# Changelog

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai

## Unreleased

### Changes

- TypeScript: enable stricter compiler checks for implicit returns, side-effect imports, overrides, and unused production code.
- Build: upgrade workspace package management to pnpm 11 and keep Docker, install, update, and release workflows on the pnpm 11 config surface. (#79414) Thanks @altaywtf.
- Models: add provider-level `localService` startup for on-demand local model servers before OpenAI-compatible requests, including one-shot model probes.
- Agents: trim default system prompt guidance and send-only message tool schemas to reduce prompt tokens while preserving GPT-5 personality guidance.
- Context: add `/context map` to send a treemap image of the current session context contributors. (#79867)
- Slack: add `unfurlLinks` and `unfurlMedia` config for bot `chat.postMessage` replies, including per-account overrides, so Slack link and media previews can be suppressed without workspace-wide settings. Fixes #48435. (#80145) Thanks @esegev1 and @HemantSudarshan.
- Slack: add explicit `replyBroadcast` support for text and Block Kit thread replies so agents can opt into Slack's parent-channel `reply_broadcast` behavior. (#64365) Thanks @tony88331.
- Slack: preserve mention target/source metadata in inbound prompt context so agents can distinguish direct bot mentions from implicit thread wakes that mention someone else. Fixes #79025. (#75356) Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Slack: canonicalize outbound delivery-mirror routes for native DM channel IDs to the peer user session so `message.send` calls to `D...` targets do not split the same Slack DM thread into a channel session. Fixes #80091. (#80111) Thanks @bek91.
- Plugin SDK: deprecate public subpaths that existed for at least one month and have no bundled extension production imports, keep legacy barrel/test/zod subpath package exports for backwards compatibility, and track both sets in the SDK surface report.
- Plugin SDK: deprecate public subpaths currently used by only one or two bundled plugin owners, keeping them importable while steering new plugin code to focused shared SDK seams or plugin-owned APIs.
- Plugin SDK: remove the owner-specific `provider-auth-login` public subpath after moving Chutes, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex auth flows back to provider-owned modules.
- Plugin SDK: remove provider-specific model, stream, and xAI compatibility helpers from public exports after moving bundled callers to provider-owned modules.
- Plugin SDK: expose runtime-supplied active model metadata to native plugin tool factories for diagnostics and plugin-owned policy decisions. Fixes #77857. Thanks @jamiezigelbaum.
- QA/Mantis: add Telegram live PR evidence automation with Convex-leased credentials, Crabbox transcript capture, motion GIF previews, and inline PR comments.
- QA/Mantis: add a Telegram desktop scenario builder that leases Crabbox, installs native Telegram Desktop, configures an OpenClaw Telegram gateway with leased bot credentials, and records VNC screenshot/video artifacts.
- Discord/voice: add realtime voice diagnostics for speaker turns, playback resets, barge-in detection, and audio cutoff analysis.
- Talk: add `talk.realtime.instructions` so operators can append realtime voice style instructions while preserving OpenClaw's built-in agent-consult guidance. (#79081) Thanks @VACInc.
- Discord/voice: default test and source installs to the pure-JS `opusscript` decoder by ignoring optional native `@discordjs/opus` builds, avoiding slow native addon compiles outside dedicated voice-performance lanes.
- Discord/voice: add an opt-in native `@discordjs/opus` install script and decoder preference for live voice-performance lanes without charging unrelated Docker/tests for native addon builds.
- Gateway/skills: add an opt-in private skill archive upload install path gated by `skills.install.allowUploadedArchives`, so trusted Gateway clients can stage and install zip-backed skills only when operators explicitly enable the code-install surface. (#74430) Thanks @samzong.
- Codex app-server: enable Codex native code-mode-only for harness threads so deferred OpenClaw dynamic tools run through Codex's own searchable code execution surface instead of a PI-style wrapper.
- Dependencies: refresh workspace pins and patch targets, including ACPX `@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp` `0.33.1`, Codex ACP `0.14.0`, Baileys `7.0.0-rc10`, Google GenAI `2.0.1`, OpenAI `6.37.0`, AWS SDK `3.1045.0`, Kysely `0.29.0`, Tlon skill `0.3.6`, Aimock `1.19.5`, and tsdown `0.22.0`.
- Agents/compaction: preserve scoped background exec/process session references across embedded compaction and after-turn runtime contexts without exposing sessions from unrelated scopes. Fixes #79284. (#79307) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.
- Agents/process: tell agents to inspect background sessions with `process log` before sending interactive input and to use `waitingForInput`/`stdinWritable` hints from `log`/`poll`.
- CLI/onboarding: improve setup, onboarding, configure, and channel command wayfinding so terminal flows explain the next useful command instead of relying on terse setup labels.
- Agents/Codex: remove the configurable Codex dynamic-tools profile so Codex app-server always owns workspace, edit, patch, exec, process, and plan tools while OpenClaw integration tools remain available.
- macOS app: update the Peekaboo bridge dependency to Peekaboo 3.0.0.
- Dependencies: refresh workspace pins and move the WhatsApp plugin from `@whiskeysockets/baileys` to `baileys` while keeping the `7.0.0-rc10` runtime.

### Fixes

- Google/Gemini: normalize retired nested Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids while converting manifest catalog rows into emitted provider config, so `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` is used for testing instead of `google/gemini-3-pro-preview`.
- Native apps: advertise the Gateway protocol compatibility range so chat and node sessions can connect to v3 gateways after additive v4 client updates.
- Gateway: avoid synchronous restart-sentinel state probes during post-attach startup, preventing slow Windows or redirected state directories from blocking channel turns. Fixes #79264. Thanks @liyi58.
- Agents/auth: update successful model auth profile status with one locked store write, reducing post-model reply latency from duplicate `auth-profiles.json` saves. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Agents/image: honor explicit `image` tool model overrides even when `agents.defaults.imageModel` is unset, restoring one-off vision calls for configured multimodal providers. Fixes #79341. Thanks @haumanto.
- Codex app-server: preserve prompt-local current-turn context through context-engine prompt projection, so replied-to Telegram messages stay visible to the Codex model input.
- Telegram: pass agent-scoped media roots through gateway message actions so workspace-local media from the active agent is not rejected as cross-agent access. Thanks @frankekn.
- CLI/gateway: keep `gateway status --deep` plugin-aware so configured plugin manifest warnings, including missing channel config metadata, stay visible during install and update smoke checks.
- Feishu: fall back to a top-level group send when normal group quoted replies target a withdrawn or missing message, preventing replies from disappearing silently while preserving native topic safety. Fixes #79349. Thanks @arlen8411.
- Doctor: stop flagging the live compatibility agent directory as orphaned when the configured default agent is not `main`. Fixes #74313. (#74438) Thanks @carlos4s.
- Auth/Claude CLI: persist fresher managed external CLI OAuth credentials back to `auth-profiles.json`, preventing stale `anthropic:claude-cli` profiles from repeatedly bootstrapping and flooding debug logs. Fixes #80129. Thanks @Caulderein.
- Context: render `/context map` only from actual run context and persist Codex app-server run reports without counting deferred tool-search schemas as prompt-loaded tool schemas.
- Codex app-server: report Codex-native tool execution to diagnostics so long-running native `bash`, web, file, and MCP tools no longer look like stale embedded runs to the watchdog. (#80217)
- Codex app-server: refresh Codex account rate limits after subscription usage-limit failures so Discord and other channel replies can show the next reset time instead of saying Codex returned none. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Tasks: route group and channel task completions through the requester session so the parent agent can send the visible summary instead of stopping at a generic task-status line. Fixes #77251. (#77365) Thanks @funmerlin.
- Telegram: preserve blank lines between manually indented bullet blocks and following numbered sections in rendered replies. Fixes #76998. Thanks @evgyur.
- Slack: pass configured agent identity through draft preview sends so partial streaming replies keep custom username/avatar on the initial Slack message. Fixes #38235. (#38237) Thanks @lacymorrow.
- Slack: support `allowBots: "mentions"` for bot-authored messages that mention the receiving bot, matching the documented Discord-style mode without accepting every bot message. Fixes #43587. (#43588) Thanks @raw34.
- Slack: refresh private file URLs with `files.info` when inbound DM file events omit or stale attachment URLs, preventing file attachments from being dropped before media hydration. Fixes #50129. (#50200) Thanks @smartchainark.
- Slack: add scoped message-tool formatting hints so agents use Markdown for plain sends and direct mrkdwn for Block Kit fields. Fixes #34609. (#50979) Thanks @carrotRakko.
- Slack: describe `download-file` file ids separately from message timestamps and return a targeted recovery error when agents pass `messageId` instead of `fileId`. (#74155) Thanks @jarvis-ai-gregmoser.
- Slack: retain processed room messages for `requireMention=false` channels so always-on Slack rooms keep recent conversation context between turns. (#38658) Thanks @syedamaann.
- Slack: compile interactive reply directives for direct outbound sends without bypassing the `interactiveReplies` capability gate, preserving Block Kit for Slack CLI and cron deliveries. (#78220) Thanks @kazamak.
- Slack: keep DM last-route updates scoped to the active non-main DM session, including threaded DM turns, so isolated Slack DM sessions do not overwrite the shared main route. (#73085) Thanks @clawSean.
- Slack/ACP: route Slack channel and DM messages through configured ACP bindings when no runtime binding exists, keeping bound thread replies pinned to the persistent ACP session and dropping unavailable configured targets instead of falling back to `main`. (#73101) Thanks @Raasl.
- Slack: mark unresolved thread replies as ambiguous and skip them instead of treating them as root channel messages, keeping thread continuation on the SDK-backed participation store. (#75630) Thanks @soichiyo.
- Slack: let same-channel message tool sends opt out of inherited thread context with `topLevel: true` or `threadId: null`, allowing agents to post a new parent-channel message from inside a Slack thread. Fixes #79807. Thanks @vexclawx31.
- Slack: prefer full rich-text block content over truncated socket-mode message previews so long inbound Slack messages reach agents intact. Fixes #79027. Thanks @BobAccentWebDev.
- Slack: include structured Slack API error details in setup, probe, streaming, and reply logs while preserving token redaction. (#53966) Thanks @deucemask.
- Gateway/agents: keep structured reasons when active-run queueing fails and deprecate the legacy boolean queue helper, so steering and subagent wake diagnostics distinguish completed, non-streaming, and compacting runs. Fixes #80156. Thanks @markus-lassfolk.
- Agents/UI: compact exec and tool progress rows by hiding redundant shell tool names, replacing known workspace paths with short context markers, and preserving Discord trace scrubbing for compact command lines.
- ACPX: run and await the embedded ACP backend startup probe by default so the gateway `ready` signal no longer fires before the acpx runtime has either become usable or reported a probe failure; set `OPENCLAW_ACPX_RUNTIME_STARTUP_PROBE=0` to restore lazy startup. Fixes #79596. Thanks @bzelones.
- Gateway/status: surface model-pricing bootstrap and refresh failures as degraded health/status warnings while keeping Gateway liveness healthy. Fixes #79599. Thanks @bzelones.
- OpenAI-compatible models: strip prior assistant reasoning fields from replayed Chat Completions history by default, preventing oMLX/vLLM Qwen follow-up turns from rejecting or stalling on stale `reasoning` payloads. Fixes #46637. Thanks @zipzagster and @lexhoefsloot.
- CLI/onboarding: give non-Azure custom providers a safe generated context window and heal legacy 4k wizard entries without overwriting explicit valid small model limits, preventing first-turn compaction loops. Fixes #79428. (#79911) Thanks @Jefsky.
- OpenAI-compatible models: add `compat.strictMessageKeys` to strip Chat Completions replay messages to `role` and `content` for strict providers that reject OpenAI-style tool and metadata keys. Fixes #50374. Thanks @choutos.
- Bedrock Mantle: add `plugins.entries.amazon-bedrock-mantle.config.discovery.enabled=false` to suppress automatic Mantle discovery and IAM bearer-token generation while keeping the plugin enabled. Fixes #67288. Thanks @kanekoh.
- Ollama: stop native `/api/chat` requests from copying catalog `contextWindow` or `maxTokens` into `options.num_ctx` unless `params.num_ctx` is explicitly configured, avoiding pathological prompt-ingestion latency on local large-context models. Fixes #62267. Thanks @BenSHPD.
- Ollama: keep the model idle watchdog enabled for `*:cloud` models routed through a local Ollama host, so cloud-backed tool-loop stalls fail over visibly instead of inheriting local-model no-idle behavior. Fixes #79350. Thanks @geek111.
- Voice/Ollama: honor routed voice agent `tools.allow` for classic embedded voice responses, including empty allowlists, so no-tool Ollama agents do not receive tool schemas. Fixes #79506. Thanks @donkeykong91.
- Gateway: reread config from disk after the first in-process restart loop startup, preventing SIGUSR1 restarts from reusing a stale startup snapshot and dropping config written after boot. Fixes #79947. Thanks @TheLevti.
- Codex app-server: deliver native image-generation outputs from Codex `savedPath` events as reply media, so blank-text image generation turns still attach the generated file. Thanks @keshavbotagent.
- Network/SSRF: keep pinned automatic DNS lookups on IPv4 when dual-stack hosts also publish AAAA records, and treat `EADDRNOTAVAIL` as a transient gateway network failure instead of a fatal crash. Fixes #80078. Thanks @takamasa-aiso.
- Control UI: show compact one-line live/idle/terminal run status badges in the Sessions table and rename the active-minute filter to its updated-within meaning. Fixes #78307. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI: scope chat session-list refreshes by agent and skip disk-only agent store discovery for configured-only lists, preventing post-first-message session switching stalls on large Windows stores. Fixes #79675. Thanks @lovelefeng-glitch, @BunsDev.
- Control UI: allow Appearance tweakcn theme imports through the served CSP so browser-local custom theme links no longer fail with a `connect-src` violation. Fixes #78504. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Media/host-read: allow buffer-verified gzip, tar, and 7z archives in the shared host-local media validator alongside ZIP and document attachments.
- Plugins/doctor: invalidate persisted plugin registry snapshots when plugin diagnostics point at deleted source paths, so `openclaw doctor` stops repeating stale warnings after a local extension is replaced by a managed npm plugin. Fixes #80087. (#80134) Thanks @hclsys.
- Doctor/OpenAI Codex: preserve Codex auth intent when auto-repairing legacy `openai-codex/*` model refs to canonical `openai/*` by adding provider/model-scoped Codex runtime policy, preventing repaired configs from falling through to direct OpenAI API-key auth. Fixes #78533 and #78570. Thanks @superck110 and @Azmodump.
- CLI/agents: surface durable message delivery status from `sendDurableMessageBatch` in `deliverAgentCommandResult` and `openclaw agent --json --deliver`, preserving suppressed hook outcomes as terminal no-retry results while exposing partial and failed sends for automation. Supersedes #53961 and #57755. Thanks @Kaspre.
- Cron: let isolated self-cleanup runs inspect their own job run history while keeping other cron jobs and mutation actions blocked. Fixes #80019. Thanks @hclsys.
- Cron: report isolated agent-turn setup and pre-model stalls with phase-specific timeout errors instead of waiting for the full job budget when no model call starts. Fixes #74803. Thanks @jeffsteinbok-openclaw and @dgkim311.
- CLI/plugins: treat arbitrary unknown subcommands outside plugin CLI metadata as normal unknown commands instead of suggesting `plugins.allow`, while preserving allowlist guidance for real plugin command roots. Fixes #80109. (#80123) Thanks @kagura-agent.
- CLI/config: persist explicit `config set` and `config patch` values that equal runtime defaults instead of reporting success while dropping them. Fixes #79856. (#80106) Thanks @abodanty and @hclsys.
- OpenAI/realtime voice: accept Codex-compatible legacy audio and transcript event aliases so provider protocol drift does not drop assistant audio or captions.
- Discord/voice: keep default agent-proxy realtime sessions from auto-speaking filler before the forced OpenClaw consult answer, finish Discord playback on realtime response completion, and queue later exact-speech answers until playback idles to avoid mid-sentence replacement.
- Gateway: return deterministic `400 invalid_request_error` responses for malformed encoded session-kill HTTP paths instead of letting route-shaped requests fall through to later Gateway handlers. (#72439) Thanks @rubencu.
- Control UI: serve root PWA and favicon assets from `/__openclaw__/` SPA routes so tab icons, install metadata, and the service worker do not 404 after internal navigation. Fixes #80072. Thanks @CodeNovice2017.
- OpenAI/realtime voice: honor disabled input-audio interruption locally so server VAD speech-start events do not clear Discord playback after operators set `interruptResponseOnInputAudio: false`.
- Telegram: keep no-response DM turns quiet instead of rewriting them into visible silent-reply chatter. Fixes #78188. (#78228) Thanks @Beandon13.
- Telegram: handle managed select button callbacks before the raw callback fallback while preserving delimiter-containing option values such as `env|prod`. (#79816) Thanks @moeedahmed.
- OpenAI-compatible models: handle JSON chat-completion bodies returned to streaming requests, preserving reasoning fields and visible text instead of completing an empty agent turn. Fixes #77870.
- Discord/models: defer model picker component interactions before loading route, model, and preference data, preventing "This interaction failed" timeouts under gateway load. Fixes #77283. Thanks @colin-chang.
- xAI: expose `/think low|medium|high` for reasoning-capable Grok models and keep `reasoning.effort` on native Responses payloads while preserving off-only behavior for non-reasoning routes. Fixes #79210. Thanks @colinmcintosh.
- CLI/media: let explicit image description model refs use bundled static provider catalogs and generic model-backed image hooks, so `openclaw infer image describe --model zai/glm-4.6v` works like direct model runs and Anthropic auth probes avoid stale Claude 3 Haiku catalog entries.
- Models/Anthropic: add `anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5` to Anthropic API-key agent allowlist defaults when an Anthropic default model is configured, so cron model overrides can select the current Haiku alias. Fixes #78000.
- Agents/compaction: initialize built-in context engines before CLI transcript compaction resolves the default engine, preventing clean-process `legacy` engine registration failures during CLI session persistence. Fixes #79446. Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.
- Agents/Anthropic-compatible: strip replayed thinking blocks for custom Anthropic-compatible models that explicitly declare `supportsReasoningEffort: false`, preventing Kimi-compatible providers from resending unsupported `thinking` content. Fixes #47452.
- Browser: wait longer for existing-session Chrome MCP status and non-deep doctor probes so slow first attaches do not falsely report offline while keeping raw CDP status probes short. (#77473) Thanks @rubencu.
- Gateway/logging: install console capture before foreground Gateway fast-path parsing and suppress known libsignal session dumps even in verbose mode, preventing raw terminal logs from printing WhatsApp session key material. (#76306) Thanks @rubencu.
- Exec approvals: keep `exec.approval.list` on the lightweight policy-summary path so listing pending approvals no longer loads the rich tree-sitter command explainer. (#76943) Thanks @rubencu.
- Agents: surface concise default-visible warnings when `exec`/`bash` tool calls fail after the assistant claims success, while keeping raw stderr hidden unless verbose details are enabled. Fixes #60497. (#80003) Thanks @jbetala7.
- Agents: stop blank model-emitted tool calls before dispatch while preserving id-based tool-name recovery, preventing Kimi/NVIDIA blank-name retry loops without creating a callable `_blank` sentinel. Fixes #34129. (#56391) Thanks @smartchainark.
- Agents/Telegram: deliver the canonical final assistant answer instead of replaying accumulated pre-tool text blocks, preventing duplicate Telegram replies and raw-looking tool-output fragments from leaking into chat delivery. Fixes #79621 and #79986. Thanks @nonzeroclaw and @dudaefj.
- Auto-reply/TUI: keep fallback timeout recovery deliverable after a primary model lifecycle error by emitting fallback progress and deferring terminal TUI errors until recovery has a chance to finish. Fixes #80000. (#80009) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.
- Heartbeat: clear stale auto fallback model overrides when the configured default model changes, so heartbeat runs follow updated `agents.defaults.model.primary` without requiring a manual reset. Fixes #74284. Thanks @brtkwr and @bitloi.
- CLI/agent: let `openclaw agent --model` use the backend/admin Gateway scope without cached device-token scopes silently downscoping the request. (#78837) Thanks @VACInc.
- CLI/help: keep help and version invocations configless while improving shared port, channel, plugin, task, session, message, pairing, and auth recovery text.
- CLI/config: explain strict JSON parse failures with a valid example and the plain-string escape hatch.
- CLI/secrets: turn offline Gateway reload failures into actionable recovery text.
- CLI/channels: explain missing or ambiguous channel selections with next commands.
- CLI/channels: defer guided channel status collection until a channel is selected, keeping `openclaw channels add` first screen quieter.
- CLI/channels: exit guided channel setup cleanly on cancellation instead of printing the internal wizard error.
- Plugins/CLI: route disabled Matrix and LanceDB memory command roots to plugin-enable guidance instead of generic unknown-command errors.
- Browser/Docker: detect Playwright-managed Chromium from `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH` and the default Playwright cache on Linux, so Docker installs that persist `/home/node/.cache/ms-playwright` no longer need `browser.executablePath`.
- Ollama: keep DeepSeek V4 cloud models thinking-capable even when Ollama Cloud `/api/show` omits the `thinking` capability, so `/think high` no longer rejects `ollama/deepseek-v4-*:cloud`.
- ACPX/Claude ACP: keep foreground prompts waiting for their own result when autonomous task-notification results arrive during the same session, and retarget the patch for Claude Agent ACP `0.33.1`.
- WhatsApp: keep Baileys media uploads from passing non-Dispatcher agents to undici in `7.0.0-rc10`, and patch the bundled Baileys declaration so the latest tsdown build stays warning-clean.
- Build: keep tsdown `0.22.0` warning-clean by externalizing known third-party declaration edges and replacing relative channel config module augmentations with explicit built-in channel fields.
- ACP sessions: map canonical runtime options to backend-advertised ACP config keys like Claude's `effort` while keeping persisted OpenClaw state canonical. (#79926) Thanks @InTheCloudDan.
- Models/Discord: support `provider/*` entries in `agents.defaults.models` so `/model`, `/models`, and model pickers can show dynamically discovered models for selected providers without exact model allowlists. Fixes #79485. Thanks @rendrag-git.
- Gateway/watch: rebuild or restage missing bundled-plugin dist and runtime-postbuild outputs before launching the Gateway from a source checkout, preventing incomplete watch-mode runtime trees. (#70805) Thanks @rubencu.
- CLI/update: allow restart health probes from the previous gateway protocol during self-update, and make plugin dry-runs report exact npm target versions instead of `unknown` while preserving unchanged status.
- OpenAI/Codex: forward persisted `openai-codex` OAuth profile metadata into Codex plugin harness attempts after canonical `openai/*` migration, so OAuth-only installs keep using native Codex auth instead of falling through to direct OpenAI API-key auth. Fixes #79978.
- OpenAI/Codex: point gateway missing-key recovery and wizard docs at the canonical `openai/gpt-5.5` plus Codex OAuth route, and fix trajectory export errors so they suggest the valid `openclaw sessions` command.
- Google/Gemini: normalize retired `google/gemini-3-pro-preview` primary, fallback, and model-map refs during config load and unrelated config writes so saved config keeps targeting Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
- Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside emitted Google provider model config, so regenerated models.json rows test `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`.
- Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids for explicit OpenAI-compatible Google and Gemini CLI provider configs, so emitted config targets `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`.
- Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids preserved from existing merged models.json providers so config emission keeps targeting `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`.
- Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside provider auth config patches so setup-emitted provider catalogs test `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`.
- GitHub Copilot: mint short-lived Copilot API tokens with the same `vscode-chat` integration identity used by runtime requests, and refresh legacy cached tokens missing that identity so image-capable Copilot models no longer inherit the `copilot-language-server` scope. Fixes #79946, #80074. Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.
- Plugins/doctor: drop stale managed npm install records when `openclaw doctor --fix` removes npm packages that shadow bundled plugins, so the rebuilt registry no longer resurrects the removed package metadata.
- Discord/voice: reuse or suppress late realtime consult tool calls without stealing newer speaker context or speaking forced fallback answers twice.
- Discord/voice: skip likely incomplete realtime forced-consult transcript fragments and non-actionable closings so stale partial speech does not queue delayed answers over the next turn.
- Discord/voice: synthesize realtime playback timestamps from emitted Discord PCM so OpenAI realtime barge-in truncation no longer sees `audioEndMs=0` and skips legitimate interruptions.
- Plugin SDK: keep activated linked plugin runtime facades loadable when bundled plugin fallback is disabled. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Feishu: auto-thread `message(action="send")` replies inside the topic when the active session is group_topic or group_topic_sender, and propagate `replyInThread` through text, card, and media outbound adapters so topic-scoped sessions no longer post at the group root. Fixes #74903. (#77151) Thanks @ai-hpc.
- WhatsApp: pass routing context into voice-note transcript echo preflight so echoed transcripts can deliver to the originating chat. Fixes #79778. (#79788) Thanks @hclsys.
- Cron/failover: classify structured OpenAI-compatible `server_error` payloads as `server_error`, expose that reason in cron state, and let one-shot cron retry policy honor `retryOn: ["server_error"]` without requiring raw `5xx` text. (#45594) Thanks @clovericbot.
- Slack: wake the resolved thread session after interactive reply button/select clicks and carry Slack delivery context through the queued interaction event, so clicks continue the visible conversation. Fixes #79676 and #61502. (#79836) Thanks @velvet-shark, @tianxiaochannel-oss88, and @Saicheg.
- WhatsApp/streaming: send only the new suffix when text-end block replies repeat prior preambles across tool-call cycles, preventing cumulative WhatsApp preamble messages. Fixes #78946. (#79120) Thanks @brokemac79 and @papawattu.
- Tests/security audit: sandbox `audit-exec-surface.test.ts` under a per-case OpenClaw home tempdir, redirecting `OPENCLAW_HOME` (which wins over `HOME`/`USERPROFILE` in `resolveRawHomeDir`) alongside `HOME` and `USERPROFILE`, so its `saveExecApprovals(...)` calls never touch the live `~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.json` on the host running the suite. Sibling exec-approvals tests already used the tempdir pattern; this file did not, so running `pnpm test` against a contributor's local checkout was silently truncating their real approvals to `{ "version": 1, "agents": {} }`. (#79885) Thanks @omarshahine.
- ACP/gateway: preserve `AcpRuntimeError` cause chain (code/method/JSON-RPC detail) through the lifecycle boundary so gateway logs, telegram replies, and tool-result text show the actual upstream failure instead of opaque `Internal error`/`[object Object]`, with redaction applied before the chain reaches log or reply surfaces.
- Channels/iMessage: wire `action: "reply"` attachments through `imsg send-rich --file` when the installed imsg build advertises that capability (probed once via `imsg send-rich --help` and cached on the private-API status). Reply now hydrates `media`/`mediaUrl`/`fileUrl`/`mediaUrls[0]`/`filePath`/`path`/base64 `buffer`+`filename` through the shared outbound resolver, stages buffers via the existing `withTempFile` helper, rejects `http(s)://` URL attachments with a targeted error pointing callers at `send`'s full attachment-resolver pipeline, and falls back to the explicit `imsg#114 not landed yet` error on older imsg builds. Depends on the upstream `openclaw/imsg#114` capability landing in an installable release; until then the new path stays gated and users see the same explicit fallback `#79822` introduced. (#79864) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Telegram: preserve the first-preview debounce while appending true partial-stream deltas, so edited draft previews no longer duplicate earlier text when providers emit incremental output. (#80045) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.
- Agents/Anthropic: report 1M session context for Claude Opus/Sonnet 4 models even when local model config still advertises 200k, matching model discovery and preventing premature status/UI overflow. Fixes #66766.
- Models/OpenRouter: hide missing-auth direct provider rows in `/model status` when they are only duplicated by a nested OpenRouter model id such as `openrouter/google/...`, while preserving explicitly configured direct providers. Fixes #62317.
- Models: preserve an explicitly selected provider/model such as `opencode-go/deepseek-v4-pro` when another provider owns the same bare model alias. Fixes #79325.
- Models/config: explain missing `models.providers.<provider>.models[]` registration when a model exists only in `agents.defaults.models`, instead of returning a bare unknown-model error. Fixes #80089.
- MCP/tools: prefix bundle MCP server/tool fragments that would start with digits, keeping generated tool names valid for Moonshot/Kimi and other strict providers. Fixes #79179.
- Models/OpenRouter: treat `403 API key budget limit exceeded` as billing so model fallback advances instead of retrying the exhausted primary. Fixes #60191. Thanks @omgitsgela.
- Models/OpenRouter: repair stale session overrides that lost the outer `openrouter/` provider wrapper, so sessions return to the configured OpenRouter model instead of failing as an unknown direct-provider model. Fixes #78161. Thanks @hjamal7-bit.
- Google/Gemini: default API-key onboarding back to `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` so fresh Gemini test configs exercise Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
- Telegram: show full provider/model labels for nested OpenRouter model ids in the model picker, so `openrouter/openai/gpt-5.4-mini` no longer displays as `openai/gpt-5.4-mini`. Fixes #67792. (#72752) Thanks @iot2edge.
- Models/OpenRouter: preserve live `supported_parameters` tool support metadata so non-tool Perplexity Sonar models no longer receive agent tool payloads and fall back unnecessarily. Fixes #64175. Thanks @Catfish-75.
- Models/OpenRouter: add MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 to the bundled OpenRouter catalog so onboarding/model pickers can offer it without waiting for live discovery. Fixes #14601.
- Models/OpenRouter: keep keyRef/tokenRef-backed auth profiles visible to read-only PI model discovery, so OpenRouter models stay available in model pickers without storing plaintext keys. Fixes #58106. Thanks @ThalynLabs.
- Models/list: include explicit configured provider rows and read-only auth-backed catalog rows in the default configured view without loading PI's full registry, keeping Control UI pickers aligned with usable model auth. Refs #79381. Thanks @ismael-81.
- Security/audit: honor `tools.byProvider["provider/model"].deny` when reporting small-model web/browser exposure, so per-model OpenRouter mitigations clear the `models.small_params` exposure signal. Fixes #80118.
- Models/Moonshot: accept direct `moonshotai/...` and `moonshot-ai/...` refs as aliases for canonical `moonshot/...`, so copied OpenRouter Kimi ids no longer fail as unknown direct models. Fixes #73876. (#74946) Thanks @jeffrey701.
- Kimi Code: use Kimi's stable `kimi-for-coding` API model id in bundled catalog, onboarding, and docs while normalizing legacy `kimi-code` and `k2p5` refs. Fixes #79965.
- Telegram: render cached reply targets and nearby group chatter as one selected conversation context window, so stale replies no longer split JSON reply chains from local chat context.
- Volcengine/Kimi: strip provider-unsupported tool schema length and item constraint keywords for direct and coding-plan models so hosted Kimi runs do not reject message tools with `minLength`. Fixes #38817.
- DeepSeek: backfill V4 `reasoning_content` replay fields for unowned OpenAI-compatible proxy providers, preventing follow-up request failures outside the bundled DeepSeek and OpenRouter routes. Fixes #79608.
- iMessage: emit a WARN log when an action is blocked because the imsg private API bridge is not attached, so operators see the silent-drop in `~/.openclaw/logs/openclaw.log` instead of having to read per-session trajectory JSONL `tool.result` payloads. Common after a gateway restart un-injects the dylib from Messages.app. (#80035) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Codex: cross-fill missing `thread.id` and `thread.sessionId` before schema validation so live Codex app-server responses that omit `sessionId` no longer fail `thread/start` or `thread/resume`. Fixes #80124. (#80137) Thanks @kagura-agent.
- Agents/Pi: wait for embedded abort cleanup to settle before releasing the session write lock, preventing follow-up turns from racing previous prompt teardown. (#80239) Thanks @samzong.

## 2026.5.9

### Changes

- Skills: add `skills.load.allowSymlinkTargets` so intentional symlinked skill folders can resolve into trusted sibling repos without disabling root containment.
- Agents/tools: add core Tool Search so agents can search and call large OpenClaw, MCP, and client tool catalogs through one compact PI bridge.
- Chat commands: add `/think default` and `/fast default` to clear session overrides and inherit configured/provider defaults. (#79385) Thanks @VACInc.
- Dependencies: refresh workspace dependency pins and lockfile, including `@openai/codex` `0.130.0`, `acpx` `0.7.0`, AWS SDK `3.1044.0`, OpenTelemetry `0.217.0`, `typebox` `1.1.38`, `vite` `8.0.11`, `oxfmt` `0.48.0`, and `oxlint` `1.63.0`, and update the Codex harness model snapshot for the new bundled app-server catalog.
- Plugins/install: add guarded plugin install overrides so onboarding and repair tests can route specific plugins to registry specs or local `npm pack` artifacts via environment variables.
- Tests/Docker: add Codex on-demand install and live plugin-tool dependency E2E lanes for packaged onboarding and npm-pack plugin proof.
- Plugins/ACPX: accept an optional `args` array in `agents.<name>` config so paths and flag values containing spaces stay intact when spawning ACP agent processes. Thanks @TheArchitectit and @BunsDev.
- Agents: inject the current provider/model identity into system prompts, including configured prompt overrides and CLI hook prompt replacements, so agents can answer model-identity questions from the actual runtime selection.
- Agents/subagents: add prompt-only `agents.defaults.subagents.delegationMode` and per-agent overrides with `suggest`/`prefer` modes, and centralize config-backed system prompt resolution across embedded, CLI, compaction, and command-export prompt surfaces.
- Agents/subagents: add stronger delegation orchestration guidance, `sessions_yield` wait guidance, stable `taskName` aliases, and active-child runtime prompt context for spawned sub-agent work.
- Plugins/CLI: add the optional bundled `oc-path` plugin, providing `openclaw path` for surgical `oc://` access to markdown, JSONC, and JSONL workspace files.
- Plugins/SDK: add unified model catalog registration for text, image, video, and music providers, including `providerCatalogEntry` manifests, shared media list help, live catalog caching, and per-model video capability overlays.
- Plugin SDK: add presentation helpers for controls-only interactive rendering and opt-in empty fallback text so rich channel renderers can share `MessagePresentation` semantics without duplicating native cards or components.
- CLI: make parser, startup, config, guardrail, channel, agent, task, session, and MCP failures explain what happened and point to the next recovery command.
- GitHub Copilot: refresh the model catalog from `${baseUrl}/models` so per-account entitlement and accurate context windows surface at runtime; static manifest catalog (now including `gpt-5.5`) remains the fallback when discovery is disabled or the API is unreachable.
- Active Memory: support concrete `plugins.entries.active-memory.config.toolsAllow` recall tool names for custom memory plugins while keeping the built-in memory-core default on `memory_search`/`memory_get` and preserving `memory_recall` automatically for `plugins.slots.memory: "memory-lancedb"`.
- Active Memory: report normal `NONE` recall decisions as `status=no_relevant_memory`, keep unavailable and failed recall paths distinct, and avoid caching no-summary recall results so ordinary no-context turns no longer look like broken `status=empty` memory. Fixes #79812. (#80015) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle.
- Telegram: share the grammY API throttler across polling and ad hoc send clients for the same bot token, so visible draft previews and CLI sends use one quota gate. Thanks @anagnorisis2peripeteia.
- Feishu: resolve group policy/tool context from the trusted chat target for group turns while keeping the speaker in `From`, so @mention replies do not drop the configured group id. Fixes #79457. Thanks @greyxiong.
- Telegram/Feishu: honor configured per-agent and global `reasoningDefault` values when deciding whether channel reasoning previews should stream or stay hidden, addressing the preview-default part of #73182. Thanks @anagnorisis2peripeteia.
- QQBot: mark recognized framework slash commands as text-command turns before reply dispatch so `/models`, `/status`, and `/new` responses stay visible in QQ Bot C2C conversations. Fixes #79310. Thanks @rollingshmily.
- Docker: run the runtime image under `tini` so long-lived containers reap orphaned child processes and forward signals correctly. (#77885) Thanks @VintageAyu.
- Logging/redaction: redact quoted HTTP client secret fields and auth/cookie headers in shared log and formatted error output. Related #71211 and #65623. (#75033) Thanks @liaoandi.
- Gateway/SDK: document and stabilize the task ledger RPC surface for `tasks.list`, `tasks.get`, and `tasks.cancel`, including generated Swift model typing for optional task summaries. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Google/Gemini: normalize retired `google/gemini-3-pro-preview` and `google-gemini-cli/gemini-3-pro-preview` selections to `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` before they are written to model config.
- Google/Gemini: emit canonical `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` ids from configured provider catalog rows so model list and selection paths can test Gemini 3.1 instead of retired Gemini 3 Pro.
- Google/Gemini: normalize nested proxy-provider catalog ids like `google/gemini-3-pro-preview` to `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`, so Kilo-style configured catalogs test Gemini 3.1 instead of the retired Gemini 3 Pro id.
- Google/Gemini: canonicalize provider-onboarding model alias maps so setup flows preserve settings under `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` instead of re-emitting retired Gemini 3 Pro config keys.
- Google/Gemini: canonicalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside Google dynamic model resolution so runtime clones also use `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`.
- Google/Gemini: canonicalize provider-auth default model results before setup hooks and picker returns so auth flows do not re-emit retired `google/gemini-3-pro-preview` selections.
- Amazon Bedrock: support `serviceTier` parameter for Bedrock models, configurable via `agents.defaults.params.serviceTier` or per-model in `agents.defaults.models`. Valid values: `default`, `flex`, `priority`, `reserved`. (#64512) Thanks @mobilinkd.
- Control UI: read the Quick Settings exec policy badge from `tools.exec.security` instead of the non-schema `agents.defaults.exec.security` path, so configured `full`/`deny` values render accurately. Fixes #78311. Thanks @FriedBack.
- Control UI/usage: add transcript-backed historical lineage rollups for rotated logical sessions, with current-instance vs historical-lineage scope controls and long-range presets so usage history stays visible after restarts and updates. Fixes #50701. Thanks @dev-gideon-llc and @BunsDev.
- Agents/failover: harden state-aware lane suspension by persisting quota resume transitions, restoring configured lane concurrency, preserving non-quota failure reasons, and exporting model failover events through diagnostics OTLP. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/Windows: add the SPA-side WebView2 bridge for native hosts so draft text can update the chat composer and the ready handshake is wired through the app lifecycle. (#69633) Thanks @AlexAlves87.
- Channels/streaming: make progress draft labels scroll away with other progress lines, render structured tool rows as compact emoji/title/details, show web-search queries from provider-native argument shapes, and skip empty Discord apply-patch starts until a patch summary exists. (#79146)
- Runtime/performance: avoid full-array sorting while auto-selecting providers, resolving supported thinking levels, picking node last-seen timestamps, and extracting Codex usage-limit messages. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/doctor: avoid full-array sorting while selecting ClawHub search/archive results and bounded dreaming doctor entries. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/compaction: keep contributor diagnostics to a bounded top-three selection without sorting the full history. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Sessions/UI: avoid full-array sorting while selecting ACPX leases, Google Meet calendar events, and latest chat sessions. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugin SDK: mark direct `deliverOutboundPayloads` and legacy reply-dispatch bridges as deprecated compatibility substrate, enrich `sendDurableMessageBatch` with explicit durable send outcomes, migrate bundled send/turn paths off deprecated APIs, and enforce the split with `check:deprecated-api-usage`.
- OpenAI/Talk: let browser realtime Talk, Gateway relay/Voice Call realtime bridges, and OpenAI realtime transcription use `openai-codex` OAuth when no direct API key is configured, make Google Meet `test_speech` honor `mode: "bidi"`, expose Control UI launch options for provider/model/voice/transport/VAD/reasoning, and update the default OpenAI realtime voice model to `gpt-realtime-2`. Thanks @Solvely-Colin.
- Telegram: preserve the channel-specific 10-option poll cap in the unified outbound adapter so over-limit polls are rejected before send. (#78762) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/streaming: continue over-limit draft previews in a new message instead of stopping when rendered preview text crosses Telegram's message limit. (#74508) Thanks @anagnorisis2peripeteia.
- Slack: route handled top-level channel turns in implicit-conversation channels to thread-scoped sessions when Slack reply threading is enabled, keeping the root turn and later thread replies on one OpenClaw session. (#78522) Thanks @zeroth-blip.
- Telegram: re-probe the primary fetch transport after repeated sticky fallback success so transient IPv4 or pinned-IP fallback promotion can recover without a gateway restart. Fixes #77088. (#77157) Thanks @MkDev11.
- Runtime/install: raise the supported Node 22 floor to `22.16+` so native SQLite query handling can rely on the `node:sqlite` statement metadata API while continuing to recommend Node 24. (#78921)
- Discord/voice: make duplicate same-guild auto-join entries resolve to the last configured channel so moving an agent between voice channels does not keep joining the stale channel.
- Discord/voice: add realtime `/vc` modes so Discord voice channels can run as STT/TTS, a realtime talk buffer with the OpenClaw agent brain, or a bidi realtime session with `openclaw_agent_consult`.
- Discord/voice: add bounded realtime gateway logs for voice channel joins, realtime model/voice selection, transcripts, consult routing/answers, and playback start, allow OpenAI realtime Discord sessions to disable input-triggered response interruption for echo-heavy rooms while keeping explicit Discord barge-in available for new and already-active speakers, and allow voice turns to target an existing Discord channel agent session.
- Discord/voice: add `voice.realtime.minBargeInAudioEndMs` and let the realtime provider own playback clearing, so speaker echo no longer cuts OpenAI realtime model audio at `audioEndMs=0` while low-echo rooms can opt back into immediate barge-in with `0`.
- Discord/voice: make `agent-proxy` the default voice mode so realtime voice acts as the microphone/speaker extension of the routed OpenClaw agent session, with `stt-tts` remaining available as an explicit fallback.
- Discord/voice: route default `agent-proxy` realtime turns through the OpenClaw consult handoff with owner-level tool access and a forced-consult transcript fallback, matching the Codex-style voice front end while keeping the routed agent authoritative.
- Discord/voice: keep OpenAI realtime bidi consults quiet while the supervisor agent is still working, accept Codex-style `conversation.item.done` function-call events, and preserve continuing tool results through the gateway relay so the OpenAI realtime bridge reliably routes consults before speaking the final answer.
- Discord/voice: include a bounded one-line STT transcript preview in verbose voice logs so live voice debugging shows what speakers said before the agent reply.
- Codex app-server: pin the managed Codex harness and Codex CLI smoke package to `@openai/codex@0.129.0`, defer OpenClaw integration dynamic tools behind Codex tool search by default, and accept current Codex service-tier values so legacy `fast` settings survive the stable harness upgrade as `priority`.
- Codex app-server: annotate message-tool-only direct chat turns in the dynamic `message` tool spec so visible replies are sent through `message(action="send")` instead of staying private. (#79704)
- Agents/PI: route explicit OpenAI Codex Responses runs through PI's native WebSocket-capable transport and remove OpenClaw's custom OpenAI Responses WebSocket stack while preserving auth injection, run abort signals, and prompt cache boundary stripping.
- Models/config: allow `compat.thinkingFormat` values `qwen` and `qwen-chat-template` for configured OpenAI-compatible Qwen models, preserving them through catalog normalization and mapping `/think` levels to `enable_thinking` or `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking`. Fixes #79677. (#79777) Thanks @indulgeback.
- Codex app-server: default implicit local stdio app-server permissions to guardian when Codex system requirements disallow the YOLO approval, reviewer, or sandbox value, including hostname-scoped remote sandbox entries, avoiding turn-start failures on managed hosts that permit only reviewed approval or narrower sandboxes.
- Plugins/install: run managed npm-root install, uninstall, prune, and repair commands from the managed root without a redundant `--prefix .`, avoiding npm 10.9.3 Arborist crashes on native Windows WhatsApp plugin installs. Fixes #78514. (#78902) Thanks @melihselamett-stack.
- Discord/voice: stream ElevenLabs TTS directly into Discord playback and send ElevenLabs latency optimization as the documented query parameter so spoken replies can start sooner.
- Discord/voice: keep TTS playback running when another user starts speaking, ignore new capture during playback to avoid feedback loops, and downgrade expected receive-stream aborts to verbose diagnostics.
- iMessage: expose native private-API message actions through `imsg rpc` for reactions, edits, unsends, replies, rich sends, attachments, and group management when `imsg status --json` reports the required bridge capabilities.
- Gateway/tasks: reconcile stale CLI run-context tasks whose live run context disappeared even when a child session row remains, and apply the default bounded reload deferral timeout to channel hot reloads so stale task records cannot block Discord/Slack/Telegram reloads forever.
- Gateway/heartbeat: keep stripped `HEARTBEAT_OK` acknowledgements out of pending final-delivery replay and let recent ack-only pending state proceed to the next heartbeat run instead of creating a self-refreshing requests-in-flight loop. Fixes #79258. Thanks @haumanto.
- Gateway/sessions: keep session-store index writes atomic while skipping durable fsync inside the writer lock, reducing cron and channel-turn starvation on slow filesystems and addressing the session-store strand of #73655. Thanks @mmartoccia.
- Discord/voice: make `openclaw channels capabilities --channel discord --target channel:<id>` and `channels status --probe` audit voice-channel permissions, including auto-join targets, so missing Connect/Speak/Read Message History permissions show up before `/vc join`.
- Gateway/restart: expose `skipDeferral` on the `gateway.restart.request` RPC and add `openclaw gateway restart --safe --skip-deferral` so operators can bypass the safe-restart deferral gate when a pinned task run prevents the OpenClaw-aware restart from draining. Surfaces the existing internal `scheduleGatewaySigusr1Restart({ skipDeferral })` semantics added in #71637 to a public surface, complementing `gateway.reload.deferralTimeoutMs`. Refs #76162. Thanks @solomonneas.
- Discord/streaming: default Discord replies to progress draft previews so tool/work activity appears in one edited Discord message unless `channels.discord.streaming.mode` is set to `off`.
- OpenAI/realtime: default realtime voice to `gpt-realtime-2`, use the GA Realtime WebSocket session shape for backend OpenAI bridges, and cover backend, WebRTC, Google Live, and Gateway relay paths in the live Talk smoke. (#79130)
- Update/Windows: spawn the post-core-update child process with `stdio:"pipe"` on Windows so PowerShell/CMD console handles are not inherited, preventing the terminal from hanging after `openclaw update` completes. Fixes #78445. (#78483) Thanks @Beandon13.
- Plugins/install: add `npm-pack:<path.tgz>` installs so local npm pack artifacts run through the same managed npm-root install, lockfile verification, dependency scan, and install-record path as registry npm plugins.
- Channels/plugins: show configured official external channels as missing-plugin status rows and send errors with exact install/doctor repair commands after raw package-manager upgrades leave Feishu or WhatsApp uninstalled. Fixes #78702 and #78593. Thanks @MarkMa84 and @mkupiainen.
- Matrix: move the Matrix channel back to an official external ClawHub/npm plugin so core installs no longer need Matrix SDK runtime dependencies.
- Matrix: attach `com.openclaw.presentation` metadata to semantic presentation replies so OpenClaw-aware Matrix clients can render rich buttons, selects, context rows, and dividers while stock clients keep the plain text fallback. (#73312) Thanks @kakahu2015.
- Codex app-server: disarm the short post-tool completion watchdog after current-turn activity, expose `appServer.turnCompletionIdleTimeoutMs`, and include raw assistant item context in idle-timeout diagnostics so status-only post-tool stalls stop failing as idle. Fixes #77984. Thanks @roseware-dev and @rubencu.
- Plugin skills/Windows: publish plugin-provided skill directories as junctions on Windows so standard users without Developer Mode can register plugin skills without symlink EPERM failures. Fixes #77958. (#77971) Thanks @hclsys and @jarro.
- Process tool: show input-wait hints from `log` and `poll` for idle interactive background sessions so operators can inspect stuck CLIs and resume them with existing input actions. Fixes #33957. Thanks @bitloi and @vincentkoc.
- Shell env/Windows: hide the login-shell environment probe child window so gateway startup and shell-env refreshes do not flash a console on Windows. Fixes #78159. (#78266) Thanks @BradGroux.
- MS Teams: surface blocked Bot Framework egress by logging JWKS fetch network failures and adding a Bot Connector send hint for transport-level reply failures. Fixes #77674. (#78081) Thanks @Beandon13.
- Media/host-read: allow buffer-verified ZIP archives in the host-local media validator so agents can send ZIP attachments via the message tool. Fixes #78057. (#78292) Thanks @Linux2010.
- Gateway/sessions: fast-path already-qualified model refs while building session-list rows so `openclaw sessions` and Control UI session lists avoid heavyweight model resolution on large stores. (#77902) Thanks @ragesaq.
- Contributor PRs: remind external contributors to redact private information like IP addresses, API keys, phone numbers, and non-public endpoints from real behavior proof. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- ACP bridge: relay Gateway exec approval prompts from active ACP turns to the ACP client's `session/request_permission` handler before resolving the Gateway approval. Thanks @amknight.
- Codex/plugins: enable migrated source-installed `openai-curated` Codex plugins in the same Codex harness thread with explicit `codexPlugins` config, cached app readiness, and fail-closed destructive-action policy. Thanks @kevinslin.
- Codex/plugins: enforce native plugin destructive-action policy with Codex app-level `destructive_enabled` config instead of OpenClaw-maintained per-tool deny lists, leave plugin app `open_world_enabled` on by default, and invalidate existing plugin app thread bindings so old generated app config is rebuilt. Thanks @kevinslin.
- QQBot/Skills: translate QQBot skill descriptions surfaced in the Skills UI so English-language users no longer see Chinese metadata. Fixes #77810. Thanks @eabase.
- Image generation: include enabled generation providers such as fal in provider discovery even when another image provider is already active. Fixes #78141. Thanks @leoge007.
- Slack: keep Socket Mode's native reconnect enabled so transient ping/pong misses can recover without forcing a full provider rebuild. Fixes #77933. Thanks @bmoran1022 and @brokemac79.
- Cron: preserve cron timeout results when an isolated agent turn's `cron-nested` lane watchdog fires, preventing internal command-lane or model-fallback timeout text from being persisted. Fixes #77703. (#78168) Thanks @brokemac79 and @transxtech.
- PR triage: mark external pull requests with `proof: supplied` when Barnacle finds structured real behavior proof, keep stale negative proof labels in sync across CRLF-edited PR bodies, and let ClawSweeper own the stronger `proof: sufficient` judgement.
- ACPX/Codex: preserve trusted Codex project declarations when launching isolated Codex ACP sessions, avoiding interactive trust prompts in headless runs. Thanks @Stedyclaw.
- ACPX/Codex: reap stale OpenClaw-owned ACPX/Codex ACP process trees on startup and after ACP session close, preventing orphaned harness processes from slowing the Gateway. Thanks @91wan.
- ACP bridge: implement stable session list, resume, and close handlers so ACP clients can page Gateway sessions, rebind existing sessions without replay, and close bridge sessions cleanly. Thanks @amknight.
- ACP bridge: replay complete ledger-backed ACP sessions on load, including user prompts, tool updates, session metadata, and usage snapshots, while keeping older sessions on the existing transcript fallback. Thanks @amknight.
- ACP sessions: allow parent agents to inspect and message their own spawned cross-agent ACP sessions without enabling broad agent-to-agent visibility. Thanks @barronlroth.
- Talk/voice: unify realtime relay, transcription relay, managed-room handoff, Voice Call, Google Meet, VoiceClaw, and native clients around a shared Talk session controller and add the Gateway-managed `talk.session.*` RPC surface.
- Diagnostics/Talk: export bounded Talk lifecycle/audio metrics and session recovery metrics through OpenTelemetry and Prometheus without exposing transcripts, audio payloads, room ids, turn ids, or session ids.
- Logging/Talk: route shared Talk lifecycle events into bounded file and OTLP log records while keeping transcript text, audio payloads, turn ids, call ids, and provider item ids out of logs.
- Voice Call/realtime: add opt-in OpenClaw agent voice context capsules and consult-cadence guidance so Gemini/OpenAI realtime calls can sound like the configured agent without consulting the full agent on every ordinary turn. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Telegram/streaming: keep draft preview rotation from reusing a pre-tool assistant preview after visible tool or media output lands between compaction replay and the next assistant message. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/performance: skip non-forum topic-cache setup, defer status reaction variant work until reactions are needed, and reuse ack reaction gating during message context assembly. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/performance: reduce command-menu CPU and allocation work when many native, plugin, and custom commands are registered. (#79717) Thanks @drsolveit.
- CLI/migrate: add bulk on/off and skip controls to interactive Codex skill migration, leaving conflicting skill copies unchecked by default. (#77597) Thanks @kevinslin.
- CLI/migrate: show native Codex plugin names before truncated plan items and prompt for plugin activation explicitly during interactive Codex migration instead of silently keeping every planned plugin. Thanks @kevinslin.
- CLI/migrate: leave already configured target Codex plugins unchecked in the interactive plugin selector and show a `plugin exists` conflict hint while keeping new plugin activations selected by default. Thanks @kevinslin.
- CLI/migrate: return cleanly without apply confirmation when interactive Codex migration leaves both skill copies and native plugin activations unselected. Thanks @kevinslin.
- Cron CLI: add `openclaw cron list --agent <id>`, normalize the requested agent id, and include jobs without a stored agent id under the configured default agent while keeping `cron list` unfiltered when no agent is supplied. Fixes #77118. Thanks @zhanggttry.
- Slack/performance: reduce message preparation, stream recipient lookup, and thread-context allocation overhead on Slack reply hot paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/chat: strip untrusted sender metadata from live streams and transcript display, preserve canvas preview anchors, and stop operator UI clients from injecting their internal client id as sender identity. Fixes #78739. Thanks @tmimmanuel, @guguangxin-eng, @hclsys, and @BunsDev.
- Control UI/chat: collapse consecutive duplicate text messages into one bubble with a count so repeated text-only messages stay compact without hiding nearby context.
- Control UI/chat and Sessions: label inherited thinking defaults separately from explicit overrides while preserving provider-supplied option labels. Fixes #77581. Thanks @BunsDev and @Beandon13.
- Agents/runtime: add prepared runtime foundation contracts for carrying provider, model, tool, TTS, and outbound runtime facts through later reply-path migrations. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Control UI/WhatsApp: keep Show QR available for unlinked WhatsApp accounts while switching linked accounts to the explicit Relink action and showing Wait for scan only when a QR is active. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/performance: reuse the compatible plugin metadata snapshot across dashboard and channel agent turns so auto-enabled runtime config does not repeatedly rescan plugin metadata before provider calls. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/performance: reuse current plugin metadata for provider activation, auth/env candidate lookup, and bundle settings during dashboard and channel agent turns while keeping the configless secret-target cache unscoped and refusing stale unscoped reuse when plugin discovery roots differ. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/performance: avoid resolving plugin auto-enable metadata twice in one runtime config pass, reducing repeated dashboard turn metadata scans. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Auth/providers: pass `config` and `workspaceDir` lookup context through to provider-id resolution so workspace-scoped auth aliases resolve correctly when no explicit alias map is supplied. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/diagnostics: add startup phase spans, active work labels, stale terminal bridge markers, and opt-in sync-I/O tracing in `pnpm gateway:watch` so slow Gateway turns are easier to attribute from logs and stability diagnostics.
- QA/Mantis: add an opt-in Discord thread attachment before/after scenario that creates a real thread, calls `message.thread-reply` with `filePath`, and captures baseline/candidate screenshot evidence.
- Discord: preserve `filePath` and `path` attachments when replying to a thread with the message tool.
- QA/Mantis: add visual desktop tasks with Crabbox MP4 recording, screenshot capture, and optional image-understanding assertions, and preserve video artifacts in Mantis before/after reports.
- QA/WhatsApp: add `pnpm openclaw qa whatsapp` for live DM canary and pairing-gate coverage using two pre-linked WhatsApp Web sessions from the QA credential pool.
- CI/Crabbox: default owned AWS fallback to `standard` multi-region capacity with broker hints enabled, reserving `beast` for explicit CPU-bound maintainer lanes.
- Plugins/install: run managed npm-root install, rollback, repair, and uninstall mutations with legacy peer resolution so removing one plugin cannot rehydrate a stale registry `openclaw` package into the shared root. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK: add `openclaw/plugin-sdk/channel-message` lifecycle helpers for `defineChannelMessageAdapter`, `deliverInboundReplyWithMessageSendContext`, send/receive/live/state contracts, durable final-delivery capability derivation, capability proof helpers, and normalized message receipts.
- Plugin SDK: add `createChannelMessageAdapterFromOutbound` so channel plugins can derive durable message adapters from proven outbound adapters without duplicating send/receipt bridge code.
- Plugin SDK: add `actions.prepareSendPayload(...)` so channel plugins can shape message-tool sends into durable payloads while core owns queueing, hooks, retry, recovery, and acknowledgements.
- Plugin SDK: make the legacy `channel-reply-pipeline` subpath a compatibility wrapper over the shared reply core while steering root compat deprecations toward `plugin-sdk/channel-message`.
- Plugin SDK: move Discord, Slack, Mattermost, and Matrix live-preview finalization onto `plugin-sdk/channel-message` and attach message receipts to Telegram finalized previews plus Teams native stream finals, so preview edits and stream finals are represented in the message lifecycle instead of draft-only helpers.
- Telegram: persist the polling restart watermark after successful update dispatch instead of at handler entry, leaving failed updates retryable while still coalescing completed offsets safely.
- Plugin SDK/fs-safe: expose reusable atomic replacement, sibling-temp writes, and cross-device move fallback helpers through `plugin-sdk/security-runtime`, and move OpenClaw's duplicated safe filesystem write paths onto the shared `@openclaw/fs-safe` package.
- Plugin SDK/fs-safe: route browser, media, channel, and QA external output producers through staged fs-safe writes before final publication. (#78768)
- Plugin SDK/fs-safe: rename the public temp workspace helpers to `tempWorkspace`, `withTempWorkspace`, `tempWorkspaceSync`, and `withTempWorkspaceSync`, matching the cleaner `@openclaw/fs-safe` API before the package is published.
- Core/performance: trim reply payload routing, heartbeat filtering, tool display, core tool assembly, channel directory, task status, and Slack approval formatting helper chains with direct bounded scans. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/performance: keep chat, config, and channel refreshes responsive by decoupling slow history/schema/status work, reducing the client history window, and logging over-budget chat/config renders. Refs #77060, #45698, #47979, #44107. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/diagnostics: add startup phase spans, active work labels, stale terminal bridge markers, and opt-in sync-I/O tracing in `pnpm gateway:watch` so slow Gateway turns are easier to attribute from logs and stability diagnostics.
- QA/Mantis: add visual desktop tasks with Crabbox MP4 recording, screenshot capture, and optional image-understanding assertions, and preserve video artifacts in Mantis before/after reports.
- QA/Mantis: reuse Crabbox desktop/browser capture tooling and pnpm store caches during Slack desktop smoke runs, reducing per-scenario setup work before screenshots and videos are captured.
- QA/Mantis: add Slack desktop hydrate modes and per-phase timing reports so warm prehydrated VNC leases can skip source install/build while cold runs still prove the full source checkout.
- QA/Mantis: pass the runtime env through desktop-browser Crabbox and artifact-copy child commands, so embedded Mantis callers can provide Crabbox credentials without mutating the parent process. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Mantis: return the copied Slack desktop screenshot path even when remote Slack QA fails, so the CLI still prints the failure screenshot artifact. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Mantis: accept Blacksmith Testbox `tbx_...` lease ids from desktop smoke warmup, so provider overrides do not fail before inspect/run. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/SDK: add bounded `before_agent_finalize` retry instructions so workflow plugins can request one more model pass. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Plugin SDK: add plugin-owned `SessionEntry` slot projection and scoped trusted-policy session extension reads. (#75609; replaces part of #73384/#74483) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Plugins/SDK: expose host-derived tool target paths to `before_tool_call` and trusted policy hooks so workflow plugins can reason about known file targets without reparsing tool envelopes. (#75605) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Control UI/WebChat: show a persistent compact context usage indicator from fresh session token data before the high-pressure warning state, while keeping the existing compaction prompt threshold. Fixes #46398; refs #45048, #50071, and #73744. Thanks @walterwkchoy, @AxelrodAI, @Brissux, @vincentkoc, and @BunsDev.
- Contributor PRs: require external pull requests to include after-fix real behavior proof from a real OpenClaw setup, with terminal screenshots, console output, redacted runtime logs, linked artifacts, and copied live output treated as valid evidence while unit tests, mocks, lint, typechecks, snapshots, and CI remain supplemental only.
- Plugins/catalog: add an `@tencent-weixin/openclaw-weixin` external entry pinned to `2.4.1` so onboarding and `openclaw channels add` can install the Tencent Weixin (personal WeChat) channel by default. (#77269) Thanks @pumpkinxing1.
- Developer tooling: add checked-in VS Code Gateway debugging configs and an opt-in `OUTPUT_SOURCE_MAPS=1` source-map build path for breakpoints in TypeScript source. (#45710) Thanks @SwissArmyBud.
- Managed proxy: add `proxy.loopbackMode` for Gateway loopback control-plane traffic, allowing operators to keep the default Gateway loopback bypass, force loopback Gateway traffic through the proxy, or block it. (#77018) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Telegram/native commands: show the current thinking level above the `/think` level picker so users can see the active setting before changing it. (#78278) Thanks @obviyus.
- Plugins/hooks: add a `before_agent_run` pass/block gate that can stop a user prompt before model submission while preserving a redacted transcript entry for the user, and clarify that raw conversation hooks require `hooks.allowConversationAccess=true`. (#75035) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Config/Nix: keep startup-derived plugin enablement, gateway auth tokens, control UI origins, and owner-display secrets runtime-only instead of rewriting `openclaw.json`; in Nix mode, config writers, mutating `openclaw update`, plugin lifecycle mutators, and doctor repair/token-generation now refuse with agent-first nix-openclaw guidance. (#78047) Thanks @joshp123.
- Plugin SDK: add a generic `api.runtime.llm.complete` host completion helper with runtime-derived caller attribution, config-gated model/agent overrides, session-bound context-engine access, request-scoped config, audit metadata, and normalized usage attribution. (#64294) Thanks @DaevMithran.
- Control UI/exec approvals: highlight parsed shell command fragments that may deserve extra review in approval prompts. (#77153) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Channels/iMessage: honor `channels.imessage.groups.<chat_id>.systemPrompt` (and the `groups["*"]` wildcard) by forwarding it as `GroupSystemPrompt` on inbound group turns, mirroring the byte-identical resolver semantic from WhatsApp where defining the key as an empty string on a specific group suppresses the wildcard fallback. Brings iMessage to parity with the per-group `systemPrompt` pattern already supported by Discord, Telegram, IRC, Slack, GoogleChat, and the retired BlueBubbles channel. Fixes #78285. (#79383) Thanks @omarshahine.
- iMessage: add opt-in inbound catchup that replays messages received while the gateway was offline (crash, restart, mac sleep) on next startup. Enable with `channels.imessage.catchup.enabled: true`; tunables for `maxAgeMinutes`, `perRunLimit`, `firstRunLookbackMinutes`, and `maxFailureRetries`. Persists a per-account cursor under the OpenClaw state dir (`<openclawStateDir>/imessage/catchup/`), replays each row through the live dispatch path so allowlists/group policy/dedupe behave identically on replayed and live messages, and force-advances past wedged guids after `maxFailureRetries` to prevent stuck cursors. Extends the persisted echo-cache retention window so the agent's own outbound rows from before a gap are not re-fed as inbound on replay. Includes a regenerated `src/config/bundled-channel-config-metadata.generated.ts` so the runtime AJV schema accepts the new `channels.imessage.catchup` block. Fixes #78649. (#79387) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Channels/Yuanbao: bump the bundled `openclaw-plugin-yuanbao` npm spec from `2.11.0` to `2.13.0` in the official external channel catalog and refresh the pinned integrity hash, so fresh installs and catalog-driven reinstalls pick up the newer Yuanbao channel plugin release. (#79620) Thanks @loongfay.
- Providers/Mistral: add `mistral-medium-3-5` to the bundled catalog with reasoning support. Thanks @sliekens.
- Docs/Mistral: document Medium 3.5 setup, local infer smoke usage, adjustable reasoning, and the Mistral HTTP 400 caveat for `reasoning_effort="high"` with `temperature: 0`.

### Breaking

- Channels/iMessage: remove the bundled BlueBubbles channel surface and deprecate BlueBubbles-backed iMessage setup in OpenClaw. Existing `channels.bluebubbles` configs must migrate to `channels.imessage` using `imsg` on a signed-in Mac or an SSH wrapper, and non-macOS default `imsg` configs now report remote-Mac wrapper guidance.

### Fixes

- Google/Gemini: default new API-key onboarding to stable `google/gemini-2.5-flash` instead of the preview Pro route, reducing surprise daily quota exhaustion. Fixes #79670. Thanks @HugeBunny.
- Amazon Bedrock: expose Claude thinking profiles through the lightweight provider policy surface so `/think:adaptive` validates before the Bedrock runtime plugin is loaded. Fixes #79754. Thanks @phoenixyy and @hclsys.
- Codex/transcripts: mirror dynamic tool calls and outputs into Codex app-server transcripts so tool activity is visible alongside assistant text instead of being elided, with per-item output capped at 12,000 characters. (#79952) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Memory: close temp SQLite handles before failed atomic reindex cleanup and retry Windows EBUSY/EPERM/EACCES temp file removals, so `memory index --force` does not abort or leave temp sidecars on locked filesystems. Fixes #79708. Thanks @LobsterFarmerAmp and @hclsys.
- Agents/CLI: add an explicit `reseedFromRawTranscriptWhenUncompacted` backend opt-in so safe invalidated CLI sessions can reseed from a bounded raw OpenClaw transcript tail before compaction while auth-boundary resets remain no-raw. Fixes #79713. (#79764) Thanks @hclsys.
- Agents/CLI: handle resumed CLI JSONL output and bound supervisor output buffering so resumed runs stay readable without letting noisy child output grow unbounded.
- Codex app-server: honor per-call `timeoutMs`, configured `image_generate` timeouts, and media image-understanding timeouts for dynamic tool calls, capped at 600000 ms, so slow image generation and image analysis no longer fail at the 30s bridge default. Fixes #79810. Thanks @omarshahine.
- Agents/sandbox: include the container workspace path hint in sandbox-root escape errors while preserving shortened host workspace roots. Fixes #79712. Thanks @haumanto and @hclsys.
- macOS/device pairing: let the native app read CLI PEM device identities and let the TypeScript loader migrate legacy Swift raw-key identities without generating a new device id, preventing repeated pairing prompts when `OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR` is shared. Fixes #76815. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Image generation: honor configured web-fetch SSRF policy across OpenAI, Google, MiniMax, OpenRouter, and Vydra provider requests so RFC2544 fake-IP proxy opt-ins reach generation calls. Fixes #79716. (#79765) Thanks @hclsys.
- Telegram: persist reply-chain message cache records as a compact append log instead of rewriting the full cache on every inbound message, reducing large-group turn latency.
- Telegram/CLI-backend: mirror outbound replies to the session transcript so CLI-backend agent responses create `.jsonl` session files, preventing `sessionId=unknown` on subsequent runs. Fixes #75991.
- Gateway/nodes: allow approved chat-channel macOS node exec replays to cross transient agent WebSocket reconnects only when node, agent session, and channel target metadata still match, restoring Telegram/WeCom host=node approvals without opening a general backend replay bypass. Fixes #77656. Thanks @BunsDev.
- QQBot: route gateway WebSocket connections through the ambient proxy agent so deployments with `https_proxy`, `HTTPS_PROXY`, or `HTTP_PROXY` can reach the QQ gateway. (#72961) Thanks @xialonglee.
- Agents/subagents: treat `sessions_spawn` `model: "default"` as the default-model fallback and ignore ACP-only stream targets for native sub-agent spawns. Fixes #72078. (#72101) Thanks @xialonglee.
- Agents/failover: stop retrying assistant-prefill format rejections across auth profiles or model fallbacks, surfacing the deterministic provider error instead of requeueing the lane. Fixes #79688. (#79728) Thanks @hclsys.
- Google/Gemini: resolve missing Gemini 3 Flash catalog rows through the Google provider template path so image-capable media-understanding models keep `input: ["text", "image"]` instead of falling back to text-only metadata. Fixes #79750. (#79759) Thanks @fenglanhua and @hclsys.
- Memory/QMD: warn with a manual stale collection removal hint when QMD reports a path/pattern conflict but `collection list` lacks verifiable metadata, avoiding unsafe stderr-only rebinds. Refs #71783. (#72297) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Models/auth: make `openclaw models status --check` and dashboard auth health honor effective auth profile order while keeping stale profiles visible. (#79685) Thanks @nimbleenigma.
- Agents/failover: classify bare `stream_read_error` streaming failures as transient timeouts so configured model fallback runs instead of surfacing the raw transport error. Fixes #79689. (#79692) Thanks @hekunwang.
- Agents/failover: persist overloaded auth-profile cooldown marks before exhausted fallback summaries surface, so immediate fallback retries honor the recorded cooldown state.
- Docs/Subagents: correct the listed sub-agent bootstrap context files to include `SOUL.md`, `IDENTITY.md`, and `USER.md`. (#79470) Thanks @lastguru-net.
- Backup: keep live backup archives from copying current agent session transcripts, cron run logs, and delivery queues while preserving workspace lock/temp files and keeping `--json` output parseable when volatile files are skipped. Fixes #72249. (#72251) Thanks @abnershang.
- Backup: place the temp manifest outside every backed-up asset so `backup create --verify` still passes when `TMPDIR` resolves inside a source path (for example `~/.openclaw/tmp`), avoiding the duplicate root manifest that otherwise tripped `Expected exactly one backup manifest entry, found 2`. Fixes #75007. Thanks @YaanFPV.
- OpenAI/Codex: install the Codex runtime plugin from npm during OpenAI onboarding and load it automatically for implicit OpenAI model routes, while preserving manual PI runtime overrides. Fixes #79358.
- OpenAI/realtime voice: defer `response.create` while a realtime response is still active, retry after `response.done`/`response.cancelled`, and align GA input transcription/noise-reduction defaults with the Codex realtime reference so Discord/Voice Call consult results can resume speaking instead of tripping the active-response race.
- OpenAI/realtime voice: avoid duplicate barge-in cancellation requests, log realtime model interruption/cutoff events in Discord voice logs, and treat OpenAI's no-active-response cancellation reply as a completed cancel so Discord voice sessions do not wedge pending speech after fast interruptions.
- Agents/runtime: strip trailing assistant prefill for Claude-family OpenAI Responses routes, persist prompt/assistant profile cooldown marks before fallback, and show the configured container root in sandbox escape diagnostics. Fixes #79688 and #79712. Thanks @stainlu and @mushuiyu886.
- Gateway: avoid false degraded event-loop health during rapid health/readiness/status probes unless sustained load has delay co-evidence, while keeping hard delay detection immediate. (#77028) Thanks @rubencu.
- Markdown: keep blockquote spans off trailing paragraph separators. Fixes #79646.
- Plugin SDK/LM Studio: recover Harmony plain-text tool calls from LM Studio streams. Fixes #78326.
- Control UI: refresh the model cache after `session_status(model=...)` changes a session model. Fixes #79613.
- Agents/context-engine: share loop-hook checkpoints with the after-turn finalizer so messages are not replayed. Fixes #79630.
- Codex app-server: keep native hook relays alive for long-running turns so shell and file approvals stay reachable until the configured run window finishes. (#77533) Thanks @rubencu.
- Gateway/macOS: clear ignored SIGUSR1 restart state, skip redundant package-update restarts when the refreshed LaunchAgent already serves the expected version, and give launchd a 10s throttle plus 20s shutdown window so update restarts do not leave old gateways alive or fight supervisor recovery. Fixes #79577; refs #78699 and #60885. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Status/Codex: route Codex-harness `openai/*` usage through the OpenAI Codex quota provider and scope CLI status usage to the default agent auth store so `/status` and `openclaw status --usage` show Codex quota windows again. Fixes #79312. Thanks @keshavbotagent.
- Gateway/agent: pass the session-key agent id into inline image attachment validation so the first image in a fresh per-agent session uses the agent's vision-capable model override instead of the text-only system default. Fixes #79407. Thanks @pandadev66.
- Gateway/maintenance: prune dedupe overflow against a stable excess count and keep active agent retries from starting duplicate runs after cache eviction. (#73841) Thanks @thesomewhatyou.
- Control UI/subagents: suppress internal `subagent_announce` handoff prompts from requester transcripts and hide legacy inter-session wrapper rows so completed subagent results no longer surface runtime context in WebChat history. (#79618) Thanks @joshavant.
- Discord: preserve username target resolution for Discord outbound sends. (#79076) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/sessions: rotate generated transcript paths when gateway sessions reset, complementing the daily-rollover transcript persistence. (#79076) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies: pin the transitive `fast-uri` production dependency to `3.1.2` so the production dependency audit no longer resolves the vulnerable `<=3.1.1` range. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/install: fail managed npm plugin installs when OpenClaw cannot repair a required plugin-local `node_modules/openclaw` peer link, preventing that peer-link failure mode from producing unusable `@openclaw/codex` installs. Refs #79462. Thanks @ai-hpc.
- xAI/tools: register and execute `x_search` and `code_execution` when the xAI API key comes from an auth profile, keeping the plugin tool gate aligned with `openclaw onboard --auth-choice xai-api-key`. Fixes #79353. Thanks @dbernaltbn.
- Cron/agents: recognize same-target `edit`↔`write` recovery in `isSameToolMutationAction`, so a successful `write` to a path clears an earlier failed `edit` on the same path. Stops cron from reporting fatal failures when an agent self-heals across `edit` and `write`, while preserving same-tool fingerprint matching, blocking different-target writes, and excluding tools (including `apply_patch`) whose real call args do not produce a stable `path` fingerprint segment. Fixes #79024. Thanks @RenzoMXD.
- Gateway/Tailscale: add opt-in `gateway.tailscale.preserveFunnel` so when `tailscale.mode = "serve"` and an externally configured Tailscale Funnel route already covers the gateway port, OpenClaw skips re-applying `tailscale serve` on startup and skips the `resetOnExit` teardown for that run, keeping operator-managed Funnel exposure alive across gateway restarts. Fixes #57241. Thanks @RenzoMXD.
- CLI/router: when `openclaw <name>` does not match a CLI subcommand, check plugin tool manifests first so names like `lcm_recent` get an agent-tool diagnostic instead of the misleading suggestion to add the tool name to `plugins.allow`. Fixes #77214. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- QA-lab/parity: bump the live mock-openai parity baseline from `claude-opus-4-6`/`claude-sonnet-4-6` to `claude-opus-4-7`/`claude-sonnet-4-7` and the candidate alt from `gpt-5.4-alt` to `gpt-5.5-alt` in `openclaw-release-checks.yml` and `qa-live-transports-convex.yml`, matching the active Opus 4.7 / GPT-5.5 defaults already used elsewhere on main. Carries forward the surface-bump portion of #74290. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- QA-lab/scenarios: raise the `approval-turn-tool-followthrough` per-turn fallback timeouts from 20s/30s to 60s so cold mock-gateway parity runs do not flake on the approval-turn chain. Carries forward the timeout-bump portion of #74290. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Gateway/restart continuation: treat routed post-reboot agent turns as trusted internal continuations while preserving the original Telegram topic route, and retry briefly when the previous run is still shutting down, so owner-only tools remain available for chained restart workflows after reboot.
- Agents/compaction: keep the recent tail after manual `/compact` when Pi returns an empty or no-op compaction summary, preventing blank checkpoints from replacing the live context.
- Native commands: handle slash commands before workspace and agent-reply bootstrap so Telegram `/status` and other command-only native replies do not wait behind full agent turn setup.
- Telegram/groups: include the recent local chat window and nearby reply-target window as generic inbound context so stale reply ancestry does not overshadow the live group conversation.
- Plugins/Nix: allow externally configured plugin roots under `/nix/store` to load in `OPENCLAW_NIX_MODE=1` while keeping normal external plugin hardlink rejection unchanged. Thanks @joshp123.
- Nextcloud Talk: include the required bot `response` feature in setup, explain missing `--feature response` on rejected sends, and surface missing response capability in doctor/status checks. Fixes #78935. (#79657) Thanks @joshavant.
- fix(discord): gate user allowlist name resolution [AI]. (#79002) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- fix(msteams): gate startup user allowlist resolution [AI]. (#79003) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Infra/fetch-timeout: pass `operation` and `url` context to `buildTimeoutAbortSignal` from the music-generate reference fetch and the Matrix guarded redirect transport, so the `fetch timeout reached; aborting operation` warning carries actionable structured fields instead of a bare line. Fixes #79195. Thanks @pandadev66.
- Harden macOS shell wrapper allowlist parsing [AI]. (#78518) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- macOS/config: reject stale or destructive app fallback config writes before direct replacement and keep rejected payloads as private audit artifacts, so `gateway.mode`, metadata, and auth are not silently clobbered. Fixes #64973 and #74890. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/macOS: include Apple Silicon Homebrew bin and sbin directories in generated LaunchAgent service PATHs and service-audit expectations so `openclaw gateway restart` keeps Homebrew Node installs reachable. Fixes #79232. Thanks @BunsDev and @TurboTheTurtle.
- Doctor/OpenAI: stop pinning migrated `openai-codex/*` routes to the Codex runtime so mixed-provider agents keep automatic PI routing for MiniMax, Anthropic, and other non-OpenAI model switches.
- Doctor/OpenAI: remove stale whole-agent Codex runtime pins while repairing legacy OpenAI-Codex routes, so upgraded agents do not force an unregistered Codex harness before provider/model routing can choose the right runtime.
- Gateway/macOS: `openclaw gateway stop` now uses `launchctl bootout` by default instead of unconditionally calling `launchctl disable`, so KeepAlive auto-recovery still works after unexpected crashes; use the new `--disable` flag to opt into the persistent-disable behavior when a manual stop should survive reboots. Fixes #77934. Thanks @bmoran1022.
- Gateway/macOS: `repairLaunchAgentBootstrap` no longer kickstarts an already-running LaunchAgent, preventing unnecessary service restarts and session disconnects when repair runs against a healthy gateway. Fixes #77428. Thanks @ramitrkar-hash.
- Gateway/macOS: `openclaw gateway stop --disable` now persists the LaunchAgent disable bit even after a previous bootout left the service not loaded, keeping the explicit stay-down path reliable. (#78412) Thanks @wdeveloper16.
- CLI/status: keep lean `openclaw status --json` off manifest-backed channel discovery so configured-channel checks do not repeatedly rescan plugin metadata. Fixes #79129.
- Control UI/chat: hide retired and non-public Google Gemini model IDs from chat model catalogs and route the bare `gemini-3-pro` alias to Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview instead of the shut-down Gemini 3 Pro Preview. Thanks @BunsDev.
- CLI/infer: canonicalize case-only catalog model refs in `infer model run --model` so mixed-case provider/model strings resolve to the canonical catalog entry instead of failing with `Unknown model`. (#78940) Thanks @ai-hpc.
- CLI/infer: allow explicit local `infer model run --model <provider/model>` probes to use exact bundled static catalog rows before the provider is written to config, surfacing missing credentials as auth errors instead of `Unknown model`.
- CLI/install: refuse state-mutating OpenClaw CLI runs as root by default, keep an explicit `OPENCLAW_ALLOW_ROOT=1` escape hatch for intentional root/container use, and update DigitalOcean setup guidance to run OpenClaw as a non-root user. Fixes #67478. Thanks @Jerry-Xin and @natechicago.
- Auto-reply/media: resolve `scp` from `PATH` when staging sandbox media so nonstandard OpenSSH installs can copy remote attachments.
- Agents/PI: route PI-native OpenAI-compatible default streams through OpenClaw boundary-aware transports so local-compatible model runs keep API-key injection and transport policy.
- Gateway/media: require authenticated owner or admin context for managed outgoing image bytes instead of trusting requester-session headers.
- Doctor/gateway: avoid duplicate Node runtime warnings when the daemon install plan already selected a supported Node runtime.
- Gateway/nodes: ignore malformed non-string capability entries from live nodes instead of throwing while listing the node catalog.
- Gateway/pairing: preserve deliberately narrowed role-token scopes when approving device scope upgrades instead of regranting the whole approved baseline.
- Telegram/ACP: keep chat-bound ACP replies durable by delivering final-only ACP output as final text instead of transient Telegram preview blocks. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Telegram: hydrate replied-to messages as a persisted nearest-first reply chain so agents can see observed parent text, media refs, captions, senders, timestamps, and nested replies instead of guessing from a shallow reply id.
- Telegram: skip the rewritten silent-reply fallback when the dispatcher reports a final reply was queued in the same turn so a "No extra answer from me." filler cannot race ahead of the actual reply when lane delivery state never observes the send. Fixes #78929.
- Gateway/watch: leave `OPENCLAW_TRACE_SYNC_IO` disabled by default in `pnpm gateway:watch:raw` so watch mode avoids noisy Node sync-I/O stack traces unless explicitly requested.
- Codex app-server: close stdio stdin before force-killing the managed app-server, matching Codex single-client shutdown behavior and avoiding unsettled CLI exits after successful runs.
- CLI/Codex: dispose registered agent harnesses during short-lived CLI shutdown so successful Codex-backed `agent --local` runs do not leave app-server child processes alive.
- Agents/Codex: auto-enable the Codex harness plugin for one-shot OpenAI model overrides so `openclaw agent --local --model openai/...` does not fail with an unregistered `codex` harness.
- Gateway/live tests: avoid full model-registry enumeration for explicit provider-qualified live model filters, preventing `.profile` OpenAI gateway profile runs from hanging before provider dispatch.
- Gateway/status: surface CLI and gateway runtime versions, warn about stale PATH/global wrappers when they differ, and add stale-wrapper checks to the newer-config warning. Refs #79091. Thanks @RamaAditya49 and @sallyom.
- Google/Gemini: retry stalled Gemini 3 preview direct API-key streams with a lean first-response payload and share Gemini tool-schema cleanup across direct Google and Gemini CLI providers, so main sessions with coding tools can recover before the LLM idle watchdog fires. (#79668) Thanks @joshavant.
- Providers: preserve non-OK `text/event-stream` response bodies so provider HTTP errors keep their JSON detail instead of collapsing to generic streaming failures. Fixes #78180.
- Gateway/auth: make explicit `trusted-proxy` mode fail closed instead of accepting local password fallback credentials after trusted-proxy identity checks fail. Fixes #78684.
- Active memory: treat Google Chat `spaces/...` conversation ids as scoped targets instead of runnable channel names so recall runs no longer fail bundled-plugin dirName validation. Fixes #78918.
- Active memory: make `/active-memory status` honor the configured agent allowlist instead of reporting on for agents where recall is disabled. Fixes #78986.
- Mistral: normalize structured OpenAI-compatible completions content blocks so thinking objects are not persisted as `[object Object]` visible reply text. Fixes #78846.
- Tools/session status: render the active heartbeat/run model for `session_status({"sessionKey":"current"})` instead of falling back to the persisted session default. Fixes #77493.
- Doctor/secrets: allow safe inherited exec SecretRef `passEnv` names such as `HOME` while still blocking dangerous runtime env hooks. Fixes #78216.
- Chat commands: make `/model default` reset the session model override instead of treating it as a literal model name. Fixes #78182.
- Cron: make rejected `payload.model` errors show the configured `agents.defaults.models` allowlist instead of echoing the rejected model twice. Fixes #79058.
- Agents/subagents: retry parent wake announces when the announce-summary model run fails with fallback cooldown exhaustion instead of dropping the wake on the first transient provider overload. Refs #78581.
- Providers/network: honor IPv4 CIDR and octet-wildcard `NO_PROXY` entries such as `100.64.0.0/10` and `100.64.*` before enabling trusted env-proxy mode for model-provider requests. Fixes #79030.
- Skills: cap skills watcher directory traversal at the same depth used by skill discovery so large non-skill trees under configured skill roots do not exhaust file descriptors on startup. Fixes #75501. Thanks @wzq-xzwj.
- Docs/Docker: document a local Compose override for Docker Desktop DNS failures in the shared-network `openclaw-cli` sidecar, keeping the default compose setup hardened while unblocking `openclaw plugins install` when users opt in. Fixes #79018. Thanks @Jason-Vaughan.
- Installer: when npm installs `openclaw` outside the parent shell PATH, print follow-up commands with the resolved binary path instead of telling users to run `openclaw` from a shell that will report `command not found`. Fixes #72382. Thanks @jbob762.
- Plugins/runtime: share MIME and JSON Schema helpers across bundled plugins while preserving canonical media MIME inference, browser URL wildcard semantics, migration home-path resolution, QA request-limit responses, and extensionless text file previews.
- Agents/memory flush: persist the pre-increment compaction counter after flush-triggered compaction so consecutive eligible compaction cycles run memoryFlush instead of alternating. Fixes #12590. Refs #12760, #26145, and #46513. Thanks @Kaspre, @lailoo, @drvoss, @Br1an67, and @dial481.
- Status: treat CLI runtime aliases such as `claude-cli/<model>` as the canonical selected provider route in `/status`, avoiding spurious fallback/unknown-auth display and preserving fresh context usage from CLI usage snapshots. Fixes #79015. Thanks @ItsThierry.
- Agents/subagents: stop the `sessions_spawn` accepted note from recommending `sessions_yield` as the default wait path in push-based chat and CLI flows. Fixes #78913. Thanks @oiGaDio.
- Compute plugin callback authorization dynamically [AI]. (#78866) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Telegram: deduplicate media attachments in non-streaming mode so block-delivered images are not resent in the final reply, and clear legacy `mediaUrl` fallback when all media URLs are filtered. Fixes #78372.
- Gateway/auth: allow `gateway.auth.mode: "none"` loopback backend RPC clients to skip device identity only for local non-browser backend connections, restoring subagent spawns and gateway tools without opening remote or browser-origin bypasses. Fixes #75780. Thanks @yozakura-ava.
- Canvas plugin: keep legacy root `canvasHost` configs valid until `openclaw doctor --fix` migrates them into `plugins.entries.canvas.config.host`, move Canvas/A2UI clients to gateway protocol v4 plugin surfaces, and refresh the generated A2UI bundle hash so normal builds stay clean.
- feishu: honor config write policy for dynamic agents [AI]. (#78520) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- fix(skill-workshop): honor pending approval for tool suggestions [AI]. (#78516) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- BytePlus: mark Kimi K2.5 and Kimi K2 Thinking catalog entries as reasoning-capable, raise their output cap to 32k tokens, and fill Kimi cache-read pricing. Fixes #54149.
- Control UI/chat: wait for an in-flight model dropdown patch before sending the next chat message, so immediate sends use the selected session model instead of racing the previous override. Fixes #54240.
- Native chat: decode gateway-provided thinking metadata for the iOS/macOS picker so provider-specific levels such as `adaptive`, `xhigh`, and `max` appear without leaking unsupported default-model options. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/compaction: cap summarization output reserve tokens to the selected model's `maxTokens` so 1M-context Anthropic compactions do not request more output than the API permits. Fixes #54383.
- Control UI/login: replace raw connection failures with structured, actionable login guidance for auth, pairing, insecure HTTP, origin, protocol, and transport failures. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/tools: fail `exec host=node` before `system.run` when the selected node is known to be disconnected, with an actionable reconnect message instead of a raw node invoke failure. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/models: accept legacy `anthropic-cli/*` model refs as Claude CLI runtime refs instead of failing model resolution with `Unknown model`. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/tools: keep restrictive-profile tool-section warnings scoped to the configured sections whose tools are still missing from `alsoAllow`, so already re-allowed filesystem tools do not make exec-only fixes look broader than they are. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/tools: avoid warning messaging-only agents about inherited global `tools.exec` or `tools.fs` sections when the agent profile did not configure those tool sections itself. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Codex dynamic tools: normalize runtime `toolsAllow` entries the same way as Pi tool policy, so aliases like `bash` and `apply-patch` still expose the intended OpenClaw tools. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Memory/dreaming: read OpenAI-style `output_text` assistant parts from narrative subagent transcripts, so light-phase Dream Diary entries are not dropped as empty. Thanks @BunsDev.
- OpenAI-compatible providers: honor `compat.supportsTools=false` by stripping tool payload fields before dispatch to chat-only endpoints. Fixes #74664.
- OpenAI-compatible providers: apply model-declared unsupported tool-schema keyword stripping to native OpenAI transport payloads and mark Fireworks Kimi K2.5 as rejecting `not` schemas. Fixes #75467.
- OpenAI-compatible gateway: sanitize images supplied through request content even when the prompt text contains no image file references, preventing oversized attachment payloads from bypassing the resize/drop pipeline. Fixes #59913.
- Auth profiles: normalize inline API keys and tokens loaded from `auth-profiles.json` so masked or rich-text credential artifacts fail as auth errors instead of crashing HTTP header construction. Fixes #77624.
- llm-task: resolve configured model aliases before embedded dispatch so `model="gemini-flash"` and other aliases route to the intended provider instead of the agent default. Fixes #54166.
- Media generation: resolve slash-containing model-only overrides like `fal-ai/flux/dev` through registered provider model metadata so FAL image/video models do not get misparsed as provider `fal-ai`. Fixes #77444.
- CLI backends: keep versioned OAuth identity matches reusable when auth profile ids rotate, so Claude CLI sessions do not reset and lose continuity during same-account OAuth refresh/profile alias changes. Fixes #78541.
- Amazon Bedrock: refresh shared AWS profile/config file credentials before Bedrock model, discovery, and embedding requests so long-running Gateway processes pick up renewed profile credentials without restart. Fixes #77551.
- Amazon Bedrock: treat named `aws-sdk` auth profiles as config routing metadata instead of stored credentials, and let `doctor --fix` move legacy markers out of `auth-profiles.json`. Fixes #69708.
- Anthropic: reject uppercase provider-prefixed forward-compat model ids locally instead of sending malformed dynamic ids upstream. Fixes #73715.
- OpenAI/embeddings: pass configured output dimensionality through single and batched embedding requests so memory embedding indexes can request smaller vectors. Fixes #55126.
- CLI/infer: normalize HEIC/HEIF image files to JPEG before model-run requests, avoiding providers that reject Apple image container formats. Fixes #50081.
- CLI/infer: fall back to macOS `sips` when optional image tooling cannot decode HEIC/HEIF input files before model-run requests. Refs #50081.
- OpenRouter: keep the default `openrouter/auto` model ref canonical while preventing TUI and Control UI catalog pickers from displaying or submitting `openrouter/openrouter/auto`. Fixes #62655.
- Status/Claude CLI: show `oauth (claude-cli)` for working Claude CLI OAuth runtime sessions instead of `unknown` when no local auth profile exists. Fixes #78632. Thanks @gorkem2020.
- Memory search: preserve keyword-only hybrid FTS matches when vector scoring is unavailable or below the configured minimum score, so exact lexical hits are not dropped by weighted min-score filtering.
- Exec approvals/node: let trusted backend node invokes complete no-device Control UI approvals after the original request connection changes, while keeping node, command, cwd, env, and allow-once replay bindings enforced. Fixes #78569. Thanks @naturedogdog.
- Agents/subagents: keep background completion delivery on the requester-agent handoff/queue-retry path instead of raw-sending child results directly, and strip child-result wrapper or OpenClaw runtime-context scaffolding from queued outbound retries. Fixes #78531. Thanks @EthanSK.
- Sandbox: recreate cached browser bridges when JavaScript-evaluation permission changes, keep failed prune removals tracked for retry, and make cross-device directory moves copy-then-commit without partially emptying the source on failure.
- CLI/completion: guard the shell-profile source line written by `openclaw completion --install` with a file existence check (`[ -f ... ] && source ...` for bash/zsh, `test -f ...; and source ...` for fish) so uninstalling OpenClaw no longer makes new login shells error on a missing completion cache. (#78659) Thanks @sjf.
- Telegram: fail private-topic sends instead of retrying them as plain DMs when Telegram rejects the topic id, keeping private-topic `message_thread_id` routing intact. Fixes #79455. (#78575) Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Discord/groups: instruct group-chat agents to stay silent when a message is addressed to someone else, replying only when invited or correcting key facts. (#78615)
- Discord/groups: tell Discord-channel agents to wrap bare URLs as `<https://example.com>` so link previews do not expand into uninvited embeds. (#78614)
- Agents/fallback: fail fast on session write-lock timeouts instead of trying fallback models for local file contention. Fixes #66646. Thanks @sallyom.
- Browser/SSRF: stop closing user-owned Chrome tabs when a read-only operation (snapshot/screenshot/interactions) is rejected by the SSRF guard — only OpenClaw-initiated navigations now close on policy denial. Thanks @scotthuang.
- Agents/Gateway: throttle and cap live exec command-output events so noisy tool runs cannot flood Gateway WebSocket clients or starve RPC handling. (#78645) Thanks @joshavant.
- Memory Wiki: skip empty and whitespace-only source pages when refreshing generated Related blocks, preventing blank pages from being rewritten into Related-only stubs. Fixes #78121. Thanks @amknight.
- Telegram: keep duplicate message-tool-only Codex turns from posting generic silent-reply fallback text, so private finals stay private after inbound dedupe. Thanks @rubencu.
- Telegram/sessions: gap-fill delivered embedded final replies into the session JSONL even when the runner trace is missing, so Telegram answers after tool calls do not vanish from the durable transcript. Fixes #77814. (#78426) Thanks @obviyus, @ChushulSuri, and @DougButdorf.
- Cron/heartbeat: let restricted cron-triggered runs read their own status and current-job list metadata again, preventing heartbeat STATUS freshness checks from going stale while preserving self-remove-only mutation limits. Fixes #78208. Thanks @amknight.
- Channels/cron: ignore stale runtime conversation bindings that point at completed isolated cron run sessions, so follow-up DMs fall back to their normal route instead of reusing a closed cron task prompt. Fixes #78074. Thanks @amknight.
- ACP: preserve streamed chunk boundaries in background-task progress summaries so CJK text, paths, URLs, and identifiers are no longer split with synthetic spaces. Fixes #78312. Thanks @amknight.
- Agents/DeepSeek: suppress provider-private DSML transport syntax (tool-use-error, tool-call, function-call shadow blocks) so it never leaks into assistant-visible text; native `delta.tool_calls` remains the only authoritative tool-call source. (#78331) Thanks @samzong.
- Agents/subagents: preserve the delegated task prompt when a spawned target agent uses `systemPromptOverride`, so `sessions_spawn(mode: "run")` child runs still see their assigned task. Fixes #77950. Thanks @amknight.
- Node/Windows: fall back to the Startup-folder launcher when Spanish-localized `schtasks` reports `Acceso denegado`, matching the existing access-denied fallback path. Fixes #77993. Thanks @jackonedev.
- Agents/compaction: treat visible custom-message, bash, and branch-summary entries as real conversation anchors so safeguard mode does not write empty fallback summaries for cron and split-turn sessions with substantive tool work. Fixes #78300. Thanks @amknight.
- Network/runtime: avoid importing Undici's package dispatcher during no-proxy timeout bootstrap so external channel plugin fetch requests with explicit Content-Length keep working. Fixes #78007. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Status/doctor: treat a single healthy OpenClaw Gateway listener on loopback, LAN, or wildcard bind as the expected configured gateway instead of warning that the port is already in use. Fixes #77939. Thanks @GitHoubi and @brokemac79.
- Agents/TTS: send media-bearing block replies directly when block streaming is off, so agent `tts` tool audio attached to a final text reply is delivered instead of being consumed before final Telegram/media delivery. Thanks @Conan-Scott.
- Gateway/performance: reuse the current compatible plugin metadata snapshot across hot read-only status, channel, auth, skills, and embedded agent settings paths, avoiding repeated synchronous plugin metadata scans during Gateway activity. Fixes #77983. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Tasks/maintenance: prune stale cron run session registry entries while preserving running cron jobs and non-cron sessions. Fixes #73867. Thanks @brokemac79.
- Plugins: dispatch cached descriptor-backed tools by the resolved runtime tool name for unnamed factories, fixing multi-tool plugins whose shared manifest contracts exposed sibling tools but failed at execution. Fixes #78671. Thanks @zanni098.
- Plugins/update: repair plugin-local `openclaw` peer links for all recorded npm plugins after any npm update mutates the shared managed npm tree, so targeted or batch updates cannot leave Codex, Discord, or Brave with pruned SDK imports. (#77787) Thanks @ProspectOre.
- Codex harness: honor `models.providers.openai-codex.models[].contextTokens` for native `openai/*` Codex runtime runs and `/status` context reporting, so subscription-backed Codex agents use the configured OAuth context cap without inflating past the runtime model window. Fixes #77858. Thanks @lilesjtu.
- Sessions cleanup: add `openclaw sessions cleanup --fix-dm-scope` so operators who return `session.dmScope` to `main` can dry-run and retire stale direct-DM session rows while preserving transcripts as deleted archives. Fixes #47561 and #45554. Thanks @BunsDev.

- Doctor/Codex: repair legacy `openai-codex/*` routes and cron payload model refs to canonical `openai/*`, keep OpenAI agent turns on Codex by default, ignore stale whole-agent/session runtime pins, preserve explicit provider/model runtime policy, and migrate legacy runtime model refs to model-scoped runtime entries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Video generation: wait up to 20 minutes for slow fal/MiniMax queue-backed jobs, stop forwarding unsupported Google Veo generated-audio options, and normalize MiniMax `720P` requests to its supported `768P` resolution with the usual override warning/details instead of failing fallback.
- Channels/durable delivery: preserve channel-specific final reply semantics when using durable sends, including Telegram selected quotes and silent error replies plus WhatsApp message-sending cancellations.
- Channels/message lifecycle: build legacy channel delivery results from message receipts and add receipts to BlueBubbles, Feishu, Google Chat, iMessage, IRC, LINE, Nextcloud Talk, QQ Bot, Signal, Synology Chat, Tlon, Twitch, WhatsApp, Zalo, and Zalo Personal send results and owner-path reply delivery plus Discord, Matrix, Mattermost, Slack, and Teams send results while preserving existing message id compatibility.
- iMessage: run durable final replies through the iMessage outbound sanitizer before sending, matching direct auto-reply delivery and preventing assistant-internal scaffolding from leaking through queued delivery.
- CLI/plugins: handle closed stdin during `plugins uninstall` confirmation prompt and exit 1 with actionable `--force` guidance instead of crashing with Node exit 13 unsettled top-level await. Fixes #73562. (#73566) Thanks @ai-hpc.
- Control UI/Sessions: hide disk-discovered unregistered-agent sessions by default and fall back from restored unconfigured agent session keys before chat refresh, preventing deleted-agent stores from reopening the wrong workspace. Fixes #41685. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Slack: keep health-monitor recovery stops from poisoning manual-stop state after channel stop timeouts, allowing Socket Mode accounts to reconnect after event-loop stalls instead of staying dead until Gateway restart. Fixes #77651. Thanks @Gusty3055.
- Codex app-server: ignore account and rate-limit notifications when measuring active-turn liveness and suppress duplicate generic timeout replies after a visible messaging-tool delivery, so lost completion signals no longer keep Telegram/Discord turns active behind a delivered reply. (#79667) Thanks @joshavant.
- Control UI/Gateway: preserve verified trusted-proxy operator scopes for browser WebSocket sessions so nginx/Authelia deployments can load chat history, models, sessions, nodes, and logs instead of failing with missing operator.read. Fixes #78508. (#79643) Thanks @joshavant.
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: preserve boundary-aware Anthropic Messages transport when runtime auth creates a custom session stream, keeping the upstream x-api-key header intact for Gateway runs. (#79673) Thanks @joshavant.
- Webhooks/Gmail/Windows: resolve `gcloud`, `gog`, and `tailscale` PATH/PATHEXT shims before setup and watcher spawns, using the Windows-safe `.cmd` wrapper for long-lived `gog serve` processes. (#74881, fixes #54470) Thanks @Angfr95.
- Control UI/chat: suppress `HEARTBEAT_OK` acknowledgement history, streams, deltas, and final events before they enter the transcript view, so repeated heartbeat no-op turns do not stack noisy bubbles. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/skills: require exact `<location>` skill paths for both single-skill and multi-skill prompt selection, so agents do not guess or hard-code skill file paths. (#74161) Thanks @lanzhi-lee.
- Agents/skills: rebuild sandboxed non-rw run skill prompts from the sandbox workspace copy, so `<available_skills>` no longer points at host-only `~/.openclaw/skills` paths. Fixes #50590. Thanks @kidroca and @sallyom.
- Agents/media: tell async music and video completion agents when normal final replies are private, and send completion fallbacks directly to message-tool-only group/channel routes when the completion agent still only writes a private final reply, so generated media does not disappear behind the delivery contract.
- CLI/update: report corrupt or unloadable managed plugins as post-update warnings instead of disabling them or turning a successful OpenClaw package update into a failed update result. Thanks @vincentkoc and @Patrick-Erichsen.
- Update/restart: probe managed Gateway restarts with the service environment and add a Docker product lane that exercises candidate-owned `openclaw update --yes --json` restarts, so SecretRef-backed local gateway auth cannot regress behind mocked restart checks. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/sessions: cache selected model override resolution while building session-list rows so `openclaw sessions` and Control UI session lists stay responsive on model-heavy stores. (#77650) Thanks @ragesaq.
- Gateway/diagnostics: make stuck-session recovery outcome-driven and generation-guarded, add `diagnostics.stuckSessionAbortMs`, and emit structured recovery requested/completed events so stale or skipped recovery no longer looks like a successful abort.
- Messaging: queue assembled channel-turn final replies before sending to reduce response loss when the gateway restarts between assistant completion and channel delivery. Refs #77000.
- Agents/replay-history: drop trailing assistant turns whose content is empty or carries only the stream-error sentinel before sending the transcript to the provider, so prefill-strict providers (such as github-copilot/claude-opus-4.6) no longer reject the request with `400 The conversation must end with a user message` after a session whose last turn errored before producing content. Refs #77228. (#77287) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/session-file-repair: drop `type: "message"` entries with a missing, `null`, or blank role during the on-disk repair pass so sessions that accumulated null-role JSONL corruption (such as the 935+ corrupt entries in #77228) get fully cleaned up rather than carried forward into the repaired file. Refs #77228. (#77288) Thanks @openperf.
- Doctor/device pairing: stop suggesting `openclaw devices rotate --role <role>` for stale local cached device auth when that role is no longer approved by the gateway pairing record, so doctor no longer points users at a command that must be denied. (#77688) Thanks @Conan-Scott.
- Ollama/thinking: expose the lightweight Ollama provider thinking profile through the public provider-policy artifact too, so reasoning-capable Ollama models such as `ollama/deepseek-v4-pro:cloud` keep `/think max` available even before the full plugin runtime activates. (#77617, fixes #77612) Thanks @rriggs and @yfge.
- Codex/app-server: stabilize transcript mirror dedupe across re-mirrored turns so reordered snapshots no longer drop reasoning entries or duplicate the assistant reply. Refs #77012. (#77046) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/auth-profiles: do not record request-shape (`format`) rejections as auth-profile health failures, so a single per-session transcript-shape error (such as a prefill-strict 400 "conversation must end with a user message") no longer triggers a profile-wide cooldown that blocks every other healthy session sharing the same auth profile. Refs #77228. (#77280) Thanks @openperf.
- CLI/update: stop dev-channel source updates immediately when `git fetch` fails, so tag conflicts cannot keep preflight, rebase, or build steps running against stale refs while the Gateway is still on the old runtime. (#77845) Thanks @obviyus.
- Config/recovery: chmod restored `openclaw.json` back to owner-only (`0600`) after suspicious-read backup recovery on POSIX hosts, so a previously world-readable config mode cannot persist into a freshly restored credential-bearing config. (#77488) Thanks @drobison00.
- Memory/dreaming: persist last dreaming-ingestion calendar day per daily note in `daily-ingestion.json` so unchanged notes are still re-ingested once per dreaming day for promotion signals toward deep thresholds. Fixes #76225. (#76359) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/embed: keep message_end safety delivery armed when a silent text_end chunk produces no block reply, fixing dropped Telegram/forum replies. Fixes #77833. (#77840) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Install/postinstall: skip noisy compile-cache prune warnings when `EACCES`/`EPERM` prevent removing shared `/tmp/node-compile-cache` entries owned by another user. Fixes #76353. (#76362) Thanks @RayWoo and @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/messaging: surface CLI subprocess watchdog/turn timeout messages to chat users when verbose failures are off, instead of collapsing them into generic external-run failure copy. Fixes #77007. (#77015) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/sessions: after embedded Pi runs, append assistant-visible reply text to session JSONL only when Pi did not already persist an equivalent tail assistant entry, without re-mirroring the user prompt Pi owns. Fixes #77823. (#77839) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Plugins/CLI: load the install-records ledger when listing channel-catalog entries, so npm-installed third-party channel plugins resolve through `openclaw channels login`/`channels add` instead of failing with `Unsupported channel`. (#77269) Thanks @pumpkinxing1.
- Memory wiki/Security: enforce session visibility on shared-memory `wiki_search` and `wiki_get` so sandboxed subagents cannot read transcript content from sibling or parent sessions. Fixes GHSA-72fw-cqh5-f324. Thanks @zsxsoft.
- Exec approvals: enforce allowlist `argPattern` argument restrictions on Linux and macOS as well as Windows, so an entry like `{ pattern: "python3", argPattern: "^safe\.py$" }` no longer silently relaxes to a path-only match on non-Windows hosts. (#75143) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Agents/compaction: disable Pi auto-compaction whenever OpenClaw effectively owns safeguard compaction, including provider-backed safeguard mode, so Pi and OpenClaw no longer fight over long-session compaction. Fixes #73003. (#73839) Thanks @bradhallett.
- Telegram/streaming: finalize text replies by stopping the edited stream message instead of sending a second answer bubble, so Telegram turns cannot duplicate the streamed final response. (#77947) Thanks @obviyus.
- web_search/Brave: fix provider selection when Brave is installed as an external plugin and `tools.web.search.provider: "brave"` is explicitly configured — a redundant provider re-resolution at startup could race and return an empty list, causing a spurious `WEB_SEARCH_PROVIDER_INVALID_AUTODETECT` warning and treating the explicitly configured provider as absent. Fixes #77676. Thanks @openperf.
- Doctor/plugins: discover doctor contracts from load-path channel plugins during `openclaw doctor --fix`, so plugin-owned legacy config repair runs before validation. (#77477) Thanks @jalehman.
- Dependencies: bump transitive `basic-ftp` to 5.3.1 so the runtime lockfile no longer includes the vulnerable 5.3.0 build flagged by the production dependency audit. (#78637) Thanks @sallyom.
- Hooks/cron: log returned `/hooks/agent` isolated-run errors and failed cron jobs with cron diagnostic summaries, so rejected `payload.model` values are visible instead of looking like accepted-but-missing runs. Fixes #78597. (#78655) Thanks @kevinslin.
- Managed proxy/security: classify raw socket callsites and proxy runtime mutations in boundary checks so new direct egress or unmanaged proxy-state changes cannot land without explicit review. (#77126) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Channels/iMessage: surface the silent group-allowlist drop at default log level by emitting a one-time `warn` per account at monitor startup when `channels.imessage.groupPolicy: "allowlist"` is set without a `channels.imessage.groups` block, plus a one-time `warn` per `chat_id` when the runtime gate drops a specific group, naming the exact `channels.imessage.groups[...]` key to add to allow it. Fixes #78749. (#79190) Thanks @omarshahine.
- WhatsApp: stop Gateway-originated outbound echoes from advancing inbound activity in `openclaw channels status`, so outbound self-sends no longer look like handled inbound messages. Fixes #79056. (#79057) Thanks @ai-hpc and @bittoby.
- Gateway/nodes: preserve the live node registry session and invoke ownership when an older same-node WebSocket closes after reconnecting. (#78351) Thanks @samzong.
- Browser/downloads: route explicit and managed browser download output directories through `fs-safe` validation before staging final files, so symlinked output roots are rejected before writes. (#78780) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Agents/PI: skip the idle wait during aborted embedded-run cleanup, so stopped or timed-out runs clear pending tool state and release the session lock promptly. (#74919) Thanks @medns.
- Agents/current-time: split UTC into a separate `Reference UTC:` prompt line so local `Current time:` stays anchored to the user's timezone. (#42654) Thanks @chencheng-li.
- Agents/reasoning: keep embedded reasoning deltas raw for correct same-line streaming while preserving formatted Telegram, Feishu, Discord, and heartbeat delivery at the channel edge. (#78397) Thanks @medns.
- Agents/failover: rotate auth profiles before deferred cooldown marking on rate-limit failures, so file-lock contention cannot stall profile failover. Fixes #57281. (#57283) Thanks @jeremyknows.
- Gateway/sessions: when `session.dmScope: "main"` is configured, route a bare webchat `/new` against the agent's main session (`sessions.create` with `emitCommandHooks=true`) to an in-place reset instead of creating a parallel `dashboard:` child, matching `/new` behavior on Telegram/Discord. Fixes #77434. (#71170) Thanks @statxc.
- Scripts/UI/Windows: launch `.cmd` and `.bat` UI runners through the shared cmd.exe escaping path with shell mode disabled, avoiding Node.js v24 DEP0190 warnings while preserving argument boundaries. (#62910) Thanks @nandanadileep.
- Agents/CLI runner: disable supervisor stdout/stderr capture for prepared CLI runs while keeping bounded diagnostics and incremental JSONL output parsing, preventing long CLI output from being retained in memory. (#79617) Thanks @samzong.
- Telegram: treat a DM binding that carries the chat id in both `conversationId` and `parentConversationId` as a direct conversation instead of a topic, so reverse delivery for Telegram DMs is not misrouted through a topic-shaped target. (#79700) Thanks @TSHOGX.

## 2026.5.7

### Fixes

- Release/plugin publishing: retry transient ClawHub CLI dependency install failures, keep preview-passing plugins publishable when one preview cell flakes, and verify every expected ClawHub package version after publish so maintenance releases are faster to recover and less likely to hide partial plugin publishes.
- OpenAI: support `openai/chat-latest` as an explicit direct API-key model override for trying the moving ChatGPT Instant API alias without changing the stable default model.
- Cron CLI: include computed `status` in `cron list --json` and `cron show --json` output so external tooling can read disabled/running/ok/error/skipped/idle state without reimplementing cron status derivation. (#78701) Thanks @aweiker.
- Channels CLI: make `openclaw channels list` channel-only, add `--all` for bundled and catalog channels, render installed/configured/enabled state, and move model auth/usage details to `openclaw models auth list`, `openclaw status`, and `openclaw models list`. (#78456) Thanks @sliverp.
- Native commands: honor owner enforcement for native command handlers. (#78864) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Active Memory: require admin scope for global memory toggles. (#78863) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Gateway/sessions: clear cached skills snapshots during `/new` and `sessions.reset` so long-lived channel sessions rebuild the visible skill list after skills change. (#78873) Thanks @Evizero.
- Auto-reply: gate inline skill tool dispatch through before-tool-call authorization hooks. (#78517) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Tavily: resolve dedicated `tavily_search` and `tavily_extract` tool credentials from the active runtime config snapshot, so `exec` SecretRef-backed API keys do not reach the tools unresolved. (#78610) Thanks @VACInc.
- Plugins/install: use the same absolute POSIX npm lifecycle shell for managed plugin install, rollback, repair, and uninstall npm operations as staged package updates, preventing restricted PATH shells from breaking cleanup. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/context engine: invalidate cached assembled context views when source history shrinks or assembly fails, preventing stale pre-reset history from being reused. Fixes #77968. (#78163) Thanks @brokemac79 and @ChrisBot2026.
- Discord/message: parse provider-prefixed targets like `discord:channel:<id>` as channel sends instead of legacy Discord DM targets, so cross-channel agent `message(action="send")` calls no longer misroute channel IDs into misleading `Unknown Channel` failures. Fixes #78572.
- Agents/compaction: clamp compaction summary reserve tokens to each model's output limit so high-context compaction no longer requests invalid `max_tokens` values. (#54392) Thanks @adzendo.
- Commands/BTW: show the `/btw` missing-question usage placeholder with brackets so outbound channel sanitization keeps it visible. Fixes #62877. Thanks @RajvardhanPatil07.
- Cron/doctor: repair persisted cron jobs whose `payload.model` was stored as `"default"`, `"null"`, blank, or JSON `null` by removing the bad override during `openclaw doctor --fix` while keeping cron runtime model validation strict. Fixes #78549. Thanks @bizzle12368239.
- Telegram: honor `accessGroup:*` sender allowlists for DMs, groups, native commands, and callback authorization before applying Telegram's numeric sender-ID checks. Fixes #78660. Thanks @manugc.
- Agent delivery: report `deliverySucceeded=false` when outbound delivery returns no adapter result, so claimed/empty delivery paths no longer masquerade as successful sends. Fixes #78532. Thanks @joeyfrasier.
- Cron/isolated runs: fail implicit announce delivery before model execution when `delivery.channel=last` has no previous route, so recurring jobs do not spend tokens before hitting a permanent delivery-target error. Fixes #78608. Thanks @sallyom.
- Gateway/sessions: persist a new generated transcript file when daily gateway-agent session rollover changes the session id, while preserving custom transcript paths. Fixes #78607. Thanks @nailujac, @zerone0x, and @sallyom.
- Doctor/Codex OAuth: preserve working `openai-codex/*` PI routes during `doctor --fix` and recover 2026.5.5-rewritten `openai/*` GPT-5 routes when only Codex OAuth auth is available, so update repair does not break subscription-auth setups. Fixes #78407. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Telegram: keep the polling watchdog tied to `getUpdates` liveness so unrelated outbound Bot API calls cannot mask a wedged inbound poller. Fixes #78422. Thanks @ai-hpc.
- Agents/subagents: have completed session-mode subagent registry rows honor `agents.defaults.subagents.archiveAfterMinutes` instead of a hardcoded 5-minute TTL, so registry-backed surfaces keep one retention knob across spawn modes. (#78263) Thanks @arniesaha.
- Plugins/channel setup: forward `setChannelRuntime` from non-bundled external plugin setup entries so deferred external channel runtime initializers are installed before startup polling. Fixes #77779. (#77799) Thanks @openperf.
- Telegram: treat successful same-chat `message` tool outbound sends during an inbound Telegram turn as delivered when deciding whether to emit the rewritten silent reply fallback. (#78685) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Gateway/tasks: reconcile stale CLI run-context tasks whose live run context disappeared and bound channel hot-reload deferrals so stale task records cannot block Discord/Slack/Telegram reloads forever.
- Discord/voice: audit Discord voice-channel permissions in `channels capabilities` and `channels status --probe`, including auto-join targets, so missing Connect/Speak/Read Message History permissions show up before `/vc join`.
- Discord/voice: make voice capture less choppy by extending the default post-speech silence grace to 2.5s, add `voice.captureSilenceGraceMs` for noisy Discord sessions, and tighten the spoken-output prompt around live STT fragments. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp: route proactive phone-number sends through Baileys LID forward mappings when available, so LID-addressed contacts receive agent messages instead of creating sender-only ghost chats. Fixes #67378. (#74925) Thanks @edenfunf.
- WhatsApp: send captioned `MEDIA:` directive auto-replies once instead of emitting an empty media message before the captioned media reply. (#78770) Thanks @ai-hpc.
- Codex/approvals: in Codex approval modes, stop installing the pre-guardian native `PermissionRequest` hook by default so Codex's reviewer can approve safe commands before OpenClaw surfaces an approval, remember `allow-always` decisions for identical Codex native `PermissionRequest` payloads within the active session window, and make plugin approval requests validate/render their actual allowed decisions so Telegram and other native approval UIs cannot offer stale actions. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Model providers: normalize APNG sniffed PNG uploads, preserve Gemini 3 tool-call thought-signature replay with fallback signatures, accept legacy `__env__:VAR` custom-provider keys, and repair snake_case tool-call transcript sanitization. Fixes #51881, #48915, #77566, and #42858.
- Telegram/models: parse provider ids containing dots in `/models` callback buttons so `hf.co` model lists render as inline keyboard buttons. Fixes #38745.

## 2026.5.6

### Fixes

- Doctor/OpenAI config: keep the 2026.5.6 release branch clear of the legacy Codex route rewrite that could change OpenAI model config during `doctor --fix`, preserving existing OpenAI routes unless a supported repair path applies.
- Plugins/runtime fetch: drop third-party symbol metadata from plain request header dictionaries before passing them into native `fetch` or `Headers`, so SDK and guarded/proxy fetch paths do not reject otherwise valid plugin requests. Fixes #77846. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Debug proxy: normalize captured fetch header dictionaries before replaying requests so symbol metadata from caller-owned header objects cannot make debug-proxy fetches fail.
- Web fetch: bound guarded dispatcher cleanup after request timeouts so timed-out fetches return tool errors instead of leaving Gateway tool lanes active. (#78439) Thanks @obviyus.

## 2026.5.5

### Fixes

- Telegram/Codex: generate DM topic labels with Codex-compatible simple-completion requests so auto-created private topics can be renamed instead of staying `New Chat`.
- Doctor/Codex OAuth: preserve working `openai-codex/*` PI routes during `doctor --fix`, recover 2026.5.5-rewritten `openai/*` GPT-5 routes when only Codex OAuth auth is available, and warn without rewriting mixed Codex OAuth plus direct OpenAI PI routes, so update repair does not break subscription-auth setups. Fixes #78407. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/runtime fetch: drop third-party symbol metadata from plain request header dictionaries before passing them into native `fetch` or `Headers`, so SDK and guarded/proxy fetch paths do not reject otherwise valid plugin requests. Fixes #77846. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Web fetch: bound guarded dispatcher cleanup after request timeouts so timed-out fetches return tool errors instead of leaving Gateway tool lanes active. (#78439) Thanks @obviyus.
- Mattermost/setup: prompt for and persist the server base URL after the bot token in `openclaw setup --wizard`, instead of failing validation before `--http-url` is collected. Fixes #76670. Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Gate Slack startup user allowlist resolution [AI]. (#77898) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- OpenAI/Codex: suppress stale `openai-codex` GPT-5.1/5.2/5.3 model refs that ChatGPT/Codex OAuth accounts now reject, keeping model lists, config validation, and forward-compat resolution on current 5.4/5.5 routes. Fixes #67158. Thanks @drpau.
- CLI/update: keep pnpm package updates on the running custom global install root and pass pnpm's `--global-dir` so `openclaw update` does not create a second default-prefix install when `OPENCLAW_HOME` or the shell points at a custom OpenClaw directory. Fixes #78377. Thanks @amknight.
- Google Meet/Voice Call: wait longer before playing PIN-derived Twilio DTMF for Meet dial-in prompts and retire stale delegated phone sessions instead of reusing completed calls.
- PDF/Codex: include extraction-fallback instructions for `openai-codex/*` PDF tool requests so Codex Responses receives its required system prompt. Fixes #77872. Thanks @anyech.
- Gateway/startup: keep the Gateway running when a configured optional plugin-owned capability such as a web_search provider or channel points at a known installable plugin that is currently unavailable; startup now logs a config warning and leaves `openclaw doctor --fix` to install or enable the plugin. (#78642) Thanks @joshavant.
- Onboard/channels: recover externalized channel plugins from stale `channels.<id>` config by falling back to `ensureChannelSetupPluginInstalled` via the trusted catalog when the plugin is missing on disk, so leftover `appId`/token entries no longer dead-end onboard with "<channel> plugin not available." (#78328) Thanks @sliverp.
- Codex/app-server: forward the OpenClaw workspace bootstrap block through Codex `developerInstructions` instead of `config.instructions`, so persona/style guidance reaches the behavior-shaping app-server lane. Fixes #77363. Thanks @lonexreb.
- MS Teams: route proactive channel sends with stored thread roots through the configured threaded reply path instead of forcing every CLI/message-tool send into a new top-level post. Fixes #78298. Thanks @amknight.
- CLI/infer: pass minimal instructions to local `openai-codex/*` model probes and surface provider error details when `infer model run` returns no text. Fixes #76464. Thanks @lilesjtu.
- Dependencies: override transitive `ip-address` to `10.2.0` so the runtime lockfile no longer includes the vulnerable `10.1.0` build flagged by Dependabot alert 109. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: apply OpenClaw's npm security overrides inside managed external plugin npm roots so hoisted plugin dependencies inherit the host package hardening. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: skip npm peer resolution in managed plugin roots so installing peer-based plugins such as Opik cannot pull a stale registry `openclaw` copy beside Codex/Discord/WhatsApp and trigger `ERESOLVE`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/uninstall: run managed npm cleanup even when a plugin package directory is already missing, preventing stale package manifests from reinstalling removed plugins on the next npm install.
- Feishu: hydrate missing native topic starter thread IDs before session routing so first turns and follow-ups stay in the same topic session. Fixes #78262. Thanks @joeyzenghuan.
- LINE: reject `dmPolicy: "open"` configs without wildcard `allowFrom` so webhook DMs fail validation instead of being acknowledged and silently blocked before inbound processing. Fixes #78316.
- Telegram/Codex: keep message-tool-only progress drafts visible and render native Codex tool progress once per tool instead of duplicating item/tool draft lines. Fixes #75641. (#77949)
- Providers/xAI: stop sending OpenAI-style reasoning effort controls to native Grok Responses models, so `xai/grok-4.3` no longer fails live Docker/Gateway runs with `Invalid reasoning effort`.
- Providers/xAI: clamp the bundled xAI thinking profile to `off` so live Gateway runs cannot send unsupported reasoning levels to native Grok Responses models.
- Matrix/approvals: retry approval delivery up to 3 times with a short backoff so transient Matrix send failures do not strand pending approval prompts. (#78179) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
- Discord/gateway: measure heartbeat ACK timeouts from the actual heartbeat send, preventing late initial heartbeats from triggering false reconnect loops while the channel is still awaiting readiness. Fixes #77668. (#78087) Thanks @bryce-d-greybeard and @NikolaFC.
- Discord/guilds: route plain text control commands such as `/steer` through the normal authorization and mention gate instead of silently dropping them before an agent session can see them. Fixes #78080. Thanks @ramitrkar-hash.
- Control UI/Sessions: make the compaction count a compact `N Checkpoint(s)` disclosure and show expanded session-level details with modern checkpoint history cards across responsive table layouts. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/performance: keep chat and channel tabs responsive while history payloads and channel probes are slow, label partial channel status, and record slow chat/config render timings in the event log. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/sessions: fire the documented `/new` command and lifecycle hooks only for explicit Control UI session creation, restoring session-memory and custom hook capture without changing SDK parent-session creates. Fixes #76957. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Exec approvals: fall back to a guarded copy when Windows rejects rename-overwrite for `exec-approvals.json`, while preserving symlink, hard-link, and owner-only permission safeguards. Fixes #77785. (#77907) Thanks @Alex-Alaniz and @MilleniumGenAI.
- Slack: preserve Socket Mode SDK error context and structured Slack API fields in reconnect logs, so startup failures no longer collapse to a bare `unknown error`.
- iOS pairing: allow setup-code and manual `ws://` connects for private LAN and `.local` gateways while keeping Tailscale/public routes on `wss://`, and prefer explicit gateway passwords over stale bootstrap tokens in mixed-auth reconnects. Fixes #47887; carries forward #65185. Thanks @draix and @BunsDev.
- Plugins/diagnostics: make source-only TypeScript package warnings actionable by explaining that missing compiled runtime output is a publisher packaging issue and pointing users to update/reinstall or disable/uninstall the plugin. Fixes #77835. Thanks @googlerest.
- Control UI/chat: keep persisted assistant progress text visible when the same transcript turn also contains tool-use metadata, so chat.history reloads no longer make those replies vanish after the next user message. Fixes #77374. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Cron: repair persisted future `nextRunAtMs` values that no longer line up with the cron schedule, so daily timezone-aware jobs do not stay jumped to stale future dates. Fixes #77867. Thanks @hongfangsong.
- TUI: skip the generic CLI respawn wrapper for interactive launches, exit cleanly on terminal loss, and refuse to restore heartbeat sessions as the remembered chat session, preventing stale heartbeat history and orphaned `openclaw-tui` processes on first boot. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/sessions: move heartbeat-poisoned default main session store entries to recovery keys and clear stale TUI restore pointers, so `doctor --fix` can repair instances already stuck on `agent:main:main` heartbeat history. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/context engines: keep hidden OpenClaw runtime-context custom messages out of context-engine assemble, afterTurn, and ingest hooks so transcript reconstruction plugins only see conversation messages. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/shutdown: cancel delayed post-ready maintenance during close and suppress maintenance/cron startup after quick restarts, preventing orphaned background timers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/generated media: treat attachment-style message tool actions as completed chat sends, preventing duplicate fallback media posts when generated files were already uploaded.
- Control UI/sessions: show each session's agent runtime in the Sessions table and allow filtering by runtime labels, matching the Agents panel runtime wording. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/streaming: show live reasoning text in progress drafts instead of a bare `Reasoning` status line.
- Gateway/status: avoid marking fast repeated health/status samples as event-loop degraded from CPU/utilization alone until the Gateway has accumulated a sustained sampling window. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/update: keep installed official npm and ClawHub plugins such as Codex, Discord, WhatsApp, and diagnostics plugins synced during host updates even when disabled or previously exact-pinned, while preserving third-party plugin pins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/status: warn when `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN` would shadow a different active `gateway.auth.token` source for local CLI commands, while avoiding false positives when config points at the same env token. Fixes #74271. Thanks @yelog.
- Gateway/HTTP: avoid loading managed outgoing-image media handlers for unrelated requests, so disabled OpenAI-compatible routes return 404 without waiting on lazy media sidecars. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/OpenAI-compatible: send the assistant role SSE chunk as soon as streaming chat-completion headers are accepted, so cold agent setup cannot leave `/v1/chat/completions` clients with a bodyless 200 response until their idle timeout fires.
- Agents/media: avoid direct generated-media completion fallback while the announce-agent run is still pending, so async video and music completions do not duplicate raw media messages. (#77754)
- WebChat/Codex media: stage Codex app-server generated local images into managed media before Gateway display, so Codex-home image paths no longer hit `LocalMediaAccessError` while keeping Codex home out of the display allowlist. Thanks @frankekn.
- TUI/sessions: bound the session picker to recent rows and use exact lookup-style refreshes for the active session, so dusty stores no longer make TUI hydrate weeks-old transcripts before becoming responsive. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/gateway: report recent supervisor restart handoffs in `openclaw doctor --deep`, using the installed service environment when available so service-managed clean exits are visible in guided diagnostics. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/status: show recent supervisor restart handoffs in `openclaw gateway status --deep`, including JSON details, so clean service-managed restarts are reported as restart handoffs instead of opaque stopped-service diagnostics. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Providers/Fireworks: expose Kimi models as thinking-off-only and keep K2.5/K2.6 requests on `thinking: disabled`, so manual model switches do not send Fireworks-rejected `reasoning*` parameters. Refs #74289. Thanks @frankekn.
- WhatsApp responsiveness: stop only verified stale local TUI clients when they degrade the Gateway event loop and delay replies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: repair stale managed npm-root `openclaw` peer packages before plugin installs, so beta-channel official plugin updates are not downgraded by old core package-lock state. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: reassert managed npm plugin `openclaw` peer links after shared-root npm installs, updates, and uninstalls, so mutating one plugin does not leave previously installed SDK-using plugins unable to resolve `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*`.
- Hooks/session-memory: add collision suffixes to fallback memory filenames so repeated `/new` or `/reset` captures in the same minute do not overwrite the earlier session archive. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/config: remove the ambiguous legacy `main` agent dir helper from runtime paths; model, auth, gateway, bundled plugin, and test helpers now resolve default/session agent dirs through `agents.list`/agent-scope helpers while plugin SDK keeps a deprecated compatibility export.
- CLI/status: show the selected agent runtime/harness in `openclaw status` session rows so terminal status matches the `/status` runtime line. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/sessions: prune old unreferenced transcript, compaction checkpoint, and trajectory artifacts during normal `sessions cleanup`, so gateway restart or crash orphans do not accumulate indefinitely outside `sessions.json`. Fixes #77608. Thanks @slideshow-dingo.
- Doctor/Codex: repair legacy `openai-codex/*` routes in primary models, fallbacks, heartbeat/subagent/compaction overrides, hooks, channel overrides, and stale session pins to canonical `openai/*`, selecting `agentRuntime.id: "codex"` only when the Codex plugin is installed, enabled, contributes the `codex` harness, and has usable OAuth; otherwise select `agentRuntime.id: "pi"`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: keep installed official npm and ClawHub plugins such as Codex, Discord, WhatsApp, and diagnostics plugins synced during host updates even when disabled or previously exact-pinned, while preserving third-party plugin pins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Video generation: accept provider-specific aspect-ratio and resolution hints at the tool boundary, normalize `720P` to MiniMax's supported `768P`, and stop sending Google `generateAudio` on Gemini video requests so provider fallback can recover from model-specific parameter differences. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Status: show compact Gateway process uptime and host system uptime in `/status`, making restart and host-lifetime checks visible from chat. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp responsiveness: stop only verified stale local TUI clients when they degrade the Gateway event loop and delay replies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/session-memory: run reset memory capture off the command reply path and make model-generated memory filename slugs opt-in with `llmSlug: true`, so `/new` and `/reset` no longer block WhatsApp and other message-channel reset replies on hook housekeeping or a nested model call. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/gateway: pause non-TTY stdin after full CLI command completion and stop `openclaw agent` from falling back to embedded mode after gateway request/auth failures, so parent help commands exit cleanly and scoped delivery probes surface the real Gateway error immediately. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/model catalog: cache empty read-only model catalog results until reload, so TUI and control-plane refresh loops cannot hammer plugin metadata reads when no usable models are currently discovered. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/session-memory: add collision suffixes to fallback memory filenames so repeated `/new` or `/reset` captures in the same minute do not overwrite the earlier session archive. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TUI/sessions: bound the session picker to recent rows and use exact lookup-style refreshes for the active session, so dusty stores no longer make TUI hydrate weeks-old transcripts before becoming responsive. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/context engines: keep hidden OpenClaw runtime-context custom messages out of context-engine assemble, afterTurn, and ingest hooks so transcript reconstruction plugins only see conversation messages. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TUI: skip the generic CLI respawn wrapper for interactive launches, exit cleanly on terminal loss, and refuse to restore heartbeat sessions as the remembered chat session, preventing stale heartbeat history and orphaned `openclaw-tui` processes on first boot. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/sessions: move heartbeat-poisoned default main session store entries to recovery keys and clear stale TUI restore pointers, so `doctor --fix` can repair instances already stuck on `agent:main:main` heartbeat history. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/shutdown: report structured shutdown warnings and HTTP close timeout warnings through `ShutdownResult` while preserving lifecycle hook hardening. Carries forward #41296. Thanks @edenfunf.
- CLI/update: make dev-channel preflight lint opt-in and constrained when enabled, so `openclaw update --channel dev` no longer walks back otherwise-good main commits when Ubuntu hosts OOM-kill or fail parallel oxlint shards. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/channels: skip config, proxy, channel-option catalog, banner-config, and plugin startup bootstrap for the bare `openclaw channels` parent-help command, so it exits promptly after printing help instead of loading configured channel plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/shutdown: cancel delayed post-ready maintenance during close and suppress maintenance/cron startup after quick restarts, preventing orphaned background timers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/status: show the selected agent runtime/harness in `openclaw status` session rows so terminal status matches the `/status` runtime line. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Sessions CLI: show the selected agent runtime in the `openclaw sessions` table so terminal output matches the runtime visibility already present in JSON/status surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/sessions: show each session's agent runtime in the Sessions table and allow filtering by runtime labels, matching the Agents panel runtime wording. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docker/Gateway: harden the gateway container by dropping `NET_RAW` and `NET_ADMIN` capabilities and enabling `no-new-privileges` in the bundled `docker-compose.yml`. Thanks @VintageAyu.
- OpenAI/Gateway: flush the initial chat stream chunk correctly so first-token streaming is visible instead of being delayed behind later chunks.
- Gateway/media: skip media sidecar handling for unrelated HTTP routes so non-media requests do not pay the media route behavior.
- Discord: show reasoning text in progress drafts so streaming replies expose useful thinking/progress instead of blank draft updates.
- Auth profiles: avoid putting providers on cooldown for format-level rejections, so fallback profiles can still be tried when a model name is unsupported.
- Update/plugins: tolerate corrupt managed plugin records during update so core package updates can still complete and report the plugin repair path.
- Update: stop dev-channel updates cleanly after a fetch failure instead of continuing into later update steps.
- Agents/generated media: treat attachment-style message tool actions as completed chat sends, preventing duplicate fallback media posts when generated files were already uploaded.

## 2026.5.4

### Highlights

- Google Meet/Voice Call: make Twilio dial-in joins speak through the realtime Gemini voice bridge with paced audio streaming, backpressure-aware buffering, barge-in queue clearing, and no TwiML fallback during realtime speech, giving Meet participants a much snappier OpenClaw voice agent. (#77064) Thanks @scoootscooob.

### Changes

- Gateway/Windows: bind the default loopback gateway listener only to `127.0.0.1` on Windows so libuv's dual-stack `::1` behavior cannot wedge localhost HTTP requests. (#69701, fixes #69674) Thanks @SARAMALI15792.
- Plugins/migration: emit catalog-backed install hints when `plugins.entries` or `plugins.allow` references an official external plugin that is not installed, so upgraded configs point operators to `openclaw plugins install <spec>` instead of telling them to remove valid plugin config. (#77483) Thanks @hclsys.
- OpenAI/Codex media: advertise Codex audio transcription in runtime and manifest metadata and route active Codex chat models to the OpenAI transcription default instead of sending chat model ids to audio transcription. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies: refresh runtime and provider packages including Pi 0.73.0, ACPX adapters, OpenAI, Anthropic, Slack, and TypeScript native preview, while keeping the Bedrock runtime installer override pinned below the Windows ARM Node 24 npm resolver failure.
- Agents/performance: pass the resolved workspace through BTW, compaction, embedded-run model generation, and PDF model setup so explicit agent-dir model refreshes can reuse the current workspace-scoped plugin metadata snapshot instead of falling back to cold plugin metadata scans. (#77519, #77532)
- Plugins/performance: let unscoped model catalog and manifest-contract readers reuse the current workspace-compatible plugin metadata snapshot, avoiding repeated cold plugin metadata scans on hot control-plane paths while preserving env/config/workspace compatibility checks. (#77519, #77532)
- Config/plugin auto-enable: prefer the claiming plugin manifest id over a built-in channel alias when auto-allowlisting a configured channel, so WeCom/Yuanbao-style aliases resolve to the installed plugin id. Thanks @Beandon13.
- Secrets/apply: preserve auth-profile `keyRef` and `tokenRef` fields when scrubbing provider-target secrets, so the canonical SecretRef metadata survives `secrets apply` without keeping plaintext values. Thanks @Beandon13.
- Plugins/active-memory: skip session-store channel entries that contain `:` when resolving the recall subagent's channel, so QQ c2c agent IDs (e.g. `c2c:10D4F7C2…`) and other scoped conversation IDs do not reach bundled-plugin `dirName` validation and crash the recall run. The same guard already applied to explicit `channelId` params (#76704); this extends it to store-derived channels. (#77396) Thanks @hclsys.
- Secrets/external channel contracts: also look in `<rootDir>/dist/` when resolving the `secret-contract-api` sidecar, so npm-published externalized channel plugins (e.g. `@openclaw/discord` since 2026.5.2) whose compiled artifacts live under `dist/` actually contribute their channel SecretRef contracts to the runtime snapshot. Without this, env-backed `channels.discord.token` SecretRefs silently failed to resolve at gateway start on 2026.5.3, leaving the channel `not configured` even though #76449 had landed the generic external-contract loader. Thanks @mogglemoss.
- Models/auth: add `openclaw models auth list [--provider <id>] [--json]` so users can inspect saved per-agent auth profiles without dumping secrets or hitting the old “too many arguments” path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/header: show the active agent name in dashboard breadcrumbs without adding the current session key, keeping non-chat views oriented without crowding the topbar.
- Control UI/cron: make the New Job sidebar collapsible so the jobs list can reclaim space while keeping the form one click away. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/startup: keep model-catalog test helpers, run-session lookup code, QR pairing helpers, and TypeBox memory-tool schema construction out of hot startup import paths, reducing default gateway benchmark plugin-load and memory pressure.
- Control UI/performance: record browser long animation frame or long task entries in the debug event log when supported, making slow dashboard renders easier to attribute from the UI.
- Slack/streaming: add `streaming.progress.render: "rich"` for Block Kit progress drafts backed by structured progress line data.
- Slack/streaming: keep the newest rich progress lines when Block Kit limits trim long progress drafts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/streaming: cap progress-draft tool lines by default so edited progress boxes avoid jumpy reflow from long wrapped lines.
- Agents/verbose: use compact explain-mode tool summaries for `/verbose` and progress drafts by default, with `agents.defaults.toolProgressDetail: "raw"` and per-agent overrides for debugging raw command/detail output.
- Control UI/chat: add an agent-first filter to the chat session picker, keep chat controls/composer responsive across phone/tablet/desktop widths, keep desktop chat controls on one row, avoid duplicate avatar refreshes during initial chat load, and hide that row while scrolling down the transcript. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/chat: collapse consecutive duplicate text messages into one bubble with a count so no-op heartbeat acknowledgements stay compact without hiding nearby context.
- Agents/subagents: preserve every grouped child result when direct completion fallback has to bypass the requester-agent announce turn. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TTS/telephony: honor provider voice/model overrides in telephony synthesis providers so Google Meet agent speech logs match the backend that actually produced the audio. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Voice Call/realtime: bound the paced Twilio audio queue and close overloaded realtime streams before provider audio can pile up behind the websocket backpressure guard. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs: clarify that IRC uses raw TCP/TLS sockets outside operator-managed forward proxy routing, so direct IRC egress should be explicitly approved before enabling IRC. Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Gateway/performance: defer non-readiness sidecars until after the ready signal, avoid hot-path channel plugin barrel imports, and fast-path trusted bundled plugin metadata during Gateway startup.
- Gateway/performance: avoid importing `jiti` on native-loadable plugin startup paths, so compiled bundled plugin surfaces do not pay source-transform loader cost unless fallback loading is actually needed.
- Gateway/diagnostics: add startup phase spans, active work labels, stale terminal bridge markers, and default sync-I/O tracing in `pnpm gateway:watch` so slow Gateway turns are easier to attribute from logs and stability diagnostics.
- Plugins/loader: preserve real compiled plugin module evaluation errors on the native fast path instead of treating every thrown `.js` module as a source-transform fallback miss. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Mantis: add `pnpm openclaw qa mantis slack-desktop-smoke` to run Slack live QA inside a Crabbox VNC desktop, open Slack Web, and capture desktop screenshots beside the Slack QA artifacts.
- QA/Mantis: pass the runtime env through desktop-browser Crabbox and artifact-copy child commands, so embedded Mantis callers can provide Crabbox credentials without mutating the parent process. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Mantis: return the copied Slack desktop screenshot path even when remote Slack QA fails, so the CLI still prints the failure screenshot artifact. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Mantis: accept Blacksmith Testbox `tbx_...` lease ids from desktop smoke warmup, so provider overrides do not fail before inspect/run. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Codex harness: add targeted live Docker/Testbox diagnostics, auth preflight checks, cache mount fixes, and app-server protocol checkout discovery so maintainer harness failures are easier to reproduce. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: treat official externalized bundled npm migrations and ClawHub-to-npm fallbacks as trusted source-linked installs, so prerelease-only official plugin packages can migrate from bundled builds without being rejected as unsafe prerelease resolutions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: move ClawHub-preferred externalized plugin installs back to ClawHub after an earlier npm fallback once the ClawHub package becomes available. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: clean stale bundled load paths for already-externalized pinned npm and ClawHub plugin installs, so release-channel sync does not leave removed bundled paths ahead of the installed external package. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram: accept plugin-owned numeric forum-topic targets in the agent message tool and keep reply-dispatch provider chunks behind a real stable runtime alias during in-place package updates. Fixes #77137. Thanks @richardmqq.
- Google Meet: preserve `realtime.introMessage: ""` so realtime Chrome joins can stay silent instead of restoring the default spoken intro. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/SDK: add bounded `before_agent_finalize` retry instructions so workflow plugins can request one more model pass. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Discord/status: add degraded Discord transport and gateway event-loop starvation signals to `openclaw channels status`, `openclaw status --deep`, and fetch-timeout logs so intermittent socket resets do not look like a healthy running channel. (#76327) Thanks @joshavant.
- Providers/OpenRouter: add opt-in response caching params that send OpenRouter's `X-OpenRouter-Cache`, `X-OpenRouter-Cache-TTL`, and cache-clear headers only on verified OpenRouter routes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenRouter: expand app-attribution categories so OpenClaw advertises coding, programming, writing, chat, and personal-agent usage on verified OpenRouter routes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: make package upgrades swap pnpm/npm-prefix installs cleanly, keep legacy plugin install runtime chunks working, and on the beta channel fall back default-line npm plugins to default/latest when plugin beta releases are missing or fail install validation. Thanks @vincentkoc and @joshavant.
- Channels/WhatsApp: support explicit WhatsApp Channel/Newsletter `@newsletter` outbound message targets with channel session metadata instead of DM routing. Fixes #13417; carries forward the narrow outbound target idea from #13424. Thanks @vincentkoc and @agentz-manfred.
- Exec approvals: add a tree-sitter-backed shell command explainer for future approval and command-review surfaces. (#75004) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Agents/sandbox: store sandbox container and browser registry entries as per-runtime shard files, reducing unrelated session lock contention while `openclaw doctor --fix` migrates legacy monolithic registry files. (#74831) Thanks @luckylhb90.
- Plugins/ClawHub: annotate 429 errors from ClawHub with the reset window from `RateLimit-Reset`/`Retry-After` and append a `Sign in for higher rate limits.` hint when the request was unauthenticated, so users can see when downloads will recover and how to lift the cap. Thanks @romneyda.
- Plugins/runtime state: add `registerIfAbsent` for atomic keyed-store dedupe claims that return whether a plugin successfully claimed a key without overwriting an existing live value. Thanks @amknight.
- Plugin SDK: add plugin-owned `SessionEntry` slot projection and scoped trusted-policy session extension reads. (#75609; replaces part of #73384/#74483) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Sandbox/Windows: accept drive-absolute Docker bind sources while keeping sandbox blocked-path and allowed-root policy comparisons Windows-case-insensitive. (#42174) Thanks @6607changchun.

### Fixes

- macOS/launchd: set generated Gateway LaunchAgent plists to `ProcessType=Interactive` so the gateway keeps timely execution during idle periods. Fixes #58061; refs #62294 and closed duplicate #66992. (#62308) Thanks @bryanpearson and @zssggle-rgb.
- Plugins/install: honor the beta update channel for onboarding and doctor-managed plugin installs by requesting floating npm and ClawHub specs with `@beta` while keeping persistent install records on the catalog default. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp/onboarding: canonicalize setup and pairing allowlist entries to WhatsApp's digit-only phone ids while still accepting E.164, JID, and `whatsapp:` inputs, so personal-phone allowlists match WhatsApp Web sender ids after setup. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: load provider plugins that own explicitly configured image, video, or music generation defaults so generation tools become live after gateway restart instead of remaining catalog-only. Fixes #77244. Thanks @buyuangtampan, @Nikoxx99, and @vincentkoc.
- Slack/subagents: keep resumed parent `message.send` calls in the originating Slack thread when ambient session thread context is present, and suppress successful silent child completion rows from follow-up findings. Thanks @bek91.
- Slack/mentions: record thread participation for successful visible threaded Slack sends, including message-tool and media delivery paths, so unmentioned replies in bot-participated threads can bypass mention gating as documented. Fixes #77648. Thanks @bek91.
- Infra/Windows: skip the POSIX `/tmp/openclaw` preferred path on Windows in `resolvePreferredOpenClawTmpDir` so log files, TTS temp files, and other writes land in `%TEMP%\openclaw-<uid>` instead of `C:\tmp\openclaw`. Fixes #60713. Thanks @juan-flores077.
- Media/Windows: open saved attachment temp files read/write before fsync so Windows WebChat and `chat.send` media offloads no longer fail with EPERM during durability flush. (#76593) Thanks @qq230849622-a11y.
- Agents/tools: honor narrow runtime tool allowlists when constructing embedded-runner tool families and bundled MCP/LSP runtimes, so cron/subagent runs that request tools such as `update_plan`, `browser`, `x_search`, channel login tools, or `group:plugins` no longer start with missing tools or unrelated bootstrap work. (#77519, #77532)
- Codex plugin: mirror the experimental upstream app-server protocol and format generated TypeScript before drift checks, keeping OpenClaw's `experimentalApi` bridge compatible with latest Codex while preserving formatter gates.
- Telegram/media: derive no-caption inbound media placeholders from saved MIME metadata instead of the Telegram `photo` shape, so non-image and mixed attachments no longer reach the model as `<media:image>`. Fixes #69793. Thanks @aspalagin.
- Telegram/streaming: reuse the active preview as the first chunk for long text finals, so multi-chunk replies no longer create a transient extra bubble that appears and then disappears. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/cache: keep per-turn runtime context out of ordinary chat system prompts while still delivering hidden current-turn context, restoring prompt-cache reuse on chat continuations. Fixes #77431. Thanks @Udjin79.
- Gateway/startup: include resolved thinking and fast-mode defaults in the `agent model` startup log line, defaulting unset startup thinking to `medium` without mixing in reasoning visibility.
- Gateway/update: resolve local gateway probe auth from the installed config during post-update restart verification, so token/device-authenticated VPS gateways are not misreported as unhealthy port conflicts after a package swap. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Tools: add post-compaction loop guard in `pi-embedded-runner` that arms after auto-compaction-retry and aborts the run with `compaction_loop_persisted` when the agent emits the same `(tool, args, result)` triple `windowSize` times (default 3) within that window. Disable via existing `tools.loopDetection.enabled`; tune via `tools.loopDetection.postCompactionGuard.windowSize`. Targets the failure mode where context-overflow + compaction does not break a tool-call loop. Refs #77474; carries forward #21597. Thanks @efpiva.
- Gateway/watch: suppress sync-I/O trace output during `pnpm gateway:watch --benchmark` unless explicitly requested, so CPU profiling no longer floods the terminal with stack traces.
- Gateway/watch: when benchmark sync-I/O tracing is explicitly enabled, tee trace blocks to the benchmark output log and filter them from the terminal pane while keeping normal Gateway logs visible.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: include `json5` in the memory-core plugin runtime dependency set so packaged `memory_search` sandboxes can resolve generated OpenClaw runtime chunks that parse JSON5 config. Fixes #77461.
- Plugins/Windows: show a Git install hint when npm plugin installation fails with `spawn git ENOENT`, and document the WhatsApp plugin's Git-on-PATH requirement for Baileys/libsignal installs.
- Codex harness: preserve app-server usage-limit reset details and deliver OpenClaw-owned runtime failure notices through tool-only source-reply mode, so Telegram and other chat channels tell users when Codex subscription limits or API failures block a turn instead of going silent. (#77557) Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Agents/OpenAI: default direct OpenAI Responses models to the SSE transport instead of WebSocket auto-selection, preventing pi runtime chat turns from hanging on servers where the WebSocket path stalls while the OpenAI HTTP stream works. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: repair missing plugin-local `openclaw` peer links before skipping unchanged npm plugin updates, so current external Codex installs can recover `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*` resolution during OTA repair. (#77544) Thanks @ProspectOre.
- Discord/replies: treat failed final reply delivery as a failed turn instead of counting it as a delivered automatic visible reply, so guild/channel turns no longer show done when the final message was dropped. Fixes #77520. Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
- Discord: prefer IPv4 for Discord REST and gateway WebSocket startup paths so IPv4-only networks no longer stall before Gateway READY and inbound message dispatch. Fixes #77398; refs #77526. Thanks @Beandon13.
- Channels/plugins: key bundled package-state probes, env/config presence, and read-only command defaults by channel id instead of manifest plugin id, preserving setup and native-command detection for channel plugins whose package id differs from the channel alias. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docker: prune package-excluded plugin dist directories from runtime images unless the build explicitly opts that plugin in, so official external plugins such as Feishu stay install-on-demand instead of shipping partial metadata without compiled runtime output. Fixes #77424. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Model switching: include the exact additive allowlist repair command when `/model ... --runtime ...` targets a blocked model, and make Telegram's model picker say that it changes only the session model while leaving the runtime unchanged. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost: clarify that the model picker only changes the session model and that runtime switches require `/oc_model <provider/model> --runtime <runtime>`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/config: keep active `auth.profiles` metadata intact when `doctor --fix` strips stale secret fields from configs, repairing legacy `<provider>:default` API-key profile metadata when model fallbacks or explicit `model@profile` refs still depend on it. Fixes #77400.
- Doctor/plugins: include `plugins.allow`-only official plugin ids in the release configured-plugin repair set, so `doctor --fix` installs official external plugins that are configured but not yet loaded instead of removing them as stale allow entries. Fixes #77155. Thanks @hclsys.
- Doctor/sessions: clear auto-created stale session routing state from the sessions store when `doctor --fix` sees plugin-owned model/runtime/auth/session bindings outside the current configured route, while leaving explicit user model choices for manual review. Refs #68615.
- CLI/update: disable and skip plugins that fail package-update plugin sync, so a broken npm/ClawHub/git/marketplace plugin cannot turn a successful OpenClaw package update into a failed update result. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/update: use an absolute POSIX npm script shell during package-manager updates, so restricted PATH environments can still run dependency lifecycle scripts while updating from `--tag main`. Fixes #77530. Thanks @PeterTremonti.
- Diagnostics: grant the internal diagnostics event bus to official installed diagnostics exporter plugins, so npm-installed `@openclaw/diagnostics-prometheus` can emit metrics without broadening the capability to arbitrary global plugins. Fixes #76628. Thanks @RayWoo.
- Browser: enforce strict SSRF current-URL checks before existing-session screenshots, matching existing-session snapshot handling. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Active Memory: give timeout partial transcript recovery enough abort-settle headroom so temporary recall summaries are returned before cleanup. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/chat: clear the active reply-run guard before draining queued same-session follow-up turns, so sequential `chat.send` calls no longer trip `ReplyRunAlreadyActiveError` every other request. Fixes #77485. Thanks @bws14email.
- Agents/media: avoid sending generated image, video, and music attachments twice when streamed reply text arrives before the final `MEDIA:` directive.
- CLI/sessions: cap `openclaw sessions` output to the newest 100 rows by default and add `--limit <n|all>` plus JSON pagination metadata, so repeated machine polling of large session stores cannot fan out into unbounded per-row enrichment/output work. Fixes #77500. Thanks @Kaotic3.
- Doctor/config: restore legacy group chat config migrations for `routing.allowFrom`, `routing.groupChat.*`, and `channels.telegram.requireMention` so upgrades keep WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage group mention gates and history settings instead of leaving configs invalid or silently blocked. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- CLI/update: make package-update follow-up processes write completion results and exit explicitly, so Windows packaged upgrades do not hang after the new package finishes post-core plugin work. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Release validation: skip Slack live QA unless Slack credentials are explicitly configured, so release gates can keep proving non-Slack surfaces while Slack is still local and credential-gated. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: treat OpenClaw CalVer correction versions like `2026.5.3-1` as satisfying base plugin API ranges, so correction builds can install plugins that require the base runtime API. Fixes #77293. (#77450) Thanks @p3nchan.
- Discord/Gateway startup: retry Discord READY waits with backoff, defer startup `sessions.list` and native approval readiness failures until sidecars recover, and preserve component-only Discord payloads when final reply scrubbing removes all text. (#77478) Thanks @NikolaFC.
- CLI/launcher: forward termination signals to compile-cache respawn children, so killing a wrapper process no longer leaves the security audit worker orphaned. Fixes #77458. Thanks @jaikharbanda.
- Plugins/registry: recover managed-npm external plugins from the owned npm root when a stale persisted registry would otherwise hide them after package-manager upgrades. Fixes #77266. Thanks @p3nchan.
- fix(gateway): clamp unbound websocket auth scopes [AI]. (#77413) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Diffs plugin: accept `defaults.ttlSeconds` as a plugin-wide artifact lifetime default, so LAN-viewable diff links can keep their configured six-hour TTL without doctor quarantining the plugin entry. (#77456) Thanks @VACInc.
- Gate zalouser startup name matching [AI]. (#77411) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Active Memory: send a bounded latest-message search query to the recall worker so channel/runtime metadata does not become the memory search string. Fixes #65309. Thanks @joeykrug, @westley3601, @pimenov, and @tasi333.
- fix(device-pair): require pairing scope for pair command [AI]. (#76377) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Providers/OpenRouter: keep DeepSeek V4 `reasoning_effort` on OpenRouter-supported values, mapping stale `max` thinking overrides to `xhigh` so `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro` no longer fails with OpenRouter's invalid-effort 400. Fixes #77350. (#77423) Thanks @krllagent, @mushuiyu886, and @sallyom.
- fix(qqbot): keep private commands off framework surface [AI]. (#77212) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Claude CLI: honor non-off `/think` levels by passing Claude Code's session-scoped `--effort` flag through the CLI backend seam, so chat bridges no longer show an inert thinking control. Fixes #77303. Thanks @Petr1t.
- Agents/subagents: refresh deferred final-delivery payloads when same-session completion output changes, so retried parent notifications use the final child summary instead of stale progress text. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/media: route async music and video completion results back through the requester agent, preserving automatic replies while requiring the message tool only for message-tool-only group/channel delivery.
- active-memory: skip the memory sub-agent gracefully instead of logging a confusing allowlist error when no memory plugin (`memory-core` or `memory-lancedb`) is loaded, so active-memory with no memory backend no longer produces misleading "No callable tools remain" warnings in the gateway log. Fixes #77506. Thanks @hclsys.
- Memory/wiki: preserve representation from both corpora in `corpus=all` searches while backfilling unused result capacity, so memory hits are not starved by numerically higher wiki integer scores. Fixes #77337. Thanks @hclsys.
- Docker/compose: pin container-side `OPENCLAW_CONFIG_DIR` and `OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE_DIR` on both gateway and CLI services so the host paths written into `.env` by `scripts/docker/setup.sh` (used as Compose bind-mount sources) cannot leak into runtime code via the `env_file` import. Fixes regressions on macOS Docker setups where the first agent reply died with `EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/Users'` because the host-style workspace path got persisted into `agents.defaults.workspace`. Fixes #77436. Thanks @lonexreb.
- Telegram: clean up tool-only draft previews after assistant message boundaries so transient `Surfacing...` tool-status bubbles do not linger when no matching final preview arrives. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Telegram: cool down repeatedly failing Bot API transport fallbacks so long polling stops hammering a blackholed Telegram route. Fixes #77900. Thanks @bryce-d-greybeard.
- Slack: report `unknown error` instead of `undefined` in socket-mode startup retry logs and label the retry reason explicitly.
- Telegram: let explicit forum-topic `requireMention` settings override persisted `/activate` and `/deactivate` state, so per-topic mention gates work consistently. Fixes #49864. Thanks @Panniantong.
- Cron: surface failed isolated-run diagnostics in `cron show`, status, and run history when requested tools are unavailable, so blocked cron runs report the actual tool-policy failure instead of a misleading green result. Fixes #75763. Thanks @RyanSandoval.
- TUI/escape abort: track the in-flight runId after `chat.send` resolves so pressing Esc during the gap before the first gateway event aborts the run instead of repeatedly printing `no active run`. Fixes #1296. Thanks @Lukavyi and @romneyda.
- TUI/render: stop the long-token sanitizer from injecting literal spaces inside inline code spans, fenced code blocks, table borders, and bare hyphenated/dotted identifiers, so copied package names, entity IDs, and shell line-continuations stay byte-for-byte intact while narrow-terminal protection still chunks unidentifiable long prose tokens. Fixes #48432, #39505. Thanks @DocOellerson, @xeusoc, @CCcassiusdjs, @akramcodez, @brokemac79, @romneyda.
- Plugin skills: publish plugin-declared skills through the generated plugin skills directory (`~/.openclaw/plugin-skills/`) while keeping direct prompt loading intact, so agent file-based discovery paths find plugin skill `SKILL.md` files and inactive plugin links are cleaned up. Fixes #77296. (#77328) Thanks @zhangguiping-xydt.
- Gateway/status: label Linux managed gateway services as `systemd user`, making status output explicit about the user-service scope instead of implying a system-level unit. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: remove the previous managed plugin directory when a reinstall switches sources, so stale ClawHub and npm copies no longer keep duplicate plugin ids in discovery after the new install wins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: let official plugin reinstall recovery repair source-only installed runtime shadows, so `openclaw plugins install npm:@openclaw/discord --force` can replace the bad package instead of stopping at stale config validation. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/update: stage pnpm-detected npm-layout global package updates through a clean npm prefix swap, keep plugin install runtime imports behind a stable alias, and ship legacy install-runtime aliases back to `2026.3.22`, preventing stale overlay chunks from breaking plugin post-update sync. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/commands: allow the official ClawHub Codex plugin package to keep reserved `/codex` command ownership, matching the existing npm-managed Codex package behavior. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auth/OpenAI Codex: rewrite invalidated per-agent Codex auth-order and session profile overrides toward a healthy relogin profile, so revoked OAuth accounts do not stay pinned after signing in again. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Plugins/commands: scope QQBot framework slash commands to the QQBot channel so `/bot-*` command handlers and native specs do not leak onto unrelated chat surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- fix: harden backend message action gateway routing [AI]. (#76374) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Gate QQBot streaming command auth [AI]. (#76375) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Plugins/discovery: ignore managed npm plugin packages that only expose TypeScript source entries without compiled runtime output, so stale/broken installs cannot hide a working bundled or reinstallable channel plugin during setup. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/update: treat OpenClaw stable correction versions like `2026.5.3-1` as newer than their base stable release, so package updates no longer ask for downgrade confirmation. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: suppress dangerous-pattern scanner warnings for trusted official OpenClaw npm installs, so installing `@openclaw/discord` no longer prints credential-harvesting warnings for the official package. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/commands: suppress dangerous-pattern scanner warnings for trusted catalog npm installs from owner-gated `/plugins install` commands, so chat-driven installs match the CLI install trust path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/release: make the published npm runtime verifier reject blank `openclaw.runtimeExtensions` entries instead of treating them as absent and passing via inferred outputs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/security: ignore inline and block comments when matching source-rule context in plugin install scans, so comment-only `fetch`/`post` references near environment defaults do not block clean plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/plugins: remove stale managed install records for bundled plugins even when the bundled plugin is not explicitly configured, so doctor cleanup cannot leave orphaned install metadata behind. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Web fetch: scope provider fallback cache entries by the selected fetch provider so config reloads cannot reuse another provider's cached fallback payload. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Web search: honor late-bound `tools.web.search.enabled: false` during tool execution so config reloads cannot leave an already-created `web_search` tool runnable. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/packages: reject inferred built runtime entries that exist but fail package-boundary checks instead of falling back to TypeScript source for installed packages. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/loader: do not retry native-loaded JavaScript plugin modules through the source transformer after native evaluation has already reached a missing dependency, avoiding duplicate top-level side effects. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/packages: reject blank `openclaw.runtimeExtensions` entries instead of silently ignoring them and falling back to inferred TypeScript runtime entries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/plugins: remove stale managed npm plugin shadow entries from the managed package lock as well as `package.json` and `node_modules`, so future npm operations do not keep referencing repaired bundled-plugin shadows. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime state: keep the key being registered when namespace eviction runs in the same millisecond as existing entries, so `register` and `registerIfAbsent` do not report success while evicting their own fresh value. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/providers: make bundled provider discovery honor restrictive `plugins.allow` by default for new configs, while doctor migrates legacy restrictive allowlist configs to `plugins.bundledDiscovery: "compat"` to preserve upgrade behavior. Thanks @dougbtv.
- Control UI/Talk: make failed Talk startup errors dismissable and clear the stale Talk error state when dismissed, so missing realtime voice provider configuration does not leave a permanent chat banner. Fixes #77071. Thanks @ijoshdavis.
- Control UI/Talk: stop and clear failed realtime Talk sessions when dismissing runtime error banners, so the next Talk click starts a fresh session instead of only stopping the stale one. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/Talk: retry from a failed realtime Talk session on the next Talk click instead of requiring a separate stale-session stop click first. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Canvas host: preserve the Gateway TLS scheme in browser canvas host URLs and startup mount logs, so direct HTTPS gateways do not advertise insecure canvas links. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp/login: route login success and failure messages through the injected runtime, so setup/onboarding surfaces capture all login output instead of only the QR. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Chat: create an isolated Google auth transport per auth client, so google-auth-library interceptor mutations do not accumulate across webhook verification and access-token clients. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/plugins: remove orphaned or recovered managed npm copies of bundled `@openclaw/*` plugins during `doctor --fix`, so stale package manifests cannot shadow the current bundled plugin config schema.
- Control UI/performance: cap long-task and long-animation-frame diagnostics in the shared event log, so slow-render telemetry does not evict gateway/plugin events from the Debug and Overview views. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: log the canvas host mount only after the HTTP server has bound, so startup logs no longer report the canvas host as mounted before it can serve requests.
- Control UI/i18n: render the Sessions active filter tooltip with the configured minute count in every locale and make the i18n check reject placeholder drift. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Web fetch: late-bind `web_fetch` config and provider fallback metadata from the active runtime snapshot, matching `web_search` so long-lived tools do not use stale fetch provider settings. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord: clear stale startup probe bot/application status when the async bot probe throws, not just when it returns a degraded probe result. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Web search: scope explicit bundled `web_search` provider runtime loading through manifest ownership, so selecting DuckDuckGo/Gemini/etc. does not import unrelated bundled providers or log their optional dependency failures. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/discovery: demote the source-only TypeScript runtime check on already-installed `origin: "global"` plugin packages from a config-blocking error to a warning and let the runtime fall through to the TypeScript source via jiti, so a single broken installed package no longer blocks `plugins install` for unrelated plugins; install-time rejection of newly-installed source-only packages is unchanged. Thanks @romneyda.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: stop the OAuth progress spinner before showing the manual redirect paste prompt, so callback timeouts do not spam `Browser callback did not finish` across terminals.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: fail closed on malformed `/codex` control commands and diagnostics confirmations before changing bindings, permissions, model overrides, active turns, or feedback uploads. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: sanitize Codex app-server command readouts, failure replies, approval prompts, elicitation prompts, and `request_user_input` text before posting them back into chat. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: preserve local bound-turn image paths, reject stale same-thread turn notifications, enforce option-only user input prompts, and return failed dynamic tool results to Codex as unsuccessful tool calls. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/DeepSeek: expose DeepSeek V4 `xhigh` and `max` thinking levels through the lightweight provider-policy surface, so Control UI `/think` pickers keep showing the max reasoning options when the runtime plugin registry is not active. Fixes #77139. Thanks @bittoby.
- Release/beta smoke: resolve the dispatched Telegram beta E2E run from `gh run list` when `gh workflow run` returns no run URL, so the maintainer helper does not fail immediately after dispatch. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Media/images: keep HEIC/HEIF attachments fail-closed when optional Sharp conversion is unavailable instead of sending originals that still need conversion. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: fork the caller's current agent transcript into agent-mode meeting consultant sessions, so Meet replies inherit the context from the tool call that joined the meeting.
- iOS/mobile pairing: reject non-loopback `ws://` setup URLs before QR/setup-code issuance and let the iOS Gateway settings screen scan QR codes or paste full setup-code messages. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI: keep Gateway Access inputs and locale picker contained inside the card at narrow and tablet widths.
- Agents/trajectory: bound runtime trajectory capture and yield queued sidecar writes so oversized traces stop recording instead of monopolizing Gateway cleanup. Fixes #77124. Thanks @loyur.
- Telegram/streaming: sanitize tool-progress draft preview backticks before shared compaction, so long backtick-heavy progress text still renders inside the safe code-formatted preview instead of collapsing to an ellipsis.
- UI/chat: remove the unsupported `line-clamp` declaration from the chat queue text rule to eliminate Firefox console noise without changing visible truncation behavior. Thanks @ZanderH-code.
- Control UI: add explicit feedback for repeated actions by announcing session switches, flashing the active session selector, showing inline Save/Apply/Update progress, and distinguishing filtered-empty session lists from genuinely empty session stores. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/Pi: suppress persistence for synthetic mid-turn overflow continuation prompts, so transcript-retry recovery does not write the "continue from transcript" prompt as a new user turn. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/tools: strip reasoning text from visible rich presentation titles, blocks, buttons, and select labels before message-tool sends, so structured channel payloads cannot leak hidden planning. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram: keep reply-dispatch lazy provider runtime chunks behind stable dist names and delete `/reasoning stream` previews after final delivery so package updates and live reasoning drafts do not leave Telegram turns broken or noisy. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Discord: start the gateway monitor without waiting for the startup bot/application probe, so WSL2 hosts with a slow `/users/@me` REST path still bring the channel online while status enrichment finishes asynchronously. Fixes #77103. Thanks @Suited78.
- Exec approvals: detect `env -S` split-string command-carrier risks when `-S`/`-s` is combined with other env short options, so approval explanations do not miss split payloads hidden behind `env -iS...`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: log the concrete agent-mode TTS provider, model, voice, output format, and sample rate after speech synthesis, so Meet logs show which voice backend spoke each reply.
- Voice Call: mark realtime calls completed when the realtime provider closes normally, so Twilio/OpenAI/Google realtime stop events do not leave active call records behind. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/update: keep the shutdown close path behind a stable runtime chunk and ship compatibility aliases for recent `server-close-*` hashes, so manual npm package replacement cannot leave an already-running Gateway unable to shut down cleanly. Fixes #77087. Thanks @westlife219.
- Control UI/media: mint short-lived scoped tickets for assistant media fetches and render ticketed URLs instead of exposing long-lived auth tokens in chat image URLs. Fixes #70830 and #77097. Thanks @hclsys.
- Exec approvals: treat POSIX `exec` as a command carrier for inline eval, shell-wrapper, and eval/source detection, so approval explanations and command-risk checks do not miss payloads hidden behind `exec`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: log the resolved audio provider model when starting Chrome and paired-node Meet talk-back bridges, so agent-mode joins show the STT model and bidi joins show the realtime voice model.
- Diagnostics: handle missing session-tail files in cron recovery context without tripping extension test typecheck. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Slack: update the Slack dispatch preview fallback test SDK mock for structured progress draft helpers, so the rich progress draft regression suite covers the new imports instead of failing before assertions run. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Release validation: allow focused QA live reruns to select Matrix and Telegram without running Slack, so known Slack credential-pool outages do not block non-Slack live proof. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/loader: keep bundled plugin package `test-api.js` aliases behind private QA mode, so source transforms do not expose test-only public surfaces during normal plugin loading. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: start cron and record the post-ready memory trace even when deferred maintenance timers fail after readiness, so a non-fatal timer setup issue does not silently leave scheduled jobs idle. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Exec approvals: unwrap BSD/macOS `env -P <path>` carrier commands before approval-command and strict inline-eval checks, so `/approve` shell execution and inline interpreter payloads are still blocked behind that env form.
- Agents/session status: keep semantic `session_status({ sessionKey: "current" })` on the live run session even before that run has a persisted session-store entry, instead of falling back to the sandbox policy key. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Slack: resolve bundled official plugin public-surface package aliases during source-mode QA runs, so release Slack live validation can load `@openclaw/slack/api.js` without workspace symlinks. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex: pass the live run session key into app-server dynamic tools when sandbox policy uses a separate session key, so `session_status({ sessionKey: "current" })` reports the active run instead of the sandbox policy key. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Web search: keep first-class assistant `web_search` auto-detect and configured runtime providers visible when active runtime metadata or the active plugin registry is incomplete. Fixes #77073. Thanks @joeykrug.
- Plugins/tools: mark manifest-optional sibling tools as optional even when they come from a shared non-optional factory, so cached/status/MCP metadata keeps opt-in tool policy accurate. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Matrix: keep `streaming.progress.toolProgress` scoped to progress draft mode, so partial and quiet Matrix previews do not lose tool progress unless `streaming.preview.toolProgress` is disabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/validation: isolate gateway server validation files, ignore unrelated startup logs in request-trace coverage, and fail fast on stuck shared-auth sockets, reducing false main-branch CI failures for contributors. Thanks @amknight.
- Channels/streaming: keep `streaming.progress.toolProgress` scoped to progress draft mode, so disabling compact progress lines does not silence partial/block preview tool updates. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: treat OpenClaw stable correction versions like `2026.5.3-1` as stable releases for npm installs, plugin updates, and bundled-version comparisons, so `latest` can advance official plugins without prerelease opt-in. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI: point the Appearance tweakcn browse action and docs at the live tweakcn editor route instead of the removed `/themes` page. Fixes #77048.
- Control UI: render Dream Diary prose through the sanitized markdown pipeline, so diary bold/italic/header markdown no longer appears as literal source text. Fixes #62413.
- Control UI: render tool results whose output arrives as text-block arrays and give expanded tool output a scrollable block, so read/exec output remains visible in WebChat. Fixes #77054.
- MCP: include serialized conversation/message payloads in the primary text content for `conversations_list` and `messages_read`, while preserving `structuredContent` for capable clients. Fixes #77024.
- Media: treat `EPERM` from the post-write media fsync step as best-effort, allowing WebChat and channel uploads to finish on Windows filesystems that reject `fsync` after a successful write. Fixes #76844.
- Media/Telegram: send in-limit original images when optional image optimization is unavailable, so Telegram MEDIA replies and message-tool image sends do not fail just because `sharp` is missing. Fixes #77081. (#77117) Thanks @pfrederiksen.
- Diagnostics: include last progress, cron job/run ids, stopped cron job name, and the last assistant transcript snippet in stalled-session and stuck-session recovery logs so cron stalls show what was stopped.
- Streaming channels: add `streaming.preview.commandText: "status"` / `streaming.progress.commandText: "status"` to hide command/exec text in preview progress lines while keeping the released raw command text default. Fixes #77072.
- Agents/cron: let explicit cron `timeoutSeconds` drive both CLI no-output and embedded LLM idle watchdogs instead of being capped by resume defaults. Fixes #76289.
- Plugins/catalog: suppress missing `channelConfigs` compatibility diagnostics for external channel plugins that are disabled, denied, or outside a restrictive allowlist. Fixes #76095.
- Diagnostics: keep webhook/message OTEL attributes and Prometheus delivery labels low-cardinality and omit raw chat/message IDs from spans, so progress-draft and message-tool modes do not leak high-cardinality messaging identifiers.
- Google Meet: stop advertising legacy `mode: "realtime"` to agents and config UIs, while keeping it as a hidden compatibility alias for `mode: "agent"`, so new joins use the STT -> OpenClaw agent -> TTS path instead of selecting the direct realtime voice fallback.
- Google Meet: add `chrome.audioBufferBytes` for generated command-pair SoX audio commands and lower the default buffer from SoX's 8192 bytes to 4096 bytes to reduce Chrome talk-back latency.
- Google Meet: split realtime provider config into agent-mode transcription and bidi-mode voice providers, and migrate legacy Gemini Live bidi configs with `doctor --fix`, so Gemini Live can back direct bidi fallback without breaking the default OpenClaw agent talk-back path.
- Google Meet: keep waiting for the Meet microphone to unmute during join intro readiness instead of permanently skipping talk-back when Meet briefly reports the local mic as muted.
- Google Meet: expose `voiceCall.postDtmfSpeechDelayMs` in the plugin manifest schema and setup hints, so manifest-based config editing accepts the runtime-supported Twilio delay key. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: keep explicit non-Google `realtime.provider` values as the transcription provider compatibility fallback when `realtime.transcriptionProvider` is unset. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: make Twilio setup status require an enabled `voice-call` plugin entry instead of treating a missing entry as ready. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram: render shared interactive reply buttons in reply delivery so plugin approval messages show inline keyboards. (#76238) Thanks @keshavbotagent.
- Cron/sessions: keep cron metadata rows without an on-disk transcript non-resumable until a transcript exists, so doctor and `sessions cleanup --fix-missing` no longer report or prune pre-transcript cron rows as broken sessions. Refs #77011.
- OpenAI Codex: recreate missing bound app-server threads once when a stale `/codex bind` sidecar survives a restart, preserving the selected auth profile and turn overrides before retrying the inbound turn. (#76936) Thanks @keshavbotagent.
- Agents/cli-runner: drop a saved `claude-cli` resume sessionId at preparation time when its on-disk transcript no longer exists in `~/.claude/projects/`, so a stale binding from a half-installed `update.run` cannot trap follow-up runs (auto-reply / Telegram direct) in a `claude --resume` timeout loop; the run starts fresh and the new sessionId is written back through the existing post-run flow. (#77030; refs #77011) Thanks @openperf.
- Release validation: install the cross-OS TypeScript harness through Windows-safe Node/npm shims so native Windows package checks reach the OpenClaw smoke suites instead of exiting before artifact capture. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Release validation: let Windows packaged-upgrade checks continue after the shipped 2026.5.2 updater hits its native-module swap cleanup fallback, verifying the fallback-installed candidate through package metadata and downstream smoke instead of crashing on the immediate update-status probe. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/plugins: skip channel-derived official plugin installs when another configured plugin is the effective owner for the same channel, so `doctor --repair` does not reinstall `feishu` while `openclaw-lark` handles `channels.feishu`. Fixes #76623. Thanks @fuyizheng3120.
- Gateway/sessions: memoize repeated thinking-option enrichment and skip unused cost fallback checks while listing sessions, reducing per-row work on large multi-agent stores. Fixes #76931.
- Gateway/sessions: bound default `sessions.list` RPC responses and report truncation metadata, preventing Slack-heavy long-lived stores from forcing unbounded Gateway row construction. Fixes #77062.
- Agents/tools: use config-only runtime snapshots for plugin tool registration and live runtime config getters, avoiding expensive full secrets snapshot clones on the core-plugin-tools prep path. Fixes #76295.
- Agents/tools: honor the effective tool denylist before constructing optional PDF/media tool factories, so `tools.deny: ["pdf"]` skips PDF setup before later policy filtering. Fixes #76997.
- MCP/plugin tools: apply global `tools.profile`, `tools.alsoAllow`, and `tools.deny` policy while exposing plugin tools over the standalone MCP bridge, so ACP clients do not see policy-hidden plugin tools or miss opt-in optional tools. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin tools: honor explicit tool denylists while selecting plugin tool runtimes, so denied plugin tools are not materialized for direct command or gateway surfaces before later policy filtering. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin tools: filter factory-returned tools by manifest per-tool optional policy, so optional sibling tools from a shared runtime factory stay hidden unless explicitly allowed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/transcripts: retry context-overflow compaction from the current transcript only after the inbound user turn was actually persisted, and keep WebChat agent-run live delivery from writing duplicate Pi-managed assistant turns. Fixes #76424. (#77033)
- Agents/bootstrap: keep pending `BOOTSTRAP.md` and bootstrap truncation notices in system-prompt Project Context instead of copying setup text or raw warning diagnostics into WebChat user/runtime context. Fixes #76946.
- Gateway/install: keep `.env`-managed values in the macOS LaunchAgent env file while still tracking `OPENCLAW_SERVICE_MANAGED_ENV_KEYS`, so regenerated services do not boot without managed auth/provider keys. Fixes #75374.
- Gateway/restart: verify listener PIDs by argv when `lsof` reports only the Node process name, so stale gateway cleanup can find macOS `cnode` listeners. Fixes #70664.
- Gateway/logging: expand leading `~` in `logging.file` before creating the file logger, preventing startup crash loops for home-relative log paths. Fixes #73587.
- Channels/CLI: keep `openclaw channels list --json` usable when provider usage fetching fails, and report per-provider usage errors without aborting the channel list. Refs #67595.
- Doctor/plugins: do not treat `plugins.allow` entries as configured plugins during missing-plugin repair, so restrictive allowlists no longer install allowed-but-unused plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/messaging: deliver distinct final commentary after same-target `message` tool sends while still deduping text/media already sent by the tool, so short closing remarks are no longer silently dropped. Fixes #76915. Thanks @hclsys.
- Agents/messaging: preserve string thread IDs when matching message-tool reply dedupe routes, avoiding precision loss on numeric-looking topic IDs before channel plugin comparison. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/streaming: honor `agents.defaults.toolProgressDetail: "raw"` in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Matrix, and Microsoft Teams progress drafts, so tool-start lines include raw command/detail output when debugging. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/streaming: strip unmatched inline-code backticks from compacted raw progress draft lines, avoiding stray markdown markers after long command details are shortened. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/Slack/Mattermost: align draft preview tool-progress config help with the runtime behavior that hides interim tool updates when `streaming.preview.toolProgress` is false. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Feishu: use the shared channel progress formatter for streaming-card tool status lines, including raw command/detail output and message-tool filtering. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost: use the shared progress draft formatter for tool status previews, including raw command/detail output when `agents.defaults.toolProgressDetail: "raw"` is enabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost: suppress standalone default tool-progress messages while draft previews are active, including when draft tool lines are disabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram: deliver button-only interactive replies by sending the shared fallback button-label text with the inline keyboard instead of dropping the reply as empty. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex: honor `auth.order.openai-codex` when starting app-server clients without an explicit auth profile, so status/model probes and implicit startup use the configured Codex account instead of falling back to the default profile. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex: let SSRF-guarded provider requests inherit OpenClaw's undici IPv4/IPv6 fallback policy, so ChatGPT-backed Codex runs recover on IPv4-working hosts when DNS still returns unreachable IPv6 addresses. Fixes #76857. Thanks @jplavoiemtl and @SymbolStar.
- Plugin updates: do not short-circuit trusted official npm updates as unchanged when the default/latest spec still resolves to an already-installed prerelease that the installer should replace with a stable fallback. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin updates: clean stale bundled load paths for already-externalized npm installs whose legacy install record only preserved the resolved package name. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin tools: keep auth-unavailable optional tools hidden even when another default tool from the same plugin is available and `tools.alsoAllow` names the optional tool. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Realtime transcription: report socket closes before provider readiness as closed-before-ready failures instead of mislabeling them as connection timeouts for OpenAI, xAI, and Deepgram streaming transcription. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI/Google Meet: fail realtime voice connection attempts when the socket closes before `session.updated`, avoiding stuck Meet joins waiting on a bridge that never became ready. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: avoid treating repeated participant words as multiple assistant-overlap matches when suppressing realtime echo transcripts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: make `mode: "agent"` the default Chrome talk-back path, using realtime transcription for input and regular OpenClaw TTS for speech output, while keeping direct realtime voice answers available as `mode: "bidi"` and accepting `mode: "realtime"` as an agent-mode compatibility alias.
- Codex harness: keep `codex_app_server.*` telemetry publication owned by the harness instead of republishing the same callback event from core runners. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/Discord: suppress standalone tool-progress chatter when partial preview streaming has `streaming.preview.toolProgress: false`, matching the documented quiet-preview behavior. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Matrix: bind native approval reaction targets before publishing option reactions, so fast approver reactions on threaded prompts are not dropped while the approval handler finishes setup. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: make realtime talk-back agent-driven by default with `realtime.strategy: "agent"`, keep the previous direct bidirectional model behavior available as `realtime.strategy: "bidi"`, route the Meet tab speaker output to `BlackHole 2ch` automatically for local Chrome realtime joins, coalesce nearby speech transcript fragments before consulting the agent, and avoid cutting off agent speech from server VAD or stale playback pipe errors.
- Google Meet: suppress queued assistant playback and assistant-like transcript echoes from the realtime input path, so the meeting does not hear the agent's own speech as a new user turn and loop or cut itself off.
- Google Meet: keep Chrome realtime transport tests hermetic on Linux prerelease shards while preserving the macOS-only runtime guard. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: let the live tool-progress preview and error checks verify progress replacement events without depending on the preview saying `Working`, `tool: read`, an unlabelled/pathless `read from`, or the original draft root being observed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: keep the target=both approval scenario focused on channel and DM metadata delivery by resolving the accepted approval through the gateway after both Matrix events are observed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: wait for live approval reactions to echo before starting the threaded approval decision timeout. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: reuse the primed driver sync stream when confirming approval reaction echoes, avoiding missed self-reactions in live release runs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/WhatsApp: apply the shared group/channel visible-reply mode during inbound dispatch so group replies stay message-tool-only by default without overriding direct-chat harness defaults. Refs #75178 and #67394. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Plugins/Codex: preserve Codex-native OAuth routing for `/codex bind` app-server turns so bound sessions keep the selected Codex auth profile instead of falling back to public OpenAI credentials. (#76714) Thanks @keshavbotagent.
- Telegram: keep status checks pointed at the active chat so asking for the current session no longer reports an old direct-message conversation. (#76708) Thanks @amknight.
- Gateway/install: prefer supported system Node over nvm/fnm/volta/asdf/mise when regenerating managed gateway services, so `gateway install --force` no longer recreates service definitions that doctor immediately flags as version-manager-backed. Fixes #76339. Thanks @brokemac79 and @BunsDev.
- Google Chat: normalize Google auth certificate response headers before google-auth-library reads cache-control, so inbound webhook auth no longer rejects with `res?.headers.get is not a function`. Fixes #76880. Thanks @donbowman.
- WhatsApp: route terminal login QR output through the active runtime for initial and restart sockets, so `openclaw channels login --channel whatsapp` does not lose the QR behind direct stdout writes. Fixes #76213. Thanks @dougvk.
- Proxy/debugging: disable debug proxy direct upstream forwarding for proxy requests and CONNECT tunnels while managed proxy mode is active unless `OPENCLAW_DEBUG_PROXY_ALLOW_DIRECT_CONNECT_WITH_MANAGED_PROXY=1` is explicitly set for approved local diagnostics. Thanks @jesse-merhi and @mjamiv.
- Direct APNs: route direct HTTP/2 delivery through the active managed proxy with redacted proxy diagnostics, so push requests honor configured egress controls and `openclaw proxy validate --apns-reachable` can prove APNs is reachable through the proxy before deployment. (#74905) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Agents/subagents: detect prefix-only completion announce replies and fall back to the captured child result so requester chats no longer lose most of long sub-agent reports silently. Fixes #76412. Thanks @inxaos and @davemorin.
- TUI: replace the stale-response watchdog notice with plain user-facing copy so stalled replies no longer surface backend or streaming internals. (#77120) Thanks @davemorin.
- Security/Windows: validate `SystemRoot`/`WINDIR` env values through the Windows install-root validator and add them to the dangerous-host-env policy when resolving `icacls.exe`/`whoami.exe` for `openclaw security audit`, so workspace `.env` overrides and bare command names cannot redirect Windows ACL helpers to attacker-controlled binaries. (#74458) Thanks @mmaps.
- Security/Windows: pin Windows registry-probe `reg.exe` resolution to the canonical Windows install root in install-root probing, so `SystemRoot`/`WINDIR` env overrides cannot redirect registry queries during Windows host detection. (#74454) Thanks @mmaps.
- QQBot: preserve the framework command authorization decision when converting framework command contexts into engine slash command contexts, so downstream slash handlers see `commandAuthorized` matching the channel's resolved `isAuthorizedSender` instead of a hardcoded `true`. (#77453) Thanks @drobison00.
- Security/Windows: block `LOCALAPPDATA` from workspace `.env` and resolve Windows update-flow portable Git path prepends from the trusted process-local `LOCALAPPDATA` only, so workspace-supplied values cannot redirect `git` discovery during `openclaw update`. (#77470) Thanks @drobison00.
- Browser/SSRF: enforce the existing current-tab URL navigation policy before tab-scoped debug, export, and read routes (console, page errors, network requests, trace start/stop, response body, screenshot, snapshot, storage, etc.) collect from an already-selected tab, so blocked tabs return a policy error instead of being read first and redacted only at response time. (#75731) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Security/Windows: route the `.cmd`/`.bat` process wrapper through the shared Windows install-root resolver instead of `process.env.ComSpec`, so workspace dotenv-blocked `SystemRoot`/`WINDIR` overrides and unsafe values like UNC paths or path-lists cannot redirect `cmd.exe` selection on Windows. (#77472) Thanks @drobison00.
- Agents/bootstrap: honor `BOOTSTRAP.md` content injected by `agent:bootstrap` hooks when deciding whether bootstrap is pending, so hook-provided required setup instructions are included in the system prompt. (#77501) Thanks @ificator.

## 2026.5.3-1

### Fixes

- Plugins/security: stop the install scanner from blocking official bundled plugin packages when `process.env` access and normal API sends only appear in distant parts of the same compiled bundle. Thanks @vincentkoc.

## 2026.5.3

### Highlights

- Plugins/file-transfer: add bundled file-transfer plugin with `file_fetch`, `dir_list`, `dir_fetch`, and `file_write` agent tools for binary file ops on paired nodes; default-deny per-node path policy under `plugins.entries.file-transfer.config.nodes` with operator approval, symlink traversal refused by default (opt-in `followSymlinks`), and a 16 MB byte ceiling per round-trip. (#74742) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Plugins/install: harden official plugin install, uninstall, update, onboarding, ClawHub fallback, npm dependency-state reporting, and beta-channel update paths so externalized plugins behave like first-class package installs.
- Gateway/performance: trim startup and Control UI hot paths by lazy-loading plugin/runtime discovery, cron, schema, shutdown, sessions, and model metadata work only when needed.
- Channels/replies: improve Discord status reactions and degraded transport reporting, add WhatsApp Channel/Newsletter targets, and tighten Telegram, Feishu, Matrix, Microsoft Teams, and Slack delivery/recovery behavior.
- Install/update: recover broken macOS LaunchAgent upgrades, reject source-only plugin packages before runtime load, and repair stale Gateway/plugin state during updates and doctor runs.
- Agent/runtime reliability: preserve streamed provider replies, delayed A2A session replies, prompt/tool delivery, memory recall, web search provider discovery, and provider-specific thinking/model metadata across common edge cases.

### Changes

- Channels/streaming: add unified `streaming.mode: "progress"` drafts with auto single-word status labels and shared progress configuration across Discord, Telegram, Matrix, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
- Agents/commands: add `/steer <message>` for queue-independent steering of the active current-session run without starting a new turn when the session is idle. (#76934)
- Tools/BTW: add `/side` as a text and native slash-command alias for `/btw` side questions.
- Doctor/config: `doctor --fix` now commits safe legacy migrations even when unrelated validation issues (e.g. a missing plugin) prevent full validation from passing, so `agents.defaults.llm` and other known-legacy keys are always cleaned up by `doctor --fix` regardless of other config problems. Fixes #76798. (#76800) Thanks @hclsys.
- Agents/tools: skip optional media and PDF tool factories when the effective tool denylist already blocks them, avoiding unnecessary hot-path setup for tools that will be filtered out before model use. (#76773) Thanks @dorukardahan.
- Agents/compaction: ignore pre-usage transcript metadata bytes when stale token snapshots estimate preflight compaction pressure, while still counting post-usage transcript tail pressure. Fixes #78604. Thanks @amknight.
- Discord/status: let explicit reaction tool calls opt into tracking subsequent tool progress on the reacted message with `trackToolCalls: true`, and use the shared tool display emoji table for status reactions.
- Gateway/config: stop Gateway startup and hot reload from auto-restoring invalid config; invalid config now fails closed and `openclaw doctor --fix` owns last-known-good repair.
- Gateway/performance: lazy-load early runtime discovery and shutdown-hook helpers, defer maintenance timers until after readiness, and trim duplicate plugin auto-enable work during Gateway startup.
- QA/Mantis: add a `pnpm openclaw qa mantis discord-smoke` runner and manual GitHub workflow that verify the Mantis Discord bot can see the configured guild/channel, post a smoke message, add a reaction, and upload artifacts.
- QA/Slack: add a Slack live transport QA runner with canary and mention-gating coverage for the private bot-to-bot harness. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/onboarding: let Manual setup install optional official plugins, including ClawHub-backed diagnostics with npm fallback, and expose the external Codex plugin as a selectable provider setup choice. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/CLI/update: include package dependency install state in `openclaw plugins list --json`, trust official externalized npm migrations, clean stale bundled load paths for externalized installs, try plugin `@beta` updates first on the beta OpenClaw channel, and fall back to default/latest when no plugin beta release exists.
- Plugins/ClawHub: annotate 429 errors with reset windows and unauthenticated higher-rate-limit hints, so operators can tell when downloads recover and when signing in helps. Thanks @romneyda.
- Gateway/performance: lazy-load early runtime discovery, shutdown hooks, cron, channel-config schema metadata, restart sentinels, and maintenance timers after readiness; trim duplicate plugin auto-enable work and add startup CPU/profile controls.
- Gateway/config: stop Gateway startup and hot reload from auto-restoring invalid config; invalid config now fails closed and `openclaw doctor --fix` owns last-known-good repair.
- Discord/status: let explicit reaction tool calls opt into tracking later tool progress with `trackToolCalls: true`, share tool display emoji mapping, and surface degraded Discord transport or gateway event-loop starvation in status output. (#76327) Thanks @joshavant.
- Channels/WhatsApp: support explicit WhatsApp Channel/Newsletter `@newsletter` outbound message targets with channel session metadata instead of DM routing. Fixes #13417; carries forward the narrow outbound target idea from #13424. Thanks @vincentkoc and @agentz-manfred.
- Agents/tools: skip optional media and PDF tool factories when the effective tool denylist already blocks them, avoiding unnecessary hot-path setup for tools that will be filtered out before model use. (#76773) Thanks @dorukardahan.
- Agents/sandbox: store sandbox container and browser registry entries as per-runtime shard files, reducing unrelated session lock contention while `openclaw doctor --fix` migrates legacy monolithic registry files. (#74831) Thanks @luckylhb90.
- Tools/BTW: add `/side` as a text and native slash-command alias for `/btw` side questions.
- Exec approvals: add a tree-sitter-backed shell command explainer for future approval and command-review surfaces. (#75004) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- QA/Mantis: add a `pnpm openclaw qa mantis discord-smoke` runner and manual GitHub workflow that verify the Mantis Discord bot can see the configured guild/channel, post a smoke message, add a reaction, and upload artifacts.

### Fixes

- Telegram: preserve URL inline keyboard buttons in shared presentation rendering. Fixes #76255. Thanks @clawSean.
- Update: repair doctor-migratable legacy config before persisting `openclaw update --channel ...`, so old Slack/Telegram streaming keys do not block switching to beta after a package update. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Web fetch: late-bind `web_fetch` config and provider fallback metadata from the active runtime snapshot, matching `web_search` so long-lived tools do not use stale fetch provider settings. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/discovery: demote the source-only TypeScript runtime check on already-installed `origin: "global"` plugin packages from a config-blocking error to a warning and let the runtime fall through to the TypeScript source via jiti, so a single broken installed package no longer blocks `plugins install` for unrelated plugins; install-time rejection of newly-installed source-only packages is unchanged. Thanks @romneyda.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: stop the OAuth progress spinner before showing the manual redirect paste prompt, so callback timeouts do not spam `Browser callback did not finish` across terminals.
- Channels/WhatsApp: allow `@whiskeysockets/libsignal-node` in `onlyBuiltDependencies` so pnpm v9+ `blockExoticSubdeps` no longer rejects the baileys git-tarball subdep and silences all inbound agent replies. Fixes #76539. Thanks @ottodeng and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/systemd: preserve operator-added secrets in the Gateway env file across re-stage while clearing OpenClaw-managed keys (such as `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN`) so a fresh staging value is never shadowed by a stale env-file copy; operator secrets are also retained when the state-dir `.env` is empty. Fixes #76860. Thanks @hclsys.
- Plugin updates: do not short-circuit trusted official npm updates as unchanged when the default/latest spec still resolves to an already-installed prerelease that the installer should replace with a stable fallback. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin tools: keep auth-unavailable optional tools hidden even when another default tool from the same plugin is available and `tools.alsoAllow` names the optional tool. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Realtime transcription: report socket closes before provider readiness as closed-before-ready failures instead of mislabeling them as connection timeouts for OpenAI, xAI, and Deepgram streaming transcription. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI/Google Meet: fail realtime voice connection attempts when the socket closes before `session.updated`, avoiding stuck Meet joins waiting on a bridge that never became ready. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/cache: require the full `CACHE-OK <suffix>` marker before live cache probes stop retrying, so suffix-only prose cannot hide a broken probe response. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/Matrix: avoid creating blank progress-draft messages when `streaming.progress.label=false` and progress tool lines are disabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: keep the mock OpenAI tool-progress provider aligned with exact-marker Matrix prompts so the hardened live preview scenario still forces a deterministic read before final delivery. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI/Google Meet: wait for realtime voice `session.updated` before treating the bridge as connected, so Meet joins do not return with audio queued behind an unconfigured realtime session. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/catalog: merge official external catalog descriptors into partial package channel config metadata, so lagging WeCom/Yuanbao manifests keep their own schema while still exposing host-supplied labels and setup text. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/catalog: supplement lagging official external WeCom and Yuanbao npm manifests with channel config descriptors and declared tool contracts from the OpenClaw catalog, so trusted package sweeps no longer fail because external package metadata trails the host contract. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: let trusted official `@openclaw/*` catalog installs recover when npm `latest` points at a prerelease by falling back to the newest stable version, or by selecting the newest exact prerelease for prerelease-only launch packages with a warning instead of making beta/development plugin sweeps fail at install time. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: grant Chrome media permissions against the actual Meet tab, start the local realtime audio bridge only after Meet joins, expose realtime transcripts in status/logs, and force explicit audio responses with current OpenAI realtime output-audio events so BlackHole capture does not keep the OpenClaw participant muted or silent.
- Memory/LanceDB: declare `apache-arrow` in the bundled memory plugin package so LanceDB installs include its runtime peer. Fixes #76910. Thanks @afiqfiles-max.
- CLI/devices: retry explicit device-pair approval with `operator.admin` after a pairing-scope ownership denial, so existing admin-capable paired-device tokens can recover new Control UI/browser pairing after upgrades instead of requiring manual JSON edits. Fixes #76956. Thanks @neo19482.
- CLI/devices: stop local pairing fallback when the active Gateway names a pending request that is absent from the local pairing store, so profile or state-dir mismatches no longer make `openclaw devices list/approve` inspect the wrong store while a real device stays blocked. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet: use the local call-control microphone button instead of disabled remote participant mute buttons, and block realtime speech when the OpenClaw Meet microphone remains muted.
- Google Meet: refresh realtime browser state during status and retry delayed speech after Meet finishes joining, so a just-opened in-call tab no longer leaves speech stuck behind stale `not-in-call` health.
- Plugins/install: recover the install ledger from the managed npm root when `plugins/installs.json` is empty or partial, so reinstalling Discord and Codex no longer makes the other installed plugin disappear.
- Google Meet: grant Meet media permissions through the Playwright browser context when CDP grants do not affect the attached Chrome page, and report in-call microphone/speaker permission problems instead of marking realtime speech ready.
- QA/Slack: fail the live mention-gating scenario on any unexpected SUT reply, even when the reply does not echo the expected marker. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: steer the live tool-progress preview check away from `HEARTBEAT.md` and report final preview candidates when the live marker reply misses the exact token. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: let the live tool-progress preview check verify progress replacement events without depending on the preview saying `Working`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Tlon: expose `groupInviteAllowlist` in the channel config schema and clarify that group invite auto-accept fails closed without an invite allowlist. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram: let forum-topic messages that omit `chat.is_forum` use per-topic processing lanes when Telegram still marks them as topic messages, and coalesce duplicate group typing cues so cosmetic Telegram API calls do not pile up ahead of real replies during topic bursts.
- Control UI/WebChat: collapse duplicate in-flight internal text sends onto the active Gateway run so rapid repeat submits do not start fresh `agent:main:main` dispatches. Fixes #75737. Thanks @dsdsddd1 and @BunsDev.
- Mattermost: accept the documented `channels.mattermost.streaming` config and honor `streaming: "off"` by disabling draft preview posts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost: expose streaming progress config labels and help text in generated channel config metadata so Control UI/docs can explain the new `channels.mattermost.streaming.progress.*` fields. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost: honor `channels.mattermost.streaming.progress.toolProgress=false` in progress draft mode so compact tool status lines stay hidden until final delivery. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Microsoft Teams: honor progress draft tool lines in native Teams progress streams and suppress standalone tool messages when `channels.msteams.streaming.progress.toolProgress=false`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord: keep progress draft boundary callbacks bound during streaming replies, so extension lint stays green while progress previews transition between assistant and reasoning blocks. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord: resolve SecretRef-backed bot tokens from the active runtime snapshot for named accounts and keep unresolved configured tokens from crashing status or health checks. (#76987) Thanks @joshavant.
- Channels/streaming: expose `streaming.progress.label`, `labels`, `maxLines`, and `toolProgress` in bundled channel config metadata so progress draft settings appear in config, docs, and control surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/streaming: normalize whitespace and case for `streaming.progress.label: "auto"` so progress draft labels keep using the built-in label pool instead of rendering a literal `auto` title. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/Codex: preserve Codex-native OAuth routing for `/codex bind` app-server turns so bound sessions keep the selected Codex auth profile instead of falling back to public OpenAI credentials. (#76714) Thanks @keshavbotagent.
- Gateway/install: prefer supported system Node over nvm/fnm/volta/asdf/mise when regenerating managed gateway services, so `gateway install --force` no longer recreates service definitions that doctor immediately flags as version-manager-backed. Fixes #76339. Thanks @brokemac79.
- Cron/status: render explicit `delivery.mode: "none"` jobs as no-delivery previews and label cron session history distinctly instead of showing fallback delivery or direct-session rows. Fixes #76945.
- Gateway/usage: serve `usage.cost` and `sessions.usage` from a durable transcript aggregate cache with lock-safe background refreshes and localized stale-cache status, so large usage views avoid repeated full scans. (#76650) Thanks @Marvinthebored.
- Plugins/hooks: let `plugins.entries.<id>.hooks.timeoutMs` and `plugins.entries.<id>.hooks.timeouts` bound plugin typed hooks from operator config, so slow hooks can be tuned without patching installed plugin code. Fixes #76778. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram: add `channels.telegram.mediaGroupFlushMs` at the top level and per account so operators can tune album buffering instead of being stuck with the hard-coded 500ms media-group flush window. Fixes #76149. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Config/messages: coerce boolean `messages.visibleReplies` and `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies` values to the documented enum modes so an intuitive toggle no longer invalidates config and drops channel startup. Fixes #75390. Thanks @scottgl9.
- Agents/network: allow trusted web-search providers and configured model-provider hosts to work behind Surge/Clash/sing-box fake-IP DNS by accepting RFC 2544 and IPv6 ULA synthetic answers only for the request's scoped hostname, without broad private-network access. Refs #76530 and #76549. Thanks @zqchris.
- Providers: honor env-proxy settings for guarded provider model fetches when no explicit dispatcher policy is configured, preserving explicit transport overrides. Fixes #70453. (#72480) Thanks @mjamiv.
- Web fetch: add a default-off `tools.web.fetch.useTrustedEnvProxy` opt-in for proxy-only environments so `web_fetch` can let an operator-controlled HTTP(S) proxy resolve DNS while preserving default strict DNS pinning and hostname policy checks. Refs #58034 and #62560. Thanks @cosmicnet and @mjamiv.
- Feishu: accept and honor `channels.feishu.blockStreaming` at the top level and per account, while keeping the legacy default off so Feishu cards no longer reject documented config or silently drop block replies. Fixes #75555. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/update: avoid `launchctl kickstart -k` immediately after fresh macOS update bootstraps, and unlink dangling global plugin-runtime symlinks during packaged postinstall and `doctor --fix` so upgrades no longer SIGTERM the newly booted Gateway or leave bundled plugin imports pointed at pruned `plugin-runtime-deps` trees. Completes #76261 and fixes #76466. (#76929)
- Google Chat: normalize custom Google auth transport headers before google-auth/gaxios interceptors run, restoring webhook token verification when certificate retrieval expects Fetch `Headers`. Fixes #76742. Thanks @donbowman.
- Doctor/plugins: reset stale `plugins.slots.memory` and `plugins.slots.contextEngine` references during `doctor --fix`, so cleanup of missing plugin config does not leave unrecoverable slot owners behind. Fixes #76550 and #76551. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs/WhatsApp: merge the duplicate top-level `web` objects in the gateway channel config example so copy-pasted WhatsApp config keeps both `web.whatsapp` and reconnect settings. Fixes #76619. Thanks @WadydX.
- Plugins/Anthropic: expose Claude thinking profiles from the bundled provider-policy artifact so non-runtime callers keep Opus 4.7 `adaptive`, `xhigh`, and `max` instead of downgrading to `high`. Fixes #76779. Thanks @tomascupr and @iAbhi001.
- Plugins/tools: honor `tools.alsoAllow` as an optional plugin tool discovery hint without treating its internal allow-all default as permission to load every manifest-marked optional plugin tool. Fixes #76616.
- Discord/native commands: skip slash-command registration and cleanup REST calls when `channels.discord.commands.native=false`, letting low-power gateways start without waiting on disabled native-command lifecycle requests. Fixes #76202. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/plugins: reject unowned command roots such as `openclaw foo` before managed proxy startup and full plugin CLI runtime loading while preserving manifest-owned and CLI-metadata-owned plugin commands. Fixes #75287. Thanks @neilofneils404.
- CLI/message: skip local configured-channel plugin preload for explicit gateway-owned message actions, letting normalized CLI delivery delegate to the gateway without initializing channel runtime in the short-lived CLI process. Fixes #75477.
- Plugins/commands: normalize empty plugin command handler results and let Telegram native plugin commands send the empty-response fallback instead of throwing when a handler returns `undefined`. Fixes #74800. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/tools: cold-load selected plugin tool registries when the active registry only has partial tool coverage, so wildcard-expanded allowlists no longer hide installed plugin tools from `tools.effective`. Fixes #76780. Thanks @lilesjtu.
- Plugins/tools: compare cached and runtime plugin tool name conflicts with normalized core tool names, so case variants of core tools are blocked instead of leaking duplicate tool registrations. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/OpenRouter: advertise DeepSeek V4 thinking levels, including `xhigh` and `max`, through the runtime and lightweight provider policy surfaces so `/think` validation no longer rejects OpenRouter-routed DeepSeek V4 models. Fixes #74788. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Status/sessions: ignore malformed non-string persisted session provider/model metadata instead of throwing while rendering status summaries. Fixes #76206. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/config: remove only the targeted array element for `openclaw config unset array[index]` instead of replaying the unset during config write and deleting the shifted next element. Fixes #76290. Thanks @SymbolStar and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/voice-call: treat abnormal local Gateway close code 1006 as a standalone CLI fallback case, so `voicecall smoke` and related commands can still run the provider check path when the Gateway socket closes before returning a response.
- CLI/doctor: migrate legacy per-channel `streaming.progress` config into `streaming.preview.toolProgress`, so upgrades with stale Discord or Telegram streaming keys validate again instead of blocking plugin commands.
- Plugins/release: reject ClawHub code-plugin packages that contain TypeScript runtime entries without compiled `dist/*.js` output, and run package-local runtime-build checks during npm and ClawHub plugin release previews.
- Plugins/update: keep beta-installed OpenClaw package updates on the beta plugin channel even when config still says stable, so Discord and other externalized plugins update from compiled `@beta` packages instead of stale source-only `latest` artifacts.
- Agents/tools: stop treating `tools.deny: ["write"]` as an implicit `apply_patch` deny; operators who want to block patch writes should deny `apply_patch` or `group:fs` explicitly. Fixes #76749. (#76795) Thanks @Nek-12 and @hclsys.
- Plugins/release: verify published plugin npm tarballs expose compiled runtime entries after publish, catching TS-only package artifacts before release closeout. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/message: exit cleanly with a nonzero status when message-command plugin registry loading fails before dispatch, preventing `openclaw-message` children from staying alive after plugin load errors. Fixes #76168.
- Plugins/config: report configured plugins that are present but blocked by path-safety checks as blocked instead of stale `plugin not found` entries, and deduplicate repeated blocked-candidate warnings during discovery. Fixes #76144. Thanks @mayank6136.
- Gateway/update: recover an installed-but-unloaded macOS LaunchAgent after package updates, rerun Gateway health/version/channel readiness checks, and print restart, reinstall, and rollback guidance before reporting update failure. (#76790) Thanks @jonathanlindsay.
- Codex/runtime: preserve native Codex thread bindings across dynamic-tool reorder and no-tool maintenance turns, and project mirrored history when a legacy Codex run must start without a native binding, preventing follow-up requests from losing conversation context. (#76824) Thanks @VACInc.
- CLI/plugins: explain when a missing plugin command alias belongs to a bundled plugin that is disabled by default, including the `openclaw plugins enable <plugin>` repair command. (#76835)
- Gateway/Bonjour: auto-start LAN multicast discovery only on macOS hosts while preserving explicit `openclaw plugins enable bonjour` startup elsewhere, so Linux servers and containers that do not need LAN discovery avoid default mDNS probing and watchdog churn. Refs #74209.
- Gateway/macOS: stop `doctor` and LaunchAgent recovery from running `launchctl kickstart -k` after a fresh bootstrap, avoiding an immediate SIGTERM of the just-started gateway while still nudging already-loaded launchd jobs. Fixes #76261. Thanks @solosage1.
- Google Meet: route stateful CLI session commands through the gateway-owned runtime so joined realtime sessions survive after the starting CLI process exits. Fixes #76344. Thanks @coltonharris-wq.
- Memory/status: split builtin sqlite-vec store readiness from embedding-provider readiness in `memory status --deep` and `openclaw status`, so local vector-store failures no longer look like provider failures and provider failures no longer hide a healthy local vector store.
- Memory/core: yield between session transcript indexing batches during startup reindexing so large session corpora do not starve the gateway event loop. Fixes #76890. Thanks @bitloi.
- CLI/doctor: trust a ready gateway memory probe when CLI-side active memory backend resolution is unavailable, preventing false "No active memory plugin is registered" warnings for healthy runtime setups. Fixes #76792. Thanks @som-686.
- Memory/status: keep plain `openclaw memory status` and `openclaw memory status --json` on the cheap read-only path by reserving vector and embedding provider probes for `--deep` or `--index`. Fixes #76769. Thanks @daruire.
- Telegram: suppress stale same-session replies when a newer accepted message arrives before an older in-flight Telegram dispatch finalizes. Fixes #76642. Thanks @chinar-amrutkar.
- Auto-reply: suppress stale foreground replies when a newer same-session inbound message starts before an older in-flight dispatch finalizes. Fixes #76905. Thanks @MkDev11.
- Gateway/diagnostics: throttle repeated long-running active-work session warnings so healthy cron or subagent runs no longer print the same `recovery=none` line every heartbeat.
- Gateway/diagnostics: keep non-blocking active-work and transient event-loop max-spike liveness diagnostics out of the default gateway console while preserving structured diagnostic events and warnings for queued, stalled, and recovery-eligible work.
- Slack: collapse routine Socket Mode pong-timeout reconnects into one OpenClaw reconnect line and suppress the duplicate Slack SDK pong warning.
- Gateway/diagnostics: abort-drain embedded runs after an extended no-progress stall so a single dead session no longer leaves queued Discord/channel turns blocked behind repeated `recovery=none` liveness warnings.
- Plugins/ClawHub: accept the live artifact resolver `kind`/`sha256` field names alongside the typed `artifactKind`/`artifactSha256` form so `clawhub:` installs of npm-pack and legacy ZIP packages no longer miss downloadable artifacts. Thanks @romneyda.
- Doctor/session locks: remove fresh session write-lock files when their live PID can be read and proven to belong to a non-OpenClaw process, while preserving active or unknown owners. Fixes #76823. Thanks @renatomaluhy.
- Control UI/Sessions: avoid full `sessions.list` reloads for chat-turn `sessions.changed` payloads, so large session stores no longer add multi-second delays while chat responses are being delivered. (#76676) Thanks @VACInc.
- Gateway/watch: run `doctor --fix --non-interactive` once and retry when the dev Gateway child exits during startup, so stale local plugin install/config state does not leave the tmux watch session disappearing without a repair attempt.
- Doctor/Telegram: warn when selected Telegram quote replies can suppress `streaming.preview.toolProgress`, and document the `replyToMode` trade-off without changing runtime delivery. Fixes #73487. Thanks @GodsBoy.
- Channels/Discord: send a best-effort native typing cue immediately after an inbound DM is accepted, so slow pre-dispatch turns show Discord liveness before queueing, context assembly, model, or tool work starts. Fixes #76417. Thanks @mlopez14.
- Plugins/install: reject source-only TypeScript package installs and installed plugin packages that are missing compiled runtime output, so broken npm artifacts fail at install/discovery time instead of falling through jiti and surfacing later as unavailable providers. Fixes #76720.
- Plugins/config: deduplicate identical manifest compatibility diagnostics when an explicitly configured plugin overrides another discovered candidate, so external channel plugins do not print the same missing `channelConfigs` warning repeatedly during install and enable. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/status: honor explicit `messages.statusReactions.enabled: true` in tool-only guild channels so queued ack reactions can progress through thinking/done lifecycle reactions instead of stopping at the initial emoji. Thanks @Marvinthebored.
- Discord/native commands: compare Discord-normalized slash-command descriptions and localized descriptions during reconcile so CJK or multiline command text no longer triggers redundant startup PATCH bursts and rate-limit 429s. Fixes #76587. Thanks @zhengsx.
- Agents/OpenAI Codex: align ChatGPT Codex Responses replay with the Codex wire contract by preserving session cache identity while omitting prior Responses reasoning/message/function item IDs, so tool-call turns do not feed stale item identity into later Telegram replies. (#76832) Refs #76413. Thanks @MkDev11.
- Agents/OpenAI: omit Chat Completions `reasoning_effort` for `gpt-5.4-mini` only when function tools are present while preserving tool-free Chat and Responses reasoning support, preventing Telegram-routed fallback runs from hanging after OpenAI rejects tool payloads. Fixes #76176. Thanks @ThisIsAdilah and @chinar-amrutkar.
- Telegram: reuse the successful startup `getMe` probe for grammY polling startup and continue into `getUpdates` after recoverable `deleteWebhook` cleanup failures, reducing high-latency Bot API control-plane calls before long polling starts. Refs #76388. Thanks @jackiedepp.
- Gateway/diagnostics: merge session id/key aliases in diagnostic session state and activity tracking so completed runs no longer leave stale queued work behind that keeps liveness samples at warning level.
- Agents/models: forward model `maxTokens` as the default output-token limit for OpenAI-compatible Responses and Completions transports when no runtime override is provided, preventing provider defaults from silently truncating larger outputs. (#76645) Thanks @joeyfrasier.
- macOS CLI/onboarding: honor sensitive wizard text steps in `openclaw-mac wizard` with termios no-echo input, suppressing saved credential previews while preserving long API keys and gateway tokens. Fixes #76698. Thanks @anurag-bg-neu and @sallyom.
- Control UI/Skills: fix skill detail modal silently failing to open in all browsers by deferring `showModal()` until the dialog element is connected to the DOM; the Lit `ref` callback fired before connection causing a `DOMException: HTMLDialogElement.showModal: Dialog element is not connected` on every skill click. Thanks @nickmopen.
- fix(lsp): resolve Windows .cmd shims in LSP server spawning so npm-installed language servers (e.g. typescript-language-server) start correctly on Windows. Fixes #75352. Thanks @ElliotDrel.
- Gateway/update: run `doctor --non-interactive --fix` after Control UI global package updates before reporting success, so legacy config is migrated before the gateway restart. Thanks @stevenchouai.
- Gateway/cron: stop a lazy cron startup that loses a hot-reload race, preventing the old cron service from starting after reload has already replaced cron state.
- CLI/plugins: warn when npm plugin installs remain shadowed by a failing config-selected source and surface the repair path in `plugins doctor`. Thanks @LindalyX-Lee.
- Agents/Telegram: preserve explicit reply and quote context in embedded model prompts without letting quoted text drive prompt-local image loading. Fixes #76419. (#76659) Thanks @cheechnd.
- Active Memory: apply `setupGraceTimeoutMs` to the embedded recall runner as well as the outer prompt-build watchdog, so very-cold first recalls keep the configured setup grace end-to-end. (#74480) Thanks @volcano303.
- Channels/Feishu: cap how long the per-chat sequential queue blocks subsequent same-key tasks behind a single in-flight task (5 min default), so a single hung dispatch no longer leaves later same-chat messages in `queued` state until gateway restart; the stuck task continues running but is evicted from the blocking chain and a warning is logged. Fixes #70133. (#76687) Thanks @martingarramon and @bek91.
- Active Memory: skip scoped Telegram forum-topic conversation ids (containing `:`) when resolving the embedded recall run channel, falling back to `messageProvider` instead, so Active Memory no longer throws a bundled-plugin dirName validation error in forum-topic sessions. Fixes #76704.
- Agents/tools: defer automatic PDF model/auth resolution until the PDF tool is used, keeping agent-turn tool prep from probing auth profiles on messages without PDFs while preserving explicit PDF model registration. Fixes #76644. Thanks @hclsys.
- CLI/config: keep JSON dry-run patches validating touched channel configuration against bundled channel schemas even when the patch only contains SecretRef objects.
- Plugins/tools: keep disabled bundled tool plugins out of explicit runtime allowlist ownership and fall back from loaded-but-empty channel registries to tool-bearing plugin registries, so Active Memory can use bundled `memory-core` search/get tools even when `memory-lancedb` is disabled. Fixes #76603. Thanks @jwong-art.
- Plugins/install: run `npm install` from the managed npm-root manifest so installing one `@openclaw/*` plugin preserves already installed sibling plugins instead of pruning them. Fixes #76571. (#76602) Thanks @byungskers and @crpol.
- Plugins/context-engine: include the selected `plugins.slots.contextEngine` plugin in the gateway startup load plan so external context-engine plugins without `activation.onStartup` in their manifest are loaded before any agent turn resolves the active engine; prevents the "Context engine X is not registered; falling back to default engine legacy" warning after gateway startup. Fixes #76576. Thanks @hclsys.
- Plugins/tools: restore on-demand registry load for path-based plugins (origin "config") so tool factories registered via `plugins.load.paths` are resolved at agent request time when no pre-warmed channel registry is present; prevents "unknown method" errors after gateway startup. Fixes #76598. Thanks @hclsys.
- Plugins/hooks: include explicitly enabled hook-capable plugins in the Gateway startup runtime scope so embedded PI runs can see their `before_prompt_build` and `agent_end` hooks. Fixes #76649. Thanks @wwf3045 and @MkDev11.
- Plugins/OpenCode: expose Claude thinking profiles through the lightweight provider policy surface so directive and session validation keep `xhigh`, `adaptive`, and `max` for `opencode/claude-opus-4-7` instead of remapping `xhigh` to `high`. Fixes #76648. Thanks @aaajiao.
- Channels/QQ Bot: resolve structured `clientSecret` SecretRefs before QQ token exchange, expose the QQ Bot secret contract to secrets tooling, and reject legacy `secretref:/...` marker strings. (#74772) Thanks @xialonglee.
- Agents: keep active streamed provider replies alive by refreshing guarded fetch timeouts on raw body chunks and surface true prompt stream timeouts as explicit errors instead of partial assistant fragments. Fixes #76307. (#76633) Thanks @MkDev11.
- Plugins/externalization: keep official ACPX, Google Chat, and LINE install specs on production package names, leaving beta-tag probing to the explicit OpenClaw beta update channel. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/doctor: keep missing-plugin repair from overriding official catalog metadata with runtime fallbacks, so ACPX repairs preserve the official npm spec during the externalization rollout. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/doctor: match stale bundled-plugin install records by exact parsed package name so doctor does not remove external npm or ClawHub records that only share an OpenClaw package-name prefix.
- Plugins/catalog: preserve ClawHub install specs when generating the packaged channel catalog so future storepack-first channel plugins keep their remote source instead of becoming npm-only. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/catalog: pin bare npm specs from prerelease external channel catalog entries to the catalog entry version, so beta catalogs do not silently install the latest stable package.
- Plugins/update: treat catalog-matched official npm updates and OpenClaw-authored externalized-bundled npm bridges as trusted official installs so launch-code plugins can update or migrate out of the bundled tree without scanner false positives. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/onboarding: fall back from ClawHub to npm only for missing package/version errors, keeping integrity and verification failures fail-closed during storepack rollout. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/onboarding: mask credential inputs (model-auth provider API keys, gateway tokens and passwords, web-search provider keys, and skill env-var values) in the interactive `openclaw onboard` wizard so pasted secrets no longer echo into terminal scrollback, `Start-Transcript` logs, or screenshots; existing tokens/passwords are preserved through a masked-preview confirm step before the sensitive prompt. Thanks @anurag-bg-neu.
- Control UI/Talk: fix Talk (OpenAI Realtime WebRTC) CORS failure by stripping server-side-only attribution headers (`originator`, `version`, `User-Agent`) from browser offer headers; `api.openai.com/v1/realtime/calls` only allows `authorization` and `content-type` in its CORS preflight, so forwarding these headers caused the browser SDP exchange to fail. Fixes #76435. Thanks @hclsys.
- Chat delivery: make `/verbose on|full|off` changes affect subsequent tool-use chat bubbles again, including channels with draft preview tool progress enabled, while preserving one-shot verbose directives.
- CLI/logs: auto-reconnect `openclaw logs --follow` on transient gateway disconnects with bounded backoff, stderr retry warnings, `[logs] gateway reconnected` recovery notices, and JSON `notice` records while still exiting immediately on non-recoverable auth or configuration errors. Fixes #74782. (#75059, #75372) Thanks @shashank-poola and @romneyda.
- Codex/WhatsApp: keep the `message` dynamic tool available when Codex source replies are configured for message-tool delivery, so coding-profile chat agents do not complete turns privately without a visible channel reply. Fixes #76660. (#76663) Thanks @VishalJ99.
- Codex/heartbeat: send heartbeat-specific initiative guidance through Codex turn-scoped collaboration-mode instructions, keeping ordinary message-tool chat turns in Default mode without heartbeat prompt leakage. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Plugins/onboarding: trust optional official plugin and web-search installs selected from the official catalog so npm security scanning treats them like other source-linked official install paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/web_search: keep installed runtime provider discovery enabled when web-search metadata is missing, so externally installed official providers such as Brave remain visible to agent and cron turns instead of falling back to bundled-only lookup. Fixes #76626. Thanks @amknight.
- Tests/plugins: expose the Discord npm onboarding Docker lane as a package script and assert planned Docker lanes point at real scripts, so external-channel onboarding coverage can actually run. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/ClawHub: explain unreleased ClawHub plugin artifacts as a rollout-state fallback to `npm:` installs instead of leaking raw archive metadata fields. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Tests/onboarding: assert packaged channel onboarding leaves `openclaw channels status --json` and plain `openclaw status` showing the configured channel, covering the empty Channels table regression path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Microsoft Teams: persist sent-message markers across Gateway restarts so follow-up replies to recent bot messages keep resolving the original conversation instead of dropping out after restart, with marker TTLs preserved on best-effort recovery. (#75585) Thanks @amknight.
- Matrix: persist pending approval reaction targets across Gateway restarts so room approvers can still approve or deny outstanding prompts after OpenClaw comes back online. (#75586) Thanks @amknight.
- Channels/onboarding: map third-party official WeCom and Yuanbao catalog entries to their published plugin ids so npm installs pass expected-plugin validation. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK: restore the Mattermost and Matrix compatibility subpaths used by the pinned Yuanbao channel package so external installs can module-load after npm install. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: keep managed npm-root security scans from treating earlier plugin `openclaw` peer links as failures, so one external plugin install cannot poison later official npm installs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory LanceDB: allow installed-but-unconfigured plugin metadata to load so onboarding and setup flows can prompt for embedding config instead of failing the plugin registry first. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/plugins: keep `plugins enable` and `plugins disable` from creating unconfigured channel config sections, so channel plugins with required setup fields no longer fail validation during lifecycle probes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/config: set `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies: "message_tool"` during compatibility repair for configured-channel configs that omit a visible-reply policy, so upgrades can persist the intended tool-only group/channel reply default. Thanks @kagura-agent.
- Agents/sessions: keep delayed `sessions_send` A2A replies alive after soft wait-window timeouts, while preserving terminal run timeouts and avoiding stale target replies in requester sessions. Fixes #76443. Thanks @ryswork1993 and @vincentkoc.
- TUI/Control UI: fix `/think` command showing only base thinking levels when the active session uses a different model from the default, so provider-specific levels like DeepSeek V4 Pro's `xhigh` and `max` are now visible and selectable. Fixes #76482. Thanks @amknight.
- CLI/sessions: keep intentional empty agent replies silent after tool-delivered channel output, instead of surfacing a misleading "No reply from agent." fallback. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Config/doctor: cap `.clobbered.*` forensic snapshots per config path and serialize snapshot writes so repeated `doctor --fix` recovery loops cannot flood the config directory. Fixes #76454; carries forward #65649. Thanks @JUSTICEESSIELP, @rsnow, and @vincentkoc.
- Feishu: suppress duplicate text when replies send native voice media, preserve captions for ordinary audio files, and send fallback text plus attachment links when `audioAsVoice` transcode/upload fallback produces a generic file.
- TTS/plugins: activate configured and inherited speech provider plugins during Gateway startup, so Microsoft and Local CLI voice replies work immediately after persona selection instead of staying invisible in the startup plugin set. Fixes #76481. Thanks @amknight.
- Feishu: keep packaged Feishu startup from bundling the Lark SDK's ESM `__dirname` path by loading the SDK as a plugin-local runtime dependency. Fixes #76291 and #76494. (#76392) Thanks @zqchris.
- Plugins/npm: build package-local runtime dist files for publishable plugins and stop listing root-package-excluded plugin sidecars in the core package metadata, so npm plugin installs such as `@openclaw/diffs` and `@openclaw/discord` no longer publish source-only runtime payloads. Fixes #76426. Thanks @PrinceOfEgypt.
- Channels/secrets: resolve SecretRef-backed channel credentials through external plugin secret contracts after the plugin split, covering runtime startup, target discovery, webhook auth, disabled-account enumeration, and late-bound web_search config. Fixes #76371. (#76449) Thanks @joshavant and @neeravmakwana.
- Docker/Gateway: pass Docker setup `.env` values into gateway and CLI containers and preserve exec SecretRef `passEnv` keys in managed service plans, so 1Password Connect-backed Discord tokens keep resolving after doctor or plugin repair. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/WebChat: explain compaction boundaries in chat history and link directly to session checkpoint controls so pre-compaction turns no longer look silently lost after refresh. Fixes #76415. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/compaction: add an optional bundled compaction notifier hook and retry once from the compacted transcript when automatic compaction leaves a turn without a final visible reply. (#76651) Thanks @simplyclever914.
- Agents/incomplete-turn: detect and surface a warning when the agent's final text after a tool-call chain is silently dropped because the post-tool assistant response was never produced, instead of completing the turn with only the pre-tool analysis text. Fixes #76477. Thanks @amknight.
- Channels/WhatsApp: attach native outbound mention metadata for group text and media captions by resolving `@+<digits>` and `@<digits>` tokens against WhatsApp participant data, including LID groups. Fixes #39879; carries forward #56863. Thanks @kengi1437, @joe2643, and @fridayck.
- Channels/WhatsApp: require outbound mention tokens to end at a word boundary so phone-number prefixes inside longer strings no longer trigger hidden native mentions.
- Plugins/uninstall: remove empty managed git install parent directories after deleting cloned plugin repos and cover npm/git uninstall residue in Docker plugin lifecycle tests. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: resolve bare official external plugin IDs such as `brave` through the official catalog when no bundled source is available, so packaged installs fetch the intended scoped npm package instead of an unrelated unscoped package. Fixes #76373. Thanks @bek91 and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: require OpenClaw-owned install provenance before granting official npm plugin scanner trust, so direct npm package names no longer bypass launch-code scanning while catalog, onboarding, and doctor installs stay trusted. Thanks @fede-kamel and @vincentkoc.
- Network proxy: preserve target TLS hostname validation for Node HTTPS requests routed through the managed HTTP proxy, so Discord-style CONNECT traffic no longer validates certificates against the local proxy host. Fixes #74809. (#76442) Thanks @jesse-merhi and @abnershang.
- Gateway/sessions: keep `sessions.list` rows lightweight by bounding title/preview hydration to transcript head/tail reads and caching manifest model-id normalization plus setup fallback metadata against the active plugin snapshot. Thanks @vincentkoc and @rolandrscheel.
- Gateway/performance: cache per-run verbose-level session reads, skip a redundant `lsof` scan in `gateway --force` when no listener was killed, and make the Gateway startup benchmark print usage for `--help`.
- Gateway/sessions: keep agent runtime metadata on lightweight `sessions.list` rows and skip per-row transcript usage fallback, display model inference, and plugin projection, avoiding identity loss and event-loop stalls in large session stores. Thanks @Marvinthebored and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/models: keep read-only `models.list` fallbacks on persisted/current metadata, configured rows, registry-compatible fallbacks, and static auth checks while preserving full-catalog image attachment capability checks. Fixes #76382; refs #76360 and #75707. Thanks @trojy13, @RayWoo, @AnathemaOfficial, @Marvinthebored, and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/plugins: reject missing plugin ids before config writes in `plugins enable` and `plugins disable` so a typo no longer persists a stale config entry. (#73554) Thanks @ai-hpc.
- Agents/sessions: preserve delivered trailing assistant replies during session-file repair so Telegram/WebChat history is not rewritten to drop already-delivered responses. Fixes #76329. Thanks @obviyus.
- Gateway/chat history: preserve oversized transcript turns as explicit omitted-message placeholders while avoiding large JSONL parse stalls. Thanks @Marvinthebored and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/doctor: load the configured memory-slot plugin when resolving memory diagnostics so bundled `memory-core` no longer triggers a false “no active memory plugin” warning on standalone `doctor` / `status` runs. Fixes #76367. Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Gateway: preserve stack diagnostics when `chat.send` or agent attachment parsing/staging fails, improving image-send failure triage. Refs #63432. (#75135) Thanks @keen0206.
- Agents/idle-timeout: add a cost-runaway breaker to the outer embedded-run retry loop that halts further attempts after 5 consecutive idle timeouts without completed model progress, so a wedged provider can no longer fan paid model calls out across the same run; completed text or tool-call progress resets the breaker, but partial tool-argument token dribbles do not. Fixes #76293. Thanks @ThePuma312.
- Heartbeats/Codex: align structured heartbeat prompts with actual `heartbeat_respond` tool availability, stop sending legacy `HEARTBEAT_OK` when the tool exists, and keep tool-disabled commitment check-ins on the legacy ack path. Thanks @pashpashpash and @vincentkoc.
- Agent runtimes: fail explicit plugin runtime selections honestly when the requested harness is unavailable instead of silently falling back to the embedded PI runtime. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Telegram: log inbound gateway watch messages before dispatch so watch-mode diagnostics include incoming message summaries. Thanks @rubencu.
- Maintainer workflow: push prepared PR heads through GitHub's verified commit API by default and require an explicit override before git-protocol pushes can publish unsigned commits. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Feishu: resolve setup/status probes through the selected/default account so multi-account configs with account-scoped app credentials show as configured and probeable. Fixes #72930. Thanks @brokemac79.
- Gateway/responses: emit every client tool call from `/v1/responses` JSON and SSE responses when the agent invokes multiple client tools in a single turn, so multi-tool plans, graph orchestration calls, and similar batched flows no longer drop every call but the last. Fixes #52288. Thanks @CharZhou and @bonelli.
- Gateway/agent: enforce `session.sendPolicy=deny` on gateway agent requests only when `deliver: true`, so non-delivery smoke checks and internal agent runs are no longer rejected with `send blocked by session policy` while outbound delivery remains gated. Fixes #73381. Thanks @wenxu007.
- Slack/reactions: treat missing no_reaction remove responses as idempotent success and route own-reaction cleanup through the remove helper, so concurrent cleanup no longer surfaces Slack race errors. Fixes #50733. (#76304) Thanks @martingarramon and @Hollychou924.
- Feishu: include media `file_key` and `image_key` values in inbound dedupe so reused message IDs still process distinct media attachments while true retries stay suppressed. Fixes #75057. Thanks @SymbolStar.
- Control UI/Gateway: avoid full session-list reloads for locally applied message-phase session updates, carry known session keys through transcript-file update events, and defer media provider listing when explicit generation model config is present. Refs #76236, #76203, #76188, #76107, and #76166. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Install/update: prune the obsolete `plugin-runtime-deps` state directory during packaged postinstall so upgrades from pre-2026.5.2 releases reclaim old bundled-plugin dependency caches without touching external plugin installs.
- Auto-reply/queue: treat reset-triggered `/new` and `/reset` turns as interrupt runs across active-run queue handling, so steer/followup modes cannot delay a fresh session behind existing work. Fixes #74093. (#74144) Thanks @ruji9527 and @yelog.
- Cron: persist repaired startup runtime state back to `jobs-state.json` so a valid future `nextRunAtMs` with missing `updatedAtMs` no longer triggers repeated external health-check repairs after Gateway restart. Fixes #76461. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Cron: preserve manual `cron.run` IDs in `cron.runs` history so manual run acknowledgements can be correlated with finished run records. Fixes #76276.
- Plugin SDK/cron: expose `sessionTarget` and `agentId` as top-level fields on `cron_changed` hook events so downstream plugins can route cron completion results without digging into the optional job snapshot. Thanks @amknight.
- CLI/devices: request `operator.admin` for `openclaw devices approve <requestId>` only when the exact pending device request would mint or inherit admin-scoped operator access, while keeping lower-scope approvals on the pairing scope.
- Memory/embedding: broaden the embedding reindex retry classifier to include transient socket-layer errors (`fetch failed`, `ECONNRESET`, `socket hang up`, `UND_ERR_*`, `closed`) so memory reindex survives provider network hiccups instead of aborting mid-run. Related #56815, #44166. (#76311) Thanks @buyitsydney.
- Memory/sessions: keep rotated and deleted transcripts (`.jsonl.reset.<iso>` / `.jsonl.deleted.<iso>`) searchable by indexing archive content, mapping archive hits back to live transcript stems, emitting transcript update events on archive rotation, and bypassing incremental delta thresholds for one-shot archive mutations while keeping backups and compaction checkpoints opaque. Refs #56131. Thanks @buyitsydney.
- Memory/search: keep sqlite-vec optional in packaged installs and point missing-extension recovery at the valid `agents.defaults.memorySearch.store.vector.extensionPath` setting. Thanks @willemsej and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway: keep directly requested plugin tools invokable under restrictive tool profiles while preserving explicit deny lists and the HTTP safety deny list, preventing catalog/invoke mismatches that surface as "Tool not available". Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/update: allow beta binaries to refresh gateway services when the config was last written by the matching stable release version, avoiding false newer-config downgrade blocks during beta channel updates.
- Channels: keep Matrix and Mattermost bundled in the core package instead of advertising external npm installs before those channels are cut over. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Bonjour: disable LAN mDNS advertising after a repeated stuck-announcing recovery instead of repeatedly restarting ciao and saturating the Gateway event loop.
- Channels/setup: label installable channel picker hints as remote npm installs and hide remote install hints for bundled plugins that already ship with OpenClaw.
- CLI/update: refuse package updates launched from the active gateway process tree before stopping the managed Gateway service, avoiding self-terminated in-lane updates that leave old Gateway code running. Fixes #75691. (#75819) Thanks @ai-hpc.
- CLI/plugins: stop treating the non-plugin `auth` command root as a bundled plugin id, so restrictive `plugins.allow` configs no longer tell users to add stale `auth` plugin entries.
- Doctor/plugins: update configured plugin installs whose stale manifests still declare channels without `channelConfigs`, so beta upgrades repair old Discord-style package payloads during `doctor --fix`.
- Doctor/plugins: repair configured external plugin installs whose persisted install record points at a missing package directory, so upgrades reconcile phantom npm metadata before plugin runtime validation. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Active Memory: keep non-empty `memory_search` results from being fast-failed as empty when debug telemetry reports zero hits.
- Active Memory: preserve the target agent context when building embedded recall plugin tools so `memory_search` and `memory_get` stay available for explicit recall sessions. Fixes #76343. Thanks @Countermarch.
- Plugins/externalization: repair missing configured plugin installs from npm by default, reserve ClawHub downloads for explicit `clawhubSpec` metadata, and cover agent-runtime/env-selected plugin repair. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: allow official catalog-matched npm channel plugins such as Feishu to pass the trusted install scanner path while keeping spoofed package names blocked. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Tools/llm-task: keep JSON-only embedded model runs from tripping inherited tool allowlists when tools are intentionally disabled, while preserving runtime `toolsAllow` failures. Fixes #74019. Thanks @amknight.
- Tools/profiles: make `tools.profile: "full"` grant all tools including optional plugin tools such as browser, so the full profile no longer silently drops plugin-provided tools that require an explicit allowlist entry. Fixes #76507. Thanks @amknight.
- Feishu: keep timeout env parsing separate from the HTTP client wrapper so package security scans no longer report a false env-harvesting hit during install. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Upgrade/config: validate configured web-search providers and statically suppressed model/provider pairs against the active plugin set at config load, so stale plugin state fails loud before runtime fallback.
- Status/update: resolve beta update-channel checks from the installed version when config still says `stable`, and let `status --deep` reuse live gateway channel credential state instead of warning on command-path-only token misses.
- Doctor/plugins: preserve unmanaged third-party plugin `node_modules` during `doctor --fix`, while still pruning OpenClaw-managed runtime dependency caches.
- Gateway/restart: add `openclaw gateway restart --force` and `--wait <duration>`, log active task run IDs before restart deferral timers, and report timeout restarts as explicit forced restarts.
- Gateway/restart: align `gateway.restart.safe` preflight with scheduled restart deferral by counting only active restart blockers (running non-ended tasks), so queued task records no longer keep "safe" restarts deferred indefinitely. (#76923) Thanks @NikolaFC.
- Discord: persist slash-command deploy hashes across process restarts so unchanged command sets skip redeploy and avoid restart-loop 429s.
- Providers/LM Studio: normalize binary `off`/`on` reasoning metadata from Gemma 4 and other local models to LM Studio's accepted OpenAI-compatible `reasoning_effort` values.
- Plugins/externalization: keep official external install docs, update examples, and live Codex npm checks on default npm tags instead of `@beta`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/externalization: keep ACPX, Google Chat, and LINE publishable plugin dist trees out of the core npm package file list.
- Plugins/ClawHub: fall back to version metadata when the artifact resolver route is missing and keep the Docker ClawHub fixture aligned with npm-pack artifact resolution, avoiding false version-not-found failures during plugin install validation. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/openai-codex: honor `providerConfig.baseUrl` in the dynamic-model synthesis fallback so codex providers configured with a custom upstream (for example a forwarding proxy) no longer silently bypass the configured URL when the registry has no template row to clone for the requested model id. (#76428) Thanks @arniesaha.
- Status/channels: show configured channels in `openclaw status` and config-only `openclaw channels status` output even when the Gateway is unreachable, avoiding empty Channels tables on WSL and other no-Gateway paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/main-session: keep pending final delivery markers until the final reply is actually routed or queued, so restart and heartbeat recovery can retry failed delivery. Refs #65037. (#75280) Thanks @MertBasar0.
- Plugins/ClawHub: explain unavailable explicit ClawHub ClawPack artifact downloads with a temporary npm install hint while ClawHub artifact routing rolls out. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Media: accept home-relative `MEDIA:~/...` attachment paths while preserving existing file-read policy, traversal checks, and media type validation. Fixes #73796. Thanks @fabkury.
- Onboarding/search: install official external web-search plugins such as Brave before saving provider config, and make doctor repair reconcile selected external search providers whose npm payload is missing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/externalization: add official npm-first catalogs for externalized channel, provider, and generic plugins, keep unpublished ACPX/Google Chat/LINE bundled, and make missing-plugin repair honor npm-first metadata while ClawHub pack files roll out. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: detect tracked plugin install records whose package directories disappeared during `openclaw update`, reinstall them before normal plugin updates, and fail the update if any install record still points at missing disk payloads.
- Plugins/registry: hash manifest and package metadata when validating persisted plugin registries so fast same-size rewrites cannot leave stale plugin metadata trusted.
- Plugins/registry: canonicalize install-record provenance paths before trust diagnostics, so npm plugins installed under symlinked temp/state roots no longer warn as untracked local code.
- Plugins/install: let official external Discord reinstall requests pass the invalid-config guard and run stale-channel repair, so upgrades can recover missing external plugin state directly.
- CLI/infer: reject local `codex/*` one-shot model probes before simple-completion dispatch and point operators at the Codex app-server runtime path instead of ending with an empty-output error.
- Agents/sessions: preserve terminal lifecycle state when final run metadata persists from a stale in-memory snapshot, preventing `main` sessions from staying stuck as running after completed or timed-out turns.
- Gateway/CLI: make `openclaw gateway start` repair stale managed service definitions that point at old OpenClaw versions, missing binaries, or temporary installer paths before starting.
- Heartbeat/scheduler: make heartbeat phase scheduling active-hours-aware so the scheduler seeks forward to the first in-window phase slot instead of arming timers for quiet-hours slots and relying solely on the runtime guard. Non-UTC `activeHours.timezone` values (e.g. `Asia/Shanghai`) now correctly influence when the next heartbeat timer fires, avoiding wasted quiet-hours ticks and long dormant gaps after gateway restarts. Fixes #75487. Thanks @amknight.
- Providers/Arcee AI: mark Trinity Large Thinking as tool-incompatible so main-session runs use the same text-only request shape that made subagent runs recover, avoiding the remaining main-session response-shape mismatch after the #62848 transport failover fix. Fixes #62851 and #62847; carries forward #62848. Thanks @Adam-Researchh.
- Plugins/SDK: harden run-scoped plugin context cleanup so finalized workflow runs do not leak per-run state. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Plugins/SDK: keep stale async registry cleanup from clearing restored plugin run context and scheduler state after a plugin registry is reactivated. (#75600) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Plugins/SDK: preserve restored plugin scheduler state when earlier delayed replacement cleanup finishes after reactivation. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Status: show the `openai-codex` OAuth profile for `openai/gpt-*` sessions running through the native Codex runtime instead of reporting auth as unknown. (#76197) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway: avoid repeated plugin tool descriptor config hashing so large runtime configs do not block reply startup and trigger reconnect/timeouts. (#75944) Thanks @joshavant.
- Plugins/externalization: keep diagnostics ClawHub packages and persisted bundled-plugin relocation on npm-first install metadata for launch, and omit Discord from the core package now that its external package is published. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Setup/TUI: bound the Terminal hatch bootstrap run so a stalled provider request times out instead of leaving first-run hatching stuck behind the watchdog. (#76241) Thanks @joshavant.
- Cron/CLI runtimes: route isolated cron jobs through configured per-agent CLI runtimes only when the resolved model provider is compatible, so OpenAI job overrides no longer inherit a mismatched Claude CLI backend. Thanks @vishutdhar.
- Plugins/Codex: allow the official npm Codex plugin to install without the unsafe-install override, keep `/codex` command ownership, and cover the real npm Docker live path through managed `.openclaw/npm` dependencies plus uninstall failure proof.
- Gateway/status: add concrete service, config, listener-owner, and log collection next steps when gateway probes fail and Bonjour finds no local gateway, so frozen or port-conflict reports include the data needed for root-cause triage. Refs #49012. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex harness: forward OpenClaw workspace bootstrap files such as `SOUL.md` through native Codex config instructions while leaving `AGENTS.md` to Codex project-doc discovery. Fixes #76273. Thanks @zknicker.
- Parallels/Windows update smoke: escape the stale post-swap import regex in the generated PowerShell script so expected `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` update handoffs continue to post-update health checks. (#75315)
- Slack: allow draft preview streaming in top-level DMs when `replyToMode` is `off` while keeping Slack native streaming and assistant thread status gated on reply threads. Fixes #56480. (#56544) Thanks @HangGlidersRule.
- Control UI/chat: remove the delete-confirm popover outside-click listener on every dismiss path, so Cancel, Delete, outside clicks, and same-button toggles no longer leave stale document listeners behind. Refs #75590 and #69982. Thanks @Ricardo-M-L.
- Memory-core: treat exhausted file watcher limits as non-fatal for builtin memory auto-sync while preserving fatal handling for unrelated disk-full errors. (#73357) Thanks @solodmd.
- Providers/Ollama: restore catalog context-window forwarding as `num_ctx` for native `/api/chat` requests; fixes tool selection and context truncation regressions on models with catalog entries (qwen3, llama3, gemma3, …) when no explicit `params.num_ctx` was configured. Fixes #76117. (#76181) Thanks @openperf.
- Plugins/install: pin npm plugin installs to the verified resolved version and reject package-lock version or integrity drift, so mutable tags cannot race integrity checks into accepting a different artifact. Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Exec approvals: preserve trusted elevated defaults across approved command follow-up runs so same-turn elevated `on`/`ask` commands request a fresh approval instead of reporting elevated as unavailable. Fixes #75832. Thanks @jameyedwards and @bitloi.

- Plugins/providers: preserve scoped cold-load fallback for enabled external manifest-contract capability providers missing from the startup registry, so providers such as Fish Audio can resolve on request without requiring `activation.onStartup` for correctness. (#76536) Thanks @Conan-Scott.
- Gateway/update: carry `continuationMessage` from `update.run` into successful restart sentinels so session-scoped self-updates can resume one follow-up turn after the Gateway restarts. Refs #71178. (#74362) Thanks @100menotu001, @HeilbronAILabs, and @artnking.
- Agents/fallback: suppress duplicate current-turn user-message transcript writes after embedded fallback retries while still sending the retry prompt to the model. (#63696) Thanks @dashhuang.
- Channels/Telegram: force a fresh final message when a visible non-preview bubble (tool/block/error) was delivered after the active answer preview, so multi-step assistant replies no longer end up with the final answer above intermediate output. Fixes #76529. Thanks @jack-stormentswe.
- Channels/Telegram: require an observed Telegram send, edit, or fallback before treating a forum-topic final as delivered, so final replies generated in transcript no longer disappear from Telegram topics. Fixes #76554. (#76764) Thanks @bubucilo and @obviyus.
- Plugins/update: keep externalized bundled npm bridge updates on the normal plugin security scanner path instead of granting source-linked official trust without artifact provenance. (#76765) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Agents/reply context: label replied-to messages as the current user message target in model-visible metadata, so short replies are grounded to their explicit reply target instead of nearby chat history. (#76817) Thanks @obviyus.
- Doctor/plugins: install configured missing official plugins such as Discord and Brave during doctor/update repair, auto-enable repaired provider plugins, preserve config when a download fails, and stop auto-enable from inventing plugin entries when no manifest declares a configured channel. Fixes #76872. Thanks @jack-stormentswe.
- Agents/CLI runner: bridge in-flight assistant agent events into the shared `onPartialReply` callback so CLI backends (Anthropic Max plan via `claude-cli`, Codex CLI, etc.) drive the same Telegram and channel preview path the native API path uses, instead of silently delivering only the final assembled message. Fixes #76869. Thanks @jack-stormentswe.

## 2026.5.2

### Highlights

- External plugin installation now covers diagnostics, onboarding, doctor repair, channel setup, install/update records, and artifact metadata while keeping bare package installs on npm for the first cutover. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway startup, session listing, task maintenance, prompt prep, plugin loading, and filesystem hot paths get targeted cache and fanout reductions for large or plugin-heavy installs.
- Control UI and WebChat reliability improves across Sessions, Cron, long-running Gateway WebSockets, grouped-message width, slash-command feedback, iOS PWA bounds, selection contrast, and Talk diagnostics.
- Channel and provider fixes cover Telegram topic commands and networking, Discord delivery and startup edge cases, OpenAI-compatible TTS/Realtime, OpenRouter/DeepSeek replay, Anthropic-compatible streaming, Brave/SearXNG/Firecrawl web search, and voice-call routing.

### Changes

- Gateway/startup: skip plugin-backed auth-profile overlays during startup secrets preflight, reducing gateway readiness latency while keeping reload and OAuth recovery paths overlay-capable. (#68327) Thanks @JIRBOY.
- Plugins/ClawHub: make diagnostics, onboarding, doctor repair, and channel setup carry ClawPack metadata through install records while keeping explicit `clawhub:` installs on ClawHub and bare package installs on npm for the launch cutover. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime: scope broad runtime preloads to the effective plugin ids derived from config, startup planning, configured channels, slots, and auto-enable rules instead of importing every discoverable plugin.
- Agents/runtime: reuse the startup-loaded plugin registry for request-time providers, tools, channel actions, web/capability/memory/migration helpers, and memoized provider extra-params so stable embedded-run inputs no longer repeat plugin registry resolution while model-specific transport hook patches stay isolated. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev.
- Agents/runtime: memoize transcript replay-policy resolution for stable config and process-env runs while preserving custom-env provider hook behavior. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev.
- Infra/path-guards: add a fast path for canonical absolute POSIX containment checks, avoiding repeated `path.resolve` and `path.relative` work in hot filesystem walkers. Refs #75895, #75575, and #68782. Thanks @Enderfga.
- Tools: add a platform-level tool descriptor planner for descriptor-first visibility, generic availability checks, and executor references. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/tools: cache plugin tool descriptors captured from `api.registerTool(...)` so repeated prompt-time planning can skip plugin runtime loading while execution still loads the live plugin tool. (#76079) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Docs/Codex: clarify that ChatGPT/Codex subscription setups should use `openai/gpt-*` with `agentRuntime.id: "codex"` for native Codex runtime, while `openai-codex/*` remains the PI OAuth route. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Plugins/source checkout: load bundled plugins from the `extensions/*` pnpm workspace tree in source checkouts, so plugin-local dependencies and edits are used directly while packaged installs keep using the built runtime tree. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/beta: externalize ACPX behind the official `@openclaw/acpx` package so packaged installs keep ACP harness adapter binaries out of core until the ACP backend is installed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/beta: externalize diagnostics OpenTelemetry behind the official `@openclaw/diagnostics-otel` package so packaged installs keep the OTEL dependency stack out of core until the plugin is installed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/beta: prepare Google Chat, LINE, Matrix, and Mattermost for `2026.5.1-beta.2` npm and ClawHub publishing, and keep publishable plugin dist trees out of the core npm package. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/beta: prepare BlueBubbles, diagnostics Prometheus, Google Meet, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Zalo, and Zalo Personal for `2026.5.1-beta.2` npm and ClawHub publishing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/beta: prepare diagnostics OpenTelemetry, Discord, Diffs, Lobster, Memory LanceDB, Microsoft Teams, QQ Bot, Voice Call, and WhatsApp for `2026.5.1-beta.1` npm and ClawHub publishing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/beta: prepare Brave, Codex, Feishu, Synology Chat, Tlon, and Twitch for `2026.5.1-beta.1` npm and ClawHub publishing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/xAI: add Grok 4.3 to the bundled catalog and make it the default xAI chat model.
- Google Meet: let API-created rooms set `accessType` and `entryPointAccess`, and add `googlemeet end-active-conference` for closing managed spaces after a call. (#74824) Thanks @BsnizND.
- Google Meet: add `googlemeet test-listen` and the matching `google_meet` `test_listen` action so transcribe-mode joins wait for real caption or transcript movement before reporting listen-first health. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.
- Plugins/ClawHub: prefer versioned ClawPack artifacts when ClawHub publishes digest metadata, verifying the ClawPack response header and downloaded bytes before installing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/ClawHub: persist ClawPack digest metadata on ClawHub plugin install and update records so registry refreshes and download verification can reuse stored artifact facts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/ClawHub: allow official bundled-plugin cutovers to record ClawHub artifact metadata while preserving npm as the launch default for bare package specs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/onboarding: allow install-on-demand provider setup entries to persist ClawHub artifact metadata after explicit ClawHub installs while retaining npm/local fallback paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/Crestodian: add ClawHub plugin search plus Crestodian plugin list/search/install/uninstall operations, with approval and audit coverage for install and uninstall.
- Channels/thread bindings: replace split subagent/ACP thread-spawn toggles with `threadBindings.spawnSessions`, default thread-bound spawns on, and let `openclaw doctor --fix` migrate the legacy keys. (#75943)
- Providers/OpenAI: add `extraBody`/`extra_body` passthrough for OpenAI-compatible TTS endpoints, so custom speech servers can receive fields such as `lang` in `/audio/speech` requests. Fixes #39900. Thanks @R3NK0R.
- Dependencies: refresh workspace dependency pins, including TypeBox 1.1.37, AWS SDK 3.1041.0, Microsoft Teams 2.0.9, and Marked 18.0.3. Thanks @mariozechner, @aws, and @microsoft.
- Discord/channels: add reusable message-channel access groups plus Discord channel-audience DM authorization, so allowlists can reference `accessGroup:<name>` across channel auth paths. (#75813)
- Crabbox/scripts: print the selected Crabbox binary, version, and supported providers before `pnpm crabbox:*` commands, and reject stale binaries that lack `blacksmith-testbox` provider support.
- Agents/Codex: add committed happy-path prompt snapshots for Codex/message-tool Telegram direct, Discord group, and heartbeat turns so prompt drift can be reviewed. Thanks @pashpashpash.

### Fixes

- CLI/message: skip eager model context warmup and preserve channel-declared gateway execution for Discord and Telegram message actions, avoiding Codex app-server/model discovery during simple send/read commands. Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Codex/app-server: resolve managed binaries from bundled `dist` chunks and from the `@openai/codex` package bin when installs do not provide a nearby `.bin/codex` shim, avoiding false missing-binary startup failures.
- Plugins/ClawHub: use the ClawHub artifact resolver response as the install decision before downloading, keeping legacy ZIP fallback and future ClawPack npm-pack installs on the same explicit resolver path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/ClawHub: keep bare plugin package specs on npm for the launch cutover and reserve ClawHub resolution for explicit `clawhub:` specs until ClawHub pack readiness is deployed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/source checkout: discover source-only plugins such as Codex from the `extensions/*` workspace while using npm package excludes as the packaged-core boundary, removing the stale core-bundle metadata path.
- Plugins/ClawHub: install ClawPack artifacts from the explicit npm-pack `.tgz` resolver path and persist artifact kind, npm integrity, shasum, and tarball metadata for update and diagnostics flows. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI: allow deployments to configure grouped chat message max-width with a validated `gateway.controlUi.chatMessageMaxWidth` setting instead of patching bundled CSS after upgrades. Fixes #67935. Thanks @xiew4589-lang.
- Control UI/Cron: ignore malformed persisted cron rows without valid payloads before they enter UI state and guard stale cron render paths, preventing blank Control UI sections after a bad cron snapshot. Fixes #55047 and #54439; supersedes #54550 and #54552.
- Control UI/sessions: bound the default Sessions tab query to recent activity and fewer rows, avoiding expensive full-history loads while keeping filters editable. Fixes #76050. (#76051) Thanks @Neomail2.
- Control UI/sessions: apply reliable `sessions.changed` snapshots in-place and refetch only for partial events, avoiding redundant `sessions.list` regeneration during active session updates.
- Control UI/sessions: explain the Sessions filter controls with hover tooltips and raise the default list limit to 200 rows.
- Control UI/sessions: expand compaction checkpoint details from checkpoint-bearing rows and keep token totals on one line.
- Control UI/sessions: group Active and Limit filters together, streamline source toggles, and make the filter section collapsible.
- Control UI/sessions: shorten filter tooltips and remove duplicate browser-native tooltip popovers.
- Control UI/sessions: keep the expanded filter controls on one row on large screens.
- Gateway/channels: cap startup fanout at four channel/account handoffs and recover from Bonjour ciao self-probe races, reducing Windows startup stalls with many Telegram accounts. Fixes #75687.
- Gateway/sessions: keep `sessions.list` polling responsive on large session stores by reusing list-safe session cache/indexes and returning a lightweight compaction checkpoint preview instead of heavyweight summaries. Thanks @rolandrscheel.
- Control UI/Gateway: keep long-running dashboard WebSocket sessions alive with protocol pings and keep Stop available after reconnect or reload by recovering session-scoped active-run abort state. Fixes #70991. Thanks @alexandre-leng.
- CLI/update: treat inherited Gateway service markers as origin hints and only block package replacement when the managed Gateway is still live, so self-updates can stop the service and continue safely. (#75729) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Agents/failover: exempt run-level timeouts that fire during tool execution from model fallback, timeout-triggered compaction, and generic timeout payload synthesis, avoiding misleading "LLM request timed out" errors after the primary model has already responded. Fixes #52147. (#75873) Thanks @simonusa.
- Docker: copy Bun 1.3.13 from a digest-pinned image and keep CI on the same version. Fixes #74356. Thanks @fede-kamel and @sallyom.
- Agents/compaction: keep prior context on consecutive turns against z.ai-style providers (z.ai direct, openrouter z-ai/\*, in-house GLM gateways), avoiding accidental Pi state reset after successful turns. (#76056) Thanks @openperf.
- Doctor/plugins: run a one-time 2026.5.2 configured-plugin install repair based on `meta.lastTouchedVersion`, installing actively used downloadable OpenClaw plugins through the configured external source before marking the config touched for the release.
- Sessions/transcripts: use one `session.writeLock.acquireTimeoutMs` policy for session transcript lock acquisitions and raise the default wait to 60 seconds, avoiding user-visible lock timeouts during legitimate slow prep, cleanup, compaction, and mirror work. Fixes #75894. Thanks @shandutta.
- Control UI: contain the standalone iOS PWA viewport with safe-area-aware document locking, so Add-to-Home-Screen launches cannot scroll past the device bounds. Refs #76072. Thanks @kvncrw.
- Agents/restart recovery: match cleaned transcript locks by exact transcript lock paths plus the canonical session fallback, so interrupted main sessions using topic-suffixed transcripts resume after gateway restart. Refs #76052. Thanks @anyech.
- Agents/runtime: cache the stable system-prompt prefix and reuse prompt-report tool schema stats during dispatch prep, reducing repeated CPU work before streaming starts. Fixes #75999; supersedes #76061. Thanks @zackchiutw and @STLI69.
- Control UI/WebChat: use high-contrast text selection colors so highlighted chat text stays visible across themes. Fixes #60850; supersedes #60854. Thanks @Badschaff and @efe-arv.
- Telegram/native commands: pass persisted session files into plugin commands for topic-bound sessions, so `/codex bind` works from Telegram forum topics. Refs #75845 and #76049. Thanks @MatthewSchleder.
- Security audit/plugins: ignore plugin install backup, disabled, and dependency debris directories when enumerating installed plugin roots, avoiding false-positive findings for `.openclaw-install-backups` after plugin updates. Fixes #75456.
- Telegram: honor runtime conversation bindings for native slash commands in bound top-level groups, so commands like `/status@bot` route to the active non-`main` session instead of falling back to the default route. Fixes #75405; supersedes #75558. Thanks @ziptbm and @yfge.
- Gateway/tasks: make task registry maintenance use pass-local backing-session lookups and fresh active child-session indexes, avoiding repeated full task snapshots and session-store clones on large stale registries. Fixes #73517 and #75708; supersedes #74406 and #75709. Thanks @Lightningxxl, @glfruit, and @jared-rebel.
- Auth/sessions: JSON-clone auth-profile cache/runtime snapshots and remaining session cleanup previews instead of using `structuredClone`, preserving mutation isolation while avoiding native-memory growth on large stores. Fixes #45438. Thanks @markus-lassfolk.
- Models CLI: restore `openclaw models list --provider <id>` catalog and registry fallback rows for unconfigured providers, so provider-specific verification commands no longer report "No models found." Fixes #75517; supersedes #75615. Thanks @lotsoftick and @koshaji.
- Gateway/macOS: write LaunchAgent services with a canonical system PATH and stop preserving old plist PATH entries, so Volta, asdf, fnm, and pnpm shell paths no longer affect gateway child-process Node resolution. Fixes #75233; supersedes #75246. Thanks @nphyde2.
- Slack/hooks: preserve bot alert attachment text in message-received hook content when command text is blank. Fixes #76035; refs #76036. Thanks @amsminn.
- Sessions/agents: route Gateway session-store writes, CLI cleanup maintenance, and agent-delete session purges through a dedicated in-process writer and borrow the validated mutable cache during the writer slot, avoiding runtime file locks plus repeated `sessions.json` rereads and JSON clones on hot metadata updates. Refs #68554. Thanks @henkterharmsel.
- Control UI/chat: show inline feedback when local slash-command dispatch is unavailable or fails unexpectedly instead of clearing the composer silently. Fixes #52105. Thanks @MooreQiao.
- Memory/markdown: replace CRLF managed blocks in place and collapse duplicate marker blocks without rewriting unmanaged markdown, so Dreaming and Memory Wiki files self-heal from repeated generated sections. Fixes #75491; supersedes #75495, #75810, and #76008. Thanks @asaenokkostya-coder, @ottodeng, @everettjf, and @lrg913427-dot.
- Agents/tools: return critical tool-loop circuit-breaker stops as blocked tool results instead of thrown tool failures, so models see the guardrail and stop retrying the same call. Thanks @rayraiser.
- Agents/sessions: preserve pre-existing runtime model and context window after heartbeat turns so a per-run heartbeat model override does not bleed into shared-session status. Fixes #75452. Thanks @zhangguiping-xydt.
- Model commands: clarify direct and inline `/model` acknowledgements for non-default selections as session-scoped. Thanks @addu2612.
- Doctor/gateway: stop warning that non-existent, unconfigured user-bin directories are required in the Gateway service PATH. Fixes #76017. Thanks @xiphis.
- TUI/chat: skip full provider model normalization during context-window warmup while preserving provider-owned context metadata, avoiding cold-start stalls with large model registries. Thanks @547895019.
- Agents: enable malformed tool-call argument repair for Codex and Azure OpenAI Responses transports while keeping generic OpenAI Responses paths out of the repair gate. Fixes #75154. Thanks @Nimraakram22.
- Memory Wiki: accept relative Markdown links that include the `.md` suffix during broken-wikilink validation, avoiding false positives for native render-mode links. Thanks @Kenneth8128.
- OpenAI Codex: show the device-pairing code in the interactive SSH/headless prompt while keeping the short-lived code out of persistent runtime logs. Fixes #74212. Thanks @da22le123.
- QA Lab: stop gateway children when the suite parent disappears, so interrupted local QA runs cannot leave hot orphaned gateways behind.
- Codex/app-server: tolerate a second connection close during startup recovery and include retry counts plus stringified errors in the restart warning, so concurrent lanes do not fail after one shared-client race.
- Plugins/CLI: cache plugin CLI registration entries per command program so completion state generation does not repeat the full plugin sweep in one invocation. Thanks @ScientificProgrammer.
- Voice Call: summarize restored-call verification logs during startup while preserving expired-call cleanup, reducing duplicate per-call skip messages. Thanks @jckm14.
- Plugins: reuse gateway-bindable plugin loader cache entries for later default-mode loads without serving default-built registries to gateway-bound requests, reducing repeated plugin registration during dispatch. Refs #61756. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev.
- Gateway/secrets: include the caught error message in `secrets.reload` and `secrets.resolve` warning logs while keeping RPC errors generic, so operators can diagnose reload and permission failures. Thanks @davidangularme.
- Providers/OpenRouter: fill DeepSeek V4 `reasoning_content` replay placeholders for `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash` and `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`, so thinking/tool follow-up turns do not fail with DeepSeek's replay-shape error. Fixes #76018. Thanks @cloph-dsp.
- Anthropic-compatible streams: recover text deltas that arrive before their matching content block, so Kimi Code and similar providers do not finish as empty `incomplete_result` replies. Fixes #76007. Thanks @vliuyt.
- fix(infra): block workspace state-directory env override [AI]. (#75940) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- MCP/OpenAI: normalize parameter-free tool schemas whose top-level object `properties` is missing, null, or invalid before sending tools to OpenAI, so MCP tools without params stay usable. Fixes #75362. Thanks @tolkonepiu and @SymbolStar.
- Control UI/WebChat: add server-side chat-draft microphone dictation via the existing audio transcription pipeline, avoiding browser Web Speech while keeping provider credentials on the Gateway. Fixes #47311. Thanks @jmomford.
- TTS: honor explicit short `[[tts:text]]...[[/tts:text]]` blocks while keeping untagged short auto-TTS suppressed, so tagged voice replies are synthesized instead of being dropped as empty voice-only payloads. Fixes #73758. Thanks @yfge.
- Hooks/doctor: warn when `hooks.transformsDir` points outside the canonical hooks transform directory, so invalid workspace skill paths get a direct recovery hint before the Gateway crash-loops. Fixes #75853. Thanks @midobk.
- Proxy/audio: convert standard `FormData` bodies before proxy-backed undici fetches, so audio transcription and multipart uploads no longer send `[object FormData]` when `HTTP_PROXY` or `HTTPS_PROXY` is configured. Fixes #48554. Thanks @dco5.
- Discord: allow explicitly configured ack reactions in tool-only guild channels while keeping automatic lifecycle/status reactions suppressed. Fixes #74922. Thanks @samvilian and @BlueBirdBack.
- Discord: enable session-backed A2A announce target lookup so `sessions_send` uses the target session's `deliveryContext.accountId` or `lastAccountId` instead of falling back to the default bot in multi-account setups. Fixes #42652; refs #51626 and #44773; supersedes #73975. Thanks @irchelper, @dpalfox, and @Lanfei.
- Discord/setup: write resolved guild/channel allowlist selections to the selected guild and channel instead of falling back to the wildcard guild during setup. Supersedes #47788. Thanks @Eldersonar.
- Discord: treat abort-time Carbon reconnect-exhausted events as expected shutdown during stale-socket restarts, so health-monitor restarts no longer reject the monitor lifecycle. Carries forward #58216; supersedes #73949. Thanks @Perttulands.
- Discord/native commands: return an explicit warning when slash command dispatch or direct plugin execution produces no visible reply instead of a success-style completion ack. Fixes #58986; supersedes #62057. Thanks @jb510.
- Discord: keep typing indicators alive during long tool runs and auto-compaction while keepalive ticks continue, so active sessions do not appear stalled before the final reply. Thanks @Squirbie.
- Discord: preserve multipart Content-Type headers for attachment uploads across REST fetch paths, so generated images and other media no longer fail delivery with `CONTENT_TYPE_INVALID`. Thanks @FunJim.
- Discord: preserve attachment and sticker filenames when saving inbound media, so agents can see human-readable file names instead of only UUID-based paths. Fixes #59744. Thanks @xela92 and @rockcent.
- Discord: preserve non-ASCII channel names in session display labels while keeping allowlist matching on the existing ASCII slug contract. Thanks @swjeong9.
- Discord/PluralKit: canonicalize proxied webhook turns to the original Discord message id for inbound dedupe, while preserving the proxy message id for reply routing. Thanks @acgh213.
- Discord: only inject thread starter context on the first turn of the effective thread session, so follow-up thread replies do not repeat the starter block. Fixes #41355; supersedes #44447 and #44449. Thanks @p3nchan.
- Discord: resolve thread `ownerId` and `parentId` from Discord API-style snake_case payload fields, so bot-owned autoThreads do not require unnecessary mentions. Thanks @mgh3326.
- Gateway/diagnostics: include a bounded redacted startup error message in stability bundles, so crash-loop reports identify the failing plugin or contract without exposing secrets. Refs #75797. Thanks @ymebosma.
- Gateway/pricing: defer optional model pricing catalog refresh until after sidecars and channels reach the ready path, so slow OpenRouter or LiteLLM pricing fetches cannot block Gateway readiness. Fixes #74128; supersedes #73486. Thanks @ctbritt and @alprclbi.
- Gateway/pricing: abort in-flight model pricing catalog fetches when Gateway shutdown stops the refresh loop, and avoid post-stop cache writes or refresh timers. Fixes #72208. Thanks @rzcq.
- Codex/app-server: make startup retry cleanup ownership-aware so concurrent Codex lanes cannot close another lane's freshly restarted shared app-server client. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet/Twilio: report missing dial-in details during setup and explain that Twilio cannot join Meet URLs without a phone dial plan.
- Google Meet/Twilio: start the phone leg before sending Meet PIN DTMF, delay intro speech until after the post-connect dial sequence, and log each stage so operators can tell Twilio-leg audio from Meet-room audio.
- Voice Call: accept provider call IDs for gateway speak/continue requests and report ended-call state from history instead of returning a generic "Call not found" for stale calls.
- Control UI/Talk: allow the OpenAI Realtime WebRTC offer endpoint through the Control UI CSP, configure browser sessions with explicit VAD/transcription input settings, and surface OpenAI realtime error/lifecycle events instead of leaving Talk stuck as live with no diagnostic. Fixes #73427.
- Plugins: clarify config-selected duplicate plugin override diagnostics and document manifest schema updates for bundled-plugin forks. Fixes #8582. Thanks @sachah.
- CLI backends/Claude: make live-session JSONL turn caps bounded and configurable via `reliability.outputLimits`, raising the default guard for tool-heavy Claude CLI turns while preserving memory limits. Fixes #75838. Thanks @hcordoba840.
- Telegram/DMs: keep incidental `message_thread_id` reply-with-quote metadata on the flat DM session by default while preserving opt-in DM topic isolation for configured topics, `dm.threadReplies`, and `direct.<chatId>.threadReplies`. Fixes #75975. Thanks @ProjectEvolutionEVE.
- Telegram/network: raise outbound text and typing Bot API request guards to 60 seconds, keep low grammY client timeouts from preempting those guards, let higher `timeoutSeconds` configs extend safe method guards, and retry timed-out typing indicators through the transport fallback without risking duplicate messages. Fixes #76013. Thanks @iaki1206.
- Telegram/native commands: register and clear command menus in both default and group-chat scopes, so `/status` and plugin commands stay available in forum topics. Fixes #74032; updates #6457. Thanks @dae-sun and @WouldenShyp.
- Providers/OpenAI: resolve `keychain:<service>:<account>` `OPENAI_API_KEY` refs before creating OpenAI Realtime browser sessions or voice bridges, with a bounded cached Keychain lookup. Fixes #72120. Thanks @ctbritt.
- Discord/gateway: reconnect when the gateway socket closes while waiting for the shared IDENTIFY concurrency window, instead of silently skipping IDENTIFY and leaving the bot online but unresponsive. Fixes #74617. Thanks @zeeskdr-ai.
- Voice Call: add `sessionScope: "per-call"` for fresh per-call agent memory while preserving the default per-phone caller history. Fixes #45280. Thanks @pondcountry.
- Music generation: raise too-small tool timeouts to the provider-safe 10-second floor and collapse cascading abort fallback errors into a clearer root-cause summary. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Memory-core/dreaming: include the primary runtime workspace in multi-agent dreaming sweeps without mixing main-agent session transcripts into configured subagent workspaces. Fixes #70014. Thanks @ttomiczek.
- Control UI: add tab/RPC timing attribution and decouple slow Overview/Cron secondary refreshes so Sessions navigation gets immediate visible feedback. Refs #64004. Thanks @WaMaSeDu.
- Memory: retry transient SQLite index file swaps during atomic reindex on Windows, so brief `EBUSY`, `EPERM`, or `EACCES` locks do not fail memory rebuilds. Fixes #64187. Thanks @kunpeng-ai-lab.
- Telegram/startup: use the existing `getMe` request guard for the gateway bot probe instead of a fixed 2.5-second budget, and honor higher `timeoutSeconds` configs for slow Telegram API paths. Fixes #75783. Thanks @tankotan.
- Telegram/models: make model picker confirmations say selections are session-scoped and do not change the agent's persistent default. Fixes #75965. Thanks @sd1114820.
- Control UI/slash commands: keep fallback command metadata on a browser-safe registry path, so provider thinking runtime imports cannot blank the Web UI with `process is not defined`. Fixes #75987. Thanks @novkien.
- Heartbeat/Discord: keep async exec completion events out of the generic `System (untrusted)` prompt block and let the dedicated exec heartbeat prompt handle them, so Discord no longer receives raw exec failure tails as separate system-style messages. Fixes #66366. Thanks @Promee-ThaBossHoss.
- Channels: strip plain-text MiniMax and XML tool-call scaffolding from shared user-facing reply sanitization, so messaging channels do not deliver raw model tool syntax when a provider emits it as text instead of structured tool calls. Fixes #62820. Thanks @canh0chua.
- Infer/media: report missing image-understanding and audio-transcription provider configuration for `image describe`, `image describe-many`, and `audio transcribe` instead of blaming the input path when no provider is available. Fixes #73569 and supersedes #73593, #74288, and #74495. Thanks @bittoby, @tmimmanuel, @Linux2010, and @vyctorbrzezowski.
- Docs/health: clarify that session listing surfaces stored conversation rows rather than Discord/channel socket liveness, and point connectivity checks at channel status and health probes. Fixes #70420. Thanks @ashersoutherncities-art and @martingarramon.
- WhatsApp/Cron: keep DM pairing-store approvals out of implicit cron and heartbeat recipient fallback, so scheduled automation only uses explicit targets, active configured recipients, or configured `allowFrom` entries. Fixes #62339. Thanks @kelvinisly-collab.
- Google Meet: keep the agent-facing `google_meet` tool visible on non-macOS hosts but block local Chrome realtime actions with guidance, so Linux agents can still use transcribe, Twilio, chrome-node, and artifact flows without choosing the macOS-only BlackHole path. Refs #75950. Thanks @actual-software-inc.
- macOS/settings: keep opening General from rewriting `openclaw.json` during Tailscale settings hydration, preserving `gateway`, `auth`, `meta`, and `wizard` until the user changes a setting. Fixes #59545. Thanks @Tengdw.
- Discord: prioritize interaction callbacks ahead of stale background REST work without polling active REST buckets, validate oversized gateway payloads and member-intent requests before send, and forward explicit component payloads from message actions. (#75363)
- Active Memory: use the configured recall timeout as the blocking prompt-build hook budget by default and move cold-start setup grace behind explicit `setupGraceTimeoutMs` config, so the plugin no longer silently extends 15000 ms configs to 45000 ms on the main lane. Fixes #75843. Thanks @vishutdhar.
- Plugins/web-provider: reuse the active gateway plugin registry for runtime web provider resolution after deriving the same candidate plugin ids as the loader path, avoiding a redundant `loadOpenClawPlugins` call on every request while preserving origin and scope filters. Fixes #75513. Thanks @jochen.
- Crestodian/CLI: exit non-zero when interactive Crestodian is invoked without a TTY, so scripts and CI no longer treat the setup error as success. Fixes #73646 and supersedes #73928 and #74059. Thanks @bittoby, @luyao618, and @Linux2010.
- Cron: keep implicit/default isolated cron announce deliveries out of the main session awareness queue, so isolated jobs do not accumulate in the main conversation. Fixes #61426. Thanks @Lihannon.
- Subagents: avoid duplicate parent-visible replies when a parent uses `sessions_send` on its own persistent native subagent session, while preserving announce delivery for async sends. Fixes #73550. Thanks @sylviazhang2006-design.
- Web search/Brave: add opt-in `brave.http` diagnostics for Brave request URLs/query params, response status/timing, and cache hit/miss/write events without logging API keys or response bodies. Fixes #55196. Thanks @mecampbellsoup.
- Web search/Brave: add `plugins.entries.brave.config.webSearch.baseUrl` for Brave-compatible proxies, including endpoint-aware cache keys for both web and LLM Context modes. Fixes #19075. Thanks @jkoprax and @vishnukool.
- Web search/config: validate explicit `tools.web.search.provider` values against bundled and installed plugin manifests, while warning for stale third-party plugin config. Fixes #53092. Thanks @TinyTb.
- Web search/SearXNG: retry empty non-general category searches once with the general category, so unsupported category engines do not return empty results when general search has matches. Fixes #73552. Thanks @Loukky.
- CLI/message: skip gateway-stop hooks for read-only `message read` and bound stop-hook shutdown for other message actions, so one-shot Discord reads cannot hang behind plugin lifecycle cleanup.
- Plugins/web-provider: cache repeated bundled web search and web fetch provider registry loads by default while preserving explicit cache opt-outs. Supersedes #75992. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev.
- Agents/sandbox: preserve existing workspace file modes when sandbox edits atomically replace files, so 0644 files do not collapse to 0600 after Write/Edit/apply_patch. Fixes #44077. Thanks @patosullivan.
- Control UI/WebChat: route typed `/new` through the New Chat dashboard-session creation flow instead of `chat.send`, while keeping `/reset` as the explicit current-session reset. Fixes #69599. Thanks @WolvenRA.
- Agents/models: keep legacy CLI runtime model refs such as `claude-cli/*` in the configured allowlist after canonical runtime migration, so cron `payload.model` overrides keep working. Fixes #75753. Thanks @RyanSandoval.
- Codex/app-server: restart the shared Codex app-server client once when it closes during startup thread resume, preserving the existing thread binding instead of retrying `thread/start` on a closed client. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/watch: keep colored subsystem log prefixes in the managed tmux pane even when the parent shell exports `NO_COLOR`, while preserving explicit `FORCE_COLOR=0` opt-out. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/compaction: submit a non-empty runtime-event marker for pre-compaction memory flush turns, so strict Anthropic providers no longer reject the silent flush as an empty user message. Fixes #75305. Thanks @sableassistant3777-source.
- Plugin SDK: re-export `isPrivateIpAddress` from `plugin-sdk/ssrf-runtime`, restoring source-checkout builds for SearXNG and Firecrawl private-network guards. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/message actions: advertise `upload-file` and route it through Discord's send runtime with agent-scoped media reads, so agents can discover and send file attachments. Fixes #60652 and supersedes #60808, #61087, and #61100. Thanks @claw-io, @efe-arv, @joelnishanth, and @sjhddh.
- Sessions: suppress exact inter-session control replies such as `NO_REPLY` and keep agent-to-agent announce bookkeeping out of visible transcripts. Fixes #53145. Thanks @TarahAssistant.
- CLI/directory: report unsupported directory operations for installed channel plugins instead of prompting to reinstall the plugin when it lacks a directory adapter. Fixes #75770. Thanks @lawong888.
- Web search/SearXNG: show the JSON API `search.formats` prerequisite during SearXNG setup before prompting for the base URL. Supersedes #65592. Thanks @evanpaul14.
- Web search/SearXNG: pass through `img_src` image URLs from SearXNG image-category results. Supersedes #61416. Thanks @sghael.
- Web search/Kimi: fail explicitly when Moonshot returns an ungrounded chat answer instead of native web-search evidence, so Kimi no longer reports generic fallback text as a successful search. Fixes #52573. Thanks @wangwllu.
- Web search: keep public provider requests on the strict SSRF guard and reserve private-network access for explicit self-hosted SearXNG/Firecrawl endpoints. Fixes #74357 and supersedes #74360. Thanks @fede-kamel.
- Firecrawl: reject private, loopback, metadata, and non-HTTP(S) `firecrawl_scrape` target URLs before forwarding them to Firecrawl. Supersedes #48133. Thanks @kn1ghtc.
- Web search/Firecrawl: allow self-hosted private/internal Firecrawl `baseUrl` endpoints, including HTTP for private targets, while keeping hosted Firecrawl on the strict official endpoint. Fixes #63877 and supersedes #59666, #63941, and #74013. Thanks @jhthompson12, @jzakirov, @Mlightsnow, and @shad0wca7.
- CLI/models: report gateway model fallback attempts in `infer model run --json` and avoid double-prefixing provider-qualified defaults such as `openrouter/auto` in `models status`. Partially fixes #69527. Thanks @alexifra.
- Providers/OpenRouter: strip trailing assistant prefill turns from verified OpenRouter Anthropic model requests when reasoning is enabled, so Claude 4.6 routes no longer fail with Anthropic's prefill rejection through the OpenAI-compatible adapter. Fixes #75395. Thanks @sbmilburn.
- Voice Call: add per-number inbound routing for dialed-number greetings, response agents/models/prompts, and TTS voice overrides. Fixes #56604. Thanks @healthstatus.
- Feishu: preserve Feishu/Lark HTTP error bodies for message sends, media sends, and chat member lookups, so HTTP 400 failures include vendor code, message, log id, and troubleshooter details. Fixes #73860. Thanks @desksk.
- Agents/transcripts: avoid reopening large Pi transcript files through the synchronous session manager for maintenance rewrites, persisted tool-result truncation, manual compaction boundary hardening, and queued compaction rotation. Thanks @mariozechner.
- Web search/Exa: accept `plugins.entries.exa.config.webSearch.baseUrl`, normalize it to the Exa `/search` endpoint, and partition cached results by endpoint. Fixes #54928 and supersedes #54939. Thanks @mrpl327 and @lyfuci.
- Web search/MiniMax: include MiniMax Search in the web-search setup flow and let `MINIMAX_API_KEY` participate in MiniMax Search auto-detection. Supersedes #65828. Thanks @Jah-yee.
- Plugins/ClawHub: preserve official source-linked trust through archive installs, so OpenClaw can install trusted ClawHub plugin packages that trigger the built-in dangerous-pattern scanner. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/ClawHub: install package runtime dependencies for archive-backed plugin installs, so ClawHub packages such as WhatsApp load declared dependencies after download. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/tools: cache repeated plugin tool factory results only for matching request context, reducing per-turn tool prep without leaking sandbox, session, browser, delivery, or runtime config state. Fixes #75956. Thanks @Linux2010.
- Providers/LM Studio: allow `models.providers.lmstudio.params.preload: false` to skip OpenClaw's native model-load call so LM Studio JIT loading, idle TTL, and auto-evict can own model lifecycle. Fixes #75921. Thanks @garyd9.
- Agents/transcripts: keep chat history, restart recovery, fork token checks, and stale-token compaction checks on bounded async transcript reads or cached async indexes instead of reparsing large session files. Thanks @mariozechner.
- Telegram: inherit the process DNS result order for Bot API transport and downgrade recovered sticky IPv4 fallback promotions to debug logs, while keeping pinned-IP escalation warnings visible. Fixes #75904. Thanks @highfly-hi and @neeravmakwana.
- Sessions: keep durable external conversation pointers, including group and thread-scoped chat sessions, out of age, count, and disk-budget maintenance eviction while still allowing synthetic runtime entries to age out. Fixes #58088. Thanks @drinkflav.
- Web search/MiniMax: allow `MINIMAX_OAUTH_TOKEN` to satisfy MiniMax Search credentials, so OAuth-authorized MiniMax Token Plan setups do not need a separate web-search key. Fixes #65768. Thanks @kikibrian and @zhouhe-xydt.
- Providers/MiniMax: derive Coding Plan usage polling from the configured MiniMax base URL, so global setups no longer query the CN usage host. Fixes #65054. Thanks @sixone74 and @Yanhu007.
- Control UI/WebChat: skip assistant-media transcript supplements when stale media refs resolve to no playable media, so text-only final replies are not stored a second time as gateway-injected assistant messages. Fixes #73956. Thanks @HemantSudarshan.
- Sessions: reject `sessions_send` targets that resolve to thread-scoped chat sessions, so inter-agent coordination cannot be injected into active human-facing Slack or Discord threads. Fixes #52496. Thanks @barry-p5cc.
- Subagents: honor `sessions_spawn` with `expectsCompletionMessage: false` by skipping parent completion handoff delivery while still running child cleanup. Fixes #75848. Thanks @alfredjbclaw.
- Media/completions: treat media-only message-tool sends as delivered async completion output, avoiding duplicate raw `MEDIA:` fallback posts after video or music generation finishes.
- Gateway/logging: keep deferred channel startup logs on the subsystem logger, so Slack, Discord, Telegram, and voice-call startup messages keep timestamped prefixes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex/app-server: recover JSON-RPC frames split by raw command-output newlines and include a redacted preview when malformed app-server messages still reach the console. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Replies/typing: keep typing alive for queued follow-up messages that are genuinely waiting behind an active run, instead of making chat surfaces look idle while work is queued. Fixes #65685. Thanks @papag00se.
- ACP/Discord: suppress completion announce delivery for inline thread-bound ACP session runs, so Discord thread-bound ACP replies are not delivered twice. Fixes #60780. Thanks @solavrc.
- Discord/threads: ignore webhook-authored copies in already-bound Discord session threads even when the webhook id differs, preventing PluralKit proxy copies from creating duplicate turn pressure. Fixes #52005. Thanks @acgh213.
- Discord/threads: return the created thread as partial success when the follow-up initial message fails, so agents do not retry thread creation and create empty duplicate threads. Fixes #48450. Thanks @dahifi.
- Discord/components: consume every button or select in a non-reusable component message after the first authorized click, so single-use panels cannot fire sibling callbacks. Fixes #54227. Thanks @fujiwarakasei.
- macOS/config: preserve existing `gateway.auth` and unrelated config keys during app fallback writes, so dashboard or Talk settings changes cannot strand Control UI clients by dropping persisted auth. Fixes #75631. Thanks @Fuma2013.
- Control UI/TUI: keep reconnecting chat sends bound to the same backing session id and let TUI relaunches resume the last selected session, avoiding silent fresh sessions after refresh, reconnect, or terminal restart. Fixes #63195, #68162, and #73546. Thanks @bond260312-cmyk, @zhong18804784882, and @mtuwei.
- Plugins/tools: let plugin manifests declare static tool availability so reply startup skips unavailable plugin tool runtimes instead of importing factories that only return `null`. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Discord/reactions: skip reaction listener registration when DMs and group DMs are disabled and every configured guild has `reactionNotifications: "off"`, avoiding needless reaction-event queue work. Fixes #47516. Thanks @x4v13r1120.
- CLI sessions: preserve explicit manual-attach reuse bindings so trusted CLI sessions are not invalidated on the first turn when auth, prompt, or MCP fingerprints drift. Fixes #75849. Thanks @alfredjbclaw.
- Telegram/streaming: keep partial preview streaming enabled for plain reply-to replies, disabling drafts only for real native quote excerpts that require Telegram quote parameters. Fixes #73505. Thanks @choury.
- Config: log the "newer OpenClaw" version warning once per process instead of once per config snapshot read. (#75927) Thanks @romneyda.
- Telegram/message actions: treat benign delete-message 400s as no-op warnings instead of runtime errors, so stale or already-removed messages do not create noisy delete failures. Fixes #73726. Thanks @Avicennasis.
- Telegram: split long default markdown sends and media follow-up text into safe HTML chunks, so outbound messages over Telegram's limit no longer fail as one oversized Bot API request. Fixes #75868. Thanks @zhengsx.
- Gateway/chat history: merge Claude CLI transcript imports for Anthropic-routed sessions that still have a Claude CLI binding, so local chat history does not hide CLI JSONL turns. Fixes #75850. Thanks @alfredjbclaw.
- Media: trim serialized JSON suffixes after local `MEDIA:` directive file extensions, so generated-image metadata cannot pollute the parsed media path and cause false `ENOENT` delivery failures. Fixes #75182. Thanks @TnzGit and @hclsys.
- Plugins/runtime: hot-reload Gateway plugin runtime surfaces after plugin enable/disable changes while keeping source-changing plugin install, update, and uninstall operations restart-backed so loaded module code is not reused. Fixes #72097.
- Cron: make scheduler reload schedule comparison tolerate malformed persisted jobs, so one bad cron entry no longer aborts the whole tick. Fixes #75886. Thanks @samfox-ai.
- Doctor/channels: warn after migrations when default Telegram or Discord accounts have no configured token and their env fallback (`TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` or `DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN`) is unavailable, with secret-safe migration docs for checking state-dir `.env`. Fixes #74298. Thanks @lolaopenclaw.
- Gateway/diagnostics: keep idle liveness samples in telemetry instead of visible warning logs unless diagnostic work is active, waiting, or queued. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/cron: reject provider-prefixed targets for the wrong channel and let prefixed announce targets such as `telegram:123` select their channel when delivery falls back to `last`, so Telegram IDs cannot be coerced into WhatsApp phone numbers. Fixes #56839. Thanks @bencoremans.
- Control UI/chat: keep live replies visible when a raw session alias such as `main` sends the chat turn but Gateway emits events under the canonical session key for the same run. Fixes #73716. Thanks @teebes.
- CLI/models: reject `--agent` on `openclaw models set` and `set-image` instead of silently writing agent-scoped requests to global model defaults. Fixes #68391. Thanks @derrickabellard.
- CLI: stop treating the legacy singular `openclaw tool ...` token as a plugin id under restrictive `plugins.allow`, so it falls through as a normal unknown/reserved command instead of suggesting a stale allowlist entry. Fixes #64732. Thanks @efe-arv, @SweetSophia, and @hashtag1974.
- Media: write inbound media buffers through same-directory temp files before rename, so failed disk writes do not leave zero-byte artifacts for later voice transcription. Fixes #55966. Thanks @OpenCodeEngineer.
- TTS/Telegram: keep trusted local audio generated by the TTS tool queued for voice-note delivery even when the run-level built-in tool list omits the raw `tts` name. Fixes #74752. Thanks @Loveworld3033 and @andyliu.
- TTS: require explicit user or config audio intent for the agent speech tool so dashboard chats stay text unless audio is requested. Fixes #69777. Thanks @alexandre-leng.
- Plugins/config: keep bundled source-checkout plugins from being runtime-gated by install-only `minHostVersion` metadata, accept prerelease host floors, trim plugin-service startup failures to one log line, and avoid broad channel-runtime loading during base config parsing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Heartbeat: strip legacy `[TOOL_CALL]...[/TOOL_CALL]` and `[TOOL_RESULT]...[/TOOL_RESULT]` pseudo-call blocks from heartbeat replies before channel delivery. Fixes #54138. Thanks @Deniable9570.
- macOS/Voice Wake: send wake-word and Push-to-Talk transcripts through the selected macOS session target instead of always falling back to main WebChat. Fixes #51040. Thanks @carl-jeffrolc.
- Providers/xAI: give Grok `web_search` a 60s default timeout, harden malformed xAI Responses parsing, and return structured timeout errors instead of aborting the tool call. Fixes #58063 and #58733. Thanks @dnishimura, @marvcasasola-svg, and @Nanako0129.
- Providers/configure: preserve the existing default model when adding or reauthing a provider whose plugin returns a default-model config patch. Fixes #50268. Thanks @rixcorp-oc.
- Slack/message actions: send media before the follow-up Block Kit message when Slack `send` includes a file plus presentation or interactive controls, so file attachments are no longer rejected. Fixes #51458. Thanks @HirokiKobayashi-R.
- Slack/DMs: honor `dmHistoryLimit` for fresh 1:1 Slack DM sessions by backfilling recent conversation history before the current reply. Fixes #64427. Thanks @brantley-creator.
- Slack/DMs: keep top-level direct messages on the stable DM session even when `replyToMode` targets Slack thread replies, preserving context across DM turns. Fixes #58832. Thanks @daye-jjeong.
- Slack/delivery: preserve Slack Web API missing-scope details in outbound delivery errors, so queued retry state identifies the OAuth scope to add. Fixes #62391. Thanks @alexey-pelykh.
- Slack/capabilities: read granted scopes from `auth.test` response metadata before trying legacy scope APIs, so modern bot tokens no longer report `unknown_method` for channel capabilities. Fixes #44625. Thanks @Qquanwei and @martingarramon.
- Slack/DMs: send text/block-only proactive DMs directly with `chat.postMessage(channel=<user id>)` while keeping conversation resolution for uploads and threaded sends. Fixes #62042. Thanks @MarkMolina.
- Slack/routing: match route bindings written with Slack target syntax such as `channel:C...`, `user:U...`, or `<@U...>`, so bound Slack peers route to the configured agent instead of `main`. Fixes #41608. Thanks @Winnsolutionsadmin.
- Slack/routing: match public-channel allowlist entries written as `channel:C...` against bare Slack runtime channel IDs, so allowed channel mentions do not fail as `channel-not-allowed`. Fixes #41264 and supersedes #56530. Thanks @babutree and @Realworld404.
- Slack/message actions: prefer the account bound to the outbound target peer before falling back to the agent's first channel account, so multi-workspace sends use the intended Slack account. Supersedes #66807. Thanks @rijhsinghani.
- Slack/delivery: retry Slack Web API writes only when the SDK wraps a DNS request failure such as `EAI_AGAIN`, so transient resolver hiccups can recover without retrying platform errors that may duplicate messages. Fixes #68789. Thanks @sonnyb9.
- Slack/message actions: forward agent-scoped media roots through the bundled upload-file action path, so workspace files can be attached without failing the local-media guard. Fixes #64625. Thanks @benpchandler.
- Slack/mentions: resolve `<!subteam^...>` user-group mentions through Slack `usergroups.users.list` and treat them as explicit mentions only when the bot user is a member, so mention-gated agent channels wake for real user-group mentions without config-only allowlists. Fixes #73827. Thanks @CG-Intelligence-Agent-Jack.
- Slack/message tool: let `read` fetch an exact Slack message timestamp, including a specific thread reply when paired with `threadId`, instead of returning only the parent thread or recent channel history. Fixes #53943. Thanks @zomars.
- PDF/Gemini: send native PDF analysis API keys in the `x-goog-api-key` header instead of the request URL, keeping secrets out of proxy and access logs. Supersedes #60600. Thanks @garagon.
- Web search/Gemini: route agent abort signals into provider fetches and log provider-side abort failures as normal tool errors instead of silently aborting the run. Fixes #72995. Thanks @RoseKongPS.
- Web search: point missing-key errors to `web_fetch` for known URLs and the browser tool for interactive pages. Thanks @zhaoyang97.
- Web search: late-bind managed agent `web_search` calls to the current runtime config snapshot, so existing sessions do not keep stale unresolved SecretRefs after secrets reload. Fixes #75420. Thanks @richardmqq.
- Web search/Gemini: reuse `models.providers.google.apiKey` and `models.providers.google.baseUrl` as lower-priority fallbacks for Gemini web search after dedicated search config and `GEMINI_API_KEY`. Supersedes #57496. Thanks @Aoiujz.
- Web search/Gemini: pass `freshness` and `date_after`/`date_before` filters through Google Search grounding time ranges. Fixes #66498. Thanks @ismael-81.
- Web search/DuckDuckGo: include the keyless DuckDuckGo provider in the web search setup wizard. Fixes #65862 and supersedes #65940. Thanks @Jah-yee.
- Web search: honor `baseUrl` overrides for Gemini, Grok, and x_search provider-owned config, so proxy-backed search tools no longer dial hardcoded public endpoints. Supersedes #61972. Thanks @Lanfei.
- Web search/Brave: point Brave provider metadata at the canonical `/tools/brave-search` docs page and make the legacy `/brave-search` docs page a redirect stub. Fixes #65870 and supersedes #65892. Thanks @Magicray1217 and @Jah-yee.
- Web search/Brave: allow `freshness` and bounded date ranges in `llm-context` mode, matching Brave's documented LLM Context API support. Supersedes #51005. Thanks @remusao.
- Web fetch: resolve external plugin `webFetchProviders` for non-sandboxed `web_fetch`, while keeping sandboxed fetches limited to bundled providers. Fixes #74915. Thanks @ultrahighsuper and @mingmingtsao.
- Heartbeat: strip legacy `[TOOL_CALL]...[/TOOL_CALL]` and `[TOOL_RESULT]...[/TOOL_RESULT]` pseudo-call blocks from heartbeat replies before channel delivery. Fixes #54138. Thanks @Deniable9570.
- macOS/Voice Wake: send wake-word and Push-to-Talk transcripts through the selected macOS session target instead of always falling back to main WebChat. Fixes #51040. Thanks @carl-jeffrolc.
- Providers/xAI: give Grok `web_search` a 60s default timeout, harden malformed xAI Responses parsing, and return structured timeout errors instead of aborting the tool call. Fixes #58063 and #58733. Thanks @dnishimura, @marvcasasola-svg, and @Nanako0129.
- Slack/directory: make `openclaw directory peers/groups list --channel slack` prefer token-backed live readers and return the connected Slack account from `directory self`, so valid Slack tokens no longer produce empty directory CLI results. Fixes #50776. Thanks @pjaillon.
- Slack: keep assistant typing status, temporary typing reactions, and status reactions active for group/channel turns that use message-tool-only visible replies, while still suppressing automatic source replies. Fixes #75877. Thanks @teosborne.
- Slack: recover full inbound DM text from top-level rich-text blocks when Slack sends a shortened message preview, so long direct messages still reach the agent intact. Fixes #55358. Thanks @tonyjwinter.
- Replies: strip legacy `[TOOL_CALL]{tool => ..., args => ...}[/TOOL_CALL]` pseudo-call text from user-facing replies and flag it in tool-call diagnostics instead of showing raw tool syntax in channels. Fixes #63610. Thanks @canh0chua.
- WhatsApp: close long-lived web sockets through Baileys `end(error)` before falling back to raw websocket close, so listener teardown runs Baileys cleanup instead of leaving zombie sockets. Fixes #52442. Thanks @essendigitalgroup-cyber.
- Twitch/plugins: emit a flat JSON Schema for Twitch channel config so single-account and multi-account configs validate before runtime load, and add source-checkout diagnostics for missing pnpm workspace dependencies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/sessions: move hot transcript reads and mirror appends onto async bounded IO with serialized parent-linked writes, keeping large session histories from stalling Gateway requests and channel replies. Fixes #75656. Thanks @DerFlash.
- macOS/Talk Mode: downmix multi-channel microphone buffers before handing them to Apple Speech across Push-to-Talk, Talk Mode, Voice Wake, and the wake-word tester, so pro audio interfaces no longer produce empty transcripts. Fixes #42533. Thanks @jbuecker.
- macOS/Talk Mode: subscribe native WebChat to active-session transcript updates and render external spoken user turns in the chat thread instead of only showing assistant replies. Fixes #75155. Thanks @SledderBling.
- macOS/Voice Wake: accept trigger-only phrases in the built-in Voice Wake test, matching the settings UI and runtime trigger-only path instead of requiring extra command text after the wake word. Fixes #64986. Thanks @zoiks65.
- Cron/TTS: run cron announce payloads through the normal TTS directive transform before outbound delivery, so scheduled `[[tts]]` replies generate voice payloads instead of leaking raw tags. Fixes #52125. Thanks @kenchen3000.
- WhatsApp: save downloadable quoted image media from reply context as inbound media, so agents can inspect an image that a user replied to instead of only seeing `<media:image>`. Fixes #59174. Thanks @gaffner.
- Sessions/store: stop persisting the runtime-only `skillsSnapshot.resolvedSkills` array inside each session entry, so `sessions.json` no longer carries a copy of every parsed `SKILL.md` body for every active session; `ensureSkillSnapshot` rehydrates the array from disk on cold resume so the embedded runner, the Claude CLI skills plugin, and the Claude live-session fingerprint all see populated skills, and legacy stores self-heal on the next save. Refs #11950, #6650, #15000. Thanks @amoghasgekar.
- Doctor/WhatsApp: warn when Linux crontabs still run the legacy `ensure-whatsapp.sh` health check, which can misreport `Gateway inactive` when cron lacks the systemd user-bus environment. Fixes #60204. Thanks @mySebbe.
- Slack/setup: print the generated app manifest as plain JSON instead of embedding it inside the framed setup note, so it can be copied into Slack without deleting border characters. Fixes #65751. Thanks @theDanielJLewis.
- Channels/WhatsApp: route CLI logout through the live Gateway and stop runtime-backed listeners before channel removal, so removing a WhatsApp account does not leave the old socket replying until restart. Fixes #67746. Thanks @123Mismail.
- Voice Call/Twilio: honor TTS directive text and provider voice/model overrides during telephony synthesis, so `[[tts:...]]` tags are not spoken literally and voiceId overrides reach OpenAI/ElevenLabs calls. Fixes #58114. Thanks @legonhilltech-jpg.
- Agents/session-locks: reclaim untracked current-process session locks with matching starttime during acquisition and startup cleanup, so Gateway restarts recover from self-owned orphan `.jsonl.lock` files. Fixes #75805; refs #49603. Thanks @cdznho.
- Agents/subagents: initialize built-in context engines before native `sessions_spawn` resolves spawn preparation, so cliBackend-only cold starts no longer fail with an unregistered `legacy` context engine. Fixes #73095. (#73904) Thanks @brokemac79.
- Plugins/Bonjour: ship the ciao runtime dependency with packaged OpenClaw so fresh OCM envs can start default mDNS discovery without a missing-module failure. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/tools: scope reply plugin-tool discovery to manifest-declared tool owners and already-active matching tool entries, avoiding broad plugin runtime loading for narrow or core-only tool allowlists. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/replies: defer implicit image model discovery and keep OAuth auth-store adoption on persisted profiles during reply startup, cutting OCM MarCodex warm prep to sub-second in live checks. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/tools: enforce `contracts.tools` as the manifest ownership contract for plugin tool registration, rejecting undeclared runtime tool names and adding bundled plugin drift coverage. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/Codex: stop prompting message-tool-only source turns to finish with `NO_REPLY`, so quiet turns are represented by not calling the visible message tool instead of conflicting final-text instructions. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Gateway/config: report failed backup restores as failed in logs and config observe audit records instead of marking them valid. (#70515) Thanks @davidangularme.
- Compaction: use the active session model fallback chain for implicit summarization failures without persisting fallback model selection, so Azure content-filter 400s can recover. Fixes #64960. (#74470) Thanks @jalehman and @OpenCodeEngineer.
- Gateway/config: allow `gateway config.patch` to update documented subagent thinking defaults. Fixes #75764. (#75802) Thanks @kAIborg24.
- Plugins/CLI: keep git plugin install paths credential-free, preserve existing git checkouts until replacement succeeds, honor duplicate npm install mode, and remove managed git repos on uninstall. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/CLI: redact authenticated git URLs from git install command failure details, so failed clone or checkout output cannot leak credentials during plugin installs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/status reactions: remove stale non-terminal lifecycle reactions when a run reaches done or error, so Discord does not leave a permanent thinking emoji after completion. Fixes #75458. Thanks @davelutztx.
- Discord/doctor: migrate unsupported per-channel `agentId` entries under guild channel config into top-level `bindings[]` routes, so `openclaw doctor --fix` preserves the intended agent route instead of stripping it as an unknown key. Fixes #62455. Thanks @lobster-biscuit.
- Discord/DMs: set inbound direct-message `ctx.To` to the semantic `user:<id>` target while keeping delivery routed through the DM channel, so mirror and recovery paths do not treat DMs as channel conversations. Fixes #68126. Thanks @illuminate0623.
- Discord/DMs: keep no-guild inbound messages on direct-message routing when Discord channel lookup is temporarily unavailable, preventing degraded DMs from forking into channel sessions. Fixes #59817. Thanks @DooPeePey.
- Discord: retry outbound API calls on HTTP 5xx, request-timeout, and transient transport failures instead of only Discord rate limits, reducing dropped cron and agent replies during short Discord or network outages. Fixes #52396. Thanks @sunshineo.
- Discord: include Components v2 Text Display content from referenced replies and forwarded snapshots, so component-only messages still appear in reply context. Fixes #56228. Thanks @HollandDrive.
- Discord: add configurable gateway READY timeouts for startup and runtime reconnects, so staggered multi-account setups can avoid false restart loops. Fixes #72273. Thanks @sergionsantos.
- Discord: preserve native slash-command description localizations through command reconcile, so localized Discord descriptions no longer get overwritten by English defaults. Fixes #56580. Thanks @mhseo93.
- Discord: add configured outbound mention aliases so known `@Name` references can be rewritten to real Discord user mentions instead of relying only on the transient directory cache. Fixes #67587. Thanks @McoreD.
- Discord: avoid startup REST amplification by skipping native command deploy retries after Discord rate limits and deriving the bot id from parseable bot tokens instead of requiring a `/users/@me` lookup. Fixes #75341. Thanks @PrinceOfEgypt.
- Plugins/hooks: derive hook `ctx.channelId` from the conversation target instead of the provider name, so Discord and other channel plugins can keep per-channel state isolated. Fixes #59881. Thanks @bradfreels.
- Gateway/config: log config health-state write failures instead of silently hiding config observe-recovery write errors. Thanks @sallyom.
- Diagnostics: reset stuck-session timers on reply, tool, status, block, and ACP progress events, and back off repeated `session.stuck` diagnostics while a session remains unchanged. Supersedes #72010. Thanks @rubencu.
- Gateway/agents: avoid rebuilding core tools for plugin-only allowlists and keep the full plugin registry cache warm across scoped plugin loads, reducing per-turn latency spikes. Fixes #75882, #75907, #75906, #75887, and #75851. (#75922) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/failover: classify bare `status: internal server error` provider messages as retryable server errors so model fallback can rotate instead of stopping. (#73844) Thanks @thesomewhatyou.
- Gateway/startup: return the shared retryable startup-sidecars error for startup-gated control-plane RPCs such as sessions.create, sessions.send, sessions.abort, agent.wait, and tools.effective, so clients can retry early sidecar races. (#76012) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Providers/Google: fix Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite `reasoning: "minimal"` rejections by raising its thinking-budget floor to 512 while preserving the existing Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash minimal presets. (#70629) Thanks @ericberic.
- Agents/status: resolve `session_status(sessionKey="current")` for sparse channel-plugin sessions after literal current lookups miss, so Scope, Slack, Discord, and other plugin-driven agents avoid retrying through `Unknown sessionKey: current`. Fixes #74141. (#72306) Thanks @bittoby.
- Cron: retry recurring wake-now main-session jobs through temporary heartbeat busy skips before recording success, so queued cron events no longer appear as ok ghost runs while the main lane is still busy. Fixes #75964. (#76083) Thanks @kshetrajna12 and @xuruiray.
- Providers/Google: keep Gemini thinking-signature-only stream chunks active during reasoning, so Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview replies no longer hit idle timeouts before visible text. Fixes #76071. (#76080) Thanks @marcoschierhorn and @zhangguiping-xydt.
- CLI/skills: show per-agent model and command visibility in `openclaw skills check --agent`, and let doctor report or disable unavailable skills allowed for the default agent. (#75983) Thanks @mbelinky.

## 2026.4.29

### Highlights

- Messaging and automation get active-run steering by default, visible-reply enforcement, spawned subagent routing metadata, and opt-in follow-up commitments for heartbeat-delivered reminders. Thanks @vincentkoc, @scoootscooob, @samzong, and @vignesh07.
- Memory grows into a people-aware wiki with provenance views, per-conversation Active Memory filters, partial recall on timeout, and bounded REM preview diagnostics. Thanks @vincentkoc, @quengh, @joeykrug, and @samzong.
- Provider/model coverage expands with NVIDIA onboarding/catalogs plus faster manifest-backed model/auth paths, Bedrock Opus 4.7 thinking parity, and safer Codex/OpenAI-compatible replay and streaming behavior. Thanks @eleqtrizit, @shakkernerd, @prasad-yashdeep, @woodhouse-bot, and @LyHug.
- Gateway and packaged-plugin reliability focuses on slow-host startup, reusable model catalogs, event-loop readiness diagnostics, runtime-dependency repair, stale-session recovery, and version-scoped update caches. Thanks @lpendeavors, @DerFlash, @vincentkoc, @pashpashpash, and @jhsmith409.
- Channel fixes cluster around Slack Block Kit limits, Telegram proxy/webhook/polling/send resilience, Discord startup/rate-limit handling, WhatsApp delivery/liveness, and Microsoft Teams/Matrix/Feishu edge cases. Thanks @slackapi, @SymbolStar, @djgeorg3, @TinyTb, @dseravalli, @nklock, and @alex-xuweilong.
- Security and operations add OpenGrep scanning, sharper GHSA triage policy, safer exec/pairing/owner-scope handling, Docker/onboarding automation, and web-fetch IPv6 ULA opt-in for trusted proxy stacks. Thanks @jesse-merhi, @pgondhi987, @mmaps, @jinjimz, and @jeffrey701.

### Changes

- Dependencies: refresh bundled runtime and plugin dependency pins, including Pi 0.71.1, OpenAI 6.35.0, Codex 0.128.0, Zod 4.4.1, and Matrix 41.4.0. Thanks @mariozechner.
- Agents/workspace: add `agents.defaults.skipOptionalBootstrapFiles` for skipping selected optional workspace files during bootstrap without disabling required workspace setup. (#62110) Thanks @mainstay22.
- Plugins/CLI: add first-class `git:` plugin installs with ref checkout, commit metadata, normal scanner/staging, and `plugins update` support for recorded git sources. Thanks @badlogic.
- Google Meet: add live caption health for Chrome transcribe mode, including caption observer state, transcript counters, last caption text, and recent transcript lines in status and doctor output. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.
- Voice Call/Google Meet: add Twilio Meet join phase logs around pre-connect DTMF, realtime stream setup, and initial greeting handoff for easier live-call debugging. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP.
- macOS app: move recent session context rows into a Context submenu while keeping usage and cost details root-level, so the menu bar companion stays compact with many active sessions. Thanks @guti.
- Gateway/SDK: add SDK-facing tools.invoke RPC with shared HTTP policy, typed approval/refusal results, and SDK helper support. Refs #74705. Thanks @BunsDev and @ai-hpc.
- Discord: keep active buttons, selects, and forms working across Gateway restarts until they expire, so multi-step Discord interactions are less likely to break during upgrades or restarts. Thanks @amknight.
- Messages/docs: clarify that `BodyForAgent` is the primary inbound model text while `Body` is the legacy envelope fallback, and add Signal coverage so channel hardening patches target the real prompt path. Refs #66198. Thanks @defonota3box.
- Slack: publish a safe default App Home tab view on `app_home_opened` and include the Home tab event in setup manifests. Fixes #11655; refs #52020. Thanks @TinyTb.
- Slack: keep track of bot-participated threads across restarts, so ongoing threaded conversations can continue auto-replying after the Gateway is restarted. Thanks @amknight.
- Control UI/Usage: add UTC quarter-hour token buckets for the Usage Mosaic and reuse them for hour filtering, keeping the legacy session-span fallback for older summaries. (#74337) Thanks @konanok.
- BlueBubbles: add opt-in `channels.bluebubbles.replyContextApiFallback` that fetches the original message from the BlueBubbles HTTP API when the in-memory reply-context cache misses (multi-instance deployments sharing one BB account, post-restart, after long-lived TTL/LRU eviction). Off by default; channel-level setting propagates to accounts that omit the flag through `mergeAccountConfig`; routed through the typed `BlueBubblesClient` so every fetch is SSRF-guarded by the same three-mode policy as every other BB client request; reply-id shape is validated and part-index prefixes (`p:0/<guid>`) are stripped before the request; concurrent webhooks for the same `replyToId` coalesce into one fetch and successful responses populate the reply cache for subsequent hits. Also promotes BlueBubbles attachment download failures from verbose to runtime error so silently-dropped inbound images are visible at default log level, and extends `sanitizeForLog` to redact `?password=…`/`?token=…` query params and `Authorization:` headers before they reach the log sink (CWE-532). (#71820) Thanks @coletebou and @zqchris.
- CLI/proxy: add `openclaw proxy validate` so operators can verify effective proxy configuration, proxy reachability, and expected allow/deny destination behavior before deploying proxy-routed OpenClaw commands. (#73438) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Agents/Codex: default Codex app-server dynamic tools to native-first, keeping OpenClaw integration tools while leaving file, patch, exec, and process ownership to the Codex harness. (#75308) Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Agents/Codex: default Codex-harness direct source replies to the OpenClaw `message` tool when visible reply delivery is not explicitly configured, keeping channel-visible output as a deliberate tool call. (#75765) Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Heartbeats/agents: add a structured `heartbeat_respond` tool for tool-capable heartbeat runs so agents can record quiet outcomes or explicit notification text without relying only on `HEARTBEAT_OK` parsing. (#75765) Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Gateway/config: allow `$include` directives to read files from operator-approved `OPENCLAW_INCLUDE_ROOTS` directories while preserving default config-directory confinement. Thanks @ificator.
- Security/tools: configured tool sections (`tools.exec`, `tools.fs`) no longer implicitly widen restrictive profiles (`messaging`, `minimal`). Users who need those tools under a restricted profile must add explicit `alsoAllow` entries; a startup warning identifies affected configs. Fixes #47487. Thanks @amknight.
- Gateway/SDK: add SDK-facing artifact list/get/download RPCs and App SDK helpers with transcript provenance and download-source guardrails. Refs #74706. Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Agents/commitments: add opt-in inferred follow-up commitments with hidden batched extraction, per-agent/per-channel scoping, heartbeat delivery, CLI management, a simple `commitments.enabled`/`commitments.maxPerDay` config, and heartbeat-interval due-time clamping so magical check-ins do not echo immediately. (#74189) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Messages/queue: make `steer` drain all pending Pi steering messages at the next model boundary, keep legacy one-at-a-time steering as `queue`, and add a dedicated steering queue docs page. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Messages/queue: default active-run queueing to `steer` with a 500ms followup fallback debounce, and document the queue modes, precedence, and drop policies on the command queue page. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Messages: add global `messages.visibleReplies` so operators can require visible output to go through `message(action=send)` for any source chat, while `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies` stays available as the group/channel override. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Gateway/events: surface `spawnedBy` on subagent chat and agent broadcast payloads so clients can route child session events without an extra session lookup. (#63244) Thanks @samzong.
- Memory/wiki: add agent-facing people wiki metadata, canonical aliases, person cards, relationship graphs, privacy/provenance reports, evidence-kind drilldown, and search modes for person lookup, question routing, source evidence, and raw claims. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Active Memory: add optional per-conversation `allowedChatIds` and `deniedChatIds` filters so operators can enable recall only for selected direct, group, or channel conversations while keeping broad sessions skipped. (#67977) Thanks @quengh.
- Active Memory: return bounded partial recall summaries when the hidden memory sub-agent times out, including the default temporary-transcript path, so useful recovered context is not discarded. (#73219) Thanks @joeykrug.
- Gateway/memory: add a read-only `doctor.memory.remHarness` RPC so operator clients can preview bounded REM dreaming output without running mutation paths. (#66673) Thanks @samzong.
- Providers/NVIDIA: add the NVIDIA provider with API-key onboarding, setup docs, static catalog metadata, and literal model-ref picker support so NVIDIA hosted models can be selected with their provider prefix intact. (#71204) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Models: suppress explicitly configured openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini inline entries so a stale models config written by `openclaw doctor --fix` cannot bypass the manifest capability block and cause repeated assistant-turn failures when the runtime switches to that model on ChatGPT-backed Codex accounts. Conditional suppressions (e.g. qwen Coding Plan endpoint guards) remain bypassable by explicit user configuration. (#74451) Thanks @0xCyda, @hclsys, and @Marvae.
- Added SQLite-backed plugin state store (`api.runtime.state.openKeyedStore`) for restart-safe keyed registries with TTL, eviction, and automatic plugin isolation. Thanks @amknight.
- Plugin SDK: mark remaining legacy alias exports and diffs tool/config aliases with deprecation metadata, and add a guard so future legacy alias comments require `@deprecated` tags. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/QR/dependencies: internalize small terminal progress and QR wrapper helpers while keeping the real QR encoder dependency direct, reducing the default runtime dependency graph without changing QR output behavior. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies: refresh workspace runtime, plugin, and tooling packages, including ACP, Pi, AWS SDK, TypeBox, pnpm, oxlint, oxfmt, jsdom, pdfjs, ciao, and tokenjuice, while keeping patched ACP behavior and lint gates current. Thanks @mariozechner.
- Gateway/dev: run `pnpm gateway:watch` through a named tmux session by default, with `gateway:watch:raw` and `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_WATCH_TMUX=0` for foreground mode, so repeated starts respawn an inspectable watcher without trapping the invoking agent shell. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/diagnostics: emit an opt-in startup diagnostics timeline that records gateway lifecycle and plugin-load phases behind a config flag, so slow-start diagnosis no longer requires bespoke instrumentation. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Control UI/i18n: extend the locale registry with new Persian (fa), Dutch (nl), Vietnamese (vi), Italian (it), Arabic (ar), and Thai (th) entries and ship `fa`, `nl`, `vi`, and `zh-TW` docs glossaries, so the docs translation pipeline and the Control UI language picker stay aligned across surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels: add Yuanbao channel docs entrance so the Tencent Yuanbao bot appears in the channel listing and sidebar navigation. (#73443) Thanks @loongfay.
- Channels/Yuanbao: update plugin GitHub location to YuanbaoTeam/yuanbao-openclaw-plugin and add "yuanbao" alias to channel catalog. (#74253) Thanks @loongfay.
- Docker setup: add `OPENCLAW_SKIP_ONBOARDING` so automated Docker installs can skip the interactive onboarding step while still applying gateway defaults. (#55518) Thanks @jinjimz.
- Security policy: classify media/base64 decode and format-conversion overhead after configured acceptance limits as performance-only for GHSA triage unless a report demonstrates a limit bypass, crash, exhaustion, data exposure, or another boundary bypass. (#74311)
- Security/OpenGrep: add a precise OpenGrep rulepack, source-rule compiler, provenance metadata check, and PR/full scan workflows that validate first-party code and rulepack-only changes while uploading SARIF to GitHub Code Scanning. (#69483) Thanks @jesse-merhi.

### Fixes

- Agents/tools: skip unavailable media generation and PDF tool factories from the live reply path when Gateway metadata and the active auth store prove no configured provider can back them, while keeping explicit config and auth-backed providers on the normal factory path. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/runtime: reuse the Gateway metadata startup plan when ensuring reply runtime plugins are loaded, so live agent turns do not broad-load plugin runtimes after the Gateway already scoped startup activation. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/runtime: delegate scoped reply runtime registry reuse to the plugin loader cache-key compatibility checks, so config changes with the same startup plugin ids cannot keep stale runtime hooks or tools active. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/runtime: let compatible wider plugin registries satisfy scoped reply runtime requests when they already contain the requested plugins, avoiding redundant runtime loading without bypassing loader cache-key freshness checks. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/runtime: validate agent model allowlists against manifest model catalog metadata during reply startup, avoiding broad provider runtime catalog loading before the agent run lane starts. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/runtime: keep allowlisted configured model thinking metadata available when manifest catalog rows are absent, so explicit high-reasoning levels remain valid for custom configured models. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/tools: preserve plugin-declared config-only generation providers such as local Comfy workflows during reply tool pre-gating, and share manifest auth/config availability checks between the planner and final tool factories. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/tools: keep Comfy generation tools visible from legacy local workflow config and cloud API-key config when no Gateway metadata snapshot is active, using plugin-declared manifest signals instead of loading provider runtimes. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/tools: route media and generation capability lookups through the Gateway plugin metadata snapshot during reply tool registration, avoiding repeated manifest registry reloads on the live reply path. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/tools: let plugins declare media generation auth aliases and base-url guards in manifests, preserving OpenAI Codex OAuth image generation availability without core-owned provider special cases. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/tools: reuse the auth profile store already loaded for the active run when deciding media and generation tool availability, avoiding repeated provider-auth runtime discovery during reply startup. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/tools: keep image, video, and music generation tool registration on manifest/auth control-plane checks instead of loading runtime provider registries during reply startup, reducing live-path tool-prep blocking while leaving provider runtime resolution for execution and list actions. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Discord: document canonical mention formatting in agent prompt hints and channel docs so outbound replies use `<@USER_ID>`, `<#CHANNEL_ID>`, and `<@&ROLE_ID>` instead of legacy nickname mentions. (#75173)
- Heartbeat scheduler: gate exec-event/notification/spawn/retry wakes through a centralized cooldown so backgrounded `process.start` exit notifications can no longer self-feed runaway heartbeat runs (configured `every: "30m"` was firing every ~10s in production, pegging the gateway event loop with `eventLoopDelayMaxMs >6s` spikes that stalled control-UI asset serving and TUI handshakes). Documented wake-now paths (`manual`, `wake`, task completion, blocked-task follow-up, `/hooks/wake mode=now`, and cron `--wake now`) remain immediate; retryable busy skips no longer poison the cooldown for the next retry; per-agent flood guard caps any unexpected feedback loop at 5 runs/60s. (#64016, refs #17797 and #75436) Thanks @hexsprite.
- fix: block workspace CLOUDSDK_PYTHON override and always set trusted interpreter for gcloud. (#74492) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Providers/Z.AI: move the bundled GLM catalog and auth env metadata into the plugin manifest, so `models list --all --provider zai` shows the full known catalog without duplicated runtime seed data. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Providers/Qianfan and Providers/Stepfun: declare setup auth metadata (`api-key` method, `QIANFAN_API_KEY`, `STEPFUN_API_KEY`) in the plugin manifest so onboarding and `models setup` surface the expected env var without falling back to legacy `providerAuthEnvVars` runtime seed data. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- fix(infra): block ambient Homebrew env vars from brew resolution. (#74463) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Onboarding/configure: avoid staging every default plugin runtime dependency after config writes, so skipped setup flows only prepare config-selected plugin deps instead of pulling broad feature-plugin packages. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Thinking/providers: resolve bundled provider thinking profiles through lightweight provider policy artifacts when startup-lazy providers are not active, so OpenAI Codex GPT-5.x keeps xhigh available in Gateway session validation. Fixes #74796. Thanks @maxschachere.
- Security/Windows: ignore workspace `.env` system-path variables and resolve stale-process `taskkill.exe` from the validated Windows install root, preventing repository-local env files from redirecting cleanup helpers. Thanks @pgondhi987.
- CLI/plugins: refresh persisted plugin registry policy in place for `plugins enable` and `plugins disable`, so routine toggles no longer rebuild and hash every plugin source when the target is already indexed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Windows/install: run npm from a writable installer temp directory and pin the Bedrock runtime dependency below a Windows ARM Node 24 npm resolver failure, so global OpenClaw installs no longer fail before onboarding. Thanks @mariozechner.
- CLI/plugins: scope install and enable slot selection to the selected plugin manifest/runtime fallback, so plugin installs no longer load every plugin runtime or broad status snapshot just to update memory/context slots. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/TTS: keep bundled speech-provider discovery available on cold package Gateway paths and add bundled plugin matrix runtime probes for health, readiness, RPC, TTS discovery, and post-ready runtime-deps watchdog coverage. Refs #75283. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Meet/Twilio: show delegated voice call ID, DTMF, and intro-greeting state in `googlemeet doctor`, and avoid claiming DTMF was sent when no Meet PIN sequence was configured. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.
- Plugins/tools: prefer built bundled plugin code during tool discovery and skip channel runtime hydration while preserving companion provider registrations, reducing per-run plugin-tool prep cost without dropping executable plugin tools. Fixes #75290. Thanks @thanos-openclaw.
- Plugins/loader: scope plugin-tool registry reuse to the enabled plugin plan and stored Gateway method keys, so embedded runner tool lookup can reuse compatible startup registries without hiding enabled non-startup plugin tools. Fixes #75520. Thanks @whtoo.
- Voice Call/Twilio: send notify-mode initial TwiML directly in the outbound create-call request while keeping conversation and pre-connect DTMF calls webhook-driven, so one-shot notify calls do not depend on a first-answer webhook fetch. Supersedes #72758. Thanks @tyshepps.
- Discord/Slack: defer status-reaction cleanup until run finalization so queued, thinking, tool, and terminal reactions no longer flicker during normal progress updates. (#75582)
- Discord/voice: leave Discord voice off for text-only configs unless `channels.discord.voice` is explicitly configured, avoiding default `GuildVoiceStates` traffic and idle gateway CPU pressure for bots that do not use `/vc`. Fixes #73753; refs #74044. Thanks @sanchezm86 and @SecureCloudProjO.
- Discord/voice: rerun configured voice auto-join after Discord gateway RESUMED events and ignore already-destroyed stale voice connections during reconnect cleanup, so health-monitor account restarts can rejoin configured channels. Fixes #40665. Thanks @liz709.
- Plugins/CLI: reuse the cold manifest registry while building plugin status and inspect reports, so large configured plugin sets no longer rediscover the bundled/plugin registry once per inspect row. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/voice: lengthen the default voice join Ready wait, add configurable `voice.connectTimeoutMs`/`voice.reconnectGraceMs`, and warn before destroying unrecovered disconnected sessions so slow Discord voice handshakes and reconnects no longer fail silently. Fixes #63098; refs #39825 and #65039. Thanks @darealgege, @kzicherman, and @ayochim.
- Gateway/health: refresh cached health RPC snapshots when channel runtime state diverges, so Discord and other channel status reads no longer report stale running or connected values until the cache TTL expires. (#75423)
- Gateway/sessions: keep session-store reads from running stale prune and entry-count cap maintenance during startup, so oversized stores no longer block chat history readiness after updates while writes and `sessions cleanup --enforce` still preserve the cleanup safeguards. Fixes #70050. Thanks @tangda18.
- Security/audit: keep plain `security audit` on the cold config/filesystem path and reserve plugin runtime security collectors for `--deep`, so large plugin installs cannot execute every plugin runtime during routine audits. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/voice: merge configured media-understanding providers such as Deepgram into partial active provider registries, so follow-up voice turns keep transcribing after another media plugin is already active. Fixes #65687. Thanks @OneMintJulep.
- WhatsApp: stage `qrcode` through root mirrored runtime dependencies so packaged QR pairing can render from staged plugin-runtime-deps installs. Fixes #75394. Thanks @FelipeX2001.
- Discord/voice: apply per-channel Discord `systemPrompt` overrides to voice transcript turns by forwarding the trusted channel prompt through the voice agent run. Fixes #47095. Thanks @qearlyao.
- Discord/native commands: send component-only interaction replies from slash command and status handlers instead of treating renderable Discord components as an empty response. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/slash commands: send block-only slash command replies instead of dropping Slack block payloads with no plain-text fallback. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/messages: derive fallback text from interactive button/select labels before sending button-only payloads, so Telegram replies are not rejected as empty messages. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- LINE/messages: send quick-reply-only payloads with fallback option text instead of accepting the payload and returning an empty delivery. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply/docking: require `/dock-*` route switches to start from direct chats, so group or channel participants cannot reroute a shared session's future replies into a linked DM. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord: keep text-DM main-session route updates pinned to the configured DM owner, matching component interactions so another direct-message sender cannot redirect future main-session replies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost/Matrix: keep direct-message main-session route updates pinned to the configured DM owner so paired or temporarily allowed senders cannot redirect future shared-session replies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord: keep SecretRef-backed bot tokens discoverable for message actions without resolving the token during schema generation, and resolve scoped channel SecretRefs before outbound agent message sends even when the tool is built from a config snapshot. Fixes #75324. Thanks @slideshow-dingo and @Conan-Scott.
- Updates: run package post-install doctor repair with the managed Gateway service profile and state paths when a daemon is installed, so shell/profile mismatches no longer repair the caller state while the restarted Gateway keeps stale config. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models/DeepInfra: declare DeepInfra manifest catalog discovery and derive its runtime fallback catalog from the manifest, restoring provider-filtered `models list --all --provider deepinfra` rows without duplicated static model data. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/update: verify managed gateway restarts against the installed service port instead of the caller shell port, so package updates do not report a healthy daemon as failed when profiles use different gateway ports. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/agent: reject strict `openclaw agent --deliver` requests with missing delivery targets before starting the agent run, so users do not wait for a completed turn that cannot send anywhere. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Setup/import: honor non-interactive `--import-from` onboarding flags by running the migration import path instead of silently completing normal setup without importing anything. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/voice: run voice-channel turns under a voice-output policy that hides the agent `tts` tool and asks for spoken reply text, so `/vc join` sessions synthesize and play agent replies instead of ending with `NO_REPLY`. Fixes #61536. Thanks @aounakram.
- Doctor/plugins: keep plain `doctor --non-interactive` from installing bundled plugin runtime dependencies, so headless health checks report missing deps while `doctor --fix` remains the explicit repair path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/gateway: require an interactive confirmation before installing or rewriting the Gateway service, so `doctor --fix --non-interactive` can repair plugin/config drift without replacing the operator's launchd/systemd service from a temporary environment. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: include packaged OpenClaw identity in bundled plugin loader cache keys, so same-path package upgrades stop reusing stale versioned runtime-deps mirrors. Fixes #75045. Thanks @sahilsatralkar.
- Plugin SDK: restore reply-prefix and reply-pipeline helpers on the deprecated root/compat SDK surface so external plugins still using `openclaw/plugin-sdk` do not fail message dispatch after update. Fixes #75171. Thanks @zhangxiliang.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: prune inactive same-package versioned runtime-deps roots after bundled dependency repair, so upgrades do not leave old `openclaw-<version>-<hash>` package caches behind after doctor runs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: prune legacy version-scoped plugin runtime-deps roots during bundled dependency repair and cover the path in Package Acceptance's upgrade-survivor matrix, so upgrades from 2026.4.x no longer leave stale per-plugin runtime trees after doctor runs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: keep Gateway startup plugin imports and runtime plugin fallback loads verify-only after startup/config repair planning, so packaged installs no longer spawn package-manager repair from hot paths after readiness. Refs #75283 and #75069. Thanks @brokemac79 and @xiaohuaxi.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: treat package.json runtime-deps manifests as supersets when generated materialization metadata is absent, so bundled plugin activation stops restaging already-installed dependency subsets on every activation. Fixes #75429. (#75431) Thanks @loyur.
- iMessage: add stdin write callback and error listener to IMessageRpcClient so async EPIPE from a closed child process rejects the pending request instead of crashing the gateway with uncaughtException. Fixes #75438.
- MCP/stdio: settle MCP stdio transport send() from the write callback instead of resolving immediately on buffer acceptance, so async write errors reject the promise instead of being lost. Refs #75438.
- Process/exec: add stdin error listener in runCommandWithTimeout so EPIPE from a prematurely-exited child is swallowed instead of escaping to uncaughtException. Refs #75438.
- Voice Call/realtime: add default-off fast memory/session context for `openclaw_agent_consult`, giving live calls a bounded answer-or-miss path before the full agent consult. Fixes #71849. Thanks @amzzzzzzz.

- Google Meet: interrupt Realtime provider output when local barge-in clears playback, so command-pair audio stops model speech instead of only restarting Chrome playback. Fixes #73850. (#73834) Thanks @shhtheonlyperson.
- Gateway/config: cap oversized plugin-owned schemas in the full `config.schema` response so large installed plugin sets cannot balloon Gateway RSS or crash schema clients. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/update: skip ClawHub and marketplace plugin updates when the bundled version is newer than the recorded installed version, so `openclaw update` no longer overwrites working bundled plugins with older external packages. Fixes #75447. Thanks @amknight.
- Gateway/sessions: use bounded tail reads for sessions-list transcript usage fallbacks and cap bulk title/last-message hydration, keeping large session stores responsive when rows request derived previews. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/sessions: yield during bulk transcript title/preview hydration and copy compaction checkpoints asynchronously, keeping the Gateway event loop responsive for large session stores and large transcripts. Refs #75330 and #75414. Thanks @amknight.
- Gateway/sessions: stream bounded transcript reads for session detail, history, artifacts, compaction, and send/subscribe sequence paths so small Gateway requests no longer materialize large transcripts or OOM on oversized session logs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/chat: bound chat-history transcript reads to the requested display window so large session logs no longer OOM the Gateway when clients ask for a small history page. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- BlueBubbles: detect audio attachments by Apple UTIs (`public.audio`, `public.mpeg-4-audio`, `com.apple.m4a-audio`, `com.apple.coreaudio-format`) in addition to `audio/*` MIME, so iMessage voice notes whose webhook payload only carries the UTI are now classified as audio in the inbound `<media:audio>` placeholder instead of falling through to the generic `<media:attachment>` tag. Thanks @omarshahine.
- Voice Call/Twilio: honor stored pre-connect TwiML before realtime webhook shortcuts and reject DTMF sequences outside conversation mode, so Meet PIN entry cannot be skipped or silently dropped. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP.
- Docs/sandboxing: clarify that sandbox setup scripts (`sandbox-setup.sh`, `sandbox-common-setup.sh`, `sandbox-browser-setup.sh`) are only available from a source checkout, and add inline `docker build` commands for npm-installed users so sandbox image setup works without cloning the repo. Fixes #75485. Thanks @amknight.
- Google Meet/Voice Call: play Twilio Meet DTMF before opening the realtime media stream and carry the intro as the initial Voice Call message, so the greeting is generated after Meet admits the phone participant instead of racing a live-call TwiML update. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP.
- Google Meet/Voice Call: make Twilio setup preflight honor explicit `--transport twilio` and fail local/private Voice Call webhook URLs, including IPv6 loopback and unique-local forms, before joins. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP.
- Voice Call/Twilio: retry transient 21220 live-call TwiML updates and catch answered-path initial-greeting failures, so a fast answered callback no longer crashes the Gateway or drops the Twilio greeting/listen transition. (#74606) Thanks @Sivan22.
- CLI/startup: preserve `OPENCLAW_HIDE_BANNER` banner suppression for route-first startup callers that rely on the default process environment while keeping read-only status/channel paths from repairing bundled plugin runtime dependencies. Refs #75183.
- Voice Call/Twilio: register accepted media streams immediately but wait for realtime transcription readiness before speaking the initial greeting, so reconnect grace handling stays live while OpenAI STT startup is no longer starved by TTS. Fixes #75197. (#75257) Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP.
- Voice Call CLI: run gateway-delegated `voicecall continue` through operation-id polling and protocol-shaped errors, so long conversational turns keep their transcript result without blocking a single Gateway RPC. (#75459) Thanks @serrurco and @DougButdorf.
- Voice Call CLI: delegate operational `voicecall` commands to the running Gateway runtime and skip webhook startup during CLI-only plugin loading, preventing webhook port conflicts and `setup --json` hangs. Fixes #72345. Thanks @serrurco and @DougButdorf.
- Agents/pi-embedded-runner: extract the `abortable` provider-call wrapper from `runEmbeddedAttempt` to module scope so its promise handlers no longer close over the run lexical context, releasing transcripts, tool buffers, and subscription callbacks when a provider call hangs past abort. (#74182) Thanks @cjboy007.
- Docker: restore `python3` in the gateway runtime image after the slim-runtime switch. Fixes #75041.
- Agents/session-repair: fix resumed sessions failing with repeated 400 errors on Anthropic and strict OpenAI-compatible providers (Qwen, mlx-vlm) after an interrupted conversation or blank user input. Fixes #75271 and #75313. Thanks @amknight.
- CLI/Voice Call: scope `voicecall` command activation to the Voice Call plugin so setup and smoke checks no longer broad-load unrelated plugin runtimes or hang after printing JSON. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/plugins: warn when restrictive `plugins.allow` is paired with wildcard or plugin-owned tool allowlists, making the exclusive plugin allowlist behavior visible before users hit empty callable-tool runs. Refs #58009 and #64982. Thanks @KR-Python and @BKF-Gitty.
- Google Meet/Voice Call: keep Twilio Meet joins in conversation mode and reuse the realtime intro prompt when no voice-call-specific intro is configured, so answered phone bridge calls speak instead of joining silently. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.
- Auto-reply/group chats: keep the `message` tool available for message-tool-only visible replies and apply group-scoped tool policy before deciding fallback delivery, so Discord/Slack-style rooms reply visibly in the correct channel after upgrades. Fixes #74842; refs #75207. Thanks @davelutztx and @aa-on-ai.
- Agents/commitments: keep inferred follow-ups internal when heartbeat target is none, strip raw source text from stored commitments, disable tools during due-commitment heartbeat turns, bound hidden extraction queue growth, expire stale commitments, and add QA/Docker safety coverage. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Telegram/agents: keep typing indicators and optional generation tools off the reply critical path, so fresh Telegram replies no longer stall while provider catalogs and media models load. (#75360) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/commitments: run hidden follow-up extraction on the configured agent/default model instead of falling back to direct OpenAI, so OpenAI Codex OAuth-only gateways no longer spam background API-key failures. Fixes #75334. Thanks @sene1337.
- Agents/media: keep async music generation completions on the requester-session wake path even when direct-send completion is enabled, so finished audio stays agent-mediated while video can still opt into direct channel delivery. (#75335) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/media: keep image and video provider inventory internal when tool output is hidden, so shared chat surfaces no longer expose provider/model/auth-hint details from list results. Fixes #75166. Thanks @MkDev11.
- Security/config-audit: redact CLI argv and execArgv secrets before persisting config audit records, covering write, observe, and recovery paths. Fixes #60826. Thanks @koshaji.
- Gateway/models: keep default and configured model-list views responsive when provider catalog discovery stalls, without hiding real catalog load failures, while `--all` still waits for the exact full catalog. Fixes #75297; refs #74404. Thanks @lisandromachado and @najef1979-code.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: accept already materialized package-level runtime-deps supersets as converged, so later lazy plugin activation no longer prunes and relaunches `pnpm install` after gateway startup pre-staging, reducing event-loop pressure from repeated runtime-deps repair on packaged installs. Fixes #75283; refs #75297 and #72338. Thanks @brokemac79, @lisandromachado, and @midhunmonachan.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: remove OpenClaw-owned legacy runtime-deps symlinks before replacing staged bundled plugin dependencies, so updates can recover from older symlinked installs instead of failing the symlink safety guard. Thanks @goldmar.
- Discord: retry queued REST 429s against learned bucket/global cooldowns and reacquire fresh voice upload URLs after CDN upload rate limits, so outbound sends recover without reusing stale single-use upload URLs. Thanks @discord.
- TTS/providers: keep bundled speech-provider compat fallback available when plugins are globally disabled, so cold gateway and CLI startup can still resolve fallback speech providers instead of leaving explicit TTS provider selection with no registered providers. Refs #75265. Thanks @sliekens.
- Discord: collapse repeated native slash-command deploy rate-limit startup logs into one non-fatal warning while keeping per-request REST timing in verbose output. Thanks @discord.
- Discord: report native slash-command deploy aborts as REST timeouts with method, path, timeout budget, and observed duration, so startup logs explain slow Discord API calls instead of showing a generic aborted operation. Thanks @discord.
- Security/logging: redact payment credential field names such as card number, CVC/CVV, shared payment token, and payment credential across default log and tool-payload redaction patterns so wallet-style MCP tools do not expose raw payment credentials in UI events or transcripts. Thanks @stainlu.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: preserve existing wrapped Codex streams during OpenAI attribution so PI OAuth bearer injection reaches ChatGPT/Codex Responses, and strip native Codex-only unsupported payload fields without touching custom compatible endpoints. (#75111) Thanks @keshavbotagent.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: materialize newly required bundled plugin packages after local `openclaw onboard` and `openclaw configure` config writes, while keeping remote setup read-only, so first Gateway startup no longer discovers missing channel/provider deps after setup claimed success. Fixes #75309; refs #75069. Thanks @scottgl9 and @xiaohuaxi.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: expire stale legacy install locks whose live PID cannot be tied to the current process incarnation, so Docker PID reuse no longer leaves bundled dependency repair stuck behind old `.openclaw-runtime-deps.lock` directories. Fixes #74948; refs #74950 and #74346. Thanks @dchekmarev.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: recover interrupted bundled runtime-dependency installs whose package sentinels exist but generated materialization is incomplete, forcing npm/pnpm repair in Gateway startup, doctor, and lazy plugin loads instead of leaving channels crash-looping on missing packages. Fixes #75309; refs #75310, #75296, and #75304. Thanks @scottgl9.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: treat no-main and export-map package sentinels without reachable entry files as incomplete, so Gateway startup, doctor, and lazy plugin loads repair interrupted bundled dependency installs instead of accepting package.json-only partial installs. Fixes #75309; refs #75183. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: keep runtime inspection and channel maintenance commands from downloading bundled plugin dependencies, route explicit repairs through `openclaw plugins deps --repair`, and still allow Gateway/DO paths to repair missing deps before import. Refs #75069. Thanks @xiaohuaxi.
- Updates: force non-deferred, no-cooldown update restarts after package-manager updates requested through the live Gateway control plane and fail release validation on post-swap stale chunk import crashes, so Telegram/Discord imports do not stay pointed at removed dist files. Fixes #75206. Thanks @xonaman and @faux123.
- Agents/tool-result guard: use the resolved runtime context token budget for non-context-engine tool-result overflow checks, so long tool-heavy sessions no longer compact early when `contextTokens` is larger than native `contextWindow`. Fixes #74917. Thanks @kAIborg24.
- Gateway/systemd: exit with sysexits 78 for supervised lock and `EADDRINUSE` conflicts so `RestartPreventExitStatus=78` stops `Restart=always` restart loops instead of repeatedly reloading plugins against an occupied port. Fixes #75115. Thanks @yhyatt.
- Agents/runtime: skip blank visible user prompts at the embedded-runner boundary before provider submission while still allowing internal runtime-only turns and media-only prompts, so Telegram/group sessions no longer leak raw empty-input provider errors when replay history exists. Fixes #74137. Thanks @yelog, @Gracker, and @nhaener.
- Agents/Codex: isolate local Codex app-server `CODEX_HOME` and `HOME` per agent and add a deliberate Codex migration path with selectable skill copies, so personal Codex CLI skills, plugins, config, and hooks no longer leak into OpenClaw agents unless the operator migrates them into the workspace. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Security/Nextcloud Talk: make webhook signature validation use the padded timing-safe compare path even when the supplied signature length is wrong, keep normalized header lookup behavior, and extend regression coverage for tampered bodies, wrong secrets, array-backed headers, and truncated signatures. Carries forward earlier contributor work from #50516 by teddytennant. (#58097) Thanks @gavyngong.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: replace stale symlinked mirror target roots before writing runtime-mirror temp files and skip rewriting already materialized hardlinks, so cross-version container upgrades no longer crash-loop on read-only image-layer paths while warm mirrors do less churn. Fixes #75108; refs #75069. Thanks @coletebou and @xiaohuaxi.
- Auto-reply/group chats: fall back to automatic source delivery when a channel precomputes message-tool-only replies but the `message` tool is unavailable, so Discord/Slack-style group turns do not silently complete without a visible reply. Fixes #74868. Thanks @kagura-agent.
- Browser/gateway: share one browser control runtime across the HTTP control server and `browser.request`, and refresh browser profile config from the source snapshot, so CLI status/start honors configured `browser.executablePath`, `headless`, and `noSandbox` instead of falling back to stale auto-detection. Fixes #75087; repairs #73617. Thanks @civiltox and @martingarramon.
- Agents/subagents: bound automatic orphan recovery with persisted recovery attempts and a wedged-session tombstone, and teach task maintenance/doctor to reconcile those sessions so restart loops no longer require manual `sessions.json` surgery. Fixes #74864. Thanks @solosage1.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: keep bundled provider policy config loading from staging plugin runtime dependencies, so config reads no longer fail on locked-down `/var/lib/openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps` directories. Fixes #74971. Thanks @eurojojo.
- Memory/runtime-deps: retain the native `node-llama-cpp` runtime only when local memory search is configured, so packaged installs can repair local embeddings without relying on unreachable global npm installs. Fixes #74777. Thanks @LLagoon3.
- Gateway/startup: skip pre-bind web-fetch provider discovery for credential-free `tools.web.fetch` config, so Docker/Kubernetes gateways bind even when optional fetch limits are present. Fixes #74896. Thanks @KoykL.
- Signal: match group allowlists against inbound Signal group ids as well as sender ids, and process explicitly configured Signal groups without requiring mentions unless `requireMention` is set. Fixes #53308. Thanks @minupla and @juan-flores077.
- Signal: bound `signal-cli` installer release and archive downloads with explicit timeouts, declared and streamed size checks, and partial-file cleanup. Fixes #54153. Thanks @jinduwang1001-max and @juan-flores077.
- Slack: require bot-authored room messages with `allowBots=true` to come from an explicitly channel-allowlisted bot or from a room where an explicit Slack owner is present, so broad bot relays cannot run unattended. Fixes #59284. Thanks @andrewhong-translucent.
- Signal: derive `getAttachment` HTTP response caps from `channels.signal.mediaMaxMb` with base64 headroom, so inbound photos and videos no longer drop behind the 1 MiB RPC default. Fixes #73564. Thanks @heyhudson.
- Signal: keep the long-lived receive SSE monitor open while idle instead of applying the 10s RPC/check deadline, so `signal-cli` 0.14.3 event streams no longer reconnect before inbound messages arrive. Fixes #74741. Thanks @fgabelmannjr and @k7n4n5t3w4rt.
- CLI/progress: suppress nested progress spinners and line clears while TUI input owns raw stdin, so Crestodian `/status` no longer disturbs the active input row. (#75003) Thanks @velvet-shark.
- Models/OpenAI Codex: restore `openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini` for ChatGPT/Codex OAuth PI runs after live OAuth proof, and align the manifest, forward-compat metadata, docs, and regression tests so stale cron and heartbeat configs resolve again. Fixes #74451. Thanks @0xCyda, @hclsys, and @Marvae.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: always write a dependency map in generated runtime-deps install manifests, so npm does not crash or prune staged bundled-plugin packages when the plan is empty. Fixes #74949. Thanks @hclsys.
- Telegram: use durable message edits for streaming previews instead of native draft state, so generated replies no longer flicker through draft-to-message transitions that look like duplicates. (#75073) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram: echo preflighted DM voice-note transcripts back to the originating chat, including Telegram DM topic thread metadata, instead of only echoing later media-understanding transcripts. Fixes #75084. Thanks @M-Lietz.
- Telegram: clamp low long-polling client timeouts so configured `timeoutSeconds` values below the `getUpdates` poll window no longer force a fresh HTTPS connection every few seconds. Fixes #75114. Thanks @hpinho77.
- Web search: describe `web_search` as using the configured provider instead of hard-coding Brave when DuckDuckGo or another provider is active. Fixes #75088. Thanks @sun-rongyang.
- Infra/tmp: tolerate concurrent temp-dir permission repairs by rechecking directories that another process already tightened, so parallel ACP subprocess startup no longer throws `Unsafe fallback OpenClaw temp dir`. Fixes #66867. Thanks @Kane808-AI and @jarvisz8.
- Agents/compaction: add an opt-in `agents.defaults.compaction.midTurnPrecheck` mid-turn precheck that detects tool-loop context pressure and triggers compaction before the next tool call instead of waiting for end-of-turn. (#73499) Thanks @marchpure and @haoxingjun.
- Gateway/approvals: let loopback token/password-backed native approval clients resolve exec approvals without attaching stale paired Gateway identities, while remote and unauthenticated approval clients keep normal device identity behavior. (#74472)
- Gateway/config: include rejected validation paths in foreground and service last-known-good recovery logs plus main-agent notices, so unsupported direct edits explain which key caused restore instead of looking like silent reversion. Fixes #75060. Thanks @amknight.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: hash the OS-canonical `packageRoot` via `fs.realpathSync.native` (with `path.resolve` fallback) when computing the bundled runtime-deps stage key, so loader and channel `bundled-root` callers no longer derive divergent stage directories under `~/.openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps/openclaw-<version>-<hash>/` and bundled channels stop failing with `ENOENT` on shared dist chunks under Windows npm symlinks, junctions, or PM2 multi-instance worker layouts. Fixes #74963. (#75048) Thanks @openperf and @vincentkoc.
- fix(logging): add redaction patterns for Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, HuggingFace and Replicate API keys (#58162). Thanks @gavyngong
- Pairing: surface unexpected allowlist filesystem stat errors instead of treating the allowlist as missing, so permission and I/O failures are visible during pairing authorization checks. (#63324) Thanks @franciscomaestre.
- macOS app: reserve layout space for exec approval command details so the allow dialog no longer overlaps the command, context, and action buttons. (#75470) Thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/failover: carry `sessionId`, `lane`, `provider`, `model`, and `profileId` attribution through `FailoverError` and `describeFailoverError`/`coerceToFailoverError` so structured error logs (e.g. `gateway.err.log` ingestion) can attribute exhausted-fallback wrapper errors to the originating session and last-attempted provider instead of dropping the metadata after the per-profile errors. Fixes #42713. (#73506) Thanks @wenxu007.
- Context Engine: treat assembled prompt as the default authority for preemptive overflow prechecks so engines that return a windowed, self-contained context no longer trigger false hard-fail compactions on huge raw history. Engines whose assembled view can hide overflow risk can opt back into the legacy behavior with `AssembleResult.promptAuthority: "preassembly_may_overflow"`. (#74255) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Mattermost: refresh current native slash command registrations before accepting callbacks so stale tokens from deleted or regenerated commands stop being accepted without a gateway restart while failed validations stay briefly cached and lookup starts are rate-limited per command, gate each callback against the resolved command's own startup token so a token leaked for one slash command cannot poison another command's failure cache, redact slash validation lookup errors, and add a body read timeout to the multi-account routing path so slow callback senders cannot tie up the dispatcher. Thanks @feynman-hou and @eleqtrizit.
- Security/dotenv: block `COMSPEC` in workspace `.env` so a malicious repo cannot redirect Windows `cmd.exe` resolution, and lock in case-insensitive workspace-`.env` regression coverage for the full Windows shell trust-root family (`COMSPEC`, `PROGRAMFILES`, `PROGRAMW6432`, `SYSTEMROOT`, `WINDIR`). (#74460) Thanks @mmaps.
- Gateway/install: drop stale version-manager and package-manager PATH entries preserved from old service files during `gateway install --force` and doctor repair, so the repair path no longer recreates `gateway-path-nonminimal` warnings. Fixes #75220. (#75440) Thanks @leonaIee, @renaudcerrato, and @aaajiao.

## 2026.4.29

### Highlights

- Messaging and automation get active-run steering by default, visible-reply enforcement, spawned subagent routing metadata, and opt-in follow-up commitments for heartbeat-delivered reminders. Thanks @vincentkoc, @scoootscooob, @samzong, and @vignesh07.
- Memory grows into a people-aware wiki with provenance views, per-conversation Active Memory filters, partial recall on timeout, and bounded REM preview diagnostics. Thanks @vincentkoc, @quengh, @joeykrug, and @samzong.
- Provider/model coverage expands with NVIDIA onboarding/catalogs plus faster manifest-backed model/auth paths, Bedrock Opus 4.7 thinking parity, and safer Codex/OpenAI-compatible replay and streaming behavior. Thanks @eleqtrizit, @shakkernerd, @prasad-yashdeep, @woodhouse-bot, and @LyHug.
- Gateway and packaged-plugin reliability focuses on slow-host startup, reusable model catalogs, event-loop readiness diagnostics, runtime-dependency repair, stale-session recovery, and version-scoped update caches. Thanks @lpendeavors, @DerFlash, @vincentkoc, @pashpashpash, and @jhsmith409.
- Channel fixes cluster around Slack Block Kit limits, Telegram proxy/webhook/polling/send resilience, Discord startup/rate-limit handling, WhatsApp delivery/liveness, and Microsoft Teams/Matrix/Feishu edge cases. Thanks @slackapi, @SymbolStar, @djgeorg3, @TinyTb, @dseravalli, @nklock, and @alex-xuweilong.
- Security and operations add OpenGrep scanning, sharper GHSA triage policy, safer exec/pairing/owner-scope handling, Docker/onboarding automation, and web-fetch IPv6 ULA opt-in for trusted proxy stacks. Thanks @jesse-merhi, @pgondhi987, @mmaps, @jinjimz, and @jeffrey701.

### Changes

- Security/tools: configured tool sections (`tools.exec`, `tools.fs`) no longer implicitly widen restrictive profiles (`messaging`, `minimal`). Users who need those tools under a restricted profile must add explicit `alsoAllow` entries; a startup warning identifies affected configs. Fixes #47487. Thanks @amknight.
- Gateway/SDK: add SDK-facing artifact list/get/download RPCs and App SDK helpers with transcript provenance and download-source guardrails. Refs #74706. Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Agents/commitments: add opt-in inferred follow-up commitments with hidden batched extraction, per-agent/per-channel scoping, heartbeat delivery, CLI management, a simple `commitments.enabled`/`commitments.maxPerDay` config, and heartbeat-interval due-time clamping so magical check-ins do not echo immediately. (#74189) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Messages/queue: make `steer` drain all pending Pi steering messages at the next model boundary, keep legacy one-at-a-time steering as `queue`, and add a dedicated steering queue docs page. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Messages/queue: default active-run queueing to `steer` with a 500ms followup fallback debounce, and document the queue modes, precedence, and drop policies on the command queue page. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Messages: add global `messages.visibleReplies` so operators can require visible output to go through `message(action=send)` for any source chat, while `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies` stays available as the group/channel override. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Gateway/events: surface `spawnedBy` on subagent chat and agent broadcast payloads so clients can route child session events without an extra session lookup. (#63244) Thanks @samzong.
- Gateway/SDK: add read-only `environments.list` and `environments.status` RPCs so app clients can discover Gateway-local and node environment candidates without enabling provisioning. (#74708) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Memory/wiki: add agent-facing people wiki metadata, canonical aliases, person cards, relationship graphs, privacy/provenance reports, evidence-kind drilldown, and search modes for person lookup, question routing, source evidence, and raw claims. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Active Memory: add optional per-conversation `allowedChatIds` and `deniedChatIds` filters so operators can enable recall only for selected direct, group, or channel conversations while keeping broad sessions skipped. (#67977) Thanks @quengh.
- Active Memory: return bounded partial recall summaries when the hidden memory sub-agent times out, including the default temporary-transcript path, so useful recovered context is not discarded. (#73219) Thanks @joeykrug.
- Gateway/memory: add a read-only `doctor.memory.remHarness` RPC so operator clients can preview bounded REM dreaming output without running mutation paths. (#66673) Thanks @samzong.
- Providers/NVIDIA: add the NVIDIA provider with API-key onboarding, setup docs, static catalog metadata, and literal model-ref picker support so NVIDIA hosted models can be selected with their provider prefix intact. (#71204) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Models: suppress explicitly configured openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini inline entries so a stale models config written by `openclaw doctor --fix` cannot bypass the manifest capability block and cause repeated assistant-turn failures when the runtime switches to that model on ChatGPT-backed Codex accounts. Conditional suppressions (e.g. qwen Coding Plan endpoint guards) remain bypassable by explicit user configuration. (#74451) Thanks @0xCyda, @hclsys, and @Marvae.
- Added SQLite-backed plugin state store (`api.runtime.state.openKeyedStore`) for restart-safe keyed registries with TTL, eviction, and automatic plugin isolation. Thanks @amknight.
- Plugin SDK: mark remaining legacy alias exports and diffs tool/config aliases with deprecation metadata, and add a guard so future legacy alias comments require `@deprecated` tags. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/QR/dependencies: internalize small terminal progress and QR wrapper helpers while keeping the real QR encoder dependency direct, reducing the default runtime dependency graph without changing QR output behavior. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies: refresh workspace runtime, plugin, and tooling packages, including ACP, Pi, AWS SDK, TypeBox, pnpm, oxlint, oxfmt, jsdom, pdfjs, ciao, and tokenjuice, while keeping patched ACP behavior and lint gates current. Thanks @mariozechner.
- Gateway/dev: run `pnpm gateway:watch` through a named tmux session by default, with `gateway:watch:raw` and `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_WATCH_TMUX=0` for foreground mode, so repeated starts respawn an inspectable watcher without trapping the invoking agent shell. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/diagnostics: emit an opt-in startup diagnostics timeline that records gateway lifecycle and plugin-load phases behind a config flag, so slow-start diagnosis no longer requires bespoke instrumentation. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Control UI/i18n: extend the locale registry with new Persian (fa), Dutch (nl), Vietnamese (vi), Italian (it), Arabic (ar), and Thai (th) entries and ship `fa`, `nl`, `vi`, and `zh-TW` docs glossaries, so the docs translation pipeline and the Control UI language picker stay aligned across surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels: add Yuanbao channel docs entrance so the Tencent Yuanbao bot appears in the channel listing and sidebar navigation. (#73443) Thanks @loongfay.
- Channels/Yuanbao: update plugin GitHub location to YuanbaoTeam/yuanbao-openclaw-plugin and add "yuanbao" alias to channel catalog. (#74253) Thanks @loongfay.
- Docker setup: add `OPENCLAW_SKIP_ONBOARDING` so automated Docker installs can skip the interactive onboarding step while still applying gateway defaults. (#55518) Thanks @jinjimz.
- Security policy: classify media/base64 decode and format-conversion overhead after configured acceptance limits as performance-only for GHSA triage unless a report demonstrates a limit bypass, crash, exhaustion, data exposure, or another boundary bypass. (#74311)
- Security/OpenGrep: add a precise OpenGrep rulepack, source-rule compiler, provenance metadata check, and PR/full scan workflows that validate first-party code and rulepack-only changes while uploading SARIF to GitHub Code Scanning. (#69483) Thanks @jesse-merhi.

### Fixes

- Voice Call: resolve SecretRef-backed Twilio auth tokens and realtime/streaming provider API keys before initializing call providers, so SecretRef-backed voice-call credentials reach runtime as strings. (#73632) Thanks @VACInc.
- Security/outbound: strip re-formed HTML tags during plain-text sanitization so nested tag fragments cannot leave a CodeQL-detected `<script>` sequence behind. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/secrets: compare credential bytes with padded timing-safe buffers instead of hashing candidate passwords before equality checks. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/QQBot: sanitize debug log arguments before writing to `console.*`, so gateway payload fields cannot forge extra log lines when debug logging is enabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QQBot: unify slash command auth and c2cOnly gating in the command registry, pass `allowQQBotDataDownloads` when sending slash command file attachments, align clear-storage with actual downloads directory, and add `/bot-me` to display sender user ID. (#73616) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.
- CLI/agents/status: keep `openclaw agents`, text `agents list`, and plain text `status` on read-only metadata paths so human output no longer preloads plugin runtimes or live channel scans before printing. Fixes #74195. Thanks @NianJiuZst.
- Agents/local models: derive context-window guard thresholds from the effective model window with 4k/8k safety floors, so small local models are no longer rejected by fixed 16k/32k preflight cutoffs. Fixes #42999. Thanks @chengjialu8888.
- PDF extraction: resolve PDF.js standard fonts from the installed package root and pass a filesystem path to the Node fallback extractor, so built-in font PDFs render without `file://` URL lookup failures. Fixes #51455; carries forward #70936, #54447, and #62175. Thanks @anyech, @JuanRdBO, and @solomonneas.
- Media: treat legacy Word/OLE attachments with `application/msword` or `application/x-cfb` MIME as binary so printable-looking `.doc` files are not embedded into prompts as text. Fixes #54176; carries forward #54380. Thanks @andyliu.
- Config: accept documented `browser.tabCleanup` keys in strict root config validation, so configured tab cleanup no longer fails before runtime reads it. Fixes #74577. Thanks @lonexreb and @ezdlp.
- Cron: validate disabled job schedule edits before persisting updates, so invalid cron changes no longer partially mutate stored jobs. Fixes #74459. Thanks @yfge.
- CLI/cron: warn when `openclaw cron add --message` omits a nonblank `--agent`, including blank agent values and session-key jobs, so scheduled agent-turn jobs make default-agent fallback explicit while system events stay quiet. Fixes #42196; carries forward #42245. Thanks @ethanclaw.
- Channels/status: keep Telegram, Slack, and Google Chat read-only allowlist/default-target accessors on config-only paths, so status and channel summaries do not resolve SecretRef-backed runtime credentials. Thanks @eusine.
- Active Memory: clarify the deprecated `modelFallbackPolicy` warning and config help so `modelFallback` is described as a chain-resolution last resort, not runtime failover. (#74602) Thanks @jeffrey701.
- Channels/Discord: keep read-only allowlist/default-target accessors from resolving SecretRef-backed bot tokens, so status and channel summaries no longer fail when tokens are only available in gateway runtime. (#74737) Thanks @eusine.
- Gateway/sessions: align session abort wait semantics across `chat`, `agent`, and `sessions` server methods so abort RPCs return after the targeted sessions actually halt instead of resolving early while runs are still draining. (#74751) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/sessions: reuse one subagent registry read index for `sessions.list` `spawnedBy` filtering and row enrichment so subagent ownership stays consistent without repeated registry reloads. Carries forward #75013. Thanks @anyech.
- Agents/output: drop copied inbound metadata-only assistant replay turns before provider replay instead of synthesizing a placeholder, so Telegram and other channels cannot receive `[assistant copied inbound metadata omitted]` as model output. Fixes #74745. Thanks @adamwdear and @Marvae.
- Doctor/memory: suppress skipped embedding-readiness warnings for key-optional providers such as Ollama and LM Studio while preserving timeout and not-ready diagnostics. Fixes #74608 and #73882. Thanks @hclsys.
- Channels/groups: preserve observe-only turn suppression for prepared dispatch paths and restore deprecated channel turn runtime aliases, so passive observer/group flows stay silent while older plugins keep compiling. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Feishu: skip empty-text messages (e.g. `{"text":""}`) that carry no media, so no blank user turn is written to the session and downstream LLM providers cannot reject the request with "messages must not be empty". (#74634) Thanks @xdengli and @hclsys.
- Feishu/Bitable: clean up newly created placeholder rows whose fields contain only default empty values while preserving meaningful link, attachment, user, number, boolean, and location values during create-app cleanup. (#73920) Carries forward #40602. Thanks @boat2moon.
- macOS app: keep attach-only mode and the Debug Settings launchd toggle marker-only, so launching with `--attach-only`/`--no-launchd` no longer uninstalls the Gateway LaunchAgent or drops active sessions. (#72174) Thanks @DolencLuka.
- macOS Canvas: stop auto-reloading the current A2UI host during push/eval/snapshot flows, so pushed A2UI content remains visible instead of returning to the empty Canvas shell. Fixes #73337. Thanks @Gr4via.
- Plugin SDK: restore the deprecated `plugin-sdk/zalouser` command-auth facade so published Lark/Zalo plugins that import it load on current hosts. Fixes #74702. Thanks @Goron01.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: include bundled provider plugins when `models.providers`, auth profiles, agent defaults, or subagent model refs configure that provider, while keeping inactive default-enabled provider plugins out of doctor repair. Refs #74307. Thanks @Skeptomenos.
- Plugins/runtime: resolve relative plugin `api.resolvePath` inputs against the plugin root instead of the host working directory, while keeping absolute and home paths user-resolved. Fixes #74718. Thanks @jimdawdy-hub.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: refresh mirrored root chunks through a temporary file before replacing the active copy, so failed refreshes do not delete chunks that running plugin imports still need. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: prefer `require` conditional exports when building staged dependency aliases, so CommonJS-only plugin runtime deps such as `ws` do not resolve to ESM wrappers under Jiti. Fixes #74547. Thanks @aderius.
- Bonjour/Gateway: cap flapping advertiser restarts in a sliding window, so mDNS probing/name-conflict loops disable discovery instead of churning indefinitely on constrained hosts. Refs #74209 and #74242. Thanks @ndj888 and @Sanjays2402.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: verify staged package entry files before reusing mirrored runtime roots, so browser-control repairs incomplete `ajv`/MCP SDK installs after update instead of failing after restart on a missing `ajv/dist/ajv.js`. Refs #74630. Thanks @spickeringlr.
- Heartbeat: resolve `responsePrefix` template variables with the selected provider, model, and thinking context before delivering alerts or suppressing prefixed `HEARTBEAT_OK` replies. Fixes #43064; repairs #43065; supersedes #46858. Thanks @yweiii and @JunJD.
- Memory/LanceDB: show full memory UUIDs in the `memory_forget` candidate list so agents can pass the displayed ID back to targeted deletion without hitting the full-UUID validator. (#66913) Thanks @amittell.
- File-transfer plugin: require canonical read-path preflight authorization for `file.fetch`, fail closed when `dir.fetch` preflight entries are missing, absolute, or traversing, and recheck returned archive entries before handing archive bytes to callers. Carries forward #74134. Thanks @omarshahine.
- Channels/Feishu: retry file-typed iOS video resource downloads as `media` after a Feishu/Lark HTTP 502 and preserve the original 502 when the fallback also fails. Fixes #49855; carries forward #50164 and #73986. Thanks @alex-xuweilong.
- Providers/Amazon Bedrock: expose the full Claude Opus 4.7 thinking profile (`xhigh`, `adaptive`, and `max`) for Bedrock model refs, while keeping Opus/Sonnet 4.6 on adaptive-by-default, so `/think` menus and validation match the Anthropic transport behavior. Fixes #74701. Thanks @prasad-yashdeep, @sparkleHazard, @Sanjays2402, and @hclsys.
- Plugins/tokenjuice: compile the bundled plugin against tokenjuice 0.7.0's published OpenClaw host types instead of a local compatibility shim, so package contract drift fails in OpenClaw validation before release. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OAuth/secrets: ignore root-level Google OAuth `client_secret_*.json` downloads so local client-secret files do not appear as commit candidates. (#74689) Thanks @jeongdulee.
- Memory: mirror `sqlite-vec` into packaged bundled-plugin runtime deps for the default memory plugin, so builtin vector search does not lose its SQLite extension after upgrading to 2026.4.27. Fixes #74692. Thanks @mozi1924.
- Gateway/startup: bound local discovery advertisement during startup, so a stuck discovery plugin can no longer keep the Gateway from reaching ready. Fixes #73865; refs #74630 and #74633. Thanks @lpendeavors, @moltar-bot, and @Saboor711.
- Gateway/models: serve the last successful model catalog while stale reloads refresh in the background, so Gateway control-plane and OpenAI-compatible requests no longer block behind model-provider rediscovery after model config changes. Refs #74135, #74630, and #74633. Thanks @DerFlash, @moltar-bot, and @Saboor711.
- CLI/status: resolve read-only channel setup runtime fallback from the packaged OpenClaw dist root, so `status --all`, `status --deep`, channel, and doctor paths do not crash when an external channel plugin needs setup metadata. Fixes #74693. Thanks @giangthb.
- SDK/events: keep per-run SDK event streams from surfacing duplicate raw chat projection frames, while normalizing chat-only projection frames and preserving raw access through `rawEvents`. Refs #74704. Thanks @BunsDev.
- SDK: report Gateway terminal `agent.wait` timeout snapshots with lifecycle metadata as `timed_out` while keeping bare wait deadlines non-terminal.
- Google Meet: block managed Chrome intro/test speech until browser health proves the participant is in-call, and expose `speechReady` diagnostics so login, admission, permission, and audio-bridge blockers no longer look like successful speech. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.
- Slack/commands: keep native command argument menus on select controls for encoded choice values up to Slack's option limit and truncate fallback button labels to Slack's button-text limit, so long valid choices no longer render invalid Slack blocks. Thanks @slackapi.
- Agents/Codex: flush accepted debounced steering messages before normal app-server turn cleanup, so inbound follow-ups acknowledged as queued are not dropped when the turn completes before the debounce fires. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/interactive replies: keep rendered buttons and selects within Slack Block Kit value and count limits, and align command argument select values with Slack's option limit, so overlong agent-authored choices no longer make Slack reject the whole block payload. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/interactive replies: drop overlong Block Kit button URLs while preserving valid callback values, so malformed link buttons no longer make Slack reject the whole interactive reply. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/commands: truncate native command argument-menu confirmation text to Slack's dialog limit, so long plugin arg names no longer make fallback buttons render invalid Block Kit payloads. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/exec approvals: cap native approval metadata context to Slack's element and text limits, so large approval details no longer make Slack reject the approval card. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/exec approvals: cap native approval update fallback text to Slack's message limit while preserving the rendered approval blocks, so long commands no longer make resolved or expired approval cards stay stale after `chat.update` rejects `msg_too_long`. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/commands: cap native command argument-menu fallback rows to Slack's message block limit, so large plugin choice lists no longer make Slack reject the generated menu. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/commands: drop fallback command argument buttons whose encoded values exceed Slack's button-value limit, so one oversized plugin choice no longer makes Slack reject the whole menu. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/messages: merge message-tool presentation and interactive blocks on Slack sends, so buttons and selects are no longer dropped when a structured message body is also present. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/messages: cap Block Kit fallback text to Slack's send limit while preserving the rendered blocks, so long context fallbacks no longer make rich Slack messages fail with `msg_too_long`. Thanks @slackapi.
- Slack/messages: cap Block Kit fallback text on message edits while preserving the rendered blocks, so long context fallbacks no longer make Slack reject `chat.update` calls with `msg_too_long`. Thanks @slackapi.
- Channels/WhatsApp: require Baileys outbound message ids before marking auto-replies delivered, so transcript text and ack reactions no longer make failed group replies look sent. Fixes #49225. Thanks @TinyTb.
- CLI/update: scope packaged Node compile caches by OpenClaw version and install metadata, so global installs no longer reuse stale compiled chunks after package updates. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Channels/Voice call: keep pre-auth webhook in-flight limiting active when socket remote address metadata is missing, so slow-body requests from stripped-IP proxy paths still share the fallback bucket. (#74453) Thanks @davidangularme.
- Plugin SDK/testing: lazy-load TypeScript from the plugin test-contract runtime and add release checks for critical SDK contract entrypoint imports and bundle size, so published packages fail preflight before shipping ESM-incompatible or oversized contract helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/Microsoft Teams: treat configured `19:...@thread.tacv2` and legacy `19:...@thread.skype` team/channel IDs as already resolved during startup, avoiding false `channels unresolved` warnings while preserving Graph name lookup for display-name entries. Fixes #74683. Thanks @dseravalli.
- CLI/browser: preserve parent flags while lazy-loading browser subcommands, so `openclaw browser --json open` and `openclaw browser --json tabs` keep machine-readable output after reparsing. Fixes #74574. Thanks @devintegeritsm.
- Exec/elevated: preserve `turnSourceChannel` as `messageProvider` on approval-followup runs so `tools.elevated.allowFrom.<provider>` checks no longer fail with `provider=null` after the user approves an async elevated command. Fixes #74646. Thanks @xhd2015.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: add `openclaw plugins deps` inspection and repair with script-free package-manager defaults shared across plugin installers, so operators can repair missing bundled runtime deps without corrupting JSON output or blocking unrelated conflict-free deps. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/output: strip internal `[tool calls omitted]` replay placeholders from user-facing replies while preserving visible reply whitespace. Fixes #74573. Thanks @blaspat.
- Providers/Google Vertex: route authorized_user ADC credentials through OpenClaw's REST transport so Docker installs using gcloud application-default credentials no longer crash in the Google SDK before requests are sent. Fixes #74628. Thanks @frankhal2001-design.
- ACP/resolver: fall through to thread-bound session resolution when an explicit `--session` token cannot be resolved while preserving the bad-token diagnostic when no thread binding exists, so Discord slash commands that auto-fill the current thread ID as the positional ACP target no longer return "Unable to resolve session target" errors. Fixes #66299. Thanks @hclsys, @kindomLee, and @martingarramon.
- macOS/Talk: route remote and custom Talk providers through Gateway `talk.speak` before falling back to the system voice, so configured providers such as OpenAI are no longer treated as local-voice-only. (#74645) Thanks @Fuma2013.
- Agents/sessions: emit a terminal lifecycle backstop when embedded timeout/error turns return without `agent_end`, so Gateway sessions no longer stay stuck in `running` after failover surfaces a timeout. Fixes #74607. Thanks @millerc79.
- Gateway/diagnostics: include stuck-session reason hints and recovery skip causes in warnings, so operators can tell whether a lane is waiting on active work, queued work, or stale bookkeeping. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/DeepSeek: expose native DeepSeek V4 `xhigh` and `max` thinking levels through the provider `resolveThinkingProfile` hook so `/think xhigh|max` applies the intended effort instead of falling back to base levels. (#73008) Thanks @ai-hpc.
- Agents/Codex: bound embedded-run cleanup, trajectory flushing, and command-lane task timeouts after runtime failures, so Discord and other chat sessions return to idle instead of staying stuck in processing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Heartbeat/exec: consume successful metadata-only async exec completions silently so Telegram and other chat surfaces no longer ask users for missing command logs after `No session found`. Fixes #74595. Thanks @gkoch02.
- Active Memory/Memory: materialize allowlisted memory plugin tools for lightweight embedded recall runs so Memory Core tools do not collapse to an empty runtime allowlist. Fixes #74572. (#74592) Thanks @LaFleurAdvertising and @vyctorbrzezowski.
- Web fetch: add a documented `tools.web.fetch.ssrfPolicy.allowIpv6UniqueLocalRange` opt-in and thread it through cache keys and DNS/IP checks so trusted fake-IP proxy stacks using `fc00::/7` can work without broad private-network access. Fixes #74351. Thanks @jeffrey701.
- OpenAI Codex: restore `/verbose full` persistence and app-server tool-output forwarding, and retry Gateway E2E temp-home cleanup so debug runs do not regress on stale validation or cleanup flakes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Anthropic/Meridian: preserve text and thinking content seeded on `content_block_start` in anthropic-messages streams, so `[thinking, text]` replies no longer persist as empty turns or trigger empty-response fallbacks. Fixes #74410. Thanks @vyctorbrzezowski.
- Channels/Matrix: complete the cross-signing handshake on `openclaw matrix verify confirm-sas` so the operator's other Matrix device clears its `Verifying…` loop instead of staying stuck after the agent confirms. (#74542) Thanks @nklock.
- CLI/status: honor channel-specific model context-window overrides when reporting effective context, so channel-scoped sessions reflect the active window in `openclaw status`. Thanks @HemantSudarshan.
- Sandbox/Docker: tolerate Docker daemon unavailability when sandbox mode is off, so doctor and preflight checks no longer fail on installs that do not run the Docker daemon. Fixes #73671. Thanks @kaseonedge.
- Control UI/mobile: persist mobile chat settings through Lit-managed state and route mobile navigation through the same view-state path so chat panel toggles survive transitions on small viewports. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/exports: align sidebar trigger affordances across the resizable divider, mobile layout, and exported-HTML transcript template so the sidebar toggle and exported transcript sidebar render with consistent hit areas and styling. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/chat: disable the page refresh affordance while a chat run is active so accidental refreshes do not abort an in-flight reply. Thanks @Angfr95 and @BunsDev.
- Memory/LanceDB: return real memory records from `openclaw ltm list` (with optional `--limit` and createdAt ordering) instead of an empty placeholder, so the CLI surface matches the documented LTM listing contract. (#67952) Thanks @zhangyue19921010.
- Media: include redacted per-attempt resize failures and resolved model input capabilities in vision-pipeline errors so ARM64 image failures are diagnosable without closing the remaining routing investigation. Refs #74552. Thanks @1yihui.
- Control UI/i18n: route zh-CN agent, debug, channel-refresh, and exec-approval copy through the locale source while preserving the English `Cron Jobs` agent tab label and the security-audit command styling. Carries forward #39692 repair context. Thanks @hepeng154833488 and @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply: honor explicit `silentReply.direct: "allow"` for clean empty or reasoning-only direct chat turns while keeping the default direct-chat empty-response guard conservative. Fixes #74409. Thanks @jesuskannolis.
- OpenAI Codex: send a non-empty Responses input item when a Codex turn only has systemPrompt-backed instructions, avoiding ChatGPT backend 400s from `input: []`. Fixes #73820. Thanks @woodhouse-bot.
- Ollama: normalize provider-prefixed tool-call names at the native stream boundary so Kimi/Ollama calls such as `functions.exec` dispatch as `exec` instead of missing configured tools. Fixes #74487. Thanks @afurm and @carreipeia.
- Security/audit: resolve configured model aliases before model-tier and small-parameter checks, so alias-based GPT-5/Codex configs no longer report false weak-model warnings. Fixes #74455. Thanks @blaspat.
- CLI/agent: isolate Gateway-timeout embedded fallback runs under explicit `gateway-fallback-*` sessions so accepted Gateway runs cannot race transcript locks or replace the routed conversation session. Fixes #62981. Thanks @HemantSudarshan.
- CLI/QR/device-pair: reject malformed public setup URLs before issuing mobile pairing bootstrap tokens, while keeping valid bare host:port setup URLs supported. Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Models/UI: hide unauthenticated providers from the default Web chat, `/models`, and model setup pickers while keeping explicit full-catalog browse paths through `view: "all"`, `/models <provider> all`, and `models list --all`. Fixes #74423. Thanks @guarismo and @SymbolStar.
- Ollama: keep explicit local model runs on target-provider runtime hooks when PI discovery is skipped, so one-shot Ollama calls no longer cold-load unrelated provider runtimes before streaming. Fixes #74078. Thanks @sakalaboator.
- Slack/prompts: rely on Slack `interactiveReplies` guidance instead of generic `inlineButtons` config hints so enabled Slack button directives are not contradicted. Fixes #46647. Thanks @jeremykoerber.
- Slack/reactions: treat duplicate `already_reacted` responses as idempotent success so repeated agent reaction adds no longer surface as tool failures. Fixes #69005. Thanks @shipitsteven and @martingarramon.
- Channels/Discord: cool down Cloudflare/Error 1015 HTML 429 REST failures during startup application lookup and gateway metadata fetches, add `channels.discord.applicationId` as an app-id lookup bypass, sanitize HTML bodies before logging, and honor Retry-After before falling back to a conservative cooldown. Fixes #38853. (#74489) Thanks @djgeorg3 and @Garyko0730.
- Slack/tools: expose `fileId` in the shared message tool schema so `download-file` can receive Slack attachment IDs from inbound placeholders. Fixes #45574. Thanks @chadvegas.
- Exec: reject invalid per-call `host` values instead of silently falling back to the default target, so hostname-like values fail before commands run. Fixes #74426. Thanks @scr00ge-00 and @vyctorbrzezowski.
- Google/Gemini: send non-empty placeholder content when a Gemini run is triggered with empty or filtered user content, avoiding `contents is not specified` API errors. Thanks @CaoYuhaoCarl.
- Heartbeat: preserve non-task `HEARTBEAT.md` context around `tasks:` blocks and apply `agents.defaults.heartbeat` to all agents unless per-agent heartbeat entries restrict scope. Thanks @Sekhar03.
- Markdown: preserve paragraph breaks inside loose list items in shared outbound formatting while keeping tight list spacing stable. Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Build/Gateway: route restart, shutdown, respawn, diagnostics, command-queue cleanup, and runtime cleanup through one stable gateway lifecycle runtime entry so rebuilt packages do not strand long-running gateways on stale hashed chunks. Carries forward #73964. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Memory/wiki: keep broad shared-source and generated related-link blocks from turning every page into a search hit, cap noisy backlinks, support all-term searches such as people-routing queries, and prefer readable page body snippets over generated metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Cron/Gateway: abort and bounded-clean up timed-out isolated agent turns before recording the timeout, so stale cron sessions cannot leave Discord or other chat lanes stuck in `processing` after a timeout. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/errors: suppress malformed streaming tool-call JSON fragments before they reach chat surfaces while preserving provider request-validation diagnostics. Fixes #59076; keeps #59080 as duplicate coverage. (#59118) Thanks @singleGanghood.
- CLI/models: restore provider-filtered `models list --all --provider <id>` rows for providers without manifest/static catalog coverage, including Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock, while keeping the compatibility fallback off expensive availability and resolver paths. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: keep manifest auth-evidence credentials visible across `models status`, auth probes, and PI model discovery so workspace-scoped provider auth does not disagree between listing, probing, and execution. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: move local credential evidence such as Google Vertex ADC into generic plugin manifest setup metadata so the model-list auth index stays declarative without provider-specific runtime branches. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: compute the `models list` Auth column through one command-local provider auth index so row rendering no longer repeats auth profile, env, configured-provider, AWS, or synthetic-auth checks per model row. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: move the OpenAI listable catalog into the plugin manifest so `models list --all --provider openai` uses the manifest fast path instead of loading provider runtime normalization hooks. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/tools: keep the Gateway `tools.*` RPC namespace out of plugin command discovery and managed proxy startup, so stray commands like `openclaw tools effective` fail quickly instead of cold-loading plugin metadata. Refs #73477. Thanks @oromeis.
- CLI/status: keep default text `openclaw status --usage` on metadata-only channel scans unless `--deep` or `--all` is set, and send stray `openclaw tools --help` through the precomputed root-help fast path so latency-triage commands avoid plugin/runtime cold loads before printing. Refs #73477 and #74220. Thanks @oromeis and @NianJiuZst.
- Agents/diagnostics: trace embedded-run startup and preparation stage timings before model I/O, and warn only on severe slow stages, so Docker/VPS latency reports can identify whether plugin loading, auth/model resolution, tool inventory, bootstrap, MCP/LSP, resource loading, or stream setup is dominating pre-run latency without noisy normal logs. Refs #73428. Thanks @Dimaoggg, @quangtran88, and @Heyvhuang.
- Agents/subagents: cache persisted subagent run registry reads by file signature while preserving fresh-parse isolation, so busy gateways stop reparsing unchanged `subagents/runs.json` on controller/list/status hot paths. Refs #72338. Thanks @argus-as.
- Gateway/clients: wait for the event loop to become responsive before opening Gateway WebSocket RPC/probe/client connections while charging that readiness wait to caller timeouts, so Windows deferred module-evaluation stalls no longer turn healthy loopback gateways into false handshake timeouts across status, TUI, ACP, MCP, node-host, and plugin client paths. Refs #74279 and #48270. Thanks @wongcode and @joost-heijden.
- Gateway/Windows: read listener command lines via PowerShell before falling back to `wmic`, so restart health can recognize OpenClaw listeners on modern Windows installs and avoid long anonymous-port waits. Refs #74280. Thanks @zym951223.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: record process start-time in bundled dependency install locks and expire recycled-PID locks, so Docker gateway restarts recover from stale `.openclaw-runtime-deps.lock` directories without waiting through repeated five-minute timeouts. Fixes #74346. (#74361) Thanks @jhsmith409.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: memoize packaged bundled runtime dist-mirror preparation after the first successful pass while keeping source-checkout mirrors refreshable, so constrained Docker/VPS installs avoid repeated root scans before chat turns. Refs #73428, #73421, #73532, and #73477. Thanks @Dimaoggg, @oromeis, @oadiazp, @jmfraga, @bstanbury, @antoniusfelix, and @jkobject.
- Channels/Discord: treat bare numeric outbound targets that match the effective Discord DM allowlist as user DMs while preserving account-specific legacy `dm.allowFrom` precedence over inherited root `allowFrom`. (#74303) Thanks @Squirbie.
- Channels/Discord/Slack: share one DM policy/allowlist resolver across runtime, setup, allowlist editing, and doctor repair, so legacy `dm.policy` / `dm.allowFrom` compatibility migrates to canonical `dmPolicy` / `allowFrom` without divergent access checks. Thanks @Squirbie.
- Control UI: make the chat sidebar split divider focusable, keyboard-resizable, ARIA-described, and pointer-event based so sidebar resizing works without a mouse. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/chat: wire the slash-command autocomplete menu to the composer with stable ARIA relationships so screen readers announce the active command or argument option. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Agents/usage: keep PI embedded-run telemetry attributed to the resolved model provider instead of the PI harness label, so OpenRouter and other provider-backed turns report the right provider in session usage and traces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/attribution: send OpenClaw attribution headers on native OpenAI and Codex traffic, including SDK transports, realtime voice and TTS, device-code auth, WHAM usage, and remote embeddings, so PI-origin defaults no longer leak into provider requests. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/auth: keep OAuth auth profiles inherited from the main agent read-through instead of copying refresh tokens into secondary agents, and refresh Codex app-server tokens against the owning store so multi-agent swarms avoid reused refresh-token failures. Fixes #74055. Thanks @ClarityInvest.
- Channels/Telegram: honor `ALL_PROXY` / `all_proxy` and service-level `OPENCLAW_PROXY_URL` when constructing the HTTP/1-only Telegram Bot API transport, so Windows and service installs that rely on those proxy settings no longer fall back to direct egress. Fixes #74014; refs #74086. Thanks @SymbolStar.
- Channels/Telegram: keep raw host/network-unreachable Bot API connect failures non-fatal and route tagged polling uncaught exceptions through the Telegram restart path, so transient reachability failures no longer kill the Gateway or leave long polling stuck. Fixes #60515; refs #74540. Thanks @HemantSudarshan, @thacid22, and @ewimsatt.
- Channels/Telegram: continue polling when `deleteWebhook` hits a transient network failure but `getWebhookInfo` confirms no webhook is configured, so startup does not retry cleanup forever after the webhook was already removed. Refs #74086; carries forward #47384. Thanks @clovericbot.
- Channels/Telegram: retry native quote replies without `reply_parameters.quote` when Telegram returns `QUOTE_TEXT_INVALID`, so stale or truncated quote excerpts no longer drop the whole reply. Fixes #74581. Thanks @moeedahmed.
- Channels/Telegram: apply strict safe-send retry to inbound final replies when grammY wraps a pre-connect failure, while leaving ambiguous plain network envelopes single-shot to avoid duplicate visible messages. Fixes #74203. Thanks @nanli2000cn.
- Channels/Telegram: surface polling liveness warnings in channel status and doctor when a running long-poller has not completed `getUpdates` after startup grace or its transport activity is stale, so silent polling failures no longer look clean. Refs #74299. Thanks @lolaopenclaw.
- Channels/Telegram: publish webhook runtime state and warn when `setWebhook` has not completed after startup grace, so webhook-mode accounts no longer look healthy while registration is still failing or retrying. Refs #74299. Thanks @lolaopenclaw and @martingarramon.
- Channels/Telegram: bound native command menu `deleteMyCommands` and `setMyCommands` Bot API calls and allow the same timeout-triggered transport fallback retry as other startup control calls, so Windows/WSL network stalls cannot leave command sync hanging behind an otherwise running provider. Refs #74086. Thanks @SymbolStar.
- ACP/commands: accept forwarded ACP timeout config controls in the OpenClaw bridge, treat unsupported discard-close controls as recoverable cleanup, and restore native `/verbose full` plus no-arg status behavior, so Discord command menus and nested ACP turns no longer fail on supported session controls. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex harness: interrupt and release native app-server turns that go quiet after an OpenClaw dynamic-tool response without sending `turn/completed`, so Discord and other chat lanes do not stay stuck in `processing`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex harness: bound OpenClaw dynamic tool responses to 30 seconds and fail closed with an explicit tool result when the app-server bridge would otherwise strand the turn in `processing`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TUI/status: clear stale `streaming` footer state when a final event arrives after the active run was already cleared and no tracked runs remain, while preserving concurrent-run ownership and inactive local `/btw` terminal handling. Fixes #64825; carries forward #64842, #64843, #64847, and #64862. Thanks @briandevans and @Yanhu007.
- Channels/Discord: fail startup closed when Discord cannot resolve the bot's own identity and keep mention gating active when only configured mention patterns can detect mentions, so the provider no longer continues with a missing bot id. Fixes #42219; carries forward #46856 and #49218. Thanks @education-01 and @BenediktSchackenberg.
- Channels/Discord: split long CJK replies at punctuation and code-point-safe fallback boundaries so Discord chunking stays readable without corrupting astral characters. Fixes #38597; repairs #71384. Thanks @p3nchan.
- TUI: keep the streaming watchdog alive across active tool/lifecycle proof-of-life, pause it during disconnects, and reload history after stale reconnect runs so long-running chats stop flipping to false idle or hanging on stale streaming. Fixes #69081. Thanks @EenvoudJasper.
- Browser/gateway: ignore Playwright dialog-close races from `Page.handleJavaScriptDialog` so browser automation no longer crashes the Gateway when a dialog disappears before Playwright accepts it. (#40067) Thanks @randyjtw.
- Cron/Gateway: defer missed isolated agent-turn catch-up out of the channel startup window, so overdue cron work cannot starve Discord or Telegram while providers connect after a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Heartbeat/cron: defer heartbeat turns while cron work is active or queued, add opt-in `heartbeat.skipWhenBusy` for subagent/nested lane pressure, and retry busy skips without advancing the schedule so local Ollama hosts do not run heartbeat and cron prompts concurrently. Fixes #50773. Thanks @scottgl9.
- Agents/thinking: honor configured model `compat.supportedReasoningEfforts` entries that include `xhigh`, so custom OpenAI-compatible provider refs expose and validate `/think xhigh` consistently across command menus, Gateway sessions, agent CLI, and `llm-task`. Carries forward #48904. Thanks @Milchstrassse and @wufunc.
- Vercel AI Gateway: expose provider-owned `/think xhigh` for trusted OpenAI/Codex upstream refs and Claude adaptive thinking for Anthropic upstream refs, while leaving untrusted namespaced refs on base levels. Carries forward #41561. Thanks @Zcg2021.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: prune stale `openclaw-unknown-*` bundled runtime dependency roots during Gateway startup while keeping recent or locked roots, so old staging debris cannot keep growing across restarts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: include ten more root-package runtime dependencies (`@agentclientprotocol/sdk`, `@lydell/node-pty`, `croner`, `dotenv`, `jiti`, `json5`, `jszip`, `markdown-it`, `tar`, `web-push`) in `MIRRORED_CORE_RUNTIME_DEP_NAMES` so they are mirrored into the runtime-deps tree alongside `semver` and `tslog`, preventing `Cannot find package 'X'` failures from core dist code (for example `qmd-manager`, `cron/schedule`, `infra/archive`, `infra/push-web`, `infra/backup-create`, `process/supervisor/adapters/pty`) when no enabled extension owns the dependency. Adds a static drift guard test that scans `src/` for value imports of root-package deps and fails CI when one is missing from the mirror allowlist or extension-owned set. Refs #74199. Thanks @maxpuppet.
- Ollama: compose caller abort signals with guarded-fetch timeouts for native `/api/chat` streams, so `/stop` and early cancellation still interrupt local Ollama requests that also carry provider timeout budgets. Refs #74133. Thanks @obviyus.
- Doctor/TTS: migrate legacy `messages.tts.enabled`, agent TTS, channel TTS, and voice-call plugin TTS toggles to `auto` mode during `openclaw doctor --fix`, matching the documented TTS config contract. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/logs: fall back to the configured Gateway file log when implicit loopback Gateway connections close or time out before or during `logs.tail`, so `openclaw logs` still works while diagnosing local-model Gateway disconnects. Refs #74078. Thanks @sakalaboator.
- MCP/plugins: stringify non-array plugin tool results with chat-content coercion instead of default object stringification, so MCP callers receive useful JSON/text content from plugin tools. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Active Memory/QMD: make gateway-start QMD refresh opt-in via `memory.qmd.update.startup`, keep normal memory access lazy, preserve interactive file watching, and align watcher dependency/build ignores with QMD's scanner so cold gateway startup no longer imports or initializes QMD by default. Thanks @codexGW.
- Channels/Discord: remove Discord-owned queued-run timeout replies through the shared channel lifecycle queue while preserving message ordering and compatibility timeout constants, so long Discord turns stay governed by session/tool/runtime lifecycle instead of channel fallback errors. Thanks @codexGW.
- Agents/tools: clamp `process.poll` waits to 30 seconds, advertise that cap in the tool schema, and honor abort signals while waiting, so long command polls cannot pin agent responsiveness after cancellation. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK: add tracked Discord component-message helpers and a Telegram account-resolution compatibility facade, so existing plugins using those subpaths resolve while new plugins stay on generic channel SDK contracts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Shared labels: preserve Unicode combining marks and NFC-equivalent accented text in group/channel slug normalization so non-Latin labels no longer lose meaningful characters. Fixes #58932; carries forward #58942 and #58995. Thanks @fengqing-git, @Starhappysh, and @koen666.
- Channels/Telegram: include probed video width and height when sending regular Telegram videos, so portrait clips render with the correct orientation instead of being stretched by clients. (#18915) Thanks @storyarcade.
- Docs/Hetzner: clarify that SSH tunnel access requires `AllowTcpForwarding local` before running `ssh -L`, so hardened VPS sshd configs do not block loopback Gateway access. Fixes #54557; carries forward #54564; refs #54954. Thanks @satishkc7, @blackstrype, and @Aftabbs.
- Agents/config: preserve authored `agents.defaults.params` and per-model `agents.defaults.models[].params` during narrowed internal config writes, so OpenAI transport overrides such as `transport: "sse"` and `openaiWsWarmup: false` are not stripped from `openclaw.json`. Fixes #73607; refs #73428. Thanks @quangtran88.
- Agents/model config: resolve per-model extra params through canonical model keys while preserving legacy double-prefixed fallback entries, so provider-prefixed model ids such as `openrouter/auto` keep their configured runtime params. (#44319) Thanks @HenryXiaoYang.
- Gateway/shutdown: report structured shutdown warnings and HTTP close timeout warnings through `ShutdownResult` while preserving lifecycle hook hardening. Carries forward #41296. Thanks @edenfunf.
- Control UI: keep Agents Overview and config-form select dropdowns on their configured value after options render while preserving inherited agent model placeholders. Fixes #40352; carries forward #52948. Thanks @xiaoquanidea.
- Agents/exec: launch zsh, bash, and fish host exec shells with startup files suppressed while preserving existing PATH fallbacks, so daemon env is not overridden by shell startup files. Carries forward #40200; fixes #40179. Thanks @NewdlDewdl.
- Plugins/QA: prebuild the private QA channel runtime before plugin gauntlet source runs so wrapper CPU/RSS measurements are not polluted by private QA dist rebuild work. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/QA: add a Kitchen Sink plugin gauntlet that installs the external package, checks command inventory, MCP tools, channel status, provider turns, gateway RSS, CPU, and fatal log anomalies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/config: reuse the bundled plugin alias scan within a single config normalization pass, so Kitchen Sink-style plugin configs no longer peg Gateway CPU by repeatedly rescanning bundled metadata before agent turns. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/channels: reject malformed runtime channel registrations that omit required config helpers before they can poison channel status. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- MCP/plugins: serialize raw plugin tool return values through the plugin-tools MCP bridge so Kitchen Sink-style tools no longer surface `undefined` content. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/reload: bound default restart deferral and SIGUSR1 restart drain to five minutes while preserving explicit `deferralTimeoutMs: 0` indefinite waits, so stale active work accounting cannot block config reloads forever. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Active Memory: register the prompt-build hook with the configured recall timeout plus setup grace instead of the 150s maximum budget, so default memory recall cannot delay turn startup for multiple minutes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/readiness: include an `eventLoop` diagnostic block in local or authenticated `/readyz` responses with event-loop delay (p99 and max), event-loop utilization, CPU core ratio, and a `degraded` flag, so operators can see when slow startups or runaway turns stall the event loop. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/agents: schedule accepted agent runs after the accepted RPC frame has a chance to flush, so pre-turn prompt/context work is less likely to starve immediate `agent.wait` callers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/update: tolerate stale memory-runtime import failures during best-effort CLI process teardown, so `openclaw update` replacing hashed runtime chunks before the finalizer runs no longer surfaces as exit-time `Cannot find module` noise. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/channels logs: reuse the rolling log-file resolver so `openclaw channels logs` falls back to the active dated log across date boundaries without reading unrelated custom log files. Fixes #42875; carries forward #42904 and #43043. Thanks @ethanclaw and @wdskuki.
- CLI/update: skip tracked plugins disabled in config during post-update plugin sync before npm, ClawHub, or marketplace update checks, preserving their install records without failing the update. Fixes #73880. Thanks @islandpreneur007.
- Control UI: fix Peak Error Hours showing incorrect hourly rates when the browser's timezone observes DST, by storing hourly message counts with UTC date keys and using DST-aware `Date.getHours()` for local conversion. Also extract `accumulateMessageCounts` helper to reduce duplicated daily/hourly aggregation logic. (#49396) Thanks @konanok.
- iMessage: normalize known leading attributedBody corruption markers on sent-message echo text keys so delayed reflected echoes with U+FFFD/U+FFFE/U+FFFF/FEFF prefixes are dropped without collapsing interior text. Fixes #59973; carries forward #59980 and #62191. Thanks @neeravmakwana and @maguilar631697.
- Security/audit: recognize dangerous node command IDs as valid `gateway.nodes.denyCommands` entries, so audit only warns on real typos or unsupported patterns. (#56923) Thanks @chziyue.
- Cron: treat implicit text payloads with agent-turn overrides as agent turns, preserving model overrides for scheduled text prompts instead of pruning them as system events. Fixes #28905. (#64060) Thanks @liaoandi.
- Telegram/exec approvals: stop treating general Telegram chat allowlists and `defaultTo` routes as native exec approvers; Telegram now uses explicit `execApprovals.approvers` or owner identity from `commands.ownerAllowFrom`, matching the first-pairing owner bootstrap path. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Plugins/providers: keep Gateway startup primary-model discovery on metadata-only provider entries and reuse active non-speech capability providers even with explicit plugin entries, avoiding unnecessary provider registry loads during startup and media capability checks. Fixes #73729, #73835, and #73793; carries forward #73853 and #73794. Thanks @sg1416-zg, @brokemac79, and @poolside-ventures.
- Chat commands: route sensitive group `/diagnostics` and `/export-trajectory` approvals and results to a private owner route, preferring same-surface DMs before falling back to the first configured owner route, so Discord group invocations can land in Telegram when that is the primary owner interface. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Gateway/hooks: keep successful `deliver:false` agent hooks silent, log a hook audit record for suppressed success announcements, and suppress fallback summaries after attempted hook delivery while still surfacing failed hook runs. Repairs #55761; builds on #36332 and #49234. Thanks @EffortlessSteven, @cioclawcode, and @BrennerSpear.
- Plugin SDK/Discord: restore a deprecated `openclaw/plugin-sdk/discord` compatibility facade and the legacy compat group-policy warning export for the published `@openclaw/discord@2026.3.13` package, covering its config, account, directory, status, and thread-binding imports while keeping new plugins on generic SDK subpaths. Fixes #73685; supersedes #73703. Thanks @rderickson9 and @SymbolStar.
- Channels/Discord: suppress duplicate gateway monitors when multiple enabled accounts resolve to the same bot token, preferring config tokens over default env fallback and reporting skipped duplicates as disabled. Supersedes #73608. Thanks @kagura-agent.
- CLI/health: build channel health summaries from inspected credential metadata plus runtime state, so `openclaw health --json` reports Discord `running`, `connected`, and `tokenSource` consistently with channel status. Fixes #44354. Thanks @ferenc-acs.
- Control UI/Talk: decode Google Live binary WebSocket JSON frames and stop queued browser audio on interruption or shutdown, so browser Talk leaves `Connecting Talk...` and barge-in no longer plays stale audio. Fixes #73601 and #73460; supersedes #73466. Thanks @Spolen23 and @WadydX.
- Channels/Discord: ignore stale route-shaped conversation bindings after a Discord channel is reconfigured to another agent, while preserving explicit focus and subagent bindings. Fixes #73626. Thanks @ramitrkar-hash.
- Agents/bootstrap: pass pending BOOTSTRAP.md contents through the first-run user prompt while keeping them out of privileged system context, and show limited bootstrap guidance when workspace file access is unavailable. Fixes #73622. Thanks @mark1010.
- ACP/tasks: classify parent-owned ACP sessions as background work regardless of persistent runtime mode, and close terminal stale ACP sessions when no active binding remains, so delegated ACP output reports through the parent task notifier instead of acting like a normal foreground chat session. Refs #73609. Thanks @joerod26.
- Tasks: keep terminal mirrored TaskFlow timestamps pinned to task completion time and let maintenance repair stale mirrors, so ACP terminal delivery updates no longer leave inconsistent flow audits. Refs #73609. Thanks @joerod26.
- Gateway/sessions: add conservative stuck-session recovery that releases only stale session lanes while active embedded runs, reply operations, and lane tasks remain serialized, so queued follow-ups can drain without aborting legitimate long-running turns. Refs #73581, #73655, #73652, #73705, #73647, #73602, #73592, and #73601. Thanks @WS-Q0758, @bryangauvin, @spenceryang1996-dot, @bmilne1981, @mattmcintyre, @Vksh07, and @Spolen23.
- Plugins: cache unchanged plugin manifest loads by file signature, reducing repeated JSON/JSON5 parsing and manifest normalization in bursty startup and runtime registry paths. Refs #73532 and #73647; carries forward #73678. Thanks @TheDutchRuler.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: cache unchanged bundled runtime mirror dist-file materialization decisions and close file-lock handles on owner-write failures, reducing repeated startup chunk scans and avoiding FileHandle-GC recovery stalls. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp and @bstanbury.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: retry and defer transient cleanup failures for owned runtime staging directories so CLI startup no longer aborts after a successful bundled dependency swap. Refs #73903. Thanks @bobfreeman1989.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: cache bundled runtime-deps JSON/package files by file signature, reducing repeated staged-runtime metadata reads during bundled channel startup. Refs #73647 and #73705. Thanks @mattmcintyre and @bmilne1981.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: delegate bundled plugin dependency staging to complete npm/pnpm install plans with durable runtime state, removing retained-manifest and source-checkout cache reconciliation from Gateway startup. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp, @bstanbury, and @jmfraga.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: replace Gateway-start root chunk dependency inference with explicit mirrored-root dependency metadata, reducing staged runtime scans while preserving lazy per-plugin installs. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp and @bstanbury.
- Plugins/runtime-deps: run pnpm staged installs outside the repository workspace and disable pnpm release-age gates for exact bundled runtime dependency materialization, so bundled plugin dependency repair writes packages into the generated stage without blocking fresh packaged dependencies. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp and @bstanbury.
- CLI/TUI: keep `chat.history` off model-catalog discovery so initial Gateway-backed TUI history loads cannot block behind slow provider/plugin model scans on low-core hosts. Refs #73524. Thanks @harshcatsystems-collab.
- Channels/WhatsApp: flag recently reconnected linked accounts in channel status even when the socket is currently healthy, so flapping WhatsApp Web sessions no longer look clean after a brief reconnect. Refs #73602. Thanks @Vksh07.
- Channels/WhatsApp: log shared dispatcher delivery failures with reply kind, message id, chat id, and connection id, so typing-without-send reports can identify whether the WhatsApp send path rejected a generated reply. Refs #74269. Thanks @tomcosta-git.
- Feishu: suppress distinct late `final` text deliveries after a streaming card has already closed, while keeping media attachments deliverable, so late-finals no longer reopen duplicate Feishu cards. Fixes #71977. (#72294) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Gateway: expose `gateway.handshakeTimeoutMs` in config, schema, and docs while preserving `OPENCLAW_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MS` precedence, so loaded or low-powered hosts can tune local WebSocket pre-auth handshakes without patching dist files. Supersedes #51282; refs #73592 and #73652. Thanks @henry-the-frog.
- Gateway/TUI/status: align configured and env-based WebSocket handshake budgets across local clients, probes, and fallback RPCs while preserving explicit status timeouts and paired-device auth fallback, so slow local gateways are not marked unreachable by a shorter client watchdog. Refs #73524, #73535, #73592, and #73602. Thanks @harshcatsystems-collab, @DJBlackhawk, and @Vksh07.
- Gateway/startup: return retryable `UNAVAILABLE` during the sidecar startup window and keep CLI/TUI/status clients retrying inside their existing timeout budget, so early connects no longer surface as terminal handshake failures. Fixes #73652. Thanks @spenceryang1996-dot.
- Gateway/proxy: bypass inherited proxy environment for local Gateway control-plane WebSockets to `localhost` as well as loopback IPs, so Windows/WSL proxy settings cannot intercept local CLI/TUI Gateway connections. Supersedes #73474; refs #73602. Thanks @DhtIsCoding.
- Doctor/Gateway: use a lightweight `status` RPC without channel summary work for doctor Gateway liveness, so slow health snapshots do not falsely drive service restart repair. Fixes #64400; supersedes #64511. Thanks @CHE10X and @EronFan.
- Agents/auth: scope external CLI credential discovery to configured providers during model auth status and startup prewarm, so opencode-only and other single-provider gateways do not block on unrelated Claude CLI Keychain probes. Fixes #73908. Thanks @Ailuras.
- Agents/model selection: resolve slash-form aliases before provider/model parsing and keep alias-resolved primary models subject to transient provider cooldowns, so cron and persisted sessions do not retry cooled-down raw aliases. Fixes #73573 and #73657. Thanks @akai-shuuichi and @hashslingers.
- Agents/Claude CLI: reuse already-cached macOS Keychain credentials for no-prompt Claude credential reads, so doctor/runtime checks do not miss fresh interactive Claude auth. Fixes #73682. Thanks @RyanSandoval.
- Agents/Claude CLI doctor: scope workspace and project-dir checks to agents that actually use the Claude CLI runtime, so non-default Claude agents no longer make the default agent look Claude-backed. Fixes #73903. Thanks @bobfreeman1989.
- Gateway/sessions: expose effective agent runtime metadata on session rows, `sessions.patch`, and local `openclaw sessions --json`, while keeping Claude CLI-backed rows on the canonical model provider so runtime backend and model identity are no longer conflated. Fixes #73090. Thanks @vishutdhar.
- Gateway/auth status: scope external CLI credential overlays to configured providers, runtimes, or profiles and keep status reads off new Keychain prompts, so single-provider Gateway configs no longer probe unrelated Claude/Codex/MiniMax auth on startup. Fixes #73908. Thanks @Ailuras.
- Agents/runtime status: expose effective agent runtime metadata in `agents.list`, Control UI agent panels, and `/agents`, and avoid rendering stale or cumulative CLI token totals as live context usage. Fixes #73660, #73578, and #45268. Thanks @spartman, @DashLabsDev, and @xyooz.
- Agents/transcripts: strip empty assistant text blocks while preserving valid text, images, and signatures, so Anthropic-style providers no longer reject sanitized transcript turns. Fixes #73640. Thanks @jowhee327.
- Gateway/sessions: preserve session keys on hidden lifecycle events so channel-routed runs still persist terminal session state and do not strand session status as running after Codex turn completion. Thanks @cathrynlavery.
- Providers/Bedrock: omit deprecated `temperature` for Claude Opus 4.7 Bedrock model ids, named and application inference profiles, including dotted `opus-4.7` refs, and classify the nested validation response for failover. Fixes #73663. Thanks @bstanbury.
- Gateway: raise the preauth/connect-challenge timeout to 15s so cold CLI starts on slower hosts have more time to process the WebSocket challenge before the Gateway closes the connection. Fixes #51469; refs #73592 and #62060. Thanks @GothicFox and @jackychen-png.
- CLI/status: fall back to a bounded local `status` RPC when loopback detail probes time out or report unknown capability, so reachable local gateways are no longer marked unreachable by slow read diagnostics. Fixes #73535; refs #48360, #62762, #51357, and #42019. Thanks @RacecarGuy, @justinschille, @DJBlackhawk, @tianyaqpzm, and @0xrsydn.
- CLI/gateway: reuse cached paired-device auth during `gateway probe` and report post-connect diagnostic failures as degraded reachability, so healthy local gateways are no longer marked unreachable after loopback auth or read timeouts. Fixes #48360. Thanks @RacecarGuy.
- Channels/Discord: give Discord Gateway WebSocket handshakes a 30s timeout so stalled TLS/network transitions emit an error and Carbon can continue its reconnect loop instead of leaving the bot silent until restart. Refs #50046. Thanks @codexGW.
- Mattermost/WebSocket: send protocol ping/pong keepalives and terminate stale sessions when pongs stop arriving, so silent TCP drops reconnect instead of leaving monitoring idle. Fixes #41837; carries forward #57621; refs #50138, #44160, and #51104. Thanks @JasonWang1124.
- Channels/Telegram: suppress standalone failed edit/write warning payloads when a user-facing assistant error reply already covers the turn, while keeping unresolved mutating failures visible behind success-looking or suppressed-error replies. Fixes #39631; refs #73750; carries forward #39636 and #39717; leaves #39406 for configurable delivery policy. Thanks @Bartok9 and @Bortlesboat.
- Control UI/agents: persist the Set Default action through `agents.list[].default` instead of writing the unsupported `agents.defaultId` field, so saved default-agent changes survive config validation. Fixes #65565; carries forward #72585. Thanks @luyao618.
- NVIDIA/NIM: persist the `NVIDIA_API_KEY` provider marker and mark bundled NVIDIA Chat Completions models as string-content compatible, so NIM models load from `models.json` and OpenAI-compatible subagent calls send plain text content. Fixes #73013 and #50107; refs #73014. Thanks @bautrey, @iot2edge, @ifearghal, and @futhgar.
- Channels/Discord: let text-only configs drop the `GuildVoiceStates` gateway intent and expose a bounded `/gateway/bot` metadata timeout with rate-limited fallback logs, reducing idle CPU and warning floods. Fixes #73709 and #73585. Thanks @sanchezm86 and @trac3r00.
- Agents/sessions: mark same-turn `sessions_send` and A2A reply prompts with an inter-session `isUser=false` envelope before they reach the model, so foreign session output no longer lands as bare active user text. Fixes #73702; refs #73698, #73609, #73595, and #73622. Thanks @alvelda.
- Channels/Telegram: fail closed when account-level public DM settings conflict with a restrictive top-level `allowFrom`, and require an effective wildcard before `dmPolicy="open"` behaves as public access. Fixes #73756; refs #73698. Thanks @Hilo-Hilo and @xace1825.
- Channels/security: move open-DM allowlist semantics into the shared policy helpers and align Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Matrix, Feishu, LINE, IRC, Google Chat, Zalo, Zalo User, QQ Bot, and Synology Chat so `dmPolicy="open"` is public only with an effective wildcard and otherwise still respects sender allowlists. Refs #73756 and #73698. Thanks @Hilo-Hilo and @xace1825.
- ACP/tasks: sweep orphaned parent-owned ACP sessions whose task records are gone, preserving bound persistent sessions but clearing unbound stale ACPX metadata so old child sessions cannot silently respawn into chat. Fixes #73609. Thanks @joerod26.
- Outbound/security: strip known internal runtime scaffolding such as `<system-reminder>` and `<previous_response>` at the final channel delivery boundary and keep Discord output on targeted tag stripping, so degraded harness replies cannot leak those tags to users. Fixes #73595. Thanks @gabrielexito-stack and @martingarramon.
- Security/Telegram: load Telegram security adapters in read-only audit/doctor, audit malformed Telegram DM `allowFrom` entries even when groups are disabled, and keep allowlist DM audits from counting stale pairing-store senders, so public/shared-DM risk checks stay accurate. Refs #73698. Thanks @xace1825.
- Plugins: remove hidden manifest, provider-owner, bootstrap, and channel metadata caches so plugin installs, manifest edits, and bundled-root changes are visible on the next metadata read while keeping runtime/module loader caches for actual plugin code. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Control UI/WebChat: create a fresh dashboard session from the New Chat button instead of resetting the current transcript with `/new`, preserving in-progress composer edits during delayed session creation or when creation cannot safely switch sessions, and showing clear retry feedback when creation is blocked, refreshing, or returns no new session. Carries forward #52042 and #52746. Thanks @bobashopcashier and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/plugins: use plugin metadata snapshots for install slot selection and add opt-in plugin lifecycle timing traces, so plugin install avoids runtime-loading the plugin registry for metadata-only decisions. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- fix(plugins): restrict bundled plugin dir resolution to trusted package roots. (#73275) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- fix(security): prevent workspace PATH injection via service env and trash helpers. (#73264) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Active Memory: allow `allowedChatTypes` to include explicit portal/webchat sessions and classify `agent:...:explicit:...` session keys before opaque session ids can shadow the chat type. Fixes #65775. (#66285) Thanks @Lidang-Jiang.
- Active Memory: allow the hidden recall sub-agent to use both `memory_recall` and the legacy `memory_search`/`memory_get` memory tool contract, so bundled `memory-lancedb` recall works without breaking the default `memory-core` path. Fixes #73502. (#73584) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- fix(device-pairing): validate callerScopes against resolved token scopes on repair [AI]. (#72925) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Active Memory docs: document the `cacheTtlMs` 1000-120000 ms range and 15000 ms default so setup snippets do not lead users past the schema limit. Fixes #65708. (#65737) Thanks @WuKongAI-CMU.
- fix(agents): canonicalize provider aliases in byProvider tool policy lookup [AI]. (#72917) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- fix(security): block npm_execpath injection from workspace .env [AI-assisted]. (#73262) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Tools/web_fetch: decode response bodies from raw bytes using declared HTTP, XML, or HTML meta charsets before extraction, so Shift_JIS and other legacy-charset pages no longer return mojibake. Fixes #72916. Thanks @amknight.
- Active Memory: skip payload-less `memory_search` transcript tool results when building debug telemetry, so newer empty entries no longer hide the latest useful debug payload. (#68773) Thanks @SimbaKingjoe.
- Active Memory: keep recall setup time from consuming the configured model timeout while giving the hook runner an explicit bounded budget for the plugin, so slow embedded-run setup no longer causes immediate recall timeouts. Fixes #72606. (#72620) Thanks @hyspacex.
- Channels/Discord: bound message read/search REST calls, route those actions through Gateway execution, and fall back to `CommandTargetSessionKey` for inbound hook session keys so Discord reads do not hang and hooks still fire when `SessionKey` is empty. Fixes #73431. (#73521) Thanks @amknight.
- Plugins/media: auto-enable provider plugins referenced by `agents.defaults.imageGenerationModel`, `videoGenerationModel`, and `musicGenerationModel` primary/fallback refs, so configured Google and MiniMax media providers do not stay disabled behind a restrictive plugin allowlist. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory-core/dreaming: retry managed dreaming cron registration after startup when the cron service is not reachable yet, so the scheduled Memory Dreaming Promotion sweep recovers without waiting for heartbeat traffic. Fixes #72841. Thanks @amknight.
- Acpx/runtime: validate the runtime session mode at the `AcpxRuntime.ensureSession` wrapper boundary so callers that pass anything other than `persistent` or `oneshot` get a clear `ACP_INVALID_RUNTIME_OPTION` error instead of silently round-tripping through the encoded handle as a default `persistent` mode and later throwing `SessionResumeRequiredError`. Investigation context: #73071. (#73548) Thanks @amknight.
- CLI/infer: keep web-search fallback on missing provider API keys, preserve structured validation errors from the selected provider, and let per-request image describe prompts override configured media-entry prompts. (#63263) Thanks @Spolen23.
- Chat commands: include configured model-catalog reasoning metadata when building `/think` argument menus so Ollama Cloud and other provider-owned reasoning models show supported levels instead of only `off`. Fixes #73515; supersedes #73568. Thanks @danielzinhu99 and @neeravmakwana.
- Channels/Telegram: suppress generic tool-progress chatter when preview streaming is off, so non-streaming Telegram turns only deliver final replies while approvals, media, and errors still route normally. Refs #72363 and #72482. Thanks @neeravmakwana and @SweetSophia.
- CLI/model probes: add repeatable image `--file` inputs to `infer model run` for local and gateway multimodal model smokes, so vision models such as Ollama Qwen VL and Gemini can be tested through the raw model-probe surface. Fixes #63700. Thanks @cedricjanssens.
- CLI/model probes: request trusted operator scope for `infer model run --gateway --model <provider/model>` so Gateway raw model smokes can use one-off provider/model overrides instead of being rejected before provider auth resolution. Fixes #73759. Thanks @chrislro.
- CLI/image describe: pass `--prompt` and `--timeout-ms` through `infer image describe` and `describe-many`, so custom vision instructions and slow local model budgets reach media-understanding providers such as Ollama, OpenAI, Google, and OpenRouter. Refs #63700. Thanks @cedricjanssens.
- Model selection: include the rejected provider/model ref and allowlist recovery hint when a stored session override is cleared, so local model selections such as Gemma GGUF variants do not fall back to the default with a generic message. Refs #71069. Thanks @CyberRaccoonTeam.
- OpenAI-compatible providers: drop malformed event-only or blank-data SSE frames before the OpenAI SDK stream parser sees them, so proxies that split `event:` from `data:` no longer crash streaming runs with `Unexpected end of JSON input`. Fixes #52802. Thanks @LyHug.
- Gateway/OpenAI-compatible streaming: strip `<final>` tags split across streamed model deltas before they reach SSE clients, so `/v1/chat/completions` no longer emits tag remnants or drops content when final-answer wrappers cross chunk boundaries. Fixes #63325. Thanks @tzwickl.
- Ollama: resolve explicitly selected signed-in `:cloud` models through `/api/show` when `/api/tags` omits them, so working models such as `gemini-3-flash-preview:cloud` and `deepseek-v4-pro:cloud` do not fail dynamic model resolution before the native `/api/chat` transport runs. Fixes #73909. Thanks @chtse53.
- Discord/exec approvals: keep the local `/approve` prompt when no native Discord approval runtime is active, and send a manual fallback notice when native approval delivery reaches no targets, so failed DM cards no longer leave approval turns silent or dependent on model-written shell commands. Fixes #73954; carries forward #74027. Thanks @guarismo and @brokemac79.
- Local model prompt caching: keep stable Project Context above volatile channel/session prompt guidance and stop embedding current channel names in the message tool description, so Ollama, MLX, llama.cpp, and other prefix-cache backends avoid avoidable full prompt reprocessing across channel turns. Fixes #40256; supersedes #40296. Thanks @rhclaw and @sriram369.
- Gateway/OpenAI-compatible API: guard provider policy lookup against runtime providers with non-array `models` values, so `/v1/chat/completions` no longer fails with `provider?.models?.some is not a function`. Fixes #66744; carries forward #66761. Thanks @MightyMoud, @MukundaKatta.
- WhatsApp/Web: pass explicit Baileys socket timings into every WhatsApp Web socket and expose `web.whatsapp.*` keepalive, connect, and query timeout settings so unstable networks can avoid repeated 408 disconnect and opening-handshake timeout loops. Fixes #56365. (#73580) Thanks @velvet-shark.
- WhatsApp/Web: recover recently active listeners when a post-408 reconnect keeps receiving transport frames but stops delivering app messages, while keeping group metadata fallback off Baileys sends. Fixes #63855 and #66920; refs #7433, #67986, #70856, #60007, and #72621. Thanks @legonhilltech-jpg, @octopuslabs-fl, @Kanorin-chan, and @stuswan.
- Channels/Telegram: persist native command metadata on target sessions so topic, helper, and ACP-bound slash commands keep their session metadata attached to the routed conversation. (#57548) Thanks @GaosCode.
- Channels/native commands: keep validated native slash command replies visible in group chats while preserving explicit owner allowlists for command authorization. (#73672) Thanks @obviyus.
- Pairing/doctor: bootstrap `commands.ownerAllowFrom` from the first approved DM pairing when no command owner exists, and have doctor explain missing owners so privileged slash commands are not accidentally unusable after onboarding. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Telegram/exec: infer native exec approvers from `commands.ownerAllowFrom` and auto-enable the Telegram approval client when an owner is resolvable, so owner-only commands such as `/diagnostics` can be approved in Telegram without duplicate per-channel approver config. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Auto-reply/session: carry the tail of user/assistant turns into the freshly-rotated transcript on silent in-reply session resets (compaction failure, role-ordering conflict) so direct-chat continuity survives the rebind. Fixes #70853. (#70898) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Skills: load grouped skill directories such as `skills/<group>/<skill>/SKILL.md` from configured skill roots while keeping grouped discovery capped for large directories. Fixes #56915. (#72534) Thanks @ottodeng, @MoerAI, and @i010542.
- Config: skip malformed non-string `env.vars` entries before env-reference checks, so config loading no longer crashes on JSON values like numbers or booleans. (#42402) Thanks @MiltonHeYan.
- Docker Compose: default missing config and workspace bind mounts to `${HOME:-/tmp}/.openclaw` so manual compose runs do not create invalid empty-source volume specs. (#64485) Thanks @jlapenna.
- Agents/context engines: preserve the child agent's configured `agentDir` when subagent cleanup re-resolves a context engine, so `onSubagentEnded` hooks keep operating on the correct per-agent state. (#67243) Thanks @jarimustonen.
- Channels/WhatsApp: restrict pairing verification replies to real inbound user content, preventing unsolicited prompts from receipts, typing indicators, presence updates, and other non-message Baileys upserts. Fixes #73797. (#73823) Thanks @hclsys.
- Configure/Ollama: show the configured Ollama model allowlist after Cloud only or Cloud + Local setup and skip slow per-model cloud metadata fetches. (#73995) Thanks @obviyus.
- Channels/WhatsApp: detect explicit group `@mentions` again when the bot's own E.164 is in `allowFrom`, so shared-number setups no longer skip group pings that directly mention the bot. Fixes #49317. (#73453) Thanks @juan-flores077.
- WhatsApp/reliability: publish real transport-liveness into WhatsApp channel status and force earlier reconnects on silent transport stalls, so quiet healthy sessions stay connected while wedged sockets recover before the later remote 408 path. (#72656) Thanks @Sathvik-1007.
- Core/channels: tighten selected runtime, media, and plugin edge-case handling while preserving existing behavior. Thanks @jesse-merhi.
- Channels/WhatsApp: strip leaked plural tool-call XML wrappers on every WhatsApp-visible outbound path and keep channel error payloads out of WhatsApp chats. (#71830) Thanks @rubencu.
- Agents/embedded-runner: inject the resolved OAuth bearer (and forward the run abort signal) on the boundary-aware embedded stream fallback so models that route through `openai-codex-responses` and other boundary-aware transports stop failing with `401 Unauthorized: Missing bearer or basic authentication in header`. Fixes #73559. (#73588) Thanks @openperf.
- Telegram/gateway: bound outbound Bot API calls and cache bundled plugin alias lookup so slow Telegram sends or WSL2 filesystem scans no longer wedge gateway replies. (#74210) Thanks @obviyus.
- Configure/GitHub Copilot: reuse existing Copilot auth during configure and show the provider's manifest model catalog in the model picker. (#74276) Thanks @obviyus.
- Configure/models: keep the model picker scoped to the selected manifest provider and enable its bundled plugin before catalog lookup, so choosing GitHub Copilot no longer falls back to Ollama or skips the catalog. (#74322) Thanks @obviyus.
- Auto-reply/subagents: reject `/focus` from leaf subagents and scope fallback target resolution to the requesting subagent's children, so subagents cannot bind conversations outside their control boundary. (#73613) Thanks @drobison00.
- Gateway/startup: skip inherited workspace startup memory for sandboxed spawned sessions without real-workspace write access, so `/new` no longer preloads host workspace memory into isolated child runs. (#73611) Thanks @drobison00.
- Agents/tool policy: validate caller group IDs against session or spawned context before applying group-scoped tool policies or persisting gateway group metadata, so forged group IDs cannot unlock more permissive tools. (#73720) Thanks @mmaps.
- Commands: keep channel-prefixed owner allowlist entries scoped to matching providers so webchat command contexts cannot inherit external channel owners. Thanks @zsxsoft.
- Auth/device pairing: bound bootstrap handoff token issuance, redemption, and approved pairing baselines to the documented per-role scope allowlist, so bootstrap approvals cannot persistently grant `operator.admin`, `operator.pairing`, or `node.exec` scopes. Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Providers/GitHub Copilot: support the GUI/RPC wizard device-code auth flow so onboarding from non-TTY clients (gateway RPC bridge, GUI wizards) completes instead of returning empty profiles. Dangerous-state handling now distinguishes `access_denied` and `expired_token` from transport errors. (#73290) Thanks @indierawk2k2.
- Installer/Linux: warn before switching an unwritable npm global prefix to `~/.npm-global`, then tell users to run future global updates with `npm i -g openclaw@latest` without `sudo` so npm keeps using the redirected user prefix. Fixes #44365; carries forward #50479. Thanks @Sayeem3051.
- Gateway/plugins: enable the native `require()` fast path on Windows for bundled plugin modules so plugin loading uses `require()` instead of Jiti's transform pipeline, reducing startup from ~39s to ~2s on typical 6-plugin setups. Fixes #68656. (#74173) Thanks @galiniliev.
- macOS app: detect stale Gateway TLS certificate pins, automatically repair trusted Tailscale Serve rotations, and surface paired-but-disconnected Mac companion nodes so partial Gateway connections no longer look healthy. Thanks @guti.
- Feishu: recreate WebSocket clients with monitor-owned backoff only after SDK reconnect exhaustion, preserving heartbeat defaults and shutdown cleanup without treating recoverable SDK callback errors as terminal, so persistent connections recover without manual gateway restart. Fixes #52618; duplicate evidence #59753; related #55532, #68766, #72411, and #73739. Thanks @vincentkoc, @schumilin, @alex-xuweilong, @120106835, @sirfengyu, and @tianhaocui.

## 2026.4.27

### Highlights

- Codex Computer Use setup now ships with status/install commands, marketplace discovery, and fail-closed MCP checks for Codex-mode desktop control. Thanks @pash-openai.
- DeepInfra joins the bundled provider set with model discovery, media generation/editing, TTS, embeddings, and provider-owned onboarding policy. Thanks @ats3v.
- Tencent Yuanbao and QQBot support expand channel coverage with Yuanbao docs/catalog entries and QQBot group chat, streaming, media upload, and pipeline refactors. Thanks @loongfay and @cxyhhhhh.
- Plugin startup and model catalogs move toward manifest-first metadata, reducing Gateway boot work and making provider rows/aliases/suppressions easier to audit. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Reliability fixes cover Telegram startup/sends, Slack socket/media stalls, gateway startup prewarm, session/history defaults, update sync, and Windows restart handoffs. Thanks @joerod26, @obviyus, @shivasymbl, @freerk, @bassboy2k, @jpreagan, @islandpreneur007, and @Thatgfsj.

### Changes

- Sandbox/Docker: add opt-in `sandbox.docker.gpus` passthrough for Docker sandbox containers so local GPU workloads can run inside sandboxed agents when the host Docker runtime supports `--gpus`. Fixes #57976; carries forward #58124. Thanks @cyan-ember.
- iOS/Gateway: add an authenticated `node.presence.alive` protocol event and `node.list` last-seen fields so background iOS wakes can mark paired nodes recently alive without treating them as connected. Carries forward #63123. Thanks @ngutman.
- Android: publish authenticated `node.presence.alive` events after node connect and background transitions so paired Android nodes retain durable last-seen metadata after disconnects. Carries forward #63123. Thanks @ngutman.
- Gateway/chat: accept non-image attachments through `chat.send` by staging them as agent-readable media paths, while keeping unsupported RPC attachment paths explicit instead of silently dropping files. Fixes #48123. (#67572) Thanks @samzong.
- Security/networking: add opt-in operator-managed outbound proxy routing (proxy.enabled + proxy.proxyUrl/OPENCLAW_PROXY_URL) with strict http:// forward-proxy validation, loopback-only Gateway bypass, and cleanup of proxy env/dispatcher state on exit. (#70044) Thanks @jesse-merhi and @joshavant.
- Dependencies: refresh provider and tooling dependencies, including AWS SDK, PI runtime packages, AJV, Feishu SDK, Anthropic SDK, tokenjuice, and native TypeScript/oxlint tooling. Thanks @dependabot.
- Matrix/QA: add live Matrix approval scenarios for exec metadata, chunked fallback, plugin approvals, deny reactions, thread targeting, and `target: "both"` delivery, with redacted artifacts preserving safe approval summaries. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Diagnostics/Codex: add owner-only core `/diagnostics` with a sensitive-data preamble, docs link, and explicit Gateway export approval guidance; Codex harness sessions also ask before uploading Codex feedback for the attached thread and print the matching `codex resume <thread-id>` inspection command after confirmed upload. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Trajectory export: route `/export-trajectory` through per-run exec approval, send group-chat approval prompts and export results only to the owner privately, and add `openclaw sessions export-trajectory` for the approved command path. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Codex: add Computer Use setup for Codex-mode agents, including `/codex computer-use status/install`, marketplace discovery, optional auto-install, and fail-closed MCP server checks before Codex-mode turns start. Fixes #72094. (#71842) Thanks @pash-openai.
- Apps: consume Peekaboo 3.0.0-beta4 and ElevenLabsKit 0.1.1, align Swabble on Commander 0.2.2, and refresh macOS/iOS SwiftPM resolutions against the released dependency graph. Thanks @Blaizzy.
- Plugin SDK: expose shared channel route normalization, parser-driven target resolution, raw-target compact keys, parsed-target types, and route comparison helpers through `openclaw/plugin-sdk/channel-route`, switch native approval origin matching onto that route contract with optional delivery and match-only target normalization, and retire the internal channel-route shim behind dated compatibility aliases for legacy key/comparable-target helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs/Codex: document how Codex Computer Use, direct `cua-driver mcp`, and OpenClaw.app's PeekabooBridge fit together so desktop-control setup choices are clearer. Thanks @pash-openai and @trycua.
- Matrix/streaming: stream tool-progress updates into live Matrix preview edits by default when preview streaming is active, with `streaming.preview.toolProgress: false` to keep answer previews while hiding interim tool lines. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/models: wire manifest `modelCatalog.aliases` and `modelCatalog.suppressions` into model-catalog planning and built-in model suppression, with stale Spark and Qwen Coding Plan suppressions now declared in plugin manifests instead of runtime fallback hooks. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugin SDK/models: add a shared manifest-backed provider catalog builder and move Qianfan, Xiaomi, NVIDIA, Cerebras, Mistral, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Tencent TokenHub, and StepFun provider catalogs onto their plugin manifest `modelCatalog` rows. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugin SDK/models: move BytePlus and Volcano Engine standard and plan-provider catalogs into plugin manifest `modelCatalog` rows and remove the now-unused Volcengine-family shared catalog SDK subpath. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: move Fireworks and Together AI fixed provider catalogs into plugin manifest `modelCatalog` rows so provider-filtered listing can use manifest-backed static rows. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: move Groq's fixed text model catalog into the Groq plugin manifest and declare its setup auth env metadata so provider-filtered listing can use manifest-backed rows without deprecated auth metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: move Venice's 41-row seed catalog into the Venice plugin manifest, derive runtime fallback rows from that manifest, and keep Venice API discovery as refreshable runtime work instead of a second hard-coded catalog. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Channels/Yuanbao: register the Tencent Yuanbao external channel plugin (`openclaw-plugin-yuanbao`) in the official channel catalog, contract suites, and community plugin docs, with a new `docs/channels/yuanbao.md` quick-start guide for WebSocket bot DMs and group chats. (#72756) Thanks @loongfay.
- Channels/QQBot: add full group chat support (history tracking, @-mention gating, activation modes, per-group config, FIFO message queue with deliver debounce), C2C `stream_messages` streaming with a `StreamingController` lifecycle manager, unified `sendMedia` with chunked upload for large files, and refactor the engine into pipeline stages, focused outbound submodules, builtin slash-command modules, and explicit DI ports via `createEngineAdapters()`. (#70624) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.
- Plugins/startup: migrate bundled plugin manifests to explicit `activation.onStartup` declarations so Gateway startup imports only the bundled plugins that intentionally register startup-time runtime surfaces. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/startup: add an opt-in future-mode gate for disabling deprecated implicit startup sidecar loading while preserving explicit startup and narrower activation triggers. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/startup: add plugin compatibility warnings for deprecated implicit startup loading so authors can migrate to explicit `activation.onStartup` metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/runtime: load bundled agent tool-result middleware from manifest contracts on demand so tokenjuice stays startup-lazy without losing Pi/Codex tool-output compaction. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/startup: add explicit `activation.onStartup` metadata so plugins can declare Gateway startup import behavior while the deprecated implicit sidecar fallback remains for legacy plugins. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/startup: reuse lookup-table plugin manifests when loading startup plugins so Gateway boot avoids rebuilding plugin discovery and manifest metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: declare fixed Qianfan, Xiaomi, NVIDIA, Cerebras, Mistral, Chutes, Kilo, OpenAI, and OpenCode Go model catalogs in refreshable plugin manifests, keep broad `models list --all` on raw registry and supplement rows without runtime normalization, and avoid duplicate supplement resolution. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/runtime: reuse the current plugin metadata snapshot for provider discovery so repeated model-provider discovery avoids rebuilding plugin manifest metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/startup: pass the plugin metadata snapshot from config validation into plugin bootstrap so startup reuses one manifest product instead of rebuilding plugin metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugin SDK/testing: move core-only channel contract fixtures under the channel contract test tree and retire the old `test/helpers/channels` bridge directory so plugin tests stay on focused SDK surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: expose native agent-runtime contract fixtures through `plugin-sdk/agent-runtime-test-contracts`, move sandbox config fixtures into the focused generic fixture subpath, and block extension tests from importing repo-only `test/helpers` bridges. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: expose generic module reload, bundled-path, Node builtin mock, channel pairing/envelope, HTTP server, temp-home, replay-policy, and live STT helpers through focused SDK test subpaths so extension tests no longer depend on repo-only helper bridges. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK: move maintained bundled channels off the deprecated `channel-config-schema-legacy` subpath, add an explicit bundled-channel schema SDK surface, and track both remaining legacy test/config compatibility barrels with dated removal windows. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: expose media provider capability assertions and provider HTTP mocks through focused SDK test subpaths, and retire the repo-only media-generation test helper bridge. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: promote bundled plugin/provider/channel contract helpers to focused SDK test subpaths and retire the repo-only `test/helpers/plugins` TypeScript bridge. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: expose generic channel action, setup, status, and directory contract helpers through `plugin-sdk/channel-test-helpers` so bundled extension tests no longer import repo-only channel helper bridges. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: add `plugin-sdk/channel-target-testing` for shared channel target-resolution cases, document channel reaction helpers on `plugin-sdk/channel-feedback`, and keep the old `plugin-sdk/test-utils` alias as compatibility-only. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: add a focused generic fixture subpath for CLI capture, sandbox, skill, agent-message, system-event, terminal, chunking, auth-token, and typed-case helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: add focused plugin runtime and environment fixture subpaths so plugin tests can avoid the broad `plugin-sdk/testing` barrel for common setup helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK/testing: add a focused `plugin-sdk/plugin-test-api` helper subpath and move bundled plugin registration tests off the repo-only plugin API bridge. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin SDK: add generic host hooks for session state, next-turn context, trusted tool policy, UI descriptors, events, scheduler cleanup, and run-scoped plugin context. (#72287) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Plugin SDK/testing: expose provider catalog, wizard, registry, manifest, public-artifact, outbound, and TTS contract helpers through documented SDK testing seams so bundled plugin tests no longer import repo `src/**` internals. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/DeepInfra: add a bundled DeepInfra provider with `DEEPINFRA_API_KEY` onboarding, dynamic OpenAI-compatible model discovery, image generation/editing, image/audio media understanding, TTS, text-to-video, memory embeddings, static catalog metadata, and provider-owned base URL policy. Carries forward #53805, #48088, #37576, #43896, #11533, and #2554. Thanks @ats3v.
- Matrix: attach versioned structured approval metadata to pending approval messages so capable Matrix clients can render richer approval UI while body text and reaction fallback keep working. (#72432) Thanks @kakahu2015.

### Fixes

- CLI/channel-setup: auto-skip the redundant "Install \<plugin\>?" confirmation when only one install source (npm or local) exists, show `download from <npm-spec>` hints for installable catalog channels in the picker, and suppress misleading npm hints for already-bundled channels. Fixes #73419. Thanks @sliverp.
- BlueBubbles: tighten DM-vs-group routing across the outbound session route (`chat_guid:iMessage;-;...` DMs no longer classified as groups), reaction handling (drop group reactions that arrive without any chat identifier instead of synthesizing a `"group"` literal peerId), inbound `chatGuid` fallback (no longer fall back to the sender's DM chatGuid when resolving a group whose webhook omits chatGuid+chatId+chatIdentifier), and short message id resolution (carry caller chat context so a numeric short id reused after a long group conversation cannot silently resolve to a message in a different chat, with the same cross-chat guard applied to full GUIDs so retries cannot bypass it). Thanks @zqchris.
- Gateway/sessions: clone cached session stores through the persisted JSON shape instead of `structuredClone`, reducing native-memory growth on the remaining #54155 Gateway RSS/session-accumulation path while keeping #54155 as the broader tracker and carrying forward the #45438 session-cache hypothesis. Thanks @vincentkoc and the #45438 reporters/commenters.
- Agents/approvals: fail restart-interrupted sessions whose transcript tail is still `approval-pending` instead of replaying stale exec approval IDs into the new Gateway process after restart. Fixes #65486. Thanks @mjmai20682068-create.
- CLI/Gateway: use method-specific least-privilege scopes for classified CLI Gateway calls while preserving legacy broad scopes for unclassified plugin methods, so read-only commands no longer create admin/write/pairing scope-upgrade prompts. Fixes #68634. Thanks @nightmusher.
- Gateway/sessions: align `chat.history` and `sessions.list` thinking defaults with owning-agent and catalog-aware resolution so Control UI session defaults match backend runtime state. (#63418) Thanks @jpreagan.
- Devices/pairing: recover array-shaped device and node pairing state files before persisting approvals, so UUID-keyed pending and paired entries no longer disappear after a malformed JSON store write. Fixes #63035. Thanks @sar618.
- Gateway/auth: clear reused stale device tokens and stop reconnecting on device-token mismatch in the Control UI and Node gateway clients, avoiding rate-limit loops after scope-upgrade or token-rotation handoffs. Fixes #71609. Thanks @ricksayhi.
- Gateway/approvals: treat duplicate same-decision approval resolves as idempotent during the resolved-entry grace window, including consumed `allow-once` approvals, while returning an explicit already-resolved error for conflicting repeats. Fixes #59162; refs #58479 and #65486. Thanks @wikithoughts, @sajazuniga7-coder, and @mjmai20682068-create.
- Channels/Telegram: honor `approvals.exec/plugin.targets[].accountId` when routing native approvals across multi-bot Telegram accounts while preserving unscoped Telegram targets for any account. Fixes #69916. Thanks @joerod26.
- Agents/exec: omit the internal session-resume fallback preface from successful async exec completion messages sent directly back to chat. Fixes #67181. Thanks @raistlin88.
- Agents/media: register detached `video_generate` and `music_generate` tool run contexts until terminal status, so Discord-backed provider jobs stay live in `/tasks` instead of becoming `lost` when the parent chat run context disappears. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/media: prefer OpenAI image and video providers when the default model uses the OpenAI Codex auth alias, so auto media generation no longer falls through to Fal before GPT Image or Sora. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Tasks/media: infer agent ownership for session-scoped task records so `/tasks` agent-local fallback includes session-backed `video_generate` and other async media jobs even when the current chat session has no linked rows. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/media: keep long-running `video_generate` and `music_generate` tasks fresh while provider jobs are still pending, so task maintenance does not mark active Discord media renders lost before completion. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/status: treat scope-limited gateway probes as reachable-but-degraded in shared status scans, so `openclaw status --all` no longer reports a live gateway as unreachable after `missing scope: operator.read`. Fixes #49180; supersedes #47981. Thanks @openjay.
- Slack/Socket Mode: use a 15s Slack SDK pong timeout by default and add `channels.slack.socketMode.clientPingTimeout`, `serverPingTimeout`, and `pingPongLoggingEnabled` overrides so stale-websocket handling no longer depends on app-event health heuristics. Fixes #14248; refs #58519, #64009, and #63488. Thanks @shivasymbl and @freerk.
- Slack/media: bound private file and forwarded attachment downloads with idle and total timeouts while preserving placeholder fallback, so stalled Slack `file_share` media no longer wedges inbound message handling. Fixes #61850. Thanks @bassboy2k.
- Plugins/inspector: keep bundled plugin runtime capture quiet and config-tolerant for Codex, memory-lancedb, Feishu, Mattermost, QQBot, and Tlon so plugin-inspector JSON checks can validate the full bundled set. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/auto-reply: keep fully consumed text reset triggers such as `new session` out of `BodyForAgent` after directive cleanup, so configured Slack reset phrases do not leak into the fresh model turn. Fixes #73137. Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Plugins/runtime deps: prune stale retained bundled runtime deps and keep doctor/secret channel contract scans on lightweight artifacts, so disabled bundled channels stop preserving old dependency trees or importing heavy plugin surfaces. Thanks @SymbolStar and @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply: bound the post-run pending tool-result delivery drain with a progress-aware idle timeout, so a never-settling tool-result task no longer leaves the session active forever while slow healthy deliveries can keep draining. Fixes #53889; supersedes #64733 and #73434. Thanks @zijunl and @wujiaming88.
- Gateway/startup: start chat channels without waiting for primary model prewarm, keeping model warmup bounded in the background so Slack and other channels come online promptly when provider discovery is slow. Supersedes #73420. Thanks @dorukardahan.
- Gateway/install: carry env-backed config SecretRefs such as `channels.discord.token` into generated service environments when they are present only in the installing shell, while keeping gateway auth SecretRefs non-persisted. Fixes #67817; supersedes #73426. Thanks @wdimaculangan and @ztexydt-cqh.
- Auto-reply/commands: stop bare `/reset` and `/new` after reset hooks acknowledge the command, so non-ACP channels no longer fall through into empty provider calls while `/reset <message>` and `/new <message>` still seed the next model turn. Fixes #73367 and #73412. Thanks @hoyanhan, @wenxu007, and @amdhelper.
- Providers/DeepSeek: backfill DeepSeek V4 `reasoning_content` on plain assistant replay messages as well as tool-call turns, so thinking sessions with prior tool use no longer fail follow-up requests with missing reasoning content. Fixes #73417; refs #71372. Thanks @34262315716 and @Bartok9.
- Agents/gateway tool: strip full config payloads from `config.patch` and `config.apply` tool responses while preserving direct RPC responses, so config-heavy sessions no longer replay large redacted configs into transcript history. Fixes #47610; supersedes #73439. Thanks @HanenVit and @juan-flores077.
- Auto-reply: preserve voice-note media from silent turns while continuing to suppress text and non-voice media, so `NO_REPLY` TTS replies still deliver the requested audio bubble. (#73406) Thanks @zqchris.
- Channels/Mattermost: stop enqueueing regular inbound posts as system events, so Mattermost user messages reach the model only as user-role inbound-envelope content instead of also appearing as `System: Mattermost message...` directives. Fixes #71795. Thanks @juan-flores077.
- Agents/media: qualify bare `agents.defaults.imageModel` and `pdfModel` refs from unique configured image-capable providers, so Ollama vision models such as `moondream` and `qwen2.5vl:7b` do not fall through to the default provider. Fixes #38816; supersedes #73396. Thanks @alainasclaw and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Anthropic: send implicit Anthropic beta headers only to direct public Anthropic endpoints, including OAuth, so custom Anthropic-compatible providers no longer mis-handle unsupported beta flags unless explicitly configured. Refs #73346. Thanks @byBrodowski.
- Skills: require explicit `skills.entries.coding-agent.enabled` before exposing the bundled coding-agent skill, so installs with Codex on PATH but no OpenAI auth do not silently offer Codex delegation. Fixes #73358. Thanks @LaFleurAdvertising and @Sanjays2402.
- Plugins/startup: treat manifestless Claude bundles as valid installed-plugin registry entries instead of stale missing manifests, so workspace bundles no longer force repeated derived registry rebuilds or noisy `plugins.entries.workspace` warnings during Gateway startup. Fixes #73433. Thanks @AnneVoss.
- Agents/subagents: preserve `sessions_yield` as a paused subagent state and ignore its wait text while freezing completion output, so parent sessions wait for the final post-compaction answer instead of receiving intermediate progress or `(no output)`. Fixes #73413. Thanks @Ask-sola.
- Plugins/startup: precompute bundled runtime mirror fingerprints before taking the mirror lock and keep Docker bundled plugin runtime deps/mirrors in a Docker-managed volume instead of the Windows/WSL config bind mount, so cold starts avoid slow host-volume mirror writes. Fixes #73339. Thanks @1yihui.
- Plugins/runtime deps: refresh bundled runtime mirrors without deleting active import trees, so config-triggered restarts do not see transient missing plugin files during registration. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Channels/LINE: persist inbound image, video, audio, and file downloads in `~/.openclaw/media/inbound/` instead of temporary files so agents can still read LINE media after `/tmp` cleanup. Fixes #73370. Thanks @hijirii and @wenxu007.
- CLI/plugins: keep bundled plugin installs out of `plugins.load.paths` while preserving install records, so install/inspect/doctor loops no longer warn about the current bundled plugin directory. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/plugins: scope `plugins inspect <id>` runtime loading to the matched plugin so single-plugin inspection does not load every plugin before checking the target. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/plugins: remove managed copied-path plugin directories during uninstall and plan uninstall from metadata instead of runtime-loading plugins, so plugin lifecycle commands avoid unnecessary bundled runtime-deps work. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Cron tool: infer the creating session's agentId for `cron.add` jobs when `agentId` is omitted or passed as undefined, keeping scheduled agentTurn jobs routed to the session agent; #40571 identified the guard bug and supplied the focused regression coverage. Thanks @ChanningYul.
- Cron/Telegram: add `--thread-id` to `openclaw cron add` and `openclaw cron edit`, preserving Telegram forum topic delivery targets across scheduled announcements. Carries forward #51581, #60373, and #60890. Thanks @ChunHao-dev.
- Cron/Telegram: preserve session-derived Telegram topic thread IDs when isolated cron delivery explicitly targets the parent chat, keeping bare chat targets in the active forum topic without leaking stale topics to other chats. Carries forward #64708. Thanks @addelh.
- Memory/compaction: keep pre-compaction memory-flush prompts runtime-only so session transcripts and `chat.history` no longer expose them as normal user turns. Fixes #54408 and #58956; refs #43567. Thanks @markgong and @guoyuhang9.
- Control UI/WebChat: keep large attachment payloads out of Lit state and optimistic chat messages, using object URL previews plus send-time payload serialization so PDF/image uploads no longer trigger `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded`. Fixes #73360; refs #54378 and #63432. Thanks @hejunhui-73, @Ansub, and @christianhernandez3-afk.
- Agents/Anthropic: cancel stalled Anthropic Messages SSE body reads when abort signals fire, so active-memory timeouts release transport resources instead of leaving hidden recall runs parked on `reader.read()`. Refs #72965 and #73120. Thanks @wdeveloper16.
- Control UI/WebChat: keep pending run and typing state attached to the active client run, so unowned inject/announce/side-result finals no longer unlock unrelated active runs while completed owned runs still clear promptly. Fixes #57795; carries forward the narrow diagnosis from #57887. Thanks @haoyu-haoyu.
- Sandbox/Docker: stop satisfying a missing default sandbox image by tagging plain Debian as `openclaw-sandbox:bookworm-slim`, preserving the Python tooling required by sandbox write/edit helpers and directing users to build the default image. Fixes #51185; refs #45108, #51099, #51609, and #57713. Thanks @dpalis, @Tin55FoilDev, @jbcohen2-coder, @macminihal-cyber, and @PraxoOnline.
- Control UI/WebChat: confirm toolbar New Session button resets before dispatching `/new` while leaving typed `/new` and `/reset` commands immediate. Fixes #45800; refs #27065, #56611, #54499, and #27110. Thanks @aethnova, @kosta228-huli, @adambezemek, and @xss925175263 (xianshishan).
- Agents/models: keep per-agent primary models strict when `fallbacks` is omitted, so probe-only custom providers are not tried as hidden fallback candidates unless the agent explicitly opts in. Fixes #73332. Thanks @haumanto.
- Gateway/models: add `models.pricing.enabled` so offline or restricted-network installs can skip startup OpenRouter and LiteLLM pricing-catalog fetches while keeping explicit model costs working. Fixes #53639. Thanks @callebtc, @palewire, and @rjdjohnston.
- Gateway/startup: warn when legacy `CLAWDBOT_*` or `MOLTBOT_*` environment variables are still present, pointing users to `OPENCLAW_*` names instead of failing silently. Fixes #53482; carries forward #53667. Thanks @lndyzwdxhs.
- Onboarding: pin interactive and non-interactive health checks to the just-configured setup token/password so stale `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN` or `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD` values do not produce false gateway-token-mismatch failures after setup. Fixes #72203. Thanks @galiniliev.
- Doctor/state: require an interactive confirmation before archiving orphan transcript files, so `openclaw doctor --fix` no longer silently renames recoverable session history after upgrades regenerate `sessions.json`. Fixes #73106. Thanks @scottgl9.
- Cron/Telegram: preserve explicit `:topic:` delivery targets over stale session-derived thread IDs when isolated cron announces to Telegram forum topics. Carries forward #59069; refs #49704 and #43808. Thanks @roytong9.
- Build/runtime: write the runtime-postbuild stamp after `pnpm build` writes the build stamp, so the next CLI invocation does not re-sync runtime artifacts after a successful build. Fixes #73151. Thanks @bittoby.
- Build/runtime: preserve staged bundled-plugin runtime dependency caches across source-checkout tsdown rebuilds, so local CLI and gateway-watch rebuilds no longer recreate large plugin dependency trees before starting. Refs #73205. Thanks @SymbolStar.
- CLI/channels: list configured chat channel accounts from read-only setup metadata even when the standalone CLI has not loaded the runtime channel registry, so `openclaw channels list` shows Telegram accounts before auth providers. Fixes #73319 and #73322. Thanks @mlaihk.
- CLI/model probes: keep `infer model run --gateway` raw by skipping prior session transcript, bootstrap context, context-engine assembly, tools, and bundled MCP servers, so local backends can be tested without full agent-context overhead. Fixes #73308. Thanks @ScientificProgrammer.
- CLI/image describe: pass `--prompt` and `--timeout-ms` through `infer image describe` and `describe-many`, so custom vision instructions and slow local model budgets reach media-understanding providers such as Ollama, OpenAI, Google, and OpenRouter. Addresses #63700. Thanks @cedricjanssens.
- Providers/Ollama: reject long non-linguistic Kimi/GLM symbol runs as provider failures instead of storing them as successful visible assistant replies, so fallback or error handling can recover from garbled cloud output. Fixes #64262; refs #67019. Thanks @Kloz813 and @xiaomenger123.
- CLI/model probes: reject empty or whitespace-only `infer model run --prompt` values before calling local providers or the Gateway, so smoke checks do not spend provider calls on invalid turns. Fixes #73185. Thanks @iot2edge.
- Gateway/media: route text-only `chat.send` image offloads through media-understanding fields so `agents.defaults.imageModel` can describe WebChat attachments instead of leaving only an opaque `media://inbound` marker. Fixes #72968. Thanks @vorajeeah.
- Gateway/Windows: route no-listener restart handoffs through the Windows supervisor without leaving restart tokens in flight, so failed task scheduling can be retried and successful handoffs do not coalesce later restart requests. (#69056) Thanks @Thatgfsj.
- Gateway/model pricing: skip plugin manifest discovery during background pricing refreshes when `plugins.enabled: false`, so disabled-plugin setups do not keep rebuilding plugin metadata from the Gateway hot path. Fixes #73291. Thanks @slideshow-dingo and @fishgills.
- Ollama/thinking: validate `/think` commands against live Ollama catalog reasoning metadata and preserve explicit native `params.think`/`params.thinking`, so models whose `/api/show` capabilities include `thinking` expose `low`, `medium`, `high`, and `max` instead of being stuck on `off`. Fixes #73366. Thanks @cymise.
- Gateway/sessions: remove automatic oversized `sessions.json` rotation backups, deprecate `session.maintenance.rotateBytes`, and teach `openclaw doctor --fix` to remove the ignored key so hot session writes no longer copy multi-MB stores. Refs #72338. Thanks @midhunmonachan and @DougButdorf.
- Channels/Telegram: fail fast when Telegram rejects the startup `getMe` token probe with 401, so invalid or stale BotFather tokens are reported as token auth failures instead of misleading `deleteWebhook` cleanup failures. Fixes #47674. Thanks @samaedan-arch.
- ACPX: keep generated Codex and Claude ACP wrapper startup paths working when remote or special state filesystems reject chmod, since OpenClaw invokes the wrappers through Node instead of executing them directly. Fixes #73333. Thanks @david-garcia-garcia.
- CLI/onboarding: infer image input for common custom-provider vision model IDs, ask only for unknown models, and keep `--custom-image-input`/`--custom-text-input` overrides so vision-capable proxies do not get saved as text-only configs. Fixes #51869. Thanks @Antsoldier1974.
- Models/OpenAI Codex: stop listing or resolving unsupported `openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini` rows through Codex OAuth, keep stale discovery rows suppressed with a clear API-key-route hint, and leave direct `openai/gpt-5.4-mini` available. Fixes #73242. Thanks @0xCyda.
- Plugin SDK: restore the root `stringEnum` and `optionalStringEnum` exports on both the published SDK entry and runtime root-alias bridge, so older external plugins can keep building and loading while migrating to focused SDK subpaths. Fixes #68279. Thanks @marzliak.
- Plugin SDK: restore the root-alias bridge for `registerContextEngine` and expose missing legacy compat helpers `normalizeAccountId` and `resolvePreferredOpenClawTmpDir` so older external plugins such as `openclaw-weixin` can keep loading while migrating to focused SDK subpaths. Fixes #53497. Thanks @alanxchen85.
- Auth profiles: make `openclaw doctor --fix` migrate legacy flat `auth-profiles.json` files such as `{ "ollama-windows": { "apiKey": "ollama-local" } }` to canonical provider default API-key profiles with a backup, so custom Ollama/OpenAI-compatible providers recover cleanly after upgrading. Fixes #59629; supersedes #59642. Thanks @Xsanders555 and @Linux2010.
- Memory/Dreaming: retry Dream Diary once with the session default when a configured dreaming model is unavailable, while leaving subagent trust and allowlist errors visible instead of silently masking configuration problems. Refs #67409 and #69209. Thanks @Ghiggins18 and @everySympathy.
- Feishu/inbound files: recover CJK filenames from plain `Content-Disposition: filename=` download headers when Feishu exposes UTF-8 bytes through Latin-1 header decoding, while leaving valid Latin-1 and JSON-derived names unchanged. (#48578, #50435, #59431) Thanks @alex-xuweilong, @lishuaigit, and @DoChaoing.
- Channels/Telegram: normalize accidental full `/bot<TOKEN>` Telegram `apiRoot` values at runtime and teach `openclaw doctor --fix` to remove the suffix, so startup control calls no longer 404 when direct Bot API curl commands work. Fixes #55387. Thanks @brendanmatthewjones-cmyk, @techfindubai-ux, and @Sivlerback-Chris.
- Zalo Personal: persist refreshed `zca-js` session cookies after QR login, session restore, and successful API calls so gateway restarts restore the freshest local session. (#73277) Thanks @darkamenosa.
- Logging/security: redact sensitive tokens (sk-\* keys, Bearer/Authorization values, etc.) at the subsystem console sink so `createSubsystemLogger().info/warn/error` output that bypasses the patched console-capture handler still applies the same redaction the file transport already does. Fixes #73284; refs #67953 and #64046. Thanks @edwin-rivera-dev.
- Plugins/runtime deps: reuse enclosing versioned cache roots when bundled plugins resolve from nested staged paths, so plugin-runtime-deps no longer mints `openclaw-unknown-*` directories or loops on `ENOTEMPTY`. Fixes #72956. (#73205) Thanks @SymbolStar.
- Agents/failover: classify CJK provider transport, quota, billing, auth, and overload error text so Chinese-language provider failures trigger fallback and user-facing transport copy instead of surfacing as unclassified raw errors. (#56242) Thanks @tomcatzh.
- Agents/failover: seed non-claude-cli fallback prompts with Claude Code session context when a claude-cli attempt fails, so fallback models do not restart cold after billing or quota failover. (#72069) Thanks @stainlu.
- Agents/CLI runner: transfer bundle-MCP tempDir cleanup from the per-turn runner finally to the Claude live-session lifecycle, so persistent Claude CLI sessions keep their `--mcp-config` directory until the live subprocess closes. Fixes #73244. Thanks @edwin-rivera-dev.
- Gateway/nodes: allow Windows companion nodes to use safe declared commands such as canvas, camera list, location, device info, and screen snapshot by default while keeping dangerous media commands opt-in. (#71884) Thanks @shanselman.
- Agents/cron: clarify agent-tool and CLI cron timezone guidance so supplied `tz` values use local wall-clock cron fields and omitted cron `tz` falls back to the Gateway host local timezone. Fixes #53669; carries forward #46177. (#73372) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code and @maranello-o.
- Providers/Qwen: allow explicitly configured `qwen/qwen3.6-plus` to resolve on Qwen Coding Plan endpoints while keeping the built-in catalog from advertising it there. Fixes #63654; carries forward #63987. Thanks @jepson-liu.
- Channels/Telegram: keep Bot API network fallbacks sticky after failed attempts and retry timed-out startup control calls once on the fallback route, so `deleteWebhook` IPv6 stalls no longer trigger slow multi-account retry storms. Fixes #73255. Thanks @ttomiczek and @sktbrd.
- Gateway/agents: accept heartbeat, cron, and webhook as internal channel hints for agent runs so `sessions_spawn` works from non-delivery parent sessions while unknown channel hints still fail closed. Fixes #73237. Thanks @KeWang0622.
- Gateway/models: merge explicit `models.providers.*.models` rows into the Gateway model catalog with normalized provider/model dedupe, and use normalized image-capability lookup so custom vision models keep native image attachments even when Pi discovery omits them or model ID casing differs. Fixes #64213 and #65165. Thanks @billonese and @202233a.
- Gateway/reload: publish canonical post-write source config to in-process reloaders so simple config saves no longer create phantom plugin diffs or trigger unnecessary Gateway restarts. (#73267) Thanks @szsip239.
- Gateway/Docker: keep config-triggered restarts in-process inside containers instead of spawning a detached child and exiting PID 1 cleanly, so Docker Swarm and other on-failure supervisors do not leave the service stuck at 0/1 replicas. Fixes #73178. Thanks @du-nguyen-IT007.
- CLI/tasks: ship the task-registry control runtime in npm packages so `openclaw tasks cancel` can load ACP/subagent cancellation helpers from published builds. Fixes #68997. Thanks @1OAKDesign.
- Channels/Telegram: preserve unsent generated media after partial reply streaming has already delivered the text, so `image_generate` outputs still reach Telegram as photos instead of being dropped from the final payload. Fixes #73253. Thanks @mlaihk.
- Memory-core/dreaming: cap detached Dream Diary narrative subagents across cron sweeps so multi-workspace dreaming no longer fans out unbounded subagent sessions, lock contention, and cascading narrative timeouts. Fixes #73198. (#73287) Thanks @KeWang0622.
- CLI/agents: close local one-shot Claude live stdio sessions and bundled MCP loopback resources after embedded `openclaw agent --local` runs, while keeping gateway-owned MCP loopback cleanup internal to the Gateway. Thanks @frankekn.
- Export/session: keep inline export HTML scripts and vendor libraries injected after template formatting so generated session exports open with the app code, markdown renderer, and syntax highlighter present. Fixes #41862 and #49957; carries forward #41861 and #68947. Thanks @briannewman, @martenzi, and @armanddp.
- Agents/ACPX: stage the patched Claude ACP adapter as an ACPX runtime dependency and route known Codex/Claude ACP commands through local wrappers, so Gateway runtime no longer depends on live `npx` adapter resolution. Fixes #73202. Thanks @joerod26.
- Memory/compaction: let pre-compaction memory flush use an exact `agents.defaults.compaction.memoryFlush.model` override such as `ollama/qwen3:8b` without inheriting the active session fallback chain, so local housekeeping can avoid paid conversation models. Fixes #53772. Thanks @limen96.
- macOS/update: stop managed Gateway services before package replacement and keep LaunchAgent service secrets out of world-readable plist metadata by loading them from owner-only env files. Fixes #72996. Thanks @Mathewb7.
- Google Meet: keep observe-only Chrome joins and setup checks from requiring BlackHole or audio bridge commands, avoid granting or selecting the microphone in observe-only mode, and make `test_speech` report fresh realtime output-byte verification instead of only confirming a queued utterance. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.
- Gateway/hooks: route non-delivered hook completion and error summaries to the target agent's main session instead of the default agent session, preserving multi-agent hook isolation. Fixes #24693; carries forward #68667. Thanks @abersonFAC and @bluesky6868.
- Control UI/models: request the configured Gateway model-list view so dashboards with only `models.providers.*.models` show those configured models first instead of flooding the picker with the full built-in catalog. Fixes #65405. Thanks @wbyanclaw.
- CLI/models: keep default-model and allowlist pickers on explicit `models.providers.*.models` entries when `models.mode` is `replace` instead of loading the full built-in catalog. Fixes #64950. Thanks @mrozentsvayg.
- Media/security: tighten media-understanding MIME sanitization so parameterized MIME values stay end-anchored and malformed whitespace or suffix payloads are rejected before file-context handling. Fixes #9795; carries forward #68225 with related review/test context from #61016/#68456. Thanks @ymaxgit, @bluesky6868, and @shamsulalam1114.
- Discord: own the Carbon interaction listener and hand off Discord slash/component handling asynchronously, so compaction or long session locks no longer trip `InteractionEventListener` listener timeouts. Fixes #73204. Thanks @slideshow-dingo.
- Compaction/diagnostics: keep unknown compaction failure classifications stable while logging sanitized detail for unclassified provider errors such as missing Ollama provider adapters. Thanks @gzsiang.
- Models/fallbacks: record first-class `model.fallback_step` trajectory events with from/to models, failure detail, chain position, and final outcome so support exports preserve the primary model failure even when a later fallback also fails. Fixes #71744. Thanks @nikolaykazakovvs-ux.
- Gateway/agents: block agent `exec` from launching interactive `openclaw channels login` flows and abort active agent runs after invalid-config recovery restores last-known-good config, preventing known channel-login and reload paths from wedging replies. Refs #72338. Thanks @midhunmonachan.
- Gateway/diagnostics: emit payload-free liveness warnings with event-loop delay, event-loop utilization, CPU-core ratio, active-session counts, and OTEL warning metrics/spans so live-but-stalled Gateways capture CPU-spin context in stability bundles and telemetry. Refs #72338. Thanks @midhunmonachan and @DougButdorf.
- Gateway/startup: keep value-option foreground starts on the gateway fast path and skip proxy bootstrap unless proxy env is configured, reducing normal gateway startup RSS and avoiding full CLI graph loading. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Heartbeat/models: show heartbeat model bleed guidance on context-overflow resets when the last runtime model matches configured `heartbeat.model`, so smaller local heartbeat models point users to `isolatedSession` or `lightContext` instead of only compaction-buffer tuning. Fixes #67314. Thanks @Knightmare6890.
- Subagents/models: persist `sessions_spawn.model` and configured subagent models as child-session model overrides before the first turn, so spawned subagents actually run on the requested provider/model instead of reverting to the target agent default. Fixes #73180. Thanks @danielzinhu99.
- Channels/Telegram: keep webhook-mode local listeners alive and retry Telegram `setWebhook` registration after recoverable startup network failures, so transient Bot API timeouts no longer leave reverse proxies pointing at a closed listener. Fixes #71834. Thanks @jinon86.
- Agents/ACPX: bundle the Codex ACP adapter and launch it from the isolated `CODEX_HOME` wrapper before falling back to npm, so Codex ACP startup no longer depends on live `npx` resolution or the stale `@zed-industries/codex-acp@^0.11.1` range. Fixes #72037; refs #73202. Thanks @jasonftl, @sazora, and @joerod26.
- Agents/ACPX: register the embedded ACP backend at Gateway startup through a lightweight ACP backend SDK path and without importing the heavy ACPX runtime until an ACP session or explicit startup probe needs it, reducing baseline Gateway RSS. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/update: keep restart health polling when the restarted Gateway is reachable but has not reported its version yet, so macOS service restarts do not fail early with `actual unavailable`. Thanks @ProspectOre.
- Backup: skip installed plugin `extensions/*/node_modules` dependency trees while keeping plugin manifests and source files in archives, so local backups avoid rebuildable npm payload bloat. Fixes #64144. Thanks @BrilliantWang.
- Cron/models: fail isolated cron runs closed when an explicit `payload.model` is not allowed or cannot be resolved, so scheduled jobs do not silently fall back to an unrelated agent default or paid route before configured provider proxies such as LiteLLM can run. Fixes #73146. Thanks @oneandrewwang.
- Memory/QMD: back off repeated chat-turn QMD open failures while still letting memory status and CLI probes recheck immediately, so a broken sidecar dependency cannot trigger active-memory or cron retry storms. Fixes #73188 and #73176. Thanks @leonlushgit and @w3i-William.
- Talk Mode: resolve `messages.tts.providers.<id>.apiKey` through the active runtime snapshot for `talk.config`, so Talk overlays can discover SecretRef-backed speech providers without falling back to local speech. Fixes #73109. (#73111) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Memory/Ollama: resolve `memorySearch.provider` custom provider ids through their configured `models.providers.<id>.api` owner, so multi-GPU Ollama setups can dedicate embeddings to providers such as `ollama-5080` without losing the Ollama adapter or local auth semantics. Fixes #73150. Thanks @oneandrewwang.
- CLI/memory: skip eager context-window warmup for `openclaw memory` commands so memory search does not race unrelated model metadata discovery. Fixes #73123. Thanks @oalansilva and @neeravmakwana.
- CLI/Telegram: route Telegram `message send` and poll actions through the running Gateway when available, so packaged installs use the staged `grammy` runtime deps and CLI sends return instead of hanging after the Telegram channel is active. Fixes #73140. Thanks @oalansilva.
- Plugins/runtime deps: prepare staged bundled plugin dependencies before loading packaged public surfaces, so OpenClaw's Telegram runtime/test facade loads resolve `grammy` from the managed runtime-deps stage without copying dependencies into the global package root. Refs #73140. Thanks @oalansilva.
- Agents/exec: emit `(no output)` for silent exec update and node-host result blocks so Anthropic-compatible providers no longer reject empty tool-result text after quiet commands. Fixes #73117. Thanks @pfrederiksen and @Sanjays2402.
- Cron/providers: preflight local Ollama and OpenAI-compatible provider endpoints before isolated cron agent turns, record unreachable local providers as skipped runs, and cache dead-endpoint probes so many jobs do not hammer the same stopped local server. Fixes #58584. Thanks @jpeghead.
- Gateway/config: let config reload continue in degraded mode when invalidity is scoped to plugin entries, so incompatible plugin configs can be skipped and the Gateway restart can still pick up the rest of the config after rollbacks. Fixes #73131. Thanks @Adam-Researchh.
- Doctor/channels: suppress disabled bundled-plugin blocker warnings when a trusted external plugin owns the configured channel, so Lark/Feishu installs no longer get Feishu repair noise after switching to `openclaw-lark`. Fixes #56794. Thanks @wuji-tech-dev.
- CLI/status: show skipped fast-path memory checks as `not checked` and report active custom memory plugin runtime status from `status --json --all` without requiring built-in `agents.defaults.memorySearch`, so plugins such as memory-lancedb-pro and memory-cms no longer look unavailable when their own runtime is healthy. Fixes #56968. Thanks @Tony-ooo and @aderius.
- Gateway/channels: record and log unexpected clean channel monitor exits so channels that return without throwing no longer appear stopped with no error. Fixes #73099. Thanks @balaji1968-kingler.
- Group/channel chats (all channels): keep group/channel replies private by default unless the agent explicitly uses the message tool, fall back to automatic visible replies when the message tool is unavailable, and have `openclaw doctor` warn about that policy mismatch; `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies: "automatic"` restores legacy auto-posting. (#73046) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Plugins/package: force nested bundled-plugin runtime dependency installs out of inherited npm dry-run mode during prepack and package smoke checks, so packed installs materialize required plugin modules instead of reporting missing bundled files. Refs #73128. Thanks @Adam-Researchh.
- Discord: skip reaction events before REST channel fetch when notifications are off, guild reactions are disabled, or allowlist mode cannot match without channel overrides, reducing reconnect bursts that caused slow listener warnings. Fixes #73133. Thanks @isaacsummers.
- Channels/Telegram: centralize polling update tracking so accepted offsets remain durable across restarts, same-process handler failures can still retry, and slow offset writes cannot overwrite newer accepted watermarks. Refs #73115. Thanks @vdruts.
- Agents/models: classify empty, reasoning-only, and planning-only terminal agent runs before accepting a model fallback candidate, so invalid or incompatible models can advance to the next configured fallback instead of returning a 30-second terminal failure. Fixes #73115. Thanks @vdruts.
- Memory/LanceDB: let embedding config use provider-backed auth profiles, environment credentials, or provider config without a separate plugin `embedding.apiKey`, so OAuth-capable embedding providers can power auto-recall/capture. Fixes #68950. Thanks @malshaalan-ai.
- CLI/parents: invoking `openclaw <parent>` (memory, channels, plugins, approvals, devices, cron, mcp) without a subcommand now prints the parent's help and exits `0`, matching `<parent> --help` and the existing `agents` / `sessions` defaults so shell `&&` chains and pnpm wrappers no longer surface a misleading `ELIFECYCLE Command failed with exit code 1.` line. Fixes #73077. Thanks @hclsys.
- Plugins/hooks: time out never-settling `agent_end` observation hooks after 30 seconds and log the plugin failure, so hung embedding endpoints no longer leave memory capture silently pending forever. Fixes #65544. Thanks @ghoc0099.
- Gateway/config: serve runtime config schemas from the current plugin metadata snapshot and generated bundled channel schema metadata instead of rebuilding plugin channel config modules on every `config.get`/`config.schema`, preventing idle plugin-discovery CPU churn after upgrades. Fixes #73088. Thanks @sleitor and @geovansb.
- Memory/LanceDB: call OpenAI-compatible embedding endpoints through the raw SDK transport without sending `encoding_format`, then normalize float-array or base64 responses so providers such as ZhiPu and DashScope no longer fail recall with wrong vector dimensions or rejected parameters. Fixes #63655. Thanks @kinthaiofficial.
- Plugins/install: run dependency installs with npm error-level logging instead of silent mode so failed plugin or hook installs surface actionable npm errors such as EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL instead of `npm install failed:` with no detail. (#73093) Thanks @sanctrl.
- Memory/LanceDB: bound memory recall embedding queries with a new `recallMaxChars` setting, prefer the latest user message over channel prompt metadata during auto-recall, and document the knob so small Ollama embedding models avoid context-length failures. Fixes #56780. Thanks @rungmc357 and @zak-collaborator.
- CLI/skills: resolve workspace-backed skills commands from `--agent`, then the current agent workspace, before falling back to the default agent, so multi-agent ClawHub installs, updates, and status checks stay scoped to the active workspace. Fixes #56161; carries forward #72726. Thanks @langbowang and @luyao618.
- Plugin SDK: fall back from partial bundled plugin directory overrides to package source public surfaces while preserving `OPENCLAW_DISABLE_BUNDLED_PLUGINS` as a hard disable. (#72817) Thanks @serkonyc.
- Agents/ACPX: stop forwarding Codex ACP timeout config controls that Codex rejects while preserving OpenClaw's run-timeout watchdog for ACP subagents. Fixes #73052. Thanks @pfrederiksen and @richa65.
- Memory Core: stream fallback vector search scoring with a bounded top-K result set so large indexes do not materialize every chunk embedding when sqlite-vec is unavailable. (#73069) Thanks @parkertoddbrooks.
- Memory Core: stream embedding-cache seeding during safe reindex so large local caches do not materialize every row into the V8 heap before the atomic rebuild. (#73067) Thanks @parkertoddbrooks.
- Memory/Ollama: add `memorySearch.remote.nonBatchConcurrency` for inline embedding indexing, default Ollama non-batch indexing to one request at a time, and keep batch concurrency separate from non-batch concurrency so local embedding backfills avoid timeout storms on smaller hosts. Carries forward #57733. Thanks @itilys.
- macOS app: update Peekaboo, ElevenLabsKit, and MLX TTS helper dependencies, make canvas file watching and config/exec-approval state writes reliable under concurrent app/test activity, and keep the app plus helper builds warning-free. Thanks @Blaizzy.
- iOS app: refresh SwiftPM/XcodeGen source hygiene, make app, extension, watch, and curated shared Swift files pass the prebuild SwiftFormat and SwiftLint checks, move relay registration off deprecated StoreKit receipt APIs, and keep simulator builds and logic tests warning-free. Thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/models: keep `models.json` readiness and provider-hook caches warm across repeated agent and subagent model resolution while preserving external `models.json` invalidation, reducing repeated provider-plugin loads on slower ARM64 hosts. Fixes #73075. Thanks @jochen.
- Docs/tools: clarify that `tools.profile: "messaging"` is intentionally narrow and that `tools.profile: "full"` is the unrestricted baseline for broader command/control access. Carries forward #39954. Thanks @posigit.
- Control UI/Agents: redact tool-call args, partial/final results, derived exec output, and configured custom secret patterns before streaming tool events to the Control UI, so tool output cannot expose provider or channel credentials. Fixes #72283. (#72319) Thanks @volcano303 and @BunsDev.
- Agents/sessions: keep `sessions_history` recall redaction enabled even when general log redaction is disabled, and clarify that safety-boundary UI/tool/diagnostic payloads still redact independently of `logging.redactSensitive`. Carries forward #72319. Thanks @volcano303 and @BunsDev.
- Providers/Codex: pass agent and workspace directories into provider stream wrappers so Codex native `web_search` activation can evaluate the correct auth context, and smoke-test the built status-message runtime by resolving the emitted bundle name. Carries forward #67843; refs #65909. Thanks @neilofneils404.
- Cron/models: keep `payload.model` as a per-job primary that can use configured fallbacks, while still letting `payload.fallbacks: []` make cron runs strict and avoid hidden agent-primary retries. Refs #73023. Thanks @pavelyortho-cyber.
- Models/fallbacks: treat user-selected session models as exact choices, so `/model ollama/...` and model-picker switches fail visibly when the selected provider is unreachable instead of answering from an unrelated configured fallback. Fixes #73023. Thanks @pavelyortho-cyber.
- Codex harness: keep ChatGPT subscription app-server runs from inheriting `CODEX_API_KEY` or `OPENAI_API_KEY`, and fall back to `CODEX_API_KEY` / `OPENAI_API_KEY` app-server login only when no Codex account is available. Fixes #73057. Thanks @holgergruenhagen and @pashpashpash.
- CLI/model probes: fail local `infer model run` probes when the provider returns no text output, so unreachable local providers and empty completions no longer look like successful smoke tests. Refs #73023. Thanks @pavelyortho-cyber.
- CLI/Ollama: run local `infer model run` through the lean provider completion path and skip global model discovery for one-shot local probes, so Ollama smoke tests no longer pay full chat-agent/tool startup cost or hang before the native `/api/chat` request. Fixes #72851. Thanks @TotalRes2020.
- Doctor/gateway services: ignore launchd/systemd companion services that only reference the gateway as a dependency, suppress inactive Linux extra-service warnings, and avoid rewriting a running systemd gateway command/entrypoint during doctor repair. Carries forward #39118. Thanks @therk.
- Daemon/service: only emit hard-coded version-manager paths such as `~/.volta/bin`, `~/.asdf/shims`, `~/.bun/bin`, and fnm/pnpm fallbacks into gateway and node service PATHs when the directories exist, so `openclaw doctor` no longer flags `gateway.path.non-minimal` against a PATH the daemon just wrote. Env-driven roots and stable user-bin dirs remain unconditional. Fixes #71944; carries forward #71964. Thanks @Sanjays2402.
- CLI/startup: disable Node's module compile cache automatically for live source-checkout launchers so in-place `pnpm build` updates are visible to the next `openclaw` CLI invocation. Fixes #73037. Thanks @LouisGameDev.
- Agents/group chat: keep silent-allowed empty and reasoning-only turns on the `NO_REPLY` path without injecting visible-answer retry prompts, and clarify the group prompt so agents use the exact silent token instead of prose. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/group chat: move `NO_REPLY` mechanics into channel-aware direct/group prompts and suppress the duplicate generic silent-reply section for auto-reply runs, so always-on group agents get one consistent stay-silent instruction. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI: preserve encrypted empty-summary Responses reasoning items in WebSocket replay and request `reasoning.encrypted_content` on reasoning turns so GPT-5.4/GPT-5.5 sessions do not lose required `rs_*` state beside `msg_*` items. Fixes #73053. Thanks @odb36777.
- Gateway/startup: treat `plugins.enabled=false` as an early plugin fast path, skipping plugin auto-enable discovery, gateway plugin lookup/runtime-dependency staging, and stale-plugin cleanup warnings while preserving channel blocker warnings. (#73041) Thanks @WuKongAI-CMU.
- Channels/commands: make generated `/dock-*` commands switch the active session reply route through `session.identityLinks` instead of falling through to normal chat. Fixes #69206; carries forward #73033. Thanks @clawbones and @michaelatamuk.
- Providers/Cloudflare AI Gateway: strip assistant prefill turns from Anthropic Messages payloads when thinking is enabled, so Claude requests through Cloudflare AI Gateway no longer fail Anthropic conversation-ending validation. Fixes #72905; carries forward #73005. Thanks @AaronFaby and @sahilsatralkar.
- Gateway/startup: keep primary-model startup prewarm on scoped metadata preparation, let native approval bootstraps retry outside channel startup, and skip the global hook runner when no `gateway_start` hook is registered, so clean post-ready sidecar work stays off the critical path. Refs #72846. Thanks @RayWoo, @livekm0309, and @mrz1836.
- Gateway/channels: start bundled channel accounts with a lightweight `runtimeContexts` surface instead of importing the full reply/routing/session channel runtime before `startAccount`, so Discord, Telegram, Slack, Matrix, and QQBot startup no longer block on unrelated channel helper graphs. Refs #72846 and #72960. Thanks @mrz1836, @RayWoo, and @rollingshmily.
- Gateway/supervisor: exit cleanly when a supervised restart finds an existing healthy gateway and bound retries when the existing gateway stays unhealthy, so stale lock contention cannot loop indefinitely. Refs #72846. Thanks @azgardtek.
- Gateway/startup: scope primary-model provider discovery during channel prewarm to the configured provider owner and add split startup trace timings, so boot avoids staging unrelated bundled provider dependencies while setup discovery remains broad. Fixes #73002. Thanks @Schnup03.
- Plugins/runtime deps: declare retained staged bundled plugin dependencies in the npm staging manifest while installing only newly missing packages, so Gateway restarts avoid reinstalling the full retained dependency set when one runtime dependency is absent. Fixes #73055. Thanks @GCorp2026.
- CLI/status: keep default `openclaw status` off the heavyweight security audit, plugin compatibility, and memory-vector probes while still showing configured Telegram channels through setup metadata, so routine health checks stay fast and no longer render an empty Channels table. Fixes #72993. Thanks @comick1.
- Channels/Telegram: send a best-effort native typing cue immediately after an inbound message is accepted, so slow pre-dispatch turns show Telegram liveness before queueing, compaction, model, or tool work starts. Fixes #63759. Thanks @alessandropcostabr.
- Channels/Telegram: stop native approval startup auth failures from retrying every second, while still waiting through retryable Gateway auth handoffs, so Telegram approval setup problems no longer create a reconnect/log loop during channel startup. Refs #72846 and #72867. Thanks @kiranvk-2011 and @porly1985.
- Channels/Microsoft Teams: unwrap staged CommonJS JWT runtime dependencies before Bot Connector token validation so inbound Teams messages no longer 401 after the bundled runtime-deps move. Fixes #73026 and #73167. Thanks @kbrown10000 and @mikelavrik.
- Gateway/auth: allow local direct callers in trusted-proxy mode to use the configured gateway password as an internal fallback while keeping token fallback rejected. Fixes #17761. Thanks @dashed, @vincentkoc, and @jetd1.
- Gateway/auth: add explicit `trustedProxy.allowLoopback` support for same-host loopback reverse proxies while keeping loopback trusted-proxy auth fail-closed by default and preserving required-header and allowlist checks. Fixes #59167; carries forward #63379. Thanks @Matir, @jeremyakers, and @mrosmarin.
- Channels/sessions: prevent guarded inbound session recording from creating route-only phantom sessions while still allowing last-route updates for sessions that already exist. Carries forward #73009. Thanks @jzakirov.
- Cron: accept `delivery.threadId` in Gateway cron add/update schemas so scheduled announce delivery can target Telegram forum topics and other threaded channel destinations through the documented delivery path. Fixes #73017. Thanks @coachsootz.
- Plugins/runtime deps: stage bundled plugin dependencies imported by mirrored root dist chunks, so packaged memory and status commands do not miss `chokidar` or similar root-chunk dependencies after update. Fixes #72882 and #72970; carries forward #72992. Thanks @shrimpy8, @colin-chang, and @Schnup03.
- Plugins/runtime deps: reuse unchanged bundled plugin runtime mirrors instead of rebuilding plugin trees on every load, cutting avoidable writes and restart/reconnect I/O on slow storage. Fixes #72933. Thanks @jasonftl.
- Agents/runtime context: deliver hidden runtime context through prompt-local system context while keeping the transcript-only custom entry out of provider user turns, and strip stale copied runtime-context prefaces from user-facing replies. Fixes #72386; carries forward #72969. Thanks @jhsmith409.
- Channels/Telegram: skip the optional webhook-info API call during polling-mode status checks and startup bot-label probes so long-polling setups avoid an unnecessary Telegram round trip. Carries forward #72990. Thanks @danielgruneberg.
- CLI/message: resolve targeted `openclaw message` channels to their owning plugin before loading the registry, and fall back to configured channel plugins when the channel must be inferred, so scripted sends avoid full bundled plugin registry scans without assuming channel ids match plugin ids. Fixes #73006. Thanks @jasonftl.
- Plugins/startup: parse strict JSON plugin manifests with native JSON first and keep JSON5 as the compatibility fallback, reducing manifest registry CPU during Gateway boot and CLI startup. Fixes #73011. Thanks @jasonftl.
- CLI/models: keep route-first `models status --json` stdout reserved for the JSON payload by routing auth-profile and startup diagnostics to stderr. Fixes #72962. Thanks @vishutdhar.
- Gateway/runtime: keep dirty-tree status calls from rebuilding live `dist`, clear stale task and restart state across in-process restarts, retry transient Discord lazy imports, and let channel startup continue after slow model warmup so browser, Discord, and voice-call sidecars come online. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/CodeQL: replace file SecretRef id gateway schema regex validation with segment-aligned predicates and set empty permissions on release summary/backfill jobs so the narrowed CodeQL profile stays clean. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Sessions: ignore future-dated session activity timestamps during reset freshness checks and cap future `updatedAt` values at the merge boundary so clock-skewed messages cannot keep stale sessions alive forever. Fixes #72989. Thanks @martingarramon.
- Sessions: apply search, activity filters, and limits before gateway row enrichment so bounded session lists avoid scanning discarded transcripts. Carries forward #72978. Thanks @yeager.
- Sessions: remove trajectory runtime and pointer sidecars when session maintenance prunes, caps, or disk-evicts their owning session, while preserving sidecars still referenced by live rows. Fixes #73000. Thanks @jared-rebel.
- Plugins/CLI: allow managed plugin installs when the active extensions root is a symlink to a real state directory, while keeping nested target symlinks blocked and suppressing misleading hook-pack fallback errors for install-boundary failures. Fixes #72946. Thanks @mayank6136.
- Providers/Ollama: mark discovered Ollama catalog models as supporting streaming usage metadata so token accounting stays enabled for local models. (#72976) Thanks @sdeyang.
- Media understanding: reject malformed MIME values with trailing junk while preserving standard parameter tails before enrichment uses them. (#72914) Thanks @volcano303.
- WebChat: keep bare `/new` and `/reset` prompts from producing empty transcript text by inserting the hidden session marker when the visible tail is blank. (#72863) Thanks @mahopan.
- CLI/update: explain completion-cache refresh timeouts with manual refresh guidance instead of surfacing a raw low-level timeout. Fixes #72842. (#72850) Thanks @iot2edge.
- Memory-core/dreaming: give narrative generation a 60-second timeout so slower local or remote models can finish instead of timing out at 15 seconds. Fixes #72837. (#72852) Thanks @RayWoo.
- Plugins/hooks: inject each plugin's resolved config into internal hook event context without mutating the shared event object. (#72888) Thanks @jalapeno777.
- Agents/ACP: pass the resolved ACP agent directory into media understanding so per-agent media caches and config are used for ACP-dispatched image turns. (#72832) Thanks @luyao618.
- Gateway/Bonjour: truncate mDNS service names and host labels to the 63-byte DNS label limit at valid UTF-8 boundaries. (#72809) Thanks @luyao618.
- Feishu: treat groups explicitly configured under channels.feishu.groups as admitted even when groupAllowFrom is empty, while preserving groupPolicy: "disabled" as a hard group block and keeping groups.\* wildcard defaults non-admitting. Fixes #67687. (#72789) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Gateway/startup: keep hot Gateway boot paths on leaf config imports and add max-RSS reporting to the gateway startup bench so low-memory startup regressions are visible before release. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WebChat: read `chat.history` from active transcript branches, drop stale streamed assistant tails once final history catches up, and coalesce duplicate in-flight Control UI submits, so rewritten prompts, completed replies, and rapid send events no longer render or process twice. Fixes #72975, #72963, and #72974. Thanks @dmagdici, @lhtpluto, and @Benjamin5281999.
- WebChat/TTS: persist automatic final-mode TTS audio as a supplemental audio-only transcript update instead of adding a second assistant message with the same visible text. Fixes #72830. Thanks @lhtpluto.
- Agents/LSP: terminate bundled stdio LSP process trees during runtime disposal and Gateway shutdown, so nested children such as `tsserver` do not survive stop or restart. Fixes #72357. Thanks @ai-hpc and @bittoby.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: capture privacy-safe model-call request payload bytes, streamed response bytes, first-response latency, and total duration in diagnostic events, plugin hooks, stability snapshots, and OTEL model-call spans/metrics without logging raw model content. Fixes #33832. Thanks @wwh830.
- Logging: write validated diagnostic trace context as top-level `traceId`, `spanId`, `parentSpanId`, and `traceFlags` fields in file-log JSONL records so traced requests and model calls are easier to correlate in log processors. Refs #40353. Thanks @liangruochong44-ui.
- Logging/sessions: apply configured redaction patterns to persisted session transcript text and accept escaped character classes in safe custom redaction regexes, so transcript JSONL no longer keeps matching sensitive text in the clear. Fixes #42982. Thanks @panpan0000.
- Providers/Ollama: honor `/api/show` capabilities when registering local models so non-tool Ollama models no longer receive the agent tool surface, and keep native Ollama thinking opt-in instead of enabling it by default. Fixes #64710 and duplicate #65343. Thanks @yuan-b, @netherby, @xilopaint, and @Diyforfun2026.
- Control UI/Agents: remount the Overview model controls when switching agents so the primary-model picker cannot retain stale per-agent selection. Fixes #39392; carries forward #39401, notes the duplicate #39495 approach, and keeps #46275/#54724 broader stabilization out of scope. Thanks @daijunyi002, @SergioChan, @aworki, and @wsyjh8.
- Auto-reply: poison inbound message dedupe after replay-unsafe provider/runtime failures so retries stay safe before visible progress but cannot duplicate messages after block output, tool side effects, or session progress. Fixes #69303; keeps #58549 and #64606 as duplicate validation. Thanks @martingarramon, @NikolaFC, and @zeroth-blip.
- Agents/model fallback: jump directly to a known later live-session model redirect instead of walking unrelated fallback candidates, while preserving the already-landed live-session/fallback loop guard. Fixes #57471; related loop family already closed via #58496. Thanks @yuxiaoyang2007-prog.
- Gateway/Bonjour: keep @homebridge/ciao cancellation handlers registered across advertiser restarts so late probing cancellations cannot crash Linux and other mDNS-churned gateways. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/startup: load the default `memory-core` slot during Gateway startup when permitted so active-memory recall can call `memory_search` and `memory_get` without requiring an explicit `plugins.slots.memory` entry, while preserving `plugins.slots.memory: "none"`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/plugins: resolve `gateway_start` cron hooks from live Gateway runtime state before the legacy deps fallback, so memory-core dreaming cron reconciliation keeps working on installs where `deps.cron` is not populated during service startup. Fixes #72835. Thanks @RayWoo.
- Plugins/CLI: prefer native require for compiled bundled plugin JavaScript before jiti so read-only config, status, device, and node commands avoid unnecessary transform overhead on slow hosts. Fixes #62842. Thanks @Effet.
- Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs while enforcing dated removal windows. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/compat: add missing dated compatibility records for legacy extension-api, memory registration, provider hook/type aliases, runtime aliases, channel SDK helpers, and approval/test utility shims. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale `plugins list` entries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/CLI: make plugin install and uninstall config writes conflict-aware, clear stale denylist entries on explicit reinstall/removal, and delete managed plugin files only after config/index commit succeeds. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins: fail `plugins update` when tracked plugin or hook updates error, keep bundled runtime-dependency repair behind restrictive allowlists, and reject package installs with unloadable extension entries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WebChat/Control UI: support non-video file attachments in chat uploads while preserving the existing image attachment path and MIME-sniff fallback for generic image uploads. (#70947) Thanks @IAMSamuelRodda.
- Skills/memory: restore Chokidar v5 hot reloads by watching concrete skill and memory roots with filters, including SKILL.md removals and deleted skill folders without broad workspace recursion. Fixes #27404, #33585, and #41606. Thanks @shelvenzhou, @08820048, and @rocke2020.
- Gateway/chat: keep duplicate attachment-backed `chat.send` retries with the same idempotency key on the documented in-flight path so aborts still target the real active run. Fixes #70139. Thanks @Feelw00.
- Gateway/chat: preserve repeated boundary characters while merging assistant chat stream deltas, including repeated digits, CJK characters, and markdown/table tokens. Fixes #63769; carries forward #63994 and #65457. Thanks @yon950905 and @mohuaxiao.
- Plugins: share package entrypoint resolution between install and discovery, reject mismatched `runtimeExtensions`, and cache bundled runtime-dependency manifest reads during scans. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp/Web: keep quiet but healthy linked-device sessions connected by basing the watchdog on WhatsApp Web transport activity, while retaining a longer app-silence cap so frame activity cannot mask a stuck session forever. Fixes #70678; carries forward the focused #71466 approach and keeps #63939 as related configurable-timeout follow-up. Thanks @vincentkoc and @oromeis.
- Discord/gateway: count failed health-monitor restart attempts toward cooldown and hourly caps, and evict stale account lifecycle state during channel reloads so repeated Discord gateway recovery cannot loop on old status. Fixes #38596. (#40413) Thanks @jellyAI-dev and @vashquez.
- TTS/BlueBubbles: pre-transcode synthesized MP3 audio to opus-in-CAF (mono, 24 kHz — validated against macOS 15.x Messages.app's native voice-memo CAF descriptor) on macOS hosts before handing the file to BlueBubbles, so iMessage renders the result as a native voice-memo bubble with proper duration and waveform UI instead of a plain file attachment. Adds an opt-in `tts.voice.preferAudioFileFormat` channel capability and a magic-byte sniff for the CAF container so the host-local-media validator (which uses `file-type` and didn't recognize CAF natively) can verify the pre-transcoded buffer. Channels that don't opt in are unaffected. (#72586) Fixes #72506. Thanks @omarshahine.
- Feishu: retry WebSocket startup failures with monitor-owned backoff while preserving SDK-local heartbeat defaults, so persistent-connection startup failures no longer leave the monitor hung. Fixes #68766; related #42354 and #55532. Thanks @alex-xuweilong, @120106835, @sirfengyu, and @tianhaocui.
- Cron: normalize isolated job tool allowlists before granting the narrow self-removal cron tool path, keeping scheduled jobs aligned with shared tool policy normalization. (#73028) Thanks @jalehman.

## 2026.4.26

### Changes

- Control UI/Talk: add a generic browser realtime transport contract, Google Live browser Talk sessions with constrained ephemeral tokens, and a Gateway relay for backend-only realtime voice plugins. Thanks @VACInc.
- CLI/models: route provider-filtered model listing through an explicit source plan so user config, installed manifest rows, Provider Index previews, and scoped runtime fallbacks keep a stable authority order without adding another catalog cache. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/cron: add a typed `cron_changed` hook for observing gateway-owned cron lifecycle updates without depending on internal cron events. Thanks @amknight.
- Providers: add Cerebras as a bundled plugin with onboarding, static model catalog, docs, and manifest-owned endpoint metadata.
- Memory/OpenAI-compatible: add optional `memorySearch.inputType`, `queryInputType`, and `documentInputType` config for asymmetric embedding endpoints, including direct query embeddings and provider batch indexing. Carries forward #63313 and #60727. Thanks @HOYALIM and @prospect1314521.
- Ollama/memory: add model-specific retrieval query prefixes for `nomic-embed-text`, `qwen3-embedding`, and `mxbai-embed-large` memory-search queries while leaving document batches unchanged. Carries forward #45013. Thanks @laolin5564.
- Plugins/providers: move pre-runtime model-id normalization, provider endpoint host metadata, and OpenAI-compatible request-family hints into plugin manifests so core no longer carries bundled-provider routing tables.
- Plugins/config: deprecate direct plugin config load/write helpers in favor of passed runtime snapshots plus transactional mutation helpers with explicit restart follow-up policy, scanner guardrails, runtime warnings, and revision-based cache invalidation.
- Plugins/install: allow `OPENCLAW_PLUGIN_STAGE_DIR` to contain layered runtime-dependency roots, resolving read-only preinstalled deps before installing missing deps into the final writable root. Fixes #72396. Thanks @liorb-mountapps.
- Control UI: add a raw config pending-changes diff panel that parses JSON5, redacts sensitive values until reveal, and avoids fake raw-edit callbacks when opening the panel. Refs #39831; supersedes #48621 and #46654. Thanks @JiajunBernoulli and @BunsDev.
- Control UI: polish the quick settings dashboard grid so common cards align across desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts without wasting horizontal space. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Matrix/E2EE: add `openclaw matrix encryption setup` to enable Matrix encryption, bootstrap recovery, and print verification status from one setup flow. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/compaction: add an opt-in `agents.defaults.compaction.maxActiveTranscriptBytes` preflight trigger that runs normal local compaction when the active JSONL grows too large, requiring transcript rotation so successful compaction moves future turns onto a smaller successor file instead of raw byte-splitting history. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/migration: add a bundled Claude importer that previews and applies Claude Code and Claude Desktop instructions, MCP servers, skills, command prompts, and safe archive/manual-review state. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/migration: add `openclaw migrate` with plan, dry-run, JSON, pre-migration backup, onboarding detection, archive-only report copies, and a bundled Hermes importer for configuration, memory/plugin hints, model providers, MCP servers, skills, and supported credentials. Thanks @NousResearch.

### Fixes

- Gateway/device tokens: stop echoing rotated bearer tokens from shared/admin `device.token.rotate` responses while preserving the same-device token handoff needed by token-only clients before reconnect. (#66773) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Agents/sessions_spawn: resolve configured bare model aliases for spawn model overrides using the target agent runtime default provider, carrying forward the alias-specific #69029 review fixes from #59681 without the unrelated active-session pruning path. Fixes #59681. Thanks @HowdyDooToYou.
- Control UI/Talk: keep Google Live browser sessions on the WebSocket transport instead of falling back to WebRTC, validate browser Google Live WebSocket endpoints, cap Gateway relay sessions per browser connection, and remove stale browser-native voice buttons that did not use the configured Talk/TTS provider. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/startup: reuse config snapshot plugin manifests for startup auto-enable before plugin bootstrap plans plugin loading. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/subagents: enforce `subagents.allowAgents` for explicit same-agent `sessions_spawn(agentId=...)` calls instead of auto-allowing requester self-targets. Fixes #72827. Thanks @oiGaDio.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: let explicit `sessions_spawn(runtime="acp")` bootstrap turns run while `acp.dispatch.enabled=false` still blocks automatic ACP thread dispatch. Fixes #63591. Thanks @moeedahmed.
- CLI/update: install npm global updates into a verified temporary prefix before swapping the package tree into place, preventing mixed old/new installs and stale packaged files from breaking `openclaw update` verification. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway: skip CLI startup self-respawn for foreground gateway runs so low-memory Linux/Node 24 hosts start through the same path as direct `dist/index.js` without hanging before logs. Fixes #72720. Thanks @sign-2025.
- Google Meet: grant Meet media permissions through browser control and pin local Chrome audio defaults to `BlackHole 2ch`, so joined agents no longer show `Permission needed` or use macOS default audio devices. Thanks @DougButdorf.
- Gateway: treat uncaught broken-pipe stream errors like `EPIPE` as non-fatal so Discord delivery or closed pipes no longer crash the Gateway after a reply is ready.
- Google Meet: route local Chrome joins through OpenClaw browser control instead of raw default Chrome, so agents use the configured OpenClaw browser profile when opening Meet. Thanks @oromeis.
- Plugins/discovery: follow symlinked plugin directories in global and workspace plugin roots while keeping broken links ignored and existing package safety checks in place. Fixes #36754; carries forward #72695 and #63206. Thanks @Quackstro, @ming1523, and @xsfX20.
- Plugins/install: skip test files and directories during install security scans while still force-scanning declared runtime entrypoints, so packaged test mocks no longer block plugin installs. Fixes #66840; carries forward #67050. Thanks @saurabhjain1592 and @Magicray1217.
- Plugins/install: allow exact package-manager peer links back to the trusted OpenClaw host package during install security scans while continuing to block spoofed or nested escaping `node_modules` symlinks. Carries forward #70819. Thanks @fgabelmannjr.
- Plugins/install: resolve plugin install destinations from the active profile state dir across CLI, ClawHub, marketplace, local path, and channel setup installs, so `openclaw --profile <name> plugins install ...` no longer writes into the default profile. Fixes #69960; carries forward #69971. Thanks @FrancisLyman and @Sanjays2402.
- Plugins/registry: suppress duplicate-plugin startup warnings when a tracked npm-installed plugin intentionally overrides the bundled plugin with the same id. Carries forward #48673. Thanks @abdushsk.
- Plugins/startup: reuse canonical realpath lookups throughout each plugin discovery pass, including package and manifest boundary checks, so Windows npm-global startups no longer repeat expensive path resolution for the same plugin roots. Fixes #65733. Thanks @welfo-beo.
- Gateway/proxy: pass `ALL_PROXY` / `all_proxy` into the global Undici env-proxy dispatcher and provider proxy-fetch helper while keeping SSRF trusted-proxy auto-upgrade on `HTTP_PROXY` / `HTTPS_PROXY` only, so gateway/provider calls honor all-proxy setups without weakening guarded fetches. Fixes #43821; carries forward #43919. Thanks @RickyTong1.
- Providers/LiteLLM: honor `--custom-base-url` during non-interactive API-key onboarding without adding proxy discovery side effects, so scripted remote LiteLLM setup keeps the requested endpoint instead of falling back to localhost. Carries forward #66160. Thanks @dongs0104.
- Reply/link understanding: keep media and link preprocessing on stable runtime entrypoints and continue with raw message content if optional enrichment fails, so URL-bearing messages are no longer dropped after stale runtime chunk upgrades. Fixes #68466. Thanks @songshikang0111.
- Discord: persist routed model-picker overrides when the hidden `/model` dispatch succeeds but the bound thread session store is still stale, including LM Studio suffixed model ids. Carries forward #61473. Thanks @Nanako0129.
- Nodes/CLI: add `openclaw nodes remove --node <id|name|ip>` and `node.pair.remove` so stale gateway-owned node pairing records can be cleaned without hand-editing state files.
- Gateway: include the connecting client and fresh presence version in the initial `hello-ok` snapshot, so clients no longer need a follow-up event before seeing themselves online.
- Docker: install the CA certificate bundle in the slim runtime image so HTTPS calls from containerized gateways no longer fail TLS setup after the `bookworm-slim` base switch. Fixes #72787. Thanks @ryuhaneul.
- Providers/OpenRouter: remove retired Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha static catalog rows and disable proxy reasoning injection for stale Hunter Alpha configs, so replies are not hidden when OpenRouter returns answer text in reasoning fields. Fixes #43942. Thanks @EvanDataForge.
- Providers/reasoning: let Groq and LM Studio declare provider-native reasoning effort values, so Qwen thinking models receive `none`/`default` or `off`/`on` instead of OpenAI-only `low`/`medium` values. Fixes #32638. Thanks @Aqu1bp, @mgoulart, @Norpps, and @BSTail.
- Local models: default custom providers with only `baseUrl` to the Chat Completions adapter and trust loopback model requests automatically, so local OpenAI-compatible proxies receive `/v1/chat/completions` without timing out. Fixes #40024. Thanks @parachuteshe.
- Channels/message tool: surface Discord, Slack, and Mattermost `user:`/`channel:` target syntax in the shared message target schema and Discord ambiguity errors, so DM sends by numeric id stop burning retries before finding `user:<id>`. Fixes #72401. Thanks @garyd9, @hclsys, and @praveen9354.
- Agents/tools: scope tool-loop detection history to the active run when available, so scheduled heartbeat cycles no longer inherit stale repeated-call counts from previous runs. Fixes #40144. Thanks @mattbrown319.
- Agents/subagents: preserve requester delivery for completion announces when a child agent is bound to a different channel account while keeping same-channel thread completions routed to the child thread. Thanks @sfuminya.
- Agents/subagents: fail closed instead of selecting a single child thread binding when completion delivery lacks requester conversation signal. Thanks @suyua9.
- Agents/status: persist the post-compaction token estimate from auto-compaction when providers omit usage metadata, so `/status` and session lists keep showing fresh context usage after compaction. Fixes #67667; carries forward #72822. Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo and @skylight-9.
- Control UI: show loading, reload, and retry states when a lazy dashboard panel cannot load after an upgrade, so the Logs tab no longer appears blank on stale browser bundles. Fixes #72450. Thanks @sobergou.
- Gateway/plugins: start the Gateway in degraded mode when a single plugin entry has invalid schema config, and let `openclaw doctor --fix` quarantine that plugin config instead of crash-looping every channel. Fixes #62976 and #70371. Thanks @Doraemon-Claw and @pksidekyk.
- Agents/plugins: skip malformed plugin tools with missing schema objects and report plugin diagnostics, so one broken tool no longer crashes Anthropic agent runs. Fixes #69423. Thanks @jmnickels.
- Dashboard: log a CVE-safe self-recovery hint pointing users to `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN`, `gateway.auth.token`, and fragment key `token` when neither clipboard nor browser delivery places the token-bearing URL within reach, so headless and WSL invocations are not stranded on the bare URL. Fixes #72081. Thanks @praveen9354 and @BunsDev.
- Agents/reasoning: recover fully wrapped unclosed `<think>` replies that would otherwise sanitize to empty text while keeping strict stripping for closed reasoning blocks and unclosed tails after visible text. Fixes #37696; supersedes #51915. Thanks @druide67 and @okuyam2y.
- Control UI/Gateway: bind WebChat handshakes to their active socket and reject post-close server registrations, so aborted connects no longer leave zombie clients or misleading duplicate WebSocket connection logs. Fixes #72753. Thanks @LumenFromTheFuture.
- Agents/fallback: split ambiguous provider failures into `empty_response`, `no_error_details`, and `unclassified`, and add flat fallback-step fields to structured fallback logs so primary-model failures stay visible when later fallbacks also fail. Fixes #71922; refs #71744. Thanks @andyk-ms and @nikolaykazakovvs-ux.
- Gateway/startup: reuse the plugin manifest registry inside config validation so restrictive plugin allowlists avoid a duplicate manifest pass during startup. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/startup: run plugin auto-enable from authored source config and skip disabled setup probes, avoiding runtime-default plugin allowlist writes and a second config snapshot read during startup. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/Windows: normalize Windows absolute paths before handing bundled plugin modules to Jiti, so Feishu/Lark message sending no longer fails with unsupported `c:` ESM loader URLs. Fixes #72783. Thanks @jackychen-png.
- CLI/doctor: run bundled plugin runtime-dependency repairs through the async npm installer with spinner/line progress and heartbeat updates, so long `openclaw doctor --fix` installs no longer look hung in TTY or piped output. Fixes #72775. Thanks @dfpalhano.
- Feishu/Windows: normalize bundled channel sidecar loads before Jiti evaluates them, so Feishu outbound sends no longer fail with raw `C:` ESM loader errors on Windows. Fixes #72783. Thanks @jackychen-png.
- Agents/tools: ignore volatile `exec` runtime metadata when comparing tool-loop outcomes, so enabled loop detection can stop repeated identical shell-command results instead of resetting on duration, PID, session, or cwd changes. Fixes #34574; supersedes #41502. Thanks @gucasbrg and @Zcg2021.
- Agents/fallback: classify internal live-session model switch conflicts as unknown fallback failures instead of provider overloads, preventing local vLLM endpoints from receiving misleading overloaded cooldowns. Refs #63229. Thanks @clawdia-lobster.
- Discord: let thread sessions inherit the parent channel's session-level `/model` override as a model-only fallback without enabling parent transcript inheritance. Fixes #72755. Thanks @solavrc.
- Gateway/plugins: skip stale configured channels whose matching plugin is no longer discoverable, point cleanup at `openclaw doctor --fix`, and keep unrelated channel typos fatal so one missing channel plugin no longer crash-loops the Gateway. Fixes #53311. Thanks @futhgar.
- Control UI: keep session-specific assistant identity loads authoritative after WebSocket connect, so non-main agent chat sessions do not show the main agent name in the header after bootstrap refreshes. Fixes #72776. Thanks @rockytian-top.
- Agents/Qwen: preserve exact custom `modelstudio` provider configs with foreign `api` owners so explicit OpenAI-compatible Model Studio endpoints no longer get normalized into the bundled Qwen plugin path. Fixes #64483. Thanks @FiredMosquito831.
- MCP/bundle-mcp: normalize CLI-native `type: "http"` MCP server entries to OpenClaw `transport: "streamable-http"` on save, repair existing configs with doctor, and keep embedded Pi from falling back to legacy SSE GET-first startup for those servers. Fixes #72757. Thanks @Studioscale.
- OpenCode: expose Anthropic Opus/Sonnet 4.x thinking levels for proxied Claude models, so `/think xhigh`, `/think adaptive`, and `/think max` validate consistently with the direct Anthropic provider. Fixes #72729. Thanks @haishmg and @aaajiao.
- Media-understanding/audio: migrate deprecated `{input}` placeholders in legacy `audio.transcription.command` configs to `{{MediaPath}}`, so custom audio transcribers no longer receive the literal placeholder after doctor repair. Fixes #72760. Thanks @krisfanue3-hash.
- Ollama/WSL2: warn when GPU-backed WSL2 installs combine CUDA visibility with an autostarting `ollama.service` using `Restart=always`, and document the systemd, `.wslconfig`, and keep-alive mitigation for crash loops. Carries forward #61022; fixes #61185. Thanks @yhyatt.
- Ollama/onboarding: de-dupe suggested bare local models against installed `:latest` tags and skip redundant pulls, so setup shows the installed model once and no longer says it is downloading an already available model. Fixes #68952. Thanks @tleyden.
- Memory-core/doctor: keep `doctor.memory.status` on the cached path by default and only run live embedding pings for explicit deep probes, preventing slow local embedding backends from blocking Gateway status checks. Fixes #71568. Thanks @apex-system.
- Memory/QMD: group same-source collections into one QMD search invocation when the installed QMD supports multiple `-c` filters, while keeping older QMD builds on the per-collection fallback. Fixes #72484; supersedes #72485 and #69583. Thanks @BsnizND and @zeroaltitude.
- Memory/QMD: accept QMD status vector-count variants such as `Vectors = 42`, `Vectors:42`, and `Vectors: 42 embedded`, so `memory status --deep` no longer reports embeddings unavailable for healthy QMD wrappers. Fixes #63652; carries forward #63678. Thanks @apoapostolov and @WarrenJones.
- Memory/QMD: skip QMD vector status probes and embedding maintenance in lexical `searchMode: "search"`, so BM25-only QMD setups on ARM do not trigger llama.cpp/Vulkan builds during status checks or embed cycles. Fixes #59234 and #67113. Thanks @PrinceOfEgypt, @Vksh07, @Snipe76, @NomLom, @t4r3e2q1-commits, and @dmak.
- Memory/QMD: report the live watcher dirty state in memory status, so changed QMD-backed memory files show as dirty until the queued sync finishes. Fixes #60244. Thanks @xinzf.
- Compaction: skip oversized pre-compaction checkpoint snapshots and prune duplicate long user turns from compaction input and rotated successor transcripts, preventing retry storms from being preserved across checkpoint cycles. Fixes #72780. Thanks @SweetSophia.
- Control UI/Cron: render cron job prompts and run summaries as sanitized markdown in the dashboard, with full-width block content, safer link clicks, and no duplicate error text when a failed run has no summary. Supersedes #48504. Thanks @garethdaine.
- Control UI/Gateway: preserve WebChat client version labels across localhost, 127.0.0.1, and IPv6 loopback aliases on the same port, avoiding misleading `vcontrol-ui` connection logs while investigating duplicate-message reports. Refs #72753 and #72742. Thanks @LumenFromTheFuture and @allesgutefy.
- Agents/reasoning: treat orphan closing reasoning tags with following answer text as a privacy boundary across delivery, history, streaming, and Control UI sanitizers so malformed local-model output cannot leak chain-of-thought text. Fixes #67092. Thanks @AnildoSilva.
- Memory-core: run one-shot memory CLI commands through transient builtin and QMD managers so `memory index`, `memory status --index`, and `memory search` no longer start long-lived file watchers that can hit macOS `EMFILE` limits. Fixes #59101; carries forward #49851. Thanks @mbear469210-coder and @maoyuanxue.
- Agents/ACP: ship the Claude ACP adapter with OpenClaw and require Claude result messages before idle can complete a prompt, preventing parent agents from waking early on long-running `sessions_spawn(runtime: "acp", agentId: "claude")` children. Fixes #72080. Thanks @siavash-saki and @iannwu.
- CLI/tasks: route `tasks --json`, `tasks list --json`, and `tasks audit --json` through a lean JSON path so read-only task inspection no longer loads unrelated plugin/runtime command graphs. Fixes #66238. Thanks @ChuckChambers.
- Memory-core: re-resolve the active runtime config whenever `memory_search` or `memory_get` executes, so provider changes made by `config.patch` stop leaving stale embedding backends behind in existing tool instances. Fixes #61098. Thanks @BradGroux and @Linux2010.
- WebChat: keep bare `/new` and `/reset` startup instructions out of visible chat history while preserving `/reset <note>` as user-visible transcript text. Fixes #72369. Thanks @collynes and @haishmg.
- Tasks/memory: checkpoint and truncate SQLite WAL sidecars on a timer and before close for task, Task Flow, proxy capture, and builtin memory databases, bounding long-running gateway `*.sqlite-wal` growth. Fixes #72774. Thanks @dfpalhano.
- CLI/doctor: remove dangling channel config, heartbeat targets, and channel model overrides when stale plugin repair removes a missing channel plugin, preventing Gateway boot loops after failed plugin reinstalls. Fixes #65293. Thanks @yidecode.
- Control UI/Gateway: cache, coalesce, stale-refresh, and invalidate effective tool inventory on channel registry changes while reusing the gateway-bound plugin registry and avoiding model/auth discovery, so chat runs no longer stall Control UI requests on repeated plugin/model setup. Fixes #72365; supersedes #72558. Thanks @Gabiii2398 and @1yihui.
- Channels/setup: treat bundled channel plugins as already bundled during `channels add` and onboarding, enabling them without writing redundant `plugins.load.paths` entries or path install records. Fixes #72740. Thanks @iCodePoet.
- WhatsApp: honor gateway `HTTPS_PROXY` / `HTTP_PROXY` env vars for QR-login WebSocket connections, while respecting `NO_PROXY`, so proxied networks no longer fall back to direct `mmg.whatsapp.net` connections that time out with 408. Fixes #72547; supersedes #72692. Thanks @mebusw and @SymbolStar.
- Bonjour: default mDNS advertisements to the system hostname when it is DNS-safe, avoiding `openclaw.local` probing conflicts and Gateway restart loops on hosts such as `Lobster` or `ubuntu`. Fixes #72355 and #72689; supersedes #72694. Thanks @mscheuerlein-bot, @gcusms, @moyuwuhen601, @pavan987, @zml-0912, @hhq365, and @SymbolStar.
- Agents/OpenAI-compatible: retry replay-safe empty `stop` turns once for `openai-completions` endpoints, so transient empty local backend responses no longer surface as “Agent couldn't generate a response” when a continuation succeeds, and restore `openclaw agent --model` for one-shot CLI runs. Fixes #72751. Thanks @moooV252.
- Git hooks: skip ignored staged paths when formatting and restaging pre-commit files, so merge commits no longer abort when `.gitignore` newly ignores staged merged content. Fixes #72744. Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Memory-core/dreaming: add a supported `dreaming.model` knob for Dream Diary narrative subagents, wired through phase config and the existing plugin subagent model-override trust gate. Refs #65963. Thanks @esqandil and @mjamiv.
- Agents/Anthropic: remove trailing assistant prefill payloads when extended thinking is enabled, so Opus 4.7/Sonnet 4.6 requests do not fail Anthropic's user-final-turn validation. Fixes #72739. Thanks @superandylin.
- Agents/vLLM/Qwen: add plugin-owned Qwen thinking controls for vLLM chat-template kwargs and DashScope-style top-level `enable_thinking` flags, including preserved thinking for agent loops. Fixes #72329. Thanks @stavrostzagadouris.
- Memory-core/dreaming: treat request-scoped narrative fallback as expected, skip session cleanup when no subagent run was created, and remove duplicate phase-level cleanup so fallback no longer emits warning noise. Fixes #67152. Thanks @jsompis.
- Agents/exec: apply configured `tools.exec.timeoutSec` to background, `yieldMs`, and node `system.run` commands when no per-call timeout is set, preventing auto-backgrounded and remote node commands from running indefinitely. Fixes #67600; supersedes #67603. Thanks @dlmpx and @kagura-agent.
- Config/doctor: stop masking unknown-key validation diagnostics such as `agents.defaults.llm`, and have `openclaw doctor --fix` remove the retired `agents.defaults.llm` timeout block. Thanks @aidiffuser.
- CLI/startup: keep the built pre-dispatch CLI graph free of package-level imports and extend packaged CLI smoke coverage to onboard and doctor help paths, preventing missing runtime dependencies such as tslog from killing onboarding before repair code can run. Fixes #63024. Thanks @hu19940121.
- CLI/plugins: preserve unversioned ClawHub install specs so `plugins update` can follow newer ClawHub releases instead of pinning to the initially resolved version. Fixes #63010; supersedes #58426. Thanks @kangsen1234 and @robinspt.
- Memory-core/subagents: tag plugin-created subagent sessions with their plugin owner so dreaming narrative cleanup can delete its own ephemeral sessions without granting broad admin session deletion. Fixes #72712. Thanks @BSG2000.
- Gateway/models: move local-provider pricing opt-outs, OpenRouter/LiteLLM aliases, and proxy passthrough pricing lookup into plugin manifest metadata so core no longer carries extension-specific pricing tables.
- CLI/update: honor `OPENCLAW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` as a gateway startup kill-switch for configured background package auto-updates, so operators can hold a deliberate downgrade during incident recovery without editing config first. Fixes #72715. Thanks @Xivi08.
- Agents/Claude CLI: force live-session launches to include `--output-format stream-json` whenever OpenClaw adds `--input-format stream-json`, so new Claude CLI sessions no longer fail immediately while reusable sessions keep working. Fixes #72206. Thanks @kwangwonkoh and @Xivi08.
- CLI/plugins: accept ClawHub plugin API wildcard ranges such as `*` without rejecting compatible plugin installs, while still requiring a valid runtime API version. Fixes #56446; supersedes #56466. Thanks @darconada and @claygeo.
- CLI/plugins: add an explicit `npm:<package>` install prefix that skips ClawHub lookup for known npm packages while keeping bare package specs ClawHub-first. Fixes #55805; supersedes #54377. Thanks @Zeoy2020 and @vagusX.
- CLI/plugins: let config-gated bundled plugins install without persisting invalid placeholder config entries, so install/uninstall sweeps can cover plugins such as memory-lancedb before the user configures credentials. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/plugins: reject malformed ClawHub plugin specs with trailing `@` before registry lookup, so empty-version typos report as invalid specs instead of package-not-found errors. Fixes #56579; supersedes #56582. Thanks @Kansodata.
- Agents/sessions: acquire the session write lock only after cold bootstrap, plugin, and tool setup so fallback runs are not blocked by stalled pre-model startup work.
- Browser/plugins: auto-start the bundled browser plugin when root `browser` config is present, including restrictive plugin allowlists, and ignore stale persisted plugin registries whose package paths no longer exist.
- Browser: circuit-break repeated managed Chrome launch failures per profile so browser requests stop spawning Chromium indefinitely when CDP cannot start. Fixes #64271. Thanks @TheophilusChinomona.
- Gateway/models: skip external OpenRouter and LiteLLM pricing refreshes for local/self-hosted model endpoints so startup does not wait on remote pricing catalogs for local-only Ollama, vLLM, and compatible providers.
- CLI/plugins: stop security-blocked plugin installs from retrying as hook packs, so normal plugin packages report the scanner failure without a misleading "not a valid hook pack" follow-up. Fixes #61175; supersedes #64102. Thanks @KonsultDigital and @ziyincody.
- Agents/Anthropic: strip stale trailing assistant prefill turns from outbound replay so context-engine short circuits cannot send unsupported assistant-prefill payloads to provider APIs. Fixes #72556. Thanks @Veda-openclaw.
- Agents/Google: strip stale trailing assistant/model prefill turns from Gemini outbound replay so Google Generative AI requests end with a user turn or function response. Follow-up to #72556. Thanks @Veda-openclaw.
- Control UI/Dreaming: require explicit confirmation before applying restart-impacting Dreaming mode changes, with restart warning copy and loading feedback. Fixes #63804. (#63807) Thanks @bbddbb1.
- CLI/agent: mark Gateway-to-embedded fallback runs with `meta.transport: "embedded"` and `meta.fallbackFrom: "gateway"` in JSON output, and make the terminal diagnostic explicit so scripts and operators can distinguish fallback runs from Gateway runs. Fixes #71416. Thanks @amknight.
- Agents/tools: normalize `null` or missing tool-call arguments to `{}` for parameterless object schemas before Pi validation, so empty-argument tools run instead of failing argument validation. Fixes #72587. Thanks @amknight.
- Agents/subagents: clear active embedded-run state before terminal lifecycle events so post-completion cleanup no longer treats finished child runs as still active and skips archive or announcement bookkeeping. (#70187) Thanks @amknight.
- CLI/update: keep the automatic post-update completion refresh on the core-command tree so it no longer stages bundled plugin runtime deps before the Gateway restart path, avoiding `.24` update hangs and 1006 disconnect cascades. Fixes #72665. Thanks @sakalaboator and @He-Pin.
- Control UI: make explicit Reload Config actions discard stale local config edits while passive refreshes and failed-save recovery keep pending drafts intact. Fixes #40352; carries forward #40443. Thanks @realmikechong-dotcom.
- Agents/Bedrock: stop heartbeat runs from persisting blank user transcript turns and repair existing blank user text messages before replay, preventing AWS Bedrock `ContentBlock` blank-text validation failures. Fixes #72640 and #72622. Thanks @goldzulu.
- Agents/LM Studio: promote standalone bracketed local-model tool requests into registered tool calls and hide unsupported bracket blocks from visible replies, so MemPalace MCP lookups do not print raw `[tool]` JSON scaffolding in chat. Fixes #66178. Thanks @detroit357.
- Local models: warn when an assistant reply looks like a tool call but the provider emitted plain text instead of a structured tool invocation, making fake/non-executed tool calls visible in logs. Fixes #51332. Thanks @emilclaw.
- Local models: accept persisted non-secret local auth markers for private-LAN custom OpenAI-compatible providers, so LAN Ollama configs no longer fail with missing auth when `ollama-local` is saved as the key. Fixes #49736. Thanks @charles-zh.
- TUI/local models: treat visible gateway client labels such as `openclaw-tui` as the current requester session for session-aware tools, so Ollama tool calls no longer fail by resolving the UI label as a session id. Fixes #66391. Thanks @kickingzebra.
- Local models: route self-hosted OpenAI-compatible model discovery through the guarded fetch path pinned to the configured host, covering vLLM and SGLang setup without reopening local/LAN SSRF probes. Supersedes #46359. Thanks @cdxiaodong.
- Local models: classify terminated, reset, closed, timeout, and aborted model-call failures and attach a process memory snapshot to the diagnostic event, making LM Studio/Ollama RAM-pressure failures easier to prove from stability bundles. Refs #65551. Thanks @BigWiLLi111.
- Local models: pass configured provider request timeouts through OpenAI SDK transports and the model idle watchdog so long-running local or custom OpenAI-compatible streams use one timeout knob instead of hitting the SDK's 10-minute default or the 120s idle default. Fixes #63663. Thanks @aidiffuser.
- LM Studio: trust configured LM Studio loopback, LAN, and tailnet endpoints for guarded model requests by default, preserving explicit private-network opt-outs. Refs #60994. Thanks @tnowakow.
- Docker/setup: route Docker onboarding defaults for host-side LM Studio and Ollama through `host.docker.internal` and add the Linux host-gateway mapping to the bundled Compose file, so containerized gateways can reach local providers without using container loopback. Fixes #68684; supersedes #68702. Thanks @safrano9999 and @skolez.
- Agents/LM Studio: strip prior-turn Gemma 4 reasoning from OpenAI-compatible replay while preserving active tool-call continuation reasoning. Fixes #68704. Thanks @chip-snomo and @Kailigithub.
- LM Studio: allow interactive onboarding to leave the API key blank for unauthenticated local servers, using local synthetic auth while clearing stale LM Studio auth profiles. Fixes #66937. Thanks @olamedia.
- Plugins/startup: use a `PluginLookUpTable` during Gateway startup so channel ownership, deferred channel loading, and startup plugin IDs reuse the same installed manifest registry instead of rebuilding manifest metadata on the boot path. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/startup: pass the Gateway `PluginLookUpTable` through plugin loading so auto-enable checks and startup-scope fallback reuse the same manifest registry instead of doing another manifest pass. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/startup: carry the Gateway `PluginLookUpTable` into deferred channel full-runtime reloads so post-listen startup does not rebuild manifest metadata after the provisional setup-runtime load. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/models: reuse Gateway plugin manifest metadata during the initial model-pricing refresh so pricing policies and configured plugin web-search models do not rebuild plugin lookups during startup. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/startup: extend `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_STARTUP_TRACE=1` with per-phase event-loop delay plus plugin lookup-table timing and count metrics for installed-index, manifest, startup-plan, and owner-map work, and include the new timing fields in startup benchmark summaries. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/channels: resolve read-only channel command defaults from one plugin index plus manifest pass instead of reloading plugin metadata while checking candidate plugin enablement. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/capabilities: cache manifest-derived capability provider plugin IDs per config snapshot so repeated TTS, media, realtime, memory, image, video, and music provider resolution avoids redundant manifest scans. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/contracts: resolve runtime manifest-contract plugin owners from one plugin index plus manifest pass instead of rebuilding manifest metadata separately for all owners and enabled owners. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/extractors: reuse one manifest registry pass while resolving bundled document and web-content extractor plugins instead of rereading manifests for compatibility and enablement filtering. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/providers: reuse one plugin registry snapshot and manifest registry while resolving provider discovery entries instead of rebuilding manifest metadata after provider owner discovery. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/registry: resolve lookup-table owner maps for providers, CLI backends, setup providers, command aliases, model catalogs, channel configs, and manifest contracts while preserving setup-only CLI backend ownership. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/registry: cache repeated installed-index manifest registry fallback rebuilds behind a bounded invalidating cache so cold provider-discovery paths avoid rereading unchanged manifests. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Plugins/web: reuse manifest records already loaded for bundled web provider candidate discovery when falling back to public artifact provider loading. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Mattermost: keep direct-message replies top-level by suppressing reply roots for DM delivery while preserving channel and group thread roots, and derive inbound chat kind from the trusted channel lookup instead of the websocket event channel type. Carries forward #60115, #55186, #72305, and #72659; refs #59758, #59981, #59791, and #57565. Thanks @vincentkoc, @jwchmodx, and @hnykda.
- Docker: pre-create `/home/node/.openclaw` with node ownership and private permissions so first-run Docker Compose named volumes no longer fail startup with EACCES. (#48072, #63959; fixes #61279) Thanks @timoxue and @jeanibarz.
- CLI/Gateway: treat local restart probe policy closes for connect, exact `device required`, pairing, and auth failures as Gateway reachability proof without accepting empty, broad standalone token/password/scope/role, or pair-substring 1008 close reasons. Fixes #48771; carries forward #48801; related #63491. Thanks @MarsDoge and @genoooool.
- Feishu: send outgoing interactive reply payloads as native cards with clickable buttons while preserving text, media, and document-comment fallbacks. Fixes #13175 and #58298; carries forward #47891. Thanks @Horacehxw.
- Control UI/WebChat: skip redundant final-event history reloads when the assistant payload already rendered, and keep deferred `session.message` reloads attached to the active run so final reconciliation no longer splits, duplicates, or drops assistant bubbles. Fixes #66875 and #66274; follows #66997 and #67037. Thanks @BiznessFish, @scotthuang, and @hansolo949.
- CLI/Agents: route new `openclaw agent --to` sessions through the configured default agent while migrating legacy `agent:main:<mainKey>` rows into the default-agent store, preserving the default-agent fix from #64108. Fixes #63992; related #56370, #56453, and #42009. Thanks @mushuiyu886 and @voocel.
- Process/Windows: decode command stdout and stderr from raw bytes with console-codepage awareness, while preserving valid UTF-8 output and multibyte characters split across chunks. Fixes #50519. Thanks @iready, @kevinten10, @zhangyongjie1997, @knightplat-blip, @heiqishi666, and @slepybear.
- Bonjour/Windows: hide the bundled mDNS advertiser's Windows ARP shell probe so Gateway startup no longer flashes command-prompt windows. Fixes #70238. Thanks @alexandre-leng, @PratikRai0101, @infinitypacific, and @tomerpeled.
- Agents/bootstrap: dedupe hook-injected bootstrap context files by workspace-relative path and store normalized resolved paths so duplicate relative and absolute hook paths no longer depend on the process cwd. (#59344; fixes #59319; related #56721, #56725, and #57587) Thanks @koen666.
- Agents/bootstrap: refresh cached workspace bootstrap snapshots on long-lived main-session turns when `AGENTS.md`, `SOUL.md`, `MEMORY.md`, or `TOOLS.md` change on disk, while preserving unchanged snapshot identity through the workspace file cache. (#64871; related #43901, #26497, #28594, #30896) Thanks @aimqwest and @mikejuyoon.
- macOS Gateway: detect installed-but-unloaded LaunchAgent split-brain states during status, doctor, and restart, and re-bootstrap launchd supervision before falling back to unmanaged listener restarts. Fixes #67335, #53475, and #71060; refs #58890, #60885, and #70801. Thanks @ze1tgeist88, @dafacto, and @vishutdhar.
- WhatsApp: clear cached Web auth and active listener state after terminal 440/401 conflict/logout closes so linked/OK status no longer masks a dead inbound listener after relink or restart. Fixes #45474; refs #49305, #63855, #66920, and #70856. Thanks @juvenalmakoszay and @dsantoreis.
- Gateway/restart: keep local restart-health probes on configured local daemon auth without falling back to remote gateway credentials. (#57374, #59439) Thanks @zssggle-rgb and @roytong9.
- Plugins/install: treat mirrored core logger dependencies as staged bundled runtime deps so packaged Gateway starts do not crash when the external plugin-runtime-deps root is missing `tslog`. Fixes #72228; supersedes #72493. Thanks @deepujain.
- Build/plugins: preserve active bundled runtime-dependency staging temp directories owned by live build processes so overlapping postbuild runs no longer delete each other's staged deps mid-prune. Supersedes #72220. Thanks @VACInc.
- Plugins/install: hide bundled runtime-dependency npm child windows on Windows across Gateway startup, postinstall, and packaged staging paths so Telegram/Anthropic dependency repair no longer flashes shell windows. Fixes #72315. Thanks @athuljayaram and @joshfeng.
- Agents/Windows: normalize lazy agent runtime imports before Node ESM loading so Windows drive-letter `subagent-registry` runtime paths no longer fail every agent task with `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME`. Fixes #72636; carries forward #72716. Thanks @Andyz-CData and @xialonglee.
- Plugins/Windows: normalize lazy plugin service override imports before Node ESM loading so drive-letter browser-control module paths no longer fail with `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME`. Fixes #72573; supersedes #72599 and #72582. Thanks @llzzww316, @feineryonah-byte, and @WuKongAI-CMU.
- Browser/plugins: load `playwright-core` through the browser runtime shim so packaged installs can run Playwright actions from staged plugin runtime deps after doctor/startup repair. Fixes #72168; supersedes #72238. Thanks @zdg1110 and @yetval.
- Plugins/install: stage bundled plugin runtime dependencies before Gateway startup, drain update restarts, and materialize plugin-owned root chunks in external mirrors so staged deps resolve under native ESM. Fixes #72058; supersedes #72084. Thanks @amnesia106 and @drvoss.
- TTS/SecretRef: resolve `messages.tts.providers.*.apiKey` from the active runtime snapshot so SecretRef-backed MiniMax and other TTS provider keys work in runtime reply/audio paths. Fixes #68690. Thanks @joshavant.
- Gateway/install: surface systemd user-bus recovery hints during Linux service activation and retry via the target user scope when `systemctl --user` reports no-medium bus failures, without letting stale `SUDO_USER` override `sudo -u` installs. Fixes #39673; refs #44417 and #63561. Thanks @Arbor4, @myrsu, @mssteuer, and @boyuaner.
- CLI/nodes: make unfiltered `openclaw nodes list` prefer the effective paired-node view used by `nodes status` while preserving pending rows, pairing-scope fallback, terminal-safe table rendering, and paired JSON metadata. Fixes #46871; carries forward #65772 through the ProjectClownfish #72619 repair. Thanks @skainguyen1412.
- Memory Wiki/CLI: route active bridge-mode status, doctor, and bridge imports through Gateway RPC so CLI checks use the runtime memory plugin context while disabled bridge imports stay local/offline. Carries forward #67208 and #71479; related #70185. Thanks @moorsecopers99, @vincentkoc, and @prasad-yashdeep.
- CLI/startup: read generated startup metadata from the bundled `dist` layout before falling back to live help rendering, so root/browser help and channel-option bootstrap stay on the fast path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Feishu/Lark: stop treating broadcast-only `@all`/`@_all` messages as bot mentions while preserving direct bot mentions, including messages that also include `@all`. Fixes #37706. Thanks @JosepLee.
- CLI/help: treat positional `help` invocations like `openclaw channels help` as help paths for startup gating, avoiding model/auth warmup while preserving positional arguments such as `openclaw docs help`. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Web search: route plugin-scoped web_search SecretRefs through the active runtime config snapshot so provider execution receives resolved credentials across app/runtime paths, including `plugins.entries.brave.config.webSearch.apiKey`. Fixes #68690. Thanks @VACInc.
- Voice Call: allow SecretRef-backed Twilio auth tokens and call-specific OpenAI/ElevenLabs TTS API keys through the plugin config surface. Fixes #68690. Thanks @joshavant.
- Google Meet: clean stale chrome-node realtime audio bridges by URL before rejoining, expose active node bridge inspection, and tolerate transient node input pull failures instead of dropping the Meet session. Fixes #72371. (#72372) Thanks @BsnizND.
- Google Meet: use 24 kHz PCM16 for Chrome command-pair realtime audio by default, preserve legacy 8 kHz G.711 mu-law custom command pairs, and let realtime providers negotiate the selected bridge audio format. Fixes #72525. Thanks @BsnizND.
- Google Meet: clear queued Gemini Live playback when realtime interruptions arrive, restart Chrome command-pair audio output after clears, and expose Google Live interruption/VAD config knobs for Meet and Voice Call realtime bridges. Fixes #72523. (#72524) Thanks @BsnizND.
- Google Meet: add `realtime.agentId` so live meeting consults can target a named OpenClaw agent instead of always using `main`. (#72381) Thanks @BsnizND.
- Google Meet: route stateful `google_meet` tool actions through the gateway-owned runtime so created or joined realtime sessions remain visible to status, speak, and leave after the agent turn ends. Fixes #72440. (#72441) Thanks @BsnizND.
- Google Meet/Voice Call: send Gemini Live a non-blocking consult continuation before long OpenClaw agent consults finish, then deliver the final result when idle so calls and meetings do not sit silent during tool-backed answers. (#72189) Thanks @VACInc.
- Google Meet: preserve Gemini Live function names when replying to realtime tool calls so Google SDK validation accepts the `FunctionResponse` payload. Fixes #72425. (#72426) Thanks @BsnizND.
- Discord/media: keep incidental Markdown image badges in final replies as text unless a channel opts into Markdown-image media extraction, while preserving Telegram Markdown-image media replies and explicit `MEDIA:` attachments. Fixes #72642. Thanks @solavrc and @Bartok9.
- Matrix/E2EE: stabilize recovery and broken-device QA flows while avoiding Matrix device-cleanup sync races that could leave shutdown-time crypto work running. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Cron: apply `cron.maxConcurrentRuns` to a dedicated `cron-nested` isolated agent-turn lane as well as cron dispatch, so parallel cron jobs no longer serialize on inner LLM execution while non-cron nested flows keep their existing lane behavior. Fixes #72707. Thanks @kagura-agent.
- Cron: report isolated runs as successful when verified cron delivery already delivered the reply, while keeping unresolved Message/Canvas tool failures fatal. Fixes #72732 and #50170; follow-up to #54188. Thanks @zNatix, @pixeldyn, and @ChickenEggRoll.
- Cron: treat isolated run-level agent failures as job errors even when no reply payload is produced, synthesizing a safe error payload so model/provider failures increment error counters and trigger failure notifications instead of clearing as successful. Fixes #43604; carries forward #43631. Thanks @SPFAdvisors.
- Cron: preserve exact `NO_REPLY` tool results from isolated jobs with empty final assistant turns as quiet successes instead of surfacing incomplete-turn errors. Fixes #68452; carries forward #68453. Thanks @anyech.
- Cron: resolve failure alerts and failure-destination announcements against `session:<id>` targets before falling back to the creator session, so jobs created from group chats can notify the targeted direct session without cross-account routing errors. Refs #62777; carries forward #68535. Thanks @slideshow-dingo and @likewen-tech.
- Discord: preserve explicit `user:` and `channel:` delivery targets through plugin routing so cron announcements and failure alerts keep their intended recipient kind. Refs #62777; carries forward #62798. Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Cron: add `failureAlert.includeSkipped` and `openclaw cron edit --failure-alert-include-skipped` so persistently skipped jobs can alert without counting skips as execution errors or affecting retry backoff. Fixes #60846. Thanks @slideshow-dingo.
- Cron: invalidate stale pending runtime slots after live or offline `jobs.json` schedule edits, while preserving due slots for formatting-only rewrites. Fixes #27996 and #71607; carries forward #71651. Thanks @xialonglee and @fagnersouza666.
- Cron: keep legacy flat `jobs.json` rows loadable while comparing split-state schedule identities, so old cron stores do not crash before in-memory hydration can normalize them.
- Cron: start isolated agent-turn execution timeouts after the runner enters its effective execution lane, so queued cron/manual runs no longer spend their whole timeout budget before useful work begins. Fixes #41783. Thanks @ayanesakura and @Hurray0.
- Cron/Telegram: preserve direct-chat thread IDs and optional account IDs when inferring reminder delivery from Telegram direct-thread session keys. Fixes #44270; carries forward #44325, #44351, #44412, and #72657. Thanks @RunMintOn, @arkyu2077, @0xsline, and @vincentkoc.
- Cron: omit synthetic `delivery.resolved` errors from `--no-deliver` run records while preserving explicit no-deliver target traces for agent-initiated messages. Fixes #72210; carries forward #72219. Thanks @hatemclawbot-collab and @xydigit-sj.
- Cron: classify isolated runs as errors from structured embedded-run execution-denial metadata, with final-output marker fallback for `SYSTEM_RUN_DENIED`, `INVALID_REQUEST`, and approval-binding refusals, so blocked commands no longer appear green in cron history. Fixes #67172; carries forward #67186. Thanks @oc-gh-dr, @hclsys, and @1yihui.
- Subagents: keep the delegated task only in the subagent system prompt and send a short initial kickoff message, avoiding duplicate task tokens while preserving multiline task formatting. Fixes #72019; carries forward #72053. Thanks @Wizongod and @ly85206559.
- Onboarding/GitHub Copilot: add manifest-owned `--github-copilot-token` support for non-interactive setup, including env fallback, tokenRef storage in ref mode, saved-profile reuse, and current Copilot default-model wiring. Refs #50002 and supersedes #50003. Thanks @scottgl9.
- Gateway/install: add a validated `--wrapper`/`OPENCLAW_WRAPPER` service install path that persists executable LaunchAgent/systemd wrappers across forced reinstalls, updates, and doctor repairs instead of falling back to raw node/bun `ProgramArguments`. Fixes #69400. (#72445) Thanks @willtmc.
- Plugins: fail plugin registration when loader-owned acceptance gates reject missing hook names or memory-only capability registration from non-memory plugins, surfacing the issue through plugin status and doctor instead of silently dropping the registration. Fixes #72459. Thanks @amknight.
- macOS Gateway: write launchd services with a state-dir `WorkingDirectory`, use a durable state-dir temp path instead of freezing macOS session `TMPDIR`, create that temp directory before bootstrap, and label abort-shaped launchd exits as `SIGABRT/abort` in status output. Fixes #53679 and #70223; refs #71848. Thanks @dlturock, @stammi922, and @palladius.
- Control UI/update: make `Update now` require a real gateway process replacement, report skipped/error update outcomes with stable reasons, and verify the running gateway version after restart so global installs cannot silently keep old code in memory. Fixes #62492; addresses #64892 and #63562. Thanks @IAMSamuelRodda.
- Exec approvals: accept runtime-owned `source: "allow-always"` and `commandText` allowlist metadata in gateway and node approval-set payloads so Control UI round-trips no longer fail with `unexpected property 'source'`. Fixes #60000; carries forward #60064. Thanks @sd1471123, @sharkqwy, and @luoyanglang.
- Exec/node: skip approval-plan preparation for full-trust `host=node` runs so interpreter and script commands no longer fail with `SYSTEM_RUN_DENIED: approval cannot safely bind` when effective policy is `security=full` and `ask=off`. Fixes #48457 and duplicate #69251. Thanks @ajtran303, @jaserNo1, @Blakeshannon, @lesliefag, and @AvIsBeastMC.
- Exec/node: synthesize a local approval plan when a paired node advertises `system.run` without `system.run.prepare`, unblocking approval-required `host=node` exec on current macOS companion nodes while preserving remote prepare for node hosts that support it. Fixes #37591 and duplicate #66839; carries forward #69725. Thanks @soloclz.
- Memory/QMD: prefer QMD's `--mask` collection pattern flag so root memory indexing stays scoped to `MEMORY.md` instead of widening to every markdown file in the workspace. Fixes #65480; supersedes #65481 and #66259. Thanks @ccage-simp, @Bortlesboat, @seank-com, and @crazyscience.
- Memory/doctor: treat the specific `gateway timeout after ...` gateway memory probe result as inconclusive instead of reporting embeddings not ready, while preserving warnings for explicit failures. Fixes #44426; carries forward #46576 with the Greptile review feedback applied. Thanks Cengiz (@ghost).
- Gateway/memory: defer QMD startup for implicit non-default agents and scope memory runtime loading to the selected memory slot so Gateway boot and first memory recall avoid broad plugin runtime fanout. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: keep core request handlers, setup wizard, and channel runtime helpers off the boot path until the first matching request, wizard run, or channel start, reducing no-plugin Gateway ready RSS and avoidable startup imports. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: keep CLI outbound channel send dependencies as lazy request-time senders so Gateway boot no longer imports channel plugin registration just to construct default deps. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: split lightweight HTTP auth helpers away from model-override helpers so Gateway bind no longer imports model catalog selection while wiring base HTTP routes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: lazy-load plugin HTTP route dispatch when active plugin routes exist so no-plugin Gateway boot skips plugin route runtime scope setup. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: move chat run/subscriber registries onto a lightweight state module and defer chat/session event projection until the first event so Gateway boot skips session IO imports. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: keep node session runtime on a lightweight JSON parser instead of importing gateway method validation helpers during boot. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: read embedded-run activity from a lightweight shared state module so restart deferral no longer imports the embedded runner during Gateway boot. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: defer MCP loopback server imports until Gateway shutdown so normal boot no longer loads the loopback HTTP/tool schema stack just to register close handlers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: resolve channel runtime helpers asynchronously only when an enabled/configured channel starts, so no-channel Gateway boot skips auto-reply, media, pairing, and outbound channel helper imports. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: lazy-load HTTP auth, canvas auth, and plugin route scope helpers from their request paths so Gateway bind no longer pays those utility graphs during boot. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: defer isolated cron runner imports until `/hooks/agent` dispatch so Gateway boot skips the agent-turn runtime on installs that only need normal HTTP bind. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/startup: split hook request parsing into a request-path module and load the Gateway hook dispatcher only when a request matches the hooks base path, keeping hook mapping and throttle helpers off plain HTTP bind. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/Gateway: use a parse-only config snapshot for plain `gateway status` reads and reuse same-path service config context so status no longer spends tens of seconds in full config validation before printing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Lobster/Gateway: memoize repeated Ajv schema compilation before loading the embedded Lobster runtime so scheduled workflows and `llm.invoke` loops stop growing gateway heap on content-identical schemas. Fixes #71148. Thanks @cmi525, @vsolaz, and @vincentkoc.
- Codex harness: normalize cached input tokens before session/context accounting so prompt cache reads are not double-counted in `/status`, `session_status`, or persisted `sessionEntry.totalTokens`. Fixes #69298. Thanks @richardmqq.
- Hooks/session-memory: use the host local timezone for memory filenames, fallback timestamp slugs, and markdown headers instead of UTC dates. Fixes #46703. (#46721) Thanks @Astro-Han.
- Gateway health: preserve live runtime-backed channel/account state in `gateway.health` snapshots and cached refreshes while keeping raw probe payloads on sensitive/admin paths only. (#39921, #42586, #46527, #52770, #42543) Thanks @FAL1989, @rstar327, @0xble, and @ajayr.
- Feishu: extract quoted/replied interactive-card text across schema 1.0, schema 2.0, i18n, template-variable, and post-format fallback shapes without carrying broad generated/config churn from related parser experiments. (#38776, #60383, #42218, #45936) Thanks @lishuaigit, @lskun, @just2gooo, and @Br1an67.
- Telegram/agents: hide raw failed write/edit warning messages in Telegram when the assistant already explicitly acknowledges the failed action, while keeping warnings when the reply claims success or omits the failure; #39406 remains the broader configurable delivery-policy follow-up. Fixes #51065; covers #39631. Thanks @Bartok9 and @Bortlesboat.
- TUI: clear stale streaming status when an orphaned final event or watchdog reset leaves no tracked active run, flushing deferred local history refreshes without surfacing inactive-run failures. Fixes #64825; carries forward #52745. Thanks @lyksdu.
- Exec approvals: accept a symlinked `OPENCLAW_HOME` as the trusted approvals root while still rejecting symlinked `.openclaw` path components below it. (#64663) Thanks @FunJim.
- Logging: add top-level `hostname`, flattened `message`, and available `agent_id`, `session_id`, and `channel` fields to file-log JSONL records for multi-agent filtering without removing existing structured log arguments. Fixes #51075. Thanks @stevengonsalvez.
- ACP: route server logs to stderr before Gateway config/bootstrap work so ACP stdout remains JSON-RPC only for IDE integrations. Fixes #49060. Thanks @Hollychou924.
- Logging: propagate internal request trace scopes through Gateway HTTP requests and WebSocket frames so file logs, diagnostic events, agent run traces, model-call traces, OTEL spans, and trusted provider `traceparent` headers share a correlatable `traceId` without logging raw request or model content. Fixes #40353. Thanks @liangruochong44-ui.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: capture privacy-safe model-call request payload bytes, streamed response bytes, first-response latency, and total duration in diagnostic events, plugin hooks, stability snapshots, and OTEL model-call spans/metrics without logging raw model content. Fixes #33832. Thanks @wwh830.
- Logging: write validated diagnostic trace context as top-level `traceId`, `spanId`, `parentSpanId`, and `traceFlags` fields in file-log JSONL records so traced requests and model calls are easier to correlate in log processors. Refs #40353. Thanks @liangruochong44-ui.
- Logging/sessions: apply configured redaction patterns to persisted session transcript text and accept escaped character classes in safe custom redaction regexes, so transcript JSONL no longer keeps matching sensitive text in the clear. Fixes #42982. Thanks @panpan0000.
- Agents/sessions: let `sessions_spawn runtime="subagent"` ignore ACP-only `streamTo` and `resumeSessionId` fields while keeping ACP passthrough and documenting `streamTo` as ACP-only. Fixes #43556 and #63120; covers #56326, #61724, #64714, and #67248; carries forward #68397, #65282, #58686, #56342, and #40102. Thanks @skernelx, @damselem, @Br1an67, @Mintalix, @IsaacAPerez, @vvitovec, @Sanjays2402, @shenkq97, and @1034378361.
- Providers/Ollama: honor `/api/show` capabilities when registering local models so non-tool Ollama models no longer receive the agent tool surface, and keep native Ollama thinking opt-in instead of enabling it by default. Fixes #64710 and duplicate #65343. Thanks @yuan-b, @netherby, @xilopaint, and @Diyforfun2026.
- Image tool/media: honor `tools.media.image.timeoutSeconds` and matching per-model image timeouts in explicit image analysis, including the MiniMax VLM fallback path, so slow local vision models are not capped by hardcoded 30s/60s aborts. Fixes #67889; supersedes #67929. Thanks @AllenT22 and @alchip.
- Providers/Ollama: read larger custom Modelfile `PARAMETER num_ctx` values from `/api/show` so auto-discovered Ollama models with expanded context no longer stay pinned to the base model context. Fixes #68344. Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Providers/Ollama: honor configured model `params.num_ctx` in native and OpenAI-compatible Ollama requests so local models can cap runtime context without rebuilding Modelfiles. Fixes #44550 and #52206; supersedes #69464. Thanks @taitruong, @armi0024, and @LokiCode404.
- Providers/Ollama: stop forcing native Ollama requests to use the full configured `contextWindow` as `options.num_ctx` unless `params.num_ctx` is explicit, so local models can keep Ollama's VRAM/env default instead of looking hung on first turns. Fixes #49684 and #68662. Thanks @zhouZcong and @dshenster-byte.
- Providers/Ollama: forward whitelisted native Ollama model params such as `temperature`, `top_p`, and top-level `think` so users can disable API-level thinking or tune local models from config without proxy shims. Fixes #48010. Thanks @tangzhi, @pandego, @maweibin, @Adam-Researchh, and @EmpireCreator.
- Providers/Ollama: expose native Ollama thinking effort levels so `/think max` is accepted for reasoning-capable Ollama models and maps to Ollama's highest supported `think` effort. Fixes #71584. Thanks @g0st1n.
- Providers/Ollama: strip the active custom Ollama provider prefix before native chat and embedding requests, so custom provider ids like `ollama-spark/qwen3:32b` reach Ollama as the real model name. Fixes #72353. Thanks @maximus-dss and @hclsys.
- Providers/Ollama: parse stringified native tool-call arguments before dispatch, preserving unsafe integer values so Ollama tool use receives structured parameters. Fixes #69735; supersedes #69910. Thanks @rongshuzhao and @yfge.
- Providers/Ollama: skip ambient localhost discovery unless Ollama auth or meaningful config opts in, preventing unexpected probes to `127.0.0.1:11434` for users who are not using Ollama. Fixes #56939; supersedes #57116. Thanks @IanxDev and @tsukhani.
- Providers/Ollama: skip implicit localhost discovery when a custom remote `api: "ollama"` provider is configured, while still treating `127/8` loopback hosts as local. Carries forward #43224. Thanks @issacthekaylon.
- Providers/models: honor provider-level `contextWindow`, `contextTokens`, and `maxTokens` as defaults when resolving discovered models, so local Ollama and other self-hosted providers can cap all models without repeating per-model entries. Fixes #44786; carries forward #44955. Thanks @voltwake and @maweibin.
- Providers/Ollama: move memory embeddings to Ollama's current `/api/embed` endpoint with batched `input` requests while preserving vector normalization and custom provider auth/header overrides. Fixes #39983. Thanks @sskkcc and @LiudengZhang.
- Providers/Ollama: route local web search through Ollama's signed `/api/experimental/web_search` daemon proxy, use hosted `/api/web_search` directly for `ollama.com`, and keep `OLLAMA_API_KEY` scoped to cloud fallback auth. Fixes #69132. Thanks @yoon1012 and @hyspacex.
- Providers/Ollama: accept OpenAI SDK-style `baseURL` as an alias for `baseUrl` across discovery, streaming, setup pulls, embeddings, and web search so remote Ollama hosts are not silently ignored. Fixes #62533; supersedes #62549. Thanks @Julien-BKK and @Linux2010.
- Providers/Ollama: scope synthetic local auth and embedding bearer headers to declared Ollama host boundaries so cloud keys are not sent to local/self-hosted embedding endpoints and remote/cloud Ollama endpoints no longer receive the `ollama-local` marker as if it were a real token. Supersedes #69261 and #69857; refs #43945. Thanks @hyspacex, @maxramsay, and @Meli73.
- Providers/Ollama: resolve custom-named local Ollama providers such as `ollama-remote` through the Ollama synthetic-auth hook so subagents no longer miss `ollama-local` auth and silently fall back to cloud models. Fixes #43945. Thanks @Meli73 and @maxramsay.
- Providers/Ollama: add provider-scoped model request timeouts, thread them through guarded fetch connect/header/body/abort handling, and document `params.keep_alive` for cold local models so first-turn Ollama loads no longer require global agent timeout changes. Fixes #64541 and #68796; supersedes #65143 and #66511. Thanks @LittleJakub, @Juankcba, @uninhibite-scholar, and @yfge.
- Providers/Ollama: preserve explicit configured model input modalities when merging discovered provider metadata so custom vision models keep image support instead of silently dropping attachments. Fixes #39690; carries forward #39785. Thanks @Skrblik and @Mriris.
- Providers/Ollama: estimate native Ollama transcript usage when `/api/chat` omits prompt/eval counters while preserving exact zero counters, keeping local model runs visible in usage surfaces. Carries forward #39112. Thanks @TylonHH.
- Agents/Ollama: retry native Ollama turns that finish without user-visible text, including unsigned thinking-only responses, so constrained reasoning turns can continue instead of surfacing an empty reply. Carries forward #66552 and #61223. Thanks @yfge and @L3G.
- Docs/Ollama: expand setup recipes for local, LAN, cloud, multi-host, web search, embeddings, thinking control, and large-context troubleshooting.
- Providers/PDF/Ollama: add bounded network timeouts for Ollama model pulls and native Anthropic/Gemini PDF analysis requests so unresponsive provider endpoints no longer hang sessions indefinitely. Fixes #54142; supersedes #54144 and #54145. Thanks @jinduwang1001-max and @arkyu2077.
- LLM Task/Ollama: accept model overrides that already include the selected provider prefix, avoiding doubled ids such as `ollama/ollama/llama3.2:latest`, and live-verify local Ollama JSON tasks return parsed output. Fixes #50052. Thanks @ralphy-maplebots and @Hollychou924.
- Memory/doctor: treat Ollama memory embeddings as key-optional so `openclaw doctor` no longer warns about a missing API key when the gateway reports embeddings are ready. Fixes #46584. Thanks @fengly78.
- Agents/Ollama: apply provider-owned replay turn normalization to native Ollama chat so Cloud models no longer reject non-alternating replay history in agent/Gateway runs. Fixes #71697. Thanks @ismael-81.
- Control UI/Ollama: show the resolved configured thinking default in chat and session thinking dropdowns so inherited `adaptive`/per-model thinking config no longer appears as `Default (off)` or a generic inherit value. Fixes #72407. Thanks @NotecAG.
- Agents/Ollama: validate explicit `--thinking max` against catalog-discovered Ollama reasoning metadata so local agent runs accept the same native thinking levels shown in the model catalog. Fixes #71584. Thanks @g0st1n.
- CLI/models: include explicitly configured provider models in `openclaw models list --provider <id>` without requiring the full catalog path, so configured Ollama models are visible. Fixes #65207. Thanks @drzeast-png.
- Docker/QA: add observability coverage to the normal Docker aggregate so QA-lab OTEL and Prometheus diagnostics run inside Docker. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply: poison inbound message dedupe after replay-unsafe provider/runtime failures so retries stay safe before visible progress but cannot duplicate messages after block output, tool side effects, or session progress. Fixes #69303; keeps #58549 and #64606 as duplicate validation. Thanks @martingarramon, @NikolaFC, and @zeroth-blip.
- Agents/model fallback: keep auto-persisted fallback model overrides selected across turns until `/new` or reset clears them, avoiding repeated probes of a known-bad primary while `/status` shows the selected and active models. Thanks @kibedu.
- Agents/model fallback: jump directly to a known later live-session model redirect instead of walking unrelated fallback candidates, while preserving the already-landed live-session/fallback loop guard. Fixes #57471; related loop family already closed via #58496. Thanks @yuxiaoyang2007-prog.
- Gateway/Bonjour: keep @homebridge/ciao cancellation handlers registered across advertiser restarts so late probing cancellations cannot crash Linux and other mDNS-churned gateways.
- Plugins/startup: load the default `memory-core` slot during Gateway startup when permitted so active-memory recall can call `memory_search` and `memory_get` without requiring an explicit `plugins.slots.memory` entry, while preserving `plugins.slots.memory: "none"`.
- Plugins/CLI: prefer native require for compiled bundled plugin JavaScript before jiti so read-only config, status, device, and node commands avoid unnecessary transform overhead on slow hosts. Fixes #62842. Thanks @Effet.
- Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs while enforcing dated removal windows. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/compat: add missing dated compatibility records for legacy extension-api, memory registration, provider hook/type aliases, runtime aliases, channel SDK helpers, and approval/test utility shims. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale `plugins list` entries.
- Plugins/CLI: make plugin install and uninstall config writes conflict-aware, clear stale denylist entries on explicit reinstall/removal, and delete managed plugin files only after config/index commit succeeds.
- Plugins: fail `plugins update` when tracked plugin or hook updates error, keep bundled runtime-dependency repair behind restrictive allowlists, and reject package installs with unloadable extension entries.
- WebChat/Control UI: support non-video file attachments in chat uploads while preserving the existing image attachment path and MIME-sniff fallback for generic image uploads. (#70947) Thanks @IAMSamuelRodda.
- Skills/memory: restore Chokidar v5 hot reloads by watching concrete skill and memory roots with filters, including SKILL.md removals and deleted skill folders without broad workspace recursion. Fixes #27404, #33585, and #41606. Thanks @shelvenzhou, @08820048, and @rocke2020.
- Gateway/chat: keep duplicate attachment-backed `chat.send` retries with the same idempotency key on the documented in-flight path so aborts still target the real active run. Fixes #70139. Thanks @Feelw00.
- Gateway/session rows: report the same config-resolved thinking default that runtime sessions use, including global and per-agent defaults, so Control UI and TUI default labels stay aligned. (#71779, #70981, #71033, #70302) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code, @SymbolStar, and @cholaolu-boop.
- Plugins: share package entrypoint resolution between install and discovery, reject mismatched `runtimeExtensions`, and cache bundled runtime-dependency manifest reads during scans.
- WhatsApp/Web: keep quiet but healthy linked-device sessions connected by basing the watchdog on WhatsApp Web transport activity, while retaining a longer app-silence cap so frame activity cannot mask a stuck session forever. Fixes #70678; carries forward the focused #71466 approach and keeps #63939 as related configurable-timeout follow-up. Thanks @vincentkoc and @oromeis.
- Discord/gateway: count failed health-monitor restart attempts toward cooldown and hourly caps, and evict stale account lifecycle state during channel reloads so repeated Discord gateway recovery cannot loop on old status. Fixes #38596. (#40413) Thanks @jellyAI-dev and @vashquez.
- Cron/context engine: run isolated cron jobs under run-scoped context-engine session keys so prior runs of the same job are not inherited unless the job is explicitly session-bound. (#72292) Thanks @jalehman.
- Control UI: localize command palette labels, categories, skill shortcuts, footer hints, and connect-command copy labels while preserving localized command palette search matching. (#61130, #61119) Thanks @rubensfox20.
- Plugins/memory-lancedb: request float embedding responses from OpenAI-compatible servers so local providers that default SDK requests to base64 no longer return dimension-mismatched LanceDB vectors while preserving configured dimensions. Fixes #45982. (#59048, #46069, #45986) Thanks @deep-introspection, @xiaokhkh, @caicongyang, and @thiswind.
- Plugins/memory-lancedb: advance auto-capture cursors per session only after messages are processed or intentionally skipped, retry failed messages, survive compacted histories, and clear cursor state on session end. Fixes #71349; carries forward #42083. Thanks @as775116191.
- Plugins/memory-core: respect configured memory-search embedding concurrency during non-batch indexing so local Ollama embedding backends can serialize indexing instead of flooding the server. Fixes #66822. (#66931) Thanks @oliviareid-svg and @LyraInTheFlesh.
- Docker/update smoke: keep the package-derived update-channel fixture on package-shipped files and make its UI build stub create the asset the updater verifies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/models: repair legacy `models.providers.*.api = "openai"` config values to `openai-completions`, and skip providers with future stale API enum values during startup instead of bricking the gateway. Fixes #72477. (#72542) Thanks @JooyoungChoi14 and @obviyus.
- Gateway/skills: redact `apiKey` and secret-named `env` values from the `skills.update` RPC response to prevent leaking credentials into WebSocket traffic, client logs, or session transcripts. Config is still written to disk in full; only the response payload is redacted. (#69998) Thanks @Ziy1-Tan.

- Plugins/CLI: let flag-driven `openclaw channels add` install the selected channel plugin from its default source without opening an interactive prompt, fixing published npm Telegram setup in stdin-closed automation.
- Onboarding/setup: keep first-run config reads, plugin compatibility notices, and post-model sanity checks on cold metadata paths unless the user chooses to browse all models, avoiding full plugin/runtime catalog work between prompts. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Onboarding/auth: run manifest-owned provider auth choices through scoped setup providers so selecting OpenAI Codex browser/device auth no longer loads every provider runtime before OAuth starts. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Onboarding/auth: keep the post-auth default-model policy lookup on manifest/setup metadata so the next prompt appears without loading broad provider runtime. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Onboarding/models: keep skip-auth and provider-scoped model picker prompts off the full global model catalog path, and cache provider catalog hook resolution so setup no longer stalls after auth on large plugin registries. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Gateway/Bonjour: suppress known @homebridge/ciao cancellation and network assertion failures through scoped process handlers so malformed mDNS packets or restricted VPS networking disable/restart Bonjour instead of crashing the gateway. Fixes #67578. Thanks @zenassist26-create.
- Discord: keep late clicks on already-resolved exec approval buttons quiet when elevated mode auto-resolved the request, while still surfacing real approval submission failures. Fixes #66906. Thanks @rlerikse.
- Telegram: send a fresh final message for long-lived preview-streamed replies so the visible Telegram timestamp reflects completion time instead of the preview creation time. Thanks @rubencu.

## 2026.4.25

### Highlights

- Voice replies get a full TTS upgrade: `/tts latest`, chat-scoped auto-TTS controls, personas, per-agent/per-account overrides, and new Azure Speech, Xiaomi, Local CLI, Inworld, Volcengine, and ElevenLabs v3 provider coverage. Thanks @leonchui, @zoujiejun, @solar2ain, @cshape, @xuruiray, @itsuzef, and @barronlroth.
- Plugin startup and install paths move to the cold persisted registry, cutting broad manifest scans while making plugin update, repair, provider discovery, and install metadata more deterministic. Thanks @vincentkoc and @shakkernerd.
- OpenTelemetry coverage expands across model calls, token usage, tool loops, harness runs, exec processes, outbound delivery, context assembly, and memory pressure with bounded low-cardinality attributes. Thanks @vincentkoc, @jlapenna, @Lidang-Jiang, and @oc-factus.
- Browser automation gets safer tab URLs, iframe-aware role snapshots, CDP readiness tuning, headless one-shot launch, and deeper browser doctor probes for slow hosts. Thanks @beat843796 and @BenediktSchackenberg.
- Control UI and setup flows add PWA/Web Push support, Crestodian first-run repair, TUI setup, context mode selection, and a shorter startup greeting. Thanks @eduardocruz, @SebTardif, and @kevinlin-openai.
- Install/update hardening covers Windows, macOS, Linux, Docker, bundled plugin runtime deps, Node service restarts, LaunchAgent token rotation, and mixed-version gateway verification. Thanks @Kobevictor, @igormf, @abhinas90, @jsompis, @Solvely-Colin, and @gucasbrg.

### Changes

- TTS/WhatsApp: add `/tts latest` read-aloud support with duplicate suppression and `/tts chat on|off|default` session-scoped auto-TTS overrides, completing the on-demand voice-note UX for current-chat replies. Fixes #66032.
- TTS/channels: resolve channel and account TTS overrides generically, enabling Feishu and QQBot accounts to deep-merge `channels.<channel>.accounts.<id>.tts` over global and per-agent TTS config. Thanks @sahilsatralkar.
- TTS/agents: allow `agents.list[].tts` to override global `messages.tts` for per-agent voices, and make `/tts audio`, `/tts status`, and the `tts` agent tool honor the active voice/provider override while keeping shared provider credentials and preferences in the existing TTS config surface.
- Providers/Azure Speech: add Azure Speech as a bundled TTS provider with Speech-resource auth, voice listing, SSML escaping, native Ogg/Opus voice-note output, and telephony output. (#51776) Thanks @leonchui.
- Google Meet: add calendar-backed attendance export workflows, export manifests, dry-run previews, and tool parity for meeting records.
- Control UI: add PWA install support and Web Push notifications for Gateway chat. (#44590) Thanks @eduardocruz.
- Browser automation: add safe tab URLs in agent responses plus a CDP-native role snapshot fallback with iframe-aware refs, cursor-clickable detection, target attach preparation, and `openclaw browser doctor --deep` live snapshot probing.
- CLI/image generation: expose generic `--background` on `openclaw infer image generate` and `openclaw infer image edit`, keep `--openai-background` as an OpenAI alias, and let fal image generation honor `--output-format png|jpeg`.
- Browser/config: allow local managed Chrome launch discovery and post-launch CDP readiness timeouts to be raised for slower hosts such as Raspberry Pi. Fixes #66803. Thanks @beat843796.
- Discord: allow `channels.discord.voice.model` to override the LLM used for voice channel responses while keeping STT and TTS on their existing media settings. (#64368) Thanks @mrdavey.
- Browser/CLI: add `openclaw browser start --headless` as a one-shot local managed browser launch override without rewriting persisted browser config. Thanks @BenediktSchackenberg.
- CLI/Crestodian/TUI: add the first-run setup helper, local planner fallback, full-TUI interactive Crestodian, startup progress indicators, context mode selector, and a shorter startup greeting. (#71720, #71760) Thanks @SebTardif and @kevinlin-openai.
- Plugins: migrate the local plugin registry automatically during package install/update, keeping install metadata in the plugin index while indexing existing plugin manifests for the new cold registry path. Thanks @vincentkoc and @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/doctor: make `openclaw doctor --fix` refresh the plugin index and cold registry index when needed without treating plugin install records as authored config. Thanks @vincentkoc and @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/hooks: add before-agent-finalize hooks, cron `jobId` hook context, bounded native permission fingerprints, and Codex MCP hook relay support. (#71765, #71758, #71707) Thanks @vincentkoc and @pashpashpash.
- Plugins/tokenjuice: bump the bundled tokenjuice runtime to 0.6.3. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: align model-call GenAI span attributes with OpenTelemetry stability opt-in semantics, keeping legacy `gen_ai.system` by default while emitting `gen_ai.provider.name` under `OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN=gen_ai_latest_experimental`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: support signal-specific OTLP endpoint overrides for traces, metrics, and logs via config or standard OTEL environment variables. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: emit bounded telemetry exporter health diagnostics for startup and log-export failures without exporting raw error text. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: export agent harness lifecycle telemetry as bounded `openclaw.harness.run` spans and `openclaw.harness.duration_ms` metrics so QA-lab, Codex, and future harnesses share one trace shape. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/trace: propagate W3C `traceparent` headers from trusted model-call trace context to provider transports while replacing caller-supplied traceparent values. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/Prometheus: add a bundled `diagnostics-prometheus` plugin with a protected gateway scrape route for low-cardinality diagnostics metrics. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/CLI: add `openclaw plugins registry` for explicit persisted-registry inspection and `--refresh` repair without making normal startup rescan plugin locations. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/CLI: make `openclaw plugins list` read the cold persisted registry snapshot by default, leaving module-aware diagnostics to `plugins doctor` and `plugins inspect`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/startup: move gateway startup plugin planning onto the versioned cold registry index, with postinstall repair for older registry files that predate startup metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/startup: normalize startup and provider plugin enablement through registry aliases so boot paths do not need the legacy manifest alias scan. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/plugins: resolve provider ownership, provider discovery scopes, and catalog-hook provider ids from the cold plugin registry instead of rescanning manifests on those paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/registry: keep installed plugin index records focused on install/state/load paths and resolve plugin capabilities from manifests scoped to indexed plugins. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/registry: route cold manifest and capability lookups through the installed plugin index so setup, channels, config, secrets, doctor, and provider metadata paths avoid broad plugin-root scans before runtime execution. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: speed up `models list --all --provider <id>` for static manifest-backed providers by loading catalog rows through the installed plugin index instead of broad manifest scans or runtime suppression hooks. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: use OpenClaw Provider Index preview rows as the final cold fallback for installable providers, while keeping user config, installed manifests, and refreshed cache rows above provider-index metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/plugins: keep onboarding and auth-choice setup lists on cold manifest/install metadata and add Provider Index install metadata for not-yet-installed provider plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/plugins: keep provider setup guidance and configure auth imports on cold manifest metadata, with a regression guard against static provider-runtime imports on setup/configure list paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/capabilities: keep capability command registration from importing the models auth runtime until `model auth login` actually runs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/configure: keep web-search configure prompts on cold plugin registry metadata until the user chooses managed search setup. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/chat commands: refresh the persisted plugin registry after `/plugins enable` and `/plugins disable`, matching the CLI mutation path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/compat: mark `OPENCLAW_DISABLE_PERSISTED_PLUGIN_REGISTRY` as a deprecated break-glass switch and point operators at registry repair instead. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/compat: expand the central compatibility registry with dated owners, replacements, and maximum three-month removal targets for legacy SDK, manifest, setup, registry-migration, and agent-runtime surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/registry: ignore stale persisted registry reads when plugin policy no longer matches current config, and stamp generated registry files with a do-not-edit warning. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Config/plugins: keep plugin command-alias validation on cold manifest metadata instead of importing the runtime alias resolver. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/plugins: keep web-search credential presence checks on cold config, env, and manifest metadata instead of importing web-search provider runtime. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: surface provider request identifiers as bounded hashes on model-call diagnostics and span events, without exporting raw request IDs or metric labels. Thanks @Lidang-Jiang and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/diagnostics: add metadata-only `model_call_started` and `model_call_ended` hooks for provider/model call telemetry without exposing prompts, responses, headers, request bodies, or raw provider request IDs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: emit bounded context assembly diagnostics and export `openclaw.context.assembled` spans with prompt/history sizes but no prompt, history, response, or session-key content. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: export existing tool-loop diagnostics as `openclaw.tool.loop` counters and spans without loop messages, session identifiers, params, or tool output. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: export diagnostic memory samples and pressure as bounded memory histograms, counters, and pressure spans to help spot leak regressions without session or payload data. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: add the GenAI `gen_ai.client.token.usage` histogram for input/output model usage while keeping session identifiers and aggregate cache counters out of the semantic metric. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: add a bounded `openclaw.agent` label to OpenClaw token metrics so per-agent Grafana dashboards can group usage without exporting session identifiers. Thanks @oc-factus.
- Plugins/install: consolidate managed plugin install metadata into the state-managed plugin index at `plugins/installs.json`, replacing the temporary `plugins/installed-index.json` path and removing `plugins.installs` as an authored config surface. Thanks @vincentkoc and @shakkernerd.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: add the GenAI `gen_ai.client.operation.duration` histogram for model-call latency in seconds with bounded provider/model/API and error attributes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: add GenAI usage token attributes to model-usage spans, including cache read/write input token counts without session identifiers or prompt/response content. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: include bounded GenAI operation, provider, and request-model attributes on model-usage spans so token usage remains self-describing without diagnostic identifiers. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: keep model-usage span GenAI provider attributes aligned with the existing semantic-convention opt-in policy, using legacy `gen_ai.system` unless latest experimental GenAI conventions are enabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: keep `gen_ai.request.model` present on GenAI token usage metrics with a bounded `unknown` fallback when model usage events do not include a model. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs/OTEL: document the GenAI token and model-call duration metrics, model-usage span attributes, and `OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN=gen_ai_latest_experimental` provider-attribute behavior. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs: refresh the MCP, model provider, doctor, troubleshooting, BlueBubbles, media generation, TTS, subagents, skills, cron/tasks, exec approvals, and voice-call guides with structured Steps, Tabs, and Accordion content.
- Diagnostics/trace: add an internal traceparent propagation helper that only formats trusted dispatcher metadata, keeping plugin-emitted diagnostic traces out of outbound propagation by default. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: add bounded outbound message delivery lifecycle diagnostics and export them as low-cardinality delivery spans/metrics without message body, recipient, room, or media-path data. (#71471) Thanks @vincentkoc and @jlapenna.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: emit bounded exec-process diagnostics and export them as `openclaw.exec` spans without exposing command text, working directories, or container identifiers. (#71451) Thanks @vincentkoc and @jlapenna.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: support `OPENCLAW_OTEL_PRELOADED=1` so the plugin can reuse an already-registered OpenTelemetry SDK while keeping OpenClaw diagnostic listeners wired. (#71450) Thanks @vincentkoc and @jlapenna.
- Providers/Xiaomi: add MiMo TTS as a bundled speech provider with MP3/WAV output and voice-note Opus transcoding. Fixes #52376. (#55614) Thanks @zoujiejun.
- Providers/ElevenLabs: include `eleven_v3` in the bundled TTS model catalog so model selection surfaces can offer ElevenLabs v3. (#68321) Thanks @itsuzef.
- Providers/Local CLI TTS: add a bundled local command speech provider with file/stdout input, voice-note Opus conversion, and telephony PCM output. (#56239) Thanks @solar2ain.
- Providers/Inworld: add Inworld as a bundled speech provider with streaming TTS synthesis, voice listing, voice-note output, and PCM telephony output. (#55972) Thanks @cshape.
- Providers/Volcengine: add Volcengine/BytePlus Seed Speech as a bundled TTS provider with API-key auth, native Ogg/Opus voice-note output, and MP3 audio-file output. (#55641) Thanks @xuruiray.
- Android/Talk Mode: expose Talk Mode in the Voice tab with runtime-owned voice capture modes and microphone foreground-service escalation. Thanks @alex-latitude.
- Providers/LiteLLM: register `litellm` as an image-generation provider so `image_generate model=litellm/...` calls and `agents.defaults.imageGenerationModel.fallbacks` entries resolve through the LiteLLM proxy. Thanks @zqchris.
- Providers/fal: add Seedance 2.0 reference-to-video models with multi-image, video, and audio reference input mapping plus model-specific capability limits for `video_generate`. Thanks @shivanker.
- Codex harness: require Codex app-server `0.125.0` or newer and cover native MCP `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, and `PermissionRequest` payloads through the OpenClaw hook relay.
- Agents/Codex: teach prompts and `agents_list` to surface native Codex app-server availability so agents prefer `/codex ...` over Codex ACP unless ACP/acpx is explicit. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ACPX/Droid: add Factory Droid to the live ACP bind Docker matrix, including `.factory` settings staging, `FACTORY_API_KEY` forwarding, and the single-agent `test:docker:live-acp-bind:droid` recipe.
- TTS/personas: add provider-aware TTS personas with deterministic provider binding merges, `/tts persona` controls, gateway/CLI persona state, Google Gemini `audio-profile-v1` prompt wrapping, and OpenAI instruction mapping. (#70748) Thanks @barronlroth.
- Voice Wake: add trigger-based routing so macOS voice wake phrases can select a configured agent or session target, with Gateway routing APIs and node update events. (#30354) Thanks @longbiaochen.

### Fixes

- Agents/subagents: deliver completed yielded-subagent results back to no-thread requester routes via direct fallback when the dormant parent announce turn produces no visible reply, and add QA-lab coverage for the regression. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Tailscale: let Tailscale-authenticated Control UI operator sessions with browser device identity skip the device-pairing round trip while still rejecting device-less and node-role connections. Refs #71986. Thanks @jokedul.
- Doctor: honor `OPENCLAW_SERVICE_REPAIR_POLICY=external` by reporting gateway service health while skipping service install/start/restart/bootstrap, supervisor rewrites, and legacy service cleanup for externally managed environments. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/update: run package post-update doctor with `--fix` so package updates repair config migrations before restart. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/update: retry failed npm global updates with `--omit=optional` and ignore the superseded first failure when the fallback succeeds. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/uninstall: migrate and reset `plugins.slots.contextEngine` alongside memory slots when plugin ids change or selected plugins are removed. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/Discord: keep raw `Agent failed before reply` runner failures out of Discord group/channel chats and show detailed runner errors in direct chats only when `/verbose` is enabled.
- UI/Windows: quote resolved pnpm `.cmd` launcher paths before spawning UI install/build/test commands so Node installs under `C:\Program Files` no longer fail as `C:\Program`. Fixes #45275. Thanks @Kobevictor, @stoppieboy, and @iubns.
- Codex/agent: translate `--thinking minimal` to `low` for modern Codex models (gpt-5.5, gpt-5.4, gpt-5.4-mini, gpt-5.2) at request build time so the first turn is accepted instead of paying a wasted call + retry-with-low fallback. Older Codex models still receive `minimal` directly. Fixes #71946. Thanks @hclsys.
- Plugins/uninstall: remove tracked plugin files from their recorded managed extensions root even when the current state directory points somewhere else, so `openclaw plugins uninstall --force` does not leave the plugin discoverable. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/runtime: add `agentRuntime.id` as the canonical config key, migrate legacy runtime-policy configs with `openclaw doctor --fix`, route canonical Anthropic models through `claude-cli` without passing CLI backend aliases to embedded harness selection, and load CLI backend owner plugins before channel startup. Fixes #71957. Thanks @WolvenRA.
- CLI/update: guard Windows scheduled-task stops by state and timeout so auto-update restart cannot hang indefinitely on `schtasks /End` before stale-listener cleanup. Fixes #69970. Thanks @yangswld and @sherlock-huang.
- Windows install/Lobster: execute `pnpm.exe` directly when `npm_execpath` points at the native pnpm binary, add an installed-package fallback for the Lobster embedded runtime, and include the Lobster runner regression test in Windows CI. Fixes #69456. Thanks @igormf.
- Gateway/install: refresh loaded gateway service installs when the current service embeds stale gateway auth instead of returning already-installed, avoiding LaunchAgent token-mismatch loops after token rotation. Fixes #70752. Thanks @hyspacex.
- Update: ignore bundled plugin `.openclaw-install-stage` directories during global install verification and packaged dist pruning so leftover runtime-dep staging files do not turn successful updates into `unexpected packaged dist file` failures. Fixes #71752. Thanks @waynegault.
- CLI/update: fail package updates when post-update plugin sync fails and refresh legacy npm plugin install records before trusting unchanged artifacts, preventing successful updates from restarting with stale or failed plugin state. Thanks @vincentkoc and @shakkernerd.
- Release/update: reject pre-populated bundled plugin `.openclaw-install-stage` directories, including mixed-case path variants, before package inventory generation so release tarballs cannot ship poisoned runtime-dependency staging debris. Fixes #71752. Thanks @hclsys.
- Node runtime: keep node-host retry timers alive across Gateway restarts and exit on terminal credential pauses so supervised nodes do not become silent zombies. Fixes #69800. Thanks @meroli28.
- Gateway/plugins: stop persisted WhatsApp auth state from activating bundled channel runtime-dependency repair during startup when `channels.whatsapp` is absent, avoiding npm/git stalls on packaged Linux installs. Fixes #71994. Thanks @xiao398008.
- Gateway/device tokens: enforce caller-scope containment inside token rotation and revocation so pairing-only sessions cannot mutate higher-scope operator tokens. Fixes #71990. Thanks @coygeek.
- Plugins/channels: keep security checks, thread-binding placement, provider summaries, health formatting, and message action labels on read-only or already-loaded channel metadata instead of importing full channel runtime. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/status: keep config-only channel labels and status security summaries from importing plugin runtime modules just to render metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Sessions/channels: stop group-session metadata from loading bundled channel runtime just to classify `#channel` subjects, using only already-loaded channel capabilities on that path. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/channels: keep native command and native skill `auto` defaults on static channel metadata so config, audit, and command-list checks do not load channel runtime just to read those defaults. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/channels: keep channel remove selection and all-channel capabilities summaries on read-only plugin metadata, loading channel runtime only for the selected mutation path. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/models: keep Provider Index preview rows out of `models list --all --provider <id>` when the owning provider plugin is disabled, preserving config authority for cold catalog fallbacks. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/model runs: keep `openclaw infer model run` on explicit OpenRouter models from loading the full provider catalog or inheriting chat-agent silent-reply policy, restoring non-empty one-shot probe output. Fixes #68791. Thanks @limpredator.
- Installer/macOS: rerun Homebrew install steps without the gum spinner when raw-mode ioctl failures occur, and avoid claiming `node@24` was installed when the Homebrew keg binary is missing. Fixes #70411. Thanks @1fanwang and @dad-io.
- Installer: load nvm before Node.js detection so `curl | bash` installs respect nvm-managed Node instead of stale system Node. Fixes #49556. Thanks @heavenlxj.
- Installer/Windows: route PowerShell install failures through a top-level handler so `iwr ... | iex` returns control to the current shell while direct script-file runs still exit non-zero. Fixes #38054. Thanks @PwrSrg.
- CLI/Volta: respawn raw `openclaw` CLI runs through the named `node` shim when the current Node executable resolves to `volta-shim`, avoiding direct shim execution failures in non-interactive shells. Fixes #68672. Thanks @sanchezm86.
- Installer: warn when multiple npm global roots contain OpenClaw installs, showing active Node/npm/openclaw plus each install path and version so stale version-manager installs are visible. Fixes #40839. Thanks @zhixianio.
- Cron/tasks: recover completed cron task ledger records from durable run logs and job state before marking them `lost`, reducing false `backing session missing` audit errors for isolated cron runs and keeping offline CLI audit from treating its empty local cron active-job set as authoritative. Fixes #71963.
- Docker: copy patched dependency files into runtime images so downstream `pnpm install` layers keep working. Fixes #69224. Thanks @gucasbrg.
- Package: include patched dependency files in the published npm package so downstream installs can resolve `patchedDependencies`. (#69224) Thanks @gucasbrg and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/channels: treat malformed bundled channel plugin loaders that return `undefined` as unavailable instead of crashing config and help paths. Fixes #69044. Thanks @frankhli843 and @vincentkoc.
- Scripts/watch: show corrupted dependency package-config recovery guidance when `gateway:watch` fails during watcher startup, without double-logging unrelated import failures. (#58780) Thanks @roytong9 and @vincentkoc.
- Signal: read signal-cli RPC, health checks, and SSE events through Node's HTTP client so Node 24/25 fetch regressions do not break Signal sends or inbound events. Fixes #51716 and #53040. Thanks @Barukimang, @minupla, and @vincentkoc.
- Skills/Docker: run npm-backed skill dependency installs with an OpenClaw-managed user prefix so non-root Docker images do not write to `/usr/local`. Fixes #59601. Thanks @chanjarster and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/runtime: submit heartbeat, cron, and exec wakeups as transient runtime context instead of visible user prompts, keeping synthetic system work out of chat transcripts. Fixes #66496 and #66814. Thanks @jeades and @mandomaker.
- Telegram: include native quote excerpts automatically for threaded replies and reply tags when the original Telegram text is available, without adding another config knob. Fixes #6975. Thanks @rex05ai.
- Node/Linux: make `openclaw node install` enable and restart the `openclaw-node` systemd unit instead of the gateway unit on node-only VMs. Fixes #68287. Thanks @dlebee-agent.
- Browser/CDP: retry transient raw-CDP WebSocket handshake failures before any browser command is sent, and reconnect stale persistent Playwright CDP sessions for safe tab-list reads without replaying mutating browser actions. Fixes #67728.
- Gateway/Linux: retry `systemctl --user enable` after a second daemon reload when the freshly written gateway unit is not visible yet on migrated systemd installs. Fixes #65184. Thanks @liushuaiiu.
- Telegram: preserve exact selected quote text when sending native quote replies, and retry with legacy replies if Telegram rejects quote parameters. (#71952) Thanks @rubencu.
- Plugins/CLI: preserve manifest name, description, format, and source metadata in cold `openclaw plugins list` output without importing plugin runtime. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Security/audit: read channel exposure and plugin allowlist ownership from read-only plugin index metadata so cold audits do not depend on loaded channel runtime. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/chat: keep `/plugins list`, `/plugins enable`, and `/plugins disable` on the persisted plugin index path so chat plugin management does not load diagnostic/runtime plugin registries before execution. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/doctor: read workspace plugin status and legacy web-search ownership through installed-index manifest metadata instead of broad manifest registry scans. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/agents: read channel provider status from read-only plugin index metadata for text `agents list` output instead of the loaded channel registry. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Logging: redact configured secret patterns at console and file-log sink exits so credentials that reach the logger are masked before terminal display or JSONL persistence. Fixes #67953. Thanks @Ziy1-Tan.
- Gateway/services: refuse process and service mutations from an older OpenClaw binary when the config was last written by a newer version, preventing split-brain installs from stopping or rewriting newer gateway services. Fixes #57079.
- Gateway: reserve `/healthz` and `/readyz` ahead of plugin, canvas, and Control UI HTTP stages so liveness/readiness probes still answer when a later route handler stalls. Fixes #69674. Thanks @Xike-Creek.
- Logging: load `logging.file` and redaction settings directly from the active OpenClaw config path in bundled runtimes, so packaged gateways stop falling back to `/tmp/openclaw`. Fixes #59370, #67168, and #61295. Thanks @KeaneYan, @Pan9hu, and @zsjlovelike.
- Logging: rotate file logs at `logging.maxFileBytes`, keep bounded numbered archives, and make long-lived rolling loggers follow the current-day file instead of suppressing diagnostics or writing stale dated files. Fixes #58583 and #62381. Thanks @jpeghead and @zhaoleink.
- Agents/groups: treat clean empty assistant stops as silent `NO_REPLY` only for always-on groups where silent replies are allowed, while keeping direct and mention-gated sessions on the incomplete-turn retry path. Thanks @MagnaAI.
- macOS/Node: keep native remote app nodes from advertising `browser.proxy`, start browser-capable CLI node services through the restored `openclaw node start` command, and show an actionable browser-control error when the local control service is missing. Fixes #66637.
- Gateway/update: fail package updates when the restarted managed gateway reports the wrong version, including fallback restarts and JSON mode, avoiding false-success mixed-version restarts after macOS LaunchAgent updates. Fixes #71835. Thanks @abhinas90 and @jsompis.
- Gateway/update: warn before package updates and bundled plugin runtime-dependency repairs when the target volume appears low on disk space, without blocking installs on best-effort filesystem checks. Fixes #71835. Thanks @abhinas90 and @jsompis.
- Plugins/runtime deps: surface activated plugin load failures in health and fail package-update restart verification or doctor repair when bundled runtime deps still cannot load, avoiding false-success repairs. (#71883) Thanks @Solvely-Colin.
- Gateway/Linux: include fnm `aliases/default/bin` in generated service PATHs and let doctor accept either modern fnm aliases or the legacy `current/bin` symlink, avoiding false PATH repair prompts. Fixes #68169. Thanks @richard-scott.
- Installer/Linux: run apt installs with noninteractive dpkg and needrestart settings so fresh Ubuntu 24.04 `curl | bash` installs do not hang while installing Node.js, Git, or build tools. Fixes #41146. Thanks @iht76, @alexcarv318, @cs3gallery, @firofame, and @cgdusek.
- Providers/Bedrock: defer the AWS SDK import until Bedrock discovery actually runs so plugin registration and setup stay lightweight on cold start. Fixes #71690. Thanks @jarvis-ai-gregmoser.
- Installer/macOS: stop immediately when Homebrew `node@24` installation fails and avoid printing PATH advice for missing Homebrew Node installs. Fixes #70411. Thanks @1fanwang.
- WhatsApp: remove ack reactions after a visible reply when `messages.removeAckAfterReply` is enabled, matching other reaction-capable channels. Fixes #26183. Thanks @MrUnforsaken.
- Providers/Z.AI: map OpenClaw thinking controls to Z.AI's `thinking` payload and add opt-in preserved thinking replay via `params.preserveThinking`, so GLM 5.x can keep prior `reasoning_content` when requested. Fixes #58680. Thanks @xuanmingguo.
- Channels/status: keep read-only channel lists on manifest and package metadata by default, loading setup runtime only for explicit fallback callers. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins: scope setup and web-provider metadata manifest reads to explicit plugin ids when callers already know the owning plugin set. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/onboarding: defer onboarding install-record index writes until the guarded config commit so setup failures cannot leave the plugin index ahead of `openclaw.json`. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/registry: resolve web provider ownership from the installed plugin index instead of broad manifest scans on secret, tool, and pricing paths. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Config/providers: accept `video` and `audio` in configured model `input` values and preserve them in provider catalog entries. Fixes #20721. Thanks @alvinttang.
- Models/auth: honor the parent `--agent` flag for auth write commands (`add`, `login`, `setup-token`, `paste-token`, and the GitHub Copilot shortcut) so OAuth/API-key/token results are written to the requested agent store instead of the default agent. Fixes #71864. (#71933) Thanks @balric-seo.
- TTS: strip model-emitted TTS directives from streamed block text before channel delivery, including directives split across adjacent blocks, while preserving the accumulated raw reply for final-mode synthesis. Fixes #38937.
- TTS: keep explicit `provider=...` directive keys scoped to that provider and warn on unsupported keys instead of letting another speech provider consume overlapping keys. Fixes #60131.
- TTS/Feishu: normalize final-mode streamed TTS-only audio before delivery so generated voice-note files use the same safe media path and native voice routing as normal final replies. Fixes #71920.
- Feishu: transcribe inbound voice-note audio with the shared media audio path before agent dispatch and keep raw Feishu `file_key` payloads out of message text. Fixes #67120 and #61876.
- Tasks: terminalize async Gateway agent task records from the Gateway run result while preserving aborted, failed, and cancelled outcomes instead of leaving completed runs stuck as active or lost. (#71905) Thanks @likewen-tech.
- WhatsApp: let authorized group voice-note transcripts satisfy mention gating before reply dispatch, while keeping unmentioned transcripts in pending group history. Fixes #44908.
- Media understanding: carry channel voice-note preflight state into attachment selection so WhatsApp, Feishu, Telegram, and Discord do not transcribe the same inbound audio twice. Fixes #70580.
- TTS/BlueBubbles: deliver compatible auto-TTS audio as iMessage voice memo bubbles instead of plain MP3/CAF file attachments. Fixes #16848.
- TTS: resolve voice-note and voice-memo routing from channel plugin capabilities instead of speech-core-owned channel id lists.
- ACP: send subagent and async-task completion wakes to external ACP harnesses as plain prompts instead of OpenClaw internal runtime-context envelopes, while keeping those envelopes out of ACP transcripts.
- TTS/status: show configured TTS model, voice, and sanitized custom endpoint in `/status`, preserve OpenAI-compatible TTS instructions on custom endpoints, and retry empty Microsoft/Edge TTS output once. Addresses #46602, #47232, and #43936. Thanks @leekuangtao, @Huntterxx, and @rex993.
- Agents/Gateway: steer agent-driven config edits and restarts through the owner-only `gateway` tool, document `config.schema.lookup` as the field-doc source, and warn against using `gateway stop && gateway start` as a restart substitute on macOS. Fixes #71929. Thanks @ygc3817922006-sketch.
- Media understanding/audio: inject a deterministic transcript placeholder for too-small voice notes so agents do not hallucinate transcription or provider failures. Fixes #48944. Thanks @eulicesl.
- Providers/vLLM: send Nemotron 3 chat-template kwargs when thinking is off and honor configured `params.chat_template_kwargs` for OpenAI-compatible completions, so vLLM/Nemotron replies stay visible instead of becoming thinking-only. Fixes #71891. Thanks @jmystaki-create and @dennis-lynch.
- Channels/replies: strip copied inbound metadata blocks from user-facing assistant replies and model replay history, so Discord/vLLM sessions do not leak `Conversation info` / `UNTRUSTED ... message body` envelopes after a model echoes them. Fixes #71847. Thanks @jmystaki-create.
- Subagents/memory: keep inter-session completion wakes out of memory and dreaming session exports, and strip internal runtime-context blocks from realtime Control UI chat events.
- Agents/Claude: treat zero-token empty `stop` turns as failed provider output, retry once, repair replay, and allow configured model fallback instead of preserving them as successful silent replies. Fixes #71880. Thanks @MagnaAI.
- Tasks: normalize task lifecycle timestamps at create, update, and restore time, and report retained lost tasks as audit warnings until their cleanup window expires. (#71871) Thanks @likewen-tech.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: treat normal early model stream cleanup as a completed model call instead of exporting a misleading `StreamAbandoned` error span. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/pairing: stop corrupt or unreadable device/node pairing stores from being treated as empty state, preserving `paired.json` for repair instead of overwriting approved pairings. Fixes #71873. Thanks @iret77.
- ACP: keep `/acp` management commands, plus local `/status` and `/unfocus`, on the Gateway path inside ACP-bound threads so they are not consumed as ACP prompt text. Fixes #66298. Thanks @kindomLee.
- ACPX: stop probing ACP agents during normal Gateway startup; the embedded backend now registers without spawning Codex/ACP child processes unless `OPENCLAW_ACPX_RUNTIME_STARTUP_PROBE=1` is explicitly set.
- CLI/image edit: accept `--size`, `--aspect-ratio`, and `--resolution` on `openclaw infer image edit` and report all supported edit flags from `capability inspect image.edit`. Thanks @Pinghuachiu.
- ACP: wait for the configured runtime backend to become healthy before startup identity reconciliation, avoiding transient acpx warnings during Gateway boot. Fixes #40566.
- Channels/ACP bindings: time out configured binding readiness checks instead of letting Discord preflight hang forever when an ACP target never settles. Fixes #68776.
- Control UI: hide the chat loading skeleton during background history reloads when existing messages or active stream content are already visible, avoiding reload flashes on high-latency local gateways. Fixes #71844. Thanks @WolvenRA.
- Control UI: keep locally optimistic chat messages visible when a history reload temporarily returns empty, avoiding lost first-turn messages on high-latency gateways. Fixes #71878. Thanks @WolvenRA.
- Control UI: keep chat history limits based on visible messages after filtering heartbeat and control-only transcript rows, so recent hidden entries no longer make older visible replies disappear. Thanks @WolvenRA.
- Agents/images: scrub old `[media attached: ...]`, `[Image: source: ...]`, and `media://inbound/...` markers from pruned model replay context so stale media refs are not rehydrated as fresh prompt images. Fixes #71868. Thanks @jmeadlock.
- Docker/Bonjour: disable Bonjour/mDNS advertising by default for bundled Compose gateways on bridge networking, while keeping host/macvlan opt-in with `OPENCLAW_DISABLE_BONJOUR=0`. Fixes #71879. Thanks @gbballpack.
- CLI/status: label the OpenClaw Serve/Funnel setting as `Tailscale exposure` and show daemon state separately when available, so `gateway.tailscale.mode: "off"` no longer reads like the Tailscale daemon is stopped. Fixes #71790. Thanks @pesvobodak.
- Plugins/Bonjour: stop ciao mDNS watchdog failures from looping forever when the advertiser stays stuck in `probing` or `announcing`; Bonjour now disables itself for the current Gateway process after repeated failed restarts while the Gateway keeps running. Fixes #69011. Thanks @siddharthaagarwalofficial-ux, @FiredMosquito831, and @spikefcz.
- Gateway/Fly.io: seed Control UI allowed origins from the actual runtime bind and port so CLI-driven non-loopback starts do not crash before config exists. Fixes #71823.
- macOS/remote SSH: keep discovered gateway hosts in `gateway.remote.sshTarget` while pinning SSH transport URLs to the local loopback tunnel, so browser automation does not regress into blocked non-loopback `ws://` endpoints. Fixes #67336.
- Gateway/proxy: bootstrap env proxy dispatching from direct Gateway startup so provider and plugin network requests honor `HTTPS_PROXY`/`HTTP_PROXY` before the first embedded agent attempt runs. (#71833) Thanks @mjamiv.
- Plugins/runtime deps: verify clean npm installs actually place requested bundled runtime packages in the managed install root, reporting exact missing specs instead of a false successful repair. (#71883) Thanks @Solvely-Colin.
- Plugins/discovery: ignore stale `plugins.load.paths` aliases that point back at packaged bundled plugin directories and have doctor remove them, keeping bundled plugins on the runtime-deps staging path.
- Models/LM Studio: preserve `@iq*` quant suffixes in model refs and provider matching so `/model lmstudio/...@iq3_xxs` keeps the exact LM Studio variant. Fixes #71474. (#71486) Thanks @Bartok9, @XinwuC, and @Sanjays2402.
- Matrix/cron: preserve the live Matrix delivery target when creating implicit announce reminder jobs so mixed-case room IDs are not reconstructed from lowercased session keys. Fixes #71798.
- Feishu: accept Schema 2.0 card action callbacks that report `context.open_chat_id` instead of legacy `context.chat_id`, so button callbacks no longer drop as malformed. Fixes #71670. Thanks @eddy1068.
- Feishu: keep synthetic card-action and bot-menu ids out of platform reply targets, using the real card callback message id when Feishu provides one and plain-sending otherwise. Fixes #71673. Thanks @eddy1068.
- Plugins/QQ Bot: prefer an installed QQ Bot plugin that declares it replaces the bundled `qqbot` channel, preventing duplicate `qqbot_channel_api` and `qqbot_remind` tool registration noise. Fixes #63102.
- Browser automation: keep stable tab ids and labels attached when Chromium replaces the raw target after form submissions or other action-triggered navigations, and return the replacement `targetId` from `/act` when the match is provable. Fixes #46137.
- QQ Bot: make `qqbot_remind` schedule, list, and remove Gateway cron jobs directly for owner-authorized senders instead of returning `cronParams` and relying on a follow-up generic `cron` tool call. Fixes #70865. (#70937) Thanks @GaosCode.
- Agents/ACP: hide `sessions_spawn` ACP runtime options unless an ACP backend is loaded, and make `/acp doctor` call out `plugins.allow` blocking bundled `acpx`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Codex: keep ACP prompt/skill routing hidden unless an ACP runtime backend is available, and warn in doctor when enabled Codex plugin configs still route `openai-codex/*` models through PI. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Media delivery: avoid sending generated image attachments twice when the assistant reply already includes explicit `MEDIA:` lines for the same turn, and reject unsafe remote `MEDIA:` URLs before delivery. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Codex harness: ignore retryable app-server error notifications after Codex recovers, and preserve the real nested error message for terminal app-server failures instead of replacing it with a generic failure. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Agents/Codex: prepare native Codex sub-agent session metadata without a nested Gateway session patch and add a focused Docker smoke for the app-server sub-agent path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/subagents: keep queued subagent announces session-only when the requester has no external channel target, avoiding ambiguous multi-channel delivery failures. Fixes #59201. Thanks @larrylhollan.
- Image understanding: preserve configured provider-prefixed vision model metadata when callers request the model without the provider prefix, so custom image models keep their `input: ["text", "image"]` capability. Fixes #33185. Thanks @Kobe9312 and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: restore the previous plugin index records if a concurrent config write conflict interrupts install, update, or uninstall metadata commits. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/install: reject native plugin archives that do not include a valid `openclaw.plugin.json`, preventing manifestless archives from writing install records that later show missing-manifest diagnostics. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/uninstall: remove tracked managed plugin install directories even when the persisted install path differs from the default id-derived target, while still refusing deletes outside the managed extensions root. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/update: restore previous plugin index records if core update or channel setup hits a concurrent config write conflict after plugin metadata changes. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/onboarding: defer channel/provider plugin install records until the owning config write commits, keeping setup failures from advancing the plugin index ahead of `openclaw.json`. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/config: route configure and agent setup writes with pending plugin install records through the plugin index commit helper so provider onboarding metadata is not stripped by plain config writes. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/channels: merge pending channel plugin install records with the existing plugin index before config writes, preserving unrelated tracked installs during channel setup, resolve, remove, and capability repair flows. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/config: defer shipped `plugins.installs` index migration during config writes until the guarded config commit window and roll it back if the config write fails before commit. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Sessions: keep embedded runtime context out of the visible user prompt by sending it as a hidden next-turn custom message, and teach doctor to repair affected 2026.4.24 transcripts with duplicated prompt-rewrite branches. Fixes #71761.
- Gateway/subagents: keep direct-loopback backend RPCs authenticated with the shared gateway token/password off stale CLI paired-device scope baselines, so internal calls no longer hit `scope-upgrade` pairing prompts while remote, browser, node, device-token, and explicit-device paths still require normal pairing approval. Fixes #63548.
- Providers/Azure OpenAI: give deployment-scoped image generation requests a longer 600s default timeout so slow `gpt-image-2` generations can complete without a per-call `timeoutMs`. Fixes #71705. Thanks @voytas75.
- Gateway/plugins: link source-checkout bundled runtime dependency caches instead of recursively copying `node_modules` on the gateway main thread, preventing local status, node, and skill probes from timing out during startup cache restores.
- Skills/remote nodes: only expose remote macOS skill bins for connected nodes, clear stale bin matches when node probes fail, and include probe command, timeout, bin count, and connection state in timeout logs.
- Skills/remote nodes: recognize `system.which` object-map responses when probing connected macOS nodes, so Linux gateways can expose macOS-only skills such as Apple Notes when the required binaries are installed remotely. Fixes #71877. Thanks @miguelarios.
- CLI/gateway: keep diagnostic probes from creating first-time read-only device pairings, while still reusing cached device tokens for detailed read probes. Fixes #71766. Thanks @SunboZ.
- CLI/plugins: keep `message` startup, `channels logs`, `agents delete`, and `agents set-identity` off broad plugin preloading; message delivery still loads plugins when the action actually runs.
- Image understanding: resolve configured image models such as local LM Studio vision entries before reporting `Unknown model` when the discovery registry has not registered that provider. Fixes #66486. Thanks @zhanggpcsu.
- QQ Bot: ignore self-echoed bot messages using the outbound ref-index marker, preventing mirrored replies from re-entering the agent loop while still allowing users to quote bot replies. Fixes #71912. Thanks @wangyc6003.
- Sessions: separate reset freshness from session-store `updatedAt`, so heartbeat, cron, exec, and gateway bookkeeping no longer prevent configured daily/idle resets from rolling long-running channel sessions. Fixes #68315, #63732, #63820, and #69083. Thanks @maxatv, @longhairedsi, @bradfreels, and @akessel56.
- Sessions: clear queued system-event notices during `/new`, `/reset`, gateway `sessions.reset`, and daily/idle rollover so stale background updates cannot leak into the first prompt of the fresh session. Fixes #66864. Thanks @opeyio, @Magicray1217, and @cedillarack.
- CLI/agents: keep `agents bind`, `agents unbind`, and `agents bindings` on setup-safe channel metadata paths so they do not preload bundled plugin runtimes or stage runtime dependencies. Fixes #71743.
- Plugins/registry: preserve explicit disabled plugin records during registry migration without persisting every unused bundled plugin discovered on disk. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Windows/native: keep CLI startup and bundled provider plugin loading off Windows ESM raw-path failure paths, fixing native onboarding/install smoke on Node 24.
- Plugins/doctor: read bundled channel doctor capabilities through the same packaged plugin directory resolver used by plugin loading, so published installs keep Matrix DM allowlist repairs on `channels.matrix.dm.*` instead of writing invalid top-level `dmPolicy` keys. Fixes #71757.
- Plugins/Windows: keep bundled plugin Jiti loaders off the native import path on Windows so channel plugins such as Telegram no longer crash with `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME` on `C:\...` paths. Fixes #71749. Thanks @smeyer9.
- Providers/Ollama: use Ollama's current `/api/web_search` endpoint and honor `https://ollama.com` model-provider base URLs for Ollama Web Search. Fixes #71741. Thanks @madhvidua.
- Memory/Ollama: serialize Ollama memory embedding batches and add an inline batch timeout override, with longer defaults for local/self-hosted embedding providers.
- Sessions/usage: exclude compaction checkpoint transcript snapshots from usage totals and session discovery, while keeping old checkpoint files removable.
- CLI/agents: keep `openclaw agents list --json` on the config-only path by default, avoiding bundled plugin loading unless callers request `--bindings`. Fixes #71739. Thanks @kaloster.
- Plugins/install: force plugin dependency installs to stay project-local even when inherited npm config requests global installs, so successful installs still materialize the plugin's staged `node_modules`.
- Providers/Google: transcode Gemini TTS PCM to Opus for voice-note targets so WhatsApp and other native voice-note replies can play as voice messages.
- TTS/WhatsApp: mark non-Opus provider output as voice-note intent so channel delivery transcodes MP3/WebM replies to Ogg/Opus PTT audio.
- Plugins/runtime deps: reuse existing external bundled-plugin stage roots when mirrored plugin roots are inspected again, avoiding second-generation `openclaw-unknown-*` stages and repeated first-turn restaging. Fixes #71599.
- iOS/macOS Talk Mode: allow `talk.speechLocale` to set the speech recognition locale for non-English voice conversations. Fixes #44688.
- Plugins/providers: honor explicit plugin candidate lists instead of reading a persisted registry snapshot from local state, keeping candidate-scoped provider discovery hermetic.
- Plugins/doctor: keep bundled plugin runtime-dependency repairs inside the managed OpenClaw stage even when user npm prefix/global config points npm at `$HOME/node_modules`. Fixes #71730.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: reject normal OpenClaw config agent ids when callers explicitly request `runtime="acp"`, while allowing agents configured with `runtime.type="acp"` to resolve to their ACP harness id. Fixes #63914.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: apply `runTimeoutSeconds` to ACP child turns and dispatch those turns on the background subagent lane, so quota-stalled ACP harnesses do not occupy the main agent lane indefinitely. Fixes #68823.
- ACP/oneshot: reconcile runtime session identity before closing completed oneshot ACP runs, so finished `sessions.json` entries do not stay stuck with `acp.identity.state="pending"`.
- ACPX: bundle `acpx@0.6.1` so unsupported generic model overrides fail clearly instead of silently falling back to the target adapter default.
- ACP/models: document that non-Codex ACP model overrides require adapter support for ACP `models` plus `session/set_model`, so unsupported harnesses fail clearly instead of silently falling back to their defaults.
- Plugins/Voice Call: treat missing provider credentials as setup-incomplete during Gateway startup and log the missing keys as a warning instead of a runtime startup error, while keeping explicit command/tool errors when used.
- Android/Talk Mode: prevent duplicate TTS playback when fast or repeated final chat events arrive while Talk Mode is waiting for its own response. Fixes #46546.
- Tooling/check:changed: pass parent heavy-check lock markers to lint lanes so `pnpm check:changed` no longer waits on its own `lint:extensions` child.
- CLI/completion: dedupe provider auth flags before registering `openclaw onboard` options, so completion-cache refresh during update no longer fails when stale core fallback flags overlap plugin manifest flags. Fixes #71667.
- Diagnostics/trace: report live context usage from the current prompt snapshot instead of provider turn totals, avoiding false near-full context spikes on cached or tool-heavy runs.
- Providers/Google: honor `models.providers.google.request.allowPrivateNetwork` for Gemini TTS and telephony TTS, matching Google image generation and media understanding. (#71723) Thanks @ro-hansolo.
- Providers/MiniMax: register `minimax-portal` for music and video generation, preserving OAuth auth and regional MiniMax base URLs across the shared `music_generate` and `video_generate` tools. (#63241) Thanks @tars90percent.
- Providers/onboarding: keep Runway and Alibaba Model Studio out of the text-inference setup picker by scoping their video-generation auth choices to the media setup flow. (#65856) Thanks @Jah-yee.
- Plugins/Bonjour: stop the gateway from crash-looping on `CIAO PROBING CANCELLED` when the mDNS watchdog cancels a stuck probe. Restores the rejection-handler wiring dropped during the bonjour plugin migration and shares unhandled-rejection state across module instances so plugin-staged copies of `openclaw/plugin-sdk/runtime` register into the same handler set the host consults. Especially affects Docker on macOS, where mDNS probing reliably hits the watchdog. Thanks @troyhitch.
- Google Meet: report pinned Chrome nodes as offline or missing capabilities in setup/join diagnostics, keep inaccessible nodes out of auto-selection, and preflight local BlackHole/SoX requirements before agents try local Chrome.
- Providers/MiniMax: route `image-01` requests to the dedicated image generation endpoint while preserving CN endpoint selection. Fixes #61149. Thanks @mushuiyu886.
- Plugins/startup: remove ownerless bundled runtime-dependency install locks after a short grace window and include lock owner details when startup times out waiting for a plugin runtime-deps lock.
- Plugins/install: anchor bundled runtime-dependency npm installs with an OpenClaw-owned package manifest so Linux updates cannot accidentally write to a parent `$HOME/node_modules` tree. Fixes #71730.
- Plugins/install: pass onboarding plugin config into plugin index writes so local plugin installs outside default discovery roots keep their install records. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/install: migrate shipped `plugins.installs` config records into the plugin index while stripping them from runtime config and future writes. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/install: durably remove shipped `plugins.installs` from `openclaw.json` after its records are copied into the plugin index, while rolling back the index write if config cleanup fails. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/install: keep migrated plugin install records in the plugin index even when the plugin manifest is missing or invalid, so update, uninstall, inspect, and audit can still recover broken installs. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/security: keep plugin audit JSON check ids stable while reporting plugin index install-record findings with updated wording. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/config: reject direct `plugins.installs` edits with guidance to use `openclaw plugins install`, `openclaw plugins update`, or `openclaw plugins uninstall` instead. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Live tests/voice: accept common STT variants for OpenClaw and ElevenLabs brand names so provider smoke tests fail on real regressions rather than equivalent transcripts.
- Agents/replies: forward sanitized underlying agent failure details on external channels instead of replacing unknown failures with a generic retry message.
- CLI/MCP: translate OpenClaw `mcp.servers.*.transport` entries into Claude/Gemini CLI `type` fields so streamable HTTP MCP servers load in CLI backend sessions. (#71724) Thanks @Blockchain-Oracle.
- Browser/CDP: honor configured remote and `attachOnly` CDP HTTP/WebSocket timeouts when opening tabs through raw CDP or `/json/new` fallback. (#54238) Thanks @FuncWei.
- WhatsApp/TTS: send visible text separately from PTT voice-note audio instead of relying on hidden voice-note captions. Fixes #51081.
- Browser/client: avoid telling agents to restart OpenClaw for dispatcher timeouts on external browser profiles such as `attachOnly`, remote CDP, and existing-session. (#40815) Thanks @0xsline.
- Agents/TTS: preserve `[[audio_as_voice]]` directives on trusted text tool-result `MEDIA:` payloads so generated audio still delivers as a voice note. (#46535) Thanks @azade-c.
- Agents/TTS: keep queued tool media when an assistant ends with `NO_REPLY` on non-block delivery paths, so media-only generated audio replies still send. (#60025) Thanks @bradlind1.
- Telegram/STT: frame inbound voice-note transcripts as machine-generated, untrusted text in agent context while preserving raw transcript mention detection. Closes #33360. Thanks @smartchainark.
- Subagents/browser: show an actionable `/tools` notice when browser automation is configured but filtered out by the active tool profile, and document that coding-profile agents should use `tools.alsoAllow: ["browser"]` rather than subagent allowlists alone.
- Control UI/Quick Settings: persist the assistant avatar override to browser local storage (mirroring the user avatar) so uploaded image data URLs no longer fail config validation with "Too big: expected string to have <=200 characters". Also lift the gateway-side `ui.assistant.avatar` length cap to match the user avatar size budget for non-UI clients writing the field directly. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Plugin SDK: share diagnostic event subscriptions across duplicate source/dist module graphs so legacy root SDK imports still receive runtime diagnostic events.
- Agents/Bedrock: prevent empty assistant stream-error turns from poisoning Converse replay by persisting, repairing, and replaying a non-empty fallback block. Fixes #71572. (#71627) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/Anthropic/Bedrock: strip thinking blocks with missing, empty, or blank replay signatures before provider conversion, falling back to non-empty omitted-reasoning text when needed so corrupted signed-thinking history no longer poisons subsequent turns. Fixes #45010. (#70054) Thanks @castaples.
- Agents/Anthropic/Bedrock: preserve stripped thinking-only assistant replay turns with non-empty omitted-reasoning text so provider adapters keep strict user/assistant turn shape. Thanks @wujiaming88.
- ACP/Codex: pass `sessions_spawn(runtime="acp")` model and thinking overrides into Codex ACP startup, normalize `openai-codex/*` refs and slash reasoning suffixes, and recognize managed Codex ACP wrapper commands without blocking current `gpt-5.5` sessions. Fixes #40393. (#71643) Thanks @91wan.
- Browser/CDP: make readiness diagnostics use the same discovery-first fallback as reachability for bare `ws://` Browserless and Browserbase CDP URLs. Fixes #69532.
- Browser/CDP: explain that loopback Browserless or other externally managed CDP services need `attachOnly: true` and matching Browserless `EXTERNAL` endpoint when reporting local port ownership conflicts, and fall back to the configured bare WebSocket root when a discovered Browserless endpoint rejects CDP. Fixes #49815.
- Gateway/reload: preserve indefinite `gateway.reload.deferralTimeoutMs: 0` semantics for channel hot reload deferrals so active agent runs are not interrupted by a forced channel restart. (#71637) Thanks @Poo-Squirry.
- Agents/tool results: cap persisted Pi tool-result details and strip hidden diagnostics before provider conversion, preventing large debug payloads from bloating session transcripts. (#71637) Thanks @Poo-Squirry.
- ACP/OpenCode: update the bundled acpx runtime to 0.6.0 and cover the OpenCode ACP bind path in Docker live tests.
- Providers/OpenCode Go: add DeepSeek V4 Pro and DeepSeek V4 Flash to the Go catalog while the bundled Pi registry catches up. Fixes #71587.
- Providers/OpenCode Go: route DeepSeek V4 Pro/Flash through the OpenAI-compatible Go endpoint and suppress invalid `reasoning_effort: "off"` payloads, fixing tool-enabled requests for `opencode-go/deepseek-v4-flash`. Fixes #71683.
- Plugins/model defaults: run Skill Workshop review, Active Memory recall, and session-memory slug generation on the configured agent default model instead of the hardcoded OpenAI SDK fallback when hook context lacks model metadata. Fixes #71659.
- Providers/Venice: fill the required DeepSeek V4 `reasoning_content` placeholder for `venice/deepseek-v4-pro` and `venice/deepseek-v4-flash` replay turns without sending native DeepSeek `thinking` controls that Venice rejects. Fixes #71628.
- Browser/existing-session: support per-profile Chrome MCP command/args, map `cdpUrl` to `--browserUrl` or `--wsEndpoint`, and avoid combining endpoint flags with `--userDataDir`. Fixes #47879, #48037, and #62706. Thanks @puneet1409, @zhehao, and @madkow1001.
- Media/plugins: bound MIME sniffing and ZIP archive preflight before handing untrusted files to `file-type` or `jszip`, reducing parser CPU and memory exposure for attachments and ClawHub plugin archives. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory-host SDK: use trusted env-proxy mode for remote embedding and batch HTTP calls only when Undici will proxy that target, preserving SSRF DNS pinning for `ALL_PROXY`-only and `NO_PROXY` bypass cases. Fixes #52162. (#71506) Thanks @DhtIsCoding.
- Gateway/dashboard: render Control UI and WebSocket links with `https://`/`wss://` when `gateway.tls.enabled=true`, including `openclaw gateway status`. Fixes #71494. (#71499) Thanks @deepkilo.
- Agents/OpenAI-compatible: default proxy/local completions tool requests to `tool_choice: "auto"` when tools are present, so providers enter native tool-calling mode instead of replying with plain-text tool directives. (#71472) Thanks @Speed-maker.
- OpenAI image generation: use `gpt-5.5` for the Codex OAuth responses transport instead of the retired `gpt-5.4` model, fixing 500s from ChatGPT Codex image generation. Fixes #71513. Thanks @baolongl.
- OpenAI image generation: route transparent-background default-model requests to `gpt-image-1.5`, document the expected `image_generate` call shape, and keep Azure/custom OpenAI-compatible deployment names untouched.
- Google video generation: download direct MLDev Veo `video.uri` results instead of passing them through the Files API path, fixing 404s after successful generation/polling. Fixes #71200. Thanks @panhaishan.
- Google video generation: fall back to the REST `predictLongRunning` Veo endpoint for text-only SDK 404s while keeping reference image/video generation on the SDK path. Fixes #62309 and #63008. (#62343) Thanks @leoleedev.
- MiniMax music generation: switch the bundled default model from the unsupported `music-2.5+` id to the current `music-2.6` API model. Fixes #64870 and addresses the music default from #62315. Thanks @noahclanman and @edwardzheng1.
- Cron: record jobs interrupted by a gateway restart as failed at their original `runningAtMs`, skip unsafe startup replay, and disable interrupted one-shot jobs so they show a visible failure instead of silently disappearing or duplicating work. Fixes #59056, #61343, #63657, and #59301. Thanks @ponchoooPenguin, @daemic24, @myradon, and @hikiwibot.
- Cron tool: recover flat top-level schedule shorthand such as `cron`, `tz`, and `staggerMs` before gateway validation, so model-generated cron add/update calls preserve cron jitter settings. Thanks @tyxben.
- Cron: hydrate flat legacy job rows with top-level `cron`, `tz`, `session`, and `message` fields into canonical schedule, target, and payload objects before startup recomputes run times. Fixes #43351.
- Agents/replies: let pending group chat history trigger bare mentioned turns without treating metadata-only inbound context as user input. Fixes #71489. (#71520) Thanks @SymbolStar.
- Google media generation: strip a configured trailing `/v1beta` from Google music/video provider base URLs before calling the Google GenAI SDK, preventing doubled `/v1beta/v1beta` paths. Fixes #63240. (#63258) Thanks @Hybirdss.
- Discord: restore direct-message voice-note preflight transcription and classify URL-only Ogg/Opus voice attachments as audio while skipping partial attachments without usable URLs. Fixes #61314 and #64803.
- Plugins/build: copy bundled plugin skill trees into `dist-runtime`, broaden Windows symlink-copy fallbacks, and fingerprint runtime dependencies from `lstat` so symlink-like directory entries cannot crash staging.
- Google Chat: preserve reply text when a typing indicator message is deleted or can no longer be updated, so media captions and first text chunks are resent instead of silently disappearing. (#71498) Thanks @colin-lgtm.
- Cron: tolerate malformed legacy job rows in startup, main-session system-event payloads, and human-readable `cron list` output so missing `state`, `payload.text`, or display fields no longer crash the scheduler or CLI. Fixes #66016, #65916, #64137, #57872, #59968, #63813, #52804, and #43163. (#71509) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/models: make `openclaw models scan` fall back to public OpenRouter free-model metadata when no `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` is configured, avoid config secret resolution for explicit `--no-probe` scans, and apply the scan timeout to the OpenRouter catalog request.
- Feishu: keep streaming cards to one live card per turn, flush throttled card edits after meaningful text boundaries, and skip exact block/partial repeats so tool-heavy replies do not duplicate card output. Thanks @allan0509.
- Feishu: finish the streaming-card duplicate closeout by stripping leaked reasoning tags, preserving cross-block partial snapshots, enabling topic-thread streaming cards, omitting the generic `main` card header, surfacing transient tool/compaction status, and cleaning streaming state after close failures. Thanks @sesame437, @Vicky-v7, @maoku-family, @Pengxiao-Wang, and @Maple778.
- Telegram: keep final-only answers on the normal final-send path instead of creating synthetic draft previews, while preserving real partial preview finalization. Credited from #39213. Thanks @chalawbot.
- Telegram: recover incomplete partial-stream previews by falling back to a final send when an ambiguous final edit failure would otherwise retain a strict prefix of the answer. Fixes #71525. (#71554) Thanks @sahilsatralkar.
- Control UI/chat: collapse assistant token/model context details behind an explicit Context disclosure and show full dates in message footers, making historical transcript timing clear without noisy default metadata. (#71337) Thanks @BunsDev.
- OpenAI/Codex OAuth: explain `unsupported_country_region_territory` token-exchange failures with a proxy/region hint instead of surfacing a generic OAuth error. Fixes #51175. (#71501) Thanks @vincentkoc and @wulala-xjj.
- Browser/Linux: fall back to headless mode for local managed profiles on hosts without a display server, while preserving explicit per-profile headed overrides and reporting the headless source. (#60953) Thanks @rrpsantos.
- 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.
- Telegram: keep the polling stall watchdog active even when grammY reports the runner as not running while its task is still pending, so a rebuilt transport cannot leave `getUpdates` silent until a manual gateway restart. Fixes #69064. Thanks @LDLoeb.
- Subagents: fall back to direct completion delivery when the parent announce turn finishes without a visible payload, so child results still reach channel-backed requester sessions.
- Subagents: tell parent agents to use `sessions_yield` while waiting for child completion events, preventing GPT-5 fast runs from ending silently after spawning workers.
- 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/CLI: lazy-load browser command groups and plugin runtime services so `openclaw browser --help` can render without loading the full browser automation stack. Fixes #65400. (#65460, #66640) Thanks @pandego and @Tianworld.
- Browser/CLI: serve precomputed `openclaw browser --help` text from CLI startup metadata, avoiding the full plugin/config startup path for the common help invocation.
- Browser/downloads: seed managed Chrome profiles with OpenClaw download prefs and capture unmanaged click-triggered downloads under the guarded downloads directory, while explicit download waiters still own their target file. (#64558) Thanks @Pearcekieser.
- Browser/Chrome: stop passing redundant `--disable-setuid-sandbox` when `browser.noSandbox` is enabled; `--no-sandbox` remains the effective sandbox opt-out. (#67939) Thanks @sebykrueger.
- Browser/client: stop telling agents to permanently avoid the browser after transient timeout or cancellation failures; keep the no-retry hint for persistent unavailable/rate-limit cases. (#46505) Thanks @jriff.
- 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. Thanks @Co-Messi.
- 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. Thanks @spartoviMD.
- 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. Thanks @GodsBoy.
- 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.
- GitHub Copilot: never rewrite connection-bound reasoning item IDs regardless of whether `encrypted_content` is present, fixing a 400 "Encrypted content item_id did not match" error with `gpt-5.3-codex` and future Codex models that fall through to the forward-compat catch-all with `reasoning: false`. Also recognize Codex-named models as reasoning-capable so they inherit the correct capability flags. Refs #68735. Thanks @InvalidPandaa.
- 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. Thanks @sg1416-zg and @ycjlb2023-peteryi.
- WhatsApp/TTS: transcode MP3/WebM audio, including Microsoft Edge TTS output, to Ogg/Opus before sending PTT voice notes.
- QQBot/TTS: honor plain `audioAsVoice` replies by synthesizing TTS to native QQ voice messages, and mark inbound voice-only messages as audio media without exposing raw voice paths to generic media context.
- Providers/SenseAudio: add bundled SenseAudio batch audio transcription through `tools.media.audio` with `SENSEAUDIO_API_KEY` auth. (#66943) Thanks @Fl0rencess720.
- Providers/MiniMax: let TTS use MiniMax portal OAuth and Token Plan credentials before falling back to `MINIMAX_API_KEY`, and include current TTS HD model ids. Fixes #55017. Thanks @zx15210404690-hash.
- 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/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. Thanks @xieyuanqing.
- Active Memory: keep silent recall sub-agent billing/auth failures out of shared auth-profile cooldown state, so a Claude CLI extra-usage rejection cannot disable normal Claude-backed turns. Fixes #71284. (#71539) Thanks @vishutdhar and @obviyus.
- Auth/Claude CLI: sync refreshed Claude CLI OAuth credentials into the managed auth profile so long-running Claude CLI runs stop falling back to stale OpenClaw snapshots. (#70902) Thanks @starvex.
- Sessions: make `sessions_spawn(mode="session")` errors name usable alternatives when the current channel cannot bind subagent threads. Fixes #67400. (#67790) Thanks @stainlu.
- Agents/Claude CLI: pass the OpenClaw system prompt through Claude's prompt-file flag so Windows runs avoid argv length failures without changing system prompt semantics. Fixes #69158. (#69211) Thanks @skylee-01, @cassioanorte, @Syu0, and @Stache73.
- Agents/CLI sessions: bind `google-gemini-cli` session auth-epoch to the Google account identity in `~/.gemini/oauth_creds.json`, so Gemini-backed agents resume their conversation after gateway restart instead of minting a fresh session, and stale bindings are invalidated when the authenticated Google account changes. Fixes #70973. (#71076) Thanks @openperf.
- Slack: stop treating user mentions in assistant-authored message edit blocks as sender attribution, preventing edited bot messages from spoofing a mentioned DM user. (#71700) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex: consume unauthorized bound conversation inbound claims before they can fall through to other claim handlers or enqueue Codex turns. (#71702) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex media understanding: require approval-checked app-server image turns while explicitly declining tool, file, permission, and elicitation approval requests for the bounded image worker. (#71703) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Claude CLI: allow large live `stream-json` JSONL lines up to the existing per-turn raw limit, preventing large Telegram, WebChat, MCP, and image turns from aborting on the old stdout buffer cap. Fixes #71793, #71080, and #70766. (#71897) Thanks @chacher86, @shivamgrover21, and @tpjordan.
- Agents/Claude CLI: unwrap nested Claude result envelopes in CLI JSON output so delegated agent responses surface as final text instead of raw result JSON. (#66819) Thanks @mraleko.
- Agents/Claude CLI: apply the configured 1M context window override to eligible Claude CLI Opus and Sonnet models when `context1m` is enabled. (#70863) Thanks @bidadh.
- Models/status: report fresh Claude CLI native auth instead of stale stored `anthropic:claude-cli` profile expiry when local credentials are current. Fixes #71256. (#71332) Thanks @matthiasjanke and @neeravmakwana.
- CLI backends: compact OpenClaw transcripts after over-budget CLI turns and reseed fresh CLI sessions from the compacted transcript instead of stale external resume state. Fixes #68329. (#71916) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram: keep default tool progress messages visible when answer preview streaming is disabled. (#71825) Thanks @VACInc.
- Configure/models: clear deselected model fallbacks when updating the model picker allowlist, including provider-scoped setup flows. (#71596) Thanks @rubencu.
- Agents/streaming: strip namespaced `<antml:thinking>` reasoning tags from streamed assistant replies before user-visible text is emitted. (#69288) Thanks @xialonglee.

## 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.
- Providers/OpenRouter: add native video generation through `video_generate`, so OpenRouter video models work with `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`. (#72700) Thanks @notamicrodose.
- 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.

### Breaking

- Plugin SDK/tool-result transforms: remove the Pi-only `api.registerEmbeddedExtensionFactory(...)` compatibility path. Bundled tool-result rewrites must use `api.registerAgentToolResultMiddleware(...)` with `contracts.agentToolResultMiddleware` declaring the targeted harnesses, so transforms run consistently across Pi and Codex app-server dynamic tools. Thanks @vincentkoc.

### Changes

- Control UI/Talk: add browser WebRTC realtime voice sessions backed by OpenAI Realtime, with Gateway-minted ephemeral client secrets and `openclaw_agent_consult` handoff to the full OpenClaw agent.
- Plugins/Google Meet: add a bundled participant plugin with personal Google auth, explicit meeting URL joins, Chrome and Twilio realtime transports, paired-node `chrome-node` support for Parallels-style Chrome/BlackHole/SoX hosts, and full-agent consults inside live voice sessions. (#70765)
- Plugins/Google Meet: add artifact and attendance workflows for conference records, recordings, transcripts, smart notes, and participant sessions, including markdown/file output, latest-record lookup, and `--all-conference-records` history scans.
- Plugins/Google Meet: add OAuth and browser-state doctor/recovery flows, including `googlemeet doctor --oauth` and `recover_current_tab`/`recover-tab` so agents can inspect already-open Meet tabs without opening duplicates.
- Plugins/Voice Call: expose the shared `openclaw_agent_consult` realtime tool so live phone calls can ask the full OpenClaw agent for deeper/tool-backed answers.
- Plugins/Voice Call: add `voicecall setup` and a dry-run-by-default `voicecall smoke` command so Twilio/provider readiness can be checked before placing a live test call.
- Providers/Google: add a Gemini Live realtime voice provider for backend Voice Call and Google Meet audio bridges, with bidirectional audio and function-call support.
- Providers/Google: let Gemini TTS prepend configured `audioProfile` and `speakerName` prompt text for reusable speech style control. Thanks @tdack.
- Gateway/VoiceClaw: add a realtime brain WebSocket endpoint backed by Gemini Live, with owner-auth gating and async OpenClaw tool handoff. (#70938) Thanks @yagudaev.
- Control UI: refine the agent Tool Access panel with compact live-tool chips, collapsible tool groups, direct per-tool toggles, and clearer runtime/source provenance. (#71405) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/chat: add a Steer action on queued messages so a browser follow-up can be injected into the active run without retyping it.
- Browser: add viewport coordinate clicks for managed and existing-session automation, plus `openclaw browser click-coords` for CLI use. (#54452) Thanks @dluttz.
- Browser: add `browser.actionTimeoutMs` and use a 60s default action budget so healthy long browser waits do not fail at the client transport boundary. (#62589) Thanks @andyylin.
- Browser/config: support per-profile `browser.profiles.<name>.headless` overrides for locally launched browser profiles, so one profile can run headless without forcing all browser profiles headless. Thanks @nakamotoliu.
- Matrix: require full cross-signing identity trust for self-device verification and add `openclaw matrix verify self` so operators can establish that trust from the CLI. (#70401) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Gradium: add a bundled text-to-speech provider with voice-note and telephony output support. (#64958) Thanks @LaurentMazare.
- Memory-core/hybrid search: expose raw `vectorScore` and `textScore` alongside the combined `score` on hybrid memory search results, so callers can inspect vector-versus-text retrieval contribution before temporal decay or MMR reordering. Fixes #68166. (#68286) Thanks @ajfonthemove.
- Dependencies/memory: stop installing `node-llama-cpp` by default; local embeddings now load it only when operators install the optional runtime package. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/DeepSeek: add DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro to the bundled catalog and make V4 Flash the onboarding default. Thanks @lsdsjy.
- Dependencies/Pi: update bundled Pi packages to `0.70.2`, use Pi's upstream `gpt-5.5` and DeepSeek V4 catalog metadata, and keep only local `gpt-5.5-pro` forward-compat handling. Thanks @lsdsjy.
- Models/CLI: speed up model listing with safe static catalogs for bundled providers, narrower row-source orchestration, and less broad registry enumeration for default `openclaw models list`. (#70632, #70883, #70867) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Models/commands: deprecate `/models add` so chat attempts now return a deprecation message instead of writing model configuration, and remove the add action from `/models` provider menus. (#71175) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Models/catalog: add manifest-sourced model rows, duplicate provider/model conflict reporting, and shared `src/model-catalog` normalization for provider index, cache, onboarding, and listing consumers without loading provider runtime. (#71368, #71360) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Codex harness/context-engine: run context-engine bootstrap, assembly, post-turn maintenance, and engine-owned compaction in Codex app-server sessions while keeping native Codex thread state and compaction auditable. (#70809) Thanks @jalehman.
- Codex runtime plan: consolidate contract-first Pi/Codex parity coverage and accept legacy Codex auth-provider aliases in app-server profile login and refresh paths. (#71096) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Codex harness: bridge Codex-native tool hooks into OpenClaw plugin hooks and approvals, with bounded relay payloads and approval spam protection. (#71008) Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Plugin SDK/Codex harness: add provider-owned transport/auth/follow-up seams and harness result classification so Codex-style runtimes can participate in fallback policy without core special-casing. (#70772) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Gateway/nodes: add disabled-by-default `gateway.nodes.pairing.autoApproveCidrs` for first-time node pairing from explicit trusted CIDRs, while keeping operator/browser pairing and all upgrade flows manual. Fixes #60800. Thanks @sahilsatralkar.
- WebChat/sessions: keep runtime-only prompt context out of visible transcript history and scrub legacy wrappers from session history surfaces. Thanks @91wan.
- Agents/bootstrap: add `agents.defaults.contextInjection: "never"` to disable workspace bootstrap file injection for agents that fully own their prompt lifecycle. (#65006) Thanks @xDarkicex.
- Plugins/manifest: add a `modelCatalog` contract for provider-owned model rows, aliases, suppression rules, and discovery mode metadata without loading plugin runtime. (#71342) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Plugins/setup: honor explicit `setup.requiresRuntime: false` as a descriptor-only setup contract while keeping omitted values on the legacy setup-api fallback path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/setup: report descriptor/runtime drift when setup-api registrations disagree with `setup.providers` or `setup.cliBackends`, without rejecting legacy setup plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/setup: include `setup.providers[].envVars` in generic provider auth/env lookups and warn non-bundled plugins that still rely on deprecated `providerAuthEnvVars` compatibility metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/setup: derive generic provider setup choices from descriptor-safe `setup.providers[].authMethods` before falling back to setup runtime. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/setup: surface manifest provider auth choices directly in provider setup flow before falling back to setup runtime or install-catalog choices. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/setup: warn when descriptor-only setup plugins still ship ignored setup runtime entries, keeping `setup.requiresRuntime: false` semantics explicit without breaking existing metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/channels: use manifest `channelConfigs` for read-only external channel discovery when no setup entry is available or setup descriptors declare runtime unnecessary. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugin hooks: expose first-class run, message, sender, session, and trace correlation fields on message hook contexts and run lifecycle events. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/PDF: move local PDF extraction into a bundled `document-extract` plugin so core no longer owns `pdfjs-dist` or PDF image-rendering dependencies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Anthropic Vertex: move the Vertex SDK runtime behind the bundled provider plugin so core no longer owns that provider-specific dependency. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/activation: expose activation plan reasons and a richer plan API so callers can inspect why a plugin was selected while preserving existing id-list activation behavior. (#70943) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/source metadata: expose normalized install-source facts on provider and channel catalogs so onboarding can explain npm pinning, integrity state, and local availability before runtime loads. (#70951) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/catalog: pin the official external WeCom channel source to an exact npm release plus dist integrity, with a guard that official external sources stay integrity-pinned. (#70997) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/source metadata: warn when `openclaw.install.defaultChoice` is invalid or points at a missing source, keeping catalog diagnostics explicit without breaking existing plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/source metadata: warn when `openclaw.install.expectedIntegrity` is present without a valid npm source, keeping orphaned integrity metadata visible without rejecting existing plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/source metadata: warn when provider or channel catalog package identity drifts from `openclaw.install.npmSpec`, keeping diagnostics visible without rejecting compatible external catalogs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/Bonjour: move LAN Gateway discovery advertising into a default-enabled bundled plugin with its own `@homebridge/ciao` dependency, so users can disable Bonjour without cutting wide-area discovery. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/compatibility: add a central plugin compatibility registry and docs for SDK/config/setup/runtime deprecation records, including dated migration metadata for legacy harness naming and other plugin-facing aliases. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TUI/dependencies: remove direct `cli-highlight` usage from the OpenClaw TUI code-block renderer, keeping themed code coloring without the extra root dependency. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies/SBOM: add an ownership-backed dependency risk report for root closure size, native/build-risk packages, and missing owner records. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: export run, model-call, and tool-execution diagnostic lifecycle events as OTEL spans without retaining live span state. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: accept opt-in `diagnostics.otel.captureContent` controls for future model/tool content span attributes while keeping raw content export disabled by default. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: add a lightweight diagnostic trace-context carrier for future span correlation without adding OTEL SDK state to core. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: attach diagnostic trace context to exported OTEL logs so log records can correlate with future spans without adding retained process state. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: pass immutable per-run diagnostic trace context through agent and tool hook contexts, and parent exported diagnostic spans from validated context without retaining global trace state. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: make exporter startup restart-safe so config reloads do not retain stale SDKs, log transports, or diagnostic event listeners. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: emit bounded exec-process diagnostics and export them as `openclaw.exec` spans without exposing command text, working directories, or container identifiers. (#70424) Thanks @jlapenna.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: support `OPENCLAW_OTEL_PRELOADED=1` so the plugin can reuse an already-registered OpenTelemetry SDK while keeping OpenClaw diagnostic listeners wired. (#70424) Thanks @jlapenna.
- Diagnostics: emit structured tool execution diagnostic events with trace context, timing, and redacted error metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics: emit structured run and model-call diagnostic events with trace context, duration, and non-message error metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/Gateway: make `gateway status` start faster by skipping plugin loading on the read-only status path. (#71364) Thanks @andyylin.

### 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.
- Agents/heartbeat: stop injecting the heartbeat system prompt into non-heartbeat runs, preventing ordinary user replies from being suppressed as `HEARTBEAT_OK` acknowledgments. Fixes #69079. (#69278) Thanks @stainlu.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Feishu: back off streaming-card creation after HTTP 400 startup failures, so unsupported card setups fall back without delaying every message. Fixes #56981. Thanks @JinnanDuan.
- Feishu/topic groups: key native Feishu/Lark topic-group sessions by `thread_id` so starter messages and replies with different `root_id` formats stay in the same `group_topic` conversation. Fixes #71438. Thanks @1335848090.
- Feishu: suppress duplicate final card delivery when idle closes a streaming card before the final payload arrives. (#68491) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Feishu: stop carrying inbound mention targets into every outbound reply, so fallback, error, and ack responses no longer cascade @mentions; agent prompts now treat those mentions as context only. Fixes #70065. Thanks @AxelHu.
- Signal: preserve sender attachment filenames and resolve missing MIME types from those filenames, so Linux `signal-cli` voice notes without `contentType` still enter audio transcription. Fixes #48614. Thanks @mindfury.
- Telegram/agents: suppress the phantom "Agent couldn't generate a response" fallback after a reply was already committed through the messaging tool. (#70623) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar.
- Models/CLI: show provider runtime `contextTokens` beside native `contextWindow` in `openclaw models list`, and align `openai-codex/gpt-5.5` with Codex's 272K runtime cap plus 400K native window. Fixes #71403.
- Dashboard/security: avoid writing tokenized Control UI URLs or SSH hints to runtime logs, keeping gateway bearer fragments out of console-captured logs readable through `logs.tail`. (#70029) Thanks @Ziy1-Tan.
- Providers/OpenRouter: treat DeepSeek refs as cache-TTL eligible without injecting Anthropic cache-control markers, aligning context pruning with OpenRouter-managed prompt caching. (#51983) Thanks @QuinnH496.
- Control UI/browser: defer temp-dir access-mode constants until Node-only temp-dir resolution runs, preventing browser bundles from crashing when `node:fs` constants are stubbed. (#48930) Thanks @Valentinws.
- Discord/cron: deliver text-only isolated cron and heartbeat announce output from the canonical final assistant text once, avoiding duplicate Discord posts when streamed block payloads and the final answer contain the same content. Fixes #71406. Thanks @alexgross21.
- macOS Gateway: wait for launchd to reload the exited Gateway LaunchAgent before bootstrapping repair fallback, preventing config-triggered restarts from leaving the service not loaded. Fixes #45178. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- macOS Gateway: tolerate launchctl bootstrap's already-loaded exit during restart fallback and use non-killing kickstart after bootstrap, avoiding a second race that can unload the LaunchAgent. Fixes #41934. Thanks @zerone0x.
- macOS Gateway: rewrite stale LaunchAgent plists before restart fallback bootstrap, matching install repair behavior when `gateway restart` has to re-register launchd. Thanks @maybegeeker.
- TTS/hooks: preserve audio-only TTS transcripts for `message_sending` and `message_sent` hooks without rendering the transcript as a media caption. Thanks @zqchris.
- WhatsApp/TTS: preserve `audioAsVoice` through shared media payload sends and the WhatsApp outbound adapter, so `[[audio_as_voice]]` reply payloads keep their voice-note intent when routed through `sendPayload`. Fixes #66053. Thanks @masatohoshino.
- Control UI/WebChat: hide heartbeat prompts, `HEARTBEAT_OK` acknowledgments, and internal-only runtime context turns from visible chat history while leaving the underlying transcript intact. Fixes #71381. Thanks @gerald1950ggg-ai.
- Control UI/chat: keep optimistic user and assistant tail messages visible when a final history refresh briefly returns an older snapshot, preventing message cards from flash-disappearing until the next refresh. Fixes #71371. Thanks @WolvenRA.
- Talk/TTS: resolve configured extension speech providers from the active runtime registry before provider-list discovery, so Talk mode no longer rejects valid plugin speech providers as unsupported.
- Sessions/subagents: stop stale ended runs and old store-only child reverse links from reappearing in `childSessions`, while keeping live descendants and recently-ended children visible. Fixes #57920.
- Subagents: recover child sessions after recoverable wait transport failures without exposing an extra wait state, and keep terminal lifecycle timer ordering deterministic. (#71423) Thanks @ZiPengWei.
- Subagents: stop stale unended runs from counting as active or pending forever, while preserving restart-aborted recovery for recoverable child sessions. Fixes #71252. Thanks @hclsys.
- Gateway/tools: allow `POST /tools/invoke` to reach plugin-backed catalog tools such as `browser` when no core implementation exists, while still preferring built-in tools for real core names. Thanks @chat2way.
- Browser/security: require `operator.admin` for the `browser.request` gateway method, matching the host/browser-node control authority exposed by that route. Thanks @RichardCao.
- Browser/profiles: allow local managed profiles to override `browser.executablePath`, so different profiles can launch different Chromium-based browsers. Thanks @nobrainer-tech.
- Agents/replay: repair displaced or missing tool results before strict provider replay, use Codex-compatible `aborted` outputs for OpenAI Responses history, and drop partial aborted/error transport turns before retries.
- Browser/startup: deduplicate concurrent lazy-start calls per profile so simultaneous browser tool requests no longer race into duplicate Chrome launches and `PortInUseError`. (#61772) Thanks @sukhdeepjohar.
- Browser/profiles: recover from stale Chromium `Singleton*` profile locks after crashes or host moves by clearing dead/foreign locks and retrying launch once. Thanks @seanc-dev.
- Browser/existing-session: keep Chrome MCP status probes transport-only and ephemeral, and retry stale cached Playwright attaches once so idle profile checks no longer poison the next real attach. (#57245) Thanks @josephbergvinson.
- Cron/exec: suppress automatic background exec completion wakes only for silent cron jobs with `delivery.mode="none"` while keeping webhook and announce runs observable. (#71391) Thanks @goldmar.
- Reply media: allow sandboxed replies to deliver OpenClaw-managed `media/outbound` and `media/tool-*` attachments without treating them as sandbox escapes, while keeping alias-escape checks on the managed media root. Fixes #71138. Thanks @mayor686, @truffle-dev, and @neeravmakwana.
- CLI/agent: keep `openclaw agent --json` stdout reserved for the JSON response by routing gateway, plugin, and embedded-fallback diagnostics to stderr before execution starts. Fixes #71319.
- Agents/Gemini: retry reasoning-only, empty, and planning-only Gemini turns instead of letting sessions silently stall. Fixes #71074. (#71362) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Providers/DeepSeek: add missing `reasoning_content` placeholders for replayed assistant tool-call turns when DeepSeek V4 thinking is enabled, so switching an existing session to `deepseek-v4-flash` or `deepseek-v4-pro` no longer trips the provider's 400 replay check. Fixes #71372. Thanks @yangyang1719.
- Exec approvals: allow bare command-name allowlist patterns to match PATH-resolved executable basenames without trusting `./tool` or absolute path-selected binaries. Fixes #71315. Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code and @dengluozhang.
- Config/recovery: skip whole-file last-known-good rollback when invalidity is scoped to `plugins.entries.*`, preserving unrelated user settings during plugin schema or host-version skew. Fixes #71289. Thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/tools: keep resolved reply-run configs from being overwritten by stale runtime snapshots, and let empty web runtime metadata fall back to configured provider auto-detection so standard and queued turns expose the same tool set. Fixes #71355. Thanks @c-g14.
- Agents/TTS: pass the resolved shared config into the `tts` tool, so tool-triggered speech uses configured providers and voices instead of falling back to a fresh config load.
- Reply media: strip `MEDIA:` attachments from final replies when the same media already went out through block streaming, preventing duplicate Telegram voice notes and files. Fixes #65468. Thanks @aurora-openclaw.
- Agents/TTS: preserve voice media when a tool-generated reply is paired with an exact `NO_REPLY` sentinel, stripping the sentinel text instead of dropping the audio payload. Fixes #66092.
- Compaction: honor explicit `agents.defaults.compaction.keepRecentTokens` for manual `/compact`, re-distill safeguard summaries instead of snowballing previous summaries, and enable safeguard summary quality checks by default. Fixes #71357. Thanks @WhiteGiverMa.
- Sessions: honor configured `session.maintenance` settings during load-time maintenance instead of falling back to default entry caps. Fixes #71356. Thanks @comolago.
- Browser/sandbox: pass the resolved `browser.ssrfPolicy` into sandbox browser bridges and refresh cached bridges when the effective policy changes, so sandboxed browser navigation honors private-network opt-ins. Fixes #45153 and #57055. Thanks @jzakirov, @zuoanCo, and @kybrcore.
- Browser/proxy: keep Gateway/provider proxy environment variables from proxying the OpenClaw-managed browser, so `HTTP_PROXY` and `HTTPS_PROXY` no longer block ordinary browser navigation. Fixes #71358. Thanks @Sanjays2402.
- Agents/MCP: validate draft-2020-12 MCP tool output schemas with a draft-aware bundle-MCP client validator, so external MCP servers no longer fail catalog/tool execution with missing schema refs. Fixes #68772 and #70196. Thanks @mwiesen.
- Dashboard/Windows: open Control UI and OAuth URLs through the system URL handler without `cmd.exe` parsing or PATH-based `rundll32` lookup, and reject non-HTTP browser-open inputs. Fixes #71098. Thanks @Sanjays2402.
- Config/doctor: reject legacy `secretref-env:<ENV_VAR>` marker strings on SecretRef credential paths and migrate valid markers to structured env SecretRefs with `openclaw doctor --fix`. Fixes #51794. Thanks @halointellicore.
- Plugin SDK/browser: export the resolved browser tab-cleanup config type through the browser profile facade, keeping SDK subpath contracts aligned.
- Providers/OpenAI: separate API-key and Codex sign-in onboarding groups, and avoid replaying stale OpenAI Responses reasoning blocks after a model route switch.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible: forward `prompt_cache_key` on Completions requests only for providers that opt in with `compat.supportsPromptCacheKey`, keeping default proxy payloads unchanged. Fixes #69272.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible: skip null or non-object streaming chunks from custom providers instead of failing the turn after partial output. Fixes #51112.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible: treat singular MLX-style `finish_reason: "tool_call"` as tool use instead of a provider error. Fixes #61499.
- Docs/TTS: clarify that legacy flat TTS provider config blocks are repaired by `openclaw doctor --fix`, not accepted by strict runtime schema on load. Fixes #56220.
- Plugins/OpenCode: strip unsupported disabled Responses reasoning payloads for OpenCode image understanding. Fixes #70252.
- Plugins/OpenCode/OpenCode Go: register image understanding metadata so the image tool is available for OpenCode catalog models with vision support. Fixes #70482 and #61789.
- Plugins/OpenCode Go: update the default Go catalog model to `opencode-go/kimi-k2.6`. Thanks @masrlinu.
- Providers/ElevenLabs: omit the MP3-only `Accept` header for PCM telephony synthesis, so Voice Call requests for `pcm_22050` no longer receive MP3 audio. Fixes #67340. Thanks @marcchabot.
- Providers/MiniMax TTS: truncate fractional pitch overrides before sending T2A requests, matching MiniMax's integer pitch contract while preserving fractional speed and volume. Fixes #62144.
- Providers/MiniMax TTS: transcode voice-note targets to Opus so Feishu/Telegram receive native voice messages instead of MP3 file attachments. Fixes #63540, #64134, and #70445.
- Providers/Microsoft TTS: keep allowlisted bundled speech providers discoverable even when another speech plugin has already registered, so Edge/Microsoft TTS is available alongside OpenAI. Fixes #62117 and #66850.
- Providers/Microsoft TTS: honor legacy `messages.tts.providers.edge` voice settings after normalizing Edge TTS to the Microsoft provider. Fixes #64153.
- Providers/OpenRouter: add an OpenRouter TTS provider using the OpenAI-compatible `/audio/speech` endpoint and `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`. Fixes #71268.
- macOS Talk Mode: retry failed local ElevenLabs stream playback through gateway `talk.speak` before falling back to the system voice, so configured ElevenLabs voices still play when streaming playback fails. Fixes #65662.
- Plugins/Voice Call: reap stale pre-answer calls by default, honor configured TTS timeouts for Twilio media-stream playback, and fail empty telephony audio instead of completing as silence. Fixes #42071; supersedes #60957. Thanks @Ryce and @sliekens.
- Plugins/Voice Call: fail fast when Twilio, Telnyx, or Plivo would fall back to a loopback/private webhook URL, so calls do not start with an unreachable callback endpoint. Thanks @artemgetmann.
- Plugins/Voice Call: resolve queued-but-not-yet-playing Twilio TTS entries when barge-in or stream teardown clears the playback queue, so callers awaiting `queueTts()` do not hang. Thanks @kevinWangSheng.
- Plugins/Voice Call: terminate expired restored call sessions with the provider and restart restored max-duration timers with only the remaining duration, preventing stale outbound retry loops after Gateway restarts. Fixes #48739. Thanks @mira-solari.
- Plugins/Voice Call: start provider STT after Telnyx outbound conversation greetings and pass configured Telnyx voice IDs through to the speak action. Fixes #56091. Thanks @Roshan.
- Skills: honor legacy `metadata.clawdbot` requirements and installer hints when `metadata.openclaw` is absent, so older skills no longer appear ready when required binaries are missing. Fixes #71323. Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.
- Browser/config: expand `~` in `browser.executablePath` before Chromium launch, so home-relative custom browser paths no longer fail with `ENOENT`. Fixes #67264. Thanks @Quratulain-bilal.
- Channels/streaming: keep Telegram tool-progress preview updates enabled by default to match released behavior, document `streaming.preview.toolProgress: false` for disabling only those status lines, and prevent preview progress text from triggering Telegram Markdown links, Discord mentions, or Slack mrkdwn mentions. Fixes #71320. Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Gateway/sessions: copy the oversized `sessions.json` to a rotation backup before the atomic rewrite instead of renaming the live store away, so a crash during rotation keeps the existing session-to-transcript mapping authoritative. Fixes #68229. Thanks @jjjojoj.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible: strip OpenAI-only Completions `store` from proxy payloads and allow `extra_body`/`extraBody` passthrough params for provider-specific request fields. Fixes #61826 and #69717.
- Discord/subagents: preserve thread-bound completion delivery by keeping the requester-agent announce path primary and falling back to direct thread sends only when the announce produces no visible output. (#71064) Thanks @DolencLuka.
- Discord/proxy: serialize proxied multipart attachment uploads with undici `FormData`, so Discord media sends work through configured REST proxies. (#71383) Thanks @TC500.
- Browser/tool: give Chrome MCP existing-session manage calls a longer default timeout, pass explicit tool timeouts through tab management, and recover stale selected-page MCP sessions instead of forcing a manual reset.
- Browser/sandbox: clean up idle tracked tabs opened by primary-agent browser sessions, while preserving active tab reuse and lifecycle cleanup for subagents, cron, and ACP sessions. Fixes #71165. Thanks @dwbutler.
- Plugins/Voice Call: reuse the webhook runtime across in-process plugin contexts, avoiding `EADDRINUSE` when agent tools or CLI commands run while the Gateway already owns the voice webhook port. Fixes #58115. Thanks @sfbrian.
- Plugins/Voice Call: answer accepted Telnyx inbound Call Control legs on `call.initiated`, so webhooks that reach OpenClaw no longer leave the caller ringing until hangup. Fixes #58231 and #40131. Thanks @KonsultDigital.
- Plugins/Voice Call: coalesce concurrent webhook server starts on the same runtime instance, avoiding a second `listen()` bind when overlapping startup paths race. Thanks @education-01.
- Plugins/Voice Call: pin voice response sessions to `responseModel` before embedded agent runs, avoiding live-session model switch failures when the global default model differs. Fixes #60118. Thanks @xinbenlv.
- Plugins/Voice Call: add `agentId` for voice response generation, so phone calls can use a dedicated agent workspace instead of always routing through `main`. Fixes #42155. Thanks @TheOpie.
- Plugins/Voice Call: scope embedded voice response sandbox resolution to the selected voice agent, so implicit `main` voice sessions respect `agents.defaults.sandbox.mode: "off"` even when other agents define sandboxed Docker binds. Fixes #56367. Thanks @crpol.
- Media tools: honor the configured web-fetch SSRF policy for media understanding, image/music/video generation references, and PDF inputs, so explicit RFC2544 opt-ins cover WebChat OSS uploads without weakening defaults. Fixes #71300. (#71321) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/TTS: suppress successful spoken transcripts from verbose chat tool output when structured voice media is already queued, while preserving text output for non-builtin tool-name collisions. Fixes #71282. Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Plugins/Google Meet: reuse active Meet tabs across harmless URL query differences, recover already-open tabs after browser timeouts, surface manual-action details for login or permission blockers, and let `googlemeet recover-tab` inspect paired browser nodes from the terminal.
- Cron/isolated sessions: clear stale runtime, lifecycle, auth, model, exec, heartbeat, usage, privilege, routing, and delivery artifacts when creating a fresh isolated run, and persist per-run session rows as snapshots so old base-session state no longer leaks into new cron executions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/sessions: recover main-agent turns interrupted by a gateway restart from stale transcript-lock evidence, avoiding stuck `status: "running"` sessions without broad post-boot transcript scans. Fixes #70555. Thanks @bitloi.
- Codex approvals: sanitize MCP elicitation approval titles, descriptions, and display parameters before forwarding them to OpenClaw approval prompts. (#71343) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Codex approvals: keep command approval responses within Codex app-server `availableDecisions`, including deny/cancel fallbacks for prompts that do not offer `decline`. (#71338) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Codex harness: reject same-thread app-server notifications without `turnId` or `turn.id` after a bound turn starts, preventing unscoped events from mutating or completing the active reply. (#71317) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Plugins/Google Meet: include live Chrome-node readiness and Parallels recovery checks in setup, so stale node tokens or disconnected VM browsers are visible before an agent opens a meeting.
- Context engine: keep safeguard compaction checks active after context-engine windowing and for `ownsCompaction` engines, so large transcripts can compact before prompt submission instead of waiting for provider overflow. Fixes #71325.
- Approvals: compact structured home-directory paths to `~` across Codex permission prompts and exec approval metadata without repeating them as a separate high-risk warning, while preserving filesystem root and wildcard host warnings.
- Plugins/runtime deps: isolate the internal npm cache used for bundled plugin runtime-dependency repair and let package updates refresh/verify already-current installs, so failed update or sudo doctor runs can be repaired by rerunning `openclaw update`.
- Agents/delete: keep `--json` output machine-readable and retain workspaces that overlap another agent's workspace instead of moving shared state to Trash. Fixes #70889 and #70890. (#70897) Thanks @kaseonedge.
- Browser/screenshot: honor `timeoutMs` through host and node screenshot requests, bound raw CDP screenshot commands, and avoid beyond-viewport CDP capture for ordinary viewport screenshots, so Windows Chrome captures no longer hang past the requested deadline. Fixes #68330. Thanks @Woodylai24.
- Telegram/model picker: show configured model display names when browsing models through provider buttons, matching typed `/models <provider>` output. Fixes #70560. (#71016) Thanks @iskim77.
- Plugins/runtime deps: stage bundled plugin runtime dependencies for packaged/global installs in an external runtime root and retain already staged deps across repairs, avoiding package-tree update races and npm pruning after upgrades.
- Plugins/runtime deps: log bundled plugin runtime-dependency staging before synchronous npm installs start and include elapsed timing afterward, so first boot after upgrades no longer looks hung while dependencies are being repaired.
- Memory/Bedrock: skip Bedrock during automatic memory embedding selection when AWS credentials are unavailable, so `memory_search` can fall back to lexical search instead of failing on the first embed call. Fixes #71143 via #71245. Thanks @bitloi.
- Agents/failover: forward embedded run abort signals into provider-owned model streams, cap implicit LLM idle watchdogs below long run timeouts, and mark 429 responses without usable retry timing as non-retryable so GitHub Copilot rate limits fail over or surface promptly instead of hanging until run timeout. Fixes #71120.
- Plugins/Google Meet: make meeting creation join by default, with an explicit URL-only opt-out, so agents that create a Meet also enter it.
- Telegram/polling: persist accepted update offsets before long-running handlers complete so poller restarts do not replay already-ingested updates, while keeping same-process retries for handler failures.
- Telegram/config: include generated Telegram channel config schema metadata in packaged plugin manifests so forum-topic/group config is accepted before runtime loads.
- CLI/Claude: include user-configured `mcp.servers` in the strict Claude CLI MCP bundle config, matching Pi runs while preserving the OpenClaw loopback override. Fixes #70909. Thanks @keishingu.
- Browser/tool: keep explicit AI snapshots from inheriting the efficient role-snapshot default and preserve numeric Playwright AI refs, so `--format ai` remains a real AI snapshot path. Fixes #62550. Thanks @ly85206559.
- Gateway/config: keep in-process config patch reload comparisons on the resolved source snapshot when `${VAR}` env refs are restored on disk, avoiding false full gateway restarts for unchanged gateway/plugin secrets. Fixes #71208. Thanks @robbiethompson18.
- Slack/messages: serialize write-client requests and whole outbound sends per target so rapid multi-message Slack replies preserve send order. Fixes #69101. (#69105) Thanks @nightq and @ztexydt-cqh.
- Slack/messages: keep Slack bot tokens out of internal message-ordering and DM cache keys.
- Slack/exec approvals: resolve native approval button clicks over the Gateway instead of delivering `/approve ...` as plain agent text, preserving retry buttons if Gateway resolution fails. Fixes #71023. (#71025) Thanks @marusan03.
- Browser/tool: expose browser doctor diagnostics to agents and extend `openclaw doctor` browser readiness notes for managed Chromium launch prerequisites. (#62948, #62936) Thanks @seanc-dev.
- Slack/files: return non-image `download-file` results as local file paths instead of image payloads, and include Slack file IDs in inbound file placeholders so agents can call `download-file`. Fixes #71212. Thanks @teamrazo.
- Browser control: scope standalone loopback auth to the resolved active gateway credential and fail closed when password mode lacks a resolved password, so inactive tokens or passwords no longer authorize browser routes. Fixes #65626. (#65639) Thanks @coygeek.
- Control UI/Codex harness: emit native Codex app-server assistant and lifecycle completion events so live webchat runs stop spinning without needing a transcript reload fallback. (#70815) Thanks @lesaai.
- Agents/sessions: persist the runtime-resolved context budget from embedded agent runs, so Codex GPT-5.5 sessions keep the catalog/runtime context cap instead of falling back to the generic 200k status value. Fixes #71294. Thanks @tud0r.
- Agents/tools: fail runs before model submission when explicit tool allowlists resolve to no callable tools, preventing text-only hallucinated tool results for missing tools such as plugin commands that were not registered. Fixes #71292.
- Agents/embedded: skip provider submission when an embedded run has no prompt, replay history, or prompt-local images, preventing empty OpenAI Responses requests from surfacing provider errors into user channels. Fixes #71130.
- Providers/Google: map `/think adaptive` to Gemini dynamic thinking instead of a fixed medium/high budget, using Gemini 3's provider default and Gemini 2.5's `thinkingBudget: -1`. Fixes #71316.
- Providers/MiniMax: keep M2.7 chat model metadata text-only so image tool requests route through `MiniMax-VL-01` instead of the Anthropic-compatible chat endpoint. Fixes #71296. Thanks @ilker-cevikkaya.
- Discord/replies: run `message_sending` plugin hooks for Discord reply delivery, including DM targets, so plugins can transform or cancel outbound Discord replies consistently with other channels. Fixes #59350. (#71094) Thanks @wei840222.
- Discord/replies: preserve single-use native reply semantics across shared payload fallback, component, voice, and queued delivery paths, so explicit reply tags no longer consume implicit reply slots and chunked fallback sends reply only once.
- Control UI/commands: carry provider-owned thinking option ids/labels in session rows and defaults so fresh sessions show and accept dynamic modes such as `adaptive`, `xhigh`, and `max`. Fixes #71269. Thanks @Young-Khalil.
- Image generation: make explicit `model=` overrides exact-only so failed `openai/gpt-image-2` requests no longer fall through to Gemini or other configured providers, and update `image_generate list` to mention OpenAI Codex OAuth as valid auth for `openai/gpt-image-2`. Fixes #71290 and #71231. Thanks @Young-Khalil.
- Providers/GitHub Copilot: keep the plugin stream wrapper from claiming transport selection before OpenClaw picks a boundary-aware stream path, avoiding Pi's stale fallback Copilot headers on normal model turns.
- Discord/subagents: pass runtime config into thread-bound native subagent binding and require it at the helper boundary so Discord channel resolution keeps account-aware config. Fixes #71054. (#70945) Thanks @jai.
- Slack/Assistant: accept Slack Assistant DM `message_changed` events when their metadata identifies the human sender, while continuing to drop self-authored bot edits. Fixes #55445. Thanks @AlfredPros.
- Slack/native streaming: suppress reasoning-only payloads before `chat.startStream`/`appendStream`, so Claude extended-thinking blocks no longer appear as visible Slack messages. Fixes #59687. Thanks @vision-ifc.
- Slack/block replies: keep multi-part block deliveries in the first Slack reply thread when `replyToMode` is `first`, matching text reply threading instead of leaking later blocks into the channel. Fixes #49341. Thanks @pholmstr and @xiwuqi.
- Slack/thread broadcasts: process `thread_broadcast` events as user messages so replies sent with "Also send to channel" reach the agent instead of becoming metadata-only system events. Fixes #56605 and #4351. Thanks @clawSean and @jlowin.
- Slack/threading: ignore internal reply ids when choosing Slack `thread_ts` values, so resumed replies keep the real Slack thread anchor instead of leaking to the channel root. Fixes #68790. Thanks @MonkeyLeeT and @martingarramon.
- Agents/failover: stop body-less HTTP 400/422 proxy failures from defaulting to `"format"` classification, so embedded retries surface the opaque provider failure instead of falling into a compaction loop. Fixes #66462. (#67024) Thanks @altaywtf and @HongzhuLiu.
- Plugins/loader: use cached discovery-mode snapshot loads for read-only plugin capability lookups, keep snapshot caches isolated from active Gateway registries, and make same-plugin channel/HTTP route re-registration idempotent so repeated snapshot or hot-reload paths no longer rerun full plugin side effects or accumulate duplicate surfaces. Fixes #51781, #52031, #54181, and #57514. Thanks @livingghost, @okuyam2y, @ShionEria, and @bbshih.
- Plugins/loader: reuse the compatible active Gateway registry for broad runtime plugin ensure calls after a gateway-bindable boot load, so non-bundled plugins no longer re-run `register()` during the same boot path. Fixes #69250. Thanks @markthebest12.
- Plugins/hooks: keep the gateway-bindable hook runner installed when later default-mode plugin loads activate a different registry, preserving Gateway subagent lifecycle hooks across runtime cache misses. Fixes #63166.
- Plugins/hooks: refresh live Gateway runtime hooks before inbound channel dispatch, so externally installed plugins keep `message_received`, `before_dispatch`, and reply hooks active after scoped startup plugin loads. Fixes #71167.
- Media/input: resolve canonical inbound media refs through the shared media loader so native prompt image replay and explicit image/PDF tools can read `media://inbound/<id>` and managed inbound replay paths under workspace-only file policy.
- Media/tools: centralize media reference scheme classification for image, PDF, image-generation, video-generation, and music-generation inputs so managed inbound refs are accepted consistently.
- Control UI/media: resolve canonical inbound media refs before serving assistant media previews, so `media://inbound/<id>` sources no longer pass access checks but fail file open.
- Auth/Codex: bootstrap `openai-codex:default` from Codex CLI credentials on fresh installs without replacing a locally refreshed OpenClaw OAuth token later. Fixes #71305. Thanks @Gforce10-design.
- Plugin SDK/tool-result transforms: bound middleware `details`, validate in-place result mutations, and mark fail-closed middleware fallbacks with canonical `error` status. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/gateway: prevent startup from getting stuck at `awaiting gateway readiness` when Carbon gateway registration races with a lifecycle reconnect. Fixes #52372. (#68159) Thanks @IVY-AI-gif.
- Discord/gateway: supervise Carbon's async gateway registration promise so fatal Discord metadata failures surface through startup instead of process-level unhandled rejections. (#62451) Thanks @safzanpirani.
- Discord/gateway: record websocket frame activity as transport liveness, so idle but healthy Discord gateways no longer look stale between user messages. (#68213) Thanks @bmadwaves.
- Slack/streaming: suppress block replies while native or draft preview streaming owns the turn, preventing duplicate Slack delivery when block streaming is also enabled. Addresses #56675. Thanks @hsiaoa.
- Plugins/cache: restore plugin command and interactive handler registries on loader cache hits without resetting interactive callback dedupe, so cached external plugins keep slash commands and callback handlers available after reloads. Fixes #71100. Thanks @BomBastikDE.
- Gateway/OpenAI-compatible: report non-zero token usage for `/v1/chat/completions` when the agent run has only last-call usage metadata available. Fixes #71118. (#71242) Thanks @RenzoMXD.
- Plugin SDK/tool-result transforms: restrict harness tool-result middleware to bundled plugins, fail closed on middleware errors, validate rewritten result shapes, preserve Pi per-call ids, and keep Codex media trust checks anchored to raw tool provenance. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/MCP loopback: apply owner-only tool policy and run before-tool-call hooks on `127.0.0.1/mcp` `tools/list` and `tools/call`, so non-owner bearer callers can no longer see or invoke owner-only tools such as `cron`, `gateway`, and `nodes`, matching the existing HTTP `/tools/invoke` and embedded-agent paths. (#71159) Thanks @mmaps.
- Codex harness/security: wait for final app-server approval decisions and sanitize approval preview text, so native Codex permission prompts cannot be resolved by an early placeholder decision or render unsafe terminal/control content. (#70751, #70569) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Providers/voice security: route ElevenLabs TTS and OpenAI Realtime browser-session secret creation through guarded fetch paths, preserving provider calls while keeping SSRF protections on voice surfaces.
- Agents/OpenAI WS: match Codex's Responses WebSocket continuation strategy, sending only strict incremental follow-up input with `previous_response_id` and falling back to full context when the replay chain or request shape differs. Fixes #44948. Thanks @hss-oss.
- Plugins/Google Chat: log webhook auth rejection reasons only after all candidates fail, and warn when add-on `appPrincipal` values do not match configuration. Fixes #71078. (#71145) Thanks @luyao618.
- Models/configure: preserve the existing default model when provider auth is re-run from configure while keeping explicit default-setting commands authoritative. Fixes #70696. (#70793) Thanks @Sathvik-1007.
- Config/plugins: accept `plugins.entries.*.hooks.allowConversationAccess` in validation, generated schema metadata, and plugin policy inspection so trusted external plugins can enable conversation-access hooks such as `agent_end` without local schema patches. Fixes #71215. (#71221) Thanks @BillChirico.
- Models/runtime: show one model provider choice per provider and move Codex, Claude CLI, and Gemini CLI execution into explicit runtime selection while keeping fallback-only legacy runtime refs unchanged. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime deps: respect explicit plugin and channel disablement when repairing bundled runtime dependencies, so doctor and health checks no longer install deps for disabled configured channels. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diagnostics/OTEL: export logs through bounded diagnostic log events instead of a direct logger transport hook. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp/plugins: support an explicit opt-in for inbound `message_received` hooks with canonical channel, conversation, session, and sender fields. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/setup: keep bundled setup entries dependency-light and stage WhatsApp runtime dependencies only when login actually needs them, so first-run setup and read-only channel discovery avoid unused SDK imports.
- Slack/HTTP: keep webhook handlers in a process-global registry so HTTP mode survives plugin-loader/native-import splits and `/slack/events/<account>` no longer returns 404 after logging as active. Fixes #67955, #46245, and #46246. Thanks @chrisabad and @cesararevalo.
- Diagnostics: harden tool and model diagnostic events against hostile errors, blocking listeners, and unsafe stability reason fields. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/onboarding: record local plugin install source metadata without duplicating raw absolute local paths in persisted `plugins.installs`, while preserving linked load-path cleanup. (#70970) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Group chats/silent replies: tighten `NO_REPLY` prompt guidance so groups stay quiet without narrating silence or emitting fallback chatter when silence is the intended outcome. (#70954, #71209) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- WhatsApp/groups+direct: setting `systemPrompt: ""` on a specific `groups.<id>` or `direct.<peerId>` entry now suppresses the wildcard system prompt instead of falling through to it, so users can silence the global prompt for a specific group or peer. (#70381) Thanks @Bluetegu.
- Browser/tool: tell agents not to pass per-call `timeoutMs` on existing-session type, evaluate, and other Chrome MCP actions that reject timeout overrides.
- Browser/tool: use Playwright's current AI aria snapshot API for `refs="aria"` and fall back to role refs when a node browser cannot provide aria refs, so agents can still inspect and click controls such as Google Meet admission buttons.
- Browser/tool: expose stable `tabId` handles such as `t1` plus optional tab labels, and accept those handles anywhere a browser tab target is needed.
- Browser/tool: return `suggestedTargetId` first in tab payloads so agents naturally reuse labels or stable tab handles instead of raw DevTools ids.
- Browser/tool: bundle a `browser-automation` skill with the multi-step snapshot, stable-tab, stale-ref, and manual-blocker loop for agent-controlled pages.
- Browser/tool: add `openclaw browser doctor`, URL-expanded snapshots, direct labeled screenshots, and clearer tab-target errors for agents that accidentally pass positional indexes.
- Plugins/Google Meet: use browser automation to classify and clear Meet entry blockers such as microphone-choice interstitials, and reuse in-progress create tabs on retry instead of opening duplicates.
- Codex/GPT-5.4: harden fallback, auth-profile, tool-schema, and replay edge cases across native and embedded runtime paths. (#70743) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Models/fallback: resolve bare fallback model provider ids before model switching, so configured fallback chains keep working when a fallback is named without an explicit provider prefix.
- Voice-call/Telnyx: preserve inbound/outbound callback metadata and read transcription text from Telnyx's current `transcription_data` payload.
- Providers/DeepSeek: wire V4 thinking controls and OpenAI-compatible replay policy so follow-up turns preserve DeepSeek `reasoning_content`, while the None/off thinking path strips replayed reasoning fields. Fixes #70931. Thanks @lsdsjy.
- Providers/GitHub Copilot: align Copilot request headers across Anthropic, Responses, and built-in compaction summarization paths, including tool-result and image follow-up turns, without enabling unverified Responses continuation.
- Codex harness: send verbose tool progress to chat channels for native app-server runs, matching the Pi harness `/verbose on` and `/verbose full` behavior. (#70966) Thanks @jalehman.
- Codex models: fetch paginated Codex app-server model catalogs, mark truncated `/codex models` output, and keep ChatGPT OAuth defaults on the `openai-codex/gpt-5.5` route instead of the OpenAI API-key route.
- Codex status: report Codex CLI OAuth as `oauth (codex-cli)` for native `codex/*` sessions instead of showing unknown auth. Fixes #70688. Thanks @jb510.
- Channels/CLI: accept explicit shared-secret, base-URL, and auth-directory setup flags, and map legacy Nextcloud Talk `--url`/`--token` add commands to the bundled plugin setup input. Fixes #61759 and #61923.
- Models/CLI: keep `openclaw models list` read-only while still showing eligible configured-provider rows, so listing models no longer rewrites per-agent `models.json`. (#70847) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/transport: propagate configured attempt timeouts into guarded per-request dispatchers, so slow local LLM calls such as Ollama no longer fail at Undici's default 60-second body timeout. Fixes #70829. (#70831) Thanks @DranboFieldston.
- Plugins/providers: mirror runtime auth choices in bundled provider manifests and detect `KIMI_API_KEY` for Moonshot/Kimi web search before plugin runtime loads. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/chat: register chat.send runs in the chat run registry so lifecycle error events reach the client instead of being silently dropped, fixing stuck 'waiting' state and /abort reporting no active run. (#69747) Thanks @wangshu94.
- Plugins/QQ Bot: enable the bundled qqbot plugin by default so its runtime dependency `@tencent-connect/qqbot-connector` is installed on first launch, unblocking the QR-code binding flow that dynamically imports the connector before any account is configured. (#71051) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.
- Gateway/agent RPC: register active `agent` runs into the chat abort controller map so `chat.abort` and `sessions.abort` can interrupt them, matching `chat.send` behavior and unblocking external runtimes that drive the Gateway through the public `agent` RPC. Fixes #71128. (#71214) Thanks @bitloi.
- Matrix/CLI: pass resolved runtime config into verify commands, so `openclaw matrix verify status` and sibling verify subcommands no longer crash before acquiring the Matrix client. Fixes #70992. (#71102) Thanks @luyao618.
- Gateway/startup: await startup sidecars before channel monitors report ready, reducing Discord and plugin startup races while still keeping gateway boot observability intact.
- Plugins/Google Meet: report required manual actions for Chrome joins, use browser automation for Meet entry, and persist the private-WS node opt-in so paired-node realtime sessions keep their intended network policy.
- Slack: route native stream fallback replies through the normal chunked sender so long buffered Slack Connect responses are not dropped or duplicated. (#71124) Thanks @martingarramon.
- WhatsApp: transcribe accepted voice notes before agent dispatch while keeping spoken transcripts out of command authorization. (#64120) Thanks @rogerdigital.
- Plugins/CLI: expose channel plugin CLI descriptors during discovery-mode plugin loads so snapshot registries keep channel commands visible without activating full runtimes. (#71309) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix: separate recovery-key, backup, and owner-trust diagnostics during E2EE recovery, add recovery-key rotation for backup reset, and cover destructive backup restore paths in QA. (#71311) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- WhatsApp: deliver media generated by tool-result replies while still suppressing text-only tool chatter. (#60968) Thanks @adaclaw.
- Config/agents: accept `agents.list[].contextTokens` in strict config validation so per-agent overrides survive hot reload, letting `/status` reflect the configured model window instead of the 200k fallback. Fixes #70692. (#71247) Thanks @statxc.
- Heartbeat: include async exec completion details in heartbeat prompts so command-finished notifications relay the actual output. (#71213) Thanks @GodsBoy.
- Memory search: apply session visibility and agent-to-agent policy to session transcript hits, and keep `corpus=sessions` ranking scoped to session collections before result limiting. (#70761) Thanks @nefainl.
- Agents/sessions: stop session write-lock timeouts from entering model failover, so local lock contention surfaces directly instead of cascading across providers. (#68700) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Auto-reply: run inbound reply delivery through `message_sending` hooks so plugins can transform or cancel generated replies before they are sent. (#70118) Thanks @jzakirov.
- CI/release-checks: pass workflow inputs and matrix values through step environment variables instead of embedding them directly into `run:` shell commands, reducing template-injection surface in the cross-OS release-check workflow. (#66884) Thanks @alexlomt.

## 2026.4.23

### Changes

- Providers/OpenAI: add image generation and reference-image editing through Codex OAuth, so `openai/gpt-image-2` works without an `OPENAI_API_KEY`. Fixes #70703.
- Providers/OpenRouter: add image generation and reference-image editing through `image_generate`, so OpenRouter image models work with `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`. Fixes #55066 via #67668. Thanks @notamicrodose.
- Image generation: let agents request provider-supported quality and output format hints, and pass OpenAI-specific background, moderation, compression, and user hints through the `image_generate` tool. (#70503) Thanks @ottodeng.
- Agents/subagents: add optional forked context for native `sessions_spawn` runs so agents can let a child inherit the requester transcript when needed, while keeping clean isolated sessions as the default; includes prompt guidance, context-engine hook metadata, docs, and QA coverage.
- Agents/tools: add optional per-call `timeoutMs` support for image, video, music, and TTS generation tools so agents can extend provider request timeouts only when a specific generation needs it.
- Memory/local embeddings: add configurable `memorySearch.local.contextSize` with a 4096 default so local embedding contexts can be tuned for constrained hosts without patching the memory host. (#70544) Thanks @aalekh-sarvam.
- Dependencies/Pi: update bundled Pi packages to `0.70.0`, use Pi's upstream `gpt-5.5` catalog metadata for OpenAI and OpenAI Codex, and keep only local `gpt-5.5-pro` forward-compat handling.
- Codex harness: add structured debug logging for embedded harness selection decisions so `/status` stays simple while gateway logs explain auto-selection and Pi fallback reasons. (#70760) Thanks @100yenadmin.

### Fixes

- Agents/bootstrap: repair completed workspaces that still have a stale `BOOTSTRAP.md` by detecting customized identity/profile files, deleting the stale bootstrap file, and recording setup completion (#71230). Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
- Codex harness: route native `request_user_input` prompts back to the originating chat, preserve queued follow-up answers, and honor newer app-server command approval amendment decisions.
- Codex harness/context-engine: redact context-engine assembly failures before logging, so fallback warnings do not serialize raw error objects. (#70809) Thanks @jalehman.
- WhatsApp/onboarding: keep first-run setup entry loading off the Baileys runtime dependency path, so packaged QuickStart installs can show WhatsApp setup before runtime deps are staged. Fixes #70932.
- Block streaming: suppress final assembled text after partial block-delivery aborts when the already-sent text chunks exactly cover the final reply, preventing duplicate replies without dropping unrelated short messages. Fixes #70921.
- Codex harness/Windows: resolve npm-installed `codex.cmd` shims through PATHEXT before starting the native app-server, so `codex/*` models work without a manual `.exe` shim. Fixes #70913.
- Slack/groups: classify MPIM group DMs as group chat context and suppress verbose tool/plan progress on Slack non-DM surfaces, so internal "Working…" traces no longer leak into rooms. Fixes #70912.
- Agents/replay: stop OpenAI/Codex transcript replay from synthesizing missing tool results while still preserving synthetic repair on Anthropic, Gemini, and Bedrock transport-owned sessions. (#61556) Thanks @VictorJeon and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/media replies: parse remote markdown image syntax into outbound media payloads on the final reply path, so Telegram group chats stop falling back to plain-text image URLs when the model or a tool emits `![...](...)` instead of a `MEDIA:` token. (#66191) Thanks @apezam and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/WebChat: surface non-retryable provider failures such as billing, auth, and rate-limit errors from the embedded runner instead of logging `surface_error` and leaving webchat with no rendered error. Fixes #70124. (#70848) Thanks @truffle-dev.
- WhatsApp: unify outbound media normalization across direct sends and auto-replies. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Memory/CLI: declare the built-in `local` embedding provider in the memory-core manifest, so standalone `openclaw memory status`, `index`, and `search` can resolve local embeddings just like the gateway runtime. Fixes #70836. (#70873) Thanks @mattznojassist.
- Gateway/WebChat: preserve image attachments for text-only primary models by offloading them as media refs instead of dropping them, so configured image tools can still inspect the original file. Fixes #68513, #44276, #51656, #70212.
- Plugins/Google Meet: hang up delegated Twilio calls on leave, clean up Chrome realtime audio bridges when launch fails, and use a flat provider-safe tool schema.
- Media understanding: honor explicit image-model configuration before native-vision skips, including `agents.defaults.imageModel`, `tools.media.image.models`, and provider image defaults such as MiniMax VL when the active chat model is text-only. Fixes #47614, #63722, #69171.
- Codex/media understanding: support `codex/*` image models through bounded Codex app-server image turns, while keeping `openai-codex/*` on the OpenAI Codex OAuth route and validating app-server responses against generated protocol contracts. Fixes #70201.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: synthesize the `openai-codex/gpt-5.5` OAuth model row when Codex catalog discovery omits it, so cron and subagent runs do not fail with `Unknown model` while the account is authenticated.
- Models/Codex: preserve Codex provider metadata when adding models from chat or CLI commands, so manually added Codex models keep the right auth and routing behavior. (#70820) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Providers/OpenAI: route `openai/gpt-image-2` through configured Codex OAuth directly when an `openai-codex` profile is active, instead of probing `OPENAI_API_KEY` first.
- Providers/OpenAI: harden image generation auth routing and Codex OAuth response parsing so fallback only applies to public OpenAI API routes and bounded SSE results. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- OpenAI/image generation: send reference-image edits as guarded multipart uploads instead of JSON data URLs, restoring complex multi-reference `gpt-image-2` edits. Fixes #70642. Thanks @dashhuang.
- Providers/OpenRouter: send image-understanding prompts as user text before image parts, restoring non-empty vision responses for OpenRouter multimodal models. Fixes #70410.
- Providers/Google: honor the private-network SSRF opt-in for Gemini image generation requests, so trusted proxy setups that resolve Google API hosts to private addresses can use `image_generate`. Fixes #67216.
- Agents/transport: stop embedded runs from lowering the process-wide undici stream timeouts, so slow Gemini image generation and other long-running provider requests no longer inherit short run-attempt headers timeouts. Fixes #70423. Thanks @giangthb.
- Providers/OpenAI: honor the private-network SSRF opt-in for OpenAI-compatible image generation endpoints, so trusted LocalAI/LAN `image_generate` routes work without disabling SSRF checks globally. Fixes #62879. Thanks @seitzbg.
- Providers/OpenAI: stop advertising the removed `gpt-5.3-codex-spark` Codex model through fallback catalogs, and suppress stale rows with a GPT-5.5 recovery hint.
- Control UI/chat: persist assistant-generated images as authenticated managed media and accept paired-device tokens for assistant media fetches, so webchat history reloads keep showing generated images. (#70719, #70741) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
- Control UI/chat: queue Stop-button aborts across Gateway reconnects so a disconnected active run is canceled on reconnect instead of only clearing local UI state. (#70673) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar.
- Memory/QMD: recreate stale managed QMD collections when startup repair finds the collection name already exists, so root memory narrows back to `MEMORY.md` instead of staying on broad workspace markdown indexing.
- Agents/OpenAI: surface selected-model capacity failures from PI, Codex, and auto-reply harness paths with a model-switch hint instead of the generic empty-response error. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/QR: replace legacy `qrcode-terminal` QR rendering with bounded `qrcode-tui` helpers for plugin login/setup flows. (#65969) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Voice-call/realtime: wait for OpenAI session configuration before greeting or forwarding buffered audio, and reject non-allowlisted Twilio callers before stream setup. (#43501) Thanks @forrestblount.
- ACPX/Codex: stop materializing `auth.json` bridge files for Codex ACP, Codex app-server, and Codex CLI runs; Codex-owned runtimes now use their normal `CODEX_HOME`/`~/.codex` auth path directly.
- Auto-reply/system events: route async exec-event completion replies through the persisted session delivery context, so long-running command results return to the originating channel instead of being dropped when live origin metadata is missing. (#70258) Thanks @wzfukui.
- Gateway/sessions: extend the webchat session-mutation guard to `sessions.compact` and `sessions.compaction.restore`, so `WEBCHAT_UI` clients are rejected from compaction-side session mutations consistently with the existing patch/delete guards. (#70716) Thanks @drobison00.
- QA channel/security: reject non-HTTP(S) inbound attachment URLs before media fetch, and log rejected schemes so suspicious or misconfigured payloads are visible during debugging. (#70708) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install: link the host OpenClaw package into external plugins that declare `openclaw` as a peer dependency, so peer-only plugin SDK imports resolve after install without bundling a duplicate host package. (#70462) Thanks @anishesg.
- Plugins/Windows: refresh the packaged plugin SDK alias in place during bundled runtime dependency repair, so gateway and CLI plugin startup no longer race on `ENOTEMPTY`/`EPERM` after same-guest npm updates.
- Teams/security: require shared Bot Framework audience tokens to name the configured Teams app via verified `appid` or `azp`, blocking cross-bot token replay on the global audience. (#70724) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/startup: resolve bundled plugin Jiti loads relative to the target plugin module instead of the central loader, so Bun global installs no longer hang while discovering bundled image providers. (#70073) Thanks @yidianyiko.
- Anthropic/CLI security: derive Claude CLI `bypassPermissions` from OpenClaw's existing YOLO exec policy, preserve explicit raw Claude `--permission-mode` overrides, and strip malformed permission-mode args instead of silently falling back to a bypass. (#70723) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Android/security: require loopback-only cleartext gateway connections on Android manual and scanned routes, so private-LAN and link-local `ws://` endpoints now fail closed unless TLS is enabled. (#70722) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Pairing/security: require private-IP or loopback hosts for cleartext mobile pairing, and stop treating `.local` or dotless hostnames as safe cleartext endpoints. (#70721) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/security: stop setup-api lookup from falling back to the launch directory, so workspace-local `extensions/<plugin>/setup-api.*` files cannot be executed during provider setup resolution. (#70718) Thanks @drobison00.
- Approvals/security: require explicit chat exec-approval enablement instead of auto-enabling approval clients just because approvers resolve from config or owner allowlists. (#70715) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/security: keep native slash-command channel policy from bypassing configured owner or member restrictions, while preserving channel-policy fallback when no stricter access rule exists. (#70711) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Android/security: stop `ASK_OPENCLAW` intents from auto-sending injected prompts, so external app actions only prefill the draft instead of dispatching it immediately. (#70714) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Secrets/Windows: strip UTF-8 BOMs from file-backed secrets and keep unavailable ACL checks fail-closed unless trusted file or exec providers explicitly opt into `allowInsecurePath`. (#70662) Thanks @zhanggpcsu.
- Agents/image generation: escape ignored override values in tool warnings so parsed `MEDIA:` directives cannot be injected through unsupported model options. (#70710) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QQBot/security: require framework auth for `/bot-approve` so unauthorized QQ senders cannot change exec approval settings through the unauthenticated pre-dispatch slash-command path. (#70706) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- MCP/tools: stop the ACPX OpenClaw tools bridge from listing or invoking owner-only tools such as `cron`, closing a privilege-escalation path for non-owner MCP callers. (#70698) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Feishu/onboarding: load Feishu setup surfaces through a setup-only barrel so first-run setup no longer imports Feishu's Lark SDK before bundled runtime deps are staged. (#70339) Thanks @andrejtr.
- Approvals/startup: let native approval handlers report ready after gateway authentication while replaying pending approvals in the background, so slow or failing replay delivery no longer blocks handler startup or amplifies reconnect storms.
- WhatsApp/security: keep contact/vCard/location structured-object free text out of the inline message body and render it through fenced untrusted metadata JSON, limiting hidden prompt-injection payloads in names, phone fields, and location labels/comments.
- Group-chat/security: keep channel-sourced group names and participant labels out of inline group system prompts and render them through fenced untrusted metadata JSON.
- Agents/replay: preserve Kimi-style `functions.<name>:<index>` tool-call IDs during strict replay sanitization so custom OpenAI-compatible Kimi routes keep multi-turn tool use intact. (#70693) Thanks @geri4.
- Discord/replies: preserve final reply permission context through outbound delivery so Discord replies keep the same channel/member routing rules at send time.
- Plugins/startup: restore bundled plugin `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*` resolution from packaged installs and external runtime-deps stage roots, so Telegram/Discord no longer crash-loop with `Cannot find package 'openclaw'` after missing dependency repair. (#70852) Thanks @simonemacario.
- CLI/Claude: run the same prompt-build hooks and trigger/channel context on `claude-cli` turns as on direct embedded runs, keeping Claude Code sessions aligned with OpenClaw workspace identity, routing, and hook-driven prompt mutations. (#70625) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Discord/plugin startup: keep subagent hooks lazy behind Discord's channel entry so packaged entry imports stay narrow and report import failures with the channel id and entry path.
- Memory/doctor: keep root durable memory canonicalized on `MEMORY.md`, stop treating lowercase `memory.md` as a runtime fallback, and let `openclaw doctor --fix` merge true split-brain root files into `MEMORY.md` with a backup. (#70621) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Providers/Anthropic Vertex: restore ADC-backed model discovery after the lightweight provider-discovery path by resolving emitted discovery entries, exposing synthetic auth on bootstrap discovery, and honoring copied env snapshots when probing the default GCP ADC path. Fixes #65715. (#65716) Thanks @feiskyer.
- Codex harness/status: pin embedded harness selection per session, show active non-PI harness ids such as `codex` in `/status`, and keep legacy transcripts on PI until `/new` or `/reset` so config changes cannot hot-switch existing sessions.
- Gateway/security: fail closed on agent-driven `gateway config.apply`/`config.patch` runtime edits by allowlisting a narrow set of agent-tunable prompt, model, and mention-gating paths (including Telegram topic-level `requireMention`) instead of relying on a hand-maintained denylist of protected subtrees that could miss new sensitive config keys. (#70726) Thanks @drobison00.
- Webhooks/security: re-resolve `SecretRef`-backed webhook route secrets on each request so `openclaw secrets reload` revokes the previous secret immediately instead of waiting for a gateway restart. (#70727) Thanks @drobison00.
- Memory/dreaming: decouple the managed dreaming cron from heartbeat by running it as an isolated lightweight agent turn, so dreaming runs even when heartbeat is disabled for the default agent and is no longer skipped by `heartbeat.activeHours`. `openclaw doctor --fix` migrates stale main-session dreaming jobs in persisted cron configs to the new shape. Fixes #69811, #67397, #68972. (#70737) Thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/CLI: keep `--agent` plus `--session-id` lookup scoped to the requested agent store, so explicit agent resumes cannot select another agent's session. (#70985) Thanks @frankekn.
- Plugins/Comfy: read workflow and cloud auth configuration from `plugins.entries.comfy.config` while preserving legacy Comfy config fallback, so image, video, and music workflows pass config validation. Fixes #61915. (#63058) Thanks @547895019.
- Gateway/secrets: restart secret-backed channels such as Slack and Zalo during `secrets.reload` so rotated webhook secrets take effect immediately, with the reload serialized and per-channel restart errors isolated. (#70720) Thanks @drobison00.
- Plugins/tokenjuice: preserve `node_modules/tokenjuice/dist/rules/tests/*.json` during bundled plugin runtime staging so the plugin stops failing to load with `Cannot find module '../rules/tests/bun-test.json'`. The global basename prune treats any `tests/` directory as test cargo, but tokenjuice's `dist/rules/tests/` is runtime-loaded rule data consumed by `dist/core/builtin-rules.generated.js`. Adds an opt-in `keepDirectories` field to the per-package prune rule so packages with asset directories that collide with pruned basenames can stage cleanly.

## 2026.4.22

### Changes

- Providers/xAI: add image generation, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text support, including `grok-imagine-image` / `grok-imagine-image-pro`, reference-image edits, six live xAI voices, MP3/WAV/PCM/G.711 TTS formats, `grok-stt` audio transcription, and xAI realtime transcription for Voice Call streaming. (#68694) Thanks @KateWilkins.
- Providers/STT: add Voice Call streaming transcription for Deepgram, ElevenLabs, and Mistral, alongside the existing OpenAI and xAI realtime STT paths; ElevenLabs also gains Scribe v2 batch audio transcription for inbound media.
- TUI: add local embedded mode for running terminal chats without a Gateway while keeping plugin approval gates enforced. (#66767) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Onboarding: auto-install missing provider and channel plugins during setup so first-run configuration can complete without manual plugin recovery. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI/Responses: use OpenAI's native `web_search` tool automatically for direct OpenAI Responses models when web search is enabled and no managed search provider is pinned; explicit providers such as Brave keep the managed `web_search` tool.
- Models/commands: add `/models add <provider> <modelId>` so you can register a model from chat and use it without restarting the gateway; keep `/models` as a simple provider browser while adding clearer add guidance and copy-friendly command examples. (#70211) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- WhatsApp: add configurable native reply quoting with replyToMode for WhatsApp conversations. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- WhatsApp/groups+direct: forward per-group and per-direct `systemPrompt` config into inbound context `GroupSystemPrompt` so configured per-chat behavioral instructions are injected on every turn. Supports `"*"` wildcard fallback and account-scoped overrides under `channels.whatsapp.accounts.<id>.{groups,direct}`; account maps fully replace root maps (no deep merge), matching the existing `requireMention` pattern. Closes #7011. (#59553) Thanks @Bluetegu.
- Agents/sessions: add mailbox-style `sessions_list` filters for label, agent, and search plus visibility-scoped derived title and last-message previews. (#69839) Thanks @dangoZhang.
- Control UI/settings+chat: add a browser-local personal identity for the operator (name plus local-safe avatar), route user identity rendering through the shared chat/avatar path used by assistant and agent surfaces, and tighten Quick Settings, agent fallback chips, and narrow-screen chat layouts so personalization no longer wastes space or clips controls. (#70362) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/diagnostics: enable payload-free stability recording by default and add a support-ready diagnostics export with sanitized logs, status, health, config, and stability snapshots for bug reports. (#70324) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/trajectory export: add default-on local trajectory capture plus `/export-trajectory` bundles with redacted transcripts, runtime events, prompts, metadata, and artifacts for reproducible debugging and dataset export. (#70291) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Providers/Tencent: add the bundled Tencent Cloud provider plugin with TokenHub onboarding, docs, `hy3-preview` model catalog entries, and tiered Hy3 pricing metadata. (#68460) Thanks @JuniperSling.
- WeCom: surface the official WeCom channel plugin during setup and refresh its display name and description so onboarding points at the supported bundled channel. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Amazon Bedrock Mantle: add Claude Opus 4.7 through Mantle's Anthropic Messages route with provider-owned bearer-auth streaming, so the model is actually callable without treating AWS bearer tokens like Anthropic API keys. Thanks @wirjo.
- Providers/GPT-5: move the GPT-5 prompt overlay into the shared provider runtime so compatible GPT-5 models receive the same behavior and heartbeat guidance through OpenAI, OpenRouter, OpenCode, Codex, and other GPT providers; add `agents.defaults.promptOverlays.gpt5.personality` as the global friendly-style toggle while keeping the OpenAI plugin setting as a fallback.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: remove the Codex CLI auth import path from onboarding and provider discovery so OpenClaw no longer copies `~/.codex` OAuth material into agent auth stores; use browser login or device pairing instead. (#70390) Thanks @pashpashpash.
- CLI/Claude: default `claude-cli` runs to warm stdio sessions, including custom configs that omit transport fields, and resume from the stored Claude session after Gateway restarts or idle exits. (#69679) Thanks @obviyus.
- Pi/models: update the bundled pi packages to `0.68.1` and let the OpenCode Go catalog come from pi instead of plugin-maintained model aliases, adding the refreshed `opencode-go/kimi-k2.6`, Qwen, GLM, MiMo, and MiniMax entries.
- Tokenjuice: add bundled native OpenClaw support for tokenjuice as an opt-in plugin that compacts noisy `exec` and `bash` tool results in Pi embedded runs. (#69946) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ACPX: add an explicit `openClawToolsMcpBridge` option that injects a core OpenClaw MCP server for selected built-in tools, starting with `cron`.
- CLI/doctor plugins: lazy-load doctor plugin paths and prefer installed plugin `dist/*` runtime entries over source-adjacent JavaScript fallbacks, reducing the measured `doctor --non-interactive` runtime by about 74% while keeping cold doctor startup on built plugin artifacts. (#69840) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- CLI/debugging: add an opt-in temporary debug timing helper for local CLI performance investigations, with readable stderr output, JSONL capture, and docs for removing probes before landing fixes. (#70469) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Docs/i18n: add Thai translation support for the docs site.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible: mark known local backends such as vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, LM Studio, LocalAI, Jan, TabbyAPI, and text-generation-webui as streaming-usage compatible, so their token accounting no longer degrades to unknown/stale totals. (#68711) Thanks @gaineyllc.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible: recover streamed token usage from llama.cpp-style `timings.prompt_n` / `timings.predicted_n` metadata and sanitize usage counts before accumulation, fixing unknown or stale totals when compatible servers do not emit an OpenAI-shaped `usage` object. (#41056) Thanks @xaeon2026.
- Plugins/startup: prefer native Jiti loading for built bundled plugin dist modules on supported runtimes, cutting measured bundled plugin load time by 82-90% while keeping source TypeScript on the transform path. (#69925) Thanks @aauren.
- Plugin SDK/STT: share realtime transcription WebSocket transport and multipart batch transcription form helpers across bundled STT providers, reducing provider plugin boilerplate while preserving proxy capture, reconnects, audio queueing, close flushing, upload filename normalization, and ready handshakes.
- Plugin SDK/Pi embedded runs: add a bundled-plugin embedded extension factory seam so native plugins can extend Pi embedded runs with async runtime hooks such as `tool_result` handling instead of falling back to the older synchronous persistence path. (#69946) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex harness/hooks: route native Codex app-server turns through `before_prompt_build` and emit `before_compaction` / `after_compaction` for native compaction items so prompt and compaction hooks stop drifting from Pi. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex harness/plugins: add a bundled-plugin Codex app-server extension seam for async `tool_result` middleware, fire `after_tool_call` for Codex tool runs, and route mirrored Codex transcript writes through `before_message_write` so tool integrations stop diverging from Pi. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex harness/hooks: fire `llm_input`, `llm_output`, and `agent_end` for native Codex app-server turns so lifecycle hooks stop drifting from Pi. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Telegram: record per-scenario reply RTT in the live Telegram QA report and summary, starting with the canary response. (#70550) Thanks @obviyus.
- Status: add an explicit `Runner:` field to `/status` so sessions now report whether they are running on embedded Pi, a CLI-backed provider, or an ACP harness agent/backend such as `codex (acp/acpx)` or `gemini (acp/acpx)`. (#70595) Thanks @Takhoffman.

### Fixes

- Dependencies: refresh workspace package pins and lockfile entries for AWS SDK, Anthropic SDK, ACP SDK, Matrix crypto, TypeBox, Vite, tsdown, Slack Bolt, CopilotKit AIMock, and related bundled plugin packages.
- Gateway/env: import each missing expected login-shell env var independently, so an existing gateway token no longer prevents `env.shellEnv` from loading plugin credentials such as `TWILIO_*` from `.profile`.
- macOS/Gateway pairing: silently accept same-host native app `metadata-upgrade` reconnects, so macOS patch-version changes update paired metadata instead of spamming security audit warnings and `pairing required` disconnects.
- CLI/Gateway: wait for one-shot gateway RPC clients to finish WebSocket teardown before the CLI process exits, reducing hangs where commands like `openclaw status` or `openclaw version` could finish their work but stay alive until an external timeout killed them (#70691). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Thinking defaults/status: raise the implicit default thinking level for reasoning-capable models from legacy `off`/`low` fallback behavior to a safe provider-supported `medium` equivalent when no explicit config default is set, preserve configured-model reasoning metadata when runtime catalog loading is empty, and make `/status` report the same resolved default as runtime (#70601). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Gateway/model pricing: extend OpenRouter and LiteLLM catalog fetch timeouts to 60 seconds, reducing noisy timeout warnings during slow upstream responses.
- Agents/failover: classify bare undici transport failures (`terminated`, `UND_ERR_SOCKET`, `UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT`, body/header timeouts, aborted streams) and pi-ai's openai-codex `Request failed` sentinel as `timeout`, so Cloudflare 502s with empty bodies and mid-response socket resets actually enter the configured fallback chain instead of surfacing as unclassified errors. Fixes #69368. (#69677) Thanks @sk7n4k3d.
- Providers/Anthropic Vertex: restore ADC-backed model discovery after the lightweight provider-discovery path by resolving emitted discovery entries, exposing synthetic auth on bootstrap discovery, and honoring copied env snapshots when probing the default GCP ADC path. Fixes #65715. (#65716) Thanks @feiskyer.
- Plugins/install: add newly installed plugin ids to an existing `plugins.allow` list before enabling them, so allowlisted configs load installed plugins after restart.
- Status: show `Fast` in `/status` when fast mode is enabled, including config/default-derived fast mode, and omit it when disabled.
- OpenAI/image generation: detect Azure OpenAI-style image endpoints, use Azure `api-key` auth plus deployment-scoped image URLs, and honor `AZURE_OPENAI_API_VERSION` so image generation and edits work against Azure-hosted OpenAI resources. (#70570) Thanks @zhanggpcsu.
- Control UI/chat: include cache-read and cache-write tokens when computing the message footer context percentage, so cached Claude/OpenAI sessions no longer show `0% ctx` while `/status` reports substantial context use. Fixes #70491. (#70532) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.
- Models/auth: merge provider-owned default-model additions from `openclaw models auth login` instead of replacing `agents.defaults.models`, so re-authenticating an OAuth provider such as OpenAI Codex no longer wipes other providers' aliases and per-model params. Migrations that must rename keys (Anthropic -> Claude CLI) opt in with `replaceDefaultModels`. Fixes #69414. (#70435) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Media understanding/audio: prefer configured or key-backed STT providers before auto-detected local Whisper CLIs, so installed local transcription tools no longer shadow API providers such as Groq/OpenAI in `tools.media.audio` auto mode. Fixes #68727.
- Providers/OpenAI: lock the auth picker wording for OpenAI API key, Codex browser login, and Codex device pairing so the setup choices no longer imply a mixed Codex/API-key auth path. (#67848) Thanks @tmlxrd.
- Agents/BTW: route `/btw` side questions through provider stream registration with the session workspace, so Ollama provider URL construction and workspace-scoped hooks apply correctly. Fixes #68336. (#70413) Thanks @suboss87.
- Agents/sessions: make session transcript write locks non-reentrant by default, so same-process transcript writers contend unless a helper explicitly opts into nested lock ownership.
- ACPX/probe: expose an optional `probeAgent` plugin config field so the embedded ACP runtime health probe can target a configured agent (for example `opencode` or `claude`) instead of hardcoding `codex`, and stop marking the entire ACP runtime backend unavailable when the default probe agent is simply not installed or not authenticated. (#68409) Thanks @lyfuci.
- Memory search: use sqlite-vec KNN for vector recall while preserving full post-filter result limits in multi-model indexes. Fixes #69666. (#69680) Thanks @aalekh-sarvam.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: stop stale per-agent `openai-codex:default` OAuth profiles from shadowing a newer main-agent identity-scoped profile, and let `openclaw doctor` offer the matching cleanup. (#70393) Thanks @pashpashpash.
- ACPX: route OpenClaw ACP bridge commands through the MCP-free runtime path even when the command is wrapped with `env`, has bridge flags, or is resumed from persisted session state, so documented `acpx openclaw` setups no longer fail on per-session MCP injection. (#68741) Thanks @alexlomt.
- Codex harness: route Codex-tagged MCP tool approval elicitations through OpenClaw plugin approvals, including current empty-schema app-server requests, while leaving generic user-input prompts fail-closed. (#68807) Thanks @kesslerio.
- WhatsApp/outbound: hold an in-memory active-delivery claim while a live outbound send is in flight, so a concurrent reconnect drain no longer re-drives the same pending queue entry and duplicates cron sends 7-12x after the 30-minute inbound-silence watchdog fires mid-delivery. Crash-replay of fresh queue entries left behind by a dead process is preserved because the claim is intentionally process-local. Fixes #70386. (#70428) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Matrix/commands: keep Matrix DM allowlist state out of room control-command authorization, so trusted DM senders do not accidentally gain room-command access.
- Providers/SDK retry: cap long `Retry-After` sleeps in Stainless-based Anthropic/OpenAI model SDKs so 60s+ retry windows surface immediately for OpenClaw failover instead of blocking the run. (#68474) Thanks @jetd1.
- Agents/TTS: preserve spoken text in TTS tool results while defusing reply directives in transcript content, so future turns remember voice replies without treating spoken `MEDIA:` or voice tags as delivery metadata. (#68869) Thanks @zqchris.
- Providers/OpenAI: harden Voice Call realtime transcription against OpenAI Realtime session-update drift, forward language and prompt hints, and add live coverage for realtime STT.
- Agents/Pi embedded runs: suppress the "⚠️ Agent couldn't generate a response" warning when the assistant already delivered user-visible content through a messaging tool and the turn ended cleanly (`stopReason=stop`). Real failure modes (tool errors, provider `stopReason=error`, interrupted tool use) still surface the existing "verify before retrying" warning. Fixes #70396. (#70425) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Gateway/Linux: wrap gateway-managed supervisor, PTY, MCP stdio, and browser child processes in a tiny `/bin/sh` shim that raises the child's own `oom_score_adj` on Linux, so under cgroup memory pressure the kernel prefers transient workers over the long-lived gateway. Opt out with `OPENCLAW_CHILD_OOM_SCORE_ADJ=0`. Fixes #70404. (#70419) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Providers/Moonshot: stop strict-sanitizing Kimi's native tool_call IDs (shaped like `functions.<name>:<index>`) on the OpenAI-compatible transport, so multi-turn agentic flows through Kimi K2.6 no longer break after 2-3 tool-calling rounds when the serving layer fails to match mangled IDs against the original tool definitions. Adds a `sanitizeToolCallIds` opt-out to the shared `openai-compatible` replay family helper and wires Moonshot to it. Fixes #62319. (#70030) Thanks @LeoDu0314.
- Dependencies/security: override transitive `uuid` to `14.0.0`, clearing the runtime advisory across dependencies.
- Codex harness: ignore dynamic tool descriptions when deciding whether to reuse a native app-server thread while still fingerprinting tool schemas, so channel-specific copy changes no longer reset otherwise compatible Codex conversations. (#69976) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.
- Codex harness: expose the Codex app-server model catalog in `models list/status`, avoid startup hangs from app-server discovery timeouts, and accept current Codex turn-completion notifications so Docker live gateway turns finish reliably.
- Codex harness: drop invalid legacy app-server `serviceTier` values such as `"priority"` before native thread and turn requests, while keeping supported Codex tiers limited to `"fast"` and `"flex"`. Fixes #64815.
- Codex harness: show bounded, sanitized permission target samples in app-server approval prompts, so native permission requests keep their specific hosts, roots, and paths visible without leaking home usernames or URL credentials. (#70340) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Docs/Codex harness: narrow native compaction docs to the current start/completion signals, without promising a readable summary or kept-entry audit list yet. (#69612) Thanks @91wan.
- Providers/Amazon Bedrock: use known context-window metadata for discovered models while keeping the unknown-model fallback conservative, so compaction and overflow handling improve for newer Bedrock models without overstating unlisted model limits. Thanks @wirjo.
- Providers/Amazon Bedrock Mantle: refresh IAM-backed bearer tokens at runtime instead of baking discovery-time tokens into provider config, so long-lived Mantle sessions keep working after the initial token ages out. Thanks @wirjo.
- Config/includes: write through single-file top-level includes for isolated OpenClaw-owned mutations, so `plugins install` and `plugins update` update an included `plugins.json5` file instead of flattening modular `$include` configs. Fixes #41050 and #66048.
- Config/reload: plan gateway reloads from source-authored config instead of runtime-materialized snapshots, so plugin update writes no longer trigger false restarts from derived provider/plugin config paths. Fixes #68732.
- Plugins/update: skip npm plugin reinstall/config rewrites when the installed version and recorded artifact identity already match the registry target, let bare npm package names resolve back to tracked install records, and point already-installed `plugins install` attempts at `plugins update` / `--force` instead of a hook-pack fallback. Fixes #46955, #67957, and #68073.
- Agents/MCP: keep `mcp.servers` and bundle MCP tools available in Pi embedded runs. `coding` and `messaging` sessions while preserving `minimal` profile and `tools.deny: ["bundle-mcp"]` opt-out behavior. Fixes #68875 and #68818.
- Plugins/startup: tolerate transient bundled-channel catalog/metadata drift while auto-enabling configured plugins, so CLI and gateway startup no longer crash when a channel id is known but its display metadata is unavailable.
- CLI/Claude: report CLI-backed reply runs as streaming while Claude/Codex CLI turns are still in flight, so WebChat keeps visible response state until the backend finishes. Fixes #70125.
- Slack/streaming: fall back to normal Slack replies for Slack Connect streams rejected before the SDK flushes its local buffer, so short replies no longer disappear or report success before Slack acknowledges delivery. Fixes #70295. (#70370) Thanks @mvanhorn.
- Codex harness: rotate the shared app-server websocket client when the configured bearer token changes, so auth-token refreshes reconnect with the new `Authorization` header instead of reusing a stale socket. (#70328) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Channels/sandbox: derive runtime policy keys for external direct messages that share the main conversation, so sandbox/tool policy no longer treats channel-originated DMs as local main-session runs.
- Config/models: merge provider-scoped model allowlist updates and protect model/provider map writes from accidental full replacement, adding `config set --merge` for additive updates and `--replace` for intentional clobbers. Fixes #65920, #68392, and #68653.
- Agents/Pi auth: preserve AWS SDK-authenticated Bedrock runs for IMDS and task-role setups, clear stale refresh timers on sentinel fallback, and log unexpected runtime-auth prep failures instead of silently leaving the provider unauthenticated. Thanks @wirjo.
- Config/gateway: restore last-known-good config on critical clobber signatures such as missing metadata, missing `gateway.mode`, or sharp size drops, preventing gateway crash loops when a valid backup exists. Fixes #70336.
- Config/gateway: recover configs accidentally prefixed with non-JSON output during gateway startup or `openclaw doctor --fix`, preserving the clobbered file as a backup while leaving normal config reads read-only.
- Agents/GitHub Copilot: normalize connection-bound Responses item IDs in the Copilot provider wrapper so replayed histories no longer fail after the upstream connection changes. (#69362) Thanks @Menci.
- Pi embedded runs: pass real built-in tools into Pi session creation and then narrow active tool names after custom tool registration, so the runner and compaction paths compile cleanly and keep OpenClaw-managed custom tool allowlists without feeding string arrays into `createAgentSession`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/OpenAI websocket: route native OpenAI websocket metadata and session-header decisions through the shared endpoint classifier so local mocks and custom `models.providers.openai.baseUrl` endpoints stay out of the native OpenAI path consistently across embedded-runner and websocket transport code. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Cron/MCP: retire bundled MCP runtimes through one shared cleanup path for isolated cron run ends, persistent cron session rollover, and direct cron `deleteAfterRun` fallback cleanup. Fixes #69145, #68623, and #68827.
- Cron: default legacy persisted jobs that are missing `sessionTarget` during store load and report a clear validation error if a malformed job still reaches execution, preventing undefined `startsWith` crashes on scheduled ticks. Fixes #70360 and #63383. (#70367) Thanks @mvanhorn.
- MCP/gateway: tear down stdio MCP process trees on transport close and dispose bundled MCP runtimes during session delete/reset, preventing orphaned wrapper/server processes from accumulating. Fixes #68809 and #69465.
- Agents/MCP: retire bundled MCP runtimes after completed one-shot subagent cleanup and nested `sessions_send` steps, while keeping persistent subagent sessions warm.
- Config: render validation warnings with real line breaks instead of a literal `\n` sequence in CLI/audit output. Fixes #70140.
- Cron/doctor: repair malformed persisted cron job IDs through `openclaw doctor`, including legacy `jobId`, non-string `id`, and missing `id` rows, so `cron list` no longer needs display-layer coercion for corrupt store data. Fixes #70128.
- Discord: normalize prefixed channel targets only at the thread-binding API boundary, so `sessions_spawn({ runtime: "acp", thread: true })` can create child threads from Discord channels without breaking current-channel ACP bindings. (#68034) Thanks @Zetarcos.
- Discord: harden inbound thread metadata handling against partial Carbon channel getters, so non-command thread messages and queued jobs no longer crash when `name`, `parentId`, `parent`, or `ownerId` requires fetched raw data. Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Discord: let `message` tool reactions resolve `user:<id>` DM targets and preserve `channels.discord.guilds.<guild>.channels.<channel>.requireMention: false` during reply-stage activation fallback. Fixes #70165 and #69441.
- Plugins/startup: pre-normalize and cache Jiti alias maps before creating plugin loaders, so module-scoped loader filenames do not reintroduce per-plugin alias-normalization startup cost. Fixes #70186.
- ACP/Codex: run the bundled Codex ACP harness with an isolated `CODEX_HOME` and avoid writing incomplete ChatGPT auth bridge files, so Codex ACP sessions no longer clobber the user's real Codex CLI auth. Fixes #70234. Thanks @Lonobers88.
- Gateway/client: keep long-running RPCs such as ACP `agent.wait` calls in charge of their own timeout instead of closing the websocket on a missed app-level tick while work is still pending.
- Telegram/webhooks: lower the grammY webhook callback timeout to 5s so Telegram gets an early 200 response instead of retrying long-running updates as read timeouts. (#70146) Thanks @friday-james.
- Telegram/polling: rebuild the polling HTTP transport after `getUpdates` 409 conflicts, so retries use a fresh TCP connection instead of looping on a Telegram-terminated keep-alive socket. (#69873) Thanks @hclsys.
- Media delivery: strip persisted base64 audio payloads from webchat history, resolve stored `media://inbound/*` attachments before local-root checks, suppress duplicate Telegram voice/audio sends when TTS emits the same media twice, and support custom image-model IDs that already include their provider prefix.
- Slack/files: resolve `downloadFile` bot tokens from the runtime config when callers provide `cfg` without an explicit token or prebuilt client, preserving cfg-only file downloads outside the action runtime path. (#70160) Thanks @martingarramon.
- Slack/HTTP: dispatch registered Request URL webhooks through the same handler registry used by Slack monitor setup, so HTTP-mode Slack events no longer 404 after successful route registration. (#70275) Thanks @FroeMic.
- Slack/runtime bindings: route focused Slack thread replies through their bound ACP session instead of preparing replies against the default agent shell. Fixes #67739. Thanks @Frankla20.
- CLI/Claude: keep stored Claude CLI sessions through OAuth refresh-token rotation by keying auth epochs on stable account identity instead of mutable OAuth token material. (#70452) Thanks @obviyus.
- CLI/Claude: verify stored Claude CLI session ids have a readable project transcript before resuming, clearing phantom bindings with `reason=transcript-missing` instead of silently starting fresh under `--resume`. Fixes #70177.
- CLI sessions: persist CLI session clearing through the atomic session-store merge path, so expired Claude/Codex CLI bindings are actually removed before retrying without the stale session id. (#70298) Thanks @HFConsultant.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: honor explicit `model` overrides for ACP child sessions instead of silently falling back to the target agent default model. (#70210) Thanks @felix-miao.
- Diffs/viewer: re-read remote viewer access policy from live runtime config on each request, so toggling `plugins.entries.diffs.config.security.allowRemoteViewer` closes proxied viewer access immediately instead of waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Diffs/tooling: re-read `viewerBaseUrl`, presentation defaults, and viewer access policy from live runtime config, and fail closed when the live `diffs` plugin entry disappears instead of reviving startup viewer settings. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/LanceDB: stop resurrecting removed live `memory-lancedb` hook config from startup snapshots, so deleting or disabling the plugin entry shuts off auto-recall and auto-capture without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/LanceDB: keep auto-recall and auto-capture hooks wired when those settings start disabled, so turning them on in live config starts recall and capture without waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Skill Workshop: keep the tool plus `before_prompt_build` / `agent_end` hooks wired while the plugin is disabled at startup, so turning the plugin back on in live config starts guidance and capture without waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Active Memory: stop reviving removed live `active-memory` config from startup snapshots, so removing the plugin entry turns the hook off immediately instead of waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- GitHub Copilot: re-read plugin discovery config from the live runtime snapshot, so toggling `plugins.entries.github-copilot.config.discovery.enabled` takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Ollama: re-read plugin discovery config from the live runtime snapshot, so toggling `plugins.entries.ollama.config.discovery.enabled` takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI: re-read the plugin prompt-overlay personality from live runtime config, so GPT-5 system prompt contributions update without a restart when `plugins.entries.openai.config.personality` changes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Amazon Bedrock: re-read live discovery and guardrail plugin config, so toggling `plugins.entries.amazon-bedrock.config.discovery` or `plugins.entries.amazon-bedrock.config.guardrail` takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Codex: re-read the plugin discovery config from the live runtime snapshot, so toggling `plugins.entries.codex.config.discovery` takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/subagents: drop bare `NO_REPLY` from the parent turn when the session still has pending spawned children, so direct-conversation surfaces such as Telegram DMs no longer rewrite the sentinel into visible fallback chatter while waiting for the child completion event. (#69942) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Plugins/install: keep bundled plugin dependencies off npm install while repairing them when plugins activate from a packaged install, including Feishu/Lark, Browser, and direct bundled channel setup-entry loads.
- CLI/channels: skip and cache bundled channel plugin, setup, and secrets load failures during read-only discovery, so one broken unused bundled channel cannot crash `openclaw status` or bootstrap secret scans.
- Memory/LanceDB: retry initialization after a failed LanceDB load and report unsupported Intel macOS native runtime clearly instead of caching the failure or repeatedly attempting an install that cannot work.
- CLI/Claude: hash only static extra system prompt parts when deciding whether to reuse a CLI session, so per-message inbound metadata no longer resets Claude CLI conversations on every turn. (#70122) Thanks @zijunl.
- Hooks/Slack: standardize shared message hook routing fields (`threadId` / `replyToId`) and stop Slack outbound delivery from re-running `message_sending` inside the channel adapter, so plugins like thread-ownership make one outbound routing decision per reply. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply/media: share one run-scoped reply media context between streamed block delivery and final payload filtering, so a local `MEDIA:` attachment is staged once and duplicate media sends are suppressed reliably. (#68111) Thanks @ayeshakhalid192007-dev.
- Plugins/gateway hooks: expose startup config, workspace dir, and a live cron getter on the typed `gateway_start` hook, and move memory-core managed dreaming off the internal `gateway:startup` bridge so cron reconciliation stays on the public plugin hook path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/config: read plugin trust decisions from the source config snapshot when a resolved runtime snapshot is active, so `plugins.allow` remains enforced and `doctor`/gateway startup no longer warn that the allowlist is empty when it is configured. Fixes #70161. Also fixes #70141.
- Agents/openai-completions: enable malformed streamed tool-call argument repair for self-hosted OpenAI-compatible backends such as Kimi/SGLang, so fragmented tool-call arguments no longer reach tools as empty or unusable objects. Fixes #69672. (#70294) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Gateway/restart: preserve group and channel chat context when resuming an agent turn after a Gateway restart, so continuation replies keep the same prompt, routing, and tool-status behavior as the original conversation. Thanks @obviyus.
- Gateway/pairing: shared-secret loopback CLI clients now silently auto-approve `metadata-upgrade` pairing (platform / device family refresh) instead of being disconnected with `1008 pairing required`. This matches the scope-upgrade and role-upgrade behavior added in #69431 and unblocks non-interactive CLI automation when a paired-device record has a stale platform string (e.g. device key replicated across hosts, install migrated between OSes, or platform-string format changed between OpenClaw versions). Browser / Control-UI clients keep the existing approval-required flow for metadata changes (#70224). Thanks @perlowja.
- Gateway/pairing: treat any forwarded-header evidence (`Forwarded`, `X-Forwarded-*`, or `X-Real-IP`) as proxied WebSocket traffic before pairing locality checks, so reverse-proxy topologies cannot use the loopback shared-secret helper auto-pairing path.
- Agents/OpenAI: treat exact `NO_REPLY` assistant output as a deliberate silent reply in embedded runs, so GPT-5.4 turns with signed reasoning plus a silent final no longer surface a false incomplete-turn error.
- Auto-reply/streaming: preserve streamed reply directives through chunk boundaries and phase-aware `final_answer` delivery, so split `MEDIA:<path>` lines, voice tags, and reply targets reach channel delivery instead of leaking as text or being dropped. (#70243) Thanks @zqchris.
- Anthropic/Claude Opus 4.7: normalize Opus 4.7 and `claude-cli` Opus 4.7 variants to a 1M context window in resolved runtime metadata and active-agent status/context reporting, so they no longer inherit the stale 200k fallback. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/pairing webchat: render `/pair qr` replies as structured media instead of raw markdown text, preserve inline reply threading and silent-control handling on media replies, avoid persisting sensitive QR images into transcript history, and keep local webchat media embedding behind internal-only trust markers. (#70047) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Codex harness: default app-server runs to unchained local execution, so OpenAI heartbeats can use network and shell tools without stalling behind native Codex approvals or the workspace-write sandbox (#70082). Thanks @pashpashpash.
- Codex harness: fail closed for unknown native app-server approval methods instead of routing unsupported future approval shapes through OpenClaw approval grants. (#70356) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Codex harness: apply the GPT-5 behavior and heartbeat prompt overlay to native Codex app-server runs, so `codex/gpt-5.x` sessions get the same follow-through, tool-use, and proactive heartbeat guidance as OpenAI GPT-5 runs (#70175). Thanks @pashpashpash.
- WhatsApp/login QR: propagate refreshed QR images through `web.login.wait` consumers and compare against each caller's current QR instead of shared waiter state, so rotated QR codes stay synchronized across Control UI, macOS, and concurrent waiters. (#70009) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Codex harness: add an explicit Guardian mode for Codex app-server approvals, plus a Docker live probe for approved and ask-back Guardian decisions, while keeping default app-server runs unchained for unattended local heartbeats. The legacy `OPENCLAW_CODEX_APP_SERVER_GUARDIAN` shortcut is removed; use plugin config `appServer.mode: "guardian"` or `OPENCLAW_CODEX_APP_SERVER_MODE=guardian`. Thanks @pashpashpash.
- OpenAI/Responses: keep embedded OpenAI Responses runs on HTTP when `models.providers.openai.baseUrl` points at a local mock or other non-public endpoint, so mocked/custom endpoints no longer drift onto the hardcoded public websocket transport. (#69815) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/config: require resolved runtime config on channel send/action/client helpers and block runtime helper `loadConfig()` calls, so SecretRefs are resolved at startup/boundaries instead of being re-read during sends.
- Discord: pass resolved runtime config through guild and moderation action helpers, so thread-originated Discord commands can run channel, member, role, and guild actions without falling back to runtime config reads. (#70215) Thanks @szponeczek.
- CLI/channels: preserve bundled setup promotion metadata when a loaded partial channel plugin omits it, so adding a non-default account still moves legacy single-account fields such as Telegram `streaming` into `accounts.default`.
- Telegram: keep the sent-message ownership cache isolated per configured session store, so own-message reaction filtering remains correct with custom `session.store` paths.
- Security/update: fail closed when exact pinned npm plugin or hook-pack updates detect integrity drift, and expose aborted plugin drift details in `openclaw update --json`.
- Ollama: forward OpenClaw thinking control to native `/api/chat` requests as top-level `think`, so `/think off` and `openclaw agent --thinking off` suppress thinking on models such as qwen3 instead of idling until the watchdog fires. Fixes #69902. (#69967) Thanks @WZH8898.
- Memory-core/dreaming: suppress the startup-only managed dreaming cron unavailable warning when the cron service is still attaching, while preserving the runtime warning if cron genuinely remains unavailable. Fixes #69939. (#69941) Thanks @Sanjays2402.
- Mattermost: suppress reasoning-only payloads even when they arrive as blockquoted `> Reasoning:` text, preventing `/reasoning on` from leaking thinking into channel posts. (#69927) Thanks @lawrence3699.
- Discord: read `channel.parentId` through a safe accessor in the slash-command, reaction, and model-picker paths so partial `GuildThreadChannel` prototype getters no longer throw `Cannot access rawData on partial Channel` when commands like `/new` run from inside a thread. Fixes #69861. (#69908) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Discord: use safe channel name and parent accessors across voice command authorization, so `/vc` commands from partial Discord thread channels no longer crash on Carbon rawData getters. (#70199) Thanks @hanamizuki.
- Discord: make auto-thread parent transcript inheritance opt-in via `channels.discord.thread.inheritParent`, keeping newly created Discord thread sessions isolated by default while preserving explicit inheritance for configured accounts. Fixes #69907. (#69986) Thanks @Blahdude.
- Browser/Chrome MCP: reset cached existing-session control sessions when a `navigate_page` call times out, so one stuck navigation no longer poisons the browser profile until a gateway restart. (#69733) Thanks @ayeshakhalid192007-dev.
- Browser/Chrome MCP: propagate click timeouts and abort signals to existing-session actions so a stuck click fails fast and reconnects instead of poisoning the browser tool until gateway restart. (#63524) Thanks @dongseok0.
- Amazon Bedrock/prompt caching: resolve opaque application inference profile targets before injecting Bedrock cache points, require every routed target to support explicit cache points, and retry transient profile lookups instead of caching a false negative for the rest of the process. (#69953) Thanks @anirudhmarc and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/channel health: base stale-socket recovery on provider-proven transport activity instead of inbound app-event freshness, preventing quiet Slack, Discord, Telegram, Matrix, and local-style channels from being restarted solely because no user traffic arrived. (#69833) Thanks @bek91.
- OpenCode Go: canonicalize stale bundled `opencode-go` base URLs from `/go` or `/go/v1` to `/zen/go` or `/zen/go/v1`, so older generated model metadata stops hitting the 404 HTML endpoint. (#69898).
- Plugins/channels: keep persisted channel auth state out of configured-channel and plugin auto-enable detection, so stale WhatsApp credentials alone no longer trigger plugin activation or runtime dependency repair. (#72836, #72844) Thanks @xiao398008 and @haishmg.
- CLI/channels: honor `channels.<id>.enabled=false` as a hard read-only presence opt-out, so env vars, manifest env vars, or stale persisted auth state no longer make disabled channel plugins appear in status, doctor, or setup-only discovery.
- Channels/preview streaming: centralize draft-preview finalization so Slack, Discord, Mattermost, and Matrix no longer flush temporary preview messages for media/error finals, and preserve first-reply threading for normal fallback delivery.
- Discord: keep slash command follow-up chunks ephemeral when the command is configured for ephemeral replies, so long `/status` output no longer leaks fallback model or runtime details into the public channel. (#69869) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Gateway/session history: re-check current auth and `chat.history` scope before later SSE keepalives and transcript updates, so active session-history streams close before delivering post-revocation events (#70237). Thanks @drobison00.
- Plugins/discovery: reject package plugin source entries that escape the package directory before explicit runtime entries or inferred built JavaScript peers can be used. (#69868) thanks @gumadeiras.
- CLI/channels: resolve channel presence through a shared policy that keeps ambient env vars and stale persisted auth from surfacing disabled bundled plugins in status, doctor, security audit, and cron delivery validation unless the channel or plugin is effectively enabled or explicitly configured. (#69862) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Doctor/plugins: hydrate legacy partial interactive handler state before plugin reload clears dedupe caches, so `openclaw doctor` and post-update doctor runs no longer crash with `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'clear')`. (#70135) Thanks @ngutman.
- Control UI/config: preserve intentionally empty raw config snapshots when clearing pending updates so reset restores the original bytes instead of synthesizing JSON for blank config files. (#68178) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Cron/run-log: report generic `message` tool sends under the resolved delivery channel when they match the cron target, while preserving account-specific mismatch checks for delivery traces. (#69940) Thanks @davehappyminion.
- Doctor/channels: merge configured-channel doctor hooks across read-only, loaded, setup, and runtime plugin discovery so partial adapters no longer hide runtime-only compatibility repair or allowlist warnings, preserve disabled-channel opt-outs, and ignore malformed hook values before they can mask valid fallbacks. (#69919) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Models/CLI: show bundled provider-owned static catalog rows in `models list --all` before auth is configured, including Kimi K2.6 rows for Moonshot, OpenRouter, and Vercel AI Gateway, while keeping local-only and workspace plugin catalog paths isolated. (#69909) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Models/CLI: clarify that `models list --provider` expects provider ids and reject display labels before loading model discovery. (#70504) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Configure: skip generic CLI startup bootstrap for `openclaw configure` and bound hint-only gateway probes so the onboarding TUI reaches its first prompt faster when the Gateway is unavailable. (#69984) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/harness: surface selected plugin harness failures directly instead of replaying the same turn through embedded PI, preventing misleading secondary PI auth errors and avoiding duplicate side effects (#69981). Thanks @pashpashpash.
- OpenAI Codex: add a ChatGPT device-code auth option beside browser OAuth, so headless or callback-hostile setups can sign in without relying on the localhost browser callback. (#69557) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI sessions: keep provider-owned CLI sessions through implicit daily expiry while preserving explicit reset behavior, and retain Claude CLI binding metadata across gateway agent requests. (#70106) Thanks @obviyus.
- fix(config): accept truncateAfterCompaction (#68395). Thanks @MonkeyLeeT
- CLI/Claude: keep Claude CLI session bindings stable across OAuth access-token refreshes, so gateway restarts continue the same Claude conversation instead of minting a fresh one. (#70132) Thanks @obviyus.
- QQBot: add `INTERACTION` intent (`1 << 26`) to the gateway constants and include it in the `FULL_INTENTS` mask so interaction events are received. (#70143) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.
- Gateway/restart: preserve one-shot continuation instructions across gateway restarts so agents can resume and reply back to the original chat after reboot. (#63406) Thanks @VACInc.
- Gateway/restart: write restart sentinel files atomically so interrupted writes cannot leave a truncated sentinel behind. (#70225) Thanks @obviyus.
- Pairing: remove stale pending requests for a device when that paired device is deleted, so an old repair approval cannot recreate the removed device from leftover state (#70239). Thanks @drobison00.
- Security/dotenv: block workspace `.env` overrides for Matrix, Mattermost, IRC, and Synology endpoint settings so cloned workspaces cannot redirect bundled connector traffic through local endpoint config. (#70240) Thanks @drobison00.
- Telegram: require the same `/models` authorization for group model-picker callbacks, so unauthorized participants can no longer browse or change the session model through inline buttons. (#70235) Thanks @drobison00.
- Agents/Pi: keep the filtered tool-name allowlist active for embedded OpenAI/OpenAI Codex GPT-5 runs and compaction sessions, so bundled and client tools still execute after the Pi `0.68.1` session-tool allowlist change instead of stopping at plan-only replies with no tool call. (#70281) Thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/Pi: honor explicit `strict-agentic` execution contracts for incomplete-turn retry guards across providers, so manually opted-in local or compatible models get the same retry behavior without relying on OpenAI model inference. (#66750) Thanks @ziomancer.
- OpenShell/sandbox: pin verified file reads to an already-opened descriptor, walk the ancestor chain for symlinked parents on platforms without fd-path readlink, and re-check file identity so parent symlink swaps cannot redirect in-sandbox reads to host files outside the allowed mount root. (#69798) Thanks @drobison00.
- Gateway/Control UI: require authenticated Control UI read access before serving `/__openclaw/control-ui-config.json` when `gateway.auth` is enabled, so unauthenticated callers can no longer read bootstrap metadata. (#70247) Thanks @drobison00.
- Gateway/restart: default session-scoped restart sentinels to a one-shot agent continuation, so chat-initiated Gateway restarts acknowledge successful boot automatically. (#70269) Thanks @obviyus.
- Build/npm publish: fail postpublish verification when root `dist/*` files import bundled plugin runtime dependencies without mirroring them in the root package manifest, so Slack-style plugin deps cannot silently ship on the wrong module-resolution path again. (#60112) thanks @medns.
- Gateway/sessions: extend the webchat session-mutation guard to `sessions.compact` and `sessions.compaction.restore`, so `WEBCHAT_UI` clients are rejected from compaction-side session mutations consistently with the existing patch/delete guards. (#70716) Thanks @drobison00.

## 2026.4.21

### Changes

- OpenAI/images: default the bundled image-generation provider and live media smoke tests to `gpt-image-2`, and advertise the newer 2K/4K OpenAI size hints in image-generation docs and tool metadata.
- Plugins/skills: add the Skill Workshop plugin, which captures reusable workflow corrections as pending or auto-applied workspace skills, runs threshold-based reviewer passes for stronger completion bias on reusable procedures, quarantines unsafe proposals, and refreshes skill availability after safe writes.
- Plugin SDK/channels: add presentation and skills runtime contracts, decouple channel presentation rendering, and document message presentation cards so plugins can own richer interactive surfaces without channel-specific glue.
- Fireworks/models: add Kimi K2.6 (`fireworks/accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2p6`) to the bundled catalog and live-model priority list, while keeping Kimi thinking disabled for Fireworks K2.6 requests.
- Onboard/wizard: simplify the security disclaimer copy, and switch remaining onboarding pickers with long dynamic option lists to searchable autocompletes for search providers, plugin configuration, and model provider filtering (#69760). Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
- Channels/preview streaming: stream tool-progress updates into live preview edits for Discord, Slack, and Telegram so in-flight replies show incremental tool state in the same preview message before finalization. (#69611) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Ollama/onboard: populate the cloud-only model list from `ollama.com/api/tags`, cap the discovered list at 500, and fall back to static suggestions when ollama.com is unavailable. (#68463) Thanks @BruceMacD.
- QQBot: extract a self-contained engine architecture with QR-code onboarding, native approval handling via `/bot-approve`, per-account resource stacks, credential backup/restore, shared media storage, and unified API/bridge/gateway modules. (#67960) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.
- Matrix/startup: narrow Matrix runtime registration and defer setup/doctor surfaces so cold plugin registration spends about 1.8s less in `setChannelRuntime`. (#69782) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Telegram/plugin startup: load Telegram's bundled runtime setter through a narrow sidecar and native built-sidecar loading, cutting measured setup-runtime registration by about 14s while preserving runtime API compatibility. (#69786) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Discord/plugin startup: lazy-load the Carbon UI runtime and load Discord's bundled runtime setter through a narrow sidecar, cutting measured registration time by about 98% while keeping packaged installs off Carbon until the Discord UI surface is needed. (#69791) Thanks @gumadeiras.

### Fixes

- Agents/ACP: skip the `sessions_send` A2A ping-pong flow when a parent sends to its own background oneshot ACP child, preventing parent/child echo loops while preserving normal A2A delivery for non-parent senders. (#69817) Thanks @scotthuang.
- Image generation: log failed provider/model candidates at warn level before automatic provider fallback, so OpenAI image failures are visible in the gateway log even when a later provider succeeds.
- Agents/subagents: stop terminal failed subagent runs from freezing or announcing captured reply text, so failover-exhausted runs report a clean failure instead of replaying stale assistant/tool output.
- Security/external content: strip common self-hosted LLM chat-template special-token literals, including Qwen/ChatML, Llama, Gemma, Mistral, Phi, and GPT-OSS markers, from wrapped external content and metadata, preventing tokenizer-layer role-boundary spoofing against OpenAI-compatible backends that preserve special tokens in user text.
- npm/install: mirror the `node-domexception` alias into root `package.json` `overrides`, so npm installs stop surfacing the deprecated `google-auth-library -> gaxios -> node-fetch -> fetch-blob -> node-domexception` chain pulled through Pi/Google runtime deps. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auth/commands: require owner identity (an owner-candidate match or internal `operator.admin`) for owner-enforced commands instead of treating wildcard channel `allowFrom` or empty owner-candidate lists as sufficient, so non-owner senders can no longer reach owner-only commands through a permissive fallback when `enforceOwnerForCommands=true` and `commands.ownerAllowFrom` is unset. (#69774) Thanks @drobison00.
- Control UI/CSP: tighten `img-src` to `'self' data:` only, and make Control UI avatar helpers drop remote `http(s)` and protocol-relative URLs so the UI falls back to the built-in logo/badge instead of issuing arbitrary remote image fetches. Same-origin avatar routes (relative paths) and `data:image/...` avatars still render. (#69773) Thanks @drobison00.
- CLI/channels: keep `status`, `health`, `channels list`, and `channels status` on read-only channel metadata when Telegram, Slack, Discord, or third-party channel plugins are configured, avoiding full bundled plugin runtime imports on those cold paths. Fixes #69042. (#69479) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Synology Chat: validate outbound webhook `file_url` values against the shared SSRF policy before forwarding to the NAS, rejecting malformed URLs, non-`http(s)` schemes, and private/blocked network targets so the NAS cannot be used as a confused deputy to fetch internal addresses. (#69784) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- LINE: validate outbound media URLs against the shared public-network guard before handing them to LINE, preserving arbitrary public HTTPS media while rejecting loopback, link-local, and private-network targets.
- Gateway/Control UI: require gateway auth on the Control UI avatar route (`GET /avatar/<agentId>` and `?meta=1` metadata) when auth is configured, matching the sibling assistant-media route, and propagate the existing gateway token through the UI avatar fetch (bearer header + authenticated blob URL) so authenticated dashboards still load local avatars. (#69775) Thanks @drobison00.
- Google Chat/auth: replace the Google auth `gaxios` shim with a scoped SSRF-guarded transport, validate service-account auth endpoints against trusted Google URLs, and let the plugin own its staged `gaxios` auth runtime instead of patching process-wide globals or the root CLI startup path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Exec/allowlist: reject POSIX parameter expansion forms such as `$VAR`, `$?`, `$$`, `$1`, and `$@` inside unquoted heredocs during shell approval analysis, so these heredocs no longer pass allowlist review as plain text. (#69795) Thanks @drobison00.
- Gateway/MCP loopback: derive owner-only tool visibility from distinct authenticated owner vs non-owner loopback bearers instead of the caller-controlled owner header, so non-owner MCP child processes cannot recover owner access by spoofing request metadata. (#69796) Thanks @drobison00.
- GitHub Copilot: update the default Opus model from `claude-opus-4.6` to `claude-opus-4.7` after GitHub removed Copilot support for 4.6. (#69818) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- OpenShell: pin host-side sandbox writes under the mounted root so symlink-parent rebinds cannot redirect `writeFile` outside the workspace during local mirror updates. (#69797) Thanks @drobison00.
- Ollama/media understanding: register Ollama as an image-capable media-understanding provider so `agents.defaults.imageModel.primary` values like `ollama/qwen2.5vl:7b` route through the Ollama plugin instead of failing as unknown models. (#69816) Thanks @soloclz.
- CLI/media understanding: make `openclaw infer image describe --model <provider/model>` execute the explicit image model instead of skipping description when that model supports native vision (#69816).
- Usage/providers: keep plugin-owned usage auth enabled when manifest-declared provider auth env vars such as `MINIMAX_CODE_PLAN_KEY` are present, so `/usage` can resolve MiniMax billing credentials through the provider plugin.
- Tlon/uploads: route both hosted Memex upload targets and custom-S3 presigned upload URLs through the shared SSRF guard so blocked private or loopback destinations fail before upload, while public upload URLs continue through the existing hosted upload flow. (#69794) Thanks @drobison00.
- Channels/thread routing: keep outbound replies in existing Slack, Mattermost, Matrix, Telegram, Discord, and QA-channel thread sessions by sharing the Plugin SDK thread-aware route builder across bundled plugins.
- Agents/replay: normalize restored assistant text content before provider replay and prompt submission, so legacy or repaired sessions no longer crash on `assistantMsg.content.flatMap`. (#69850) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

## 2026.4.20

### Changes

- Onboard/wizard: restyle the setup security disclaimer with a single yellow warning banner, section headings and bulleted checklists, and un-dim the note body so key guidance is easy to scan; add a loading spinner during the initial model catalog load so the wizard no longer goes blank while it runs; add an "API key" placeholder to provider API key prompts. (#69553) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
- Agents/prompts: strengthen the default system prompt and OpenAI GPT-5 overlay with clearer completion bias, live-state checks, weak-result recovery, and verification-before-final guidance.
- Models/costs: support tiered model pricing from cached catalogs and configured models, and include bundled Moonshot Kimi K2.6/K2.5 cost estimates for token-usage reports. (#67605) Thanks @sliverp.
- Sessions/Maintenance: enforce the built-in entry cap and age prune by default, and prune oversized stores at load time so accumulated cron/executor session backlogs cannot OOM the gateway before the write path runs. (#69404) Thanks @bobrenze-bot.
- Plugins/tests: reuse plugin loader alias and Jiti config resolution across repeated same-context loads, reducing import-heavy test overhead. (#69316) Thanks @amknight.
- Cron: split runtime execution state into `jobs-state.json` so `jobs.json` stays stable for git-tracked job definitions. (#63105) Thanks @Feelw00.
- Agents/compaction: send opt-in start and completion notices during context compaction. (#67830) Thanks @feniix.
- Moonshot/Kimi: default bundled Moonshot setup, web search, and media-understanding surfaces to `kimi-k2.6` while keeping `kimi-k2.5` available for compatibility. (#69477) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Moonshot/Kimi: allow `thinking.keep = "all"` on `moonshot/kimi-k2.6`, and strip it for other Moonshot models or requests where pinned `tool_choice` disables thinking. (#68816) Thanks @aniaan.
- BlueBubbles/groups: forward per-group `systemPrompt` config into inbound context `GroupSystemPrompt` so configured group-specific behavioral instructions (for example threaded-reply and tapback conventions) are injected on every turn. Supports `"*"` wildcard fallback matching the existing `requireMention` pattern. Closes #60665. (#69198) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Plugins/tasks: add a detached runtime registration contract so plugin executors can own detached task lifecycle and cancellation without reaching into core task internals. (#68915) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Terminal/logging: optimize `sanitizeForLog()` by replacing the iterative control-character stripping loop with a single regex pass while preserving the existing ANSI-first sanitization behavior. (#67205) Thanks @bulutmuf.
- QA/CI: make `openclaw qa suite` and `openclaw qa telegram` fail by default when scenarios fail, add `--allow-failures` for artifact-only runs, and tighten live-lane defaults for CI automation. (#69122) Thanks @joshavant.
- Mattermost: stream thinking, tool activity, and partial reply text into a single draft preview post that finalizes in place when safe. (#47838) thanks @ninjaa.

### Fixes

- Exec/YOLO: stop rejecting gateway-host exec in `security=full` plus `ask=off` mode via the Python/Node script preflight hardening path, so promptless YOLO exec once again runs direct interpreter stdin and heredoc forms such as `node <<'NODE' .. NODE`.
- OpenAI Codex: normalize legacy `openai-completions` transport overrides on default OpenAI/Codex and GitHub Copilot-compatible hosts back to the native Codex Responses transport while leaving custom proxies untouched. (#45304, #42194) Thanks @dyss1992 and @DeadlySilent.
- Anthropic/plugins: scope Anthropic `api: "anthropic-messages"` defaulting to Anthropic-owned providers, so `openai-codex` and other providers without an explicit `api` no longer get rewritten to the wrong transport. Fixes #64534.
- fix(qqbot): add SSRF guard to direct-upload URL paths in uploadC2CMedia and uploadGroupMedia [AI-assisted]. (#69595) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- fix(gateway): enforce allowRequestSessionKey gate on template-rendered mapping sessionKeys. (#69381) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Browser/Chrome MCP: surface `DevToolsActivePort` attach failures as browser-connectivity errors instead of a generic "waiting for tabs" timeout, and point signed-out fallbacks toward the managed `openclaw` profile.
- Webchat/images: treat inline image attachments as media for empty-turn gating while still ignoring metadata-only blank turns. (#69474) Thanks @Jaswir.
- Discord/think: only show `adaptive` in `/think` autocomplete for provider/model pairs that actually support provider-managed adaptive thinking, so GPT/OpenAI models no longer advertise an Anthropic-only option.
- Thinking: only expose `max` for models that explicitly support provider max reasoning, and remap stored `max` settings to the largest supported thinking mode when users switch to another model.
- Gateway/usage: bound the cost usage cache with FIFO eviction so date/range lookups cannot grow unbounded. (#68842) Thanks @Feelw00.
- OpenAI/Responses: resolve `/think` levels against each GPT model's supported reasoning efforts so `/think off` no longer becomes high reasoning or sends unsupported `reasoning.effort: "none"` payloads.
- Lobster/TaskFlow: allow managed approval resumes to use `approvalId` without a resume token, and persist that id in approval wait state. (#69559) Thanks @kirkluokun.
- Plugins/startup: install bundled runtime dependencies into each plugin's own runtime directory, reuse source-checkout repair caches after rebuilds, and log only packages that were actually installed so repeated Gateway starts stay quiet once deps are present.
- Plugins/startup: ignore pnpm's `npm_execpath` when repairing bundled plugin runtime dependencies and skip workspace-only package specs so npm-only install flags or local workspace links do not break packaged plugin startup.
- MCP: block interpreter-startup env keys such as `NODE_OPTIONS` for stdio servers while preserving ordinary credential and proxy env vars. (#69540) Thanks @drobison00.
- Agents/shell: ignore non-interactive placeholder shells like `/usr/bin/false` and `/sbin/nologin`, falling back to `sh` so service-user exec runs no longer exit immediately. (#69308) Thanks @sk7n4k3d.
- Setup/TUI: relaunch the setup hatch TUI in a fresh process while preserving the configured gateway target and auth source, so onboarding recovers terminal state cleanly without exposing gateway secrets on command-line args. (#69524) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Codex: avoid re-exposing the image-generation tool on native vision turns with inbound images, and keep bare image-model overrides on the configured image provider. (#65061) Thanks @zhulijin1991.
- Sessions/reset: clear auto-sourced model, provider, and auth-profile overrides on `/new` and `/reset` while preserving explicit user selections, so channel sessions stop staying pinned to runtime fallback choices. (#69419) Thanks @sk7n4k3d.
- Sessions/costs: snapshot `estimatedCostUsd` like token counters so repeated persist paths no longer compound the same run cost by up to dozens of times. (#69403) Thanks @MrMiaigi.
- OpenAI Codex: route ChatGPT/Codex OAuth Responses requests through the `/backend-api/codex` endpoint so `openai-codex/gpt-5.4` no longer hits the removed `/backend-api/responses` alias. (#69336) Thanks @mzogithub.
- OpenAI/Responses: omit disabled reasoning payloads when `/think off` is active, so GPT reasoning models no longer receive unsupported `reasoning.effort: "none"` requests. (#61982) Thanks @a-tokyo.
- Gateway/pairing: treat loopback shared-secret node-host, TUI, and gateway clients as local for pairing decisions, so trusted local tools no longer reconnect as remote clients and fail with `pairing required`. (#69431) Thanks @SARAMALI15792.
- Active Memory: degrade gracefully when memory recall fails during prompt building, logging a warning and letting the reply continue without memory context instead of failing the whole turn. (#69485) Thanks @Magicray1217.
- Ollama: add provider-policy defaults for `baseUrl` and `models` so implicit local discovery can run before config validation rejects a minimal Ollama provider config. (#69370) Thanks @PratikRai0101.
- Agents/model selection: clear transient auto-failover session overrides before each turn so recovered primary models are retried immediately without emitting user-override reset warnings. (#69365) Thanks @hitesh-github99.
- Auto-reply: apply silent `NO_REPLY` policy per conversation type, so direct chats get a helpful rewritten reply while groups and internal deliveries can remain quiet. (#68644) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Telegram/status reactions: honor `messages.removeAckAfterReply` when lifecycle status reactions are enabled, clearing or restoring the reaction after success/error using the configured hold timings. (#68067) Thanks @poiskgit.
- Web search/plugins: resolve plugin-scoped SecretRef API keys for bundled Exa, Firecrawl, Gemini, Kimi, Perplexity, Tavily, and Grok web-search providers when they are selected through the shared web-search config. (#68424) Thanks @afurm.
- Telegram/polling: raise the default polling watchdog threshold from 90s to 120s and add configurable `channels.telegram.pollingStallThresholdMs` (also per-account) so long-running Telegram work gets more room before polling is treated as stalled. (#57737) Thanks @Vitalcheffe.
- Telegram/polling: bound the persisted-offset confirmation `getUpdates` probe with a client-side timeout so a zombie socket cannot hang polling recovery before the runner watchdog starts. (#50368) Thanks @boticlaw.
- Agents/Pi runner: retry silent `stopReason=error` turns with no output when no side effects ran, so non-frontier providers that briefly return empty error turns get another chance instead of ending the session early. (#68310) Thanks @Chased1k.
- Plugins/memory: preserve the active memory capability when read-only snapshot plugin loads run, so status and provider discovery paths no longer wipe memory public artifacts. (#69219) Thanks @zeroaltitude.
- Plugins: keep only the highest-precedence manifest when distinct discovered plugins share an id, so lower-precedence global or workspace duplicates no longer load beside bundled or config-selected plugins. (#41626) Thanks @Tortes.
- fix(security): block MINIMAX_API_HOST workspace env injection and remove env-driven URL routing [AI-assisted]. (#67300) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Cron/delivery: treat explicit `delivery.mode: "none"` runs as not requested even if the runner reports `delivered: false`, so no-delivery cron jobs no longer persist false delivery failures or errors. (#69285) Thanks @matsuri1987.
- Plugins/install: repair active and default-enabled bundled plugin runtime dependencies before import in packaged installs, so bundled Discord, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, and provider plugins work without putting their dependency trees in core.
- BlueBubbles: raise the outbound `/api/v1/message/text` send timeout default from 10s to 30s, and add a configurable `channels.bluebubbles.sendTimeoutMs` (also per-account) so macOS 26 setups where Private API iMessage sends stall for 60+ seconds no longer silently lose messages at the 10s abort. Probes, chat lookups, and health checks keep the shorter 10s default. Fixes #67486. (#69193) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Agents/bootstrap: budget truncation markers against per-file caps, preserve source content instead of silently wasting bootstrap bytes, and avoid marker-only output in tiny-budget truncation cases. (#69114) Thanks @BKF-Gitty.
- Context engine/plugins: stop rejecting third-party context engines whose `info.id` differs from the registered plugin slot id. The strict-match contract added in 2026.4.14 broke `lossless-claw` and other plugins whose internal engine id does not equal the slot id they are registered under, producing repeated `info.id must match registered id` lane failures on every turn. Fixes #66601. (#66678) Thanks @GodsBoy.
- Agents/compaction: rename embedded Pi compaction lifecycle events to `compaction_start` / `compaction_end` so OpenClaw stays aligned with `pi-coding-agent` 0.66.1 event naming. (#67713) Thanks @mpz4life.
- Security/dotenv: block all `OPENCLAW_*` keys from untrusted workspace `.env` files so workspace-local env loading fails closed for new runtime-control variables instead of silently inheriting them. (#473) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/device pairing: restrict non-admin paired-device sessions (device-token auth) to their own pairing list, approve, and reject actions so a paired device cannot enumerate other devices or approve/reject pairing requests authored by another device. Admin and shared-secret operator sessions retain full visibility. (#69375) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Agents/gateway tool: extend the agent-facing `gateway` tool's config mutation guard so model-driven `config.patch` and `config.apply` cannot rewrite operator-trusted paths (sandbox, plugin trust, gateway auth/TLS, hook routing and tokens, SSRF policy, MCP servers, workspace filesystem hardening) and cannot bypass the guard by editing per-agent sandbox, tools, or embedded-Pi overrides in place under `agents.list[]`. (#69377) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/websocket broadcasts: require `operator.read` (or higher) for chat, agent, and tool-result event frames so pairing-scoped and node-role sessions no longer passively receive session chat content, and scope-gate unknown broadcast events by default. Plugin-defined `plugin.*` broadcasts are scoped to operator.write/admin, and status/transport events (`heartbeat`, `presence`, `tick`, etc.) remain unrestricted. Per-client sequence numbers preserve per-connection monotonicity. (#69373) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Agents/compaction: always reload embedded Pi resources through an explicit loader and reapply reserve-token overrides so runs without extension factories no longer silently lose compaction settings before session start. (#67146) Thanks @ly85206559.
- Memory-core/dreaming: normalize sweep timestamps and reuse hashed narrative session keys for fallback cleanup so Dreaming narrative sub-sessions stop leaking. (#67023) Thanks @chiyouYCH.
- Gateway/startup: delay HTTP bind until websocket handlers are attached, so immediate post-startup websocket health/connect probes no longer hit the startup race window. (#43392) Thanks @dalefrieswthat.
- Codex/app-server: release the session lane when a downstream consumer throws while draining the `turn/completed` notification, so follow-up messages after a Codex plugin reply stop queueing behind a stale lane lock. Fixes #67996. (#69072) Thanks @ayeshakhalid192007-dev.
- Codex/app-server: default approval handling to `on-request` so Codex harness sessions do not start with overly permissive tool approvals. (#68721) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Cron/delivery: keep isolated cron chat delivery tools available, resolve `channel: "last"` targets from the gateway, show delivery previews in `cron list/show`, and avoid duplicate fallback sends after direct message-tool delivery. (#69587) Thanks @obviyus.
- Cron/Telegram: key isolated direct-delivery dedupe to each cron execution instead of the reused session id, so recurring Telegram announce runs no longer report delivered while silently skipping later sends. (#69000) Thanks @obviyus.
- Models/Kimi: default bundled Kimi thinking to off and normalize Anthropic-compatible `thinking` payloads so stale session `/think` state no longer silently re-enables reasoning on Kimi runs. (#68907) Thanks @frankekn.
- Control UI/cron: keep the runtime-only `last` delivery sentinel from being materialized into persisted cron delivery and failure-alert channel configs when jobs are created or edited. (#68829) Thanks @tianhaocui.
- OpenAI/Responses: strip orphaned reasoning blocks before outbound Responses API calls so compacted or restored histories no longer fail on standalone reasoning items. (#55787) Thanks @suboss87.
- Cron/CLI: parse PowerShell-style `--tools` allow-lists the same way as comma-separated input, so `cron add` and `cron edit` no longer persist `exec read write` as one combined tool entry on Windows. (#68858) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.
- Browser/user-profile: let existing-session `profile="user"` tool calls auto-route to a connected browser node or use explicit `target="node"`, while still honoring explicit `target="host"` pinning. (#48677) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Discord/slash commands: tolerate partial Discord channel metadata in slash-command and model-picker flows so partial channel objects no longer crash when channel names, topics, or thread parent metadata are unavailable. (#68953) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- BlueBubbles: consolidate outbound HTTP through a typed `BlueBubblesClient` that resolves the SSRF policy once at construction so image attachments stop getting blocked on localhost and reactions stop getting blocked on private-IP BB deployments. Fixes #34749 and #59722. (#68234) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Cron/gateway: reject ambiguous announce delivery config at add/update time so invalid multi-channel or target-id provider settings fail early instead of persisting broken cron jobs. (#69015) Thanks @obviyus.
- Cron/main-session delivery: preserve `heartbeat.target="last"` through deferred wake queuing, gateway wake forwarding, and same-target wake coalescing so queued cron replies still return to the last active chat. (#69021) Thanks @obviyus.
- Cron/gateway: ignore disabled channels when announce delivery ambiguity is checked, and validate main-session delivery patches against the live cron service default agent so hot-reloaded agent config does not falsely reject valid updates. (#69040) Thanks @obviyus.
- Matrix/allowlists: hot-reload `dm.allowFrom` and `groupAllowFrom` entries on inbound messages while keeping config removals authoritative, so Matrix allowlist changes no longer require a channel restart to add or revoke a sender. (#68546) Thanks @johnlanni.
- BlueBubbles: always set `method` explicitly on outbound text sends (`"private-api"` when available, `"apple-script"` otherwise), and prefer Private API on macOS 26 even for plain text. Fixes silent delivery failure on macOS setups without Private API where an omitted `method` let BB Server fall back to version-dependent default behavior that silently drops the message (#64480), and the AppleScript `-1700` error on macOS 26 Tahoe plain text sends (#53159). (#69070) Thanks @xqing3.
- Matrix/commands: recognize slash commands that are prefixed with the bot's Matrix mention, so room messages like `@bot:server /new` trigger the command path without requiring custom mention regexes. (#68570) Thanks @nightq and @johnlanni.
- Gateway/pairing: return reason-specific `PAIRING_REQUIRED` details, remediation hints, and request ids so unapproved-device and scope-upgrade failures surface actionable recovery guidance in the CLI and Control UI. (#69227) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/subagents: include requested role and runtime timing on subagent failure payloads so parent agents can correlate failed or timed-out child work. (#68726) Thanks @BKF-Gitty.
- Gateway/sessions: reject stale agent-scoped sessions after an agent is removed from config while preserving legacy default-agent main-session aliases. (#65986) Thanks @bittoby.
- Doctor/gateway: surface pending device pairing requests, scope-upgrade approval drift, and stale device-token mismatch repair steps so `openclaw doctor --fix` no longer leaves pairing/auth setup failures unexplained. (#69210) Thanks @obviyus.
- Cron/isolated-agent: preserve explicit `delivery.mode: "none"` message targets for isolated runs without inheriting implicit `last` routing, so agent-initiated Telegram sends keep their authored destination while bare `mode:none` jobs stay targetless. (#69153) Thanks @davehappyminion and @nikilster.
- Cron/isolated-agent: keep `delivery.mode: "none"` account-only or thread-only configs from inheriting a stale implicit recipient, so isolated runs only resolve message routing when the job authored an explicit `to` target. (#69163) Thanks @davehappyminion and @nikilster.
- Gateway/TUI: retry session history while the local gateway is still finishing startup, so `openclaw tui` reconnects no longer fail on transient `chat.history unavailable during gateway startup` errors. (#69164) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- BlueBubbles/reactions: fall back to `love` when an agent reacts with an emoji outside the iMessage tapback set (`love`/`like`/`dislike`/`laugh`/`emphasize`/`question`), so wider-vocabulary model reactions like `👀` still produce a visible tapback instead of failing the whole reaction request. Configured ack reactions still validate strictly via the new `normalizeBlueBubblesReactionInputStrict` path. (#64693) Thanks @zqchris.
- BlueBubbles: prefer iMessage over SMS when both chats exist for the same handle, honor explicit `sms:` targets, and never silently downgrade iMessage-available recipients. (#61781) Thanks @rmartin.
- Telegram/setup: require numeric `allowFrom` user IDs during setup instead of offering unsupported `@username` DM resolution, and point operators to `from.id`/`getUpdates` for discovery. (#69191) Thanks @obviyus.
- GitHub Copilot/onboarding: default GitHub Copilot setup to `claude-opus-4.6` and keep the bundled default model list aligned, so new Copilot setups no longer start on the older `gpt-4o` default. (#69207) Thanks @obviyus.
- Gateway/status: separate reachability, capability, and read-probe reporting so connect-only or scope-limited sessions no longer look fully healthy, and normalize SSH targets entered as `ssh user@host`. (#69215) Thanks @obviyus.
- Slack: fix outbound replies failing with "unresolved SecretRef" for accounts configured via `file` or `exec` secret sources; the send path now tolerates the runtime snapshot retaining an unresolved channel SecretRef when a boot-resolved token override is already available. (#68954) Thanks @openperf.
- Control UI/device pairing: explain scope and role approval upgrades during reconnects, and show requested versus approved access in the Control UI and `openclaw devices` so broader reconnects no longer look like lost pairings. (#69221) Thanks @obviyus.
- Gateway/Control UI: surface pending scope, role, and device-metadata pairing approvals in auth errors and Control UI hints so broader reconnects no longer look like random auth breakage. (#69226) Thanks @obviyus.

## 2026.4.19-beta.2

### Fixes

- Agents/openai-completions: always send `stream_options.include_usage` on streaming requests, so local and custom OpenAI-compatible backends report real context usage instead of showing 0%. (#68746) Thanks @kagura-agent.
- Agents/nested lanes: scope nested agent work per target session so a long-running nested run on one session no longer head-of-line blocks unrelated sessions across the gateway. (#67785) Thanks @stainlu.
- Agents/status: preserve carried-forward session token totals for providers that omit usage metadata, so `/status` and `openclaw sessions` keep showing the last known context usage instead of dropping back to unknown/0%. (#67695) Thanks @stainlu.
- Install/update: keep legacy update verification compatible with the QA Lab runtime shim, so updating older global installs to beta no longer fails after npm installs the package successfully.

## 2026.4.19-beta.1

### Fixes

- Agents/channels: route cross-agent subagent spawns through the target agent's bound channel account while preserving peer and workspace/role-scoped bindings, so child sessions no longer inherit the caller's account in shared rooms, workspaces, or multi-account setups. (#67508) Thanks @lukeboyett and @gumadeiras.
- Telegram/callbacks: treat permanent callback edit errors as completed updates so stale command pagination buttons no longer wedge the update watermark and block newer Telegram updates. (#68588) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Browser/CDP: allow the selected remote CDP profile host for CDP health and control checks without widening browser navigation SSRF policy, so WSL-to-Windows Chrome endpoints no longer appear offline under strict defaults. Fixes #68108. (#68207) Thanks @Mlightsnow.
- Codex: stop cumulative app-server token totals from being treated as fresh context usage, so session status no longer reports inflated context percentages after long Codex threads. (#64669) Thanks @cyrusaf.
- Browser/CDP: add phase-specific CDP readiness diagnostics and normalize loopback WebSocket host aliases, so Windows browser startup failures surface whether HTTP discovery, WebSocket discovery, SSRF validation, or the `Browser.getVersion` health check failed.
- Browser/CDP: discover Chrome’s real DevTools websocket from bare `ws://host:port` attach-only roots before declaring the profile down, while still falling back to direct websocket providers that do not expose `/json/version`. Fixes #68027. (#68715) Thanks @visionik.

## 2026.4.18

### Changes

- Anthropic/models: add Claude Opus 4.7 `xhigh` reasoning effort support and keep it separate from adaptive thinking.
- Control UI/settings: overhaul the settings and slash-command experience with faster presets, quick-create flows, and refreshed command discovery. (#67819) Thanks @BunsDev.
- macOS/gateway: add `screen.snapshot` support for macOS app nodes, including runtime plumbing, default macOS allowlisting, and docs for monitor preview flows. (#67954) Thanks @BunsDev.

### Fixes

- Codex/gateway: fix gateway crashes when the codex-acp subprocess terminates abruptly; pending requests now shut down gracefully instead of propagating an uncaught EPIPE through the gateway daemon and connected channels. Fixes #67886. (#67947) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/bootstrap: resolve bootstrap from workspace truth instead of stale session transcript markers, keep embedded bootstrap instructions on a hidden user-context prelude, suppress normal `/new` and `/reset` greetings while `BOOTSTRAP.md` is still pending, and make the embedded runner read the bootstrap ritual before replying normally (#68000). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Agents/bootstrap: dedupe repeated bootstrap-truncation warnings so startup logs stay actionable. (#67906) Thanks @rubencu.
- WhatsApp/multi-account: centralize named-account inbound policy, isolate per-account group activation and scoped session keys, preserve legacy activation backfill, and keep `accounts.default` shared defaults aligned across runtime, setup, and compat migration paths. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Cron/delivery: clean up isolated sessions after direct deliveries when `deleteAfterRun` is enabled, covering structured and threaded branches that previously bypassed cleanup. (#67807) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Gateway/hello-ok: always report negotiated auth metadata and preserve scopes for reused device tokens on successful shared-auth handshakes, including control-ui bypass coverage when no device token is issued. (#67810, #68039) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Onboarding/non-interactive: preserve existing gateway auth tokens during re-onboard so active local gateway clients are not disconnected by an implicit token rotation. (#67821) Thanks @BKF-Gitty.
- OpenAI Codex/Responses: unify native Responses API capability detection so Codex OAuth requests emit the required `store: false` field on the native Responses path. (#67918) Thanks @obviyus.
- WhatsApp/setup: guard personal-phone and allowlist prompt values so setup fails with clear validation errors instead of crashing on undefined prompt text. (#67895) Thanks @lawrence3699.
- Models/config: preserve an existing `models.json` provider `baseUrl` during merge-mode regeneration so custom endpoints do not get reset on restart. (#67893) Thanks @lawrence3699.
- Plugin SDK: preserve `secret-input-runtime` function exports in published builds so provider plugins can read SecretRef-backed setup inputs.
- Plugins/discovery: reuse bundled and global plugin discovery results across workspace cache misses so Windows multi-workspace startup stops redoing the shared synchronous scan. (#67940) Thanks @obviyus.
- Bundled plugins/install: keep staged bundled plugin runtime imports resolving through the packaged Plugin SDK while omitting checkout-only aliases from the dist inventory, so published installs do not fail on repo-local paths.
- Plugins/webhooks: enforce synchronous plugin registration with full rollback of failed plugin side effects, and cache SecretRef-backed webhook auth per route so plugin startup and inbound webhook auth stay deterministic. (#67941) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/polling transport: give the Telegram undici dispatcher pool bounded keep-alive defaults and an explicit lifecycle. Previously every recoverable network error and stall watchdog trip silently replaced the transport, abandoning the old dispatcher pool and its sockets; long-running gateway processes accumulated hundreds of ESTABLISHED connections to `api.telegram.org`, saturating per-IP upstream proxy quotas and causing the actively-used outbound proxy node to time out while every other node still tested healthy. Transports now expose `close()`, `TelegramPollingTransportState` destroys the stale transport on dirty-rebuild, and `TelegramPollingSession` disposes the transport when polling exits — backed by a strict per-origin pool cap on every constructed `Agent`, `ProxyAgent`, and `EnvHttpProxyAgent` as defence in depth (#69476).
- Telegram/polling: publish successful `getUpdates` calls as account health liveness, avoid false stall restarts after recoverable `getUpdates` errors, and force Telegram API dispatchers to HTTP/1.1 so stalled polling recovers instead of sitting connected-but-dead (#69476).
- Telegram/ACP bindings: drop persisted DM bindings that still point at missing or failed ACP sessions on restart, while preserving plugin-owned bindings and uncertain store reads. (#67822) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar.
- Telegram/streaming: keep a transient preview on the same Telegram message when auto-compaction retries an in-flight answer, so streamed replies no longer appear duplicated after compaction. (#66939) Thanks @rubencu.
- Memory/sqlite-vec: emit the degraded sqlite-vec warning once per degraded episode instead of repeating it for every file write, while preserving the latch across safe-reindex rollback and resetting it when vector state is genuinely rebuilt. (#67898) Thanks @rubencu.
- Memory-core: preserve stored vector dimensions during read-only recovery so memory indexes do not lose vector metadata while repairing read-only state.
- Reply/block streaming: preserve post-stream incomplete-turn error payloads after block streaming already emitted content, so users get the warning instead of silence. (#67991) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/streaming: clear the compaction replay guard after visible non-final boundaries so a post-tool assistant reply rotates to a fresh preview instead of editing the pre-compaction message. (#67993) Thanks @obviyus.
- Matrix: fix `sessions_spawn --thread` subagent session spawning — thread binding creation, cleanup on session end, and completion-message delivery target resolution now work end-to-end. (#67643) Thanks @eejohnso-ops and @gumadeiras.
- Slack/streaming: resolve native streaming recipient teams from the inbound user when available, with a monitor-team fallback, so DM and shared-workspace streams target the right recipient more reliably.
- macOS/webchat: enable Undo and Redo in the composer text input by turning on the native `NSTextView` undo manager. (#34962) Thanks @tylerbittner.
- macOS/remote SSH: require an already-trusted host key on the macOS remote command, gateway probe, port tunnel, and pairing probe paths by switching `StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new` to `StrictHostKeyChecking=yes` and centralizing the shared SSH option fragments in `CommandResolver`, so first-time macOS remote connections no longer silently accept an unknown host key and must be trusted ahead of time via `~/.ssh/known_hosts`. (#68199) Thanks @drobison00.
- CLI/configure: show the channel picker before probing statuses and let remove mode delete configured channel blocks directly from config. (#68007) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Control UI/settings: reset scroll position when switching settings pages and align details headers. (#68150) Thanks @BunsDev.
- WhatsApp/gateway: harden WhatsApp auth persistence and backup recovery, model unstable auth state explicitly in setup/status/health, recover backup-backed login without forcing a fresh QR, and keep local gateway handoff and channel restarts truthful after login. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth: keep OpenClaw as the canonical owner for imported Codex CLI OAuth sessions, stop writing refreshed credentials back into `.codex`, and prefer fresher OpenClaw credentials over stale imported CLI state so refresh recovery stays stable. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth: treat the OpenAI TLS prerequisites probe as advisory instead of a hard blocker, so Codex sign-in can still proceed when the speculative Node/OpenSSL precheck fails but the real OAuth flow still works. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models status/OAuth health: align OAuth health reporting with the same effective credential view runtime uses, so expired refreshable sessions stop showing healthy by default and fresher imported Codex CLI credentials surface correctly in `models status`, doctor, and gateway auth status. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth: keep external CLI OAuth imports runtime-only by overlaying fresher Codex CLI credentials without mutating `auth-profiles.json`, so `.codex` stays a bootstrap/runtime input instead of becoming durable OpenClaw state. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth: drop legacy CLI-manager routing from the remaining bootstrap path so Codex and MiniMax CLI imports are matched by their canonical OpenClaw profile ids instead of stale `managedBy` metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth: only bootstrap from external CLI OAuth when the local OpenClaw profile is missing or unusable, so healthy local sessions are no longer overridden by fresher `.codex` tokens. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth: rename the external CLI bootstrap helper, reuse the same usable-oauth check across runtime fallback paths, and add debug logs plus health coverage so bootstrap decisions stay legible. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Twitch/setup: load Twitch through the bundled setup-entry discovery path and keep setup/status account detection aligned with runtime config. (#68008) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Feishu/card actions: resolve card-action chat type from the Feishu chat API when stored context is missing, preferring `chat_mode` over `chat_type`, so DM-originated card actions no longer bypass `dmPolicy` by falling through to the group handling path. (#68201) Thanks @drobison00.
- Cron/isolated-agent: preserve `trusted: false` on isolated cron awareness events mirrored into the main session, and forward the optional `trusted` flag through the gateway cron wrapper so explicit trust downgrades survive session-key scoping. (#68210) Thanks @drobison00.
- Agents/fallback: recognize bare leading ZenMux `402 ...` quota-refresh errors without misclassifying plain numeric `402 ...` text, and keep the embedded fallback regression coverage stable. (#47579) Thanks @bwjoke.
- Failover/google: only treat `INTERNAL` status payloads as retryable timeouts when they also carry a `500` code, so malformed non-500 payloads do not enter the retry path. (#68238) Thanks @altaywtf and @Openbling.
- Agents/tools: filter bundled MCP/LSP tools through the final owner-only and tool-policy pipeline after merging them into the effective tool list, so existing allowlists, deny rules, sandbox policy, subagent policy, and owner-only restrictions apply to bundled tools the same way they apply to core tools. (#68195) Thanks @drobison00.
- Gateway/assistant media: require `operator.read` scope for assistant-media file and metadata requests on identity-bearing HTTP auth paths so callers without a read scope can no longer access assistant media. (#68175) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/web: allow same-origin microphone access in the Permissions-Policy header so browser voice capture can work from the Control UI and webchat origin. (#68368).
- Exec approvals/display: escape raw control characters (including newline and carriage return) in the shared and macOS approval-prompt command sanitizers, so trailing command payloads no longer render on hidden extra lines in the approval UI. (#68198) Thanks @drobison00.
- Telegram/streaming: fence same-session stale preview and finalization work after aborts so Telegram no longer replays an older reply or flushes a hidden short preview after the abort confirmation lands. (#68100) Thanks @rubencu.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth + Pi: keep imported Codex CLI OAuth bootstrap, Pi auth export, and runtime overlay handling aligned so Codex sessions survive refresh and health checks without leaking transient CLI state into saved auth files. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex/OAuth: keep Codex-specific auth bridging inside the owning plugins, preserve canonical imported CLI profiles, and allow legacy identity-less main-store OAuth sessions to upgrade during refresh mirroring. (#68284) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Config/redact: add `browser.cdpUrl` and `browser.profiles.*.cdpUrl` to sensitive URL config paths so embedded credentials (query tokens and HTTP Basic auth) are properly redacted in `config.get` API responses and availability error messages. (#67679) Thanks @Ziy1-Tan.
- Agents/TTS: report failed speech synthesis as a real tool error so unconfigured providers no longer feed successful TTS failure output back into agent loops. (#67980) Thanks @lawrence3699.
- Gateway/wake: allow unknown properties on wake payloads so external senders like Paperclip can attach opaque metadata without failing schema validation. (#68355) Thanks @kagura-agent.
- Matrix: honor `channels.matrix.network.dangerouslyAllowPrivateNetwork` when creating clients for private-network homeservers. (#68332) Thanks @kagura-agent.
- Cron/message tool: keep cron-owned runs with `delivery.mode: "none"` on the normal message-tool path so they can still send explicit messages, create threads, and route conditionally when no runner-owned delivery target is active. (#68482) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/failover: avoid treating bare leading `402 ...` prose as billing errors while still recognizing proxy subscription failures. (#45827) Thanks @junyuc25.
- Config/$schema: preserve root-authored `$schema` during partial config rewrites without injecting include-only schema URLs into the root config. (#47322) Thanks @EfeDurmaz16.
- Agents/CLI delivery: run the same reply-media path normalizer the auto-reply flow uses before shipping `openclaw agent --deliver` payloads, so relative `MEDIA:./out/photo.png` tokens resolve against the agent workspace instead of being rejected downstream with `LocalMediaAccessError: Local media path is not under an allowed directory`. Thanks @frankekn.
- Agents/Google: strip `thinkingBudget=0` for the thinking-required `gemini-2.5-pro` model in embedded-runner and native Google payloads, so requests no longer fail with `Budget 0 is invalid. This model only works in thinking mode.` and the API uses its default thinking behavior instead. (#68607) Thanks @josmithiii.
- Slack/threads: log failed thread starter and history fetches at verbose level while preserving best-effort fallback behavior, so missing Slack thread context is diagnosable without interrupting inbound handling. (#68594) Thanks @martingarramon.
- Gateway/restart: keep stale-gateway cleanup from terminating the current process's parent or ancestors, so plugin sidecars like WeChat no longer kill the active gateway and trigger an infinite supervisor restart loop. Fixes #68451. (#68517) Thanks @openperf.
- Gateway/auth: reject gateway auth credentials that match published example placeholders at startup and secret reload, and keep cloud install snippets from publishing copy-paste gateway/keyring secrets. (#68404) Thanks @coygeek.
- CLI/update: preserve macOS restart helper launchctl failures in the update restart log without letting log setup block the restart path. (#68492) Thanks @hclsys.
- Slack/threads: keep file-only root messages as starter context so first thread replies can still hydrate starter media. (#68594) Thanks @martingarramon.
- Google/Antigravity: resolve forward-compatible Gemini 3.1 Pro custom-tools and Flash variants from the bundled Google plugin templates, so `google-antigravity/gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools` no longer falls through to an unknown-model error. Fixes #35512.
- Active Memory: raise the blocking recall timeout ceiling to 120 seconds and reject larger config values during plugin schema validation. Fixes #68410. (#68480) Thanks @Bartok9.
- Control UI/chat: keep history-backed user image uploads visible after chat reload while filtering blocked or non-image transcript media paths. (#68415) Thanks @mraleko.
- Matrix/plugins: keep remaining Matrix event helpers on the canonical `matrix-js-sdk` subpath so build and plugin-load entrypoint checks stay consistent. (#68498) Thanks @masatohoshino.

## 2026.4.15

### Changes

- Anthropic/models: default Anthropic selections, `opus` aliases, Claude CLI defaults, and bundled image understanding to Claude Opus 4.7.
- Google/TTS: add Gemini text-to-speech support to the bundled `google` plugin, including provider registration, voice selection, WAV reply output, PCM telephony output, and setup/docs guidance. (#67515) Thanks @barronlroth.
- Control UI/Overview: add a Model Auth status card showing OAuth token health and provider rate-limit pressure at a glance, with attention callouts when OAuth tokens are expiring or expired. Backed by a new `models.authStatus` gateway method that strips credentials and caches for 60s. (#66211) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Memory/LanceDB: add cloud storage support to `memory-lancedb` so durable memory indexes can run on remote object storage instead of local disk only. (#63502) Thanks @rugvedS07.
- GitHub Copilot/memory search: add a GitHub Copilot embedding provider for memory search, and expose a dedicated Copilot embedding host helper so plugins can reuse the transport while honoring remote overrides, token refresh, and safer payload validation. (#61718) Thanks @feiskyer and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/local models: add experimental `agents.defaults.experimental.localModelLean: true` to drop heavyweight default tools like `browser`, `cron`, and `message`, reducing prompt size for weaker local-model setups without changing the normal path. (#66495) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Packaging/plugins: localize bundled plugin runtime deps to their owning extensions, trim the published docs payload, and tighten install/package-manager guardrails so published builds stay leaner and core stops carrying extension-owned runtime baggage. (#67099) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- QA/Matrix: split Matrix live QA into a source-linked `qa-matrix` runner and keep repo-private `qa-*` surfaces out of packaged and published builds. (#66723) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Docs/showcase: add a scannable hero, complete section jump links, and a responsive video grid for community examples. (#48493) Thanks @jchopard69.

### Fixes

- Gateway/tools: anchor trusted local `MEDIA:` tool-result passthrough on the exact raw name of this run's registered built-in tools, and reject client tool definitions whose names normalize-collide with a built-in or with another client tool in the same request (`400 invalid_request_error` on both JSON and SSE paths), so a client-supplied tool named like a built-in can no longer inherit its local-media trust. (#67303) Thanks @drobison00.
- Agents/replay recovery: classify the provider wording `401 input item ID does not belong to this connection` as replay-invalid, so users get the existing `/new` session reset guidance instead of a raw 401-style failure. (#66475) Thanks @dallylee.
- Gateway/webchat: enforce localRoots containment on webchat audio embedding path [AI-assisted]. (#67298) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Matrix/pairing: block DM pairing-store entries from authorizing room control commands [AI-assisted]. (#67294) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Docker/build: verify `@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-nodejs` native bindings with `find` under `node_modules` instead of a hardcoded `.pnpm/...` path so pnpm v10+ virtual-store layouts no longer fail the image build. (#67143) thanks @ly85206559.
- Matrix/E2EE: keep startup bootstrap conservative for passwordless token-auth bots, still attempt the guarded repair pass without requiring `channels.matrix.password`, and document the remaining password-UIA limitation. (#66228) Thanks @SARAMALI15792.
- Cron/announce delivery: suppress mixed-content isolated cron announce replies that end with `NO_REPLY` so trailing silent sentinels no longer leak summary text to the target channel. (#65004) thanks @neo1027144-creator.
- Plugins/bundled channels: partition bundled channel lazy caches by active bundled root so `OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR` flips stop reusing stale plugin, setup, secrets, and runtime state. (#67200) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Packaging/plugins: prune common test/spec cargo from bundled plugin runtime dependencies and fail npm release validation if packaged test cargo reappears, keeping published tarballs leaner without plugin-specific special cases. (#67275) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/context + Memory: trim default startup/skills prompt budgets, cap `memory_get` excerpts by default with explicit continuation metadata, and keep QMD reads aligned with the same bounded excerpt contract so long sessions pull less context by default without losing deterministic follow-up reads (#67315). Thanks @jalehman.
- Matrix/commands: skip DM pairing-store reads on room traffic now that room control-command authorization ignores pairing-store entries, keeping the room path narrower without changing room auth behavior. (#67325) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Memory-core/dreaming: skip dreaming narrative transcripts from session-store metadata before bootstrap records land so dream diary prompt/prose lines do not pollute session ingestion. (#67315) thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/local models: clarify low-context preflight hints for self-hosted models, point config-backed caps at the relevant OpenClaw setting, and stop suggesting larger models when `agents.defaults.contextTokens` is the real limit. (#66236) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Dreaming/memory-core: change the default `dreaming.storage.mode` from `inline` to `separate` so Dreaming phase blocks (`## Light Sleep`, `## REM Sleep`) land in `memory/dreaming/{phase}/YYYY-MM-DD.md` instead of being injected into `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`. Daily memory files no longer get dominated by structured candidate output, and the daily-ingestion scanner that already strips dream marker blocks no longer has to compete with hundreds of phase-block lines on every run. Operators who want the previous behavior can opt in by setting `plugins.entries.memory-core.config.dreaming.storage.mode: "inline"`. (#66412) Thanks @mjamiv.
- Control UI/Overview: fix false-positive "missing" alerts on the Model Auth status card for aliased providers, env-backed OAuth with auth.profiles, and unresolvable env SecretRefs. (#67253) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Dashboard: constrain exec approval modal overflow on desktop so long command content no longer pushes action buttons out of view. (#67082) Thanks @Ziy1-Tan.
- Agents/CLI transcripts: persist successful CLI-backed turns into the OpenClaw session transcript so google-gemini-cli replies appear in session history and the Control UI again. (#67490) Thanks @obviyus.
- Discord/tool-call text: strip standalone Gemma-style `<function>...</function>` tool-call payloads from visible assistant text without truncating prose examples or trailing replies. (#67318) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- WhatsApp/web-session: drain the pending per-auth creds save queue before reopening sockets so reconnect-time auth bootstrap no longer races in-flight `creds.json` writes and falsely restores from backup. (#67464) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- BlueBubbles/catchup: add a per-message retry ceiling (`catchup.maxFailureRetries`, default 10) so a persistently-failing message with a malformed payload no longer wedges the catchup cursor forever. After N consecutive `processMessage` failures against the same GUID, catchup logs a WARN, skips that message on subsequent sweeps, and lets the cursor advance past it. Transient failures still retry from the same point as before. Also fixes a lost-update race in the persistent dedupe file lock that silently dropped inbound GUIDs on concurrent writes, a dedupe file naming migration gap on version upgrade, and a balloon-event bypass that let catchup replay debouncer-coalesced events as standalone messages. (#67426, #66870) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Ollama/chat: strip the `ollama/` provider prefix from Ollama chat request model ids so configured refs like `ollama/qwen3:14b-q8_0` stop 404ing against the Ollama API. (#67457) Thanks @suboss87.
- Agents/tools: resolve non-workspace host tilde paths against the OS home directory and keep edit recovery aligned with that same path target, so `~/...` host edit/write operations stop failing or reading back the wrong file when `OPENCLAW_HOME` differs. (#62804) Thanks @stainlu.
- Speech/TTS: auto-enable the bundled Microsoft and ElevenLabs speech providers, and route generic TTS directive tokens through the explicit or active provider first so overrides like `[[tts:speed=1.2]]` stop silently landing on the wrong provider. (#62846) Thanks @stainlu.
- OpenAI Codex/models: normalize stale native transport metadata in both runtime resolution and discovery/listing so legacy `openai-codex` rows with missing `api` or `https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/v1` self-heal to the canonical Codex transport instead of routing requests through broken HTML/Cloudflare paths, combining the original fixes proposed in #66969 (saamuelng601-pixel) and #67159 (hclsys). (#67635) Thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/failover: treat HTML provider error pages as upstream transport failures for CDN-style 5xx responses without misclassifying embedded body text as API rate limits, while still preserving auth remediation for HTML 401/403 pages and proxy remediation for HTML 407 pages. (#67642) Thanks @stainlu.
- Gateway/skills: bump the cached skills-snapshot version whenever a config write touches `skills.*` (for example `skills.allowBundled`, `skills.entries.<id>.enabled`, or `skills.profile`). Existing agent sessions persist a `skillsSnapshot` in `sessions.json` that reuses the skill list frozen at session creation; without this invalidation, removing a bundled skill from the allowlist left the old snapshot live and the model kept calling the disabled tool, producing `Tool <name> not found` loops that ran until the embedded-run timeout. (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.
- Agents/tool-loop: enable the unknown-tool stream guard by default. Previously `resolveUnknownToolGuardThreshold` returned `undefined` unless `tools.loopDetection.enabled` was explicitly set to `true`, which left the protection off in the default configuration. A hallucinated or removed tool (for example `himalaya` after it was dropped from `skills.allowBundled`) would then loop "Tool X not found" attempts until the full embedded-run timeout. The guard has no false-positive surface because it only triggers on tools that are objectively not registered in the run, so it now stays on regardless of `tools.loopDetection.enabled` and still accepts `tools.loopDetection.unknownToolThreshold` as a per-run override (default 10). (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.
- TUI/streaming: add a client-side streaming watchdog to `tui-event-handlers` so the `streaming · Xm Ys` activity indicator resets to `idle` after 30s of delta silence on the active run. Guards against lost or late `state: "final"` chat events (WS reconnects, gateway restarts, etc.) leaving the TUI stuck on `streaming` indefinitely; a new system log line surfaces the reset so users know to send a new message to resync. The window is configurable via the new `streamingWatchdogMs` context option (set to `0` to disable), and the handler now exposes a `dispose()` that clears the pending timer on shutdown. (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.
- Extensions/lmstudio: add exponential backoff to the inference-preload wrapper so an LM Studio model-load failure (for example the built-in memory guardrail rejecting a load because the swap is saturated) no longer produces a WARN line every ~2s for every chat request. The wrapper now records consecutive preload failures per `(baseUrl, modelKey, contextLength)` tuple with a 5s → 10s → 20s → … → 5min cooldown and skips the preload step entirely while a cooldown is active, letting chat requests proceed directly to the stream (the model is often already loaded via the LM Studio UI). The combined `preload failed` log line now reports consecutive-failure count and remaining cooldown so operators can act on the real issue instead of drowning in repeated warnings. (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.
- Agents/replay: re-run tool/result pairing after strict replay tool-call ID sanitization on outbound requests so Anthropic-compatible providers like MiniMax no longer receive malformed orphan tool-result IDs such as `...toolresult1` during compaction and retry flows. (#67620) Thanks @stainlu.
- Gateway/startup: fix spurious SIGUSR1 restart loop on Linux/systemd when plugin auto-enable is the only startup config write; the config hash guard was not captured for that write path, causing chokidar to treat each boot write as an external change and trigger a reload → restart cycle that corrupts manifest.db after repeated cycles. Fixes #67436. (#67557) thanks @openperf
- Codex/harness: auto-enable the Codex plugin when `codex` is selected as an embedded agent harness runtime, including forced default, per-agent, and `OPENCLAW_AGENT_RUNTIME` paths. (#67474) Thanks @duqaXxX.
- OpenAI Codex/CLI: keep resumed `codex exec resume` runs on the safe non-interactive path without reintroducing the removed dangerous bypass flag by passing the supported `--skip-git-repo-check` resume arg plus Codex's native `sandbox_mode="workspace-write"` config override. (#67666) Thanks @plgonzalezrx8.
- Codex/app-server: parse Desktop-originated app-server user agents such as `Codex Desktop/0.118.0`, keeping the version gate working when the Codex CLI inherits a multi-word originator. (#64666) Thanks @cyrusaf.
- Cron/announce delivery: keep isolated announce `NO_REPLY` stripping case-insensitive across direct and text delivery, preserve structured media-only sends when a caption strips silent, and derive main-session awareness from the cleaned payloads so silent captions no longer leak stale `NO_REPLY` text. (#65016) Thanks @BKF-Gitty.
- Sessions/Codex: skip redundant `delivery-mirror` transcript appends only when the latest assistant message has the same visible text, preventing duplicate visible replies on Codex-backed turns without suppressing repeated answers across turns. (#67185) Thanks @andyylin.
- Auto-reply/prompt-cache: keep volatile inbound chat IDs out of the stable system prompt so task-scoped adapters can reuse prompt caches across runs, while preserving conversation metadata for the user turn and media-only messages. (#65071) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- BlueBubbles/inbound: restore inbound image attachment downloads on Node 22+ by stripping incompatible bundled-undici dispatchers from the non-SSRF fetch path, accept `updated-message` webhooks carrying attachments, use event-type-aware dedup keys so attachment follow-ups are not rejected as duplicates, and retry attachment fetch from the BB API when the initial webhook arrives with an empty array. (#64105, #61861, #65430, #67510) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Agents/skills: sort prompt-facing `available_skills` entries by skill name after merging sources so `skills.load.extraDirs` order no longer changes prompt-cache prefixes. (#64198) Thanks @Bartok9.
- Agents/OpenAI Responses: add `models.providers.*.models.*.compat.supportsPromptCacheKey` so OpenAI-compatible proxies that forward `prompt_cache_key` can keep prompt caching enabled while incompatible endpoints can still force stripping. (#67427) Thanks @damselem.
- Agents/context engines: keep loop-hook and final `afterTurn` prompt-cache touch metadata aligned with the current assistant turn so cache-aware context engines retain accurate cache TTL state during tool loops. (#67767) thanks @jalehman.
- Memory/dreaming: strip AI-facing inbound metadata envelopes from session-corpus user turns before normalization so REM topic extraction sees the user's actual message text, including array-shaped split envelopes. (#66548) Thanks @zqchris.
- Agents/errors: detect standalone Cloudflare/CDN HTML challenge pages before transport DNS classification so provider block pages no longer appear as local DNS lookup failures. (#67704) Thanks @chris-yyau.
- Security/approvals: redact secrets in exec approval prompts so inline approval review can no longer leak credential material in rendered prompt content. (#61077, #64790).
- CLI/configure: re-read the persisted config hash after writes so config updates stop failing with stale-hash races. (#64188, #66528).
- CLI/update: prune stale packaged `dist` chunks after npm upgrades and keep downgrade/verify inventory checks compat-safe so global upgrades stop failing on stale chunk imports. (#66959) Thanks @obviyus.
- Onboarding/CLI: fix channel-selection crashes on globally installed CLI setups during onboarding. (#66736).
- Video generation/live tests: bound provider polling for live video smoke, default to the fast non-FAL text-to-video path, and use a one-second lobster prompt so release validation no longer waits indefinitely on slow provider queues.
- Memory-core/QMD `memory_get`: reject reads of arbitrary workspace markdown paths and only allow canonical memory files (`MEMORY.md`, `memory.md`, `DREAMS.md`, `dreams.md`, `memory/**`) plus exact paths of active indexed QMD workspace documents, so the QMD memory backend can no longer be used as a generic workspace-file read shim that bypasses `read` tool-policy denials. (#66026) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Cron/agents: forward embedded-run tool policy and internal event params into the attempt layer so `--tools` allowlists, cron-owned message-tool suppression, explicit message targeting, and command-path internal events all take effect at runtime again. (#62675) Thanks @hexsprite.
- Setup/providers: guard preferred-provider lookup during setup so malformed plugin metadata with a missing provider id no longer crashes the wizard with `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim')`. (#66649) Thanks @Tianworld.
- Matrix/security: normalize sandboxed profile avatar params, preserve `mxc://` avatar URLs, and surface gmail watcher stop failures during reload. (#64701) Thanks @slepybear.
- Telegram/documents: drop leaked binary caption bytes from inbound Telegram text handling so document uploads like `.mobi` or `.epub` no longer explode prompt token counts. (#66663) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Gateway/auth: resolve the active gateway bearer per-request on the HTTP server and the HTTP upgrade handler via `getResolvedAuth()`, mirroring the WebSocket path, so a secret rotated through `secrets.reload` or config hot-reload stops authenticating on `/v1/*`, `/tools/invoke`, plugin HTTP routes, and the canvas upgrade path immediately instead of remaining valid on HTTP until gateway restart. (#66651) Thanks @mmaps.
- Agents/compaction: cap the compaction reserve-token floor to the model context window so small-context local models (e.g. Ollama with 16K tokens) no longer trigger context-overflow errors or infinite compaction loops on every prompt. (#65671) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/OpenAI Responses: classify the exact `Unknown error (no error details in response)` transport failure as failover reason `unknown` so assistant/model fallback still runs for that no-details failure path. (#65254) Thanks @OpenCodeEngineer.
- Models/probe: surface invalid-model probe failures as `format` instead of `unknown` in `models list --probe`, and lock the invalid-model fallback path in with regression coverage. (#50028) Thanks @xiwuqi.
- Agents/failover: classify OpenAI-compatible `finish_reason: network_error` stream failures as timeout so model fallback retries continue instead of stopping with an unknown failover reason. (#61784) thanks @lawrence3699.
- Onboarding/channels: normalize channel setup metadata before discovery and validation so malformed or mixed-shape channel plugin metadata no longer breaks setup and onboarding channel lists. (#66706) Thanks @darkamenosa.
- Slack/native commands: fix option menus for slash commands such as `/verbose` when Slack renders native buttons by giving each button a unique action ID while still routing them through the shared `openclaw_cmdarg*` listener. Thanks @Wangmerlyn.
- Feishu/webhook: harden the webhook transport and card-action replay guards to fail closed on missing `encryptKey` and blank callback tokens — refuse to start the webhook transport without an `encryptKey`, reject unsigned requests when no key is present instead of accepting them, and drop blank card-action tokens before the dedupe claim and dispatcher. Defense-in-depth over the already-closed monitor-account layer. (#66707) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Agents/workspace files: route `agents.files.get`, `agents.files.set`, and workspace listing through the shared `fs-safe` helpers (`openFileWithinRoot`/`readFileWithinRoot`/`writeFileWithinRoot`), reject symlink aliases for allowlisted agent files, and have `fs-safe` resolve opened-file real paths from the file descriptor before falling back to path-based `realpath` so a symlink swap between `open` and `realpath` can no longer redirect the validated path off the intended inode. (#66636) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/MCP loopback: switch the `/mcp` bearer comparison from plain `!==` to constant-time `safeEqualSecret` (matching the convention every other auth surface in the codebase uses), and reject non-loopback browser-origin requests via `checkBrowserOrigin` before the auth gate runs. Loopback origins (`127.0.0.1:*`, `localhost:*`, same-origin) still go through, including the `localhost`↔`127.0.0.1` host mismatch that browsers flag as `Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site`. (#66665) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Auto-reply/billing: classify pure billing cooldown fallback summaries from structured fallback reasons so users see billing guidance instead of the generic failure reply. (#66363) Thanks @Rohan5commit.
- Agents/fallback: preserve the original prompt body on model fallback retries with session history so the retrying model keeps the active task instead of only seeing a generic continue message. (#66029) Thanks @WuKongAI-CMU.
- Reply/secrets: resolve active reply channel/account SecretRefs before reply-run message-action discovery so channel token SecretRefs (for example Discord) do not degrade into discovery-time unresolved-secret failures. (#66796) Thanks @joshavant.
- Agents/Anthropic: ignore non-positive Anthropic Messages token overrides and fail locally when no positive token budget remains, so invalid `max_tokens` values no longer reach the provider API. (#66664) thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/context engines: preserve prompt-only token counts, not full request totals, when deferred maintenance reuses after-turn runtime context so background compaction bookkeeping matches the active prompt window. (#66820) thanks @jalehman.
- BlueBubbles/inbound: add a persistent file-backed GUID dedupe so MessagePoller webhook replays after BB Server restart or reconnect no longer cause the agent to re-reply to already-handled messages. (#19176, #12053, #66816) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Secrets/plugins/status: align SecretRef inspect-vs-strict handling across plugin preload, read-only status/agents surfaces, and runtime auth paths so unresolved refs no longer crash read-only CLI flows while runtime-required non-env refs stay strict. (#66818) Thanks @joshavant.
- Memory/dreaming: stop ordinary transcripts that merely quote the dream-diary prompt from being classified as internal dreaming runs and silently dropped from session recall ingestion. (#66852) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Telegram/documents: sanitize binary reply context and ZIP-like archive extraction so `.epub` and `.mobi` uploads can no longer leak raw binary into prompt context through reply metadata or archive-to-`text/plain` coercion. (#66877) Thanks @martinfrancois.
- Telegram/native commands: restore plugin-registry-backed auto defaults for native commands and native skills so Telegram slash commands keep registering when `commands.native` and `commands.nativeSkills` stay on `auto`. (#66843) Thanks @kashevk0.
- OpenRouter/Qwen3: parse `reasoning_details` stream deltas as thinking content without skipping same-chunk tool calls, so Qwen3 replies no longer fail empty on OpenRouter and mixed reasoning/tool-call chunks still execute normally. (#66905) Thanks @bladin.
- BlueBubbles/catchup: replay missed webhook messages after gateway restart via a persistent per-account cursor and `/api/v1/message/query?after=<ts>` pass, so messages delivered while the gateway was down no longer disappear. Uses the existing `processMessage` path and is deduped by #66816's inbound GUID cache. (#66857, #66721) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Telegram/native commands: keep Telegram command-sync cache process-local so gateway restarts re-register the menu instead of trusting stale on-disk sync state after Telegram cleared commands out-of-band. (#66730) Thanks @nightq.
- Audio/self-hosted STT: restore `models.providers.*.request.allowPrivateNetwork` for audio transcription so private or LAN speech-to-text endpoints stop tripping SSRF blocks after the v2026.4.14 regression. (#66692) Thanks @jhsmith409.
- Auto-reply/media: allow workspace-rooted absolute media paths in auto-reply send flows so valid local media references no longer fail path validation. (#66689).
- WhatsApp/Baileys media upload: harden encrypted upload handling so large outbound media sends avoid buffer spikes and reliability regressions. (#65966) Thanks @frankekn.
- QQBot/cron: guard against undefined `event.content` in `parseFaceTags` and `filterInternalMarkers` so cron-triggered agent turns with no content payload no longer crash with `TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'startsWith')`. (#66302) Thanks @xinmotlanthua.
- CLI/plugins: stop `--dangerously-force-unsafe-install` plugin installs from falling back to hook-pack installs after security scan failures, while still preserving non-security fallback behavior for real hook packs. (#58909) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Claude CLI/sessions: classify `No conversation found with session ID` as `session_expired` so expired CLI-backed conversations clear the stale binding and recover on the next turn. (#65028) thanks @Ivan-Fn.
- Context Engine: gracefully fall back to the legacy engine when a third-party context engine plugin fails at resolution time (unregistered id, factory throw, or contract violation), preventing a full gateway outage on every channel. (#66930) Thanks @openperf.
- Control UI/chat: keep optimistic user message cards visible during active sends by deferring same-session history reloads until the active run ends, including aborted and errored runs. (#66997) Thanks @scotthuang and @vincentkoc.
- Media/Slack: allow host-local CSV and Markdown uploads only when the fallback buffer actually decodes as text, so real plain-text files work without letting opaque non-text blobs renamed to `.csv` or `.md` slip past the host-read guard. (#67047) Thanks @Unayung.
- Ollama/onboarding: split setup into `Cloud + Local`, `Cloud only`, and `Local only`, support direct `OLLAMA_API_KEY` cloud setup without a local daemon, and keep Ollama web search on the local-host path. (#67005) Thanks @obviyus.
- Webchat/security: reject remote-host `file://` URLs in the media embedding path. (#67293) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Dreaming/memory-core: use the ingestion day, not the source file day, for daily recall dedupe so repeat sweeps of the same daily note can increment `dailyCount` across days instead of stalling at `1`. (#67091) Thanks @Bartok9.
- Node-host/tools.exec: let approval binding distinguish known native binaries from mutable shell payload files, while still fail-closing unknown or racy file probes so absolute-path node-host commands like `/usr/bin/whoami` no longer get rejected as unsafe interpreter/runtime commands. (#66731) Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Codex/gateway: fix gateway crash when the codex-acp subprocess terminates abruptly; an unhandled EPIPE on the child stdin stream now routes through graceful client shutdown, rejecting pending requests instead of propagating as an uncaught exception that crashes the entire gateway daemon and all connected channels. Fixes #67886. (#67947) thanks @openperf.
- Slack/streaming: resolve native streaming recipient teams from the inbound user when available, with a monitor-team fallback, so DM and shared-workspace streams target the right recipient more reliably.
- OpenRouter/streaming: treat `reasoning_details.response.output_text` and `reasoning_details.response.text` as visible assistant output on OpenRouter-compatible completions streams, while keeping `reasoning.text` hidden and refusing to surface ambiguous bare `text` items by default so visible replies, thinking blocks, and tool calls can coexist in the same chunk. (#67410) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Models/OpenRouter aliases: resolve `openrouter:auto` to the canonical `openrouter/auto` model and map `openrouter:free` to the first configured concrete `openrouter/...:free` model instead of mis-resolving these compatibility aliases under the default provider. (#57066) Thanks @sumiisiaran.
- OpenRouter/Arcee: canonicalize stale OpenRouter `https://openrouter.ai/v1` base URLs during provider config normalization and runtime model/transport resolution, so fresh `models.json` writes and previously discovered rows self-heal back to `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` instead of breaking OpenRouter-routed requests. (#67295) Thanks @achalkov.

## 2026.4.14

### Changes

- OpenAI Codex/models: add forward-compat support for `gpt-5.4-pro`, including Codex pricing/limits and list/status visibility before the upstream catalog catches up. (#66453) Thanks @jepson-liu.
- Telegram/forum topics: surface human topic names in agent context, prompt metadata, and plugin hook metadata by learning names from Telegram forum service messages. (#65973) Thanks @ptahdunbar.

### Fixes

- Agents/Ollama: forward the configured embedded-run timeout into the global undici stream timeout tuning so slow local Ollama runs no longer inherit the default stream cutoff instead of the operator-set run timeout. (#63175) Thanks @mindcraftreader and @vincentkoc.
- Models/Codex: include `apiKey` in the codex provider catalog output so the Pi ModelRegistry validator no longer rejects the entry and silently drops all custom models from every provider in `models.json`. (#66180) Thanks @hoyyeva.
- Tools/image+pdf: normalize configured provider/model refs before media-tool registry lookup so image and PDF tool runs stop rejecting valid Ollama vision models as unknown just because the tool path skipped the usual model-ref normalization step. (#59943) Thanks @yqli2420 and @vincentkoc.
- Slack/interactions: apply the configured global `allowFrom` owner allowlist to channel block-action and modal interactive events, require an expected sender id for cross-verification, and reject ambiguous channel types so interactive triggers can no longer bypass the documented allowlist intent in channels without a `users` list. Open-by-default behavior is preserved when no allowlists are configured. (#66028) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Media-understanding/attachments: fail closed when a local attachment path cannot be canonically resolved via `realpath`, so a `realpath` error can no longer downgrade the canonical-roots allowlist check to a non-canonical comparison; attachments that also have a URL still fall back to the network fetch path. (#66022) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Agents/gateway-tool: reject `config.patch` and `config.apply` calls from the model-facing gateway tool when they would newly enable any flag enumerated by `openclaw security audit` (for example `dangerouslyDisableDeviceAuth`, `allowInsecureAuth`, `dangerouslyAllowHostHeaderOriginFallback`, `hooks.gmail.allowUnsafeExternalContent`, `tools.exec.applyPatch.workspaceOnly: false`); already-enabled flags pass through unchanged so non-dangerous edits in the same patch still apply, and direct authenticated operator RPC behavior is unchanged. (#62006) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Google image generation: strip a trailing `/openai` suffix from configured Google base URLs only when calling the native Gemini image API so Gemini image requests stop 404ing without breaking explicit OpenAI-compatible Google endpoints. (#66445) Thanks @dapzthelegend.
- Telegram/forum topics: persist learned topic names to the Telegram session sidecar store so agent context can keep using human topic names after a restart instead of relearning from future service metadata. (#66107) Thanks @obviyus.
- Doctor/systemd: keep `openclaw doctor --repair` and service reinstall from re-embedding dotenv-backed secrets in user systemd units, while preserving newer inline overrides over stale state-dir `.env` values. (#66249) Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Ollama/OpenAI-compat: send `stream_options.include_usage` for Ollama streaming completions so local Ollama runs report real usage instead of falling back to bogus prompt-token counts that trigger premature compaction. (#64568) Thanks @xchunzhao and @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/plugins: cache external `preferOver` catalog lookups within each plugin auto-enable pass so large `agents.list` configs no longer peg CPU and repeatedly reread plugin catalogs during doctor/plugins resolution. (#66246) Thanks @yfge.
- GitHub Copilot/thinking: allow `github-copilot/gpt-5.4` to use `xhigh` reasoning so Copilot GPT-5.4 matches the rest of the GPT-5.4 family. (#50168) Thanks @jakepresent and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/embeddings: preserve non-OpenAI provider prefixes when normalizing OpenAI-compatible embedding model refs so proxy-backed memory providers stop failing with `Unknown memory embedding provider`. (#66452) Thanks @jlapenna.
- Agents/local models: clarify low-context preflight hints for self-hosted models, point config-backed caps at the relevant OpenClaw setting, and stop suggesting larger models when `agents.defaults.contextTokens` is the real limit. (#66236) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Browser/SSRF: restore hostname navigation under the default browser SSRF policy while keeping explicit strict mode reachable from config, and keep managed loopback CDP `/json/new` fallback requests on the local CDP control policy so browser follow-up fixes stop regressing normal navigation or self-blocking local CDP control. (#66386) Thanks @obviyus.
- Models/Codex: canonicalize the legacy `openai-codex/gpt-5.4-codex` runtime alias to `openai-codex/gpt-5.4` while still honoring alias-specific and canonical per-model overrides. (#43060) Thanks @Sapientropic and @vincentkoc.
- Browser/SSRF: preserve explicit strict browser navigation mode for legacy `browser.ssrfPolicy.allowPrivateNetwork: false` configs by normalizing the legacy alias to the canonical strict marker instead of silently widening those installs to the default non-strict hostname-navigation path. Thanks @obviyus.
- Onboarding/custom providers: use `max_tokens=16` for OpenAI-compatible verification probes so stricter custom endpoints stop rejecting onboarding checks that only need a tiny completion. (#66450) Thanks @WuKongAI-CMU.
- Agents/subagents: emit the subagent registry lazy-runtime stub on the stable dist path that both source and bundled runtime imports resolve, so the follow-up dist fix no longer still fails with `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` at runtime. (#66420) Thanks @obviyus.
- Media-understanding/proxy env: auto-upgrade provider HTTP helper requests to trusted env-proxy mode only when `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY` is active and the target is not bypassed by `NO_PROXY`, so remote media-understanding and transcription requests stop failing local DNS pre-resolution in proxy-only environments without widening SSRF bypasses. (#52162) Thanks @mjamiv and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/media downloads: let Telegram media fetches trust an operator-configured explicit proxy for target DNS resolution after hostname-policy checks, so proxy-backed installs stop failing `could not download media` on Bot API file downloads after the DNS-pinning regression. (#66245) Thanks @dawei41468 and @vincentkoc.
- Browser: keep loopback CDP readiness checks reachable under strict SSRF defaults so OpenClaw can reconnect to locally started managed Chrome. (#66354) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Agents/context engine: compact engine-owned sessions from the first tool-loop delta and preserve ingest fallback when `afterTurn` is absent, so long-running tool loops can stay bounded without dropping engine state. (#63555) Thanks @Bikkies.
- OpenAI Codex/auth: keep malformed Codex CLI auth-file diagnostics on the debug logger instead of stdout so interactive command output stays clean while auth read failures remain traceable. (#66451) Thanks @SimbaKingjoe.
- Discord/native commands: return the real status card for native `/status` interactions instead of falling through to the synthetic `✅ Done.` ack when the generic dispatcher produces no visible reply. (#54629) Thanks @tkozzer and @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/Ollama: let LLM-backed session-memory slug generation honor an explicit `agents.defaults.timeoutSeconds` override instead of always aborting after 15 seconds, so slow local Ollama runs stop silently dropping back to generic filenames. (#66237) Thanks @dmak and @vincentkoc.
- Media/transcription: remap `.aac` filenames to `.m4a` for OpenAI-compatible audio uploads so AAC voice notes stop failing MIME-sensitive transcription endpoints. (#66446) Thanks @ben-z.
- WhatsApp/Baileys media upload: keep encrypted upload POSTs streaming while still guarding generic-agent dispatcher wiring, so large outbound media sends avoid full-buffer RSS spikes and OOM regressions. (#65966) Thanks @frankekn.
- UI/chat: replace marked.js with markdown-it so maliciously crafted markdown can no longer freeze the Control UI via ReDoS. (#46707) Thanks @zhangfnf.
- Auto-reply/send policy: keep `sendPolicy: "deny"` from blocking inbound message processing, so the agent still runs its turn while all outbound delivery is suppressed for observer-style setups. (#65461, #53328) Thanks @omarshahine.
- BlueBubbles: lazy-refresh the Private API server-info cache on send when reply threading or message effects are requested but status is unknown, so sends no longer silently degrade to plain messages when the 10-minute cache expires. (#65447, #43764) Thanks @omarshahine.
- Heartbeat/security: force owner downgrade for untrusted `hook:wake` system events [AI-assisted]. (#66031) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Browser/security: enforce SSRF policy on snapshot, screenshot, and tab routes [AI]. (#66040) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Microsoft Teams/security: enforce sender allowlist checks on SSO signin invokes [AI]. (#66033) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Config/security: redact `sourceConfig` and `runtimeConfig` alias fields in `redactConfigSnapshot` [AI]. (#66030) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Agents/context engines: run opt-in turn maintenance as idle-aware background work so the next foreground turn no longer waits on proactive maintenance. (#65233) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Plugins/status: report the registered context-engine IDs in `plugins inspect` instead of the owning plugin ID, so non-matching engine IDs and multi-engine plugins are classified correctly. (#58766) Thanks @zhuisDEV.
- Context engines: reject resolved plugin engines whose reported `info.id` does not match their registered slot id, so malformed engines fail fast before id-based runtime branches can misbehave. (#63222) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- WhatsApp: patch installed Baileys media encryption writes during OpenClaw postinstall so the default npm/install.sh delivery path waits for encrypted media files to finish flushing before readback, avoiding transient `ENOENT` crashes on image sends. (#65896) Thanks @frankekn.
- Gateway/update: unify service entrypoint resolution around the canonical bundled gateway entrypoint so update, reinstall, and doctor repair stop drifting between stale `dist/entry.js` and current `dist/index.js` paths. (#65984) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Heartbeat/Telegram topics: keep isolated heartbeat replies on the bound forum topic when `target=last`, instead of dropping them into the group root chat. (#66035) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Browser/CDP: let managed local Chrome readiness, status probes, and managed loopback CDP control bypass browser SSRF policy for their own loopback control plane, so OpenClaw no longer misclassifies a healthy child browser as "not reachable after start". (#65695, #66043) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/sessions: stop heartbeat, cron-event, and exec-event turns from overwriting shared-session routing and origin metadata, preventing synthetic `heartbeat` targets from poisoning later cron or user delivery. (#66073, #63733, #35300) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Browser/CDP: let local attach-only `manual-cdp` profiles reuse the local loopback CDP control plane under strict default policy and remote-class probe timeouts, so tabs/snapshot stop falsely reporting a live local browser session as not running. (#65611, #66080) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Cron/scheduler: stop inventing short retries when cron next-run calculation returns no valid future slot, and keep a maintenance wake armed so enabled unscheduled jobs recover without entering a refire loop. (#66019, #66083) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Cron/scheduler: preserve the active error-backoff floor when maintenance repair recomputes a missing cron next-run, so recurring errored jobs do not resume early after a transient next-run resolution failure. (#66019, #66083, #66113) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Outbound/delivery-queue: persist the originating outbound `session` context on queued delivery entries and replay it during recovery, so write-ahead-queued sends keep their original outbound media policy context after restart instead of evaluating against a missing session. (#66025) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Memory/Ollama: restore the built-in `ollama` embedding adapter in memory-core so explicit `memorySearch.provider: "ollama"` works again, and include endpoint-aware cache keys so different Ollama hosts do not reuse each other's embeddings. (#63429, #66078, #66163) Thanks @nnish16 and @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply/queue: split collect-mode followup drains into contiguous groups by per-message authorization context (sender id, owner status, exec/bash-elevated overrides), so queued items from different senders or exec configs no longer execute under the last queued run's owner-only and exec-approval context. (#66024) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Dreaming/memory-core: require a live queued Dreaming cron event before the heartbeat hook runs the sweep, so managed Dreaming no longer replays on later heartbeats after the scheduled run was already consumed. (#66139) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Control UI/Dreaming: stop Imported Insights and Memory Palace from calling optional `memory-wiki` gateway methods when the plugin is off, and refresh config before wiki reloads so the Dreaming tab stops showing misleading unknown-method failures. (#66140) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Agents/tools: only mark streamed unknown-tool retries as counted when a streamed message actually classifies an unavailable tool, and keep incomplete streamed tool names from resetting the retry streak before the final assistant message arrives. (#66145) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Memory/active-memory: move recalled memory onto the hidden untrusted prompt-prefix path instead of system prompt injection, label the visible Active Memory status line fields, and include the resolved recall provider/model in gateway debug logs so trace/debug output matches what the model actually saw. (#66144) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Memory/QMD: stop treating legacy lowercase `memory.md` as a second default root collection, so QMD recall no longer searches phantom `memory-alt-*` collections and builtin/QMD root-memory fallback stays aligned. (#66141) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Agents/subagents: ship `dist/agents/subagent-registry.runtime.js` in npm builds so `runtime: "subagent"` runs stop stalling in `queued` after the registry import fails. (#66189) Thanks @yqli2420 and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/OpenAI: map `minimal` thinking to OpenAI's supported `low` reasoning effort for GPT-5.4 requests, so embedded runs stop failing request validation.
- Voice-call/media-stream: resolve the source IP from trusted forwarding headers for per-IP pending-connection limits when `webhookSecurity.trustForwardingHeaders` and `trustedProxyIPs` are configured, and reserve `maxConnections` capacity for in-flight WebSocket upgrades so concurrent handshakes can no longer momentarily exceed the operator-set cap. (#66027) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Feishu/allowlist: canonicalize allowlist entries by explicit `user`/`chat` kind, strip repeated `feishu:`/`lark:` provider prefixes, and stop folding opaque Feishu IDs to lowercase, so allowlist matching no longer crosses user/chat namespaces or widens to case-insensitive ID matches the operator did not intend. (#66021) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Telegram/status commands: let read-only status slash commands bypass busy topic turns, while keeping `/export-session` on the normal lane so it cannot interleave with an in-flight session mutation. (#66226) Thanks @VACInc and @vincentkoc.
- TTS/reply media: persist OpenClaw temp voice outputs into managed outbound media and allow them through reply-media normalization, so voice-note replies stop silently dropping. (#63511) Thanks @jetd1.
- Agents/tools: treat Windows drive-letter paths (`C:\\...`) as absolute when resolving sandbox and read-tool paths so workspace root is not prepended under POSIX path rules. (#54039) Thanks @ly85206559 and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/OpenAI: recover embedded GPT-style runs when reasoning-only or empty turns need bounded continuation, with replay-safe retry gating and incomplete-turn fallback when no visible answer arrives. (#66167) thanks @jalehman.
- Outbound/relay-status: suppress internal relay-status placeholder payloads (`No channel reply.`, `Replied in-thread.`, `Replied in #...`, wiki-update status variants ending in `No channel reply.`) before channel delivery so internal housekeeping text does not leak to users.
- Slack/doctor: add a dedicated doctor-contract sidecar so config warmup paths such as `openclaw cron` no longer fall back to Slack's broader contract surface, which could trigger Slack-related config-read crashes on affected setups. (#63192) Thanks @shhtheonlyperson.
- Hooks/session-memory: pass the resolved agent workspace into gateway `/new` and `/reset` session-memory hooks so reset snapshots stay scoped to the right agent workspace instead of leaking into the default workspace. (#64735) Thanks @suboss87 and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/approvals: raise the default `openclaw approvals get` gateway timeout and report config-load timeouts explicitly, so slow hosts stop showing a misleading `Config unavailable.` note when the approvals snapshot succeeds but the follow-up config RPC needs more time. (#66239) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Media/store: honor configured agent media limits when saving generated media and persisting outbound reply media, so the store no longer hard-stops those flows at 5 MB before the configured limit applies. (#66229) Thanks @neeravmakwana and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/setup-entry: preserve separate setup-entry secrets exports when loading bundled setup-runtime channels, so setup-mode flows keep the channel secret contract for split plugin + secrets entrypoints. (#66261) Thanks @hxy91819.
- CLI/update: prune stale packaged `dist` chunks after npm upgrades, verify installed package inventory, and keep downgrade/update verification working across older releases. (#66959) Thanks @obviyus.
- Gateway/exec events: dedupe replayed `exec.finished` node events by canonical session key plus `runId` so duplicate async completion replays no longer inject duplicate completion turns into the parent session transcript. (#67281) thanks @jalehman.

## 2026.4.12

### Changes

- QA/lab: add Convex-backed pooled Telegram credential leasing plus `openclaw qa credentials` admin commands and broker setup docs. (#65596) Thanks @joshavant.
- Memory/Active Memory: add a new optional Active Memory plugin that gives OpenClaw a dedicated memory sub-agent right before the main reply, so ongoing chats can automatically pull in relevant preferences, context, and past details without making users remember to manually say "remember this" or "search memory" first. Includes configurable message/recent/full context modes, live `/verbose` inspection, advanced prompt/thinking overrides for tuning, and opt-in transcript persistence for debugging. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/active-memory. (#63286) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- macOS/Talk: add an experimental local MLX speech provider for Talk Mode, with explicit provider selection, local utterance playback, interruption handling, and system-voice fallback. (#63539) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- CLI/exec policy: add a local `openclaw exec-policy` command with `show`, `preset`, and `set` subcommands for synchronizing requested `tools.exec.*` config with the local exec approvals file, plus follow-up hardening for node-host rejection, rollback safety, and sync conflict detection. (#64050) Thanks @rugvedS07.
- Gateway: add a `commands.list` RPC so remote gateway clients can discover runtime-native, text, skill, and plugin commands with surface-aware naming and serialized argument metadata. (#62656) Thanks @samzong.
- Models/providers: add per-provider `models.providers.*.request.allowPrivateNetwork` for trusted self-hosted OpenAI-compatible endpoints, keep the opt-in scoped to model request surfaces, and refresh cached WebSocket managers when request transport overrides change. (#63671) Thanks @qas.
- QA/testing: add a `--runner multipass` lane for `openclaw qa suite` so repo-backed QA scenarios can run inside a disposable Linux VM and write back the usual report, summary, and VM logs. (#63426) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Docs i18n: chunk raw doc translation, reject truncated tagged outputs, avoid ambiguous body-only wrapper unwrapping, and recover from terminated Pi translation sessions without changing the default `openai/gpt-5.4` path. (#62969, #63808) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Control UI/dreaming: simplify the Scene and Diary surfaces, preserve unknown phase state for partial status payloads, and stabilize waiting-entry recency ordering so Dreaming status and review lists stay clear and deterministic. (#64035) Thanks @davemorin.
- Gateway: split startup and runtime seams so gateway lifecycle sequencing, reload state, and shutdown behavior stay easier to maintain without changing observed behavior. (#63975) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/partial streaming: add MSC4357 live markers to draft preview sends and edits so supporting Matrix clients can render a live/typewriter animation and stop it when the final edit lands. (#63513) Thanks @TigerInYourDream.
- QA/Telegram: add a live `openclaw qa telegram` lane for private-group bot-to-bot checks, harden its artifact handling, and preserve native Telegram command reply threading for QA verification. (#64303) Thanks @obviyus.
- Models/Codex: add the bundled Codex provider and plugin-owned app-server harness so `codex/gpt-*` models use Codex-managed auth, native threads, model discovery, and compaction while `openai/gpt-*` stays on the normal OpenAI provider path. (#64298).
- Models/providers: add a bundled LM Studio provider with onboarding, runtime model discovery, stream preload support, and memory-search embeddings for local/self-hosted OpenAI-compatible models. (#53248) Thanks @rugvedS07.
- Plugins/loading: narrow CLI, provider, and channel activation to manifest-declared needs, preserve explicit scope and trust boundaries, and centralize manifest-owner policy so startup, command discovery, and runtime activation avoid loading unrelated plugin runtime. (#65120, #65259, #65298, #65429, #65459) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/active-memory: default QMD recall to search and surface better search-path telemetry so memory-backed recall works more predictably out of the box. (#65068) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Docs/providers: expand bundled provider docs with richer capability, env-var, and setup guidance across provider pages.
- Docs/memory-wiki: add the recommended QMD + bridge-mode hybrid recipe plus zero-artifact troubleshooting guidance for `memory-wiki` bridge setups. (#63165) Thanks @sercada and @vincentkoc.

### Fixes

- fix(security): remove busybox/toybox from interpreter-like safe bins [AI-assisted]. (#65713) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- fix(approval-auth): prevent empty approver list from granting explicit approval authorization [AI]. (#65714) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- fix(security): broaden shell-wrapper detection and block env-argv assignment injection [AI-assisted]. (#65717) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Gateway/startup: defer scheduled services until sidecars finish, gate chat history and model listing during sidecar resume, and let Control UI retry startup-gated history loads so Sandbox wake resumes channels first. (#65365) Thanks @lml2468.
- Control UI/chat: load the live gateway slash-command catalog into the composer and command palette so dock commands, plugin commands, and direct skill aliases appear in chat, while keeping trusted local commands authoritative and bounding remote command metadata. (#65620) Thanks @BunsDev.
- CLI/update: respawn tracked plugin refresh from the updated entrypoint after package self-updates so `openclaw update` stops failing on stale hashed `dist/install.runtime-*.js` chunk imports. (#65471).
- Memory/active-memory: keep recall runs on the resolved channel when wrappers like `mx-claw` are enabled, improve lexical fallback ranking, and keep lexical boosts out of hybrid search so recall finds the right memories more consistently. (#65049, #65395) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Dreaming: consume managed heartbeat events exactly once, stage light-sleep confidence from all recorded short-term signals, wake scheduled jobs immediately, raise dreaming-only promotion enough to cross the durable-memory gate, and stop dreaming from re-ingesting its own narrative transcripts.
- Dreaming/narrative: harden transient narrative cleanup by retrying timed-out deletes, scrubbing stale dreaming session artifacts through the lock-aware session-store path, and isolating transient narrative session keys per workspace. (#65320, #61674).
- Memory/wiki: preserve Unicode letters, digits, and combining marks in wiki slugs and contradiction clustering, and cap Unicode filename segments to safe byte lengths so non-ASCII titles stop collapsing or overflowing path limits. (#64742) Thanks @zhouhe-xydt.
- Memory/short-term recall: allow nested daily notes under `memory/**/YYYY-MM-DD.md` to feed short-term recall, while still excluding generated dream reports under `memory/dreaming/**` so dreaming does not promote its own output. (#64682) Thanks @SARAMALI15792.
- UI/WebChat: hide synthetic transcript-repair tool results from chat history reloads so internal recovery markers do not leak into visible chat after reconnects. (#65247) Thanks @wangwllu.
- WhatsApp/outbound: fall back to the first `mediaUrls` entry when `mediaUrl` is empty so gateway media sends stop silently dropping attachments that already have a resolved media list. (#64394) Thanks @eric-fr4 and @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/Discord: stop `openclaw doctor --fix` from rewriting legacy Discord preview-streaming config into the nested modern shape, so downgrades can still recover without hand-editing `channels.discord.streaming`. (#65035) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/auth: blank the shipped example gateway credential in `.env.example` and fail startup when a copied placeholder token or password is still configured, so operators cannot accidentally launch with a publicly known secret. (#64586) Thanks @navarrotech and @vincentkoc.

- Memory/active-memory+dreaming: keep active-memory recall runs on the strongest resolved channel, consume managed dreaming heartbeat events exactly once, stop dreaming from re-ingesting its own narrative transcripts, and add explicit repair/dedupe recovery flows in CLI, doctor, and the Dreams UI.
- Agents/queueing: carry orphaned active-turn user text into the next prompt before repairing transcript ordering, so follow-up messages that arrive mid-run are no longer silently dropped. (#65388) Thanks @adminfedres and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/keepalive: stop marking WebSocket tick broadcasts as droppable so slow or backpressured clients do not self-disconnect with `tick timeout` while long-running work is still alive. (#65256) Thanks @100yenadmin and @vincentkoc.
- Matrix/mentions: keep room mention gating strict while accepting visible `@displayName` Matrix URI labels, so `requireMention` works for non-OpenClaw Matrix clients again. (#64796) Thanks @hclsys.
- Doctor: warn when on-disk agent directories still exist under `~/.openclaw/agents/<id>/agent` but the matching `agents.list[]` entries are missing from config. (#65113) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Telegram: route approval button callback queries onto a separate sequentializer lane so plugin approval clicks can resolve immediately instead of deadlocking behind the blocked agent turn. (#64979) Thanks @nk3750.
- Telegram/direct sessions: keep commentary-only assistant fallback payloads out of visible direct delivery, so Codex planning chatter cannot leak into Telegram DMs when a run has no `final_answer` text.
- Gateway/keepalive: stop marking WebSocket tick broadcasts as droppable so slow or backpressured clients do not self-disconnect with `tick timeout` while long-running work is still alive. (#65436).
- Gateway/plugins: always send a non-empty `idempotencyKey` for plugin subagent runs, so dreaming narrative jobs stop failing gateway schema validation. (#65354) Thanks @CodeForgeNet.
- Gateway/auth: blank the shipped example gateway credential in `.env.example` and fail startup when a copied placeholder token or password is still configured, so operators cannot accidentally launch with a publicly known secret. (#64586) Thanks @navarrotech.
- Plugins/memory-core dreaming: keep bundled `memory-core` loaded alongside an explicit external memory slot owner only when that owner enables dreaming, while preserving `plugins.slots.memory = "none"` disable semantics. (#65411) Thanks @pradeep7127.
- Doctor/Discord: stop `openclaw doctor --fix` from rewriting legacy Discord preview-streaming config into the nested modern shape, so downgrades can still recover without hand-editing `channels.discord.streaming`.
- Doctor: warn when on-disk agent directories still exist under `~/.openclaw/agents/<id>/agent` but the matching `agents.list[]` entries are missing from config. (#65113) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- CLI/plugins: honor `memory-wiki` when `plugins.allow` is set for `openclaw wiki`, and pass the active app config into the metadata registrar so plugin-owned wiki commands resolve the live plugin config instead of falling back to defaults. (#64779, #65012).
- QA/packaging: stop packaged QA helpers from crashing when optional scenario execution config is unavailable, so npm distributions can skip the repo-only scenario pack without breaking completion-cache and startup paths. (#65118) Thanks @EdderTalmor.
- Media/audio transcription: surface the real provider failure when every audio transcription attempt fails, so status output and the CLI stop collapsing those errors into generic skips. (#65096) Thanks @l0cka.
- Infra/net: fix multipart FormData fields (including `model`) being silently dropped when a guarded runtime fetch body crosses a FormData implementation boundary, restoring OpenAI audio transcription requests that failed with HTTP 400. (#64349) Thanks @petr-sloup.
- Dreaming/diary: use the host local timezone for diary timestamps when `dreaming.timezone` is unset, and include the timezone abbreviation so `DREAMS.md` and the UI make local or UTC time explicit. (#65034, #65057).
- Dreaming/promotion: raise phase reinforcement enough for repeated dreaming-only revisits to clear the default durable-memory gate after multiple days, instead of stalling just below the score threshold. (#64068) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dreaming/light-sleep: compute staged candidate confidence from all recorded short-term signals instead of recall-only counts, so dreaming-only entries stop rendering as `confidence: 0.00`. (#64599) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/memory: restore cached memory capability public artifacts on plugin-registry cache hits so memory-backed artifact surfaces stay visible after warm loads.
- Gateway/cron: preserve requested isolated-agent config across runtime reloads so subagent jobs and heartbeat overrides keep the right workspace and heartbeat settings when the hot-loaded snapshot is stale.
- Cron/isolated sessions: persist the right transcript path for each isolated run, including fresh session rollovers, so cron runs stop appending to stale session files.
- Discord/gateway: clear stale heartbeat timers before reconnecting so zombie gateway callbacks cannot crash the process and drop in-flight replies. (#65009) Thanks @SARAMALI15792.
- Matrix/mentions: keep room mention gating strict while accepting visible `@displayName` Matrix URI labels, so `requireMention` works for non-OpenClaw Matrix clients again. (#64796) Thanks @hclsys.
- Agents/Anthropic replay: preserve immutable signed-thinking replay safety across stored and live reruns, keep non-thinking embedded `tool_result` user blocks intact, and drop conflicting preserved tool IDs before validation so retries stop degrading into omitted tool calls. (#65126) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Memory/QMD: allow channel sessions in the shipped default QMD scope, while still denying groups.
- Memory/QMD: stop registering the legacy lowercase root memory file as a separate default collection, so QMD now prefers `MEMORY.md` and the `memory/` tree without duplicate collection-add warnings.
- Memory/memory-core: watch the `memory` directory directly and ignore non-markdown churn so nested note changes still sync on macOS + Node 25 environments where recursive `memory/**/*.md` glob watching fails. (#64711) Thanks @jasonxargs-boop and @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp: centralize per-account connection ownership so reconnects, login recovery, and outbound readiness stay attached to the live socket instead of drifting across monitor and login paths. (#65290) Thanks @mcaxtr and @vincentkoc.
- iMessage: retry transient `watch.subscribe` startup failures before tearing down the monitor, and sanitize startup error logging so brief local transport stalls do not immediately bounce the channel or leak raw imsg RPC payloads into logs. (#65393) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/audio providers: report env-authenticated providers as configured in `openclaw infer audio providers --json`, while keeping trusted workspace provider env lookup defaults stable during auth setup. (#65491) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Plugins/install: reinstall bundled runtime packages when the matching platform native optional child is missing, so packaged Windows installs can recover dependencies that were packed on another host OS.
- Memory/QMD: preserve explicit `memory.qmd.command` paths, create missing agent workspaces before QMD probes, and keep the current Node binary on QMD subprocess PATH so service and gateway environments do not fall back to builtin search unnecessarily.
- Plugins/Lobster: load the published `@clawdbot/lobster/core` runtime in process so bundled Lobster runs stop depending on private package internals. (#64755) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Agents/CLI: keep unrelated config, session, transcript, and MCP bootstrap runtime off common `openclaw agent` cold paths so provider selection and agent startup stop stalling on heavyweight imports. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Setup/config/install: stop setup, config dry-runs, and daemon install from eagerly booting auth-profile and plugin repair runtime when those paths are not needed, so onboarding and local service setup avoid long cold-start stalls. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Cron/direct delivery: slim isolated-agent delivery cold paths so direct channel delivery and related cron execution spend less time loading unrelated auth, plugin, and channel runtime. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/replay dedupe: standardize replay claims, retryable-failure release, and post-success commit behavior across Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, WhatsApp, Matrix, LINE, Feishu, Zalo, Nextcloud Talk, TLON, Nostr, Voice Call, and shared plugin interactive callbacks so duplicate deliveries stay reply-once after success but retry cleanly after pre-delivery failures. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/OpenAI mini reasoning: remap unsupported `low` and `minimal` reasoning effort to `medium` for affected OpenAI mini models, and add a live regression lane to keep the compatibility fix covered. (#65478) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Configure/wizard: replay wizard edits onto the latest config snapshot after a hash conflict so plugin-auth writes no longer get dropped during `openclaw configure`, including nested config under shared sections such as `plugins`. (#64188) Thanks @feiskyer and @vincentkoc.

## 2026.4.11

### Changes

- Dreaming/memory-wiki: add ChatGPT import ingestion plus new `Imported Insights` and `Memory Palace` diary subtabs so Dreaming can inspect imported source chats, compiled wiki pages, and full source pages directly from the UI. (#64505).
- Control UI/webchat: render assistant media/reply/voice directives as structured chat bubbles, add the `[embed ...]` rich output tag, and gate external embed URLs behind config. (#64104).
- Tools/video_generate: add URL-only generated asset delivery, typed `providerOptions`, reference audio inputs, per-asset role hints, `adaptive` aspect-ratio support, and a higher image-input cap so video providers can expose richer generation modes without forcing large files into memory. (#61987, #61988) Thanks @xieyongliang.
- Feishu: improve document comment sessions with richer context parsing, comment reactions, and typing feedback so document-thread conversations behave more like chat conversations. (#63785).
- Microsoft Teams: add reaction support, reaction listing, Graph pagination, and delegated OAuth setup for sending reactions while preserving application-auth read paths. (#51646).
- Plugins: allow plugin manifests to declare activation and setup descriptors so plugin setup flows can describe required auth, pairing, and configuration steps without hardcoded core special cases. (#64780).
- Ollama: cache `/api/show` context-window and capability metadata during model discovery so repeated picker refreshes stop refetching unchanged models, while still retrying after empty responses and invalidating on digest changes. (#64753) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Models/providers: surface how configured OpenAI-compatible endpoints are classified in embedded-agent debug logs, so local and proxy routing issues are easier to diagnose. (#64754) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- QA/parity: add the GPT-5.4 vs Opus 4.6 agentic parity report gate with shared scenario coverage checks, stricter evidence heuristics, and skipped-scenario accounting for maintainer review. (#64441) Thanks @100yenadmin.

### Fixes

- Windows/onboarding: open provider OAuth and sign-in URLs with `explorer.exe` instead of routing them through `cmd /c start`, so quoted provider URLs cannot break out into host command execution. (#64161) Thanks @coygeek and @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI/Codex OAuth: stop rewriting the upstream authorize URL scopes so new Codex sign-ins do not fail with `invalid_scope` before returning an authorization code. (#64713) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Audio transcription: disable pinned DNS only for OpenAI-compatible multipart requests, while still validating hostnames, so OpenAI, Groq, and Mistral transcription works again without weakening other request paths. (#64766) Thanks @GodsBoy.
- macOS/Talk Mode: after granting microphone permission on first enable, continue starting Talk Mode instead of requiring a second toggle. (#62459) Thanks @ggarber.
- Control UI/webchat: persist agent-run TTS audio replies into webchat history and preserve interleaved tool card pairing so generated audio and mixed tool output stay attached to the right messages. (#63514) Thanks @bittoby.
- WhatsApp: honor the configured default account when the active listener helper is used without an explicit account id, so named default accounts do not get registered under `default`. (#53918) Thanks @yhyatt.
- ACP/agents: suppress commentary-phase child assistant relay text in ACP parent stream updates, so spawned child runs stop leaking internal progress chatter into the parent session. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/timeouts: honor explicit run timeouts in the LLM idle watchdog and align default timeout config so slow models can keep working until the configured limit instead of using the wrong idle window.
- Config: include `asyncCompletion` in the generated zod schema so documented async completion config no longer fails with an unrecognized-key error. (#63618).
- Google/Veo: stop sending the unsupported `numberOfVideos` request field so Gemini Developer API Veo runs do not fail before OpenClaw can complete the intended Google video generation path. (#64723) Thanks @velvet-shark.
- QA/packaging: stop packaged CLI startup and completion cache generation from reading repo-only QA scenario markdown, ship the bundled QA scenario pack in npm releases, and keep `openclaw completion --write-state` working even if QA setup is broken. (#64648) Thanks @obviyus.
- Codex/QA: keep Codex app-server coordination chatter out of visible replies, add a live QA leak scenario, and classify leaked harness meta text as a QA failure instead of a successful reply. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp: route `message react` through the gateway-owned action path so reactions use the live WhatsApp listener in both DM and group chats, matching `message send` and `message poll`. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Auto-reply/WhatsApp: preserve inbound image attachment notes after media understanding so image edits keep the real saved media path instead of hallucinating a missing local path. (#64918) Thanks @ngutman.
- Telegram/sessions: keep topic-scoped session initialization on the canonical topic transcript path when inbound turns omit `MessageThreadId`, so one topic session no longer alternates between bare and topic-qualified transcript files. (#64869) Thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/failover: scope assistant-side fallback classification and surfaced provider errors to the current attempt instead of stale session history, so cross-provider fallback runs stop inheriting the previous provider's failure. (#62907) Thanks @stainlu.
- MiniMax/OAuth: write `api: "anthropic-messages"` and `authHeader: true` into the `minimax-portal` config patch during `openclaw configure`, so re-authenticated portal setups keep Bearer auth routing working. (#64964) Thanks @ryanlee666.
- Agents/tools: stop repeated unavailable-tool retries from escaping loop detection when the model changes arguments, and rewrite over-threshold unknown tool calls into plain assistant text before dispatch. (#65922) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Cron/announce delivery: tell isolated cron jobs to return the full response exactly instead of a summary, so structured `--announce` deliveries stop dropping fields nondeterministically. (#65638) Thanks @srinivaspavan9 and @vincentkoc.
- Security/exec approvals: redact bearer tokens, API keys, and similar secrets in exec approval prompt command text before those prompts are posted back to chat channels, regardless of logging redaction settings. (#61077) Thanks @feiskyer and @vincentkoc.

## 2026.4.10

### Changes

- Models/Codex: add the bundled Codex provider and plugin-owned app-server harness so `codex/gpt-*` models use Codex-managed auth, native threads, model discovery, and compaction while `openai/gpt-*` stays on the normal OpenAI provider path. (#64298).
- Memory/Active Memory: add a new optional Active Memory plugin that gives OpenClaw a dedicated memory sub-agent right before the main reply, so ongoing chats can automatically pull in relevant preferences, context, and past details without making users remember to manually say "remember this" or "search memory" first. Includes configurable message/recent/full context modes, live `/verbose` inspection, advanced prompt/thinking overrides for tuning, and opt-in transcript persistence for debugging. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/active-memory. (#63286) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- macOS/Talk: add an experimental local MLX speech provider for Talk Mode, with explicit provider selection, local utterance playback, interruption handling, and system-voice fallback. (#63539) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Tools/video generation: add Seedance 2.0 model refs to the bundled fal provider and submit the provider-specific duration, resolution, audio, and seed metadata fields needed for live Seedance 2.0 runs.
- Microsoft Teams: add message actions for pin, unpin, read, react, and listing reactions. (#53432) Thanks @sudie-codes.
- QA/Matrix: add a live `openclaw qa matrix` lane backed by a disposable Matrix homeserver, shared live-transport seams, and Matrix-specific transport coverage for threading, reactions, restart, and allowlist behavior. (#64489) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- QA/Telegram: add a live `openclaw qa telegram` lane for private-group bot-to-bot checks, harden its artifact handling, and preserve native Telegram command reply threading for QA verification. (#64303) Thanks @obviyus.
- QA/testing: add a `--runner multipass` lane for `openclaw qa suite` so repo-backed QA scenarios can run inside a disposable Linux VM and write back the usual report, summary, and VM logs. (#63426) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- CLI/exec policy: add a local `openclaw exec-policy` command with `show`, `preset`, and `set` subcommands for synchronizing requested `tools.exec.*` config with the local exec approvals file, plus follow-up hardening for node-host rejection, rollback safety, and sync conflict detection. (#64050) Thanks @rugvedS07.
- Gateway: add a `commands.list` RPC so remote gateway clients can discover runtime-native, text, skill, and plugin commands with surface-aware naming and serialized argument metadata. (#62656) Thanks @samzong.
- Models/providers: add per-provider `models.providers.*.request.allowPrivateNetwork` for trusted self-hosted OpenAI-compatible endpoints, keep the opt-in scoped to model request surfaces, and refresh cached WebSocket managers when request transport overrides change. (#63671) Thanks @qas.
- Feishu: standardize request user agents and register the bot as an AI agent so Feishu deployments identify OpenClaw consistently. (#63835) Thanks @evandance.
- Docs i18n: chunk raw doc translation, reject truncated tagged outputs, avoid ambiguous body-only wrapper unwrapping, and recover from terminated Pi translation sessions without changing the default `openai/gpt-5.4` path. (#62969, #63808) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Gateway: split startup and runtime seams so gateway lifecycle sequencing, reload state, and shutdown behavior stay easier to maintain without changing observed behavior. (#63975) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Control UI/webchat: normalize assistant `MEDIA:`/reply/voice directives into structured bubble rendering, rename the unreleased rich web shortcode to `[embed ...]`, and surface session runtime roots so hosted web content is written to the correct document path instead of guessed local files (#64104). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Matrix/partial streaming: add MSC4357 live markers to draft preview sends and edits so supporting Matrix clients can render a live/typewriter animation and stop it when the final edit lands. (#63513) Thanks @TigerInYourDream.
- Control UI/dreaming: simplify the Scene and Diary surfaces, preserve unknown phase state for partial status payloads, and stabilize waiting-entry recency ordering so Dreaming status and review lists stay clear and deterministic. (#64035) Thanks @davemorin.
- Agents: add an opt-in strict-agentic embedded Pi execution contract for GPT-5-family runs so plan-only or filler turns keep acting until they hit a real blocker. (#64241) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Agents/OpenAI: add provider-owned OpenAI/Codex tool schema compatibility and surface embedded-run replay/liveness state for long-running runs. (#64300) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Dreaming/memory-wiki: add ChatGPT import ingestion plus new `Imported Insights` and `Memory Palace` diary subtabs so Dreaming can inspect imported source chats, compiled wiki pages, and full source pages directly from the UI. (#64505).

### Fixes

- Browser/security: tighten browser and sandbox navigation defenses across strict SSRF defaults, hostname allowlists, interaction-driven redirects, subframes, CDP discovery, existing sessions, tab actions, noVNC, marker-span sanitization, and Docker CDP source-range enforcement. (#61404, #63332, #63882, #63885, #63889, #64367, #64370, #64371).
- Security/tools: harden exec preflight reads, host env denylisting, node output boundaries, outbound host-media reads, profile-mutation authorization, plugin install dependency scanning, ACPX tool hooks, Gmail watcher token redaction, and oversized realtime WebSocket frame handling. (#62333, #62661, #62662, #63277, #63551, #63553, #63886, #63890, #63891, #64459).
- OpenAI/Codex: add required Codex OAuth scopes, classify provider/runtime failures more clearly, stop suggesting `/elevated full` when auto-approved host exec is unavailable, add OpenAI/Codex tool-schema compatibility, and preserve embedded-run replay/liveness truth across compaction retries and mutating side effects. (#64300, #64439) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- CLI/WhatsApp media sends: route gateway-mode outbound sends with `--media` through the channel `sendMedia` path and preserve media access context, so WhatsApp document and attachment sends stop silently dropping the file while still delivering the caption. (#64478, #64492) Thanks @ShionEria.
- Microsoft Teams: restore media downloads for personal DMs, Bot Framework `a:` conversations, OneDrive/SharePoint shared files, and Graph-backed chat IDs; accept Bot Framework audience tokens; prevent feedback-learning filename collisions; keep long tool chains alive with typing indicators; add SSO sign-in callbacks; inject parent context for thread replies; and deliver cron announcements to Teams conversation IDs. (#54932, #55383, #55386, #58001, #58249, #58774, #59731, #60956, #62219, #62674, #63063, #63942, #63945, #63949, #63951, #63953, #64087, #64088, #64089).
- Gateway/tailscale: start Tailscale exposure and the gateway update check before awaiting channel and plugin sidecar startup so remote operators are not locked out when startup sidecars stall.
- Gateway/startup: keep WebSocket RPC available while channels and plugin sidecars start, hold `chat.history` unavailable until startup sidecars finish so synchronous history reads cannot stall startup (reported in #63450), refresh advertised gateway methods after deferred plugin reloads, and enforce the pre-auth WebSocket upgrade budget before the no-handler 503 path so upgrade floods cannot bypass connection limits during that window. (#63480) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- WhatsApp: keep inbound replies, media, composing indicators, and queued outbound deliveries attached to the current socket across reconnect gaps, including fresh retry-eligible sends after the listener comes back. (#30806, #46299, #62892, #63916) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Gateway/thread routing: preserve Slack, Telegram, Mattermost, Matrix, ACP, restart-sentinel, and agent announce delivery targets so subagent, cron, stream-relay, session fallback, and restart messages land back in the originating thread, topic, or room casing. (#54840, #57056, #63143, #63228, #63506, #64343, #64391).
- Models/fallback: preserve `/models` selection across transient primary-model failures and config reloads, allow timeout cooldown probes, classify OpenRouter no-endpoints responses, detect llama.cpp context overflows, and keep provider/runtime context metadata stable through reloads. (#61472, #64196, #64471).
- Agents/BTW: keep `/btw` side questions working after tool-use turns by stripping replayed tool blocks, hidden reasoning, and malformed image payloads, omitting empty tool arrays, allowing Bedrock `auth: "aws-sdk"`, and routing Feishu `/btw` plus `/stop` through bounded out-of-band lanes. (#64218, #64219, #64225, #64324) Thanks @ngutman.
- Control UI/BTW: render `/btw` side results as dismissible ephemeral cards in the browser, send `/btw` immediately during active runs, and clear stale BTW cards on reset flows so webchat matches the intended detached side-question behavior. (#64290) Thanks @ngutman.
- Commands/targeting: use the selected agent or session for command output, send policy, usage/cost, context reports, model lists, bash sandbox hints, BTW/compact working directories, plugin commands, and session exports so multi-agent commands describe and mutate the intended target instead of the requester.
- Conversation bindings: normalize focused/current conversation ids, preserve binding metadata on account and Discord rebinds, avoid stale Discord lifecycle windows, and keep generic activity touches persisted so reply routing survives rebinds and restarts.
- iMessage/self-chat: distinguish normal DM outbound rows from true self-chat using `destination_caller_id` plus chat participants, preserve multi-handle self-chat aliases, drop ambiguous reflected echoes, and strip wrapped imsg RPC text fields. (#61619, #63868, #63980, #63989, #64000) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Matrix: keep multi-account room scoping consistent, keep packaged crypto migrations warning-only when appropriate, preserve ordered block streaming, add explicit Matrix block-streaming opt-in, and resolve verification/bootstrap from the packaged runtime entry. (#58449, #59249, #59266, #64373) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Telegram/security: tighten Telegram `allowFrom` sender validation and keep `/whoami` allowlist reporting in sync with command auth checks.
- Agents/timeouts: extend the default LLM idle window to 120s and keep silent no-token idle timeouts on recovery paths, so slow models can retry or fall back before users see an error.
- Gateway/agents: preserve configured model selection and richer `IDENTITY.md` content across agent create/update flows and workspace moves, and fail safely instead of silently overwriting unreadable identity files. (#61577) Thanks @samzong.
- Skills/TaskFlow: restore valid frontmatter fences for the bundled `taskflow` and `taskflow-inbox-triage` skills and copy bundled `SKILL.md` files as hard dist-runtime copies so skills stay discoverable and loadable after updates. (#64166, #64469) Thanks @extrasmall0.
- Skills: respect overridden home directories when loading personal skills so service, test, and custom launch environments read the intended user skill directory instead of the process home.
- Windows/exec: settle supervisor waits from child exit state after stdout and stderr drain even when `close` never arrives, so CLI commands stop hanging or dying with forced `SIGKILL` on Windows. (#64072) Thanks @obviyus.
- Browser/sandbox: prevent sandbox browser CDP startup hangs by recreating containers when the browser security hash changes and by waiting on the correct sandbox browser lifecycle. (#62873) Thanks @Syysean.
- QQBot/streaming: make block streaming configurable per QQ bot account via `streaming.mode` (`"partial"` | `"off"`, default `"partial"`) instead of hardcoding it off, so responses can be delivered incrementally. (#63746) Thanks @WideLee.
- QQBot/config: allow extra fields in `channels.qqbot` and `channels.qqbot.accounts.*` so extended qqbot builds can add new config options without gateway startup failing on schema validation. (#64075) Thanks @WideLee.
- Dreaming/gateway: require `operator.admin` for persistent `/dreaming on|off` changes and treat missing gateway client scopes as unprivileged instead of silently allowing config writes. (#63872) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/pairing: prefer explicit QR bootstrap auth over earlier Tailscale auth classification so iOS `/pair qr` silent bootstrap pairing does not fall through to `pairing required`. (#59232) Thanks @ngutman.
- Browser/control: auto-generate browser-control auth tokens for `none` and `trusted-proxy` modes, and route browser auth/profile/doctor helpers through the public browser plugin facades. (#63280, #63957) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Browser/act: centralize `/act` request normalization and execution dispatch while adding stable machine-readable route-level error codes for invalid requests, selector misuse, evaluate-disabled gating, target mismatch, and existing-session unsupported actions. (#63977) Thanks @joshavant.
- Security/QQBot: enforce media storage boundaries for all outbound local file paths and route image-size probes through SSRF-guarded media fetching instead of raw `fetch()`. (#63271, #63495) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Channel setup: ignore workspace plugin shadows when resolving trusted channel setup catalog entries so onboarding and setup flows keep using the bundled, trusted setup contract.
- Gateway/memory startup: load the explicitly selected memory-slot plugin during gateway startup, while keeping restrictive allowlists and implicit default memory slots from auto-starting unrelated memory plugins. (#64423) Thanks @EronFan.
- Config/plugins: let config writes keep disabled plugin entries without forcing required plugin config schemas or crashing raw plugin validation, and avoid re-activating plugin registry state during schema checks. (#54971, #63296) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Config validation: surface the actual offending field for strict-schema union failures in bindings, including top-level unexpected keys on the matching ACP branch. (#40841) Thanks @Hollychou924.
- Wizard/plugin config: coerce integer-typed plugin config fields from interactive text input so integer schema values persist as numbers instead of failing validation. (#63346) Thanks @jalehman.
- Daemon/gateway install: preserve safe custom service env vars on forced reinstall, merge prior custom PATH segments behind the managed service PATH, and stop removed managed env keys from persisting as custom carryover. (#63136) Thanks @WarrenJones.
- Cron/scheduling: treat `nextRunAtMs <= 0` as invalid across cron update, maintenance, timer, and stale-delivery paths so corrupted zero timestamps self-heal instead of causing immediate runs or skipped deliveries. (#63507) Thanks @WarrenJones.
- Cron/auth: resolve auth profiles consistently for isolated cron jobs so scheduled runs use the same configured provider credentials as interactive sessions. (#62797) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Tasks: let `openclaw tasks cancel` cancel stuck background tasks that never reached a normal terminal state. (#62506) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Sessions/model selection: preserve catalog-backed session model labels, provider-qualified context limits, and already-qualified session model refs when catalog metadata is unavailable, so model selection and memory/context budgets survive reloads without bogus provider prefixes. (#61382, #62493) Thanks @Mule-ME.
- Status: show configured fallback models in `/status` and shared session status cards so per-agent fallback configuration is visible before a live failover happens. (#33111) Thanks @AnCoSONG.
- `/context detail` now compares the tracked prompt estimate with cached context usage and surfaces untracked provider/runtime overhead when present. (#28391) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Gateway/sessions: scope bare `sessions.create` aliases like `main` to the requested agent while preserving the canonical `global` and `unknown` sentinel keys. (#58207) Thanks @jalehman.
- Gateway/session reset: emit the typed `before_reset` hook for gateway `/new` and `/reset`, preserving reset-hook behavior even when the previous transcript has already been archived. (#53872) Thanks @VACInc.
- Plugins/commands: pass the active host `sessionKey` into plugin command contexts, and include `sessionId` when it is already available from the active session entry, so bundled and third-party commands can resolve the current conversation reliably. (#59044) Thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/auth: honor `models.providers.*.authHeader` for pi embedded runner model requests by injecting `Authorization: Bearer <apiKey>` when requested. (#54390) Thanks @lndyzwdxhs.
- Claude CLI: clear inherited Anthropic auth/header environment aliases before spawning Claude Code and add sanitized CLI backend auth-env diagnostics for debugging gateway-run provider selection.
- Agents/failover: classify AbortError and stream-abort messages as timeout so Ollama NDJSON stream aborts stop showing `reason=unknown` in model fallback logs. (#58324) Thanks @yelog.
- Fireworks/FirePass: disable Kimi K2.5 Turbo reasoning output by forcing thinking off on the FirePass path and hardening the provider wrapper so hidden reasoning no longer leaks into visible replies. (#63607) Thanks @frankekn.
- Discord: update Carbon to v0.15.0. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Config/Discord: coerce safe integer numeric Discord IDs to strings during config validation, keep unsafe or precision-losing numeric snowflakes rejected, and align `openclaw doctor` repair guidance with the same fail-closed behavior. (#45125) Thanks @moliendocode.
- BlueBubbles/config: accept `enrichGroupParticipantsFromContacts` in the core strict config schema so gateways no longer fail validation or startup when the BlueBubbles plugin writes that field. (#56889) Thanks @zqchris.
- Feishu/webhooks: read webhook bodies through the pre-auth guard so unauthenticated webhook traffic stays under the same body budget as other protected channel ingress paths.
- Tools/web_fetch: add an opt-in `tools.web.fetch.ssrfPolicy.allowRfc2544BenchmarkRange` config so fake-IP proxy environments that resolve public sites into `198.18.0.0/15` can use `web_fetch` without weakening the default SSRF block. (#61830) Thanks @xing-xing-coder.
- Dreaming/cron: reconcile managed dreaming cron from startup config and runtime lifecycle changes, but only recover managed dreaming cron state during heartbeat-triggered dreaming checks so ordinary chat traffic does not recreate removed jobs. (#63873, #63929, #63938) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Memory/lancedb: accept `dreaming` config when `memory-lancedb` owns the memory slot so Dreaming surfaces can read slot-owner settings without schema rejection. (#63874) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Control UI/dreaming: keep the Dreaming trace area contained and scrollable so overlays no longer cover tabs or blow out the page layout. (#63875) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Dreaming/narrative: harden request-scoped diary fallback so scheduled dreaming only falls back on the dedicated subagent-runtime error, stop trusting spoofable raw error-code objects, and avoid leaking workspace paths when local fallback writes fail. (#64156) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Dreaming/diary: add idempotent narrative subagent runs, preserve restrictive `DREAMS.md` permissions during atomic writes, and surface temp cleanup failures so repeated sweeps do not double-run the same narrative request or silently weaken diary safety. (#63876) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Heartbeats/sessions: remove stale accumulated isolated heartbeat session keys when the next tick converges them back to the canonical sibling, so repaired sessions stop showing orphaned `:heartbeat:heartbeat` variants in session listings. (#59606) Thanks @rogerdigital.
- Gateway/run cleanup: fix stale run-context TTL cleanup so the new maintenance sweep resets orphaned run sequence state and prevents unbounded run-context growth. (#52731) Thanks @artwalker.
- UI/compaction: keep the compaction indicator in a retry-pending state until the run actually finishes, so the UI does not show `Context compacted` before compaction actually finishes. (#55132) Thanks @mpz4life.
- Cron/tool schemas: keep cron tool schemas strict-model-friendly while still preserving `failureAlert=false`, nullable `agentId`/`sessionKey`, and flattened add/update recovery for the newly exposed cron job fields. (#55043) Thanks @brunolorente.
- Git metadata: read commit ids from packed refs as well as loose refs so version and status metadata stay accurate after repository maintenance. (#63943).
- Gateway: keep `commands.list` skill entries categorized under tools and include provider-aware plugin `nativeName` metadata even when `scope=text`, so remote clients can group skills correctly and map text-surface plugin commands back to native aliases. (#64147).
- TUI: reset footer activity to idle when switching sessions so a stale streaming indicator cannot persist after the selection changes. (#63988) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Claude CLI: stop marking spawned Claude Code runs as host-managed so they keep using normal CLI subscription behavior. (#64023) Thanks @Alex-Alaniz.
- Codex auth: brand Codex OAuth flows as OpenClaw in user-visible auth prompts and diagnostics.
- Gateway/pairing: fail closed for paired device records that have no device tokens, and reject pairing approvals whose requested scopes do not match the requested device roles.
- ACP/gateway chat: classify lifecycle errors before forwarding them to ACP clients so refusals use ACP's refusal stop reason while transient backend errors continue to finish as normal turns.
- Claude CLI/skills: pass eligible OpenClaw skills into CLI runs, including native Claude Code skill resolution via a temporary plugin plus per-run skill env/API key injection. (#62686, #62723) Thanks @zomars.
- Discord: keep generated auto-thread names working with reasoning models by giving title generation enough output budget for thinking plus visible title text. (#64172) Thanks @hanamizuki.
- Heartbeat: ignore doc-only Markdown fence markers in the default `HEARTBEAT.md` template so comment-only heartbeat scaffolds skip API calls again. (#61690, #63434) Thanks @ravyg.
- Reply/skills: keep resolved skill and memory secret config stable through embedded reply runs so raw SecretRefs in secondary skill settings no longer crash replies when the gateway already has the live env. (#64249) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Dreaming/startup: keep plugin-registered startup hooks alive across workspace hook reloads and include dreaming startup owners in the gateway startup plugin scope, so managed Dreaming cron registration comes back reliably after gateway boot. (#62327, #64258) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Plugins: treat duplicate `registerService` calls from the same plugin id as idempotent so snapshot and activation loads no longer emit spurious `service already registered` diagnostics. (#62033, #64128) Thanks @ly85206559.
- Discord/TTS: route auto voice replies through the native voice-note path so Discord receives Opus voice messages instead of regular audio attachments. (#64096) Thanks @LiuHuaize.
- Config/plugins: use plugin-owned command alias metadata when `plugins.allow` contains runtime command names like `dreaming`, and point users at the owning plugin instead of stale plugin-not-found guidance. (#64191, #64242) Thanks @feiskyer.
- Agents/Gemini: strip orphaned `required` entries from Gemini tool schemas so provider validation no longer rejects tools after schema cleanup or union flattening. (#64284) Thanks @xxxxxmax.
- Assistant text: strip Qwen-style XML tool call payloads from visible replies so web and channel messages no longer show raw `<tool_call><function=...>` output. (#63999, #64214) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Daemon/gateway: prevent systemd restart storms on configuration errors by exiting with `EX_CONFIG` and adding generated unit restart-prevention guards. (#63913) Thanks @neo1027144-creator.
- Agents/exec: prevent gateway crash ("Agent listener invoked outside active run") when a subagent exec tool produces stdout/stderr after the agent run has ended or been aborted. (#62821) Thanks @openperf.
- Gateway/OpenAI compat: return real `usage` for non-stream `/v1/chat/completions` responses, emit the final usage chunk when `stream_options.include_usage=true`, and bound usage-gated stream finalization after lifecycle end. (#62986) Thanks @Lellansin.
- Matrix/migration: keep packaged warning-only crypto migrations from being misclassified as actionable when only helper chunks are present, so startup and doctor stay on the warning-only path instead of creating unnecessary migration snapshots. (#64373) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/ACP thread bindings: preserve canonical room casing and parent conversation routing during ACP session spawn so mixed-case room ids bind correctly from top-level rooms and existing Matrix threads. (#64343) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/subagents: deduplicate delivered completion announces so retry or re-entry cleanup does not inject duplicate internal-context completion turns into the parent session. (#61525) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Agents/exec: keep sandboxed `tools.exec.host=auto` sessions from honoring per-call `host=node` or `host=gateway` overrides while a sandbox runtime is active, and stop advertising node routing in that state so exec stays on the sandbox host. (#63880) Thanks @drobison00.
- Agents/subagents: preserve archived delete-mode runs until `sessions.delete` succeeds and prevent overlapping archive sweeps from duplicating in-flight cleanup attempts. (#61801) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Cron/isolated agent: run scheduled agent turns as non-owner senders so owner-only tools stay unavailable during cron execution. (#63878) Thanks @drobison00.
- Discord/sandbox: include `image` in sandbox media param normalization so Discord event cover images cannot bypass sandbox path rewriting. (#64377) Thanks @mmaps.
- Agents/exec: extend exec completion detection to cover local background exec formats so the owner-downgrade fires correctly for all exec paths. (#64376) Thanks @mmaps.
- Security/dependencies: pin axios to 1.15.0 and add a plugin install dependency denylist that blocks known malicious packages before install. (#63891) Thanks @mmaps.
- Browser/security: apply three-phase interaction navigation guard to pressKey and type(submit) so delayed JS redirects from keypress cannot bypass SSRF policy. (#63889) Thanks @mmaps.

- Browser/security: guard existing-session Chrome MCP interaction routes with SSRF post-checks so delayed navigation from click, type, press, and evaluate cannot bypass the configured policy. (#64370) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Browser/security: default browser SSRF policy to strict mode so unconfigured installs block private-network navigation, and align external-content marker span mapping so ZWS-injected boundary spoofs are fully sanitized. (#63885) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Browser/security: apply SSRF navigation policy to subframe document navigations so iframe-targeted private-network hops are blocked without quarantining the parent page. (#64371) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Hooks/security: mark agent hook system events as untrusted and sanitize hook display names before cron metadata reuse. (#64372) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Daemon/launchd: keep `openclaw gateway stop` persistent without uninstalling the macOS LaunchAgent, re-enable it on explicit restart or repair, and harden launchd label handling. (#64447) Thanks @ngutman.
- Plugins/context engines: preserve `plugins.slots.contextEngine` through normalization and keep explicitly selected workspace context-engine plugins enabled, so loader diagnostics and plugin activation stop dropping that slot selection. (#64192) Thanks @hclsys.
- Heartbeat: stop top-level `interval:` and `prompt:` fields outside the `tasks:` block from bleeding into the last parsed heartbeat task. (#64488) Thanks @Rahulkumar070.
- Slack/plugin commands: include plugin-registered slash commands in Slack native command registration when Slack native commands are enabled. (#64578) Thanks @rafaelreis-r.
- Agents/OpenAI replay: preserve malformed function-call arguments in stored assistant history, avoid double-encoding preserved raw strings on replay, and coerce replayed string args back to objects at Anthropic and Google provider boundaries. (#61956) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Heartbeat/config: accept and honor `agents.defaults.heartbeat.timeoutSeconds` and per-agent heartbeat timeout overrides for heartbeat agent turns. (#64491) Thanks @cedillarack.
- CLI/devices: make implicit `openclaw devices approve` selection preview-only and require approving the exact request ID, preventing latest-request races during device pairing. (#64160) Thanks @coygeek.
- Media/security: honor sender-scoped `toolsBySender` policy for outbound host-media reads so denied senders cannot trigger host file disclosure via attachment hydration. (#64459) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Browser/security: reject strict-policy hostname navigation unless the hostname is an explicit allowlist exception or IP literal, and route CDP HTTP discovery through the pinned SSRF fetch path. (#64367) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Models/vLLM: ignore empty `tool_calls` arrays from reasoning-model OpenAI-compatible replies, reset false `toolUse` stop reasons when no actual tool calls were parsed, and stop sending `tool_choice` unless tools are present so vLLM reasoning responses no longer hang indefinitely. (#61197, #61534) Thanks @balajisiva.
- Heartbeat/scheduling: spread interval heartbeats across stable per-agent phases derived from gateway identity, so provider traffic is distributed more uniformly across the configured interval instead of clustering around startup-relative times. (#64560) Thanks @odysseus0.
- Config/media: accept `tools.media.asyncCompletion.directSend` in strict config validation so gateways no longer reject the generated-schema-backed async media completion setting at startup. (#63618) Thanks @qiziAI.
- Telegram/exec: preserve delayed exec completion routing for forum topics by pinning background exec completions to the topic where the run started even if the session route later drifts. (#64580) thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/locks: unregister the session write-lock `exit` cleanup handler during teardown so repeated lock lifecycle resets stop stacking process listeners in long-running gateway processes. (#65391) Thanks @adminfedres and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/Claude: rename the trusted inbound metadata schema to `openclaw.inbound_meta.v2` so Claude CLI no longer trips Anthropic's blocked `openclaw.inbound_meta.v1` filter on channel-originated turns. (#65399) Thanks @SzyMig and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/inbound metadata: strip NUL bytes from serialized inbound context blocks before they reach backend spawn args, so malformed message metadata cannot crash agent spawn with `ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE`. (#65389) Thanks @adminfedres and @vincentkoc.
- iMessage: retry transient `watch.subscribe` startup failures before tearing down the monitor, so brief local transport stalls do not immediately bounce the channel. (#65393) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Status/session_status: move shared session status text into a neutral internal status module and keep the tool importing a local runtime shim, so built `session_status` no longer depends on reply command internals or a bundler-opaque runtime import. (#65807) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- QQBot/security: replace raw `fetch()` in the image-size probe with SSRF-guarded `fetchRemoteMedia`, fix `resolveRepoRoot()` to walk up to `.git` instead of hardcoding two parent levels, and refresh the raw-fetch allowlist to match the corrected scan. (#63495) Thanks @dims.
- WhatsApp/web: rewrite queued `creds.json` updates atomically so interrupted saves do not leave truncated login state behind. (#63577) thanks @OwenYWT

## 2026.4.9

### Changes

- Memory/dreaming: add a grounded REM backfill lane with historical `rem-harness --path`, diary commit/reset flows, cleaner durable-fact extraction, and live short-term promotion integration so old daily notes can replay into Dreams and durable memory without a second memory stack. Thanks @mbelinky.
- Control UI/dreaming: add a structured diary view with timeline navigation, backfill/reset controls, traceable dreaming summaries, and a grounded Scene lane with promotion hints plus a safe clear-grounded action for staged backfill signals. (#63395) Thanks @mbelinky.
- QA/lab: add character-vibes evaluation reports with model selection and parallel runs so live QA can compare candidate behavior faster.
- Plugins/provider-auth: let provider manifests declare `providerAuthAliases` so provider variants can share env vars, auth profiles, config-backed auth, and API-key onboarding choices without core-specific wiring.
- iOS: pin release versioning to an explicit CalVer in `apps/ios/version.json`, keep TestFlight iteration on the same short version until maintainers intentionally promote the next gateway version, and add the documented `pnpm ios:version:pin -- --from-gateway` workflow for release trains. (#63001) Thanks @ngutman.
- Tools/video_generate: extend the tool and the Plugin SDK with `providerOptions` (vendor-specific options forwarded as a JSON object), `inputAudios` / `audioRef` / `audioRefs` reference audio inputs, per-asset semantic role hints (`imageRoles` / `videoRoles` / `audioRoles`) using a typed `VideoGenerationAssetRole` union, a new `"adaptive"` aspect-ratio sentinel, and `maxInputAudios` provider capability declarations. Providers opt into `providerOptions` by declaring a typed `capabilities.providerOptions` schema (`{ seed: "number", draft: "boolean", .. }`); unknown keys and type mismatches cause the runtime fallback loop to skip the candidate with a visible warning and an `attempts` entry, so vendor-specific options never silently reach the wrong provider. Also raises the in-tool image input cap to 9 and updates the docs table to list all new parameters. (#61987) Thanks @xieyongliang.

### Fixes

- Browser/security: re-run blocked-destination safety checks after interaction-driven main-frame navigations from click, evaluate, hook-triggered click, and batched action flows, so browser interactions cannot bypass the SSRF quarantine when they land on forbidden URLs. (#63226) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Security/dotenv: block runtime-control env vars plus browser-control override and skip-server env vars from untrusted workspace `.env` files, and reject unsafe URL-style browser control override specifiers before lazy loading. (#62660, #62663) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/node exec events: mark remote node `exec.started`, `exec.finished`, and `exec.denied` summaries as untrusted system events and sanitize node-provided command/output/reason text before enqueueing them, so remote node output cannot inject trusted `System:` content into later turns. (#62659) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Plugins/onboarding auth choices: prevent untrusted workspace plugins from colliding with bundled provider auth-choice ids during non-interactive onboarding, so bundled provider setup keeps operator secrets out of untrusted workspace plugin handlers unless those plugins are explicitly trusted. (#62368) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Security/dependency audit: force `basic-ftp` to `5.2.1` for the CRLF command-injection fix and bump Hono plus `@hono/node-server` in production resolution paths.
- Android/pairing: clear stale setup-code auth on new QR scans, bootstrap operator and node sessions from fresh pairing, prefer stored device tokens after bootstrap handoff, and pause pairing auto-retry while the app is backgrounded so scan-once Android pairing recovers reliably again. (#63199) Thanks @obviyus.
- Matrix/gateway: wait for Matrix sync readiness before marking startup successful, keep Matrix background handler failures contained, and route fatal Matrix sync stops through channel-level restart handling instead of crashing the whole gateway. (#62779) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Slack/media: preserve bearer auth across same-origin `files.slack.com` redirects while still stripping it on cross-origin Slack CDN hops, so `url_private_download` image attachments load again. (#62960) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Reply/doctor: use the active runtime snapshot for queued reply runs, resolve reply-run SecretRefs before preflight helpers touch config, surface gateway OAuth reauth failures to users, and make `openclaw doctor` call out exact reauth commands. (#62693, #63217) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Control UI: guard stale session-history reloads during fast session switches so the selected session and rendered transcript stay in sync. (#62975) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Gateway/chat: suppress exact and streamed `ANNOUNCE_SKIP` / `REPLY_SKIP` control replies across live chat updates and history sanitization so internal agent-to-agent control tokens no longer leak into user-facing gateway chat surfaces. (#51739) Thanks @Pinghuachiu.
- Auto-reply/NO_REPLY: strip glued leading `NO_REPLY` tokens before reply normalization and ACP-visible streaming so silent sentinel text no longer leaks into user-visible replies while preserving substantive `NO_REPLY ...` text. Thanks @frankekn.
- Sessions/routing: preserve established external routes on inter-session announce traffic so `sessions_send` follow-ups do not steal delivery from Telegram, Discord, or other external channels. (#58013) Thanks @duqaXxX.
- Gateway/sessions: clear auto-fallback-pinned model overrides on `/reset` and `/new` while still preserving explicit user model selections, including legacy sessions created before override-source tracking existed. (#63155) Thanks @frankekn.
- Slack/ACP: treat Slack ACP block replies as visible delivered output so OpenClaw stops re-sending the final fallback text after Slack already rendered the reply. (#62858) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Slack/partial streaming: key turn-local dedupe by dispatch kind and keep the final fallback reply path active when preview finalization fails so stale preview text cannot suppress the actual final answer. (#62859) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/doctor: migrate legacy `channels.matrix.dm.policy: "trusted"` configs back to compatible DM policies during `openclaw doctor --fix`, preserving explicit `allowFrom` boundaries as `allowlist` and defaulting empty legacy configs to `pairing`. (#62942) Thanks @lukeboyett.
- npm packaging: mirror bundled channel runtime deps, stage Nostr runtime deps, derive required root mirrors from manifests and built chunks, and test packed release tarballs without repo `node_modules` so fresh installs fail fast on missing plugin deps instead of crashing at runtime. (#63065) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- QA/live auth: fail fast when live QA scenarios hit classified auth or runtime failure replies, including raw scenario wait paths, and sanitize missing-key guidance so gateway auth problems surface as actionable errors instead of timeouts. (#63333) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Providers/OpenAI: default missing reasoning effort to `high` on OpenAI Responses, WebSocket, and compatible completions transports, while still honoring explicit per-run reasoning levels.
- Providers/Ollama: allow Ollama models using the native `api: "ollama"` path to optionally display thinking output when `/think` is set to a non-off level. (#62712) Thanks @hoyyeva.
- Codex CLI: pass OpenClaw's system prompt through Codex's `model_instructions_file` config override so fresh Codex CLI sessions receive the same prompt guidance as Claude CLI sessions.
- Auth/profiles: persist explicit auth-profile upserts directly and skip external CLI sync for local writes so profile changes are saved without stale external credential state.
- Agents/timeouts: make the LLM idle timeout inherit `agents.defaults.timeoutSeconds` when configured, disable the unconfigured idle watchdog for cron runs, and improve idle-timeout recovery guidance. Thanks @drvoss.
- Agents/failover: classify Z.ai vendor code `1311` as billing and `1113` as auth, including long wrapped `1311` payloads, so these errors stop falling through to generic failover handling. (#49552) Thanks @1bcMax.
- QQBot/media-tags: support HTML entity-encoded angle brackets (`&lt;`/`&gt;`), URL slashes in attributes, and self-closing media tags so upstream `<qqimg>` payloads are correctly parsed and normalized. (#60493) Thanks @ylc0919.
- Memory/dreaming: harden grounded backfill inputs, diary writes, status payloads, and diary action classification by preserving source-day labels, rejecting missing or symlinked targets cleanly, normalizing diary headings in gateway backfills, and tightening claim splitting plus diary source metadata. Thanks @mbelinky.
- Memory/dreaming: accept embedded heartbeat trigger tokens so light and REM dreaming still run when runtime wrappers include extra heartbeat text.
- Android/manual connect: allow blank port input only for TLS manual gateway endpoints so standard HTTPS Tailscale hosts default to `443` without silently changing cleartext manual connects. (#63134) Thanks @Tyler-RNG.
- Windows/update: add heap headroom to Windows `pnpm build` steps during dev updates so update preflight builds stop failing on low default Node memory.
- Plugin SDK: export the channel plugin base and web-search config contract through the public package so plugins can use them without private imports.
- Plugins/contracts: keep test-only helpers out of production contract barrels, load shared contract harnesses through bundled test surfaces, and harden guardrails so indirect re-exports and canonical `*.test.ts` files stay blocked. (#63311) Thanks @altaywtf.
- Control UI/models: preserve provider-qualified refs for OpenRouter catalog models whose ids already contain slashes so picker selections submit allowlist-compatible model refs instead of dropping the `openrouter/` prefix. (#63416) Thanks @sallyom.
- Plugin SDK/command auth: split command status builders onto the lightweight `openclaw/plugin-sdk/command-status` subpath while preserving deprecated `command-auth` compatibility exports, so auth-only plugin imports no longer pull status/context warmup into CLI onboarding paths. (#63174) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Wizard/plugin config: coerce integer-typed plugin config fields from interactive text input so integer schema values persist as numbers instead of failing validation. (#63346) Thanks @jalehman.
- npm packaging: derive required root runtime mirrors from bundled plugin manifests and built root chunks, then install packed release tarballs without the repo `node_modules` so release checks catch missing plugin deps before publish (#63222). Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

## 2026.4.8

### Fixes

- Telegram/setup: load setup and secret contracts through packaged top-level sidecars so installed npm builds no longer try to import missing `dist/extensions/telegram/src/*` files during gateway startup.
- Bundled channels/setup: load shared secret contracts through packaged top-level sidecars across BlueBubbles, Feishu, Google Chat, IRC, Matrix, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Nextcloud Talk, Slack, and Zalo so installed npm builds no longer rely on missing `dist/extensions/*/src/*` files during gateway startup.
- Bundled plugins: align packaged plugin compatibility metadata with the release version so bundled channels and providers load on OpenClaw 2026.4.8.
- Agents/progress: keep `update_plan` available for OpenAI-family runs while returning compact success payloads and allowing `tools.experimental.planTool=false` to opt out.
- Agents/exec: keep `/exec` current-default reporting aligned with real runtime behavior so `host=auto` sessions surface the correct host-aware fallback policy (`full/off` on gateway or node, `deny/off` on sandbox) instead of stale stricter defaults.
- Slack: honor ambient HTTP(S) proxy settings for Socket Mode WebSocket connections, including NO_PROXY exclusions, so proxy-only deployments can connect without a monkey patch. (#62878) Thanks @mjamiv.
- Slack/actions: pass the already resolved read token into `downloadFile` so SecretRef-backed bot tokens no longer fail after a raw config re-read. (#62097) Thanks @martingarramon.
- Network/fetch guard: skip target DNS pinning when trusted env-proxy mode is active so proxy-only sandboxes can let the trusted proxy resolve outbound hosts. (#59007) Thanks @cluster2600.

## 2026.4.7-1

## 2026.4.7

### Changes

- CLI/infer: add a first-class `openclaw infer ...` hub for provider-backed inference workflows across model, media, web, and embedding tasks. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Tools/media generation: auto-fallback across auth-backed image, music, and video providers by default, preserve intent during provider switches, remap size/aspect/resolution/duration hints to the closest supported option, and surface provider capabilities plus mode-aware video-to-video support.
- Memory/wiki: restore the bundled `memory-wiki` stack with plugin, CLI, sync/query/apply tooling, memory-host integration, structured claim/evidence fields, compiled digest retrieval, claim-health linting, contradiction clustering, staleness dashboards, and freshness-weighted search. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/webhooks: add a bundled webhook ingress plugin so external automation can create and drive bound TaskFlows through per-route shared-secret endpoints. (#61892) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/sessions: add persisted compaction checkpoints plus Sessions UI branch/restore actions so operators can inspect and recover pre-compaction session state. (#62146) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Compaction: add pluggable compaction provider registry so plugins can replace the built-in summarization pipeline. Configure via `agents.defaults.compaction.provider`; falls back to LLM summarization on provider failure. (#56224) Thanks @DhruvBhatia0.
- Agents/system prompt: add `agents.defaults.systemPromptOverride` for controlled prompt experiments plus heartbeat prompt-section controls so heartbeat runtime behavior can stay enabled without injecting heartbeat instructions every turn.
- Providers/Google: add Gemma 4 model support and keep Google fallback resolution on the requested provider path so native Google Gemma routes work again. (#61507) Thanks @eyjohn.
- Providers/Google: preserve explicit thinking-off semantics for Gemma 4 while still enabling Gemma reasoning support in compatibility wrappers. (#62127) Thanks @romgenie.
- Providers/Arcee AI: add a bundled Arcee AI provider plugin with Trinity catalog entries, OpenRouter support, and updated onboarding/auth guidance. (#62068) Thanks @arthurbr11.
- Providers/Anthropic: restore Claude CLI as the preferred local Anthropic path in onboarding, model-auth guidance, doctor flows, and Docker Claude CLI live lanes again.
- Providers/Ollama: detect vision capability from the `/api/show` response and set image input on models that support it so Ollama vision models accept image attachments. (#62193) Thanks @BruceMacD.
- Memory/dreaming: ingest redacted session transcripts into the dreaming corpus with per-day session-corpus notes, cursor checkpointing, and promotion/doctor support. (#62227) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Providers/inferrs: add string-content compatibility for stricter OpenAI-compatible chat backends, document `inferrs` setup with a full config example, and add troubleshooting guidance for local backends that pass direct probes but fail on full agent-runtime prompts.
- Agents/context engine: expose prompt-cache runtime context to context engines and keep current-turn prompt-cache usage aligned with the active attempt instead of stale prior-turn assistant state. (#62179) Thanks @jalehman.
- Plugin SDK/context engines: pass `availableTools` and `citationsMode` into `assemble()`, and expose memory-artifact and memory-prompt seams so companion plugins and non-legacy context engines can consume active memory state without reaching into internals. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ACP/ACPX plugin: bump the bundled `acpx` pin to `0.5.1` so plugin-local installs and strict version checks pick up the latest published runtime release. (#62148) Thanks @onutc.
- Discord/events: allow `event-create` to accept a cover image URL or local file path, load and validate PNG/JPG/GIF event cover media, and pass the encoded image payload through Discord admin action/runtime paths. (#60883) Thanks @bittoby.
- Plugins/provider-auth: expose runtime-ready provider auth through `openclaw/plugin-sdk/provider-auth-runtime` so native plugins and context engines can resolve request-ready credentials after provider-owned runtime exchanges like GitHub Copilot device-token-to-bearer flows. (#62753) Thanks @jalehman.

### Fixes

- CLI/infer: keep provider-backed infer behavior aligned with actual runtime execution by fixing explicit TTS override handling, profile-aware gateway TTS prefs resolution, per-request transcription `prompt`/`language` overrides, image output MIME/extension mismatches, configured web-search fallback behavior, and agent-vs-CLI web-search execution drift (#62129). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Plugins/media: when `plugins.allow` is set, capability fallback now merges bundled capability plugin ids into the allowlist (not only `plugins.entries`), so media understanding providers such as OpenAI-compatible STT load for voice transcription without requiring `openai` in `plugins.allow`. (#62205) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/history and replies: buffer phaseless OpenAI WS text until a real assistant phase arrives, keep replay and SSE history sequence tracking aligned, hide commentary and leaked tool XML from user-visible history, and keep history-based follow-up replies on `final_answer` text only. (#61729, #61747, #61829, #61855, #61954) Thanks @100yenadmin and contributors.
- Control UI: show `/tts` audio replies in webchat, detect mistaken `?token=` auth links with the correct `#token=` hint, and keep Copy, Canvas, and mobile exec-approval UI from covering chat content on narrow screens. (#54842, #61514, #61598) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- iOS/gateway: replace string-matched connection error UI with structured gateway connection problems, preserve actionable pairing/auth failures over later generic disconnect noise, and surface reusable problem banners and details across onboarding, settings, and root status surfaces. (#62650) Thanks @ngutman.
- TUI: route `/status` through the shared session-status command, keep commentary hidden in history, strip raw envelope metadata from async command notices, preserve fallback streaming before per-attempt failures finalize, and restore Kitty keyboard state on exit or fatal crashes. (#49130, #59985, #60043, #61463) Thanks @biefan and contributors.
- iOS/Watch exec approvals: keep Apple Watch review and approval recovery working while the iPhone is locked or backgrounded, including reconnect recovery, pending approval persistence, notification cleanup, and APNs-backed watch refresh recovery. (#61757) Thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/context overflow: combine oversized and aggregate tool-result recovery in one pass and restore a total-context overflow backstop so recoverable sessions retry instead of failing early. (#61651) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Auth/OpenAI Codex OAuth: reload fresh on-disk credentials inside the locked refresh path and retry once after `refresh_token_reused` rotates only the stored refresh token, so relogin/restart recovery stops getting stuck on stale cached auth state. Thanks @owen-ever.
- Auth/OpenAI Codex OAuth: keep native `/model ...@profile` selections on the target session and honor explicit user-locked auth profiles even when per-agent auth order excludes them. (#62744) Thanks @jalehman.
- Providers/Anthropic: preserve thinking blocks for Claude Opus 4.5+, Sonnet 4.5+, and newer Claude 4-family models so prompt-cache prefixes keep matching, and skip `service_tier` injection on OAuth-authenticated stream wrapper requests so Claude OAuth streaming stops failing with HTTP 401. (#60356, #61793).
- Agents/Claude CLI: surface nested API error messages from structured CLI output so billing/auth/provider failures show the real provider error instead of an opaque CLI failure.
- Agents/exec: preserve explicit `host=node` routing under elevated defaults when `tools.exec.host=auto`, fail loud on invalid elevated cross-host overrides, and keep `strictInlineEval` commands blocked after approval timeouts instead of falling through to automatic execution. (#61739) Thanks @obviyus.
- Nodes/exec approvals: keep `host=node` POSIX transport shell wrappers (`/bin/sh -lc ...`) aligned with inner-command allowlist analysis so allowlisted scripts stop prompting unnecessarily, while Windows `cmd.exe` wrapper runs stay approval-gated. (#62401) Thanks @ngutman.
- Nodes/exec approvals: keep Windows `cmd.exe /c` wrapper runs approval-gated even when `env` carriers, including env-assignment carriers, wrap the shell invocation. (#62439) Thanks @ngutman.
- Gateway tool/exec config: block model-facing `gateway config.apply` and `config.patch` writes from changing exec approval paths such as `safeBins`, `safeBinProfiles`, `safeBinTrustedDirs`, and `strictInlineEval`, while still allowing unchanged structured values through. (#62001) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Host exec/env sanitization: block dangerous Java, Rust, Cargo, Git, Kubernetes, cloud credential, config-path, and Helm env overrides so host-run tools cannot be redirected to attacker-chosen code, config, credentials, or repository state. (#59119, #62002, #62291) Thanks @eleqtrizit and contributors.
- Commands/allowlist: require owner authorization for `/allowlist add` and `/allowlist remove` before channel resolution, so non-owner but command-authorized senders can no longer persistently rewrite allowlist policy state. (#62383) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Feishu/docx uploads: honor `tools.fs.workspaceOnly` for local `upload_file` and `upload_image` paths by forwarding workspace-constrained `localRoots` into the media loader, so docx uploads can no longer read host-local files outside the workspace when workspace-only mode is active. (#62369) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Network/fetch guard: drop request bodies and body-describing headers on cross-origin `307` and `308` redirects by default, so attacker-controlled redirect hops cannot receive secret-bearing POST payloads from SSRF-guarded fetch flows unless a caller explicitly opts in. (#62357) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Browser/SSRF: treat main-frame `document` redirect hops as navigations even when Playwright does not flag them as `isNavigationRequest()`, so strict private-network blocking still stops forbidden redirect pivots before the browser reaches the internal target. (#62355) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Browser/node invoke: block persistent browser profile create, reset, and delete mutations through `browser.proxy` on both gateway-forwarded `node.invoke` and the node-host proxy path, even when no profile allowlist is configured. (#60489).
- Gateway/node pairing: require a fresh pairing request when a previously paired node reconnects with additional declared commands, and keep the live session pinned to the earlier approved command set until the upgrade is approved. (#62658) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/auth: invalidate existing shared-token and password WebSocket sessions when the configured secret rotates, so stale authenticated sockets cannot stay attached after token or password changes. (#62350) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- MS Teams/security: validate file-consent upload URLs against HTTPS, Microsoft/SharePoint host allowlists, and private-IP DNS checks before uploading attachments, blocking SSRF-style consent-upload abuse. (#23596).
- Media/base64 decode guards: enforce byte limits before decoding missed base64-backed Teams, Signal, QQ Bot, and image-tool payloads so oversized inbound media and data URLs no longer bypass pre-decode size checks. (#62007) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Runtime event trust: mark background `notifyOnExit` summaries, ACP parent-stream relays, and wake-hook payloads as untrusted system events so lower-trust runtime output no longer re-enters later turns as trusted `System:` text. (#62003).
- Auto-reply/media: allow managed generated-media `MEDIA:` paths from normal reply text again while still blocking arbitrary host-local media and document paths, so generated media keep delivering without reopening host-path injection holes.
- Gateway/status and containers: auto-bind to `0.0.0.0` inside Docker and Podman environments, and probe local TLS gateways over `wss://` with self-signed fingerprint forwarding so container startup and loopback TLS status checks work again. (#61818, #61935) Thanks @openperf and contributors.
- Gateway/OpenAI-compatible HTTP: abort in-flight `/v1/chat/completions` and `/v1/responses` turns when clients disconnect so abandoned HTTP requests stop wasting agent runtime. (#54388) Thanks @Lellansin.
- macOS/gateway version: strip trailing commit metadata from CLI version output before semver parsing so the Mac app recognizes installed gateway versions like `OpenClaw 2026.4.2 (d74a122)` again. (#61111) Thanks @oliviareid-svg.
- Sessions/model selection: resolve the explicitly selected session model separately from runtime fallback resolution so session status and live model switching stay aligned with the chosen model.
- Discord/ACP bindings: canonicalize DM conversation identity across inbound messages, component interactions, native commands, and current-conversation binding resolution so `--bind here` in Discord DMs keeps routing follow-up replies to the bound agent instead of falling back to the default agent.
- Discord: recover forwarded referenced message text and attachments when snapshots are missing, use `ws://` again for gateway monitor sockets, stop forcing a hardcoded temperature for Codex-backed auto-thread titles, and harden voice receive recovery so rapid speaker restarts keep their next utterance. (#41536, #61670) Thanks @artwalker and contributors.
- Slack/thread mentions: add `channels.slack.thread.requireExplicitMention` so Slack channels that already require mentions can also require explicit `@bot` mentions inside bot-participated threads. (#58276) Thanks @praktika-engineer.
- Slack/threading: keep legacy thread stickiness for real replies when older callers omit `isThreadReply`, while still honoring `replyToMode` for Slack's auto-created top-level `thread_ts`. (#61835) Thanks @kaonash.
- Slack/media: keep attachment downloads on the SSRF-guarded dispatcher path so Slack media fetching works on Node 22 without dropping pinned transport enforcement. (#62239) Thanks @openperf.
- Matrix/onboarding: add an invite auto-join setup step with explicit off warnings and strict stable-target validation so new Matrix accounts stop silently ignoring invited rooms and fresh DM-style invites unless operators opt in. (#62168) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/formatting: preserve multi-paragraph and loose-list rendering in Element so numbered and bulleted Markdown keeps their content attached to the correct list item. (#60997) Thanks @gucasbrg.
- Telegram/doctor: keep top-level access-control fallback in place during multi-account normalization while still promoting legacy default auth into `accounts.default`, so existing named bots keep inherited allowlists without dropping the legacy default bot. (#62263) Thanks @obviyus.
- Plugins/loaders: centralize bundled `dist/**` Jiti native-load policy and keep channel, public-surface, facade, and config-metadata loader seams off native Jiti on Windows so onboarding and configure flows stop tripping `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME`. (#62286) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.
- Plugins/channels: keep bundled channel artifact and secret-contract loading stable under lazy loading, preserve plugin-schema defaults during install, and fix Windows `file://` plus native-Jiti plugin loader paths so onboarding, doctor, `openclaw secret`, and bundled plugin installs work again. (#61832, #61836, #61853, #61856) Thanks @Zeesejo and contributors.
- Plugins/ClawHub: verify downloaded plugin archives against version metadata SHA-256, fail closed when archive integrity metadata is missing or malformed, and tighten fallback ZIP verification so plugin installs cannot proceed on mismatched or incomplete ClawHub package metadata. (#60517) Thanks @mappel-nv.
- Plugins/provider hooks: stop recursive provider snapshot loads from overflowing the stack during plugin initialization, while still preserving cached nested provider-hook results. (#61922, #61938, #61946, #61951).
- Docker/plugins: stop forcing bundled plugin discovery to `/app/extensions` in runtime images so packaged installs use compiled `dist/extensions` artifacts again and Node 24 containers do not boot through source-only plugin entry paths. Fixes #62044. (#62316) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Providers/Ollama: honor the selected provider's `baseUrl` during streaming so multi-Ollama setups stop routing every stream to the first configured Ollama endpoint. (#61678).
- Providers/Ollama: stop warning that Ollama could not be reached when discovery only sees empty default local stubs, while still keeping real explicit Ollama overrides loud when the endpoint is unreachable.
- Providers/xAI: recognize `api.grok.x.ai` as an xAI-native endpoint again and keep legacy `x_search` auth resolution working so older xAI web-search configs continue to load. (#61377) Thanks @jjjojoj.
- Providers/Mistral: send `reasoning_effort` for `mistral/mistral-small-latest` (Mistral Small 4) with thinking-level mapping, and mark the catalog entry as reasoning-capable so adjustable reasoning matches Mistral’s Chat Completions API. (#62162) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- OpenAI TTS/Groq: send `wav` to Groq-compatible speech endpoints, honor explicit `responseFormat` overrides on OpenAI-compatible paths, and only mark voice-note output as voice-compatible when the actual format is `opus`. (#62233) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Tools/web_fetch and web_search: fix `TypeError: fetch failed` caused by undici 8.0 enabling HTTP/2 by default; pinned SSRF-guard dispatchers now explicitly set `allowH2: false` to restore HTTP/1.1 behavior and keep the custom DNS-pinning lookup compatible. (#61738, #61777) Thanks @zozo123.
- Tools/web search/Exa: show Exa Search in onboarding and configure provider pickers again by marking the bundled Exa provider as setup-visible. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/vector recall: surface explicit warnings when `sqlite-vec` is unavailable or vector writes are degraded, and strip managed Light Sleep and REM blocks before daily-note ingestion so memory indexing and dreaming stop reporting false-success or re-ingesting staged output. (#61720) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Memory/dreaming: make Dreams config reads and writes respect the selected memory slot plugin instead of always targeting `memory-core`. (#62275) Thanks @SnowSky1.
- QQ Bot/media: route gateway-side attachment and fallback downloads through guarded QQ/Tencent HTTPS fetches so QQ media handling no longer follows arbitrary remote hosts.
- Browser/remote CDP: retry the DevTools websocket once after remote browser restarts so healthy remote browser profiles do not fail availability checks during CDP warm-up. (#57397) Thanks @ThanhNguyxn07.
- UI/light mode: target both root and nested WebKit scrollbar thumbs in the light theme so page-level and container scrollbars stay visible on light backgrounds. (#61753) Thanks @chziyue.
- Agents/subagents: honor `sessions_spawn(lightContext: true)` for spawned subagent runs by preserving lightweight bootstrap context through the gateway and embedded runner instead of silently falling back to full workspace bootstrap injection. (#62264) Thanks @theSamPadilla.
- Cron: load `jobId` into `id` when the on-disk store omits `id`, matching doctor migration and fixing `unknown cron job id` for hand-edited `jobs.json`. (#62246) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/model fallback: classify minimal HTTP 404 API errors (for example `404 status code (no body)`) as `model_not_found` so assistant failures throw into the fallback chain instead of stopping at the first fallback candidate. (#62119) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- BlueBubbles/network: respect explicit private-network opt-out for loopback and private `serverUrl` values across account resolution, status probes, monitor startup, and attachment downloads, while keeping public-host attachment hostname pinning intact. (#59373) Thanks @jpreagan.
- Agents/heartbeat: keep heartbeat runs pinned to the main session so active subagent transcripts are not overwritten by heartbeat status messages. (#61803) Thanks @100yenadmin.
- Agents/heartbeat: respect disabled heartbeat prompt guidance so operators can suppress heartbeat prompt instructions without disabling heartbeat runtime behavior.
- Agents/compaction: stop compaction-wait aborts from re-entering prompt failover and replaying completed tool turns. (#62600) Thanks @i-dentifier.
- Approvals/runtime: move native approval lifecycle assembly into shared core bootstrap/runtime seams driven by channel capabilities and runtime contexts, and remove the legacy bundled approval fallback wiring. (#62135) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Security/fetch-guard: stop rejecting operator-configured proxy hostnames against the target-scoped hostname allowlist in SSRF-guarded fetches, restoring proxy-based media downloads for Telegram and other channels. (#62312) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Logging: make `logging.level` and `logging.consoleLevel` honor the documented severity threshold ordering again, and keep child loggers inheriting the parent `minLevel`. (#44646) Thanks @zhumengzhu.
- Agents/sessions_send: pass `threadId` through announce delivery so cross-session notifications land in the correct Telegram forum topic instead of the group's general thread. (#62758) Thanks @jalehman.
- Daemon/systemd: keep sudo systemctl calls scoped to the invoking user when machine-scoped systemctl fails, while still avoiding machine fallback for permission-denied user bus errors. (#62337) Thanks @Aftabbs.
- Docs/i18n: relocalize final localized-page links after translation and remove the zh-CN homepage redirect override so localized Mintlify pages resolve to the correct language roots again. (#61796) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Agents/exec: keep timed-out shell-backgrounded commands on the failed path and point long-running jobs to exec background/yield sessions so process polling is only suggested for registered sessions.
- Agents/model resolution: let explicit `openai-codex/gpt-5.4` selection prefer provider runtime metadata when it reports a larger context window, keeping configured Codex runs aligned with the live provider limits. (#62694) Thanks @ruclaw7.
- Agents/model resolution: keep explicit-model runtime comparisons on the configured workspace plugin registry, so workspace-installed providers do not silently fall back to stale explicit metadata during runtime model lookup. Thanks @obviyus.
- Providers/Z.AI: default onboarding and endpoint detection to GLM-5.1 instead of GLM-5. (#61998) Thanks @serg0x.
- Cron/isolated: resolve auth profiles without treating every isolated run as a brand-new auth session, so profile-based providers (for example OpenRouter) keep a stable credential choice instead of rotating or ignoring stored keys. (#62783) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- CLI/tasks: `openclaw tasks cancel` now records operator cancellation for CLI runtime tasks instead of returning "Task runtime does not support cancellation yet", so stuck `running` CLI tasks can be cleared. (#62419) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Sessions/context: resolve context window limits using the active provider plus model (not bare model id alone) when persisting session usage, applying inline directives, and sizing memory-flush / preflight compaction thresholds, so duplicate model ids across providers no longer leak the wrong `contextTokens` into the session store or `/status`. (#62472) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Channels/setup: exclude workspace shadow entries from channel setup catalog lookups and align trust checks with auto-enable so workspace-scoped overrides no longer bypass the trusted catalog. (`GHSA-82qx-6vj7-p8m2`) Thanks @zsxsoft.
- Reply execution: prefer the active runtime snapshot over stale queued reply config during embedded reply and follow-up execution so SecretRef-backed reply turns stop crashing after secrets have already resolved. (#62693) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Android/manual connect: allow blank port input only for TLS manual gateway endpoints so standard HTTPS Tailscale hosts default to `443` without silently changing cleartext manual connects. (#63134) Thanks @Tyler-RNG.
- Matrix/agents: hide owner-only `set-profile` from embedded agent channel-action discovery so non-owner runs stop advertising profile updates they cannot execute. (#62662) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- iOS/gateway: replace string-matched connection error UI with structured gateway connection problems, preserve actionable pairing/auth failures over later generic disconnect noise, and surface reusable problem banners and details across onboarding, settings, and root status surfaces. (#62650) Thanks @ngutman.
- Git/env sanitization: block additional Git repository-plumbing env variables such as `GIT_DIR`, `GIT_WORK_TREE`, `GIT_COMMON_DIR`, `GIT_INDEX_FILE`, `GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY`, `GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES`, and `GIT_NAMESPACE` so host-run Git commands cannot be redirected to attacker-chosen repository state through inherited or request-scoped env. (#62002) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Host exec/env sanitization: block additional request-scoped credential and config-path overrides such as `KUBECONFIG`, cloud credential-path env, `CARGO_HOME`, and `HELM_HOME` so host-run tools can no longer be redirected to attacker-chosen config or state. (#59119) Thanks @eleqtrizit.

## 2026.4.5

### Breaking

- Config: remove legacy public config aliases such as `talk.voiceId` / `talk.apiKey`, `agents.*.sandbox.perSession`, `browser.ssrfPolicy.allowPrivateNetwork`, `hooks.internal.handlers`, and channel/group/room `allow` toggles in favor of the canonical public paths and `enabled`, while keeping load-time compatibility and `openclaw doctor --fix` migration support for existing configs. (#60726) Thanks @vincentkoc.

### Changes

- Agents/video generation: add the built-in `video_generate` tool so agents can create videos through configured providers and return the generated media directly in the reply.
- Agents/music generation: ignore unsupported optional hints such as `durationSeconds` with a warning instead of hard-failing requests on providers like Google Lyria.
- Providers/Arcee AI: add a bundled Arcee AI provider plugin with `ARCEEAI_API_KEY` onboarding, Trinity model catalog (mini, large-preview, large-thinking), OpenAI-compatible API support, and OpenRouter as an alternative auth path. (#62068) Thanks @arthurbr11.
- Providers/ComfyUI: add a bundled `comfy` workflow media plugin for local ComfyUI and Comfy Cloud workflows, including shared `image_generate`, `video_generate`, and workflow-backed `music_generate` support, with prompt injection, optional reference-image upload, live tests, and output download.
- Tools/music generation: add the built-in `music_generate` tool with bundled Google (Lyria) and MiniMax providers plus workflow-backed Comfy support, including async task tracking and follow-up delivery of finished audio.
- Providers: add bundled Qwen, Fireworks AI, and StepFun providers, plus MiniMax TTS, Ollama Web Search, and MiniMax Search integrations for chat, speech, and search workflows. (#60032, #55921, #59318, #54648).
- Providers/Amazon Bedrock: add bundled Mantle support plus inference-profile discovery and automatic request-region injection so Bedrock-hosted Claude, GPT-OSS, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, and similar routes work with less manual setup. (#61296, #61299) Thanks @wirjo.
- Control UI/multilingual: add localized control UI support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, French, Turkish, Indonesian, Polish, and Ukrainian. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins: add plugin-config TUI prompts to guided onboarding/setup flows, and add `openclaw plugins install --force` so existing plugin and hook-pack targets can be replaced without using the dangerous-code override flag. (#60590, #60544).
- Control UI/skills: add ClawHub search, detail, and install flows directly in the Skills panel. (#60134) Thanks @samzong.
- iOS/exec approvals: add generic APNs approval notifications that open an in-app exec approval modal, fetch command details only after authenticated operator reconnect, and clear stale notification state when the approval resolves. (#60239) Thanks @ngutman.
- Matrix/exec approvals: add Matrix-native exec approval prompts with account-scoped approvers, channel-or-DM delivery, and room-thread aware resolution handling. (#58635) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Channels/context visibility: add configurable `contextVisibility` per channel (`all`, `allowlist`, `allowlist_quote`) so supplemental quote, thread, and fetched history context can be filtered by sender allowlists instead of always passing through as received.
- Providers/request overrides: add shared model and media request transport overrides across OpenAI-, Anthropic-, Google-, and compatible provider paths, including headers, auth, proxy, and TLS controls. (#60200) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI: add forward-compat `openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini`, an opt-in GPT personality, and provider-owned GPT-5 prompt contributions so Codex/GPT runs stay cache-stable and compatible with bundled catalog lag.
- Agents/Claude CLI: expose OpenClaw tools to background Claude CLI runs through a loopback MCP bridge and switch bundled runs to stdin + `stream-json` partial-message streaming so prompts stop riding argv, long replies show live progress, and final session/usage metadata still land cleanly. (#35676) Thanks @mylukin.
- ACPX/runtime: embed the ACP runtime directly in the bundled `acpx` plugin, remove the extra external ACP CLI hop, harden live ACP session binding and reuse, and add a generic `reply_dispatch` hook so bundled plugins like ACPX can own reply interception without hardcoded ACP paths in core auto-reply routing. (#61319).
- Agents/progress: add experimental structured plan updates and structured execution item events so compatible UIs can show clearer step-by-step progress during long-running runs.
- Providers/Anthropic: remove the Claude CLI backend and setup-token from new onboarding, keep existing configured legacy profiles runnable, and have `openclaw doctor` repair or remove stale `anthropic:claude-cli` state during migration.
- Tools/video generation: add bundled xAI (`grok-imagine-video`), Alibaba Model Studio Wan, and Runway video providers, plus live-test/default model wiring for all three.
- Memory/search: add Amazon Bedrock embeddings for Titan, Cohere, Nova, and TwelveLabs models, with AWS credential-chain auto-detection for `provider: "auto"` and provider-specific dimension controls. Thanks @wirjo.
- Providers/Amazon Bedrock Mantle: generate bearer tokens from the AWS credential chain so Mantle auto-discovery can use IAM auth without manually exporting `AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK`. Thanks @wirjo.
- Memory/dreaming (experimental): add weighted short-term recall promotion, a `/dreaming` command, Dreams UI, multilingual conceptual tagging, and doctor/status repair support, while refactoring dreaming from competing modes into three cooperative phases (light, deep, REM) with independent schedules and recovery behavior so durable memory promotion can run in the background with less manual setup. (#60569, #60697) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/dreaming: add configurable aging controls (`recencyHalfLifeDays`, `maxAgeDays`) plus optional verbose logging so operators can tune recall decay and inspect promotion decisions more easily.
- Memory/dreaming: add REM preview tooling (`openclaw memory rem-harness`, `promote-explain`), surface possible lasting truths during REM staging, and make deep promotion replay-safe so reruns reconcile instead of duplicating `MEMORY.md` entries.
- Memory/dreaming: write dreaming trail content to top-level `dreams.md` instead of daily memory notes, update `/dreaming` help text to point there, and keep `dreams.md` available for explicit reads without pulling it into default recall. Thanks @davemorin.
- Memory/dreaming: add the Dream Diary surface in Dreams, simplify user-facing dreaming config to `enabled` plus optional `frequency`, treat phases as implementation detail in docs/UI, and keep the lobster animation visible above diary content. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Prompt caching: keep prompt prefixes more reusable across transport fallback, deterministic MCP tool ordering, compaction, embedded image history, normalized system-prompt fingerprints, `openclaw status --verbose` cache diagnostics, and the removal of duplicate in-band tool inventories from agent system prompts so follow-up turns hit cache more reliably. (#58036, #58037, #58038, #59054, #60603, #60691) Thanks @bcherny and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/cache: diagnostics: add prompt-cache break diagnostics, trace live cache scenarios through embedded runner paths, and show cache reuse explicitly in `openclaw status --verbose`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/cache: stabilize cache-relevant system prompt fingerprints by normalizing equivalent structured prompt whitespace, line endings, hook-added system context, and runtime capability ordering so semantically unchanged prompts reuse KV/cache more reliably. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/tool prompts: remove the duplicate in-band tool inventory from agent system prompts so tool-calling models rely on the structured tool definitions as the single source of truth, improving prompt stability and reducing stale tool guidance.
- Config/schema: enrich the exported `openclaw config schema` JSON Schema with field titles and descriptions so editors, agents, and other schema consumers receive the same config help metadata. (#60067) Thanks @solavrc.
- Matrix/exec approvals: clarify unavailable-approval replies so Matrix no longer claims chat approvals are unsupported when native exec approvals are merely unconfigured. (#61424) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: add forward-compat `openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini` synthesis across provider runtime, model catalog, and model listing so Codex mini works before bundled Pi catalog updates land.
- Providers/OpenAI: add an opt-in GPT personality and move GPT-5 prompt tuning onto provider-owned system-prompt contributions so cache-stable guidance stays above the prompt cache boundary and embedded runner paths reuse the same provider-specific prompt behavior.
- Docs/IRC: replace public IRC hostname examples with `irc.example.com` and recommend private servers for bot coordination while listing common public networks for intentional use.
- Memory/dreaming: group nearby daily-note lines into short coherent chunks before staging them for dreaming, so one-off context from recent notes reaches REM/deep with better evidence and less line-level noise (#61583). Thanks @mbelinky.
- Memory/dreaming: drop generic date/day headings from daily-note chunk prefixes while keeping meaningful section labels, so staged snippets stay cleaner and more reusable. (#61597) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Plugins/Lobster: run bundled Lobster workflows in process instead of spawning the external CLI, reducing transport overhead and unblocking native runtime integration. (#61523) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Plugins/Lobster: harden managed resume validation so invalid TaskFlow resume calls fail earlier, and memoize embedded runtime loading per runner while keeping failed loads retryable. (#61566) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Agents/bootstrap: add opt-in `agents.defaults.contextInjection: "continuation-skip"` so safe continuation turns can skip workspace bootstrap re-injection, while heartbeat runs and post-compaction retries still rebuild context when needed. Fixes #9157. Thanks @cgdusek.

### Fixes

- Control UI/chat: show `/tts` and other local audio-only slash replies in webchat by embedding local audio in the assistant message and rendering `<audio>` controls instead of dropping empty-text finals. Fixes #61564. (#61598) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Security: preserve restrictive plugin-only tool allowlists, require owner access for `/allowlist add` and `/allowlist remove`, fail closed when `before_tool_call` hooks crash, block browser SSRF redirect bypasses earlier, and keep non-interactive auth-choice inference scoped to bundled and already-trusted plugins. (#58476, #59836, #59822, #58771, #59120) Thanks @eleqtrizit and @pgondhi987.
- Providers/OpenAI: make GPT-5 and Codex runs act sooner with lower-verbosity defaults, visible progress during tool work, and a one-shot retry when a turn only narrates the plan instead of taking action.
- Providers/OpenAI and reply delivery: preserve native `reasoning.effort: "none"` and strict schemas where supported, add GPT-5.4 assistant `phase` metadata across replay and the Gateway `/v1/responses` layer, and keep commentary buffered until `final_answer` so web chat, session previews, embedded replies, and Telegram partials stop leaking planning text. Fixes #59150, #59643, #61282.
- Telegram: fix current-model checks in the model picker, HTML-format non-default `/model` confirmations, explicit topic replies, persisted reaction ownership across restarts, caption-media placeholder and `file_id` preservation on download failure, and upgraded-install inbound image reads. (#60384, #60042, #59634, #59207, #59948, #59971) Thanks @sfuminya, @GitZhangChi, @dashhuang, @samzong, @v1p0r, and @neeravmakwana.
- Telegram: restore DM voice-note preflight transcription so direct-message audio stops arriving as raw `<media:audio>` placeholders. (#61008) Thanks @manueltarouca.
- Telegram/reasoning: only create a Telegram reasoning preview lane when the session is explicitly `reasoning:stream`, so hidden `<think>` traces from streamed replies stop surfacing as chat previews on normal sessions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/native command menu: trim long menu descriptions before dropping commands so sub-100 command sets can still fit Telegram's payload budget and keep more `/` entries visible. (#61129) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Telegram/startup: bound `deleteWebhook`, `getMe`, and `setWebhook` startup requests while keeping the longer `getUpdates` poll timeout, so wedged Telegram control-plane calls stop hanging startup indefinitely. (#61601) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/failover: classify Anthropic "extra usage" exhaustion as billing so same-turn model fallback still triggers when Claude blocks long-context requests on usage limits. (#61608) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Discord: keep REST, webhook, and monitor traffic on the configured proxy, preserve component-only media sends, honor `@everyone` and `@here` mention gates, keep ACK reactions on the active account, and split voice connect/playback timeouts so auto-join is more reliable. (#57465, #60361, #60345) Thanks @geekhuashan.
- Discord/reply tags: strip leaked `[[reply_to_current]]` control tags from preview text and honor explicit reply-tag threading during final delivery, so Discord replies stay attached to the triggering message instead of printing reply metadata into chat.
- Discord/replies: replace the unshipped `replyToOnlyWhenBatched` flag with `replyToMode: "batched"` so native reply references only attach on debounced multi-message turns while explicit reply tags still work.
- Discord/image generation: include the real generated `MEDIA:` paths in tool output, avoid duplicate plain-output media requeueing, and persist volatile workspace-generated media into durable outbound media before final reply delivery so generated image replies stop pointing at missing local files.
- Slack: route live DM replies back to the concrete inbound DM channel while keeping persisted routing metadata user-scoped, so normal assistant replies stop disappearing when pairing and system messages still arrive. (#59030) Thanks @afurm.
- WhatsApp: restore `channels.whatsapp.blockStreaming` and reset watchdog timeouts after reconnect so quiet chats stop falling into reconnect loops. (#60007, #60069) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT and @mcaxtr.
- Android/Talk Mode: cancel in-flight `talk.speak` playback when speech is explicitly stopped, and restore spoken replies on both node-scoped and gateway-backed sessions by keeping reply routing and embedded transport overrides aligned with the current playback path. (#60306, #61164, #61214).
- Voice-call/OpenAI: pass full plugin config into realtime transcription provider resolution so streaming calls can discover the bundled OpenAI realtime transcription provider again. Fixes #60936. Thanks @sliekens and @vincentkoc.
- Matrix/exec approvals: anchor seeded approval reactions to the primary Matrix prompt event, resolve them from event metadata instead of prompt text, and clean up chunked approval prompts correctly. (#60931) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix: recover more reliably when secret storage or recovery keys are missing by recreating secret storage during repair and backup reset, hold crypto snapshot locks during persistence, and surface explicit too-large attachment markers. (#59846, #59851, #60599, #60289) Thanks @al3mart, @emonty, and @efe-arv.
- Matrix/DM sessions: add `channels.matrix.dm.sessionScope`, shared-session collision notices, and aligned outbound session reuse so separate Matrix DM rooms can keep distinct context when configured. (#61373) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix: move legacy top-level `avatarUrl` into the default account during multi-account promotion and keep env-backed account setup avatar config persisted. (#61437) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- MS Teams: download inline DM images via Graph API and preserve channel reply threading in proactive fallback. (#52212, #55198) Thanks @Ted-developer and @hyojin.
- MS Teams: replace the deprecated Teams SDK HttpPlugin stub with `httpServerAdapter` so recurring gateway deprecation warnings stop firing and the Express 5 compatibility workaround stays on the supported SDK path. (#60939) Thanks @coolramukaka-sys.
- Control UI/chat: add a per-session thinking-level picker in the chat header and mobile chat settings, and keep the browser bundle on UI-local thinking/session-key helpers so Safari no longer crashes on Node-only imports before rendering chat controls.
- Sandbox/SSH: reject hardlinked files during cross-device rename fallback so EXDEV file copies preserve the same pinned file-boundary checks as direct reads.
- Control UI: keep Stop visible during tool-only execution, preserve pending-send busy state, and clear stale ClawHub search results as soon as the query changes. (#54528, #59800, #60267) Thanks @chziyue and @frankekn.
- Control UI/avatar: honor `ui.assistant.avatar` when serving `/avatar/:agentId` so Appearance UI avatar paths stop falling back to initials placeholders. (#60778) Thanks @hannasdev.
- Control UI/cron: highlight the Cron refresh button while refresh is in flight so the page's loading state stays visible even when prior data remains on screen. (#60394) Thanks @coder-zhuzm.
- Control UI/Overview: prevent gateway access token/password visibility toggle buttons from overlapping their inputs at narrow widths. (#56924) Thanks @bbddbb1.
- Auto-reply: unify reply lifecycle ownership across preflight compaction, session rotation, CLI-backed runs, and gateway restart handling so `/stop` and same-session overlap checks target the right active turn and restart-interrupted turns return the restart notice instead of being silently dropped. (#61267) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Reply delivery: prevent duplicate block replies on `text_end` channels so providers that emit explicit text-end boundaries no longer double-send the same final message. (#61530).
- Gateway/startup: default `gateway.mode` to `local` when unset, detect PID recycling in gateway lock files on Windows and macOS, and show startup progress so healthy restarts stop getting blocked by stale locks. (#54801, #60085, #59843) Thanks @BradGroux and @TonyDerek-dot.
- Gateway/macOS: let launchd `KeepAlive` own in-process gateway restarts again, adding a short supervised-exit delay so rapid restarts avoid launchd crash-loop unloads while `openclaw gateway restart` still reports real LaunchAgent errors synchronously.
- Gateway/macOS: re-bootstrap the LaunchAgent if `launchctl kickstart -k` unloads it during restart so failed restarts do not leave the gateway unmanaged until manual repair.
- Gateway/macOS: recover installed-but-unloaded LaunchAgents during `openclaw gateway start` and `restart`, while still preferring live unmanaged gateways during restart recovery. (#43766) Thanks @HenryC-3.
- Gateway/Windows scheduled tasks: preserve Task Scheduler settings on reinstall, fail loudly when `/Run` does not start, and report fast failed restarts accurately instead of pretending they timed out after 60 seconds. (#59335) Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Windows/restart: fall back to the installed Startup-entry launcher when the scheduled task was never registered, so `/restart` can relaunch the gateway on Windows setups where `schtasks` install fell back during onboarding. (#58943) Thanks @imechZhangLY.
- Windows/restart: clean up stale gateway listeners before Windows self-restart and treat listener and argv probe failures as inconclusive, so scheduled-task relaunch no longer falls into an `EADDRINUSE` retry loop. (#60480) Thanks @arifahmedjoy.
- Update/npm: prefer the npm binary that owns the installed global OpenClaw prefix so mixed Homebrew-plus-nvm setups update the right install. (#60153) Thanks @jayeshp19.
- Agents/music and video generation: add `tools.media.asyncCompletion.directSend` as an opt-in direct-delivery path for finished async media tasks, while keeping the legacy requester-session wake/model-delivery flow as the default.
- CLI/skills JSON: route `skills list --json`, `skills info --json`, and `skills check --json` output to stdout instead of stderr so machine-readable consumers receive JSON on the expected stream again. (#60914; fixes #57599; landed from contributor PR #57611 by @Aftabbs) Thanks @Aftabbs.
- CLI/Commander: preserve Commander-computed exit codes for argument and help-error paths, and cover the user-argv parse mode in the regression tests so invalid CLI invocations no longer report success when exits are intercepted. (#60923) Thanks @Linux2010.
- Cron: replay interrupted recurring jobs on the first gateway restart instead of waiting for a second restart. (#60583) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Cron: send failure notifications through the job's primary delivery channel using the same session context as successful delivery when no explicit `failureDestination` is configured. (#60622) Thanks @artwalker.
- Exec/remote skills: stop advertising `exec host=node` when the current exec policy cannot route to a node, and clarify blocked exec-host override errors with both the requested host and allowed config path.
- Agents/Claude CLI/security: clear inherited Claude Code config-root and plugin-root env overrides like `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` and `CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_*`, so OpenClaw-launched Claude CLI runs cannot be silently pointed at an alternate Claude config/plugin tree with different hooks, plugins, or auth context. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Claude CLI/security: clear inherited Claude Code provider-routing and managed-auth env overrides, and mark OpenClaw-launched Claude CLI runs as host-managed, so Claude CLI backdoor sessions cannot be silently redirected to proxy, Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, or parent-managed token contexts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Claude CLI/security: force host-managed Claude CLI backdoor runs to `--setting-sources user`, even under custom backend arg overrides, so repo-local `.claude` project/local settings, hooks, and plugin discovery do not silently execute inside non-interactive OpenClaw sessions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Claude CLI: treat malformed bare `--permission-mode` backend overrides as missing and fail safe back to `bypassPermissions`, so custom `cliBackends.claude-cli.args` security config cannot accidentally consume the next flag as a bogus permission mode. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/device pairing: require non-admin paired-device sessions to manage only their own device for token rotate/revoke and paired-device removal, blocking cross-device token theft inside pairing-scoped sessions. (#50627) Thanks @coygeek.
- Gateway/plugin routes: keep gateway-auth plugin runtime routes on write-only fallback scopes unless a trusted-proxy caller explicitly declares narrower `x-openclaw-scopes`, so plugin HTTP handlers no longer mint admin-level runtime scopes on missing or untrusted HTTP scope headers. (#59815) Thanks @pgondhi987.
- Build/types: fix the Node `createRequire(...)` helper typing so provider-runtime lazy loads compile cleanly again and `pnpm build` no longer fails in the Pi embedded provider error-pattern path.
- Gateway/security: scope loopback browser-origin auth throttling by normalized origin so one localhost Control UI tab cannot lock out a different localhost browser origin after repeated auth failures. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/auth: serialize async shared-secret auth attempts per client so concurrent Tailscale-capable failures cannot overrun the intended auth rate-limit budget. Thanks @Telecaster2147.
- Device pairing/security: keep non-operator device scope checks bound to the requested role prefix so bootstrap verification cannot redeem `operator.*` scopes through `node` auth. (#57258) Thanks @jlapenna.
- Device pairing: reject rotating device tokens into roles that were never approved during pairing, and keep reconnect role checks bounded to the paired device's approved role set. (#60462) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/device auth: reuse cached device-token scopes only for cached-token reconnects, while keeping explicit `deviceToken` scope requests and empty-cache fallbacks intact so reconnects preserve `operator.read` without breaking explicit auth flows. (#46032) Thanks @caicongyang.
- Mobile pairing/security: fail closed for internal `/pair` setup-code issuance, cleanup, and approval paths when gateway pairing scopes are missing, and keep approval-time requested-scope enforcement on the internal command path. (#55996) Thanks @coygeek.
- Mobile pairing/bootstrap: keep QR bootstrap handoff tokens bounded to the mobile-safe contract so node handoff stays unscoped and operator handoff drops mixed `node.*`, `operator.admin`, and `operator.pairing` scopes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mobile pairing/Android: tighten secure endpoint handling so Tailscale and public remote setup reject cleartext endpoints, private LAN pairing still works, merged-role approvals mint both node and operator device tokens, and bootstrap tokens survive node auto-pair until operator approval finishes. (#60128, #60208, #60221) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/canvas security: require exact normalized A2UI URL matches before forwarding canvas bridge actions, rejecting query mismatches and descendant paths while still allowing fragment-only A2UI navigation.
- Synology Chat/security: default low-level HTTPS helper TLS verification to on so helper/API defaults match the shipped safe account default, and only explicit `allowInsecureSsl: true` opts out. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Synology Chat/security: route webhook token comparison through the shared constant-time secret helper for consistency with other bundled plugins. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/marketplace: block remote marketplace symlink escapes without breaking ordinary local marketplace install paths. (#60556) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Telegram/local Bot API: honor `channels.telegram.apiRoot` for buffered media downloads, add `channels.telegram.network.dangerouslyAllowPrivateNetwork` for trusted fake-IP setups, and require `channels.telegram.trustedLocalFileRoots` before reading absolute Bot API `file_path` values. (#59544, #60705) Thanks @SARAMALI15792 and @obviyus.
- Outbound/sanitizer: strip leaked `<tool_call>`, `<function_calls>`, and model special tokens from shared user-visible assistant text, including truncated tool-call streams, so internal scaffolding no longer bleeds into replies across surfaces. (#60619) Thanks @oliviareid-svg.
- Agents/errors: surface an explicit disk-full message when local session or transcript writes fail with `ENOSPC`/`disk full`, so those runs stop degrading into opaque `NO_REPLY`-style failures. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Exec approvals: remove heuristic command-obfuscation gating from host exec so gateway and node runs rely on explicit policy, allowlist, and strict inline-eval rules only.
- Agents/tool results: cap live tool-result persistence and overflow-recovery truncation at 40k characters so oversized tool output stays bounded without discarding recent context entirely.
- Discord/video replies: split text-plus-video deliveries into a text reply followed by a media-only send, and let live provider auth checks honor manifest-declared API key env vars like `MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY`.
- Config/All Settings: keep the raw config view intact when sensitive fields are blank instead of corrupting or dropping the rendered snapshot. (#28214) Thanks @solodmd.
- Plugin SDK/facades: back-fill bundled plugin facade sentinels before plugin-id tracking re-enters config loading, so CLI/provider startup no longer crashes with `shouldNormalizeGoogleProviderConfig is not a function` or other empty-facade reads during bundled plugin re-entry. Thanks @adam91holt.
- Plugins/facades: back-fill facade sentinels before tracked-plugin resolution re-enters config loading, so facade exports stay defined during circular provider normalization. (#61180) Thanks @adam91holt.
- QA lab: restore typed mock OpenAI gateway config wiring so QA-lab config helpers compile cleanly again and `pnpm check` / `pnpm build` stay green.
- Discord/image generation: include the real generated `MEDIA:` paths in tool output and avoid duplicate plain-output media requeueing so Discord image replies stop pointing at missing local files (#61450). Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Slack: route live DM replies back to the concrete inbound DM channel while keeping persisted routing metadata user-scoped, so normal assistant replies stop disappearing when pairing and system messages still arrive. (#59030) Thanks @afurm.
- Discord/reply tags: strip leaked `[[reply_to_current]]` control tags from preview text and honor explicit reply-tag threading during final delivery, so Discord replies stay attached to the triggering message instead of printing reply metadata into chat.
- Telegram: fix current-model checks in the model picker, HTML-format non-default `/model` confirmations, explicit topic replies, persisted reaction ownership across restarts, caption-media placeholder and `file_id` preservation on download failure, and upgraded-install inbound image reads. (#60384, #60042, #59634, #59207, #59948, #59971) Thanks @sfuminya, @GitZhangChi, @dashhuang, @samzong, @v1p0r, and @neeravmakwana.
- Telegram: restore DM voice-note preflight transcription so direct-message audio stops arriving as raw `<media:audio>` placeholders. (#61008) Thanks @manueltarouca.
- Telegram/reasoning: only create a Telegram reasoning preview lane when the session is explicitly `reasoning:stream`, so hidden `<think>` traces from streamed replies stop surfacing as chat previews on normal sessions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/native command menu: trim long menu descriptions before dropping commands so sub-100 command sets can still fit Telegram's payload budget and keep more `/` entries visible. (#61129) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Feishu/reasoning: only expose streamed reasoning previews when the session is explicitly `reasoning:stream`, so hidden reasoning traces do not surface on normal streaming sessions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord: keep REST, webhook, and monitor traffic on the configured proxy, preserve component-only media sends, honor `@everyone` and `@here` mention gates, keep ACK reactions on the active account, and split voice connect/playback timeouts so auto-join is more reliable. (#57465, #60361, #60345) Thanks @geekhuashan.
- WhatsApp: restore `channels.whatsapp.blockStreaming` and reset watchdog timeouts after reconnect so quiet chats stop falling into reconnect loops. (#60007, #60069) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT and @mcaxtr.
- Browser/security: re-run SSRF safety checks after interaction-driven navigations and before snapshot reads so click, submit, keyboard, and current-page snapshot flows fail closed on disallowed destinations. (#62023) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Memory: keep `memory-core` builtin embedding registration on the already-registered path so selecting `memory-core` no longer recurses through plugin discovery and crashes during startup. (#61402) Thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/tool results: keep large `read` outputs visible longer, preserve the latest `read` output when older tool output can absorb the overflow budget, and fall back to Pi's normal overflow compaction/retry path before replacing a fresh `read` with a compacted stub. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: prefer modern `qmd collection add --glob`, accept newer single-line JSON hit metadata while keeping legacy line fields, refresh QMD docs/doctor install guidance and model-override guidance, and keep older QMD releases working. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- MS Teams: download inline DM images via Graph API and preserve channel reply threading in proactive fallback. (#52212, #55198) Thanks @Ted-developer and @hyojin.
- MS Teams: replace the deprecated Teams SDK HttpPlugin stub with `httpServerAdapter` so recurring gateway deprecation warnings stop firing and the Express 5 compatibility workaround stays on the supported SDK path. (#60939) Thanks @coolramukaka-sys.
- Matrix/exec approvals: anchor seeded approval reactions to the primary Matrix prompt event, resolve them from event metadata instead of prompt text, and clean up chunked approval prompts correctly. (#60931) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix: recover more reliably when secret storage or recovery keys are missing by recreating secret storage during repair and backup reset, hold crypto snapshot locks during persistence, and surface explicit too-large attachment markers. (#59846, #59851, #60599, #60289) Thanks @al3mart, @emonty, and @efe-arv.
- Android/Talk Mode: cancel in-flight `talk.speak` playback when speech is explicitly stopped, so stale replies stop starting after barge-in or manual stop. (#61164) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Talk Mode: restore spoken assistant replies on node-scoped sessions by keeping reply routing synced to the resolved node session key and pausing mic capture during reply playback. (#60306) Thanks @MKV21.
- Android/Talk Mode: restore voice replies on gateway-backed talk mode sessions by updating embedded runner transport overrides to the current agent transport API. (#61214) Thanks @obviyus.
- Voice-call/OpenAI: pass full plugin config into realtime transcription provider resolution so streaming calls can discover the bundled OpenAI realtime transcription provider again. Fixes #60936. Thanks @sliekens and @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/chat: add a per-session thinking-level picker in the chat header and mobile chat settings, and keep the browser bundle on UI-local thinking/session-key helpers so Safari no longer crashes on Node-only imports before rendering chat controls.
- Control UI: keep Stop visible during tool-only execution, preserve pending-send busy state, and clear stale ClawHub search results as soon as the query changes. (#54528, #59800, #60267) Thanks @chziyue and @frankekn.
- Control UI/avatar: honor `ui.assistant.avatar` when serving `/avatar/:agentId` so Appearance UI avatar paths stop falling back to initials placeholders. (#60778) Thanks @hannasdev.
- Control UI/cron: highlight the Cron refresh button while refresh is in flight so the page's loading state stays visible even when prior data remains on screen. (#60394) Thanks @coder-zhuzm.
- Control UI/Overview: prevent gateway access token/password visibility toggle buttons from overlapping their inputs at narrow widths. (#56924) Thanks @bbddbb1.
- CLI/skills JSON: route `skills list --json`, `skills info --json`, and `skills check --json` output to stdout instead of stderr so machine-readable consumers receive JSON on the expected stream again. (#60914; fixes #57599; landed from contributor PR #57611 by @Aftabbs) Thanks @Aftabbs.
- CLI/Commander: preserve Commander-computed exit codes for argument and help-error paths, and cover the user-argv parse mode in the regression tests so invalid CLI invocations no longer report success when exits are intercepted. (#60923) Thanks @Linux2010.
- Cron: replay interrupted recurring jobs on the first gateway restart instead of waiting for a second restart. (#60583) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Cron: send failure notifications through the job's primary delivery channel using the same session context as successful delivery when no explicit `failureDestination` is configured. (#60622) Thanks @artwalker.
- Live model switching: only treat explicit user-driven model changes as pending live switches, so fallback rotation, heartbeat overrides, and compaction no longer trip `LiveSessionModelSwitchError` before making an API call. (#60266) Thanks @kiranvk-2011.
- Exec approvals: reuse durable exact-command `allow-always` approvals in allowlist mode so identical reruns stop prompting, and tighten Windows interpreter/path approval handling so wrapper and malformed-path cases fail closed more consistently. (#59880, #59780, #58040, #59182) Thanks @luoyanglang, @SnowSky1, and @pgondhi987.
- Node exec approvals: keep node-host `system.run` approvals bound to the prepared execution plan across async forwarding, so mutable script operands still get approval-time binding and drift revalidation instead of dropping back to unbound execution.
- Agents/exec approvals: let `exec-approvals.json` agent security override stricter gateway tool defaults so approved subagents can use `security: “full”` without falling back to allowlist enforcement again. (#60310) Thanks @lml2468.
- Agents/exec: restore `host=node` routing for node-pinned and `host=auto` sessions, while still blocking sandboxed `auto` sessions from jumping to gateway. (#60788) Thanks @openperf.
- Exec/heartbeat: use the canonical `exec-event` wake reason for `notifyOnExit` so background exec completions still trigger follow-up turns when `HEARTBEAT.md` is empty or comments-only. (#41479) Thanks @rstar327.
- Heartbeat: skip wake delivery when the target session lane is already busy so the pending event is retried instead of getting drained too early. (#40526) Thanks @lucky7323.
- Group chats/agent prompts: tell models to minimize empty lines and use normal chat-style spacing so group replies avoid document-style blank-line formatting. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI GPT: treat short approval turns like `ok do it` and `go ahead` as immediate action turns, and trim overly memo-like GPT-5 chat confirmations so OpenAI replies stay shorter and more conversational by default. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI Codex: split native `contextWindow` from runtime `contextTokens`, keep the default effective cap at `272000`, and expose a per-model `contextTokens` override on `models.providers.*.models[]`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible WS: compute fallback token totals from normalized usage when providers omit or zero `total_tokens`, so DashScope-compatible sessions stop storing zero totals after alias normalization. (#54940) Thanks @lyfuci.
- Agents/OpenAI: mark Claude-compatible file tool schemas as `additionalProperties: false` so direct OpenAI GPT-5 routes stop rejecting the `read` tool with invalid strict-schema errors. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/OpenAI: fall back to `strict: false` for native OpenAI tool calls when a tool schema is not strict-compatible, and normalize empty-object tool schemas to include `required: []`, so direct GPT-5 routes stop failing with invalid strict-schema errors like missing `path` in `required`.
- Agents/GPT: add explicit work-item lifecycle events for embedded runs, use them to surface real progress more reliably, and stop counting tool-started turns as planning-only retries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/OpenAI: enable `gpt-image-1` reference-image edits through `/images/edits` multipart uploads, and stop inferring unsupported resolution overrides when no explicit `size` or `resolution` is provided. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/replay: remove the malformed assistant-content canonicalization repair from replay history sanitization instead of extending that legacy repair path into replay validation.
- Plugins/OpenAI: tune the OpenAI prompt overlay for live-chat cadence so GPT replies stay shorter, more human, and less wall-of-text by default. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/compat: stop forcing OpenAI-only defaults on proxy and custom OpenAI-compatible routes, preserve native vendor-specific reasoning/tool/streaming behavior across Anthropic-compatible, Moonshot, Mistral, ModelStudio, OpenRouter, xAI, and Z.ai endpoints, and route GitHub Copilot Claude models through Anthropic Messages instead of OpenAI Responses. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/GitHub Copilot: send IDE identity headers on runtime model requests and GitHub token exchange so IDE-authenticated Copilot runs stop failing with missing `Editor-Version`. (#60641) Thanks @VACInc and @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenRouter failover: classify `403 “Key limit exceeded”` spending-limit responses as billing so model fallback continues instead of stopping on generic auth. (#59892) Thanks @rockcent.
- Providers/Anthropic: keep `claude-cli/*` auth on live Claude CLI credentials at runtime, avoid persisting stale bearer-token profiles, and suppress macOS Keychain prompts during non-interactive Claude CLI setup. (#61234) Thanks @darkamenosa.
- Providers/Anthropic: when Claude CLI auth becomes the default, write a real `claude-cli` auth profile so local and gateway agent runs can use Claude CLI immediately without missing-API-key failures. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/dreaming: make Dreams config reads and writes respect the selected memory slot plugin (including `doctor.memory.status` and Control UI fallback state) instead of always targeting `memory-core`. (#62275) Thanks @SnowSky1.
- Providers/Anthropic Vertex: honor `cacheRetention: “long”` with the real 1-hour prompt-cache TTL on Vertex AI endpoints, and default `anthropic-vertex` cache retention like direct Anthropic. (#60888) Thanks @affsantos.
- Agents/Anthropic: preserve native `toolu_*` replay ids on direct Anthropic and Anthropic Vertex paths so cache-sensitive history stops rewriting known-valid Anthropic tool-use ids. (#52612) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Google: add model-level `cacheRetention` support for direct Gemini system prompts by creating, reusing, and refreshing `cachedContents` automatically on Google AI Studio runs. (#51372) Thanks @rafaelmariano-glitch.
- Google Gemini CLI auth: detect bundled npm installs by scanning packaged bundle files for the Gemini OAuth client config, so `npm install -g @google/gemini-cli` layouts work again. (#60486) Thanks @wzfmini01.
- Google Gemini CLI auth: detect personal OAuth mode from local Gemini settings and skip Code Assist project discovery for those logins, so personal Google accounts stop failing with `loadCodeAssist 400 Bad Request`. (#49226) Thanks @bobworrall.
- Google Gemini CLI auth: improve OAuth credential discovery across Windows nvm and Homebrew libexec installs, and align Code Assist metadata so Gemini login stops failing on packaged CLI layouts. (#40729) Thanks @hughcube.
- Google Gemini CLI models: add forward-compat support for stable `gemini-2.5-*` model ids by letting the bundled CLI provider clone them from Google templates, so `gemini-2.5-flash-lite` and related configured models stop showing up as missing. (#35274) Thanks @mySebbe.
- Google image generation: disable pinned DNS for Gemini image requests and honor explicit `pinDns` overrides in shared provider HTTP helpers so proxy-backed image generation works again. (#59873) Thanks @luoyanglang.
- Providers/Microsoft Foundry: preserve explicit image capability on normalized Foundry deployments, repair stale GPT/o-series text-only model metadata across gateway and runtime paths, and keep unknown fallback models from borrowing unrelated image support. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Model Studio: preserve native streaming usage reporting for DashScope-compatible endpoints even when they are configured under a generic provider key, so streamed token totals stop sticking at zero. (#52395) Thanks @IVY-AI-gif.
- Providers/Z.AI: preserve explicitly registered `glm-5-*` variants like `glm-5-turbo` instead of intercepting them with the generic GLM-5 forward-compat shim. (#48185) Thanks @haoyu-haoyu.
- Amazon Bedrock/aws-sdk auth: stop injecting the fake `AWS_PROFILE` apiKey marker when no AWS auth env vars exist, so instance-role and other default-chain setups keep working without poisoning provider config. (#61194) Thanks @wirjo.
- Agents/Kimi tool-call repair: preserve tool arguments that were already present on streamed tool calls when later malformed deltas fail reevaluation, while still dropping stale repair-only state before `toolcall_end`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/Kimi Coding: parse tagged tool calls and keep Anthropic-native tool payloads so Kimi coding endpoints execute tools instead of echoing raw markup. (#60051, #60391) Thanks @obviyus and @Eric-Guo.
- Media understanding: auto-register image-capable config providers for vision routing, so custom GLM-style provider ids with image models stop failing with “no media-understanding provider registered”. (#51418) Thanks @xydt-610.
- Plugins/media understanding: enable bundled Groq and Deepgram providers by default so configured transcription models work without extra plugin activation config. (#59982) Thanks @yxjsxy.
- MiniMax/pricing: keep bundled MiniMax highspeed pricing distinct in provider catalogs and preserve the lower M2.5 cache-read pricing when onboarding older MiniMax models. (#54214) Thanks @octo-patch.
- MiniMax: advertise image input on bundled `MiniMax-M2.7` and `MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed` model definitions so image-capable flows can route through the M2.7 family correctly. (#54843) Thanks @MerlinMiao88888888.
- Models/MiniMax: honor `MINIMAX_API_HOST` for implicit bundled MiniMax provider catalogs so China-hosted API-key setups pick `api.minimaxi.com/anthropic` without manual provider config. (#34524) Thanks @caiqinghua.
- Usage/MiniMax: invert remaining-style `usage_percent` fields when MiniMax reports only remaining percentage data, so usage bars stop showing nearly-full remaining quota as nearly-exhausted usage. (#60254) Thanks @jwchmodx.
- Usage/MiniMax: let usage snapshots treat `minimax-portal` and MiniMax CN aliases as the same MiniMax quota surface, and prefer stored MiniMax OAuth before falling back to Coding Plan keys. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Usage/MiniMax: prefer the chat-model `model_remains` entry and derive Coding Plan window labels from MiniMax interval timestamps so MiniMax usage snapshots stop picking zero-budget media rows and misreporting 4h windows as `5h`. (#52349) Thanks @IVY-AI-gif.
- Model picker/providers: treat bundled BytePlus and Volcengine plan aliases as their native providers during setup, and expose their bundled standard/coding catalogs before auth so setup can suggest the right models. (#58819) Thanks @Luckymingxuan.
- Tools/web_search (Kimi): when `tools.web.search.kimi.baseUrl` is unset, inherit native Moonshot chat `baseUrl` (`.ai` / `.cn`) so China console keys authenticate on the same host as chat. Fixes #44851. (#56769) Thanks @tonga54.
- Agents/Claude CLI: keep non-interactive `--permission-mode bypassPermissions` when custom `cliBackends.claude-cli.args` override defaults, including fallback resolution before the runtime plugin registry is active, so cron and heartbeat Claude CLI runs do not regress to interactive approval mode. (#61114) Thanks @cathrynlavery and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Agents/Claude CLI: persist explicit `openclaw agent --session-id` runs under a stable session key so follow-ups can reuse the stored CLI binding and resume the same underlying Claude session. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Claude CLI: persist routed Claude session bindings, rotate them on `/new` and `/reset`, and keep live Claude CLI model switches moving across the configured Claude family so resumed sessions follow the real active thread and model. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/CLI backends: invalidate stored CLI session reuse when local CLI login state or the selected auth profile credential changes, so relogin and token rotation stop resuming stale sessions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Claude CLI/images: reuse stable hydrated image file paths and preserve shared media extensions like HEIC when passing image refs to local CLI runs, so Claude CLI image prompts stop thrashing KV cache prefixes and oddball image formats do not fall back to `.bin`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/compaction: keep assistant tool calls and displaced tool results in the same compaction chunk so strict summarization providers stop rejecting orphaned tool pairs. (#58849) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/failover: scope Anthropic `An unknown error occurred` failover matching by provider so generic internal unknown-error text no longer triggers retryable timeout fallback. (#59325) Thanks @aaron-he-zhu.
- Agents/subagents: honor allowlist validation, auth-profile handoff, and session override state when a subagent retries after `LiveSessionModelSwitchError`. (#58178) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/runtime: make default subagent allowlists, inherited skills/workspaces, and duplicate session-id resolution behave more predictably, and include value-shape hints in missing-parameter tool errors. (#59944, #59992, #59858, #55317) Thanks @hclsys, @gumadeiras, @joelnishanth, and @priyansh19.
- Agents/pairing: merge completion announce delivery context with the requester session fallback so missing `to` still reaches the original channel, and include `operator.talk.secrets` in CLI default operator scopes for node-role device pairing approvals. (#56481) Thanks @maxpetrusenko.
- Agents/scheduling: steer background-now work toward automatic completion wake and treat `process` polling as on-demand inspection or intervention instead of default completion handling. (#60877) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/skills: skip `.git` and `node_modules` when mirroring skills into sandbox workspaces so read-only sandboxes do not copy repo history or dependency trees. (#61090) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- ACP/agents: inherit the target agent workspace for cross-agent ACP spawns and fall back safely when the inherited workspace no longer exists. (#58438) Thanks @zssggle-rgb.
- ACPX/Windows: preserve backslashes and absolute `.exe` paths in Claude CLI parsing, and fail fast on wrapper-script targets with guidance to use `cmd.exe /c`, `powershell.exe -File`, or `node <script>`. (#60689).
- Auth/failover: persist selected fallback overrides before retrying, shorten `auth_permanent` lockouts, and refresh websocket/shared-auth sessions only when real auth changes occur so retries and secret rotations behave predictably. (#60404, #60323, #60387) Thanks @extrasmall0 and @mappel-nv.
- Gateway/channels: pin the initial startup channel registry before later plugin-registry churn so configured channels stay visible and `channels.status` stops falling back to empty `channelOrder` / `channels` payloads after runtime plugin loads. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Prompt caching: order stable workspace project-context files before `HEARTBEAT.md` and keep `HEARTBEAT.md` below the system-prompt cache boundary so heartbeat churn does not invalidate the stable project-context prefix. (#58979) Thanks @yozu and @vincentkoc.
- Prompt caching: route Codex Responses and Anthropic Vertex through boundary-aware cache shaping, and report the actual outbound system prompt in cache traces so cache reuse and misses line up with what providers really receive. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/cache: preserve the full 3-turn prompt-cache image window across tool loops, keep colliding bundled MCP tool definitions deterministic, and reapply Anthropic Vertex cache shaping after payload hook replacements so KV/cache reuse stays stable. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Status/cache: restore `cacheRead` and `cacheWrite` in transcript fallback so `/status` keeps showing cache hit percentages when session logs are the only complete usage source. (#59247) Thanks @stuartsy.
- Status/usage: let `/status` and `session_status` fall back to transcript token totals when the session meta store stayed at zero, so LM Studio, Ollama, DashScope, and similar OpenAI-compatible providers stop showing `Context: 0/...`. (#55041) Thanks @jjjojoj.
- Mattermost/config schema: accept `groups.*.requireMention` again so existing Mattermost configs no longer fail strict validation after upgrade. (#58271) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Doctor/config: compare normalized `talk` configs by deep structural equality instead of key-order-sensitive serialization so `openclaw doctor --fix` stops repeatedly reporting/applying no-op `talk.provider/providers` normalization. (#59911) Thanks @ejames-dev.
- Anthropic CLI onboarding: rewrite migrated fallback model refs during non-interactive Claude CLI setup too, so onboarding and scripted setup no longer keep stale `anthropic/*` fallbacks after switching the primary model to `claude-cli/*`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models/Anthropic CLI auth: replace migrated `agents.defaults.models` allowlists when `openclaw models auth login --provider anthropic --method cli --set-default` switches to `claude-cli/*`, so stale `anthropic/*` entries do not linger beside the migrated Claude CLI defaults. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/Claude CLI: add dedicated Claude CLI health checks so `openclaw doctor` can spot missing local installs or broken auth before agent runs fail. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/auth-choice: apply provider-owned auth config patches without recursively preserving replaced default-model maps, so Anthropic Claude CLI and similar migrations can intentionally swap model allowlists during onboarding and setup instead of accumulating stale entries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/onboarding: write dotted plugin uiHint paths like Brave `webSearch.mode` as nested plugin config so `llm-context` setup stops failing validation. (#61159) Thanks @obviyus.
- Plugins/install: preserve unsafe override flags across linked plugin and hook-pack probes so local `--link` installs honor the documented override behavior. (#60624) Thanks @JerrettDavis.
- Plugins/cache: inherit the active gateway workspace for provider, web-search, and web-fetch snapshot loads when callers omit `workspaceDir`, so compatible plugin registries and snapshot caches stop missing on gateway-owned runtime paths. (#61138) Thanks @jzakirov.
- Plugin SDK/context engines: export the missing context-engine result and subagent lifecycle types from `openclaw/plugin-sdk` so context engine plugins can type `ContextEngine` implementations without local workarounds. (#61251) Thanks @DaevMithran.
- Tasks/maintenance: reconcile stale cron and chat-backed CLI task rows against live cron-job and agent-run ownership instead of treating any persisted session key as proof that the task is still running. (#60310) Thanks @lml2468.
- Plugins: suppress trust-warning noise during non-activating snapshot and CLI metadata loads. (#61427) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/video generation: accept `agents.defaults.videoGenerationModel` in strict config validation and `openclaw config set/get`, so gateways using `video_generate` no longer fail to boot after enabling a video model.
- Matrix/streaming: add a quiet preview mode for streamed Matrix replies, keep legacy `partial` preview-first behavior, and finalize quiet media captions correctly so previews stop notifying early without dropping final text semantics. (#61450) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/compaction: skip redundant partial summarization when no messages were oversized, so the same transcript is not summarized twice after a full summarization failure. Fixes #61465. (#61603) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Gateway/shutdown: bound websocket-server shutdown even when no tracked clients remain, so gateway restarts stop hanging until the watchdog kills the process. (#61565) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Control UI/multilingual: localize the remaining shared channel, instances, nodes, and gateway-confirmation strings so the dashboard stops mixing translated UI with hardcoded English labels. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/media: raise the default inbound and outbound media cap to `100MB` so Discord matches Telegram more closely and larger attachments stop failing on the old low default.
- Matrix: keep direct transport requests on the pinned dispatcher by routing them through undici runtime fetch, so Matrix clients resume syncing on newer runtimes without dropping the validated address binding. (#61595) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/facades: resolve globally installed bundled-plugin runtime facades from registry roots so bundled channels like LINE still boot when the winning plugin install lives under the global extensions directory with an encoded scoped folder name. (#61297) Thanks @openperf.
- Matrix: avoid failing startup when token auth already knows the user ID but still needs optional device metadata, retry transient auth bootstrap requests, and backfill missing device IDs after startup while keeping unknown-device storage reuse conservative until metadata is repaired. (#61383) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/exec: stop streaming `tool_execution_update` events after an exec session backgrounds, preventing delayed background output from hitting a stale listener and crashing the gateway while keeping the output available through `process poll/log`. (#61627) Thanks @openperf.
- Matrix: pass configured `deviceId` through health probes and keep probe-only client setup out of durable Matrix storage, so health checks preserve the correct device identity without rewriting `storage-meta.json` or related probe state on disk. (#61581) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Image generation/build: write stable runtime alias files into `dist/` and route provider-auth runtime lookups through those aliases so image-generation providers keep resolving auth/runtime modules after rebuilds instead of crashing on missing hashed chunk files (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Config/runtime: pin the first successful config load in memory for the running process and refresh that snapshot on successful writes/reloads, so hot paths stop reparsing `openclaw.json` between watcher-driven swaps (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Config/legacy cleanup: stop probing obsolete alternate legacy config names and service labels during local config/service detection, while keeping the active `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json` path canonical (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: register ACP child runs for completion tracking and lifecycle cleanup, and make registration-failure cleanup explicitly best-effort so callers do not assume an already-started ACP turn was fully aborted. (#40885) Thanks @xaeon2026 and @vincentkoc.
- ACP/tasks: mark cleanly exited ACP runs as blocked when they end on deterministic write or authorization blockers, and wake the parent session with a follow-up instead of falsely reporting success (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- ACPX/runtime: derive the bundled ACPX expected version from the extension package metadata instead of hardcoding a separate literal, so plugin-local ACPX installs stop drifting out of health-check parity after version bumps. (#49089) Thanks @jiejiesks and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/auth: make local-direct `trusted-proxy` fallback require the configured shared token instead of silently authenticating same-host callers, while keeping same-host reverse proxy identity-header flows on the normal trusted-proxy path. Thanks @zhangning-agent and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: send MCP `query` collection filters as the upstream `collections` array instead of the legacy singular `collection` field, so mcporter-backed QMD 1.1+ searches still scope correctly after the unified `query` tool migration. (#54728) Thanks @armanddp and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: keep `qmd embed` active in `search` mode too, so BM25-first setups still build a complete index for later vector and hybrid retrieval. (#54509) Thanks @hnshah and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: point `QMD_CONFIG_DIR` at the nested `xdg-config/qmd` directory so per-agent collection config resolves correctly. (#39078) Thanks @smart-tinker and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: include deduplicated default plus per-agent `memorySearch.extraPaths` when building QMD custom collections, so shared and agent-specific extra roots both get indexed consistently. (#57315) Thanks @Vitalcheffe and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/session indexer: include `.jsonl.reset.*` and `.jsonl.deleted.*` transcripts in the memory host session scan while still excluding `.jsonl.bak.*` compaction backups and lock files, so memory search sees archived session history without duplicating stale snapshots. Thanks @hclsys and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/sandbox: honor `tools.sandbox.tools.alsoAllow`, let explicit sandbox re-allows remove matching built-in default-deny tools, and keep sandbox explain/error guidance aligned with the effective sandbox tool policy. (#54492) Thanks @ngutman.
- LINE/ACP: add current-conversation binding and inbound binding-routing parity so `/acp spawn .. --thread here`, configured ACP bindings, and active conversation-bound ACP sessions work on LINE like the other conversation channels (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- LINE/markdown: preserve underscores inside Latin, Cyrillic, and CJK words when stripping markdown, while still removing standalone `_italic_` markers on the shared text-runtime path used by LINE and TTS. (#47465) Thanks @jackjin1997.
- TTS/Microsoft: auto-switch the default Edge voice to Chinese for CJK-dominant text without overriding explicitly selected Microsoft voices. (#52355) Thanks @extrasmall0.
- Agents/context pruning: count supplementary-plane CJK characters with the shared code-point-aware estimator so context pruning stops underestimating Japanese and Chinese text that uses Extension B ideographs. (#39985) Thanks @Edward-Qiang-2024.
- Slack/status reactions: add a reaction lifecycle for queued, thinking, tool, done, and error phases in Slack monitors, with safer cleanup so queued ack reactions stay correct across silent runs, pre-reply failures, and delayed transitions. (#56430) Thanks @hsiaoa.
- macOS/local gateway: stop OpenClaw.app from killing healthy local gateway listeners after startup by recognizing the current `openclaw-gateway` process title and using the current `openclaw gateway` launch shape (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Gateway/OpenAI compatibility: accept flat Responses API function tool definitions on `/v1/responses` and preserve `strict` when normalizing hosted tools into the embedded runner, so spec-compliant clients like Codex no longer fail validation or silently lose strict tool enforcement. Thanks @malaiwah and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: resolve slugified `memory_search` file hints back to the indexed filesystem path before returning search hits, so `memory_get` works again for mixed-case and spaced paths. (#50313) Thanks @erra9x.
- OpenAI/Codex fast mode: map `/fast` to priority processing on native OpenAI and Codex Responses endpoints instead of rewriting reasoning settings, and document the exact endpoint and override behavior (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Memory/QMD: weight CJK-heavy text correctly when estimating chunk sizes, preserve surrogate-pair characters during fine splits, and keep long Latin lines on the old chunk boundaries so memory indexing produces better-sized chunks for CJK notes. (#40271) Thanks @AaronLuo00.
- Security/LINE: make webhook signature validation run the timing-safe compare even when the supplied signature length is wrong, closing a small timing side-channel. (#55663) Thanks @gavyngong.
- LINE/status: stop `openclaw status` from warning about missing credentials when sanitized LINE snapshots are already configured, while still surfacing whether the missing field is the token or secret. (#45701) Thanks @tamaosamu.
- Gateway/health: carry webhook-vs-polling account mode from channel descriptors into runtime snapshots so passive channels like LINE and BlueBubbles skip false stale-socket health failures. (#47488) Thanks @karesansui-u.
- Agents/MCP: reuse bundled MCP runtimes across turns in the same session, while recreating them when MCP config changes and disposing stale runtimes cleanly on session rollover. (#55090) Thanks @allan0509.
- Memory/QMD: honor `memory.qmd.update.embedInterval` even when regular QMD update cadence is disabled or slower by arming a dedicated embed-cadence maintenance timer, while avoiding redundant timers when regular updates are already frequent enough. (#37326) Thanks @barronlroth.
- Memory/QMD: add `memory.qmd.searchTool` as an exact mcporter tool override, so custom QMD MCP tools such as `hybrid_search` can be used without weakening the validated `searchMode` config surface. (#27801) Thanks @keramblock.
- Memory/QMD: keep reset and deleted session transcripts in QMD session export so daily session resets do not silently drop most historical recall from `memory_search`. (#30220) Thanks @pushkarsingh32.
- Memory/QMD: rebind collections when QMD reports a changed pattern but omits path metadata, so config pattern changes stop being silently ignored on restart. (#49897) Thanks @Madruru.
- Memory/QMD: warn explicitly when `memory.backend=qmd` is configured but the `qmd` binary is missing, so doctor and runtime fallback no longer fail as a silent builtin downgrade. (#50439) Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: pass a direct-session key on `openclaw memory search` so CLI QMD searches no longer get denied as `session=<none>` under direct-only scope defaults. (#43517) Thanks @waynecc-at and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: keep `memory_search` session-hit paths roundtrip-safe when exported session markdown lives under the workspace `qmd/` directory, so `memory_get` can read the exact returned path instead of failing on the generic `qmd/sessions/...` alias. (#43519) Thanks @holgergruenhagen and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/memory flush: keep daily memory flush files append-only during embedded attempts so compaction writes do not overwrite earlier notes. (#53725) Thanks @HPluseven.
- Web UI/markdown: stop bare auto-links from swallowing adjacent CJK text while preserving valid mixed-script path and query characters in rendered links. (#48410) Thanks @jnuyao.
- BlueBubbles/iMessage: coalesce URL-only inbound messages with their link-preview balloon again so sharing a bare link no longer drops the URL from agent context. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Sandbox/browser: install `fonts-noto-cjk` in the sandbox browser image so screenshots render Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text correctly instead of tofu boxes. Fixes #35597. Thanks @carrotRakko and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/FTS: add configurable trigram tokenization plus short-CJK substring fallback so memory search can find Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text without breaking mixed long-and-short queries. Thanks @carrotRakko.
- Hooks/config: accept runtime channel plugin ids in `hooks.mappings[].channel` (for example `feishu`) instead of rejecting non-core channels during config validation. (#56226) Thanks @AiKrai001.
- TUI/chat: keep optimistic outbound user messages visible during active runs by deferring local-run binding until the first gateway chat event reveals the real run id, preventing premature history reloads from wiping pending local sends. (#54722) Thanks @seanturner001.
- TUI/model picker: keep searchable `/model` and `/models` input mode from hijacking `j`/`k` as navigation keys, and harden width bounds under `m`-filtered model lists so search no longer crashes on long rows. (#30156) Thanks @briannicholls.
- Agents/Kimi: preserve already-valid Anthropic-compatible tool call argument objects while still clearing cached repairs when later trailing junk exceeds the repair allowance. (#54491) Thanks @yuanaichi.
- Docker/setup: force BuildKit for local image builds (including sandbox image builds) so `./docker-setup.sh` no longer fails on `RUN --mount=...` when hosts default to Docker's legacy builder. (#56681) Thanks @zhanghui-china.
- Control UI/agents: auto-load agent workspace files on initial Files panel open, and populate overview model/workspace/fallbacks from effective runtime agent metadata so defaulted models no longer show as `Not set`. (#56637) Thanks @dxsx84.
- Control UI/slash commands: make `/steer` and `/redirect` work from the chat command palette with visible pending state for active-run `/steer`, correct redirected-run tracking, and a single canonical `/steer` entry in the command menu. (#54625) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Exec/runtime: default implicit exec to `host=auto`, resolve that target to sandbox only when a sandbox runtime exists, keep explicit `host=sandbox` fail-closed without sandbox, and show `/exec` effective host state in runtime status/docs (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Exec: fail closed when the implicit sandbox host has no sandbox runtime, and stop denied async approval followups from reusing prior command output from the same session. (#56800) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Exec/approvals: infer Discord and Telegram exec approvers from existing owner config when `execApprovals.approvers` is unset, extend the default approval window to 30 minutes, and clarify approval-unavailable guidance so approvals do not appear to silently disappear (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Exec/node: stop gateway-side workdir fallback from rewriting explicit `host=node` cwd values to the gateway filesystem, so remote node exec approval and runs keep using the intended node-local directory. (#50961) Thanks @openperf.
- Plugins/ClawHub: sanitize temporary archive filenames for scoped package names and slash-containing skill slugs so `openclaw plugins install @scope/name` no longer fails with `ENOENT` during archive download. (#56452) Thanks @soimy.
- Telegram/polling: keep the watchdog from aborting long-running reply delivery by treating recent non-polling API activity as bounded liveness instead of a hard stall. (#56343) Thanks @openperf.
- Memory/FTS: keep provider-less keyword hits visible at the default memory-search threshold, so FTS-only recall works without requiring `--min-score 0`. (#56473) Thanks @opriz.
- Memory/LanceDB: resolve runtime dependency manifest lookup from the bundled `extensions/memory-lancedb` path (including flattened dist chunks) so startup no longer fails with a missing `@lancedb/lancedb` dependency error. (#56623) Thanks @LUKSOAgent.
- Tools/web_search: localize the shared search cache to module scope so same-process global symbol lookups can no longer inspect or mutate cached web-search responses. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/silent turns: fail closed on silent memory-flush runs so narrated `NO_REPLY` self-talk cannot stream or finalize into external replies even when block streaming is enabled. (#52593) Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Browser/plugins: auto-enable the bundled browser plugin when browser config or browser tool policy already references it, and show a clearer CLI error when `plugins.allow` excludes `browser` (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Matrix/plugin loading: ship and source-load the crypto bootstrap runtime sidecar correctly so current `main` stops warning about failed Matrix bootstrap loads and `matrix/index` plugin-id mismatches on every invocation. (#53298) thanks @keithce.
- iOS/Live Activities: mark the `ActivityKit` import in `LiveActivityManager.swift` as `@preconcurrency` so Xcode 26.4 / Swift 6 builds stop failing on strict concurrency checks. (#57180) Thanks @ngutman.
- Plugins/Matrix: mirror the Matrix crypto WASM runtime dependency into the root packaged install and enforce root/plugin dependency parity so bundled Matrix E2EE crypto resolves correctly in shipped builds. (#57163) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/CLI: add descriptor-backed lazy plugin CLI registration so Matrix can keep its CLI module lazy-loaded without dropping `openclaw matrix ...` from parse-time command registration. (#57165) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/CLI: collect root-help plugin descriptors through a dedicated non-activating CLI metadata path so enabled plugins keep validated config semantics without triggering runtime-only plugin registration work, while preserving runtime CLI command registration for legacy channel plugins that still wire commands from full registration. (#57294) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Anthropic/OAuth: inject `/fast` `service_tier` hints for direct `sk-ant-oat-*` requests so OAuth-authenticated Anthropic runs stop missing the same overload-routing signal as API-key traffic. Fixes #55758. Thanks @Cypherm and @vincentkoc.
- Anthropic/service tiers: support explicit `serviceTier` model params for direct Anthropic requests and let them override `/fast` defaults when both are set. (#45453) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply/fast: accept `/fast status` on the directive-only path, align help/status text with the documented `status|on|off` syntax, and keep current-state replies consistent across command surfaces. Fixes #46095. Thanks @weissfl and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/native commands: prefix native command menu callback payloads and preserve `CommandSource: "native"` when Telegram replays them through callback queries, so `/fast` and other native command menus keep working even when text-command routing is disabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs/anchors: fix broken English docs links and make Mint anchor audits run against the English-source docs tree. (#57039) thanks @velvet-shark.
- Cron/announce: preserve all deliverable text payloads for announce mode instead of collapsing to the last chunk, so multi-line cron reports deliver in full to Telegram forum topics (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Harden async approval followup delivery in webchat-only sessions (#57359) Thanks @joshavant.
- Status: fix cache hit rate exceeding 100% by deriving denominator from prompt-side token fields instead of potentially undersized totalTokens. Fixes #26643 (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Config/update: stop `openclaw doctor` write-backs from persisting plugin-injected channel defaults, so `openclaw update` no longer seeds config keys that later break service refresh validation. (#56834) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/Anthropic failover: treat Anthropic `api_error` payloads with `An unexpected error occurred while processing the response` as transient so retry/fallback can engage instead of surfacing a terminal failure. (#57441) Thanks @zijiess and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/compaction: keep late compaction-retry rejections handled after the aggregate timeout path wins without swallowing real pre-timeout wait failures, so timed-out retries no longer surface an unhandled rejection on later unsubscribe. (#57451) Thanks @mpz4life and @vincentkoc.
- Matrix/delivery recovery: treat Synapse `User not in room` replay failures as permanent during startup recovery so poisoned queued messages move to `failed/` instead of crash-looping Matrix after restart. (#57426) thanks @dlardo.
- Plugins/facades: guard bundled plugin facade loads with a cache-first sentinel so circular re-entry stops crashing `xai`, `sglang`, and `vllm` during gateway plugin startup. (#57508) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/MCP: dispose bundled MCP runtimes after one-shot `openclaw agent --local` runs finish, while preserving bundled MCP state across in-run retries so local JSON runs exit cleanly without restarting stateful MCP tools mid-run (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Gateway/OpenAI HTTP: restore default operator scopes for bearer-authenticated requests that omit `x-openclaw-scopes`, so headless `/v1/chat/completions` and session-history callers work again after the recent method-scope hardening. (#57596) Thanks @openperf.
- Gateway/attachments: offload large inbound images without leaking `media://` markers into text-only runs, preserve mixed attachment order for model input/transcripts, and fail closed when model image capability cannot be resolved. (#55513) Thanks @Syysean.
- Agents/subagents: fix interim subagent runtime display so `/subagents list` and `/subagents info` stop inflating short runtimes and show second-level durations correctly. (#57739) Thanks @samzong.
- Diffs/config: preserve schema-shaped plugin config parsing from `diffsPluginConfigSchema.safeParse()`, so direct callers keep `defaults` and `security` sections instead of receiving flattened tool defaults. (#57904) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Diffs: fall back to plain text when `lang` hints are invalid during diff render and viewer hydration, so bad or stale language values no longer break the diff viewer. (#57902) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Doctor/plugins: skip false Matrix legacy-helper warnings when no migration plans exist, and keep bundled `enabledByDefault` plugins in the gateway startup set. (#57931) Thanks @dinakars777.
- Matrix/CLI send: start one-off Matrix send clients before outbound delivery so `openclaw message send --channel matrix` restores E2EE in encrypted rooms instead of sending plain events. (#57936) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- xAI/Responses: normalize image-bearing tool results for xAI responses payloads, including OpenResponses-style `input_image.source` parts, so image tool replays no longer 422 on the follow-up turn. (#58017) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Cron/isolated sessions: carry the full live-session provider, model, and auth-profile selection across retry restarts so cron jobs with model overrides no longer fail or loop on mid-run model-switch requests. (#57972) Thanks @issaba1.
- Matrix/direct rooms: stop trusting remote `is_direct`, honor explicit local `is_direct: false` for discovered DM candidates, and avoid extra member-state lookups for shared rooms so DM routing and repair stay aligned. (#57124) Thanks @w-sss.
- Agents/sandbox: make remote FS bridge reads pin the parent path and open the file atomically in the helper so read access cannot race path resolution. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Tools/web_fetch: add an explicit trusted env-proxy path for proxy-only installs while keeping strict SSRF fetches on the pinned direct path, so trusted proxy routing does not weaken strict destination binding. (#50650) Thanks @kkav004.
- Exec/env: block Python package index override variables from request-scoped host exec environment sanitization so package fetches cannot be redirected through a caller-supplied index. Thanks @nexrin and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/audio: transcode Telegram voice-note `.ogg` attachments before the local `whisper-cli` auto fallback runs, and keep mention-preflight transcription enabled in auto mode when `tools.media.audio` is unset (#65984). Thanks @mbelinky.
- Matrix/direct rooms: recover fresh auto-joined 1:1 DMs without eagerly persisting invite-only `m.direct` mappings, while keeping named, aliased, and explicitly configured rooms on the room path. (#58024) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- TTS: Restore 3.28 schema compatibility and fallback observability. (#57953) Thanks @joshavant.
- Telegram/forum topics: restore reply routing to the active topic and keep ACP `sessions_spawn(..., thread=true, mode="session")` bound to that same topic instead of falling back to root chat or losing follow-up routing. (#56060) Thanks @one27001.
- Config/SecretRef + Control UI: harden SecretRef redaction round-trip restore, block unsafe raw fallback (force Form mode when raw is unavailable), and preflight submitted-config SecretRefs before config write RPC persistence. (#58044) Thanks @joshavant.
- Config/Telegram: migrate removed `channels.telegram.groupMentionsOnly` into `channels.telegram.groups["*"].requireMention` on load so legacy configs no longer crash at startup. (#55336) thanks @jameslcowan.
- Gateway/SecretRef: resolve restart token drift checks with merged service/runtime env sources and hard-fail unsupported mutable SecretRef plus OAuth-profile combinations so restart warnings and policy enforcement match runtime behavior. (#58141) Thanks @joshavant.
- Telegram/outbound chunking: use static markdown chunking when Telegram runtime state is unavailable so long outbound Telegram messages still split correctly after cold starts. (#57816) Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Update/Corepack: disable interactive Corepack download prompts during update preflight install unless `COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT` is already explicitly set, so `openclaw update` can fetch the repo-pinned pnpm version non-interactively. (#61456) Thanks @p6l-richard.

## 2026.4.2

### Breaking

- Plugins/xAI: move `x_search` settings from the legacy core `tools.web.x_search.*` path to the plugin-owned `plugins.entries.xai.config.xSearch.*` path, standardize `x_search` auth on `plugins.entries.xai.config.webSearch.apiKey` / `XAI_API_KEY`, and migrate legacy config with `openclaw doctor --fix`. (#59674) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/web fetch: move Firecrawl `web_fetch` config from the legacy core `tools.web.fetch.firecrawl.*` path to the plugin-owned `plugins.entries.firecrawl.config.webFetch.*` path, route `web_fetch` fallback through the new fetch-provider boundary instead of a Firecrawl-only core branch, and migrate legacy config with `openclaw doctor --fix`. (#59465) Thanks @vincentkoc.

### Changes

- Tasks/Task Flow: restore the core Task Flow substrate with managed-vs-mirrored sync modes, durable flow state/revision tracking, and `openclaw tasks flow` inspection/recovery primitives so background orchestration can persist and be operated separately from plugin authoring layers. (#58930) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Tasks/Task Flow: add managed child task spawning plus sticky cancel intent, so external orchestrators can stop scheduling immediately and let parent Task Flows settle to `cancelled` once active child tasks finish. (#59610) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Plugins/Task Flow: add a bound `api.runtime.taskFlow` seam so plugins and trusted authoring layers can create and drive managed Task Flows from host-resolved OpenClaw context without passing owner identifiers on each call. (#59622) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Android/assistant: add assistant-role entrypoints plus Google Assistant App Actions metadata so Android can launch OpenClaw from the assistant trigger and hand prompts into the chat composer. (#59596) Thanks @obviyus.
- Exec defaults: make gateway/node host exec default to YOLO mode by requesting `security=full` with `ask=off`, and align host approval-file fallbacks plus docs/doctor reporting with that no-prompt default.
- Providers/runtime: add provider-owned replay hook surfaces for transcript policy, replay cleanup, and reasoning-mode dispatch. (#59143) Thanks @jalehman.
- Plugins/hooks: add `before_agent_reply` so plugins can short-circuit the LLM with synthetic replies after inline actions. (#20067) Thanks @JoshuaLelon.
- Channels/session routing: move provider-specific session conversation grammar into plugin-owned session-key surfaces, preserving Telegram topic routing and Feishu scoped inheritance across bootstrap, model override, restart, and tool-policy paths.
- Feishu/comments: add a dedicated Drive comment-event flow with comment-thread context resolution, in-thread replies, and `feishu_drive` comment actions for document collaboration workflows. (#58497) Thanks @wittam-01.
- Matrix/plugin: emit spec-compliant `m.mentions` metadata across text sends, media captions, edits, poll fallback text, and action-driven edits so Matrix mentions notify reliably in clients like Element. (#59323) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Diffs: add plugin-owned `viewerBaseUrl` so viewer links can use a stable proxy/public origin without passing `baseUrl` on every tool call. (#59341) Related #59227. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/compaction: resolve `agents.defaults.compaction.model` consistently for manual `/compact` and other context-engine compaction paths, so engine-owned compaction uses the configured override model across runtime entrypoints. (#56710) Thanks @oliviareid-svg.
- Agents/compaction: add `agents.defaults.compaction.notifyUser` so the `🧹 Compacting context...` start notice is opt-in instead of always being shown. (#54251) Thanks @oguricap0327.
- WhatsApp/reactions: add `reactionLevel` guidance for agent reactions. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Exec approvals/channels: auto-enable DM-first native chat approvals when supported channels can infer approvers from existing owner config, while keeping channel fanout explicit and clarifying forwarding versus native approval client config.
- Android/assistant: auto-send Google Assistant App Actions prompts once chat is healthy and idle, while keeping bare assistant launches as open-only. (#59721) Thanks @obviyus.

### Fixes

- Sandbox/security: block credential-path binds even when sandbox home paths resolve through canonical aliases, so agent containers cannot mount user secret stores through alternate home-directory paths. (#59157) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Gateway/Windows scheduled tasks: preserve Task Scheduler settings on reinstall, fail loud when Scheduled Task `/Run` does not start, and report fast failed restarts with the actual elapsed time instead of a fake 60s timeout. (#59335) Thanks @tmimmanuel.
- Control UI/model picker: preserve already-qualified `provider/model` refs from the server so models whose ids already contain slashes stop being double-prefixed and remapped to the wrong provider. (#49874) Thanks @ShionEria.
- Models/selection: resolve bare model ids in session model switches against the configured allowlist before falling back to the current session provider, so Control UI model picks stop drifting into `google/k2p5` and similar wrong-provider refs. (#51580) Thanks @honwee.

## 2026.4.1-beta.1

- Providers/transport policy: centralize request auth, proxy, TLS, and header shaping across shared HTTP, stream, and websocket paths, block insecure TLS/runtime transport overrides, and keep proxy-hop TLS separate from target mTLS settings. (#59682) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenRouter: gate documented OpenRouter attribution to native OpenRouter endpoints or the default route so custom proxy base URLs do not inherit OpenRouter request headers (#60200). Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Copilot: classify native GitHub Copilot API hosts in the shared provider endpoint resolver and harden token-derived proxy endpoint parsing so Copilot base URL routing stays centralized and fails closed on malformed hints. (#59644) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/streaming headers: centralize default and attribution header merging across OpenAI websocket, embedded-runner, and proxy stream paths so provider-specific headers stay consistent and caller overrides only win where intended. (#59542) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/media HTTP: centralize base URL normalization, default auth/header injection, and explicit header override handling across shared OpenAI-compatible audio, Deepgram audio, Gemini media/image, and Moonshot video request paths. (#59469) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/OpenAI-compatible routing: centralize native-vs-proxy request policy so hidden attribution and related OpenAI-family defaults only apply on verified native endpoints across stream, websocket, and shared audio HTTP paths. (#59433) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Anthropic routing: centralize native-vs-proxy endpoint classification for direct Anthropic `service_tier` handling so spoofed or proxied hosts do not inherit native Anthropic defaults. (#59608) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/exec loopback: restore legacy-role fallback for empty paired-device token maps and allow silent local role upgrades so local exec and node clients stop failing with pairing-required errors after `2026.3.31`. (#59092) Thanks @openperf.
- Agents/subagents: pin admin-only subagent gateway calls to `operator.admin` while keeping `agent` at least privilege, so `sessions_spawn` no longer dies on loopback scope-upgrade pairing with `close(1008) "pairing required"`. (#59555) Thanks @openperf.
- Exec approvals/config: strip invalid `security`, `ask`, and `askFallback` values from `~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.json` during normalization so malformed policy enums fall back cleanly to the documented defaults instead of corrupting runtime policy resolution. (#59112) Thanks @openperf.
- Exec approvals/doctor: report host policy sources from the real approvals file path and ignore malformed host override values when attributing effective policy conflicts. (#59367) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Exec/runtime: treat `tools.exec.host=auto` as routing-only, keep implicit no-config exec on sandbox when available or gateway otherwise, and reject per-call host overrides that would bypass the configured sandbox or host target. (#58897) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/mrkdwn formatting: add built-in Slack mrkdwn guidance in inbound context so Slack replies stop falling back to generic Markdown patterns that render poorly in Slack. (#59100) Thanks @jadewon.
- WhatsApp/presence: send `unavailable` presence on connect in self-chat mode so personal-phone users stop losing all push notifications while the gateway is running. (#59410) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- WhatsApp/media: add HTML, XML, and CSS to the MIME map and fall back gracefully for unknown media types instead of dropping the attachment. (#51562) Thanks @bobbyt74.
- Matrix/onboarding: restore guided setup in `openclaw channels add` and `openclaw configure --section channels`, while keeping custom plugin wizards on the shared `setupWizard` seam. (#59462) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/streaming: keep live partial previews for the current assistant block while preserving completed block updates as separate messages when `channels.matrix.blockStreaming` is enabled. (#59384) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Feishu/comment threads: harden document comment-thread delivery so whole-document comments fall back to `add_comment`, delayed reply lookups retry more reliably, and user-visible replies avoid reasoning/planning spillover. (#59129) Thanks @wittam-01.
- MS Teams/streaming: strip already-streamed text from fallback block delivery when replies exceed the 4000-character streaming limit so long responses stop duplicating content. (#59297) Thanks @bradgroux.
- Slack/thread context: filter thread starter and history by the effective conversation allowlist without dropping valid open-room, DM, or group DM context. (#58380) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Mattermost/probes: route status probes through the SSRF guard and honor `allowPrivateNetwork` so connectivity checks stay safe for self-hosted Mattermost deployments. (#58529) Thanks @mappel-nv.
- Zalo/webhook replay: scope replay dedupe key by chat and sender so reused message IDs across different chats or senders no longer collide, and harden metadata reads for partially missing payloads. (#58444).
- QQBot/structured payloads: restrict local file paths to QQ Bot-owned media storage, block traversal outside that root, reduce path leakage in logs, and keep inline image data URLs working. (#58453) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Image generation/providers: route OpenAI, MiniMax, and fal image requests through the shared provider HTTP transport path so custom base URLs, guarded private-network routing, and provider request defaults stay aligned with the rest of provider HTTP. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Image generation/providers: stop inferring private-network access from configured OpenAI, MiniMax, and fal image base URLs, and cap shared HTTP error-body reads so hostile or misconfigured endpoints fail closed without relaxing SSRF policy or buffering unbounded error payloads. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Browser/host inspection: keep static Chrome inspection helpers out of the activated browser runtime so `openclaw doctor browser` and related checks do not eagerly load the bundled browser plugin. (#59471) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Browser/CDP: normalize trailing-dot localhost absolute-form hosts before loopback checks so remote CDP websocket URLs like `ws://localhost.:...` rewrite back to the configured remote host. (#59236) Thanks @mappel-nv.
- Browser/attach-only profiles: disconnect cached Playwright CDP sessions when stopping attach-only or remote CDP profiles, while still reporting never-started local managed profiles as not stopped. (#60097) Thanks @pedh.
- Agents/output sanitization: strip namespaced `antml:thinking` blocks from user-visible text so Anthropic-style internal monologue tags do not leak into replies. (#59550) Thanks @obviyus.
- Kimi Coding/tools: normalize Anthropic tool payloads into the OpenAI-compatible function shape Kimi Coding expects so tool calls stop losing required arguments. (#59440) Thanks @obviyus.
- Image tool/paths: resolve relative local media paths against the agent `workspaceDir` instead of `process.cwd()` so inputs like `inbox/receipt.png` pass the local-path allowlist reliably. (#57222) Thanks Priyansh Gupta. Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Podman/launch: remove noisy container output from `scripts/run-openclaw-podman.sh` and align the Podman install guidance with the quieter startup flow. (#59368) Thanks @sallyom.
- Plugins/runtime: keep LINE reply directives and browser-backed cleanup/reset flows working even when those plugins are disabled while tightening bundled plugin activation guards. (#59412) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ACP/gateway reconnects: keep ACP prompts alive across transient websocket drops while still failing boundedly when reconnect recovery does not complete. (#59473) Thanks @obviyus.
- ACP/gateway reconnects: reject stale pre-ack ACP prompts after reconnect grace expiry so callers fail cleanly instead of hanging indefinitely when the gateway never confirms the run.
- Gateway/session kill: enforce HTTP operator scopes on session kill requests and gate authorization before session lookup so unauthenticated callers cannot probe session existence. (#59128) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- MS Teams/logging: format non-`Error` failures with the shared unknown-error helper so logs stop collapsing caught SDK or Axios objects into `[object Object]`. (#59321) Thanks @bradgroux.
- Channels/setup: ignore untrusted workspace channel plugins during setup resolution so a shadowing workspace plugin cannot override built-in channel setup/login flows unless explicitly trusted in config. (#59158) Thanks @mappel-nv.
- Exec/Windows: restore allowlist enforcement with quote-aware `argPattern` matching across gateway and node exec, and surface accurate dynamic pre-approved executable hints in the exec tool description. (#56285) Thanks @kpngr.
- Gateway: prune empty `node-pending-work` state entries after explicit acknowledgments and natural expiry so the per-node state map no longer grows indefinitely. (#58179) Thanks @gavyngong.
- Webhooks/secret comparison: replace ad-hoc timing-safe secret comparisons across BlueBubbles, Feishu, Mattermost, Telegram, Twilio, and Zalo webhook handlers with the shared `safeEqualSecret` helper and reject empty auth tokens in BlueBubbles. (#58432) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- OpenShell/mirror: constrain `remoteWorkspaceDir` and `remoteAgentWorkspaceDir` to the managed `/sandbox` and `/agent` roots, and keep mirror sync from overwriting or removing user-added shell roots during config synchronization. (#58515) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Plugins/activation: preserve explicit, auto-enabled, and default activation provenance plus reason metadata across CLI, gateway bootstrap, and status surfaces so plugin enablement state stays accurate after auto-enable resolution. (#59641) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Exec/env: block additional host environment override pivots for package roots, language runtimes, compiler include paths, and credential/config locations so request-scoped exec cannot redirect trusted toolchains or config lookups. (#59233) Thanks @drobison00.
- Dotenv/workspace overrides: block workspace `.env` files from overriding `OPENCLAW_PINNED_PYTHON` and `OPENCLAW_PINNED_WRITE_PYTHON` so trusted helper interpreters cannot be redirected by repo-local env injection. (#58473) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Plugins/install: accept JSON5 syntax in `openclaw.plugin.json` and bundle `plugin.json` manifests during install/validation, so third-party plugins with trailing commas, comments, or unquoted keys no longer fail to install. (#59084) Thanks @singleGanghood.
- Telegram/exec approvals: rewrite shared `/approve … allow-always` callback payloads to `/approve … always` before Telegram button rendering so plugin approval IDs still fit Telegram's `callback_data` limit and keep the Allow Always action visible. (#59217) Thanks @jameslcowan.
- Cron/exec timeouts: surface timed-out `exec` and `bash` failures in isolated cron runs even when `verbose: off`, including custom session-target cron jobs, so scheduled runs stop failing silently. (#58247) Thanks @skainguyen1412.
- Telegram/exec approvals: fall back to the origin session key for async approval followups and keep resume-failure status delivery sanitized so Telegram followups still land without leaking raw exec metadata. (#59351) Thanks @seonang.
- Node-host/exec approvals: bind `pnpm dlx` invocations through the approval planner's mutable-script path so the effective runtime command is resolved for approval instead of being left unbound. (#58374) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Exec/node hosts: stop forwarding the gateway workspace cwd to remote node exec when no workdir was explicitly requested, so cross-platform node approvals fall back to the node default cwd instead of failing with `SYSTEM_RUN_DENIED`. (#58977) Thanks @Starhappysh.
- TUI/chat: keep pending local sends visible and reconciled across history reloads, make busy/error recovery clearer through fallback and terminal-error paths, and reclaim transcript width for long links and paths. (#59800) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Exec approvals/channels: decouple initiating-surface approval availability from native delivery enablement so Telegram, Slack, and Discord still expose approvals when approvers exist and native target routing is configured separately. (#59776) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Agents/logging: keep orphaned-user transcript repair warnings focused on interactive runs, and downgrade background-trigger repairs (`heartbeat`, `cron`, `memory`, `overflow`) to debug logs to reduce false-alarm gateway noise. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Gateway/node pairing: require `operator.pairing` for node approvals end-to-end, while still requiring `operator.write` or `operator.admin` when the pending node commands need those higher scopes. (#60461) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Providers/OpenRouter: gate Anthropic prompt-cache `cache_control` markers to native/default OpenRouter routes and preserve them for native OpenRouter hosts behind custom provider ids. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Browser/CDP: validate both initial and discovered CDP websocket endpoints before connect so strict SSRF policy blocks cross-host pivots and direct websocket targets. (#60469) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Browser/profiles: reject remote browser profile `cdpUrl` values that violate strict SSRF policy before saving config, with clearer validation errors for blocked endpoints. (#60477) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Browser/screenshots: stop sending `fromSurface: false` on CDP screenshots so managed Chrome 146+ browsers can capture images again. (#60682) Thanks @mvanhorn.
- Mattermost/slash commands: harden native slash-command callback token validation to use constant-time secret comparison, matching the existing interaction-token path.
- Control UI/mobile chat: reduce narrow-screen overflow by shrinking the chat pane minimum width, removing extra mobile padding, widening message groups, and hiding avatars on very small screens. (#60220) Thanks @macdao.
- Android/Talk Mode: route spoken replies through `talk.speak`, keep compressed playback cleanup deterministic, and fall back to local TTS for legacy gateways that omit Talk error reasons. (#60954) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Talk Mode: keep reply-speaker routing and teardown behavior aligned with the new remote playback path. (#60954) Thanks @MKV21.

## 2026.4.1

### Changes

- macOS/Voice Wake: add the Voice Wake option to trigger Talk Mode. (#58490) Thanks @SmoothExec.
- Tasks/chat: add `/tasks` as a chat-native background task board for the current session, with recent task details and agent-local fallback counts when no linked tasks are visible. Related #54226. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Web search/SearXNG: add the bundled SearXNG provider plugin for `web_search` with configurable host support. (#57317) Thanks @cgdusek.
- Telegram/errors: add configurable `errorPolicy` and `errorCooldownMs` controls so Telegram can suppress repeated delivery errors per account, chat, and topic without muting distinct failures. (#51914) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar
- Gateway/webchat: make `chat.history` text truncation configurable with `gateway.webchat.chatHistoryMaxChars` and per-request `maxChars`, while preserving silent-reply filtering and existing default payload limits. (#58900)
- Amazon Bedrock/Guardrails: add Bedrock Guardrails support to the bundled provider. (#58588) Thanks @MikeORed.
- ZAI/models: add `glm-5.1` and `glm-5v-turbo` to the bundled Z.AI provider catalog. (#58793) Thanks @tomsun28
- Agents/default params: add `agents.defaults.params` for global default provider parameters. (#58548) Thanks @lpender.
- Agents/failover: cap prompt-side and assistant-side same-provider auth-profile retries for rate-limit failures before cross-provider model fallback, add the `auth.cooldowns.rateLimitedProfileRotations` knob, and document the new fallback behavior. (#58707) Thanks @Forgely3D
- Agents/compaction: resolve `agents.defaults.compaction.model` consistently for manual `/compact` and other context-engine compaction paths, so engine-owned compaction uses the configured override model across runtime entrypoints. (#56710) Thanks @oliviareid-svg
- Cron/tools allowlist: add `openclaw cron --tools` for per-job tool allowlists. (#58504) Thanks @andyk-ms.

### Fixes

- Chat/error replies: stop leaking raw provider/runtime failures into external chat channels, return a friendly retry message instead, and add a specific `/new` hint for Bedrock toolResult/toolUse session mismatches. (#58831) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Sessions/model switching: keep `/model` changes queued behind busy runs instead of interrupting the active turn, and retarget queued followups so later work picks up the new model as soon as the current turn finishes.
- Web UI/OpenResponses: preserve rewritten stream snapshots in webchat and keep OpenResponses final streamed text aligned when models rewind earlier output. (#58641) Thanks @neeravmakwana
- Discord/inbound media: pass Discord attachment and sticker downloads through the shared idle-timeout and worker-abort path so slow or stuck inbound media fetches stop hanging message processing. (#58593) Thanks @aquaright1
- Telegram/retries: keep non-idempotent sends on the strict safe-send path, retry wrapped pre-connect failures, and preserve `429` / `retry_after` backoff for safe delivery retries. (#51895) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar
- Telegram/exec approvals: route topic-aware exec approval followups through Telegram-owned threading and approval-target parsing, so forum-topic approvals stay in the originating topic instead of falling back to the root chat. (#58783).
- Telegram/local Bot API: preserve media MIME types for absolute-path downloads so local audio files still trigger transcription and other MIME-based handling. (#54603) Thanks @jzakirov
- Channels/WhatsApp: pass inbound message timestamp to model context so the AI can see when WhatsApp messages were sent. (#58590) Thanks @Maninae
- QQBot/voice: lazy-load `silk-wasm` in `audio-convert.ts` so qqbot still starts when the optional voice dependency is missing, while voice encode/decode degrades gracefully instead of crashing at module load time. (#58829) Thanks @WideLee.
- WhatsApp/groups: fix bot waking up on self-number quoted replies in groups with `selfChatMode` enabled. (#60148) Thanks @lurebat
- Device pairing: require `operator.pairing` or `operator.admin` for internal `/pair` setup-code, QR, and cleanup commands so lower-privilege gateway callers cannot mint or revoke pairing bootstrap material. (#60491) Thanks @eleqtrizit.
- Agents/failover: unify structured and raw provider error classification so provider-specific `400`/`422` payloads no longer get forced into generic format failures before retry, billing, or compaction logic can inspect them. (#58856) Thanks @aaron-he-zhu.
- Auth profiles/store: coerce misplaced SecretRef objects out of plaintext `key` and `token` fields during store load so agents without ACP runtime stop crashing on `.trim()` after upgrade. (#58923) Thanks @openperf.
- ACPX/runtime: repair `queue owner unavailable` session recovery by replacing dead named sessions and resuming the backend session when ACPX exposes a stable session id, so the first ACP prompt no longer inherits a dead handle. (#58669) Thanks @neeravmakwana
- ACPX/runtime: retry dead-session queue-owner repair without `--resume-session` when the reported ACPX session id is stale, so recovery still creates a fresh named session instead of failing session init. Thanks @obviyus.
- Tools/web_search (Kimi): replay native Moonshot `$web_search` arguments verbatim, disable thinking for `kimi-k2.5`, and add Moonshot region/model setup prompts so bundled Kimi web search works again. (#59356) Thanks @Innocent-children.
- Auth/OpenAI Codex: persist plugin-refreshed OAuth credentials to `auth-profiles.json` before returning them, so rotated Codex refresh tokens survive restart and stop falling into `refresh_token_reused` loops. (#53082) Thanks @hxy91819.
- Discord/gateway: hand reconnect ownership back to Carbon, keep runtime status aligned with close/reconnect state, and force-stop sockets that open without reaching READY so Discord monitors recover promptly instead of waiting on stale health timeouts. (#59019) Thanks @obviyus

## 2026.3.31

### Breaking

- Nodes/exec: remove the duplicated `nodes.run` shell wrapper from the CLI and agent `nodes` tool so node shell execution always goes through `exec host=node`, keeping node-specific capabilities on `nodes invoke` and the dedicated media/location/notify actions.
- Plugin SDK: deprecate the legacy provider compat subpaths plus the older bundled provider setup and channel-runtime compatibility shims, emit migration warnings, and keep the current documented `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*` entrypoints plus local `api.ts` / `runtime-api.ts` barrels as the forward path ahead of a future major-release removal.
- Skills/install and Plugins/install: built-in dangerous-code `critical` findings and install-time scan failures now fail closed by default, so plugin installs and gateway-backed skill dependency installs that previously succeeded may now require an explicit dangerous override such as `--dangerously-force-unsafe-install` to proceed.
- Gateway/auth: `trusted-proxy` now rejects mixed shared-token configs, and local-direct fallback requires the configured token instead of implicitly authenticating same-host callers. Thanks @zhangning-agent, @jacobtomlinson, and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/node commands: node commands now stay disabled until node pairing is approved, so device pairing alone is no longer enough to expose declared node commands. (#57777) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Gateway/node events: node-originated runs now stay on a reduced trusted surface, so notification-driven or node-triggered flows that previously relied on broader host/session tool access may need adjustment. (#57691) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.

### Changes

- ACP/plugins: add an explicit default-off ACPX plugin-tools MCP bridge config, document the trust boundary, and harden the built-in bridge packaging/logging path so global installs and stdio MCP sessions work reliably. (#56867) Thanks @joe2643.
- Agents/LLM: add a configurable idle-stream timeout for embedded runner requests so stalled model streams abort cleanly instead of hanging until the broader run timeout fires. (#55072) Thanks @liuy.
- Docs/plugins: update the community wecom and qqbot plugin listing to the docs catalog. (#57641) Thanks @sliverp.
- Agents/MCP: materialize bundle MCP tools with provider-safe names (`serverName__toolName`), support optional `streamable-http` transport selection plus per-server connection timeouts, and preserve real tool results from aborted/error turns unless truncation explicitly drops them. (#49505) Thanks @ziomancer.
- Android/notifications: add notification-forwarding controls with package filtering, quiet hours, rate limiting, and safer picker behavior for forwarded notification events. (#40175) Thanks @nimbleenigma.
- Background tasks: turn tasks into a real shared background-run control plane instead of ACP-only bookkeeping by unifying ACP, subagent, cron, and background CLI execution under one SQLite-backed ledger, routing detached lifecycle updates through the executor seam, adding audit/maintenance/status visibility, tightening auto-cleanup and lost-run recovery, improving task awareness in internal status/tool surfaces, and clarifying the split between heartbeat/main-session automation and detached scheduled runs. Thanks @mbelinky and @vincentkoc.
- Background tasks: add the first linear task flow control surface with `openclaw tasks list|show|cancel`, keep manual multi-task flows separate from one-task auto-sync flows, and surface doctor recovery hints for obviously orphaned or broken flow/task linkage. Thanks @mbelinky and @vincentkoc.
- Channels/QQ Bot: add QQ Bot as a bundled channel plugin with multi-account setup, SecretRef-aware credentials, slash commands, reminders, and media send/receive support. (#52986) Thanks @sliverp.
- Diffs: skip unused viewer-versus-file SSR preload work so `diffs` view-only and file-only runs do less render work while keeping mode outputs aligned. (#57909) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Tasks: add a minimal SQLite-backed task flow registry plus task-to-flow linkage scaffolding, so orchestrated work can start gaining a first-class parent record without changing current task delivery behavior. Thanks @mbelinky and @vincentkoc.
- Tasks: persist blocked state on one-task task flows and let the same flow reopen cleanly on retry, so blocked detached work can carry a parent-level reason and continue without fragmenting into a new job. Thanks @mbelinky and @vincentkoc.
- Tasks: route one-task ACP and subagent updates through a parent task-flow owner context, so detached work can emerge back through the intended parent thread/session instead of speaking only as a raw child task. Thanks @mbelinky and @vincentkoc.
- LINE/outbound media: add LINE image, video, and audio outbound sends on the LINE-specific delivery path, including explicit preview/tracking handling for videos while keeping generic media sends on the existing image-only route. (#45826) Thanks @masatohoshino.
- Matrix/history: add optional room history context for Matrix group triggers via `channels.matrix.historyLimit`, with per-agent watermarks and retry-safe snapshots so failed trigger retries do not drift into newer room messages. (#57022) thanks @chain710.
- Matrix/network: add explicit `channels.matrix.proxy` config for routing Matrix traffic through an HTTP(S) proxy, including account-level overrides and matching probe/runtime behavior. (#56931) thanks @patrick-yingxi-pan.
- Matrix/streaming: add draft streaming so partial Matrix replies update the same message in place instead of sending a new message for each chunk. (#56387) Thanks @jrusz.
- Matrix/threads: add per-DM `threadReplies` overrides and keep thread session isolation aligned with the effective room or DM thread policy from the triggering message onward. (#57995) thanks @teconomix.
- MCP: add remote HTTP/SSE server support for `mcp.servers` URL configs, including auth headers and safer config redaction for MCP credentials. (#50396) Thanks @dhananjai1729.
- Memory/QMD: add per-agent `memorySearch.qmd.extraCollections` so agents can opt into cross-agent session search without flattening every transcript collection into one shared QMD namespace. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Microsoft Teams/member info: add a Graph-backed member info action so Teams automations and tools can resolve channel member details directly from Microsoft Graph. (#57528) Thanks @sudie-codes.
- Nostr/inbound DMs: verify inbound event signatures before pairing or sender-authorization side effects, so forged DM events no longer create pairing requests or trigger reply attempts. Thanks @smaeljaish771 and @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI/Responses: forward configured `text.verbosity` across Responses HTTP and WebSocket transports, surface it in `/status`, and keep per-agent verbosity precedence aligned with runtime behavior. (#47106) Thanks @merc1305 and @vincentkoc.
- Pi/Codex: add native Codex web search support for embedded Pi runs, including config/docs/wizard coverage and managed-tool suppression when native Codex search is active. (#46579) Thanks @Evizero.
- Slack/exec approvals: add native Slack approval routing and approver authorization so exec approval prompts can stay in Slack instead of falling back to the Web UI or terminal. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TTS: Add structured provider diagnostics and fallback attempt analytics. (#57954) Thanks @joshavant.
- WhatsApp/reactions: agents can now react with emoji on incoming WhatsApp messages, enabling more natural conversational interactions like acknowledging a photo with ❤️ instead of typing a reply. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Agents/BTW: force `/btw` side questions to disable provider reasoning so Anthropic adaptive-thinking sessions stop failing with `No BTW response generated`. Fixes #55376. Thanks @Catteres and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/onboarding: reset the remote gateway URL prompt to the safe loopback default after declining a discovered endpoint, so onboarding does not keep a previously rejected remote URL. (#57828).
- Agents/exec defaults: honor per-agent `tools.exec` defaults when no inline directive or session override is present, so configured exec host, security, ask, and node settings actually apply. (#57689).
- Sandbox/networking: sanitize SSH subprocess env vars through the shared sandbox policy and route marketplace archive downloads plus Ollama discovery, auth, and pull requests through the guarded fetch path so sandboxed execution and remote fetches follow the repo's trust boundaries. (#57848, #57850).

### Fixes

- Slack: stop retry-driven duplicate replies when draft-finalization edits fail ambiguously, and log configured allowlisted users/channels by readable name instead of raw IDs.
- Agents/OpenAI Responses: normalize raw bundled MCP tool schemas on the WebSocket/Responses path so bare-object, object-ish, and top-level union MCP tools no longer get rejected by OpenAI during tool registration. (#58299) Thanks @yelog.
- ACP/security: replace ACP's dangerous-tool name override with semantic approval classes, so only narrow readonly reads/searches can auto-approve while indirect exec-capable and control-plane tools always require explicit prompt approval. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ACP: derive owner-only approval classes from the shared tool-policy fallback map so `cron`, `nodes`, and `whatsapp_login` cannot drift out of prompt-required coverage (#201). Thanks @drobison00.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: register ACP child runs for completion tracking and lifecycle cleanup, and make registration-failure cleanup explicitly best-effort so callers do not assume an already-started ACP turn was fully aborted. (#40885) Thanks @xaeon2026 and @vincentkoc.
- ACP/tasks: mark cleanly exited ACP runs as blocked when they end on deterministic write or authorization blockers, and wake the parent session with a follow-up instead of falsely reporting success (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- ACPX/runtime: derive the bundled ACPX expected version from the extension package metadata instead of hardcoding a separate literal, so plugin-local ACPX installs stop drifting out of health-check parity after version bumps. (#49089) Thanks @jiejiesks and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Anthropic failover: treat Anthropic `api_error` payloads with `An unexpected error occurred while processing the response` as transient so retry/fallback can engage instead of surfacing a terminal failure. (#57441) Thanks @zijiess and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/compaction: keep late compaction-retry completions from double-resolving finished compaction futures, so interrupted or timed-out compactions stop surfacing spurious second-completion races. (#57796) Thanks @joshavant.
- Agents/disabled providers: make disabled providers disappear from default model selection and embedded provider fallback, while letting explicitly pinned disabled providers fail with a clear config error instead of silently taking traffic. (#57735) Thanks @rileybrown-dev and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/OAuth output: force exec-host OAuth output readers through the gateway fs policy so embedded gateway runs stop crashing when provider auth writes land outside the current sandbox workspace. (#58249) Thanks @joshavant.
- Agents/system prompt: fix `agent.name` interpolation in the embedded runtime system prompt and make provider/model fallback text reflect the effective runtime selection after start. (#57625) Thanks @StllrSvr and @vincentkoc.
- Android/device info: read the app's version metadata from the package manager instead of hidden APIs so Android 15+ onboarding and device info no longer fail to compile or report placeholder values. (#58126) Thanks @L3ER0Y.
- Android/pairing: stop appending duplicate push receiver entries to `gateway-service.conf` on repeated QR pairing and keep push registration bounded to the current successful pairing, so Android push delivery stays healthy across re-pair and token rotation. (#58256) Thanks @surrealroad.
- App install smoke: pin the latest-release lookup to `latest`, cache the first stable install version across the rerun, and relax prerelease package assertions so the Parallels smoke lane can validate stable-to-main upgrades even when `beta` moves ahead or the guest starts from an older stable. (#58177) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auth/profiles: keep the last successful config load in memory for the running process and refresh that snapshot on successful writes/reloads, so hot paths stop reparsing `openclaw.json` between watcher-driven swaps.
- Config/SecretRef + Control UI: harden SecretRef redaction round-trip restore, block unsafe raw fallback (force Form mode when raw is unavailable), and preflight submitted-config SecretRefs before config write RPC persistence. (#58044) Thanks @joshavant.
- Config/update: stop `openclaw doctor` write-backs from persisting plugin-injected channel defaults, so `openclaw update` no longer seeds config keys that later break service refresh validation. (#56834) Thanks @openperf.
- Control UI/agents: auto-load agent workspace files on initial Files panel open, and populate overview model/workspace/fallbacks from effective runtime agent metadata so defaulted models no longer show as `Not set`. (#56637) Thanks @dxsx84.
- Control UI/slash commands: make `/steer` and `/redirect` work from the chat command palette with visible pending state for active-run `/steer`, correct redirected-run tracking, and a single canonical `/steer` entry in the command menu. (#54625) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Cron/announce: preserve all deliverable text payloads for announce mode instead of collapsing to the last chunk, so multi-line cron reports deliver in full to Telegram forum topics (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Cron/isolated sessions: carry the full live-session provider, model, and auth-profile selection across retry restarts so cron jobs with model overrides no longer fail or loop on mid-run model-switch requests. (#57972) Thanks @issaba1.
- Diffs/config: preserve schema-shaped plugin config parsing from `diffsPluginConfigSchema.safeParse()`, so direct callers keep `defaults` and `security` sections instead of receiving flattened tool defaults. (#57904) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Diffs: fall back to plain text when `lang` hints are invalid during diff render and viewer hydration, so bad or stale language values no longer break the diff viewer. (#57902) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Discord/voice: enforce the same guild channel and member allowlist checks on spoken voice ingress before transcription, so joined voice channels no longer accept speech from users outside the configured Discord access policy. Thanks @cyjhhh and @vincentkoc.
- Docker/setup: force BuildKit for local image builds (including sandbox image builds) so `./docker-setup.sh` no longer fails on `RUN --mount=...` when hosts default to Docker's legacy builder. (#56681) Thanks @zhanghui-china.
- Docs/anchors: fix broken English docs links and make Mint anchor audits run against the English-source docs tree. (#57039) thanks @velvet-shark.
- Doctor/plugins: skip false Matrix legacy-helper warnings when no migration plans exist, and keep bundled `enabledByDefault` plugins in the gateway startup set. (#57931) Thanks @dinakars777.
- Exec approvals/macOS: unwrap `arch` and `xcrun` before deriving shell payloads and allow-always patterns, so wrapper approvals stay bound to the carried command instead of the outer carrier. Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Exec approvals: unwrap `caffeinate` and `sandbox-exec` before persisting allow-always trust so later shell payload changes still require a fresh approval. Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Exec/approvals: infer Discord and Telegram exec approvers from existing owner config when `execApprovals.approvers` is unset, extend the default approval window to 30 minutes, and clarify approval-unavailable guidance so approvals do not appear to silently disappear (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Pi/TUI: flush message-boundary replies at `message_end` so turns stop looking stuck until the next nudge when the final reply was already ready. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Status/tasks: fall back to same-agent task counts in `/status` when the current session has no linked tasks, keeping the default view useful without exposing other sessions' task details. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Status/auto-reply: stop status-only turns from replying twice when inline `/status` handling already produced the reply, so Discord and other chat surfaces no longer emit duplicate status cards. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Exec/approvals: keep `awk` and `sed` family binaries out of the low-risk `safeBins` fast path, and stop doctor profile scaffolding from treating them like ordinary custom filters. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Exec/env: block proxy, TLS, and Docker endpoint env overrides in host execution so request-scoped commands cannot silently reroute outbound traffic or trust attacker-supplied certificate settings. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab.
- Exec/env: block Python package index override variables from request-scoped host exec environment sanitization so package fetches cannot be redirected through a caller-supplied index. Thanks @nexrin and @vincentkoc.
- Exec/node: stop gateway-side workdir fallback from rewriting explicit `host=node` cwd values to the gateway filesystem, so remote node exec approval and runs keep using the intended node-local directory. (#50961) Thanks @openperf.
- Exec/runtime: default implicit exec to `host=auto`, resolve that target to sandbox only when a sandbox runtime exists, keep explicit `host=sandbox` fail-closed without sandbox, and show `/exec` effective host state in runtime status/docs (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Exec: fail closed when the implicit sandbox host has no sandbox runtime, and stop denied async approval followups from reusing prior command output from the same session. (#56800) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Feishu/groups: keep quoted replies and topic bootstrap context aligned with group sender allowlists so only allowlisted thread messages seed agent context. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/attachments: offload large inbound images without leaking `media://` markers into text-only runs, preserve mixed attachment order for model input/transcripts, and fail closed when model image capability cannot be resolved. (#55513) Thanks @Syysean.
- Gateway/auth: keep shared-auth rate limiting active during WebSocket handshake attempts even when callers also send device-token candidates, so bogus device-token fields no longer suppress shared-secret brute-force tracking. Thanks @kexinoh and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/auth: reject mismatched browser `Origin` headers on trusted-proxy HTTP operator requests while keeping origin-less headless proxy clients working. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/device tokens: disconnect active device sessions after token rotation so newly rotated credentials revoke existing live connections immediately instead of waiting for those sockets to close naturally. Thanks @zsxsoft and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/health: carry webhook-vs-polling account mode from channel descriptors into runtime snapshots so passive channels like LINE and BlueBubbles skip false stale-socket health failures. (#47488) Thanks @karesansui-u.
- Gateway/pairing: restore QR bootstrap onboarding handoff so fresh `/pair qr` iPhone setup can auto-approve the initial node pairing, receive a reusable node device token, and stop retrying with spent bootstrap auth. (#58382) Thanks @ngutman.
- Gateway/OpenAI compatibility: accept flat Responses API function tool definitions on `/v1/responses` and preserve `strict` when normalizing hosted tools into the embedded runner, so spec-compliant clients like Codex no longer fail validation or silently lose strict tool enforcement. Thanks @malaiwah and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/OpenAI HTTP: restore default operator scopes for bearer-authenticated requests that omit `x-openclaw-scopes`, so headless `/v1/chat/completions` and session-history callers work again after the recent method-scope hardening. (#57596) Thanks @openperf.
- Gateway/plugins: scope plugin-auth HTTP route runtime clients to read-only access and keep gateway-authenticated plugin routes on write scope, so plugin-owned webhook handlers do not inherit write-capable runtime access by default. Thanks @davidluzsilva and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/SecretRef: resolve restart token drift checks with merged service/runtime env sources and hard-fail unsupported mutable SecretRef plus OAuth-profile combinations so restart warnings and policy enforcement match runtime behavior. (#58141) Thanks @joshavant.
- Gateway/tools HTTP: tighten HTTP tool-invoke authorization so owner-only tools stay off HTTP invoke paths. (#57773) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Harden async approval followup delivery in webchat-only sessions (#57359) Thanks @joshavant.
- Heartbeat/auth: prevent exec-event heartbeat runs from inheriting owner-only tool access from the session delivery target, so node exec output stays on the non-owner tool surface even when the target session belongs to the owner. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/config: accept runtime channel plugin ids in `hooks.mappings[].channel` (for example `feishu`) instead of rejecting non-core channels during config validation. (#56226) Thanks @AiKrai001.
- Hooks/session routing: rebind hook-triggered `agent:` session keys to the actual target agent before isolated dispatch so dedicated hook agents keep their own session-scoped tool and plugin identity. Thanks @kexinoh and @vincentkoc.
- Host exec/env: block additional request-scoped env overrides that can redirect Docker endpoints, trust roots, compiler include paths, package resolution, or Python environment roots during approved host runs. Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Image generation/build: write stable runtime alias files into `dist/` and route provider-auth runtime lookups through those aliases so image-generation providers keep resolving auth/runtime modules after rebuilds instead of crashing on missing hashed chunk files (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- iOS/Live Activities: mark the `ActivityKit` import in `LiveActivityManager.swift` as `@preconcurrency` so Xcode 26.4 / Swift 6 builds stop failing on strict concurrency checks. (#57180) Thanks @ngutman.
- LINE/ACP: add current-conversation binding and inbound binding-routing parity so `/acp spawn .. --thread here`, configured ACP bindings, and active conversation-bound ACP sessions work on LINE like the other conversation channels (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- LINE/markdown: preserve underscores inside Latin, Cyrillic, and CJK words when stripping markdown, while still removing standalone `_italic_` markers on the shared text-runtime path used by LINE and TTS. (#47465) Thanks @jackjin1997.
- Agents/failover: make overloaded same-provider retry count and retry delay configurable via `auth.cooldowns`, default to one retry with no delay, and document the model-fallback behavior.
- Ollama/model picker: include configured Ollama models in the opted-in non-PI-native model catalog path so Ollama onboarding shows available models directly after provider selection. (#55290) Thanks @Luckymingxuan.

## 2026.3.31-beta.1

### Fixes

- Agents/compaction: keep late compaction-retry rejections handled after the aggregate timeout path wins without swallowing real pre-timeout wait failures, so timed-out retries no longer surface an unhandled rejection on later unsubscribe. (#57451) Thanks @mpz4life and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/context pruning: count supplementary-plane CJK characters with the shared code-point-aware estimator so context pruning stops underestimating Japanese and Chinese text that uses Extension B ideographs. (#39985) Thanks @Edward-Qiang-2024.
- Agents/Kimi: preserve already-valid Anthropic-compatible tool call argument objects while still clearing cached repairs when later trailing junk exceeds the repair allowance. (#54491) Thanks @yuanaichi.
- Agents/MCP: dispose bundled MCP runtimes after one-shot `openclaw agent --local` runs finish, while preserving bundled MCP state across in-run retries so local JSON runs exit cleanly without restarting stateful MCP tools mid-run (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Agents/MCP: reuse bundled MCP runtimes across turns in the same session, while recreating them when MCP config changes and disposing stale runtimes cleanly on session rollover. (#55090) Thanks @allan0509.
- Agents/memory flush: keep daily memory flush files append-only during embedded attempts so compaction writes do not overwrite earlier notes. (#53725) Thanks @HPluseven.
- Agents/sandbox: honor `tools.sandbox.tools.alsoAllow`, let explicit sandbox re-allows remove matching built-in default-deny tools, and keep sandbox explain/error guidance aligned with the effective sandbox tool policy. (#54492) Thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/sandbox: make remote FS bridge reads pin the parent path and open the file atomically in the helper so read access cannot race path resolution. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/silent turns: fail closed on silent memory-flush runs so narrated `NO_REPLY` self-talk cannot stream or finalize into external replies even when block streaming is enabled. (#52593) Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Agents/subagents: fix interim subagent runtime display so `/subagents list` and `/subagents info` stop inflating short runtimes and show second-level durations correctly. (#57739) Thanks @samzong.
- Anthropic/OAuth: inject `/fast` `service_tier` hints for direct `sk-ant-oat-*` requests so OAuth-authenticated Anthropic runs stop missing the same overload-routing signal as API-key traffic. Fixes #55758. Thanks @Cypherm and @vincentkoc.
- Anthropic/service tiers: support explicit `serviceTier` model params for direct Anthropic requests and let them override `/fast` defaults when both are set. (#45453) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply/fast: accept `/fast status` on the directive-only path, align help/status text with the documented `status|on|off` syntax, and keep current-state replies consistent across command surfaces. Fixes #46095. Thanks @weissfl and @vincentkoc.
- Azure OpenAI/custom providers: use the `azure-openai-responses` path for Azure custom providers so Azure OpenAI endpoints stay on the correct Responses integration surface. (#50851) Thanks @kunalk16.
- BlueBubbles/iMessage: coalesce URL-only inbound messages with their link-preview balloon again so sharing a bare link no longer drops the URL from agent context. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Browser/plugins: auto-enable the bundled browser plugin when browser config or browser tool policy already references it, and show a clearer CLI error when `plugins.allow` excludes `browser` (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- CI/dev checks: default local `pnpm check` to a lower-memory typecheck/lint path while keeping CI on the normal parallel path, and harden Telegram test typing/literals around native TypeScript-Go tooling crashes. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Tasks: add a small task-flow runtime substrate for authoring layers with persisted wait targets and output bags, plus bundled skills/Lobster examples and richer `flows show` / `doctor` recovery hints for multi-task flow state. (#58336) Thanks @mbelinky and @vincentkoc.
- Config/legacy cleanup: stop probing obsolete alternate legacy config names and service labels during local config/service detection, while keeping the active `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json` path canonical (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Config/runtime: pin the first successful config load in memory for the running process and refresh that snapshot on successful writes/reloads, so hot paths stop reparsing `openclaw.json` between watcher-driven swaps (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- LINE/status: stop `openclaw status` from warning about missing credentials when sanitized LINE snapshots are already configured, while still surfacing whether the missing field is the token or secret. (#45701) Thanks @tamaosamu.
- macOS/local gateway: stop OpenClaw.app from killing healthy local gateway listeners after startup by recognizing the current `openclaw-gateway` process title and using the current `openclaw gateway` launch shape (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- macOS/wide-area discovery: switch gateway discovery to Tailscale MagicDNS names so Mac clients recover more reliably across changing tailnet IPs. (#57833) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Matrix/CLI send: start one-off Matrix send clients before outbound delivery so `openclaw message send --channel matrix` restores E2EE in encrypted rooms instead of sending plain events. (#57936) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/context: filter fetched room context by sender allowlists so reply and thread context lookup no longer pulls non-allowlisted messages into agent context. (#58376) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Matrix/delivery recovery: treat Synapse `User not in room` replay failures as permanent during startup recovery so poisoned queued messages move to `failed/` instead of crash-looping Matrix after restart. (#57426) thanks @dlardo.
- Matrix/direct rooms: recover fresh auto-joined 1:1 DMs without eagerly persisting invite-only `m.direct` mappings, while keeping named, aliased, and explicitly configured rooms on the room path. (#58024) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/direct rooms: stop trusting remote `is_direct`, honor explicit local `is_direct: false` for discovered DM candidates, and avoid extra member-state lookups for shared rooms so DM routing and repair stay aligned. (#57124) Thanks @w-sss.
- Matrix/DM threads: keep strict unnamed fresh-invite rooms promotable even when Matrix omits the optional direct hint, preserve repair-failed local DM promotions while still revalidating later room metadata, and keep both bound and thread-isolated Matrix sessions reporting the correct route policy. (#58099) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/plugin loading: ship and source-load the crypto bootstrap runtime sidecar correctly so current `main` stops warning about failed Matrix bootstrap loads and `matrix/index` plugin-id mismatches on every invocation. (#53298) thanks @keithce.
- Mattermost/websocket: detect stale Mattermost WebSocket sessions after bot disable/enable cycles so monitoring reconnects cleanly instead of silently staying stale. (#53604) Thanks @Qinsam.
- Media/downloads: stop forwarding auth and cookie headers across cross-origin redirects during media saves, while preserving safe request headers for same-origin redirect chains. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Media/images: reject oversized decoded image inputs before metadata and resize backends run, so tiny compressed image bombs fail early instead of exhausting gateway memory. (#58226) Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/doctor: probe QMD availability from the agent workspace too, so `openclaw doctor` no longer falsely reports relative `memory.qmd.command` configs as broken while runtime search still works. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/doctor: suppress the orphan transcript cleanup warning when QMD session indexing is enabled, so doctor no longer suggests deleting transcript history that QMD still uses for recall. (#40584) Thanks @Gyarados4157 and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/FTS: add configurable trigram tokenization plus short-CJK substring fallback so memory search can find Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text without breaking mixed long-and-short queries. Thanks @carrotRakko.
- Memory/FTS: keep provider-less keyword hits visible at the default memory-search threshold, so FTS-only recall works without requiring `--min-score 0`. (#56473) Thanks @opriz.
- Memory/LanceDB: resolve runtime dependency manifest lookup from the bundled `extensions/memory-lancedb` path (including flattened dist chunks) so startup no longer fails with a missing `@lancedb/lancedb` dependency error. (#56623) Thanks @LUKSOAgent.
- Memory/QMD: add `memory.qmd.searchTool` as an exact mcporter tool override, so custom QMD MCP tools such as `hybrid_search` can be used without weakening the validated `searchMode` config surface. (#27801) Thanks @keramblock.
- Memory/QMD: honor `memory.qmd.update.embedInterval` even when regular QMD update cadence is disabled or slower by arming a dedicated embed-cadence maintenance timer, while avoiding redundant timers when regular updates are already frequent enough. (#37326) Thanks @barronlroth.
- Memory/QMD: include deduplicated default plus per-agent `memorySearch.extraPaths` when building QMD custom collections, so shared and agent-specific extra roots both get indexed consistently. (#57315) Thanks @Vitalcheffe and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: keep `memory_search` session-hit paths roundtrip-safe when exported session markdown lives under the workspace `qmd/` directory, so `memory_get` can read the exact returned path instead of failing on the generic `qmd/sessions/...` alias. (#43519) Thanks @holgergruenhagen and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: keep `qmd embed` active in `search` mode too, so BM25-first setups still build a complete index for later vector and hybrid retrieval. (#54509) Thanks @hnshah and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: keep reset and deleted session transcripts in QMD session export so daily session resets do not silently drop most historical recall from `memory_search`. (#30220) Thanks @pushkarsingh32.
- Memory/QMD: pass a direct-session key on `openclaw memory search` so CLI QMD searches no longer get denied as `session=<none>` under direct-only scope defaults. (#43517) Thanks @waynecc-at and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: point `QMD_CONFIG_DIR` at the nested `xdg-config/qmd` directory so per-agent collection config resolves correctly. (#39078) Thanks @smart-tinker and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: preserve explicit `start_line` and `end_line` metadata from mcporter query results so `memory search` hits keep the real snippet offsets instead of falling back to the snippet header. (#47960) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: rebind collections when QMD reports a changed pattern but omits path metadata, so config pattern changes stop being silently ignored on restart. (#49897) Thanks @Madruru.
- Memory/QMD: resolve slugified `memory_search` file hints back to the indexed filesystem path before returning search hits, so `memory_get` works again for mixed-case and spaced paths. (#50313) Thanks @erra9x.
- Memory/QMD: send MCP `query` collection filters as the upstream `collections` array instead of the legacy singular `collection` field, so mcporter-backed QMD 1.1+ searches still scope correctly after the unified `query` tool migration. (#54728) Thanks @armanddp and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: serialize cross-process `qmd embed` runs behind a shared lock and stagger periodic embed timers so multi-agent QMD collections stop thundering-herding on startup and every maintenance interval. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: stop rewriting Han/CJK BM25 queries before `qmd search`, so OpenClaw search semantics match direct QMD results for mixed and spaced Chinese queries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: surface degraded vector status from `qmd status` so `openclaw memory status --deep` warns when semantic search is unavailable because the index still has `0` vectors. Fixes #28169. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: treat null-byte collection corruption the same when QMD surfaces it as `ENOENT`, so managed-collection repair still rebuilds and retries instead of leaving QMD stuck on a broken path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: warn explicitly when `memory.backend=qmd` is configured but the `qmd` binary is missing, so doctor and runtime fallback no longer fail as a silent builtin downgrade. (#50439) Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: weight CJK-heavy text correctly when estimating chunk sizes, preserve surrogate-pair characters during fine splits, and keep long Latin lines on the old chunk boundaries so memory indexing produces better-sized chunks for CJK notes. (#40271) Thanks @AaronLuo00.
- Memory/session indexer: include `.jsonl.reset.*` and `.jsonl.deleted.*` transcripts in the memory host session scan while still excluding `.jsonl.bak.*` compaction backups and lock files, so memory search sees archived session history without duplicating stale snapshots. Thanks @hclsys and @vincentkoc.
- Microsoft Teams/threads: filter fetched thread history by sender allowlists so thread context seeding no longer pulls messages from disallowed users. (#57723) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- OpenAI/Codex fast mode: map `/fast` to priority processing on native OpenAI and Codex Responses endpoints instead of rewriting reasoning settings, and document the exact endpoint and override behavior (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Outbound media/local files: piggyback host-local `MEDIA:` reads on the configured fs policy instead of a separate media-root check, so generated files outside the workspace can send when `tools.fs.workspaceOnly=false` while plaintext-like host files stay blocked by the outbound media allowlist. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Pairing: enforce pending request limits per account instead of per shared channel queue, so one account's outstanding pairing challenges no longer block new pairing on other accounts. Thanks @smaeljaish771 and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/ClawHub: sanitize temporary archive filenames for scoped package names and slash-containing skill slugs so `openclaw plugins install @scope/name` no longer fails with `ENOENT` during archive download. (#56452) Thanks @soimy.
- Plugins/CLI: add descriptor-backed lazy plugin CLI registration so Matrix can keep its CLI module lazy-loaded without dropping `openclaw matrix ...` from parse-time command registration. (#57165) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/CLI: collect root-help plugin descriptors through a dedicated non-activating CLI metadata path so enabled plugins keep validated config semantics without triggering runtime-only plugin registration work, while preserving runtime CLI command registration for legacy channel plugins that still wire commands from full registration. (#57294) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/facades: guard bundled plugin facade loads with a cache-first sentinel so circular re-entry stops crashing `xai`, `sglang`, and `vllm` during gateway plugin startup. (#57508) Thanks @openperf.
- Plugins/Matrix: mirror the Matrix crypto WASM runtime dependency into the root packaged install and enforce root/plugin dependency parity so bundled Matrix E2EE crypto resolves correctly in shipped builds. (#57163) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/startup: block workspace `.env` from overriding `OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR`, so bundled plugin trust roots only come from inherited runtime env or package resolution instead of repo-local dotenv files. Thanks @nexrin and @vincentkoc.
- Sandbox/browser: install `fonts-noto-cjk` in the sandbox browser image so screenshots render Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text correctly instead of tofu boxes. Fixes #35597. Thanks @carrotRakko and @vincentkoc.
- Security/LINE: make webhook signature validation run the timing-safe compare even when the supplied signature length is wrong, closing a small timing side-channel. (#55663) Thanks @gavyngong.
- Sessions/Feishu: preserve conversation ids that legitimately embed `:topic:` in shared session helper parsing, while keeping Telegram topic session parsing intact. (#58100) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Slack/status reactions: add a reaction lifecycle for queued, thinking, tool, done, and error phases in Slack monitors, with safer cleanup so queued ack reactions stay correct across silent runs, pre-reply failures, and delayed transitions. (#56430) Thanks @hsiaoa.
- Status/node-only hosts: teach `openclaw status` to handle node-only hosts on current `main` without the old mixed gateway assumptions. (#56718) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Status: fix cache hit rate exceeding 100% by deriving denominator from prompt-side token fields instead of potentially undersized totalTokens. Fixes #26643 (#57816). Thanks @ForestDengHK.
- Telegram/audio: transcode Telegram voice-note `.ogg` attachments before the local `whisper-cli` auto fallback runs, and keep mention-preflight transcription enabled in auto mode when `tools.media.audio` is unset (#65984). Thanks @mbelinky.
- Telegram/forum topics: restore reply routing to the active topic and keep ACP `sessions_spawn(..., thread=true, mode="session")` bound to that same topic instead of falling back to root chat or losing follow-up routing. (#56060) Thanks @one27001.
- Telegram/media: allow RFC 2544 benchmark-range Telegram CDN resolutions during media downloads, so voice messages, PDFs, and other attachments no longer fail with `Failed to download media`. (#57624) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Telegram/native commands: prefix native command menu callback payloads and preserve `CommandSource: "native"` when Telegram replays them through callback queries, so `/fast` and other native command menus keep working even when text-command routing is disabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/polling: keep the watchdog from aborting long-running reply delivery by treating recent non-polling API activity as bounded liveness instead of a hard stall. (#56343) Thanks @openperf.
- Tools/web_fetch: add an explicit trusted env-proxy path for proxy-only installs while keeping strict SSRF fetches on the pinned direct path, so trusted proxy routing does not weaken strict destination binding. (#50650) Thanks @kkav004.
- Tools/web_search: localize the shared search cache to module scope so same-process global symbol lookups can no longer inspect or mutate cached web-search responses. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TTS/Microsoft: auto-switch the default Edge voice to Chinese for CJK-dominant text without overriding explicitly selected Microsoft voices. (#52355) Thanks @extrasmall0.
- TTS: Restore 3.28 schema compatibility and fallback observability. (#57953) Thanks @joshavant.
- TUI/chat: keep optimistic outbound user messages visible during active runs by deferring local-run binding until the first gateway chat event reveals the real run id, preventing premature history reloads from wiping pending local sends. (#54722) Thanks @seanturner001.
- TUI/model picker: keep searchable `/model` and `/models` input mode from hijacking `j`/`k` as navigation keys, and harden width bounds under `m`-filtered model lists so search no longer crashes on long rows. (#30156) Thanks @briannicholls.
- Discord/exec approvals: stop mixing native interactive approvals with extra plain `/approve` narration, so Discord approval prompts stay button-driven instead of showing both manual and interactive flows. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/exec approvals: normalize 1:1 approval routing and suppress duplicate approval prompts, so Telegram direct chats show a single working interactive approval instead of multiple conflicting approval messages. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Voice Call/media stream: cap inbound WebSocket frame size before `start` validation so oversized pre-start frames are dropped before JSON parsing. Thanks @Kazamayc and @vincentkoc.
- Voice call/Plivo: pin stored callback bases to the configured public webhook URL so later call-control redirects stay on the intended origin even if webhook transport metadata differs. Thanks @zsxsoft and @vincentkoc.
- Web UI/markdown: stop bare auto-links from swallowing adjacent CJK text while preserving valid mixed-script path and query characters in rendered links. (#48410) Thanks @jnuyao.
- Approvals/UI: keep the newest pending approval at the front of the Control UI queue so approving one request does not accidentally target an older expired id. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Auth profiles/OAuth: refresh runtime auth snapshots when saving rotated credentials so OAuth providers do not reuse consumed refresh tokens after the first token rotation. Fixes #55389. Thanks @sam26880 and @vincentkoc.
- Browser/screenshot: use `fromSurface: false` in raw CDP screenshots to avoid a Chromium compositor bug that drops cross-origin image textures (QR codes, CDN assets), and preserve pre-existing device emulation state across full-page viewport expansion. (#54358) Thanks @FMLS.
- ClawDock/docs: move the helper scripts to `scripts/clawdock`, publish ClawDock as a first-class docs page on the docs site, and document reinstalling local helper copies from the new raw GitHub path. (#23912) thanks @Olshansk.
- Control UI/gateway: clear queued browser connect timeouts on client stop so aborted or replaced gateway clients do not send delayed connect requests after shutdown. (#57338) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Control UI/gateway: reconnect the browser client when gateway event sequence gaps are detected, so stale non-chat state recovers automatically instead of only telling the user to refresh. (#23912) thanks @Olshansk.
- Exec approvals/channels: unify Discord and Telegram exec approval runtime handling, move approval buttons onto the shared interactive reply model, and fix Telegram approval buttons and typed `/approve` commands so configured approvers can resolve requests reliably again. (#57516) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Gateway/SQLite transient handling: keep unhandled `SQLITE_CANTOPEN`, `SQLITE_BUSY`, `SQLITE_LOCKED`, and `SQLITE_IOERR` failures non-fatal in the global rejection handler so macOS LaunchAgent restarts do not enter a crash-throttle loop. (#57018).
- Hooks/plugins/skills: block workspace `.env` overrides for bundled root directories so workspace startup cannot redirect bundled trust roots away from the packaged defaults. Thanks @nexrin and @vincentkoc.
- LINE/webhooks: cap shared concurrent pre-verify webhook body reads so excess requests are rejected before entering the LINE body handler. Thanks @nexrin and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/QMD: preserve explicit custom collection names for shared paths outside the agent workspace so `memory_search` stops appending `-<agentId>` to externally managed QMD collections. (#52539) Thanks @lobsrice and @vincentkoc.
- Memory/builtin: keep memory-file indexing active in FTS-only mode (no embedding provider) so forced reindexes no longer swap in an empty index and wipe existing memory chunks. (#42714) Thanks @asamimei.
- Nostr/config: redact `channels.nostr.privateKey` in config snapshots and Control UI config views, so Nostr signing keys no longer appear in plain text. Thanks @ccreater222.
- Plugin approvals: accept unique short approval-id prefixes on `plugin.approval.resolve`, matching exec approvals and restoring `/approve` fallback flows on chat approval surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- SSH sandbox/upload: reject workspace symlinks that resolve outside the uploaded tree before syncing to the remote sandbox, so later agent writes cannot be redirected through escaped links. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Slack/interactive replies: resolve Slack Block Kit reply delivery from both authored `channelData.slack.blocks` payloads and directive-generated interactive replies, and keep Slack button styles mapped onto valid Block Kit button rendering so interactive replies stop dropping on Slack-specific delivery paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Subagents/announcements: preserve the requester agent id for inline deterministic tool spawns so named agents without channel bindings can still announce completions through the correct owner session. (#55437) Thanks @kAIborg24.
- Telegram/Anthropic streaming: replace raw invalid stream-order provider errors with a safe retry message so internal `message_start/message_stop` failures do not leak into chats. (#55408) Thanks @imydal.
- Tlon/media: route inbound image downloads through the shared media store, cap each download at 6 MB, and stop after 8 images per message so large Tlon posts no longer balloon local media storage. Thanks @AntAISecurityLab and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/live switch: stop transient cron and subagent model overrides from being misread as persisted live-session switches, so isolated runs no longer fail with `LiveSessionModelSwitchError`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/tool-call repair: recover malformed Kimi/OpenRouter tool-call argument streams when provider preambles appear before JSON payloads, and fail closed on non-tool leading text so fragment strings do not leak into filesystem path arguments during sub-agent runs. (#56560) Thanks @Originalwhite.
- Gateway/startup: keep configured primary-model warmup on the static model path so container boots do not snapshot-load provider runtime graphs just to validate a configured model. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI/Responses: omit disabled reasoning payloads across OpenAI, Codex, and Azure OpenAI request builders so GPT-5 endpoints no longer reject `reasoning.effort: "none"`. (#58208) Thanks @jalehman.
- WhatsApp/outbound: restore runtime send/action routing and outbound compatibility after the recent channel seam refactor so outbound sends, reactions, and related media actions keep reaching the active session. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- xAI/Responses: normalize image-bearing tool results for xAI responses payloads, including OpenResponses-style `input_image.source` parts, so image tool replays no longer 422 on the follow-up turn. (#58017) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Zalo/webhooks: scope replay dedupe to the authenticated target so one configured account can no longer cause same-id inbound events for another target to be dropped. Thanks @smaeljaish771 and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/prompt build: preserve the highest-priority `systemPrompt` when merging `before_prompt_build` hook results instead of letting lower-priority hooks overwrite it. (#58375) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Tlon/settings migration: preserve explicit empty-array settings during migration so restart-time reseeding no longer restores older file-config values. (#58370) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Plugins/marketplace: harden marketplace archive installs by surfacing guarded download failures as structured install errors and deriving temp filenames from the final resolved URL. (#58267) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- UI/DOM safety: build the chat delete-confirm popover and Canvas Host fallback status line with DOM nodes instead of injected HTML strings. (#58269, #58266) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Media/file handling: create image temp work directories under the shared OpenClaw temp root and stop widening allowed local media roots from reply or tool source paths, keeping local media access limited to configured and agent-scoped roots. (#58270, #57770) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Telegram/security: migrate legacy pairing `allowFrom` state to the `default` account only and gate group voice-message preflight transcription on sender authorization so unauthorized senders cannot trigger paid transcription before being dropped. (#58165, #57566) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Exec approvals: stop shell init-file flags from matching persisted script-path approvals, detect command-carrier inline eval in tools like `awk`, `find`, `xargs`, `make`, and `sed`, and treat the awk family as interpreter-like so allow-always decisions no longer persist interpreter paths. (#58369, #57842, #57772) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Voice call/Telnyx: canonicalize verified webhook signatures before deriving replay keys so equivalent Base64 and Base64URL encodings dedupe correctly. (#57829) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Gateway/HTTP trust boundaries: ignore self-declared bearer scopes, deny dangerous HTTP tool-invoke paths by default, require write scope on `/v1/embeddings`, and bind OpenAI-compatible `/v1/chat/completions` plus `/v1/responses` ingress as non-owner so external HTTP callers cannot self-upgrade access. (#57783, #57771, #57721, #57769, #57778) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Gateway/trusted config and bootstrap: clear self-declared scopes for device-less `trusted-proxy` WebSocket connects and trim the Control UI bootstrap payload to only the fields needed before the normal handshake. (#57692, #57727) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Skills and workspace safety: replace raw skill-file reads with a symlink-safe, root-confined loader and pin workspace-only `apply_patch` delete and directory-creation mutations to verified workspace roots so path rebind races fail closed. (#57519, #56016) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Env and filesystem hardening: block credential and gateway auth env vars from workspace `.env` files, always strip dangerous inherited host env vars such as `BROWSER` and `GIT_EDITOR`, and keep sensitive host paths and OpenClaw state roots blocked even when external sandbox bind sources are allowed. (#57767, #57559, #56024) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- OpenShell and ACP file boundaries: skip symlinks and preserve trusted host-only directories during OpenShell mirror sync, and route ACP attachment reads through the shared attachment cache so local files outside allowed roots are no longer forwarded. (#57693, #57690) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Channel/webhook authorization: skip Discord audio preflight transcription for unauthorized guild senders, add a shared pre-auth in-flight guard to Synology Chat webhooks, and validate Microsoft Teams bearer auth before JSON body parsing. (#57695, #57722, #57686) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.
- Infra/randomness: replace `Math.random()` in affected identifier and delay-jitter paths with shared secure-random helpers, including UI UUID generation. (#57744) Thanks @jacobtomlinson.

## 2026.3.28

### Changes

- xAI/tools: move the bundled xAI provider to the Responses API, add first-class `x_search`, and auto-enable the xAI plugin from owned web-search and tool config so bundled Grok auth/configured search flows work without manual plugin toggles. (#56048) Thanks @huntharo.
- xAI/onboarding: let the bundled Grok web-search plugin offer optional `x_search` setup during `openclaw onboard` and `openclaw configure --section web`, including an x_search model picker with the shared xAI key.
- MiniMax: add image generation provider for `image-01` model, supporting generate and image-to-image editing with aspect ratio control. (#54487) Thanks @liyuan97.
- Plugins/hooks: add async `requireApproval` to `before_tool_call` hooks, letting plugins pause tool execution and prompt the user for approval via the exec approval overlay, Telegram buttons, Discord interactions, or the `/approve` command on any channel. The `/approve` command now handles both exec and plugin approvals with automatic fallback. (#55339) Thanks @vaclavbelak and @joshavant.
- ACP/channels: add current-conversation ACP binds for Discord, BlueBubbles, and iMessage so `/acp spawn codex --bind here` can turn the current chat into a Codex-backed workspace without creating a child thread, and document the distinction between chat surface, ACP session, and runtime workspace.
- OpenAI/apply_patch: enable `apply_patch` by default for OpenAI and OpenAI Codex models, and align its sandbox policy access with `write` permissions.
- Plugins/CLI backends: move bundled Claude CLI, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI inference defaults onto the plugin surface, add bundled Gemini CLI backend support, and replace `gateway run --claude-cli-logs` with generic `--cli-backend-logs` while keeping the old flag as a compatibility alias.
- Plugins/startup: auto-load bundled provider and CLI-backend plugins from explicit config refs, so bundled Claude CLI, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI message-provider setups no longer need manual `plugins.allow` entries.
- Podman: simplify the container setup around the current rootless user, install the launch helper under `~/.local/bin`, and document the host-CLI `openclaw --container <name> ...` workflow instead of a dedicated `openclaw` service user.
- Slack/tool actions: add an explicit `upload-file` Slack action that routes file uploads through the existing Slack upload transport, with optional filename/title/comment overrides for channels and DMs.
- Message actions/files: start unifying file-first sends on the canonical `upload-file` action by adding explicit support for Microsoft Teams and Google Chat, and by exposing BlueBubbles file sends through `upload-file` while keeping the legacy `sendAttachment` alias.
- Plugins/Matrix TTS: send auto-TTS replies as native Matrix voice bubbles instead of generic audio attachments. (#37080) thanks @Matthew19990919.
- CLI: add `openclaw config schema` to print the generated JSON schema for `openclaw.json`. (#54523) Thanks @kvokka.
- Config/TTS: auto-migrate legacy speech config on normal reads and secret resolution, keep legacy diagnostics for Doctor, and remove regular-mode runtime fallback for old bundled `tts.<provider>` API-key shapes.
- Memory/plugins: move the pre-compaction memory flush plan behind the active memory plugin contract so `memory-core` owns flush prompts and target-path policy instead of hardcoded core logic.
- MiniMax: trim model catalog to M2.7 only, removing legacy M2, M2.1, M2.5, and VL-01 models. (#54487) Thanks @liyuan97.
- Plugins/runtime: expose `runHeartbeatOnce` in the plugin runtime `system` namespace so plugins can trigger a single heartbeat cycle with an explicit delivery target override (e.g. `heartbeat: { target: "last" }`). (#40299) Thanks @loveyana.
- Background tasks: keep durable lifecycle records for ACP/subagent spawned work and deliver ACP completion/failure updates through the real requester chat path instead of session-only stream events. Thanks @mbelinky and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/compaction: preserve the post-compaction AGENTS refresh on stale-usage preflight compaction for both immediate replies and queued followups. (#49479) Thanks @jared596.
- Agents/compaction: surface safeguard-specific cancel reasons and relabel benign manual `/compact` no-op cases as skipped instead of failed. (#51072) Thanks @afurm.
- Docs: add `pnpm docs:check-links:anchors` for Mintlify anchor validation while keeping `scripts/docs-link-audit.mjs` as the stable link-audit entrypoint. (#55912) Thanks @velvet-shark.
- Tavily: mark outbound API requests with `X-Client-Source: openclaw` so Tavily can attribute OpenClaw-originated traffic. (#55335) Thanks @lakshyaag-tavily.
- Plugins/hooks: add async `requireApproval` to `before_tool_call` hooks, letting plugins pause tool execution and prompt the user for approval via the exec approval overlay, Telegram buttons, Discord interactions, or the `/approve` command on any channel. The `/approve` command now handles both exec and plugin approvals with automatic fallback. (#55339) Thanks @vaclavbelak and @joshavant.

### Fixes

- Agents/Anthropic: recover unhandled provider stop reasons (e.g. `sensitive`) as structured assistant errors instead of crashing the agent run. (#56639) Thanks @hydro13.
- Google/models: resolve Gemini 3.1 pro, flash, and flash-lite for all Google provider aliases by passing the actual runtime provider ID and adding a template-provider fallback; fix flash-lite prefix ordering. (#56567) Thanks @hydro13.
- OpenAI Codex/image tools: register Codex for media understanding and route image prompts through Codex instructions so image analysis no longer fails on missing provider registration or missing `instructions`. (#54829) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Agents/image tool: restore the generic image-runtime fallback when no provider-specific media-understanding provider is registered, so image analysis works again for providers like `openrouter` and `minimax-portal`. (#54858) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- WhatsApp: fix infinite echo loop in self-chat DM mode where the bot's own outbound replies were re-processed as new inbound user messages. (#54570) Thanks @joelnishanth
- Telegram/splitting: replace proportional text estimate with verified HTML-length search so long messages split at word boundaries instead of mid-word; gracefully degrade when tag overhead exceeds the limit. (#56595) Thanks @hydro13.
- Telegram/delivery: skip whitespace-only and hook-blanked text replies in bot delivery to prevent GrammyError 400 empty-text crashes. (#56620) Thanks @hydro13.
- Telegram/send: validate `replyToMessageId` at all four API sinks with a shared normalizer that rejects non-numeric, NaN, and mixed-content strings. (#56587).
- Telegram/cron topics: route announce target parsing through the Telegram extension seam and carry explicit `delivery.threadId` through cron delivery resolution, so legacy `group:` routes and topic-targeted cron sends keep their forum topic destination. (#58489) Thanks @cwmine.
- Mistral: normalize OpenAI-compatible request flags so official Mistral API runs no longer fail with remaining `422 status code (no body)` chat errors.
- Control UI/config: keep sensitive raw config hidden by default, replace the blank blocked editor with an explicit reveal-to-edit state, and restore raw JSON editing without auto-exposing secrets. Fixes #55322.
- CLI/zsh: defer `compdef` registration until `compinit` is available so zsh completion loads cleanly with plugin managers and manual setups. (#56555).
- BlueBubbles/debounce: guard debounce flush against null message text by sanitizing at the enqueue boundary and adding an independent combiner guard. (#56573).
- Auto-reply: suppress JSON-wrapped `{"action":"NO_REPLY"}` control envelopes before channel delivery with a strict single-key detector; preserves media when text is only a silent envelope. (#56612).
- ACP/ACPX agent registry: align OpenClaw's ACPX built-in agent mirror with the latest `openclaw/acpx` command defaults and built-in aliases, pin versioned `npx` built-ins to exact versions, and stop unknown ACP agent ids from falling through to raw `--agent` command execution on the MCP-proxy path. (#28321) Thanks @m0nkmaster and @vincentkoc.
- Security/audit: extend web search key audit to recognize Gemini, Grok/xAI, Kimi, Moonshot, and OpenRouter credentials via a boundary-safe bundled-web-search registry shim. (#56540).
- Docs/FAQ: remove broken Xfinity SSL troubleshooting cross-links from English and zh-CN FAQ entries - both sections already contain the full workaround inline. (#56500) Thanks @hydro13.
- Telegram: deliver verbose tool summaries inside forum topic sessions again, so threaded topic chats now match DM verbose behavior. (#43236) Thanks @frankbuild.
- BlueBubbles/CLI agents: restore inbound prompt image refs for CLI routed turns, reapply embedded runner image size guardrails, and cover both CLI image transport paths with regression tests. (#51373).
- BlueBubbles/groups: optionally enrich unnamed participant lists with local macOS Contacts names after group gating passes, so group member context can show names instead of only raw phone numbers.
- Discord/reconnect: drain stale gateway sockets, clear cached resume state before forced fresh reconnects, and fail closed when old sockets refuse to die so Discord recovery stops looping on poisoned resume state. (#54697) Thanks @ngutman.
- iMessage: stop leaking inline `[[reply_to:...]]` tags into delivered text by sending `reply_to` as RPC metadata and stripping stray directive tags from outbound messages. (#39512) Thanks @mvanhorn.
- CLI/plugins: make routed commands use the same auto-enabled bundled-channel snapshot as gateway startup, so configured bundled channels like Slack load without requiring a prior config rewrite. (#54809) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- CLI/message send: write manual `openclaw message send` deliveries into the resolved agent session transcript again by always threading the default CLI agent through outbound mirroring. (#54187) Thanks @KevInTheCloud5617.
- CLI/onboarding: show the Kimi Code API key option again in the Moonshot setup menu so the interactive picker includes all Kimi setup paths together. Fixes #54412 Thanks @sparkyrider
- Agents/status: use provider-aware context window lookup for fresh Anthropic 4.6 model overrides so `/status` shows the correct 1.0m window instead of an underreported shared-cache minimum. (#54796) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- OpenAI/WebSocket: preserve reasoning replay metadata and tool-call item ids on WebSocket tool turns, and start a fresh response chain when full-context resend is required. (#53856) Thanks @xujingchen1996.
- OpenAI/WS: restore reasoning blocks for Responses WebSocket runs and keep reasoning/tool-call replay metadata intact so resumed sessions do not lose or break follow-up reasoning-capable turns. (#53856) Thanks @xujingchen1996.
- Agents/errors: surface provider quota/reset details when available, but keep HTML/Cloudflare rate-limit pages on the generic fallback so raw error pages are not shown to users. (#54512) Thanks @bugkill3r.
- Claude CLI: switch the bundled Claude CLI backend to `stream-json` output so watchdogs see progress on long runs, and keep session/usage metadata even when Claude finishes with an empty result line. (#49698) Thanks @felear2022.
- Claude CLI/MCP: always pass a strict generated `--mcp-config` overlay for background Claude CLI runs, including the empty-server case, so Claude does not inherit ambient user/global MCP servers. (#54961) Thanks @markojak.
- Agents/embedded replies: surface mid-turn 429 and overload failures when embedded runs end without a user-visible reply, while preserving successful media-only replies that still use legacy `mediaUrl`. (#50930) Thanks @infichen.
- Chat/UI: move the chat send button onto the shared ghost-button theme styling, while keeping the stop button icon readable on the danger state. (#55075) Thanks @bottenbenny.
- WhatsApp/allowFrom: show a specific allowFrom policy error for valid blocked targets instead of the misleading `<E.164|group JID>` format hint. Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Agents/cooldowns: scope rate-limit cooldowns per model so one 429 no longer blocks every model on the same auth profile, replace the exponential 1 min -> 1 h escalation with a stepped 30 s / 1 min / 5 min ladder, and surface a user-facing countdown message when all models are rate-limited. (#49834) Thanks @kiranvk-2011.
- Agents/embedded transport errors: distinguish common network failures like connection refused, DNS lookup failure, and interrupted sockets from true timeouts in embedded-run user messaging and lifecycle diagnostics. (#51419) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Telegram/pairing: ignore self-authored DM `message` updates so bot-pinned status cards and similar service updates do not trigger bogus pairing requests or re-enter inbound dispatch. (#54530) thanks @huntharo.
- Mattermost/replies: keep pairing replies, slash-command fallback replies, and model-picker messages on the resolved config path so `exec:` SecretRef bot tokens work across all outbound reply branches. (#48347) thanks @mathiasnagler.
- Microsoft Teams/config: accept the existing `welcomeCard`, `groupWelcomeCard`, `promptStarters`, and feedback/reflection keys in strict config validation so already-supported Teams runtime settings stop failing schema checks. (#54679) Thanks @gumclaw.
- MCP/channels: add a Gateway-backed channel MCP bridge with Codex/Claude-facing conversation tools, Claude channel notifications, and safer stdio bridge lifecycle handling for reconnects and routed session discovery.
- Plugins/SDK: thread `moduleUrl` through plugin-sdk alias resolution so user-installed plugins outside the openclaw directory correctly resolve `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*` subpath imports, and gate `plugin-sdk:check-exports` in `release:check`. (#54283) Thanks @xieyongliang.
- Config/web fetch: allow the documented `tools.web.fetch.maxResponseBytes` setting in runtime schema validation so valid configs no longer fail with unrecognized-key errors. (#53401) Thanks @erhhung.
- Message tool/buttons: keep the shared `buttons` schema optional in merged tool definitions so plain `action=send` calls stop failing validation when no buttons are provided. (#54418) Thanks @adzendo.
- Agents/openai-compatible tool calls: deduplicate repeated tool call ids across live assistant messages and replayed history so OpenAI-compatible backends no longer reject duplicate `tool_call_id` values with HTTP 400. (#40996) Thanks @xaeon2026.
- Models/openai-completions: default non-native OpenAI-compatible providers to omit tool-definition `strict` fields unless users explicitly opt back in, so tool calling keeps working on providers that reject that option. (#45497) Thanks @sahancava.
- Plugins/context engines: retry strict legacy `assemble()` calls without the new `prompt` field when older engines reject it, preserving prompt-aware retrieval compatibility for pre-prompt plugins. (#50848) thanks @danhdoan.
- CLI/update status: explicitly say `up to date` when the local version already matches npm latest, while keeping the availability logic unchanged. (#51409) Thanks @dongzhenye.
- Daemon/Linux: stop flagging non-gateway systemd services as duplicate gateways just because their unit files mention OpenClaw, reducing false-positive doctor/log noise. (#45328) Thanks @gregretkowski.
- Feishu: close WebSocket connections on monitor stop/abort so ghost connections no longer persist, preventing duplicate event processing and resource leaks across restart cycles. (#52844) Thanks @schumilin.
- Feishu: use the original message `create_time` instead of `Date.now()` for inbound timestamps so offline-retried messages carry the correct authoring time, preventing mis-targeted agent actions on stale instructions. (#52809) Thanks @schumilin.
- Control UI/Skills: open skill detail dialogs with the browser modal lifecycle so clicking a skill row keeps the panel centered instead of rendering it off-screen at the bottom of the page.
- Matrix/replies: include quoted poll question/options in inbound reply context so the agent sees the original poll content when users reply to Matrix poll messages. (#55056) Thanks @alberthild.
- Matrix/plugins: keep plugin bootstrap from crashing when built runtime mixes bare and deep `matrix-js-sdk` entrypoints, so unrelated channels do not get taken down during plugin load. (#56273) Thanks @aquaright1.
- Agents/sandbox: make blocked-tool guidance glob-aware again, redact/sanitize session-specific explain hints for safer copy-paste, and avoid leaking control-character session keys in those hints. (#54684) Thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/compaction: trigger timeout recovery compaction before retrying high-context LLM timeouts so embedded runs stop repeating oversized requests. (#46417) thanks @joeykrug.
- Agents/compaction: reconcile `sessions.json.compactionCount` after a late embedded auto-compaction success so persisted session counts catch up once the handler reports completion. (#45493) Thanks @jackal092927.
- Agents/failover: classify Codex accountId token extraction failures as auth errors so model fallback continues to the next configured candidate. (#55206) Thanks @cosmicnet.
- Plugins/runtime: reuse only compatible active plugin registries across tools, providers, web search, and channel bootstrap, align `/tools/invoke` plugin loading with the session workspace, and retry outbound channel recovery when the pinned channel surface changes so plugin tools and channels stop disappearing or re-registering from mismatched runtime loads. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Talk/macOS: stop direct system-voice failures from replaying system speech, use app-locale fallback for shared watchdog timing, and add regression coverage for the macOS fallback route and language-aware timeout policy. (#53511) thanks @hongsw.
- Discord/gateway cleanup: keep late Carbon reconnect-exhausted errors suppressed through startup/dispose cleanup so Discord monitor shutdown no longer crashes on late gateway close events. (#55373) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Discord/gateway shutdown: treat expected reconnect-exhausted events during intentional lifecycle stop as clean shutdowns so startup-abort cleanup no longer surfaces false gateway failures. (#55324) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Discord/gateway shutdown: suppress reconnect-exhausted events that were already buffered before teardown flips `lifecycleStopping`, so stale-socket Discord restarts no longer crash the whole gateway. Fixes #55403 and #55421. Thanks @lml2468 and @vincentkoc.
- GitHub Copilot/auth refresh: treat large `expires_at` values as seconds epochs and clamp far-future runtime auth refresh timers so Copilot token refresh cannot fall into a `setTimeout` overflow hot loop. (#55360) Thanks @michael-abdo.
- Agents/status: use the persisted runtime session model in `session_status` when no explicit override exists, and honor per-agent `thinkingDefault` in both `session_status` and `/status`. (#55425) Thanks @scoootscooob, @xaeon2026, and @ysfbsf.
- Heartbeat/runner: guarantee the interval timer is re-armed after heartbeat runs and unexpected runner errors so scheduled heartbeats do not silently stop after an interrupted cycle. (#52270) Thanks @MiloStack.
- Config/Doctor: rewrite stale bundled plugin load paths from legacy bundled-plugin locations to the packaged bundled path, including directory-name mismatches and slash-suffixed config entries. (#55054) Thanks @SnowSky1.
- WhatsApp/mentions: stop treating mentions embedded in quoted messages as direct mentions so replying to a message that @mentioned the bot no longer falsely triggers mention gating. (#52711) Thanks @lurebat.
- Matrix: keep separate 2-person rooms out of DM routing after `m.direct` seeds successfully, while still honoring explicit `is_direct` state and startup fallback recovery. (#54890) thanks @private-peter
- Agents/ollama fallback: surface non-2xx Ollama HTTP errors with a leading status code so HTTP 503 responses trigger model fallback again. (#55214) Thanks @bugkill3r.
- Feishu/tools: stop synthetic agent ids like `agent-spawner` from being treated as Feishu account ids during tool execution, so tools fall back to the configured/default Feishu account unless the contextual id is a real enabled Feishu account. (#55627) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Google/tools: strip empty `required: []` arrays from Gemini tool schemas so optional-only tool parameters no longer trigger Google validator 400s. (#52106) Thanks @oliviareid-svg.
- Onboarding/TUI/local gateways: show the resolved gateway port in setup output, clarify no-daemon local health/dashboard messaging, and preserve loopback Control UI auth on reruns and explicit local gateway URLs so local quickstart flows recover cleanly. (#55730) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- TUI/chat log: keep system messages as single logical entries and prune overflow at whole-message boundaries so wrapped system spacing stays intact. (#55732) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- TUI/activation: validate `/activation` arguments in the TUI and reject invalid values instead of silently coercing them to `mention`. (#55733) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/model switching: apply `/model` changes to active embedded runs at the next safe retry boundary, so overloaded or retrying turns switch to the newly selected model instead of staying pinned to the old provider.
- Agents/Codex fallback: classify Codex `server_error` payloads as failoverable, sanitize `Codex error:` payloads before they reach chat, preserve context-overflow guidance for prefixed `invalid_request_error` payloads, and omit provider `request_id` values from user-facing UI copy. (#42892) Thanks @xaeon2026.
- Memory/search: share memory embedding provider registrations across split plugin runtimes so memory search no longer fails with unknown provider errors after memory-core registers built-in adapters. (#55945) Thanks @glitch418x.
- Discord/Carbon beta: update `@buape/carbon` to the latest beta and pass the new `RateLimitError` request argument so Discord stays compatible with the upstream beta constructor change. (#55980) Thanks @ngutman.
- Plugins/inbound claims: pass full inbound attachment arrays through `inbound_claim` hook metadata while keeping the legacy singular media attachment fields for compatibility. (#55452) Thanks @huntharo.
- Plugins/Matrix: preserve sender filenames for inbound media by forwarding `originalFilename` to `saveMediaBuffer`. (#55692) thanks @esrehmki.
- Matrix/mentions: recognize `matrix.to` mentions whose visible label uses the bot's room display name, so `requireMention: true` rooms respond correctly in modern Matrix clients. (#55393) thanks @nickludlam.
- Ollama/thinking off: route `thinkingLevel=off` through the live Ollama extension request path so thinking-capable Ollama models now receive top-level `think: false` instead of silently generating hidden reasoning tokens. (#53200) Thanks @BruceMacD.
- Plugins/diffs: stage bundled `@pierre/diffs` runtime dependencies during packaged updates so the bundled diff viewer keeps loading after global installs and updates. (#56077) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/diffs: load bundled Pierre themes without JSON module imports so diff rendering keeps working on newer Node builds. (#45869) thanks @NickHood1984.
- Plugins/uninstall: remove owned `channels.<id>` config when uninstalling channel plugins, and keep the uninstall preview aligned with explicit channel ownership so built-in channels and shared keys stay intact. (#35915) Thanks @wbxl2000.
- Plugins/Matrix: prefer explicit DM signals when choosing outbound direct rooms and routing unmapped verification summaries, so strict 2-person fallback rooms do not outrank the real DM. (#56076) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/Matrix: resolve env-backed `accessToken` and `password` SecretRefs against the active Matrix config env path during startup, and officially accept SecretRef `accessToken` config values. (#54980) thanks @kakahu2015.
- Microsoft Teams/proactive DMs: prefer the freshest personal conversation reference for `user:<aadObjectId>` sends when multiple stored references exist, so replies stop targeting stale DM threads. (#54702) Thanks @gumclaw.
- Gateway/plugins: reuse the session workspace when building HTTP `/tools/invoke` tool lists and harden tool construction to infer the session agent workspace by default, so workspace plugins do not re-register on repeated HTTP tool calls. (#56101) thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Brave/web search: normalize unsupported Brave `country` filters to `ALL` before request and cache-key generation so locale-derived values like `VN` stop failing with upstream 422 validation errors. (#55695) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.
- Discord/replies: preserve leading indentation when stripping inline reply tags so reply-tagged plain text and fenced code blocks keep their formatting. (#55960) Thanks @Nanako0129.
- Daemon/status: surface immediate gateway close reasons from lightweight probes and prefer those concrete auth or pairing failures over generic timeouts in `openclaw daemon status`. (#56282) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Agents/failover: classify HTTP 410 errors as retryable timeouts by default while still preserving explicit session-expired, billing, and auth signals from the payload. (#55201) thanks @nikus-pan.
- Agents/subagents: restore completion announce delivery for extension channels like BlueBubbles. (#56348) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Plugins/Matrix: load bundled `@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-nodejs` through `createRequire(...)` so E2EE media send and receive keep the package-local native binding lookup working in packaged ESM builds. (#54566) thanks @joelnishanth.
- Plugins/Matrix: encrypt E2EE image thumbnails with `thumbnail_file` while keeping unencrypted-room previews on `thumbnail_url`, so encrypted Matrix image events keep thumbnail metadata without leaking plaintext previews. (#54711) thanks @frischeDaten.
- Telegram/forum topics: keep native `/new` and `/reset` routed to the active topic by preserving the topic target on forum-thread command context. (#35963) Thanks @hydro13.
- Status/port diagnostics: treat single-process dual-stack loopback gateway listeners as healthy in `openclaw status --all`, suppressing false "port already in use" conflict warnings. (#53398) Thanks @DanWebb1949.
- CLI/Docker: treat loopback private-host CLI gateway connects as local for silent pairing auto-approval, while keeping remote backend and public-host CLI connects behind pairing. (#55113) Thanks @sar618.

## 2026.3.24

### Breaking

- Providers/Qwen: remove the deprecated `qwen-portal-auth` OAuth integration for `portal.qwen.ai`; migrate to Model Studio with `openclaw onboard --auth-choice modelstudio-api-key`. (#52709) Thanks @pomelo-nwu.
- Config/Doctor: drop automatic config migrations older than two months; very old legacy keys now fail validation instead of being rewritten on load or by `openclaw doctor`.

## 2026.3.24

### Changes

- Gateway/OpenAI compatibility: add `/v1/models` and `/v1/embeddings`, and forward explicit model overrides through `/v1/chat/completions` and `/v1/responses` for broader client and RAG compatibility. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/tools: make `/tools` show the tools the current agent can actually use right now, add a compact default view with an optional detailed mode, and add a live "Available Right Now" section in the Control UI so it is easier to see what will work before you ask.
- Microsoft Teams: migrate to the official Teams SDK and add AI-agent UX best practices including streaming 1:1 replies, welcome cards with prompt starters, feedback/reflection, informative status updates, typing indicators, and native AI labeling. (#51808).
- Microsoft Teams: add message edit and delete support for sent messages, including in-thread fallbacks when no explicit target is provided. (#49925).
- Skills/install metadata: add one-click install recipes to bundled skills (coding-agent, gh-issues, openai-whisper-api, session-logs, tmux, trello, weather) so the CLI and Control UI can offer dependency installation when requirements are missing. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/skills: add status-filter tabs (All / Ready / Needs Setup / Disabled) with counts, replace inline skill cards with a click-to-detail dialog showing requirements, toggle switch, install action, API key entry, source metadata, and homepage link. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Slack/interactive replies: restore rich reply parity for direct deliveries, auto-render simple trailing `Options:` lines as buttons/selects, improve Slack interactive setup defaults, and isolate reply controls from plugin interactive handlers. (#53389) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/containers: add `--container` and `OPENCLAW_CONTAINER` to run `openclaw` commands inside a running Docker or Podman OpenClaw container. (#52651) Thanks @sallyom.
- Discord/auto threads: add optional `autoThreadName: "generated"` naming so new auto-created threads can be renamed asynchronously with concise LLM-generated titles while keeping the existing message-based naming as the default. (#43366) Thanks @davidguttman.
- Plugins/hooks: add `before_dispatch` with canonical inbound metadata and route handled replies through the normal final-delivery path, preserving TTS and routed delivery semantics. (#50444) Thanks @gfzhx.
- Control UI/agents: convert agent workspace file rows to expandable `<details>` with lazy-loaded inline markdown preview, and add comprehensive `.sidebar-markdown` styles for headings, lists, code blocks, tables, blockquotes, and details/summary elements. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/markdown preview: restyle the agent workspace file preview dialog with a frosted backdrop, sized panel, and styled header, and integrate `@create-markdown/preview` v2 system theme for rich markdown rendering (headings, tables, code blocks, callouts, blockquotes) that auto-adapts to the app's light/dark design tokens. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- macOS app/config: replace horizontal pill-based subsection navigation with a collapsible tree sidebar using disclosure chevrons and indented subsection rows. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- CLI/skills: soften missing-requirements label from "missing" to "needs setup" and surface API key setup guidance (where to get a key, CLI save command, storage path) in `openclaw skills info` output. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- macOS app/skills: add "Get your key" homepage link and storage-path hint to the API key editor dialog, and show the config path in save confirmation messages. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/agents: add a "Not set" placeholder to the default agent model selector dropdown. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Runtime/install: lower the supported Node 22 floor to `22.14+` while continuing to recommend Node 24, so npm installs and self-updates do not strand Node 22.14 users on older releases.
- CLI/update: preflight the target npm package `engines.node` before `openclaw update` runs a global package install, so outdated Node runtimes fail with a clear upgrade message instead of attempting an unsupported latest release.

### Fixes

- Outbound media/local files: align outbound media access with the configured fs policy so host-local files and inbound-media paths keep sending when `workspaceOnly` is off, while strict workspace-only agents remain sandboxed.
- Security/sandbox media dispatch: close the `mediaUrl`/`fileUrl` alias bypass so outbound tool and message actions cannot escape media-root restrictions. (#54034).
- Gateway/restart sentinel: wake the interrupted agent session via heartbeat after restart instead of only sending a best-effort restart note, retry outbound delivery once on transient failure, and preserve explicit thread/topic routing through the wake path so replies land in the correct Telegram topic or Slack thread. (#53940) Thanks @VACInc.
- Docker/setup: avoid the pre-start `openclaw-cli` shared-network namespace loop by routing setup-time onboard/config writes through `openclaw-gateway`, so fresh Docker installs stop failing before the gateway comes up. (#53385) Thanks @amsminn.
- Gateway/channels: keep channel startup sequential while isolating per-channel boot failures, so one broken channel no longer blocks later channels from starting. (#54215) Thanks @JonathanJing.
- Embedded runs/secrets: stop unresolved `SecretRef` config from crashing embedded agent runs by falling back to the resolved runtime snapshot when needed. Fixes #45838.
- WhatsApp/groups: track recent gateway-sent message IDs and suppress only matching group echoes, preserving owner `/status`, `/new`, and `/activation` commands from linked-account `fromMe` traffic. (#53624) Thanks @w-sss.
- WhatsApp/reply-to-bot detection: restore implicit group reply detection by unwrapping `botInvokeMessage` payloads and reading `selfLid` from `creds.json`, so reply-based mentions reach the bot again in linked-account group chats.
- Telegram/forum topics: recover `#General` topic `1` routing when Telegram omits forum metadata, including native commands, interactive callbacks, inbound message context, and fallback error replies. (#53699) thanks @huntharo.
- Discord/gateway supervision: centralize gateway error handling behind a lifetime-owned supervisor so early, active, and late-teardown Carbon gateway errors stay classified consistently and stop surfacing as process-killing teardown crashes.
- Discord/timeouts: send a visible timeout reply when the inbound Discord worker times out before a final reply starts, including created auto-thread targets and queued-run ordering. (#53823) Thanks @Kimbo7870.
- ACP/direct chats: always deliver a terminal ACP result when final TTS does not yield audio, even if block text already streamed earlier, and skip redundant empty-text final synthesis. (#53692) Thanks @w-sss.
- Telegram/outbound errors: preserve actionable 403 membership/block/kick details and treat `bot not a member` as a permanent delivery failure so Telegram sends stop retrying doomed chats. (#53635) Thanks @w-sss.
- Telegram/photos: preflight Telegram photo dimension and aspect-ratio rules, and fall back to document sends when image metadata is invalid or unavailable so photo uploads stop failing with `PHOTO_INVALID_DIMENSIONS`. (#52545) Thanks @hnshah.
- Slack/runtime defaults: trim Slack DM reply overhead, restore Codex auto transport, and tighten Slack/web-search runtime defaults around DM preview threading, cache scoping, warning dedupe, and explicit web-search opt-in. (#53957) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/gateway config: block agent `config.apply` and `config.patch` writes to `tools.exec.ask` and `tools.exec.security` so gateway config tools cannot silently disable exec approvals or broaden exec security.
- Security/chat provenance: require `operator.admin` for system provenance injection so `chat.send` callers cannot spoof ACP-only provenance through client identity metadata.
- Security/exec approvals: treat `/usr/bin/script` as a transparent wrapper during trust-plan resolution and allow-always persistence so wrapper registration cannot broaden exec approvals.
- Security/Feishu uploads: route local doc and image upload inputs through media local-roots enforcement so Feishu uploads cannot read arbitrary host files outside the allowed sandbox and file policy.
- Security/dotenv: filter untrusted CWD and workspace-config `.env` entries before startup and config loading so dotenv-based host-env takeover paths can no longer rewrite runtime state or package registries.
- Security/media parsing: reject traversal and home-directory patterns in the shared media parse layer so parsed media paths cannot escape into arbitrary file reads.
- Security/path resolution: prefer non-user-writable absolute helper binaries for OpenClaw CLI, ffmpeg, and OpenSSL resolution so PATH hijacks cannot replace trusted helpers with attacker-controlled executables.
- Security/gateway command scopes: require `operator.admin` before Telegram target writeback and Talk Voice `/voice set` config writes persist through gateway message flows.
- Security/OpenShell mirror: exclude workspace `hooks/` from mirror sync so untrusted sandbox files cannot become trusted host hooks on gateway startup.
- Exec env policy: block Mercurial config redirects, Rust compiler wrappers, and GNU make flag env vars in host exec sanitization so inherited env and request-scoped overrides cannot redirect build-tool execution (#317). Thanks @drobison00.

## 2026.3.24-beta.2

### Fixes

- Tests/security audit: isolate audit-test home and personal skill resolution so local `~/.agents/skills` installs no longer make maintainer prep runs fail nondeterministically. (#54473) thanks @huntharo

## 2026.3.24-beta.1

### Fixes

- Doctor/image generation: seed migrated legacy Nano Banana Google provider config with the `/v1beta` API root and an empty model list so `openclaw doctor --fix` completes and the migrated native Google image path keeps hitting the correct endpoint. (#53757) Thanks @mahopan.
- Models/google: normalize bare Google Generative AI API roots for custom provider names, and keep built-in Google model-id rewrites working when `api` is declared only on individual models, so custom Google lanes and older configs stop missing `/v1beta` or preview-id normalization. (#44969) Thanks @Kathie-yu.
- Feishu/startup: treat unresolved `SecretRef` app credentials as not configured during account resolution so CLI startup and read-only Feishu config surfaces stop crashing before runtime-backed secret resolution is available. (#53675) Thanks @hpt.
- Feishu/groups: when `groupPolicy` is `open`, stop implicitly requiring @mentions for unset `requireMention`, so image, file, audio, and other non-text group messages reach the bot unless operators explicitly keep mention gating on. (#54058) Thanks @byungsker.
- Feishu/startup: keep `requireMention` enforcement strict when bot identity startup probes fail, raise the startup bot-info timeout to 30s, and add cancellable background identity recovery so mention-gated groups recover without noisy fallback. (#43788) Thanks @lefarcen.
- Feishu/MSTeams message tool: keep provider-native `card` payloads optional in merged tool schemas so media-only sends stop failing validation before channel runtime dispatch. (#53715) Thanks @lndyzwdxhs.
- Feishu/docx block ordering: preserve the document tree order from `docx.document.convert` when inserting blocks, fixing heading/paragraph/list misordering in newly written Feishu documents. (#40524) Thanks @TaoXieSZ.
- Telegram/native commands: run native slash-command execution against the resolved runtime snapshot so DM commands still reply when fresh config reads surface unresolved SecretRefs. (#53179) Thanks @nimbleenigma.
- Gateway/ports: parse Docker Compose-style `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT` host publish values correctly without reviving the legacy `CLAWDBOT_GATEWAY_PORT` override. (#44083) Thanks @bebule.
- Plugins/memory-lancedb: bootstrap the env-configured HTTP/HTTPS proxy dispatcher before OpenAI embeddings requests so memory capture and recall work in proxy-required environments again. (#54119) Thanks @neeravmakwana.
- Runtime/build: stabilize long-lived lazy `dist` runtime entry paths and harden bundled plugin npm staging so local rebuilds stop breaking on missing hashed chunks or broken shell `npm` shims. (#53855) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/skills: validate skill installer metadata against strict regex allowlists per package manager, sanitize skill metadata for terminal output, add URL protocol allowlisting in markdown preview and skill homepage links, warn on non-bundled skill install sources, and remove unsafe `file://` workspace links. (#53471) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Memory/builtin sqlite: cut redundant sync and status query churn by snapshotting file state once per source, reusing sync statements, and consolidating status aggregation reads, which reduces builtin memory overhead on sync/status/doctor-style paths. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TUI/chat: preserve pending user messages when a slow local run emits an empty final event, but still defer and flush the needed history reload after the newer active run finishes so silent/tool-only runs do not stay incomplete. (#53130) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- DeepSeek/pricing: replace the zero-cost DeepSeek catalog rates with the current DeepSeek V3.2 pricing so usage totals stop showing `$0.00` for DeepSeek sessions. (#54143) Thanks @arkyu2077.
- CLI/logging: make pretty log timestamps always include an explicit timezone offset in default UTC and `--local-time` modes, so incident triage no longer mixes ambiguous clock displays. (#38904) Thanks @sahilsatralkar.
- Browser/default detection: recognize macOS LaunchServices Edge bundle ids so default Chromium detection stops falling back to Chrome when Edge is the system default. (#48561) Thanks @zoherghadyali.
- CLI/Telegram topics: route `message thread create` through Telegram `topic-create` with the required topic `name` field so Telegram forum topic creation works from the CLI again. (#54336) Thanks @andyliu.
- Telegram/pairing: render pairing codes and approval commands as Telegram-only code blocks while keeping shared pairing replies plain text for other channels. (#52784) Thanks @sumukhj1219.
- Agents/cron: suppress the default heartbeat system prompt for cron-triggered embedded runs even when they target non-cron session keys, so cron tasks stop reading `HEARTBEAT.md` and polluting unrelated threads. (#53152) Thanks @Protocol-zero-0.
- Agents/cron: mark best-effort announce runs as not delivered when any payload fails, and log those partial delivery failures instead of silently reporting success. (#42535) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Plugins: enforce terminal hook decision semantics for tool/message guards (#54241) Thanks @joshavant.
- Marketplace/agents: correct the ClawHub skill URL in agent docs and stream marketplace archive downloads to disk so installs avoid excess memory use and fail cleanly on empty responses. (#54160) Thanks @QuinnH496.
- Discord/config types: add missing `autoArchiveDuration` to `DiscordGuildChannelConfig` so TypeScript config definitions match the existing schema and runtime support. (#43427) Thanks @davidguttman.
- Docs/IRC: fix five `json55` code-fence typos in the IRC channel examples so Mintlify applies JSON5 syntax highlighting correctly. (#50842) Thanks @Hollychou924.
- Discord/commands: trim overlong slash-command descriptions to Discord's 100-character limit and map rejected deploy indexes from Discord validation payloads back to command names/descriptions, so deploys stop failing on long descriptions and startup logs identify the rejected commands. (#54118) thanks @huntharo
- Media/store: enforce the intended media file mode after writes and redirect downloads so restrictive umasks do not silently narrow saved media permissions.
- Security/gateway auth: enforce `operator.read` and `models.list` on `/v1/models` so write-scoped callers cannot list models through the OpenAI-compatible HTTP surface.
- Security/allowlist commands: require `operator.admin` for internal `/allowlist` mutations and channel allowlist persistence reached through `chat.send`.
- Security/Feishu webhook: cap pre-auth webhook body reads with strict size and timeout guards before JSON parsing so slow-body requests cannot hold the webhook handler open.
- Security/session policy: require sender ownership for `/send` policy changes so command-authorized non-owners cannot rewrite owner-only session delivery policy.
- Security/bash stop: route `/bash stop` through the hardened process-tree killer so invalid or attacker-influenced SIGKILL targets cannot escape the intended bash-session scope.
- Security/installer: hide staged project `.npmrc` files during skill and package installs so npm registry and git settings inside the stage directory cannot hijack trusted installs.

## 2026.3.23

### Changes

- ModelStudio/Qwen: add standard (pay-as-you-go) DashScope endpoints for China and global Qwen API keys alongside the existing Coding Plan endpoints, and relabel the provider group to `Qwen (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio)`. (#43878).
- UI/clarity: consolidate button primitives (`btn--icon`, `btn--ghost`, `btn--xs`), refine the Knot theme to a black-and-red palette with WCAG 2.1 AA contrast, add config icons for Diagnostics/CLI/Secrets/ACP/MCP sections, replace the roundness slider with discrete stops, and improve accessibility with aria-labels across usage filters. (#53272) Thanks @BunsDev.
- CSP/Control UI: compute SHA-256 hashes for inline `<script>` blocks in the served `index.html` and include them in the `script-src` CSP directive, keeping inline scripts blocked by default while allowing explicitly hashed bootstrap code. (#53307) Thanks @BunsDev.

### Fixes

- Plugins/bundled runtimes: ship bundled plugin runtime sidecars like WhatsApp `light-runtime-api.js`, Matrix `runtime-api.js`, and other plugin runtime entry files in the npm package again, so global installs stop failing on missing bundled plugin runtime surfaces.
- CLI/channel auth: auto-select the single configured login-capable channel for `channels login`/`logout`, harden channel ids against prototype-chain and control-character abuse, and fall back cleanly to catalog-backed channel installs, so channel auth works again for single-channel setups and on-demand channel installs. (#53254) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Auth/OpenAI tokens: stop live gateway auth-profile writes from reverting freshly saved credentials back to stale in-memory values, and make `models auth paste-token` write to the resolved agent store, so Configure, Onboard, and token-paste flows stop snapping back to expired OpenAI tokens. Fixes #53207. Related to #45516.
- Control UI/auth: preserve operator scopes through the device-auth bypass path, ignore cached under-scoped operator tokens, and show a clear `operator.read` fallback message when a connection really lacks read scope, so operator sessions stop failing or blanking on read-backed pages. (#53110) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Plugins/ClawHub: resolve plugin API compatibility against the active runtime version at install time, and add regression coverage for current `>=2026.3.22` ClawHub package checks so installs no longer fail behind the stale `1.2.0` constant. (#53157) Thanks @futhgar.
- Plugins/uninstall: accept installed `clawhub:` specs and versionless ClawHub package names as uninstall targets, so `openclaw plugins uninstall clawhub:<package>` works again even when the recorded install was pinned to a version.
- Browser/Chrome MCP: wait for existing-session browser tabs to become usable after attach instead of treating the initial Chrome MCP handshake as ready, which reduces user-profile timeouts and repeated consent churn on macOS Chrome attach flows. Fixes #52930. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Browser/CDP: reuse an already-running loopback browser after a short initial reachability miss instead of immediately falling back to relaunch detection, which fixes second-run browser start/open regressions on slower headless Linux setups. Fixes #53004. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/web_search: use the active runtime `web_search` provider instead of stale/default selection, so agent turns keep hitting the provider you actually configured. Fixes #53020. Thanks @jzakirov.
- Mistral/models: lower bundled Mistral max-token defaults to safe output budgets and teach `openclaw doctor --fix` to repair old persisted Mistral provider configs that still carry context-sized output limits, avoiding deterministic Mistral 422 rejects on fresh and existing setups. Fixes #52599. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ClawHub/macOS auth: honor macOS auth config and XDG auth paths for saved ClawHub credentials, so `openclaw skills ...` and gateway skill browsing keep using the signed-in auth state instead of silently falling back to unauthenticated mode. Fixes #53034.
- ClawHub/macOS: read the local ClawHub login from the macOS Application Support path and still honor XDG config on macOS, so skill browsing uses the logged-in token on both default and XDG-style setups. Fixes #52949. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- ClawHub/skills: resolve the local ClawHub auth token for gateway skill browsing and switch browse-all requests to search so ClawControl stops falling into unauthenticated 429s and empty authenticated skill lists. Fixes #52949. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Config/warnings: suppress the confusing "newer OpenClaw" warning when a config written by a same-base correction release like `2026.3.23-2` is read by `2026.3.23`, while still warning for truly newer or incompatible versions (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- CLI/cron: make `openclaw cron add|edit --at .. --tz <iana>` honor the requested local wall-clock time for offset-less one-shot datetimes, including DST boundaries, and keep `--tz` rejected for `--every`. (#53224) Thanks @RolfHegr.
- Commands/auth: stop slash-command authorization from crashing or dropping valid allowlists when channel `allowFrom` resolution hits unresolved SecretRef-backed accounts, and fail closed only for the affected provider inference path. (#52791) Thanks @Lukavyi.
- Agents/failover: classify generic `api_error` payloads as retryable only when they include transient failure signals, so MiniMax-style backend failures still trigger model fallback without misclassifying billing, auth, or format/context errors. (#49611) Thanks @ayushozha.
- LINE/runtime-api: pre-export overlapping runtime symbols before the `line-runtime` star export so jiti no longer throws `TypeError: Cannot redefine property` on startup. (#53221) Thanks @Drickon.
- Telegram/threading: populate `currentThreadTs` in the threading tool-context fallback for Telegram DM topics so thread-aware tools still receive the active topic context when the main thread metadata is missing. (#52217).
- Diagnostics/cache trace: strip credential fields from cache-trace JSONL output while preserving non-sensitive diagnostic fields and image redaction metadata.
- Docs/Feishu: replace `botName` with `name` in the channel config examples so the docs match the strict account schema for per-account display names. (#52753) Thanks @haroldfabla2-hue.
- Doctor/plugins: make `openclaw doctor --fix` remove stale `plugins.allow` and `plugins.entries` refs left behind after plugin removal. Thanks @sallyom
- Agents/replay: canonicalize malformed assistant transcript content before session-history sanitization so legacy or corrupted assistant turns stop crashing Pi replay and subagent recovery paths.
- ClawHub/skills: keep updating already-tracked legacy Unicode slugs after the ASCII-only slug hardening, so older installs do not get stuck behind `Invalid skill slug` errors during `openclaw skills update`. (#53206) Thanks @drobison00.
- Infra/exec trust: preserve shell-multiplexer wrapper binaries for policy checks without breaking approved-command reconstruction, so BusyBox/ToyBox allowlist and audit flows bind to the real wrapper while execution plans stay coherent. (#53134) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/message tool: make Discord `components` and Slack `blocks` optional again, and route Feishu `message(..., media=...)` sends through the outbound media path, so pin/unpin/react flows stop failing schema validation and Feishu file/image attachments actually send. Fixes #52970 and #52962. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/model pricing: stop `openrouter/auto` pricing refresh from recursing indefinitely during bootstrap, so OpenRouter auto routes can populate cached pricing and `usage.cost` again. Fixes #53035. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models/OpenAI Codex OAuth: bootstrap the env-configured HTTP/HTTPS proxy dispatcher on the stored-credential refresh path before token renewal runs, so expired Codex OAuth profiles can refresh successfully in proxy-required environments instead of locking users out after the first token expiry.
- Models/OpenAI Codex OAuth and Plugins/MiniMax OAuth: ensure env-configured HTTP/HTTPS proxy dispatchers are initialized before OAuth preflight and token exchange requests so proxy-required environments can complete MiniMax and OpenAI Codex sign-in flows again. (#52228; fixes #51619, #51569) Thanks @openperf.
- Plugins/memory-lancedb: bootstrap LanceDB into plugin runtime state on first use when the bundled npm install does not already have it, so `plugins.slots.memory="memory-lancedb"` works again after global npm installs without moving LanceDB into OpenClaw core dependencies. Fixes #26100.
- Config/plugins: treat stale unknown `plugins.allow` ids as warnings instead of fatal config errors, so recovery commands like `plugins install`, `doctor --fix`, and `status` still run when a plugin is missing locally. Fixes #52992. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/WhatsApp: stop auto-enable from appending built-in channel ids like `whatsapp` to `plugins.allow`, so `openclaw doctor --fix` no longer writes schema-invalid plugin allowlist entries when repairing built-in channels. Fixes #52931. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/auto-reply: preserve same-chat inbound debounce order without stranding stale busy-session followups, and keep same-key overflow turns ordered when tracked debounce keys are saturated. (#52998) Thanks @osolmaz.
- Telegram/message tool: add `asDocument` as a user-facing alias for `forceDocument` on image and GIF sends, while preserving explicit `forceDocument` precedence when both flags are present. (#52461) Thanks @bakhtiersizhaev.
- Discord/commands: return an explicit unauthorized reply for privileged native slash commands instead of falling through to Discord's misleading generic completion when auth gates reject the sender. Fixes #53041. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Channels/catalog: let external channel catalogs override shipped fallback metadata and honor overridden npm specs during channel setup, so custom channel catalogs no longer fall back to bundled packages when a channel id matches. (#52988).
- Voice-call/Plivo: stabilize Plivo v2 replay keys so webhook retries and replay protection stop colliding on valid follow-up deliveries.
- Agents/skills: prefer the active resolved runtime snapshot for embedded skill config and env injection, so `skills.entries.<skill>.apiKey` SecretRefs resolve correctly during embedded startup instead of failing on raw source config. Fixes #53098. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/subagents: recheck timed-out worker waits against the latest runtime snapshot before sending completion events, so fast-finishing workers stop being reported as timed out when they actually succeeded. Fixes #53106. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Anthropic: preserve latest assistant thinking and redacted-thinking block ordering during transcript image sanitization so follow-up turns do not trip Anthropic's unmodified-thinking validation. (#52961) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/DeepSeek: refactor the bundled DeepSeek provider onto the shared single-provider plugin entry, move its coverage into the extension test lane, and keep bundled auth env-var metadata on the generated manifest path. (#48762) Thanks @07akioni.
- Plugins/Matrix: avoid duplicate `resolveMatrixAccountStringValues` runtime-api exports under Jiti so bundled Matrix installs no longer crash at startup with `Cannot redefine property: resolveMatrixAccountStringValues`. Fixes #52909 and #52891. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/exec approvals: keep shell-wrapper positional-argv allowlist matching on real direct carriers only by rejecting single-quoted `$0`/`$n` tokens, disallowing newline-separated `exec`, and still accepting `exec --` carrier forms. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/probe: stop successful gateway handshakes from timing out as unreachable while post-connect detail RPCs are still loading, so slow devices report a reachable RPC failure instead of a false negative dead gateway. Fixes #52927. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/supervision: stop lock conflicts from crash-looping under launchd and systemd by keeping the duplicate process in a retry wait instead of exiting as a failure while another healthy gateway still owns the lock. Fixes #52922. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/auth: require auth for canvas routes and admin scope for agent session reset, so anonymous canvas access and non-admin reset requests fail closed.
- Release/install: keep previously released bundled plugins and Control UI assets in published openclaw npm installs, and fail release checks when those shipped artifacts are missing. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp/outbound sends: keep the active Web listener on a direct process-global symbol so split runtime chunks keep sharing the connected Baileys session and `openclaw message send --channel whatsapp` stops failing after connect. Fixes #52574. Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Agents/process: fail loud when `send-keys` tries cursor-sensitive keys before a background PTY reports its cursor mode, so startup races no longer silently send the wrong arrow/Home/End sequences. (#51490) Thanks @liuy.

## 2026.3.22

### Breaking

- Plugins/install: bare `openclaw plugins install <package>` now prefers ClawHub before npm for npm-safe names, and only falls back to npm when ClawHub does not have that package or version. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/clawhub.
- Browser/Chrome MCP: remove the legacy Chrome extension relay path, bundled extension assets, `driver: "extension"`, and `browser.relayBindHost`. Run `openclaw doctor --fix` to migrate host-local browser config to `existing-session` / `user`; Docker, headless, sandbox, and remote browser flows still use raw CDP. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/doctor and https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/browser (#47893) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Tools/image generation: standardize the stock image create/edit path on the core `image_generate` tool. The old `nano-banana-pro` docs/examples are gone; if you previously copied that sample-skill config, switch to `agents.defaults.imageGenerationModel` for built-in image generation or install a separate third-party skill explicitly.
- Skills/image generation: remove the bundled `nano-banana-pro` skill wrapper. Use `agents.defaults.imageGenerationModel.primary: "google/gemini-3-pro-image-preview"` for the native Nano Banana-style path instead.
- Plugins/SDK: the new public plugin SDK surface is `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*`; `openclaw/extension-api` is removed with no compatibility shim. Bundled plugins must use injected runtime for host-side operations (for example `api.runtime.agent.runEmbeddedPiAgent`) and any remaining direct imports must come from narrow `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*` subpaths instead of the monolithic SDK root. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/sdk-migration and https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/sdk-overview.
- Plugins/message discovery: require `ChannelMessageActionAdapter.describeMessageTool(...)` for shared `message` tool discovery. The legacy `listActions`, `getCapabilities`, and `getToolSchema` adapter methods are removed. Plugin authors should migrate message discovery to `describeMessageTool(...)` and keep channel-specific action runtime code inside the owning plugin package. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/Matrix: add a new Matrix plugin backed by the official `matrix-js-sdk`. If you are upgrading from the previous public Matrix plugin, follow the migration guide: https://docs.openclaw.ai/install/migrating-matrix Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Config/env: remove legacy `CLAWDBOT_*` and `MOLTBOT_*` compatibility env names across runtime, installers, and test tooling. Use the matching `OPENCLAW_*` env names instead.
- Config/state: remove legacy `.moltbot` state-dir and `moltbot.json` auto-detection/migration fallback. If you still keep state under `~/.moltbot`, move it to `~/.openclaw` or set `OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR` / `OPENCLAW_CONFIG_PATH` explicitly. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/install/migrating and https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/getting-started.
- Exec/env sandbox: block build-tool JVM injection (`MAVEN_OPTS`, `SBT_OPTS`, `GRADLE_OPTS`, `ANT_OPTS`), glibc tunable exploitation (`GLIBC_TUNABLES`), and .NET dependency resolution hijack (`DOTNET_ADDITIONAL_DEPS`) from the host exec environment, and restrict Gradle init script redirect (`GRADLE_USER_HOME`) as an override-only block so user-configured Gradle homes still propagate. (#49702).
- Discord/commands: switch native command deployment to Carbon reconcile by default so Discord restarts stop churning slash commands through OpenClaw's local deploy path. (#46597) Thanks @huntharo and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Security/exec approvals: treat `time` as a transparent dispatch wrapper during allowlist evaluation and allow-always persistence so approved `time ...` commands bind the inner executable instead of the wrapper path. Thanks @YLChen-007 for reporting.
- Voice-call/webhooks: reject missing provider signature headers before body reads, drop the pre-auth body budget to `64 KB` / `5s`, and cap concurrent pre-auth requests per source IP so unauthenticated callers cannot force the old `1 MB` / `30s` buffering path. Thanks @SEORY0 for reporting.
- Plugins/Matrix: stop mention-gated or otherwise dropped room chatter from refreshing focused thread bindings before the message is actually routed, so idle ACP and session bindings can still expire normally in mention-required rooms. Thanks @vincentkoc, @dinakars777 and @mvanhorn.
- Plugins/Matrix: durably dedupe inbound room events across gateway restarts so previously handled Matrix messages are not replayed as new, while preserving clean-restart backlog delivery for unseen events. (#50922) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/media replies: migrate the remaining browser, canvas, and nodes snapshot outputs onto `details.media` so generated media keeps attaching to assistant replies after the collect-then-attach refactor. (#51731) Thanks @christianklotz.
- Android/contacts search: escape literal `%` and `_` in contact-name queries so searches like `100%` or `_id` no longer match unrelated contacts through SQL `LIKE` wildcards. (#41891) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
- Gateway/usage: include reset and deleted archived session transcripts in usage totals, session discovery, and archived-only session detail fallback so the Usage view no longer undercounts rotated sessions. (#43215) Thanks @rcrick.

### Changes

- ClawHub/install: add native `openclaw skills search|install|update` flows plus `openclaw plugins install clawhub:<package>` with tracked update metadata, gateway skill-install/update support for ClawHub-backed requests, and regression coverage/docs for the new source path.
- Plugins/marketplaces: add Claude marketplace registry resolution, `plugin@marketplace` installs, marketplace listing, and update support, plus Docker E2E coverage for local and official marketplace flows. (#48058) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Commands/plugins: add owner-gated `/plugins` and `/plugin` chat commands for plugin list/show and enable/disable flows, alongside explicit `commands.plugins` config gating. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Install/update: allow package-manager installs from GitHub `main` via `openclaw update --tag main`, installer `--version main`, or direct npm/pnpm git specs. (#47630) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/bundles: add compatible Codex, Claude, and Cursor bundle discovery/install support, map bundle skills into OpenClaw skills, and apply Claude bundle `settings.json` defaults to embedded Pi with shell overrides sanitized.
- CLI/hooks: route hook-pack install and update through `openclaw plugins`, keep `openclaw hooks` focused on hook visibility and per-hook controls, and show plugin-managed hook details in CLI output.
- Models/OpenAI: switch the default OpenAI setup model to `openai/gpt-5.4`, keep Codex on `openai-codex/gpt-5.4`, and centralize OpenAI chat, image, TTS, transcription, and embedding defaults in one shared module so future default-model updates stay low-churn. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents: add per-agent thinking/reasoning/fast defaults and auto-revert disallowed model overrides to the agent's default selection. Thanks @xuanmingguo and @vincentkoc.
- Commands/btw: add `/btw` side questions for quick tool-less answers about the current session without changing future session context, with dismissible in-session TUI answers and explicit BTW replies on external channels. (#45444) Thanks @ngutman.
- Sandbox/runtime: add pluggable sandbox backends, ship an OpenShell backend with `mirror` and `remote` workspace modes, and make sandbox list/recreate/prune backend-aware instead of Docker-only.
- Sandbox/SSH: add a core SSH sandbox backend with secret-backed key, certificate, and known_hosts inputs, move shared remote exec/filesystem tooling into core, and keep OpenShell focused on sandbox lifecycle plus optional `mirror` mode.
- Browser/existing-session: support `browser.profiles.<name>.userDataDir` so Chrome DevTools MCP can attach to Brave, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers through their own user data directories. (#48170) Thanks @velvet-shark.
- Plugins/bundles: make enabled bundle MCP servers expose runnable tools in embedded Pi, and default relative bundle MCP launches to the bundle root so marketplace bundles like Context7 work through Pi instead of stopping at config import.
- Plugins/providers: move OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex provider/runtime logic into bundled plugins, including dynamic model fallback, runtime auth exchange, stream wrappers, capability hints, and cache-TTL policy.
- Models/Anthropic Vertex: add core `anthropic-vertex` provider support for Claude via Google Vertex AI, including GCP auth/discovery and main run-path routing. (#43356) Thanks @sallyom and @yossiovadia.
- Plugins/Chutes: add a bundled Chutes provider with plugin-owned OAuth/API-key auth, dynamic model discovery, and default-on extension wiring. (#41416) Thanks @Veightor.
- Web tools/Exa: add Exa as a bundled web-search plugin with Exa-native date filters, search-mode selection, and optional content extraction under `plugins.entries.exa.config.webSearch.*`. Thanks @V-Gutierrez and @vincentkoc.
- Web tools/Tavily: add Tavily as a bundled web-search provider with dedicated `tavily_search` and `tavily_extract` tools, using canonical plugin-owned config under `plugins.entries.tavily.config.webSearch.*`. (#49200) thanks @lakshyaag-tavily.
- Web tools/Firecrawl: add Firecrawl as an `onboard`/configure search provider via a bundled plugin, expose explicit `firecrawl_search` and `firecrawl_scrape` tools, and align core `web_fetch` fallback behavior with Firecrawl base-URL/env fallback plus guarded endpoint fetches.
- Models/OpenAI: add native forward-compat support for `gpt-5.4-mini` and `gpt-5.4-nano` in the OpenAI provider catalog, runtime resolution, and reasoning capability gates. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/chat: add an expand-to-canvas button on assistant chat bubbles and in-app session navigation from Sessions and Cron views. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/appearance: unify theme border radii across Claw, Knot, and Dash, and add a Roundness slider to the Appearance settings so users can adjust corner radius from sharp to fully rounded. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/usage: improve usage overview styling, localization, and responsive chat/context-notice presentation, including safer theme color handling and unclipped usage-header menus. (#51951) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/usage: drop the empty session-detail placeholder card so the usage view stays single-column until a real session detail panel is selected. (#52013) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Android/mobile: add a system-aware dark theme across onboarding and post-onboarding screens so the app follows the device theme through setup, chat, and voice flows. (#46249) Thanks @sibbl.
- Android/Talk: move Talk speech synthesis behind gateway `talk.speak`, keep Talk secrets on the gateway, and switch Android playback to final-response audio instead of device-local ElevenLabs streaming. (#50849).
- Android/nodes: add `callLog.search` plus shared Call Log permission wiring so Android nodes can search recent call history through the gateway. (#44073) Thanks @lixuankai.
- Android/nodes: add `sms.search` plus shared SMS permission wiring so Android nodes can search device text messages through the gateway. (#48299) Thanks @lixuankai.
- Telegram/apiRoot: add per-account custom Bot API endpoint support across send, probe, setup, doctor repair, and inbound media download paths so proxied or self-hosted Telegram deployments work end to end. (#48842) Thanks @Cypherm.
- Telegram/topics: auto-rename DM forum topics on first message with LLM-generated labels, with per-account and per-DM `autoTopicLabel` overrides. (#51502) Thanks @Lukavyi.
- Telegram/actions: add `topic-edit` for forum-topic renames and icon updates while sharing the same Telegram topic-edit transport used by the plugin runtime. (#47798) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/error replies: add a default-off `channels.telegram.silentErrorReplies` setting so bot error replies can be delivered silently across regular replies, native commands, and fallback sends. (#19776) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Feishu/cards: add structured interactive approval and quick-action launcher cards, preserve callback user and conversation context through routing, and keep legacy card-action fallback behavior so common actions can run without typing raw commands. (#47873) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Feishu/ACP: add current-conversation ACP and subagent session binding for supported DMs and topic conversations, including completion delivery back to the originating Feishu conversation. (#46819) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Feishu/streaming: add `onReasoningStream` and `onReasoningEnd` support to streaming cards, so `/reasoning stream` renders thinking tokens as markdown blockquotes in the same card - matching the Telegram channel's reasoning lane behavior. (#46029) Thanks @day253.
- Feishu/cards: add identity-aware structured card headers and note footers for Feishu replies and direct sends, while keeping that presentation wired through the shared outbound identity path. (#29938) Thanks @nszhsl.
- Plugins/Matrix: add `allowBots` room policy so configured Matrix bot accounts can talk to each other, with optional mention-only gating. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/Matrix: add per-account `allowPrivateNetwork` opt-in for private/internal homeservers, while keeping public cleartext homeservers blocked. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/MiniMax: add MiniMax-M2.7 and MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed models and update the default model from M2.5 to M2.7. (#49691) Thanks @liyuan97.
- MiniMax/fast mode: map shared `/fast` and `params.fastMode` to MiniMax `-highspeed` models for M2.1, M2.5, and M2.7 API-key and OAuth runs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models/MiniMax defaults: raise bundled MiniMax M2.5/M2.7 context-window, max-token, and pricing metadata to the higher defaults shipped by the current upstream Pi SDK. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models/MiniMax: add bundled `MiniMax-M2`, `MiniMax-M2.1`, and `MiniMax-M2.1-highspeed` catalog entries so OpenClaw's provider metadata and OAuth aliases stay aligned with the current upstream Pi SDK. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/MiniMax: merge the bundled MiniMax API and MiniMax OAuth plugin surfaces into a single default-on `minimax` plugin, while keeping legacy `minimax-portal-auth` config ids aliased for compatibility.
- Agents/Pi compatibility: align OpenClaw's bundled MiniMax runtime behavior with the current upstream Pi 0.61.1 release so embedded runs stay in sync with the latest published Pi SDK semantics. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models/GitHub Copilot: allow forward-compat dynamic model ids without code updates, while preserving configured provider and per-model overrides for those synthetic models. (#51325) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- xAI/models: sync the bundled Grok catalog to current Pi-backed IDs, limits, and pricing metadata, while keeping older Grok fast and 4.20 aliases resolving cleanly at runtime. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- xAI/fast mode: map shared `/fast` and `params.fastMode` to the current xAI Grok fast model family so direct Grok runs can opt into the faster Pi-backed variants. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/config: expand `config set` with SecretRef and provider builder modes, JSON/batch assignment support, and `--dry-run` validation with structured JSON output. (#49296) Thanks @joshavant.
- Z.AI/models: sync the bundled GLM catalog to current Pi metadata, including newer 4.5/4.6 model families, updated multimodal entries, and current pricing and token limits. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mistral/models: sync the bundled default Mistral metadata to current Pi pricing so the built-in default no longer advertises zero-cost usage. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/Xiaomi: switch the bundled Xiaomi provider to the `/v1` OpenAI-compatible endpoint and add MiMo V2 Pro plus MiMo V2 Omni to the built-in catalog. (#49214) thanks @DJjjjhao.
- Agents/compaction: notify users when followup auto-compaction starts and finishes, keeping those notices out of TTS and preserving reply threading for the real assistant reply. (#38805) Thanks @zidongdesign.
- Memory/plugins: let the active memory plugin register its own system-prompt section while preserving cache-clear and snapshot-load prompt isolation. (#40126) Thanks @jarimustonen.
- Gateway/health monitor: add configurable stale-event thresholds and restart limits, plus per-channel and per-account `healthMonitor.enabled` overrides, while keeping the existing global disable path on `gateway.channelHealthCheckMinutes=0`. (#42107) Thanks @rstar327.
- Plugins/agent integrations: broaden the plugin surface for app-server integrations with channel-aware commands, interactive callbacks, inbound claims, and Discord/Telegram conversation binding support. (#45318) Thanks @huntharo and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/binding: add `onConversationBindingResolved(...)` so plugins can react immediately after bind approvals or denies without blocking channel interaction acknowledgements. (#48678) Thanks @huntharo.
- Plugins/context engines: expose `delegateCompactionToRuntime(...)` on the public plugin SDK, refactor the legacy engine to use the shared helper, and clarify `ownsCompaction` delegation semantics for non-owning engines. (#49061) Thanks @jalehman.
- Plugins/context engines: pass the embedded runner `modelId` into context-engine `assemble()` so plugins can adapt context formatting per model. (#47437) thanks @jscianna.
- Plugins/context engines: add transcript maintenance rewrites for context engines, preserve active-branch transcript metadata during rewrites, and harden overflow-recovery truncation to rewrite sessions under the normal session write lock. (#51191) Thanks @jalehman.
- Skills/prompt budget: preserve all registered skills via a compact catalog fallback before dropping entries when the full prompt format exceeds `maxSkillsPromptChars`. (#47553) Thanks @snese.
- Hooks/workspace: keep repo-local `<workspace>/hooks` disabled until explicitly enabled, block workspace hook name collisions from shadowing bundled/managed/plugin hooks, and treat `hooks.internal.load.extraDirs` as trusted managed hook sources.
- Security/plugins: reject remote marketplace manifest entries that expand installation outside the cloned marketplace repo, including external git/GitHub sources, HTTP archives, and absolute paths.
- Gateway/docs: clarify that empty URL input allowlists are treated as unset, document `allowUrl: false` as the deny-all switch, and add regression coverage for the normalization path.
- secrets: harden read-only SecretRef command paths and diagnostics. (#47794) Thanks @joshavant.
- Scope message SecretRef resolution and harden doctor/status paths. (#48728) Thanks @joshavant.
- Build/memory tools: emit `dist/cli/memory-cli.js` as a stable core entry so runtime `memory_search` loading no longer depends on hashed `memory-cli-*` bundle names. (#51759) Thanks @oliviareid-svg.
- Plugins/testing: add a public `openclaw/plugin-sdk/testing` surface for plugin-author test helpers, and move bundled-plugin-only test bridges into private repo test helpers.
- Agents/steering docs: update embedded Pi steering docs and runner comments for the current upstream behavior, where queued steering is injected after the active assistant turn finishes its tool calls instead of skipping the remaining tools mid-turn. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/refactor: start splitting doctor provider checks into `src/commands/doctor/providers/*` by extracting Telegram first-run and group allowlist warnings into a provider-specific module, keeping the current setup guidance and warning behavior intact. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Refactor/channels: remove the legacy channel shim directories and point channel-specific imports directly at the extension-owned implementations. (#45967) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Docs/Zalo: clarify the Marketplace-bot support matrix and config guidance so the Zalo channel docs match current Bot Creator behavior more closely. (#47552) Thanks @No898.
- Docs/plugins: add the community DingTalk plugin listing to the docs catalog. (#29913) Thanks @sliverp.
- Docs/plugins: add the community QQbot plugin listing to the docs catalog. (#29898) Thanks @sliverp.
- Docs/plugins: add the community wecom plugin listing to the docs catalog. (#29905) Thanks @sliverp.

### Fixes

- Web tools/search provider lists: keep onboarding, configure, and docs provider lists alphabetical while preserving the separate runtime auto-detect precedence used for credential-based provider selection.
- Media/Windows security: block remote-host `file://` media URLs and UNC/network paths before local filesystem resolution in core media loading and adjacent prompt/sandbox attachment seams, so the next release no longer allows structured local-media inputs to trigger outbound SMB credential handshakes on Windows. Thanks @RacerZ-fighting for reporting.
- Gateway/discovery: fail closed on unresolved Bonjour and DNS-SD service endpoints in CLI discovery, onboarding, and `gateway status` so TXT-only hints can no longer steer routing or SSH auto-target selection. Thanks @nexrin for reporting.
- Security/pairing: bind iOS setup codes to the intended node profile and reject first-use bootstrap redemption that asks for broader roles or scopes. Thanks @tdjackey.
- Memory/core tools: register `memory_search` and `memory_get` independently so one unavailable memory tool no longer suppresses the other in new sessions. (#50198) Thanks @artwalker.
- Web tools/Exa: align the bundled Exa plugin with the current Exa API by supporting newer search types and richer `contents` options, while fixing the result-count cap to honor Exa's higher limit. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/Matrix: move bundled plugin `KeyedAsyncQueue` imports onto the stable `plugin-sdk/core` surface so Matrix Docker/runtime builds do not depend on the brittle keyed-async-queue subpath. Thanks @ecohash-co and @vincentkoc.
- Nostr/security: enforce inbound DM policy before decrypt, route Nostr DMs through the standard reply pipeline, and add pre-crypto rate and size guards so unknown senders cannot bypass pairing or force unbounded crypto work. Thanks @kuranikaran.
- Synology Chat/security: keep reply delivery bound to stable numeric `user_id` by default, and gate mutable username/nickname recipient lookup behind `dangerouslyAllowNameMatching` with new regression coverage. Thanks @nexrin.
- Agents/default timeout: raise the shared default agent timeout from `600s` to `48h` so long-running ACP and agent sessions do not fail unless you configure a shorter limit (#52668). Thanks @frankekn.
- Gateway/startup: load bundled channel plugins from compiled `dist/extensions` entries in built installs, so gateway boot no longer recompiles bundled extension TypeScript on every startup and WhatsApp-class cold starts drop back to seconds instead of tens of seconds or worse. (#47560) Thanks @ngutman.
- Gateway/startup: prewarm the configured primary model before channel startup and retry one transient provider-runtime miss so the first Telegram or Discord message after boot no longer fails with `Unknown model: openai-codex/gpt-5.4`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/startup: lazy-load channel add and root help startup paths to trim avoidable RSS and help latency on constrained hosts. (#46784) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Configure/startup: move outbound send-deps resolution into a lightweight helper so `openclaw configure` no longer stalls after the banner while eagerly loading channel plugins. (#46301) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- CLI/auth choice: lazy-load plugin/provider fallback resolution so mapped auth choices stay on the static path and only unknown choices pay the heavy provider load. (#47495) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Discord startup: load only configured channel plugins during gateway boot, and lazy-load Discord provider/session runtime setup so startup stops importing unrelated providers and trims cold-start delay. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/inbound: lazy-load media and link understanding for plain-text turns and cache synced auth stores by auth-file state so ordinary inbound replies avoid unnecessary startup churn. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/openai-responses: strip `prompt_cache_key` and `prompt_cache_retention` for non-OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoints while keeping them on direct OpenAI and Azure OpenAI paths, so third-party OpenAI-compatible providers no longer reject those requests with HTTP 400. (#49877) Thanks @ShaunTsai.
- Models/OpenRouter runtime capabilities: fetch uncatalogued OpenRouter model metadata on first use so newly added vision models keep image input instead of silently degrading to text-only, with top-level capability field fallbacks for `/api/v1/models`. (#45824) Thanks @DJjjjhao.
- Control UI/session routing: preserve established external delivery routes when webchat views or sends in externally originated sessions, so subagent completions still return to the original channel instead of the dashboard. (#47797) Thanks @brokemac79.
- Telegram/replies: set `allow_sending_without_reply` on reply-targeted sends and media-error notices so deleted parent messages no longer drop otherwise valid replies. (#52524) Thanks @moltbot886.
- Telegram/polling: hard-timeout stuck `getUpdates` requests so wedged network paths fail over sooner instead of waiting for the polling stall watchdog. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Android/location: make current-location requests drop late callbacks after timeout instead of crashing with `Already resumed`. (#52318) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
- Android/pairing: resolve portless secure setup URLs to `443` while preserving direct cleartext gateway defaults and explicit `:80` manual endpoints in onboarding. (#43540) Thanks @fmercurio.
- Android/canvas: ignore bridge messages from pages outside the bundled scaffold and trusted A2UI surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/status: keep `status --json` stdout clean by skipping plugin compatibility scans that were not rendered in the JSON payload. (#52449) Thanks @cgdusek.
- WhatsApp/reconnect: restore the append recency filter in the extension inbox monitor and handle protobuf `Long` timestamps correctly, so fresh post-reconnect append messages are processed while stale history sync stays suppressed. (#42588) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- WhatsApp/login: wait for pending creds writes before reopening after Baileys `515` pairing restarts in both QR login and `channels login` flows, and keep the restart coverage pinned to the real wrapped error shape plus per-account creds queues. (#27910) Thanks @asyncjason.
- Android/canvas: serialize A2UI action-status event strings before evaluating WebView JS, so action ids and multiline errors do not break the callback dispatch. (#43784) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
- Android/camera: recycle intermediate and final snap bitmaps in `camera.snap` so repeated captures do not leak native image memory. (#41902) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
- Control UI/logging: make browser-safe logger imports avoid eager temp-dir resolution so the bundled Control UI no longer crashes to a blank screen when logging reaches `tmp-openclaw-dir`. (#48469) Fixes #48062. Thanks @7inspire.
- Control UI/chat sessions: show human-readable labels in the grouped session dropdown again, keep unique scoped fallbacks when metadata is missing, and disambiguate duplicate labels only when needed. (#45130) Thanks @luzhidong.
- Telegram/replies: ignore malformed non-string reply text and caption fields when describing reply context, so unexpected Telegram reply payloads no longer break inbound context assembly. (#50500) Thanks @p3nchan.
- Control UI/dashboard: preserve structured gateway shutdown reasons across restart disconnects so config-triggered restarts no longer fall back to `disconnected (1006): no reason`. (#46580) Fixes #46532. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Android/chat: theme the thinking dropdown and TLS trust dialogs explicitly so popup surfaces match the active app theme instead of falling back to mismatched Material defaults.
- Node/startup: remove leftover debug `console.log("node host PATH: ...")` that printed the resolved PATH on every `openclaw node run` invocation. (#46515) Fixes #46411. Thanks @ademczuk.
- Slack/startup: harden `@slack/bolt` import interop across current bundled runtime shapes so Slack monitors no longer crash with `App is not a constructor` after plugin-sdk bundling changes. (#45953) Thanks @merc1305.
- Control UI/model switching: preserve the selected provider prefix when switching models from the chat dropdown, so multi-provider setups no longer send `anthropic/gpt-5.2`-style mismatches when the user picked `openai/gpt-5.2`. (#47581) Thanks @chrishham.
- Control UI/storage: scope persisted settings keys by gateway base path, with migration from the legacy shared key, so multiple gateways under one domain stop overwriting each other's dashboard preferences. (#47932) Thanks @bobBot-claw.
- Control UI/overview: keep the language dropdown aligned with the persisted locale during dashboard startup so refreshing the page does not fall back to English before locale hydration completes. (#48019) Thanks @git-jxj.
- macOS/node service startup: use `openclaw node start/stop --json` from the Mac app instead of the removed `openclaw service node ...` command shape, so current CLI installs expose the full node exec surface again. (#46843) Fixes #43171. Thanks @Br1an67.
- ACP/gateway startup: use direct Telegram and Discord startup/status helpers instead of routing probes through the plugin runtime, and prepend the selected daemon Node bin dir to service PATH so plugin-local installs can still find `npm` and `pnpm`.
- WhatsApp/active-listener: pin the active listener registry to a `globalThis` singleton so split WhatsApp bundle chunks share one listener map and outbound sends stop missing the registered session. (#47433) Thanks @clawdia67.
- Gateway/probe: honor caller `--timeout` for active local loopback probes in `gateway status`, keep inactive remote-mode loopback probes fast, and clamp probe timers to JS-safe bounds so slow local/container gateways stop reporting false timeouts. (#47533) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- Config/startup: keep bundled web-search allowlist compatibility on a lightweight manifest path so config validation no longer pulls bundled web-search registry imports into startup, while still avoiding accidental auto-allow of config-loaded override plugins. (#51574) Thanks @RichardCao.
- Gateway/chat.send: persist uploaded image references across reloads and compaction without delaying first-turn dispatch or double-submitting the same image to vision models. (#51324) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Android/canvas: recycle captured and scaled snapshot bitmaps so repeated canvas snapshots do not leak native image memory. (#41889) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
- Android/theme: switch status bar icon contrast with the active system theme so Android light mode no longer leaves unreadable light icons over the app header. (#51098) Thanks @goweii.
- Gateway/openresponses: preserve assistant commentary and session continuity across hosted-tool `/v1/responses` turns, and emit streamed tool-call payloads before finalization so client tool loops stay resumable. (#52171) Thanks @CharZhou.
- Android/Talk: serialize `TalkModeManager` player teardown so rapid interrupt/restart cycles stop double-releasing or overlapping TTS playback. (#52310) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
- WhatsApp/reconnect: preserve the last inbound timestamp across reconnect attempts so the watchdog can still recycle linked-but-dead listeners after a restart instead of leaving them stuck connected forever.
- Gateway/network discovery: guard LAN, tailnet, and pairing interface enumeration so WSL2 and restricted hosts degrade to missing-address fallbacks instead of crashing on `uv_interface_addresses` errors. (#44180, #47590).
- Gateway/bonjour: suppress the non-fatal `@homebridge/ciao` IPv4-loss assertion during interface churn so WiFi/VPN/sleep-wake changes no longer take down the gateway. (#38628, #47159, #52431).
- Browser/launch: stop forcing an extra blank tab on browser launch so managed browser startup no longer opens an unwanted empty page. (#52451) Thanks @rogerdigital.
- CLI/onboarding: import static provider definitions directly for onboarding model/config helpers so those paths no longer pull provider discovery just for built-in defaults. (#47467) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/exec: return plain-text failed tool output for timeouts and other non-success exec outcomes so models no longer parrot raw JSON error payloads back to users. (#52508) Thanks @martingarramon.
- CLI/config: make `config set --strict-json` enforce real JSON, prefer `JSON.parse` with JSON5 fallback for machine-written cron/subagent stores, and relabel raw config surfaces as `JSON/JSON5` to match actual compatibility. Related: #48415, #43127, #14529, #21332. Thanks @adhitShet and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/Ollama onboarding: keep the interactive model picker for explicit `openclaw onboard --auth-choice ollama` runs so setup still selects a default model without reintroducing pre-picker auto-pulls. (#49249) Thanks @BruceMacD.
- CLI/configure: clarify fresh-setup memory-search warnings so they say semantic recall needs at least one embedding provider, and scope the initial model allowlist picker to the provider selected in configure. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost/threading: honor `replyToMode: "off"` for already-threaded inbound posts so threaded follow-ups can fall back to top-level replies when configured. (#52543) Thanks @RichardCao.
- Onboarding/custom providers: store Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry custom endpoints with the Responses API config shape, normalized `/openai/v1` base URLs, and Azure-safe defaults so TUI and agent runs work after setup. (#49543) Thanks @kunalk16.
- CLI/completion: reduce recursive completion-script string churn and fix nested PowerShell command-path matching so generated nested completions resolve on PowerShell too. (#45537) Thanks @yiShanXin and @vincentkoc.
- macOS/launch at login: stop emitting `KeepAlive` for the desktop app launch agent so OpenClaw no longer relaunches immediately after a manual quit while launch at login remains enabled. (#40213) Thanks @stablegenius49.
- Mattermost/DM send: retry transient direct-channel creation failures for DM deliveries, with configurable backoff and per-request timeout. (#42398) Thanks @JonathanJing.
- Secrets/exec refs: require explicit `--allow-exec` for `secrets apply` write plans that contain exec SecretRefs/providers, and align audit/configure/apply dry-run behavior to skip exec checks unless opted in to prevent unexpected command side effects. (#49417) Thanks @restriction and @joshavant.
- Signal/runtime API: re-export `SignalAccountConfig` so Signal account resolution type-checks again. (#49470) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Google Chat/runtime API: thin the private runtime barrel onto the curated public SDK surface while keeping public Google Chat exports intact. (#49504) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Onboarding/custom providers: keep Azure AI Foundry `*.services.ai.azure.com` custom endpoints on the selected compatibility path instead of forcing Responses, so chat-completions Foundry models still work after setup. Fixes #50528. (#50535) Thanks @obviyus.
- make `openclaw update status` explicitly say `up to date` when the local version already matches npm latest, while keeping the availability logic unchanged. (#51409) Thanks @dongzhenye.
- Browser/node proxy: enforce `nodeHost.browserProxy.allowProfiles` across `query.profile` and `body.profile`, block proxy-side profile create/delete when the allowlist is set, and keep the default full proxy surface when the allowlist is empty.
- Security/device pairing: harden `device.token.rotate` deny handling by keeping public failures generic while logging internal deny reasons and preserving approved-baseline enforcement. (`GHSA-7jrw-x62h-64p8`).
- Security/exec safe bins: remove `jq` from the default safe-bin allowlist and fail closed on the `jq` `env` builtin when operators explicitly opt `jq` back in, so `jq -n env` cannot dump host secrets without an explicit trust path. Thanks @gladiator9797 for reporting.
- Security/exec approvals: escape blank Hangul filler code points in approval prompts across gateway/chat and the macOS native approval UI so visually empty Unicode padding cannot hide reviewed command text.
- Security/exec approvals: unify transparent dispatch-wrapper handling across resolution and allow-always persistence so wrapper metadata cannot silently drift and broaden approvals.
- Security/exec: harden macOS allowlist resolution against wrapper and `env` spoofing, require fresh approval for inline interpreter eval with `tools.exec.strictInlineEval`, wrap Discord guild message bodies as untrusted external content, and add audit findings for risky exec approval and open-channel combinations.
- Security/network: harden explicit-proxy SSRF pinning by translating target-hop transport hints onto HTTPS proxy tunnels and failing closed for plain HTTP guarded fetches that cannot preserve pinned DNS.
- Security/Synology Chat: require explicit per-account webhook paths for multi-account setups by default, reject duplicate exact webhook paths fail-closed, and keep inherited-path behavior behind an explicit dangerous opt-in so shared routes can no longer collapse DM policy contexts across accounts. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Browser/remote CDP: honor strict browser SSRF policy during remote CDP reachability and `/json/version` discovery checks, redact sensitive `cdpUrl` tokens from status output, and warn when remote CDP targets private/internal hosts.
- Media/security: bound remote-media error-body snippets with the same streaming caps and idle timeouts as successful downloads, so malicious HTTP error responses cannot force unbounded buffering before OpenClaw throws.
- Gateway/auth: ignore spoofed loopback hops in trusted forwarding chains and block device approvals that request scopes above the caller session. (#46800) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/auth: clear self-declared scopes for device-less trusted-proxy Control UI sessions so proxy-authenticated connects cannot claim admin or secrets scopes without a bound device identity.
- Hardening: refresh stale device pairing requests and pending metadata (#50695) Thanks @smaeljaish771 and @joshavant.
- Gateway/auth: add regression coverage that keeps device-less trusted-proxy Control UI sessions off privileged pairing approval RPCs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/models: cache `models.json` readiness by config and auth-file state so embedded runner turns stop paying repeated model-catalog startup work before replies. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/status: tolerate network interface discovery failures in status, onboarding control-UI links, and self-presence display paths so those surfaces fall back cleanly instead of crashing. (#52195) Thanks @meng-clb.
- Gateway/Linux: auto-detect nvm-managed Node TLS CA bundle needs before CLI startup and refresh installed services that are missing `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS`. (#51146) Thanks @GodsBoy.
- Google auth/Node 25: patch `gaxios` to use native fetch without injecting `globalThis.window`, while translating proxy and mTLS transport settings so Google Vertex and Google Chat auth keep working on Node 25. (#47914) Thanks @pdd-cli.
- Gateway/plugins: pin runtime webhook routes to the gateway startup registry so channel webhooks keep working across plugin-registry churn, and make plugin auth + dispatch resolve routes from the same live HTTP-route registry. (#47902) Fixes #46924 and #47041.
- Gateway/restart: defer externally signaled unmanaged restarts through the in-process idle drain, and preserve the restored subagent run as remap fallback during orphan recovery so resumed sessions do not duplicate work. (#47719) Thanks @joeykrug.
- Telegram/setup: seed fresh setups with `channels.telegram.groups["*"].requireMention=true` so new bots stay mention-gated in groups unless you explicitly open them up. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Inbound policy hardening: tighten callback and webhook sender checks across Mattermost and Google Chat, match Nextcloud Talk rooms by stable room token, and treat explicit empty Twitch allowlists as deny-all. (#46787) Thanks @zpbrent, @ijxpwastaken and @vincentkoc.
- Webhooks/runtime: move auth earlier and tighten pre-auth body limits and timeouts across bundled webhook handlers, including slow-body handling for Mattermost slash commands. (#46802) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Email/webhook wrapping: sanitize sender and subject metadata before external-content wrapping so metadata fields cannot break the wrapper structure. (#46816) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/chat: only reap orphaned stale chat buffers after the abort controller is gone, and clear abort-time streaming metadata so long-running sessions do not lose buffered output while stale maps still get reclaimed. (#52428) Thanks @karanuppal.
- Tools/apply-patch: revalidate workspace-only delete and directory targets immediately before mutating host paths. (#46803) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/config views: strip embedded credentials from URL-based endpoint fields before returning read-only account and config snapshots. (#46799) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ACP/approvals: use canonical tool identity for prompting decisions and fail closed when conflicting tool identity hints are present. (#46817) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
- ACP: require admin scope for mutating internal actions. (#46789) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Subagents/follow-ups: require the same controller ownership checks for `/subagents send` as other control actions, so leaf sessions cannot message nested child runs they do not control. (#46801) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Web search/onboarding: clarify provider labels, key prompts, and missing-key notes so setup/configure more clearly names the required provider credential for Gemini, Kimi, Grok, Brave Search, Firecrawl, Perplexity, and Tavily. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- macOS/canvas actions: keep unattended local agent actions on trusted in-app canvas surfaces only, and stop exposing the deep-link fallback key to arbitrary page scripts. (#46790) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/compaction: extend the enclosing run deadline once while compaction is actively in flight, and abort the underlying SDK compaction on timeout/cancel so large-session compactions stop freezing mid-run. (#46889) Thanks @asyncjason.
- Gateway/Telegram shutdown: abort stalled Telegram polling fetches on shutdown, clean up per-cycle abort listeners, and keep the in-process watchdog ahead of supervisor stop timeouts so SIGTERM no longer leaves zombie gateways behind. (#51242) Thanks @juliabush.
- Telegram/setup: warn when setup leaves DMs on pairing without an allowlist, and show valid account-scoped remediation commands. (#50710) Thanks @ernestodeoliveira.
- Doctor/Telegram: replace the fresh-install empty group-allowlist false positive with first-run guidance that explains DM pairing approval and the next group setup steps, so new Telegram installs get actionable setup help instead of a broken-config warning. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/extensions: keep Matrix DM `allowFrom` repairs on the canonical `dm.allowFrom` path and stop treating Zalouser group sender gating as if it fell back to `allowFrom`, so doctor warnings and `--fix` stay aligned with runtime access control. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/refactor: centralize built-in channel doctor semantics in one static capability registry with conservative fallback behavior for unknown/external channels, so future extension changes stop depending on scattered shared string checks. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Channels/plugins: keep shared interactive payloads merge-ready by fixing Slack custom callback routing and repeat-click dedupe, allowing interactive-only sends, and preserving ordered Discord shared text blocks. (#47715) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/interactive replies: preserve `channelData.slack.blocks` through live DM delivery and preview-finalized edits so Block Kit button and select directives render instead of falling back to raw text. (#45890) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Feishu/actions: expand the runtime action surface with message read/edit, explicit thread replies, pinning, and operator-facing chat/member inspection so Feishu can operate more of the workspace directly. (#47968) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Feishu/topic threads: fetch full thread context, including prior bot replies, when starting a topic-thread session so follow-up turns in Feishu topics keep the right conversation state. (#45254) Thanks @Coobiw.
- Feishu/media: keep native image, file, audio, and video/media handling aligned across outbound sends, inbound downloads, thread replies, directory/action aliases, and capability docs so unsupported areas are explicit instead of implied. (#47968) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Feishu/webhooks: harden signed webhook verification to use constant-time signature comparison and keep malformed short signatures fail-closed in webhook E2E coverage.
- Ollama/tool replay: deserialize stringified tool-call arguments on native and OpenAI-compatible Ollama paths while preserving unsafe integer ids across round-trips. (#52253) Thanks @Adam-Researchh.
- WhatsApp/reconnect: restore the append recency filter in the extension inbox monitor and handle protobuf `Long` timestamps correctly, so fresh post-reconnect append messages are processed while stale history sync stays suppressed. (#42588) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.
- WhatsApp/login: wait for pending creds writes before reopening after Baileys `515` pairing restarts in both QR login and `channels login` flows, and keep the restart coverage pinned to the real wrapped error shape plus per-account creds queues. (#27910) Thanks @asyncjason.
- Telegram/message send: forward `--force-document` through the `sendPayload` path as well as `sendMedia`, so Telegram payload sends with `channelData` keep uploading images as documents instead of silently falling back to compressed photo sends. (#47119) Thanks @thepagent.
- Telegram/message chunking: preserve spaces, paragraph separators, and word boundaries when HTML overflow rechunking splits formatted replies. (#47274) Thanks @obviyus.
- Z.AI/onboarding: detect a working default model even for explicit `zai-coding-*` endpoint choices, so Coding Plan setup can keep the selected endpoint while defaulting to `glm-5` when available or `glm-4.7` as fallback. (#45969) Thanks @obviyus.
- CI/onboarding smoke: surface `ensure-base-commit` fetch failures as workflow warnings and fail the onboarding Docker smoke when expected setup prompts drift instead of continuing silently. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Z.AI/onboarding: add `glm-5-turbo` to the default Z.AI provider catalog so onboarding-generated configs expose the new model alongside the existing GLM defaults. (#46670) Thanks @tomsun28.
- Zalo Personal/group gating: stop reapplying `dmPolicy.allowFrom` as a sender gate for already-allowlisted groups when `groupAllowFrom` is unset, so any member of an allowed group can trigger replies while DMs stay restricted. (#46663) Fixes #40146. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Zalo/plugin runtime: export `resolveClientIp` from `openclaw/plugin-sdk/zalo` so installed builds no longer crash on startup when the webhook monitor loads from the packaged extension instead of the monorepo source tree. (#46549) Thanks @No898.
- Docker/live tests: mount external CLI auth homes into writable container copies, derive Codex OAuth expiry from JWT `exp`, refresh synced CLI creds instead of trusting stale cached expiry, and make gateway live probes wait on transcript output so `pnpm test:docker:all` stays green in Linux.
- Gateway/watch mode: restart on bundled-plugin package and manifest metadata changes, rebuild `dist` for extension source and `tsdown.config.ts` changes, and still ignore extension docs. (#47571) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Gateway/watch mode: recreate bundled plugin runtime metadata after clean or stale `dist` states, so `pnpm gateway:watch` no longer fails on missing bundled-plugin manifests after a rebuild. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Control UI: scope persisted session selection per gateway, prevent stale session bleed across tokenized gateway opens, and cap stored gateway session history. (#47453) Thanks @sallyom.
- Models/OpenAI Codex OAuth: start the remote manual-input race for Codex login and keep the pasted-input prompt aligned with the actual accepted values, so remote/VPS auth no longer stalls waiting on an unreachable localhost callback. (#51631) Thanks @cash-echo-bot.
- Group mention gating: reject invalid and unsafe nested-repetition `mentionPatterns`, reuse the shared safe config-regex compiler across mention stripping and detection, and cache strip-time regex compilation so noisy groups avoid repeated recompiles.
- Browser/profiles: drop the auto-created `chrome-relay` browser profile; users who need the Chrome extension relay must now create their own profile via `openclaw browser create-profile`. (#46596) Fixes #45777. Thanks @odysseus0.
- CI/channel test routing: move the built-in channel suites into `test:channels` and keep them out of `test:extensions`, so extension CI no longer fails after the channel migration while targeted test routing still sends Slack, Signal, and iMessage suites to the right lane. (#46066) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Gateway/config validation: stop treating the implicit default memory slot as a required explicit plugin config, so startup no longer fails with `plugins.slots.memory: plugin not found: memory-core` when `memory-core` was only inferred. (#47494) Thanks @ngutman.
- Tlon: honor explicit empty allowlists and defer cite expansion. (#46788) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
- Tlon/DM auth: defer cited-message expansion until after DM authorization and owner command handling, so unauthorized DMs and owner approval/admin commands no longer trigger cross-channel cite fetches before the deny or command path.
- Gateway/agent events: stop broadcasting false end-of-run `seq gap` errors to clients, and isolate node-driven ingress turns with per-turn run IDs so stale tail events cannot leak into later session runs. (#43751) Thanks @caesargattuso.
- Nodes/pending actions: re-check queued foreground actions against the current node command policy before returning them to the node. (#46815) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
- Windows/gateway status: accept `schtasks` `Last Result` output as an alias for `Last Run Result`, so running scheduled-task installs no longer show `Runtime: unknown`. (#47844) Thanks @MoerAI.
- ACP/acpx: resolve the bundled plugin root from the actual plugin directory so plugin-local installs stay under the bundled dist plugin tree instead of escaping upward and failing runtime setup. (#47601) Thanks @ngutman.
- Gateway/WS handshake: raise the default pre-auth handshake timeout to 10 seconds and add `OPENCLAW_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MS` as a runtime override so busy local gateways stop dropping healthy CLI connections at 3 seconds. (#49262) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Gateway/websocket pairing bypass for disabled auth: skip device-pairing enforcement for Control UI operator sessions when `gateway.auth.mode=none`, so reverse-proxied dashboards no longer get stuck on `pairing required` despite auth being explicitly disabled. (#47148) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Agents/usage tracking: stop forcing `supportsUsageInStreaming: false` on non-native OpenAI-completions providers so compatible backends report token usage and cost again instead of showing all zeros. (#46500) Fixes #46142. Thanks @ademczuk.
- ACP/acpx: keep plugin-local backend installs under the bundled ACPX plugin package in live repo checkouts so rebuilds no longer delete the runtime binary, and avoid package-lock churn during runtime repair.
- Agents/compaction: rerun transcript repair after `session.compact()` so orphaned `tool_result` blocks cannot survive compaction and break later Anthropic requests. (#16095) thanks @claw-sylphx.
- Agents/compaction: trigger overflow recovery from the tool-result guard once post-compaction context still exceeds the safe threshold, so long tool loops compact before the next model call hard-fails. (#29371) thanks @keshav55.
- macOS/exec approvals: harden exec-host request HMAC verification to use a timing-safe compare and keep malformed or truncated signatures fail-closed in focused IPC auth coverage.
- Gateway/exec approvals: surface requested env override keys in gateway-host approval prompts so operators can review surviving env context without inheriting noisy base host env.
- Telegram/network: preserve sticky IPv4 fallback state across polling restarts so hosts with unstable IPv6 to `api.telegram.org` stop re-triggering repeated Telegram timeouts after each restart. (#48282) Thanks @yassinebkr.
- Agents/compaction: write minimal boundary summaries for empty preparations while keeping split-turn prefixes on the normal path, so no-summarizable-message sessions stop retriggering the safeguard loop. (#42215) thanks @lml2468.
- Models/chat commands: keep `/model ...@YYYYMMDD` version suffixes intact by default, but still honor matching stored numeric auth-profile overrides for the same provider. (#48896) Thanks @Alix-007.
- Gateway/channels: serialize per-account channel startup so overlapping starts do not boot the same provider twice, preventing MS Teams `EADDRINUSE` crash loops during startup and restart. (#49583) Thanks @sudie-codes.
- Discord: enforce strict DM component allowlist auth (#49997) Thanks @joshavant.
- Stabilize plugin loader and Docker extension smoke (#50058) Thanks @joshavant.
- Telegram: stabilize pairing/session/forum routing and reply formatting tests (#50155) Thanks @joshavant.
- Gateway: harden OpenResponses file-context escaping (#50782) Thanks @YLChen-007 and @joshavant.
- LINE: harden Express webhook parsing to verified raw body (#51202) Thanks @gladiator9797 and @joshavant.
- Exec: harden host env override handling across gateway and node (#51207) Thanks @gladiator9797 and @joshavant.
- Voice Call: enforce spoken-output contract and fix stream TTS silence regression (#51500) Thanks @joshavant.
- xAI/models: rename the bundled Grok 4.20 catalog entries to the GA IDs and normalize saved deprecated beta IDs at runtime so existing configs and sessions keep resolving. (#50772) thanks @Jaaneek
- WhatsApp/outbound media: fix HTML, XML, and CSS files being silently dropped on outbound send by adding missing MIME entries and falling back to `application/octet-stream` for unknown media types. (#51562) Thanks @bobbyt74
- Agents/bootstrap warnings: move bootstrap truncation warnings out of the system prompt and into the per-turn prompt body so prompt-cache reuse stays stable when truncation warnings appear or disappear. (#48753) Thanks @scoootscooob and @obviyus.
- Telegram/DM topic session keys: route named-account DM topics through the same per-account base session key across inbound messages, native commands, and session-state lookups so `/status` and thread recovery stop creating phantom `agent:main:main:thread:...` sessions. (#48204) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- ACP/configured bindings: reinitialize configured ACP sessions that are stuck in `error` state instead of reusing the failed runtime (#48197). Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Telegram/network: unify API and media fetches under the same sticky IPv4 and pinned-IP fallback chain, and re-validate pinned override addresses against SSRF policy. (#49148) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/prompt composition: append bootstrap truncation warnings to the current-turn prompt and add regression coverage for stable system-prompt cache invariants. (#49237) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Synology Chat/multi-account: scope direct-message sessions by account and sender so identical webhook `user_id` values on different Synology accounts no longer share transcript or delivery state.
- Telegram/security: add regression coverage proving pinned fallback host overrides stay bound to Telegram and delegate non-matching hostnames back to the original lookup path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Tools/image generation: add bundled fal image generation support so `image_generate` can target `fal/*` models with `FAL_KEY`, including single-image edit flows via FLUX image-to-image. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/hooks: preserve immutable hook ingress provenance across async isolated-agent dispatch so normalized hook session routes keep external wrapping, Gmail-specific policy, and Gmail model selection intact.
- Messages/polls: treat zero-valued poll params on `message.send` as unset defaults while keeping non-zero poll params on the poll validation path. (#52150) Fixes #52118. Thanks @Bartok9.
- xAI/web search: add missing Grok credential metadata so the bundled provider registration type-checks again. (#49472) thanks @scoootscooob.
- Agents/session cache: opportunistically sweep expired embedded-runner session cache entries during later cache activity, so one-shot session files do not accumulate forever. (#52427) Thanks @karanuppal.
- WhatsApp: stabilize inbound monitor and setup tests (#50007) Thanks @joshavant.
- Matrix: make onboarding status runtime-safe (#49995) Thanks @joshavant.
- Channels: stabilize lane harness and monitor tests (#50167) Thanks @joshavant.
- Agents/compaction: add an opt-in post-compaction session JSONL truncation step that drops summarized transcript entries while preserving the retained branch tail and live session metadata. (#41021) thanks @thirumaleshp.
- Telegram/routing: fail loud when `message send` targets an unknown non-default Telegram `accountId`, instead of silently falling back to the channel-level bot token and sending through the wrong bot. (#50853) Thanks @hclsys.
- Web search: align onboarding, configure, and finalize with plugin-owned provider contracts, including disabled-provider recovery, config-aware credential hooks, and runtime-visible summaries. (#50935) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/replay: sanitize malformed assistant tool-call replay blocks before provider replay so follow-up Anthropic requests do not inherit the downstream `replace` crash. (#50005) Thanks @jalehman.
- Discord/startup logging: report client initialization while the gateway is still connecting instead of claiming Discord is logged in before readiness is reached. (#51425) Thanks @scoootscoob.
- Agents/compaction safeguard: preserve split-turn context and preserved recent turns when capped retry fallback reuses the last successful summary. (#27727) thanks @Pandadadadazxf.
- Agents/memory flush: keep transcript-hash dedup active across memory-flush fallback retries so a write-then-throw flush attempt cannot append duplicate `MEMORY.md` entries before the fallback cycle completes. (#34222) Thanks @lml2468.
- Discord/ACP: forward worker abort signals into ACP turns so timed-out Discord jobs cancel the running turn instead of silently leaving the bound ACP session working in the background (#52148). Thanks @dutifulbob.
- ACP/Codex session replay: preserve hidden assistant thinking when loading or rebinding existing ACP sessions so stored thought chunks do not replay into visible assistant text. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/commands: keep internal `chat.send` slash-command UX while requiring `operator.admin` before internal callers can persist `/exec` defaults or mutate `phone-control` node policy through `/phone arm|disarm`.
- Plugins/context engines: enforce owner-aware context-engine registration on both loader and public SDK paths so plugins cannot spoof privileged ownership, claim the core `legacy` engine id, or overwrite an existing engine id through direct SDK imports. (#47595) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/bundler TDZ: fix `RESERVED_COMMANDS` temporal dead zone error that prevented device-pair, phone-control, and talk-voice plugins from registering when the bundler placed the commands module after call sites in the same output chunk. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Plugins/imports: fix stale googlechat runtime-api import paths and signal SDK circular re-exports broken by recent plugin-sdk refactors. Thanks @BunsDev.
- Plugins/install precedence: keep bundled plugins ahead of auto-discovered globals by default, but let an explicitly installed plugin record win its own duplicate-id tie so installed channel plugins load from `~/.openclaw/extensions` after `openclaw plugins install`. (#46722) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Plugins/scoped ids: preserve scoped plugin ids during install and config keying, and keep bundled plugins ahead of discovered duplicate ids by default so `@scope/name` plugins no longer collide with unscoped installs. (#47413) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs/Mintlify: fix MDX marker syntax on Perplexity, Model Providers, Moonshot, and exec approvals pages so local docs preview no longer breaks rendering or leaves stale pages unpublished. (#46695) Thanks @velvet-shark.
- Plugins/runtime barrels: route bundled extension runtime imports through public `openclaw/plugin-sdk/*` subpaths and block relative cross-package escapes so packaged extensions stop depending on monorepo-only relative paths. (#51939) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docs/security audit: spell out that `gateway.controlUi.allowedOrigins: ["*"]` is an explicit allow-all browser-origin policy and should be avoided outside tightly controlled local testing.
- Plugins/subagents: preserve gateway-owned plugin subagent access across runtime, tool, and embedded-runner load paths so gateway plugin tools and context engines can still spawn and manage subagents after the loader cache split. (#46648) Thanks @jalehman.
- Plugins/subagents: forward per-run provider and model overrides through gateway plugin subagent dispatch so plugin-launched agent delegations honor explicit model selection again. (#48277) Thanks @jalehman.
- Tests/OpenAI Codex auth: align login expectations with the default `gpt-5.4` model so CI coverage stays consistent with the current OpenAI Codex default. (#44367) Thanks @jrrcdev.
- Plugins/discovery: distinguish missing package entry files from package-path escape violations so startup skips absent plugin entry paths without raising false security diagnostics. (#52491) Thanks @hclsys.
- Plugins/Matrix: accept shared send-tool media aliases (`mediaUrl`, `filePath`, `path`) and preserve `asVoice` / `audioAsVoice` through Matrix action dispatch so media-only sends and voice-message intents reach the plugin send layer correctly. Thanks @psacc and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/runtime-api: pin extension runtime-api export surfaces with explicit guardrail coverage so future surface creep becomes a deliberate diff. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/WhatsApp: share split-load singleton state for plugin command registration and active WhatsApp listeners so duplicate module graphs no longer lose native plugin commands or outbound listener state. (#50418) Thanks @huntharo.
- Plugins/update: let `openclaw plugins update <npm-spec>` target tracked npm installs by dist-tag or exact version, and preserve the recorded npm spec for later id-based updates. (#49998) Thanks @huntharo.
- Tests/CLI: reduce command-secret gateway test import pressure while keeping the real protocol payload validator in place, so the isolated lane no longer carries the heavier runtime-web and message-channel graphs. (#50663) Thanks @huntharo.
- Gateway/plugins: share plugin interactive callback routing and plugin bind approval state across duplicate module graphs so Telegram Codex picker buttons and plugin bind approvals no longer fall through to normal inbound message routing. (#50722) Thanks @huntharo.
- Plugins/runtime state: share plugin-facing infra singleton state across duplicate module graphs and keep session-binding adapter ownership stable until the active owner unregisters. (#50725) thanks @huntharo.
- Discord/pickers: keep `/codex_resume --browse-projects` picker callbacks alive in Discord by sharing component callback state across duplicate module graphs, preserving callback fallbacks, and acknowledging matched plugin interactions before dispatch. (#51260) Thanks @huntharo.
- Telegram/Mattermost message tool: keep plugin button schemas optional in isolated and cron sessions so plain sends do not fail validation when no current channel is active. (#52589) Thanks @tylerliu612.
- Release/npm publish: fail the npm release check when `dist/control-ui/index.html` is missing from the packed tarball, so broken Control UI asset releases are blocked before publish. Fixes #52808. (#52852) Thanks @kevinheinrichs.
- Slack/embedded delivery: suppress transcript-only `delivery-mirror` assistant messages before embedded re-delivery and raise the default Slack chunk fallback so messages just over 4000 characters stay in a single post. (#45489) Thanks @theo674.

### Fixes

- Agents/edit tool: accept common path/text alias spellings, show current file contents on exact-match failures, and avoid false edit failures after successful writes. (#52516) thanks @mbelinky.

## 2026.3.13

### Changes

- Android/chat settings: redesign the chat settings sheet with grouped device and media sections, refresh the Connect and Voice tabs, and tighten the chat composer/session header for a denser mobile layout. (#44894) Thanks @obviyus.
- iOS/onboarding: add a first-run welcome pager before gateway setup, stop auto-opening the QR scanner, and show `/pair qr` instructions on the connect step. (#45054) Thanks @ngutman.
- Browser/existing-session: add an official Chrome DevTools MCP attach mode for signed-in live Chrome sessions, with docs for `chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging` enablement and direct backlinks to Chrome's own setup guides (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Browser/agents: add built-in `profile="user"` for the logged-in host browser and `profile="chrome-relay"` for the extension relay, so agent browser calls can prefer the real signed-in browser without the extra `browserSession` selector.
- Browser/act automation: add batched actions, selector targeting, and delayed clicks for browser act requests with normalized batch dispatch. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docker/timezone override: add `OPENCLAW_TZ` so `docker-setup.sh` can pin gateway and CLI containers to a chosen IANA timezone instead of inheriting the daemon default. (#34119) Thanks @Lanfei.
- Dependencies/pi: bump `@mariozechner/pi-agent-core`, `@mariozechner/pi-ai`, `@mariozechner/pi-coding-agent`, and `@mariozechner/pi-tui` to `0.58.0`.
- Cron/sessions: add `sessionTarget: "current"` and `session:<id>` support so cron jobs can bind to the creating session or a persistent named session instead of only `main` or `isolated`. Thanks @kkhomej33-netizen and @ImLukeF.
- Telegram/message send: add `--force-document` so Telegram image and GIF sends can upload as documents without compression. (#45111) Thanks @thepagent.

### Fixes

- Dashboard/chat UI: stop reloading full chat history on every live tool result in dashboard v2 so tool-heavy runs no longer trigger UI freeze/re-render storms while the final event still refreshes persisted history. (#45541) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Gateway/client requests: reject unanswered gateway RPC calls after a bounded timeout and clear their pending state, so stalled connections no longer leak hanging `GatewayClient.request()` promises indefinitely (#45689). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Build/plugin-sdk bundling: bundle plugin-sdk subpath entries in one shared build pass so published packages stop duplicating shared chunks and avoid the recent plugin-sdk memory blow-up. (#45426) Thanks @TarasShyn.
- Ollama/reasoning visibility: stop promoting native `thinking` and `reasoning` fields into final assistant text so local reasoning models no longer leak internal thoughts in normal replies. (#45330) Thanks @xi7ang.
- Android/onboarding QR scan: switch setup QR scanning to Google Code Scanner so onboarding uses a more reliable scanner instead of the legacy embedded ZXing flow. (#45021) Thanks @obviyus.
- Browser/existing-session: harden driver validation and session lifecycle so transport errors trigger reconnects while tool-level errors preserve the session, and extract shared ARIA role sets to deduplicate Playwright and Chrome MCP snapshot paths. (#45682) Thanks @odysseus0.
- Browser/existing-session: accept text-only `list_pages` and `new_page` responses from Chrome DevTools MCP so live-session tab discovery and new-tab open flows keep working when the server omits structured page metadata.
- Control UI/insecure auth: preserve explicit shared token and password auth on plain-HTTP Control UI connects so LAN and reverse-proxy sessions no longer drop shared auth before the first WebSocket handshake. (#45088) Thanks @velvet-shark.
- Gateway/session reset: preserve `lastAccountId` and `lastThreadId` across gateway session resets so replies keep routing back to the same account and thread after `/reset`. (#44773) Thanks @Lanfei.
- macOS/onboarding: avoid self-restarting freshly bootstrapped launchd gateways and give new daemon installs longer to become healthy, so `openclaw onboard --install-daemon` no longer false-fails on slower Macs and fresh VM snapshots.
- Gateway/status: add `openclaw gateway status --require-rpc` and clearer Linux non-interactive daemon-install failure reporting so automation can fail hard on probe misses instead of treating a printed RPC error as green.
- macOS/exec approvals: respect per-agent exec approval settings in the gateway prompter, including allowlist fallback when the native prompt cannot be shown, so gateway-triggered `system.run` requests follow configured policy instead of always prompting or denying unexpectedly. (#13707) Thanks @sliekens.
- Telegram/media downloads: thread the same direct or proxy transport policy into SSRF-guarded file fetches so inbound attachments keep working when Telegram falls back between env-proxy and direct networking. (#44639) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/inbound media IPv4 fallback: retry SSRF-guarded Telegram file downloads once with the same IPv4 fallback policy as Bot API calls so fresh installs on IPv6-broken hosts no longer fail to download inbound images.
- Commands/onboarding: split static auth-choice help from the plugin-backed onboarding catalog so `openclaw onboard` registration no longer pulls provider-wizard imports just to describe `--auth-choice`. (#47545) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Windows/gateway install: bound `schtasks` calls and fall back to the Startup-folder login item when task creation hangs, so native `openclaw gateway install` fails fast instead of wedging forever on broken Scheduled Task setups (#44691). Thanks @jalehman.
- Windows/gateway stop: resolve Startup-folder fallback listeners from the installed `gateway.cmd` port, so `openclaw gateway stop` now actually kills fallback-launched gateway processes before restart.
- Windows/gateway status: reuse the installed service command environment when reading runtime status, so startup-fallback gateways keep reporting the configured port and running state in `gateway status --json` instead of falling back to `gateway port unknown`.
- Windows/gateway auth: stop attaching device identity on local loopback shared-token and password gateway calls, so native Windows agent replies no longer log stale `device signature expired` fallback noise before succeeding.
- Discord/gateway startup: treat plain-text and transient `/gateway/bot` metadata fetch failures as transient startup errors so Discord gateway boot no longer crashes on unhandled rejections. (#44397) Thanks @jalehman.
- Slack/probe: keep `auth.test()` bot and team metadata mapping stable while simplifying the probe result path. (#44775) Thanks @Cafexss.
- Dashboard/chat UI: render oversized plain-text replies as normal paragraphs instead of capped gray code blocks, so long desktop chat responses stay readable without tab-switching refreshes.
- Dashboard/chat UI: restore the `chat-new-messages` class on the New messages scroll pill so the button uses its existing compact styling instead of rendering as a full-screen SVG overlay. (#44856) Thanks @Astro-Han.
- Gateway/Control UI: restore the operator-only device-auth bypass and classify browser connect failures so origin and device-identity problems no longer show up as auth errors in the Control UI and web chat. (#45512) thanks @sallyom.
- macOS/voice wake: stop crashing wake-word command extraction when speech segment ranges come from a different transcript instance.
- Discord/allowlists: honor raw `guild_id` when hydrated guild objects are missing so allowlisted channels and threads like `#maintainers` no longer get false-dropped before channel allowlist checks.
- macOS/runtime locator: require Node >=22.16.0 during macOS runtime discovery so the app no longer accepts Node versions that the main runtime guard rejects later. Thanks @sumleo.
- Agents/custom providers: preserve blank API keys for loopback OpenAI-compatible custom providers by clearing the synthetic Authorization header at runtime, while keeping explicit apiKey and oauth/token config from silently downgrading into fake bearer auth. (#45631) Thanks @xinhuagu.
- Models/google-vertex Gemini flash-lite normalization: apply existing bare-ID preview normalization to `google-vertex` model refs and provider configs so `google-vertex/gemini-3.1-flash-lite` resolves as `gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview`. (#42435) thanks @scoootscooob.
- iMessage/remote attachments: reject unsafe remote attachment paths before spawning SCP, so sender-controlled filenames can no longer inject shell metacharacters into remote media staging. Thanks @lintsinghua.
- Telegram/webhook auth: validate the Telegram webhook secret before reading or parsing request bodies, so unauthenticated requests are rejected immediately instead of consuming up to 1 MB first. Thanks @space08.
- Security/device pairing: make bootstrap setup codes single-use so pending device pairing requests cannot be silently replayed and widened to admin before approval. Thanks @tdjackey.
- Security/external content: strip zero-width and soft-hyphen marker-splitting characters during boundary sanitization so spoofed `EXTERNAL_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT` markers fall back to the existing hardening path instead of bypassing marker normalization.
- CLI/startup: stop `openclaw devices list` and similar loopback gateway commands from failing during startup by isolating heavy import-time side effects from the normal CLI path. (#50212) Thanks @obviyus.
- Security/exec approvals: unwrap more `pnpm` runtime forms during approval binding, including `pnpm --reporter .. exec` and direct `pnpm node` file runs, with matching regression coverage and docs updates.
- Security/exec approvals: fail closed for Perl `-M` and `-I` approval flows so preload and load-path module resolution stays outside approval-backed runtime execution unless the operator uses a broader explicit trust path.
- Security/exec approvals: recognize PowerShell `-File` and `-f` wrapper forms during inline-command extraction so approval and command-analysis paths treat file-based PowerShell launches like the existing `-Command` variants.
- Security/exec approvals: unwrap `env` dispatch wrappers inside shell-segment allowlist resolution on macOS so `env FOO=bar /path/to/bin` resolves against the effective executable instead of the wrapper token.
- Security/exec approvals: treat backslash-newline as shell line continuation during macOS shell-chain parsing so line-continued `$(` substitutions fail closed instead of slipping past command-substitution checks.
- Security/exec approvals: bind macOS skill auto-allow trust to both executable name and resolved path so same-basename binaries no longer inherit trust from unrelated skill bins.
- Cron/isolated sessions: route nested cron-triggered embedded runner work onto the nested lane so isolated cron jobs no longer deadlock when compaction or other queued inner work runs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/OpenAI-compatible compat overrides: respect explicit user `models[].compat` opt-ins for non-native `openai-completions` endpoints so usage-in-streaming capability overrides no longer get forced off when the endpoint actually supports them. (#44432) Thanks @cheapestinference.
- Agents/Azure OpenAI startup prompts: rephrase the built-in `/new`, `/reset`, and post-compaction startup instruction so Azure OpenAI deployments no longer hit HTTP 400 false positives from the content filter. (#43403) Thanks @xingsy97.
- Agents/compaction: compare post-compaction token sanity checks against full-session pre-compaction totals and skip the check when token estimation fails, so sessions with large bootstrap context keep real token counts instead of falling back to unknown. (#28347) thanks @efe-arv.
- Agents/compaction: preserve safeguard compaction summary language continuity via default and configurable custom instructions so persona drift is reduced after auto-compaction. (#10456) Thanks @keepitmello.
- Agents/tool warnings: distinguish gated core tools like `apply_patch` from plugin-only unknown entries in `tools.profile` warnings, so unavailable core tools now report current runtime/provider/model/config gating instead of suggesting a missing plugin.
- Config/validation: accept documented `agents.list[].params` per-agent overrides in strict config validation so `openclaw config validate` no longer rejects runtime-supported `cacheRetention`, `temperature`, and `maxTokens` settings. (#41171) Thanks @atian8179.
- Config/web fetch: restore runtime validation for documented `tools.web.fetch.readability` and `tools.web.fetch.firecrawl` settings so valid web fetch configs no longer fail with unrecognized-key errors. (#42583) Thanks @stim64045-spec.
- Signal/config validation: add `channels.signal.groups` schema support so per-group `requireMention`, `tools`, and `toolsBySender` overrides no longer get rejected during config validation. (#27199) Thanks @unisone.
- Config/discovery: accept `discovery.wideArea.domain` in strict config validation so unicast DNS-SD gateway configs no longer fail with an unrecognized-key error. (#35615) Thanks @ingyukoh.
- Telegram/media errors: redact Telegram file URLs before building media fetch errors so failed inbound downloads do not leak bot tokens into logs. Thanks @space08.
- Agents/failover: normalize abort-wrapped `429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED` provider failures before abort short-circuiting so wrapped Google/Vertex rate limits continue across configured fallback models, including the embedded runner prompt-error path. (#39820) Thanks @lupuletic.
- Mattermost/thread routing: non-inbound reply paths (TUI/WebUI turns, tool-call callbacks, subagent responses) now correctly route to the originating Mattermost thread when `replyToMode: "all"` is active; also prevents stale `origin.threadId` metadata from resurrecting cleared thread routes. (#44283) thanks @teconomix
- Gateway/websocket pairing bypass for disabled auth: skip device-pairing enforcement when `gateway.auth.mode=none` so Control UI connections behind reverse proxies no longer get stuck on `pairing required` (code 1008) despite auth being explicitly disabled. (#42931) Thanks @odysseus0.
- Auth/login lockout recovery: clear stale `auth_permanent` and `billing` disabled state for all profiles matching the target provider when `openclaw models auth login` is invoked, so users locked out by expired or revoked OAuth tokens can recover by re-authenticating instead of waiting for the cooldown timer to expire. (#43057) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Auto-reply/context-engine compaction: persist the exact embedded-run metadata compaction count for main and followup runner session accounting, so metadata-only auto-compactions no longer undercount multi-compaction runs. (#42629) thanks @uf-hy.
- Auth/Codex CLI reuse: sync reused Codex CLI credentials into the supported `openai-codex:default` OAuth profile instead of reviving the deprecated `openai-codex:codex-cli` slot, so doctor cleanup no longer loops. (#45353) thanks @Gugu-sugar.
- Deps/audit: bump the pinned `fast-xml-parser` override to the first patched release so `pnpm audit --prod --audit-level=high` no longer fails on the AWS Bedrock XML builder path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/after_compaction: forward `sessionFile` for direct/manual compaction events and add `sessionFile` plus `sessionKey` to wired auto-compaction hook context so plugins receive the session metadata already declared in the hook types. (#40781) Thanks @jarimustonen.
- Sessions/BlueBubbles/cron: persist outbound session routing and transcript mirroring for new targets, auto-create BlueBubbles chats before attachment sends, and only suppress isolated cron deliveries when the run started hours late instead of merely finishing late. (#50092) Thanks @tyler6204.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Agents now load at most one root memory bootstrap file. `MEMORY.md` wins; `memory.md` is only used when `MEMORY.md` is absent. If you intentionally kept both files and depended on both being injected, merge them before upgrade. This also fixes duplicate memory injection on case-insensitive Docker mounts. (#26054) Thanks @Lanfei.

## 2026.3.12

### Changes

- Control UI/dashboard-v2: refresh the gateway dashboard with modular overview, chat, config, agent, and session views, plus a command palette, mobile bottom tabs, and richer chat tools like slash commands, search, export, and pinned messages. (#41503) Thanks @BunsDev.
- OpenAI/GPT-5.4 fast mode: add configurable session-level fast toggles across `/fast`, TUI, Control UI, and ACP, with per-model config defaults and OpenAI/Codex request shaping.
- Anthropic/Claude fast mode: map the shared `/fast` toggle and `params.fastMode` to direct Anthropic API-key `service_tier` requests, with live verification for both Anthropic and OpenAI fast-mode tiers.
- Models/plugins: move Ollama, vLLM, and SGLang onto the provider-plugin architecture, with provider-owned onboarding, discovery, model-picker setup, and post-selection hooks so core provider wiring is more modular.
- Docs/Kubernetes: Add a starter K8s install path with raw manifests, Kind setup, and deployment docs. Thanks @sallyom @dzianisv @egkristi
- Agents/subagents: add `sessions_yield` so orchestrators can end the current turn immediately, skip queued tool work, and carry a hidden follow-up payload into the next session turn. (#36537) thanks @jriff.
- Slack/agent replies: support `channelData.slack.blocks` in the shared reply delivery path so agents can send Block Kit messages through standard Slack outbound delivery. (#44592) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Slack/interactive replies: add opt-in Slack button and select reply directives behind `channels.slack.capabilities.interactiveReplies`, disabled by default unless explicitly enabled. (#44607) Thanks @vincentkoc.

### Fixes

- Security/device pairing: switch `/pair` and `openclaw qr` setup codes to short-lived bootstrap tokens so the next release no longer embeds shared gateway credentials in chat or QR pairing payloads. Thanks @lintsinghua.
- Security/plugins: disable implicit workspace plugin auto-load so cloned repositories cannot execute workspace plugin code without an explicit trust decision. (`GHSA-99qw-6mr3-36qr`)(#44174) Thanks @lintsinghua and @vincentkoc.
- Models/Kimi Coding: send `anthropic-messages` tools in native Anthropic format again so `kimi-coding` stops degrading tool calls into XML/plain-text pseudo invocations instead of real `tool_use` blocks. (#38669, #39907, #40552) Thanks @opriz.
- TUI/chat log: reuse the active assistant message component for the same streaming run so `openclaw tui` no longer renders duplicate assistant replies. (#35364) Thanks @lisitan.
- Telegram/model picker: make inline model button selections persist the chosen session model correctly, clear overrides when selecting the configured default, and include effective fallback models in `/models` button validation. (#40105) Thanks @avirweb.
- Cron/proactive delivery: keep isolated direct cron sends out of the write-ahead resend queue so transient-send retries do not replay duplicate proactive messages after restart. (#40646) Thanks @openperf and @vincentkoc.
- Models/Kimi Coding: send the built-in `User-Agent: claude-code/0.1.0` header by default for `kimi-coding` while still allowing explicit provider headers to override it, so Kimi Code subscription auth can work without a local header-injection proxy. (#30099) Thanks @Amineelfarssi and @vincentkoc.
- Models/OpenAI Codex Spark: keep `gpt-5.3-codex-spark` working on the `openai-codex/*` path via resolver fallbacks and clearer Codex-only handling, while continuing to suppress the stale direct `openai/*` Spark row that OpenAI rejects live.
- Ollama/Kimi Cloud: apply the Moonshot Kimi payload compatibility wrapper to Ollama-hosted Kimi models like `kimi-k2.5:cloud`, so tool routing no longer breaks when thinking is enabled. (#41519) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Moonshot CN API: respect explicit `baseUrl` (api.moonshot.cn) in implicit provider resolution so platform.moonshot.cn API keys authenticate correctly instead of returning HTTP 401. (#33637) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
- Kimi Coding/provider config: respect explicit `models.providers["kimi-coding"].baseUrl` when resolving the implicit provider so custom Kimi Coding endpoints no longer get overwritten by the built-in default. (#36353) Thanks @2233admin.
- Gateway/main-session routing: keep TUI and other `mode:UI` main-session sends on the internal surface when `deliver` is enabled, so replies no longer inherit the session's persisted Telegram/WhatsApp route. (#43918) Thanks @obviyus.
- BlueBubbles/self-chat echo dedupe: drop reflected duplicate webhook copies only when a matching `fromMe` event was just seen for the same chat, body, and timestamp, preventing self-chat loops without broad webhook suppression. Related to #32166. (#38442) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- iMessage/self-chat echo dedupe: drop reflected duplicate copies only when a matching `is_from_me` event was just seen for the same chat, text, and `created_at`, preventing self-chat loops without broad text-only suppression. Related to #32166. (#38440) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Subagents/completion announce retries: raise the default announce timeout to 90 seconds and stop retrying gateway-timeout failures for externally delivered completion announces, preventing duplicate user-facing completion messages after slow gateway responses. Fixes #41235. Thanks @vasujain00 and @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost/block streaming: fix duplicate message delivery (one threaded, one top-level) when block streaming is active by excluding `replyToId` from the block reply dedup key and adding an explicit `threading` dock to the Mattermost plugin. (#41362) Thanks @mathiasnagler and @vincentkoc.
- Mattermost/reply media delivery: pass agent-scoped `mediaLocalRoots` through shared reply delivery so allowed local files upload correctly from button, slash-command, and model-picker replies. (#44021) Thanks @LyleLiu666.
- macOS/Reminders: add the missing `NSRemindersUsageDescription` to the bundled app so `apple-reminders` can trigger the system permission prompt from OpenClaw.app. (#8559) Thanks @dinakars777.
- Gateway/session discovery: discover disk-only and retired ACP session stores under custom templated `session.store` roots so ACP reconciliation, session-id/session-label targeting, and run-id fallback keep working after restart. (#44176) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Plugins/env-scoped roots: fix plugin discovery/load caches and provenance tracking so same-process `HOME`/`OPENCLAW_HOME` changes no longer reuse stale plugin state or misreport `~/...` plugins as untracked. (#44046) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Models/OpenRouter native ids: canonicalize native OpenRouter model keys across config writes, runtime lookups, fallback management, and `models list --plain`, and migrate legacy duplicated `openrouter/openrouter/...` config entries forward on write.
- Windows/native update: make package installs use the npm update path instead of the git path, carry portable Git into native Windows updates, and mirror the installer's Windows npm env so `openclaw update` no longer dies early on missing `git` or `node-llama-cpp` download setup.
- Sandbox/write: preserve pinned mutation-helper payload stdin so sandboxed `write` no longer reports success while creating empty files. (#43876) Thanks @glitch418x.
- Security/exec approvals: escape invisible Unicode format characters in approval prompts so zero-width command text renders as visible `\u{...}` escapes instead of spoofing the reviewed command. (`GHSA-pcqg-f7rg-xfvv`)(#43687) Thanks @EkiXu and @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/loader: fail closed when workspace hook paths cannot be resolved with `realpath`, so unreadable or broken internal hook paths are skipped instead of falling back to unresolved imports. (#44437) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/agent deliveries: dedupe repeated hook requests by optional idempotency key so webhook retries can reuse the first run instead of launching duplicate agent executions. (#44438) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/exec detection: normalize compatibility Unicode and strip invisible formatting code points before obfuscation checks so zero-width and fullwidth command tricks no longer suppress heuristic detection. (`GHSA-9r3v-37xh-2cf6`)(#44091) Thanks @wooluo and @vincentkoc.
- Security/exec allowlist: preserve POSIX case sensitivity and keep `?` within a single path segment so exact-looking allowlist patterns no longer overmatch executables across case or directory boundaries. (`GHSA-f8r2-vg7x-gh8m`)(#43798) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
- Security/commands: require sender ownership for `/config` and `/debug` so authorized non-owner senders can no longer reach owner-only config and runtime debug surfaces. (`GHSA-r7vr-gr74-94p8`)(#44305) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Security/gateway auth: clear unbound client-declared scopes on shared-token WebSocket connects so device-less shared-token operators cannot self-declare elevated scopes. (`GHSA-rqpp-rjj8-7wv8`)(#44306) Thanks @LUOYEcode and @vincentkoc.
- Security/browser.request: block persistent browser profile create/delete routes from write-scoped `browser.request` so callers can no longer persist admin-only browser profile changes through the browser control surface. (`GHSA-vmhq-cqm9-6p7q`)(#43800) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Security/agent: reject public spawned-run lineage fields and keep workspace inheritance on the internal spawned-session path so external `agent` callers can no longer override the gateway workspace boundary. (`GHSA-2rqg-gjgv-84jm`)(#43801) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Security/session_status: enforce sandbox session-tree visibility and shared agent-to-agent access guards before reading or mutating target session state, so sandboxed subagents can no longer inspect parent session metadata or write parent model overrides via `session_status`. (`GHSA-wcxr-59v9-rxr8`)(#43754) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Security/agent tools: mark `nodes` as explicitly owner-only and document/test that `canvas` remains a shared trusted-operator surface unless a real boundary bypass exists.
- Security/exec approvals: fail closed for Ruby approval flows that use `-r`, `--require`, or `-I` so approval-backed commands no longer bind only the main script while extra local code-loading flags remain outside the reviewed file snapshot.
- Security/device pairing: cap issued and verified device-token scopes to each paired device's approved scope baseline so stale or overbroad tokens cannot exceed approved access. (`GHSA-2pwv-x786-56f8`)(#43686) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Docs/onboarding: align the legacy wizard reference and `openclaw onboard` command docs with the Ollama onboarding flow so all onboarding reference paths now document `--auth-choice ollama`, Cloud + Local mode, and non-interactive usage. (#43473) Thanks @BruceMacD.
- Models/secrets: enforce source-managed SecretRef markers in generated `models.json` so runtime-resolved provider secrets are not persisted when runtime projection is skipped. (#43759) Thanks @joshavant.
- Security/WebSocket preauth: shorten unauthenticated handshake retention and reject oversized pre-auth frames before application-layer parsing to reduce pre-pairing exposure on unsupported public deployments. (`GHSA-jv4g-m82p-2j93`)(#44089) (`GHSA-xwx2-ppv2-wx98`)(#44089) Thanks @ez-lbz and @vincentkoc.
- Security/proxy attachments: restore the shared media-store size cap for persisted browser proxy files so oversized payloads are rejected instead of overriding the intended 5 MB limit. (`GHSA-6rph-mmhp-h7h9`)(#43684) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Security/host env: block inherited `GIT_EXEC_PATH` from sanitized host exec environments so Git helper resolution cannot be steered by host environment state. (`GHSA-jf5v-pqgw-gm5m`)(#43685) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
- Security/Feishu webhook: require `encryptKey` alongside `verificationToken` in webhook mode so unsigned forged events are rejected instead of being processed with token-only configuration. (`GHSA-g353-mgv3-8pcj`)(#44087) Thanks @lintsinghua and @vincentkoc.
- Security/Feishu reactions: preserve looked-up group chat typing and fail closed on ambiguous reaction context so group authorization and mention gating cannot be bypassed through synthetic `p2p` reactions. (`GHSA-m69h-jm2f-2pv8`)(#44088) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
- Security/LINE webhook: require signatures for empty-event POST probes too so unsigned requests no longer confirm webhook reachability with a `200` response. (`GHSA-mhxh-9pjm-w7q5`)(#44090) Thanks @TerminalsandCoffee and @vincentkoc.
- Security/Zalo webhook: rate limit invalid secret guesses before auth so weak webhook secrets cannot be brute-forced through unauthenticated churned requests without pre-auth `429` responses. (`GHSA-5m9r-p9g7-679c`)(#44173) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
- Security/Zalouser groups: require stable group IDs for allowlist auth by default and gate mutable group-name matching behind `channels.zalouser.dangerouslyAllowNameMatching`. Thanks @zpbrent.
- Security/Slack and Teams routing: require stable channel and team IDs for allowlist routing by default, with mutable name matching only via each channel's `dangerouslyAllowNameMatching` break-glass flag.
- Security/exec approvals: fail closed for ambiguous inline loader and shell-payload script execution, bind the real script after POSIX shell value-taking flags, and unwrap `pnpm`/`npm exec`/`npx` script runners before approval binding. (`GHSA-57jw-9722-6rf2`)(`GHSA-jvqh-rfmh-jh27`)(`GHSA-x7pp-23xv-mmr4`)(`GHSA-jc5j-vg4r-j5jx`)(#44247) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/gateway service audit: canonicalize service entrypoint paths before comparing them so symlink-vs-realpath installs no longer trigger false "entrypoint does not match the current install" repair prompts. (#43882) Thanks @ngutman.
- Doctor/gateway service audit: earlier groundwork for this fix landed in the superseded #28338 branch. Thanks @realriphub.
- Gateway/session stores: regenerate the Swift push-test protocol models and align Windows native session-store realpath handling so protocol checks and sync session discovery stop drifting on Windows. (#44266) thanks @jalehman.
- Context engine/session routing: forward optional `sessionKey` through context-engine lifecycle calls so plugins can see structured routing metadata during bootstrap, assembly, post-turn ingestion, and compaction. (#44157) thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/failover: classify z.ai `network_error` stop reasons as retryable timeouts so provider connectivity failures trigger fallback instead of surfacing raw unhandled-stop-reason errors. (#43884) Thanks @hougangdev.
- Config/Anthropic startup: inline Anthropic alias normalization during config load so gateway startup no longer crashes on dated Anthropic model refs like `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514`. (#45520) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Memory/session sync: add mode-aware post-compaction session reindexing with `agents.defaults.compaction.postIndexSync` plus `agents.defaults.memorySearch.sync.sessions.postCompactionForce`, so compacted session memory can refresh immediately without forcing every deployment into synchronous reindexing. (#25561) thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Telegram/native command sync: suppress expected `BOT_COMMANDS_TOO_MUCH` retry error noise, add a final fallback summary log, and document the difference between command-menu overflow and real Telegram network failures.
- Browser/existing-session: stop reporting fake CDP ports/URLs for live attached Chrome sessions, render `transport: chrome-mcp` in CLI/status output instead of `port: 0`, and keep timeout diagnostics transport-aware when no direct CDP URL exists.
- Feishu/event dedupe: keep early duplicate suppression aligned with the shared Feishu message-id contract and release the pre-queue dedupe marker after failed dispatch so retried events can recover instead of being dropped until the short TTL expires. (#43762) Thanks @yunweibang.
- Gateway/hooks: bucket hook auth failures by forwarded client IP behind trusted proxies and warn when `hooks.allowedAgentIds` leaves hook routing unrestricted.
- Agents/compaction: skip the post-compaction `cache-ttl` marker write when a compaction completed in the same attempt, preventing the next turn from immediately triggering a second tiny compaction. (#28548) thanks @MoerAI.
- Native chat/macOS: add `/new`, `/reset`, and `/clear` reset triggers, keep shared main-session aliases aligned, and ignore stale model-selection completions so native chat state stays in sync across reset and fast model changes. (#10898) Thanks @Nachx639.
- Agents/compaction safeguard: route missing-model and missing-API-key cancellation warnings through the shared subsystem logger so they land in structured and file logs. (#9974) Thanks @dinakars777.
- Cron/doctor: stop flagging canonical `agentTurn` and `systemEvent` payload kinds as legacy cron storage, while still normalizing whitespace-padded and non-canonical variants. (#44012) Thanks @shuicici.
- ACP/client final-message delivery: preserve terminal assistant text snapshots before resolving `end_turn`, so ACP clients no longer drop the last visible reply when the gateway sends the final message body on the terminal chat event. (#17615) Thanks @pjeby.
- Telegram/Discord status reactions: show a temporary compacting reaction during auto-compaction pauses and restore thinking afterward so the bot no longer appears frozen while context is being compacted. (#35474) thanks @Cypherm.
- Delivery/dedupe: trim completed direct-cron delivery cache correctly and keep mirrored transcript dedupe active even when transcript files contain malformed lines. (#44666) thanks @frankekn.
- CLI/thinking help: add the missing `xhigh` level hints to `openclaw cron add`, `openclaw cron edit`, and `openclaw agent` so the help text matches the levels already accepted at runtime. (#44819) Thanks @kiki830621.
- Agents/Anthropic replay: drop replayed assistant thinking blocks for native Anthropic and Bedrock Claude providers so persisted follow-up turns no longer fail on stored thinking blocks. (#44843) Thanks @jmcte.
- Docs/Brave pricing: escape literal dollar signs in Brave Search cost text so the docs render the free credit and per-request pricing correctly. (#44989) Thanks @keelanfh.
- Feishu/file uploads: preserve literal UTF-8 filenames in `im.file.create` so Chinese and other non-ASCII filenames no longer appear percent-encoded in chat. (#34262) Thanks @fabiaodemianyang and @KangShuaiFu.
- Agents/compaction safeguard: trim large kept `toolResult` payloads consistently for budgeting, pruning, and identifier seeding, then restore preserved payloads after prune so oversized safeguard summaries stay stable. (#44133) thanks @SayrWolfridge.
- Agents/Ollama overflow: rewrite Ollama `prompt too long` API payloads through the normal context-overflow sanitizer so embedded sessions keep the friendly overflow copy and auto-compaction trigger. (#34019) thanks @lishuaigit.

- Control UI/auth: restore one-time legacy `?token=` imports for shared Control UI links while keeping `#token=` preferred, and carry pending query tokens through gateway URL confirmation so compatibility links still authenticate after confirmation. (#43979) Thanks @stim64045-spec.
- Plugins/context engines: retry legacy lifecycle calls once without `sessionKey` when older plugins reject that field, memoize legacy mode after the first strict-schema fallback, and preserve non-compat runtime errors without retry. (#44779) thanks @hhhhao28.
- Agents/compaction: treat markup-wrapped heartbeat boilerplate as non-meaningful session history when deciding whether to compact, so heartbeat-only sessions no longer keep compaction alive due to wrapper formatting. (#42119) thanks @samzong.

## 2026.3.11

### Changes

- OpenRouter/models: add temporary Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha entries to the built-in catalog so OpenRouter users can try the new free stealth models during their roughly one-week availability window. (#43642) Thanks @ping-Toven.
- iOS/Home canvas: add a bundled welcome screen with a live agent overview that refreshes on connect, reconnect, and foreground return, and move the compact connection pill off the top-left canvas overlay. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
- iOS/Home canvas: replace floating controls with a docked toolbar, make the bundled home scaffold adapt to smaller phones, and open chat in the resolved main session instead of a synthetic `ios` session. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
- macOS/chat UI: add a chat model picker, persist explicit thinking-level selections across relaunch, and harden provider-aware session model sync for the shared chat composer. (#42314) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- Onboarding/Ollama: add first-class Ollama setup with Local or Cloud + Local modes, browser-based cloud sign-in, curated model suggestions, and cloud-model handling that skips unnecessary local pulls. (#41529) Thanks @BruceMacD.
- OpenCode/onboarding: add new OpenCode Go provider, treat Zen and Go as one OpenCode setup in the wizard/docs while keeping the runtime providers split, store one shared OpenCode key for both profiles, and stop overriding the built-in `opencode-go` catalog routing. (#42313) Thanks @ImLukeF and @vincentkoc.
- Memory: add opt-in multimodal image and audio indexing for `memorySearch.extraPaths` with Gemini `gemini-embedding-2-preview`, strict fallback gating, and scope-based reindexing. (#43460) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Memory/Gemini: add `gemini-embedding-2-preview` memory-search support with configurable output dimensions and automatic reindexing when the configured dimensions change. (#42501) Thanks @BillChirico and @gumadeiras.
- macOS/onboarding: detect when remote gateways need a shared auth token, explain where to find it on the gateway host, and clarify when a successful check used paired-device auth instead. (#43100) Thanks @ngutman.
- Discord/auto threads: add `autoArchiveDuration` channel config for auto-created threads so Discord thread archiving can stay at 1 hour, 1 day, 3 days, or 1 week instead of always using the 1-hour default. (#35065) Thanks @davidguttman.
- iOS/TestFlight: add a local beta release flow with Fastlane prepare/archive/upload support, canonical beta bundle IDs, and watch-app archive fixes. (#42991) Thanks @ngutman.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: add optional `resumeSessionId` for `runtime: "acp"` so spawned ACP sessions can resume an existing ACPX/Codex conversation instead of always starting fresh. (#41847) Thanks @pejmanjohn.
- Gateway/node pending work: add narrow in-memory pending-work queue primitives (`node.pending.enqueue` / `node.pending.drain`) and wake-helper reuse as a foundation for dormant-node work delivery. (#41409) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Git/runtime state: ignore the gateway-generated `.dev-state` file so local runtime state does not show up as untracked repo noise. (#41848) Thanks @smysle.
- Exec/child commands: mark child command environments with `OPENCLAW_CLI` so subprocesses can detect when they were launched from the OpenClaw CLI. (#41411) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- LLM Task/Lobster: add an optional `thinking` override so workflow calls can explicitly set embedded reasoning level with shared validation for invalid values and unsupported `xhigh` modes. (#15606) Thanks @xadenryan and @ImLukeF.
- Mattermost/reply threading: add `channels.mattermost.replyToMode` for channel and group messages so top-level posts can start thread-scoped sessions without the manual reply-then-thread workaround. (#29587) Thanks @teconomix.
- iOS/push relay: add relay-backed official-build push delivery with App Attest + receipt verification, gateway-bound send delegation, and config-based relay URL setup on the gateway. (#43369) Thanks @ngutman.

### Fixes

- Windows/install: stop auto-installing `node-llama-cpp` during normal npm CLI installs so `openclaw@latest` no longer fails on Windows while building optional local-embedding dependencies.
- Windows/update: mirror the native installer environment during global npm updates, including portable Git fallback and Windows-safe npm shell settings, so `openclaw update` works again on native Windows installs.
- Gateway/status: expose `runtimeVersion` in gateway status output so install/update smoke tests can verify the running version before and after updates.
- Windows/onboarding: explain when non-interactive local onboarding is waiting for an already-running gateway, and surface native Scheduled Task admin requirements more clearly instead of failing with an opaque gateway timeout.
- Windows/gateway install: fall back from denied Scheduled Task creation to a per-user Startup-folder login item, so native `openclaw gateway install` and `--install-daemon` keep working without an elevated PowerShell shell.
- Agents/text sanitization: strip leaked model control tokens (`<|...|>` and full-width `<|...|>` variants) from user-facing assistant text, preventing GLM-5 and DeepSeek internal delimiters from reaching end users. (#42173) Thanks @imwyvern.
- iOS/gateway foreground recovery: reconnect immediately on foreground return after stale background sockets are torn down, so the app no longer stays disconnected until a later wake path happens. (#41384) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/Control UI: keep dashboard auth tokens in session-scoped browser storage so same-tab refreshes preserve remote token auth without restoring long-lived localStorage token persistence, while scoping tokens to the selected gateway URL and fragment-only bootstrap flow. (#40892) thanks @velvet-shark.
- Gateway/macOS launchd restarts: keep the LaunchAgent registered during explicit restarts, hand off self-restarts through a detached launchd helper, and recover config/hot reload restart paths without unloading the service. Fixes #43311, #43406, #43035, and #43049.
- macOS/LaunchAgent install: tighten LaunchAgent directory and plist permissions during install so launchd bootstrap does not fail when the target home path or generated plist inherited group/world-writable modes.
- Discord/reply chunking: resolve the effective `maxLinesPerMessage` config across live reply paths and preserve `chunkMode` in the fast send path so long Discord replies no longer split unexpectedly at the default 17-line limit. (#40133) thanks @rbutera.
- Feishu/local image auto-convert: pass `mediaLocalRoots` through the `sendText` local-image shim so allowed local image paths upload as Feishu images again instead of falling back to raw path text. (#40623) Thanks @ayanesakura.
- Telegram/outbound HTML sends: chunk long HTML-mode messages, preserve plain-text fallback and silent-delivery params across retries, and cut over to plain text when HTML chunk planning cannot safely preserve the full message. (#42240) thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/final preview delivery: split active preview lifecycle from cleanup retention so missing archived preview edits avoid duplicate fallback sends without clearing the live preview or blocking later in-place finalization. (#41662) thanks @hougangdev.
- Telegram/final preview delivery followup: keep ambiguous missing-`message_id` finals only when a preview was already visible, while first-preview/no-id cases still fall back so Telegram users do not lose the final reply. (#41932) thanks @hougangdev.
- Telegram/final preview cleanup follow-up: clear stale cleanup-retain state only for transient preview finals so archived-preview retains no longer leave a stale partial bubble beside a later fallback-sent final. (#41763) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/poll restarts: scope process-level polling restarts to real Telegram `getUpdates` failures so unrelated network errors, such as Slack DNS misses, no longer bounce Telegram polling. (#43799) Thanks @obviyus.
- Gateway/auth: allow one trusted device-token retry on shared-token mismatch with recovery hints to prevent reconnect churn during token drift. (#42507) Thanks @joshavant.
- Gateway/config errors: surface up to three validation issues in top-level `config.set`, `config.patch`, and `config.apply` error messages while preserving structured issue details. (#42664) Thanks @huntharo.
- Agents/Azure OpenAI Responses: include the `azure-openai` provider in the Responses API store override so Azure OpenAI multi-turn cron jobs and embedded agent runs no longer fail with HTTP 400 "store is set to false". (#42934, fixes #42800) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Agents/error rendering: ignore stale assistant `errorMessage` fields on successful turns so background/tool-side failures no longer prepend synthetic billing errors over valid replies. (#40616) Thanks @ingyukoh.
- Agents/billing recovery: probe single-provider billing cooldowns on the existing throttle so topping up credits can recover without a manual gateway restart. (#41422) thanks @altaywtf.
- Agents/fallback: treat HTTP 499 responses as transient in both raw-text and structured failover paths so Anthropic-style client-closed overload responses trigger model fallback reliably. (#41468) thanks @zeroasterisk.
- Agents/fallback: recognize Venice `402 Insufficient USD or Diem balance` billing errors so configured model fallbacks trigger instead of surfacing the raw provider error. (#43205) Thanks @Squabble9.
- Agents/fallback: recognize Poe `402 You've used up your points!` billing errors so configured model fallbacks trigger instead of surfacing the raw provider error. (#42278) Thanks @CryUshio.
- Agents/failover: treat Gemini `MALFORMED_RESPONSE` stop reasons as retryable timeouts so preview-model enum drift falls back cleanly instead of crashing the run, without also reclassifying malformed function-call errors. (#42292) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
- Agents/cooldowns: default cooldown windows with no recorded failure history to `unknown` instead of `rate_limit`, avoiding false API rate-limit warnings while preserving cooldown recovery probes. (#42911) Thanks @VibhorGautam.
- Auth/cooldowns: reset expired auth-profile cooldown error counters before computing the next backoff so stale on-disk counters do not re-escalate into long cooldown loops after expiry. (#41028) thanks @zerone0x.
- Agents/memory flush: forward `memoryFlushWritePath` through `runEmbeddedPiAgent` so memory-triggered flush turns keep the append-only write guard without aborting before tool setup. Follows up on #38574. (#41761) Thanks @frankekn.
- Agents/context pruning: prune image-only tool results during soft-trim, align context-pruning coverage with the new tool-result contract, and extend historical image cleanup to the same screenshot-heavy session path. (#43045) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Sessions/reset model recompute: clear stale runtime model, context-token, and system-prompt metadata before session resets recompute the replacement session, so resets pick up current defaults and explicit overrides instead of reusing old runtime model state. (#41173) thanks @PonyX-lab.
- Channels/allowlists: remove stale matcher caching so same-array allowlist edits and wildcard replacements take effect immediately, with regression coverage for in-place mutation cases.
- Discord/Telegram outbound runtime config: thread runtime-resolved config through Discord and Telegram send paths so SecretRef-based credentials stay resolved during message delivery. (#42352) Thanks @joshavant.
- Tools/web search: treat Brave `llm-context` grounding snippets as plain strings so `web_search` no longer returns empty snippet arrays in LLM Context mode. (#41387) thanks @zheliu2.
- Tools/web search: recover OpenRouter Perplexity citation extraction from `message.annotations` when chat-completions responses omit top-level citations. (#40881) Thanks @laurieluo.
- CLI/skills JSON: strip ANSI and C1 control bytes from `skills list --json`, `skills info --json`, and `skills check --json` so machine-readable output stays valid for terminals and skill metadata with embedded control characters. Fixes #27530. Related #27557. Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/tables: default shared tables to ASCII borders on legacy Windows consoles while keeping Unicode borders on modern Windows terminals, so commands like `openclaw skills` stop rendering mojibake under GBK/936 consoles. Fixes #40853. Related #41015. Thanks @ApacheBin and @vincentkoc.
- CLI/memory teardown: close cached memory search/index managers in the one-shot CLI shutdown path so watcher-backed memory caches no longer keep completed CLI runs alive after output finishes. (#40389) thanks @Julbarth.
- Control UI/Sessions: restore single-column session table collapse on narrow viewport or container widths by moving the responsive table override next to the base grid rule and enabling inline-size container queries. (#12175) Thanks @benjipeng.
- Telegram/network env-proxy: apply configured transport policy to proxied HTTPS dispatchers as well as direct `NO_PROXY` bypasses, so resolver-scoped IPv4 fallback and network settings work consistently for env-proxied Telegram traffic. (#40740) Thanks @sircrumpet.
- Mattermost/Markdown formatting: preserve first-line indentation when stripping bot mentions so nested list items and indented code blocks keep their structure, and render Mattermost tables natively by default instead of fenced-code fallback. (#18655) thanks @echo931.
- Mattermost/plugin send actions: normalize direct `replyTo` fallback handling so threaded plugin sends trim blank IDs and reuse the correct reply target again. (#41176) Thanks @hnykda.
- MS Teams/allowlist resolution: use the General channel conversation ID as the resolved team key (with Graph GUID fallback) so Bot Framework runtime `channelData.team.id` matching works for team and team/channel allowlist entries. (#41838) Thanks @BradGroux.
- Signal/config schema: accept `channels.signal.accountUuid` in strict config validation so loop-protection configs no longer fail with an unrecognized-key error. (#35578) Thanks @ingyukoh.
- Telegram/config schema: accept `channels.telegram.actions.editMessage` and `createForumTopic` in strict config validation so existing Telegram action toggles no longer fail as unrecognized keys. (#35498) Thanks @ingyukoh.
- Telegram/docs: clarify that `channels.telegram.groups` allowlists chats while `groupAllowFrom` allowlists users inside those chats, and point invalid negative chat IDs at the right config key. (#42451) Thanks @altaywtf.
- Discord/config typing: expose channel-level `autoThread` on the canonical guild-channel config type so strict config loading matches the existing Discord schema and runtime behavior. (#35608) Thanks @ingyukoh.
- fix(models): guard optional model.input capability checks (#42096) thanks @andyliu.
- Models/Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: wire `MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY` through shared env auth, implicit provider discovery, and shell-env fallback so onboarding works outside the wizard too. (#40634) Thanks @pomelo-nwu.
- Resolve web tool SecretRefs atomically at runtime. (#41599) Thanks @joshavant.
- Secret files: harden CLI and channel credential file reads against path-swap races by requiring direct regular files for `*File` secret inputs and rejecting symlink-backed secret files.
- Archive extraction: harden TAR and external `tar.bz2` installs against destination symlink and pre-existing child-symlink escapes by extracting into staging first and merging into the canonical destination with safe file opens.
- Secrets/SecretRef: reject exec SecretRef traversal ids across schema, runtime, and gateway. (#42370) Thanks @joshavant.
- Sandbox/fs bridge: pin staged writes to verified parent directories so temporary write files cannot materialize outside the allowed mount before atomic replace. Thanks @tdjackey.
- Gateway/auth: fail closed when local `gateway.auth.*` SecretRefs are configured but unavailable, instead of silently falling back to `gateway.remote.*` credentials in local mode. (#42672) Thanks @joshavant.
- Commands/config writes: enforce `configWrites` against both the originating account and the targeted account scope for `/config` and config-backed `/allowlist` edits, blocking sibling-account mutations while preserving gateway `operator.admin` flows. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/system.run: fail closed for approval-backed interpreter/runtime commands when OpenClaw cannot bind exactly one concrete local file operand, while extending best-effort direct-file binding to additional runtime forms. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Gateway/session reset auth: split conversation `/new` and `/reset` handling away from the admin-only `sessions.reset` control-plane RPC so write-scoped gateway callers can no longer reach the privileged reset path through `agent`. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/plugin runtime: stop unauthenticated plugin HTTP routes from inheriting synthetic admin gateway scopes when they call `runtime.subagent.*`, so admin-only methods like `sessions.delete` stay blocked without gateway auth. Thanks @hydro13.
- Security/nodes: treat the `nodes` agent tool as owner-only fallback policy so non-owner senders cannot reach paired-node approval or invoke paths through the shared tool set. Thanks @hydro13.
- Sandbox/sessions_spawn: restore real workspace handoff for read-only sandboxed sessions so spawned subagents mount the configured workspace at `/agent` instead of inheriting the sandbox copy. Related #40582 (#44307). Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Security/external content: treat whitespace-delimited `EXTERNAL UNTRUSTED CONTENT` boundary markers like underscore-delimited variants so prompt wrappers cannot bypass marker sanitization. (#35983) Thanks @urianpaul94.
- Telegram/exec approvals: reject `/approve` commands aimed at other bots, keep deterministic approval prompts visible when tool-result delivery fails, and stop resolved exact IDs from matching other pending approvals by prefix. (#37233) Thanks @huntharo.
- Subagents/authority: persist leaf vs orchestrator control scope at spawn time and route tool plus slash-command control through shared ownership checks, so leaf sessions cannot regain orchestration privileges after restore or flat-key lookups. Thanks @tdjackey.
- ACP/ACPX plugin: bump the bundled `acpx` pin to `0.1.16` so plugin-local installs and strict version checks match the latest published CLI. (#41975) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- ACP/sessions.patch: allow `spawnedBy` and `spawnDepth` lineage fields on ACP session keys so `sessions_spawn` with `runtime: "acp"` no longer fails during child-session setup. Fixes #40971. (#40995) thanks @xaeon2026.
- ACP/stop reason mapping: resolve gateway chat `state: "error"` completions as ACP `end_turn` instead of `refusal` so transient backend failures are not surfaced as deliberate refusals. (#41187) thanks @pejmanjohn.
- ACP/setSessionMode: propagate gateway `sessions.patch` failures back to ACP clients so rejected mode changes no longer return silent success. (#41185) thanks @pejmanjohn.
- ACP/bridge mode: reject unsupported per-session MCP server setup and propagate rejected session-mode changes so IDE clients see explicit bridge limitations instead of silent success. (#41424) Thanks @mbelinky.
- ACP/session UX: replay stored user and assistant text on `loadSession`, expose Gateway-backed session controls and metadata, and emit approximate session usage updates so IDE clients restore context more faithfully. (#41425) Thanks @mbelinky.
- ACP/tool streaming: enrich `tool_call` and `tool_call_update` events with best-effort text content and file-location hints so IDE clients can follow bridge tool activity more naturally. (#41442) Thanks @mbelinky.
- ACP/runtime attachments: forward normalized inbound image attachments into ACP runtime turns so ACPX sessions can preserve image prompt content on the runtime path. (#41427) Thanks @mbelinky.
- ACP/regressions: add gateway RPC coverage for ACP lineage patching, ACPX runtime coverage for image prompt serialization, and an operator smoke-test procedure for live ACP spawn verification. (#41456) Thanks @mbelinky.
- ACP/follow-up hardening: make session restore and prompt completion degrade gracefully on transcript/update failures, enforce bounded tool-location traversal, and skip non-image ACPX turns the runtime cannot serialize. (#41464) Thanks @mbelinky.
- ACP/sessions_spawn: implicitly stream `mode="run"` ACP spawns to parent only for eligible subagent orchestrator sessions (heartbeat `target: "last"` with a usable session-local route), restoring parent progress relays without thread binding. (#42404) Thanks @davidguttman.
- ACP/main session aliases: canonicalize `main` before ACP session lookup so restarted ACP main sessions rehydrate instead of failing closed with `Session is not ACP-enabled: main`. (#43285, fixes #25692) (#43285) Thanks @frankekn.
- Plugins/context-engine model auth: expose `runtime.modelAuth` and plugin-sdk auth helpers so plugins can resolve provider/model API keys through the normal auth pipeline. (#41090) thanks @xinhuagu.
- Hooks/plugin context parity followup: pass `trigger` and `channelId` through embedded `llm_input`, `agent_end`, and `llm_output` hook contexts so plugins receive the same agent metadata across hook phases. (#42362) Thanks @zhoulf1006.
- Plugins/global hook runner: harden singleton state handling so shared global hook runner reuse does not leak or corrupt runner state across executions. (#40184) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Context engine/tests: add bundled-registry regression coverage for cross-chunk resolution, plugin-sdk re-exports, and concurrent chunk registration. (#40460) thanks @dsantoreis.
- Agents/embedded runner: bound compaction retry waiting and drain embedded runs during SIGUSR1 restart so session lanes recover instead of staying blocked behind compaction. (#40324) thanks @cgdusek.
- Agents/embedded logs: add structured, sanitized lifecycle and failover observation events so overload and provider failures are easier to tail and filter. (#41336) thanks @altaywtf.
- Agents/embedded overload logs: include the failing model and provider in error-path console output, with lifecycle regression coverage for the rendered and sanitized `consoleMessage`. (#41236) thanks @jiarung.
- Agents/fallback observability: add structured, sanitized model-fallback decision and auth-profile failure-state events with correlated run IDs so cooldown probes and failover paths are easier to trace in logs. (#41337) thanks @altaywtf.
- Logging/probe observations: suppress structured embedded and model-fallback probe warnings on the console without hiding error or fatal output. (#41338) thanks @altaywtf.
- Agents/context-engine compaction: guard thrown engine-owned overflow compaction attempts and fire compaction hooks for `ownsCompaction` engines so overflow recovery no longer crashes and plugin subscribers still observe compact runs. (#41361) thanks @davidrudduck.
- Gateway/node pending drain followup: keep `hasMore` true when the deferred baseline status item still needs delivery, and avoid allocating empty pending-work state for drain-only nodes with no queued work. (#41429) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Protocol/Swift model sync: regenerate pending node work Swift bindings after the landed `node.pending.*` schema additions so generated protocol artifacts are consistent again. (#41477) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Cron/subagent followup: do not misclassify empty or `NO_REPLY` cron responses as interim acknowledgements that need a rerun, so deliberately silent cron jobs are no longer retried. (#41383) thanks @jackal092927.
- ACP/run-mode delivery: restore inline delivery for one-shot ACP run spawns from non-subagent (main) requester sessions so completions reach the originating Discord/Telegram/etc. channel again. Subagent orchestrators continue to use stream-to-parent when an active heartbeat relay route is available. (#52426) Thanks @distractedCoding.
- Cron/state errors: record `lastErrorReason` in cron job state and keep the gateway schema aligned with the full failover-reason set, including regression coverage for protocol conformance. (#14382) thanks @futuremind2026.
- Browser/Browserbase 429 handling: surface stable no-retry rate-limit guidance without buffering discarded HTTP 429 response bodies from remote browser services. (#40491) thanks @mvanhorn.
- CI/CodeQL Swift toolchain: select Xcode 26.1 before installing Swift build tools so the CodeQL Swift job uses Swift tools 6.2 on `macos-latest`. (#41787) thanks @BunsDev.
- Sandbox/subagents: pass the real configured workspace through `sessions_spawn` inheritance when a parent agent runs in a copied-workspace sandbox, so child `/agent` mounts point at the configured workspace instead of the parent sandbox copy. (#40757) Thanks @dsantoreis.
- Agents/fallback cooldown probing: cap cooldown-bypass probing to one attempt per provider per fallback run so multi-model same-provider cooldown chains can continue to cross-provider fallbacks instead of repeatedly stalling on duplicate cooldown probes. (#41711) Thanks @cgdusek.
- Telegram/direct delivery: bridge direct delivery sends to internal `message:sent` hooks so internal hook listeners observe successful Telegram deliveries. (#40185) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies: refresh workspace dependencies except the pinned Carbon package, and harden ACP session-config writes against non-string SDK values so newer ACP clients fail fast instead of tripping type/runtime mismatches.
- Telegram/polling restarts: clear bounded cleanup timeout handles after `runner.stop()` and `bot.stop()` settle so stall recovery no longer leaves stray 15-second timers behind on clean shutdown. (#43188) thanks @kyohwang.
- Status/context windows: normalize provider-qualified override cache keys so `/status` resolves the active provider's configured context window even when `models.providers` keys use mixed case or surrounding whitespace. (#36389) Thanks @haoruilee.
- Agents/embedded runner: recover canonical allowlisted tool names from malformed `toolCallId` and malformed non-blank tool-name variants before dispatch, while failing closed on ambiguous matches. (#34485) thanks @yuweuii.
- Agents/failover: classify ZenMux quota-refresh `402` responses as `rate_limit` so model fallback retries continue instead of stopping on a temporary subscription window. (#43917) thanks @bwjoke.
- Agents/failover: classify HTTP 422 malformed-request responses as `format` and recognize OpenRouter "requires more credits" billing errors so provider fallback triggers instead of surfacing raw errors. (#43823) thanks @jnMetaCode.
- Memory/QMD Windows: fail closed when `qmd.cmd` or `mcporter.cmd` wrappers cannot be resolved to a direct entrypoint, so memory search no longer falls back to shell execution on Windows.
- macOS/remote gateway: stop PortGuardian from killing Docker Desktop and other external listeners on the gateway port in remote mode, so containerized and tunneled gateway setups no longer lose their port-forward owner on app startup. (#6755) Thanks @teslamint.
- Feishu/streaming recovery: clear stale `streamingStartPromise` when card creation fails (HTTP 400) so subsequent messages can retry streaming instead of silently dropping all future replies. Fixes #43322. Thanks @ademczuk.
- Exec/env sandbox: block JVM agent injection (`JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS`, `_JAVA_OPTIONS`, `JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS`), Python breakpoint hijack (`PYTHONBREAKPOINT`), and .NET startup hooks (`DOTNET_STARTUP_HOOKS`) from the host exec environment. (#49025) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Android/camera clip cleanup: delete temporary clip files even when `readBytes()` fails so failed clip captures do not leak cache storage. (#41890) Thanks @Kaneki-x.
- Android/photos: recycle decoded and intermediate bitmaps in `photos.latest` so repeated photo fetches stop leaking native memory. (#41888) Thanks @Kaneki-x.

### Security

- Gateway/WebSocket: enforce browser origin validation for all browser-originated connections regardless of whether proxy headers are present, closing a cross-site WebSocket hijacking path in `trusted-proxy` mode that could grant untrusted origins `operator.admin` access. (GHSA-5wcw-8jjv-m286).

### Breaking

- Cron/doctor: tighten isolated cron delivery so cron jobs can no longer notify through ad hoc agent sends or fallback main-session summaries, and add `openclaw doctor --fix` migration for legacy cron storage and legacy notify/webhook delivery metadata. (#40998) Thanks @mbelinky.

## 2026.3.8

### 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. Thanks @obviyus.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Doctor/Codex OAuth: warn only for legacy `models.providers.openai-codex` transport overrides that can shadow the built-in Codex OAuth path, while leaving supported custom proxies and header-only overrides alone. (#40143) Thanks @bde1.
- 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.
- Subagents/sandboxing: restrict leaf subagents to their own spawned runs and remove leaf `subagents` control access so sandboxed leaf workers can no longer steer sibling sessions. Thanks @tdjackey.
- 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/Gateway: block `device.token.rotate` from minting operator scopes broader than the caller session already holds, closing the critical paired-device token privilege escalation reported as GHSA-4jpw-hj22-2xmc. Thanks @hydro13.
- 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.
- Control UI/Debug: replace the Manual RPC free-text method field with a sorted dropdown sourced from gateway-advertised methods, and stack the form vertically for narrower layouts. (#14967) thanks @rixau.
- Auth/profile resolution: log debug details when auto-discovered auth profiles fail during provider API-key resolution, so `--debug` output surfaces the real refresh/keychain/credential-store failure instead of only the generic missing-key message. (#41271) thanks @he-yufeng.
- ACP/cancel scoping: scope `chat.abort` and shared-session ACP event routing by `runId` so one session cannot cancel or consume another session's run when they share the same gateway session key. (#41331) Thanks @pejmanjohn.
- SecretRef/models: harden custom/provider secret persistence and reuse across models.json snapshots, merge behavior, runtime headers, and secret audits. (#42554) Thanks @joshavant.
- macOS/browser proxy: serialize non-GET browser proxy request bodies through `AnyCodable.foundationValue` so nested JSON bodies no longer crash the macOS app with `Invalid type in JSON write (__SwiftValue)`. (#43069) Thanks @Effet.
- CLI/skills tables: keep terminal table borders aligned for wide graphemes, use full reported terminal width, and switch a few ambiguous skill icons to Terminal-safe emoji so `openclaw skills` renders more consistently in Terminal.app and iTerm. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/Gemini: normalize returned Gemini embeddings across direct query, direct batch, and async batch paths so memory search uses consistent vector handling for Gemini too. (#43409) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/failover: recognize additional serialized network errno strings plus `EHOSTDOWN` and `EPIPE` structured codes so transient transport failures trigger timeout failover more reliably. (#42830) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
- Agents/embedded runner: carry provider-observed overflow token counts into compaction so overflow retries and diagnostics use the rejected live prompt size instead of only transcript estimates. (#40357) thanks @rabsef-bicrym.
- Agents/compaction transcript updates: emit a transcript-update event immediately after successful embedded compaction so downstream listeners observe the post-compact transcript without waiting for a later write. (#25558) thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Agents/sessions_spawn: use the target agent workspace for cross-agent spawned runs instead of inheriting the caller workspace, so child sessions load the correct workspace-scoped instructions and persona files. (#40176) Thanks @moshehbenavraham.

## 2026.3.7

### Changes

- Agents/context engine plugin interface: add `ContextEngine` plugin slot with full lifecycle hooks (`bootstrap`, `ingest`, `assemble`, `compact`, `afterTurn`, `prepareSubagentSpawn`, `onSubagentEnded`), slot-based registry with config-driven resolution, `LegacyContextEngine` wrapper preserving existing compaction behavior, scoped subagent runtime for plugin runtimes via `AsyncLocalStorage`, and `sessions.get` gateway method. Enables plugins like `lossless-claw` to provide alternative context management strategies without modifying core compaction logic. Zero behavior change when no context engine plugin is configured. (#22201) thanks @jalehman.
- ACP/persistent channel bindings: add durable Discord channel and Telegram topic binding storage, routing resolution, and CLI/docs support so ACP thread targets survive restarts and can be managed consistently. (#34873) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Telegram/ACP topic bindings: accept Telegram Mac Unicode dash option prefixes in `/acp spawn`, support Telegram topic thread binding (`--thread here|auto`), route bound-topic follow-ups to ACP sessions, add actionable Telegram approval buttons with prefixed approval-id resolution, and pin successful bind confirmations in-topic. (#36683) Thanks @huntharo.
- Telegram/topic agent routing: support per-topic `agentId` overrides in forum groups and DM topics so topics can route to dedicated agents with isolated sessions. (#33647; based on #31513) Thanks @kesor and @Sid-Qin.
- Web UI/i18n: add Spanish (`es`) locale support in the Control UI, including locale detection, lazy loading, and language picker labels across supported locales. (#35038) Thanks @DaoPromociones.
- Onboarding/web search: add provider selection step and full provider list in configure wizard, with SecretRef ref-mode support during onboarding. (#34009) Thanks @kesku and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Tools/Web search: switch Perplexity provider to Search API with structured results plus new language/region/time filters. (#33822) Thanks @kesku.
- Gateway: add SecretRef support for gateway.auth.token with auth-mode guardrails. (#35094) Thanks @joshavant.
- Docker/Podman extension dependency baking: add `OPENCLAW_EXTENSIONS` so container builds can preinstall selected bundled extension npm dependencies into the image for faster and more reproducible startup in container deployments. (#32223) Thanks @sallyom.
- Plugins/before_prompt_build system-context fields: add `prependSystemContext` and `appendSystemContext` so static plugin guidance can be placed in system prompt space for provider caching and lower repeated prompt token cost. (#35177) thanks @maweibin.
- Plugins/hook policy: add `plugins.entries.<id>.hooks.allowPromptInjection`, validate unknown typed hook names at runtime, and preserve legacy `before_agent_start` model/provider overrides while stripping prompt-mutating fields when prompt injection is disabled. (#36567) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Hooks/Compaction lifecycle: emit `session:compact:before` and `session:compact:after` internal events plus plugin compaction callbacks with session/count metadata, so automations can react to compaction runs consistently. (#16788) thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/compaction post-context configurability: add `agents.defaults.compaction.postCompactionSections` so deployments can choose which `AGENTS.md` sections are re-injected after compaction, while preserving legacy fallback behavior when the documented default pair is configured in any order. (#34556) thanks @efe-arv.
- TTS/OpenAI-compatible endpoints: add `messages.tts.openai.baseUrl` config support with config-over-env precedence, endpoint-aware directive validation, and OpenAI TTS request routing to the resolved base URL. (#34321) thanks @RealKai42.
- Slack/DM typing feedback: add `channels.slack.typingReaction` so Socket Mode DMs can show reaction-based processing status even when Slack native assistant typing is unavailable. (#19816) Thanks @dalefrieswthat.
- Discord/allowBots mention gating: add `allowBots: "mentions"` to only accept bot-authored messages that mention the bot. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Agents/tool-result truncation: preserve important tail diagnostics by using head+tail truncation for oversized tool results while keeping configurable truncation options. (#20076) thanks @jlwestsr.
- Cron/job snapshot persistence: skip backup during normalization persistence in `ensureLoaded` so `jobs.json.bak` keeps the pre-edit snapshot for recovery, while preserving backup creation on explicit user-driven writes. (#35234) Thanks @0xsline.
- CLI: make read-only SecretRef status flows degrade safely (#37023) thanks @joshavant.
- Tools/Diffs guidance: restore a short system-prompt hint for enabled diffs while keeping the detailed instructions in the companion skill, so diffs usage guidance stays out of user-prompt space. (#36904) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Tools/Diffs guidance loading: move diffs usage guidance from unconditional prompt-hook injection to the plugin companion skill path, reducing unrelated-turn prompt noise while keeping diffs tool behavior unchanged. (#32630) thanks @sircrumpet.
- Docs/Web search: remove outdated Brave free-tier wording and replace prescriptive AI ToS guidance with neutral compliance language in Brave setup docs. (#26860) Thanks @HenryLoenwind.
- Config/Compaction safeguard tuning: expose `agents.defaults.compaction.recentTurnsPreserve` and quality-guard retry knobs through the validated config surface and embedded-runner wiring, with regression coverage for real config loading and schema metadata. (#25557) thanks @rodrigouroz.
- iOS/App Store Connect release prep: align iOS bundle identifiers under `ai.openclaw.client`, refresh Watch app icons, add Fastlane metadata/screenshot automation, and support Keychain-backed ASC auth for uploads. (#38936) Thanks @ngutman.
- Mattermost/model picker: add Telegram-style interactive provider/model browsing for `/oc_model` and `/oc_models`, fix picker callback updates, and emit a normal confirmation reply when a model is selected. (#38767) thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Docker/multi-stage build: restructure Dockerfile as a multi-stage build to produce a minimal runtime image without build tools, source code, or Bun; add `OPENCLAW_VARIANT=slim` build arg for a bookworm-slim variant. (#38479) Thanks @sallyom.
- Google/Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: add first-class `google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview` support across model-id normalization, default aliases, media-understanding image lookups, Google Gemini CLI forward-compat fallback, and docs.
- Agents/compaction model override: allow `agents.defaults.compaction.model` to route compaction summarization through a different model than the main session, and document the override across config help/reference surfaces. (#38753) thanks @starbuck100.

### Fixes

- Models/MiniMax: stop advertising removed `MiniMax-M2.5-Lightning` in built-in provider catalogs, onboarding metadata, and docs; keep the supported fast-tier model as `MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed`.
- Models/Vercel AI Gateway: synthesize the built-in `vercel-ai-gateway` provider from `AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY` and auto-discover the live `/v1/models` catalog so `/models vercel-ai-gateway` exposes current refs including `openai/gpt-5.4`.
- Security/Config: fail closed when `loadConfig()` hits validation or read errors so invalid configs cannot silently fall back to permissive runtime defaults. (#9040) Thanks @joetomasone.
- Memory/Hybrid search: preserve negative FTS5 BM25 relevance ordering in `bm25RankToScore()` so stronger keyword matches rank above weaker ones instead of collapsing or reversing scores. (#33757) Thanks @lsdcc01.
- LINE/`requireMention` group gating: align inbound and reply-stage LINE group policy resolution across raw, `group:`, and `room:` keys (including account-scoped group config), preserve plugin-backed reply-stage fallback behavior, and add regression coverage for prefixed-only group/room config plus reply-stage policy resolution. (#35847) Thanks @kirisame-wang.
- Onboarding/local setup: default unset local `tools.profile` to `coding` instead of `messaging`, restoring file/runtime tools for fresh local installs while preserving explicit user-set profiles. (from #38241, overlap with #34958) Thanks @cgdusek.
- Gateway/Telegram stale-socket restart guard: only apply stale-socket restarts to channels that publish event-liveness timestamps, preventing Telegram providers from being misclassified as stale solely due to long uptime and avoiding restart/pairing storms after upgrade. (openclaw#38464) (#38643) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Onboarding/headless Linux daemon probe hardening: treat `systemctl --user is-enabled` probe failures as non-fatal during daemon install flow so onboarding no longer crashes on SSH/headless VPS environments before showing install guidance. (#37297) Thanks @acarbajal-web.
- Memory/QMD mcporter Windows spawn hardening: when `mcporter.cmd` launch fails with `spawn EINVAL`, retry via bare `mcporter` shell resolution so QMD recall can continue instead of falling back to builtin memory search. (#27402) Thanks @i0ivi0i.
- Tools/web_search Brave language-code validation: align `search_lang` handling with Brave-supported codes (including `zh-hans`, `zh-hant`, `en-gb`, and `pt-br`), map common alias inputs (`zh`, `ja`) to valid Brave values, and reject unsupported codes before upstream requests to prevent 422 failures. (#37260) Thanks @heyanming.
- Models/openai-completions streaming compatibility: force `compat.supportsUsageInStreaming=false` for non-native OpenAI-compatible endpoints during model normalization, preventing usage-only stream chunks from triggering `choices[0]` parser crashes in provider streams. (#8714) Thanks @nonanon1.
- Tools/xAI native web-search collision guard: drop OpenClaw `web_search` from tool registration when routing to xAI/Grok model providers (including OpenRouter `x-ai/*`) to avoid duplicate tool-name request failures against provider-native `web_search`. (#14749) Thanks @realsamrat.
- TUI/token copy-safety rendering: treat long credential-like mixed alphanumeric tokens (including quoted forms) as copy-sensitive in render sanitization so formatter hard-wrap guards no longer inject visible spaces into auth-style values before display. (#26710) Thanks @jasonthane.
- WhatsApp/self-chat response prefix fallback: stop forcing `"[openclaw]"` as the implicit outbound response prefix when no identity name or response prefix is configured, so blank/default prefix settings no longer inject branding text unexpectedly in self-chat flows. (#27962) Thanks @ecanmor.
- Memory/QMD search result decoding: accept `qmd search` hits that only include `file` URIs (for example `qmd://collection/path.md`) without `docid`, resolve them through managed collection roots, and keep multi-collection results keyed by file fallback so valid QMD hits no longer collapse to empty `memory_search` output. (#28181) Thanks @0x76696265.
- Memory/QMD collection-name conflict recovery: when `qmd collection add` fails because another collection already occupies the same `path + pattern`, detect the conflicting collection from `collection list`, remove it, and retry add so agent-scoped managed collections are created deterministically instead of being silently skipped; also add warning-only fallback when qmd metadata is unavailable to avoid destructive guesses. (#25496) Thanks @Ramsbaby.
- Slack/app_mention race dedupe: when `app_mention` dispatch wins while same-`ts` `message` prepare is still in-flight, suppress the later message dispatch so near-simultaneous Slack deliveries do not produce duplicate replies; keep single-retry behavior and add regression coverage for both dropped and successful message-prepare outcomes. (#37033) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Gateway/chat streaming tool-boundary text retention: merge assistant delta segments into per-run chat buffers so pre-tool text is preserved in live chat deltas/finals when providers emit post-tool assistant segments as non-prefix snapshots. (#36957) Thanks @Datyedyeguy.
- TUI/model indicator freshness: prevent stale session snapshots from overwriting freshly patched model selection (and reset per-session freshness when switching session keys) so `/model` updates reflect immediately instead of lagging by one or more commands. (#21255) Thanks @kowza.
- TUI/final-error rendering fallback: when a chat `final` event has no renderable assistant content but includes envelope `errorMessage`, render the formatted error text instead of collapsing to `"(no output)"`, preserving actionable failure context in-session. (#14687) Thanks @Mquarmoc.
- TUI/session-key alias event matching: treat chat events whose session keys are canonical aliases (for example `agent:<id>:main` vs `main`) as the same session while preserving cross-agent isolation, so assistant replies no longer disappear or surface in another terminal window due to strict key-form mismatch. (#33937) Thanks @yjh1412.
- OpenAI Codex OAuth/login parity: keep `openclaw models auth login --provider openai-codex` on the built-in path even without provider plugins, preserve Pi-generated authorize URLs without local scope rewriting, and stop validating successful Codex sign-ins against the public OpenAI Responses API after callback. (#37558; follow-up to #36660 and #24720) Thanks @driesvints, @Skippy-Gunboat, and @obviyus.
- Agents/config schema lookup: add `gateway` tool action `config.schema.lookup` so agents can inspect one config path at a time before edits without loading the full schema into prompt context. (#37266) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Onboarding/API key input hardening: strip non-Latin1 Unicode artifacts from normalized secret input (while preserving Latin-1 content and internal spaces) so malformed copied API keys cannot trigger HTTP header `ByteString` construction crashes; adds regression coverage for shared normalization and MiniMax auth header usage. (#24496) Thanks @fa6maalassaf.
- Kimi Coding/Anthropic tools compatibility: normalize `anthropic-messages` tool payloads to OpenAI-style `tools[].function` + compatible `tool_choice` when targeting Kimi Coding endpoints, restoring tool-call workflows that regressed after v2026.3.2. (#37038) Thanks @mochimochimochi-hub.
- Heartbeat/workspace-path guardrails: append explicit workspace `HEARTBEAT.md` path guidance (and `docs/heartbeat.md` avoidance) to heartbeat prompts so heartbeat runs target workspace checklists reliably across packaged install layouts. (#37037) Thanks @stofancy.
- Node/system.run approvals: bind approval prompts to the exact executed argv text and show shell payload only as a secondary preview, closing basename-spoofed wrapper approval mismatches. Thanks @tdjackey.
- Subagents/kill-complete announce race: when a late `subagent-complete` lifecycle event arrives after an earlier kill marker, clear stale kill suppression/cleanup flags and re-run announce cleanup so finished runs no longer get silently swallowed. (#37024) Thanks @cmfinlan.
- Agents/tool-result cleanup timeout hardening: on embedded runner teardown idle timeouts, clear pending tool-call state without persisting synthetic `missing tool result` entries, preventing timeout cleanups from poisoning follow-up turns; adds regression coverage for timeout clear-vs-flush behavior. (#37081) Thanks @Coyote-Den.
- Agents/openai-completions stream timeout hardening: ensure runtime undici global dispatchers use extended streaming body/header timeouts (including env-proxy dispatcher mode) before embedded runs, reducing forced mid-stream `terminated` failures on long generations; adds regression coverage for dispatcher selection and idempotent reconfiguration. (#9708) Thanks @scottchguard.
- Agents/fallback cooldown probe execution: thread explicit rate-limit cooldown probe intent from model fallback into embedded runner auth-profile selection so same-provider fallback attempts can actually run when all profiles are cooldowned for `rate_limit` (instead of failing pre-run as `No available auth profile`), while preserving default cooldown skip behavior and adding regression tests at both fallback and runner layers. (#13623) Thanks @asfura.
- Cron/OpenAI Codex OAuth refresh hardening: when `openai-codex` token refresh fails specifically on account-id extraction, reuse the cached access token instead of failing the run immediately, with regression coverage to keep non-Codex and unrelated refresh failures unchanged. (#36604) Thanks @laulopezreal.
- TUI/session isolation for `/new`: make `/new` allocate a unique `tui-<uuid>` session key instead of resetting the shared agent session, so multiple TUI clients on the same agent stop receiving each other's replies; also sanitize `/new` and `/reset` failure text before rendering in-terminal. Landed from contributor PR #39238 by @widingmarcus-cyber. Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Synology Chat/rate-limit env parsing: honor `SYNOLOGY_RATE_LIMIT=0` as an explicit value while still falling back to the default limit for malformed env values instead of partially parsing them. Landed from contributor PR #39197 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Voice-call/OpenAI Realtime STT config defaults: honor explicit `vadThreshold: 0` and `silenceDurationMs: 0` instead of silently replacing them with defaults. Landed from contributor PR #39196 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Voice-call/OpenAI TTS speed config: honor explicit `speed: 0` instead of silently replacing it with the default speed. Landed from contributor PR #39318 by @ql-wade. Thanks @ql-wade.
- launchd/runtime PID parsing: reject `pid <= 0` from `launchctl print` so the daemon state parser no longer treats kernel/non-running sentinel values as real process IDs. Landed from contributor PR #39281 by @mvanhorn. Thanks @mvanhorn.
- Cron/file permission hardening: enforce owner-only (`0600`) cron store/backup/run-log files and harden cron store + run-log directories to `0700`, including pre-existing directories from older installs. (#36078) Thanks @aerelune.
- Gateway/remote WS break-glass hostname support: honor `OPENCLAW_ALLOW_INSECURE_PRIVATE_WS=1` for `ws://` hostname URLs (not only private IP literals) across onboarding validation and runtime gateway connection checks, while still rejecting public IP literals and non-unicast IPv6 endpoints. (#36930) Thanks @manju-rn.
- Routing/binding lookup scalability: pre-index route bindings by channel/account and avoid full binding-list rescans on channel-account cache rollover, preventing multi-second `resolveAgentRoute` stalls in large binding configurations. (#36915) Thanks @songchenghao.
- Browser/session cleanup: track browser tabs opened by session-scoped browser tool runs and close tracked tabs during `sessions.reset`/`sessions.delete` runtime cleanup, preventing orphaned tabs and unbounded browser memory growth after session teardown. (#36666) Thanks @Harnoor6693.
- Plugin/hook install rollback hardening: stage installs under the canonical install base, validate and run dependency installs before publish, and restore updates by rename instead of deleting the target path, reducing partial-replace and symlink-rebind risk during install failures.
- Slack/local file upload allowlist parity: propagate `mediaLocalRoots` through the Slack send action pipeline so workspace-rooted attachments pass `assertLocalMediaAllowed` checks while non-allowlisted paths remain blocked. (synthesis: #36656; overlap considered from #36516, #36496, #36493, #36484, #32648, #30888) Thanks @2233admin.
- Agents/compaction safeguard pre-check: skip embedded compaction before entering the Pi SDK when a session has no real conversation messages, avoiding unnecessary LLM API calls on idle sessions. (#36451) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Config/schema cache key stability: build merged schema cache keys with incremental hashing to avoid large single-string serialization and prevent `RangeError: Invalid string length` on high-cardinality plugin/channel metadata. (#36603) Thanks @powermaster888.
- iMessage/cron completion announces: strip leaked inline reply tags (for example `[[reply_to:6100]]`) from user-visible completion text so announcement deliveries do not expose threading metadata. (#24600) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Cron/manual run enqueue flow: queue `cron.run` requests behind the cron execution lane, return immediate `{ ok: true, enqueued: true, runId }` acknowledgements, preserve `{ ok: true, ran: false, reason }` skip responses for already-running and not-due jobs, and document the asynchronous completion flow. (#40204) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Control UI/iMessage duplicate reply routing: keep internal webchat turns on dispatcher delivery (instead of origin-channel reroute) so Control UI chats do not duplicate replies into iMessage, while preserving webchat-provider relayed routing for external surfaces. Fixes #33483. Thanks @alicexmolt.
- Sessions/daily reset transcript archival: archive prior transcript files during stale-session scheduled/daily resets by capturing the previous session entry before rollover, preventing orphaned transcript files on disk. (#35493) Thanks @byungsker.
- Feishu/group slash command detection: normalize group mention wrappers before command-authorization probing so mention-prefixed commands (for example `@Bot/model` and `@Bot /reset`) are recognized as gateway commands instead of being forwarded to the agent. (#35994) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Control UI/auth token separation: keep the shared gateway token in browser auth validation while reserving cached device tokens for signed device payloads, preventing false `device token mismatch` disconnects after restart/rotation. Landed from contributor PR #37382 by @FradSer. Thanks @FradSer.
- Gateway/browser auth reconnect hardening: stop counting missing token/password submissions as auth rate-limit failures, and stop auto-reconnecting Control UI clients on non-recoverable auth errors so misconfigured browser tabs no longer lock out healthy sessions. Landed from contributor PR #38725 by @ademczuk. Thanks @ademczuk.
- Gateway/service token drift repair: stop persisting shared auth tokens into installed gateway service units, flag stale embedded service tokens for reinstall, and treat tokenless service env as canonical so token rotation/reboot flows stay aligned with config/env resolution. Landed from contributor PR #28428 by @l0cka. Thanks @l0cka.
- Control UI/agents-page selection: keep the edited agent selected after saving agent config changes and reloading the agents list, so `/agents` no longer snaps back to the default agent. Landed from contributor PR #39301 by @MumuTW. Thanks @MumuTW.
- Gateway/auth follow-up hardening: preserve systemd `EnvironmentFile=` precedence/source provenance in daemon audits and doctor repairs, block shared-password override flows from piggybacking cached device tokens, and fail closed when config-first gateway SecretRefs cannot resolve. Follow-up to #39241.
- Agents/context pruning: guard assistant thinking/text char estimation against malformed blocks (missing `thinking`/`text` strings or null entries) so pruning no longer crashes with malformed provider content. (openclaw#35146) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Agents/transcript policy: set `preserveSignatures` to Anthropic-only handling in `resolveTranscriptPolicy` so Anthropic thinking signatures are preserved while non-Anthropic providers remain unchanged. (#32813) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Agents/schema cleaning: detect Venice + Grok model IDs as xAI-proxied targets so unsupported JSON Schema keywords are stripped before requests, preventing Venice/Grok `Invalid arguments` failures. (openclaw#35355) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Skills/native command deduplication: centralize skill command dedupe by canonical `skillName` in `listSkillCommandsForAgents` so duplicate suffixed variants (for example `_2`) are no longer surfaced across interfaces outside Discord. (#27521) thanks @shivama205.
- Agents/xAI tool-call argument decoding: decode HTML-entity encoded xAI/Grok tool-call argument values (`&amp;`, `&quot;`, `&lt;`, `&gt;`, numeric entities) before tool execution so commands with shell operators and quotes no longer fail with parse errors. (#35276) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Linux/WSL2 daemon install hardening: add regression coverage for WSL environment detection, WSL-specific systemd guidance, and `systemctl --user is-enabled` failure paths so WSL2/headless onboarding keeps treating bus-unavailable probes as non-fatal while preserving real permission errors. Related: #36495. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Linux/systemd status and degraded-session handling: treat degraded-but-reachable `systemctl --user status` results as available, preserve early errors for truly unavailable user-bus cases, and report externally managed running services as running instead of `not installed`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/thinking-tag promotion hardening: guard `promoteThinkingTagsToBlocks` against malformed assistant content entries (`null`/`undefined`) before `block.type` reads so malformed provider payloads no longer crash session processing while preserving pass-through behavior. (#35143) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Gateway/Control UI version reporting: align runtime and browser client version metadata to avoid `dev` placeholders, wait for bootstrap version before first UI websocket connect, and only forward bootstrap `serverVersion` to same-origin gateway targets to prevent cross-target version leakage. (from #35230, #30928, #33928) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @joelnishanth, and @MoerAI.
- Control UI/markdown parser crash fallback: catch `marked.parse()` failures and fall back to escaped plain-text `<pre>` rendering so malformed recursive markdown no longer crashes Control UI session rendering on load. (#36445) Thanks @BinHPdev.
- Control UI/markdown fallback regression coverage: add explicit regression assertions for parser-error fallback behavior so malformed markdown no longer risks reintroducing hard-crash rendering paths in future markdown/parser upgrades. (#36445) Thanks @BinHPdev.
- Web UI/config form: treat `additionalProperties: true` object schemas as editable map entries instead of unsupported fields so Accounts-style maps stay editable in form mode. (#35380, supersedes #32072) Thanks @stakeswky and @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Feishu/streaming card delivery synthesis: unify snapshot and delta streaming merge semantics, apply overlap-aware final merge, suppress duplicate final text delivery (including text+media final packets), prefer topic-thread `message.reply` routing when a reply target exists, and tune card print cadence to avoid duplicate incremental rendering. (from #33245, #32896, #33840) Thanks @rexl2018, @kcinzgg, and @aerelune.
- macOS/tray menu: keep injected sessions and device rows below the controls section so toggles and action buttons stay visible even when many sessions are active. (#38079) Thanks @bernesto.
- Feishu/group mention detection: carry startup-probed bot display names through monitor dispatch so `requireMention` checks compare against current bot identity instead of stale config names, fixing missed `@bot` handling in groups while preserving multi-bot false-positive guards. (#36317, #34271) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Security/dependency audit: patch transitive Hono vulnerabilities by pinning `hono` to `4.12.5` and `@hono/node-server` to `1.19.10` in production resolution paths. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Security/dependency audit: bump `tar` to `7.5.10` (from `7.5.9`) to address the high-severity hardlink path traversal advisory (`GHSA-qffp-2rhf-9h96`). Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Cron/announce delivery robustness: bypass pending-descendant announce guards for cron completion sends, ensure named-agent announce routes have outbound session entries, and fall back to direct delivery only when an announce send was actually attempted and failed. (from #35185, #32443, #34987) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @scoootscooob, and @bmendonca3.
- Cron/announce best-effort fallback: run direct outbound fallback after attempted announce failures even when delivery is configured as best-effort, so Telegram cron sends are not left as attempted-but-undelivered after `cron announce delivery failed` warnings. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Auto-reply/system events: restore runtime system events to the message timeline (`System:` lines), preserve think-hint parsing with prepended events, and carry events into deferred followup/collect/steer-backlog prompts to keep cache behavior stable without dropping queued metadata. (#34794) Thanks @anisoptera.
- Security/audit account handling: avoid prototype-chain account IDs in audit validation by using own-property checks for `accounts`. (#34982) Thanks @HOYALIM.
- Cron/restart catch-up semantics: replay interrupted recurring jobs and missed immediate cron slots on startup without replaying interrupted one-shot jobs, with guarded missed-slot probing to avoid malformed-schedule startup aborts and duplicate-trigger drift after restart. (from #34466, #34896, #34625, #33206) Thanks @dunamismax, @dsantoreis, @Octane0411, and @Sid-Qin.
- Venice/provider onboarding hardening: align per-model Venice completion-token limits with discovery metadata, clamp untrusted discovery values to safe bounds, sync the static Venice fallback catalog with current live model metadata, and disable tool wiring for Venice models that do not support function calling so default Venice setups no longer fail with `max_completion_tokens` or unsupported-tools 400s. Fixes #38168. Thanks @Sid-Qin, @powermaster888 and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/session usage tracking: preserve accumulated usage metadata on embedded Pi runner error exits so failed turns still update session `totalTokens` from real usage instead of stale prior values. (#34275) thanks @RealKai42.
- Slack/reaction thread context routing: carry Slack native DM channel IDs through inbound context and threading tool resolution so reaction targets resolve consistently for DM `To=user:*` sessions (including `toolContext.currentChannelId` fallback behavior). (from #34831; overlaps #34440, #34502, #34483, #32754) Thanks @dunamismax.
- Subagents/announce completion scoping: scope nested direct-child completion aggregation to the current requester run window, harden frozen completion capture for deterministic descendant synthesis, and route completion announce delivery through parent-agent announce turns with provenance-aware internal events. (#35080) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Nodes/system.run approval hardening: use explicit argv-mutation signaling when regenerating prepared `rawCommand`, and cover the `system.run.prepare -> system.run` handoff so direct PATH-based `nodes.run` commands no longer fail with `rawCommand does not match command`. (#33137) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Models/custom provider headers: propagate `models.providers.<name>.headers` across inline, fallback, and registry-found model resolution so header-authenticated proxies consistently receive configured request headers. (#27490) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Ollama/remote provider auth fallback: synthesize a local runtime auth key for explicitly configured `models.providers.ollama` entries that omit `apiKey`, so remote Ollama endpoints run without requiring manual dummy-key setup while preserving env/profile/config key precedence and missing-config failures. (#11283) Thanks @cpreecs.
- Ollama/custom provider headers: forward resolved model headers into native Ollama stream requests so header-authenticated Ollama proxies receive configured request headers. (#24337) thanks @echoVic.
- Ollama/compaction and summarization: register custom `api: "ollama"` handling for compaction, branch-style internal summarization, and TTS text summarization on current `main`, so native Ollama models no longer fail with `No API provider registered for api: ollama` outside the main run loop. Thanks @JaviLib.
- Daemon/systemd install robustness: treat `systemctl --user is-enabled` exit-code-4 `not-found` responses as not-enabled by combining stderr/stdout detail parsing, so Ubuntu fresh installs no longer fail with `systemctl is-enabled unavailable`. (#33634) Thanks @Yuandiaodiaodiao.
- Slack/system-event session routing: resolve reaction/member/pin/interaction system-event session keys through channel/account bindings (with sender-aware DM routing) so inbound Slack events target the correct agent session in multi-account setups instead of defaulting to `agent:main`. (#34045) Thanks @paulomcg, @daht-mad and @vincentkoc.
- Slack/native streaming markdown conversion: stop pre-normalizing text passed to Slack native `markdown_text` in streaming start/append/stop paths to prevent Markdown style corruption from double conversion. (#34931)
- Gateway/HTTP tools invoke media compatibility: preserve raw media payload access for direct `/tools/invoke` clients by allowing media `nodes` invoke commands only in HTTP tool context, while keeping agent-context media invoke blocking to prevent base64 prompt bloat. (#34365) Thanks @obviyus.
- Security/archive ZIP hardening: extract ZIP entries via same-directory temp files plus atomic rename, then re-open and reject post-rename hardlink alias races outside the destination root.
- Agents/Nodes media outputs: add dedicated `photos_latest` action handling, block media-returning `nodes invoke` commands, keep metadata-only `camera.list` invoke allowed, and normalize empty `photos_latest` results to a consistent response shape to prevent base64 context bloat. (#34332) Thanks @obviyus.
- TUI/session-key canonicalization: normalize `openclaw tui --session` values to lowercase so uppercase session names no longer drop real-time streaming updates due to gateway/TUI key mismatches. (#33866, #34013) thanks @lynnzc.
- iMessage/echo loop hardening: strip leaked assistant-internal scaffolding from outbound iMessage replies, drop reflected assistant-content messages before they re-enter inbound processing, extend echo-cache text retention for delayed reflections, and suppress repeated loop traffic before it amplifies into queue overflow. (#33295) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Skills/workspace boundary hardening: reject workspace and extra-dir skill roots or `SKILL.md` files whose realpath escapes the configured source root, and skip syncing those escaped skills into sandbox workspaces.
- Outbound/send config threading: pass resolved SecretRef config through outbound adapters and helper send paths so send flows do not reload unresolved runtime config. (#33987) Thanks @joshavant.
- gateway: harden shared auth resolution across systemd, discord, and node host (#39241) Thanks @joshavant.
- Secrets/models.json persistence hardening: keep SecretRef-managed api keys + headers from persisting in generated models.json, expand audit/apply coverage, and harden marker handling/serialization. (#38955) Thanks @joshavant.
- Sessions/subagent attachments: remove `attachments[].content.maxLength` from `sessions_spawn` schema to avoid llama.cpp GBNF repetition overflow, and preflight UTF-8 byte size before buffer allocation while keeping runtime file-size enforcement unchanged. (#33648) Thanks @anisoptera.
- Runtime/tool-state stability: recover from dangling Anthropic `tool_use` after compaction, serialize long-running Discord handler runs without blocking new inbound events, and prevent stale busy snapshots from suppressing stuck-channel recovery. (from #33630, #33583) Thanks @kevinWangSheng and @theotarr.
- ACP/Discord startup hardening: clean up stuck ACP worker children on gateway restart, unbind stale ACP thread bindings during Discord startup reconciliation, and add per-thread listener watchdog timeouts so wedged turns cannot block later messages. (#33699) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Extensions/media local-root propagation: consistently forward `mediaLocalRoots` through extension `sendMedia` adapters (Google Chat, Slack, iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp), preserving non-local media behavior while restoring local attachment resolution from configured roots. Synthesis of #33581, #33545, #33540, #33536, #33528. Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Gateway/plugin HTTP auth hardening: require gateway auth when any overlapping matched route needs it, block mixed-auth fallthrough at dispatch, and reject mixed-auth exact/prefix route overlaps during plugin registration.
- Feishu/video media send contract: keep mp4-like outbound payloads on `msg_type: "media"` (including reply and reply-in-thread paths) so videos render as media instead of degrading to file-link behavior, while preserving existing non-video file subtype handling. (from #33720, #33808, #33678) Thanks @polooooo, @dingjianrui, and @kevinWangSheng.
- Gateway/security default response headers: add `Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=()` to baseline gateway HTTP security headers for all responses. (#30186) thanks @habakan.
- Plugins/startup loading: lazily initialize plugin runtime, split startup-critical plugin SDK imports into `openclaw/plugin-sdk/core` and `openclaw/plugin-sdk/telegram`, and preserve `api.runtime` reflection semantics for plugin compatibility. (#28620) thanks @hmemcpy.
- Plugins/startup performance: reduce bursty plugin discovery/manifest overhead with short in-process caches, skip importing bundled memory plugins that are disabled by slot selection, and speed legacy root `openclaw/plugin-sdk` compatibility via runtime root-alias routing while preserving backward compatibility. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Build/lazy runtime boundaries: replace ineffective dynamic import sites with dedicated lazy runtime boundaries across Slack slash handling, Telegram audit, CLI send deps, memory fallback, and outbound delivery paths while preserving behavior. (#33690) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Gateway/password CLI hardening: add `openclaw gateway run --password-file`, warn when inline `--password` is used because it can leak via process listings, and document env/file-backed password input as the preferred startup path. Fixes #27948. Thanks @vibewrk and @vincentkoc.
- Config/heartbeat legacy-path handling: auto-migrate top-level `heartbeat` into `agents.defaults.heartbeat` (with merge semantics that preserve explicit defaults), and keep startup failures on non-migratable legacy entries in the detailed invalid-config path instead of generic migration-failed errors. (#32706) thanks @xiwan.
- Plugins/SDK subpath parity: expand plugin SDK subpaths across bundled channels/extensions (Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, WhatsApp, LINE, and bundled companion plugins), with build/export/type/runtime wiring so scoped imports resolve consistently in source and dist while preserving compatibility. (#33737) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Google/Gemini Flash model selection: switch built-in `gemini-flash` defaults and docs/examples from the nonexistent `google/gemini-3.1-flash-preview` ID to the working `google/gemini-3-flash-preview`, while normalizing legacy OpenClaw config that still uses the old Flash 3.1 alias.
- Plugins/bundled scoped-import migration: migrate bundled plugins from monolithic `openclaw/plugin-sdk` imports to scoped subpaths (or `openclaw/plugin-sdk/core`) across registration and startup-sensitive runtime files, add CI/release guardrails to prevent regressions, and keep root `openclaw/plugin-sdk` support for external/community plugins. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Routing/session duplicate suppression synthesis: align shared session delivery-context inheritance, channel-paired route-field merges, and reply-surface target matching so dmScope=main turns avoid cross-surface duplicate replies while thread-aware forwarding keeps intended routing semantics. (from #33629, #26889, #17337, #33250) Thanks @Yuandiaodiaodiao, @kevinwildenradt, @Glucksberg, and @bmendonca3.
- Routing/legacy session route inheritance: preserve external route metadata inheritance for legacy channel session keys (`agent:<agent>:<channel>:<peer>` and `...:thread:<id>`) so `chat.send` does not incorrectly fall back to webchat when valid delivery context exists. Follow-up to #33786. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Routing/legacy route guard tightening: require legacy session-key channel hints to match the saved delivery channel before inheriting external routing metadata, preventing custom namespaced keys like `agent:<agent>:work:<ticket>` from inheriting stale non-webchat routes. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Gateway/internal client routing continuity: prevent webchat/TUI/UI turns from inheriting stale external reply routes by requiring explicit `deliver: true` for external delivery, keeping main-session external inheritance scoped to non-Webchat/UI clients, and honoring configured `session.mainKey` when identifying main-session continuity. (from #35321, #34635, #35356) Thanks @alexyyyander and @Octane0411.
- Security/auth labels: remove token and API-key snippets from user-facing auth status labels so `/status` and `/models` do not expose credential fragments. (#33262) thanks @cu1ch3n.
- Models/MiniMax portal vision routing: add `MiniMax-VL-01` to the `minimax-portal` provider, route portal image understanding through the MiniMax VLM endpoint, and align media auto-selection plus Telegram sticker description with the shared portal image provider path. (#33953) Thanks @tars90percent.
- Auth/credential semantics: align profile eligibility + probe diagnostics with SecretRef/expiry rules and harden browser download atomic writes. (#33733) thanks @joshavant.
- Security/audit denyCommands guidance: suggest likely exact node command IDs for unknown `gateway.nodes.denyCommands` entries so ineffective denylist entries are easier to correct. (#29713) thanks @liquidhorizon88-bot.
- Agents/overload failover handling: classify overloaded provider failures separately from rate limits/status timeouts, add short overload backoff before retry/failover, record overloaded prompt/assistant failures as transient auth-profile cooldowns (with probeable same-provider fallback) instead of treating them like persistent auth/billing failures, and keep one-shot cron retry classification aligned so overloaded fallback summaries still count as transient retries (#38301). Thanks @altaywtf.
- Docs/security hardening guidance: document Docker `DOCKER-USER` + UFW policy and add cross-linking from Docker install docs for VPS/public-host setups. (#27613) thanks @dorukardahan.
- Docs/security threat-model links: replace relative `.md` links with Mintlify-compatible root-relative routes in security docs to prevent broken internal navigation. (#27698) thanks @clawdoo.
- Plugins/Update integrity drift: avoid false integrity drift prompts when updating npm-installed plugins from unpinned specs, while keeping drift checks for exact pinned versions. (#37179) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- iOS/Voice timing safety: guard system speech start/finish callbacks to the active utterance to avoid misattributed start events during rapid stop/restart cycles. (#33304) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation direction by @ngutman.
- Gateway/chat.send command scopes: require `operator.admin` for persistent `/config set|unset` writes routed through gateway chat clients while keeping `/config show` available to normal write-scoped operator clients, preserving messaging-channel config command behavior without widening RPC write scope into admin config mutation. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- iOS/Talk incremental speech pacing: allow long punctuation-free assistant chunks to start speaking at safe whitespace boundaries so voice responses begin sooner instead of waiting for terminal punctuation. (#33305) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation by @ngutman.
- iOS/Watch reply reliability: make watch session activation waiters robust under concurrent requests so status/send calls no longer hang intermittently, and align delegate callbacks with Swift 6 actor safety. (#33306) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation by @Rocuts.
- Docs/tool-loop detection config keys: align `docs/tools/loop-detection.md` examples and field names with the current `tools.loopDetection` schema to prevent copy-paste validation failures from outdated keys. (#33182) Thanks @Mylszd.
- Gateway/session agent discovery: include disk-scanned agent IDs in `listConfiguredAgentIds` even when `agents.list` is configured, so disk-only/ACP agent sessions remain visible in gateway session aggregation and listings. (#32831) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Discord/inbound debouncer: skip bot-own MESSAGE_CREATE events before they reach the debounce queue to avoid self-triggered slowdowns in busy servers. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/Agent-scoped media roots: pass `mediaLocalRoots` through Discord monitor reply delivery (message + component interaction paths) so local media attachments honor per-agent workspace roots instead of falling back to default global roots. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/slash command handling: intercept text-based slash commands in channels, register plugin commands as native, and send fallback acknowledgments for empty slash runs so interactions do not hang. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/thread session lifecycle: reset thread-scoped sessions when a thread is archived so reopening a thread starts fresh without deleting transcript history. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/presence defaults: send an online presence update on ready when no custom presence is configured so bots no longer appear offline by default. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/typing cleanup: stop typing indicators after silent/NO_REPLY runs by marking the run complete before dispatch idle cleanup. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- ACP/sandbox spawn parity: block `/acp spawn` from sandboxed requester sessions with the same host-runtime guard already enforced for `sessions_spawn({ runtime: "acp" })`, preserving non-sandbox ACP flows while closing the command-path policy gap. Thanks @patte.
- Discord/config SecretRef typing: align Discord account token config typing with SecretInput so SecretRef tokens typecheck. (#32490) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Discord/voice messages: request upload slots with JSON fetch calls so voice message uploads no longer fail with content-type errors. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/voice decoder fallback: drop the native Opus dependency and use opusscript for voice decoding to avoid native-opus installs. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/auto presence health signal: add runtime availability-driven presence updates plus connected-state reporting to improve health monitoring and operator visibility. (#33277) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- HEIC image inputs: accept HEIC/HEIF `input_image` sources in Gateway HTTP APIs, normalize them to JPEG before provider delivery, and document the expanded default MIME allowlist. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/HEIC input follow-up: keep non-HEIC `input_image` MIME handling unchanged, make HEIC tests hermetic, and enforce chat-completions `maxTotalImageBytes` against post-normalization image payload size. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/draft-stream boundary stability: materialize DM draft previews at assistant-message/tool boundaries, serialize lane-boundary callbacks before final delivery, and scope preview cleanup to the active preview so multi-step Telegram streams no longer lose, overwrite, or leave stale preview bubbles. (#33842) Thanks @ngutman.
- Telegram/DM draft finalization reliability: require verified final-text draft emission before treating preview finalization as delivered, and fall back to normal payload send when final draft delivery is not confirmed (preventing missing final responses and preserving media/button delivery). (#32118) Thanks @OpenCils.
- Telegram/DM draft final delivery: materialize text-only `sendMessageDraft` previews into one permanent final message and skip duplicate final payload sends, while preserving fallback behavior when materialization fails. (#34318) Thanks @Brotherinlaw-13.
- Telegram/DM draft duplicate display: clear stale DM draft previews after materializing the real final message, including threadless fallback when DM topic lookup fails, so partial streaming no longer briefly shows duplicate replies. (#36746) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Telegram/draft preview boundary + silent-token reliability: stabilize answer-lane message boundaries across late-partial/message-start races, preserve/reset finalized preview state at the correct boundaries, and suppress `NO_REPLY` lead-fragment leaks without broad heartbeat-prefix false positives. (#33169) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/native commands `commands.allowFrom` precedence: make native Telegram commands honor `commands.allowFrom` as the command-specific authorization source, including group chats, instead of falling back to channel sender allowlists. (#28216) Thanks @toolsbybuddy and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/`groupAllowFrom` sender-ID validation: restore sender-only runtime validation so negative chat/group IDs remain invalid entries instead of appearing accepted while still being unable to authorize group access. (#37134) Thanks @qiuyuemartin-max and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/native group command auth: authorize native commands in groups and forum topics against `groupAllowFrom` and per-group/topic sender overrides, while keeping auth rejection replies in the originating topic thread. (#39267) Thanks @edwluo.
- Telegram/named-account DMs: restore non-default-account DM routing when a named Telegram account falls back to the default agent by keeping groups fail-closed but deriving a per-account session key for DMs, including identity-link canonicalization and regression coverage for account isolation. (from #32426; fixes #32351) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
- Discord/audit wildcard warnings: ignore "\*" wildcard keys when counting unresolved guild channels so doctor/status no longer warns on allow-all configs. (#33125) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/channel resolution: default bare numeric recipients to channels, harden allowlist numeric ID handling with safe fallbacks, and avoid inbound WS heartbeat stalls. (#33142) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/chunk delivery reliability: preserve chunk ordering when using a REST client and retry chunk sends on 429/5xx using account retry settings. (#33226) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/mention handling: add id-based mention formatting + cached rewrites, resolve inbound mentions to display names, and add optional ignoreOtherMentions gating (excluding @everyone/@here). (#33224) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/media SSRF allowlist: allow Discord CDN hostnames (including wildcard domains) in inbound media SSRF policy to prevent proxy/VPN fake-ip blocks. (#33275) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Telegram/device pairing notifications: auto-arm one-shot notify on `/pair qr`, auto-ping on new pairing requests, and add manual fallback via `/pair approve latest` if the ping does not arrive. (#33299) thanks @mbelinky.
- Exec heartbeat routing: scope exec-triggered heartbeat wakes to agent session keys so unrelated agents are no longer awakened by exec events, while preserving legacy unscoped behavior for non-canonical session keys. (#32724) thanks @altaywtf.
- macOS/Tailscale remote gateway discovery: add a Tailscale Serve fallback peer probe path (`wss://<peer>.ts.net`) when Bonjour and wide-area DNS-SD discovery return no gateways, and refresh both discovery paths from macOS onboarding. (#32860) Thanks @ngutman.
- iOS/Gateway keychain hardening: move gateway metadata and TLS fingerprints to device keychain storage with safer migration behavior and rollback-safe writes to reduce credential loss risk during upgrades. (#33029) thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Concurrency stability: replace risky shared-state access in camera and gateway connection paths with lock-protected access patterns to reduce crash risk under load. (#33241) thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Security guardrails: limit production API-key sourcing to app config and make deep-link confirmation prompts safer by coalescing queued requests instead of silently dropping them. (#33031) thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/TTS playback fallback: keep voice playback resilient by switching from PCM to MP3 when provider format support is unavailable, while avoiding sticky fallback on generic local playback errors. (#33032) thanks @mbelinky.
- Plugin outbound/text-only adapter compatibility: allow direct-delivery channel plugins that only implement `sendText` (without `sendMedia`) to remain outbound-capable, gracefully fall back to text delivery for media payloads when `sendMedia` is absent, and fail explicitly for media-only payloads with no text fallback. (#32788) thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Telegram/multi-account default routing clarity: warn only for ambiguous (2+) account setups without an explicit default, add `openclaw doctor` warnings for missing/invalid multi-account defaults across channels, and document explicit-default guidance for channel routing and Telegram config. (#32544) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Telegram/plugin outbound hook parity: run `message_sending` + `message_sent` in Telegram reply delivery, include reply-path hook metadata (`mediaUrls`, `threadId`), and report `message_sent.success=false` when hooks blank text and no outbound message is delivered. (#32649) Thanks @KimGLee.
- CLI/Coding-agent reliability: switch default `claude-cli` non-interactive args to `--permission-mode bypassPermissions`, auto-normalize legacy `--dangerously-skip-permissions` backend overrides to the modern permission-mode form, align coding-agent + live-test docs with the non-PTY Claude path, and emit session system-event heartbeat notices when CLI watchdog no-output timeouts terminate runs. (#28610, #31149, #34055). Thanks @niceysam, @cryptomaltese and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/OpenAI chat completions: parse active-turn `image_url` content parts (including parameterized data URIs and guarded URL sources), forward them as multimodal `images`, accept image-only user turns, enforce per-request image-part/byte budgets, default URL-based image fetches to disabled unless explicitly enabled by config, and redact image base64 data in cache-trace/provider payload diagnostics. (#17685) Thanks @vincentkoc
- ACP/ACPX session bootstrap: retry with `sessions new` when `sessions ensure` returns no session identifiers so ACP spawns avoid `NO_SESSION`/`ACP_TURN_FAILED` failures on affected agents. (#28786, #31338, #34055). Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
- ACP/sessions_spawn parent stream visibility: add `streamTo: "parent"` for `runtime: "acp"` to forward initial child-run progress/no-output/completion updates back into the requester session as system events (instead of direct child delivery), and emit a tail-able session-scoped relay log (`<sessionId>.acp-stream.jsonl`, returned as `streamLogPath` when available), improving orchestrator visibility for blocked or long-running harness turns. (#34310, #29909; reopened from #34055). Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/bootstrap truncation warning handling: unify bootstrap budget/truncation analysis across embedded + CLI runtime, `/context`, and `openclaw doctor`; add `agents.defaults.bootstrapPromptTruncationWarning` (`off|once|always`, default `once`) and persist warning-signature metadata so truncation warnings are consistent and deduped across turns. (#32769) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/Skills runtime loading: propagate run config into embedded attempt and compaction skill-entry loading so explicitly enabled bundled companion skills are discovered consistently when skill snapshots do not already provide resolved entries. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/Session startup date grounding: substitute `YYYY-MM-DD` placeholders in startup/post-compaction AGENTS context and append runtime current-time lines for `/new` and `/reset` prompts so daily-memory references resolve correctly. (#32381) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
- Agents/Compaction template heading alignment: update AGENTS template section names to `Session Startup`/`Red Lines` and keep legacy `Every Session`/`Safety` fallback extraction so post-compaction context remains intact across template versions. (#25098) thanks @echoVic.
- Agents/Compaction continuity: expand staged-summary merge instructions to preserve active task status, batch progress, latest user request, and follow-up commitments so compaction handoffs retain in-flight work context. (#8903) thanks @joetomasone.
- Agents/Compaction safeguard structure hardening: require exact fallback summary headings, sanitize untrusted compaction instruction text before prompt embedding, and keep structured sections when preserving all turns. (#25555) thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Gateway/status self version reporting: make Gateway self version in `openclaw status` prefer runtime `VERSION` (while preserving explicit `OPENCLAW_VERSION` override), preventing stale post-upgrade app version output. (#32655) thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Memory/QMD index isolation: set `QMD_CONFIG_DIR` alongside `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` so QMD config state stays per-agent despite upstream XDG handling bugs, preventing cross-agent collection indexing and excess disk/CPU usage. (#27028) thanks @HenryLoenwind.
- Memory/QMD collection safety: stop destructive collection rebinds when QMD `collection list` only reports names without path metadata, preventing `memory search` from dropping existing collections if re-add fails. (#36870) Thanks @Adnannnnnnna.
- Memory/QMD duplicate-document recovery: detect `UNIQUE constraint failed: documents.collection, documents.path` update failures, rebuild managed collections once, and retry update so periodic QMD syncs recover instead of failing every run; includes regression coverage to avoid over-matching unrelated unique constraints. (#27649) Thanks @MiscMich.
- Memory/local embedding initialization hardening: add regression coverage for transient initialization retry and mixed `embedQuery` + `embedBatch` concurrent startup to lock single-flight initialization behavior. (#15639) thanks @SubtleSpark.
- CLI/Coding-agent reliability: switch default `claude-cli` non-interactive args to `--permission-mode bypassPermissions`, auto-normalize legacy `--dangerously-skip-permissions` backend overrides to the modern permission-mode form, align coding-agent + live-test docs with the non-PTY Claude path, and emit session system-event heartbeat notices when CLI watchdog no-output timeouts terminate runs. Related to #28261. Landed from contributor PRs #28610 and #31149. Thanks @niceysam, @cryptomaltese and @vincentkoc.
- ACP/ACPX session bootstrap: retry with `sessions new` when `sessions ensure` returns no session identifiers so ACP spawns avoid `NO_SESSION`/`ACP_TURN_FAILED` failures on affected agents. Related to #28786. Landed from contributor PR #31338. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
- LINE/auth boundary hardening synthesis: enforce strict LINE webhook authn/z boundary semantics across pairing-store account scoping, DM/group allowlist separation, fail-closed webhook auth/runtime behavior, and replay/duplication controls (including in-flight replay reservation and post-success dedupe marking). (from #26701, #26683, #25978, #17593, #16619, #31990, #26047, #30584, #18777) Thanks @bmendonca3, @davidahmann, @harshang03, @haosenwang1018, @liuxiaopai-ai, @coygeek, and @Takhoffman.
- LINE/media download synthesis: fix file-media download handling and M4A audio classification across overlapping LINE regressions. (from #26386, #27761, #27787, #29509, #29755, #29776, #29785, #32240) Thanks @kevinWangSheng, @loiie45e, @carrotRakko, @Sid-Qin, @codeafridi, and @bmendonca3.
- LINE/context and routing synthesis: fix group/room peer routing and command-authorization context propagation, and keep processing later events in mixed-success webhook batches. (from #21955, #24475, #27035, #28286) Thanks @lailoo, @mcaxtr, @jervyclaw, @Glucksberg, and @Takhoffman.
- LINE/status/config/webhook synthesis: fix status false positives from snapshot/config state and accept LINE webhook HEAD probes for compatibility. (from #10487, #25726, #27537, #27908, #31387) Thanks @BlueBirdBack, @stakeswky, @loiie45e, @puritysb, and @mcaxtr.
- LINE cleanup/test follow-ups: fold cleanup/test learnings into the synthesis review path while keeping runtime changes focused on regression fixes. (from #17630, #17289) Thanks @Clawborn and @davidahmann.
- Mattermost/interactive buttons: add interactive button send/callback support with directory-based channel/user target resolution, and harden callbacks via account-scoped HMAC verification plus sender-scoped DM routing. (#19957) thanks @tonydehnke.
- Feishu/groupPolicy legacy alias compatibility: treat legacy `groupPolicy: "allowall"` as `open` in both schema parsing and runtime policy checks so intended open-group configs no longer silently drop group messages when `groupAllowFrom` is empty. (from #36358) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Mattermost/plugin SDK import policy: replace remaining monolithic `openclaw/plugin-sdk` imports in Mattermost mention-gating paths/tests with scoped subpaths (`openclaw/plugin-sdk/compat` and `openclaw/plugin-sdk/mattermost`) so `pnpm check` passes `lint:plugins:no-monolithic-plugin-sdk-entry-imports` on baseline. (#36480) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Telegram/polls: add Telegram poll action support to channel action discovery and tool/CLI poll flows, with multi-account discoverability gated to accounts that can actually execute polls (`sendMessage` + `poll`). (#36547) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/failover cooldown classification: stop treating generic `cooling down` text as provider `rate_limit` so healthy models no longer show false global cooldown/rate-limit warnings while explicit `model_cooldown` markers still trigger failover. (#32972) thanks @stakeswky.
- Agents/failover service-unavailable handling: stop treating bare proxy/CDN `service unavailable` errors as provider overload while keeping them retryable via the timeout/failover path, so transient outages no longer show false rate-limit warnings or block fallback. (#36646) thanks @jnMetaCode.
- Plugins/HTTP route migration diagnostics: rewrite legacy `api.registerHttpHandler(...)` loader failures into actionable migration guidance so doctor/plugin diagnostics point operators to `api.registerHttpRoute(...)` or `registerPluginHttpRoute(...)`. (#36794) Thanks @vincentkoc
- Doctor/Heartbeat upgrade diagnostics: warn when heartbeat delivery is configured with an implicit `directPolicy` so upgrades pin direct/DM behavior explicitly instead of relying on the current default. (#36789) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/current-time UTC anchor: append a machine-readable UTC suffix alongside local `Current time:` lines in shared cron-style prompt contexts so agents can compare UTC-stamped workspace timestamps without doing timezone math. (#32423) thanks @jriff.
- Ollama/local model handling: preserve explicit lower `contextWindow` / `maxTokens` overrides during merge refresh, and keep native Ollama streamed replies from surfacing fallback `thinking` / `reasoning` text once real content starts streaming. (#39292) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- TUI/webchat command-owner scope alignment: treat internal-channel gateway sessions with `operator.admin` as owner-authorized in command auth, restoring cron/gateway/connector tool access for affected TUI/webchat sessions while keeping external channels on identity-based owner checks. (from #35666, #35673, #35704) Thanks @Naylenv, @Octane0411, and @Sid-Qin.
- Discord/inbound timeout isolation: separate inbound worker timeout tracking from listener timeout budgets so queued Discord replies are no longer dropped when listener watchdog windows expire mid-run. (#36602) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Memory/doctor SecretRef handling: treat SecretRef-backed memory-search API keys as configured, and fail embedding setup with explicit unresolved-secret errors instead of crashing. (#36835) Thanks @joshavant.
- Memory/flush default prompt: ban timestamped variant filenames during default memory flush runs so durable notes stay in the canonical daily `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` file. (#34951) thanks @zerone0x.
- Agents/reply delivery timing: flush embedded Pi block replies before waiting on compaction retries so already-generated assistant replies reach channels before compaction wait completes. (#35489) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Agents/gateway config guidance: stop exposing `config.schema` through the agent `gateway` tool, remove prompt/docs guidance that told agents to call it, and keep agents on `config.get` plus `config.patch`/`config.apply` for config changes. (#7382) thanks @kakuteki.
- Provider/KiloCode: Keep duplicate models after malformed discovery rows, and strip legacy `reasoning_effort` when proxy reasoning injection is skipped. (#32352) Thanks @pandemicsyn and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/failover: classify periodic provider limit exhaustion text (for example `Weekly/Monthly Limit Exhausted`) as `rate_limit` while keeping explicit `402 Payment Required` variants in billing, so failover continues without misclassifying billing-wrapped quota errors. (#33813) thanks @zhouhe-xydt.
- Mattermost/interactive button callbacks: allow external callback base URLs and stop requiring loopback-origin requests so button clicks work when Mattermost reaches the gateway over Tailscale, LAN, or a reverse proxy. (#37543) thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Gateway/chat.send route inheritance: keep explicit external delivery for channel-scoped sessions while preventing shared-main and other channel-agnostic webchat sessions from inheriting stale external routes, so Control UI replies stay on webchat without breaking selected channel-target sessions. (#34669) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/Discord media upload caps: make outbound uploads honor channel `mediaMaxMb` config, raise Telegram's default media cap to 100MB, and remove MIME fallback limits that kept some Telegram uploads at 16MB. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Skills/nano-banana-pro resolution override: respect explicit `--resolution` values during image editing and only auto-detect output size from input images when the flag is omitted. (#36880) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
- Skills/openai-image-gen CLI validation: validate `--background` and `--style` inputs early, normalize supported values, and warn when those flags are ignored for incompatible models. (#36762) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
- Skills/openai-image-gen output formats: validate `--output-format` values early, normalize aliases like `jpg -> jpeg`, and warn when the flag is ignored for incompatible models. (#36648) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
- ACP/skill env isolation: strip skill-injected API keys from ACP harness child-process environments so tools like Codex CLI keep their own auth flow instead of inheriting billed provider keys from active skills. (#36316) Thanks @taw0002 and @vincentkoc.
- WhatsApp media upload caps: make outbound media sends and auto-replies honor `channels.whatsapp.mediaMaxMb` with per-account overrides so inbound and outbound limits use the same channel config. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Windows/Plugin install: when OpenClaw runs on Windows via Bun and `npm-cli.js` is not colocated with the runtime binary, fall back to `npm.cmd`/`npx.cmd` through the existing `cmd.exe` wrapper so `openclaw plugins install` no longer fails with `spawn EINVAL`. (#38056) Thanks @0xlin2023.
- Telegram/send retry classification: retry grammY `Network request .. failed after N attempts` envelopes in send flows without reclassifying plain `Network request .. failed!` wrappers as transient, restoring the intended retry path while keeping broad send-context message matching tight. (#38056) Thanks @0xlin2023.
- Gateway/probes: keep `/health`, `/healthz`, `/ready`, and `/readyz` reachable when the Control UI is mounted at `/`, preserve plugin-owned route precedence on those paths, and make `/ready` and `/readyz` report channel-backed readiness with startup grace plus `503` on disconnected managed channels, while `/health` and `/healthz` stay shallow liveness probes. (#18446) Thanks @vibecodooor, @mahsumaktas, and @vincentkoc.
- Feishu/media downloads: drop invalid timeout fields from SDK method calls now that client-level `httpTimeoutMs` applies to requests. (#38267) Thanks @ant1eicher and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Pi embedded runner/Feishu docs: propagate sender identity into embedded attempts so Feishu doc auto-grant restores requester access for embedded-runner executions. (#32915) thanks @cszhouwei.
- Agents/usage normalization: normalize missing or partial assistant usage snapshots before compaction accounting so `openclaw agent --json` no longer crashes when provider payloads omit `totalTokens` or related usage fields. (#34977) thanks @sp-hk2ldn.
- Venice/default model refresh: switch the built-in Venice default to `kimi-k2-5`, update onboarding aliasing, and refresh Venice provider docs/recommendations to match the current private and anonymized catalog. (from #12964) Fixes #20156. Thanks @sabrinaaquino and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/skill API write pacing: add a global prompt guardrail that treats skill-driven external API writes as rate-limited by default, so runners prefer batched writes, avoid tight request loops, and respect `429`/`Retry-After`. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Chat/multi-account webhook auth fallback: when `channels.googlechat.accounts.default` carries shared webhook audience/path settings (for example after config normalization), inherit those defaults for named accounts while preserving top-level and per-account overrides, so inbound webhook verification no longer fails silently for named accounts missing duplicated audience fields. Fixes #38369 (#38492). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Models/tool probing: raise the tool-capability probe budget from 32 to 256 tokens so reasoning models that spend tokens on thinking before returning a required tool call are less likely to be misclassified as not supporting tools. (#7521) Thanks @jakobdylanc.
- Gateway/transient network classification: treat wrapped `...: fetch failed` transport messages as transient while avoiding broad matches like `Web fetch failed (404): ...`, preventing Discord reconnect wrappers from crashing the gateway without suppressing non-network tool failures. (#38530) Thanks @xinhuagu.
- ACP/console silent reply suppression: filter ACP `NO_REPLY` lead fragments and silent-only finals before `openclaw agent` logging/delivery so console-backed ACP sessions no longer leak `NO`/`NO_REPLY` placeholders. (#38436) Thanks @ql-wade.
- Feishu/reply delivery reliability: disable block streaming in Feishu reply options so plain-text auto-render replies are no longer silently dropped before final delivery. (#38258) Thanks @xinhuagu.
- Agents/reply MEDIA delivery: normalize local assistant `MEDIA:` paths before block/final delivery, keep media dedupe aligned with message-tool sends, and contain malformed media normalization failures so generated files send reliably instead of falling back to empty responses. (#38572) Thanks @obviyus.
- Sessions/bootstrap cache rollover invalidation: clear cached workspace bootstrap snapshots whenever an existing `sessionKey` rolls to a new `sessionId` across auto-reply, command, and isolated cron session resolvers, so `AGENTS.md`/`MEMORY.md`/`USER.md` updates are reloaded after daily, idle, or forced session resets instead of staying stale until gateway restart. (#38494) Thanks @LivingInDrm.
- Gateway/Telegram polling health monitor: skip stale-socket restarts for Telegram long-polling channels and thread channel identity through shared health evaluation so polling connections are not restarted on the WebSocket stale-socket heuristic. (#38395) Thanks @ql-wade and @Takhoffman.
- Daemon/systemd fresh-install probe: check for OpenClaw's managed user unit before running `systemctl --user is-enabled`, so first-time Linux installs no longer fail on generic missing-unit probe errors. (#38819) Thanks @adaHubble.
- Gateway/container lifecycle: allow `openclaw gateway stop` to SIGTERM unmanaged gateway listeners and `openclaw gateway restart` to SIGUSR1 a single unmanaged listener when no service manager is installed, so container and supervisor-based deployments are no longer blocked by `service disabled` no-op responses. Fixes #36137. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Windows restart supervision: relaunch task-managed gateways through Scheduled Task with quoted helper-script command paths, distinguish restart-capable supervisors per platform, and stop orphaned Windows gateway children during self-restart. (#38825) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/native topic command routing: resolve forum-topic native commands through the same conversation route as inbound messages so topic `agentId` overrides and bound topic sessions target the active session instead of the default topic-parent session. (#38871) Thanks @obviyus.
- Markdown/assistant image hardening: flatten remote markdown images to plain text across the Control UI, exported HTML, and shared Swift chat while keeping inline `data:image/...` markdown renderable, so model output no longer triggers automatic remote image fetches. (#38895) Thanks @obviyus.
- Config/compaction safeguard settings: regression-test `agents.defaults.compaction.recentTurnsPreserve` through `loadConfig()` and cover the new help metadata entry so the exposed preserve knob stays wired through schema validation and config UX. (#25557) thanks @rodrigouroz.
- iOS/Quick Setup presentation: skip automatic Quick Setup when a gateway is already configured (active connect config, last-known connection, preferred gateway, or manual host), so reconnecting installs no longer get prompted to connect again. (#38964) Thanks @ngutman.
- CLI/Docs memory help accuracy: clarify `openclaw memory status --deep` behavior and align memory command examples/docs with the current search options. (#31803) Thanks @JasonOA888 and @Avi974.
- Auto-reply/allowlist store account scoping: keep `/allowlist .. --store` writes scoped to the selected account and clear legacy unscoped entries when removing default-account store access, preventing cross-account default allowlist bleed-through from legacy pairing-store reads. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting and @vincentkoc for the fix.
- Security/Nostr: harden profile mutation/import loopback guards by failing closed on non-loopback forwarded client headers (`x-forwarded-for` / `x-real-ip`) and rejecting `sec-fetch-site: cross-site`; adds regression coverage for proxy-forwarded and browser cross-site mutation attempts.
- CLI/bootstrap Node version hint maintenance: replace hardcoded nvm `22` instructions in `openclaw.mjs` with `MIN_NODE_MAJOR` interpolation so future minimum-Node bumps keep startup guidance in sync automatically. (#39056) Thanks @onstash.
- Discord/native slash command auth: honor `commands.allowFrom.discord` (and `commands.allowFrom["*"]`) in guild slash-command pre-dispatch authorization so allowlisted senders are no longer incorrectly rejected as unauthorized. (#38794) Thanks @jskoiz and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Outbound/message target normalization: ignore empty legacy `to`/`channelId` fields when explicit `target` is provided so valid target-based sends no longer fail legacy-param validation; includes regression coverage. (#38944) Thanks @Narcooo.
- Models/auth token prompts: guard cancelled manual token prompts so `Symbol(clack:cancel)` values cannot be persisted into auth profiles; adds regression coverage for cancelled `models auth paste-token`. (#38951) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Gateway/loopback announce URLs: treat `http://` and `https://` aliases with the same loopback/private-network policy as websocket URLs so loopback cron announce delivery no longer fails secure URL validation. (#39064) Thanks @Narcooo.
- Models/default provider fallback: when the hardcoded default provider is removed from `models.providers`, resolve defaults from configured providers instead of reporting stale removed-provider defaults in status output. (#38947) Thanks @davidemanuelDEV.
- Agents/cache-trace stability: guard stable stringify against circular references in trace payloads so near-limit payloads no longer crash with `Maximum call stack size exceeded`; adds regression coverage. (#38935) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Extensions/diffs CI stability: add `headers` to the diffs plugin `localReq` test helper so forwarding-hint checks no longer crash with `req.headers` undefined. (supersedes #39063) Thanks @Shennng.
- Agents/compaction thresholding: apply `agents.defaults.contextTokens` cap to the model passed into embedded run and `/compact` session creation so auto-compaction thresholds use the effective context window, not native model max context. (#39099) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Models/merge mode provider precedence: when `models.mode: "merge"` is active and config explicitly sets a provider `baseUrl`, keep config as source of truth instead of preserving stale runtime `models.json` `baseUrl` values; includes normalized provider-key coverage. (#39103) Thanks @BigUncle.
- UI/Control chat tool streaming: render tool events live in webchat without requiring refresh by enabling `tool-events` capability, fixing stream/event correlation, and resetting/reloading stream state around tool results and terminal events. (#39104) Thanks @jakepresent.
- Models/provider apiKey persistence hardening: when a provider `apiKey` value equals a known provider env var value, persist the canonical env var name into `models.json` instead of resolved plaintext secrets. (#38889) Thanks @gambletan.
- Discord/model picker persistence check: add a short post-dispatch settle delay before reading back session model state so picker confirmations stop reporting false mismatch warnings after successful model switches. (#39105) Thanks @akropp.
- Agents/OpenAI WS compat store flag: omit `store` from `response.create` payloads when model compat sets `supportsStore: false`, preventing strict OpenAI-compatible providers from rejecting websocket requests with unknown-field errors. (#39113) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Config/validation log sanitization: sanitize config-validation issue paths/messages before logging so control characters and ANSI escape sequences cannot inject misleading terminal output from crafted config content. (#39116) Thanks @powermaster888.
- Agents/compaction counter accuracy: count successful overflow-triggered auto-compactions (`willRetry=true`) in the compaction counter while still excluding aborted/no-result events, so `/status` reflects actual safeguard compaction activity. (#39123) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Gateway/chat delta ordering: flush buffered assistant deltas before emitting tool `start` events so pre-tool text is delivered to Control UI before tool cards, avoiding transient text/tool ordering artifacts in streaming. (#39128) Thanks @0xtangping.
- Voice-call plugin schema parity: add missing manifest `configSchema` fields (`webhookSecurity`, `streaming.preStartTimeoutMs|maxPendingConnections|maxPendingConnectionsPerIp|maxConnections`, `staleCallReaperSeconds`) so gateway AJV validation accepts already-supported runtime config instead of failing with `additionalProperties` errors. (#38892) Thanks @giumex.
- Agents/OpenAI WS reconnect retry accounting: avoid double retry scheduling when reconnect failures emit both `error` and `close`, so retry budgets track actual reconnect attempts instead of exhausting early. (#39133) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Daemon/Windows schtasks runtime detection: use locale-invariant `Last Run Result` running codes (`0x41301`/`267009`) as the primary running signal so `openclaw node status` no longer misreports active tasks as stopped on non-English Windows locales. (#39076) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Usage/token count formatting: round near-million token counts to millions (`1.0m`) instead of `1000k`, with explicit boundary coverage for `999_499` and `999_500`. (#39129) Thanks @CurryMessi.
- Gateway/session bootstrap cache invalidation ordering: clear bootstrap snapshots only after active embedded-run shutdown wait completes, preventing dying runs from repopulating stale cache between `/new`/`sessions.reset` turns. (#38873) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Browser/dispatcher error clarity: preserve dispatcher-side failure context in browser fetch errors while still appending operator guidance and explicit no-retry model hints, preventing misleading `"Can't reach service"` wrapping and avoiding LLM retry loops. (#39090) Thanks @NewdlDewdl.
- Telegram/polling offset safety: confirm persisted offsets before polling startup while validating stored `lastUpdateId` values as non-negative safe integers (with overflow guards) so malformed offset state cannot cause update skipping/dropping. (#39111) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Telegram/status SecretRef read-only resolution: resolve env-backed bot-token SecretRefs in config-only/status inspection while respecting provider source/defaults and env allowlists, so status no longer crashes or reports false-ready tokens for disallowed providers. (#39130) Thanks @neocody.
- Agents/OpenAI WS max-token zero forwarding: treat `maxTokens: 0` as an explicit value in websocket `response.create` payloads (instead of dropping it as falsy), with regression coverage for zero-token forwarding. (#39148) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Podman/.env gateway bind precedence: evaluate `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_BIND` after sourcing `.env` in `run-openclaw-podman.sh` so env-file overrides are honored. (#38785) Thanks @majinyu666.
- Models/default alias refresh: bump `gpt` to `openai/gpt-5.4` and Gemini defaults to `gemini-3.1` preview aliases (including normalization/default wiring) to track current model IDs. (#38638) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Config/env substitution degraded mode: convert missing `${VAR}` resolution in config reads from hard-fail to warning-backed degraded behavior, while preventing unresolved placeholders from being accepted as gateway credentials. (#39050) Thanks @akz142857.
- Discord inbound listener non-blocking dispatch: make `MESSAGE_CREATE` listener handoff asynchronous (no per-listener queue blocking), so long runs no longer stall unrelated incoming events. (#39154) Thanks @yaseenkadlemakki.
- Daemon/Windows PATH freeze fix: stop persisting install-time `PATH` snapshots into Scheduled Task scripts so runtime tool lookup follows current host PATH updates; also refresh local TUI history on silent local finals. (#39139) Thanks @Narcooo.
- Gateway/systemd service restart hardening: clear stale gateway listeners by explicit run-port before service bind, add restart stale-pid port-override support, tune systemd start/stop/exit handling, and disable detached child mode only in service-managed runtime so cgroup stop semantics clean up descendants reliably. (#38463) Thanks @spirittechie.
- Discord/plugin native command aliases: let plugins declare provider-specific slash names so native Discord registration can avoid built-in command collisions; the bundled Talk voice plugin now uses `/talkvoice` natively on Discord while keeping text `/voice`.
- Daemon/Windows schtasks status normalization: derive runtime state from locale-neutral numeric `Last Run Result` codes only (without language string matching) and surface unknown when numeric result data is unavailable, preventing locale-specific misclassification drift. (#39153) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Telegram/polling conflict recovery: reset the polling `webhookCleared` latch on `getUpdates` 409 conflicts so webhook cleanup re-runs on restart cycles and polling avoids infinite conflict loops. (#39205) Thanks @amittell.
- Heartbeat/requests-in-flight scheduling: stop advancing `nextDueMs` and avoid immediate `scheduleNext()` timer overrides on requests-in-flight skips, so wake-layer retry cooldowns are honored and heartbeat cadence no longer drifts under sustained contention. (#39182) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Memory/SQLite contention resilience: re-apply `PRAGMA busy_timeout` on every sync-store and QMD connection open so process restarts/reopens no longer revert to immediate `SQLITE_BUSY` failures under lock contention. (#39183) Thanks @MumuTW.
- Gateway/webchat route safety: block webchat/control-ui clients from inheriting stored external delivery routes on channel-scoped sessions (while preserving route inheritance for UI/TUI clients), preventing cross-channel leakage from scoped chats. (#39175) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Telegram error-surface resilience: return a user-visible fallback reply when dispatch/debounce processing fails instead of going silent, while preserving draft-stream cleanup and best-effort thread-scoped fallback delivery. (#39209) Thanks @riftzen-bit.
- Gateway/password auth startup diagnostics: detect unresolved provider-reference objects in `gateway.auth.password` and fail with a specific bootstrap-secrets error message instead of generic misconfiguration output. (#39230) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Agents/OpenAI-responses compatibility: strip unsupported `store` payload fields when `supportsStore=false` (including OpenAI-compatible non-OpenAI providers) while preserving server-compaction payload behavior. (#39219) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Agents/model fallback visibility: warn when configured model IDs cannot be resolved and fallback is applied, with log-safe sanitization of model text to prevent control-sequence injection in warning output. (#39215) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Outbound delivery replay safety: use two-phase delivery ACK markers (`.json` -> `.delivered` -> unlink) and startup marker cleanup so crash windows between send and cleanup do not replay already-delivered messages. (#38668) Thanks @Gundam98.
- Nodes/system.run approval binding: carry prepared approval plans through gateway forwarding and bind interpreter-style script operands across approval to execution, so post-approval script rewrites are denied while unchanged approved script runs keep working. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Nodes/system.run PowerShell wrapper parsing: treat `pwsh`/`powershell` `-EncodedCommand` forms as shell-wrapper payloads so allowlist mode still requires approval instead of falling back to plain argv analysis. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Control UI/auth error reporting: map generic browser `Fetch failed` websocket close errors back to actionable gateway auth messages (`gateway token mismatch`, `authentication failed`, `retry later`) so dashboard disconnects stop hiding credential problems. Landed from contributor PR #28608 by @KimGLee. Thanks @KimGLee.
- Media/mime unknown-kind handling: return `undefined` (not `"unknown"`) for missing/unrecognized MIME kinds and use document-size fallback caps for unknown remote media, preventing phantom `<media:unknown>` Signal events from being treated as real messages. (#39199) Thanks @nicolasgrasset.
- Nodes/system.run allow-always persistence: honor shell comment semantics during allowlist analysis so `#`-tailed payloads that never execute are not persisted as trusted follow-up commands. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Signal/inbound attachment fan-in: forward all successfully fetched inbound attachments through `MediaPaths`/`MediaUrls`/`MediaTypes` (instead of only the first), and improve multi-attachment placeholder summaries in mention-gated pending history. (#39212) Thanks @joeykrug.
- Nodes/system.run dispatch-wrapper boundary: keep shell-wrapper approval classification active at the depth boundary so `env` wrapper stacks cannot reach `/bin/sh -c` execution without the expected approval gate. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Docker/token persistence on reconfigure: reuse the existing `.env` gateway token during `docker-setup.sh` reruns and align compose token env defaults, so Docker installs stop silently rotating tokens and breaking existing dashboard sessions. Landed from contributor PR #33097 by @chengzhichao-xydt. Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
- Agents/strict OpenAI turn ordering: apply assistant-first transcript bootstrap sanitization to strict OpenAI-compatible providers (for example vLLM/Gemma via `openai-completions`) without adding Google-specific session markers, preventing assistant-first history rejections. (#39252) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Discord/exec approvals gateway auth: pass resolved shared gateway credentials into the Discord exec-approvals gateway client so token-auth installs stop failing approvals with `gateway token mismatch`. Related to #38179. Thanks @0riginal-claw for the adjacent PR #35147 investigation.
- Subagents/workspace inheritance: propagate parent workspace directory to spawned subagent runs so child sessions reliably inherit workspace-scoped instructions (`AGENTS.md`, `SOUL.md`, etc.) without exposing workspace override through tool-call arguments. (#39247) Thanks @jasonQin6.
- Exec approvals/gateway-node policy: honor explicit `ask=off` from `exec-approvals.json` even when runtime defaults are stricter, so trusted full/off setups stop re-prompting on gateway and node exec paths. Landed from contributor PR #26789 by @pandego. Thanks @pandego.
- Exec approvals/config fallback: inherit `ask` from `exec-approvals.json` when `tools.exec.ask` is unset, so local full/off defaults no longer fall back to `on-miss` for exec tool and `nodes run`. Landed from contributor PR #29187 by @Bartok9. Thanks @Bartok9.
- Exec approvals/allow-always shell scripts: persist and match script paths for wrapper invocations like `bash scripts/foo.sh` while still blocking `-c`/`-s` wrapper bypasses. Landed from contributor PR #35137 by @yuweuii. Thanks @yuweuii.
- Queue/followup dedupe across drain restarts: dedupe queued redelivery `message_id` values after queue recreation so busy-session followups no longer duplicate on replayed inbound events. Landed from contributor PR #33168 by @rylena. Thanks @rylena.
- Telegram/preview-final edit idempotence: treat `message is not modified` errors during preview finalization as delivered so partial-stream final replies do not fall back to duplicate sends. Landed from contributor PR #34983 by @HOYALIM. Thanks @HOYALIM.
- Telegram/DM streaming transport parity: use message preview transport for all DM streaming lanes so final delivery can edit the active preview instead of sending duplicate finals. Landed from contributor PR #38906 by @gambletan. Thanks @gambletan.
- Telegram/DM draft streaming restoration: restore native `sendMessageDraft` preview transport for DM answer streaming while keeping reasoning on message transport, with regression coverage to keep draft finalization from sending duplicate finals. (#39398) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/send retry safety: retry non-idempotent send paths only for pre-connect failures and make custom retry predicates strict, preventing ambiguous reconnect retries from sending duplicate messages. Landed from contributor PR #34238 by @hal-crackbot. Thanks @hal-crackbot.
- ACP/run spawn delivery bootstrap: stop reusing requester inline delivery targets for one-shot `mode: "run"` ACP spawns, so fresh run-mode workers bootstrap in isolation instead of inheriting thread-bound session delivery behavior. (#39014) Thanks @lidamao633.
- Discord/DM session-key normalization: rewrite legacy `discord:dm:*` and phantom direct-message `discord:channel:<user>` session keys to `discord:direct:*` when the sender matches, so multi-agent Discord DMs stop falling into empty channel-shaped sessions and resume replying correctly.
- Discord/native slash session fallback: treat empty configured bound-session keys as missing so `/status` and other native commands fall back to the routed slash session and routed channel session instead of blanking Discord session keys in normal channel bindings.
- Agents/tool-call dispatch normalization: normalize provider-prefixed tool names before dispatch across `toolCall`, `toolUse`, and `functionCall` blocks, while preserving multi-segment tool suffixes when stripping provider wrappers so malformed-but-recoverable tool names no longer fail with `Tool not found`. (#39328) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/parallel tool-call compatibility: honor `parallel_tool_calls` / `parallelToolCalls` extra params only for `openai-completions` and `openai-responses` payloads, preserve higher-precedence alias overrides across config and runtime layers, and ignore invalid non-boolean values so single-tool-call providers like NVIDIA-hosted Kimi stop failing on forced parallel tool-call payloads. (#37048) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Config/invalid-load fail-closed: stop converting `INVALID_CONFIG` into an empty runtime config, keep valid settings available only through explicit best-effort diagnostic reads, and route read-only CLI diagnostics through that path so unknown keys no longer silently drop security-sensitive config. (#28140) Thanks @bobsahur-robot and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/codex-cli sandbox defaults: switch the built-in Codex backend from `read-only` to `workspace-write` so spawned coding runs can edit files out of the box. Landed from contributor PR #39336 by @0xtangping. Thanks @0xtangping.
- Gateway/health-monitor restart reason labeling: report `disconnected` instead of `stuck` for clean channel disconnect restarts, so operator logs distinguish socket drops from genuinely stuck channels. (#36436) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Control UI/agents-page overrides: auto-create minimal per-agent config entries when editing inherited agents, so model/tool/skill changes enable Save and inherited model fallbacks can be cleared by writing a primary-only override. Landed from contributor PR #39326 by @dunamismax. Thanks @dunamismax.
- Gateway/Telegram webhook-mode recovery: add `webhookCertPath` to re-upload self-signed certificates during webhook registration and skip stale-socket detection for webhook-mode channels, so Telegram webhook setups survive health-monitor restarts. Landed from contributor PR #39313 by @fellanH. Thanks @fellanH.
- Discord/config schema parity: add `channels.discord.agentComponents` to the strict Zod config schema so valid `agentComponents.enabled` settings (root and account-scoped) no longer fail with unrecognized-key validation errors. Landed from contributor PR #39378 by @gambletan. Thanks @gambletan and @thewilloftheshadow.
- ACPX/MCP session bootstrap: inject configured MCP servers into ACP `session/new` and `session/load` for acpx-backed sessions, restoring Canva and other external MCP tools. Landed from contributor PR #39337. Thanks @goodspeed-apps.
- Control UI/Telegram sender labels: preserve inbound sender labels in sanitized chat history so dashboard user-message groups split correctly and show real group-member names instead of `You`. (#39414) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/failover 402 recovery: keep temporary spend-limit `402` payloads retryable, preserve explicit insufficient-credit billing detection even in long provider payloads, and allow throttled billing-cooldown probes so single-provider setups can recover instead of staying locked out. (#38533) Thanks @xialonglee.
- Browser/config schema: accept `browser.profiles.*.driver: "openclaw"` while preserving legacy `"clawd"` compatibility in validated config. (#39374; based on #35621) Thanks @gambletan and @ingyukoh.
- Memory flush/bootstrap file protection: restrict memory-flush runs to append-only `read`/`write` tools and route host-side memory appends through root-enforced safe file handles so flush turns cannot overwrite bootstrap files via `exec` or unsafe raw rewrites. (#38574) Thanks @frankekn.
- Mattermost/DM media uploads: resolve bare 26-character Mattermost IDs user-first for direct messages so media sends no longer fail with `403 Forbidden` when targets are configured as unprefixed user IDs. (#29925) Thanks @teconomix.
- Voice-call/OpenAI TTS config parity: add missing `speed`, `instructions`, and `baseUrl` fields to the OpenAI TTS config schema and gate `instructions` to supported models so voice-call overrides validate and route cleanly through core TTS. (#39226) Thanks @ademczuk.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Gateway auth now requires explicit `gateway.auth.mode` when both `gateway.auth.token` and `gateway.auth.password` are configured (including SecretRefs). Set `gateway.auth.mode` to `token` or `password` before upgrade to avoid startup/pairing/TUI failures. (#35094) Thanks @joshavant.

## 2026.3.2

### Changes

- Secrets/SecretRef coverage: expand SecretRef support across the full supported user-supplied credential surface (64 targets total), including runtime collectors, `openclaw secrets` planning/apply/audit flows, onboarding SecretInput UX, and related docs; unresolved refs now fail fast on active surfaces while inactive surfaces report non-blocking diagnostics. (#29580) Thanks @joshavant.
- Tools/PDF analysis: add a first-class `pdf` tool with native Anthropic and Google PDF provider support, extraction fallback for non-native models, configurable defaults (`agents.defaults.pdfModel`, `pdfMaxBytesMb`, `pdfMaxPages`), and docs/tests covering routing, validation, and registration. (#31319) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Outbound adapters/plugins: add shared `sendPayload` support across direct-text-media, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Zalo, and Zalouser with multi-media iteration and chunk-aware text fallback. (#30144) Thanks @nohat.
- Models/MiniMax: add first-class `MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed` support across built-in provider catalogs, onboarding flows, and MiniMax OAuth plugin defaults, while keeping legacy `MiniMax-M2.5-Lightning` compatibility for existing configs.
- Sessions/Attachments: add inline file attachment support for `sessions_spawn` (subagent runtime only) with base64/utf8 encoding, transcript content redaction, lifecycle cleanup, and configurable limits via `tools.sessions_spawn.attachments`. (#16761) Thanks @napetrov.
- Telegram/Streaming defaults: default `channels.telegram.streaming` to `partial` (from `off`) so new Telegram setups get live preview streaming out of the box, with runtime fallback to message-edit preview when native drafts are unavailable.
- Telegram/DM streaming: use `sendMessageDraft` for private preview streaming, keep reasoning/answer preview lanes separated in DM reasoning-stream mode. (#31824) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/voice mention gating: add optional `disableAudioPreflight` on group/topic config to skip mention-detection preflight transcription for inbound voice notes where operators want text-only mention checks. (#23067) Thanks @yangnim21029.
- CLI/Config validation: add `openclaw config validate` (with `--json`) to validate config files before gateway startup, and include detailed invalid-key paths in startup invalid-config errors. (#31220) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Tools/Diffs: add PDF file output support and rendering quality customization controls (`fileQuality`, `fileScale`, `fileMaxWidth`) for generated diff artifacts, and document PDF as the preferred option when messaging channels compress images. (#31342) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Memory/Ollama embeddings: add `memorySearch.provider = "ollama"` and `memorySearch.fallback = "ollama"` support, honor `models.providers.ollama` settings for memory embedding requests, and document Ollama embedding usage. (#26349) Thanks @nico-hoff.
- Zalo Personal plugin (`@openclaw/zalouser`): rebuilt channel runtime to use native `zca-js` integration in-process, removing external CLI transport usage and keeping QR/login + send/listen flows fully inside OpenClaw.
- Plugin SDK/channel extensibility: expose `channelRuntime` on `ChannelGatewayContext` so external channel plugins can access shared runtime helpers (reply/routing/session/text/media/commands) without internal imports. (#25462) Thanks @guxiaobo.
- Plugin runtime/STT: add `api.runtime.stt.transcribeAudioFile(...)` so extensions can transcribe local audio files through OpenClaw's configured media-understanding audio providers. (#22402) Thanks @benthecarman.
- Plugin hooks/session lifecycle: include `sessionKey` in `session_start`/`session_end` hook events and contexts so plugins can correlate lifecycle callbacks with routing identity. (#26394) Thanks @tempeste.
- Hooks/message lifecycle: add internal hook events `message:transcribed` and `message:preprocessed`, plus richer outbound `message:sent` context (`isGroup`, `groupId`) for group-conversation correlation and post-transcription automations. (#9859) Thanks @Drickon.
- Media understanding/audio echo: add optional `tools.media.audio.echoTranscript` + `echoFormat` to send a pre-agent transcript confirmation message to the originating chat, with echo disabled by default. (#32150) Thanks @AytuncYildizli.
- Plugin runtime/system: expose `runtime.system.requestHeartbeatNow(...)` so extensions can wake targeted sessions immediately after enqueueing system events. (#19464) Thanks @AustinEral.
- Plugin runtime/events: expose `runtime.events.onAgentEvent` and `runtime.events.onSessionTranscriptUpdate` for extension-side subscriptions, and isolate transcript-listener failures so one faulty listener cannot break the entire update fanout. (#16044) Thanks @scifantastic.
- CLI/Banner taglines: add `cli.banner.taglineMode` (`random` | `default` | `off`) to control funny tagline behavior in startup output, with docs + FAQ guidance and regression tests for config override behavior.
- Agents/compaction safeguard quality-audit rollout: keep summary quality audits disabled by default unless `agents.defaults.compaction.qualityGuard` is explicitly enabled, and add config plumbing for bounded retry control. (#25556) thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Gateway/input_image MIME validation: sniff uploaded image bytes before MIME allowlist enforcement again so declared image types cannot mask concrete non-image payloads, while keeping HEIC/HEIF normalization behavior scoped to actual HEIC inputs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Zalo Personal plugin (`@openclaw/zalouser`): keep canonical DM routing while preserving legacy DM session continuity on upgrade, and preserve provider-native `g-`/`u-` target ids in outbound send and directory flows so #33992 lands without breaking existing sessions or stored targets. (#33992) Thanks @darkamenosa.

### Fixes

- Feishu/Outbound render mode: respect Feishu account `renderMode` in outbound sends so card mode (and auto-detected markdown tables/code blocks) uses markdown card delivery instead of always sending plain text. (#31562) Thanks @arkyu2077.
- Plugin command/runtime hardening: validate and normalize plugin command name/description at registration boundaries, and guard Telegram native menu normalization paths so malformed plugin command specs cannot crash startup (`trim` on undefined). (#31997) Fixes #31944. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Telegram: guard duplicate-token checks and gateway startup token normalization when account tokens are missing, preventing `token.trim()` crashes during status/start flows. (#31973) Thanks @ningding97.
- Discord/lifecycle startup status: push an immediate `connected` status snapshot when the gateway is already connected before lifecycle debug listeners attach, with abort-guarding to avoid contradictory status flips during pre-aborted startup. (#32336) Thanks @mitchmcalister.
- Feishu/inbound mention normalization: preserve all inbound mention semantics by normalizing Feishu mention placeholders into explicit `<at user_id=\"...\">name</at>` tags (instead of stripping them), improving multi-mention context fidelity in agent prompts while retaining bot/self mention disambiguation. (#30252) Thanks @Lanfei.
- Feishu/multi-app mention routing: guard mention detection in multi-bot groups by validating mention display name alongside bot `open_id`, preventing false-positive self-mentions from Feishu WebSocket remapping so only the actually mentioned bot responds under `requireMention`. (#30315) Thanks @teaguexiao.
- Feishu/session-memory hook parity: trigger the shared `before_reset` session-memory hook path when Feishu `/new` and `/reset` commands execute so reset flows preserve memory behavior consistent with other channels. (#31437) Thanks @Linux2010.
- Feishu/LINE group system prompts: forward per-group `systemPrompt` config into inbound context `GroupSystemPrompt` for Feishu and LINE group/room events so configured group-specific behavior actually applies at dispatch time. (#31713) Thanks @whiskyboy.
- Mentions/Slack formatting hardening: add null-safe guards for runtime text normalization paths so malformed/undefined text payloads do not crash mention stripping or mrkdwn conversion. (#31865) Thanks @stone-jin.
- Feishu/Plugin sdk compatibility: add safe webhook default fallbacks when loading Feishu monitor state so mixed-version installs no longer crash if older `openclaw/plugin-sdk` builds omit webhook default constants. (#31606).
- Feishu/group broadcast dispatch: add configurable multi-agent group broadcast dispatch with observer-session isolation, cross-account dedupe safeguards, and non-mention history buffering rules that avoid duplicate replay in broadcast/topic workflows. (#29575) Thanks @ohmyskyhigh.
- Gateway/Subagent TLS pairing: allow authenticated local `gateway-client` backend self-connections to skip device pairing while still requiring pairing for non-local/direct-host paths, restoring `sessions_spawn` with `gateway.tls.enabled=true` in Docker/LAN setups. Fixes #30740. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
- Browser/CDP startup diagnostics: include Chrome stderr output and a Linux no-sandbox hint in startup timeout errors so failed launches are easier to diagnose. (#29312) Thanks @veast.
- Synology Chat/webhook ingress hardening: enforce bounded body reads (size + timeout) via shared request-body guards to prevent unauthenticated slow-body hangs before token validation. (#25831) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Feishu/Dedup restart resilience: warm persistent dedup state into memory on monitor startup so retry events after gateway restart stay suppressed without requiring initial on-disk probe misses. (#31605).
- Voice-call/runtime lifecycle: prevent `EADDRINUSE` loops by resetting failed runtime promises, making webhook `start()` idempotent with the actual bound port, and fully cleaning up webhook/tunnel/tailscale resources after startup failures. (#32395) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Gateway/Security hardening: tie loopback-origin dev allowance to actual local socket clients (not Host header claims), add explicit warnings/metrics when `gateway.controlUi.dangerouslyAllowHostHeaderOriginFallback` accepts websocket origins, harden safe-regex detection for quantified ambiguous alternation patterns (for example `(a|aa)+`), and bound large regex-evaluation inputs for session-filter and log-redaction paths.
- Gateway/Plugin HTTP hardening: require explicit `auth` for plugin route registration, add route ownership guards for duplicate `path+match` registrations, centralize plugin path matching/auth logic into dedicated modules, and share webhook target-route lifecycle wiring across channel monitors to avoid stale or conflicting registrations. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Browser/Profile defaults: prefer `openclaw` profile over `chrome` in headless/no-sandbox environments unless an explicit `defaultProfile` is configured. (#14944) Thanks @BenediktSchackenberg.
- Gateway/WS security: keep plaintext `ws://` loopback-only by default, with explicit break-glass private-network opt-in via `OPENCLAW_ALLOW_INSECURE_PRIVATE_WS=1`; align onboarding/client/call validation and tests to this strict-default policy. (#28670) Thanks @dashed, @vincentkoc.
- OpenAI Codex OAuth/TLS prerequisites: add an OAuth TLS cert-chain preflight with actionable remediation for cert trust failures, and gate doctor TLS prerequisite probing to OpenAI Codex OAuth-configured installs (or explicit `doctor --deep`) to avoid unconditional outbound probe latency. (#32051) Thanks @alexfilatov.
- Security/Webhook request hardening: enforce auth-before-body parsing for BlueBubbles and Google Chat webhook handlers, add strict pre-auth body/time budgets for webhook auth paths (including LINE signature verification), and add shared in-flight/request guardrails plus regression tests/lint checks to prevent reintroducing unauthenticated slow-body DoS patterns. Thanks @GCXWLP for reporting.
- CLI/Config validation and routing hardening: dedupe `openclaw config validate` failures to a single authoritative report, expose allowed-values metadata/hints across core Zod and plugin AJV validation (including `--json` fields), sanitize terminal-rendered validation text, and make command-path parsing root-option-aware across preaction/route/lazy registration (including routed `config get/unset` with split root options). Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Browser/Extension relay reconnect tolerance: keep `/json/version` and `/cdp` reachable during short MV3 worker disconnects when attached targets still exist, and retain clients across reconnect grace windows. (#30232) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- CLI/Browser start timeout: honor `openclaw browser --timeout <ms> start` and stop by removing the fixed 15000ms override so slower Chrome startups can use caller-provided timeouts. (#22412, #23427) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Synology Chat/gateway lifecycle: keep `startAccount` pending until abort for inactive and active account paths to prevent webhook route restart loops under gateway supervision. (#23074) Thanks @druide67.
- Exec approvals/allowlist matching: escape regex metacharacters in path-pattern literals (while preserving glob wildcards), preventing crashes on allowlisted executables like `/usr/bin/g++` and correctly matching mixed wildcard/literal token paths. (#32162) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Synology Chat/webhook compatibility: accept JSON and alias payload fields, allow token resolution from body/query/header sources, and ACK webhook requests with `204` to avoid persistent `Processing...` states in Synology Chat clients. (#26635) Thanks @memphislee09-source.
- Voice-call/Twilio signature verification: retry signature validation across deterministic URL port variants (with/without port) to handle mixed Twilio signing behavior behind reverse proxies and non-standard ports. (#25140) Thanks @drvoss.
- Slack/Bolt startup compatibility: remove invalid `message.channels` and `message.groups` event registrations so Slack providers no longer crash on startup with Bolt 4.6+; channel/group traffic continues through the unified `message` handler (`channel_type`). (#32033) Thanks @mahopan.
- Slack/socket auth failure handling: fail fast on non-recoverable auth errors (`account_inactive`, `invalid_auth`, etc.) during startup and reconnect instead of retry-looping indefinitely, including `unable_to_socket_mode_start` error payload propagation. (#32377) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Gateway/macOS LaunchAgent hardening: write `Umask=077` in generated gateway LaunchAgent plists so npm upgrades preserve owner-only default file permissions for gateway-created state files. (#31919) Fixes #31905. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- macOS/LaunchAgent security defaults: write `Umask=63` (octal `077`) into generated gateway launchd plists so post-update service reinstalls keep owner-only file permissions by default instead of falling back to system `022`. (#32022) Fixes #31905. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Media understanding/provider HTTP proxy routing: pass a proxy-aware fetch function from `HTTPS_PROXY`/`HTTP_PROXY` env vars into audio/video provider calls (with graceful malformed-proxy fallback) so transcription/video requests honor configured outbound proxies. (#27093) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Sandbox/workspace mount permissions: make primary `/workspace` bind mounts read-only whenever `workspaceAccess` is not `rw` (including `none`) across both core sandbox container and sandbox browser create flows. (#32227) Thanks @guanyu-zhang.
- Tools/fsPolicy propagation: honor `tools.fs.workspaceOnly` for image/pdf local-root allowlists so non-sandbox media paths outside workspace are rejected when workspace-only mode is enabled. (#31882) Thanks @justinhuangcode.
- Daemon/Homebrew runtime pinning: resolve Homebrew Cellar Node paths to stable Homebrew-managed symlinks (including versioned formulas like `node@22`) so gateway installs keep the intended runtime across brew upgrades. (#32185) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Browser/Security output boundary hardening: replace check-then-rename output commits with root-bound fd-verified writes, unify install/skills canonical path-boundary checks, and add regression coverage for symlink-rebind race paths across browser output and shared fs-safe write flows. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Gateway/Security canonicalization hardening: decode plugin route path variants to canonical fixpoint (with bounded depth), fail closed on canonicalization anomalies, and enforce gateway auth for deeply encoded `/api/channels/*` variants to prevent alternate-path auth bypass through plugin handlers. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Browser/Gateway hardening: preserve env credentials for `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_URL` / `CLAWDBOT_GATEWAY_URL` while treating explicit `--url` as override-only auth, and make container browser hardening flags optional with safer defaults for Docker/LXC stability. (#31504) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Control UI basePath webhook passthrough: let non-read methods under configured `controlUiBasePath` fall through to plugin routes (instead of returning Control UI 405), restoring webhook handlers behind basePath mounts. (#32311) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Gateway/Webchat streaming finalization: flush throttled trailing assistant text before `final` chat events so streaming consumers do not miss tail content, while preserving duplicate suppression and heartbeat/silent lead-fragment guards. (#24856) Thanks @visionik and @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/Legacy browser compatibility: replace `toSorted`-dependent cron suggestion sorting in `app-render` with a compatibility helper so older browsers without `Array.prototype.toSorted` no longer white-screen. (#31775) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- macOS/PeekabooBridge: add compatibility socket symlinks for legacy `clawdbot`, `clawdis`, and `moltbot` Application Support socket paths so pre-rename clients can still connect. (#6033) Thanks @lumpinif and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/message tool reliability: avoid false `Unknown channel` failures when `message.*` actions receive platform-specific channel ids by falling back to `toolContext.currentChannelProvider`, and prevent health-monitor restart thrash for channels that just (re)started by adding a per-channel startup-connect grace window. (from #32367) Thanks @MunemHashmi.
- Windows/Spawn canonicalization: unify non-core Windows spawn handling across ACP client, QMD/mcporter memory paths, and sandbox Docker execution using the shared wrapper-resolution policy, with targeted regression coverage for `.cmd` shim unwrapping and shell fallback behavior. (#31750) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Security/ACP sandbox inheritance: enforce fail-closed runtime guardrails for `sessions_spawn` with `runtime="acp"` by rejecting ACP spawns from sandboxed requester sessions and rejecting `sandbox="require"` for ACP runtime, preventing sandbox-boundary bypass via host-side ACP initialization. (#32254) Thanks @tdjackey for reporting, and @dutifulbob for the fix.
- Security/Web tools SSRF guard: keep DNS pinning for untrusted `web_fetch` and citation-redirect URL checks when proxy env vars are set, and require explicit dangerous opt-in before env-proxy routing can bypass pinned dispatch for trusted/operator-controlled endpoints. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Gemini schema sanitization: coerce malformed JSON Schema `properties` values (`null`, arrays, primitives) to `{}` before provider validation, preventing downstream strict-validator crashes on invalid plugin/tool schemas. (#32332) Thanks @webdevtodayjason.
- Media understanding/malformed attachment guards: harden attachment selection and decision summary formatting against non-array or malformed attachment payloads to prevent runtime crashes on invalid inbound metadata shapes. (#28024) Thanks @claw9267.
- Browser/Extension navigation reattach: preserve debugger re-attachment when relay is temporarily disconnected by deferring relay attach events until reconnect/re-announce, reducing post-navigation tab loss. (#28725) Thanks @stone-jin.
- Browser/Extension relay stale tabs: evict stale cached targets from `/json/list` when extension targets are destroyed/crashed or commands fail with missing target/session errors. (#6175) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Browser/CDP startup readiness: wait for CDP websocket readiness after launching Chrome and cleanly stop/reset when readiness never arrives, reducing follow-up `PortInUseError` races after `browser start`/`open`. (#29538) Thanks @AaronWander.
- OpenAI/Responses WebSocket tool-call id hygiene: normalize blank/whitespace streamed tool-call ids before persistence, and block empty `function_call_output.call_id` payloads in the WS conversion path to avoid OpenAI 400 errors (`Invalid 'input[n].call_id': empty string`), with regression coverage for both inbound stream normalization and outbound payload guards.
- Security/Nodes camera URL downloads: bind node `camera.snap`/`camera.clip` URL payload downloads to the resolved node host, enforce fail-closed behavior when node `remoteIp` is unavailable, and use SSRF-guarded fetch with redirect host/protocol checks to prevent off-node fetch pivots. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Config/backups hardening: enforce owner-only (`0600`) permissions on rotated config backups and clean orphan `.bak.*` files outside the managed backup ring, reducing credential leakage risk from stale or permissive backup artifacts. (#31718) Thanks @YUJIE2002.
- Telegram/inbound media filenames: preserve original `file_name` metadata for document/audio/video/animation downloads (with fetch/path fallbacks), so saved inbound attachments keep sender-provided names instead of opaque Telegram file paths. (#31837) Thanks @Kay-051.
- Gateway/OpenAI chat completions: honor `x-openclaw-message-channel` when building `agentCommand` input for `/v1/chat/completions`, preserving caller channel identity instead of forcing `webchat`. (#30462) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Plugin SDK/runtime hardening: add package export verification in CI/release checks to catch missing runtime exports before publish-time regressions. (#28575) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Media/MIME normalization: normalize parameterized/case-variant MIME strings in `kindFromMime` (for example `Audio/Ogg; codecs=opus`) so WhatsApp voice notes are classified as audio and routed through transcription correctly. (#32280) Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Discord/audio preflight mentions: detect audio attachments via Discord `content_type` and gate preflight transcription on typed text (not media placeholders), so guild voice-note mentions are transcribed and matched correctly. (#32136) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
- Discord/acp inline actions: prefer autocomplete for `/acp` action inline values and ignore bound-thread bot system messages to prevent ACP loops. (#33136) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Feishu/topic session routing: use `thread_id` as topic session scope fallback when `root_id` is absent, keep first-turn topic keys stable across thread creation, and force thread replies when inbound events already carry topic/thread context. (#29788) Thanks @songyaolun.
- Gateway/Webchat NO_REPLY streaming: suppress assistant lead-fragment deltas that are prefixes of `NO_REPLY` and keep final-message buffering in sync, preventing partial `NO` leaks on silent-response runs while preserving legitimate short replies. (#32073) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Telegram/models picker callbacks: keep long model buttons selectable by falling back to compact callback payloads and resolving provider ids on selection (with provider re-prompt on ambiguity), avoiding Telegram 64-byte callback truncation failures. (#31857) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Context-window metadata warmup: add exponential config-load retry backoff (1s -> 2s -> 4s, capped at 60s) so transient startup failures recover automatically without hot-loop retries. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Voice-call/Twilio external outbound: auto-register webhook-first `outbound-api` calls (initiated outside OpenClaw) so media streams are accepted and call direction metadata stays accurate. (#31181) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Feishu/topic root replies: prefer `root_id` as outbound `replyTargetMessageId` when present, and parse millisecond `message_create_time` values correctly so topic replies anchor to the root message in grouped thread flows. (#29968) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Feishu/DM pairing reply target: send pairing challenge replies to `chat:<chat_id>` instead of `user:<sender_open_id>` so Lark/Feishu private chats with user-id-only sender payloads receive pairing messages reliably. (#31403) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Feishu/Lark private DM routing: treat inbound `chat_type: "private"` as direct-message context for pairing/mention-forward/reaction synthetic handling so Lark private chats behave like Feishu p2p DMs. (#31400) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Feishu/streaming card transport error handling: check `response.ok` before parsing JSON in token and card create requests so non-JSON HTTP error responses surface deterministic status failures. (#35628) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Signal/message actions: allow `react` to fall back to `toolContext.currentMessageId` when `messageId` is omitted, matching Telegram behavior and unblocking agent-initiated reactions on inbound turns. (#32217) Thanks @dunamismax.
- Discord/message actions: allow `react` to fall back to `toolContext.currentMessageId` when `messageId` is omitted, matching Telegram/Signal reaction ergonomics in inbound turns.
- Synology Chat/reply delivery: resolve webhook usernames to Chat API `user_id` values for outbound chatbot replies, avoiding mismatches between webhook user IDs and `method=chatbot` recipient IDs in multi-account setups. (#23709) Thanks @druide67.
- Slack/thread context payloads: only inject thread starter/history text on first thread turn for new sessions while preserving thread metadata, reducing repeated context-token bloat on long-lived thread sessions. (#32133) Thanks @sourman.
- Slack/session routing: keep top-level channel messages in one shared session when `replyToMode=off`, while preserving thread-scoped keys for true thread replies and non-off modes. (#32193) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Slack/app_mention dedupe race handling: keep seen-message dedupe to prevent duplicate replies while allowing a one-time app_mention retry when the paired message event was dropped pre-dispatch, so requireMention channels do not lose mentions under Slack event reordering. (#34937) Thanks @littleben.
- Voice-call/webhook routing: require exact webhook path matches (instead of prefix matches) so lookalike paths cannot reach provider verification/dispatch logic. (#31930) Thanks @afurm.
- Zalo/Pairing auth tests: add webhook regression coverage asserting DM pairing-store reads/writes remain account-scoped, preventing cross-account authorization bleed in multi-account setups. (#26121) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Zalouser/Pairing auth tests: add account-scoped DM pairing-store regression coverage (`monitor.account-scope.test.ts`) to prevent cross-account allowlist bleed in multi-account setups. (#26672) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Feishu/Send target prefixes: normalize explicit `group:`/`dm:` send targets and preserve explicit receive-id routing hints when resolving outbound Feishu targets. (#31594) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Webchat/Feishu session continuation: preserve routable `OriginatingChannel`/`OriginatingTo` metadata from session delivery context in `chat.send`, and prefer provider-normalized channel when deciding cross-channel route dispatch so Webchat replies continue on the selected Feishu session instead of falling back to main/internal session routing. (#31573).
- Telegram/implicit mention forum handling: exclude Telegram forum system service messages (`forum_topic_*`, `general_forum_topic_*`) from reply-chain implicit mention detection so `requireMention` does not get bypassed inside bot-created topic lifecycle events. (#32262) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Slack/inbound debounce routing: isolate top-level non-DM message debounce keys by message timestamp to avoid cross-thread collisions, preserve DM batching, and flush pending top-level buffers before immediate non-debounce follow-ups to keep ordering stable. (#31951) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Feishu/Duplicate replies: suppress same-target reply dispatch when message-tool sends use generic provider metadata (`provider: "message"`) and normalize `lark`/`feishu` provider aliases during duplicate-target checks, preventing double-delivery in Feishu sessions. (#31526).
- Webchat/silent token leak: filter assistant `NO_REPLY`-only transcript entries from `chat.history` responses and add client-side defense-in-depth guards in the chat controller so internal silent tokens never render as visible chat bubbles. (#32015) Consolidates overlap from #32183, #32082, #32045, #32052, #32172, and #32112. Thanks @ademczuk, @liuxiaopai-ai, @ningding97, @bmendonca3, and @x4v13r1120.
- Doctor/local memory provider checks: stop false-positive local-provider warnings when `provider=local` and no explicit `modelPath` is set by honoring default local model fallback while still warning when gateway probe reports local embeddings not ready. (#32014) Fixes #31998. Thanks @adhishthite.
- Media understanding/parakeet CLI output parsing: read `parakeet-mlx` transcripts from `--output-dir/<media-basename>.txt` when txt output is requested (or default), with stdout fallback for non-txt formats. (#9177) Thanks @mac-110.
- Media understanding/audio transcription guard: skip tiny/empty audio files (<1024 bytes) before provider/CLI transcription to avoid noisy invalid-audio failures and preserve clean fallback behavior. (#8388) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Gateway/Plugin HTTP route precedence: run explicit plugin HTTP routes before the Control UI SPA catch-all so registered plugin webhook/custom paths remain reachable, while unmatched paths still fall through to Control UI handling. (#31885) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Gateway/Node browser proxy routing: honor `profile` from `browser.request` JSON body when query params omit it, while preserving query-profile precedence when both are present. (#28852) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Gateway/Control UI basePath POST handling: return 405 for `POST` on exact basePath routes (for example `/openclaw`) instead of redirecting, and add end-to-end regression coverage that root-mounted webhook POST paths still pass through to plugin handlers. (#31349) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Browser/default profile selection: default `browser.defaultProfile` behavior now prefers `openclaw` (managed standalone CDP) when no explicit default is configured, while still auto-provisioning the `chrome` relay profile for explicit opt-in use. (#32031) Fixes #31907. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Sandbox/mkdirp boundary checks: allow existing in-boundary directories to pass mkdirp boundary validation when directory open probes return platform-specific I/O errors, with regression coverage for directory-safe fallback behavior. (#31547) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Models/config env propagation: apply `config.env.vars` before implicit provider discovery in models bootstrap so config-scoped credentials are visible to implicit provider resolution paths. (#32295) Thanks @hsiaoa.
- Models/Codex usage labels: infer weekly secondary usage windows from reset cadence when API window seconds are ambiguously reported as 24h, so `openclaw models status` no longer mislabels weekly limits as daily. (#31938) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Gateway/Heartbeat model reload: treat `models.*` and `agents.defaults.model` config updates as heartbeat hot-reload triggers so heartbeat picks up model changes without a full gateway restart. (#32046) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Memory/LanceDB embeddings: forward configured `embedding.dimensions` into OpenAI embeddings requests so vector size and API output dimensions stay aligned when dimensions are explicitly configured. (#32036) Thanks @scotthuang.
- Gateway/Control UI method guard: allow POST requests to non-UI routes to fall through when no base path is configured, and add POST regression coverage for fallthrough and base-path 405 behavior. (#23970) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Browser/CDP status accuracy: require a successful `Browser.getVersion` response over the CDP websocket (not just socket-open) before reporting `cdpReady`, so stale idle command channels are surfaced as unhealthy. (#23427) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Daemon/systemd checks in containers: treat missing `systemctl` invocations (including `spawn systemctl ENOENT`/`EACCES`) as unavailable service state during `is-enabled` checks, preventing container flows from failing with `Gateway service check failed` before install/status handling can continue. (#26089) Thanks @sahilsatralkar and @vincentkoc.
- Security/Node exec approvals: revalidate approval-bound `cwd` identity immediately before execution/forwarding and fail closed with an explicit denial when `cwd` drifts after approval hardening.
- Security audit/skills workspace hardening: add `skills.workspace.symlink_escape` warning in `openclaw security audit` when workspace `skills/**/SKILL.md` resolves outside the workspace root (for example symlink-chain drift), plus docs coverage in the security glossary.
- Security/Node exec approvals: preserve shell/dispatch-wrapper argv semantics during approval hardening so approved wrapper commands (for example `env sh -c ...`) cannot drift into a different runtime command shape, and add regression coverage for both approval-plan generation and approved runtime execution paths. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/fs-safe write hardening: make `writeFileWithinRoot` use same-directory temp writes plus atomic rename, add post-write inode/hardlink revalidation with security warnings on boundary drift, and avoid truncating existing targets when final rename fails.
- Security/Skills archive extraction: unify tar extraction safety checks across tar.gz and tar.bz2 install flows, enforce tar compressed-size limits, and fail closed if tar.bz2 archives change between preflight and extraction to prevent bypasses of entry-type/size guardrails. Thanks @GCXWLP for reporting.
- Security/Prompt spoofing hardening: stop injecting queued runtime events into user-role prompt text, route them through trusted system-prompt context, and neutralize inbound spoof markers like `[System Message]` and line-leading `System:` in untrusted message content. (#30448).
- Sandbox/Docker setup command parsing: accept `agents.*.sandbox.docker.setupCommand` as either a string or a string array, and normalize arrays to newline-delimited shell scripts so multi-step setup commands no longer concatenate without separators. (#31953) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Sandbox/Bootstrap context boundary hardening: reject symlink/hardlink alias bootstrap seed files that resolve outside the source workspace and switch post-compaction `AGENTS.md` context reads to boundary-verified file opens, preventing host file content from being injected via workspace aliasing. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Agents/Sandbox workdir mapping: map container workdir paths (for example `/workspace`) back to the host workspace before sandbox path validation so exec requests keep the intended directory in containerized runs instead of falling back to an unavailable host path. (#31841) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Docker/Sandbox bootstrap hardening: make `OPENCLAW_SANDBOX` opt-in parsing explicit (`1|true|yes|on`), support custom Docker socket paths via `OPENCLAW_DOCKER_SOCKET`, defer docker.sock exposure until sandbox prerequisites pass, and reset/roll back persisted sandbox mode to `off` when setup is skipped or partially fails to avoid stale broken sandbox state. (#29974) Thanks @jamtujest and @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/webhook ACK compatibility: return `200` (instead of `202`) for successful `/hooks/agent` requests so providers that require `200` (for example Forward Email) accept dispatched agent hook deliveries. (#28204) Thanks @AIflow-Labs.
- Feishu/Run channel fallback: prefer `Provider` over `Surface` when inferring queued run `messageProvider` fallback (when `OriginatingChannel` is missing), preventing Feishu turns from being mislabeled as `webchat` in mixed relay metadata contexts. (#31880) Fixes #31859. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Skills/sherpa-onnx-tts: run the `sherpa-onnx-tts` bin under ESM (replace CommonJS `require` imports) and add regression coverage to prevent `require is not defined in ES module scope` startup crashes. (#31965) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Inbound metadata/direct relay context: restore direct-channel conversation metadata blocks for external channels (for example WhatsApp) while preserving webchat-direct suppression, so relay agents recover sender/message identifiers without reintroducing internal webchat metadata noise. (#31969) Fixes #29972. Thanks @Lucenx9.
- Slack/Channel message subscriptions: register explicit `message.channels` and `message.groups` monitor handlers (alongside generic `message`) so channel/group event subscriptions are consumed even when Slack dispatches typed message event names. Fixes #31674.
- Hooks/session-scoped memory context: expose ephemeral `sessionId` in embedded plugin tool contexts and `before_tool_call`/`after_tool_call` hook contexts (including compaction and client-tool wiring) so plugins can isolate per-conversation state across `/new` and `/reset`. Related #31253 and #31304. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @Servo-AIpex.
- Voice-call/Twilio inbound greeting: run answered-call initial notify greeting for Twilio instead of skipping the manager speak path, with regression coverage for both Twilio and Plivo notify flows. (#29121) Thanks @xinhuagu.
- Voice-call/stale call hydration: verify active calls with the provider before loading persisted in-progress calls so stale locally persisted records do not block or misroute new call handling after restarts. (#4325) Thanks @garnetlyx.
- Feishu/File upload filenames: percent-encode non-ASCII/special-character `file_name` values in Feishu multipart uploads so Chinese/symbol-heavy filenames are sent as proper attachments instead of plain text links. (#31179) Thanks @Kay-051.
- Media/MIME channel parity: route Telegram/Signal/iMessage media-kind checks through normalized `kindFromMime` so mixed-case/parameterized MIME values classify consistently across message channels.
- WhatsApp/inbound self-message context: propagate inbound `fromMe` through the web inbox pipeline and annotate direct self messages as `(self)` in envelopes so agents can distinguish owner-authored turns from contact turns. (#32167) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Webchat/stream finalization: persist streamed assistant text when final events omit `message`, while keeping final payload precedence and skipping empty stream buffers to prevent disappearing replies after tool turns. (#31920) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Feishu/Inbound ordering: serialize message handling per chat while preserving cross-chat concurrency to avoid same-chat race drops under bursty inbound traffic. (#31807) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Feishu/Typing notification suppression: skip typing keepalive reaction re-adds when the indicator is already active, preventing duplicate notification pings from repeated identical emoji adds. (#31580)
- Feishu/Probe failure backoff: cache API and timeout probe failures for one minute per account key while preserving abort-aware probe timeouts, reducing repeated health-check retries during transient credential/network outages. (#29970)
- Feishu/Streaming block fallback: preserve markdown block stream text as final streaming-card content when final payload text is missing, while still suppressing non-card internal block chunk delivery. (#30663) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Feishu/Bitable API errors: unify Feishu Bitable tool error handling with structured `LarkApiError` responses and consistent API/context attribution across wiki/base metadata, field, and record operations. (#31450) Thanks @echoVic.
- Feishu/Missing-scope grant URL fix: rewrite known invalid scope aliases (`contact:contact.base:readonly`) to valid scope names in permission grant links, so remediation URLs open with correct Feishu consent scopes. (#31943) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- BlueBubbles/Message metadata: harden send response ID extraction, include sender identity in DM context, and normalize inbound `message_id` selection to avoid duplicate ID metadata. (#23970) Thanks @tyler6204.
- WebChat/markdown tables: ensure GitHub-flavored markdown table parsing is explicitly enabled at render time and add horizontal overflow handling for wide tables, with regression coverage for table-only and mixed text+table content. (#32365) Thanks @BlueBirdBack.
- Feishu/default account resolution: always honor explicit `channels.feishu.defaultAccount` during outbound account selection (including top-level-credential setups where the preferred id is not present in `accounts`), instead of silently falling back to another account id. (#32253) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Feishu/Sender lookup permissions: suppress user-facing grant prompts for stale non-existent scope errors (`contact:contact.base:readonly`) during best-effort sender-name resolution so inbound messages continue without repeated false permission notices. (#31761).
- Discord/dispatch + Slack formatting: restore parallel outbound dispatch across Discord channels with per-channel queues while preserving in-channel ordering, and run Slack preview/stream update text through mrkdwn normalization for consistent formatting. (#31927) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Feishu/Inbound debounce: debounce rapid same-chat sender bursts into one ordered dispatch turn, skip already-processed retries when composing merged text, and preserve bot-mention intent across merged entries to reduce duplicate or late inbound handling. (#31548).
- Tests/Sandbox + archive portability: use junction-compatible directory-link setup on Windows and explicit file-symlink platform guards in symlink escape tests where unprivileged file symlinks are unavailable, reducing false Windows CI failures while preserving traversal checks on supported paths. (#28747) Thanks @arosstale.
- Browser/Extension re-announce reliability: keep relay state in `connecting` when re-announce forwarding fails and extend debugger re-attach retries after navigation to reduce false attached states and post-nav disconnect loops. (#27630) Thanks @markmusson.
- Browser/Act request compatibility: accept legacy flattened `action="act"` params (`kind/ref/text/...`) in addition to `request={...}` so browser act calls no longer fail with `request required`. (#15120) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- OpenRouter/x-ai compatibility: skip `reasoning.effort` injection for `x-ai/*` models (for example Grok) so OpenRouter requests no longer fail with invalid-arguments errors on unsupported reasoning params. (#32054) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Models/openai-completions developer-role compatibility: force `supportsDeveloperRole=false` for non-native endpoints, treat unparseable `baseUrl` values as non-native, and add regression coverage for empty/malformed baseUrl plus explicit-true override behavior. (#29479) thanks @akramcodez.
- Browser/Profile attach-only override: support `browser.profiles.<name>.attachOnly` (fallback to global `browser.attachOnly`) so loopback proxy profiles can skip local launch/port-ownership checks without forcing attach-only mode for every profile. (#20595) Thanks @unblockedgamesstudio and @vincentkoc.
- Sessions/Lock recovery: detect recycled Linux PIDs by comparing lock-file `starttime` with `/proc/<pid>/stat` starttime, so stale `.jsonl.lock` files are reclaimed immediately in containerized PID-reuse scenarios while preserving compatibility for older lock files. (#26443) Fixes #27252. Thanks @HirokiKobayashi-R and @vincentkoc.
- Cron/isolated delivery target fallback: remove early unresolved-target return so cron delivery can flow through shared outbound target resolution (including per-channel `resolveDefaultTo` fallback) when `delivery.to` is omitted. (#32364) Thanks @hclsys.
- OpenAI media capabilities: include `audio` in the OpenAI provider capability list so audio transcription models are eligible in media-understanding provider selection. (#12717) Thanks @openjay.
- Browser/Managed tab cap: limit loopback managed `openclaw` page tabs to 8 via best-effort cleanup after tab opens to reduce long-running renderer buildup while preserving attach-only and remote profile behavior. (#29724) Thanks @pandego.
- Docker/Image health checks: add Dockerfile `HEALTHCHECK` that probes gateway `GET /healthz` so container runtimes can mark unhealthy instances without requiring auth credentials in the probe command. (#11478) Thanks @U-C4N and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Node dangerous-command parity: include `sms.send` in default onboarding node `denyCommands`, share onboarding deny defaults with the gateway dangerous-command source of truth, and include `sms.send` in phone-control `/phone arm writes` handling so SMS follows the same break-glass flow as other dangerous node commands. Thanks @zpbrent.
- Pairing/AllowFrom account fallback: handle omitted `accountId` values in `readChannelAllowFromStore` and `readChannelAllowFromStoreSync` as `default`, while preserving legacy unscoped allowFrom merges for default-account flows. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
- Browser/Remote CDP ownership checks: skip local-process ownership errors for non-loopback remote CDP profiles when HTTP is reachable but the websocket handshake fails, and surface the remote websocket attach/retry path instead. (#15582) Landed from contributor (#28780) Thanks @stubbi, @bsormagec, @unblockedgamesstudio and @vincentkoc.
- Browser/CDP proxy bypass: force direct loopback agent paths and scoped `NO_PROXY` expansion for localhost CDP HTTP/WS connections when proxy env vars are set, so browser relay/control still works behind global proxy settings. (#31469) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Sessions/idle reset correctness: preserve existing `updatedAt` during inbound metadata-only writes so idle-reset boundaries are not unintentionally refreshed before actual user turns. (#32379) Thanks @romeodiaz.
- Sessions/lock recovery: reclaim orphan legacy same-PID lock files missing `starttime` when no in-process lock ownership exists, avoiding false lock timeouts after PID reuse while preserving active lock safety checks. (#32081) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Sessions/store cache invalidation: reload cached session stores when file size changes within the same mtime tick by keying cache validation on a single file-stat snapshot (`mtimeMs` + `sizeBytes`), with regression coverage for same-tick rewrites. (#32191) Thanks @jalehman.
- Agents/Subagents `sessions_spawn`: reject malformed `agentId` inputs before normalization (for example error-message/path-like strings) to prevent unintended synthetic agent IDs and ghost workspace/session paths; includes strict validation regression coverage. (#31381) Thanks @openperf.
- CLI/installer Node preflight: enforce Node.js `v22.12+` consistently in both `openclaw.mjs` runtime bootstrap and installer active-shell checks, with actionable nvm recovery guidance for mismatched shell PATH/defaults. (#32356) Thanks @jasonhargrove.
- Web UI/config form: support SecretInput string-or-secret-ref unions in map `additionalProperties`, so provider API key fields stay editable instead of being marked unsupported. (#31866) Thanks @ningding97.
- Auto-reply/inline command cleanup: preserve newline structure when stripping inline `/status` and extracting inline slash commands by collapsing only horizontal whitespace, preventing paragraph flattening in multi-line replies. (#32224) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Config/raw redaction safety: preserve non-sensitive literals during raw redaction round-trips, scope SecretRef redaction to secret IDs (not structural fields like `source`/`provider`), and fall back to structured raw redaction when text replacement cannot restore the original config shape. (#32174) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Hooks/runtime stability: keep the internal hook handler registry on a `globalThis` singleton so hook registration/dispatch remains consistent when bundling emits duplicate module copies. (#32292) Thanks @Drickon.
- Hooks/after_tool_call: include embedded session context (`sessionKey`, `agentId`) and fire the hook exactly once per tool execution by removing duplicate adapter-path dispatch in embedded runs. (#32201) Thanks @jbeno, @scoootscooob, @vincentkoc.
- Hooks/tool-call correlation: include `runId` and `toolCallId` in plugin tool hook payloads/context and scope tool start/adjusted-param tracking by run to prevent cross-run collisions in `before_tool_call` and `after_tool_call`. (#32360) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/install diagnostics: reject legacy plugin package shapes without `openclaw.extensions` and return an explicit upgrade hint with troubleshooting docs for repackaging. (#32055) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Hooks/plugin context parity: ensure `llm_input` hooks in embedded attempts receive the same `trigger` and `channelId`-aware `hookCtx` used by the other hook phases, preserving channel/trigger-scoped plugin behavior. (#28623) Thanks @davidrudduck and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/hardlink install compatibility: allow bundled plugin manifests and entry files to load when installed via hardlink-based package managers (`pnpm`, `bun`) while keeping hardlink rejection enabled for non-bundled plugin sources. (#32119) Fixes #28175, #28404, #29455. Thanks @markfietje.
- Cron/session reaper reliability: move cron session reaper sweeps into `onTimer` `finally` and keep pruning active even when timer ticks fail early (for example cron store parse failures), preventing stale isolated run sessions from accumulating indefinitely. (#31996) Fixes #31946. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Cron/HEARTBEAT_OK summary leak: suppress fallback main-session enqueue for heartbeat/internal ack summaries in isolated announce mode so `HEARTBEAT_OK` noise never appears in user chat while real summaries still forward. (#32093) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Authentication: classify `permission_error` as `auth_permanent` for profile fallback. (#31324) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Agents/host edit reliability: treat host edit-tool throws as success only when on-disk post-check confirms replacement likely happened (`newText` present and `oldText` absent), preventing false failure reports while avoiding pre-write false positives. (#32383) Thanks @polooooo.
- Plugins/install fallback safety: resolve bare install specs to bundled plugin ids before npm lookup (for example `diffs` -> bundled `@openclaw/diffs`), keep npm fallback limited to true package-not-found errors, and continue rejecting non-plugin npm packages that fail manifest validation. (#32096) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Web UI/inline code copy fidelity: disable forced mid-token wraps on inline `<code>` spans so copied UUID/hash/token strings preserve exact content instead of inserting line-break spaces. (#32346) Thanks @hclsys.
- Restart sentinel formatting: avoid duplicate `Reason:` lines when restart message text already matches `stats.reason`, keeping restart notifications concise for users and downstream parsers. (#32083) Thanks @velamints2.
- Auto-reply/followup queue: avoid stale callback reuse across idle-window restarts by caching the followup runner only when a drain actually starts, preserving enqueue ordering after empty-finalize paths. (#31902) Thanks @Lanfei.
- Agents/tool-result guard: always clear pending tool-call state on interruptions even when synthetic tool results are disabled, preventing orphaned tool-use transcripts that cause follow-up provider request failures. (#32120) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
- Failover/error classification: treat HTTP `529` (provider overloaded, common with Anthropic-compatible APIs) as `rate_limit` so model failover can engage instead of misclassifying the error path. (#31854) Thanks @bugkill3r.
- Logging: use local time for logged timestamps instead of UTC, aligning log output with documented local timezone behavior and avoiding confusion during local diagnostics. (#28434) Thanks @liuy.
- Agents/Subagent announce cleanup: keep completion-message runs pending while descendants settle, add a 30 minute hard-expiry backstop to avoid indefinite pending state, and keep retry bookkeeping resumable across deferred wakes. (#23970) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Secrets/exec resolver timeout defaults: use provider `timeoutMs` as the default inactivity (`noOutputTimeoutMs`) watchdog for exec secret providers, preventing premature no-output kills for resolvers that start producing output after 2s. (#32235) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Auto-reply/reminder guard note suppression: when a turn makes reminder-like commitments but schedules no new cron jobs, suppress the unscheduled-reminder warning note only if an enabled cron already exists for the same session; keep warnings for unrelated sessions, disabled jobs, or unreadable cron store paths. (#32255) Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Cron/isolated announce heartbeat suppression: treat multi-payload runs as skippable when any payload is a heartbeat ack token and no payload has media, preventing internal narration + trailing `HEARTBEAT_OK` from being delivered to users. (#32131) Thanks @adhishthite.
- Cron/store migration: normalize legacy cron jobs with string `schedule` and top-level `command`/`timeout` fields into canonical schedule/payload/session-target shape on load, preventing schedule-error loops on old persisted stores. (#31926) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Tests/Windows backup rotation: skip chmod-only backup permission assertions on Windows while retaining compose/rotation/prune coverage across platforms to avoid false CI failures from Windows non-POSIX mode semantics. (#32286) Thanks @jalehman.
- Tests/Subagent announce: set `OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST=1` before importing `subagent-announce` format suites so module-level fast-mode constants are captured deterministically on Windows CI, preventing timeout flakes in nested completion announce coverage. (#31370) Thanks @zwffff.
- Control UI/markdown recursion fallback: catch markdown parser failures and safely render escaped plain-text fallback instead of crashing the Control UI on pathological markdown history payloads. (#36445, fixes #36213) Thanks @BinHPdev.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Onboarding now defaults `tools.profile` to `messaging` for new local installs (interactive + non-interactive). New setups no longer start with broad coding/system tools unless explicitly configured.
- **BREAKING:** ACP dispatch now defaults to enabled unless explicitly disabled (`acp.dispatch.enabled=false`). If you need to pause ACP turn routing while keeping `/acp` controls, set `acp.dispatch.enabled=false`. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/acp-agents.
- **BREAKING:** Plugin SDK removed `api.registerHttpHandler(...)`. Plugins must register explicit HTTP routes via `api.registerHttpRoute({ path, auth, match, handler })`, and dynamic webhook lifecycles should use `registerPluginHttpRoute(...)`.
- **BREAKING:** Zalo Personal plugin (`@openclaw/zalouser`) no longer depends on external `zca`-compatible CLI binaries (`openzca`, `zca-cli`) for runtime send/listen/login; operators should use `openclaw channels login --channel zalouser` after upgrade to refresh sessions in the new JS-native path.

## 2026.3.1

### Changes

- OpenAI/Streaming transport: make `openai` Responses WebSocket-first by default (`transport: "auto"` with SSE fallback), add shared OpenAI WS stream/connection runtime wiring with per-session cleanup, and preserve server-side compaction payload mutation (`store` + `context_management`) on the WS path.
- Gateway/Container probes: add built-in HTTP liveness/readiness endpoints (`/health`, `/healthz`, `/ready`, `/readyz`) for Docker/Kubernetes health checks, with fallback routing so existing handlers on those paths are not shadowed. (#31272) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Android/Nodes: add `camera.list`, `device.permissions`, `device.health`, and `notifications.actions` (`open`/`dismiss`/`reply`) on Android nodes, plus first-class node-tool actions for the new device/notification commands. (#28260) Thanks @obviyus.
- Discord/Thread bindings: replace fixed TTL lifecycle with inactivity (`idleHours`, default 24h) plus optional hard `maxAgeHours` lifecycle controls, and add `/session idle` + `/session max-age` commands for focused thread-bound sessions. (#27845) Thanks @osolmaz.
- Telegram/DM topics: add per-DM `direct` + topic config (allowlists, `dmPolicy`, `skills`, `systemPrompt`, `requireTopic`), route DM topics as distinct inbound/outbound sessions, and enforce topic-aware authorization/debounce for messages, callbacks, commands, and reactions. Landed from contributor PR #30579 by @kesor. Thanks @kesor.
- Android/Gateway capability refresh: add live Android capability integration coverage and node canvas capability refresh wiring, plus runtime hardening for A2UI readiness retries, scoped canvas URL normalization, debug diagnostics JSON, and JavaScript MIME delivery. (#28388) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Nodes parity: add `system.notify`, `photos.latest`, `contacts.search`/`contacts.add`, `calendar.events`/`calendar.add`, and `motion.activity`/`motion.pedometer`, with motion sensor-aware command gating and improved activity sampling reliability. (#29398) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/Thinking defaults: set `adaptive` as the default thinking level for Anthropic Claude 4.6 models (including Bedrock Claude 4.6 refs) while keeping other reasoning-capable models at `low` unless explicitly configured.
- Web UI/Cron i18n: localize cron page labels, filters, form help text, and validation/error messaging in English and zh-CN. (#29315) Thanks @BUGKillerKing.
- CLI/Config: add `openclaw config file` to print the active config file path resolved from `OPENCLAW_CONFIG_PATH` or the default location. (#26256) thanks @cyb1278588254.
- Feishu/Docx tables + uploads: add `feishu_doc` actions for Docx table creation/cell writing (`create_table`, `write_table_cells`, `create_table_with_values`) and image/file uploads (`upload_image`, `upload_file`) with stricter create/upload error handling for missing `document_id` and placeholder cleanup failures. (#20304) Thanks @xuhao1.
- Feishu/Reactions: add inbound `im.message.reaction.created_v1` handling, route verified reactions through synthetic inbound turns, and harden verification with timeout + fail-closed filtering so non-bot or unverified reactions are dropped. (#16716) Thanks @schumilin.
- Feishu/Chat tooling: add `feishu_chat` tool actions for chat info and member queries, with configurable enablement under `channels.feishu.tools.chat`. (#14674) Thanks @liuweifly.
- Feishu/Doc permissions: support optional owner permission grant fields on `feishu_doc` create and report permission metadata only when the grant call succeeds, with regression coverage for success/failure/omitted-owner paths. (#28295) Thanks @zhoulongchao77.
- Web UI/i18n: add German (`de`) locale support and auto-render language options from supported locale constants in Overview settings. (#28495) thanks @dsantoreis.
- Tools/Diffs: add a new optional `diffs` plugin tool for read-only diff rendering from before/after text or unified patches, with gateway viewer URLs for canvas and PNG image output. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Memory/LanceDB: support custom OpenAI `baseUrl` and embedding dimensions for LanceDB memory. (#17874) Thanks @rish2jain and @vincentkoc.
- ACP/ACPX streaming: pin ACPX plugin support to `0.1.15`, add configurable ACPX command/version probing, and streamline ACP stream delivery (`final_only` default + reduced tool-event noise) with matching runtime and test updates. (#30036) Thanks @osolmaz.
- Shell env markers: set `OPENCLAW_SHELL` across shell-like runtimes (`exec`, `acp`, `acp-client`, `tui-local`) so shell startup/config rules can target OpenClaw contexts consistently, and document the markers in env/exec/acp/TUI docs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Cron/Heartbeat light bootstrap context: add opt-in lightweight bootstrap mode for automation runs (`--light-context` for cron agent turns and `agents.*.heartbeat.lightContext` for heartbeat), keeping only `HEARTBEAT.md` for heartbeat runs and skipping bootstrap-file injection for cron lightweight runs. (#26064) Thanks @jose-velez.
- OpenAI/WebSocket warm-up: add optional OpenAI Responses WebSocket warm-up (`response.create` with `generate:false`), enable it by default for `openai/*`, and expose `params.openaiWsWarmup` for per-model enable/disable control.
- Agents/Subagents runtime events: replace ad-hoc subagent completion system-message handoff with typed internal completion events (`task_completion`) that are rendered consistently across direct and queued announce paths, with gateway/CLI plumbing for structured `internalEvents`.

### Fixes

- Feishu/Streaming card text fidelity: merge throttled/fragmented partial updates without dropping content and avoid newline injection when stitching chunk-style deltas so card-stream output matches final reply text. (#29616) Thanks @HaoHuaqing.
- Security/Feishu webhook ingress: bound unauthenticated webhook rate-limit state with stale-window pruning and a hard key cap to prevent unbounded pre-auth memory growth from rotating source keys. (#26050) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Compaction audit: remove the post-compaction audit injection message. (#28507) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev and @vincentkoc.
- Web tools/RFC2544 fake-IP compatibility: allow RFC2544 benchmark range (`198.18.0.0/15`) for trusted web-tool fetch endpoints so proxy fake-IP networking modes do not trigger false SSRF blocks. Landed from contributor PR #31176 by @sunkinux. Thanks @sunkinux.
- Feishu/Sessions announce group targets: normalize `group:` and `channel:` Feishu targets to `chat_id` routing so `sessions_send` announce delivery no longer sends group chat IDs via `user_id` API params. Fixes #31426. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Windows/Plugin install: avoid `spawn EINVAL` on Windows npm/npx invocations by resolving to `node` + npm CLI scripts instead of spawning `.cmd` directly. Landed from contributor PR #31147 by @codertony. Thanks @codertony.
- Web UI/Cron: include configured agent model defaults/fallbacks in cron model suggestions so scheduled-job model autocomplete reflects configured models. (#29709) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Cron/Delivery: disable the agent messaging tool when `delivery.mode` is `"none"` so cron output is not sent to Telegram or other channels. (#21808) Thanks @lailoo.
- CLI/Cron: clarify `cron list` output by renaming `Agent` to `Agent ID` and adding a `Model` column for isolated agent-turn jobs. (#26259) Thanks @openperf.
- Gateway/Control UI origins: honor `gateway.controlUi.allowedOrigins: ["*"]` wildcard entries (including trimmed values) and lock behavior with regression tests. Landed from contributor PR #31058 by @byungsker. Thanks @byungsker.
- Agents/Sessions list transcript paths: handle missing/non-string/relative `sessions.list.path` values and per-agent `{agentId}` templates when deriving `transcriptPath`, so cross-agent session listings resolve to concrete agent session files instead of workspace-relative paths. (#24775) Thanks @martinfrancois.
- Gateway/Control UI CSP: allow required Google Fonts origins in Control UI CSP. (#29279) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/Install: add an npm-link fallback to fix CLI startup `Permission denied` failures (`exit 127`) on affected installs. (#17151) Thanks @sskyu and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/NPM spec install: fix npm-spec plugin installs when `npm pack` output is empty by detecting newly created `.tgz` archives in the pack directory. (#21039) Thanks @graysurf and @vincentkoc.
- Plugins/Install: clear stale install errors when an npm package is not found so follow-up install attempts report current state correctly. (#25073) Thanks @dalefrieswthat.
- Gateway/macOS supervised restart: actively `launchctl kickstart -k` during intentional supervised restarts to bypass LaunchAgent `ThrottleInterval` delays, and fall back to in-process restart when kickstart fails. Landed from contributor PR #29078 by @cathrynlavery. Thanks @cathrynlavery.
- Sessions/Internal routing: preserve established external `lastTo`/`lastChannel` routes for internal/non-deliverable turns, with added coverage for no-fallback internal routing behavior. Landed from contributor PR #30941 by @graysurf. Thanks @graysurf.
- Auto-reply/NO_REPLY: strip `NO_REPLY` token from mixed-content messages instead of leaking raw control text to end users. Landed from contributor PR #31080 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Inbound metadata/Multi-account routing: include `account_id` in trusted inbound metadata so multi-account channel sessions can reliably disambiguate the receiving account in prompt context. Landed from contributor PR #30984 by @Stxle2. Thanks @Stxle2.
- Cron/Delivery mode none: send explicit `delivery: { mode: "none" }` from cron editor for both add and update flows so previous announce delivery is actually cleared. Landed from contributor PR #31145 by @byungsker. Thanks @byungsker.
- Cron editor viewport: make the sticky cron edit form independently scrollable with viewport-bounded height so lower fields/actions are reachable on shorter screens. Landed from contributor PR #31133 by @Sid-Qin. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Agents/Thinking fallback: when providers reject unsupported thinking levels without enumerating alternatives, retry with `think=off` to avoid hard failure during model/provider fallback chains. Landed from contributor PR #31002 by @yfge. Thanks @yfge.
- Agents/Failover reason classification: avoid false rate-limit classification from incidental `tpm` substrings by matching TPM as a standalone token/phrase and keeping auth-context errors on the auth path. Landed from contributor PR #31007 by @HOYALIM. Thanks @HOYALIM.
- Gateway/WS: close repeated post-handshake `unauthorized role:*` request floods per connection and sample duplicate rejection logs, preventing a single misbehaving client from degrading gateway responsiveness. (#20168) Thanks @acy103, @vibecodooor, and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Auth: improve device-auth v2 migration diagnostics so operators get clearer guidance when legacy clients connect. (#28305) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/Ollama config: allow `config set` for Ollama `apiKey` without predeclared provider config. (#29299) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Ollama: demote empty-discovery logging from `warn` to `debug` to reduce noisy warnings in normal edge-case discovery flows. (#26379) Thanks @byungsker.
- Sandbox/Browser Docker: pass `OPENCLAW_BROWSER_NO_SANDBOX=1` to sandbox browser containers and bump sandbox browser security hash epoch so existing containers are recreated and pick up the env on upgrade. (#29879) Thanks @Lukavyi.
- Tools/Edit workspace boundary errors: preserve the real `Path escapes workspace root` failure path instead of surfacing a misleading access/file-not-found error when editing outside workspace roots. Landed from contributor PR #31015 by @haosenwang1018. Thanks @haosenwang1018.
- Browser/Open & navigate: accept `url` as an alias parameter for `open` and `navigate`. (#29260) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Sandbox/mkdirp boundary checks: allow directory-safe boundary validation for existing in-boundary subdirectories, preventing false `cannot create directories` failures in sandbox write mode. (#30610) Thanks @glitch418x.
- Android/Nodes reliability: reject `facing=both` when `deviceId` is set to avoid mislabeled duplicate captures, allow notification `open`/`reply` on non-clearable entries while still gating dismiss, trigger listener rebind before notification actions, and scale invoke-result ack timeout to invoke budget for large clip payloads. (#28260) Thanks @obviyus.
- LINE/Voice transcription: classify M4A voice media as `audio/mp4` (not `video/mp4`) by checking the MPEG-4 `ftyp` major brand (`M4A ` / `M4B `), restoring voice transcription for LINE voice messages. Landed from contributor PR #31151 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Slack/Announce target account routing: enable session-backed announce-target lookup for Slack so multi-account announces resolve the correct `accountId` instead of defaulting to bot-token context. Landed from contributor PR #31028 by @taw0002. Thanks @taw0002.
- Android/Voice screen TTS: stream assistant speech via ElevenLabs WebSocket in Talk Mode, stop cleanly on speaker mute/barge-in, and ignore stale out-of-order stream events. (#29521) Thanks @gregmousseau.
- Android/Photos permissions: declare Android 14+ selected-photo access permission (`READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED`) and align Android permission/settings paths with current minSdk behavior for more reliable permission state handling.
- Feishu/Reply media attachments: send Feishu reply `mediaUrl`/`mediaUrls` payloads as attachments alongside text/streamed replies in the reply dispatcher, including legacy fallback when `mediaUrls` is empty. (#28959) Thanks @icesword0760.
- Slack/User-token resolution: normalize Slack account user-token sourcing through resolved account metadata (`SLACK_USER_TOKEN` env + config) so monitor reads, Slack actions, directory lookups, onboarding allow-from resolution, and capabilities probing consistently use the effective user token. (#28103) Thanks @chilu18.
- Feishu/Outbound session routing: stop assuming bare `oc_` identifiers are always group chats, honor explicit `dm:`/`group:` prefixes for `oc_` chat IDs, and default ambiguous bare `oc_` targets to direct routing to avoid DM session misclassification. (#10407) Thanks @Bermudarat.
- Feishu/Group session routing: add configurable group session scopes (`group`, `group_sender`, `group_topic`, `group_topic_sender`) with legacy `topicSessionMode=enabled` compatibility so Feishu group conversations can isolate sessions by sender/topic as configured. (#17798) Thanks @yfge.
- Feishu/Reply-in-thread routing: add `replyInThread` config (`disabled|enabled`) for group replies, propagate `reply_in_thread` across text/card/media/streaming sends, and align topic-scoped session routing so newly created reply threads stay on the same session root. (#27325) Thanks @kcinzgg.
- Feishu/Probe status caching: cache successful `probeFeishu()` bot-info results for 10 minutes (bounded cache with per-account keying) to reduce repeated status/onboarding probe API calls, while bypassing cache for failures and exceptions. (#28907) Thanks @hou-rong.
- Feishu/Opus media send type: send `.opus` attachments with `msg_type: "audio"` (instead of `"media"`) so Feishu voice messages deliver correctly while `.mp4` remains `msg_type: "media"` and documents remain `msg_type: "file"`. (#28269) Thanks @PinoHouse.
- Feishu/Mobile video media type: treat inbound `message_type: "media"` as video-equivalent for media key extraction, placeholder inference, and media download resolution so mobile-app video sends ingest correctly. (#25502) Thanks @4ier.
- Feishu/Inbound sender fallback: fall back to `sender_id.user_id` when `sender_id.open_id` is missing on inbound events, and use ID-type-aware sender lookup so mobile-delivered messages keep stable sender identity/routing. (#26703) Thanks @NewdlDewdl.
- Feishu/Reply context metadata: include inbound `parent_id` and `root_id` as `ReplyToId`/`RootMessageId` in inbound context, and parse interactive-card quote bodies into readable text when fetching replied messages. (#18529) Thanks @qiangu.
- Feishu/Post embedded media: extract `media` tags from inbound rich-text (`post`) messages and download embedded video/audio files alongside existing embedded-image handling, with regression coverage. (#21786) Thanks @laopuhuluwa.
- Feishu/Local media sends: propagate `mediaLocalRoots` through Feishu outbound media sending into `loadWebMedia` so local path attachments work with post-CVE local-root enforcement. (#27884) Thanks @joelnishanth.
- Feishu/Group wildcard policy fallback: honor `channels.feishu.groups["*"]` when no explicit group match exists so unmatched groups inherit wildcard reply-policy settings instead of falling back to global defaults. (#29456) Thanks @WaynePika.
- Feishu/Inbound media regression coverage: add explicit tests for message resource type mapping (`image` stays `image`, non-image maps to `file`) to prevent reintroducing unsupported Feishu `type=audio` fetches. (#16311, #8746) Thanks @Yaxuan42.
- TTS/Voice bubbles: use opus output and enable `audioAsVoice` routing for Feishu and WhatsApp (in addition to Telegram) so supported channels receive voice-bubble playback instead of file-style audio attachments. (#27366) Thanks @smthfoxy.
- Telegram/Reply media context: include replied media files in inbound context when replying to media, defer reply-media downloads to debounce flush, gate reply-media fetch behind DM authorization, and preserve replied media when non-vision sticker fallback runs (including cached-sticker paths). (#28488) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Nodes notification wake flow: enable Android `system.notify` default allowlist, emit `notifications.changed` events for posted/removed notifications (excluding OpenClaw app-owned notifications), canonicalize notification session keys before enqueue/wake routing, and skip heartbeat wakes when consecutive notification summaries dedupe. (#29440) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/Voice fallback reply chunking: apply reply reference, quote text, and inline buttons only to the first fallback text chunk when voice delivery is blocked, preventing over-quoted multi-chunk replies. Landed from contributor PR #31067 by @xdanger. Thanks @xdanger.
- Feishu/Multi-account + reply reliability: add `channels.feishu.defaultAccount` outbound routing support with schema validation, keep quoted-message extraction text-first (post/interactive/file placeholders instead of raw JSON), route Feishu video sends as `msg_type: "file"`, and avoid websocket event blocking by using non-blocking event handling in monitor dispatch. Landed from contributor PRs #29610, #30432, #30331, and #29501. Thanks @hclsys, @bmendonca3, @patrick-yingxi-pan, and @zwffff.
- Feishu/Inbound rich-text parsing: preserve `share_chat` payload summaries when available and add explicit parsing for rich-text `code`/`code_block`/`pre` tags so forwarded and code-heavy messages keep useful context in agent input. (#28591) Thanks @kevinWangSheng.
- Feishu/Post markdown parsing: parse rich-text `post` payloads through a shared markdown-aware parser with locale-wrapper support, preserved mention/image metadata extraction, and inline/fenced code fidelity for agent input rendering. (#12755) Thanks @WilsonLiu95.
- Telegram/Outbound chunking: route oversize splitting through the shared outbound pipeline (including subagents), retry Telegram sends when escaped HTML exceeds limits, and preserve boundary whitespace when retry re-splitting rendered chunks so plain-text/transcript fidelity is retained. (#29342, #27317; follow-up to #27461) Thanks @obviyus.
- Slack/Native commands: register Slack native status as `/agentstatus` (Slack-reserved `/status`) so manifest slash command registration stays valid while text `/status` still works. Landed from contributor PR #29032 by @maloqab. Thanks @maloqab.
- Android/Camera clip: remove `camera.clip` HTTP-upload fallback to base64 so clip transport is deterministic and fail-loud, and reject non-positive `maxWidth` values so invalid inputs fall back to the safe resize default. (#28229) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Gateway canvas capability refresh: send `node.canvas.capability.refresh` with object `params` (`{}`) from Android node runtime so gateway object-schema validation accepts refresh retries and A2UI host recovery works after scoped capability expiry. (#28413) Thanks @obviyus.
- Onboarding/Custom providers: improve verification reliability for slower local endpoints (for example Ollama) during setup. (#27380) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Daemon/macOS TLS certs: default LaunchAgent service env `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS` to `/etc/ssl/cert.pem` (while preserving explicit overrides) so HTTPS clients no longer fail with local-issuer errors under launchd. (#27915) Thanks @Lukavyi.
- Daemon/Linux systemd user-bus fallback: when `systemctl --user` cannot reach the user bus due missing session env, fall back to `systemctl --machine <user>@ --user` so daemon checks/install continue in headless SSH/server sessions. (#34884) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Linux restart health: reduce false `openclaw gateway restart` timeouts by falling back to `ss -ltnp` when `lsof` is missing, confirming ambiguous busy-port cases via local gateway probe, and targeting the original `SUDO_USER` systemd user scope for restart commands. (#34874) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/Components wildcard handlers: use distinct internal registration sentinel IDs and parse those sentinels as wildcard keys so select/user/role/channel/mentionable/modal interactions are not dropped by raw customId dedupe paths. Landed from contributor PR #29459 by @Sid-Qin. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Feishu/Reaction notifications: add `channels.feishu.reactionNotifications` (`off | own | all`, default `own`) so operators can disable reaction ingress or allow all verified reaction events (not only bot-authored message reactions). (#28529) Thanks @cowboy129.
- Feishu/Typing backoff: re-throw Feishu typing add/remove rate-limit and quota errors (`429`, `99991400`, `99991403`) and detect SDK non-throwing backoff responses so the typing keepalive circuit breaker can stop retries instead of looping indefinitely. (#28494) Thanks @guoqunabc.
- Feishu/Zalo runtime logging: replace direct `console.log/error` usage in Feishu typing-indicator paths and Zalo monitor paths with runtime-gated logger calls so verbosity controls are respected while preserving typing backoff behavior. (#18841) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Feishu/Group sender allowlist fallback: add global `channels.feishu.groupSenderAllowFrom` sender authorization for group chats, with per-group `groups.<id>.allowFrom` precedence and regression coverage for allow/block/precedence behavior. (#29174) Thanks @1MoreBuild.
- Feishu/Docx append/write ordering: insert converted Docx blocks sequentially (single-block creates) so Feishu append/write preserves markdown block order instead of returning shuffled sections in asynchronous batch inserts. (#26172, #26022) Thanks @echoVic.
- Feishu/Docx convert fallback chunking: recursively split oversized markdown chunks (including long no-heading sections) when `document.convert` hits content limits, while keeping fenced-code-aware split boundaries whenever possible. (#14402) Thanks @lml2468.
- Feishu/API quota controls: add `typingIndicator` and `resolveSenderNames` config flags (top-level and per-account) so operators can disable typing reactions and sender-name lookup requests while keeping default behavior unchanged. (#10513) Thanks @BigUncle.
- Feishu/System preview prompt leakage: stop enqueuing inbound Feishu message previews as system events so user preview text is not injected into later turns as trusted `System:` context. Landed from contributor PR #31209 by @stakeswky. Thanks @stakeswky.
- Feishu/Typing replay suppression: skip typing indicators for stale replayed inbound messages after compaction using message-age checks with second/millisecond timestamp normalization, preventing old-message reaction floods while preserving typing for fresh messages. Landed from contributor PR #30709 by @arkyu2077. Thanks @arkyu2077.
- Control UI/Debug log layout: render Debug Event Log payloads at full width to prevent payload JSON from being squeezed into a narrow side column. Landed from contributor PR #30978 by @stozo04. Thanks @stozo04.
- Install/npm: fix npm global install deprecation warnings. (#28318) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Update/Global npm: fallback to `--omit=optional` when global `npm update` fails so optional dependency install failures no longer abort update flows. (#24896) Thanks @xinhuagu and @vincentkoc.
- Model directives/Auth profiles: split `/model` profile suffixes at the first `@` after the last slash so email-based auth profile IDs (for example OAuth profile IDs) resolve correctly. Landed from contributor PR #30932 by @haosenwang1018. Thanks @haosenwang1018.
- Ollama/Embedded runner base URL precedence: prioritize configured provider `baseUrl` over model defaults for embedded Ollama runs so Docker and remote-host setups avoid localhost fetch failures. (#30964) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Ollama/Autodiscovery: harden autodiscovery and warning behavior. (#29201) Thanks @marcodelpin and @vincentkoc.
- Ollama/Context window: unify context window handling across discovery, merge, and OpenAI-compatible transport paths. (#29205) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @jimmielightner, and @vincentkoc.
- fix(model): preserve reasoning in provider fallback resolution. (#29285) Fixes #25636. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docker/Image permissions: normalize `/app/extensions`, `/app/.agent`, and `/app/.agents` to directory mode `755` and file mode `644` during image build so plugin discovery does not block inherited world-writable paths. (#30191) Fixes #30139. Thanks @edincampara.
- OpenAI Responses/Compaction: rewrite and unify the OpenAI Responses store patches to treat empty `baseUrl` as non-direct, honor `compat.supportsStore=false`, and auto-inject server-side compaction `context_management` for compatible direct OpenAI models (with per-model opt-out/threshold overrides). Landed from contributor PRs #16930 (@OiPunk), #22441 (@EdwardWu7), and #25088 (@MoerAI). Thanks @OiPunk, @EdwardWu7, and @MoerAI.
- Agents/Compaction safeguard: preserve recent turns verbatim with stable user/assistant pairing, keep multimodal and tool-result hints in preserved tails, and avoid empty-history fallback text in compacted output. (#25554) thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Usage normalization: clamp negative prompt/input token values to zero (including `prompt_tokens` alias inputs) so `/usage` and TUI usage displays cannot show nonsensical negative counts. Landed from contributor PR #31211 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Secrets/Auth profiles: normalize inline SecretRef `token`/`key` values to canonical `tokenRef`/`keyRef` before persistence, and keep explicit `keyRef` precedence when inline refs are also present. Landed from contributor PR #31047 by @minupla. Thanks @minupla.
- Codex/Usage window: label weekly usage window as `Week` instead of `Day`. (#26267) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Signal/Sync message null-handling: treat `syncMessage` presence (including `null`) as sync envelope traffic so replayed sentTranscript payloads cannot bypass loop guards after daemon restart. Landed from contributor PR #31138 by @Sid-Qin. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Infra/fs-safe: sanitize directory-read failures so raw `EISDIR` text never leaks to messaging surfaces, with regression tests for both root-scoped and direct safe reads. Landed from contributor PR #31205 by @polooooo. Thanks @polooooo.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Node exec approval payloads now require `systemRunPlan`. `host=node` approval requests without that plan are rejected.
- **BREAKING:** Node `system.run` execution now pins path-token commands to the canonical executable path (`realpath`) in both allowlist and approval execution flows. Integrations/tests that asserted token-form argv (for example `tr`) must now accept canonical paths (for example `/usr/bin/tr`).

## 2026.2.27

### Changes

- Models/OpenAI forward compat: add support for `openai/gpt-5.4`, `openai/gpt-5.4-pro`, and `openai-codex/gpt-5.4`, including direct OpenAI Responses `serviceTier` passthrough safeguards for valid values. (#36590) Thanks @dorukardahan.
- Android/Play package ID: rename the Android app package to `ai.openclaw.app`, including matching benchmark and Android tooling references for Play publishing. (#38712) Thanks @obviyus.

### Fixes

- Gateway/macOS restart: remove self-issued `launchctl kickstart -k` from launchd supervised restart path to prevent race with launchd's async bootout state machine that permanently unloads the LaunchAgent. With `ThrottleInterval=1` (current default), `exit(0)` + `KeepAlive=true` restarts the service within ~1s without the race condition. (#39760) Landed from contributor PR #39763 by @daymade. Thanks @daymade.
- Plugin SDK/bundled subpath contracts: add regression coverage for newly routed bundled-plugin SDK exports so BlueBubbles, Mattermost, Nextcloud Talk, and Twitch subpath symbols stay pinned during future plugin-sdk cleanup. (#39638)
- Exec/system.run env sanitization: block dangerous override-only env pivots such as `GIT_SSH_COMMAND`, editor/pager hooks, and `GIT_CONFIG_` / `NPM_CONFIG_` override prefixes so allowlisted tools cannot smuggle helper command execution through subprocess environment overrides. Thanks @tdjackey and @SnailSploit for reporting.
- Network/fetch guard redirect auth stripping: switch cross-origin redirect handling in `fetchWithSsrFGuard` from a narrow sensitive-header denylist to a safe-header allowlist so custom auth headers like `X-Api-Key` and `Private-Token` no longer leak on origin changes. Thanks @Rickidevs for reporting.
- Security/Sandbox media reads: eliminate sandbox media TOCTOU symlink-retarget escapes by enforcing root-scoped boundary-safe reads at attachment/image load time and consolidating shared safe-read helpers across sandbox media callsites. This ships in the next npm release. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Sandbox media staging: block destination symlink escapes in `stageSandboxMedia` by replacing direct destination copies with root-scoped safe writes for both local and SCP-staged attachments, preventing out-of-workspace file overwrite through `media/inbound` alias traversal. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.3.2`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Sandbox fs bridge: harden sandbox `readFile`, `mkdirp`, `remove`, and `rename` operations by pinning reads to boundary-opened file descriptors and anchoring filesystem changes to verified canonical parent directories plus basenames instead of passing mutable full path strings to `mkdir -p`, `rm`, and `mv`, reducing TOCTOU race exposure in sandbox file operations. This ships in the next npm release. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Workspace safe writes: harden `writeFileWithinRoot` against symlink-retarget TOCTOU races by opening existing files without truncation, creating missing files with exclusive create, deferring truncation until post-open identity+boundary validation, and removing out-of-root create artifacts on blocked races; added regression tests for truncate/create race paths. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.3.2`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Subagents sandbox inheritance: block sandboxed sessions from spawning cross-agent subagents that would run unsandboxed, preventing runtime sandbox downgrade via `sessions_spawn agentId`. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Browser/Security: fail closed on browser-control auth bootstrap errors; if auto-auth setup fails and no explicit token/password exists, browser control server startup now aborts instead of starting unauthenticated. This ships in the next npm release. Thanks @ijxpwastaken.
- Security/ACPX Windows spawn hardening: resolve `.cmd/.bat` wrappers via PATH/PATHEXT and execute unwrapped Node/EXE entrypoints without shell parsing when possible, and enable strict fail-closed handling (`strictWindowsCmdWrapper`) by default for unresolvable wrappers on Windows (with explicit opt-out for compatibility). This ships in the next npm release. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Web search citation redirects: enforce strict SSRF defaults for Gemini citation redirect resolution so redirects to localhost/private/internal targets are blocked. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Node metadata policy: harden node platform classification against Unicode confusables and switch unknown platform defaults to a conservative allowlist that excludes `system.run`/`system.which` unless explicitly allowlisted, preventing metadata canonicalization drift from broadening node command permissions. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Skills: harden skill installer metadata parsing by rejecting unsafe installer specs (brew/node/go/uv/download) and constrain plugin-declared skill directories to the plugin root (including symlink-escape checks), with regression coverage.
- Sandbox/noVNC hardening: increase observer password entropy, shorten observer token lifetime, and replace noVNC token redirect with a bootstrap page that keeps credentials out of `Location` query strings and adds strict no-cache/no-referrer headers.
- Security/Logging utility hardening: remove `eval`-based command execution from `scripts/clawlog.sh`, switch to argv-safe command construction, and escape predicate literals for user-supplied search/category filters to block local command/predicate injection paths.
- Slack/Security ingress mismatch guard: drop slash-command and interaction payloads when app/team identifiers do not match the active Slack account context (including nested `team.id` interaction payloads), preventing cross-app or cross-workspace payload injection into system-event handling. (#29091) Thanks @Solvely-Colin.
- Security/Inbound metadata stripping: tighten sentinel matching and JSON-fence validation for inbound metadata stripping so user-authored lookalike lines no longer trigger unintended metadata removal.
- Security/External content marker folding: expand Unicode angle-bracket homoglyph normalization in marker sanitization so additional guillemet, double-angle, tortoise-shell, flattened-parenthesis, and ornamental variants are folded before boundary replacement. (#30951) Thanks @benediktjohannes.
- Security/Zalo webhook memory hardening: bound webhook security tracking state and normalize security keying to matched webhook paths (excluding attacker query-string churn) to prevent unauthenticated memory growth pressure on reachable webhook endpoints. Thanks @Somet2mes.
- Security/Audit: flag `gateway.controlUi.allowedOrigins=["*"]` as a high-risk configuration (severity based on bind exposure), and add a Feishu doc-tool warning that `owner_open_id` on `feishu_doc` create can grant document permissions.
- Hooks/auth throttling: reject non-`POST` `/hooks/*` requests before auth-failure accounting so unsupported methods can no longer burn the hook auth lockout budget and block legitimate webhook delivery. Thanks @JNX03 for reporting.
- Feishu/Doc create permissions: remove caller-controlled owner fields from `feishu_doc` create and bind optional grant behavior to trusted Feishu requester context (`grant_to_requester`), preventing principal selection via tool arguments. (#31184) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Dashboard/macOS auth handling: switch the macOS "Open Dashboard" flow from query-string token injection to URL fragments, stop persisting Control UI gateway tokens in browser localStorage, and scrub legacy stored tokens on load. Thanks @JNX03 for reporting.
- Gateway/Plugin HTTP auth hardening: require gateway auth for protected plugin paths and explicit `registerHttpRoute` paths (while preserving wildcard-handler behavior for signature-auth webhooks), and run plugin handlers after built-in handlers for deterministic route precedence. Landed from contributor PR #29198. Thanks @Mariana-Codebase.
- Gateway/Upgrade migration for Control UI origins: seed `gateway.controlUi.allowedOrigins` on startup for legacy non-loopback configs (`lan`/`tailnet`/`custom`) when origins are missing or blank, preventing post-upgrade crash loops while preserving explicit existing policy. Landed from contributor PR #29394. Thanks @synchronic1.
- Gateway/Config patch guard: reject `config.patch` updates that set non-loopback `gateway.bind` while `gateway.tailscale.mode` is `serve`/`funnel`, preventing restart crash loops from invalid bind/tailscale combinations. Landed from contributor PR #30910. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Gateway/Tailscale onboarding origin allowlist: auto-add the detected Tailnet HTTPS origin during interactive configure/onboarding flows (including IPv6-safe origin formatting and binary-path reuse), so Tailscale serve/funnel Control UI access works without manual `allowedOrigins` edits. Landed from contributor PR #26157. Thanks @stakeswky.
- Web UI/Assistant text: strip internal `<relevant-memories>...</relevant-memories>` scaffolding from rendered assistant messages (while preserving code-fence literals), preventing memory-context leakage in chat output for models that echo internal blocks. (#29851) Thanks @Valkster70.
- Dashboard/Sessions: allow authenticated Control UI clients to delete and patch sessions while still blocking regular webchat clients from session mutation RPCs, fixing Dashboard session delete failures. (#21264) Thanks @jskoiz.
- Web UI/Control UI WebSocket defaults: include normalized `gateway.controlUi.basePath` (or inferred nested route base path) in the default `gatewayUrl` so first-load dashboard connections work behind path-based reverse proxies. (#30228) Thanks @gittb.
- Gateway/Control UI API routing: when `gateway.controlUi.basePath` is unset (default), stop serving Control UI SPA HTML for `/api` and `/api/*` so API paths fall through to normal gateway handlers/404 responses instead of `index.html`. (#30333) Fixes #30295. thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Node host/service auth env: include `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN` in `openclaw node install` service environments (with `CLAWDBOT_GATEWAY_TOKEN` compatibility fallback) so installed node services keep remote gateway token auth across restart/reboot. Fixes #31041. Thanks @OneStepAt4time for reporting, @byungsker, @liuxiaopai-ai, and @vincentkoc.
- Gateway/Control UI origins: support wildcard `"*"` in `gateway.controlUi.allowedOrigins` for trusted remote access setups. Landed from contributor PR #31088. Thanks @frankekn.
- Gateway/Cron auditability: add gateway info logs for successful cron create, update, and remove operations. (#25090) Thanks @MoerAI.
- Control UI/Cron editor: include `{ mode: "none" }` in `cron.update` patches when editing an existing job and selecting "Result delivery = None (internal)", so saved jobs no longer keep stale announce delivery mode. Fixes #31075 (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Feishu/Multi-account + reply reliability: add `channels.feishu.defaultAccount` outbound routing support with schema validation, prevent inbound preview text from leaking into prompt system events, keep quoted-message extraction text-first (post/interactive/file placeholders instead of raw JSON), route Feishu video sends as `msg_type: "file"`, and avoid websocket event blocking by using non-blocking event handling in monitor dispatch. Landed from contributor PRs #31209, #29610, #30432, #30331, and #29501. Thanks @stakeswky, @hclsys, @bmendonca3, @patrick-yingxi-pan, and @zwffff.
- Feishu/Target routing + replies + dedupe: normalize provider-prefixed targets (`feishu:`/`lark:`), prefer configured `channels.feishu.defaultAccount` for tool execution, honor Feishu outbound `renderMode` in adapter text/caption sends, fall back to normal send when reply targets are withdrawn/deleted, and add synchronous in-memory dedupe guard for concurrent duplicate inbound events. Landed from contributor PRs #30428, #30438, #29958, #30444, and #29463. Thanks @bmendonca3 and @Yaxuan42.
- Channels/Multi-account default routing: add optional `channels.<channel>.defaultAccount` default-selection support across message channels so omitted `accountId` routes to an explicit configured account instead of relying on implicit first-entry ordering (fallback behavior unchanged when unset).
- Telegram/Multi-account fallback isolation: fail closed for non-default Telegram accounts when route resolution falls back to `matchedBy=default`, preventing cross-account DM/session contamination without explicit account bindings. (#31110).
- Telegram/DM topic session isolation: scope DM topic thread session keys by chat ID (`<chatId>:<threadId>`) and parse scoped thread IDs in outbound recovery so parallel DMs cannot collide on shared topic IDs. Landed from contributor PR #31064. Thanks @0xble.
- Telegram/Multi-account group isolation: prevent channel-level `groups` config from leaking across Telegram accounts in multi-account setups, avoiding cross-account group routing drops. Landed from contributor PR #30677. Thanks @YUJIE2002.
- Telegram/Group allowlist ordering: evaluate chat allowlist before sender allowlist enforcement so explicitly allowlisted groups are not fail-closed by empty sender allowlists. Landed from contributor PR #30680. Thanks @openperf.
- Telegram/Empty final replies: skip outbound send for null/undefined final text payloads without media so Telegram typing indicators do not linger on `text must be non-empty` errors, with added regression coverage for undefined final payload dispatch. Landed from contributor PRs #30969 and #30746. Thanks @haosenwang1018 and @rylena.
- Telegram/Voice caption overflow fallback: recover from `sendVoice` caption length errors by re-sending voice without caption and delivering text separately so replies are not lost. Landed from contributor PR #31131. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Telegram/Reply `first` chunking: apply `replyToMode: "first"` reply targets only to the first Telegram text/media/fallback chunk, avoiding multi-chunk over-quoting in split replies. Landed from contributor PR #31077. Thanks @scoootscooob.
- Telegram/Proxy dispatcher preservation: preserve proxy-aware global undici dispatcher behavior in Telegram network workarounds so proxy-backed Telegram + model traffic is not broken by dispatcher replacement. Landed from contributor PR #30367. Thanks @Phineas1500.
- Telegram/Media fetch IPv4 fallback: retry Telegram media fetches once with IPv4-first dispatcher settings when dual-stack connect errors (`ETIMEDOUT`/`ENETUNREACH`/`EHOSTUNREACH`) occur, improving reliability on broken IPv6 routes. Landed from contributor PR #30554. Thanks @bosuksh.
- Telegram/Restart polling teardown: stop the Telegram bot instance when a polling cycle exits so in-process SIGUSR1 restarts fully tear down old long-poll loops before restart, reducing post-restart `getUpdates` 409 conflict storms. Fixes #31107. Landed from contributor PR #31141. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Google Chat/Thread replies: set `messageReplyOption=REPLY_MESSAGE_FALLBACK_TO_NEW_THREAD` on threaded sends so replies attach to existing threads instead of silently failing thread placement. Landed from contributor PR #30965. Thanks @novan.
- Mattermost/Private channel policy routing: map Mattermost private channel type `P` to group chat type so `groupPolicy`/`groupAllowFrom` gates apply correctly instead of being treated as open public channels. Landed from contributor PR #30891. Thanks @BlueBirdBack.
- Discord/Agent component interactions: accept Components v2 `cid` payloads alongside legacy `componentId`, and safely decode percent-encoded IDs without throwing on malformed `%` sequences. Landed from contributor PR #29013. Thanks @Jacky1n7.
- Discord/Inbound media fallback: preserve attachment and sticker metadata when Discord CDN fetch/save fails by keeping URL-based media entries in context, with regression coverage for save failures and mixed success/failure ordering. Landed from contributor PR #28906. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Matrix/Directory room IDs: preserve original room-ID casing for direct `!roomId` group lookups (without `:server`) so allowlist checks do not fail on case-sensitive IDs. Landed from contributor PR #31201. Thanks @williamos-dev.
- Slack/Subagent completion delivery: stop forcing bound conversation IDs into `threadId` so Slack completion announces do not send invalid `thread_ts` for DMs/top-level channels. Landed from contributor PR #31105. Thanks @stakeswky.
- Signal/Loop protection: evaluate own-account detection before sync-message filtering (including UUID-only `accountUuid` configs) so `sentTranscript` sync events cannot bypass loop protection and self-reply loops. Landed from contributor PR #31093. Thanks @kevinWangSheng.
- Discord/DM command auth: unify DM allowlist + pairing-store authorization across message preflight and native command interactions so DM command gating is consistent for `open`/`pairing`/`allowlist` policies.
- Slack/download-file scoping: thread/channel-aware `download-file` actions now propagate optional scope context and reject downloads when Slack metadata definitively shows the file is outside the requested channel/thread, while preserving legacy behavior when share metadata is unavailable.
- Routing/Binding peer-kind parity: treat `peer.kind` `group` and `channel` as equivalent for binding scope matching (while keeping `direct` separate) so Slack/public channel bindings do not silently fall through. Landed from contributor PR #31135. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Discord/Reconnect integrity: release Discord message listener lane immediately while preserving serialized handler execution, add HELLO-stall resume-first recovery with bounded fresh-identify fallback after repeated stalls, and extend lifecycle/listener regression coverage for forced reconnect scenarios. Landed from contributor PR #29508. Thanks @cgdusek.
- Discord/Reconnect watchdog: add a shared armable transport stall-watchdog and wire Discord gateway lifecycle force-stop semantics for silent close/reconnect zombies, with gateway/lifecycle watchdog regression coverage and runtime status liveness updates. Follow-up to contributor PR #31025 by @theotarr and PR #30530 by @liuxiaopai-ai. Thanks @theotarr and @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Matrix/Conduit compatibility: avoid blocking startup on non-resolving Matrix sync start, preserve startup error propagation, prevent duplicate monitor listener registration, remove unreliable 2-member DM heuristics, accept `!room` IDs without alias resolution, and add matrix monitor/client regression coverage. Landed from contributor PR #31023. Thanks @efe-arv.
- Slack/HTTP mode startup: treat Slack HTTP accounts as configured when `botToken` + `signingSecret` are present (without requiring `appToken`) in channel config/runtime status so webhook mode is not silently skipped. (#30567) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Slack/Socket reconnect reliability: reconnect Socket Mode after disconnect/start failures using bounded exponential backoff with abort-aware waits, while preserving clean shutdown behavior and adding disconnect/error helper tests. (#27232) Thanks @pandego.
- Slack/Thread session isolation: route channel/group top-level messages into thread-scoped sessions (`:thread:<ts>`) and read inbound `previousTimestamp` from the resolved thread session key, preventing cross-thread context bleed and stale timestamp lookups. (#10686) Thanks @pablohrcarvalho.
- Slack/Transient request errors: classify Slack request-error messages like `Client network socket disconnected before secure TLS connection was established` as transient in unhandled-rejection fatal detection, preventing temporary network drops from crash-looping the gateway. (#23169) Thanks @graysurf.
- Slack/Disabled channel startup: skip Slack monitor socket startup entirely when `channels.slack.enabled=false` (including configs that still contain valid tokens), preventing disabled accounts from opening websocket connections. (#30586) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Telegram/Outbound API proxy env: keep the Node 22 `autoSelectFamily` global-dispatcher workaround while restoring env-proxy support by using `EnvHttpProxyAgent` so `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY` continue to apply to outbound requests. (#26207) Thanks @qsysbio-cjw for reporting and @rylena and @vincentkoc for work.
- Telegram/Thread fallback safety: when Telegram returns `message thread not found`, retry without `message_thread_id` only for DM-thread sends (not forum topics), and suppress first-attempt danger logs when retry succeeds. Landed from contributor PR #30892. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Slack/Inbound media auth + HTML guard: keep Slack auth headers on forwarded shared attachment image downloads, and reject login/error HTML payloads (while allowing expected `.html` uploads) when resolving Slack media so auth failures do not silently pass as files. (#18642) Thanks @tumf.
- Slack/Bot attachment-only messages: when `allowBots: true`, bot messages with empty `text` now include non-forwarded attachment `text`/`fallback` content so webhook alerts are not silently dropped. (#27616) Thanks @lailoo.
- Slack/Onboarding token help: update setup text to include the "From manifest" app-creation path and current install wording for obtaining the `xoxb-` bot token. (#30846) Thanks @yzhong52.
- Feishu/Docx editing tools: add `feishu_doc` positional insert, table row/column operations, table-cell merge, and color-text updates; switch markdown write/append/insert to Descendant API insertion with large-document batching; and harden image uploads for data URI/base64/local-path inputs with strict validation and routing-safe upload metadata. (#29411) Thanks @Elarwei001.
- Discord/Allowlist diagnostics: add debug logs for guild/channel allowlist drops so operators can quickly identify ignored inbound messages and required allowlist entries. Landed from contributor PR #30966. Thanks @haosenwang1018.
- Discord/Ack reactions: add Discord-account-level `ackReactionScope` override and support explicit `off`/`none` values in shared config schemas to disable ack reactions per account. Landed from contributor PR #30400. Thanks @BlueBirdBack.
- Discord/Forum thread tags: support `appliedTags` on Discord thread-create actions and map to `applied_tags` for forum/media starter posts, with targeted thread-creation regression coverage. Landed from contributor PR #30358. Thanks @pushkarsingh32.
- Discord/Application ID fallback: parse bot application IDs from token prefixes without numeric precision loss and use token fallback only on transport/timeout failures when probing `/oauth2/applications/@me`. Landed from contributor PR #29695. Thanks @dhananjai1729.
- Discord/EventQueue timeout config: expose per-account `channels.discord.accounts.<id>.eventQueue.listenerTimeout` (and related queue options) so long-running handlers can avoid Carbon listener timeout drops. Landed from contributor PR #24270. Thanks @pdd-cli.
- Slack/Usage footer formatting: wrap session keys in inline code in full response-usage footers so Slack does not parse colon-delimited session segments as emoji shortcodes. (#30258) Thanks @pushkarsingh32.
- Slack/Socket Mode slash startup: treat `app.options()` registration as best-effort and fall back to static arg menus when listener registration fails, preventing Slack monitor startup crash loops on receiver init edge cases. (#21715) Thanks @AIflow-Labs.
- Slack/Legacy streaming config: map boolean `channels.slack.streaming=false` to unified streaming mode `off` (with `nativeStreaming=false`) so legacy configs correctly disable draft preview/native streaming instead of defaulting to `partial`. (#25990) Thanks @chilu18.
- Cron/Failure delivery routing: add `failureAlert.mode` (`announce|webhook`) and `failureAlert.accountId` support, plus `cron.failureDestination` and per-job `delivery.failureDestination` routing with duplicate-target suppression, best-effort skip behavior, and global+job merge semantics. Landed from contributor PR #31059. Thanks @kesor.
- Cron/announce delivery: stop duplicate completion announces when cron early-return paths already handled delivery, and replace descendant followup polling with push-based waits so cron summaries arrive without the old busy-loop fallback. (#39089) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron/Failure alerts: add configurable repeated-failure alerting with per-job overrides and Web UI cron editor support (`inherit|disabled|custom` with threshold/cooldown/channel/target fields). (#24789) Thanks @0xbrak.
- Cron/Isolated model defaults: resolve isolated cron `subagents.model` (including object-form `primary`) through allowlist-aware model selection so isolated cron runs honor subagent model defaults unless explicitly overridden by job payload model. (#11474) Thanks @AnonO6.
- Cron/Announce delivery status: keep isolated cron runs in `ok` state when execution succeeds but announce delivery fails (for example transient `pairing required`), while preserving `delivered=false` and delivery error context for visibility. (#31082) Thanks @YuzuruS.
- Cron/One-shot reliability: retry transient one-shot failures with bounded backoff and configurable retry policy before disabling. (#24435) Thanks @hugenshen.
- Cron/Schedule errors: notify users when a job is auto-disabled after repeated schedule computation failures. (#29098) Thanks @ningding97.
- Cron/One-shot reschedule re-arm: allow completed `at` jobs to run again when rescheduled to a later time than `lastRunAtMs`, while keeping completed non-rescheduled one-shot jobs inactive. (#28915) Thanks @arosstale.
- Cron/Store EBUSY fallback: retry `rename` on `EBUSY` and use `copyFile` fallback on Windows when replacing cron store files so busy-file contention no longer causes false write failures. (#16932) Thanks @sudhanva-chakra.
- Cron/Isolated payload selection: ignore `isError` payloads when deriving summary/output/delivery payload fallbacks, while preserving error-only fallback behavior when no non-error payload exists. (#21454) Thanks @Diaspar4u.
- Cron/Isolated CLI timeout ratio: avoid reusing persisted CLI session IDs on fresh isolated cron runs so the fresh watchdog profile is used and jobs do not abort at roughly one-third of configured `timeoutSeconds`. (#30140) Thanks @ningding97.
- Cron/Session target guardrail: reject creating or patching `sessionTarget: "main"` cron jobs when `agentId` is not the default agent, preventing invalid cross-agent main-session bindings at write time. (#30217) Thanks @liaosvcaf.
- Cron/Reminder session routing: preserve `job.sessionKey` for `sessionTarget="main"` runs so queued reminders wake and deliver in the originating scoped session/channel instead of being forced to the agent main session. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Cron/Timezone regression guard: add explicit schedule coverage for `0 8 * * *` with `Asia/Shanghai` to ensure `nextRunAtMs` never rolls back to a past year and always advances to the next valid occurrence. (#30351) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Cron/Isolated sessions list: persist the intended pre-run model/provider on isolated cron session entries so `sessions_list` reflects payload/session model overrides even when runs fail before post-run telemetry persistence. (#21279) Thanks @altaywtf.
- Cron tool/update flat params: recover top-level update patch fields when models omit the `patch` wrapper, and allow flattened update keys through tool input schema validation so `cron.update` no longer fails with `patch required` for valid flat payloads. (#23221).
- Web UI/Cron jobs: add schedule-kind and last-run-status filters to the Jobs list, with reset control and client-side filtering over loaded results. (#9510) Thanks @guxu11.
- Web UI/Chat sessions: add a cron-session visibility toggle in the session selector, fix cron-key detection across `cron:*` and `agent:*:cron:*` formats, and localize the new control labels/tooltips. (#26976) Thanks @ianderrington.
- Cron/Timer hot-loop guard: enforce a minimum timer re-arm delay when stale past-due jobs would otherwise trigger repeated `setTimeout(0)` loops, preventing event-loop saturation and log-flood behavior. (#29853) Thanks @FlamesCN.
- Models/provider config precedence: prefer exact `models.providers.<name>` matches before normalized provider aliases in embedded model resolution, preventing alias/canonical key collisions from applying the wrong provider `api`, `baseUrl`, or headers. (#35934) thanks @RealKai42.
- Models/Custom provider keys: trim custom provider map keys during normalization so image-capable models remain discoverable when provider keys are configured with leading/trailing whitespace. Landed from contributor PR #31202. Thanks @stakeswky.
- Agents/Model fallback: classify additional network transport errors (`ECONNREFUSED`, `ENETUNREACH`, `EHOSTUNREACH`, `ENETRESET`, `EAI_AGAIN`) as failover-worthy so fallback chains advance when primary providers are unreachable. Landed from contributor PR #19077. Thanks @ayanesakura.
- Agents/Copilot token refresh: refresh GitHub Copilot runtime API tokens after auth-expiry failures and re-run with the renewed token so long-running embedded/subagent turns do not fail on mid-session 401 expiry. Landed from contributor PR #8805. Thanks @Arthur742Ramos.
- Agents/Subagents delivery params: reject unsupported `sessions_spawn` channel-delivery params (`target`, `channel`, `to`, `threadId`, `replyTo`, `transport`) with explicit input errors so delivery intent does not silently leak output to the parent conversation. (#31000).
- Agents/FS workspace default: honor documented host file-tool default `tools.fs.workspaceOnly=false` when unset so host `write`/`edit` calls are not incorrectly workspace-restricted unless explicitly enabled. Landed from contributor PR #31128. Thanks @SaucePackets.
- Sessions/Followup queue: always schedule followup drain even when unexpected runtime exceptions escape `runReplyAgent`, preventing silent stuck followup backlogs after failed turns. (#30627).
- Sessions/Compaction safety: add transcript-size forced pre-compaction memory flush (`agents.defaults.compaction.memoryFlush.forceFlushTranscriptBytes`, default 2MB) so long sessions recover without manual transcript deletion when token snapshots are stale. (#30655).
- Sessions/Usage accounting: persist `cacheRead`/`cacheWrite` from the latest call snapshot (`lastCallUsage`) instead of accumulated multi-call totals, preventing inflated token/cost reporting in long tool/compaction runs. (#31005).
- Sessions/DM scope migration: when `session.dmScope` is non-`main`, retire stale `agent:*:main` delivery routing metadata once the matching direct-chat peer session is active, preventing duplicate Telegram/DM announce deliveries from legacy main sessions after scope migration. (#31010).
- Agents/Session status: read thinking/verbose/reasoning levels from persisted session state in `session_status` output when resolved levels are not provided, so status reflects runtime toggles correctly. (#30129) Thanks @YuzuruS.
- Agents/Tool-name recovery chain: normalize streamed alias/case tool names against the allowed set, preserve whitespace-only streamed placeholders to avoid collapsing to empty names, and repair/guard persisted blank `toolResult.toolName` values from matching tool calls to reduce repeated `Tool not found` loops in long sessions. Landed from contributor PRs #30620 and #30735, plus #30881. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Agents/Sessions list transcript paths: resolve `sessions_list` `transcriptPath` via agent-aware session path options and ignore combined-store sentinel paths (`(multiple)`) so listed transcript paths always point to the state directory. (#28379) Thanks @fafuzuoluo.
- Agents/Ollama discovery: skip Ollama discovery when explicit models are configured. (#28827) Thanks @Kansodata and @vincentkoc.
- Onboarding/Custom providers: raise default custom-provider model context window to the runtime hard minimum (16k) and auto-heal existing custom model entries below that threshold during reconfiguration, preventing immediate `Model context window too small (4096 tokens)` failures. (#21653) Thanks @r4jiv007.
- Onboarding/Custom providers: use Azure OpenAI-specific verification auth/payload shape (`api-key`, deployment-path chat completions payload) when probing Azure endpoints so valid Azure custom-provider setup no longer fails preflight. (#29421) Thanks @kunalk16.
- Feishu/Onboarding SecretRef guards: avoid direct `.trim()` calls on object-form `appId`/`appSecret` in onboarding credential checks, keep status semantics strict when an account explicitly sets empty `appId` (no fallback to top-level `appId`), recognize env SecretRef `appId`/`appSecret` as configured so readiness is accurate, and preserve unresolved SecretRef errors in default account resolution for actionable diagnostics. (#30903) Thanks @LiaoyuanNing.
- Memory/Hybrid recall: when strict hybrid scoring yields no hits, preserve keyword-backed matches using a text-weight floor so freshly indexed lexical canaries no longer disappear behind `minScore` filtering. (#29112) Thanks @ceo-nada.
- Feishu/Startup probes: serialize multi-account bot-info probes during monitor startup so large Feishu account sets do not burst `/open-apis/bot/v3/info`, bound startup probe latency/abort handling to avoid head-of-line stalls, and avoid triggering rate limits. (#26685, #29941) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Android/Onboarding + voice reliability: request per-toggle onboarding permissions, update pairing guidance to `openclaw devices list/approve`, restore assistant speech playback in mic capture flow, cancel superseded in-flight speech (mute + per-reply token rotation), and keep `talk.config` loads retryable after transient failures. (#29796) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Notifications auth race: return `NOT_AUTHORIZED` when `POST_NOTIFICATIONS` is revoked between authorization precheck and delivery, instead of returning success while dropping the notification. (#30726) Thanks @obviyus.
- Commands/Owner-only tools: treat identified direct-chat senders as owners when no owner allowlist is configured, while preserving internal `operator.admin` owner sessions. (#26331) thanks @widingmarcus-cyber
- ACP/Harness thread spawn routing: force ACP harness thread creation through `sessions_spawn` (`runtime: "acp"`, `thread: true`) and explicitly forbid `message action=thread-create` for ACP harness requests, avoiding misrouted `Unknown channel` errors. (#30957) Thanks @dutifulbob.
- Agents/Message tool scoping: include other configured channels in scoped `message` tool action enum + description so isolated/cron runs can discover and invoke cross-channel actions without schema validation failures. Landed from contributor PR #20840. Thanks @altaywtf.
- Plugins/Discovery precedence: load bundled plugins before auto-discovered global extensions so bundled channel plugins win duplicate-ID resolution by default (explicit `plugins.load.paths` overrides remain highest precedence), with loader regression coverage. Landed from contributor PR #29710. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- CLI/Startup (Raspberry Pi + small hosts): speed up startup by avoiding unnecessary plugin preload on fast routes, adding root `--version` fast-path bootstrap bypass, parallelizing status JSON/non-JSON scans where safe, and enabling Node compile cache at startup with env override compatibility (`NODE_COMPILE_CACHE`, `NODE_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE`). (#5871) Thanks @BookCatKid and @vincentkoc for raising startup reports, and @lupuletic for related startup work in #27973.
- CLI/Startup follow-up: add root `--help` fast-path bootstrap bypass with strict root-only matching, lazily resolve CLI channel options only when commands need them, merge build-time startup metadata (`dist/cli-startup-metadata.json`) with runtime catalog discovery so dynamic catalogs are preserved, and add low-power Linux doctor hints for compile-cache placement and respawn tuning. (#30975) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Docker/Compose gateway targeting: run `openclaw-cli` in the `openclaw-gateway` service network namespace, require gateway startup ordering, pin Docker setup to `gateway.mode=local`, sync `gateway.bind` from `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_BIND`, default optional `CLAUDE_*` compose vars to empty values to reduce automation warning noise, and harden `openclaw-cli` with `cap_drop` (`NET_RAW`, `NET_ADMIN`) + `no-new-privileges`. Docs now call out the shared trust boundary explicitly. (#12504) Thanks @bvanderdrift and @vincentkoc.
- Docker/Image base annotations: add OCI labels for base image plus source/documentation/license metadata, include revision/version/created labels in Docker release builds, and document annotation keys/release context in install docs. Fixes #27945. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Config/Legacy gateway bind aliases: normalize host-style `gateway.bind` values (`0.0.0.0`/`::`/`127.0.0.1`/`localhost`) to supported bind modes (`lan`/`loopback`) during legacy migration so older configs recover without manual edits. (#30080) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai and @vincentkoc.
- Podman/Quadlet setup: fix `sed` escaping and UID mismatch in Podman Quadlet setup. (#26414) Thanks @KnHack and @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/macOS state-dir safety: warn when OpenClaw state resolves inside iCloud Drive (`~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/...`) or `~/Library/CloudStorage/...`, because sync-backed paths can cause slower I/O and lock/sync races. (#31004) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Doctor/Linux state-dir safety: warn when OpenClaw state resolves to an `mmcblk*` mount source (SD or eMMC), because random I/O can be slower and media wear can increase under session and credential writes. (#31033) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/Cron run exit code: return exit code `0` only when `cron run` reports `{ ok: true, ran: true }`, and `1` for non-run/error outcomes so scripting/debugging reflects actual execution status. Landed from contributor PR #31121. Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- CLI/JSON preflight output: keep `--json` command stdout machine-readable by suppressing doctor preflight note output while still running legacy migration/config doctor flow. (#24368) Thanks @altaywtf.
- Issues/triage labeling: consolidate bug intake to a single bug issue form with required bug-type classification (regression/crash/behavior), auto-apply matching subtype labels from issue form content, and retire the separate regression template to reduce misfiled issue types and improve queue filtering. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Logging/Subsystem console timestamps: route subsystem console timestamp rendering through `formatConsoleTimestamp(...)` so `pretty` and timestamp-prefix output use local timezone formatting consistently instead of inline UTC `toISOString()` paths. (#25970) Thanks @openperf.
- Auto-reply/Block reply timeout path: normalize `onBlockReply(...)` execution through `Promise.resolve(...)` before timeout wrapping so mixed sync/async callbacks keep deterministic timeout behavior across strict TypeScript build paths. (#19779) Thanks @dalefrieswthat and @vincentkoc.
- Nodes/Screen recording guardrails: cap `nodes` tool `screen_record` `durationMs` to 5 minutes at both schema-validation and runtime invocation layers to prevent long-running blocking captures from unbounded durations. Landed from contributor PR #31106. Thanks @BlueBirdBack.
- Gateway/CLI session recovery: handle expired CLI session IDs gracefully by clearing stale session state and retrying without crashing gateway runs. Landed from contributor PR #31090. Thanks @frankekn.
- Onboarding/Docker token parity: use `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN` as the default gateway token in interactive and non-interactive onboarding when `--gateway-token` is not provided, so `docker-setup.sh` token env/config values stay aligned. (#22658) Fixes #22638. Thanks @Clawborn and @vincentkoc.
- Channels/Command parsing parity: align command-body parsing fields with channel command-gating text for Slack, Signal, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost, and BlueBubbles to avoid mention-strip mismatches and inconsistent command detection.
- File tools/tilde paths: expand `~/...` against the user home directory before workspace-root checks in host file read/write/edit paths, while preserving root-boundary enforcement so outside-root targets remain blocked. (#29779) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Memory/QMD update+embed output cap: discard captured stdout for `qmd update` and `qmd embed` runs (while keeping stderr diagnostics) so large index progress output no longer fails sync with `produced too much output` during boot/refresh. (#28900; landed from contributor PR #23311 by @haitao-sjsu) Thanks @haitao-sjsu.
- Config/Doctor group allowlist diagnostics: align `groupPolicy: "allowlist"` warnings with per-channel runtime semantics by excluding Google Chat sender-list checks and by warning when no-fallback channels (for example iMessage) omit `groupAllowFrom`, with regression coverage. (#28477) Thanks @tonydehnke.
- TUI/Session model status: clear stale runtime model identity when model overrides change so `/model` updates are reflected immediately in `sessions.patch` responses and `sessions.list` status surfaces. (#28619) Thanks @lejean2000.
- TUI/SIGTERM shutdown: ignore `setRawMode EBADF` teardown errors during `SIGTERM` exit so long-running TUI sessions do not crash on terminal shutdown races, while still rethrowing unrelated stop errors. (#29430) Thanks @Cormazabal.
- Browser/Navigate: resolve the correct `targetId` in navigate responses after renderer swaps. (#25326) Thanks @stone-jin and @vincentkoc.
- FS/Sandbox workspace boundaries: add a dedicated `outside-workspace` safe-open error code for root-escape checks, and propagate specific outside-workspace messages across edit/browser/media consumers instead of generic not-found/invalid-path fallbacks. (#29715) Thanks @YuzuruS.
- Diagnostics/Stuck session signal: add configurable stuck-session warning threshold via `diagnostics.stuckSessionWarnMs` (default 120000ms) to reduce false-positive warnings on long multi-tool turns. (#31032).
- Agents/error classification: check billing errors before context overflow heuristics in the agent runner catch block so spend-limit and quota errors show the billing-specific message instead of being misclassified as "Context overflow: prompt too large". (#40409) Thanks @ademczuk.
- Memory/MMR CJK tokenization: add Han, kana, and hangul tokens plus adjacent bigrams so memory-search reranking can detect overlap for CJK text instead of treating unrelated snippets as identical. (#29396) Thanks @buyitsydney.

## 2026.2.26

### Changes

- Highlight: External Secrets Management introduces a full `openclaw secrets` workflow (`audit`, `configure`, `apply`, `reload`) with runtime snapshot activation, strict `secrets apply` target-path validation, safer migration scrubbing, ref-only auth-profile support, and dedicated docs. (#26155) Thanks @joshavant.
- ACP/Thread-bound agents: make ACP agents first-class runtimes for thread sessions with `acp` spawn/send dispatch integration, acpx backend bridging, lifecycle controls, startup reconciliation, runtime cleanup, and coalesced thread replies. (#23580) thanks @osolmaz.
- Agents/Routing CLI: add `openclaw agents bindings`, `openclaw agents bind`, and `openclaw agents unbind` for account-scoped route management, including channel-only to account-scoped binding upgrades, role-aware binding identity handling, plugin-resolved binding account IDs, and optional account-binding prompts in `openclaw channels add`. (#27195) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Codex/WebSocket transport: make `openai-codex` WebSocket-first by default (`transport: "auto"` with SSE fallback), keep explicit per-model/runtime transport overrides, and add regression coverage + docs for transport selection.
- Onboarding/Plugins: let channel plugins own interactive onboarding flows with optional `configureInteractive` and `configureWhenConfigured` hooks while preserving the generic fallback path. (#27191) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Auth/Onboarding: add an explicit account-risk warning and confirmation gate before starting Gemini CLI OAuth, and document the caution in provider docs and the Gemini CLI auth plugin README. (#16683) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Android/Nodes: add Android `device` capability plus `device.status` and `device.info` node commands, including runtime handler wiring and protocol/registry coverage for device status/info payloads. (#27664) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Nodes: add `notifications.list` support on Android nodes and expose `nodes notifications_list` in agent tooling for listing active device notifications. (#27344) thanks @obviyus.

### Fixes

- FS tools/workspaceOnly: honor `tools.fs.workspaceOnly=false` for host write and edit operations so FS tools can access paths outside the workspace when sandbox is off. (#28822) thanks @lailoo. Fixes #28763. Thanks @cjscld for reporting.
- Telegram/DM allowlist runtime inheritance: enforce `dmPolicy: "allowlist"` `allowFrom` requirements using effective account-plus-parent config across account-capable channels (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, IRC, BlueBubbles, WhatsApp), and align `openclaw doctor` checks to the same inheritance logic so DM traffic is not silently dropped after upgrades. (#27936) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Delivery queue/recovery backoff: prevent retry starvation by persisting `lastAttemptAt` on failed sends and deferring recovery retries until each entry's `lastAttemptAt + backoff` window is eligible, while continuing to recover ready entries behind deferred ones. Landed from contributor PR #27710. Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo.
- Gemini OAuth/Auth flow: align OAuth project discovery metadata and endpoint fallback handling for Gemini CLI auth, including fallback coverage for environment-provided project IDs. (#16684) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Google Chat/Lifecycle: keep Google Chat `startAccount` pending until abort in webhook mode so startup is no longer interpreted as immediate exit, preventing auto-restart loops and webhook-target churn. (#27384) thanks @junsuwhy.
- Temp dirs/Linux umask: force `0700` permissions after temp-dir creation and self-heal existing writable temp dirs before trust checks so `umask 0002` installs no longer crash-loop on startup. Landed from contributor PR #27860. (#27853) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Nextcloud Talk/Lifecycle: keep `startAccount` pending until abort and stop the webhook monitor on shutdown, preventing `EADDRINUSE` restart loops when the gateway manages account lifecycle. (#27897).
- Microsoft Teams/File uploads: acknowledge `fileConsent/invoke` immediately (`invokeResponse` before upload + file card send) so Teams no longer shows false "Something went wrong" timeout banners while upload completion continues asynchronously; includes updated async regression coverage. Landed from contributor PR #27641 by @scz2011.
- Queue/Drain/Cron reliability: harden lane draining with guaranteed `draining` flag reset on synchronous pump failures, reject new queue enqueues during gateway restart drain windows (instead of silently killing accepted tasks), add `/stop` queued-backlog cutoff metadata with stale-message skipping (while avoiding cross-session native-stop cutoff bleed), and raise isolated cron `agentTurn` outer safety timeout to avoid false 10-minute timeout races against longer agent session timeouts. (#27407, #27332, #27427).
- Typing/Main reply pipeline: always mark dispatch idle in `agent-runner` finalization so typing cleanup runs even when dispatcher `onIdle` does not fire, preventing stuck typing indicators after run completion. (#27250) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Typing/TTL safety net: add max-duration guardrails to shared typing callbacks so stuck lifecycle edges auto-stop typing indicators even when explicit idle/cleanup signals are missed. (#27428) Thanks @Crpdim.
- Typing/Cross-channel leakage: unify run-scoped typing suppression for cross-channel/internal-webchat routes, preserve current inbound origin as embedded run message channel context, harden shared typing keepalive with consecutive-failure circuit breaker edge-case handling, and enforce dispatcher completion/idle waits in extension dispatcher callsites (Feishu, Matrix, Mattermost, MSTeams) so typing indicators always clean up on success/error paths. Related: #27647, #27493, #27598. Supersedes/replaces draft PRs: #27640, #27593, #27540.
- Telegram/sendChatAction 401 handling: add bounded exponential backoff + temporary local typing suppression after repeated unauthorized failures to stop unbounded `sendChatAction` retry loops that can trigger Telegram abuse enforcement and bot deletion. (#27415) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Telegram/Webhook startup: clarify webhook config guidance, allow `channels.telegram.webhookPort: 0` for ephemeral listener binding, and log both the local listener URL and Telegram-advertised webhook URL with the bound port. (#25732) thanks @huntharo.
- Config/Doctor allowlist safety: reject `dmPolicy: "allowlist"` configs with empty `allowFrom`, add Telegram account-level inheritance-aware validation, and teach `openclaw doctor --fix` to restore missing `allowFrom` entries from pairing-store files when present, preventing silent DM drops after upgrades. (#27936) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Browser/Chrome extension handshake: bind relay WS message handling before `onopen` and add non-blocking `connect.challenge` response handling for gateway-style handshake frames, avoiding stuck `...` badge states when challenge frames arrive immediately on connect. Landed from contributor PR #22571 by @pandego. (#22553) Thanks @hydro13.
- Browser/Extension relay init: dedupe concurrent same-port relay startup with shared in-flight initialization promises so callers await one startup lifecycle and receive consistent success/failure results. Landed from contributor PR #21277 by @HOYALIM. (Related #20688).
- Browser/Fill relay + CLI parity: accept `act.fill` fields without explicit `type` by defaulting missing/empty `type` to `text` in both browser relay route parsing and `openclaw browser fill` CLI field parsing, so relay calls no longer fail when the model omits field type metadata. Landed from contributor PR #27662. (#27296) Thanks @Uface11.
- Feishu/Permission error dispatch: merge sender-name permission notices into the main inbound dispatch so one user message produces one agent turn/reply (instead of a duplicate permission-notice turn), with regression coverage. (#27381) thanks @byungsker.
- Feishu/Merged forward parsing: expand inbound `merge_forward` messages by fetching and formatting API sub-messages in order, so merged forwards provide usable content context instead of only a placeholder line. (#28707) Thanks @tsu-builds.
- Agents/Canvas default node resolution: when multiple connected canvas-capable nodes exist and no single `mac-*` candidate is selected, default to the first connected candidate instead of failing with `node required` for implicit-node canvas tool calls. Landed from contributor PR #27444. Thanks @carbaj03.
- TUI/stream assembly: preserve streamed text across real tool-boundary drops without keeping stale streamed text when non-text blocks appear only in the final payload. Landed from contributor PR #27711 by @scz2011. (#27674).
- Hooks/Internal `message:sent`: forward `sessionKey` on outbound sends from agent delivery, cron isolated delivery, gateway receipt acks, heartbeat sends, session-maintenance warnings, and restart-sentinel recovery so internal `message:sent` hooks consistently dispatch with session context, including `openclaw agent --deliver` runs resumed via `--session-id` (without explicit `--session-key`). Landed from contributor PR #27584. Thanks @qualiobra.
- Pi image-token usage: stop re-injecting history image blocks each turn, process image references from the current prompt only, and prune already-answered user-image blocks in stored history to prevent runaway token growth. (#27602).
- BlueBubbles/SSRF: auto-allowlist the configured `serverUrl` hostname for attachment fetches so localhost/private-IP BlueBubbles setups are no longer false-blocked by default SSRF checks. Landed from contributor PR #27648 by @lailoo. (#27599) Thanks @taylorhou for reporting.
- Agents/Compaction + onboarding safety: prevent destructive double-compaction by stripping stale assistant usage around compaction boundaries, skipping post-compaction custom metadata writes in the same attempt, and cancelling safeguard compaction when there are no real conversation messages to summarize; harden workspace/bootstrap detection for memory-backed workspaces; and change `openclaw onboard --reset` default scope to `config+creds+sessions` (workspace deletion now requires `--reset-scope full`). (#26458, #27314) Thanks @jaden-clovervnd, @Sid-Qin, and @widingmarcus-cyber for fix direction in #26502, #26529, and #27492.
- NO_REPLY suppression: suppress `NO_REPLY` before Slack API send and in sub-agent announce completion flow so sentinel text no longer leaks into user channels. Landed from contributor PRs #27529 (by @Sid-Qin) and #27535 (rewritten minimal landing by maintainers). (#27387, #27531).
- Matrix/Group sender identity: preserve sender labels in Matrix group inbound prompt text (`BodyForAgent`) for both channel and threaded messages, and align group envelopes with shared inbound sender-prefix formatting so first-person requests resolve against the current sender. (#27401) thanks @koushikxd.
- Auto-reply/Streaming: suppress only exact `NO_REPLY` final replies while still filtering streaming partial sentinel fragments (`NO_`, `NO_RE`, `HEARTBEAT_...`) so substantive replies ending with `NO_REPLY` are delivered and partial silent tokens do not leak during streaming. (#19576) Thanks @aldoeliacim.
- Auto-reply/Inbound metadata: add a readable `timestamp` field to conversation info and ignore invalid/out-of-range timestamp values so prompt assembly never crashes on malformed timestamp inputs. (#17017) thanks @liuy.
- Typing/Run completion race: prevent post-run keepalive ticks from re-triggering typing callbacks by guarding `triggerTyping()` with `runComplete`, with regression coverage for no-restart behavior during run-complete/dispatch-idle boundaries. (#27413) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Typing/Dispatch idle: force typing cleanup when `markDispatchIdle` never arrives after run completion, avoiding leaked typing keepalive loops in cron/announce edges. Landed from contributor PR #27541 by @Sid-Qin. (#27493).
- Telegram/Inline buttons: allow callback-query button handling in groups (including `/models` follow-up buttons) when group policy authorizes the sender, by removing the redundant callback allowlist gate that blocked open-policy groups. (#27343) Thanks @GodsBoy.
- Telegram/Streaming preview: when finalizing without an existing preview message, prime pending preview text with final answer before stop-flush so users do not briefly see stale 1-2 word fragments (for example `no` before `no problem`). (#27449) Thanks @emanuelst for the original fix direction in #19673.
- Browser/Extension relay CORS: handle `/json*` `OPTIONS` preflight before auth checks, allow Chrome extension origins, and return extension-origin CORS headers on relay HTTP responses so extension token validation no longer fails cross-origin. Landed from contributor PR #23962 by @miloudbelarebia. (#23842).
- Browser/Extension relay auth: allow `?token=` query-param auth on relay `/json*` endpoints (consistent with relay WebSocket auth) so curl/devtools-style `/json/version` and `/json/list` probes work without requiring custom headers. Landed from contributor PR #26015 by @Sid-Qin. (#25928).
- Browser/Extension relay shutdown: flush pending extension-request timers/rejections during relay `stop()` before socket/server teardown so in-flight extension waits do not survive shutdown windows. Landed from contributor PR #24142 by @kevinWangSheng.
- Browser/Extension relay reconnect resilience: keep CDP clients alive across brief MV3 extension disconnect windows, wait briefly for extension reconnect before failing in-flight CDP commands, and only tear down relay target/client state after reconnect grace expires. Landed from contributor PR #27617 by @davidemanuelDEV.
- Browser/Route decode hardening: guard malformed percent-encoding in relay target action routes and browser route-param decoding so crafted `%` paths return `400` instead of crashing/unhandled URI decode failures. Landed from contributor PR #11880 by @Yida-Dev.
- Browser/Writable output path hardening: reject existing hardlinked writable targets, and finalize browser download/trace outputs via sibling temp files plus atomic rename to block hardlink-alias overwrite paths under browser temp roots.
- Feishu/Inbound message metadata: include inbound `message_id` in `BodyForAgent` on a dedicated metadata line so agents can reliably correlate and act on media/message operations that require message IDs, with regression coverage. (#27253) thanks @xss925175263.
- Feishu/Doc tools: route `feishu_doc` and `feishu_app_scopes` through the active agent account context (with explicit `accountId` override support) so multi-account agents no longer default to the first configured app, with regression coverage for context routing and explicit override behavior. (#27338) thanks @AaronL725.
- LINE/Inline directives auth: gate directive parsing (`/model`, `/think`, `/verbose`, `/reasoning`, `/queue`) on resolved authorization (`command.isAuthorizedSender`) so `commands.allowFrom`-authorized LINE senders are not silently stripped when raw `CommandAuthorized` is unset. Landed from contributor PR #27248 by @kevinWangSheng. (#27240).
- Onboarding/Gateway: seed default Control UI `allowedOrigins` for non-loopback binds during onboarding (`localhost`/`127.0.0.1` plus custom bind host) so fresh non-loopback setups do not fail startup due to missing origin policy. (#26157) thanks @stakeswky.
- Docker/GCP onboarding: reduce first-build OOM risk by capping Node heap during `pnpm install`, reuse existing gateway token during `docker-setup.sh` reruns so `.env` stays aligned with config, auto-bootstrap Control UI allowed origins for non-loopback Docker binds, and add GCP docs guidance for tokenized dashboard links + pairing recovery commands. (#26253) Thanks @pandego.
- CLI/Gateway `--force` in non-root Docker: recover from `lsof` permission failures (`EACCES`/`EPERM`) by falling back to `fuser` kill + probe-based port checks, so `openclaw gateway --force` works for default container `node` user flows. (#27941).
- Gateway/Bind visibility: emit a startup warning when binding to non-loopback addresses so operators get explicit exposure guidance in runtime logs. (#25397) thanks @let5sne.
- Sessions cleanup/Doctor: add `openclaw sessions cleanup --fix-missing` to prune store entries whose transcript files are missing, including doctor guidance and CLI coverage. Landed from contributor PR #27508 by @Sid-Qin. (#27422).
- Doctor/State integrity: ignore metadata-only slash routing sessions when checking recent missing transcripts so `openclaw doctor` no longer reports false-positive transcript-missing warnings for `*:slash:*` keys. (#27375) thanks @gumadeiras.
- CLI/Gateway status: force local `gateway status` probe host to `127.0.0.1` for `bind=lan` so co-located probes do not trip non-loopback plaintext WebSocket checks. (#26997) thanks @chikko80.
- CLI/Gateway auth: align `gateway run --auth` parsing/help text with supported gateway auth modes by accepting `none` and `trusted-proxy` (in addition to `token`/`password`) for CLI overrides. (#27469) thanks @s1korrrr.
- CLI/Daemon status TLS probe: use `wss://` and forward local TLS certificate fingerprint for TLS-enabled gateway daemon probes so `openclaw daemon status` works with `gateway.bind=lan` + `gateway.tls.enabled=true`. (#24234) thanks @liuy.
- Podman/Default bind: change `run-openclaw-podman.sh` default gateway bind from `lan` to `loopback` and document explicit LAN opt-in with Control UI origin configuration. (#27491) thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Daemon/macOS launchd: forward proxy env vars into supervised service environments, keep LaunchAgent `KeepAlive=true` semantics, and harden restart sequencing to `print -> bootout -> wait old pid exit -> bootstrap -> kickstart`. (#27276) thanks @frankekn.
- Gateway/macOS restart-loop hardening: detect OpenClaw-managed supervisor markers during SIGUSR1 restart handoff, clean stale gateway PIDs before `/restart` launchctl/systemctl triggers, and set LaunchAgent `ThrottleInterval=60` to bound launchd retry storms during lock-release races. Landed from contributor PRs #27655 (@taw0002), #27448 (@Sid-Qin), and #27650 (@kevinWangSheng). (#27605, #27590, #26904, #26736).
- Models/MiniMax auth header defaults: set `authHeader: true` for both onboarding-generated MiniMax API providers and implicit built-in MiniMax (`minimax`, `minimax-portal`) provider templates so first requests no longer fail with MiniMax `401 authentication_error` due to missing `Authorization` header. Landed from contributor PRs #27622 by @riccoyuanft and #27631 by @kevinWangSheng. (#27600, #15303).
- Models/Google Antigravity IDs: normalize bare `gemini-3-pro`, `gemini-3.1-pro`, and `gemini-3-1-pro` model IDs to the default `-low` thinking tier so provider requests no longer fail with 404 when the tier suffix is omitted. (#24145) Thanks @byungsker.
- Auth/Auth profiles: normalize `auth-profiles.json` alias fields (`mode -> type`, `apiKey -> key`) before credential validation so entries copied from `openclaw.json` auth examples are no longer silently dropped. (#26950) thanks @byungsker.
- Models/Google Gemini: treat `google` (Gemini API key auth profile) as a reasoning-tag provider to prevent `<think>` leakage, and add forward-compat model fallback for `google-gemini-cli` `gemini-3.1-pro*` / `gemini-3.1-flash*` IDs to avoid false unknown-model errors. (#26551, #26524) Thanks @byungsker.
- Models/Profile suffix parsing: centralize trailing `@profile` parsing and only treat `@` as a profile separator when it appears after the final `/`, preserving model IDs like `openai/@cf/...` and `openrouter/@preset/...` across `/model` directive parsing and allowlist model resolution, with regression coverage.
- Models/OpenAI Codex config schema parity: accept `openai-codex-responses` in the config model API schema and TypeScript `ModelApi` union, with regression coverage for config validation. Landed from contributor PR #27501. Thanks @AytuncYildizli.
- Agents/Models config: preserve agent-level provider `apiKey` and `baseUrl` during merge-mode `models.json` updates when agent values are present. (#27293) thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Azure OpenAI Responses: force `store=true` for `azure-openai-responses` direct responses API calls to avoid multi-turn 400 failures. Landed from contributor PR #27499 by @polarbear-Yang. (#27497).
- Security/Node exec approvals: require structured `commandArgv` approvals for `host=node`, enforce `systemRunBinding` matching for argv/cwd/session/agent/env context with fail-closed behavior on missing/mismatched bindings, and add `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` to blocked host env keys. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Command authorization: enforce sender authorization for natural-language abort triggers (`stop`-like text) and `/models` listings, preventing unauthorized session aborts and model-auth metadata disclosure. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.27`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Plugin channel HTTP auth: normalize protected `/api/channels` path checks against canonicalized request paths (case + percent-decoding + slash normalization), resolve encoded dot-segment traversal variants, and fail closed on malformed `%`-encoded channel prefixes so alternate-path variants cannot bypass gateway auth. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @zpbrent for reporting.
- Security/Gateway node pairing: pin paired-device `platform`/`deviceFamily` metadata across reconnects and bind those fields into device-auth signatures, so reconnect metadata spoofing cannot expand node command allowlists without explicit repair pairing. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @76embiid21 for reporting.
- Security/Sandbox path alias guard: reject broken symlink targets by resolving through existing ancestors and failing closed on out-of-root targets, preventing workspace-only `apply_patch` writes from escaping sandbox/workspace boundaries via dangling symlinks. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Workspace FS boundary aliases: harden canonical boundary resolution for non-existent-leaf symlink aliases while preserving valid in-root aliases, preventing first-write workspace escapes via out-of-root symlink targets. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Config includes: harden `$include` file loading with verified-open reads, reject hardlinked include aliases, and enforce include file-size guardrails so config include resolution remains bounded to trusted in-root files. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @zpbrent for reporting.
- Security/Node exec approvals hardening: freeze immutable approval-time execution plans (`argv`/`cwd`/`agentId`/`sessionKey`) via `system.run.prepare`, enforce those canonical plan values during approval forwarding/execution, and reject mutable parent-symlink cwd paths during approval-plan building to prevent approval bypass via symlink rebind. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Microsoft Teams media fetch: route Graph message/hosted-content/attachment fetches and auth-scope fallback attachment downloads through shared SSRF-guarded fetch paths, and centralize hostname-suffix allowlist policy helpers in the plugin SDK to remove channel/plugin drift. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Voice Call (Twilio): bind webhook replay + manager dedupe identity to authenticated request material, remove unsigned `i-twilio-idempotency-token` trust from replay/dedupe keys, and thread verified request identity through provider parse flow to harden cross-provider event dedupe. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec approvals forwarding: prefer turn-source channel/account/thread metadata when resolving approval delivery targets so stale session routes do not misroute approval prompts.
- Security/Pairing multi-account isolation: enforce account-scoped pairing allowlists and pending-request storage across core + extension message channels while preserving channel-scoped defaults for the default account. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting and @gumadeiras for implementation.
- Memory/SQLite: deduplicate concurrent memory-manager initialization and auto-reopen stale SQLite handles after atomic reindex swaps, preventing repeated `attempt to write a readonly database` sync failures until gateway restart. Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Config/Plugins entries: treat unknown `plugins.entries.*` ids as startup warnings (ignored stale keys) instead of hard validation failures that can crash-loop gateway boot. Landed from contributor PR #27506 by @Sid-Qin. (#27455).
- Telegram native commands: degrade command registration on `BOT_COMMANDS_TOO_MUCH` by retrying with fewer commands instead of crash-looping startup sync. Landed from contributor PR #27512 by @Sid-Qin. (#27456).
- Web tools/Proxy: route `web_search` provider HTTP calls (Brave, Perplexity, xAI, Gemini, Kimi), redirect resolution, and `web_fetch` through a shared proxy-aware SSRF guard path so gateway installs behind `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY`/`ALL_PROXY` no longer fail with transport `fetch failed` errors. (#27430) thanks @kevinWangSheng.
- Android/Node invoke: remove native gateway WebSocket `Origin` header to avoid false origin rejections, unify invoke command registry/policy/error parsing paths, and keep command availability checks centralized to reduce dispatcher/advertisement drift. (#27257) Thanks @obviyus.
- Gateway shared-auth scopes: preserve requested operator scopes for shared-token clients when device identity is unavailable, instead of clearing scopes during auth handling. Landed from contributor PR #27498 by @kevinWangSheng. (#27494).
- Cron/Hooks isolated routing: preserve canonical `agent:*` session keys in isolated runs so already-qualified keys are not double-prefixed (for example `agent:main:main` no longer becomes `agent:main:agent:main:main`). Landed from contributor PR #27333 by @MaheshBhushan. (#27289, #27282).
- Channels/Multi-account config: when adding a non-default channel account to a single-account top-level channel setup, move existing account-scoped top-level single-account values into `channels.<channel>.accounts.default` before writing the new account so the original account keeps working without duplicated account values at channel root; `openclaw doctor --fix` now repairs previously mixed channel account shapes the same way. (#27334) thanks @gumadeiras.
- iOS/Talk mode: stop injecting the voice directive hint into iOS Talk prompts and remove the Voice Directive Hint setting, reducing model bias toward tool-style TTS directives and keeping relay responses text-first by default. (#27543) thanks @ngutman.
- Mattermost/mention gating: honor `chatmode: "onmessage"` account override in inbound group/channel mention-gate resolution, while preserving explicit group `requireMention` config precedence and adding verbose drop diagnostics for skipped inbound posts. (#27160) thanks @turian.

## 2026.2.25

### Changes

- Android/Chat: improve streaming delivery handling and markdown rendering quality in the native Android chat UI, including better GitHub-flavored markdown behavior. (#26079) Thanks @obviyus.
- Android/Startup perf: defer foreground-service startup, move WebView debugging init out of critical startup, and add startup macrobenchmark + low-noise perf CLI scripts for deterministic cold-start tracking. (#26659) Thanks @obviyus.
- UI/Chat compose: add mobile stacked layout for compose action buttons on small screens to improve send/session controls usability. (#11167) Thanks @junyiz.
- Heartbeat/Config: replace heartbeat DM toggle with `agents.defaults.heartbeat.directPolicy` (`allow` | `block`; also supported per-agent via `agents.list[].heartbeat.directPolicy`) for clearer delivery semantics.
- Onboarding/Security: clarify onboarding security notices that OpenClaw is personal-by-default (single trusted operator boundary) and shared/multi-user setups require explicit lock-down/hardening.
- Branding/Docs + Apple surfaces: replace remaining `bot.molt` launchd label, bundle-id, logging subsystem, and command examples with `ai.openclaw` across docs, iOS app surfaces, helper scripts, and CLI test fixtures.
- Agents/Config: remind agents to call `config.schema` before config edits or config-field questions to avoid guessing. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Dependencies: update workspace dependency pins and lockfile (Bedrock SDK `3.998.0`, `@mariozechner/pi-*` `0.55.1`, TypeScript native preview `7.0.0-dev.20260225.1`) while keeping `@buape/carbon` pinned.

### Fixes

- Slack/Identity: thread agent outbound identity (`chat:write.customize` overrides) through the channel reply delivery path so per-agent username, icon URL, and icon emoji are applied to all Slack replies including media messages. (#27134) Thanks @hou-rong.
- Slack/Threading: resolve `replyToMode` per incoming message using chat-type-aware account config (`replyToModeByChatType` and legacy `dm.replyToMode`) so DM/channel reply threading honors overrides instead of always using monitor startup defaults. (#24717) Thanks @dbachelder.
- Slack/Threading: track bot participation in message threads (per account/channel/thread) so follow-up messages in those threads can be handled without requiring repeated @mentions, while preserving mention-gating behavior for unrelated threads. (#29165) Thanks @luijoc.
- Slack/Threading: stop forcing tool-call reply mode to `all` based on `ThreadLabel` alone; now force thread reply mode only when an explicit thread target exists (`MessageThreadId`/`ReplyToId`), so DM `replyToModeByChatType.direct` overrides are honored outside real thread replies. (#26251) Thanks @dbachelder.
- Slack/Threading: when `replyToMode="all"` auto-threads top-level Slack DMs, seed the thread session key from the message `ts` so the initial message and later replies share the same isolated `:thread:` session instead of falling back to base DM context. (#26849) Thanks @calder-sandy.
- Agents/Subagents delivery: refactor subagent completion announce dispatch into an explicit queue/direct/fallback state machine, recover outbound channel-plugin resolution in cold/stale plugin-registry states across announce/message/gateway send paths, finalize cleanup bookkeeping when announce flow rejects, and treat Telegram sends without `message_id` as delivery failures (instead of false-success `"unknown"` IDs). (#26867, #25961, #26803, #25069, #26741) Thanks @SmithLabsLLC and @docaohieu2808.
- Telegram/Webhook: pre-initialize webhook bots, switch webhook processing to callback-mode JSON handling, and preserve full near-limit payload reads under delayed handlers to prevent webhook request hangs and dropped updates. (#26156).
- Slack/Session threads: prevent oversized parent-session inheritance from silently bricking new thread sessions, surface embedded context-overflow empty-result failures to users, and share the PI parent-fork fallback between channel threads and subagents. The old `session.parentForkMaxTokens` tuning surface is removed; `openclaw doctor --fix` strips it from legacy configs. (#26912) Thanks @markshields-tl.
- Cron/Message multi-account routing: honor explicit `delivery.accountId` for isolated cron delivery resolution, and when `message.send` omits `accountId`, fall back to the sending agent's bound channel account instead of defaulting to the global account. (#27015, #26975) Thanks @lbo728 and @stakeswky.
- Gateway/Message media roots: thread `agentId` through gateway `send` RPC and prefer explicit `agentId` over session/default resolution so non-default agent workspace media sends no longer fail with `LocalMediaAccessError`; added regression coverage for agent precedence and blank-agent fallback. (#23249) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Followups/Routing: when explicit origin routing fails, allow same-channel fallback dispatch (while still blocking cross-channel fallback) so followup replies do not get dropped on transient origin-adapter failures. (#26109) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Cron/Announce duplicate guard: track attempted announce/direct delivery separately from confirmed `delivered`, and suppress fallback main-session cron summaries when delivery was already attempted to avoid duplicate end-user sends in uncertain-ack paths. (#27018).
- LINE/Lifecycle: keep LINE `startAccount` pending until abort so webhook startup is no longer misread as immediate channel exit, preventing restart-loop storms on LINE provider boot. (#26528) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Discord/Gateway: capture and drain startup-time gateway `error` events before lifecycle listeners attach so early `Fatal Gateway error: 4014` closes surface as actionable intent guidance instead of uncaught gateway crashes. (#23832) Thanks @theotarr.
- Discord/Inbound text: preserve embed `title` + `description` fallback text in message and forwarded snapshot parsing so embed titles are not silently dropped from agent input. (#26946) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Slack/Inbound media fallback: deliver file-only messages even when Slack media downloads fail by adding a filename placeholder fallback, capping fallback names to the shared media-file limit, and normalizing empty filenames to `file` so attachment-only messages are not silently dropped. (#25181) Thanks @justinhuangcode.
- Telegram/Preview cleanup: keep finalized text previews when a later assistant message is media-only (for example mixed text plus voice turns) by skipping finalized preview archival at assistant-message boundaries, preventing cleanup from deleting already-visible final text messages. (#27042).
- Telegram/Markdown spoilers: keep valid `||spoiler||` pairs while leaving unmatched trailing `||` delimiters as literal text, avoiding false all-or-nothing spoiler suppression. (#26105) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Slack/Allowlist channels: match channel IDs case-insensitively during channel allowlist resolution so lowercase config keys (for example `c0abc12345`) correctly match Slack runtime IDs (`C0ABC12345`) under `groupPolicy: "allowlist"`, preventing silent channel-event drops. (#26878) Thanks @lbo728.
- Discord/Typing indicator: prevent stuck typing indicators by sealing channel typing keepalive callbacks after idle/cleanup and ensuring Discord dispatch always marks typing idle even if preview-stream cleanup fails. (#26295) Thanks @ngutman.
- Channels/Typing indicator: guard typing keepalive start callbacks after idle/cleanup close so post-close ticks cannot re-trigger stale typing indicators. (#26325) Thanks @win4r.
- Followups/Typing indicator: ensure followup turns mark dispatch idle on every exit path (including `NO_REPLY`, empty payloads, and agent errors) so typing keepalive cleanup always runs and channel typing indicators do not get stuck after queued/silent followups. (#26881)
- Voice-call/TTS tools: hide the `tts` tool when the message provider is `voice`, preventing voice-call runs from selecting self-playback TTS and falling into silent no-output loops. (#27025).
- Agents/Tools: normalize non-standard plugin tool results that omit `content` so embedded runs no longer crash with `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'filter')` after tool completion (including `tesseramemo_query`). (#27007).
- Agents/Tool-call dispatch: trim whitespace-padded tool names in both transcript repair and live streamed embedded-runner responses so exact-match tool lookup no longer fails with `Tool .. not found` for model outputs like `" read "`. (#27094) Thanks @openperf and @Sid-Qin.
- Cron/Model overrides: when isolated `payload.model` is no longer allowlisted, fall back to default model selection instead of failing the job, while still returning explicit errors for invalid model strings. (#26717) Thanks @Youyou972.
- Agents/Model fallback: keep explicit text + image fallback chains reachable even when `agents.defaults.models` allowlists are present, prefer explicit run `agentId` over session-key parsing for followup fallback override resolution (with session-key fallback), treat agent-level fallback overrides as configured in embedded runner preflight, and classify `model_cooldown` / `cooling down` errors as `rate_limit` so failover continues. (#11972, #24137, #17231).
- Agents/Model fallback: keep same-provider fallback chains active when session model differs from configured primary, infer cooldown reason from provider profile state (instead of `disabledReason` only), keep no-profile fallback providers eligible (env/models.json paths), and only relax same-provider cooldown fallback attempts for `rate_limit`. (#23816) thanks @ramezgaberiel.
- Agents/Model fallback: continue fallback traversal on unrecognized errors when candidates remain, while still throwing the original unknown error on the last candidate. (#26106) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- Models/Auth probes: map permanent auth failover reasons (`auth_permanent`, for example revoked keys) into probe auth status instead of `unknown`, so `openclaw models status --probe` reports actionable auth failures. (#25754) thanks @rrenamed.
- Hooks/Inbound metadata: include `guildId` and `channelName` in `message_received` metadata for both plugin and internal hook paths. (#26115) Thanks @davidrudduck.
- Discord/Component auth: evaluate guild component interactions with command-gating authorizers so unauthorized users no longer get `CommandAuthorized: true` on modal/button events. (#26119) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Gateway auth: require pairing for operator device-identity sessions authenticated with shared token auth so unpaired devices cannot self-assign operator scopes. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Gateway WebSocket auth: enforce origin checks for direct browser WebSocket clients beyond Control UI/Webchat, apply password-auth failure throttling to browser-origin loopback attempts (including localhost), and block silent auto-pairing for non-Control-UI browser clients to prevent cross-origin brute-force and session takeover chains. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @luz-oasis for reporting.
- Security/Gateway trusted proxy: require `operator` role for the Control UI trusted-proxy pairing bypass so unpaired `node` sessions can no longer connect via `client.id=control-ui` and invoke node event methods. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/macOS beta onboarding: remove Anthropic OAuth sign-in and the legacy `oauth.json` onboarding path that exposed the PKCE verifier via OAuth `state`; this impacted the macOS beta onboarding path only. Anthropic subscription auth is now setup-token-only and will ship in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @zdi-disclosures for reporting.
- Security/Microsoft Teams file consent: bind `fileConsent/invoke` upload acceptance/decline to the originating conversation before consuming pending uploads, preventing cross-conversation pending-file upload or cancellation via leaked `uploadId` values; includes regression coverage for match/mismatch invoke handling. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Gateway: harden `agents.files` path handling to block out-of-workspace symlink targets for `agents.files.get`/`agents.files.set`, keep in-workspace symlink targets supported, and add gateway regression coverage for both blocked escapes and allowed in-workspace symlinks. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Workspace FS: reject hardlinked workspace file aliases in `tools.fs.workspaceOnly` and `tools.exec.applyPatch.workspaceOnly` boundary checks (including sandbox mount-root guards) to prevent out-of-workspace read/write via in-workspace hardlink paths. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Browser temp paths: harden trace/download output-path handling against symlink-root and symlink-parent escapes with realpath-based write-path checks plus secure fallback tmp-dir validation that fails closed on unsafe fallback links. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Browser uploads: revalidate upload paths at use-time in Playwright file-chooser and direct-input flows so missing/rebound paths are rejected before `setFiles`, with regression coverage for strict missing-path handling.
- Security/Exec approvals: bind `system.run` approval matching to exact argv identity and preserve argv whitespace in rendered command text, preventing trailing-space executable path swaps from reusing a mismatched approval. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec approvals: harden approval-bound `system.run` execution on node hosts by rejecting symlink `cwd` paths and canonicalizing path-like executable argv before spawn, blocking mutable-cwd symlink retarget chains between approval and execution. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Signal: enforce DM/group authorization before reaction-only notification enqueue so unauthorized senders can no longer inject Signal reaction system events under `dmPolicy`/`groupPolicy`; reaction notifications now require channel access checks first. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Discord reactions: enforce DM policy/allowlist authorization before reaction-event system enqueue in direct messages; Discord reaction handling now also honors DM/group-DM enablement and guild `groupPolicy` channel gating to keep reaction ingress aligned with normal message preflight. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Slack reactions + pins: gate `reaction_*` and `pin_*` system-event enqueue through shared sender authorization so DM `dmPolicy`/`allowFrom` and channel `users` allowlists are enforced consistently for non-message ingress, with regression coverage for denied/allowed sender paths. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Slack member + message subtype events: gate `member_*` plus `message_changed`/`message_deleted`/`thread_broadcast` system-event enqueue through shared sender authorization so DM `dmPolicy`/`allowFrom` and channel `users` allowlists are enforced consistently for non-message ingress; message subtype system events now fail closed when sender identity is missing, with regression coverage. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Telegram reactions: enforce `dmPolicy`/`allowFrom` and group allowlist authorization on `message_reaction` events before enqueueing reaction system events, preventing unauthorized reaction-triggered input in DMs and groups; ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Telegram group allowlist: fail closed for group sender authorization by removing DM pairing-store fallback from group allowlist evaluation; group sender access now requires explicit `groupAllowFrom` or per-group/per-topic `allowFrom`. (#25988) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/DM-group allowlist boundaries: keep DM pairing-store approvals DM-only by removing pairing-store inheritance from group sender authorization in LINE and Mattermost message preflight, and by centralizing shared DM/group allowlist composition so group checks never include pairing-store entries. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Slack interactions: enforce channel/DM authorization and modal actor binding (`private_metadata.userId`) before enqueueing `block_action`/`view_submission`/`view_closed` system events, with regression coverage for unauthorized senders and missing/mismatched actor metadata. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Nextcloud Talk: drop replayed signed webhook events with persistent per-account replay dedupe across restarts, and reject unexpected webhook backend origins when account base URL is configured. Thanks @aristorechina for reporting.
- Security/Nextcloud Talk: reject unsigned webhook traffic before full body reads, reducing unauthenticated request-body exposure, with auth-order regression coverage. (#26118) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Nextcloud Talk: stop treating DM pairing-store entries as group allowlist senders, so group authorization remains bounded to configured group allowlists. (#26116) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/LINE: cap unsigned webhook body reads before auth/signature handling to bound unauthenticated body processing. (#26095) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/IRC: keep pairing-store approvals DM-only and out of IRC group allowlist authorization, with policy regression tests for allowlist resolution. (#26112) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Microsoft Teams: isolate group allowlist and command authorization from DM pairing-store entries to prevent cross-context authorization bleed. (#26111) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/SSRF guard: classify IPv6 multicast literals (`ff00::/8`) as blocked/private-internal targets in shared SSRF IP checks, preventing multicast literals from bypassing URL-host preflight and DNS answer validation. This ships in the next npm release (`2026.2.26`). Thanks @zpbrent for reporting.
- Tests/Low-memory stability: disable Vitest `vmForks` by default on low-memory local hosts (`<64 GiB`), keep low-profile extension lane parallelism at 4 workers, and align cron isolated-agent tests with `setSessionRuntimeModel` usage to avoid deterministic suite failures. (#26324) Thanks @ngutman.
- Feishu/WebSocket proxy: pass a proxy agent to Feishu WS clients from standard proxy environment variables and include plugin-local runtime dependency wiring so websocket mode works in proxy-constrained installs. (#26397) Thanks @colin719.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Heartbeat direct/DM delivery default is now `allow` again. To keep DM-blocked behavior from `2026.2.24`, set `agents.defaults.heartbeat.directPolicy: "block"` (or per-agent override).

## 2026.2.24

### Changes

- Auto-reply/Abort shortcuts: expand standalone stop phrases (`stop openclaw`, `stop action`, `stop run`, `stop agent`, `please stop`, and related variants), accept trailing punctuation (for example `STOP OPENCLAW!!!`), add multilingual stop keywords (including ES/FR/ZH/HI/AR/JP/DE/PT/RU forms), and treat exact `do not do that` as a stop trigger while preserving strict standalone matching. (#25103) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Android/App UX: ship a native four-step onboarding flow, move post-onboarding into a five-tab shell (Connect, Chat, Voice, Screen, Settings), add a full Connect setup/manual mode screen, and refresh Android chat/settings surfaces for the new navigation model.
- Talk/Gateway config: add provider-agnostic Talk configuration with legacy compatibility, and expose gateway Talk ElevenLabs config metadata for setup/status surfaces.
- Security/Audit: add `security.trust_model.multi_user_heuristic` to flag likely shared-user ingress and clarify the personal-assistant trust model, with hardening guidance for intentional multi-user setups (`sandbox.mode="all"`, workspace-scoped FS, reduced tool surface, no personal/private identities on shared runtimes).
- Dependencies: refresh key runtime and tooling packages across the workspace (Bedrock SDK, pi runtime stack, OpenAI, Google auth, and oxlint/oxfmt), while intentionally keeping `@buape/carbon` pinned.

### Fixes

- Routing/Session isolation: harden followup routing so explicit cross-channel origin replies never fall back to the active dispatcher on route failure, preserve queued overflow summary routing metadata (`channel`/`to`/`thread`) across followup drain, and prefer originating channel context over internal provider tags for embedded followup runs. This prevents webchat/control-ui context from hijacking Discord-targeted replies in shared sessions. (#25864) Thanks @Gamedesigner.
- Security/Routing: fail closed for shared-session cross-channel replies by binding outbound target resolution to the current turn's source channel metadata (instead of stale session route fallbacks), and wire those turn-source fields through gateway + command delivery planners with regression coverage. (#24571) Thanks @brandonwise.
- Heartbeat routing: prevent heartbeat leakage/spam into Discord and other direct-message destinations by blocking direct-chat heartbeat delivery targets and keeping blocked-delivery cron/exec prompts internal-only. (#25871).
- Heartbeat defaults/prompts: switch the implicit heartbeat delivery target from `last` to `none` (opt-in for external delivery), and use internal-only cron/exec heartbeat prompt wording when delivery is disabled so background checks do not nudge user-facing relay behavior. (#25871, #24638, #25851).
- Auto-reply/Heartbeat queueing: drop heartbeat runs when a session already has an active run instead of enqueueing a stale followup, preventing duplicate heartbeat response branches after queue drain. (#25610, #25606) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Cron/Heartbeat delivery: stop inheriting cached session `lastThreadId` for heartbeat-mode target resolution unless a thread/topic is explicitly requested, so announce-mode cron and heartbeat deliveries stay on top-level destinations instead of leaking into active conversation threads. (#25730) Thanks @markshields-tl.
- Messaging tool dedupe: treat originating channel metadata as authoritative for same-target `message.send` suppression in proactive runs (heartbeat/cron/exec-event), including synthetic-provider contexts, so `delivery-mirror` transcript entries no longer cause duplicate Telegram sends. (#25835) Thanks @jadeathena84-arch.
- Channels/Typing keepalive: refresh channel typing callbacks on a keepalive interval during long replies and clear keepalive timers on idle/cleanup across core + extension dispatcher callsites so typing indicators do not expire mid-inference. (#25886, #25882) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Agents/Model fallback: when a run is currently on a configured fallback model, keep traversing the configured fallback chain instead of collapsing straight to primary-only, preventing dead-end failures when primary stays in cooldown. (#25922, #25912) Thanks @Taskle.
- Gateway/Models: honor explicit `agents.defaults.models` allowlist refs even when bundled model catalog data is stale, synthesize missing allowlist entries in `models.list`, and allow `sessions.patch`/`/model` selection for those refs without false `model not allowed` errors. (#20291) Thanks @kensipe, @nikolasdehor, and @vincentkoc.
- Control UI/Agents: inherit `agents.defaults.model.fallbacks` in the Overview fallback input when no per-agent model entry exists, while preserving explicit per-agent fallback overrides (including empty lists). (#25729, #25710) Thanks @Suko.
- Automation/Subagent/Cron reliability: honor `ANNOUNCE_SKIP` in `sessions_spawn` completion/direct announce flows (no user-visible token leaks), add transient direct-announce retries for channel unavailability (for example WhatsApp listener reconnect windows), and include `cron` in the `coding` tool profile so `/tools/invoke` can execute cron actions when explicitly allowed by gateway policy. (#25800, #25656, #25842, #25813, #25822, #25821) Thanks @astra-fer, @aaajiao, @dwight11232-coder, @kevinWangSheng, @widingmarcus-cyber, and @stakeswky.
- Discord/Voice reliability: restore runtime DAVE dependency (`@snazzah/davey`), add configurable DAVE join options (`channels.discord.voice.daveEncryption` and `channels.discord.voice.decryptionFailureTolerance`), clean up voice listeners/session teardown, guard against stale connection events, and trigger controlled rejoin recovery after repeated decrypt failures to improve inbound STT stability under DAVE receive errors. (#25861, #25372, #24883, #24825, #23890, #23105, #22961, #23421, #23278, #23032).
- Discord/Block streaming: restore block-streamed reply delivery by suppressing only reasoning payloads (instead of all `block` payloads), fixing missing Discord replies in `channels.discord.streaming=block` mode. (#25839, #25836, #25792) Thanks @pewallin.
- Discord/Proxy + reactions + model picker: thread channel proxy fetch into inbound media/sticker downloads, use proxy-aware gateway metadata fetch for WSL/corporate proxy setups, wire `messages.statusReactions.{emojis,timing}` into Discord reaction lifecycle control, and compact model-picker `custom_id` keys to stay under Discord's 100-char limit while keeping backward-compatible parsing. (#25232, #25507, #25564, #25695) Thanks @openperf, @chilu18, @Yipsh, @lbo728, and @s1korrrr.
- WhatsApp/Web reconnect: treat close status `440` as non-retryable (including string-form status values), stop reconnect loops immediately, and emit operator guidance to relink after resolving session conflicts. (#25858) Thanks @markmusson.
- WhatsApp/Reasoning safety: suppress outbound payloads marked as reasoning and hard-drop text payloads that begin with `Reasoning:` before WhatsApp delivery, preventing hidden thinking blocks from leaking to end users through final-message paths. (#25804, #25214, #24328).
- Matrix/Read receipts: send read receipts as soon as Matrix messages arrive (before handler pipeline work), so clients no longer show long-lived unread/sent states while replies are processing. (#25841, #25840) Thanks @joshjhall.
- Telegram/Replies: when markdown formatting renders to empty HTML (for example syntax-only chunks in threaded replies), retry delivery with plain text, and fail loud when both formatted and plain payloads are empty to avoid false delivered states. (#25096, #25091) Thanks @ArsalanShakil.
- Telegram/Media fetch: prioritize IPv4 before IPv6 in SSRF pinned DNS address ordering so media downloads still work on hosts with broken IPv6 routing. (#24295, #23975) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Telegram/Outbound API: replace Node 22's global undici dispatcher when applying Telegram `autoSelectFamily` decisions so outbound `fetch` calls inherit IPv4 fallback instead of staying pinned to stale dispatcher settings. (#25682, #25676) Thanks @lairtonlelis.
- Onboarding/Telegram: keep core-channel onboarding available when plugin registry population is missing by falling back to built-in adapters and continuing wizard setup with actionable recovery guidance. (#25803) Thanks @Suko.
- Android/Gateway auth: preserve Android gateway auth state across onboarding, use the native client id for operator sessions, retry with shared-token fallback after device-token auth failures, and avoid clearing tokens on transient connect errors.
- Slack/DM routing: treat `D*` channel IDs as direct messages even when Slack sends an incorrect `channel_type`, preventing DM traffic from being misclassified as channel/group chats. (#25479) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Zalo/Group policy: enforce sender authorization for group messages with `groupPolicy` + `groupAllowFrom` (fallback to `allowFrom`), default runtime group behavior to fail-closed allowlist, and block unauthorized non-command group messages before dispatch. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- macOS/Voice input: guard all audio-input startup paths against missing default microphones (Voice Wake, Talk Mode, Push-to-Talk, mic-level monitor, tester) to avoid launch/runtime crashes on mic-less Macs and fail gracefully until input becomes available. (#25817) Thanks @sfo2001.
- macOS/IME input: when marked text is active, treat Return as IME candidate confirmation first in both the voice overlay composer and shared chat composer to prevent accidental sends while composing CJK text. (#25178) Thanks @bottotl.
- macOS/Voice wake routing: default forwarded voice-wake transcripts to the `webchat` channel (instead of ambiguous `last` routing) so local voice prompts stay pinned to the control chat surface unless explicitly overridden. (#25440) Thanks @chilu18.
- macOS/Gateway launch: prefer an available `openclaw` binary before pnpm/node runtime fallback when resolving local gateway commands, so local startup no longer fails on hosts with broken runtime discovery. (#25512) Thanks @chilu18.
- macOS/Menu bar: stop reusing the injector delegate for the "Usage cost (30 days)" submenu to prevent recursive submenu injection loops when opening cost history. (#25341) Thanks @yingchunbai.
- macOS/WebChat panel: fix rounded-corner clipping by using panel-specific visual-effect blending and matching corner masking on both effect and hosting layers. (#22458) Thanks @apethree and @agisilaos.
- Windows/Exec shell selection: prefer PowerShell 7 (`pwsh`) discovery (Program Files, ProgramW6432, PATH) before falling back to Windows PowerShell 5.1, fixing `&&` command chaining failures on Windows hosts with PS7 installed. (#25684, #25638) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Windows/Media safety checks: align async local-file identity validation with sync-safe-open behavior by treating win32 `dev=0` stats as unknown-device fallbacks (while keeping strict dev checks when both sides are non-zero), fixing false `Local media path is not safe to read` drops for local attachments/TTS/images. (#25708, #21989, #25699, #25878) Thanks @kevinWangSheng.
- iMessage/Reasoning safety: harden iMessage echo suppression with outbound `messageId` matching (plus scoped text fallback), and enforce reasoning-payload suppression on routed outbound delivery paths to prevent hidden thinking text from being sent as user-visible channel messages. (#25897, #1649, #25757) Thanks @rmarr and @Iranb.
- Providers/OpenRouter/Auth profiles: bypass auth-profile cooldown/disable windows for OpenRouter, so provider failures no longer put OpenRouter profiles into local cooldown and stale legacy cooldown markers are ignored in fallback and status selection paths. (#25892) Thanks @alexanderatallah for raising this and @vincentkoc for the fix.
- Providers/Google reasoning: sanitize invalid negative `thinkingBudget` payloads for Gemini 3.1 requests by dropping `-1` budgets and mapping configured reasoning effort to `thinkingLevel`, preventing malformed reasoning payloads on `google-generative-ai`. (#25900).
- Providers/SiliconFlow: normalize `thinking="off"` to `thinking: null` for `Pro/*` model payloads to avoid provider-side 400 loops and misleading compaction retries. (#25435) Thanks @Zjianru.
- Models/Bedrock auth: normalize additional Bedrock provider aliases (`bedrock`, `aws-bedrock`, `aws_bedrock`, `amazon bedrock`) to canonical `amazon-bedrock`, ensuring auth-mode resolution consistently selects AWS SDK fallback. (#25756) Thanks @fwhite13.
- Models/Providers: preserve explicit user `reasoning` overrides when merging provider model config with built-in catalog metadata, so `reasoning: false` is no longer overwritten by catalog defaults. (#25314) Thanks @lbo728.
- Gateway/Auth: allow trusted-proxy authenticated Control UI websocket sessions to skip device pairing when device identity is absent, preventing false `pairing required` failures behind trusted reverse proxies. (#25428) Thanks @SidQin-cyber.
- CLI/Memory search: accept `--query <text>` for `openclaw memory search` (while keeping positional query support), and emit a clear error when neither form is provided. (#25904, #25857) Thanks @niceysam and @stakeswky.
- CLI/Doctor: correct stale recovery hints to use valid commands (`openclaw gateway status --deep` and `openclaw configure --section model`). (#24485) Thanks @chilu18.
- Doctor/Sandbox: when sandbox mode is enabled but Docker is unavailable, surface a clear actionable warning (including failure impact and remediation) instead of a mild "skip checks" note. (#25438) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Doctor/Plugins: auto-enable now resolves third-party channel plugins by manifest plugin id (not channel id), preventing invalid `plugins.entries.<channelId>` writes when ids differ. (#25275) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Config/Plugins: treat stale removed `google-antigravity-auth` plugin references as compatibility warnings (not hard validation errors) across `plugins.entries`, `plugins.allow`, `plugins.deny`, and `plugins.slots.memory`, so startup no longer fails after antigravity removal. (#25538, #25862) Thanks @chilu18.
- Config/Meta: accept numeric `meta.lastTouchedAt` timestamps and coerce them to ISO strings, preserving compatibility with agent edits that write `Date.now()` values. (#25491) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Usage accounting: parse Moonshot/Kimi `cached_tokens` fields (including `prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens`) into normalized cache-read usage metrics. (#25436) Thanks @Elarwei001.
- Agents/Tool dispatch: await block-reply flush before tool execution starts so buffered block replies preserve message ordering around tool calls. (#25427) Thanks @SidQin-cyber.
- Agents/Billing classification: prevent long assistant/user-facing text from being rewritten as billing failures while preserving explicit `status/code/http 402` detection for oversized structured error payloads. (#25680, #25661) Thanks @lairtonlelis.
- Sessions/Tool-result guard: avoid generating synthetic `toolResult` entries for assistant turns that ended with `stopReason: "aborted"` or `"error"`, preventing orphaned tool-use IDs from triggering downstream API validation errors. (#25429) Thanks @mikaeldiakhate-cell.
- Auto-reply/Reset hooks: guarantee native `/new` and `/reset` flows emit command/reset hooks even on early-return command paths, with dedupe protection to avoid double hook emission. (#25459) Thanks @chilu18.
- Hooks/Slug generator: resolve session slug model from the agent's effective model (including defaults/fallback resolution) instead of raw agent-primary config only. (#25485) Thanks @SudeepMalipeddi.
- Sandbox/FS bridge tests: add regression coverage for dash-leading basenames to confirm sandbox file reads resolve to absolute container paths (and avoid shell-option misdiagnosis for dashed filenames). (#25891) Thanks @albertlieyingadrian.
- Sandbox/FS bridge: build canonical-path shell scripts with newline separators (not `; ` joins) to avoid POSIX `sh` `do;` syntax errors that broke sandbox file/image read-write operations. (#25737, #25824, #25868) Thanks @DennisGoldfinger and @peteragility.
- Sandbox/Config: preserve `dangerouslyAllowReservedContainerTargets` and `dangerouslyAllowExternalBindSources` during sandbox docker config resolution so explicit bind-mount break-glass overrides reach runtime validation. (#25410) Thanks @skyer-jian.
- Gateway/Security: enforce gateway auth for the exact `/api/channels` plugin root path (plus `/api/channels/` descendants), with regression coverage for query/trailing-slash variants and near-miss paths that must remain plugin-owned. (#25753) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Exec approvals: treat bare allowlist `*` as a true wildcard for parsed executables, including unresolved PATH lookups, so global opt-in allowlists work as configured. (#25250) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- iOS/Signing: improve `scripts/ios-team-id.sh` for Xcode 16+ by falling back to Xcode-managed provisioning profiles, add actionable guidance when an Apple account exists but no Team ID can be resolved, and ignore Xcode `xcodebuild` output directories (`apps/ios/build`, `apps/shared/OpenClawKit/build`, `Swabble/build`). (#22773) Thanks @brianleach.
- Control UI/Chat images: route image-click opens through a shared safe-open helper (allowing only safe URL schemes) and open new tabs with opener isolation to block tabnabbing. (#18685, #25444, #25847) Thanks @Mariana-Codebase and @shakkernerd.
- Security/Exec: sanitize inherited host execution environment before merge, canonicalize inherited PATH handling, and strip dangerous keys (`LD_*`, `DYLD_*`, `SSLKEYLOGFILE`, and related injection vectors) from non-sandboxed exec runs. (#25755) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Hooks: normalize hook session-key classification with trim/lowercase plus Unicode NFKC folding (for example full-width `HOOK:...`) so external-content wrapping cannot be bypassed by mixed-case or lookalike prefixes. (#25750) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Voice Call: add Telnyx webhook replay detection and canonicalize replay-key signature encoding (Base64/Base64URL equivalent forms dedupe together), so duplicate signed webhook deliveries no longer re-trigger side effects. (#25832) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Sandbox media: restrict sandbox media tmp-path allowances to OpenClaw-managed tmp roots instead of broad host `os.tmpdir()` trust, and add outbound/channel guardrails (tmp-path lint + media-root smoke tests) to prevent regressions in local media attachment reads. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Sandbox media: reject hard-linked OpenClaw tmp media aliases (including symlink-to-hardlink chains) during sandbox media path resolution to prevent out-of-sandbox inode alias reads. (#25820) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Message actions: enforce local media root checks for `sendAttachment` and `setGroupIcon` when `sandboxRoot` is unset, preventing attachment hydration from reading arbitrary host files via local absolute paths. Thanks @GCXWLP for reporting.
- Security/Telegram: enforce DM authorization before media download/write (including media groups) and move telegram inbound activity tracking after DM authorization, preventing unauthorized sender-triggered inbound media disk writes. Thanks @v8hid for reporting.
- Security/Workspace FS: normalize `@`-prefixed paths before workspace-boundary checks (including workspace-only read/write/edit and sandbox mount path guards), preventing absolute-path escape attempts from bypassing guard validation. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Synology Chat: enforce fail-closed allowlist behavior for DM ingress so `dmPolicy: "allowlist"` with empty `allowedUserIds` rejects all senders instead of allowing unauthorized dispatch. (#25827) Thanks @bmendonca3 for the contribution and @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Native images: enforce `tools.fs.workspaceOnly` for native prompt image auto-load (including history refs), preventing out-of-workspace sandbox mounts from being implicitly ingested as vision input. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec approvals: bind `system.run` command display/approval text to full argv when shell-wrapper inline payloads carry positional argv values, and reject payload-only `rawCommand` mismatches for those wrapper-carrier forms, preventing hidden command execution under misleading approval text. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec companion host: forward canonical `system.run` display text (not payload-only shell snippets) to the macOS exec host, and enforce rawCommand/argv consistency there for shell-wrapper positional-argv carriers and env-modifier preludes, preventing companion-side approval/display drift. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec approvals: fail closed when transparent dispatch-wrapper unwrapping exceeds the depth cap, so nested `/usr/bin/env` chains cannot bypass shell-wrapper approval gating in `allowlist` + `ask=on-miss` mode. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec: limit default safe-bin trusted directories to immutable system paths (`/bin`, `/usr/bin`) and require explicit opt-in (`tools.exec.safeBinTrustedDirs`) for package-manager/user bin paths (for example Homebrew), add security-audit findings for risky trusted-dir choices, warn at runtime when explicitly trusted dirs are group/world writable, and add doctor hints when configured `safeBins` resolve outside trusted dirs. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Gateway/Sessions: preserve `modelProvider` on `sessions.reset` and avoid incorrect provider prefixes for legacy session models. (#25874) Thanks @lbo728.
- Agents/Compaction: harden summarization prompts to preserve opaque identifiers verbatim (UUIDs, IDs, tokens, host/IP/port, URLs), reducing post-compaction identifier drift and hallucinated identifier reconstruction. Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Security/Sandbox: canonicalize bind-mount source paths via existing-ancestor realpath so symlink-parent + non-existent-leaf paths cannot bypass allowed-source-roots or blocked-path checks. Thanks @tdjackey.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Heartbeat delivery now blocks direct/DM targets when destination parsing identifies a direct chat (for example `user:<id>`, Telegram user chat IDs, or WhatsApp direct numbers/JIDs). Heartbeat runs still execute, but direct-message delivery is skipped and only non-DM destinations (for example channel/group targets) can receive outbound heartbeat messages.
- **BREAKING:** Security/Sandbox: block Docker `network: "container:<id>"` namespace-join mode by default for sandbox and sandbox-browser containers. To keep that behavior intentionally, set `agents.defaults.sandbox.docker.dangerouslyAllowContainerNamespaceJoin: true` (break-glass). Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.

## 2026.2.23

### Changes

- Providers/Kilo Gateway: add first-class `kilocode` provider support (auth, onboarding, implicit provider detection, model defaults, transcript/cache-ttl handling, and docs), with default model `kilocode/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6`. (#20212) Thanks @jrf0110 and @markijbema.
- Providers/Vercel AI Gateway: accept Claude shorthand model refs (`vercel-ai-gateway/claude-*`) by normalizing to canonical Anthropic-routed model ids. (#23985) Thanks @sallyom, @markbooch, and @vincentkoc.
- Docs/Prompt caching: add a dedicated prompt-caching reference covering `cacheRetention`, per-agent `params` merge precedence, Bedrock/OpenRouter behavior, and cache-ttl + heartbeat tuning. Thanks @svenssonaxel.
- Gateway/HTTP security headers: add optional `gateway.http.securityHeaders.strictTransportSecurity` support to emit `Strict-Transport-Security` for direct HTTPS deployments, with runtime wiring, validation, tests, and hardening docs.
- Sessions/Cron: harden session maintenance with `openclaw sessions cleanup`, per-agent store targeting, disk-budget controls (`session.maintenance.maxDiskBytes` / `highWaterBytes`), and safer transcript/archive cleanup + run-log retention behavior. (#24753) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Tools/web_search: add `provider: "kimi"` (Moonshot) support with key/config schema wiring and a corrected two-step `$web_search` tool flow that echoes tool results before final synthesis, including citation extraction from search results. (#16616, #18822) Thanks @adshine.
- Media understanding/Video: add a native Moonshot video provider and include Moonshot in auto video key detection, plus refactor video execution to honor `entry/config/provider` baseUrl+header precedence (matching audio behavior). (#12063) Thanks @xiaoyaner0201.
- Agents/Config: support per-agent `params` overrides merged on top of model defaults (including `cacheRetention`) so mixed-traffic agents can tune cache behavior independently. (#17470, #17112) Thanks @rrenamed.
- Agents/Bootstrap: cache bootstrap file snapshots per session key and clear them on session reset/delete, reducing prompt-cache invalidations from in-session `AGENTS.md`/`MEMORY.md` writes. (#22220) Thanks @anisoptera.

### Fixes

- Security/Config: redact sensitive-looking dynamic catchall keys in `config.get` snapshots (for example `env.*` and `skills.entries.*.env.*`) and preserve round-trip restore behavior for those redacted sentinels. Thanks @merc1305.
- Tests/Vitest: tier local parallel worker defaults by host memory, keep gateway serial by default on non-high-memory hosts, and document a low-profile fallback command for memory-constrained land/gate runs to prevent local OOMs. (#24719) Thanks @ngutman.
- WhatsApp/Group policy: fix `groupAllowFrom` sender filtering when `groupPolicy: "allowlist"` is set without explicit `groups` - previously all group messages were blocked even for allowlisted senders. (#24670) Thanks @lailoo.
- Agents/Context pruning: extend `cache-ttl` eligibility to Moonshot/Kimi and ZAI/GLM providers (including OpenRouter model refs), so `contextPruning.mode: "cache-ttl"` is no longer silently skipped for those sessions. (#24497) Thanks @lailoo.
- Doctor/Memory: query gateway-side default-agent memory embedding readiness during `openclaw doctor` (instead of inferring from generic gateway health), and warn when the gateway memory probe is unavailable or not ready while keeping `openclaw configure` remediation guidance. (#22327) thanks @therk.
- Sessions/Store: canonicalize inbound mixed-case session keys for metadata and route updates, and migrate legacy case-variant entries to a single lowercase key to prevent duplicate sessions and missing TUI/WebUI history. (#9561) Thanks @hillghost86.
- Telegram/Reactions: soft-fail reaction action errors (policy/token/emoji/API), accept snake_case `message_id`, and fallback to inbound message-id context when explicit `messageId` is omitted so DM reactions stay stable without regeneration loops. (#20236, #21001) Thanks @PeterShanxin and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/Polling: scope persisted polling offsets to bot identity and reuse a single awaited runner-stop path on abort/retry, preventing cross-token offset bleed and overlapping pollers during restart/error recovery. (#10850, #11347) Thanks @talhaorak, @anooprdawar, and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/Reasoning: when `/reasoning off` is active, suppress reasoning-only delivery segments and block raw fallback resend of suppressed `Reasoning:`/`<think>` text, preventing internal reasoning leakage in legacy sessions while preserving answer delivery. (#24626, #24518).
- Agents/Reasoning: when model-default thinking is active (for example `thinking=low`), keep auto-reasoning disabled unless explicitly enabled, preventing `Reasoning:` thinking-block leakage in channel replies. (#24335, #24290) thanks @Kay-051.
- Agents/Reasoning: avoid classifying provider reasoning-required errors as context overflows so these failures no longer trigger compaction-style overflow recovery. (#24593) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Models: codify `agents.defaults.model` / `agents.defaults.imageModel` config-boundary input as `string | {primary,fallbacks}`, split explicit vs effective model resolution, and fix `models status --agent` source attribution so defaults-inherited agents are labeled as `defaults` while runtime selection still honors defaults fallback. (#24210) thanks @bianbiandashen.
- Agents/Compaction: pass `agentDir` into manual `/compact` command runs so compaction auth/profile resolution stays scoped to the active agent. (#24133) thanks @miloudbelarebia.
- Agents/Compaction: pass model metadata through the embedded runtime so safeguard summarization can run when `ctx.model` is unavailable, avoiding repeated `"Summary unavailable due to context limits"` fallback summaries. (#3479) Thanks @battman21, @hanxiao and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Compaction: cancel safeguard compaction when summary generation cannot run (missing model/API key or summarization failure), preserving history instead of truncating to fallback `"Summary unavailable"` text. (#10711) Thanks @DukeDeSouth and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Tools: make `session_status` read transcript-derived usage mid-turn and tail-read session logs for cache-aware context reporting without full-log scans. (#22387) Thanks @1ucian.
- Agents/Overflow: detect additional provider context-overflow error shapes (including `input length` + `max_tokens` exceed-context variants) so failures route through compaction/recovery paths instead of leaking raw provider errors to users. (#9951) Thanks @echoVic.
- Agents/Overflow: add Chinese context-overflow pattern detection in `isContextOverflowError` so localized provider errors route through overflow recovery paths. (#22855) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Agents/Failover: treat HTTP 502/503/504 errors as failover-eligible transient timeouts so fallback chains can switch providers/models during upstream outages instead of retrying the same failing target. (#20999) Thanks @taw0002 and @vincentkoc.
- Auto-reply/Inbound metadata: hide direct-chat `message_id`/`message_id_full` and sender metadata only from normalized chat type (not sender-id sentinels), preserving group metadata visibility and preventing sender-id spoofed direct-mode classification. (#24373) thanks @jd316.
- Auto-reply/Inbound metadata: move dynamic inbound `flags` (reply/forward/thread/history) from system metadata to user-context conversation info, preventing turn-by-turn prompt-cache invalidation from flag toggles. (#21785) Thanks @aidiffuser.
- Auto-reply/Sessions: remove auth-key labels from `/new` and `/reset` confirmation messages so session reset notices never expose API key prefixes or env-key labels in chat output. (#24384, #24409) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Slack/Group policy: move Slack account `groupPolicy` defaulting to provider-level schema defaults so multi-account configs inherit top-level `channels.slack.groupPolicy` instead of silently overriding inheritance with per-account `allowlist`. (#17579) Thanks @ZetiMente.
- Providers/Anthropic: skip `context-1m-*` beta injection for OAuth/subscription tokens (`sk-ant-oat-*`) while preserving OAuth-required betas, avoiding Anthropic 401 auth failures when `params.context1m` is enabled. (#10647, #20354) Thanks @ClumsyWizardHands and @dcruver.
- Providers/DashScope: mark DashScope-compatible `openai-completions` endpoints as `supportsDeveloperRole=false` so OpenClaw sends `system` instead of unsupported `developer` role on Qwen/DashScope APIs. (#19130) Thanks @Putzhuawa and @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Bedrock: disable prompt-cache retention for non-Anthropic Bedrock models so Nova/Mistral requests do not send unsupported cache metadata. (#20866) Thanks @pierreeurope.
- Providers/Bedrock: apply Anthropic-Claude cacheRetention defaults and runtime pass-through for `amazon-bedrock/*anthropic.claude*` model refs, while keeping non-Anthropic Bedrock models excluded. (#22303) Thanks @snese.
- Providers/OpenRouter: remove conflicting top-level `reasoning_effort` when injecting nested `reasoning.effort`, preventing OpenRouter 400 payload-validation failures for reasoning models. (#24120) thanks @tenequm.
- Plugins/Install: when npm install returns 404 for bundled channel npm specs, fallback to bundled channel sources and complete install/enable persistence instead of failing plugin install. (#12849) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Gemini OAuth/Auth: resolve npm global shim install layouts while discovering Gemini CLI credentials, preventing false "Gemini CLI not found" onboarding/auth failures when shim paths are on `PATH`. (#27585) Thanks @ehgamemo and @vincentkoc.
- Providers/Groq: avoid classifying Groq TPM limit errors as context overflow so throttling paths no longer trigger overflow recovery logic. (#16176) Thanks @dddabtc.
- Gateway/Restart: treat child listener PIDs as owned by the service runtime PID during restart health checks to avoid false stale-process kills and restart timeouts on launchd/systemd. (#24696) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Config/Write: apply `unsetPaths` with immutable path-copy updates so config writes never mutate caller-provided objects, and harden `openclaw config get/set/unset` path traversal by rejecting prototype-key segments and inherited-property traversal. (#24134) thanks @frankekn.
- Channels/WhatsApp: accept `channels.whatsapp.enabled` in config validation to match built-in channel auto-enable behavior, preventing `Unrecognized key: "enabled"` failures during channel setup. (#24263).
- Security/Exec: detect obfuscated commands before exec allowlist decisions and require explicit approval for obfuscation patterns. (#8592) Thanks @CornBrother0x and @vincentkoc.
- Security/ACP: harden ACP client permission auto-approval to require trusted core tool IDs, ignore untrusted `toolCall.kind` hints, and scope `read` auto-approval to the active working directory so unknown tool names and out-of-scope file reads always prompt. Thanks @nedlir for reporting.
- Security/Skills: escape user-controlled prompt, filename, and output-path values in `openai-image-gen` HTML gallery generation to prevent stored XSS in generated `index.html` output. (#12538) Thanks @CornBrother0x.
- Security/Skills: harden `skill-creator` packaging by skipping symlink entries and rejecting files whose resolved paths escape the selected skill root. (#24260, #16959) Thanks @CornBrother0x and @vincentkoc.
- Security/OTEL: redact sensitive values (API keys, tokens, credential fields) from diagnostics-otel log bodies, log attributes, and error/reason span fields before OTLP export. (#12542) Thanks @brandonwise.
- Security/CI: add pre-commit security hook coverage for private-key detection and production dependency auditing, and enforce those checks in CI alongside baseline secret scanning. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Skills/Python: harden skill script packaging and validation edge cases (self-including `.skill` outputs, CRLF frontmatter parsing, strict `--days` validation, and safer image file loading), with expanded Python regression coverage. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Skills/Python: add CI + pre-commit linting (`ruff`) and pytest discovery coverage for Python scripts/tests under `skills/`, including package test execution from repo root. Thanks @vincentkoc.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** browser SSRF policy now defaults to trusted-network mode (`browser.ssrfPolicy.dangerouslyAllowPrivateNetwork=true` when unset), and canonical config uses `browser.ssrfPolicy.dangerouslyAllowPrivateNetwork` instead of `browser.ssrfPolicy.allowPrivateNetwork`. `openclaw doctor --fix` migrates the legacy key automatically.

## 2026.2.22

### Changes

- Control UI/Agents: make the Tools panel data-driven from runtime `tools.catalog`, add per-tool provenance labels (`core` / `plugin:<id>` + optional marker), and keep a static fallback list when the runtime catalog is unavailable. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Web Search/Gemini: add grounded Gemini provider support with provider auto-detection and config/docs updates. (#13075, #13074) Thanks @akoscz.
- Control UI/Cron: add full web cron edit parity (including clone and richer validation/help text), plus all-jobs run history with pagination/search/sort/multi-filter controls and improved cron page layout for cleaner scheduling and failure triage workflows. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Provider/Mistral: add support for the Mistral provider, including memory embeddings and voice support. (#23845) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Update/Core: add an optional built-in auto-updater for package installs (`update.auto.*`), default-off, with stable rollout delay+jitter and beta hourly cadence.
- CLI/Update: add `openclaw update --dry-run` to preview channel/tag/target/restart actions without mutating config, installing, syncing plugins, or restarting.
- Config/UI: add tag-aware settings filtering and broaden config labels/help copy so fields are easier to discover and understand in the dashboard config screen.
- Channels/Synology Chat: add a native Synology Chat channel plugin with webhook ingress, direct-message routing, outbound send/media support, per-account config, and DM policy controls. (#23012).
- iOS/Talk: prefetch TTS segments and suppress expected speech-cancellation errors for smoother talk playback. (#22833) Thanks @ngutman.
- Memory/FTS: add Spanish and Portuguese stop-word filtering for query expansion in FTS-only search mode, improving conversational recall for both languages. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/FTS: add Japanese-aware query expansion tokenization and stop-word filtering (including mixed-script terms like ASCII + katakana) for FTS-only search mode. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/FTS: add Korean stop-word filtering and particle-aware keyword extraction (including mixed Korean/English stems) for query expansion in FTS-only search mode. (#18899) Thanks @ruypang.
- Memory/FTS: add Arabic stop-word filtering for query expansion in FTS-only search mode to reduce conversational filler in Arabic memory searches. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Discord/Allowlist: canonicalize resolved Discord allowlist names to IDs and split resolution flow for clearer fail-closed behavior.
- Channels/Config: unify channel preview streaming config handling with a shared resolver and canonical migration path.
- Gateway/Auth: unify call/probe/status/auth credential-source precedence on shared resolver helpers, with table-driven parity coverage across gateway entrypoints.
- Gateway/Auth: refactor gateway credential resolution and websocket auth handshake paths to use shared typed auth contexts, including explicit `auth.deviceToken` support in connect frames and tests.
- Skills: remove bundled `food-order` skill from this repo; manage/install it from ClawHub instead.
- Docs/Subagents: make thread-bound session guidance channel-first instead of Discord-specific, and list thread-supporting channels explicitly. (#23589) Thanks @osolmaz.

### Fixes

- Sessions/Resilience: ignore invalid persisted `sessionFile` metadata and fall back to the derived safe transcript path instead of aborting session resolution for handlers and tooling. (#16061) Thanks @haoyifan and @vincentkoc.
- Sessions/Paths: resolve symlinked state-dir aliases during transcript-path validation while preserving safe cross-agent/state-root compatibility for valid `agents/<id>/sessions/**` paths. (#18593) Thanks @EpaL and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Compaction: count auto-compactions only after a non-retry `auto_compaction_end`, keeping session `compactionCount` aligned to completed compactions (#24056). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Security/CLI: redact sensitive values in `openclaw config get` output before printing config paths, preventing credential leakage to terminal output/history. (#13683) Thanks @SleuthCo.
- Agents/Moonshot: force `supportsDeveloperRole=false` for Moonshot-compatible `openai-completions` models (provider `moonshot` and Moonshot base URLs), so initial runs no longer send unsupported `developer` roles that trigger `ROLE_UNSPECIFIED` errors. (#21060, #22194) Thanks @ShengFuC.
- Agents/Kimi: classify Moonshot `Your request exceeded model token limit` failures as context overflows so auto-compaction and user-facing overflow recovery trigger correctly instead of surfacing raw invalid-request errors. (#9562) Thanks @danilofalcao.
- Providers/Moonshot: mark Kimi K2.5 as image-capable in implicit + onboarding model definitions, and refresh stale explicit provider capability fields (`input`/`reasoning`/context limits) from implicit catalogs so existing configs pick up Moonshot vision support without manual model rewrites. (#13135, #4459) Thanks @manikv12.
- Agents/Transcript: enable consecutive-user turn merging for strict non-OpenAI `openai-completions` providers (for example Moonshot/Kimi), reducing `roles must alternate` ordering failures on OpenAI-compatible endpoints while preserving current OpenRouter/Opencode behavior. (#7693).
- Install/Discord Voice: make the native Opus decoder optional so `openclaw` install/update no longer hard-fails when native builds fail, while keeping `opusscript` as the runtime fallback decoder for Discord voice flows. (#23737, #23733, #23703) Thanks @jeadland, @Sheetaa, and @Breakyman.
- Docker/Setup: precreate `$OPENCLAW_CONFIG_DIR/identity` during `docker-setup.sh` so CLI commands that need device identity (for example `devices list`) avoid `EACCES .. /home/node/.openclaw/identity` failures on restrictive bind mounts. (#23948) Thanks @ackson-beep.
- Exec/Background: stop applying the default exec timeout to background sessions (`background: true` or explicit `yieldMs`) when no explicit timeout is set, so long-running background jobs are no longer terminated at the default timeout boundary. (#23303).
- Slack/Threading: sessions: keep parent-session forking and thread-history context active beyond first turn by removing first-turn-only gates in session init, thread-history fetch, and reply prompt context injection. (#23843, #23090) Thanks @vincentkoc and @Taskle.
- Slack/Threading: respect `replyToMode` when Slack auto-populates top-level `thread_ts`, and ignore inline `replyToId` directive tags when `replyToMode` is `off` so thread forcing stays disabled unless explicitly configured. (#23839, #23320, #23513) Thanks @vincentkoc and @dorukardahan.
- Slack/Extension: forward `message read` `threadId` to `readMessages` and use delivery-context `threadId` as outbound `thread_ts` fallback so extension replies/reads stay in the correct Slack thread. (#22216, #22485, #23836) Thanks @vincentkoc, @lan17 and @dorukardahan.
- Slack/Upload: resolve bare user IDs (U-prefix) to DM channel IDs via `conversations.open`, and replace `files.uploadV2` with Slack's external 3-step upload flow (`files.getUploadURLExternal` → presigned upload POST → `files.completeUploadExternal`) to avoid `missing_scope`/`invalid_arguments` upload failures in DM and threaded media replies (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Webchat/Chat: apply assistant `final` payload messages directly to chat state so sent turns render without waiting for a full history refresh cycle. (#14928) Thanks @BradGroux.
- Webchat/Chat: for out-of-band final events (for example tool-call side runs), append provided final assistant payloads directly instead of forcing a transient history reset. (#11139) Thanks @AkshayNavle.
- Webchat/Performance: reload `chat.history` after final events only when the final payload lacks a renderable assistant message, avoiding expensive full-history refreshes on normal turns. (#20588) Thanks @amzzzzzzz.
- Webchat/Sessions: preserve external session routing metadata when internal `chat.send` turns run under `webchat`, so explicit channel-keyed sessions (for example Telegram) no longer get rewritten to `webchat` and misroute follow-up delivery. (#23258) Thanks @binary64.
- Webchat/Sessions: preserve existing session `label` across `/new` and `/reset` rollovers so reset sessions remain discoverable in session history lists. (#23755) Thanks @ThunderStormer.
- Gateway/Chat UI: strip inline reply/audio directive tags from non-streaming final webchat broadcasts (including `chat.inject`) while preserving empty-string message content when tags are the entire reply. (#23298) Thanks @SidQin-cyber.
- Chat/UI: strip inline reply/audio directive tags (`[[reply_to_current]]`, `[[reply_to:<id>]]`, `[[audio_as_voice]]`) from displayed chat history, live chat event output, and session preview snippets so control tags no longer leak into user-visible surfaces.
- Gateway/Chat UI: sanitize non-streaming final `chat.send`/`chat.inject` payload text with the same envelope/untrusted-context stripping used by `chat.history`, preventing `<<<EXTERNAL_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT...>>>` wrapper markup from rendering in Control UI chat. (#24012) Thanks @mittelaltergouda.
- Telegram/Media: send a user-facing Telegram reply when media download fails (non-size errors) instead of silently dropping the message.
- Telegram/Webhook: keep webhook monitors alive until gateway abort signals fire, preventing false channel exits and immediate webhook auto-restart loops.
- Telegram/Polling: retry recoverable setup-time network failures in monitor startup and await runner teardown before retry to avoid overlapping polling sessions.
- Telegram/Polling: clear Telegram webhooks (`deleteWebhook`) before starting long-poll `getUpdates`, including retry handling for transient cleanup failures.
- Telegram/Webhook: add `channels.telegram.webhookPort` config support and pass it through plugin startup wiring to the monitor listener.
- Browser/Extension Relay: refactor the MV3 worker to preserve debugger attachments across relay drops, auto-reconnect with bounded backoff+jitter, persist and rehydrate attached tab state via `chrome.storage.session`, recover from `target_closed` navigation detaches, guard stale socket handlers, enforce per-tab operation locks and per-request timeouts, and add lifecycle keepalive/badge refresh hooks (`alarms`, `webNavigation`). (#15099, #6175, #8468, #9807).
- Browser/Relay: treat extension websocket as connected only when `OPEN`, allow reconnect when a stale `CLOSING/CLOSED` extension socket lingers, and guard stale socket message/close handlers so late events cannot clear active relay state; includes regression coverage for live-duplicate `409` rejection and immediate reconnect-after-close races. (#15099, #18698, #20688).
- Browser/Remote CDP: extend stale-target recovery so `ensureTabAvailable()` now reuses the sole available tab for remote CDP profiles (same behavior as extension profiles) while preserving strict `tab not found` errors when multiple tabs exist; includes remote-profile regression tests. (#15989).
- Gateway/Pairing: treat `operator.admin` as satisfying other `operator.*` scope checks during device-auth verification so local CLI/TUI sessions stop entering pairing-required loops for pairing/approval-scoped commands. (#22062, #22193, #21191) Thanks @Botaccess, @jhartshorn, and @ctbritt.
- Gateway/Pairing: auto-approve loopback `scope-upgrade` pairing requests (including device-token reconnects) so local clients do not disconnect on pairing-required scope elevation. (#23708) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Gateway/Scopes: include `operator.read` and `operator.write` in default operator connect scope bundles across CLI, Control UI, and macOS clients so write-scoped announce/sub-agent follow-up calls no longer hit `pairing required` disconnects on loopback gateways. (#22582) thanks @YuzuruS.
- Gateway/Pairing: treat operator.admin pairing tokens as satisfying operator.write requests so legacy devices stop looping through scope-upgrade prompts introduced in 2026.2.19. (#23125, #23006) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Gateway/Restart: fix restart-loop edge cases by keeping `openclaw.mjs -> dist/entry.js` bootstrap detection explicit, reacquiring the gateway lock for in-process restart fallback paths, and tightening restart-loop regression coverage. (#23416) Thanks @jeffwnli.
- Gateway/Lock: use optional gateway-port reachability as a primary stale-lock liveness signal (and wire gateway run-loop lock acquisition to the resolved port), reducing false "already running" lockouts after unclean exits. (#23760) Thanks @Operative-001.
- Delivery/Queue: quarantine queue entries immediately on known permanent delivery errors (for example invalid recipients or missing conversation references) by moving them to `failed/` instead of retrying on every restart. (#23794) Thanks @aldoeliacim.
- Cron/Status: split execution outcome (`lastRunStatus`) from delivery outcome (`lastDeliveryStatus`) in persisted cron state, finished events, and run history so failed/unknown announcement delivery is visible without conflating it with run errors.
- Cron/Delivery: route text-only announce jobs with explicit thread/topic targets through direct outbound delivery so forum/thread destinations do not get dropped by intermediary announce turns. (#23841) Thanks @AndrewArto.
- Cron: honor `cron.maxConcurrentRuns` in the timer loop so due jobs can execute up to the configured parallelism instead of always running serially. (#11595) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Cron/Run: enforce the same per-job timeout guard for manual `cron.run` executions as timer-driven runs, including abort propagation for isolated agent jobs, so forced runs cannot wedge indefinitely. (#23704) Thanks @tkuehnl.
- Cron/Run: persist the manual-run `runningAtMs` marker before releasing the cron lock so overlapping timer ticks cannot start the same job concurrently (#23993). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Cron/Startup: enforce per-job timeout guards for startup catch-up replay runs so missed isolated jobs cannot hang indefinitely during gateway boot recovery (#23966). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Cron/Main session: honor abort/timeout signals while retrying `wakeMode=now` heartbeat contention loops so main-target cron runs stop promptly instead of waiting through the full busy-retry window (#23967). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Cron/Schedule: for `every` jobs, prefer `lastRunAtMs + everyMs` when still in the future after restarts, then fall back to anchor scheduling for catch-up windows, so NEXT timing matches the last successful cadence. (#22895) Thanks @SidQin-cyber.
- Cron/Service: execute manual `cron.run` jobs outside the cron lock (while still persisting started/finished state atomically) so `cron.list` and `cron.status` remain responsive during long forced runs. (#23628) Thanks @dsgraves.
- Cron/Timer: keep a watchdog recheck timer armed while `onTimer` is actively executing so the scheduler continues polling even if a due-run tick stalls for an extended period. (#23628) Thanks @dsgraves.
- Cron/Run log: clean up settled per-path run-log write queue entries so long-running cron uptime does not retain stale promise bookkeeping in memory (#23968). Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Cron/Run log: harden `cron.runs` run-log path resolution by rejecting path-separator `id`/`jobId` inputs and enforcing reads within the per-cron `runs/` directory. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Cron/Announce: when announce delivery target resolution fails (for example multiple configured channels with no explicit target), skip injecting fallback `Cron (error): ...` into the main session so runs fail cleanly without accidental last-route sends. (#24074) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Cron/Telegram: validate cron `delivery.to` with shared Telegram target parsing and resolve legacy `@username`/`t.me` targets to numeric IDs at send-time for deterministic delivery target writeback. (#21930) Thanks @kesor.
- Telegram/Targets: normalize unprefixed topic-qualified targets through the shared parse/normalize path so valid `@channel:topic:<id>` and `<chatId>:topic:<id>` routes are recognized again. (#24166) Thanks @obviyus.
- Cron/Isolation: force fresh session IDs for isolated cron runs so `sessionTarget="isolated"` executions never reuse prior run context. (#23470) Thanks @echoVic.
- Plugins/Install: strip `workspace:*` devDependency entries from copied plugin manifests before `npm install --omit=dev`, preventing `EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL` install failures for npm-published channel plugins (including Feishu and MS Teams).
- Feishu/Plugins: restore bundled Feishu SDK availability for global installs and strip `openclaw: workspace:*` from plugin `devDependencies` during plugin-version sync so npm-installed Feishu plugins do not fail dependency install. (#23611, #23645, #23603).
- Config/Channels: auto-enable built-in channels by writing `channels.<id>.enabled=true` (not `plugins.entries.<id>`), and stop adding built-ins to `plugins.allow`, preventing `plugins.entries.telegram: plugin not found` validation failures.
- Config/Channels: when `plugins.allow` is active, auto-enable/enable flows now also allowlist configured built-in channels so `channels.<id>.enabled=true` cannot remain blocked by restrictive plugin allowlists.
- Plugins/Discovery: ignore scanned extension backup/disabled directory patterns (for example `.backup-*`, `.bak`, `.disabled*`) and move updater backup directories under `.openclaw-install-backups`, preventing duplicate plugin-id collisions from archived copies.
- Plugins/CLI: make `openclaw plugins enable` and plugin install/link flows update allowlists via shared plugin-enable policy so enabled plugins are not left disabled by allowlist mismatch. (#23190) Thanks @downwind7clawd-ctrl.
- Security/Voice Call: harden media stream WebSocket handling against pre-auth idle-connection DoS by adding strict pre-start timeouts, pending/per-IP connection limits, and total connection caps for streaming endpoints. Thanks @jiseoung for reporting.
- Security/Sessions: redact sensitive token patterns from `sessions_history` tool output and surface `contentRedacted` metadata when masking occurs. (#16928) Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Security/Exec: stop trusting `PATH`-derived directories for safe-bin allowlist checks, add explicit `tools.exec.safeBinTrustedDirs`, and pin safe-bin shell execution to resolved absolute executable paths to prevent binary-shadowing approval bypasses. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Elevated: match `tools.elevated.allowFrom` against sender identities only (not recipient `ctx.To`), closing a recipient-token bypass for `/elevated` authorization. Thanks @jiseoung for reporting.
- Security/Feishu: enforce ID-only allowlist matching for DM/group sender authorization, normalize Feishu ID prefixes during checks, and ignore mutable display names so display-name collisions cannot satisfy allowlist entries. Thanks @jiseoung for reporting.
- Security/Group policy: harden `channels.*.groups.*.toolsBySender` matching by requiring explicit sender-key types (`id:`, `e164:`, `username:`, `name:`), preventing cross-identifier collisions across mutable/display-name fields while keeping legacy untyped keys on a deprecated ID-only path. Thanks @jiseoung for reporting.
- Channels/Group policy: fail closed when `groupPolicy: "allowlist"` is set without explicit `groups`, honor account-level `groupPolicy` overrides, and enforce `groupPolicy: "disabled"` as a hard group block. (#22215) Thanks @etereo.
- Telegram/Discord extensions: propagate trusted `mediaLocalRoots` through extension outbound `sendMedia` options so extension direct-send media paths honor agent-scoped local-media allowlists. (#20029, #21903, #23227).
- Agents/Exec: honor explicit agent context when resolving `tools.exec` defaults for runs with opaque/non-agent session keys, so per-agent `host/security/ask` policies are applied consistently. (#11832).
- CLI/Sessions: resolve implicit session-store path templates with the configured default agent ID so named-agent setups do not silently read/write stale `agent:main` session/auth stores. (#22685) Thanks @sene1337.
- Doctor/Security: add an explicit warning that `approvals.exec.enabled=false` disables forwarding only, while enforcement remains driven by host-local `exec-approvals.json` policy. (#15047).
- Sandbox/Docker: default sandbox container user to the workspace owner `uid:gid` when `agents.*.sandbox.docker.user` is unset, fixing non-root gateway file-tool permissions under capability-dropped containers. (#20979).
- Plugins/Media sandbox: propagate trusted `mediaLocalRoots` through plugin action dispatch (including Discord/Telegram action adapters) so plugin send paths enforce the same agent-scoped local-media sandbox roots as core outbound sends. (#20258, #22718).
- Agents/Workspace guard: map sandbox container-workdir file-tool paths (for example `/workspace/...` and `file:///workspace/...`) to host workspace roots before workspace-only validation, preventing false `Path escapes sandbox root` rejections for sandbox file tools. (#9560).
- Gateway/Exec approvals: expire approval requests immediately when no approval-capable gateway clients are connected and no forwarding targets are available, avoiding delayed approvals after restarts/offline approver windows. (#22144).
- Security/Exec approvals: when approving wrapper commands with allow-always in allowlist mode, persist inner executable paths for known dispatch wrappers (`env`, `nice`, `nohup`, `stdbuf`, `timeout`) and fail closed (no persisted entry) when wrapper unwrapping is not safe, preventing wrapper-path approval bypasses. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Node/macOS exec host: default headless macOS node `system.run` to local execution and only route through the companion app when `OPENCLAW_NODE_EXEC_HOST=app` is explicitly set, avoiding companion-app filesystem namespace mismatches during exec. (#23547).
- Sandbox/Media: map container workspace paths (`/workspace/...` and `file:///workspace/...`) back to the host sandbox root for outbound media validation, preventing false deny errors for sandbox-generated local media. (#23083) Thanks @echo931.
- Sandbox/Docker: apply custom bind mounts after workspace mounts and prioritize bind-source resolution on overlapping paths, so explicit workspace binds are no longer ignored. (#22669) Thanks @tasaankaeris.
- Exec approvals/Forwarding: restore Discord text forwarding when component approvals are not configured, and carry request snapshots through resolve events so resolved notices still forward after cache misses/restarts. (#22988) Thanks @bubmiller.
- Control UI/WebSocket: stop and clear the browser gateway client on UI teardown so remounts cannot leave orphan websocket clients that create duplicate active connections. (#23422) Thanks @floatinggball-design.
- Control UI/WebSocket: send a stable per-tab `instanceId` in websocket connect frames so reconnect cycles keep a consistent client identity for diagnostics and presence tracking. (#23616) Thanks @zq58855371-ui.
- Config/Memory: allow `"mistral"` in `agents.defaults.memorySearch.provider` and `agents.defaults.memorySearch.fallback` schema validation. (#14934) Thanks @ThomsenDrake.
- Feishu/Commands: in group chats, command authorization now falls back to top-level `channels.feishu.allowFrom` when per-group `allowFrom` is not set, so `/command` no longer gets blocked by an unintended empty allowlist. (#23756).
- Dev tooling: prevent `CLAUDE.md` symlink target regressions by excluding CLAUDE symlink sentinels from `oxfmt` and marking them `-text` in `.gitattributes`, so formatter/EOL normalization cannot reintroduce trailing-newline targets. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Compaction: restore embedded compaction safeguard/context-pruning extension loading in production by wiring bundled extension factories into the resource loader instead of runtime file-path resolution. (#22349; landed from contributor PR #5005 by @Diaspar4u) Thanks @Diaspar4u.
- Feishu/Media: for inbound video messages that include both `file_key` (video) and `image_key` (thumbnail), prefer `file_key` when downloading media so video attachments are saved instead of silently failing on thumbnail keys. (#23633).
- Hooks/Loader: avoid redundant hook-module recompilation on gateway restart by skipping cache-busting for bundled hooks and using stable file metadata keys (`mtime+size`) for mutable workspace/managed/plugin hook imports. (#16953) Thanks @mudrii.
- Hooks/Cron: suppress duplicate main-session events for delivered hook turns and mark `SILENT_REPLY_TOKEN` (`NO_REPLY`) early exits as delivered to prevent hook context pollution. (#20678) Thanks @JonathanWorks.
- Providers/OpenRouter: inject `cache_control` on system prompts for OpenRouter Anthropic models to improve prompt-cache reuse. (#17473) Thanks @rrenamed.
- Installer/Smoke tests: remove legacy `OPENCLAW_USE_GUM` overrides from docker install-smoke runs so tests exercise installer auto TTY detection behavior directly.
- Providers/OpenRouter: allow pass-through OpenRouter and Opencode model IDs in live model filtering so custom routed model IDs are treated as modern refs. (#14312) Thanks @Joly0.
- Providers/OpenRouter: default reasoning to enabled when the selected model advertises `reasoning: true` and no session/directive override is set. (#22513) Thanks @zwffff.
- Providers/OpenRouter: map `/think` levels to `reasoning.effort` in embedded runs while preserving explicit `reasoning.max_tokens` payloads. (#17236) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Providers/OpenRouter: preserve stored session provider when model IDs are vendor-prefixed (for example, `anthropic/...`) so follow-up turns do not incorrectly route to direct provider APIs. (#22753) Thanks @dndodson.
- Providers/OpenRouter: preserve the required `openrouter/` prefix for OpenRouter-native model IDs during model-ref normalization. (#12942) Thanks @omair445.
- Providers/OpenRouter: pass through provider routing parameters from model params.provider to OpenRouter request payloads for provider selection controls. (#17148) Thanks @carrotRakko.
- Providers/OpenRouter: preserve model allowlist entries containing OpenRouter preset paths (for example `openrouter/@preset/...`) by treating `/model ...@profile` auth-profile parsing as a suffix-only override. (#14120) Thanks @NotMainstream.
- Cron/Auth: propagate auth-profile resolution to isolated cron sessions so provider API keys are resolved the same way as main sessions, fixing 401 errors when using providers configured via auth-profiles. (#20689) Thanks @lailoo.
- Cron/Follow-up: pass resolved `agentDir` through isolated cron and queued follow-up embedded runs so auth/profile lookups stay scoped to the correct agent directory. (#22845) Thanks @seilk.
- Agents/Media: route tool-result `MEDIA:` extraction through shared parser validation so malformed prose like `MEDIA:-prefixed ...` is no longer treated as a local file path (prevents Telegram ENOENT tool-error overrides). (#18780) Thanks @HOYALIM.
- Logging: cap single log-file size with `logging.maxFileBytes` (default 500 MB) and suppress additional writes after cap hit to prevent disk exhaustion from repeated error storms.
- Memory/Remote HTTP: centralize remote memory HTTP calls behind a shared guarded helper (`withRemoteHttpResponse`) so embeddings and batch flows use one request/release path.
- Memory/Embeddings: apply configured remote-base host pinning (`allowedHostnames`) across OpenAI/Voyage/Gemini embedding requests to keep private/self-hosted endpoints working without cross-host drift. (#18198) Thanks @ianpcook.
- Memory/Batch: route OpenAI/Voyage/Gemini batch upload/create/status/download requests through the same guarded HTTP path for consistent SSRF policy enforcement.
- Memory/Index: detect memory source-set changes (for example enabling `sessions` after an existing memory-only index) and trigger a full reindex so existing session transcripts are indexed without requiring `--force`. (#17576) Thanks @TarsAI-Agent.
- Memory/Embeddings: enforce a per-input 8k safety cap before embedding batching and apply a conservative 2k fallback limit for local providers without declared input limits, preventing oversized session/memory chunks from triggering provider context-size failures during sync/indexing. (#6016) Thanks @batumilove.
- Memory/QMD: on Windows, resolve bare `qmd`/`mcporter` command names to npm shim executables (`.cmd`) before spawning, so qmd boot updates and mcporter-backed searches no longer fail with `spawn .. ENOENT` on default npm installs. (#23899) Thanks @arcbuilder-ai.
- Memory/QMD: parse plain-text `qmd collection list --json` output when older qmd builds ignore JSON mode, and retry memory searches once after re-ensuring managed collections when qmd returns `Collection not found ...`. (#23613) Thanks @leozhucn.
- iOS/Watch: normalize watch quick-action notification payloads, support mirrored indexed actions beyond primary/secondary, and fix iOS test-target signing/compile blockers for watch notify coverage. (#23636) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Signal/RPC: guard malformed Signal RPC JSON responses with a clear status-scoped error and add regression coverage for invalid JSON responses. (#22995) Thanks @adhitShet.
- Gateway/Subagents: guard gateway and subagent session-key/message trim paths against undefined inputs to prevent early `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim')` crashes during subagent spawn and wait flows.
- Agents/Workspace: guard `resolveUserPath` against undefined/null input to prevent `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim')` crashes when workspace paths are missing in embedded runner flows.
- Auth/Profiles: keep active `cooldownUntil`/`disabledUntil` windows immutable across retries so mid-window failures cannot extend recovery indefinitely; only recompute a backoff window after the previous deadline has expired. This resolves cron/inbound retry loops that could trap gateways until manual `usageStats` cleanup. (#23516, #23536) Thanks @arosstale.
- Channels/Security: fail closed on missing provider group policy config by defaulting runtime group policy to `allowlist` (instead of inheriting `channels.defaults.groupPolicy`) when `channels.<provider>` is absent across message channels, and align runtime + security warnings/docs to the same fallback behavior (Slack, Discord, iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, LINE, Matrix, Mattermost, Google Chat, IRC, Nextcloud Talk, Feishu, and Zalo user flows; plus Discord message/native-command paths). (#23367) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Gateway/Onboarding: harden remote gateway onboarding defaults and guidance by defaulting discovered direct URLs to `wss://`, rejecting insecure non-loopback `ws://` targets in onboarding validation, and expanding remote-security remediation messaging across gateway client/call/doctor flows. (#23476) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- CLI/Sessions: pass the configured sessions directory when resolving transcript paths in `agentCommand`, so custom `session.store` locations resume sessions reliably. Thanks @davidrudduck.
- Signal/Monitor: treat user-initiated abort shutdowns as clean exits when auto-started `signal-cli` is terminated, while still surfacing unexpected daemon exits as startup/runtime failures. (#23379) Thanks @frankekn.
- Channels/Dedupe: centralize plugin dedupe primitives in plugin SDK (memory + persistent), move Feishu inbound dedupe to a namespace-scoped persistent store, and reuse shared dedupe cache logic for Zalo webhook replay + Tlon processed-message tracking to reduce duplicate handling during reconnect/replay paths. (#23377) Thanks @SidQin-cyber.
- Channels/Delivery: remove hardcoded WhatsApp delivery fallbacks; require explicit/session channel context or auto-pick the sole configured channel when unambiguous. (#23357) Thanks @lbo728.
- ACP/Gateway: wait for gateway hello before opening ACP requests, and fail fast on pre-hello connect failures to avoid startup hangs and early `gateway not connected` request races. (#23390) Thanks @janckerchen.
- Gateway/Auth: preserve `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD` env override precedence for remote gateway call credentials after shared resolver refactors, preventing stale configured remote passwords from overriding runtime secret rotation.
- Gateway/Auth: preserve shared-token `gateway token mismatch` auth errors when `auth.token` fallback device-token checks fail, and reserve `device token mismatch` guidance for explicit `auth.deviceToken` failures.
- Gateway/Tools: when agent tools pass an allowlisted `gatewayUrl` override, resolve local override tokens from env/config fallback but keep remote overrides strict to `gateway.remote.token`, preventing local token leakage to remote targets.
- Gateway/Client: keep cached device-auth tokens on `device token mismatch` closes when the client used explicit shared token/password credentials, avoiding accidental pairing-token churn during explicit-auth failures.
- Node host/Exec: keep strict Windows allowlist behavior for `cmd.exe /c` shell-wrapper runs, and return explicit approval guidance when blocked (`SYSTEM_RUN_DENIED: allowlist miss`).
- Control UI: show pairing-required guidance (commands + mobile tokenized URL reminder) when the dashboard disconnects with `1008 pairing required`.
- Security/Audit: add `openclaw security audit` detection for open group policies that expose runtime/filesystem tools without sandbox/workspace guards (`security.exposure.open_groups_with_runtime_or_fs`).
- Security/Audit: make `gateway.real_ip_fallback_enabled` severity conditional for loopback trusted-proxy setups (warn for loopback-only `trustedProxies`, critical when non-loopback proxies are trusted). (#23428) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Exec env: block request-scoped `HOME` and `ZDOTDIR` overrides in host exec env sanitizers (Node + macOS), preventing shell startup-file execution before allowlist-evaluated command bodies. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec env: block `SHELLOPTS`/`PS4` in host exec env sanitizers and restrict shell-wrapper (`bash|sh|zsh .. -c/-lc`) request env overrides to a small explicit allowlist (`TERM`, `LANG`, `LC_*`, `COLORTERM`, `NO_COLOR`, `FORCE_COLOR`) on both node host and macOS companion paths, preventing xtrace prompt command-substitution allowlist bypasses. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- WhatsApp/Security: enforce `allowFrom` for direct-message outbound targets in all send modes (including `mode: "explicit"`), preventing sends to non-allowlisted numbers. (#20108) Thanks @zahlmann.
- Security/Exec approvals: fail closed on shell line continuations (`\\\n`/`\\\r\n`) and treat shell-wrapper execution as approval-required in allowlist mode, preventing `$\\` newline command-substitution bypasses. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Gateway: emit a startup security warning when insecure/dangerous config flags are enabled (including `gateway.controlUi.dangerouslyDisableDeviceAuth=true`) and point operators to `openclaw security audit`.
- Security/Hooks auth: normalize hook auth rate-limit client IP keys so IPv4 and IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses share one throttle bucket, preventing dual-form auth-attempt budget bypasses. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Security/Exec approvals: treat `env` and shell-dispatch wrappers as transparent during allowlist analysis on node-host and macOS companion paths so policy checks match the effective executable/inline shell payload instead of the wrapper binary, blocking wrapper-smuggled allowlist bypasses. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec approvals: require explicit safe-bin profiles for `tools.exec.safeBins` entries in allowlist mode (remove generic safe-bin profile fallback), and add `tools.exec.safeBinProfiles` for safe custom binaries so unprofiled interpreter-style entries cannot be treated as stdin-safe. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Channels: harden Slack external menu token handling by switching to CSPRNG tokens, validating token shape, requiring user identity for external option lookups, and avoiding fabricated timestamp `trigger_id` fallbacks; also switch Tlon Urbit channel IDs to CSPRNG UUIDs, centralize secure ID/token generation via shared infra helpers, and add a guardrail test to block new runtime `Date.now()+Math.random()` token/id patterns.
- Security/Hooks transforms: enforce symlink-safe containment for webhook transform module paths (including `hooks.transformsDir` and `hooks.mappings[].transform.module`) by resolving existing-path ancestors via realpath before import, while preserving in-root symlink support; add regression coverage for both escape and allow cases. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Telegram/WSL2: disable `autoSelectFamily` by default on WSL2 and memoize WSL2 detection in Telegram network decision logic to avoid repeated sync `/proc/version` probes on fetch/send paths. (#21916) Thanks @MizukiMachine.
- Telegram/Network: default Node 22+ DNS result ordering to `ipv4first` for Telegram fetch paths and add `OPENCLAW_TELEGRAM_DNS_RESULT_ORDER`/`channels.telegram.network.dnsResultOrder` overrides to reduce IPv6-path fetch failures. (#5405) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Telegram/Forward bursts: coalesce forwarded text+media updates through a dedicated forward lane debounce window that works with default inbound debounce config, while keeping forwarded control commands immediate. (#19476) thanks @napetrov.
- Telegram/Streaming: preserve archived draft preview mapping after flush and clean superseded reasoning preview bubbles so multi-message preview finals no longer cross-edit or orphan stale messages under send/rotation races. (#23202) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/Replies: scope messaging-tool text/media dedupe to same-target sends only, so cross-target tool sends can no longer silently suppress Telegram final replies.
- Telegram/Replies: normalize `file://` and local-path media variants during messaging dedupe so equivalent media paths do not produce duplicate Telegram replies.
- Telegram/Replies: extract forwarded-origin context from unified reply targets (`reply_to_message` and `external_reply`) so forward+comment metadata is preserved across partial reply shapes. (#9720) thanks @mcaxtr.
- Telegram/Polling: persist a safe update-offset watermark bounded by pending updates so crash/restart cannot skip queued lower `update_id` updates after out-of-order completion. (#23284) thanks @frankekn.
- Telegram/Polling: force-restart stuck runner instances when recoverable unhandled network rejections escape the polling task path, so polling resumes instead of silently stalling. (#19721) Thanks @jg-noncelogic.
- Slack/Slash commands: preserve the Bolt app receiver when registering external select options handlers so monitor startup does not crash on runtimes that require bound `app.options` calls. (#23209) Thanks @0xgaia.
- Slack/Telegram slash sessions: await session metadata persistence before dispatch so first-turn native slash runs do not race session-origin metadata updates. (#23065) thanks @hydro13.
- Slack/Queue routing: preserve string `thread_ts` values through collect-mode queue drain and DM `deliveryContext` updates so threaded follow-ups do not leak to the main channel when Slack thread IDs are strings. (#11934) Thanks @sandieman2 and @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/Native commands: set `ctx.Provider="telegram"` for native slash-command context so elevated gate checks resolve provider correctly (fixes `provider (ctx.Provider)` failures in `/elevated` flows). (#23748) Thanks @serhii12.
- Agents/Ollama: preserve unsafe integer tool-call arguments as exact strings during NDJSON parsing, preventing large numeric IDs from being rounded before tool execution. (#23170) Thanks @BestJoester.
- Cron/Gateway: keep `cron.list` and `cron.status` responsive during startup catch-up by avoiding a long-held cron lock while missed jobs execute. (#23106) Thanks @jayleekr.
- Gateway/Config reload: compare array-valued config paths structurally during diffing so unchanged `memory.qmd.paths` and `memory.qmd.scope.rules` no longer trigger false restart-required reloads. (#23185) Thanks @rex05ai.
- Gateway/Config reload: retry short-lived missing config snapshots during reload before skipping, preventing atomic-write unlink windows from triggering restart loops. (#23343) Thanks @lbo728.
- Cron/Scheduling: validate runtime cron expressions before schedule/stagger evaluation so malformed persisted jobs report a clear `invalid cron schedule: expr is required` error instead of crashing with `undefined.trim` failures and auto-disable churn. (#23223) Thanks @asimons81.
- Memory/QMD: migrate legacy unscoped collection bindings (for example `memory-root`) to per-agent scoped names (for example `memory-root-main`) during startup when safe, so QMD-backed `memory_search` no longer fails with `Collection not found` after upgrades. (#23228, #20727) Thanks @JLDynamics and @AaronFaby.
- Memory/QMD: normalize Han-script BM25 search queries before invoking `qmd search` so mixed CJK+Latin prompts no longer return empty results due to tokenizer mismatch. (#23426) Thanks @LunaLee0130.
- TUI/Input: enable multiline-paste burst coalescing on macOS Terminal.app and iTerm so pasted blocks no longer submit line-by-line as separate messages. (#18809) Thanks @fwends.
- TUI/RTL: isolate right-to-left script lines (Arabic/Hebrew ranges) with Unicode bidi isolation marks in TUI text sanitization so RTL assistant output no longer renders in reversed visual order in terminal chat panes. (#21936) Thanks @Asm3r96.
- TUI/Status: request immediate renders after setting `sending`/`waiting` activity states so in-flight runs always show visible progress indicators instead of appearing idle until completion. (#21549) Thanks @13Guinness.
- TUI/Input: arm Ctrl+C exit timing when clearing non-empty composer text and add a SIGINT fallback path so double Ctrl+C exits remain responsive during active runs instead of requiring an extra press or appearing stuck. (#23407) Thanks @tinybluedev.
- Agents/Fallbacks: treat JSON payloads with `type: "api_error"` + `"Internal server error"` as transient failover errors so Anthropic 500-style failures trigger model fallback. (#23193) Thanks @jarvis-lane.
- Agents/Google: sanitize non-base64 `thought_signature`/`thoughtSignature` values from assistant replay transcripts for native Google Gemini requests while preserving valid signatures and tool-call order. (#23457) Thanks @echoVic.
- Agents/Transcripts: validate assistant tool-call names (syntax/length + registered tool allowlist) before transcript persistence and during replay sanitization so malformed failover tool names no longer poison sessions with repeated provider HTTP 400 errors. (#23324) Thanks @johnsantry.
- Agents/Mistral: sanitize tool-call IDs in the embedded agent loop and generate strict provider-safe pending tool-call IDs, preventing Mistral strict9 `HTTP 400` failures on tool continuations. (#23698) Thanks @echoVic.
- Agents/Compaction: strip stale assistant usage snapshots from pre-compaction turns when replaying history after a compaction summary so context-token estimation no longer reuses pre-compaction totals and immediately re-triggers destructive follow-up compactions. (#19127) Thanks @tedwatson.
- Agents/Replies: emit a default completion acknowledgement (`✅ Done.`) only for direct/private tool-only completions with no final assistant text, while suppressing synthetic acknowledgements for channel/group sessions and runs that already delivered output via messaging tools. (#22834) Thanks @Oldshue.
- Agents/Subagents: honor `tools.subagents.tools.alsoAllow` and explicit subagent `allow` entries when resolving built-in subagent deny defaults, so explicitly granted tools (for example `sessions_send`) are no longer blocked unless re-denied in `tools.subagents.tools.deny`. (#23359) Thanks @goren-beehero.
- Agents/Subagents: make announce call timeouts configurable via `agents.defaults.subagents.announceTimeoutMs` and restore a 60s default to prevent false timeout failures on slower announce paths. (#22719) Thanks @Valadon.
- Agents/Diagnostics: include resolved lifecycle error text in `embedded run agent end` warnings so UI/TUI "Connection error" runs expose actionable provider failure reasons in gateway logs. (#23054) Thanks @Raize.
- Agents/Auth profiles: resolve `agentCommand` session scope before choosing `agentDir`/workspace so resumed runs no longer read auth from `agents/main/agent` when the resolved session belongs to a different/default agent (for example `agent:exec:*` sessions). (#24016) Thanks @abersonFAC.
- Agents/Auth profiles: skip auth-profile cooldown writes for timeout failures in embedded runner rotation so model/network timeouts do not poison same-provider fallback model selection while still allowing in-turn account rotation. (#22622) Thanks @vageeshkumar.
- Plugins/Hooks: run legacy `before_agent_start` once per agent turn and reuse that result across model-resolve and prompt-build compatibility paths, preventing duplicate hook side effects (for example duplicate external API calls). (#23289) Thanks @ksato8710.
- Models/Config: default missing Anthropic provider/model `api` fields to `anthropic-messages` during config validation so custom relay model entries are preserved instead of being dropped by runtime model registry validation. (#23332) Thanks @bigbigmonkey123.
- Gateway/Pairing: preserve existing approved token scopes when processing repair pairings that omit `scopes`, preventing empty-scope token regressions on reconnecting clients. (#21906) Thanks @paki81.
- Memory/QMD: add optional `memory.qmd.mcporter` search routing so QMD `query/search/vsearch` can run through mcporter keep-alive flows (including multi-collection paths) to reduce cold starts, while keeping searches on agent-scoped QMD state for consistent recall. (#19617) Thanks @nicole-luxe and @vignesh07.
- Infra/Network: classify undici `TypeError: fetch failed` as transient in unhandled-rejection detection even when nested causes are unclassified, preventing avoidable gateway crash loops on flaky networks. (#14345) Thanks @Unayung.
- Telegram/Retry: classify undici `TypeError: fetch failed` as recoverable in both polling and send retry paths so transient fetch failures no longer fail fast. (#16699) thanks @Glucksberg.
- Docs/Telegram: correct Node 22+ network defaults (`autoSelectFamily`, `dnsResultOrder`) and clarify Telegram setup does not use positional `openclaw channels login telegram`. (#23609) Thanks @ryanbastic.
- BlueBubbles/DM history: restore DM backfill context with account-scoped rolling history, bounded backfill retries, and safer history payload limits. (#20302) Thanks @Ryan-Haines.
- BlueBubbles/Private API cache: treat unknown (`null`) private-API cache status as disabled for send/attachment/reply flows to avoid stale-cache 500s, and log a warning when reply/effect features are requested while capability is unknown. (#23459) Thanks @echoVic.
- BlueBubbles/Webhooks: accept inbound/reaction webhook payloads when BlueBubbles omits `handle` but provides DM `chatGuid`, and harden payload extraction for array/string-wrapped message bodies so valid webhook events no longer get rejected as unparseable. (#23275) Thanks @toph31.
- Security/Audit: add `openclaw security audit` finding `gateway.nodes.allow_commands_dangerous` for risky `gateway.nodes.allowCommands` overrides, with severity upgraded to critical on remote gateway exposure.
- Gateway/Control plane: reduce cross-client write limiter contention by adding `connId` fallback keying when device ID and client IP are both unavailable.
- Security/Config: block prototype-key traversal during config merge patch and legacy migration merge helpers (`__proto__`, `constructor`, `prototype`) to prevent prototype pollution during config mutation flows. (#22968) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Security/Shell env: validate login-shell executable paths for shell-env fallback (`/etc/shells` + trusted prefixes), block `SHELL`/`HOME`/`ZDOTDIR` in config env ingestion before fallback execution, and sanitize fallback shell exec env to pin `HOME` to the real user home while dropping `ZDOTDIR` and other dangerous startup vars. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Network/SSRF: enable `autoSelectFamily` on pinned undici dispatchers (with attempt timeout) so IPv6-unreachable environments can quickly fall back to IPv4 for guarded fetch paths. (#19950) Thanks @ENAwareness.
- Security/Config: make parsed chat allowlist checks fail closed when `allowFrom` is empty, restoring expected DM/pairing gating.
- Security/Exec: in non-default setups that manually add `sort` to `tools.exec.safeBins`, block `sort --compress-program` so allowlist-mode safe-bin checks cannot bypass approval. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Exec approvals: when users choose `allow-always` for shell-wrapper commands (for example `/bin/zsh -lc ...`), persist allowlist patterns for the inner executable(s) instead of the wrapper shell binary, preventing accidental broad shell allowlisting in moderate mode. (#23276) Thanks @xrom2863.
- Security/Exec: fail closed when `tools.exec.host=sandbox` is configured/requested but sandbox runtime is unavailable. (#23398) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Security/Exec: restore runtime-aware implicit exec host selection so sandbox-off sessions keep defaulting to the gateway host, while explicit `host=sandbox` still fails closed without a sandbox runtime. (#56800).
- Security/macOS app beta: enforce path-only `system.run` allowlist matching (drop basename matches like `echo`), migrate legacy basename entries to last resolved paths when available, and harden shell-chain handling to fail closed on unsafe parse/control syntax (including quoted command substitution/backticks). This is an optional allowlist-mode feature; default installs remain deny-by-default. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Agents: auto-generate and persist a dedicated `commands.ownerDisplaySecret` when `commands.ownerDisplay=hash`, remove gateway token fallback from owner-ID prompt hashing across CLI and embedded agent runners, and centralize owner-display secret resolution in one shared helper. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Security/SSRF: expand IPv4 fetch guard blocking to include RFC special-use/non-global ranges (including benchmarking, TEST-NET, multicast, and reserved/broadcast blocks), centralize range checks into a single CIDR policy table, and reuse one shared host/IP classifier across literal + DNS checks to reduce classifier drift. Thanks @princeeismond-dot for reporting.
- Security/SSRF: block RFC2544 benchmarking range (`198.18.0.0/15`) across direct and embedded-IP paths, and normalize IPv6 dotted-quad transition literals (for example `::127.0.0.1`, `64:ff9b::8.8.8.8`) in shared IP parsing/classification.
- Security/Archive: block zip symlink escapes during archive extraction.
- Security/Media sandbox: keep tmp media allowance for absolute tmp paths only and enforce symlink-escape checks before sandbox-validated reads, preventing tmp symlink exfiltration and relative `../` sandbox escapes when sandboxes live under tmp. (#17892) Thanks @dashed.
- Browser/Upload: accept canonical in-root upload paths when the configured uploads directory is a symlink alias (for example `/tmp` -> `/private/tmp` on macOS), so browser upload validation no longer rejects valid files during client->server revalidation. (#23300, #23222, #22848) Thanks @bgaither4, @parkerati, and @Nabsku.
- Security/Discord: add `openclaw security audit` warnings for name/tag-based Discord allowlist entries (DM allowlists, guild/channel `users`, and pairing-store entries), highlighting slug-collision risk while keeping name-based matching supported, and canonicalize resolved Discord allowlist names to IDs at runtime without rewriting config files. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Gateway: block node-role connections when device identity metadata is missing.
- Security/Media: enforce inbound media byte limits during download/read across Discord, Telegram, Zalo, Microsoft Teams, and BlueBubbles to prevent oversized payload memory spikes before rejection. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Media/Understanding: preserve `application/pdf` MIME classification during text-like file heuristics so PDF uploads use PDF extraction paths instead of being inlined as raw text. (#23191) Thanks @claudeplay2026-byte.
- Security/Control UI: block symlink-based out-of-root static file reads by enforcing realpath containment and file-identity checks when serving Control UI assets and SPA fallback `index.html`. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Gateway avatars: block symlink traversal during local avatar `data:` URL resolution by enforcing realpath containment and file-identity checks before reads. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Control UI: centralize avatar URL/path validation across gateway/config helpers and enforce a 2 MB max size for local agent avatar files before `/avatar` resolution, reducing oversized-avatar memory risk without changing supported avatar formats.
- Security/Control UI avatars: harden `/avatar/:agentId` local avatar serving by rejecting symlink paths and requiring fd-level file identity + size checks before reads. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/MSTeams media: enforce allowlist checks for SharePoint reference attachment URLs and redirect targets during Graph-backed media fetches so redirect chains cannot escape configured media host boundaries. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/MSTeams media: route attachment auth-retry and Graph SharePoint download redirects through shared `safeFetch` so each hop is validated with allowlist + DNS/IP checks across the full redirect chain. (#23598) Thanks @Asm3r96 and @lewiswigmore.
- Security/MSTeams auth redirect scoping: strip bearer auth on redirect hops outside `authAllowHosts` and gate SharePoint Graph auth-header injection by auth allowlist to prevent token bleed across redirect targets. (#25045) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- MSTeams/reply reliability: when Bot Framework revokes thread turn-context proxies (for example debounced flush paths), fall back to proactive messaging/typing and continue pending sends without duplicating already delivered messages. (#27224) Thanks @openperf.
- Security/macOS discovery: fail closed for unresolved discovery endpoints by clearing stale remote selection values, use resolved service host only for SSH target derivation, and keep remote URL config aligned with resolved endpoint availability. (#21618) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- Chat/Usage/TUI: strip synthetic inbound metadata blocks (including `Conversation info` and trailing `Untrusted context` channel metadata wrappers) from displayed conversation history so internal prompt context no longer leaks into user-visible logs.
- CI/Tests: fix TypeScript case-table typing and lint assertion regressions so `pnpm check` passes again after Synology Chat landing. (#23012) Thanks @druide67.
- Security/Browser relay: harden extension relay auth token handling for `/extension` and `/cdp` pathways.
- Cron: persist `delivered` state in cron job records so delivery failures remain visible in status and logs. (#19174) Thanks @simonemacario.
- Config/Doctor: only repair the OAuth credentials directory when affected channels are configured, avoiding fresh-install noise.
- Config/Channels: whitelist `channels.modelByChannel` in config validation and exclude it from plugin auto-enable channel detection so model overrides no longer trigger `unknown channel id` validation errors or bogus `modelByChannel` plugin enables. (#23412) Thanks @ProspectOre.
- Config/Bindings: allow optional `bindings[].comment` in strict config validation so annotated binding entries no longer fail load. (#23458) Thanks @echoVic.
- Usage/Pricing: correct MiniMax M2.5 pricing defaults to fix inflated cost reporting. (#22755) Thanks @miloudbelarebia.
- Gateway/Daemon: verify gateway health after daemon restart.
- Agents/UI text: stop rewriting normal assistant billing/payment language outside explicit error contexts. (#17834) Thanks @niceysam.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** removed Google Antigravity provider support and the bundled `google-antigravity-auth` plugin. Existing `google-antigravity/*` model/profile configs no longer work; migrate to `google-gemini-cli` or other supported providers.
- **BREAKING:** tool-failure replies now hide raw error details by default. OpenClaw still sends a failure summary, but detailed error suffixes (for example provider/runtime messages and local path fragments) now require `/verbose on` or `/verbose full`.
- **BREAKING:** CLI local onboarding now sets `session.dmScope` to `per-channel-peer` by default for new/implicit DM scope configuration. If you depend on shared DM continuity across senders, explicitly set `session.dmScope` to `main`. (#23468) Thanks @bmendonca3.
- **BREAKING:** unify channel preview-streaming config to `channels.<channel>.streaming` with enum values `off | partial | block | progress`, and move Slack native stream toggle to `channels.slack.nativeStreaming`. Legacy keys (`streamMode`, Slack boolean `streaming`) are still read and migrated by `openclaw doctor --fix`, but canonical saved config/docs now use the unified names.
- **BREAKING:** remove legacy Gateway device-auth signature `v1`. Device-auth clients must now sign `v2` payloads with the per-connection `connect.challenge` nonce and send `device.nonce`; nonce-less connects are rejected.

## 2026.2.21

### Changes

- Models/Google: add Gemini 3.1 support (`google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`).
- Providers/Onboarding: add Volcano Engine (Doubao) and BytePlus providers/models (including coding variants), wire onboarding auth choices for interactive + non-interactive flows, and align docs to `volcengine-api-key`. (#7967) Thanks @funmore123.
- Channels/CLI: add per-account/channel `defaultTo` outbound routing fallback so `openclaw agent --deliver` can send without explicit `--reply-to` when a default target is configured. (#16985) Thanks @KirillShchetinin.
- Channels: allow per-channel model overrides via `channels.modelByChannel` and note them in /status. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Telegram/Streaming: simplify preview streaming config to `channels.telegram.streaming` (boolean), auto-map legacy `streamMode` values, and remove block-vs-partial preview branching. (#22012) thanks @obviyus.
- Discord/Streaming: add stream preview mode for live draft replies with partial/block options and configurable chunking. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow. Inspiration @neoagentic-ship-it.
- Discord/Telegram: add configurable lifecycle status reactions for queued/thinking/tool/done/error phases with a shared controller and emoji/timing overrides. Thanks @wolly-tundracube and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/Voice: add voice channel join/leave/status via `/vc`, plus auto-join configuration for realtime voice conversations. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: add configurable ephemeral defaults for slash-command responses. (#16563) Thanks @wei.
- Discord: support updating forum `available_tags` via channel edit actions for forum tag management. (#12070) Thanks @xiaoyaner0201.
- Discord: include channel topics in trusted inbound metadata on new sessions. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/Subagents: add thread-bound subagent sessions on Discord with per-thread focus/list controls and thread-bound continuation routing for spawned helper agents. (#21805) Thanks @onutc.
- iOS/Chat: clean chat UI noise by stripping inbound untrusted metadata/timestamp prefixes, formatting tool outputs into concise summaries/errors, compacting the composer while typing, and supporting tap-to-dismiss keyboard in chat view. (#22122) thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Watch: bridge mirrored watch prompt notification actions into iOS quick-reply handling, including queued action handoff until app model initialization. (#22123) thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Gateway: stabilize background wake and reconnect behavior with background reconnect suppression/lease windows, BGAppRefresh wake fallback, location wake hook throttling, and APNs wake retry+nudge instrumentation. (#21226) thanks @mbelinky.
- Auto-reply/UI: add model fallback lifecycle visibility in verbose logs, /status active-model context with fallback reason, and cohesive WebUI fallback indicators. (#20704) Thanks @joshavant.
- MSTeams: dedupe sent-message cache storage by removing duplicate per-message Set storage and using timestamps Map keys as the single membership source. (#22514) Thanks @TaKO8Ki.
- Agents/Subagents: default subagent spawn depth now uses shared `maxSpawnDepth=2`, enabling depth-1 orchestrator spawning by default while keeping depth policy checks consistent across spawn and prompt paths. (#22223) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Security/Agents: make owner-ID obfuscation use a dedicated HMAC secret from configuration (`ownerDisplaySecret`) and update hashing behavior so obfuscation is decoupled from gateway token handling for improved control. (#7343) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Infra: switch gateway lock and tool-call synthetic IDs from SHA-1 to SHA-256 with unchanged truncation length to strengthen hash basis while keeping deterministic behavior and lock key format. (#7343) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies/Tooling: add non-blocking dead-code scans in CI via Knip/ts-prune/ts-unused-exports to surface unused dependencies and exports earlier. (#22468) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies/Unused Dependencies: remove or scope unused root and extension deps (`@larksuiteoapi/node-sdk`, `signal-utils`, `ollama`, `lit`, `@lit/context`, `@lit-labs/signals`, `@microsoft/agents-hosting-express`, `@microsoft/agents-hosting-extensions-teams`, and plugin-local `openclaw` devDeps in the Open Prose, Lobster, and LLM Task plugin packages). (#22471, #22495) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Dependencies/A2UI: harden dependency resolution after root cleanup (resolve `lit`, `@lit/context`, `@lit-labs/signals`, and `signal-utils` from workspace/root) and simplify bundling fallback behavior, including `pnpm dlx rolldown` compatibility. (#22481, #22507) Thanks @vincentkoc.

### Fixes

- Agents/Bootstrap: skip malformed bootstrap files with missing/invalid paths instead of crashing agent sessions; hooks using `filePath` (or non-string `path`) are skipped with a warning. (#22693, #22698) Thanks @arosstale.
- Security/Agents: cap embedded Pi runner outer retry loop with a higher profile-aware dynamic limit (32-160 attempts) and return an explicit `retry_limit` error payload when retries never converge, preventing unbounded internal retry cycles (`GHSA-76m6-pj3w-v7mf`).
- Telegram: detect duplicate bot-token ownership across Telegram accounts at startup/status time, mark secondary accounts as not configured with an explicit fix message, and block duplicate account startup before polling to avoid endless `getUpdates` conflict loops.
- Agents/Tool images: include source filenames in `agents/tool-images` resize logs so compression events can be traced back to specific files.
- Providers/OAuth: harden Qwen and Chutes refresh handling by validating refresh response expiry values and preserving prior refresh tokens when providers return empty refresh token fields, with regression coverage for empty-token responses.
- Models/Kimi-Coding: add missing implicit provider template for `kimi-coding` with correct `anthropic-messages` API type and base URL, fixing 403 errors when using Kimi for Coding. (#22409) Thanks @lailoo.
- Auto-reply/Tools: forward `senderIsOwner` through embedded queued/followup runner params so owner-only tools remain available for authorized senders. (#22296) thanks @hcoj.
- Discord: restore model picker back navigation when a provider is missing and document the Discord picker flow. (#21458) Thanks @pejmanjohn and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Memory/QMD: respect per-agent `memorySearch.enabled=false` during gateway QMD startup initialization, split multi-collection QMD searches into per-collection queries (`search`/`vsearch`/`query`) to avoid sparse-term drops, prefer collection-hinted doc resolution to avoid stale-hash collisions, retry boot updates on transient lock/timeout failures, skip `qmd embed` in BM25-only `search` mode (including `memory index --force`), and serialize embed runs globally with failure backoff to prevent CPU storms on multi-agent hosts. (#20581, #21590, #20513, #20001, #21266, #21583, #20346, #19493) Thanks @danielrevivo, @zanderkrause, @sunyan034-cmd, @tilleulenspiegel, @dae-oss, @adamlongcreativellc, @jonathanadams96, and @kiliansitel.
- Memory/Builtin: prevent automatic sync races with manager shutdown by skipping post-close sync starts and waiting for in-flight sync before closing SQLite, so `onSearch`/`onSessionStart` no longer fail with `database is not open` in ephemeral CLI flows. (#20556, #7464) Thanks @FuzzyTG and @henrybottter.
- Providers/Copilot: drop persisted assistant `thinking` blocks for Claude models (while preserving turn structure/tool blocks) so follow-up requests no longer fail on invalid `thinkingSignature` payloads. (#19459) Thanks @jackheuberger.
- Providers/Copilot: add `claude-sonnet-4.6` and `claude-sonnet-4.5` to the default GitHub Copilot model catalog and add coverage for model-list/definition helpers. (#20270, fixes #20091) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Auto-reply/WebChat: avoid defaulting inbound runtime channel labels to unrelated providers (for example `whatsapp`) for webchat sessions so channel-specific formatting guidance stays accurate. (#21534) Thanks @lbo728.
- Status: include persisted `cacheRead`/`cacheWrite` in session summaries so compact `/status` output consistently shows cache hit percentages from real session data.
- Sessions/Usage: persist `totalTokens` from `promptTokens` snapshots even when providers omit structured usage payloads, so session history/status no longer regress to `unknown` token utilization for otherwise successful runs. (#21819) Thanks @zymclaw.
- Heartbeat/Cron: restore interval heartbeat behavior so missing `HEARTBEAT.md` no longer suppresses runs (only effectively empty files skip), preserving prompt-driven and tagged-cron execution paths. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- WhatsApp/Cron/Heartbeat: enforce allowlisted routing for implicit scheduled/system delivery by merging pairing-store + configured `allowFrom` recipients, selecting authorized recipients when last-route context points to a non-allowlisted chat, and preventing heartbeat fan-out to recent unauthorized chats. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Heartbeat/Active hours: constrain active-hours `24` sentinel parsing to `24:00` in time validation so invalid values like `24:30` are rejected early. (#21410) thanks @adhitShet.
- Heartbeat: treat `activeHours` windows with identical `start`/`end` times as zero-width (always outside the window) instead of always-active. (#21408) thanks @adhitShet.
- CLI/Pairing: default `pairing list` and `pairing approve` to the sole available pairing channel when omitted, so TUI-only setups can recover from `pairing required` without guessing channel arguments. (#21527) Thanks @losts1.
- TUI/Pairing: show explicit pairing-required recovery guidance after gateway disconnects that return `pairing required`, including approval steps to unblock quickstart TUI hatching on fresh installs. (#21841) Thanks @nicolinux.
- TUI/Input: suppress duplicate backspace events arriving in the same input burst window so SSH sessions no longer delete two characters per backspace press in the composer. (#19318) Thanks @eheimer.
- TUI/Models: scope `models.list` to the configured model allowlist (`agents.defaults.models`) so `/model` picker no longer floods with unrelated catalog entries by default. (#18816) Thanks @fwends.
- TUI/Heartbeat: suppress heartbeat ACK/prompt noise in chat streaming when `showOk` is disabled, while still preserving non-ACK heartbeat alerts in final output. (#20228) Thanks @bhalliburton.
- TUI/History: cap chat-log component growth and prune stale render nodes/references so large default history loads no longer overflow render recursion with `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded`. (#18068) Thanks @JaniJegoroff.
- Memory/QMD: diversify mixed-source search ranking when both session and memory collections are present so session transcript hits no longer crowd out durable memory-file matches in top results. (#19913) Thanks @alextempr.
- Memory/Tools: return explicit `unavailable` warnings/actions from `memory_search` when embedding/provider failures occur (including quota exhaustion), so disabled memory does not look like an empty recall result. (#21894) Thanks @XBS9.
- Session/Startup: require the `/new` and `/reset` greeting path to run Session Startup file-reading instructions before responding, so daily memory startup context is not skipped on fresh-session greetings. (#22338) Thanks @armstrong-pv.
- Auth/Onboarding: align OAuth profile-id config mapping with stored credential IDs for OpenAI Codex and Chutes flows, preventing `provider:default` mismatches when OAuth returns email-scoped credentials. (#12692) thanks @mudrii.
- Provider/HTTP: treat HTTP 503 as failover-eligible for LLM provider errors. (#21086) Thanks @Protocol-zero-0.
- Slack: pass `recipient_team_id` / `recipient_user_id` through Slack native streaming calls so `chat.startStream`/`appendStream`/`stopStream` work reliably across DMs and Slack Connect setups, and disable block streaming when native streaming is active. (#20988) Thanks @Dithilli. Earlier recipient-ID groundwork was contributed in #20377 by @AsserAl1012.
- CLI/Config: add canonical `--strict-json` parsing for `config set` and keep `--json` as a legacy alias to reduce help/behavior drift. (#21332) thanks @adhitShet.
- CLI/Config: preserve explicitly unset config paths in persisted JSON after writes so `openclaw config unset <path>` no longer re-introduces defaulted keys (for example `commands.ownerDisplay`) through schema normalization. (#22984) Thanks @aronchick.
- CLI: keep `openclaw -v` as a root-only version alias so subcommand `-v, --verbose` flags (for example ACP/hooks/skills) are no longer intercepted globally. (#21303) thanks @adhitShet.
- Memory: return empty snippets when `memory_get`/QMD read files that have not been created yet, and harden memory indexing/session helpers against ENOENT races so missing Markdown no longer crashes tools. (#20680) Thanks @pahdo.
- Telegram/Streaming: always clean up draft previews even when dispatch throws before fallback handling, preventing orphaned preview messages during failed runs. (#19041) thanks @mudrii.
- Telegram/Streaming: split reasoning and answer draft preview lanes to prevent cross-lane overwrites, and ignore literal `<think>` tags inside inline/fenced code snippets so sample markup is not misrouted as reasoning. (#20774) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/Streaming: restore 30-char first-preview debounce and scope `NO_REPLY` prefix suppression to partial sentinel fragments so normal `No...` text is not filtered. (#22613) thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/Status reactions: refresh stall timers on repeated phase updates and honor ack-reaction scope when lifecycle reactions are enabled, preventing false stall emojis and unwanted group reactions. Thanks @wolly-tundracube and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Telegram/Status reactions: keep lifecycle reactions active when available-reactions lookup fails by falling back to unrestricted variant selection instead of suppressing reaction updates. (#22380) thanks @obviyus.
- Discord/Events: await `DiscordMessageListener` message handlers so regular `MESSAGE_CREATE` traffic is processed through queue ordering/timeout flow instead of fire-and-forget drops. (#22396) Thanks @sIlENtbuffER.
- Discord/Streaming: apply `replyToMode: first` only to the first Discord chunk so block-streamed replies do not spam mention pings. (#20726) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow for the report.
- Discord/Components: map DM channel targets back to user-scoped component sessions so button/select interactions stay in the main DM session. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord/Allowlist: lazy-load guild lists when resolving Discord user allowlists so ID-only entries resolve even if guild fetch fails. (#20208) Thanks @zhangjunmengyang.
- Discord/Gateway: handle close code 4014 (missing privileged gateway intents) without crashing the gateway. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: ingest inbound stickers as media so sticker-only messages and forwarded stickers are visible to agents. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Auto-reply/Runner: emit `onAgentRunStart` only after agent lifecycle or tool activity begins (and only once per run), so fallback preflight errors no longer mark runs as started. (#21165) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Auto-reply/Tool results: serialize tool-result delivery and keep the delivery chain progressing after individual failures so concurrent tool outputs preserve user-visible ordering. (#21231) thanks @ahdernasr.
- Auto-reply/Prompt caching: restore prefix-cache stability by keeping inbound system metadata session-stable and moving per-message IDs (`message_id`, `message_id_full`, `reply_to_id`, `sender_id`) into untrusted conversation context. (#20597) Thanks @anisoptera.
- iOS/Watch: add actionable watch approval/reject controls and quick-reply actions so watch-originated approvals and responses can be sent directly from notification flows. (#21996) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Watch: refresh iOS and watch app icon assets with the lobster icon set to keep phone/watch branding aligned. (#21997) Thanks @mbelinky.
- CLI/Onboarding: fix Anthropic-compatible custom provider verification by normalizing base URLs to avoid duplicate `/v1` paths during setup checks. (#21336) Thanks @17jmumford.
- iOS/Gateway/Tools: prefer uniquely connected node matches when duplicate display names exist, surface actionable `nodes invoke` pairing-required guidance with request IDs, and refresh active iOS gateway registration after location-capability setting changes so capability updates apply immediately. (#22120) thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/Auth: require `gateway.trustedProxies` to include a loopback proxy address when `auth.mode="trusted-proxy"` and `bind="loopback"`, preventing same-host proxy misconfiguration from silently blocking auth. (#22082, follow-up to #20097) thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/Auth: allow trusted-proxy mode with loopback bind for same-host reverse-proxy deployments, while still requiring configured `gateway.trustedProxies`. (#20097) thanks @xinhuagu.
- Gateway/Auth: allow authenticated clients across roles/scopes to call `health` while preserving role and scope enforcement for non-health methods. (#19699) thanks @Nachx639.
- Gateway/Hooks: include transform export name in hook-transform cache keys so distinct exports from the same module do not reuse the wrong cached transform function. (#13855) thanks @mcaxtr.
- Gateway/Control UI: return 404 for missing static-asset paths instead of serving SPA fallback HTML, while preserving client-route fallback behavior for extensionless and non-asset dotted paths. (#12060) thanks @mcaxtr.
- Gateway/Pairing: prevent device-token rotate scope escalation by enforcing an approved-scope baseline, preserving approved scopes across metadata updates, and rejecting rotate requests that exceed approved role scope implications. (#20703) thanks @coygeek.
- Gateway/Pairing: clear persisted paired-device state when the gateway client closes with `device token mismatch` (`1008`) so reconnect flows can cleanly re-enter pairing. (#22071) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/Config: allow `gateway.customBindHost` in strict config validation when `gateway.bind="custom"` so valid custom bind-host configurations no longer fail startup. (#20318, fixes #20289) Thanks @MisterGuy420.
- Gateway/Pairing: tolerate legacy paired devices missing `roles`/`scopes` metadata in websocket upgrade checks and backfill metadata on reconnect. (#21447, fixes #21236) Thanks @joshavant.
- Gateway/Pairing/CLI: align read-scope compatibility in pairing/device-token checks and add local `openclaw devices` fallback recovery for loopback `pairing required` deadlocks, with explicit fallback notice to unblock approval bootstrap flows. (#21616) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Agents/Subagents: restore announce-chain delivery to agent injection, defer nested announce output until descendant follow-up content is ready, and prevent descendant deferrals from consuming announce retry budget so deep chains do not drop final completions. (#22223) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Agents/System Prompt: label allowlisted senders as authorized senders to avoid implying ownership. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Agents/Tool display: fix exec cwd suffix inference so `pushd .. && popd .. && <command>` does not keep stale `(in <dir>)` context in summaries. (#21925) Thanks @Lukavyi.
- Agents/Google: flatten residual nested `anyOf`/`oneOf` unions in Gemini tool-schema cleanup so Cloud Code Assist no longer rejects unsupported union keywords that survive earlier simplification. (#22825) Thanks @Oceanswave.
- Tools/web_search: handle xAI Responses API payloads that emit top-level `output_text` blocks (without a `message` wrapper) so Grok web_search no longer returns `No response` for those results. (#20508) Thanks @echoVic.
- Agents/Failover: treat non-default override runs as direct fallback-to-configured-primary (skip configured fallback chain), normalize default-model detection for provider casing/whitespace, and add regression coverage for override/auth error paths. (#18820) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Docker/Build: include `ownerDisplay` in `CommandsSchema` object-level defaults so Docker `pnpm build` no longer fails with `TS2769` during plugin SDK d.ts generation. (#22558) Thanks @obviyus.
- Docker/Browser: install Playwright Chromium into `/home/node/.cache/ms-playwright` and set `node:node` ownership so browser binaries are available to the runtime user in browser-enabled images. (#22585) thanks @obviyus.
- Hooks/Session memory: trigger bundled `session-memory` persistence on both `/new` and `/reset` so reset flows no longer skip markdown transcript capture before archival. (#21382) Thanks @mofesolapaul.
- Dependencies/Agents: bump embedded Pi SDK packages (`@mariozechner/pi-agent-core`, `@mariozechner/pi-ai`, `@mariozechner/pi-coding-agent`, `@mariozechner/pi-tui`) to `0.54.0`. (#21578) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Config/Agents: expose Pi compaction tuning values `agents.defaults.compaction.reserveTokens` and `agents.defaults.compaction.keepRecentTokens` in config schema/types and apply them in embedded Pi runner settings overrides with floor enforcement via `reserveTokensFloor`. (#21568) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Docker: pin base images to SHA256 digests in Docker builds to prevent mutable tag drift. (#7734) Thanks @coygeek.
- Docker: run build steps as the `node` user and use `COPY --chown` to avoid recursive ownership changes, trimming image size and layer churn. Thanks @huntharo.
- Config/Memory: restore schema help/label metadata for hybrid `mmr` and `temporalDecay` settings so configuration surfaces show correct names and guidance. (#18786) Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Skills/SonosCLI: add troubleshooting guidance for `sonos discover` failures on macOS direct mode (`sendto: no route to host`) and sandbox network restrictions (`bind: operation not permitted`). (#21316) Thanks @huntharo.
- macOS/Build: default release packaging to `BUNDLE_ID=ai.openclaw.mac` in `scripts/package-mac-dist.sh`, so Sparkle feed URL is retained and auto-update no longer fails with an empty appcast feed. (#19750) thanks @loganprit.
- Signal/Outbound: preserve case for Base64 group IDs during outbound target normalization so cross-context routing and policy checks no longer break when group IDs include uppercase characters. (#5578) Thanks @heyhudson.
- Anthropic/Agents: preserve required pi-ai default OAuth beta headers when `context1m` injects `anthropic-beta`, preventing 401 auth failures for `sk-ant-oat-*` tokens. (#19789, fixes #19769) Thanks @minupla.
- Security/Exec: block unquoted heredoc body expansion tokens in shell allowlist analysis, reject unterminated heredocs, and require explicit approval for allowlisted heredoc execution on gateway hosts to prevent heredoc substitution allowlist bypass. Thanks @torturado for reporting.
- macOS/Security: evaluate `system.run` allowlists per shell segment in macOS node runtime and companion exec host (including chained shell operators), fail closed on shell/process substitution parsing, and require explicit approval on unsafe parse cases to prevent allowlist bypass via `rawCommand` chaining. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- WhatsApp/Security: enforce allowlist JID authorization for reaction actions so authenticated callers cannot target non-allowlisted chats by forging `chatJid` + valid `messageId` pairs. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- ACP/Security: escape control and delimiter characters in ACP `resource_link` title/URI metadata before prompt interpolation to prevent metadata-driven prompt injection through resource links. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- TTS/Security: make model-driven provider switching opt-in by default (`messages.tts.modelOverrides.allowProvider=false` unless explicitly enabled), while keeping voice/style overrides available, to reduce prompt-injection-driven provider hops and unexpected TTS cost escalation. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Security/Agents: keep overflow compaction retry budgeting global across tool-result truncation recovery so successful truncation cannot reset the overflow retry counter and amplify retry/cost cycles. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- BlueBubbles/Security: require webhook token authentication for all BlueBubbles webhook requests (including loopback/proxied setups), removing passwordless webhook fallback behavior. Thanks @zpbrent.
- iOS/Security: force `https://` for non-loopback manual gateway hosts during iOS onboarding to block insecure remote transport URLs. (#21969) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/Security: remove shared-IP fallback for canvas endpoints and require token or session capability for canvas access. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Gateway/Security: require secure context and paired-device checks for Control UI auth even when `gateway.controlUi.allowInsecureAuth` is set, and align audit messaging with the hardened behavior. (#20684) Thanks @coygeek and @Vasco0x4 for reporting.
- Gateway/Security: scope tokenless Tailscale forwarded-header auth to Control UI websocket auth only, so HTTP gateway routes still require token/password even on trusted hosts. Thanks @zpbrent for reporting.
- Docker/Security: run E2E and install-sh test images as non-root by adding appuser directives. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Skills/Security: sanitize skill env overrides to block unsafe runtime injection variables and only allow sensitive keys when declared in skill metadata, with warnings for suspicious values. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Security/Commands: block prototype-key injection in runtime `/debug` overrides and require own-property checks for gated command flags (`bash`, `config`, `debug`) so inherited prototype values cannot enable privileged commands. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Browser: block non-network browser navigation protocols (including `file:`, `data:`, and `javascript:`) while preserving `about:blank`, preventing local file reads via browser tool navigation. Thanks @q1uf3ng for reporting.
- Security/Exec: block shell startup-file env injection (`BASH_ENV`, `ENV`, `BASH_FUNC_*`, `LD_*`, `DYLD_*`) across config env ingestion, node-host inherited environment sanitization, and macOS exec host runtime to prevent pre-command execution from attacker-controlled environment variables. Thanks @tdjackey.
- Security/Exec (Windows): canonicalize `cmd.exe /c` command text across validation, approval binding, and audit/event rendering to prevent trailing-argument approval mismatches in `system.run`. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Gateway/Hooks: block `__proto__`, `constructor`, and `prototype` traversal in webhook template path resolution to prevent prototype-chain payload data leakage in `messageTemplate` rendering. (#22213) Thanks @SleuthCo.
- Security/OpenClawKit/UI: prevent injected inbound user context metadata blocks from leaking into chat history in TUI, webchat, and macOS surfaces by stripping all untrusted metadata prefixes at display boundaries. (#22142) Thanks @Mellowambience, @vincentkoc.
- Security/OpenClawKit/UI: strip inbound metadata blocks from user messages in TUI rendering while preserving user-authored content. (#22345) Thanks @kansodata, @vincentkoc.
- Security/OpenClawKit/UI: prevent inbound metadata leaks and reply-tag streaming artifacts in TUI rendering by stripping untrusted metadata prefixes at display boundaries. (#22346) Thanks @akramcodez, @vincentkoc.
- Security/Agents: restrict local MEDIA tool attachments to core tools and the OpenClaw temp root to prevent untrusted MCP tool file exfiltration. Thanks @NucleiAv and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Security/Net: strip sensitive headers (`Authorization`, `Proxy-Authorization`, `Cookie`, `Cookie2`) on cross-origin redirects in `fetchWithSsrFGuard` to prevent credential forwarding across origin boundaries. (#20313) Thanks @afurm.
- Security/Systemd: reject CR/LF in systemd unit environment values and fix argument escaping so generated units cannot be injected with extra directives. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Security/Tools: add per-wrapper random IDs to untrusted-content markers from `wrapExternalContent`/`wrapWebContent`, preventing marker spoofing from escaping content boundaries. (#19009) Thanks @Whoaa512.
- Shared/Security: reject insecure deep links that use `ws://` non-loopback gateway URLs to prevent plaintext remote websocket configuration. (#21970) Thanks @mbelinky.
- macOS/Security: reject non-loopback `ws://` remote gateway URLs in macOS remote config to block insecure plaintext websocket endpoints. (#21971) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Browser/Security: block upload path symlink escapes so browser upload sources cannot traverse outside the allowed workspace via symlinked paths. (#21972) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Security/Dependencies: bump transitive `hono` usage to `4.11.10` to incorporate timing-safe authentication comparison hardening for `basicAuth`/`bearerAuth` (`GHSA-gq3j-xvxp-8hrf`). Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Gateway: parse `X-Forwarded-For` with trust-preserving semantics when requests come from configured trusted proxies, preventing proxy-chain spoofing from influencing client IP classification and rate-limit identity. Thanks @AnthonyDiSanti and @vincentkoc.
- Security/Sandbox: remove default `--no-sandbox` for the browser container entrypoint, add explicit opt-in via `OPENCLAW_BROWSER_NO_SANDBOX` / `CLAWDBOT_BROWSER_NO_SANDBOX`, and add security-audit checks for stale/missing sandbox browser Docker hash labels. Thanks @TerminalsandCoffee and @vincentkoc.
- Security/Sandbox Browser: require VNC password auth for noVNC observer sessions in the sandbox browser entrypoint, plumb per-container noVNC passwords from runtime, and emit short-lived noVNC observer token URLs while keeping loopback-only host port publishing. Thanks @TerminalsandCoffee for reporting.
- Security/Sandbox Browser: default browser sandbox containers to a dedicated Docker network (`openclaw-sandbox-browser`), add optional CDP ingress source-range restrictions, auto-create missing dedicated networks, and warn in `openclaw security --audit` when browser sandboxing runs on bridge without source-range limits. Thanks @TerminalsandCoffee for reporting.

## 2026.2.19

### Changes

- iOS/Watch: add an Apple Watch companion MVP with watch inbox UI, watch notification relay handling, and gateway command surfaces for watch status/send flows. (#20054) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Gateway: wake disconnected iOS nodes via APNs before `nodes.invoke` and auto-reconnect gateway sessions on silent push wake to reduce invoke failures while the app is backgrounded. (#20332) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/CLI: add paired-device hygiene flows with `device.pair.remove`, plus `openclaw devices remove` and guarded `openclaw devices clear --yes [--pending]` commands for removing paired entries and optionally rejecting pending requests. (#20057) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Mattermost: add opt-in native slash command support with registration lifecycle, callback route/token validation, multi-account token routing, and callback URL/path configuration (`channels.mattermost.commands.*`). (#16515) Thanks @echo931.
- Mattermost: harden native slash callback auth-bypass behavior for configurable callback paths, add callback validation coverage, and clarify callback reachability/allowlist docs. (#32467) Thanks @mukhtharcm and @echo931.
- iOS/APNs: add push registration and notification-signing configuration for node delivery. (#20308) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Gateway/APNs: add a push-test pipeline for APNs delivery validation in gateway flows. (#20307) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Security/Audit: add `gateway.http.no_auth` findings when `gateway.auth.mode="none"` leaves Gateway HTTP APIs reachable, with loopback warning and remote-exposure critical severity, plus regression coverage and docs updates.
- Skills: harden coding-agent skill guidance by removing shell-command examples that interpolate untrusted issue text directly into command strings.
- Dev tooling: align `oxfmt` local/CI formatting behavior. (#12579) Thanks @vincentkoc.

### Fixes

- Security: strip hidden text from `web_fetch` extracted content to prevent indirect prompt injection, covering CSS-hidden elements, class-based hiding (sr-only, d-none, etc.), invisible Unicode, color:transparent, offscreen transforms, and non-content tags. (#8027, #21074) Thanks @hydro13 for the fix and @LucasAIBuilder for reporting.
- Agents/Streaming: keep assistant partial streaming active during reasoning streams, handle native `thinking_*` stream events consistently, dedupe mixed reasoning-end signals, and clear stale mutating tool errors after same-target retry success. (#20635) Thanks @obviyus.
- iOS/Chat: use a dedicated iOS chat session key for ChatSheet routing to avoid cross-client session collisions with main-session traffic. (#21139) thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Chat: auto-resync chat history after reconnect sequence gaps, clear stale pending runs, and avoid dead-end manual refresh errors after transient disconnects. (#21135) thanks @mbelinky.
- UI/Usage: reload usage data immediately when timezone changes so Local/UTC toggles apply the selected date range without requiring a manual refresh. (#17774) Thanks @huntharo.
- iOS/Screen: move `WKWebView` lifecycle ownership into `ScreenWebView` coordinator and explicit attach/detach flow to reduce gesture/lifecycle crash risk (`__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:` paths) during screen tab updates. (#20366) Thanks @ngutman.
- iOS/Onboarding: prevent pairing-status flicker during auto-resume by keeping resumed state transitions stable. (#20310) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Onboarding: stabilize pairing and reconnect behavior by resetting stale pairing request state on manual retry, disconnecting both operator and node gateways on operator failure, and avoiding duplicate pairing loops from operator transport identity attachment. (#20056) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Signing: restore local auto-selected signing-team overrides during iOS project generation by wiring `.local-signing.xcconfig` into the active signing config and emitting `OPENCLAW_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM` in local signing setup. (#19993) Thanks @ngutman.
- Telegram: unify message-like inbound handling so `message` and `channel_post` share the same dedupe/access/media pipeline and remain behaviorally consistent. (#20591) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram: keep media-group processing resilient by skipping recoverable per-item download failures while still failing loud on non-recoverable media errors. (#20598) thanks @mcaxtr.
- Telegram/Agents: gate exec/bash tool-failure warnings behind verbose mode so default Telegram replies stay clean while verbose sessions still surface diagnostics. (#20560) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram/Cron/Heartbeat: honor explicit Telegram topic targets in cron and heartbeat delivery (`<chatId>:topic:<threadId>`) so scheduled sends land in the configured topic instead of the last active thread. (#19367) Thanks @Lukavyi.
- Telegram/DM routing: prevent DM inbound origin metadata from leaking into main-session `lastRoute` updates and normalize DM `lastRoute.to` to provider-prefixed `telegram:<chatId>`. (#19491) thanks @guirguispierre.
- Gateway/Daemon: forward `TMPDIR` into installed service environments so macOS LaunchAgent gateway runs can open SQLite temp/journal files reliably instead of failing with `SQLITE_CANTOPEN`. (#20512) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Agents/Billing: include the active model that produced a billing error in user-facing billing messages (for example, `OpenAI (gpt-5.3)`) across payload, failover, and lifecycle error paths, so users can identify exactly which key needs credits. (#20510) Thanks @echoVic.
- Gateway/TUI: honor `agents.defaults.blockStreamingDefault` for `chat.send` by removing the hardcoded block-streaming disable override, so replies can use configured block-mode delivery. (#19693) Thanks @neipor.
- UI/Sessions: accept the canonical main session-key alias in Chat UI flows so main-session routing stays consistent. (#20311) Thanks @mbelinky.
- OpenClawKit/Protocol: preserve JSON boolean literals (`true`/`false`) when bridging through `AnyCodable` so Apple client RPC params no longer re-encode booleans as `1`/`0`. Thanks @mbelinky.
- Commands/Doctor: skip embedding-provider warnings when `memory.backend` is `qmd`, because QMD manages embeddings internally and does not require `memorySearch` providers. (#17263) Thanks @miloudbelarebia.
- Canvas/A2UI: improve bundled-asset resolution and empty-state handling so UI fallbacks render reliably. (#20312) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Commands/Doctor: avoid rewriting invalid configs with new `gateway.auth.token` defaults during repair and only write when real config changes are detected, preventing accidental token duplication and backup churn.
- Gateway/Auth: default unresolved gateway auth to token mode with startup auto-generation/persistence of `gateway.auth.token`, while allowing explicit `gateway.auth.mode: "none"` for intentional open loopback setups. (#20686) thanks @gumadeiras.
- Channels/Matrix: fix mention detection for `formatted_body` Matrix-to links by handling matrix.to mention formats consistently. (#16941) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Heartbeat/Cron: skip interval heartbeats when `HEARTBEAT.md` is missing or empty and no tagged cron events are queued, while preserving cron-event fallback for queued tagged reminders. (#20461) thanks @vikpos.
- Browser/Relay: reuse an already-running extension relay when the relay port is occupied by another OpenClaw process, while still failing on non-relay port collisions to avoid masking unrelated listeners. (#20035) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Scripts: update clawdock helper command support to include `docker-compose.extra.yml` where available. (#17094) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Lobster/Config: remove Lobster executable-path overrides (`lobsterPath`), require PATH-based execution, and add focused Windows wrapper-resolution tests to keep shell-free behavior stable.
- Gateway/WebChat: block `sessions.patch` and `sessions.delete` for WebChat clients so session-store mutations stay restricted to non-WebChat operator flows. Thanks @allsmog for reporting.
- Gateway: clarify launchctl GUI domain bootstrap failure on macOS. (#13795) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Lobster/CI: fix flaky test Windows cmd shim script resolution. (#20833) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Browser/Relay: require gateway-token auth on both `/extension` and `/cdp`, and align Chrome extension setup to use a single `gateway.auth.token` input for relay authentication. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Gateway/Hooks: run BOOT.md startup checks per configured agent scope, including per-agent session-key resolution, startup-hook regression coverage, and non-success boot outcome logging for diagnosability. (#20569) thanks @mcaxtr.
- Protocol/Apple: regenerate Swift gateway models for `push.test` so `pnpm protocol:check` stays green on main. Thanks @mbelinky.
- Sandbox/Registry: serialize container and browser registry writes with shared file locks and atomic replacement to prevent lost updates and delete rollback races from desyncing `sandbox list`, `prune`, and `recreate --all`. Thanks @kexinoh.
- OTEL/diagnostics-otel: complete OpenTelemetry v2 API migration. (#12897) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Cron/Webhooks: protect cron webhook POST delivery with SSRF-guarded outbound fetch (`fetchWithSsrFGuard`) to block private/metadata destinations before request dispatch. Thanks @Adam55A-code.
- Security/Voice Call: harden `voice-call` telephony TTS override merging by blocking unsafe deep-merge keys (`__proto__`, `prototype`, `constructor`) and add regression coverage for top-level and nested prototype-pollution payloads.
- Security/Windows Daemon: harden Scheduled Task `gateway.cmd` generation by quoting cmd metacharacter arguments, escaping `%`/`!` expansions, and rejecting CR/LF in arguments, descriptions, and environment assignments (`set "KEY=VALUE"`), preventing command injection in Windows daemon startup scripts. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
- Security/Gateway/Canvas: replace shared-IP fallback auth with node-scoped session capability URLs for `/__openclaw__/canvas/*` and `/__openclaw__/a2ui/*`, fail closed when trusted-proxy requests omit forwarded client headers, and add IPv6/proxy-header regression coverage. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Security/Net: enforce strict dotted-decimal IPv4 literals in SSRF checks and fail closed on unsupported legacy forms (octal/hex/short/packed, for example `0177.0.0.1`, `127.1`, `2130706433`) before DNS lookup.
- Security/Discord: enforce trusted-sender guild permission checks for moderation actions (`timeout`, `kick`, `ban`) and ignore untrusted `senderUserId` params to prevent privilege escalation in tool-driven flows. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Security/ACP+Exec: add `openclaw acp --token-file/--password-file` secret-file support (with inline secret flag warnings), redact ACP working-directory prefixes to `~` home-relative paths, constrain exec script preflight file inspection to the effective `workdir` boundary, and add security-audit warnings when `tools.exec.host="sandbox"` is configured while sandbox mode is off.
- Security/Plugins/Hooks: enforce runtime/package path containment with realpath checks so `openclaw.extensions`, `openclaw.hooks`, and hook handler modules cannot escape their trusted roots via traversal or symlinks.
- Security/Discord: centralize trusted sender checks for moderation actions in message-action dispatch, share moderation command parsing across handlers, and clarify permission helpers with explicit any/all semantics.
- Security/ACP: harden ACP bridge session management with duplicate-session refresh, idle-session reaping, oldest-idle soft-cap eviction, and burst rate limiting on session creation to reduce local DoS risk without disrupting normal IDE usage.
- Security/ACP: bound ACP prompt text payloads to 2 MiB before gateway forwarding, account for join separator bytes during pre-concatenation size checks, and avoid stale active-run session state when oversized prompts are rejected. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Security/Plugins/Hooks: add optional `--pin` for npm plugin/hook installs, persist resolved npm metadata (`name`, `version`, `spec`, integrity, shasum, timestamp), warn/confirm on integrity drift during updates, and extend `openclaw security audit` to flag unpinned specs, missing integrity metadata, and install-record version drift.
- Security/Plugins: harden plugin discovery by blocking unsafe candidates (root escapes, world-writable paths, suspicious ownership), add startup warnings when `plugins.allow` is empty with discoverable non-bundled plugins, and warn on loaded plugins without install/load-path provenance.
- Security/Gateway: rate-limit control-plane write RPCs (`config.apply`, `config.patch`, `update.run`) to 3 requests per minute per `deviceId+clientIp`, add restart single-flight coalescing plus a 30-second restart cooldown, and log actor/device/ip with changed-path audit details for config/update-triggered restarts.
- Security/Webhooks: harden Feishu and Zalo webhook ingress with webhook-mode token preconditions, loopback-default Feishu bind host, JSON content-type enforcement, per-path rate limiting, replay dedupe for Zalo events, constant-time Zalo secret comparison, and anomaly status counters.
- Security/Plugins: for the next npm release, clarify plugin trust boundary and keep `runtime.system.runCommandWithTimeout` available by default for trusted in-process plugins. Thanks @markmusson for reporting.
- Security/Skills: for the next npm release, reject symlinks during skill packaging to prevent external file inclusion in distributed `.skill` archives. Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.
- Security/Gateway: fail startup when `hooks.token` matches `gateway.auth.token` so hooks and gateway token reuse is rejected at boot. (#20813) Thanks @coygeek.
- Security/Network: block plaintext `ws://` connections to non-loopback hosts and require secure websocket transport elsewhere. (#20803) Thanks @jscaldwell55.
- Security/Config: parse frontmatter YAML using the YAML 1.2 core schema to avoid implicit coercion of `on`/`off`-style values. (#20857) Thanks @davidrudduck.
- Security/Discord: escape backticks in exec-approval embed content to prevent markdown formatting injection via command text. (#20854) Thanks @davidrudduck.
- Security/Agents: replace shell-based `execSync` usage with `execFileSync` in command lookup helpers to eliminate shell argument interpolation risk. (#20655) Thanks @mahanandhi.
- Security/Media: use `crypto.randomBytes()` for temp file names and set owner-only permissions for TTS temp files. (#20654) Thanks @mahanandhi.
- Security/Gateway: set baseline security headers (`X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`, `Referrer-Policy: no-referrer`) on gateway HTTP responses. (#10526) Thanks @abdelsfane.
- Security/iMessage: harden remote attachment SSH/SCP handling by requiring strict host-key verification, validating `channels.imessage.remoteHost` as `host`/`user@host`, and rejecting unsafe host tokens from config or auto-detection. Thanks @allsmog for reporting.
- Security/Feishu: prevent path traversal in Feishu inbound media temp-file writes by replacing key-derived temp filenames with UUID-based names. Thanks @allsmog for reporting.
- Security/Feishu: escape mention regex metacharacters in `stripBotMention` so crafted mention metadata cannot trigger regex injection or ReDoS during inbound message parsing. (#20916) Thanks @orlyjamie for the fix and @allsmog for reporting.
- LINE/Security: harden inbound media temp-file naming by using UUID-based temp paths for downloaded media instead of external message IDs. (#20792) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Security/Media: harden local media ingestion against TOCTOU/symlink swap attacks by pinning reads to a single file descriptor with symlink rejection and inode/device verification in `saveMediaSource`. Thanks @dorjoos for reporting.
- Security/Lobster (Windows): for the next npm release, remove shell-based fallback when launching Lobster wrappers (`.cmd`/`.bat`) and switch to explicit argv execution with wrapper entrypoint resolution, preventing command injection while preserving Windows wrapper compatibility. Thanks @allsmog for reporting.
- Security/Exec: require `tools.exec.safeBins` binaries to resolve from trusted bin directories (system defaults plus gateway startup `PATH`) so PATH-hijacked trojan binaries cannot bypass allowlist checks. Thanks @jackhax for reporting.
- Security/Exec: remove file-existence oracle behavior from `tools.exec.safeBins` by using deterministic argv-only stdin-safe validation and blocking file-oriented flags (for example `sort -o`, `jq -f`, `grep -f`) so allow/deny results no longer disclose host file presence. Thanks @nedlir for reporting.
- Security/Browser: route browser URL navigation through one SSRF-guarded validation path for tab-open/CDP-target/Playwright navigation flows and block private/metadata destinations by default (configurable via `browser.ssrfPolicy`). Thanks @dorjoos for reporting.
- Security/Exec: for the next npm release, harden safe-bin stdin-only enforcement by blocking output/recursive flags (`sort -o/--output`, grep recursion) and tightening default safe bins to remove `sort`/`grep`, preventing safe-bin allowlist bypass for file writes/recursive reads. Thanks @nedlir for reporting.
- Security/Exec: block grep safe-bin positional operand bypass by setting grep positional budget to zero, so `-e/--regexp` cannot smuggle bare filename reads (for example `.env`) via ambiguous positionals; safe-bin grep patterns must come from `-e/--regexp`. Thanks @athuljayaram for reporting.
- Security/Gateway/Agents: remove implicit admin scopes from agent tool gateway calls by classifying methods to least-privilege operator scopes, and enforce owner-only tooling (`cron`, `gateway`, `whatsapp_login`) through centralized tool-policy wrappers plus tool metadata to prevent non-owner DM privilege escalation. Ships in the next npm release. Thanks @Adam55A-code for reporting.
- Security/Gateway: centralize gateway method-scope authorization and default non-CLI gateway callers to least-privilege method scopes, with explicit CLI scope handling, full core-handler scope classification coverage, and regression guards to prevent scope drift.
- Security/Net: block SSRF bypass via NAT64 (`64:ff9b::/96`, `64:ff9b:1::/48`), 6to4 (`2002::/16`), and Teredo (`2001:0000::/32`) IPv6 transition addresses, and fail closed on IPv6 parse errors. Thanks @jackhax.
- Security/OTEL: sanitize OTLP endpoint URL resolution. (#13791) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security: patch Dependabot security issues in pnpm lock. (#20832) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security: migrate request dependencies to `@cypress/request`. (#20836) Thanks @vincentkoc.

## 2026.2.17

### Changes

- Agents/Anthropic: add opt-in 1M context beta header support for Opus/Sonnet via model `params.context1m: true` (maps to `anthropic-beta: context-1m-2025-08-07`).
- Agents/Models: support Anthropic Sonnet 4.6 (`anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6`) across aliases/defaults with forward-compat fallback when upstream catalogs still only expose Sonnet 4.5.
- Commands/Subagents: add `/subagents spawn` for deterministic subagent activation from chat commands. (#18218) Thanks @JoshuaLelon.
- Agents/Subagents: add an accepted response note for `sessions_spawn` explaining polling subagents are disabled for one-off calls. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Agents/Subagents: prefix spawned subagent task messages with context to preserve source information in downstream handling. Thanks @tyler6204.
- iOS/Share: add an iOS share extension that forwards shared URL/text/image content directly to gateway `agent.request`, with delivery-route fallback and optional receipt acknowledgements. (#19424) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Talk: add a `Background Listening` toggle that keeps Talk Mode active while the app is backgrounded (off by default for battery safety). Thanks @zeulewan.
- iOS/Talk: add a `Voice Directive Hint` toggle for Talk Mode prompts so users can disable ElevenLabs voice-switching instructions to save tokens when not needed. (#18250) Thanks @zeulewan.
- iOS/Talk: harden barge-in behavior by disabling interrupt-on-speech when output route is built-in speaker/receiver, reducing false interruptions from local TTS bleed-through. Thanks @zeulewan.
- Slack: add native single-message text streaming with Slack `chat.startStream`/`appendStream`/`stopStream`; keep reply threading aligned with `replyToMode`, default streaming to enabled, and fall back to normal delivery when streaming fails. (#9972) Thanks @natedenh.
- Slack: add configurable streaming modes for draft previews. (#18555) Thanks @Solvely-Colin.
- Telegram/Agents: add inline button `style` support (`primary|success|danger`) across message tool schema, Telegram action parsing, send pipeline, and runtime prompt guidance. (#18241) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram: surface user message reactions as system events, with configurable `channels.telegram.reactionNotifications` scope. (#10075) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- iMessage: support `replyToId` on outbound text/media sends and normalize leading `[[reply_to:<id>]]` tags so replies target the intended iMessage. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Tool Display/Web UI: add intent-first tool detail views and exec summaries. (#18592) Thanks @xdLawless2.
- Discord: expose native `/exec` command options (host/security/ask/node) so Discord slash commands get autocomplete and structured inputs. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: allow reusable interactive components with `components.reusable=true` so buttons, selects, and forms can be used multiple times before expiring. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: add per-button `allowedUsers` allowlist for interactive components to restrict who can click buttons. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Cron/Gateway: separate per-job webhook delivery (`delivery.mode = "webhook"`) from announce delivery, enforce valid HTTP(S) webhook URLs, and keep a temporary legacy `notify + cron.webhook` fallback for stored jobs. (#17901) Thanks @advaitpaliwal.
- Cron/CLI: add deterministic default stagger for recurring top-of-hour cron schedules (including 6-field seconds cron), auto-migrate existing jobs to persisted `schedule.staggerMs`, and add `openclaw cron add/edit --stagger <duration>` plus `--exact` overrides for per-job timing control.
- Cron: log per-run model/provider usage telemetry in cron run logs/webhooks and add a local usage report script for aggregating token usage by job. (#18172) Thanks @HankAndTheCrew.
- Tools/Web: add URL allowlists for `web_search` and `web_fetch`. (#18584) Thanks @smartprogrammer93.
- Browser: add `extraArgs` config for custom Chrome launch arguments. (#18443) Thanks @JayMishra-source.
- Voice Call: pre-cache inbound greeting TTS for faster first playback. (#18447) Thanks @JayMishra-source.
- Skills: compact skill file `<location>` paths in the system prompt by replacing home-directory prefixes with `~`, and add targeted compaction tests for prompt serialization behavior. (#14776) Thanks @bitfish3.
- Skills: refine skill-description routing boundaries with explicit "Use when"/"NOT for" guidance for coding-agent/github/weather, and clarify PTY/browser fallback wording. (#14577) Thanks @DylanWoodAkers.
- Auto-reply/Prompts: include trusted inbound `message_id` in conversation metadata payloads for downstream targeting workflows. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Auto-reply: include `sender_id` in trusted inbound metadata so moderation workflows can target the sender without relying on untrusted text. (#18303) Thanks @crimeacs.
- UI/Sessions: avoid duplicating typed session prefixes in display names (for example `Subagent Subagent ...`). Thanks @tyler6204.
- Agents/Z.AI: enable `tool_stream` by default for real-time tool call streaming, with opt-out via `params.tool_stream: false`. (#18173) Thanks @tianxiao1430-jpg.
- Plugins: add `before_agent_start` model/provider overrides before resolution. (#18568) Thanks @natefikru.
- Mattermost: add emoji reaction actions plus reaction event notifications, including an explicit boolean `remove` flag to avoid accidental removals. (#18608) Thanks @echo931.
- Memory/Search: add FTS fallback plus query expansion for memory search. (#18304) Thanks @irchelper.
- Agents/Models: support per-model `thinkingDefault` overrides in model config. (#18152) Thanks @wu-tian807.
- Agents: enable `llms.txt` discovery in default behavior. (#18158) Thanks @yolo-maxi.
- Extensions/Auth: add OpenAI Codex CLI auth provider integration. (#18009) Thanks @jiteshdhamaniya.
- Feishu: add Bitable create-app/create-field tools for automation workflows. (#17963) Thanks @gaowanqi08141999.
- Docker: add optional `OPENCLAW_INSTALL_BROWSER` build arg to preinstall Chromium + Xvfb in the Docker image, avoiding runtime Playwright installs. (#18449) Thanks @sebslight.

### Fixes

- Agents/Antigravity: preserve unsigned Claude thinking blocks as plain text instead of dropping them during transcript sanitization, preventing reasoning context loss while avoiding `thinking.signature` request rejections.
- Agents/Google: clean tool JSON Schemas for `google-antigravity` the same as `google-gemini-cli` before Cloud Code Assist requests, preventing Claude tool calls from failing with `patternProperties` 400 errors. (#19860)
- Tests/Telegram: add regression coverage for command-menu sync that asserts all `setMyCommands` entries are Telegram-safe and hyphen-normalized across native/custom/plugin command sources. (#19703) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/Image: collapse resize diagnostics to one line per image and include visible pixel/byte size details in the log message for faster triage.
- Auth/Cooldowns: clear all usage stats fields (`disabledUntil`, `disabledReason`, `failureCounts`) in `clearAuthProfileCooldown` so manual cooldown resets fully recover billing-disabled profiles without requiring direct file edits. (#19211) Thanks @nabbilkhan.
- Agents/Subagents: preemptively guard accumulated tool-result context before model calls by truncating oversized outputs and compacting oldest tool-result messages to avoid context-window overflow crashes. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Agents/Subagents/CLI: fail `sessions_spawn` when subagent model patching is rejected, allow subagent model patch defaults from `subagents.model`, and keep `sessions list`/`status` model reporting aligned to runtime model resolution. (#18660) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Agents/Subagents: add explicit subagent guidance to recover from `[compacted: tool output removed to free context]` / `[truncated: output exceeded context limit]` markers by re-reading with smaller chunks instead of full-file `cat`. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Agents/Tools: make `read` auto-page across chunks (when no explicit `limit` is provided) and scale its per-call output budget from model `contextWindow`, so larger contexts can read more before context guards kick in. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Agents/Tools: strip duplicated `read` truncation payloads from tool-result `details` and make pre-call context guarding account for heavy tool-result metadata, so repeated `read` calls no longer bypass compaction and overflow model context windows. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Reply threading: keep reply context sticky across streamed/split chunks and preserve `replyToId` on all chunk sends across shared and channel-specific delivery paths (including iMessage, BlueBubbles, Telegram, Discord, and Matrix), so follow-up bubbles stay attached to the same referenced message. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Gateway/Agent: defer transient lifecycle `error` snapshots with a short grace window so `agent.wait` does not resolve early during retry/failover. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Gateway/Presence: centralize presence snapshot broadcasts and unify runtime version precedence (`OPENCLAW_VERSION` > `OPENCLAW_SERVICE_VERSION` > `npm_package_version`) so self-presence and websocket `hello-ok` report consistent versions (#19609). Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Hooks/Automation: bridge outbound/inbound message lifecycle into internal hook events (`message:received`, `message:sent`) with session-key correlation guards, while keeping per-payload success/error reporting accurate for chunked and best-effort deliveries. (PR #9387).
- Media understanding: honor `agents.defaults.imageModel` during auto-discovery so implicit image analysis uses configured primary/fallback image models. (PR #7607).
- iOS/Onboarding: stop auth Step 3 retry-loop churn by pausing reconnect attempts on unauthorized/missing-token gateway errors and keeping auth/pairing issue state sticky during manual retry. (#19153) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Voice-call: auto-end calls when media streams disconnect to prevent stuck active calls. (#18435) Thanks @JayMishra-source.
- Voice call/Gateway: prevent overlapping closed-loop turn races with per-call turn locking, route transcript dedupe via source-aware fingerprints with strict cache eviction bounds, and harden `voicecall latency` stats for large logs without spread-operator stack overflow. (#19140) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Chat: route ChatSheet RPCs through the operator session instead of the node session to avoid node-role authorization failures for `chat.history`, `chat.send`, and `sessions.list`. (#19320) Thanks @mbelinky.
- macOS/Update: correct the Sparkle appcast version for 2026.2.15 so updates are offered again. (#18201).
- Gateway/Auth: clear stale device-auth tokens after device token mismatch errors so re-paired clients can re-auth. (#18201).
- Telegram: enable DM voice-note transcription with CLI fallback handling. (#18564) Thanks @thhuang.
- Telegram/Polls: restore Telegram poll action wiring in channel handlers. (#18122) Thanks @akyourowngames.
- WebChat: strip reply/audio directive tags from rendered chat output. (#18093) Thanks @aldoeliacim.
- Discord: honor configured HTTP proxy for app-id and allowlist REST resolution. (#17958) Thanks @k2009.
- BlueBubbles: add fallback path to recover outbound `message_id` from `fromMe` webhooks when platform message IDs are missing. Thanks @tyler6204.
- BlueBubbles: match outbound message-id fallback recovery by chat identifier as well as account context. Thanks @tyler6204.
- BlueBubbles: include sender identifier in untrusted conversation metadata for conversation info payloads. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Security/Exec: fix the OC-09 credential-theft path via environment-variable injection. (#18048) Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Security/Config: confine `$include` resolution to the top-level config directory, harden traversal/symlink checks with cross-platform-safe path containment, and add doctor hints for invalid escaped include paths. (#18652) Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Security/Net: block SSRF bypass via ISATAP embedded IPv4 transition addresses and centralize hostname/IP blocking checks across URL safety validators. Thanks @zpbrent for reporting.
- Providers: improve error messaging for unconfigured local `ollama`/`vllm` providers. (#18183) Thanks @arosstale.
- TTS: surface all provider errors instead of only the last error in aggregated failures. (#17964) Thanks @ikari-pl.
- CLI/Doctor/Configure: skip gateway auth checks for loopback-only setups. (#18407) Thanks @sggolakiya.
- CLI/Doctor: reconcile gateway service-token drift after re-pair flows. (#18525) Thanks @norunners.
- Process/Windows: disable detached spawn in exec runs to prevent empty command output. (#18067) Thanks @arosstale.
- Process: gracefully terminate process trees with SIGTERM before SIGKILL. (#18626) Thanks @sauerdaniel.
- Sessions/Windows: use atomic session-store writes to prevent context loss on Windows. (#18347) Thanks @twcwinston.
- Agents/Image: validate base64 image payloads before provider submission. (#18263) Thanks @sriram369.
- Models CLI: validate catalog entries in `openclaw models set`. (#18129) Thanks @carrotRakko.
- Usage: isolate last-turn totals in token usage reporting to avoid mixed-turn totals. (#18052) Thanks @arosstale.
- Cron: resolve `accountId` from agent bindings in isolated sessions. (#17996) Thanks @simonemacario.
- Gateway/HTTP: preserve unbracketed IPv6 `Host` headers when normalizing requests. (#18061) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Sandbox: fix workspace-directory orphaning during SHA-1 -> SHA-256 slug migration. (#18523) Thanks @yinghaosang.
- Ollama/Qwen: handle Qwen 3 reasoning field format in Ollama responses. (#18631) Thanks @mr-sk.
- OpenAI/Transcripts: always drop orphaned reasoning blocks from transcript repair. (#18632) Thanks @TySabs.
- Fix types in all tests. Typecheck the whole repository. Thanks @cpojer.
- Gateway/Channels: wire `gateway.channelHealthCheckMinutes` into strict config validation, treat implicit account status as managed for health checks, and harden channel auto-restart flow (preserve restart-attempt caps across crash loops, propagate enabled/configured runtime flags, and stop pending restart backoff after manual stop).
- Gateway/WebChat: hard-cap `chat.history` oversized payloads by truncating high-cost fields and replacing over-budget entries with placeholders, so history fetches stay within configured byte limits and avoid chat UI freezes. (#18505) Thanks @sebslight.
- UI/Usage: replace lingering undefined `var(--text-muted)` usage with `var(--muted)` in usage date-range and chart styles to keep muted text visible across themes. (#17975) Thanks @jogelin.
- UI/Usage: preserve selected-range totals when timeline data is downsampled by bucket-aggregating timeseries points (instead of dropping intermediate points), so filtered tokens/cost stay accurate. (#17959) Thanks @jogelin.
- UI/Sessions: refresh the sessions table only after successful deletes and preserve delete errors on cancel/failure paths, so deleted sessions disappear automatically without masking delete failures. (#18507) Thanks @sebslight.
- Scripts/UI/Windows: fix `pnpm ui:*` spawn `EINVAL` failures by restoring shell-backed launch for `.cmd`/`.bat` runners, narrowing shell usage to launcher types that require it, and rejecting unsafe forwarded shell metacharacters in UI script args. (#18594) Thanks @sebslight.
- Hooks/Session-memory: recover `/new` conversation summaries when session pointers are reset-path or missing `sessionFile`, and consistently prefer the newest `.jsonl.reset.*` transcript candidate for fallback extraction. (#18088) Thanks @sebslight.
- Auto-reply/Sessions: prevent stale thread ID leakage into non-thread sessions so replies stay in the main DM after topic interactions. (#18528) Thanks @j2h4u.
- Slack: restrict forwarded-attachment ingestion to explicit shared-message attachments and skip non-Slack forwarded `image_url` fetches, preventing non-forward attachment unfurls from polluting inbound agent context while preserving forwarded message handling. Thanks @sebslight.
- Feishu: detect bot mentions in post messages with embedded docs when `message.mentions` is empty. (#18074) Thanks @popomore.
- Agents/Sessions: align session lock watchdog hold windows with run and compaction timeout budgets (plus grace), preventing valid long-running turns from being force-unlocked mid-run while still recovering hung lock owners. (#18060).
- Cron: preserve default model fallbacks for cron agent runs when only `model.primary` is overridden, so failover still follows configured fallbacks unless explicitly cleared with `fallbacks: []`. (#18210) Thanks @mahsumaktas.
- Cron/Isolation: treat non-finite `nextRunAtMs` as missing and repair isolated `every` anchor fallback so legacy jobs without valid timestamps self-heal and scheduler wake timing remains valid. (#19469) Thanks @guirguispierre.
- Cron: route text-only announce output through the main session announce flow via runSubagentAnnounceFlow so cron text-only output remains visible to the initiating session. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron: treat `timeoutSeconds: 0` as no-timeout (not clamped to 1), ensuring long-running cron runs are not prematurely terminated. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron announce injection now targets the session determined by delivery config (`to` + channel) instead of defaulting to the current session. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron/Heartbeat: canonicalize session-scoped reminder `sessionKey` routing and preserve explicit flat `sessionKey` cron tool inputs, preventing enqueue/wake namespace drift for session-targeted reminders. (#18637) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Cron/Webhooks: reuse existing session IDs for webhook/cron runs when the session key is stable and still fresh, preserving conversation history. (#18031) Thanks @Operative-001.
- Cron: prevent spin loops when cron jobs complete within the scheduled second by advancing the next run and enforcing a minimum refire gap. (#18073) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- OpenClawKit/iOS ChatUI: accept canonical session-key completion events for local pending runs and preserve message IDs across history refreshes, preventing stuck "thinking" state and message flicker after gateway replies. (#18165) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Onboarding: add QR-first onboarding wizard with setup-code deep link support, pairing/auth issue guidance, and device-pair QR generation improvements for Telegram/Web/TUI fallback flows. (#18162) Thanks @mbelinky and @Marvae.
- iOS/Gateway: stabilize connect/discovery state handling, add onboarding reset recovery in Settings, and fix iOS gateway-controller coverage for command-surface and last-connection persistence behavior. (#18164) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Talk: harden mobile talk config handling by ignoring redacted/env-placeholder API keys, support secure local keychain override, improve accessibility motion/contrast behavior in status UI, and tighten ATS to local-network allowance. (#18163) Thanks @mbelinky.
- iOS/Location: restore the significant location monitor implementation (service hooks + protocol surface + ATS key alignment) after merge drift so iOS builds compile again. (#18260) Thanks @ngutman.
- iOS/Signing: auto-select local Apple Development team during iOS project generation/build, prefer the canonical OpenClaw team when available, and support local per-machine signing overrides without committing team IDs. (#18421) Thanks @ngutman.
- Discord/Telegram: make per-account message action gates effective for both action listing and execution, and preserve top-level gate restrictions when account overrides only specify a subset of `actions` keys (account key -> base key -> default fallback). (#18494) Thanks @sebslight.
- Telegram: keep DM-topic replies and draft previews in the originating private-chat topic by preserving positive `message_thread_id` values for DM threads. (#18586) Thanks @sebslight.
- Telegram: preserve private-chat topic `message_thread_id` on outbound sends (message/sticker/poll), keep thread-not-found retry fallback, and avoid masking `chat not found` routing errors. (#18993) Thanks @obviyus.
- Discord: prevent duplicate media delivery when the model uses the `message send` tool with media, by skipping media extraction from messaging tool results since the tool already sent the message directly. (#18270)
- Discord: route `audioAsVoice` auto-replies through the voice message API so opt-in audio renders as voice messages. (#18041) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Discord: skip auto-thread creation in forum/media/voice/stage channels and keep group session last-route metadata fresh to avoid invalid thread API errors and lost follow-up sends. (#18098) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Discord/Commands: normalize `commands.allowFrom` entries with `user:`/`discord:`/`pk:` prefixes and `<@id>` mentions so command authorization matches Discord allowlist behavior. (#18042) Thanks @sebslight.
- Telegram: keep draft-stream preview replies attached to the user message for `replyToMode: "all"` in groups and DMs, preserving threaded reply context from preview through finalization. (#17880) Thanks @yinghaosang.
- Telegram: prevent streaming final replies from being overwritten by later final/error payloads, and suppress fallback tool-error warnings when a recovered assistant answer already exists after tool calls. (#17883) Thanks @Marvae and @obviyus.
- Telegram: debounce the first draft-stream preview update (30-char threshold) and finalize short responses by editing the stop-time preview message, improving first push notifications and avoiding duplicate final sends. (#18148) Thanks @Marvae.
- Telegram: disable block streaming when `channels.telegram.streamMode` is `off`, preventing newline/content-block replies from splitting into multiple messages. (#17679) Thanks @saivarunk.
- Telegram: keep `streamMode: "partial"` draft previews in a single message across assistant-message/reasoning boundaries, preventing duplicate preview bubbles during partial-mode tool-call turns. (#18956) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram: normalize native command names for Telegram menu registration (`-` -> `_`) to avoid `BOT_COMMAND_INVALID` command-menu wipeouts, and log failed command syncs instead of silently swallowing them. (#19257) Thanks @akramcodez.
- Telegram: route non-abort slash commands on the normal chat/topic sequential lane while keeping true abort requests (`/stop`, `stop`) on the control lane, preventing command/reply race conditions from control-lane bypass. (#17899) Thanks @obviyus.
- Telegram: ignore `<media:...>` placeholder lines when extracting `MEDIA:` tool-result paths, preventing false local-file reads and dropped replies. (#18510) Thanks @yinghaosang.
- Telegram: skip retries when inbound media `getFile` fails with Telegram's 20MB limit and continue processing message text, avoiding dropped messages for oversized attachments. (#18531) Thanks @brandonwise.
- Telegram: clear stored polling offsets when bot tokens change or accounts are deleted, preventing stale offsets after token rotations. (#18233) Thanks @sebslight.
- Telegram: enable `autoSelectFamily` by default on Node.js 22+ so IPv4 fallback works on broken IPv6 networks. (#18272) Thanks @nacho9900.
- Auto-reply/TTS: keep tool-result media delivery enabled in group chats and native command sessions (while still suppressing tool summary text) so `NO_REPLY` follow-ups do not drop successful TTS audio. (#17991) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Agents/Tools: deliver tool-result media even when verbose tool output is off so media attachments are not dropped. (#16679) Thanks @sebslight.
- Discord: optimize reaction notification handling to skip unnecessary message fetches in `off`/`all`/`allowlist` modes, streamline reaction routing, and improve reaction emoji formatting. (#18248) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow and @victorGPT.
- CLI/Pairing: make `openclaw qr --remote` prefer `gateway.remote.url` over tailscale/public URL resolution and register the `openclaw clawbot qr` legacy alias path. (#18091).
- CLI/QR: restore fail-fast validation for `openclaw qr --remote` when neither `gateway.remote.url` nor tailscale `serve`/`funnel` is configured, preventing unusable remote pairing QR flows. (#18166) Thanks @mbelinky.
- CLI: fix parent/subcommand option collisions across gateway, daemon, update, ACP, and browser command flows, while preserving legacy `browser set headers --json <payload>` compatibility (#18725). Thanks @gumadeiras.
- CLI/Doctor: ensure `openclaw doctor --fix --non-interactive --yes` exits promptly after completion so one-shot automation no longer hangs. (#18502) Thanks @sebslight.
- CLI/Doctor: auto-repair `dmPolicy="open"` configs missing wildcard allowlists and write channel-correct repair paths (including `channels.googlechat.dm.allowFrom`) so `openclaw doctor --fix` no longer leaves Google Chat configs invalid after attempted repair. (#18544) Thanks @sebslight.
- CLI/Doctor: detect gateway service token drift when the gateway token is only provided via environment variables, keeping service repairs aligned after token rotation. Thanks @sebslight.
- Gateway/Update: prevent restart crash loops after failed self-updates by restarting only on successful updates, stopping early on failed install/build steps, and running `openclaw doctor --fix` during updates to sanitize config. (#18131) Thanks @RamiNoodle733.
- Gateway/Update: preserve update.run restart delivery context so post-update status replies route back to the initiating channel/thread. (#18267) Thanks @yinghaosang.
- CLI/Update: run a standalone restart helper after updates, honoring service-name overrides and reporting restart initiation separately from confirmed restarts. (#18050) Thanks @sebslight.
- CLI/Daemon: warn when a gateway restart sees a stale service token so users can reinstall with `openclaw gateway install --force`, and skip drift warnings for non-gateway service restarts. (#18018) Thanks @sebslight.
- CLI/Daemon: prefer the active version-manager Node when installing daemons and include macOS version-manager bin directories in the service PATH so launchd services resolve user-managed runtimes. Thanks @sebslight.
- CLI/Status: fix `openclaw status --all` token summaries for bot-token-only channels so Mattermost/Zalo no longer show a bot+app warning. (#18527) Thanks @echo931.
- CLI/Configure: make the `/model picker` allowlist prompt searchable with tokenized matching in `openclaw configure` so users can filter huge model lists by typing terms like `gpt-5.2 openai/`. (#19010) Thanks @bjesuiter.
- CLI/Message: preserve `--components` JSON payloads in `openclaw message send` so Discord component payloads are no longer dropped. (#18222) Thanks @saurabhchopade.
- Voice Call: add an optional stale call reaper (`staleCallReaperSeconds`) to end stuck calls when enabled. (#18437) Thanks @sebslight.
- Auto-reply/Subagents: propagate group context (`groupId`, `groupChannel`, `space`) when spawning via `/subagents spawn`, matching tool-triggered subagent spawn behavior.
- Subagents: route nested announce results back to the parent session after the parent run ends, falling back only when the parent session is deleted. (#18043) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Subagents: cap announce retry loops with max attempts and expiry to prevent infinite retry spam after deferred announces. (#18444) Thanks @sebslight.
- Agents/Tools/exec: add a preflight guard that detects likely shell env var injection (e.g. `$DM_JSON`, `$TMPDIR`) in Python/Node scripts before execution, preventing recurring cron failures and wasted tokens when models emit mixed shell+language source. (#12836).
- Agents/Tools/exec: treat normal non-zero exit codes as completed and append the exit code to tool output to avoid false tool-failure warnings. (#18425) Thanks @sebslight.
- Agents/Tools: make loop detection progress-aware and phased by hard-blocking known `process(action=poll|log)` no-progress loops, warning on generic identical-call repeats, warning + no-progress-blocking ping-pong alternation loops (10/20), coalescing repeated warning spam into threshold buckets (including canonical ping-pong pairs), adding a global circuit breaker at 30 no-progress repeats, and emitting structured diagnostic `tool.loop` warning/error events for loop actions. (#16808) Thanks @akramcodez and @beca-oc.
- Agents/Hooks: preserve the `before_tool_call` wrapped-marker across abort-signal tool wrapping so the hook runs once per tool call in normal agent sessions. (#16852) Thanks @sreuter.
- Agents/Tests: add `before_message_write` persistence regression coverage for block/mutate behavior (including synthetic tool-result flushes) and thrown-hook fallback persistence. (#18197) Thanks @shakkernerd
- Agents/Tools: scope the `message` tool schema to the active channel so Telegram uses `buttons` and Discord uses `components`. (#18215) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents/Image tool: replace Anthropic-incompatible union schema with explicit `image` (single) and `images` (multi) parameters, keeping tool schemas `anyOf`/`oneOf`/`allOf`-free while preserving multi-image analysis support. (#18551, #18566) Thanks @aldoeliacim.
- Agents/Models: probe the primary model when its auth-profile cooldown is near expiry (with per-provider throttling), so runs recover from temporary rate limits without staying on fallback models until restart. (#17478) Thanks @PlayerGhost.
- Agents/Failover: classify provider abort stop-reason errors (`Unhandled stop reason: abort`, `stop reason: abort`, `reason: abort`) as timeout-class failures so configured model fallback chains trigger instead of surfacing raw abort failures. (#18618) Thanks @sauerdaniel.
- Models/CLI: sync auth-profiles credentials into agent `auth.json` before registry availability checks so `openclaw models list --all` reports auth correctly for API-key/token providers, normalize provider-id aliases when bridging credentials, and skip expired token mirrors. (#18610, #18615) Thanks @sebslight.
- Agents/Context: raise default total bootstrap prompt cap from `24000` to `150000` chars (keeping `bootstrapMaxChars` at `20000`), include total-cap visibility in `/context`, and mark truncation from injected-vs-raw sizes so total-cap clipping is reflected accurately (#18229). Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Memory/QMD: scope managed collection names per agent and precreate glob-backed collection directories before registration, preventing cross-agent collection clobbering and startup ENOENT failures in fresh workspaces. (#17194) Thanks @jonathanadams96.
- Cron: preserve per-job schedule-error isolation in post-run maintenance recompute so malformed sibling jobs no longer abort persistence of successful runs. (#17852) Thanks @pierreeurope.
- Gateway/Config: prevent `config.patch` object-array merges from falling back to full-array replacement when some patch entries lack `id`, so partial `agents.list` updates no longer drop unrelated agents. (#17989) Thanks @stakeswky.
- Gateway/Auth: trim whitespace around trusted proxy entries before matching so configured proxies with stray spaces still authorize. (#18084) Thanks @Clawborn.
- Config/Discord: require string IDs in Discord allowlists, keep onboarding inputs string-only, and add doctor repair for numeric entries. (#18220) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Security/Sessions: create new session transcript JSONL files with user-only (`0o600`) permissions and extend `openclaw security audit --fix` to remediate existing transcript file permissions.
- Sessions/Maintenance: archive transcripts when pruning stale sessions, clean expired media in subdirectories, and purge `.deleted` transcript archives after the prune window to prevent disk leaks. (#18538) Thanks @sebslight.
- Infra/Fetch: ensure foreign abort-signal listener cleanup never masks original fetch successes/failures, while still preventing detached-finally unhandled rejection noise in `wrapFetchWithAbortSignal`. Thanks @Jackten.
- Heartbeat: allow suppressing tool error warning payloads during heartbeat runs via a new heartbeat config flag. (#18497) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Heartbeat: include sender metadata (From/To/Provider) in heartbeat prompts so model context matches the delivery target. (#18532) Thanks @dinakars777.
- Heartbeat/Telegram: strip configured `responsePrefix` before heartbeat ack detection (with boundary-safe matching) so prefixed `HEARTBEAT_OK` replies are correctly suppressed instead of leaking into DMs. (#18602) Thanks @sebslight.

## 2026.2.15

### Changes

- Discord: unlock rich interactive agent prompts with Components v2 (buttons, selects, modals, and attachment-backed file blocks) so for native interaction through Discord. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: components v2 UI + embeds passthrough + exec approval UX refinements (CV2 containers, button layout, Discord-forwarding skip). Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Plugins: expose `llm_input` and `llm_output` hook payloads so extensions can observe prompt/input context and model output usage details. (#16724) Thanks @SecondThread.
- Subagents: nested sub-agents (sub-sub-agents) with configurable depth. Set `agents.defaults.subagents.maxSpawnDepth: 2` to allow sub-agents to spawn their own children. Includes `maxChildrenPerAgent` limit (default 5), depth-aware tool policy, and proper announce chain routing. (#14447) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Slack/Discord/Telegram: add per-channel ack reaction overrides (account/channel-level) to support platform-specific emoji formats. (#17092) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Telegram: add `channel_post` inbound support for channel-based bot-to-bot wake/trigger flows, with channel allowlist gating and message/media batching parity.
- Cron/Gateway: add finished-run webhook delivery toggle (`notify`) and dedicated webhook auth token support (`cron.webhookToken`) for outbound cron webhook posts. (#14535) Thanks @advaitpaliwal.
- Channels: deduplicate probe/token resolution base types across core + extensions while preserving per-channel error typing. (#16986) Thanks @iyoda and @thewilloftheshadow.
- Memory: add MMR (Maximal Marginal Relevance) re-ranking for hybrid search diversity. Configurable via `memorySearch.query.hybrid.mmr`. Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Memory: add opt-in temporal decay for hybrid search scoring, with configurable half-life via `memorySearch.query.hybrid.temporalDecay`. Thanks @rodrigouroz.

### Fixes

- Discord: send initial content when creating non-forum threads so `thread-create` content is delivered. (#18117) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Security: replace deprecated SHA-1 sandbox configuration hashing with SHA-256 for deterministic sandbox cache identity and recreation checks. Thanks @kexinoh.
- Security/Logging: redact Telegram bot tokens from error messages and uncaught stack traces to prevent accidental secret leakage into logs. Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Sandbox/Security: block dangerous sandbox Docker config (bind mounts, host networking, unconfined seccomp/apparmor) to prevent container escape via config injection. Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Sandbox: preserve array order in config hashing so order-sensitive Docker/browser settings trigger container recreation correctly. Thanks @kexinoh.
- Gateway/Security: redact sensitive session/path details from `status` responses for non-admin clients; full details remain available to `operator.admin`. (#8590) Thanks @fr33d3m0n.
- Gateway/Control UI: preserve requested operator scopes for Control UI bypass modes (`allowInsecureAuth` / `dangerouslyDisableDeviceAuth`) when device identity is unavailable, preventing false `missing scope` failures on authenticated LAN/HTTP operator sessions. (#17682) Thanks @leafbird.
- LINE/Security: fail closed on webhook startup when channel token or channel secret is missing, and treat LINE accounts as configured only when both are present. (#17587) Thanks @davidahmann.
- Skills/Security: restrict `download` installer `targetDir` to the per-skill tools directory to prevent arbitrary file writes. Thanks @Adam55A-code.
- Skills/Linux: harden go installer fallback on apt-based systems by handling root/no-sudo environments safely, doing best-effort apt index refresh, and returning actionable errors instead of failing with spawn errors. (#17687) Thanks @mcrolly.
- Web Fetch/Security: cap downloaded response body size before HTML parsing to prevent memory exhaustion from oversized or deeply nested pages. Thanks @xuemian168.
- Config/Gateway: make sensitive-key whitelist suffix matching case-insensitive while preserving `passwordFile` path exemptions, preventing accidental redaction of non-secret config values like `maxTokens` and IRC password-file paths. (#16042) Thanks @akramcodez.
- Dev tooling: harden git `pre-commit` hook against option injection from malicious filenames (for example `--force`), preventing accidental staging of ignored files. Thanks @mrthankyou.
- Gateway/Agent: reject malformed `agent:`-prefixed session keys (for example, `agent:main`) in `agent` and `agent.identity.get` instead of silently resolving them to the default agent, preventing accidental cross-session routing. (#15707) Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Gateway/Chat: harden `chat.send` inbound message handling by rejecting null bytes, stripping unsafe control characters, and normalizing Unicode to NFC before dispatch. (#8593) Thanks @fr33d3m0n.
- Gateway/Send: return an actionable error when `send` targets internal-only `webchat`, guiding callers to use `chat.send` or a deliverable channel. (#15703) Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Gateway/Commands: keep webchat command authorization on the internal `webchat` context instead of inferring another provider from channel allowlists, fixing dropped `/new`/`/status` commands in Control UI when channel allowlists are configured. (#7189) Thanks @karlisbergmanis-lv.
- Control UI: prevent stored XSS via assistant name/avatar by removing inline script injection, serving bootstrap config as JSON, and enforcing `script-src 'self'`. Thanks @Adam55A-code.
- Agents/Security: sanitize workspace paths before embedding into LLM prompts (strip Unicode control/format chars) to prevent instruction injection via malicious directory names. Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Agents/Sandbox: clarify system prompt path guidance so sandbox `bash/exec` uses container paths (for example `/workspace`) while file tools keep host-bridge mapping, avoiding first-attempt path misses from host-only absolute paths in sandbox command execution. (#17693) Thanks @app/juniordevbot.
- Agents/Context: apply configured model `contextWindow` overrides after provider discovery so `lookupContextTokens()` honors operator config values (including discovery-failure paths). (#17404) Thanks @michaelbship and @vignesh07.
- Agents/Context: derive `lookupContextTokens()` from auth-available model metadata and keep the smallest discovered context window for duplicate model ids, preventing cross-provider cache collisions from overestimating session context limits. (#17586) Thanks @githabideri and @vignesh07.
- Agents/OpenAI: force `store=true` for direct OpenAI Responses/Codex runs to preserve multi-turn server-side conversation state, while leaving proxy/non-OpenAI endpoints unchanged. (#16803) Thanks @mark9232 and @vignesh07.
- Memory/FTS: make `buildFtsQuery` Unicode-aware so non-ASCII queries (including CJK) produce keyword tokens instead of falling back to vector-only search. (#17672) Thanks @KinGP5471.
- Auto-reply/Compaction: resolve `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` placeholders with timezone-aware runtime dates and append a `Current time:` line to memory-flush turns, preventing wrong-year memory filenames without making the system prompt time-variant. (#17603, #17633) Thanks @nicholaspapadam-wq and @vignesh07.
- Auth/Cooldowns: auto-expire stale auth profile cooldowns when `cooldownUntil` or `disabledUntil` timestamps have passed, and reset `errorCount` so the next transient failure does not immediately escalate to a disproportionately long cooldown. Handles `cooldownUntil` and `disabledUntil` independently. (#3604) Thanks @nabbilkhan.
- Agents: return an explicit timeout error reply when an embedded run times out before producing any payloads, preventing silent dropped turns during slow cache-refresh transitions. (#16659) Thanks @liaosvcaf and @vignesh07.
- Group chats: always inject group chat context (name, participants, reply guidance) into the system prompt on every turn, not just the first. Prevents the model from losing awareness of which group it's in and incorrectly using the message tool to send to the same group. (#14447) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Browser/Agents: when browser control service is unavailable, return explicit non-retry guidance (instead of "try again") so models do not loop on repeated browser tool calls until timeout. (#17673) Thanks @austenstone.
- Subagents: use child-run-based deterministic announce idempotency keys across direct and queued delivery paths (with legacy queued-item fallback) to prevent duplicate announce retries without collapsing distinct same-millisecond announces. (#17150) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Subagents/Models: preserve `agents.defaults.model.fallbacks` when subagent sessions carry a model override, so subagent runs fail over to configured fallback models instead of retrying only the overridden primary model.
- Telegram: omit `message_thread_id` for DM sends/draft previews and keep forum-topic handling (`id=1` general omitted, non-general kept), preventing DM failures with `400 Bad Request: message thread not found`. (#10942) Thanks @garnetlyx.
- Telegram: replace inbound `<media:audio>` placeholder with successful preflight voice transcript in message body context, preventing placeholder-only prompt bodies for mention-gated voice messages. (#16789) Thanks @Limitless2023.
- Telegram: retry inbound media `getFile` calls (3 attempts with backoff) and gracefully fall back to placeholder-only processing when retries fail, preventing dropped voice/media messages on transient Telegram network errors. (#16154) Thanks @yinghaosang.
- Telegram: finalize streaming preview replies in place instead of sending a second final message, preventing duplicate Telegram assistant outputs at stream completion. (#17218) Thanks @obviyus.
- Discord: preserve channel session continuity when runtime payloads omit `message.channelId` by falling back to event/raw `channel_id` values for routing/session keys, so same-channel messages keep history across turns/restarts. Also align diagnostics so active Discord runs no longer appear as `sessionKey=unknown`. (#17622) Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Discord: dedupe native skill commands by skill name in multi-agent setups to prevent duplicated slash commands with `_2` suffixes. (#17365) Thanks @seewhyme.
- Discord: ensure role allowlist matching uses raw role IDs for message routing authorization. Thanks @xinhuagu.
- Discord: skip text-based exec approval forwarding in favor of Discord's component-based approval UI. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Web UI/Agents: hide `BOOTSTRAP.md` in the Agents Files list after onboarding is completed, avoiding confusing missing-file warnings for completed workspaces. (#17491) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Gateway/Memory: initialize QMD startup sync for every configured agent (not just the default agent), so `memory.qmd.update.onBoot` is effective across multi-agent setups. (#17663) Thanks @HenryLoenwind.
- Auto-reply/WhatsApp/TUI/Web: when a final assistant message is `NO_REPLY` and a messaging tool send succeeded, mirror the delivered messaging-tool text into session-visible assistant output so TUI/Web no longer show `NO_REPLY` placeholders. (#7010) Thanks @Morrowind-Xie.
- Cron: infer `payload.kind="agentTurn"` for model-only `cron.update` payload patches, so partial agent-turn updates do not fail validation when `kind` is omitted. (#15664) Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- TUI: make searchable-select filtering and highlight rendering ANSI-aware so queries ignore hidden escape codes and no longer corrupt ANSI styling sequences during match highlighting. (#4519) Thanks @bee4come.
- TUI/Windows: coalesce rapid single-line submit bursts in Git Bash into one multiline message as a fallback when bracketed paste is unavailable, preventing pasted multiline text from being split into multiple sends. (#4986) Thanks @adamkane.
- TUI: suppress false `(no output)` placeholders for non-local empty final events during concurrent runs, preventing external-channel replies from showing empty assistant bubbles while a local run is still streaming. (#5782) Thanks @LagWizard and @vignesh07.
- TUI: preserve copy-sensitive long tokens (URLs/paths/file-like identifiers) during wrapping and overflow sanitization so wrapped output no longer inserts spaces that corrupt copy/paste values. (#17515, #17466, #17505) Thanks @abe238, @trevorpan, and @JasonCry.
- CLI/Build: make legacy daemon CLI compatibility shim generation tolerant of minimal tsdown daemon export sets, while preserving restart/register compatibility aliases and surfacing explicit errors for unavailable legacy daemon commands. Thanks @vignesh07.

## 2026.2.14

### Changes

- Telegram: add poll sending via `openclaw message poll` (duration seconds, silent delivery, anonymity controls). (#16209) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Slack/Discord: add `dmPolicy` + `allowFrom` config aliases for DM access control; legacy `dm.policy` + `dm.allowFrom` keys remain supported and `openclaw doctor --fix` can migrate them.
- Discord: allow exec approval prompts to target channels or both DM+channel via `channels.discord.execApprovals.target`. (#16051) Thanks @leonnardo.
- Sandbox: add `sandbox.browser.binds` to configure browser-container bind mounts separately from exec containers. (#16230) Thanks @seheepeak.
- Discord: add debug logging for message routing decisions to improve `--debug` tracing. (#16202) Thanks @jayleekr.
- Agents: add optional `messages.suppressToolErrors` config to hide non-mutating tool-failure warnings from user-facing chat while still surfacing mutating failures. (#16620) Thanks @vai-oro.

### Fixes

- CLI/Installation: fix Docker installation hangs on macOS. (#12972) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Models: fix antigravity opus 4.6 availability follow-up. (#12845) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Sessions/Telegram: restrict session tool targeting by default to the current session tree (`tools.sessions.visibility`, default `tree`) with sandbox clamping, and pass configured per-account Telegram webhook secrets in webhook mode when no explicit override is provided. Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- CLI/Plugins: ensure `openclaw message send` exits after successful delivery across plugin-backed channels so one-shot sends do not hang. (#16491) Thanks @yinghaosang.
- CLI/Plugins: run registered plugin `gateway_stop` hooks before `openclaw message` exits (success and failure paths), so plugin-backed channels can clean up one-shot CLI resources. (#16580) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- WhatsApp: honor per-account `dmPolicy` overrides (account-level settings now take precedence over channel defaults for inbound DMs). (#10082) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Telegram: when `channels.telegram.commands.native` is `false`, exclude plugin commands from `setMyCommands` menu registration while keeping plugin slash handlers callable. (#15132) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- LINE: return 200 OK for Developers Console "Verify" requests (`{"events":[]}`) without `X-Line-Signature`, while still requiring signatures for real deliveries. (#16582) Thanks @arosstale.
- Cron: deliver text-only output directly when `delivery.to` is set so cron recipients get full output instead of summaries. (#16360) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Cron/Slack: preserve agent identity (name and icon) when cron jobs deliver outbound messages. (#16242) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Media: accept `MEDIA:`-prefixed paths (lenient whitespace) when loading outbound media to prevent `ENOENT` for tool-returned local media paths. (#13107) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Media understanding: treat binary `application/vnd.*`/zip/octet-stream attachments as non-text (while keeping vendor `+json`/`+xml` text-eligible) so Office/ZIP files are not inlined into prompt body text. (#16513) Thanks @rmramsey32.
- Agents: deliver tool result media (screenshots, images, audio) to channels regardless of verbose level. (#11735) Thanks @strelov1.
- Auto-reply/Block streaming: strip leading whitespace from streamed block replies so messages starting with blank lines no longer deliver visible leading empty lines. (#16422) Thanks @mcinteerj.
- Auto-reply/Queue: keep queued followups and overflow summaries when drain attempts fail, then retry delivery instead of dropping messages on transient errors. (#16771) Thanks @mmhzlrj.
- Agents/Image tool: allow workspace-local image paths by including the active workspace directory in local media allowlists, and trust sandbox-validated paths in image loaders to prevent false "not under an allowed directory" rejections. (#15541) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Agents/Image tool: propagate the effective workspace root into tool wiring so workspace-local image paths are accepted by default when running without an explicit `workspaceDir`. (#16722).
- BlueBubbles: include sender identity in group chat envelopes and pass clean message text to the agent prompt, aligning with iMessage/Signal formatting. (#16210) Thanks @zerone0x.
- CLI: fix lazy core command registration so top-level maintenance commands (`doctor`, `dashboard`, `reset`, `uninstall`) resolve correctly instead of exposing a non-functional `maintenance` placeholder command.
- CLI/Dashboard: when `gateway.bind=lan`, generate localhost dashboard URLs to satisfy browser secure-context requirements while preserving non-LAN bind behavior. (#16434) Thanks @BinHPdev.
- TUI/Gateway: resolve local gateway target URL from `gateway.bind` mode (tailnet/lan) instead of hardcoded localhost so `openclaw tui` connects when gateway is non-loopback. (#16299) Thanks @cortexuvula.
- TUI: honor explicit `--session <key>` in `openclaw tui` even when `session.scope` is `global`, so named sessions no longer collapse into shared global history. (#16575) Thanks @cinqu.
- TUI: use available terminal width for session name display in searchable select lists. (#16238) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- TUI: preserve in-flight streaming replies when a different run finalizes concurrently (avoid clearing active run or reloading history mid-stream). (#10704) Thanks @axschr73.
- TUI: keep pre-tool streamed text visible when later tool-boundary deltas temporarily omit earlier text blocks. (#6958) Thanks @KrisKind75.
- TUI: sanitize ANSI/control-heavy history text, redact binary-like lines, and split pathological long unbroken tokens before rendering to prevent startup crashes on binary attachment history. (#13007) Thanks @wilkinspoe.
- TUI: harden render-time sanitizer for narrow terminals by chunking moderately long unbroken tokens and adding fast-path sanitization guards to reduce overhead on normal text. (#5355) Thanks @tingxueren.
- TUI: render assistant body text in terminal default foreground (instead of fixed light ANSI color) so contrast remains readable on light themes such as Solarized Light. (#16750) Thanks @paymog.
- TUI/Hooks: pass explicit reset reason (`new` vs `reset`) through `sessions.reset` and emit internal command hooks for gateway-triggered resets so `/new` hook workflows fire in TUI/webchat.
- Gateway/Agent: route bare `/new` and `/reset` through `sessions.reset` before running the fresh-session greeting prompt, so reset commands clear the current session in-place instead of falling through to normal agent runs. (#16732) Thanks @kdotndot and @vignesh07.
- Cron: prevent `cron list`/`cron status` from silently skipping past-due recurring jobs by using maintenance recompute semantics. (#16156) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Cron: repair missing/corrupt `nextRunAtMs` for the updated job without globally recomputing unrelated due jobs during `cron update`. (#15750).
- Cron: treat persisted jobs with missing `enabled` as enabled by default across update/list/timer due-path checks, and add regression coverage for missing-`enabled` store records. (#15433) Thanks @eternauta1337.
- Cron: skip missed-job replay on startup for jobs interrupted mid-run (stale `runningAtMs` markers), preventing restart loops for self-restarting jobs such as update tasks. (#16694) Thanks @sbmilburn.
- Heartbeat/Cron: treat cron-tagged queued system events as cron reminders even on interval wakes, so isolated cron announce summaries no longer run under the default heartbeat prompt. (#14947) Thanks @archedark-ada and @vignesh07.
- Discord: prefer gateway guild id when logging inbound messages so cached-miss guilds do not appear as `guild=dm`. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: treat empty per-guild `channels: {}` config maps as no channel allowlist (not deny-all), so `groupPolicy: "open"` guilds without explicit channel entries continue to receive messages. (#16714) Thanks @xqliu.
- Models/CLI: guard `models status` string trimming paths to prevent crashes from malformed non-string config values. (#16395) Thanks @BinHPdev.
- Gateway/Subagents: preserve queued announce items and summary state on delivery errors, retry failed announce drains, and avoid dropping unsent announcements on timeout/failure. (#16729) Thanks @Clawdette-Workspace.
- Gateway/Config: make `config.patch` merge object arrays by `id` (for example `agents.list`) instead of replacing the whole array, so partial agent updates do not silently delete unrelated agents. (#6766) Thanks @lightclient.
- Webchat/Prompts: stop injecting direct-chat `conversation_label` into inbound untrusted metadata context blocks, preventing internal label noise from leaking into visible chat replies. (#16556) Thanks @nberardi.
- Auto-reply/Prompts: include trusted inbound `message_id`, `chat_id`, `reply_to_id`, and optional `message_id_full` metadata fields so action tools (for example reactions) can target the triggering message without relying on user text. (#17662) Thanks @MaikiMolto.
- Gateway/Sessions: abort active embedded runs and clear queued session work before `sessions.reset`, returning unavailable if the run does not stop in time. (#16576) Thanks @Grynn.
- Sessions/Agents: harden transcript path resolution for mismatched agent context by preserving explicit store roots and adding safe absolute-path fallback to the correct agent sessions directory. (#16288) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Agents: add a safety timeout around embedded `session.compact()` to ensure stalled compaction runs settle and release blocked session lanes. (#16331) Thanks @BinHPdev.
- Agents/Tools: make required-parameter validation errors list missing fields and instruct: "Supply correct parameters before retrying," reducing repeated invalid tool-call loops (for example `read({})`). (#14729) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Agents: keep unresolved mutating tool failures visible until the same action retry succeeds, scope mutation-error surfacing to mutating calls (including `session_status` model changes), and dedupe duplicate failure warnings in outbound replies. (#16131) Thanks @Swader.
- Agents/Process/Bootstrap: preserve unbounded `process log` offset-only pagination (default tail applies only when both `offset` and `limit` are omitted) and enforce strict `bootstrapTotalMaxChars` budgeting across injected bootstrap content (including markers), skipping additional injection when remaining budget is too small. (#16539) Thanks @CharlieGreenman.
- Agents/Workspace: persist bootstrap onboarding state so partially initialized workspaces recover missing `BOOTSTRAP.md` once, while completed onboarding keeps BOOTSTRAP deleted even if runtime files are later recreated. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Agents/Workspace: create `BOOTSTRAP.md` when core workspace files are seeded in partially initialized workspaces, while keeping BOOTSTRAP one-shot after onboarding deletion. (#16457) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Agents: classify external timeout aborts during compaction the same as internal timeouts, preventing unnecessary auth-profile rotation and preserving compaction-timeout snapshot fallback behavior. (#9855) Thanks @mverrilli.
- Agents: treat empty-stream provider failures (`request ended without sending any chunks`) as timeout-class failover signals, enabling auth-profile rotation/fallback and showing a friendly timeout message instead of raw provider errors. (#10210) Thanks @zenchantlive.
- Agents: treat `read` tool `file_path` arguments as valid in tool-start diagnostics to avoid false "read tool called without path" warnings when alias parameters are used. (#16717) Thanks @Stache73.
- Agents/Transcript: drop malformed tool-call blocks with blank required fields (`id`/`name` or missing `input`/`arguments`) during session transcript repair to prevent persistent tool-call corruption on future turns. (#15485) Thanks @mike-zachariades.
- Tools/Write/Edit: normalize structured text-block arguments for `content`/`oldText`/`newText` before filesystem edits, preventing JSON-like file corruption and false "exact text not found" misses from block-form params. (#16778) Thanks @danielpipernz.
- Ollama/Agents: avoid forcing `<final>` tag enforcement for Ollama models, which could suppress all output as `(no output)`. (#16191) Thanks @briancolinger.
- Plugins: suppress false duplicate plugin id warnings when the same extension is discovered via multiple paths (config/workspace/global vs bundled), while still warning on genuine duplicates. (#16222) Thanks @shadril238.
- Agents/Process: supervise PTY/child process lifecycles with explicit ownership, cancellation, timeouts, and deterministic cleanup, preventing Codex/Pi PTY sessions from dying or stalling on resume. (#14257) Thanks @onutc.
- Skills: watch `SKILL.md` only when refreshing skills snapshot to avoid file-descriptor exhaustion in large data trees. (#11325) Thanks @household-bard.
- Memory/QMD: make `memory status` read-only by skipping QMD boot update/embed side effects for status-only manager checks.
- Memory/QMD: keep original QMD failures when builtin fallback initialization fails (for example missing embedding API keys), instead of replacing them with fallback init errors.
- Memory/Builtin: keep `memory status` dirty reporting stable across invocations by deriving status-only manager dirty state from persisted index metadata instead of process-start defaults. (#10863) Thanks @BarryYangi.
- Memory/QMD: cap QMD command output buffering to prevent memory exhaustion from pathological `qmd` command output. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: parse qmd scope keys once per request to avoid repeated parsing in scope checks. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: query QMD index using exact docid matches before falling back to prefix lookup for better recall correctness and index efficiency. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: pass result limits to `search`/`vsearch` commands so QMD can cap results earlier. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: avoid reading full markdown files when a `from/lines` window is requested in QMD reads. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: skip rewriting unchanged session export markdown files during sync to reduce disk churn. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: make QMD result JSON parsing resilient to noisy command output by extracting the first JSON array from noisy `stdout`.
- Memory/QMD: treat prefixed `no results found` marker output as an empty result set in qmd JSON parsing. (#11302) Thanks @blazerui.
- Memory/QMD: avoid multi-collection `query` ranking corruption by running one `qmd query -c <collection>` per managed collection and merging by best score (also used for `search`/`vsearch` fallback-to-query). (#16740) Thanks @volarian-vai.
- Memory/QMD: rebind managed collections when existing collection metadata drifts (including sessions name-only listings), preventing non-default agents from reusing another agent's `sessions` collection path. (#17194) Thanks @jonathanadams96.
- Memory/QMD: make `openclaw memory index` verify and print the active QMD index file path/size, and fail when QMD leaves a missing or zero-byte index artifact after an update. (#16775) Thanks @Shunamxiao.
- Memory/QMD: detect null-byte `ENOTDIR` update failures, rebuild managed collections once, and retry update to self-heal corrupted collection metadata. (#12919) Thanks @jorgejhms.
- Memory/QMD/Security: add `rawKeyPrefix` support for QMD scope rules and preserve legacy `keyPrefix: "agent:..."` matching, preventing scoped deny bypass when operators match agent-prefixed session keys.
- Memory/Builtin: narrow memory watcher targets to markdown globs and ignore dependency/venv directories to reduce file-descriptor pressure during memory sync startup. (#11721) Thanks @rex05ai.
- Security/Memory-LanceDB: treat recalled memories as untrusted context (escape injected memory text + explicit non-instruction framing), skip likely prompt-injection payloads during auto-capture, and restrict auto-capture to user messages to reduce memory-poisoning risk. (#12524) Thanks @davidschmid24.
- Security/Memory-LanceDB: require explicit `autoCapture: true` opt-in (default is now disabled) to prevent automatic PII capture unless operators intentionally enable it. (#12552) Thanks @fr33d3m0n.
- Diagnostics/Memory: prune stale diagnostic session state entries and cap tracked session states to prevent unbounded in-memory growth on long-running gateways. (#5136) Thanks @coygeek and @vignesh07.
- Gateway/Memory: clean up `agentRunSeq` tracking on run completion/abort and enforce maintenance-time cap pruning to prevent unbounded sequence-map growth over long uptimes. (#6036) Thanks @coygeek and @vignesh07.
- Auto-reply/Memory: bound `ABORT_MEMORY` growth by evicting oldest entries and deleting reset (`false`) flags so abort state tracking cannot grow unbounded over long uptimes. (#6629) Thanks @coygeek and @vignesh07.
- Slack/Memory: bound thread-starter cache growth with TTL + max-size pruning to prevent long-running Slack gateways from accumulating unbounded thread cache state. (#5258) Thanks @coygeek and @vignesh07.
- Outbound/Memory: bound directory cache growth with max-size eviction and proactive TTL pruning to prevent long-running gateways from accumulating unbounded directory entries. (#5140) Thanks @coygeek and @vignesh07.
- Skills/Memory: remove disconnected nodes from remote-skills cache to prevent stale node metadata from accumulating over long uptimes. (#6760) Thanks @coygeek.
- Sandbox/Tools: make sandbox file tools bind-mount aware (including absolute container paths) and enforce read-only bind semantics for writes. (#16379) Thanks @tasaankaeris.
- Sandbox/Prompts: show the sandbox container workdir as the prompt working directory and clarify host-path usage for file tools, preventing host-path `exec` failures in sandbox sessions. (#16790) Thanks @carrotRakko.
- Media/Security: allow local media reads from OpenClaw state `workspace/` and `sandboxes/` roots by default so generated workspace media can be delivered without unsafe global path bypasses. (#15541) Thanks @lanceji.
- Media/Security: harden local media allowlist bypasses by requiring an explicit `readFile` override when callers mark paths as validated, and reject filesystem-root `localRoots` entries. (#16739).
- Media/Security: allow outbound local media reads from the active agent workspace (including `workspace-<agentId>`) via agent-scoped local roots, avoiding broad global allowlisting of all per-agent workspaces. (#17136) Thanks @MisterGuy420.
- Outbound/Media: thread explicit `agentId` through core `sendMessage` direct-delivery path so agent-scoped local media roots apply even when mirror metadata is absent. (#17268) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Discord/Security: harden voice message media loading (SSRF + allowed-local-root checks) so tool-supplied paths/URLs cannot be used to probe internal URLs or read arbitrary local files.
- Security/BlueBubbles: require explicit `mediaLocalRoots` allowlists for local outbound media path reads to prevent local file disclosure. (#16322) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Security/BlueBubbles: reject ambiguous shared-path webhook routing when multiple webhook targets match the same guid/password.
- Security/BlueBubbles: harden BlueBubbles webhook auth behind reverse proxies by only accepting passwordless webhooks for direct localhost loopback requests (forwarded/proxied requests now require a password). Thanks @simecek.
- Feishu/Security: harden media URL fetching against SSRF and local file disclosure. (#16285) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Security/Zalo: reject ambiguous shared-path webhook routing when multiple webhook targets match the same secret.
- Security/Nostr: require loopback source and block cross-origin profile mutation/import attempts. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Signal: harden signal-cli archive extraction during install to prevent path traversal outside the install root.
- Security/Hooks: restrict hook transform modules to `~/.openclaw/hooks/transforms` (prevents path traversal/escape module loads via config). Config note: `hooks.transformsDir` must now be within that directory. Thanks @akhmittra.
- Security/Hooks: ignore hook package manifest entries that point outside the package directory (prevents out-of-tree handler loads during hook discovery).
- Security/Archive: enforce archive extraction entry/size limits to prevent resource exhaustion from high-expansion ZIP/TAR archives. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Media: reject oversized base64-backed input media before decoding to avoid large allocations. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Media: stream and bound URL-backed input media fetches to prevent memory exhaustion from oversized responses. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Skills: harden archive extraction for download-installed skills to prevent path traversal outside the target directory. Thanks @markmusson.
- Security/Slack: compute command authorization for DM slash commands even when `dmPolicy=open`, preventing unauthorized users from running privileged commands via DM. Thanks @christos-eth.
- Security/Pairing: scope pairing allowlist writes/reads to channel accounts (for example `telegram:yy`), and propagate account-aware pairing approvals so multi-account channels do not share a single per-channel pairing allowFrom store. (#17631) Thanks @crazytan.
- Security/iMessage: keep DM pairing-store identities out of group allowlist authorization (prevents cross-context command authorization). Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Google Chat: deprecate `users/<email>` allowlists (treat `users/...` as immutable user id only); keep raw email allowlists for usability. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Google Chat: reject ambiguous shared-path webhook routing when multiple webhook targets verify successfully (prevents cross-account policy-context misrouting). Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/Security: require numeric Telegram sender IDs for allowlist authorization (reject `@username` principals), auto-resolve `@username` to IDs in `openclaw doctor --fix` (when possible), and warn in `openclaw security audit` when legacy configs contain usernames. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Telegram/Security: reject Telegram webhook startup when `webhookSecret` is missing or empty (prevents unauthenticated webhook request forgery). Thanks @yueyueL.
- Security/Windows: avoid shell invocation when spawning child processes to prevent cmd.exe metacharacter injection via untrusted CLI arguments (e.g. agent prompt text).
- Telegram: set webhook callback timeout handling to `onTimeout: "return"` (10s) so long-running update processing no longer emits webhook 500s and retry storms. (#16763) Thanks @chansearrington.
- Signal: preserve case-sensitive `group:` target IDs during normalization so mixed-case group IDs no longer fail with `Group not found`. (#16748) Thanks @repfigit.
- Security/Agents: scope CLI process cleanup to owned child PIDs to avoid killing unrelated processes on shared hosts. Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Security/Agents: enforce workspace-root path bounds for `apply_patch` in non-sandbox mode to block traversal and symlink escape writes. Thanks @p80n-sec.
- Security/Agents: enforce symlink-escape checks for `apply_patch` delete hunks under `workspaceOnly`, while still allowing deleting the symlink itself. Thanks @p80n-sec.
- Security/Agents (macOS): prevent shell injection when writing Claude CLI keychain credentials. (#15924) Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- macOS: hard-limit unkeyed `openclaw://agent` deep links and ignore `deliver` / `to` / `channel` unless a valid unattended key is provided. Thanks @Cillian-Collins.
- Scripts/Security: validate GitHub logins and avoid shell invocation in `scripts/update-clawtributors.ts` to prevent command injection via malicious commit records. Thanks @scanleale.
- Security: fix Chutes manual OAuth login state validation by requiring the full redirect URL (reject code-only pastes) (thanks @aether-ai-agent).
- Security/Gateway: harden tool-supplied `gatewayUrl` overrides by restricting them to loopback or the configured `gateway.remote.url`. Thanks @p80n-sec.
- Security/Gateway: block `system.execApprovals.*` via `node.invoke` (use `exec.approvals.node.*` instead). Thanks @christos-eth.
- Security/Gateway: reject oversized base64 chat attachments before decoding to avoid large allocations. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Gateway: stop returning raw resolved config values in `skills.status` requirement checks (prevents operator.read clients from reading secrets). Thanks @simecek.
- Security/Net: fix SSRF guard bypass via full-form IPv4-mapped IPv6 literals (blocks loopback/private/metadata access). Thanks @yueyueL.
- Security/Browser: harden browser control file upload + download helpers to prevent path traversal / local file disclosure. Thanks @1seal.
- Security/Browser: block cross-origin mutating requests to loopback browser control routes (CSRF hardening). Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Security/Node Host: enforce `system.run` rawCommand/argv consistency to prevent allowlist/approval bypass. Thanks @christos-eth.
- Security/Exec approvals: prevent safeBins allowlist bypass via shell expansion (host exec allowlist mode only; not enabled by default). Thanks @christos-eth.
- Security/Exec: harden PATH handling by disabling project-local `node_modules/.bin` bootstrapping by default, disallowing node-host `PATH` overrides, and spawning ACP servers via the current executable by default. Thanks @akhmittra.
- Security/Tlon: harden Urbit URL fetching against SSRF by blocking private/internal hosts by default (opt-in: `channels.tlon.allowPrivateNetwork`). Thanks @p80n-sec.
- Security/Voice Call (Telnyx): require webhook signature verification when receiving inbound events; configs without `telnyx.publicKey` are now rejected unless `skipSignatureVerification` is enabled. Thanks @p80n-sec.
- Security/Voice Call: require valid Twilio webhook signatures even when ngrok free tier loopback compatibility mode is enabled. Thanks @p80n-sec.
- Security/Discovery: stop treating Bonjour TXT records as authoritative routing (prefer resolved service endpoints) and prevent discovery from overriding stored TLS pins; autoconnect now requires a previously trusted gateway. Thanks @simecek.

## 2026.2.13

### Changes

- Install: add optional Podman-based setup: `setup-podman.sh` for one-time host setup (openclaw user, image, launch script, systemd quadlet), `run-openclaw-podman.sh launch` / `launch setup`; systemd Quadlet unit for openclaw user service; docs for rootless container, openclaw user (subuid/subgid), and quadlet (troubleshooting). (#16273) Thanks @DarwinsBuddy.
- Discord: send voice messages with waveform previews from local audio files (including silent delivery). (#7253) Thanks @nyanjou.
- Discord: add configurable presence status/activity/type/url (custom status defaults to activity text). (#10855) Thanks @h0tp-ftw.
- Slack/Plugins: add thread-ownership outbound gating via `message_sending` hooks, including @-mention bypass tracking and Slack outbound hook wiring for cancel/modify behavior. (#15775) Thanks @DarlingtonDeveloper.
- Agents: add synthetic catalog support for `hf:zai-org/GLM-5`. (#15867) Thanks @battman21.
- Skills: remove duplicate `local-places` Google Places skill/proxy and keep `goplaces` as the single supported Google Places path.
- Agents: add pre-prompt context diagnostics (`messages`, `systemPromptChars`, `promptChars`, provider/model, session file) before embedded runner prompt calls to improve overflow debugging. (#8930) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Onboarding/Providers: add first-class Hugging Face Inference provider support (provider wiring, onboarding auth choice/API key flow, and default-model selection), and preserve Hugging Face auth intent in auth-choice remapping (`tokenProvider=huggingface` with `authChoice=apiKey`) while skipping env-override prompts when an explicit token is provided. (#13472) Thanks @Josephrp.
- Onboarding/Providers: add `minimax-api-key-cn` auth choice for the MiniMax China API endpoint. (#15191) Thanks @liuy.

### Fixes

- Gateway/Auth: add trusted-proxy mode hardening follow-ups by keeping `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_*` env compatibility, auto-normalizing invalid setup combinations in interactive `gateway configure` (trusted-proxy forces `bind=lan` and disables Tailscale serve/funnel), and suppressing shared-secret/rate-limit audit findings that do not apply to trusted-proxy deployments. (#15940) Thanks @nickytonline.
- Docs/Hooks: update hooks documentation URLs to the new `/automation/hooks` location. (#16165) Thanks @nicholascyh.
- Security/Audit: warn when `gateway.tools.allow` re-enables default-denied tools over HTTP `POST /tools/invoke`, since this can increase RCE blast radius if the gateway is reachable.
- Security/Plugins/Hooks: harden npm-based installs by restricting specs to registry packages only, passing `--ignore-scripts` to `npm pack`, and cleaning up temp install directories.
- Security/Sessions: preserve inter-session input provenance for routed prompts so delegated/internal sessions are not treated as direct external user instructions. Thanks @anbecker.
- Feishu: stop persistent Typing reaction on NO_REPLY/suppressed runs by wiring reply-dispatcher cleanup to remove typing indicators. (#15464) Thanks @arosstale.
- Agents: strip leading empty lines from `sanitizeUserFacingText` output and normalize whitespace-only outputs to empty text. (#16158) Thanks @mcinteerj.
- BlueBubbles: gracefully degrade when Private API is disabled by filtering private-only actions, skipping private-only reactions/reply effects, and avoiding private reply markers so non-private flows remain usable. (#16002) Thanks @L-U-C-K-Y.
- Outbound: add a write-ahead delivery queue with crash-recovery retries to prevent lost outbound messages after gateway restarts. (#15636) Thanks @nabbilkhan, @thewilloftheshadow.
- Auto-reply/Threading: auto-inject implicit reply threading so `replyToMode` works without requiring model-emitted `[[reply_to_current]]`, while preserving `replyToMode: "off"` behavior for implicit Slack replies and keeping block-streaming chunk coalescing stable under `replyToMode: "first"`. (#14976) Thanks @Diaspar4u.
- Auto-reply/Threading: honor explicit `[[reply_to_*]]` tags even when `replyToMode` is `off`. (#16174) Thanks @aldoeliacim.
- Plugins/Threading: rename `allowTagsWhenOff` to `allowExplicitReplyTagsWhenOff` and keep the old key as a deprecated alias for compatibility. (#16189).
- Outbound/Threading: pass `replyTo` and `threadId` from `message send` tool actions through the core outbound send path to channel adapters, preserving thread/reply routing. (#14948) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Auto-reply/Media: allow image-only inbound messages (no caption) to reach the agent instead of short-circuiting as empty text, and preserve thread context in queued/followup prompt bodies for media-only runs. (#11916) Thanks @arosstale.
- Discord: route autoThread replies to existing threads instead of the root channel. (#8302) Thanks @gavinbmoore, @thewilloftheshadow.
- Web UI: add `img` to DOMPurify allowed tags and `src`/`alt` to allowed attributes so markdown images render in webchat instead of being stripped. (#15437) Thanks @lailoo.
- Telegram/Matrix: treat MP3 and M4A (including `audio/mp4`) as voice-compatible for `asVoice` routing, and keep WAV/AAC falling back to regular audio sends. (#15438) Thanks @azade-c.
- WhatsApp: preserve outbound document filenames for web-session document sends instead of always sending `"file"`. (#15594) Thanks @TsekaLuk.
- Telegram: cap bot menu registration to Telegram's 100-command limit with an overflow warning while keeping typed hidden commands available. (#15844) Thanks @battman21.
- Telegram: scope skill commands to the resolved agent for default accounts so `setMyCommands` no longer triggers `BOT_COMMANDS_TOO_MUCH` when multiple agents are configured. (#15599).
- Discord: avoid misrouting numeric guild allowlist entries to `/channels/<guildId>` by prefixing guild-only inputs with `guild:` during resolution. (#12326) Thanks @headswim.
- Memory/QMD: default `memory.qmd.searchMode` to `search` for faster CPU-only recall and always scope `search`/`vsearch` requests to managed collections (auto-falling back to `query` when required). (#16047) Thanks @togotago.
- Memory/LanceDB: add configurable `captureMaxChars` for auto-capture while keeping the legacy 500-char default. (#16641) Thanks @ciberponk.
- MS Teams: preserve parsed mention entities/text when appending OneDrive fallback file links, and accept broader real-world Teams mention ID formats (`29:...`, `8:orgid:...`) while still rejecting placeholder patterns. (#15436) Thanks @hyojin.
- Media: classify `text/*` MIME types as documents in media-kind routing so text attachments are no longer treated as unknown. (#12237) Thanks @arosstale.
- Inbound/Web UI: preserve literal `\n` sequences when normalizing inbound text so Windows paths like `C:\\Work\\nxxx\\README.md` are not corrupted. (#11547) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- TUI/Streaming: preserve richer streamed assistant text when final payload drops pre-tool-call text blocks, while keeping non-empty final payload authoritative for plain-text updates. (#15452) Thanks @TsekaLuk.
- Providers/MiniMax: switch implicit MiniMax API-key provider from `openai-completions` to `anthropic-messages` with the correct Anthropic-compatible base URL, fixing `invalid role: developer (2013)` errors on MiniMax M2.5. (#15275) Thanks @lailoo.
- Ollama/Agents: use resolved model/provider base URLs for native `/api/chat` streaming (including aliased providers), normalize `/v1` endpoints, and forward abort + `maxTokens` stream options for reliable cancellation and token caps. (#11853) Thanks @BrokenFinger98.
- OpenAI Codex/Spark: implement end-to-end `gpt-5.3-codex-spark` support across fallback/thinking/model resolution and `models list` forward-compat visibility. (#14990, #15174) Thanks @L-U-C-K-Y, @loiie45e.
- Agents/Codex: allow `gpt-5.3-codex-spark` in forward-compat fallback, live model filtering, and thinking presets, and fix model-picker recognition for spark. (#14990) Thanks @L-U-C-K-Y.
- Models/Codex: resolve configured `openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex-spark` through forward-compat fallback during `models list`, so it is not incorrectly tagged as missing when runtime resolution succeeds. (#15174) Thanks @loiie45e.
- OpenAI Codex/Auth: bridge OpenClaw OAuth profiles into `pi` `auth.json` so model discovery and models-list registry resolution can use Codex OAuth credentials. (#15184) Thanks @loiie45e.
- Auth/OpenAI Codex: share OAuth login handling across onboarding and `models auth login --provider openai-codex`, keep onboarding alive when OAuth fails, and surface a direct OAuth help note instead of terminating the wizard. (#15406, follow-up to #14552) Thanks @zhiluo20.
- Onboarding/Providers: add vLLM as an onboarding provider with model discovery, auth profile wiring, and non-interactive auth-choice validation. (#12577) Thanks @gejifeng.
- Onboarding/CLI: restore terminal state without resuming paused `stdin`, so onboarding exits cleanly (including Docker TTY installs that would otherwise hang). (#12972) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Signal/Install: auto-install `signal-cli` via Homebrew on non-x64 Linux architectures, avoiding x86_64 native binary `Exec format error` failures on arm64/arm hosts. (#15443) Thanks @jogvan-k.
- macOS Voice Wake: fix a crash in trigger trimming for CJK/Unicode transcripts by matching and slicing on original-string ranges instead of transformed-string indices. (#11052) Thanks @Flash-LHR.
- Mattermost (plugin): retry websocket monitor connections with exponential backoff and abort-aware teardown so transient connect failures no longer permanently stop monitoring. (#14962) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Discord/Agents: apply channel/group `historyLimit` during embedded-runner history compaction to prevent long-running channel sessions from bypassing truncation and overflowing context windows. (#11224) Thanks @shadril238.
- Outbound targets: fail closed for WhatsApp/Twitch/Google Chat fallback paths so invalid or missing targets are dropped instead of rerouted, and align resolver hints with strict target requirements. (#13578) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Gateway/Restart: clear stale command-queue and heartbeat wake runtime state after SIGUSR1 in-process restarts to prevent zombie gateway behavior where queued work stops draining. (#15195) Thanks @joeykrug.
- Heartbeat: prevent scheduler silent-death races during runner reloads, preserve retry cooldown backoff under wake bursts, and prioritize user/action wake causes over interval/retry reasons when coalescing. (#15108) Thanks @joeykrug.
- Heartbeat: allow explicit wake (`wake`) and hook wake (`hook:*`) reasons to run even when `HEARTBEAT.md` is effectively empty so queued system events are processed. (#14527) Thanks @arosstale.
- Auto-reply/Heartbeat: strip sentence-ending `HEARTBEAT_OK` tokens even when followed by up to 4 punctuation characters, while preserving surrounding sentence punctuation. (#15847) Thanks @Spacefish.
- Sessions/Agents: pass `agentId` when resolving existing transcript paths in reply runs so non-default agents and heartbeat/chat handlers no longer fail with `Session file path must be within sessions directory`. (#15141) Thanks @Goldenmonstew.
- Sessions/Agents: pass `agentId` through status and usage transcript-resolution paths (auto-reply, gateway usage APIs, and session cost/log loaders) so non-default agents can resolve absolute session files without path-validation failures. (#15103) Thanks @jalehman.
- Sessions: archive previous transcript files on `/new` and `/reset` session resets (including gateway `sessions.reset`) so stale transcripts do not accumulate on disk. (#14869) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Status/Sessions: stop clamping derived `totalTokens` to context-window size, keep prompt-token snapshots wired through session accounting, and surface context usage as unknown when fresh snapshot data is missing to avoid false 100% reports. (#15114) Thanks @echoVic.
- Gateway/Routing: speed up hot paths for session listing (derived titles + previews), WS broadcast, and binding resolution.
- Gateway/Sessions: cache derived title + last-message transcript reads to speed up repeated sessions list refreshes.
- CLI/Completion: route plugin-load logs to stderr and write generated completion scripts directly to stdout to avoid `source <(openclaw completion ...)` corruption. (#15481) Thanks @arosstale.
- CLI: lazily load outbound provider dependencies and remove forced success-path exits so commands terminate naturally without killing intentional long-running foreground actions. (#12906) Thanks @DrCrinkle.
- CLI: speed up startup by lazily registering core commands (keeps rich `--help` while reducing cold-start overhead).
- Security/Gateway + ACP: block high-risk tools (`sessions_spawn`, `sessions_send`, `gateway`, `whatsapp_login`) from HTTP `/tools/invoke` by default with `gateway.tools.{allow,deny}` overrides, and harden ACP permission selection to fail closed when tool identity/options are ambiguous while supporting `allow_always`/`reject_always`. (#15390) Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Security/ACP: prompt for non-read/search permission requests in ACP clients (reduces silent tool approval risk). Thanks @aether-ai-agent.
- Security/Gateway: breaking default-behavior change - canvas IP-based auth fallback now only accepts machine-scoped addresses (RFC1918, link-local, ULA IPv6, CGNAT); public-source IP matches now require bearer token auth. (#14661) Thanks @sumleo.
- Security/Link understanding: block loopback/internal host patterns and private/mapped IPv6 addresses in extracted URL handling to close SSRF bypasses in link CLI flows. (#15604) Thanks @AI-Reviewer-QS.
- Security/Browser: constrain `POST /trace/stop`, `POST /wait/download`, and `POST /download` output paths to OpenClaw temp roots and reject traversal/escape paths.
- Security/Browser: sanitize download `suggestedFilename` to keep implicit `wait/download` paths within the downloads root. Thanks @1seal.
- Security/Browser: confine `POST /hooks/file-chooser` upload paths to an OpenClaw temp uploads root and reject traversal/escape paths. Thanks @1seal.
- Security/Browser: require auth for the sandbox browser bridge server (protects `/profiles`, `/tabs`, CDP URLs, and other control endpoints). Thanks @jackhax.
- Security: bind local helper servers to loopback and fail closed on non-loopback OAuth callback hosts (reduces localhost/LAN attack surface).
- Security/Canvas: serve A2UI assets via the shared safe-open path (`openFileWithinRoot`) to close traversal/TOCTOU gaps, with traversal and symlink regression coverage. (#10525) Thanks @abdelsfane.
- Security/WhatsApp: enforce `0o600` on `creds.json` and `creds.json.bak` on save/backup/restore paths to reduce credential file exposure. (#10529) Thanks @abdelsfane.
- Security/Gateway: sanitize and truncate untrusted WebSocket header values in pre-handshake close logs to reduce log-poisoning risk. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Security/Audit: add misconfiguration checks for sandbox Docker config with sandbox mode off, ineffective `gateway.nodes.denyCommands` entries, global minimal tool-profile overrides by agent profiles, and permissive extension-plugin tool reachability.
- Security/Audit: distinguish external webhooks (`hooks.enabled`) from internal hooks (`hooks.internal.enabled`) in attack-surface summaries to avoid false exposure signals when only internal hooks are enabled. (#13474) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Security/Onboarding: clarify multi-user DM isolation remediation with explicit `openclaw config set session.dmScope ...` commands in security audit, doctor security, and channel onboarding guidance. (#13129) Thanks @VintLin.
- Security/Gateway: bind node `system.run` approval overrides to gateway exec-approval records (runId-bound), preventing approval-bypass via `node.invoke` param injection. Thanks @222n5.
- Agents/Nodes: harden node exec approval decision handling in the `nodes` tool run path by failing closed on unexpected approval decisions, and add regression coverage for approval-required retry/deny/timeout flows. (#4726) Thanks @rmorse.
- Android/Nodes: harden `app.update` by requiring HTTPS and gateway-host URL matching plus SHA-256 verification, stream URL camera downloads to disk with size guards to avoid memory spikes, and stop signing release builds with debug keys. (#13541) Thanks @smartprogrammer93.
- Routing: enforce strict binding-scope matching across peer/guild/team/roles so peer-scoped Discord/Slack bindings no longer match unrelated guild/team contexts or fallback tiers. (#15274) Thanks @lailoo.
- Exec/Allowlist: allow multiline heredoc bodies (`<<`, `<<-`) while keeping multiline non-heredoc shell commands blocked, so exec approval parsing permits heredoc input safely without allowing general newline command chaining. (#13811) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Config: preserve `${VAR}` env references when writing config files so `openclaw config set/apply/patch` does not persist secrets to disk. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Config: remove a cross-request env-snapshot race in config writes by carrying read-time env context into write calls per request, preserving `${VAR}` refs safely under concurrent gateway config mutations. (#11560) Thanks @akoscz.
- Config: log overwrite audit entries (path, backup target, and hash transition) whenever an existing config file is replaced, improving traceability for unexpected config clobbers.
- Config: keep legacy audio transcription migration strict by rejecting non-string/unsafe command tokens while still migrating valid custom script executables. (#5042) Thanks @shayan919293.
- Config: accept `$schema` key in config file so JSON Schema editor tooling works without validation errors. (#14998) Thanks @lailoo.
- Gateway/Tools Invoke: sanitize `/tools/invoke` execution failures while preserving `400` for tool input errors and returning `500` for unexpected runtime failures, with regression coverage and docs updates. (#13185) Thanks @davidrudduck.
- Gateway/Hooks: preserve `408` for hook request-body timeout responses while keeping bounded auth-failure cache eviction behavior, with timeout-status regression coverage. (#15848) Thanks @AI-Reviewer-QS.
- Plugins/Hooks: fire `before_tool_call` hook exactly once per tool invocation in embedded runs by removing duplicate dispatch paths while preserving parameter mutation semantics. (#15635) Thanks @lailoo.
- Agents/Transcript policy: sanitize OpenAI/Codex tool-call ids during transcript policy normalization to prevent invalid tool-call identifiers from propagating into session history. (#15279) Thanks @divisonofficer.
- Agents/Image tool: cap image-analysis completion `maxTokens` by model capability (`min(4096, model.maxTokens)`) to avoid over-limit provider failures while still preventing truncation. (#11770) Thanks @detecti1.
- Agents/Compaction: centralize exec default resolution in the shared tool factory so per-agent `tools.exec` overrides (host/security/ask/node and related defaults) persist across compaction retries. (#15833) Thanks @napetrov.
- Gateway/Agents: stop injecting a phantom `main` agent into gateway agent listings when `agents.list` explicitly excludes it. (#11450) Thanks @arosstale.
- Process/Exec: avoid shell execution for `.exe` commands on Windows so env overrides work reliably in `runCommandWithTimeout`. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Daemon/Windows: preserve literal backslashes in `gateway.cmd` command parsing so drive and UNC paths are not corrupted in runtime checks and doctor entrypoint comparisons. (#15642) Thanks @arosstale.
- Sandbox: pass configured `sandbox.docker.env` variables to sandbox containers at `docker create` time. (#15138) Thanks @stevebot-alive.
- Voice Call: route webhook runtime event handling through shared manager event logic so rejected inbound hangups are idempotent in production, with regression tests for duplicate reject events and provider-call-ID remapping parity. (#15892) Thanks @dcantu96.
- Cron: add regression coverage for announce-mode isolated jobs so runs that already report `delivered: true` do not enqueue duplicate main-session relays, including delivery configs where `mode` is omitted and defaults to announce. (#15737) Thanks @brandonwise.
- Cron: honor `deleteAfterRun` in isolated announce delivery by mapping it to subagent announce cleanup mode, so cron run sessions configured for deletion are removed after completion. (#15368) Thanks @arosstale.
- Web tools/web_fetch: prefer `text/markdown` responses for Cloudflare Markdown for Agents, add `cf-markdown` extraction for markdown bodies, and redact fetched URLs in `x-markdown-tokens` debug logs to avoid leaking raw paths/query params. (#15376) Thanks @Yaxuan42.
- Tools/web_search: support `freshness` for the Perplexity provider by mapping `pd`/`pw`/`pm`/`py` to Perplexity `search_recency_filter` values and including freshness in the Perplexity cache key. (#15343) Thanks @echoVic.
- Clawdock: avoid Zsh readonly variable collisions in helper scripts. (#15501) Thanks @nkelner.
- Memory: switch default local embedding model to the QAT `embeddinggemma-300m-qat-Q8_0` variant for better quality at the same footprint. (#15429) Thanks @azade-c.
- Docs/Discord: expand quick setup and clarify guild workspace guidance. (#20088) Thanks @pejmanjohn, @thewilloftheshadow.
- Docs/Mermaid: remove hardcoded Mermaid init theme blocks from four docs diagrams so dark mode inherits readable theme defaults. (#15157) Thanks @heytulsiprasad.
- Security/Pairing: generate 256-bit base64url device and node pairing tokens and use byte-safe constant-time verification to avoid token-compare edge-case failures. (#16535) Thanks @FaizanKolega, @gumadeiras.

### Breaking

- Config/State: removed legacy `.moltbot` auto-detection/migration and `moltbot.json` config candidates. If you still have state/config under `~/.moltbot`, move it to `~/.openclaw` (recommended) or set `OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR` / `OPENCLAW_CONFIG_PATH` explicitly.

## 2026.2.12

### Changes

- CLI/Plugins: add `openclaw plugins uninstall <id>` with `--dry-run`, `--force`, and `--keep-files` options, including safe uninstall path handling and plugin uninstall docs. (#5985) Thanks @JustasMonkev.
- CLI: add `openclaw logs --local-time` to display log timestamps in local timezone. (#13818) Thanks @xialonglee.
- Telegram: render blockquotes as native `<blockquote>` tags instead of stripping them. (#14608).
- Telegram: expose `/compact` in the native command menu. (#10352) Thanks @akramcodez.
- Discord: add role-based allowlists and role-based agent routing. (#10650) Thanks @Minidoracat.
- Config: avoid redacting `maxTokens`-like fields during config snapshot redaction, preventing round-trip validation failures in `/config`. (#14006) Thanks @constansino.

### Fixes

- Gateway/OpenResponses: harden URL-based `input_file`/`input_image` handling with explicit SSRF deny policy, hostname allowlists (`files.urlAllowlist` / `images.urlAllowlist`), per-request URL input caps (`maxUrlParts`), blocked-fetch audit logging, and regression coverage/docs updates.
- Sessions: guard `withSessionStoreLock` against undefined `storePath` to prevent `path.dirname` crash. (#14717) Thanks @lailoo.
- Security: fix unauthenticated Nostr profile API remote config tampering. (#13719) Thanks @coygeek.
- Security: remove bundled soul-evil hook. (#14757) Thanks @Imccccc.
- Security/Audit: add hook session-routing hardening checks (`hooks.defaultSessionKey`, `hooks.allowRequestSessionKey`, and prefix allowlists), and warn when HTTP API endpoints allow explicit session-key routing.
- Security/Sandbox: confine mirrored skill sync destinations to the sandbox `skills/` root and stop using frontmatter-controlled skill names as filesystem destination paths. Thanks @1seal.
- Security/Web tools: treat browser/web content as untrusted by default (wrapped outputs for browser snapshot/tabs/console and structured external-content metadata for web tools), and strip `toolResult.details` from model-facing transcript/compaction inputs to reduce prompt-injection replay risk.
- Security/Hooks: harden webhook and device token verification with shared constant-time secret comparison, and add per-client auth-failure throttling for hook endpoints (`429` + `Retry-After`). Thanks @akhmittra.
- Security/Browser: require auth for loopback browser control HTTP routes, auto-generate `gateway.auth.token` when browser control starts without auth, and add a security-audit check for unauthenticated browser control. Thanks @tcusolle.
- Sessions/Gateway: harden transcript path resolution and reject unsafe session IDs/file paths so session operations stay within agent sessions directories. Thanks @akhmittra.
- Sessions: preserve `verboseLevel`, `thinkingLevel`/`reasoningLevel`, and `ttsAuto` overrides across `/new` and `/reset` session resets. (#10787) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Gateway: raise WS payload/buffer limits so 5,000,000-byte image attachments work reliably. (#14486) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Logging/CLI: use local timezone timestamps for console prefixing, and include `±HH:MM` offsets when using `openclaw logs --local-time` to avoid ambiguity. (#14771) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Gateway: drain active turns before restart to prevent message loss. (#13931) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Gateway: auto-generate auth token during install to prevent launchd restart loops. (#13813) Thanks @cathrynlavery.
- Gateway: prevent `undefined`/missing token in auth config. (#13809) Thanks @asklee-klawd.
- Configure/Gateway: reject literal `"undefined"`/`"null"` token input and validate gateway password prompt values to avoid invalid password-mode configs. (#13767) Thanks @omair445.
- Gateway: handle async `EPIPE` on stdout/stderr during shutdown. (#13414) Thanks @keshav55.
- Gateway/Control UI: resolve missing dashboard assets when `openclaw` is installed globally via symlink-based Node managers (nvm/fnm/n/Homebrew). (#14919) Thanks @aynorica.
- Gateway/Control UI: keep partial assistant output visible when runs are aborted, and persist aborted partials to session transcripts for follow-up context.
- Cron: use requested `agentId` for isolated job auth resolution. (#13983) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Cron: prevent cron jobs from skipping execution when `nextRunAtMs` advances. (#14068) Thanks @WalterSumbon.
- Cron: pass `agentId` to `runHeartbeatOnce` for main-session jobs. (#14140) Thanks @ishikawa-pro.
- Cron: re-arm timers when `onTimer` fires while a job is still executing. (#14233) Thanks @tomron87.
- Cron: prevent duplicate fires when multiple jobs trigger simultaneously. (#14256) Thanks @xinhuagu.
- Cron: prevent duplicate announce-mode isolated cron deliveries, and keep main-session fallback active when best-effort structured delivery attempts fail to send any message. (#15739) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
- Cron: isolate scheduler errors so one bad job does not break all jobs. (#14385) Thanks @MarvinDontPanic.
- Cron: prevent one-shot `at` jobs from re-firing on restart after skipped/errored runs. (#13878) Thanks @lailoo.
- Heartbeat: prevent scheduler stalls on unexpected run errors and avoid immediate rerun loops after `requests-in-flight` skips. (#14901) Thanks @joeykrug.
- Cron: honor stored session model overrides for isolated-agent runs while preserving `hooks.gmail.model` precedence for Gmail hook sessions. (#14983) Thanks @shtse8.
- Logging/Browser: fall back to `os.tmpdir()/openclaw` for default log, browser trace, and browser download temp paths when `/tmp/openclaw` is unavailable (#14985). Thanks @gumadeiras.
- WhatsApp: convert Markdown bold/strikethrough to WhatsApp formatting. (#14285) Thanks @Raikan10.
- WhatsApp: allow media-only sends and normalize leading blank payloads. (#14408) Thanks @karimnaguib.
- WhatsApp: default MIME type for voice messages when Baileys omits it. (#14444) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Telegram: handle no-text message in model picker editMessageText. (#14397) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Telegram: surface REACTION_INVALID as non-fatal warning. (#14340) Thanks @0xRaini.
- BlueBubbles: fix webhook auth bypass via loopback proxy trust. (#13787) Thanks @coygeek.
- Slack: change default replyToMode from "off" to "all". (#14364) Thanks @nm-de.
- Slack: honor `limit` for `emoji-list` actions across core and extension adapters, with capped emoji-list responses in the Slack action handler. (#4293) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Slack: detect control commands when channel messages start with bot mention prefixes (for example, `@Bot /new`). (#14142) Thanks @beefiker.
- Slack: include thread reply metadata in inbound message footer context (`thread_ts`, `parent_user_id`) while keeping top-level `thread_ts == ts` events unthreaded. (#14625) Thanks @bennewton999.
- Signal: enforce E.164 validation for the Signal bot account prompt so mistyped numbers are caught early. (#15063) Thanks @Duartemartins.
- Discord: process DM reactions instead of silently dropping them. (#10418) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Discord: treat Administrator as full permissions in channel permission checks. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: respect replyToMode in threads. (#11062) Thanks @cordx56.
- Discord: add optional gateway proxy support for WebSocket connections via `channels.discord.proxy`. (#10400) Thanks @winter-loo, @thewilloftheshadow.
- Browser: add Chrome launch flag `--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled` to reduce `navigator.webdriver` automation detection issues on reCAPTCHA-protected sites. (#10735) Thanks @Milofax.
- Heartbeat: filter noise-only system events so scheduled reminder notifications do not fire when cron runs carry only heartbeat markers. (#13317) Thanks @pvtclawn.
- Signal: render mention placeholders as `@uuid`/`@phone` so mention gating and Clawdbot targeting work. (#2013) Thanks @alexgleason.
- Agents/Reminders: guard reminder promises by appending a note when no `cron.add` succeeded in the turn, so users know nothing was scheduled. (#18588) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Discord: omit empty content fields for media-only messages while preserving caption whitespace. (#9507) Thanks @leszekszpunar.
- Onboarding/Providers: add Z.AI endpoint-specific auth choices (`zai-coding-global`, `zai-coding-cn`, `zai-global`, `zai-cn`) and expand default Z.AI model wiring. (#13456) Thanks @tomsun28.
- Onboarding/Providers: update MiniMax API default/recommended models from M2.1 to M2.5, add M2.5/M2.5-Lightning model entries, and include `minimax-m2.5` in modern model filtering. (#14865) Thanks @adao-max.
- Ollama: use configured `models.providers.ollama.baseUrl` for model discovery and normalize `/v1` endpoints to the native Ollama API root. (#14131) Thanks @shtse8.
- Voice Call: pass Twilio stream auth token via `<Parameter>` instead of query string. (#14029) Thanks @mcwigglesmcgee.
- Config/Models: allow full `models.providers.*.models[*].compat` keys used by `openai-completions` (`thinkingFormat`, `supportsStrictMode`, and streaming/tool-result compatibility flags) so valid provider overrides no longer fail strict config validation. (#11063) Thanks @ikari-pl.
- Feishu: pass `Buffer` directly to the Feishu SDK upload APIs instead of `Readable.from(...)` to avoid form-data upload failures. (#10345) Thanks @youngerstyle.
- Feishu: trigger mention-gated group handling only when the bot itself is mentioned (not just any mention). (#11088) Thanks @openperf.
- Feishu: probe status uses the resolved account context for multi-account credential checks. (#11233) Thanks @onevcat.
- Feishu: add streaming card replies via Card Kit API and preserve `renderMode=auto` fallback behavior for plain-text responses. (#10379) Thanks @xzq-xu.
- Feishu DocX: preserve top-level converted block order using `firstLevelBlockIds` when writing/appending documents. (#13994) Thanks @Cynosure159.
- Feishu plugin packaging: remove `workspace:*` `openclaw` dependency from the Feishu plugin package and sync lockfile for install compatibility. (#14423) Thanks @jackcooper2015.
- CLI/Wizard: exit with code 1 when `configure`, `agents add`, or interactive `onboard` wizards are canceled, so `set -e` automation stops correctly. (#14156) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Media: strip `MEDIA:` lines with local paths instead of leaking as visible text. (#14399) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Config/Cron: exclude `maxTokens` from config redaction and honor `deleteAfterRun` on skipped cron jobs. (#13342) Thanks @niceysam.
- Config: ignore `meta` field changes in config file watcher. (#13460) Thanks @brandonwise.
- Daemon: suppress `EPIPE` error when restarting LaunchAgent. (#14343) Thanks @0xRaini.
- Antigravity: add opus 4.6 forward-compat model and bypass thinking signature sanitization. (#14218) Thanks @jg-noncelogic.
- Agents: prevent file descriptor leaks in child process cleanup. (#13565) Thanks @KyleChen26.
- Agents: prevent double compaction caused by cache TTL bypassing guard. (#13514) Thanks @taw0002.
- Agents: use last API call's cache tokens for context display instead of accumulated sum. (#13805) Thanks @akari-musubi.
- Agents: keep followup-runner session `totalTokens` aligned with post-compaction context by using last-call usage and shared token-accounting logic. (#14979) Thanks @shtse8.
- Hooks/Plugins: wire 9 previously unwired plugin lifecycle hooks into core runtime paths (session, compaction, gateway, and outbound message hooks). (#14882) Thanks @shtse8.
- Hooks/Tools: dispatch `before_tool_call` and `after_tool_call` hooks from both tool execution paths with rebased conflict fixes. (#15012) Thanks @Patrick-Barletta, @Takhoffman.
- Hooks: replace loader `console.*` output with subsystem logger messages so hook loading errors/warnings route through standard logging. (#11029) Thanks @shadril238.
- Discord: allow channel-edit to archive/lock threads and set auto-archive duration. (#5542) Thanks @stumct.
- Discord tests: use a partial @buape/carbon mock in slash command coverage. (#13262) Thanks @arosstale.
- Tests: update thread ID handling in Slack message collection tests. (#14108) Thanks @swizzmagik.
- Update/Daemon: fix post-update restart compatibility by generating `dist/cli/daemon-cli.js` with alias-aware exports from hashed daemon bundles, preventing `registerDaemonCli` import failures during `openclaw update`.

### Breaking

- Hooks: `POST /hooks/agent` now rejects payload `sessionKey` overrides by default. To keep fixed hook context, set `hooks.defaultSessionKey` (recommended with `hooks.allowedSessionKeyPrefixes: ["hook:"]`). If you need legacy behavior, explicitly set `hooks.allowRequestSessionKey: true`. Thanks @alpernae for reporting.

## 2026.2.9

### Added

- Commands: add `commands.allowFrom` config for separate command authorization, allowing operators to restrict slash commands to specific users while keeping chat open to others. (#12430) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Docker: add ClawDock shell helpers for Docker workflows. (#12817) Thanks @Olshansk.
- Gateway: periodic channel health monitor auto-restarts stuck, crashed, or silently-stopped channels. Configurable via `gateway.channelHealthCheckMinutes` (default: 5, set to 0 to disable). (#7053, #4302)
- iOS: alpha node app + setup-code onboarding. (#11756) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Channels: comprehensive BlueBubbles and channel cleanup. (#11093) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Channels: IRC first-class channel support. (#11482) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Plugins: device pairing + phone control plugins (Telegram `/pair`, iOS/Android node controls). (#11755) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Tools: add Grok (xAI) as a `web_search` provider. (#12419) Thanks @tmchow.
- Gateway: add agent management RPC methods for the web UI (`agents.create`, `agents.update`, `agents.delete`). (#11045) Thanks @advaitpaliwal.
- Gateway: stream thinking events to WS clients and broadcast tool events independent of verbose level. (#10568) Thanks @nk1tz.
- Web UI: show a Compaction divider in chat history. (#11341) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Agents: include runtime shell in agent envelopes. (#1835) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Agents: auto-select `zai/glm-4.6v` for image understanding when ZAI is primary provider. (#10267) Thanks @liuy.
- Paths: add `OPENCLAW_HOME` for overriding the home directory used by internal path resolution. (#12091) Thanks @sebslight.
- Onboarding: add Custom Provider flow for OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible endpoints. (#11106) Thanks @MackDing.
- Hooks: route webhook agent runs to specific `agentId`s, add `hooks.allowedAgentIds` controls, and fall back to default agent when unknown IDs are provided. (#13672) Thanks @BillChirico.

### Fixes

- Cron: prevent one-shot `at` jobs from re-firing on gateway restart when previously skipped or errored. (#13845) Thanks @lailoo.
- Discord: add exec approval cleanup option to delete DMs after approval/denial/timeout. (#13205) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Sessions: prune stale entries, cap session store size, rotate large stores, accept duration/size thresholds, default to warn-only maintenance, and prune cron run sessions after retention windows. (#13083) Thanks @skyfallsin, @gumadeiras.
- CI: Implement pipeline and workflow order. Thanks @quotentiroler.
- WhatsApp: preserve original filenames for inbound documents. (#12691) Thanks @akramcodez.
- Telegram: harden quote parsing; preserve quote context; avoid QUOTE_TEXT_INVALID; avoid nested reply quote misclassification. (#12156) Thanks @rybnikov.
- Security/Telegram: breaking default-behavior change - standalone canvas host + Telegram webhook listeners now bind loopback (`127.0.0.1`) instead of `0.0.0.0`; set `channels.telegram.webhookHost` when external ingress is required. (#13184) Thanks @davidrudduck.
- Telegram: recover proactive sends when stale topic thread IDs are used by retrying without `message_thread_id`. (#11620) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Discord: auto-create forum/media thread posts on send, with chunked follow-up replies and media handling for forum sends. (#12380) Thanks @magendary, @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: cap gateway reconnect attempts to avoid infinite retry loops. (#12230) Thanks @Yida-Dev.
- Telegram: render markdown spoilers with `<tg-spoiler>` HTML tags. (#11543) Thanks @ezhikkk.
- Telegram: truncate command registration to 100 entries to avoid `BOT_COMMANDS_TOO_MUCH` failures on startup. (#12356) Thanks @arosstale.
- Telegram: match DM `allowFrom` against sender user id (fallback to chat id) and clarify pairing logs. (#12779) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
- Pairing/Telegram: include the actual pairing code in approve commands, route Telegram pairing replies through the shared pairing message builder, and add regression checks to prevent `<code>` placeholder drift. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Onboarding: QuickStart now auto-installs shell completion (prompt only in Manual). Thanks @vignesh07.
- Onboarding/Providers: add LiteLLM provider onboarding and preserve custom LiteLLM proxy base URLs while enforcing API-key auth mode. (#12823) Thanks @ryan-crabbe.
- Docker: make `docker-setup.sh` compatible with macOS Bash 3.2 and empty extra mounts. (#9441) Thanks @mateusz-michalik.
- Auth: strip embedded line breaks from pasted API keys and tokens before storing/resolving credentials. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Agents: strip reasoning tags and downgraded tool markers from messaging tool and streaming output to prevent leakage. (#11053, #13453) Thanks @liebertar, @meaadore1221-afk, @gumadeiras.
- Browser: prevent stuck `act:evaluate` from wedging the browser tool, and make cancellation stop waiting promptly. (#13498) Thanks @onutc.
- Security/Gateway: default-deny missing connect `scopes` (no implicit `operator.admin`).
- Web UI: make chat refresh smoothly scroll to the latest messages and suppress new-messages badge flash during manual refresh. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Web UI: coerce Form Editor values to schema types before `config.set` and `config.apply`, preventing numeric and boolean fields from being serialized as strings. (#13468) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Tools/web_search: include provider-specific settings in the web search cache key, and pass `inlineCitations` for Grok. (#12419) Thanks @tmchow.
- Tools/web_search: fix Grok response parsing for xAI Responses API output blocks. (#13049) Thanks @ereid7.
- Tools/web_search: normalize direct Perplexity model IDs while keeping OpenRouter model IDs unchanged. (#12795) Thanks @cdorsey.
- Model failover: treat HTTP 400 errors as failover-eligible, enabling automatic model fallback. (#1879) Thanks @orenyomtov.
- Errors: prevent false positive context overflow detection when conversation mentions "context overflow" topic. (#2078) Thanks @sbking.
- Errors: avoid rewriting/swallowing normal assistant replies that mention error keywords by scoping `sanitizeUserFacingText` rewrites to error-context. (#12988) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Config: re-hydrate state-dir `.env` during runtime config loads so `${VAR}` substitutions remain resolvable. (#12748) Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Gateway: no more post-compaction amnesia; injected transcript writes now preserve Pi session `parentId` chain so agents can remember again. (#12283) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Gateway: fix multi-agent sessions.usage discovery. (#11523) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Agents: recover from context overflow caused by oversized tool results (pre-emptive capping + fallback truncation). (#11579) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Subagents/compaction: stabilize announce timing and preserve compaction metrics across retries. (#11664) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Subagents: report timeout-aborted runs as timed out instead of completed successfully in parent-session announcements. (#13996) Thanks @dario-github.
- Cron: share isolated announce flow and harden scheduling/delivery reliability. (#11641) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron tool: recover flat params when LLM omits the `job` wrapper for add requests. (#12124) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Gateway/CLI: when `gateway.bind=lan`, use a LAN IP for probe URLs and Control UI links. (#11448) Thanks @AnonO6.
- CLI: make `openclaw plugins list` output scannable by hoisting source roots and shortening bundled/global/workspace plugin paths. Thanks @vignesh07.
- Hooks: fix bundled hooks broken since 2026.2.2 (tsdown migration). (#9295) Thanks @patrickshao.
- Security/Plugins: install plugin and hook dependencies with `--ignore-scripts` to prevent lifecycle script execution.
- Routing: refresh bindings per message by loading config at route resolution so binding changes apply without restart. (#11372) Thanks @juanpablodlc.
- Exec approvals: render forwarded commands in monospace for safer approval scanning. (#11937) Thanks @sebslight.
- Config: clamp `maxTokens` to `contextWindow` to prevent invalid model configs. (#5516) Thanks @lailoo.
- Thinking: allow xhigh for `github-copilot/gpt-5.2-codex` and `github-copilot/gpt-5.2`. (#11646) Thanks @LatencyTDH.
- Thinking: honor `/think off` for reasoning-capable models. (#9564) Thanks @liuy.
- Discord: support forum/media thread-create starter messages, wire `message thread create --message`, and harden routing. (#10062) Thanks @jarvis89757.
- Discord: download attachments from forwarded messages. (#17049) Thanks @pip-nomel, @thewilloftheshadow.
- Paths: structurally resolve `OPENCLAW_HOME`-derived home paths and fix Windows drive-letter handling in tool meta shortening. (#12125) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Memory: set Voyage embeddings `input_type` for improved retrieval. (#10818) Thanks @mcinteerj.
- Memory: disable async batch embeddings by default for memory indexing (opt-in via `agents.defaults.memorySearch.remote.batch.enabled`). (#13069) Thanks @mcinteerj.
- Memory/QMD: reuse default model cache across agents instead of re-downloading per agent. (#12114) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Memory/QMD: run boot refresh in background by default, add configurable QMD maintenance timeouts, retry QMD after fallback failures, and scope QMD queries to OpenClaw-managed collections. (#9690, #9705, #10042) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: initialize QMD backend on gateway startup so background update timers restart after process reloads. (#10797) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Config/Memory: auto-migrate legacy top-level `memorySearch` settings into `agents.defaults.memorySearch`. (#11278, #9143) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: treat plain-text `No results found` output from QMD as an empty result instead of throwing invalid JSON errors. (#9824) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Memory/QMD: add `memory.qmd.searchMode` to choose `query`, `search`, or `vsearch` recall mode. (#9967, #10084) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Media understanding: recognize `.caf` audio attachments for transcription. (#10982) Thanks @succ985.
- State dir: honor `OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR` for default device identity and canvas storage paths. (#4824) Thanks @kossoy.
- Doctor/State dir: suppress repeated legacy migration warnings only for valid symlink mirrors, while keeping warnings for empty or invalid legacy trees. (#11709) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Tests: harden flaky hotspots by removing timer sleeps, consolidating onboarding provider-auth coverage, and improving memory test realism. (#11598) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- macOS: honor Nix-managed defaults suite (`ai.openclaw.mac`) for nixMode to prevent onboarding from reappearing after bundle-id churn. (#12205) Thanks @joshp123.
- Matrix: add multi-account support via `channels.matrix.accounts`; use per-account config for dm policy, allowFrom, groups, and other settings; serialize account startup to avoid race condition. (#7286, #3165, #3085) Thanks @emonty.

## 2026.2.6

### Added

- Cron: run history deep-links to session chat from the dashboard. (#10776) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron: per-run session keys in run log entries and default labels for cron sessions. (#10776) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron: legacy payload field compatibility (`deliver`, `channel`, `to`, `bestEffortDeliver`) in schema. (#10776) Thanks @tyler6204.

### Changes

- Cron: default `wakeMode` is now `"now"` for new jobs (was `"next-heartbeat"`). (#10776) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron: `cron run` defaults to force execution; use `--due` to restrict to due-only. (#10776) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Models: support Anthropic Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Codex gpt-5.3-codex (forward-compat fallbacks). (#9853, #10720, #9995) Thanks @TinyTb, @calvin-hpnet, @tyler6204.
- Providers: add xAI (Grok) support. (#9885) Thanks @grp06.
- Providers: add Baidu Qianfan support. (#8868) Thanks @ide-rea.
- Web UI: add token usage dashboard. (#10072) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Web UI: add RTL auto-direction support for Hebrew/Arabic text in chat composer and rendered messages. (#11498) Thanks @dirbalak.
- Memory: native Voyage AI support. (#7078) Thanks @mcinteerj.
- Sessions: cap sessions_history payloads to reduce context overflow. (#10000) Thanks @gut-puncture.
- CLI: sort commands alphabetically in help output. (#8068) Thanks @deepsoumya617.
- CI: optimize pipeline throughput (macOS consolidation, Windows perf, workflow concurrency). (#10784) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Agents: bump pi-mono to 0.52.7; add embedded forward-compat fallback for Opus 4.6 model ids.

### Fixes

- TTS: add missing OpenAI voices (ballad, cedar, juniper, marin, verse) to the allowlist so they are recognized instead of silently falling back to Edge TTS. (#2393) Thanks @lailoo.
- Cron: scheduler reliability (timer drift, restart catch-up, lock contention, stale running markers). (#10776) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron: store migration hardening (legacy field migration, parse error handling, explicit delivery mode persistence). (#10776) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Telegram: auto-inject DM topic threadId in message tool + subagent announce. (#7235) Thanks @Lukavyi.
- Security: require auth for Gateway canvas host and A2UI assets. (#9518) Thanks @coygeek.
- Cron: fix scheduling and reminder delivery regressions; harden next-run recompute + timer re-arming + legacy schedule fields. (#9733, #9823, #9948, #9932) Thanks @tyler6204, @pycckuu, @j2h4u, @fujiwara-tofu-shop.
- Update: harden Control UI asset handling in update flow. (#10146) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Security: add skill/plugin code safety scanner; redact credentials from config.get gateway responses. (#9806, #9858) Thanks @abdelsfane.
- Exec approvals: coerce bare string allowlist entries to objects. (#9903) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Slack: add mention stripPatterns for /new and /reset. (#9971) Thanks @ironbyte-rgb.
- Chrome extension: fix bundled path resolution. (#8914) Thanks @kelvinCB.
- Compaction/errors: allow multiple compaction retries on context overflow; show clear billing errors. (#8928, #8391) Thanks @Glucksberg.

## 2026.2.3

### Changes

- Telegram: remove last `@ts-nocheck` from `bot-handlers.ts`, use Grammy types directly, deduplicate `StickerMetadata`. Zero `@ts-nocheck` remaining in `src/telegram/`. (#9206).
- Telegram: remove `@ts-nocheck` from `bot-message.ts`, type deps via `Omit<BuildTelegramMessageContextParams>`, widen `allMedia` to `TelegramMediaRef[]`. (#9180).
- Telegram: remove `@ts-nocheck` from `bot.ts`, fix duplicate `bot.catch` error handler (Grammy overrides), remove dead reaction `message_thread_id` routing, harden sticker cache guard. (#9077).
- Onboarding: add Cloudflare AI Gateway provider setup and docs. (#7914) Thanks @roerohan.
- Onboarding: add Moonshot (.cn) auth choice and keep the China base URL when preserving defaults. (#7180) Thanks @waynelwz.
- Docs: clarify tmux send-keys for TUI by splitting text and Enter. (#7737) Thanks @Wangnov.
- Docs: mirror the landing page revamp for zh-CN (features, quickstart, docs directory, network model, credits). (#8994) Thanks @joshp123.
- Messages: add per-channel and per-account responsePrefix overrides across channels. (#9001) Thanks @mudrii.
- Cron: add announce delivery mode for isolated jobs (CLI + Control UI) and delivery mode config.
- Cron: default isolated jobs to announce delivery; accept ISO 8601 `schedule.at` in tool inputs.
- Cron: hard-migrate isolated jobs to announce/none delivery; drop legacy post-to-main/payload delivery fields and `atMs` inputs.
- Cron: delete one-shot jobs after success by default; add `--keep-after-run` for CLI.
- Cron: suppress messaging tools during announce delivery so summaries post consistently.
- Cron: avoid duplicate deliveries when isolated runs send messages directly.

### Fixes

- Control UI: add hardened fallback for asset resolution in global npm installs. (#4855) Thanks @anapivirtua.
- Update: remove dead restore control-ui step that failed on gitignored dist/ output (#2402). Thanks @ramin-shirali.
- Update: avoid wiping prebuilt Control UI assets during dev auto-builds (`tsdown --no-clean`), run update doctor via `openclaw.mjs`, and auto-restore missing UI assets after doctor. (#10146) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Models: add forward-compat fallback for `openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex` when model registry hasn't discovered it yet. (#9989) Thanks @w1kke.
- Auto-reply/Docs: normalize `extra-high` (and spaced variants) to `xhigh` for Codex thinking levels, and align Codex 5.3 FAQ examples. (#9976) Thanks @slonce70.
- Compaction: remove orphaned `tool_result` messages during history pruning to prevent session corruption from aborted tool calls. (#9868, fixes #9769, #9724, #9672) (#2402) Thanks @ramin-shirali.
- Telegram: pass `parentPeer` for forum topic binding inheritance so group-level bindings apply to all topics within the group. (#9789, fixes #9545, #9351) (#2402) Thanks @ramin-shirali.
- CLI: pass `--disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning` as a Node CLI option when respawning (avoid disallowed `NODE_OPTIONS` usage; fixes npm pack). (#9691) Thanks @18-RAJAT.
- CLI: resolve bundled Chrome extension assets by walking up to the nearest assets directory; add resolver and clipboard tests. (#8914) Thanks @kelvinCB.
- Tests: stabilize Windows ACL coverage with deterministic os.userInfo mocking. (#9335) Thanks @M00N7682.
- Exec approvals: coerce bare string allowlist entries to objects to prevent allowlist corruption. (#9903, fixes #9790) Thanks @mcaxtr.
- Exec approvals: ensure two-phase approval registration/decision flow works reliably by validating `twoPhase` requests and exposing `waitDecision` as an approvals-scoped gateway method. (#3357, fixes #2402) Thanks @ramin-shirali.
- Heartbeat: allow explicit accountId routing for multi-account channels. (#8702) Thanks @lsh411.
- TUI/Gateway: handle non-streaming finals, refresh history for non-local chat runs, and avoid event gap warnings for targeted tool streams. (#8432) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Shell completion: auto-detect and migrate slow dynamic patterns to cached files for faster terminal startup; add completion health checks to doctor/update/onboard.
- Telegram: honor session model overrides in inline model selection. (#8193) Thanks @gildo.
- Web UI: fix agent model selection saves for default/non-default agents and wrap long workspace paths. Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Web UI: resolve header logo path when `gateway.controlUi.basePath` is set. (#7178) Thanks @Yeom-JinHo.
- Web UI: apply button styling to the new-messages indicator.
- Onboarding: infer auth choice from non-interactive API key flags. (#8484) Thanks @f-trycua.
- Security: keep untrusted channel metadata out of system prompts (Slack/Discord). Thanks @KonstantinMirin.
- Security: enforce sandboxed media paths for message tool attachments. (#9182) Thanks @victormier.
- Security: require explicit credentials for gateway URL overrides to prevent credential leakage. (#8113) Thanks @victormier.
- Security: gate `whatsapp_login` tool to owner senders and default-deny non-owner contexts. (#8768) Thanks @victormier.
- Voice call: harden webhook verification with host allowlists/proxy trust and keep ngrok loopback bypass.
- Voice call: add regression coverage for anonymous inbound caller IDs with allowlist policy. (#8104) Thanks @victormier.
- Cron: accept epoch timestamps and 0ms durations in CLI `--at` parsing.
- Cron: reload store data when the store file is recreated or mtime changes.
- Cron: deliver announce runs directly, honor delivery mode, and respect wakeMode for summaries. (#8540) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Telegram: include forward_from_chat metadata in forwarded messages and harden cron delivery target checks. (#8392) Thanks @sleontenko.
- macOS: fix cron payload summary rendering and ISO 8601 formatter concurrency safety.
- Discord: enforce DM allowlists for agent components (buttons/select menus), honoring pairing store approvals and tag matches. (#11254) Thanks @thedudeabidesai.

## 2026.2.2-3

### Fixes

- Update: ship legacy daemon-cli shim for pre-tsdown update imports (fixes daemon restart after npm update).

## 2026.2.2-2

### Changes

- Docs: promote BlueBubbles as the recommended iMessage integration; mark imsg channel as legacy. (#8415) Thanks @tyler6204.

### Fixes

- CLI status: resolve build-info from bundled dist output (fixes "unknown" commit in npm builds).

## 2026.2.2-1

### Fixes

- CLI status: fall back to build-info for version detection (fixes "unknown" in beta builds). Thanks @gumadeira.

## 2026.2.2

### Changes

- Feishu: add Feishu/Lark plugin support + docs. (#7313) Thanks @jiulingyun (openclaw-cn).
- Web UI: add Agents dashboard for managing agent files, tools, skills, models, channels, and cron jobs. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Subagents: discourage direct messaging tool use unless a specific external recipient is requested. Thanks @tyler6204.
- Memory: implement the opt-in QMD backend for workspace memory. (#3160) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Security: add healthcheck skill and bootstrap audit guidance. (#7641) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Config: allow setting a default subagent thinking level via `agents.defaults.subagents.thinking` (and per-agent `agents.list[].subagents.thinking`). (#7372) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Docs: zh-CN translations seed + polish, pipeline guidance, nav/landing updates, and typo fixes. (#8202, #6995, #6619, #7242, #7303, #7415) Thanks @AaronWander, @taiyi747, @Explorer1092, @rendaoyuan, @joshp123, @lailoo.
- Docs: add zh-CN i18n guardrails to avoid editing generated translations. (#8416) Thanks @joshp123.

### Fixes

- Docs: finish renaming the QMD memory docs to reference the OpenClaw state dir (#8193). Thanks @obviyus.
- Onboarding: keep TUI flow exclusive (skip completion prompt + background Web UI seed) (#8193). Thanks @obviyus.
- Onboarding: drop completion prompt now handled by install/update (#8193). Thanks @obviyus.
- TUI: block onboarding output while TUI is active and restore terminal state on exit (#8193). Thanks @obviyus.
- CLI: cache shell completion scripts in state dir and source cached files in profiles (#8193). Thanks @obviyus.
- Zsh completion: escape option descriptions to avoid invalid option errors (#8193). Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents: repair malformed tool calls and session transcripts. (#7473) Thanks @justinhuangcode.
- fix(agents): validate AbortSignal instances before calling AbortSignal.any() (#7277) (thanks @Elarwei001).
- fix(webchat): respect user scroll position during streaming and refresh (#7226) (thanks @marcomarandiz).
- Telegram: recover from grammY long-poll timed out errors. (#7466) Thanks @macmimi23.
- Media understanding: skip binary media from file text extraction. (#7475) Thanks @AlexZhangji.
- Security: enforce access-group gating for Slack slash commands when channel type lookup fails.
- Security: require validated shared-secret auth before skipping device identity on gateway connect. Thanks @simecek.
- Security: guard skill installer downloads with SSRF checks (block private/localhost URLs).
- Security/Gateway: require `operator.approvals` for in-chat `/approve` when invoked from gateway clients. Thanks @yueyueL.
- Security: harden Windows exec allowlist; block cmd.exe bypass via single &. Thanks @simecek.
- Media understanding: apply SSRF guardrails to provider fetches; allow private baseUrl overrides explicitly.
- fix(voice-call): harden inbound allowlist; reject anonymous callers; require Telnyx publicKey for allowlist; token-gate Twilio media streams; cap webhook body size (thanks @simecek)
- Onboarding: keep TUI flow exclusive (skip completion prompt + background Web UI seed); completion prompt now handled by install/update.
- CLI/Zsh completion: cache scripts in state dir and escape option descriptions to avoid invalid option errors.
- fix(ui): resolve Control UI asset path correctly. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- fix(ui): refresh agent files after external edits. Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Tests: stub SSRF DNS pinning in web auto-reply + Gemini video coverage. (#6619) Thanks @joshp123.

## 2026.2.1

### Changes

- Docs: onboarding/install/i18n/exec-approvals/Control UI/exe.dev/cacheRetention updates + misc nav/typos. (#3050, #3461, #4064, #4675, #4729, #4763, #5003, #5402, #5446, #5474, #5663, #5689, #5694, #5967, #6270, #6300, #6311, #6416, #6487, #6550, #6789).
- Telegram: use shared pairing store. (#6127) Thanks @obviyus.
- Agents: add OpenRouter app attribution headers. Thanks @alexanderatallah.
- Agents: add system prompt safety guardrails. (#5445) Thanks @joshp123.
- Agents: update pi-ai to 0.50.9 and rename cacheControlTtl -> cacheRetention (with back-compat mapping).
- Agents: extend CreateAgentSessionOptions with systemPrompt/skills/contextFiles.
- Agents: add tool policy conformance snapshot (no runtime behavior change). (#6011)
- Auth: update MiniMax OAuth hint + portal auth note copy.
- Discord: inherit thread parent bindings for routing. (#3892) Thanks @aerolalit.
- Gateway: inject timestamps into agent and chat.send messages. (#3705) Thanks @conroywhitney, @CashWilliams.
- Gateway: require TLS 1.3 minimum for TLS listeners. (#5970) Thanks @loganaden.
- Web UI: refine chat layout + extend session active duration.
- CI: add formal conformance + alias consistency checks. (#5723, #5807)

### Fixes

- Security: guard remote media fetches with SSRF protections (block private/localhost, DNS pinning).
- Updates: clean stale global install rename dirs and extend gateway update timeouts to avoid npm ENOTEMPTY failures.
- Security/Plugins/Hooks: validate install paths and reject traversal-like names (prevents path traversal outside the state dir). Thanks @logicx24.
- Telegram: add download timeouts for file fetches. (#6914) Thanks @hclsys.
- Telegram: enforce thread specs for DM vs forum sends. (#6833) Thanks @obviyus.
- Streaming: flush block streaming on paragraph boundaries for newline chunking. (#7014)
- Streaming: stabilize partial streaming filters.
- Auto-reply: avoid referencing workspace files in /new greeting prompt. (#5706) Thanks @bravostation.
- Tools: align tool execute adapters/signatures (legacy + parameter order + arg normalization).
- Tools: treat "\*" tool allowlist entries as valid to avoid spurious unknown-entry warnings. Thanks @shakkernerd.
- Skills: update session-logs paths from .clawdbot to .openclaw. (#4502)
- Slack: harden media fetch limits and Slack file URL validation. (#6639) Thanks @davidiach.
- Lint: satisfy curly rule after import sorting. (#6310)
- Process: resolve Windows `spawn()` failures for npm-family CLIs by appending `.cmd` when needed. (#5815) Thanks @thejhinvirtuoso.
- Discord: resolve PluralKit proxied senders for allowlists and labels. (#5838) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Tlon: add timeout to SSE client fetch calls (CWE-400). (#5926)
- Memory search: L2-normalize local embedding vectors to fix semantic search. (#5332)
- Agents: align embedded runner + typings with pi-coding-agent API updates (pi 0.51.0).
- Agents: ensure OpenRouter attribution headers apply in the embedded runner.
- Agents: cap context window resolution for compaction safeguard. (#6187) Thanks @iamEvanYT.
- System prompt: resolve overrides and hint using session_status for current date/time. (#1897, #1928, #2108, #3677)
- Agents: fix Pi prompt template argument syntax. (#6543)
- Subagents: fix announce failover race (always emit lifecycle end; timeout=0 means no-timeout). (#6621)
- Teams: gate media auth retries.
- Telegram: restore draft streaming partials. (#5543) Thanks @obviyus.
- Onboarding: friendlier Windows onboarding message. (#6242) Thanks @shanselman.
- TUI: prevent crash when searching with digits in the model selector.
- Agents: wire before_tool_call plugin hook into tool execution. (#6570, #6660) Thanks @ryancnelson.
- Browser: secure Chrome extension relay CDP sessions.
- Docker: use container port for gateway command instead of host port. (#5110) Thanks @mise42.
- Docker: start gateway CMD by default for container deployments. (#6635) Thanks @kaizen403.
- fix(lobster): block arbitrary exec via lobsterPath/cwd injection (GHSA-4mhr-g7xj-cg8j). (#5335) Thanks @vignesh07.
- Security: sanitize WhatsApp accountId to prevent path traversal. (#4610)
- Security: restrict MEDIA path extraction to prevent LFI. (#4930)
- Security: validate message-tool filePath/path against sandbox root. (#6398)
- Security: block LD*/DYLD* env overrides for host exec. (#4896) Thanks @HassanFleyah.
- Security: harden web tool content wrapping + file parsing safeguards. (#4058) Thanks @VACInc.
- Security: enforce Twitch `allowFrom` allowlist gating (deny non-allowlisted senders). Thanks @MegaManSec.

## 2026.1.31

### Fixes

- Plugins: validate plugin/hook install paths and reject traversal-like names.
- Tools: treat `"*"` tool allowlist entries as valid to avoid spurious unknown-entry warnings.

## 2026.1.30

### Changes

- CLI: add `completion` command (Zsh/Bash/PowerShell/Fish) and auto-setup during postinstall/onboarding.
- CLI: add per-agent `models status` (`--agent` filter). (#4780) Thanks @jlowin.
- Agents: add Kimi K2.5 to the synthetic model catalog. (#4407) Thanks @manikv12.
- Auth: switch Kimi Coding to built-in provider; normalize OAuth profile email.
- Auth: add MiniMax OAuth plugin + onboarding option. (#4521) Thanks @Maosghoul.
- Agents: update pi SDK/API usage and dependencies.
- Web UI: refresh sessions after chat commands and improve session display names.
- Build: move TypeScript builds to `tsdown` + `tsgo` (faster builds, CI typechecks), update tsconfig target, and clean up lint rules.
- Build: align npm tar override and bin metadata so the `openclaw` CLI entrypoint is preserved in npm publishes.
- Docs: add pi/pi-dev docs and update OpenClaw branding + install links.
- Docker E2E: stabilize gateway readiness, plugin installs/manifests, and cleanup/doctor switch entrypoint checks.

### Fixes

- Security: restrict local path extraction in media parser to prevent LFI. (#4880).
- Gateway: prevent token defaults from becoming the literal "undefined". (#4873) Thanks @Hisleren.
- Control UI: fix assets resolution for npm global installs. (#4909) Thanks @YuriNachos.
- macOS: avoid stderr pipe backpressure in gateway discovery. (#3304) Thanks @abhijeet117.
- Telegram: normalize account token lookup for non-normalized IDs. (#5055) Thanks @jasonsschin.
- Telegram: preserve delivery thread fallback and fix threadId handling in delivery context.
- Telegram: fix HTML nesting for overlapping styles/links. (#4578) Thanks @ThanhNguyxn.
- Telegram: accept numeric messageId/chatId in react actions. (#4533) Thanks @Ayush10.
- Telegram: honor per-account proxy dispatcher via undici fetch. (#4456) Thanks @spiceoogway.
- Telegram: scope skill commands to bound agent per bot. (#4360) Thanks @robhparker.
- BlueBubbles: debounce by messageId to preserve attachments in text+image messages. (#4984).
- Routing: prefer requesterOrigin over stale session entries for sub-agent announce delivery. (#4957).
- Extensions: restore embedded extension discovery typings.
- CLI: fix `tui:dev` port resolution.
- LINE: fix status command TypeError. (#4651).
- OAuth: skip expired-token warnings when refresh tokens are still valid. (#4593).
- Build: skip redundant UI install step in Dockerfile. (#4584) Thanks @obviyus.

## 2026.1.29

### Changes

- Rebrand: rename the npm package/CLI to `openclaw`, add a `openclaw` compatibility shim, and move extensions to the `@openclaw/*` scope.
- Onboarding: strengthen security warning copy for beta + access control expectations.
- Onboarding: add Venice API key to non-interactive flow. (#1893) Thanks @jonisjongithub.
- Config: auto-migrate legacy state/config paths and keep config resolution consistent across legacy filenames.
- Gateway: warn on hook tokens via query params; document header auth preference. (#2200) Thanks @YuriNachos.
- Gateway: add dangerous Control UI device auth bypass flag + audit warnings. (#2248).
- Doctor: warn on gateway exposure without auth. (#2016) Thanks @Alex-Alaniz.
- Web UI: keep sub-agent announce replies visible in WebChat. (#1977) Thanks @andrescardonas7.
- Browser: route browser control via gateway/node; remove standalone browser control command and control URL config.
- Browser: route `browser.request` via node proxies when available; honor proxy timeouts; derive browser ports from `gateway.port`.
- Browser: fall back to URL matching for extension relay target resolution. (#1999) Thanks @jonit-dev.
- Telegram: allow caption param for media sends. (#1888) Thanks @mguellsegarra.
- Telegram: support plugin sendPayload channelData (media/buttons) and validate plugin commands. (#1917) Thanks @JoshuaLelon.
- Telegram: avoid block replies when streaming is disabled. (#1885) Thanks @ivancasco.
- Telegram: add optional silent send flag (disable notifications). (#2382) Thanks @Suksham-sharma.
- Telegram: support editing sent messages via message(action="edit"). (#2394) Thanks @marcelomar21.
- Telegram: support quote replies for message tool and inbound context. (#2900) Thanks @aduk059.
- Telegram: add sticker receive/send with vision caching. (#2629) Thanks @longjos.
- Telegram: send sticker pixels to vision models. (#2650).
- Telegram: keep topic IDs in restart sentinel notifications. (#1807) Thanks @hsrvc.
- Discord: add configurable privileged gateway intents for presences/members. (#2266) Thanks @kentaro.
- Slack: clear ack reaction after streamed replies. (#2044) Thanks @fancyboi999.
- Matrix: switch plugin SDK to @vector-im/matrix-bot-sdk.
- Tlon: format thread reply IDs as @ud. (#1837) Thanks @wca4a.
- Tools: add per-sender group tool policies and fix precedence. (#1757) Thanks @adam91holt.
- Agents: summarize dropped messages during compaction safeguard pruning. (#2509) Thanks @jogi47.
- Agents: expand cron tool description with full schema docs. (#1988) Thanks @tomascupr.
- Agents: honor tools.exec.safeBins in exec allowlist checks. (#2281).
- Memory Search: allow extra paths for memory indexing (ignores symlinks). (#3600) Thanks @kira-ariaki.
- Skills: add multi-image input support to Nano Banana Pro skill. (#1958) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Skills: add missing dependency metadata for GitHub, Notion, Slack, Discord. (#1995) Thanks @jackheuberger.
- Commands: group /help and /commands output with Telegram paging. (#2504) Thanks @hougangdev.
- Routing: add per-account DM session scope and document multi-account isolation. (#3095) Thanks @jarvis-sam.
- Routing: precompile session key regexes. (#1697) Thanks @Ray0907.
- CLI: use Node's module compile cache for faster startup. (#2808) Thanks @pi0.
- Auth: show copyable Google auth URL after ASCII prompt. (#1787) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- TUI: avoid width overflow when rendering selection lists. (#1686) Thanks @mossein.
- macOS: finish OpenClaw app rename for macOS sources, bundle identifiers, and shared kit paths. (#2844) Thanks @fal3.
- Branding: update launchd labels, mobile bundle IDs, and logging subsystems to bot.molt (legacy bundle ID migrations). Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- macOS: limit project-local `node_modules/.bin` PATH preference to debug builds (reduce PATH hijacking risk).
- macOS: keep custom SSH usernames in remote target. (#2046) Thanks @algal.
- macOS: avoid crash when rendering code blocks by bumping Textual to 0.3.1. (#2033) Thanks @garricn.
- Update: ignore dist/control-ui for dirty checks and restore after ui builds. (#1976) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Build: bundle A2UI assets during build and stop tracking generated bundles. (#2455) Thanks @0oAstro.
- CI: increase Node heap size for macOS checks. (#1890) Thanks @realZachi.
- Config: apply config.env before ${VAR} substitution. (#1813) Thanks @spanishflu-est1918.
- Gateway: prefer newest session metadata when combining stores. (#1823) Thanks @emanuelst.
- Docs: tighten Fly private deployment steps. (#2289) Thanks @dguido.
- Docs: add migration guide for moving to a new machine. (#2381).
- Docs: add Northflank one-click deployment guide. (#2167) Thanks @AdeboyeDN.
- Docs: add Vercel AI Gateway to providers sidebar. (#1901) Thanks @jerilynzheng.
- Docs: add Render deployment guide. (#1975) Thanks @anurag.
- Docs: add Claude Max API Proxy guide. (#1875) Thanks @atalovesyou.
- Docs: add DigitalOcean deployment guide. (#1870) Thanks @0xJonHoldsCrypto.
- Docs: add Oracle Cloud (OCI) platform guide + cross-links. (#2333) Thanks @hirefrank.
- Docs: add Raspberry Pi install guide. (#1871) Thanks @0xJonHoldsCrypto.
- Docs: add GCP Compute Engine deployment guide. (#1848) Thanks @hougangdev.
- Docs: add LINE channel guide. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Docs: credit both contributors for Control UI refresh. (#1852) Thanks @EnzeD.
- Docs: keep docs header sticky so navbar stays visible while scrolling. (#2445) Thanks @chenyuan99.
- Docs: update exe.dev install instructions. (#https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/3047) Thanks @zackerthescar.

### Fixes

- Skills: update session-logs paths to use ~/.openclaw. (#4502) Thanks @bonald.
- Telegram: avoid silent empty replies by tracking normalization skips before fallback. (#3796).
- Mentions: honor mentionPatterns even when explicit mentions are present. (#3303) Thanks @HirokiKobayashi-R.
- Discord: restore username directory lookup in target resolution. (#3131) Thanks @bonald.
- Agents: align MiniMax base URL test expectation with default provider config. (#3131) Thanks @bonald.
- Agents: prevent retries on oversized image errors and surface size limits. (#2871) Thanks @Suksham-sharma.
- Agents: inherit provider baseUrl/api for inline models. (#2740) Thanks @lploc94.
- Memory Search: keep auto provider model defaults and only include remote when configured. (#2576) Thanks @papago2355.
- Telegram: include AccountId in native command context for multi-agent routing. (#2942) Thanks @Chloe-VP.
- Telegram: handle video note attachments in media extraction. (#2905) Thanks @mylukin.
- TTS: read OPENAI_TTS_BASE_URL at runtime instead of module load to honor config.env. (#3341) Thanks @hclsys.
- macOS: auto-scroll to bottom when sending a new message while scrolled up. (#2471) Thanks @kennyklee.
- Web UI: auto-expand the chat compose textarea while typing (with sensible max height). (#2950) Thanks @shivamraut101.
- Gateway: prevent crashes on transient network errors (fetch failures, timeouts, DNS). Added fatal error detection to only exit on truly critical errors. Fixes #2895, #2879, #2873. (#2980) Thanks @elliotsecops.
- Agents: guard channel tool listActions to avoid plugin crashes. (#2859) Thanks @mbelinky.
- Discord: stop resolveDiscordTarget from passing directory params into messaging target parsers. Fixes #3167. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: avoid resolving bare channel names to user DMs when a username matches. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: fix directory config type import for target resolution. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Providers: update MiniMax API endpoint and compatibility mode. (#3064) Thanks @hlbbbbbbb.
- Telegram: treat more network errors as recoverable in polling. (#3013) Thanks @ryancontent.
- Discord: resolve usernames to user IDs for outbound messages. (#2649) Thanks @nonggialiang.
- Providers: update Moonshot Kimi model references to kimi-k2.5. (#2762) Thanks @MarvinCui.
- Gateway: suppress AbortError and transient network errors in unhandled rejections. (#2451) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- TTS: keep /tts status replies on text-only commands and avoid duplicate block-stream audio. (#2451) Thanks @Glucksberg.
- Security: pin npm overrides to keep tar@7.5.4 for install toolchains.
- Security: properly test Windows ACL audit for config includes. (#2403) Thanks @dominicnunez.
- CLI: recognize versioned Node executables when parsing argv. (#2490) Thanks @David-Marsh-Photo.
- CLI: avoid prompting for gateway runtime under the spinner. (#2874).
- BlueBubbles: coalesce inbound URL link preview messages. (#1981) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Cron: allow payloads containing "heartbeat" in event filter. (#2219) Thanks @dwfinkelstein.
- CLI: avoid loading config for global help/version while registering plugin commands. (#2212) Thanks @dial481.
- Agents: include memory.md when bootstrapping memory context. (#2318) Thanks @czekaj.
- Agents: release session locks on process termination and cover more signals. (#2483) Thanks @janeexai.
- Agents: skip cooldowned providers during model failover. (#2143) Thanks @YiWang24.
- Telegram: harden polling + retry behavior for transient network errors and Node 22 transport issues. (#2420) Thanks @techboss.
- Telegram: ignore non-forum group message_thread_id while preserving DM thread sessions. (#2731) Thanks @dylanneve1.
- Telegram: wrap reasoning italics per line to avoid raw underscores. (#2181) Thanks @YuriNachos.
- Telegram: centralize API error logging for delivery and bot calls. (#2492) Thanks @altryne.
- Voice Call: enforce Twilio webhook signature verification for ngrok URLs; disable ngrok free tier bypass by default.
- Security: harden Tailscale Serve auth by validating identity via local tailscaled before trusting headers.
- Media: fix text attachment MIME misclassification with CSV/TSV inference and UTF-16 detection; add XML attribute escaping for file output. (#3628) Thanks @frankekn.
- Build: align memory-core peer dependency with lockfile.
- Security: add mDNS discovery mode with minimal default to reduce information disclosure. (#1882) Thanks @orlyjamie.
- Security: harden URL fetches with DNS pinning to reduce rebinding risk. Thanks Chris Zheng.
- Web UI: improve WebChat image paste previews and allow image-only sends. (#1925) Thanks @smartprogrammer93.
- Security: wrap external hook content by default with a per-hook opt-out. (#1827) Thanks @mertcicekci0.
- Gateway: default auth now fail-closed (token/password required; Tailscale Serve identity remains allowed).
- Gateway: treat loopback + non-local Host connections as remote unless trusted proxy headers are present.
- Onboarding: remove unsupported gateway auth "off" choice from onboarding/configure flows and CLI flags.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Gateway auth mode "none" is removed; gateway now requires token/password (Tailscale Serve identity still allowed).

## 2026.1.24-3

### Fixes

- Slack: fix image downloads failing due to missing Authorization header on cross-origin redirects. (#1936) Thanks @sanderhelgesen.
- Gateway: harden reverse proxy handling for local-client detection and unauthenticated proxied connects. (#1795) Thanks @orlyjamie.
- Security audit: flag loopback Control UI with auth disabled as critical. (#1795) Thanks @orlyjamie.
- CLI: resume claude-cli sessions and stream CLI replies to TUI clients. (#1921) Thanks @rmorse.

## 2026.1.24-2

### Fixes

- Packaging: include dist/link-understanding output in npm tarball (fixes missing apply.js import on install).

## 2026.1.24-1

### Fixes

- Packaging: include dist/shared output in npm tarball (fixes missing reasoning-tags import on install).

## 2026.1.24

### Highlights

- Providers: Ollama discovery + docs; Venice guide upgrades + cross-links. (#1606) Thanks @abhaymundhara. https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/ollama https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/venice
- Channels: LINE plugin (Messaging API) with rich replies + quick replies. (#1630) Thanks @plum-dawg.
- TTS: Edge fallback (keyless) + `/tts` auto modes. (#1668, #1667) Thanks @sebslight. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tts
- Exec approvals: approve in-chat via `/approve` across all channels (including plugins). (#1621) Thanks @czekaj. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/exec-approvals https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/slash-commands
- Telegram: DM topics as separate sessions + outbound link preview toggle. (#1597, #1700) Thanks @rohannagpal, @zerone0x. https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/telegram

### Changes

- Channels: add LINE plugin (Messaging API) with rich replies, quick replies, and plugin HTTP registry. (#1630) Thanks @plum-dawg.
- TTS: add Edge TTS provider fallback, defaulting to keyless Edge with MP3 retry on format failures. (#1668) https://docs.openclaw.ai/tts.
- TTS: add auto mode enum (off/always/inbound/tagged) with per-session `/tts` override. (#1667) Thanks @sebslight. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tts
- Telegram: treat DM topics as separate sessions and keep DM history limits stable with thread suffixes. (#1597) Thanks @rohannagpal.
- Telegram: add `channels.telegram.linkPreview` to toggle outbound link previews. (#1700) Thanks @zerone0x. https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/telegram
- Web search: add Brave freshness filter parameter for time-scoped results. (#1688) Thanks @JonUleis. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/web
- UI: refresh Control UI dashboard design system (colors, icons, typography). (#1745, #1786) Thanks @EnzeD, @mousberg.
- Exec approvals: forward approval prompts to chat with `/approve` for all channels (including plugins). (#1621) Thanks @czekaj. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/exec-approvals https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/slash-commands
- Gateway: expose config.patch in the gateway tool with safe partial updates + restart sentinel. (#1653).
- Diagnostics: add diagnostic flags for targeted debug logs (config + env override). https://docs.openclaw.ai/diagnostics/flags.
- Docs: expand FAQ (migration, scheduling, concurrency, model recommendations, OpenAI subscription auth, Pi sizing, hackable install, docs SSL workaround).
- Docs: add verbose installer troubleshooting guidance.
- Docs: add macOS VM guide with local/hosted options + VPS/nodes guidance. (#1693) Thanks @f-trycua.
- Docs: add Bedrock EC2 instance role setup + IAM steps. (#1625) Thanks @sergical. https://docs.openclaw.ai/bedrock
- Docs: update Fly.io guide notes.
- Dev: add prek pre-commit hooks + dependabot config for weekly updates. (#1720) Thanks @dguido.

### Fixes

- Web UI: fix config/debug layout overflow, scrolling, and code block sizing. (#1715) Thanks @saipreetham589.
- Web UI: show Stop button during active runs, swap back to New session when idle. (#1664) Thanks @ndbroadbent.
- Web UI: clear stale disconnect banners on reconnect; allow form saves with unsupported schema paths but block missing schema. (#1707).
- Web UI: hide internal `message_id` hints in chat bubbles.
- Gateway: allow Control UI token-only auth to skip device pairing even when device identity is present (`gateway.controlUi.allowInsecureAuth`). (#1679).
- Matrix: decrypt E2EE media attachments with preflight size guard. (#1744) Thanks @araa47.
- BlueBubbles: route phone-number targets to DMs, avoid leaking routing IDs, and auto-create missing DMs (Private API required). (#1751) Thanks @tyler6204. https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/bluebubbles
- BlueBubbles: keep part-index GUIDs in reply tags when short IDs are missing.
- iMessage: normalize chat_id/chat_guid/chat_identifier prefixes case-insensitively and keep service-prefixed handles stable. (#1708) Thanks @aaronn.
- Signal: repair reaction sends (group/UUID targets + CLI author flags). (#1651) Thanks @vilkasdev.
- Signal: add configurable signal-cli startup timeout + external daemon mode docs. (#1677) https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/signal.
- Telegram: set fetch duplex="half" for uploads on Node 22 to avoid sendPhoto failures. (#1684) Thanks @commdata2338.
- Telegram: use wrapped fetch for long-polling on Node to normalize AbortSignal handling. (#1639).
- Telegram: honor per-account proxy for outbound API calls. (#1774) Thanks @radek-paclt.
- Telegram: fall back to text when voice notes are blocked by privacy settings. (#1725) Thanks @foeken.
- Voice Call: return stream TwiML for outbound conversation calls on initial Twilio webhook. (#1634).
- Voice Call: serialize Twilio TTS playback and cancel on barge-in to prevent overlap. (#1713) Thanks @dguido.
- Google Chat: tighten email allowlist matching, typing cleanup, media caps, and onboarding/docs/tests. (#1635) Thanks @iHildy.
- Google Chat: normalize space targets without double `spaces/` prefix.
- Agents: auto-compact on context overflow prompt errors before failing. (#1627) Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Agents: use the active auth profile for auto-compaction recovery.
- Media understanding: skip image understanding when the primary model already supports vision. (#1747) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Models: default missing custom provider fields so minimal configs are accepted.
- Messaging: keep newline chunking safe for fenced markdown blocks across channels.
- Messaging: treat newline chunking as paragraph-aware (blank-line splits) to keep lists and headings together. (#1726) Thanks @tyler6204.
- TUI: reload history after gateway reconnect to restore session state. (#1663).
- Heartbeat: normalize target identifiers for consistent routing.
- Exec: keep approvals for elevated ask unless full mode. (#1616) Thanks @ivancasco.
- Exec: treat Windows platform labels as Windows for node shell selection. (#1760) Thanks @ymat19.
- Gateway: include inline config env vars in service install environments. (#1735) Thanks @Seredeep.
- Gateway: skip Tailscale DNS probing when tailscale.mode is off. (#1671).
- Gateway: reduce log noise for late invokes + remote node probes; debounce skills refresh. (#1607) Thanks @petter-b.
- Gateway: clarify Control UI/WebChat auth error hints for missing tokens. (#1690).
- Gateway: listen on IPv6 loopback when bound to 127.0.0.1 so localhost webhooks work.
- Gateway: store lock files in the temp directory to avoid stale locks on persistent volumes. (#1676).
- macOS: default direct-transport `ws://` URLs to port 18789; document `gateway.remote.transport`. (#1603) Thanks @ngutman.
- Tests: cap Vitest workers on CI macOS to reduce timeouts. (#1597) Thanks @rohannagpal.
- Tests: avoid fake-timer dependency in embedded runner stream mock to reduce CI flakes. (#1597) Thanks @rohannagpal.
- Tests: increase embedded runner ordering test timeout to reduce CI flakes. (#1597) Thanks @rohannagpal.

## 2026.1.23-1

### Fixes

- Packaging: include dist/tts output in npm tarball (fixes missing dist/tts/tts.js).

## 2026.1.23

### Highlights

- TTS: move Telegram TTS into core + enable model-driven TTS tags by default for expressive audio replies. (#1559) Thanks @Glucksberg. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tts
- Gateway: add `/tools/invoke` HTTP endpoint for direct tool calls (auth + tool policy enforced). (#1575) Thanks @vignesh07. https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/tools-invoke-http-api
- Heartbeat: per-channel visibility controls (OK/alerts/indicator). (#1452) Thanks @dlauer. https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat
- Deploy: add Fly.io deployment support + guide. (#1570) https://docs.openclaw.ai/platforms/fly.
- Channels: add Tlon/Urbit channel plugin (DMs, group mentions, thread replies). (#1544) Thanks @wca4a. https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/tlon

### Changes

- Channels: allow per-group tool allow/deny policies across built-in + plugin channels. (#1546) Thanks @adam91holt. https://docs.openclaw.ai/multi-agent-sandbox-tools
- Agents: add Bedrock auto-discovery defaults + config overrides. (#1553) Thanks @fal3. https://docs.openclaw.ai/bedrock
- CLI: add `openclaw system` for system events + heartbeat controls; remove standalone `wake`. (commit 71203829d) https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/system.
- CLI: add live auth probes to `openclaw models status` for per-profile verification. (commit 40181afde) https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/models.
- CLI: restart the gateway by default after `openclaw update`; add `--no-restart` to skip it. (commit 2c85b1b40).
- Browser: add node-host proxy auto-routing for remote gateways (configurable per gateway/node). (commit c3cb26f7c).
- Plugins: add optional `llm-task` JSON-only tool for workflows. (#1498) Thanks @vignesh07. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/llm-task
- Markdown: add per-channel table conversion (bullets for Signal/WhatsApp, code blocks elsewhere). (#1495) Thanks @odysseus0.
- Agents: keep system prompt time zone-only and move current time to `session_status` for better cache hits. (commit 66eec295b).
- Agents: remove redundant bash tool alias from tool registration/display. (#1571) Thanks @Takhoffman.
- Docs: add cron vs heartbeat decision guide (with Lobster workflow notes). (#1533) Thanks @JustYannicc. https://docs.openclaw.ai/automation/cron-vs-heartbeat
- Docs: clarify HEARTBEAT.md empty file skips heartbeats, missing file still runs. (#1535) Thanks @JustYannicc. https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat

### Fixes

- Sessions: accept non-UUID sessionIds for history/send/status while preserving agent scoping. (#1518).
- Heartbeat: accept plugin channel ids for heartbeat target validation + UI hints.
- Messaging/Sessions: mirror outbound sends into target session keys (threads + dmScope), create session entries on send, and normalize session key casing. (#1520, commit 4b6cdd1d3).
- Sessions: reject array-backed session stores to prevent silent wipes. (#1469).
- Gateway: compare Linux process start time to avoid PID recycling lock loops; keep locks unless stale. (#1572).
- Gateway: accept null optional fields in exec approval requests. (#1511) Thanks @pvoo.
- Exec approvals: persist allowlist entry ids to keep macOS allowlist rows stable. (#1521) Thanks @ngutman.
- Exec: honor tools.exec ask/security defaults for elevated approvals (avoid unwanted prompts). (commit 5662a9cdf).
- Daemon: use platform PATH delimiters when building minimal service paths. (commit a4e57d3ac).
- Linux: include env-configured user bin roots in systemd PATH and align PATH audits. (#1512) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Tailscale: retry serve/funnel with sudo only for permission errors and keep original failure details. (#1551) Thanks @sweepies.
- Docker: update gateway command in docker-compose and Hetzner guide. (#1514).
- Agents: show tool error fallback when the last assistant turn only invoked tools (prevents silent stops). (commit 8ea8801d0).
- Agents: ignore IDENTITY.md template placeholders when parsing identity. (#1556).
- Agents: drop orphaned OpenAI Responses reasoning blocks on model switches. (#1562) Thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Agents: add CLI log hint to "agent failed before reply" messages. (#1550) Thanks @sweepies.
- Agents: warn and ignore tool allowlists that only reference unknown or unloaded plugin tools. (#1566).
- Agents: treat plugin-only tool allowlists as opt-ins; keep core tools enabled. (#1467).
- Agents: honor enqueue overrides for embedded runs to avoid queue deadlocks in tests. (#45459) Thanks @LyttonFeng and @vincentkoc.
- Slack: honor open groupPolicy for unlisted channels in message + slash gating. (#1563) Thanks @itsjaydesu.
- Discord: limit autoThread mention bypass to bot-owned threads; keep ack reactions mention-gated. (#1511) Thanks @pvoo.
- Discord: retry rate-limited allowlist resolution + command deploy to avoid gateway crashes. (commit f70ac0c7c).
- Mentions: ignore mentionPattern matches when another explicit mention is present in group chats (Slack/Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp). (commit d905ca0e0).
- Telegram: render markdown in media captions. (#1478).
- MS Teams: remove `.default` suffix from Graph scopes and Bot Framework probe scopes. (#1507, #1574) Thanks @Evizero.
- Browser: keep extension relay tabs controllable when the extension reuses a session id after switching tabs. (#1160).
- Voice wake: auto-save wake words on blur/submit across iOS/Android and align limits with macOS. (commit 69f645c66).
- UI: keep the Control UI sidebar visible while scrolling long pages. (#1515) Thanks @pookNast.
- UI: cache Control UI markdown rendering + memoize chat text extraction to reduce Safari typing jank. (commit d57cb2e1a).
- TUI: forward unknown slash commands, include Gateway commands in autocomplete, and render slash replies as system output. (commit 1af227b61, commit 8195497ce, commit 6fba598ea).
- CLI: auth probe output polish (table output, inline errors, reduced noise, and wrap fixes in `openclaw models status`). (commit da3f2b489, commit 00ae21bed, commit 31e59cd58, commit f7dc27f2d, commit 438e782f8, commit 886752217, commit aabe0bed3, commit 81535d512, commit c63144ab1).
- Media: only parse `MEDIA:` tags when they start the line to avoid stripping prose mentions. (#1206).
- Media: preserve PNG alpha when possible; fall back to JPEG when still over size cap. (#1491) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Skills: gate bird Homebrew install to macOS. (#1569) Thanks @bradleypriest.

## 2026.1.22

### Changes

- Highlight: Compaction safeguard now uses adaptive chunking, progressive fallback, and UI status + retries. (#1466) Thanks @dlauer.
- Providers: add Antigravity usage tracking to status output. (#1490) Thanks @patelhiren.
- Slack: add chat-type reply threading overrides via `replyToModeByChatType`. (#1442) Thanks @stefangalescu.
- BlueBubbles: add `asVoice` support for MP3/CAF voice memos in sendAttachment. (#1477, #1482) Thanks @Nicell.
- Onboarding: add hatch choice (TUI/Web/Later), token explainer, background dashboard seed on macOS, and showcase link.

### Fixes

- BlueBubbles: stop typing indicator on idle/no-reply. (#1439) Thanks @Nicell.
- Message tool: keep path/filePath as-is for send; hydrate buffers only for sendAttachment. (#1444) Thanks @hopyky.
- Auto-reply: only report a model switch when session state is available. (#1465) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- Control UI: resolve local avatar URLs with basePath across injection + identity RPC. (#1457) Thanks @dlauer.
- Agents: sanitize assistant history text to strip tool-call markers. (#1456) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Discord: clarify Message Content Intent onboarding hint. (#1487) Thanks @kyleok.
- Gateway: stop the service before uninstalling and fail if it remains loaded.
- Agents: surface concrete API error details instead of generic AI service errors.
- Exec: fall back to non-PTY when PTY spawn fails (EBADF). (#1484).
- Exec approvals: allow per-segment allowlists for chained shell commands on gateway + node hosts. (#1458) Thanks @czekaj.
- Agents: make OpenAI sessions image-sanitize-only; gate tool-id/repair sanitization by provider.
- Doctor: honor CLAWDBOT_GATEWAY_TOKEN for auth checks and security audit token reuse. (#1448) Thanks @azade-c.
- Agents: make tool summaries more readable and only show optional params when set.
- Agents: honor SOUL.md guidance even when the file is nested or path-qualified. (#1434) Thanks @neooriginal.
- Matrix (plugin): persist m.direct for resolved DMs and harden room fallback. (#1436, #1486) Thanks @sibbl.
- CLI: prefer `~` for home paths in output.
- Mattermost (plugin): enforce pairing/allowlist gating, keep @username targets, and clarify plugin-only docs. (#1428) Thanks @damoahdominic.
- Agents: centralize transcript sanitization in the runner; keep <final> tags and error turns intact.
- Auth: skip auth profiles in cooldown during initial selection and rotation. (#1316) Thanks @odrobnik.
- Agents/TUI: honor user-pinned auth profiles during cooldown and preserve search picker ranking. (#1432) Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Docs: fix gog auth services example to include docs scope. (#1454) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Slack: reduce WebClient retries to avoid duplicate sends. (#1481).
- Slack: read thread replies for message reads when threadId is provided (replies-only). (#1450) Thanks @rodrigouroz.
- Discord: honor accountId across message actions and cron deliveries. (#1492) Thanks @svkozak.
- macOS: prefer linked channels in gateway summary to avoid false "not linked" status (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- macOS/tests: fix gateway summary lookup after guard unwrap; prevent browser opens during tests. (ECID-1483).

## 2026.1.21-2

### Fixes

- Control UI: ignore bootstrap identity placeholder text for avatar values and fall back to the default avatar. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/agents https://docs.openclaw.ai/web/control-ui.
- Slack: remove deprecated `filetype` field from `files.uploadV2` to eliminate API warnings. (#1447)

## 2026.1.21

### Changes

- Highlight: Lobster optional plugin tool for typed workflows + approval gates. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/lobster.
- Lobster: allow workflow file args via `argsJson` in the plugin tool. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/lobster.
- Heartbeat: allow running heartbeats in an explicit session key. (#1256) Thanks @zknicker.
- CLI: default exec approvals to the local host, add gateway/node targeting flags, and show target details in allowlist output. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- CLI: exec approvals mutations render tables instead of raw JSON. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Exec approvals: support wildcard agent allowlists (`*`) across all agents. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Exec approvals: allowlist matches resolved binary paths only, add safe stdin-only bins, and tighten allowlist shell parsing. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Nodes: expose node PATH in status/describe and bootstrap PATH for node-host execution. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- CLI: flatten node service commands under `openclaw node` and remove `service node` docs.
- CLI: move gateway service commands under `openclaw gateway` and add `gateway probe` for reachability.
- Sessions: add per-channel reset overrides via `session.resetByChannel`. (#1353) Thanks @cash-echo-bot.
- Agents: add identity avatar config support and Control UI avatar rendering. (#1329, #1424) Thanks @dlauer.
- UI: show per-session assistant identity in the Control UI. (#1420) Thanks @robbyczgw-cla.
- CLI: add `openclaw update wizard` for interactive channel selection and restart prompts. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/update.
- Signal: add typing indicators and DM read receipts via signal-cli.
- MSTeams: add file uploads, adaptive cards, and attachment handling improvements. (#1410) Thanks @Evizero.
- Onboarding: remove the run setup-token auth option (paste setup-token or reuse CLI creds instead).
- Docs: add troubleshooting entry for gateway.mode blocking gateway start. https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/troubleshooting.
- Docs: add /model allowlist troubleshooting note. (#1405).
- Docs: add per-message Gmail search example for gog. (#1220) Thanks @mbelinky.

### Fixes

- Nodes/macOS: prompt on allowlist miss for node exec approvals, persist allowlist decisions, and flatten node invoke errors. (#1394) Thanks @ngutman.
- Gateway: keep auto bind loopback-first and add explicit tailnet binding to avoid Tailscale taking over local UI. (#1380) Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Memory: prevent CLI hangs by deferring vector probes, adding sqlite-vec/embedding timeouts, and showing sync progress early.
- Agents: enforce 9-char alphanumeric tool call ids for Mistral providers. (#1372) Thanks @zerone0x.
- Embedded runner: persist injected history images so attachments aren't reloaded each turn. (#1374) Thanks @Nicell.
- Nodes tool: include agent/node/gateway context in tool failure logs to speed approval debugging. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- macOS: exec approvals now respect wildcard agent allowlists (`*`). Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- macOS: allow SSH agent auth when no identity file is set. (#1384) Thanks @ameno-.
- Gateway: prevent multiple gateways from sharing the same config/state at once (singleton lock). Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- UI: remove the chat stop button and keep the composer aligned to the bottom edge. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Typing: start instant typing indicators at run start so DMs and mentions show immediately. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Configure: restrict the model allowlist picker to OAuth-compatible Anthropic models and preselect Opus 4.5. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Configure: seed model fallbacks from the allowlist selection when multiple models are chosen. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Model picker: list the full catalog when no model allowlist is configured. Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- Discord: honor wildcard channel configs via shared match helpers. (#1334) Thanks @pvoo.
- BlueBubbles: resolve short message IDs safely and expose full IDs in templates. (#1387) Thanks @tyler6204.
- Infra: preserve fetch helper methods when wrapping abort signals. (#1387) Thanks @tobiasbischoff.
- macOS: default distribution packaging to universal binaries. (#1396) Thanks @JustYannicc.
- Embedded runner: forward sender identity into attempt execution so Feishu doc auto-grant receives requester context again. (#32915) Thanks @cszhouwei.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Control UI now rejects insecure HTTP without device identity by default. Use HTTPS (Tailscale Serve) or set `gateway.controlUi.allowInsecureAuth: true` to allow token-only auth. https://docs.openclaw.ai/web/control-ui#insecure-http.
- **BREAKING:** Envelope and system event timestamps now default to host-local time (was UTC) so agents don't have to constantly convert (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.

## 2026.1.20

### Changes

- Control UI: add copy-as-markdown with error feedback. (#1345) https://docs.openclaw.ai/web/control-ui.
- Control UI: drop the legacy list view. (#1345) https://docs.openclaw.ai/web/control-ui.
- TUI: add syntax highlighting for code blocks. (#1200) https://docs.openclaw.ai/tui.
- TUI: session picker shows derived titles, fuzzy search, relative times, and last message preview. (#1271) https://docs.openclaw.ai/tui.
- TUI: add a searchable model picker for quicker model selection. (#1198) https://docs.openclaw.ai/tui.
- TUI: add input history (up/down) for submitted messages. (#1348) https://docs.openclaw.ai/tui.
- ACP: add `openclaw acp` for IDE integrations. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/acp.
- ACP: add `openclaw acp client` interactive harness for debugging. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/acp.
- Skills: add download installs with OS-filtered options. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/skills.
- Skills: add the local sherpa-onnx-tts skill. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/skills.
- Memory: add hybrid BM25 + vector search (FTS5) with weighted merging and fallback. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Memory: add SQLite embedding cache to speed up reindexing and frequent updates. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Memory: add OpenAI batch indexing for embeddings when configured. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Memory: enable OpenAI batch indexing by default for OpenAI embeddings. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Memory: allow parallel OpenAI batch indexing jobs (default concurrency: 2). https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Memory: render progress immediately, color batch statuses in verbose logs, and poll OpenAI batch status every 2s by default. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Memory: add `--verbose` logging for memory status + batch indexing details. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Memory: add native Gemini embeddings provider for memory search. (#1151) https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory.
- Browser: allow config defaults for efficient snapshots in the tool/CLI. (#1336) https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/browser.
- Nostr: add the Nostr channel plugin with profile management + onboarding defaults. (#1323) https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/nostr.
- Matrix: migrate to matrix-bot-sdk with E2EE support, location handling, and group allowlist upgrades. (#1298) https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/matrix.
- Slack: add HTTP webhook mode via Bolt HTTP receiver. (#1143) https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/slack.
- Telegram: enrich forwarded-message context with normalized origin details + legacy fallback. (#1090) https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/telegram.
- Discord: fall back to `/skill` when native command limits are exceeded. (#1287).
- Discord: expose `/skill` globally. (#1287).
- Zalouser: add channel dock metadata, config schema, setup wiring, probe, and status issues. (#1219) https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/zalouser.
- Plugins: require manifest-embedded config schemas with preflight validation warnings. (#1272) https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/manifest.
- Plugins: move channel catalog metadata into plugin manifests. (#1290) https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/manifest.
- Plugins: align Nextcloud Talk policy helpers with core patterns. (#1290) https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/manifest.
- Plugins/UI: let channel plugin metadata drive UI labels/icons and cron channel options. (#1306) https://docs.openclaw.ai/web/control-ui.
- Agents/UI: add agent avatar support in identity config, IDENTITY.md, and the Control UI. (#1329) https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/configuration.
- Plugins: add plugin slots with a dedicated memory slot selector. https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/agent-tools.
- Plugins: ship the bundled BlueBubbles channel plugin (disabled by default). https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/bluebubbles.
- Plugins: migrate bundled messaging extensions to the plugin SDK and resolve plugin-sdk imports in the loader.
- Plugins: migrate the Zalo plugin to the shared plugin SDK runtime. https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/zalo.
- Plugins: migrate the Zalo Personal plugin to the shared plugin SDK runtime. https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/zalouser.
- Plugins: allow optional agent tools with explicit allowlists and add the plugin tool authoring guide. https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/agent-tools.
- Plugins: auto-enable bundled channel/provider plugins when configuration is present.
- Plugins: sync plugin sources on channel switches and update npm-installed plugins during `openclaw update`.
- Plugins: share npm plugin update logic between `openclaw update` and `openclaw plugins update`.

- Gateway/API: add `/v1/responses` (OpenResponses) with item-based input + semantic streaming events. (#1229).
- Gateway/API: expand `/v1/responses` to support file/image inputs, tool_choice, usage, and output limits. (#1229).
- Usage: add `/usage cost` summaries and macOS menu cost charts. https://docs.openclaw.ai/reference/api-usage-costs.
- Security: warn when <=300B models run without sandboxing while web tools are enabled. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/security.
- Exec: add host/security/ask routing for gateway + node exec. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/exec.
- Exec: add `/exec` directive for per-session exec defaults (host/security/ask/node). https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/exec.
- Exec approvals: migrate approvals to `~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.json` with per-agent allowlists + skill auto-allow toggle, and add approvals UI + node exec lifecycle events. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/exec-approvals.
- Nodes: add headless node host (`openclaw node start`) for `system.run`/`system.which`. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/node.
- Nodes: add node daemon service install/status/start/stop/restart. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/node.
- Bridge: add `skills.bins` RPC to support node host auto-allow skill bins.
- Sessions: add daily reset policy with per-type overrides and idle windows (default 4am local), preserving legacy idle-only configs. (#1146) https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/session.
- Sessions: allow `sessions_spawn` to override thinking level for sub-agent runs. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/subagents.
- Channels: unify thread/topic allowlist matching + command/mention gating helpers across core providers. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/groups.
- Models: add Qwen Portal OAuth provider support. (#1120) https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/qwen.
- Onboarding: add allowlist prompts and username-to-id resolution across core and extension channels. https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/onboarding.
- Docs: clarify allowlist input types and onboarding behavior for messaging channels. https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/onboarding.
- Docs: refresh Android node discovery docs for the Gateway WS service type. https://docs.openclaw.ai/platforms/android.
- Docs: surface Amazon Bedrock in provider lists and clarify Bedrock auth env vars. (#1289) https://docs.openclaw.ai/bedrock.
- Docs: clarify WhatsApp voice notes. https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/whatsapp.
- Docs: clarify Windows WSL portproxy LAN access notes. https://docs.openclaw.ai/platforms/windows.
- Docs: refresh bird skill install metadata and usage notes. (#1302) https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/browser-login.
- Agents: add local docs path resolution and include docs/mirror/source/community pointers in the system prompt.
- Agents: clarify node_modules read-only guidance in agent instructions.
- Config: stamp last-touched metadata on write and warn if the config is newer than the running build.
- macOS: hide usage section when usage is unavailable instead of showing provider errors.
- Android: migrate node transport to the Gateway WebSocket protocol with TLS pinning support + gateway discovery naming.
- Android: send structured payloads in node events/invokes and include user-agent metadata in gateway connects.
- Android: remove legacy bridge transport code now that nodes use the gateway protocol.
- Android: bump okhttp + dnsjava to satisfy lint dependency checks.
- Build: update workspace + core/plugin deps.
- Build: use tsgo for dev/watch builds by default (opt out with `OPENCLAW_TS_COMPILER=tsc`).
- Repo: remove the Peekaboo git submodule now that the SPM release is used.
- macOS: switch PeekabooBridge integration to the tagged Swift Package Manager release.
- macOS: stop syncing Peekaboo in postinstall.
- Swabble: use the tagged Commander Swift package release.

### Fixes

- Discovery: shorten Bonjour DNS-SD service type to `_moltbot-gw._tcp` and update discovery clients/docs.
- Diagnostics: export OTLP logs, correct queue depth tracking, and document message-flow telemetry.
- Diagnostics: emit message-flow diagnostics across channels via shared dispatch. (#1244).
- Diagnostics: gate heartbeat/webhook logging. (#1244).
- Gateway: strip inbound envelope headers from chat history messages to keep clients clean.
- Gateway: clarify unauthorized handshake responses with token/password mismatch guidance.
- Gateway: allow mobile node client ids for iOS + Android handshake validation. (#1354).
- Gateway: clarify connect/validation errors for gateway params. (#1347).
- Gateway: preserve restart wake routing + thread replies across restarts. (#1337).
- Gateway: reschedule per-agent heartbeats on config hot reload without restarting the runner.
- Gateway: require authorized restarts for SIGUSR1 (restart/apply/update) so config gating can't be bypassed.
- Cron: auto-deliver isolated agent output to explicit targets without tool calls. (#1285).
- Agents: preserve subagent announce thread/topic routing + queued replies across channels. (#1241).
- Agents: propagate accountId into embedded runs so sub-agent announce routing honors the originating account. (#1058).
- Agents: avoid treating timeout errors with "aborted" messages as user aborts, so model fallback still runs. (#1137).
- Agents: sanitize oversized image payloads before send and surface image-dimension errors.
- Sessions: fall back to session labels when listing display names. (#1124).
- Compaction: include tool failure summaries in safeguard compaction to prevent retry loops. (#1084).
- Config: log invalid config issues once per run and keep invalid-config errors stackless.
- Config: allow Perplexity as a web_search provider in config validation. (#1230).
- Config: allow custom fields under `skills.entries.<name>.config` for skill credentials/config. (#1226).
- Doctor: clarify plugin auto-enable hint text in the startup banner.
- Doctor: canonicalize legacy session keys in session stores to prevent stale metadata. (#1169).
- Docs: make docs:list fail fast with a clear error if the docs directory is missing.
- Plugins: add Nextcloud Talk manifest for plugin config validation. (#1297).
- Plugins: surface plugin load/register/config errors in gateway logs with plugin/source context.
- CLI: preserve cron delivery settings when editing message payloads. (#1322).
- CLI: keep `openclaw logs` output resilient to broken pipes while preserving progress output.
- CLI: avoid duplicating --profile/--dev flags when formatting commands.
- CLI: centralize CLI command registration to keep fast-path routing and program wiring in sync. (#1207).
- CLI: keep banners on routed commands, restore config guarding outside fast-path routing, and tighten fast-path flag parsing while skipping console capture for extra speed. (#1195).
- CLI: skip runner rebuilds when dist is fresh. (#1231).
- CLI: add WSL2/systemd unavailable hints in daemon status/doctor output.
- Status: route native `/status` to the active agent so model selection reflects the correct profile. (#1301).
- Status: show both usage windows with reset hints when usage data is available. (#1101).
- UI: keep config form enums typed, preserve empty strings, protect sensitive defaults, and deepen config search. (#1315).
- UI: preserve ordered list numbering in chat markdown. (#1341).
- UI: allow Control UI to read gatewayUrl from URL params for remote WebSocket targets. (#1342).
- UI: prevent double-scroll in Control UI chat by locking chat layout to the viewport. (#1283).
- UI: enable shell mode for sync Windows spawns to avoid `pnpm ui:build` EINVAL. (#1212).
- TUI: keep thinking blocks ordered before content during streaming and isolate per-run assembly. (#1202).
- TUI: align custom editor initialization with the latest pi-tui API. (#1298).
- TUI: show generic empty-state text for searchable pickers. (#1201).
- TUI: highlight model search matches and stabilize search ordering.
- Configure: hide OpenRouter auto routing model from the model picker. (#1182).
- Memory: show total file counts + scan issues in `openclaw memory status`.
- Memory: fall back to non-batch embeddings after repeated batch failures.
- Memory: apply OpenAI batch defaults even without explicit remote config.
- Memory: index atomically so failed reindex preserves the previous memory database. (#1151).
- Memory: avoid sqlite-vec unique constraint failures when reindexing duplicate chunk ids. (#1151).
- Memory: retry transient 5xx errors (Cloudflare) during embedding indexing.
- Memory: parallelize embedding indexing with rate-limit retries.
- Memory: split overly long lines to keep embeddings under token limits.
- Memory: skip empty chunks to avoid invalid embedding inputs.
- Memory: split embedding batches to avoid OpenAI token limits during indexing.
- Memory: probe sqlite-vec availability in `openclaw memory status`.
- Exec approvals: enforce allowlist when ask is off.
- Exec approvals: prefer raw command for node approvals/events.
- Tools: show exec elevated flag before the command and keep it outside markdown in tool summaries.
- Tools: return a companion-app-required message when node exec is requested with no paired node.
- Tools: return a companion-app-required message when `system.run` is requested without a supporting node.
- Exec: default gateway/node exec security to allowlist when unset (sandbox stays deny).
- Exec: prefer bash when fish is default shell, falling back to sh if bash is missing. (#1297).
- Exec: merge login-shell PATH for host=gateway exec while keeping daemon PATH minimal. (#1304).
- Streaming: emit assistant deltas for OpenAI-compatible SSE chunks. (#1147).
- Discord: make resolve warnings avoid raw JSON payloads on rate limits.
- Discord: process message handlers in parallel across sessions to avoid event queue blocking. (#1295).
- Discord: stop reconnecting the gateway after aborts to prevent duplicate listeners.
- Discord: only emit slow listener warnings after 30s.
- Discord: inherit parent channel allowlists for thread slash commands and reactions. (#1123).
- Telegram: honor pairing allowlists for native slash commands.
- Telegram: preserve hidden text_link URLs by expanding entities in inbound text. (#1118).
- Slack: resolve Bolt import interop for Bun + Node. (#1191).
- Web search: infer Perplexity base URL from API key source (direct vs OpenRouter).
- Web fetch: harden SSRF protection with shared hostname checks and redirect limits. (#1346).
- Browser: register AI snapshot refs for act commands. (#1282).
- Voice call: include request query in Twilio webhook verification when publicUrl is set. (#864).
- Anthropic: default API prompt caching to 1h with configurable TTL override.
- Anthropic: ignore TTL for OAuth.
- Auth profiles: keep auto-pinned preference while allowing rotation on failover. (#1138).
- Auth profiles: user pins stay locked. (#1138).
- Model catalog: avoid caching import failures, log transient discovery errors, and keep partial results. (#1332).
- Tests: stabilize Windows gateway/CLI tests by skipping sidecars, normalizing argv, and extending timeouts.
- Tests: stabilize plugin SDK resolution and embedded agent timeouts.
- Windows: install gateway scheduled task as the current user.
- Windows: show friendly guidance instead of failing on access denied.
- macOS: load menu session previews asynchronously so items populate while the menu is open.
- macOS: use label colors for session preview text so previews render in menu subviews.
- macOS: suppress usage error text in the menubar cost view.
- macOS: Doctor repairs LaunchAgent bootstrap issues for Gateway + Node when listed but not loaded. (#1166).
- macOS: avoid touching launchd in Remote over SSH so quitting the app no longer disables the remote gateway. (#1105).
- macOS: bundle Textual resources in packaged app builds to avoid code block crashes. (#1006).
- Daemon: include HOME in service environments to avoid missing HOME errors. (#1214).

Thanks @AlexMikhalev, @CoreyH, @John-Rood, @KrauseFx, @MaudeBot, @Nachx639, @NicholaiVogel, @RyanLisse, @ThePickle31, @VACInc, @Whoaa512, @YuriNachos, @aaronveklabs, @abdaraxus, @alauppe, @ameno-, @artuskg, @austinm911, @bradleypriest, @cheeeee, @dougvk, @fogboots, @gnarco, @gumadeiras, @jdrhyne, @joelklabo, @longmaba, @mukhtharcm, @odysseus0, @oscargavin, @rhjoh, @sebslight, @sibbl, @sleontenko, @suminhthanh, @thewilloftheshadow, @tyler6204, @vignesh07, @visionik, @ysqander, @zerone0x.

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** Reject invalid/unknown config entries and refuse to start the gateway for safety. Run `openclaw doctor --fix` to repair, then update plugins (`openclaw plugins update`) if you use any.

## 2026.1.16-2

### Changes

- CLI: stamp build commit into dist metadata so banners show the commit in npm installs.
- CLI: close memory manager after memory commands to avoid hanging processes. (#1127) - thanks @NicholasSpisak.

## 2026.1.16-1

### Highlights

- Hooks: add hooks system with bundled hooks, CLI tooling, and docs. (#1028) - thanks @ThomsenDrake. https://docs.openclaw.ai/hooks
- Media: add inbound media understanding (image/audio/video) with provider + CLI fallbacks. https://docs.openclaw.ai/nodes/media-understanding.
- Plugins: add Zalo Personal plugin (`@openclaw/zalouser`) and unify channel directory for plugins. (#1032) - thanks @suminhthanh. https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/zalouser
- Models: add Vercel AI Gateway auth choice + onboarding updates. (#1016) - thanks @timolins. https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/vercel-ai-gateway
- Sessions: add `session.identityLinks` for cross-platform DM session li nking. (#1033) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow. https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/session
- Web search: add `country`/`language` parameters (schema + Brave API) and docs. (#1046) - thanks @YuriNachos. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/web

### Changes

- Plugins: ship bundled plugins disabled by default and allow overrides by installed versions. (#1066) - thanks @ItzR3NO.
- Plugins: add bundled Antigravity + Gemini CLI OAuth + Copilot Proxy provider plugins. (#1066) - thanks @ItzR3NO.
- Tools: improve `web_fetch` extraction using Readability (with fallback).
- Tools: add Firecrawl fallback for `web_fetch` when configured.
- Tools: send Chrome-like headers by default for `web_fetch` to improve extraction on bot-sensitive sites.
- Tools: Firecrawl fallback now uses bot-circumvention + cache by default; remove basic HTML fallback when extraction fails.
- Tools: default `exec` exit notifications and auto-migrate legacy `tools.bash` to `tools.exec`.
- Tools: add `exec` PTY support for interactive sessions. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/exec.
- Tools: add tmux-style `process send-keys` and bracketed paste helpers for PTY sessions.
- Tools: add `process submit` helper to send CR for PTY sessions.
- Tools: respond to PTY cursor position queries to unblock interactive TUIs.
- Tools: include tool outputs in verbose mode and expand verbose tool feedback.
- Skills: update coding-agent guidance to prefer PTY-enabled exec runs and simplify tmux usage.
- TUI: refresh session token counts after runs complete or fail. (#1079) - thanks @d-ploutarchos.
- Status: trim `/status` to current-provider usage only and drop the OAuth/token block.
- Directory: unify `openclaw directory` across channels and plugin channels.
- UI: allow deleting sessions from the Control UI.
- Memory: add sqlite-vec vector acceleration with CLI status details.
- Memory: add experimental session transcript indexing for memory_search (opt-in via memorySearch.experimental.sessionMemory + sources).
- Skills: add user-invocable skill commands and expanded skill command registration.
- Telegram: default reaction level to minimal and enable reaction notifications by default.
- Telegram: allow reply-chain messages to bypass mention gating in groups. (#1038) - thanks @adityashaw2.
- iMessage: add remote attachment support for VM/SSH deployments.
- Messages: refresh live directory cache results when resolving targets.
- Messages: mirror delivered outbound text/media into session transcripts. (#1031) - thanks @TSavo.
- Messages: avoid redundant sender envelopes for iMessage + Signal group chats. (#1080) - thanks @tyler6204.
- Media: normalize Deepgram audio upload bytes for fetch compatibility.
- Cron: isolated cron jobs now start a fresh session id on every run to prevent context buildup.
- Docs: add `/help` hub, Node/npm PATH guide, and expand directory CLI docs.
- Config: support env var substitution in config values. (#1044) - thanks @sebslight.
- Health: add per-agent session summaries and account-level health details, and allow selective probes. (#1047) - thanks @gumadeiras.
- Hooks: add hook pack installs (npm/path/zip/tar) with `openclaw.hooks` manifests and `openclaw hooks install/update`.
- Plugins: add zip installs and `--link` to avoid copying local paths.

### Fixes

- macOS: drain subprocess pipes before waiting to avoid deadlocks. (#1081) - thanks @thesash.
- Verbose: wrap tool summaries/output in markdown only for markdown-capable channels.
- Tools: include provider/session context in elevated exec denial errors.
- Tools: normalize exec tool alias naming in tool error logs.
- Logging: reuse shared ANSI stripping to keep console capture lint-clean.
- Logging: prefix nested agent output with session/run/channel context.
- Telegram: accept tg/group/telegram prefixes + topic targets for inline button validation. (#1072) - thanks @danielz1z.
- Telegram: split long captions into follow-up messages.
- Config: block startup on invalid config, preserve best-effort doctor config, and keep rolling config backups. (#1083) - thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Sub-agents: normalize announce delivery origin + queue bucketing by accountId to keep multi-account routing stable. (#1061, #1058) - thanks @adam91holt.
- Sessions: include deliveryContext in sessions.list and reuse normalized delivery routing for announce/restart fallbacks. (#1058).
- Sessions: propagate deliveryContext into last-route updates to keep account/channel routing stable. (#1058).
- Sessions: preserve overrides on `/new` reset.
- Memory: prevent unhandled rejections when watch/interval sync fails. (#1076) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Memory: avoid gateway crash when embeddings return 429/insufficient_quota (disable tool + surface error). (#1004).
- Gateway: honor explicit delivery targets without implicit accountId fallback; preserve lastAccountId for implicit routing.
- Gateway: avoid reusing last-to/accountId when the requested channel differs; sync deliveryContext with last route fields.
- Build: allow `@lydell/node-pty` builds on supported platforms.
- Repo: fix oxlint config filename and move ignore pattern into config. (#1064) - thanks @connorshea.
- Messages: `/stop` now hard-aborts queued followups and sub-agent runs; suppress zero-count stop notes.
- Messages: honor message tool channel when deduping sends.
- Messages: include sender labels for live group messages across channels, matching queued/history formatting. (#1059).
- Sessions: reset `compactionCount` on `/new` and `/reset`, and preserve `sessions.json` file mode (0600).
- Sessions: repair orphaned user turns before embedded prompts.
- Sessions: hard-stop `sessions.delete` cleanup.
- Channels: treat replies to the bot as implicit mentions across supported channels.
- Channels: normalize object-format capabilities in channel capability parsing.
- Security: default-deny slash/control commands unless a channel computed `CommandAuthorized` (fixes accidental "open" behavior), and ensure WhatsApp + Zalo plugin channels gate inline `/...` tokens correctly. https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/security (#57018) Thanks @hydro13.
- Security: redact sensitive text in gateway WS logs.
- Tools: cap pending `exec` process output to avoid unbounded buffers.
- CLI: speed up `openclaw sandbox-explain` by avoiding heavy plugin imports when normalizing channel ids.
- Browser: remote profile tab operations prefer persistent Playwright and avoid silent HTTP fallbacks. (#1057) - thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Browser: remote profile tab ops follow-up: shared Playwright loader, Playwright-based focus, and more coverage (incl. opt-in live Browserless test). (follow-up to #1057) - thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Browser: refresh extension relay tab metadata after navigation so `/json/list` stays current. (#1073) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- WhatsApp: scope self-chat response prefix; inject pending-only group history and clear after any processed message.
- WhatsApp: include `linked` field in `describeAccount`.
- Agents: drop unsigned Gemini tool calls and avoid JSON Schema `format` keyword collisions.
- Agents: hide the image tool when the primary model already supports images.
- Agents: avoid duplicate sends by replying with `NO_REPLY` after `message` tool sends.
- Auth: inherit/merge sub-agent auth profiles from the main agent.
- Gateway: resolve local auth for security probe and validate gateway token/password file modes. (#1011, #1022) - thanks @ivanrvpereira, @kkarimi.
- Signal/iMessage: bound transport readiness waits to 30s with periodic logging. (#1014) - thanks @Szpadel.
- iMessage: avoid RPC restart loops.
- OpenAI image-gen: handle URL + `b64_json` responses and remove deprecated `response_format` (use URL downloads).
- CLI: auto-update global installs when installed via a package manager.
- Routing: migrate legacy `accountID` bindings to `accountId` and remove legacy fallback lookups. (#1047) - thanks @gumadeiras.
- Discord: truncate skill command descriptions to 100 chars for slash command limits. (#1018) - thanks @evalexpr.
- Security: bump `tar` to 7.5.3.
- Models: align ZAI thinking toggles.
- iMessage/Signal: include sender metadata for non-queued group messages. (#1059).
- Discord: preserve whitespace when chunking long lines so message splits keep spacing intact.
- Skills: fix skills watcher ignored list typing (tsc).

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** `openclaw message` and message tool now require `target` (dropping `to`/`channelId` for destinations). (#1034) - thanks @tobalsan.
- **BREAKING:** Channel auth now prefers config over env for Discord/Telegram/Matrix (env is fallback only). (#1040) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- **BREAKING:** Drop legacy `chatType: "room"` support; use `chatType: "channel"`.
- **BREAKING:** remove legacy provider-specific target resolution fallbacks; target resolution is centralized with plugin hints + directory lookups.
- **BREAKING:** `openclaw hooks` is now `openclaw webhooks`; hooks live under `openclaw hooks`. https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/webhooks.
- **BREAKING:** `openclaw plugins install <path>` now copies into `~/.openclaw/extensions` (use `--link` to keep path-based loading).

## 2026.1.15

### Highlights

- Plugins: add provider auth registry + `openclaw models auth login` for plugin-driven OAuth/API key flows.
- Browser: improve remote CDP/Browserless support (auth passthrough, `wss` upgrade, timeouts, clearer errors).
- Heartbeat: per-agent configuration + 24h duplicate suppression. (#980) - thanks @voidserf.
- Security: audit warns on weak model tiers; app nodes store auth tokens encrypted (Keychain/SecurePrefs).

### Changes

- UI/Apps: move channel/config settings to schema-driven forms and rename Connections → Channels. (#1040) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- CLI: set process titles to `openclaw-<command>` for clearer process listings.
- CLI/macOS: sync remote SSH target/identity to config and let `gateway status` auto-infer SSH targets (ssh-config aware).
- Telegram: scope inline buttons with allowlist default + callback gating in DMs/groups.
- Telegram: default reaction notifications to own.
- Heartbeat: tighten prompt guidance + suppress duplicate alerts for 24h. (#980) - thanks @voidserf.
- Repo: ignore local identity files to avoid accidental commits. (#1001) - thanks @gerardward2007.
- Sessions/Security: add `session.dmScope` for multi-user DM isolation and audit warnings. (#948) - thanks @Alphonse-arianee.
- Onboarding: switch channels setup to a single-select loop with per-channel actions and disabled hints in the picker.
- TUI: show provider/model labels for the active session and default model.
- Heartbeat: add per-agent heartbeat configuration and multi-agent docs example.
- UI: show gateway auth guidance + doc link on unauthorized Control UI connections.
- UI: add session deletion action in Control UI sessions list. (#1017) - thanks @Szpadel.
- Security: warn on weak model tiers (Haiku, below GPT-5, below Claude 4.5) in `openclaw security audit`.
- Apps: store node auth tokens encrypted (Keychain/SecurePrefs).
- Daemon: share profile/state-dir resolution across service helpers and honor `CLAWDBOT_STATE_DIR` for Windows task scripts.
- Docs: clarify multi-gateway rescue bot guidance. (#969) - thanks @bjesuiter.
- Agents: add Current Date & Time system prompt section with configurable time format (auto/12/24).
- Tools: normalize Slack/Discord message timestamps with `timestampMs`/`timestampUtc` while keeping raw provider fields.
- macOS: add `system.which` for prompt-free remote skill discovery (with gateway fallback to `system.run`).
- Docs: add Date & Time guide and update prompt/timezone configuration docs.
- Messages: debounce rapid inbound messages across channels with per-connector overrides. (#971) - thanks @juanpablodlc.
- Messages: allow media-only sends (CLI/tool) and show Telegram voice recording status for voice notes. (#957) - thanks @rdev.
- Auth/Status: keep auth profiles sticky per session (rotate on compaction/new), surface provider usage headers in `/status` and `openclaw models status`, and update docs.
- CLI: add `--json` output for `openclaw daemon` lifecycle/install commands.
- Memory: make `node-llama-cpp` an optional dependency (avoid Node 25 install failures) and improve local-embeddings fallback/errors.
- Browser: add `snapshot refs=aria` (Playwright aria-ref ids) for self-resolving refs across `snapshot` → `act`.
- Browser: `profile="chrome"` now defaults to host control and returns clearer "attach a tab" errors (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Browser: prefer stable Chrome for auto-detect, with Brave/Edge fallbacks and updated docs. (#983) - thanks @cpojer.
- Browser: increase remote CDP reachability timeouts + add `remoteCdpTimeoutMs`/`remoteCdpHandshakeTimeoutMs`.
- Browser: preserve auth/query tokens for remote CDP endpoints and pass Basic auth for CDP HTTP/WS. (#895) - thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Telegram: add bidirectional reaction support with configurable notifications and agent guidance. (#964) - thanks @bohdanpodvirnyi.
- Telegram: allow custom commands in the bot menu (merged with native; conflicts ignored). (#860) - thanks @nachoiacovino.
- Discord: allow allowlisted guilds without channel lists to receive messages when `groupPolicy="allowlist"`. - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Discord: allow emoji/sticker uploads + channel actions in config defaults. (#870) - thanks @JDIVE.

### Fixes

- Messages: make `/stop` clear queued followups and pending session lane work for a hard abort.
- Messages: make `/stop` abort active sub-agent runs spawned from the requester session and report how many were stopped.
- WhatsApp: report linked status consistently in channel status. (#1050) - thanks @YuriNachos.
- Sessions: keep per-session overrides when `/new` resets compaction counters. (#1050) - thanks @YuriNachos.
- Skills: allow OpenAI image-gen helper to handle URL or base64 responses. (#1050) - thanks @YuriNachos.
- WhatsApp: default response prefix only for self-chat, using identity name when set.
- iMessage: treat missing `imsg rpc` support as fatal to avoid restart loops.
- Auth: merge main auth profiles into per-agent stores for sub-agents and document inheritance. (#1013) - thanks @marcmarg.
- Agents: avoid JSON Schema `format` collisions in tool params by renaming snapshot format fields. (#1013) - thanks @marcmarg.
- Fix: make `openclaw update` auto-update global installs when installed via a package manager.
- Fix: list model picker entries as provider/model pairs for explicit selection. (#970) - thanks @mcinteerj.
- Fix: align OpenAI image-gen defaults with DALL-E 3 standard quality and document output formats. (#880) - thanks @mkbehr.
- Fix: persist `gateway.mode=local` after selecting Local run mode in `openclaw configure`, even if no other sections are chosen.
- Daemon: fix profile-aware service label resolution (env-driven) and add coverage for launchd/systemd/schtasks. (#969) - thanks @bjesuiter.
- Agents: avoid false positives when logging unsupported Google tool schema keywords.
- Agents: skip Gemini history downgrades for google-antigravity to preserve tool calls. (#894) - thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Status: restore usage summary line for current provider when no OAuth profiles exist.
- Fix: guard model fallback against undefined provider/model values. (#954) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Fix: refactor session store updates, add chat.inject, and harden subagent cleanup flow. (#944) - thanks @tyler6204.
- Fix: clean up suspended CLI processes across backends. (#978) - thanks @Nachx639.
- Fix: support MiniMax coding plan usage responses with `model_remains`/`current_interval_*` payloads.
- Fix: honor message tool channel for duplicate suppression (prefer `NO_REPLY` after `message` tool sends). (#1053) - thanks @sashcatanzarite.
- Fix: suppress WhatsApp pairing replies for historical catch-up DMs on initial link. (#904).
- Browser: extension mode recovers when only one tab is attached (stale targetId fallback).
- Browser: fix `tab not found` for extension relay snapshots/actions when Playwright blocks `newCDPSession` (use the single available Page).
- Browser: upgrade `ws` → `wss` when remote CDP uses `https` (fixes Browserless handshake).
- Telegram: skip `message_thread_id=1` for General topic sends while keeping typing indicators. (#848) - thanks @azade-c.
- Fix: sanitize user-facing error text + strip `<final>` tags across reply pipelines. (#975) - thanks @ThomsenDrake.
- Fix: normalize pairing CLI aliases, allow extension channels, and harden Zalo webhook payload parsing. (#991) - thanks @longmaba.
- Fix: allow local Tailscale Serve hostnames without treating tailnet clients as direct. (#885) - thanks @oswalpalash.
- Fix: reset sessions after role-ordering conflicts to recover from consecutive user turns. (#998).

### Breaking

- **BREAKING:** iOS minimum version is now 18.0 to support Textual markdown rendering in native chat. (#702).
- **BREAKING:** Microsoft Teams is now a plugin; install `@openclaw/msteams` via `openclaw plugins install @openclaw/msteams`.

## 2026.1.14-1

### Highlights

- Web search: `web_search`/`web_fetch` tools (Brave API) + first-time setup in onboarding/configure.
- Browser control: Chrome extension relay takeover mode + remote browser control support.
- Plugins: channel plugins (gateway HTTP hooks) + Zalo plugin + onboarding install flow. (#854) - thanks @longmaba.
- Security: expanded `openclaw security audit` (+ `--fix`), detect-secrets CI scan, and a `SECURITY.md` reporting policy.

### Changes

- Docs: clarify per-agent auth stores, sandboxed skill binaries, and elevated semantics.
- Docs: add FAQ entries for missing provider auth after adding agents and Gemini thinking signature errors.
- Agents: add optional auth-profile copy prompt on `agents add` and improve auth error messaging.
- Security: expand `openclaw security audit` checks (model hygiene, config includes, plugin allowlists, exposure matrix) and extend `--fix` to tighten more sensitive state paths.
- Security: add `SECURITY.md` reporting policy.
- Channels: add Matrix plugin (external) with docs + onboarding hooks.
- Plugins: add Zalo channel plugin with gateway HTTP hooks and onboarding install prompt. (#854) - thanks @longmaba.
- Onboarding: add a security checkpoint prompt (docs link + sandboxing hint); require `--accept-risk` for `--non-interactive`.
- Docs: expand gateway security hardening guidance and incident response checklist.
- Docs: document DM history limits for channel DMs. (#883) - thanks @pkrmf.
- Security: add detect-secrets CI scan and baseline guidance. (#227) - thanks @Hyaxia.
- Tools: add `web_search`/`web_fetch` (Brave API), auto-enable `web_fetch` for sandboxed sessions, and remove the `brave-search` skill.
- CLI/Docs: add a web tools configure section for storing Brave API keys and update onboarding tips.
- Browser: add Chrome extension relay takeover mode (toolbar button), plus `openclaw browser extension install/path` and remote browser control (standalone server + token auth).

### Fixes

- Sessions: refactor session store updates to lock + mutate per-entry, add chat.inject, and harden subagent cleanup flow. (#944) - thanks @tyler6204.
- Browser: add tests for snapshot labels/efficient query params and labeled image responses.
- Google: downgrade unsigned thinking blocks before send to avoid missing signature errors.
- Doctor: avoid re-adding WhatsApp config when only legacy ack reactions are set. (#927, fixes #900) - thanks @grp06.
- Agents: scrub tuple `items` schemas for Gemini tool calls. (#926, fixes #746) - thanks @grp06.
- Agents: harden Antigravity Claude history/tool-call sanitization. (#968) - thanks @rdev.
- Agents: stabilize sub-agent announce status from runtime outcomes and normalize Result/Notes. (#835) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Embedded runner: suppress raw API error payloads from replies. (#924) - thanks @grp06.
- Auth: normalize Claude Code CLI profile mode to oauth and auto-migrate config. (#855) - thanks @sebslight.
- Daemon: clear persisted launchd disabled state before bootstrap (fixes `daemon install` after uninstall). (#849) - thanks @ndraiman.
- Logging: tolerate `EIO` from console writes to avoid gateway crashes. (#925, fixes #878) - thanks @grp06.
- Sandbox: restore `docker.binds` config validation for custom bind mounts. (#873) - thanks @akonyer.
- Sandbox: preserve configured PATH for `docker exec` so custom tools remain available. (#873) - thanks @akonyer.
- Slack: respect `channels.slack.requireMention` default when resolving channel mention gating. (#850) - thanks @evalexpr.
- Telegram: aggregate split inbound messages into one prompt (reduces "one reply per fragment") (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Auto-reply: treat trailing `NO_REPLY` tokens as silent replies.
- Config: prevent partial config writes from clobbering unrelated settings (base hash guard + merge patch for connection saves).

## 2026.1.14

### Changes

- Usage: add MiniMax coding plan usage tracking.
- Auth: label Claude Code CLI auth options. (#915) - thanks @SeanZoR.
- Docs: standardize Claude Code CLI naming across docs and prompts. (follow-up to #915).
- Telegram: add message delete action in the message tool. (#903) - thanks @sleontenko.
- Config: add `channels.<provider>.configWrites` gating for channel-initiated config writes; migrate Slack channel IDs.

### Fixes

- Mac: pass auth token/password to dashboard URL for authenticated access. (#918) - thanks @rahthakor.
- UI: use application-defined WebSocket close code (browser compatibility). (#918) - thanks @rahthakor.
- TUI: render picker overlays via the overlay stack so /models and /settings display. (#921) - thanks @grizzdank.
- TUI: add a bright spinner + elapsed time in the status line for send/stream/run states.
- TUI: show LLM error messages (rate limits, auth, etc.) instead of `(no output)`. Thanks @kkarimi.
- Gateway/Dev: ensure `pnpm gateway:dev` always uses the dev profile config + state (`~/.openclaw-dev`).

#### Agents / Auth / Tools / Sandbox

- Agents: make user time zone and 24-hour time explicit in the system prompt. (#859) - thanks @CashWilliams.
- Agents: strip downgraded tool call text without eating adjacent replies and filter thinking-tag leaks. (#905) - thanks @erikpr1994.
- Agents: cap tool call IDs for OpenAI/OpenRouter to avoid request rejections. (#875) - thanks @j1philli.
- Sandbox: restore `docker.binds` config validation and preserve configured PATH for `docker exec`. (#873) - thanks @akonyer.

#### macOS / Apps

- macOS: ensure launchd log directory exists with a test-only override. (#909) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- macOS: format ConnectionsStore config to satisfy SwiftFormat lint. (#852) - thanks @mneves75.
- macOS: pass auth token/password to dashboard URL for authenticated access. (#918) - thanks @rahthakor.
- macOS: reuse launchd gateway auth and skip wizard when gateway config already exists. (#917) Thanks @kkarimi.
- macOS: prefer the default bridge tunnel port in remote mode for node bridge connectivity; document macOS remote control + bridge tunnels. (#960, fixes #865) - thanks @kkarimi.
- Apps: use canonical main session keys from gateway defaults across macOS/iOS/Android to avoid creating bare `main` sessions. Thanks @kkarimi.
- macOS: fix cron preview/testing payload to use `channel` key. (#867) - thanks @wes-davis.
- Telegram: honor `channels.telegram.timeoutSeconds` for grammY API requests. (#863) - thanks @Snaver.
- Telegram: split long captions into media + follow-up text messages. (#907) - thanks @jalehman.
- Telegram: migrate group config when supergroups change chat IDs. (#906) - thanks @sleontenko.
- Messaging: unify markdown formatting + format-first chunking for Slack/Telegram/Signal. (#920) - thanks @TheSethRose.
- Slack: drop Socket Mode events with mismatched `api_app_id`/`team_id`. (#889) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Discord: isolate autoThread thread context. (#856) - thanks @davidguttman.
- WhatsApp: fix context isolation using wrong ID (was bot's number, now conversation ID). (#911) - thanks @tristanmanchester.
- WhatsApp: normalize user JIDs with device suffix for allowlist checks in groups. (#838) - thanks @peschee.

## 2026.1.13

### Fixes

- Postinstall: treat already-applied pnpm patches as no-ops to avoid npm/bun install failures.
- Packaging: pin `@mariozechner/pi-ai` to 0.45.7 and refresh patched dependency to match npm resolution.

## 2026.1.12-2

### Fixes

- Packaging: include `dist/memory/**` in the npm tarball (fixes `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` for `dist/memory/index.js`).
- Agents: persist sub-agent registry across gateway restarts and resume announce flow safely. (#831) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Agents: strip invalid Gemini thought signatures from OpenRouter history to avoid 400s. (#841, #845) - thanks @MatthieuBizien.

## 2026.1.12-1

### Fixes

- Packaging: include `dist/channels/**` in the npm tarball (fixes `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` for `dist/channels/registry.js`).

## 2026.1.12

### Highlights

- **BREAKING:** rename chat "providers" (Slack/Telegram/WhatsApp/...) to **channels** across CLI/RPC/config; legacy config keys auto-migrate on load (and are written back as `channels.*`) (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Memory: add vector search for agent memories (Markdown-only) with SQLite index, chunking, lazy sync + file watch, and per-agent enablement/fallback.
- Plugins: restore full voice-call plugin parity (Telnyx/Twilio, streaming, inbound policies, tools/CLI).
- Models: add Synthetic provider plus Moonshot Kimi K2 0905 + turbo/thinking variants (with docs). (#811) - thanks @siraht; (#818) - thanks @mickahouan.
- Cron: one-shot schedules accept ISO timestamps (UTC) with optional delete-after-run; cron jobs can target a specific agent (CLI + macOS/Control UI).
- Agents: add compaction mode config with optional safeguard summarization and per-agent model fallbacks. (#700) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow; (#583) - thanks @mitschabaude-bot.

### New & Improved

- Memory: add custom OpenAI-compatible embedding endpoints; support OpenAI/local `node-llama-cpp` embeddings with per-agent overrides and provider metadata in tools/CLI. (#819) - thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Memory: new `openclaw memory` CLI plus `memory_search`/`memory_get` tools with snippets + line ranges; index stored under `~/.openclaw/memory/{agentId}.sqlite` with watch-on-by-default.
- Agents: strengthen memory recall guidance; make workspace bootstrap truncation configurable (default 20k) with warnings; add default sub-agent model config.
- Tools/Sandbox: add tool profiles + group shorthands; support tool-policy groups in `tools.sandbox.tools`; drop legacy `memory` shorthand; allow Docker bind mounts via `docker.binds`. (#790) - thanks @akonyer.
- Tools: add provider/model-specific tool policy overrides (`tools.byProvider`) to trim tool exposure per provider.
- Tools: add browser `scrollintoview` action; allow Claude/Gemini tool param aliases; allow thinking `xhigh` for GPT-5.2/Codex with safe downgrades. (#793) - thanks @hsrvc; (#444) - thanks @grp06.
- Gateway/CLI: add Tailscale binary discovery, custom bind mode, and probe auth retry; add `openclaw dashboard` auto-open flow; default native slash commands to `"auto"` with per-provider overrides. (#740) - thanks @jeffersonwarrior.
- Auth/Onboarding: add Chutes OAuth (PKCE + refresh + onboarding choice); normalize API key inputs; default TUI onboarding to `deliver: false`. (#726) - thanks @FrieSei; (#791) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Providers: add `discord.allowBots`; trim legacy MiniMax M2 from default catalogs; route MiniMax vision to the Coding Plan VLM endpoint (also accepts `@/path/to/file.png` inputs). (#802) - thanks @zknicker.
- Gateway: allow Tailscale Serve identity headers to satisfy token auth; rebuild Control UI assets when protocol schema is newer. (#823) - thanks @roshanasingh4; (#786) - thanks @meaningfool.
- Heartbeat: default `ackMaxChars` to 300 so short `HEARTBEAT_OK` replies stay internal.

### Fixes

- Doctor: warn on pnpm workspace mismatches, missing Control UI assets, and missing tsx binaries; offer UI rebuilds.
- Tools: apply global tool allow/deny even when agent-specific tool policy is set.
- Models/Providers: treat credential validation failures as auth errors to trigger fallback; normalize `${ENV_VAR}` apiKey values and auto-fill missing provider keys; preserve explicit GitHub Copilot provider config + agent-dir auth profiles. (#822) - thanks @sebslight; (#705) - thanks @TAGOOZ.
- Auth: drop invalid auth profiles from ordering so environment keys can still be used for providers like MiniMax.
- Gemini: normalize Gemini 3 ids to preview variants; strip Gemini CLI tool call/response ids; downgrade missing `thought_signature`; strip Claude `msg_*` thought_signature fields to avoid base64 decode errors. (#795) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow; (#783) - thanks @ananth-vardhan-cn; (#793) - thanks @hsrvc; (#805) - thanks @marcmarg.
- Agents: auto-recover from compaction context overflow by resetting the session and retrying; propagate overflow details from embedded runs so callers can recover.
- MiniMax: strip malformed tool invocation XML; include `MiniMax-VL-01` in implicit provider for image pairing. (#809) - thanks @latitudeki5223.
- Onboarding/Auth: honor `CLAWDBOT_AGENT_DIR` / `PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR` when writing auth profiles (MiniMax). (#829) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Anthropic: handle `overloaded_error` with a friendly message and failover classification. (#832) - thanks @danielz1z.
- Anthropic: merge consecutive user turns (preserve newest metadata) before validation to avoid incorrect role errors. (#804) - thanks @ThomsenDrake.
- Messaging: enforce context isolation for message tool sends; keep typing indicators alive during tool execution. (#793) - thanks @hsrvc; (#450, #447) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Auto-reply: `/status` allowlist behavior, reasoning-tag enforcement on fallback, and system-event enqueueing for elevated/reasoning toggles. (#810) - thanks @mcinteerj.
- System events: include local timestamps when events are injected into prompts. (#245) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Auto-reply: resolve ambiguous `/model` matches; fix streaming block reply media handling; keep >300 char heartbeat replies instead of dropping.
- Discord/Slack: centralize reply-thread planning; fix autoThread routing + add per-channel autoThread; avoid duplicate listeners; keep reasoning italics intact; allow clearing channel parents via message tool. (#800, #807) - thanks @davidguttman; (#744) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Telegram: preserve forum topic thread ids, persist polling offsets, respect account bindings in webhook mode, and show typing indicator in General topics. (#727, #739) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow; (#821) - thanks @gumadeiras; (#779) - thanks @azade-c.
- Slack: accept slash commands with or without leading `/` for custom command configs. (#798) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Cron: persist disabled jobs correctly; accept `jobId` aliases for update/run/remove params. (#205, #252) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Gateway/CLI: honor `CLAWDBOT_LAUNCHD_LABEL` / `CLAWDBOT_SYSTEMD_UNIT` overrides; `agents.list` respects explicit config; reduce noisy loopback WS logs during tests; run `openclaw doctor --non-interactive` during updates. (#781) - thanks @ronyrus.
- Onboarding/Control UI: refuse invalid configs (run doctor first); quote Windows browser URLs for OAuth; keep chat scroll position unless the user is near the bottom. (#764) - thanks @mukhtharcm; (#794) - thanks @roshanasingh4; (#217) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Tools/UI: harden tool input schemas for strict providers; drop null-only union variants for Gemini schema cleanup; treat `maxChars: 0` as unlimited; keep TUI last streamed response instead of "(no output)". (#782) - thanks @AbhisekBasu1; (#796) - thanks @gabriel-trigo; (#747) - thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
- Connections UI: polish multi-account account cards. (#816).

### Installer

- Install: run `openclaw doctor --non-interactive` after git installs/updates and nudge daemon restarts when detected.

### Maintenance

- Dependencies: bump Pi packages to 0.45.3 and refresh patched pi-ai.
- Testing: update Vitest + browser-playwright to 4.0.17.
- Docs: add Amazon Bedrock provider notes and link from models/FAQ.

## 2026.1.11

### Highlights

- Plugins are now first-class: loader + CLI management, plus the new Voice Call plugin.
- Config: modular `$include` support for split config files. (#731) - thanks @pasogott.
- Agents/Pi: reserve compaction headroom so pre-compaction memory writes can run before auto-compaction.
- Agents: automatic pre-compaction memory flush turn to store durable memories before compaction.

### Changes

- CLI/Onboarding: simplify MiniMax auth choice to a single M2.1 option.
- CLI: configure section selection now loops until Continue.
- Docs: explain MiniMax vs MiniMax Lightning (speed vs cost) and restore LM Studio example.
- Docs: add Cerebras GLM 4.6/4.7 config example (OpenAI-compatible endpoint).
- Onboarding/CLI: group model/auth choice by provider and label Z.AI as GLM 4.7.
- Onboarding/Docs: add Moonshot AI (Kimi K2) auth choice + config example.
- CLI/Onboarding: prompt to reuse detected API keys for Moonshot/MiniMax/Z.AI/Gemini/Anthropic/OpenCode.
- Auto-reply: add compact `/model` picker (models + available providers) and show provider endpoints in `/model status`.
- Control UI: add Config tab model presets (MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, Kimi) for one-click setup.
- Plugins: add extension loader (tools/RPC/CLI/services), discovery paths, and config schema + Control UI labels (uiHints).
- Plugins: add `openclaw plugins install` (path/tgz/npm), plus `list|info|enable|disable|doctor` UX.
- Plugins: voice-call plugin now real (Twilio/log), adds start/status RPC/CLI/tool + tests.
- Docs: add plugins doc + cross-links from tools/skills/gateway config.
- Docs: add beginner-friendly plugin quick start + expand Voice Call plugin docs.
- Tests: add Docker plugin loader + tgz-install smoke test.
- Tests: extend Docker plugin E2E to cover installing from local folders (`plugins.load.paths`) and `file:` npm specs.
- Tests: add coverage for pre-compaction memory flush settings.
- Tests: modernize live model smoke selection for current releases and enforce tools/images/thinking-high coverage. (#769).
- Agents/Tools: add `apply_patch` tool for multi-file edits (experimental; gated by tools.exec.applyPatch; OpenAI-only).
- Agents/Tools: rename the bash tool to exec (config alias maintained). (#748) - thanks @myfunc.
- Agents: add pre-compaction memory flush config (`agents.defaults.compaction.*`) with a soft threshold + system prompt.
- Config: add `$include` directive for modular config files. (#731) - thanks @pasogott.
- Build: set pnpm minimum release age to 2880 minutes (2 days). (#718) - thanks @dan-dr.
- macOS: prompt to install the global `openclaw` CLI when missing in local mode; install via `openclaw.ai/install-cli.sh` (no onboarding) and use external launchd/CLI instead of the embedded gateway runtime.
- Docs: add gog calendar event color IDs from `gog calendar colors`. (#715) - thanks @mjrussell.
- Cron/CLI: add `--model` flag to cron add/edit commands. (#711) - thanks @mjrussell.
- Cron/CLI: trim model overrides on cron edits and document main-session guidance. (#711) - thanks @mjrussell.
- Skills: bundle `skill-creator` to guide creating and packaging skills.
- Providers: add per-DM history limit overrides (`dmHistoryLimit`) with provider-level config. (#728) - thanks @pkrmf.
- Discord: expose channel/category management actions in the message tool. (#730) - thanks @NicholasSpisak.
- Docs: rename README "macOS app" section to "Apps". (#733) - thanks @AbhisekBasu1.
- Gateway: require `client.id` in WebSocket connect params; use `client.instanceId` for presence de-dupe; update docs/tests.
- macOS: remove the attach-only gateway setting; local mode now always manages launchd while still attaching to an existing gateway if present.

### Fixes

- Models/Onboarding: configure MiniMax (minimax.io) via Anthropic-compatible `/anthropic` endpoint by default (keep `minimax-api` as a legacy alias).
- Models: normalize Gemini 3 Pro/Flash IDs to preview names for live model lookups. (#769).
- CLI: fix guardCancel typing for configure prompts. (#769).
- Gateway/WebChat: include handshake validation details in the WebSocket close reason for easier debugging; preserve close codes.
- Gateway/Auth: send invalid connect responses before closing the handshake; stabilize invalid-connect auth test.
- Gateway: tighten gateway listener detection.
- Control UI: hide onboarding chat when configured and guard the mobile chat sidebar overlay.
- Auth: read Codex keychain credentials and make the lookup platform-aware.
- macOS/Release: avoid bundling dist artifacts in relay builds and generate appcasts from zip-only sources.
- Doctor: surface plugin diagnostics in the report.
- Plugins: treat `plugins.load.paths` directory entries as package roots when they contain `package.json` + `openclaw.extensions`; load plugin packages from config dirs; extract archives without system tar.
- Config: expand `~` in `CLAWDBOT_CONFIG_PATH` and common path-like config fields (including `plugins.load.paths`); guard invalid `$include` paths. (#731) - thanks @pasogott.
- Memory/QMD: honor `memorySearch.sync.watch` and first-session warm sync for the QMD backend, so managed collections refresh after watched file changes and on the first search in a new session. (#47482) Thanks @Ryce and @vincentkoc.
- Agents: stop pre-creating session transcripts so first user messages persist in JSONL history.
- Agents: skip pre-compaction memory flush when the session workspace is read-only.
- Auto-reply: ignore inline `/status` directives unless the message is directive-only.
- Auto-reply: align `/think` default display with model reasoning defaults. (#751) - thanks @gabriel-trigo.
- Auto-reply: flush block reply buffers on tool boundaries. (#750) - thanks @sebslight.
- Auto-reply: allow sender fallback for command authorization when `SenderId` is empty (WhatsApp self-chat). (#755) - thanks @juanpablodlc.
- Auto-reply: treat whitespace-only sender ids as missing for command authorization (WhatsApp self-chat). (#766).
- Heartbeat: refresh prompt text for updated defaults.
- Memory/QMD: prefer `qmd collection add --glob` for current QMD releases and fall back to legacy `--mask` when older builds reject it. (#55123) Thanks @ForceConstant and @vincentkoc.
- Agents/Tools: use PowerShell on Windows to capture system utility output. (#748) - thanks @myfunc.
- Docker: tolerate unset optional env vars in docker-setup.sh under strict mode. (#725) - thanks @petradonka.
- CLI/Update: preserve base environment when passing overrides to update subprocesses. (#713) - thanks @danielz1z.
- Agents: treat message tool errors as failures so fallback replies still send; require `to` + `message` for `action=send`. (#717) - thanks @theglove44.
- Agents: preserve reasoning items on tool-only turns.
- Agents/Subagents: wait for completion before announcing, align wait timeout with run timeout, and make announce prompts more emphatic.
- Agents: route subagent transcripts to the target agent sessions directory and add regression coverage. (#708) - thanks @xMikeMickelson.
- Agents/Tools: preserve action enums when flattening tool schemas. (#708) - thanks @xMikeMickelson.
- Gateway/Agents: canonicalize main session aliases for store writes and add regression coverage. (#709) - thanks @xMikeMickelson.
- Agents: reset sessions and retry when auto-compaction overflows instead of crashing the gateway.
- Providers/Telegram: normalize command mentions for consistent parsing. (#729) - thanks @obviyus.
- Providers: skip DM history limit handling for non-DM sessions. (#728) - thanks @pkrmf.
- Sandbox: fix non-main mode incorrectly sandboxing the main DM session and align `/status` runtime reporting with effective sandbox state.
- Sandbox/Gateway: treat `agent:<id>:main` as a main-session alias when `session.mainKey` is customized (backwards compatible).
- Auto-reply: fast-path allowlisted slash commands (inline `/help`/`/commands`/`/status`/`/whoami` stripped before model).

### Installer

- Postinstall: replace `git apply` with builtin JS patcher (works npm/pnpm/bun; no git dependency) plus regression tests.
- Postinstall: skip pnpm patch fallback when the new patcher is active.
- Installer tests: add root+non-root docker smokes, CI workflow to fetch openclaw.ai scripts and run install sh/cli with onboarding skipped.
- Installer UX: support `CLAWDBOT_NO_ONBOARD=1` for non-interactive installs; fix npm prefix on Linux and auto-install git.
- Installer UX: add `install.sh --help` with flags/env and git install hint.
- Installer UX: add `--install-method git|npm` and auto-detect source checkouts (prompt to update git checkout vs migrate to npm).

## 2026.1.10

### Highlights

- CLI: `openclaw status` now table-based + shows OS/update/gateway/daemon/agents/sessions; `status --all` adds a full read-only debug report (tables, log tails, Tailscale summary, and scan progress via OSC-9 + spinner).
- CLI Backends: add Codex CLI fallback with resume support (text output) and JSONL parsing for new runs, plus a live CLI resume probe.
- CLI: add `openclaw update` (safe-ish git checkout update) + `--update` shorthand. (#673) - thanks @fm1randa.
- Gateway: add OpenAI-compatible `/v1/chat/completions` HTTP endpoint (auth, SSE streaming, per-agent routing). (#680).

### Changes

- Onboarding/Models: add first-class Z.AI (GLM) auth choice (`zai-api-key`) + `--zai-api-key` flag.
- CLI/Onboarding: add OpenRouter API key auth option in configure/onboard. (#703) - thanks @mteam88.
- Agents: add human-delay pacing between block replies (modes: off/natural/custom, per-agent configurable). (#446) - thanks @tony-freedomology.
- Agents/Browser: add `browser.target` (sandbox/host/custom) with sandbox host-control gating via `agents.defaults.sandbox.browser.allowHostControl`, allowlists for custom control URLs/hosts/ports, and expand browser tool docs (remote control, profiles, internals).
- Onboarding/Models: add catalog-backed default model picker to onboarding + configure. (#611) - thanks @jonasjancarik.
- Agents/OpenCode Zen: update fallback models + defaults, keep legacy alias mappings. (#669) - thanks @magimetal.
- CLI: add `openclaw reset` and `openclaw uninstall` flows (interactive + non-interactive) plus docker cleanup smoke test.
- Providers: move provider wiring to a plugin architecture. (#661).
- Providers: unify group history context wrappers across providers with per-provider/per-account `historyLimit` overrides (fallback to `messages.groupChat.historyLimit`). Set `0` to disable. (#672).
- Gateway/Heartbeat: optionally deliver heartbeat `Reasoning:` output (`agents.defaults.heartbeat.includeReasoning`). (#690).
- Docker: allow optional home volume + extra bind mounts in `docker-setup.sh`. (#679) - thanks @gabriel-trigo.

### Fixes

- Auto-reply: suppress draft/typing streaming for `NO_REPLY` (silent system ops) so it doesn't leak partial output (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- CLI/Status: expand tables to full terminal width; clarify provider setup vs runtime warnings; richer per-provider detail; token previews in `status` while keeping `status --all` redacted; add troubleshooting link footer; keep log tails pasteable; show gateway auth used when reachable; surface provider runtime errors (Signal/iMessage/Slack); harden `tailscale status --json` parsing; make `status --all` scan progress determinate; and replace the footer with a 3-line "Next steps" recommendation (share/debug/probe) (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- CLI/Gateway: clarify that `openclaw gateway status` reports RPC health (connect + RPC) and shows RPC failures separately from connect failures.
- CLI/Update: gate progress spinner on stdout TTY and align clean-check step label. (#701) - thanks @bjesuiter.
- Telegram: add `/whoami` + `/id` commands to reveal sender id for allowlists; allow `@username` and prefixed ids in `allowFrom` prompts (with stability warning).
- Heartbeat: strip markup-wrapped `HEARTBEAT_OK` so acks don't leak to external providers (e.g., Telegram) (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Control UI: stop auto-writing `telegram.groups["*"]` and warn/confirm before enabling wildcard groups.
- WhatsApp: send ack reactions only for handled messages and ignore legacy `messages.ackReaction` (doctor copies to `whatsapp.ackReaction`). (#629) - thanks @pasogott.
- Sandbox/Skills: mirror skills into sandbox workspaces for read-only mounts so SKILL.md stays accessible.
- Terminal/Table: ANSI-safe wrapping to prevent table clipping/color loss; add regression coverage.
- Docker: allow optional apt packages during image build and document the build arg. (#697) - thanks @gabriel-trigo.
- Gateway/Heartbeat: deliver reasoning even when the main heartbeat reply is `HEARTBEAT_OK`. (#694) - thanks @antons.
- Agents/Pi: inject config `temperature`/`maxTokens` into streaming without replacing the session streamFn; cover with live maxTokens probe. (#732) - thanks @peschee.
- macOS: clear unsigned launchd overrides on signed restarts and warn via doctor when attach-only/disable markers are set. (#695) - thanks @jeffersonwarrior.
- Agents: enforce single-writer session locks and drop orphan tool results to prevent tool-call ID failures (MiniMax/Anthropic-compatible APIs).
- Docs: make `openclaw status` the first diagnostic step, clarify `status --deep` behavior, and document `/whoami` + `/id`.
- Docs/Testing: clarify live tool+image probes and how to list your testable `provider/model` ids.
- Tests/Live: make gateway bash+read probes resilient to provider formatting while still validating real tool calls.
- WhatsApp: detect @lid mentions in groups using authDir reverse mapping + resolve self JID E.164 for mention gating. (#692) - thanks @peschee.
- Gateway/Auth: default to token auth on loopback during onboarding, add doctor token generation flow, and tighten audio transcription config to Whisper-only.
- Providers: dedupe inbound messages across providers to avoid duplicate LLM runs on redeliveries/reconnects. (#689) - thanks @adam91holt.
- Agents: strip `<thought>`/`<antthinking>` tags from hidden reasoning output and cover tag variants in tests. (#688) - thanks @theglove44.
- macOS: save model picker selections as normalized provider/model IDs and keep manual entries aligned. (#683) - thanks @benithors.
- Agents: recognize "usage limit" errors as rate limits for failover. (#687) - thanks @evalexpr.
- CLI: avoid success message when daemon restart is skipped. (#685) - thanks @carlulsoe.
- Commands: disable `/config` + `/debug` by default; gate via `commands.config`/`commands.debug` and hide from native registration/help output.
- Agents/System: clarify that sub-agents remain sandboxed and cannot use elevated host access.
- Gateway: disable the OpenAI-compatible `/v1/chat/completions` endpoint by default; enable via `gateway.http.endpoints.chatCompletions.enabled=true` (#686).
- macOS: stabilize bridge tunnels, guard invoke senders on disconnect, and drain stdout/stderr to avoid deadlocks. (#676) - thanks @ngutman.
- Agents/System: clarify sandboxed runtime in system prompt and surface elevated availability when sandboxed.
- Auto-reply: prefer `RawBody` for command/directive parsing (WhatsApp + Discord) and prevent fallback runs from clobbering concurrent session updates. (#643) - thanks @mcinteerj.
- WhatsApp: fix group reactions by preserving message IDs and sender JIDs in history; normalize participant phone numbers to JIDs in outbound reactions. (#640) - thanks @mcinteerj.
- WhatsApp: expose group participant IDs to the model so reactions can target the right sender.
- Cron: `wakeMode: "now"` waits for heartbeat completion (and retries when the main lane is busy). (#666) - thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Agents/OpenAI: fix Responses tool-only → follow-up turn handling (avoid standalone `reasoning` items that trigger 400 "required following item") and replay reasoning items in Responses/Codex Responses history for tool-call-only turns (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Sandbox: add `openclaw sandbox explain` (effective policy inspector + fix-it keys); improve "sandbox jail" tool-policy/elevated errors with actionable config key paths; link to docs (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Hooks/Gmail: keep Tailscale serve path at `/` while preserving the public path. (#668) - thanks @antons.
- Hooks/Gmail: allow Tailscale target URLs to preserve internal serve paths.
- Auth: update Claude Code keychain credentials in-place during refresh sync; share JSON file helpers; add CLI fallback coverage.
- Auth: throttle external CLI credential syncs (Claude/Codex), reduce Keychain reads, and skip sync when cached credentials are still fresh.
- CLI: respect `CLAWDBOT_STATE_DIR` for node pairing + voice wake settings storage. (#664) - thanks @azade-c.
- Onboarding/Gateway: persist non-interactive gateway token auth in config; add WS wizard + gateway tool-calling regression coverage.
- Gateway/Control UI: make `chat.send` non-blocking, wire Stop to `chat.abort`, and treat `/stop` as an out-of-band abort. (#653).
- Gateway/Control UI: allow `chat.abort` without `runId` (abort active runs), suppress post-abort chat streaming, and prune stuck chat runs. (#653).
- Gateway/Control UI: sniff image attachments for chat.send, drop non-images, and log mismatches. (#670) - thanks @cristip73.
- macOS: force `restart-mac.sh --sign` to require identities and keep bundled Node signed for relay verification. (#580) - thanks @jeffersonwarrior.
- Gateway/Agent: accept image attachments on `agent` (multimodal message) and add live gateway image probe (`CLAWDBOT_LIVE_GATEWAY_IMAGE_PROBE=1`).
- CLI: `openclaw sessions` now includes `elev:*` + `usage:*` flags in the table output.
- CLI/Pairing: accept positional provider for `pairing list|approve` (npm-run compatible); update docs/bot hints.
- Branding: normalize legacy casing/branding to "OpenClaw" (CLI, status, docs) (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Auto-reply: fix native `/model` not updating the actual chat session (Telegram/Slack/Discord). (#646).
- Doctor: offer to run `openclaw update` first on git installs (keeps doctor output aligned with latest).
- Doctor: avoid false legacy workspace warning when install dir is `~/openclaw`. (#660).
- iMessage: fix reasoning persistence across DMs; avoid partial/duplicate replies when reasoning is enabled. (#655) - thanks @antons.
- Models/Auth: allow MiniMax API configs without `models.providers.minimax.apiKey` (auth profiles / `MINIMAX_API_KEY`). (#656) - thanks @mneves75.
- Agents: avoid duplicate replies when the message tool sends. (#659) - thanks @mickahouan.
- Agents: harden Cloud Code Assist tool ID sanitization (toolUse/toolCall/toolResult) and scrub extra JSON Schema constraints. (#665) - thanks @sebslight.
- Agents: sanitize tool results + Cloud Code Assist tool IDs at context-build time (prevents mid-run strict-provider request rejects).
- Agents/Tools: resolve workspace-relative Read/Write/Edit paths; align bash default cwd. (#642) - thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Discord: include forwarded message snapshots in agent session context. (#667) - thanks @rubyrunsstuff.
- Telegram: add `telegram.draftChunk` to tune draft streaming chunking for `streamMode: "block"`. (#667) - thanks @rubyrunsstuff.
- Tests/Agents: add regression coverage for workspace tool path resolution and bash cwd defaults.
- iOS/Android: enable stricter concurrency/lint checks; fix Swift 6 strict concurrency issues + Android lint errors (ExifInterface, obsolete SDK check). (#662) - thanks @KristijanJovanovski.
- Auth: read Codex CLI keychain tokens on macOS before falling back to `~/.codex/auth.json`, preventing stale refresh tokens from breaking gateway live tests.
- Security/Exec approvals: reject shell command substitution (`$()` and backticks) inside double quotes to prevent exec allowlist bypass when exec allowlist mode is explicitly enabled (the default configuration does not use this mode). Thanks @simecek.
- iOS/macOS: share `AsyncTimeout`, require explicit `bridgeStableID` on connect, and harden tool display defaults (avoids missing-resource label fallbacks).
- Telegram: serialize media-group processing to avoid missed albums under load.
- Signal: handle `dataMessage.reaction` events (signal-cli SSE) to avoid broken attachment errors. (#637) - thanks @neist.
- Docs: showcase entries for ParentPay, R2 Upload, iOS TestFlight, and Oura Health. (#650) - thanks @henrino3.
- Agents: repair session transcripts by dropping duplicate tool results across the whole history (unblocks Anthropic-compatible APIs after retries).
- Tests/Live: reset the gateway session between model runs to avoid cross-provider transcript incompatibilities (notably OpenAI Responses reasoning replay rules).

## 2026.1.9

### Highlights

- Microsoft Teams provider: polling, attachments, outbound CLI send, per-channel policy.
- Models/Auth expansion: OpenCode Zen + MiniMax API onboarding; token auth profiles + auth order; OAuth health in doctor/status.
- CLI/Gateway UX: message subcommands, gateway discover/status/SSH, /config + /debug, sandbox CLI.
- Provider reliability sweep: WhatsApp contact cards/targets, Telegram audio-as-voice + streaming, Signal reactions, Slack threading, Discord stability.
- Auto-reply + status: block-streaming controls, reasoning handling, usage/cost reporting.
- Control UI/TUI: queued messages, session links, reasoning view, mobile polish, logs UX.

### New Features and Changes

- Models/Auth: OpenCode Zen onboarding (#623) - thanks @magimetal; MiniMax Anthropic-compatible API + hosted onboarding (#590, #495) - thanks @mneves75, @tobiasbischoff.
- Models/Auth: setup-token + token auth profiles; `openclaw models auth order {get,set,clear}`; per-agent auth candidates in `/model status`; OAuth expiry checks in doctor/status.
- Agent/System: claude-cli runner; `session_status` tool (and sandbox allow); adaptive context pruning default; system prompt messaging guidance + no auto self-update; eligible skills list injection; sub-agent context trimmed.
- Commands: `/commands` list; `/models` alias; `/usage` alias; `/debug` runtime overrides + effective config view; `/config` chat updates + `/config get`; `config --section`.
- CLI/Gateway: unified message tool + message subcommands; gateway discover (local + wide-area DNS-SD) with JSON/timeout; gateway status human-readable + JSON + SSH loopback; wide-area records include gatewayPort/sshPort/cliPath + tailnet DNS fallback.
- CLI UX: logs output modes (pretty/plain/JSONL) + colorized health/daemon output; global `--no-color`; lobster palette in onboarding/config.
- Dev ergonomics: gateway `--dev/--reset` + dev profile auto-config; C-3PO dev templates; dev gateway/TUI helper scripts.
- Sandbox/Workspace: sandbox list/recreate commands; sync skills into sandbox workspace; sandbox browser auto-start.
- Config/Onboarding: inline env vars; OpenAI API key flow to shared `~/.openclaw/.env`; Opus 4.5 default prompt for Anthropic auth; QuickStart auto-install gateway (Node-only) + provider picker tweaks + skip-systemd flags; TUI bootstrap prompt (`tui --message`); remove Bun runtime choice.
- Providers: Microsoft Teams provider (polling, attachments, outbound sends, requireMention, config reload/DM policy). (#404) - thanks @onutc
- Providers: WhatsApp broadcast groups for multi-agent replies (#547) - thanks @pasogott; inbound media size cap configurable (#505) - thanks @koala73; identity-based message prefixes (#578) - thanks @p6l-richard.
- Providers: Telegram inline keyboard buttons + callback payload routing (#491) - thanks @azade-c; cron topic delivery targets (#474/#478) - thanks @mitschabaude-bot, @nachoiacovino; `[[audio_as_voice]]` tag support (#490) - thanks @jarvis-medmatic.
- Providers: Signal reactions + notifications with allowlist support.
- Status/Usage: /status cost reporting + `/cost` lines; auth profile snippet; provider usage windows.
- Control UI: mobile responsiveness (#558) - thanks @carlulsoe; queued messages + Enter-to-send (#527) - thanks @YuriNachos; session links (#471) - thanks @HazAT; reasoning view; skill install feedback (#445) - thanks @pkrmf; chat layout refresh (#475) - thanks @rahthakor; docs link + new session button; drop explicit `ui:install`.
- TUI: agent picker + agents list RPC; improved status line.
- Doctor/Daemon: audit/repair flows, permissions checks, supervisor config audits; provider status probes + warnings for Discord intents and Telegram privacy; last activity timestamps; gateway restart guidance.
- Docs: Hetzner Docker VPS guide + cross-links (#556/#592) - thanks @Iamadig; Ansible guide (#545) - thanks @pasogott; provider troubleshooting index; hook parameter expansion (#532) - thanks @mcinteerj; model allowlist notes; OAuth deep dive; showcase refresh.
- Apps/Branding: refreshed iOS/Android/macOS icons (#521) - thanks @fishfisher.

### Fixes

- Packaging: include MS Teams send module in npm tarball.
- Sandbox/Browser: auto-start CDP endpoint; proxy CDP out of container for attachOnly; relax Bun fetch typing; align sandbox list output with config images.
- Agents/Runtime: gate heartbeat prompt to default sessions; /stop aborts between tool calls; require explicit system-event session keys; guard small context windows; fix model fallback stringification; sessions_spawn inherits provider; failover on billing/credits; respect auth cooldown ordering; restore Anthropic OAuth tool dispatch + tool-name bypass; avoid OpenAI invalid reasoning replay; harden Gmail hook model defaults.
- Agent history/schema: strip/skip empty assistant/error blocks to prevent session corruption/Claude 400s; scrub unsupported JSON Schema keywords + sanitize tool call IDs for Cloud Code Assist; simplify Gemini-compatible tool/session schemas; require raw for config.apply.
- Auto-reply/Streaming: default audioAsVoice false; preserve audio_as_voice propagation + buffer audio blocks + guard voice notes; block reply ordering (timeout) + forced-block fence-safe; avoid chunk splits inside parentheses + fence-close breaks + invalid UTF-16 truncation; preserve inline directive spacing + allow whitespace in reply tags; filter NO_REPLY prefixes + normalize routed replies; suppress <think> leakage with separate Reasoning; block streaming defaults (off by default, minChars/idle tuning) + coalesced blocks; dedupe followup queue; restore explicit responsePrefix default.
- Status/Commands: provider prefix in /status model display; usage filtering + provider mapping; auth label + usage snapshots (claude-cli fallback + optional claude.ai); show Verbose/Elevated only when enabled; compact usage/cost line + restore emoji-rich status; /status in directive-only + multi-directive handling; mention-bypass elevated handling; surface provider usage errors; wire /usage to /status; restore hidden gateway-daemon alias; fallback /model list when catalog unavailable.
- WhatsApp: vCard/contact cards (prefer FN, include numbers, show all contacts, keep summary counts, better empty summaries); preserve group JIDs + normalize targets; resolve @lid mappings/JIDs (Baileys/auth-dir) + inbound mapping; route queued replies to sender; improve web listener errors + remove provider name from errors; record outbound activity account id; fix web media fetch errors; broadcast group history consistency.
- Telegram: keep streamMode draft-only; long-poll conflict retries + update dedupe; grammY fetch mismatch fixes + restrict native fetch to Bun; suppress getUpdates stack traces; include user id in pairing; audio_as_voice handling fixes.
- Discord/Slack: thread context helpers + forum thread starters; avoid category parent overrides; gateway reconnect logs + HELLO timeout + stop provider after reconnect exhaustion; DM recipient parsing for numeric IDs; remove incorrect limited warning; reply threading + mrkdwn edge cases; remove ack reactions after reply; gateway debug event visibility.
- Signal: reaction handling safety; own-reaction matching (uuid+phone); UUID-only senders accepted; ignore reaction-only messages.
- MS Teams: download image attachments reliably; fix top-level replies; stop on shutdown + honor chunk limits; normalize poll providers/deps; pairing label fixes.
- iMessage: isolate group-ish threads by chat_id.
- Gateway/Daemon/Doctor: atomic config writes; repair gateway service entrypoint + install switches; non-interactive legacy migrations; systemd unit alignment + KillMode=process; node bridge keepalive/pings; Launch at Login persistence; bundle MoltbotKit resources + Swift 6.2 compat dylib; relay version check + remove smoke test; regen Swift GatewayModels + keep agent provider string; cron jobId alias + channel alias migration + main session key normalization; heartbeat Telegram accountId resolution; avoid WhatsApp fallback for internal runs; gateway listener error wording; serveBaseUrl param; honor gateway --dev; fix wide-area discovery updates; align agents.defaults schema; provider account metadata in daemon status; refresh Carbon patch for gateway fixes; restore doctor prompter initialValue handling.
- Control UI/TUI: persist per-session verbose off + hide tool cards; logs tab opens at bottom; relative asset paths + landing cleanup; session labels lookup/persistence; stop pinning main session in recents; start logs at bottom; TUI status bar refresh + timeout handling + hide reasoning label when off.
- Onboarding/Configure: QuickStart single-select provider picker; avoid Codex CLI false-expiry warnings; clarify WhatsApp owner prompt; fix Minimax hosted onboarding (agents.defaults + msteams heartbeat target); remove configure Control UI prompt; honor gateway --dev flag.
- Agent loop: guard overflow compaction throws and restore compaction hooks for engine-owned context engines. (#41361) - thanks @davidrudduck

### Breaking

- CLI: `openclaw message` now subcommands (`message send|poll|...`) and requires `--provider` unless only one provider configured.
- Commands/Tools: `/restart` and gateway restart tool disabled by default; enable with `commands.restart=true`.

### Maintenance

- Dependencies: bump pi-\* stack to 0.42.2. Thanks @cpojer.
- Dependencies: Pi 0.40.0 bump (#543) - thanks @mcinteerj.
- Build: Docker build cache layer (#605) - thanks @zknicker.

- Auth: enable OAuth token refresh for Claude Code CLI credentials (`anthropic:claude-cli`) with bidirectional sync back to Claude Code storage (file on Linux/Windows, Keychain on macOS). This allows long-running agents to operate autonomously without manual re-authentication (#654 - thanks @radek-paclt).

## 2026.1.8

### Highlights

- Security: DMs locked down by default across providers; pairing-first + allowlist guidance.
- Sandbox: per-agent scope defaults + workspace access controls; tool/session isolation tuned.
- Agent loop: compaction, pruning, streaming, and error handling hardened.
- Providers: Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord/Slack reliability, threading, reactions, media, and retries improved.
- Control UI: logs tab, streaming stability, focus mode, and large-output rendering fixes.
- CLI/Gateway/Doctor: daemon/logs/status, auth migration, and diagnostics significantly expanded.

### Fixes

- **CLI/Gateway/Doctor:** daemon runtime selection + improved logs/status/health/errors; auth/password handling for local CLI; richer close/timeout details; auto-migrate legacy config/sessions/state; integrity checks + repair prompts; `--yes`/`--non-interactive`; `--deep` gateway scans; better restart/service hints.
- **Agent loop + compaction:** compaction/pruning tuning, overflow handling, safer bootstrap context, and per-provider threading/confirmations; opt-in tool-result pruning + compact tracking.
- **Sandbox + tools:** per-agent sandbox overrides, workspaceAccess controls, session tool visibility, tool policy overrides, process isolation, and tool schema/timeout/reaction unification.
- **Providers (Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord/Slack/Signal/iMessage):** retry/backoff, threading, reactions, media groups/attachments, mention gating, typing behavior, and error/log stability; long polling + forum topic isolation for Telegram.
- **Gateway/CLI UX:** `openclaw logs`, cron list colors/aliases, docs search, agents list/add/delete flows, status usage snapshots, runtime/auth source display, and `/status`/commands auth unification.
- **Control UI/Web:** logs tab, focus mode polish, config form resilience, streaming stability, tool output caps, windowed chat history, and reconnect/password URL auth.
- **macOS/Android/TUI/Build:** macOS gateway races, QR bundling, JSON5 config safety, Voice Wake hardening; Android EXIF rotation + APK naming/versioning; TUI key handling; tooling/bundling fixes.
- **Packaging/compat:** npm dist folder coverage, Node 25 qrcode-terminal import fixes, Bun/Playwright/WebSocket patches, and Docker Bun install.
- **Docs:** new FAQ/ClawHub/config examples/showcase entries and clarified auth, sandbox, and systemd docs.

### Breaking

- **SECURITY (update ASAP):** inbound DMs are now **locked down by default** on Telegram/WhatsApp/Signal/iMessage/Discord/Slack.
  - Previously, if you didn't configure an allowlist, your bot could be **open to anyone** (especially discoverable Telegram bots).
  - New default: DM pairing (`dmPolicy="pairing"` / `discord.dm.policy="pairing"` / `slack.dm.policy="pairing"`).
  - To keep old "open to everyone" behavior: set `dmPolicy="open"` and include `"*"` in the relevant `allowFrom` (Discord/Slack: `discord.dm.allowFrom` / `slack.dm.allowFrom`).
  - Approve requests via `openclaw pairing list <provider>` + `openclaw pairing approve <provider> <code>`.
- Sandbox: default `agent.sandbox.scope` to `"agent"` (one container/workspace per agent). Use `"session"` for per-session isolation; `"shared"` disables cross-session isolation.
- Timestamps in agent envelopes are now UTC (compact `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mmZ`); removed `messages.timestampPrefix`. Add `agent.userTimezone` to tell the model the user's local time (system prompt only) (#57018). Thanks @hydro13.
- Model config schema changes (auth profiles + model lists); doctor auto-migrates and the gateway rewrites legacy configs on startup.
- Commands: gate all slash commands to authorized senders; add `/compact` to manually compact session context.
- Groups: `whatsapp.groups`, `telegram.groups`, and `imessage.groups` now act as allowlists when set. Add `"*"` to keep allow-all behavior.
- Auto-reply: removed `autoReply` from Discord/Slack/Telegram channel configs; use `requireMention` instead (Telegram topics now support `requireMention` overrides).
- CLI: remove `update`, `gateway-daemon`, `gateway {install|uninstall|start|stop|restart|daemon status|wake|send|agent}`, and `telegram` commands; move `login/logout` to `providers login/logout` (top-level aliases hidden); use `daemon` for service control, `send`/`agent`/`wake` for RPC, and `nodes canvas` for canvas ops.

### Maintenance

- Skills additions (Himalaya email, CodexBar, 1Password).
- Dependency refreshes (pi-\* stack, Slack SDK, discord-api-types, file-type, zod, Biome, Vite). Thanks @cpojer.

## 2026.1.5

### Highlights

- Models: add image-specific model config (`agent.imageModel` + fallbacks) and scan support.
- Agent tools: new `image` tool routed to the image model (when configured).
- Config: default model shorthands (`opus`, `sonnet`, `gpt`, `gpt-mini`, `gemini`, `gemini-flash`).
- Docs: document built-in model shorthands + precedence (user config wins).
- Bun: optional local install/build workflow without maintaining a Bun lockfile (see `docs/bun.md`).

### Fixes

- Control UI: render Markdown in tool result cards.
- Control UI: prevent overlapping action buttons in Discord guild rules on narrow layouts.
- Android: tapping the foreground service notification brings the app to the front. (#179) - thanks @Syhids
- Cron tool uses `id` for update/remove/run/runs (aligns with gateway params). (#180) - thanks @adamgall
- Control UI: chat view uses page scroll with sticky header/sidebar and fixed composer (no inner scroll frame).
- macOS: treat location permission as always-only to avoid iOS-only enums. (#165) - thanks @Nachx639
- macOS: make generated gateway protocol models `Sendable` for Swift 6 strict concurrency. (#195) - thanks @andranik-sahakyan
- macOS: bundle QR code renderer modules so DMG gateway boot doesn't crash on missing qrcode-terminal vendor files.
- macOS: parse JSON5 config safely to avoid wiping user settings when comments are present.
- WhatsApp: suppress typing indicator during heartbeat background tasks. (#190) - thanks @mcinteerj
- WhatsApp: mark offline history sync messages as read without auto-reply. (#193) - thanks @mcinteerj
- Discord: avoid duplicate replies when a provider emits late streaming `text_end` events (OpenAI/GPT).
- CLI: use tailnet IP for local gateway calls when bind is tailnet/auto (fixes #176).
- Env: load global `$OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR/.env` (`~/.openclaw/.env`) as a fallback after CWD `.env`.
- Env: optional login-shell env fallback (opt-in; imports expected keys without overriding existing env).
- Agent tools: OpenAI-compatible tool JSON Schemas (fix `browser`, normalize union schemas).
- Onboarding: when running from source, auto-build missing Control UI assets (`bun run ui:build`).
- Discord/Slack: route reaction + system notifications to the correct session (no main-session bleed).
- Agent tools: honor `agent.tools` allow/deny policy even when sandbox is off.
- Discord: avoid duplicate replies when OpenAI emits repeated `message_end` events.
- Commands: unify /status (inline) and command auth across providers; group bypass for authorized control commands; remove Discord /clawd slash handler.
- CLI: run `openclaw agent` via the Gateway by default; use `--local` to force embedded mode. Thanks @vignesh07.