickoff reads so restart-recovery scenarios do not fall through to generic repo-summary prose.

• Gateway: abort active agent RPC runs during forced restart shutdown so stale in-process turns cannot keep writing a session after the Gateway lifecycle restarts.

• Crabbox: sync clean sparse worktrees through a temporary full checkout even when reusing an existing lease so tracked build-time files are not omitted.

• Build: route scripts/ui.js through the shared pnpm runner and keep Control UI chunking helpers in sparse-included source so native Windows Corepack builds can produce dist/control-ui.

• Tests: give the memory fallback QA scenario enough turn budget to exercise native Windows gateway runs instead of failing on the client timeout while the mock agent is still dispatching.

• Tests: collect QA gateway CPU/RSS metrics on native Windows and give the channel baseline enough turn budget to report slow gateway runs instead of timing out before proof.

• Install/update: bypass npm min-release-age policies with --min-release-age=0 instead of --before so hosted installers keep working on npm versions that reject the combined config. (#84749) Thanks @TeodoroRodrigo.

• Diagnostics: reclaim wedged session lanes when stale active-run bookkeeping blocks queued work despite no forward progress. Fixes #85639. Thanks @openperf.

• WebChat: keep message-tool replies visible in the chat while still summarizing internal tool results for the model. Fixes #86347. Thanks @shakkernerd.

• Gateway/perf: fail startup benchmark samples when the Gateway process exits before benchmark teardown, including signal deaths after readiness probes.

• Gateway/perf: fail restart benchmark samples when the Gateway exits before benchmark teardown, including clean exits and signal deaths after successful restart probes.

• Agents/tests: keep model catalog visibility on static selection helpers so catalog visibility checks avoid the broad model-selection barrel import.

• Agents/commitments: serialize commitment store load-modify-save writes so concurrent heartbeat and CLI updates no longer lose dismissal, sent, or attempt state. (#81153) Thanks @ai-hpc.

• xAI/LM Studio: promote plain-text tool-call fallbacks into structured tool calls and strip leaked internal tool syntax before user-facing delivery. (#86222) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

• CLI: suppress benign self-update version-skew warnings during package post-update finalization.

• Gateway/perf: tighten restart and startup benchmark failure handling so long profiling runs, failed probes, and fresh Linux runners no longer produce false passing or n/a results.

• Checks: keep intentional Knip unused-file findings optional so full CI and sparse proof workspaces stay aligned.

• Docker: restore writable ~/.config in runtime images. Fixes #85968. Thanks @hkoessler and @Bartok9.

• Plugin SDK: keep legacy root diagnostic subscriptions connected when built plugin SDK aliases resolve diagnostic helpers through a separate module graph.

• Diagnostics: export alertable OTel and Prometheus signals for blocked tools, model failover, stale sessions, liveness warnings, oversized payloads, and webhook ingress while fixing shared OTLP endpoints with query strings.

• Tests: normalize macOS canonical temp paths in exec allowlists, fs-safe trash assertions, installed plugin matching, Telegram topic-name stores, and built ACPX MCP server expectations so native macOS proof runners cover the intended behavior.

• Codex/app-server: preserve message-tool-only source reply delivery mode on active runs so sub-agent completion wakeups can steer the active Codex turn instead of being rejected. (#86287) Thanks @ferminquant.

• Tests: sample the Windows kitchen-sink RPC gateway directly and serialize RSS probes so native runs keep the memory guard active.

• Tests: normalize bundled plugin lifecycle probe paths and state-root lookup so native Windows release sweeps accept valid packaged plugin installs.

• Agents/Claude CLI: route live native Bash permission requests through OpenClaw exec policy so Claude turns no longer stall on control_request, and document that OpenClaw exec policy is authoritative. Fixes #80819. (#86330, from #81971) Thanks @guthirry and @sallyom.

• Security audit: warn when YOLO OpenClaw exec policy overrides a restrictive raw Claude --permission-mode for managed live sessions. (#86557) Thanks @sallyom.

• Config: keep benign legacy metadata write anomalies out of default doctor and config command output while preserving explicit anomaly logging for diagnostics.

• Codex: log when implicit app-server never approvals are promoted for OpenClaw tool policy, including whether the trigger was a before_tool_call hook or trusted tool policy.

• Codex harness: make subscription usage-limit errors without reset times explain that OpenClaw cannot determine the reset and point users to wait until Codex is available, use another Codex account, or switch to another configured model/provider. Thanks @amknight.

• Google Vertex: support production ADC modes such as Workload Identity Federation, service-account credentials, and metadata-server ADC for the native Vertex transport. (#83971) Thanks @damianFelixPago.

• Telegram: route normal [telegram][diag] polling diagnostics through runtime.log while keeping non-diag warnings and persistence failures on runtime.error, so healthy polling startup no longer looks like an error. Fixes #82957. (#82958) Thanks @galiniliev.

• Providers/Ollama: strip inline Kimi cloud reasoning prefixes from streamed and final visible replies while keeping ordinary Kimi answers append-only. (#86286) Thanks @jason-allen-oneal.

• Gateway: require Talk secret authority before setup-code handoff can include Talk secrets. (#85690) Thanks @ngutman.

• Agents: keep fallback error reporting scoped to the active model candidate so stale prior-provider quota/auth text is not reported for later fallback attempts. (#86134) Thanks @zhangguiping-xydt.

• iMessage: dedupe watcher startup when channels.imessage.accounts lists both default and a named account that point at the same local Messages source, so the gateway no longer spawns two imsg rpc processes or doubles inbound replies; the dedupe is scoped to watcher startup, leaving duplicate accounts addressable for outbound sends, status, and capability listings, and openclaw doctor flags the redundant account with a rebinding hint. Fixes #65141. (#86705) Thanks @swang430.