OpenClaw Newsletter - 2026-05-01
OpenClaw Newsletter
Friday, May 1, 2026Top Stories
- openclaw 2026.4.29 — 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...
- openclaw 2026.4.29-beta.4 — 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...
- openclaw 2026.4.29-beta.3 — 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...
- OpenClaw 2026.4.29-beta.2 — 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...
- OpenClaw 2026.4.29-beta.1 — 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...
- openclaw 2026.4.27 — 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. -...
- fix(gateway): make `gateway start` idempotent when already running — Fixes #60087. Summary If you have openclaw gateway start in your ~/.profile (the setup hint adds it), every exec tool call ends up SIGTERM'ing the running gateway and dropping your WebSocket session....
- fix(openai/tts): handle [[tts:speed]] directive in OpenAI speech provider (#12163) — Summary - Problem: [[tts:speed=N]] model directives don't reach the OpenAI speech API. They work for ElevenLabs because that provider parses the speed directive key; the OpenAI provider's...
- docs(feishu): add mixed proxy troubleshooting — Summary - Adds Feishu/Lark troubleshooting guidance for mixed proxy environments. - Documents the case where model-provider traffic needs HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY, but Feishu/Lark official endpoints...
- fix(plugins): reuse active plugin registry for tool resolution on every run — Summary Fixes a performance regression where core-plugin-tools takes 20-32s on every embedded message run because the plugin registry is reloaded from scratch — including re-staging bundled runtime...
- fix(ollama): per-request URL routing for multi-provider setups — test
- feat(config): add plugins.installBundledRuntimeDeps opt-out knob — Summary - New optional config field plugins.installBundledRuntimeDeps?: boolean (default: true). - When omitted or true, behavior is unchanged. - When false, bundled runtime-dependency installation...
- fix(cli): guard device fallback state — Summary - stop openclaw devices local fallback when the active Gateway names a pending request that is absent from the local pairing store - keep the happy-path loopback fallback when the same...
- Signal: add REST API support for containerized deployments — > AI-assisted: Built with Claude (Copilot CLI). Fully tested. Human reviewed and verified. Summary - Problem: Signal channel only works with direct signal-cli (JSON-RPC + SSE). The official...
- feat(ui): replace textarea with CodeMirror 6 JSON editor in raw config view — Summary Replace the plain for raw config editing with a proper CodeMirror 6 JSON5 editor component. Changes New file: ui/src/ui/views/config-editor.ts - CodeMirror 6 editor with JSON5 language mode...
- [plugin sdk] Consolidate workflow seams and fixtures — Summary This PR consolidates the implementation/test follow-up work that was stacked behind the now-merged generic host-hook foundation in #72287. Docs split update: the large host-hook recipe...
- fix(config): skip writeConfigFile disk I/O when config is semantically unchanged — Summary When config.patch is called with a payload that results in no substantive change (only meta.lastTouchedAt / meta.lastTouchedVersion differ), the writeConfigFile function now returns early...
- [Bug]: Super slow message responding on Feishu/Lark in v4.29 — Bug type Regression (worked before, now fails) Beta release blocker No Summary After updating to 4.29, the message responding are super slow. I have reinstalled Ubuntu and Fedora linux systems, tried...
- fix(slack): preserve media roots for custom invokes — Summary - Problem: Slack upload-file actions could lose agent-scoped media access when routed through Slack's custom invoke callback. - Why it matters: trusted files inside the agent workspace could...
- fix(plugins): prefer newer bundled plugins during update — Summary - Problem: openclaw update can keep an older same-id ClawHub plugin install ahead of a newer bundled plugin. - Why it matters: the stale ClawHub WhatsApp package can replace the packaged...
- fix(gateway): keep launchd managed env values — Summary - Problem: macOS gateway service installs could write OPENCLAW_SERVICE_MANAGED_ENV_KEYS without the corresponding managed export KEY='value' lines in the LaunchAgent env file. - Why it...
- [Security] Ship a dedicated/bundled Node binary so macOS TCC permissions (FDA, Accessibility) are scoped to OpenClaw only — Problem When users grant Full Disk Access (or Accessibility) to OpenClaw on macOS, they must grant it to the shared node binary (e.g. /usr/local/bin/node or an nvm-managed path). macOS TCC has no...
- fix(slack): make `channels capabilities` work with modern bot tokens — Fixes #44625. Summary Running openclaw channels capabilities against a modern Slack bot token (xoxb-* from the app-manifest flow) prints: > Bot scopes: auth.scopes: An API error occurred:...
- [Bug] TypeError at prompt assembly stage when lossless-claw is enabled (reading 'length' on undefined) — Bug Report: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length') at prompt assembly stage To file: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/new Description When...
- fix(session_status): respect runtime and session model overrides — Summary - Problem: Session status showed incorrect model/provider when runtime or session overrides were active - Why it matters: Users see misleading model info, especially during live model...
- fix(agents): strip trailing empty assistant turns before fallback — Summary - Problem: Fallback/replay can inherit a trailing empty assistant turn. - Why it matters: Some providers reject or mishandle empty trailing assistant messages, so retry/fallback should...
- fix(agents): exclude tool result details from guard budget — Summary - Problem: Tool-result details were counted toward context guard budget even though details are not sent to the model in that path. - Why it matters: Large tool details can cause premature...
- fix(memory): incremental session sync (#40919) — Summary Describe the problem and fix in 2–5 bullets: If this PR fixes a plugin beta-release blocker, title it fix(): beta blocker - and link the matching Beta blocker: - issue labeled beta-blocker....
- fix(bluebubbles): dedupe updated-message follow-ups by base guid — Summary - Problem: BlueBubbles updated-message follow-ups could dedupe against the transient updated id instead of the committed base GUID. - Why it matters: Attachment/indexing updates can then...
- fix(cron): mirror BlueBubbles deliveries to target transcripts — Summary - Problem: BlueBubbles deliveries from isolated cron runs were not mirrored into the target session transcript with the target DM/group shape. - Why it matters: Cron-triggered BlueBubbles...
- fix(bluebubbles): preserve fromMe group messages without sender handles — Summary - Problem: BlueBubbles group messages authored by the local account can arrive without a sender handle and be dropped during webhook normalization. - Why it matters: Outbound/self-authored...
- fix(infra/net): keep metadata hosts blocked when private network is allowed — Summary - Problem: Private-network allowance also skipped checks for local and metadata-style hostnames. - Why it matters: Allowing LAN/self-hosted endpoints should not also allow cloud metadata...
- fix(agents): respect caller-supplied model in live session switch check — Summary - Problem: Live session switch checks could ignore the caller-supplied model and fall back to ambient/default model state. - Why it matters: A caller that explicitly selected a model should...
- Test tokenjuice tool result middleware adapter — Summary - add tokenjuice adapter regression coverage for no-op middleware results - cover chained tokenjuice handlers receiving the latest content/details - cover cwd resolution from event cwd,...
- Gateway 7-second event-loop stalls on 2026.4.27 — createOpenClawTools synchronously rebuilds plugin registry + provider-auth env-var resolution per tool-creation pass — Summary After upgrading from 2026.4.15 → 2026.4.27, the gateway exhibits ~7-second synchronous event-loop stalls during normal agent activity, blocking Telegram polling and forcing watchdog-triggered...
- Telegram/QQBot plugins fail to connect on servers without global IPv6 (undici IPv6-first issue) — Description After upgrading to OpenClaw v2026.4.29, both Telegram and QQBot plugins fail to connect on cloud servers that lack global IPv6 reachability. The underlying issue is that undici (the HTTP...
- OpenClaw repo stats for 2026-05-01 — 366919 stars, 75392 forks, 2043 contributors
- OpenClaw sponsors (123 total) — 123 sponsors supporting OpenClaw
- Revert "feat: add health probes" — This reverts commit bb945c740ea5d2fc088f8e1c1defb930657157af.
- Revert "fix: keep probe helper types private" — This reverts commit 7f15dcc2251c0e766e0befcd3d7882611bb42e1b.
- fix: keep probe helper types private
- feat: add health probes
- fix(security): add skill redaction hide mutation
- fix(search): index skill first-token recall
- fix(ci): treat cli schema as deadcode entry
- fix(search): add normalized skill prefix recall
- fix(security): fully strip hidden html comments
- fix(security): neutralize llm eval prompt injection
- fix(security): fail closed when vt is unavailable
- fix(ci): skip frontend smoke on backend deploys
- feat: label "suspicious" as "review" for scans
- feat: export redacted skill content for security dataset
- openclaw v2026.4.29 on npm — Multi-channel AI gateway with extensible messaging integrations
- openclaw-cli 2026.4.27 on Homebrew — Your own personal AI assistant
- peterjohannmedina/Medina-Qwen3.5-27B-OpenClaw
- OpenClaw on DigitalOcean — Deploy your own personal AI assistant with OpenClaw on a DigitalOcean Droplet® server, a powerful open-source platform that runs entirely on your infrastructure. OpenClaw connects to the messaging...
- Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
- A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
- OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
- My first post! — This is an ai agent doing the work don't mind me 😫
- One Command Equips Your OpenClaw with an X-ray Machine - Alibaba Cloud Observability Makes Farming Lobsters Cheaper and Safer — One-command observability integration makes OpenClaw AI agent operations transparent via Alibaba...
- Securely Deploying OpenClaw on a VPS With Enterprise Grade Access Control — Most guides for self-hosting an OpenClaw skip the part that actually matters: how to think about what...
- What 221 AI Agents in One Chat Taught Us About Multi-Agent Coordination — We put 221 AI agents in a single group chat. Most of what we learned was the failure modes that show up at scale and the design choices that decide whether multi-agent is useful or expensive noise.
- I Let an AI Agent Auto-Trade Crypto for 2 Weeks. OpenClaw Is Brilliant — and Terrifying. — If you’ve been anywhere near tech Twitter this month, you’ve seen it.Continue reading on Medium »
- How Hermes Agent Became My Always-On AI Assistant (And Why It’s Not Just a Coding Tool) — I have tried most of the AI agent tools out there.Continue reading on Medium »
- 2026 TED Talk: The “Lobster-Raising” Craze — From Burnt-out Founder to the Father of OpenClaw… — While wandering through YouTube as usual, I stumbled upon a TED Talk by Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, titled: “How I Created…Continue reading on Medium »
- 2026 TED 演講：掀起「養龍蝦」旋風 — 從燃盡的創業者到 OpenClaw 之父，Peter Steinberger 的龍蝦轉身 — 最近一如既往在 YouTube 上遊蕩時，無意間點進了 OpenClaw 創辦人 Peter...
- IDO Claw — A New Way to Run AI Independently — As AI applications become more powerful, most systems still rely heavily on cloud platforms or general-purpose computers. But both…Continue reading on Medium »
- When Your Newest Employee Doesn’t Sleep — Hiring Alex: The Org Chart When Your Newest Employee Is an AIContinue reading on Spillwave Solutions »
- Preska Thomas, the Inventor of the DebitMyData Agentic System and Agentic Social Spaces, Invented… — Right now, Silicon Valley and the global tech ecosystem are captivated by the explosion of autonomous AI agents.Continue reading on Medium »
- How I Connected Solana Trading to OpenClaw (10-Minute Setup) — Buy, sell, and read on-chain data in plain English. No dashboards. No DEX UIs. One npx command.Continue reading on Coinmonks »
- I Set Up OpenClaw So You Don’t Have To Start From Scratch — Architecture, the agent loop, dos and don’ts — everything a beginner needs in one place.Continue reading on Medium »
- #18 A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying an OpenClaw Agent Locally with LINE — Experience the personal agentic AI movementContinue reading on AI Commerce »
- NanoClaw — Lightweight AI assistant runs in Apple containers with isolated Linux container processes for superior OS-level security, transparency, and privacy compared to complex chatbots, enabling quick code...
- Maybe it's time to say goodbye to OpenClaw 👋 https://t.co/abBgcVjt6N
- my openclaw scan on $Octopus just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/gwLlwUjpCE
- Hace unos meses prnsé en contratar un administrativo/a para llevarme todo el papeleo, que me comía muchísimo tiempo. Es
- my openclaw scan on $STEWARD just confirmed what i was thinking ┃🧫┃ $STEWARD ┃💰┃ MC : $34.4K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $388.3K
- just checked $MOODANG —openclaw showing strong upside signals ┃🧫┃ $MOODANG ┃💰┃ MC : $502.8K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $6.2M ┃
- $Octopus is looking good on openclaw right now ngl Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/WmwwL0mUUo
- openclaw on $charity —signals all pointing up ┃🧫┃ $charity ┃💰┃ MC : $186.1K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $2.6M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +
- $MOODANG is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $MOODANG ┃💰┃ MC : $502.8K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $4.7M ┃📈┃ POTENTIA
- $Wish is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $Wish ┃💰┃ MC : $1.7M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $17.0M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +91
- openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $Scribbli ┃🧫┃ $Scribbli ┃💰┃ MC : $401.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC :
- 🔑 本轮核心主题 AI圈本周最大信号是Claude Code对OpenClaw的明确抵制——这不是技术问题，是AI生态里"平台依赖"的第一次大规模暴露。开发者正在被推向选择：你的工具链忠诚度值多少钱？ — 🔑 本轮核心主题 AI圈本周最大信号是Claude Code对OpenClaw的明确抵制——这不是技术问题，是AI生态里"平台依赖"的第一次大规模暴露。开发者正在被推向选择：你的工具链忠诚度值多少钱？
- $ROMEO signals are clean on openclaw. this one's on my radar 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $ROMEO ┃💰┃ MC : $7.1K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $76.9K ┃📈┃
- 🤖最近24小时 AI 领域最新热点播报 详情请见👇 🏆 TOP 1 | Claude Code对"OpenClaw"提交额外收费或拒绝服务 Anthropic Claude Code被曝：如果你的commit信息包含"OpenClaw — 🤖最近24小时 AI 领域最新热点播报 详情请见👇 🏆 TOP 1 | Claude Code对"OpenClaw"提交额外收费或拒绝服务 Anthropic Claude Code被曝：如果你的commit信息包含"OpenClaw"，会触发额外收费或直接拒绝请求。这是一个供应商锁定的明确信号——不是bug，是产品策略。 🏆 TOP 2 | PyTorch...
- my openclaw scan on $chudhouse just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/gbGnb2lj1
- $MOODANG looking like a clean entry according to openclaw Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/QmUstj0Q9b
- openclaw flagged $CHONKERS early. price is moving exactly as predicted Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/5DCC
- openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $MSPAINTIFY ┃🧫┃ $MSPAINTIFY ┃💰┃ MC : $112.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET
- openclaw on $Life —signals all pointing up ┃🧫┃ $Life ┃💰┃ MC : $218.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $2.2M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +914%
- openclaw called $MSGA bullish. i'm listening Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/AEwZKPqhyq
- Its been a while, but I connected my personal OpenClaw agent to create the first "Infinite Pump Glitch", thats actually
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- Maybe it's time to say goodbye to OpenClaw 👋 https://t.co/abBgcVjt6N
- my openclaw scan on $Octopus just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/gwLlwUjpCE
- Hace unos meses prnsé en contratar un administrativo/a para llevarme todo el papeleo, que me comía muchísimo tiempo. Es
- my openclaw scan on $STEWARD just confirmed what i was thinking ┃🧫┃ $STEWARD ┃💰┃ MC : $34.4K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $388.3K
- just checked $MOODANG —openclaw showing strong upside signals ┃🧫┃ $MOODANG ┃💰┃ MC : $502.8K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $6.2M ┃
- $Octopus is looking good on openclaw right now ngl Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/WmwwL0mUUo
- openclaw on $charity —signals all pointing up ┃🧫┃ $charity ┃💰┃ MC : $186.1K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $2.6M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +
- $MOODANG is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $MOODANG ┃💰┃ MC : $502.8K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $4.7M ┃📈┃ POTENTIA
- $Wish is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $Wish ┃💰┃ MC : $1.7M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $17.0M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +91
- openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $Scribbli ┃🧫┃ $Scribbli ┃💰┃ MC : $401.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC :
- 🔑 本轮核心主题 AI圈本周最大信号是Claude Code对OpenClaw的明确抵制——这不是技术问题，是AI生态里"平台依赖"的第一次大规模暴露。开发者正在被推向选择：你的工具链忠诚度值多少钱？ — 🔑 本轮核心主题 AI圈本周最大信号是Claude Code对OpenClaw的明确抵制——这不是技术问题，是AI生态里"平台依赖"的第一次大规模暴露。开发者正在被推向选择：你的工具链忠诚度值多少钱？
- $ROMEO signals are clean on openclaw. this one's on my radar 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $ROMEO ┃💰┃ MC : $7.1K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $76.9K ┃📈┃
- 🤖最近24小时 AI 领域最新热点播报 详情请见👇 🏆 TOP 1 | Claude Code对"OpenClaw"提交额外收费或拒绝服务 Anthropic Claude Code被曝：如果你的commit信息包含"OpenClaw — 🤖最近24小时 AI 领域最新热点播报 详情请见👇 🏆 TOP 1 | Claude Code对"OpenClaw"提交额外收费或拒绝服务 Anthropic Claude Code被曝：如果你的commit信息包含"OpenClaw"，会触发额外收费或直接拒绝请求。这是一个供应商锁定的明确信号——不是bug，是产品策略。 🏆 TOP 2 | PyTorch...
- my openclaw scan on $chudhouse just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/gbGnb2lj1
- $MOODANG looking like a clean entry according to openclaw Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/QmUstj0Q9b
- openclaw flagged $CHONKERS early. price is moving exactly as predicted Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/5DCC
- openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $MSPAINTIFY ┃🧫┃ $MSPAINTIFY ┃💰┃ MC : $112.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET
- openclaw on $Life —signals all pointing up ┃🧫┃ $Life ┃💰┃ MC : $218.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $2.2M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +914%
- openclaw called $MSGA bullish. i'm listening Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/AEwZKPqhyq
- Its been a while, but I connected my personal OpenClaw agent to create the first "Infinite Pump Glitch", thats actually
Releases
- openclaw 2026.4.29 — 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...
- openclaw 2026.4.29-beta.4 — 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...
- openclaw 2026.4.29-beta.3 — 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...
- OpenClaw 2026.4.29-beta.2 — 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...
- OpenClaw 2026.4.29-beta.1 — 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...
- openclaw 2026.4.27 — 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. -...
- OpenClaw repo stats for 2026-05-01 — 366919 stars, 75392 forks, 2043 contributors
- openclaw v2026.4.29 on npm — Multi-channel AI gateway with extensible messaging integrations
- openclaw-cli 2026.4.27 on Homebrew — Your own personal AI assistant
Community
- fix(gateway): make `gateway start` idempotent when already running — Fixes #60087. Summary If you have openclaw gateway start in your ~/.profile (the setup hint adds it), every exec tool call ends up SIGTERM'ing the running gateway and dropping your WebSocket session....
- fix(openai/tts): handle [[tts:speed]] directive in OpenAI speech provider (#12163) — Summary - Problem: [[tts:speed=N]] model directives don't reach the OpenAI speech API. They work for ElevenLabs because that provider parses the speed directive key; the OpenAI provider's...
- docs(feishu): add mixed proxy troubleshooting — Summary - Adds Feishu/Lark troubleshooting guidance for mixed proxy environments. - Documents the case where model-provider traffic needs HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY, but Feishu/Lark official endpoints...
- fix(plugins): reuse active plugin registry for tool resolution on every run — Summary Fixes a performance regression where core-plugin-tools takes 20-32s on every embedded message run because the plugin registry is reloaded from scratch — including re-staging bundled runtime...
- fix(ollama): per-request URL routing for multi-provider setups — test
- feat(config): add plugins.installBundledRuntimeDeps opt-out knob — Summary - New optional config field plugins.installBundledRuntimeDeps?: boolean (default: true). - When omitted or true, behavior is unchanged. - When false, bundled runtime-dependency installation...
- fix(cli): guard device fallback state — Summary - stop openclaw devices local fallback when the active Gateway names a pending request that is absent from the local pairing store - keep the happy-path loopback fallback when the same...
- Signal: add REST API support for containerized deployments — > AI-assisted: Built with Claude (Copilot CLI). Fully tested. Human reviewed and verified. Summary - Problem: Signal channel only works with direct signal-cli (JSON-RPC + SSE). The official...
- feat(ui): replace textarea with CodeMirror 6 JSON editor in raw config view — Summary Replace the plain for raw config editing with a proper CodeMirror 6 JSON5 editor component. Changes New file: ui/src/ui/views/config-editor.ts - CodeMirror 6 editor with JSON5 language mode...
- [plugin sdk] Consolidate workflow seams and fixtures — Summary This PR consolidates the implementation/test follow-up work that was stacked behind the now-merged generic host-hook foundation in #72287. Docs split update: the large host-hook recipe...
- fix(config): skip writeConfigFile disk I/O when config is semantically unchanged — Summary When config.patch is called with a payload that results in no substantive change (only meta.lastTouchedAt / meta.lastTouchedVersion differ), the writeConfigFile function now returns early...
- [Bug]: Super slow message responding on Feishu/Lark in v4.29 — Bug type Regression (worked before, now fails) Beta release blocker No Summary After updating to 4.29, the message responding are super slow. I have reinstalled Ubuntu and Fedora linux systems, tried...
- fix(slack): preserve media roots for custom invokes — Summary - Problem: Slack upload-file actions could lose agent-scoped media access when routed through Slack's custom invoke callback. - Why it matters: trusted files inside the agent workspace could...
- fix(plugins): prefer newer bundled plugins during update — Summary - Problem: openclaw update can keep an older same-id ClawHub plugin install ahead of a newer bundled plugin. - Why it matters: the stale ClawHub WhatsApp package can replace the packaged...
- fix(gateway): keep launchd managed env values — Summary - Problem: macOS gateway service installs could write OPENCLAW_SERVICE_MANAGED_ENV_KEYS without the corresponding managed export KEY='value' lines in the LaunchAgent env file. - Why it...
- [Security] Ship a dedicated/bundled Node binary so macOS TCC permissions (FDA, Accessibility) are scoped to OpenClaw only — Problem When users grant Full Disk Access (or Accessibility) to OpenClaw on macOS, they must grant it to the shared node binary (e.g. /usr/local/bin/node or an nvm-managed path). macOS TCC has no...
- fix(slack): make `channels capabilities` work with modern bot tokens — Fixes #44625. Summary Running openclaw channels capabilities against a modern Slack bot token (xoxb-* from the app-manifest flow) prints: > Bot scopes: auth.scopes: An API error occurred:...
- [Bug] TypeError at prompt assembly stage when lossless-claw is enabled (reading 'length' on undefined) — Bug Report: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length') at prompt assembly stage To file: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/new Description When...
- fix(session_status): respect runtime and session model overrides — Summary - Problem: Session status showed incorrect model/provider when runtime or session overrides were active - Why it matters: Users see misleading model info, especially during live model...
- fix(agents): strip trailing empty assistant turns before fallback — Summary - Problem: Fallback/replay can inherit a trailing empty assistant turn. - Why it matters: Some providers reject or mishandle empty trailing assistant messages, so retry/fallback should...
- fix(agents): exclude tool result details from guard budget — Summary - Problem: Tool-result details were counted toward context guard budget even though details are not sent to the model in that path. - Why it matters: Large tool details can cause premature...
- fix(memory): incremental session sync (#40919) — Summary Describe the problem and fix in 2–5 bullets: If this PR fixes a plugin beta-release blocker, title it fix(): beta blocker - and link the matching Beta blocker: - issue labeled beta-blocker....
- fix(bluebubbles): dedupe updated-message follow-ups by base guid — Summary - Problem: BlueBubbles updated-message follow-ups could dedupe against the transient updated id instead of the committed base GUID. - Why it matters: Attachment/indexing updates can then...
- fix(cron): mirror BlueBubbles deliveries to target transcripts — Summary - Problem: BlueBubbles deliveries from isolated cron runs were not mirrored into the target session transcript with the target DM/group shape. - Why it matters: Cron-triggered BlueBubbles...
- fix(bluebubbles): preserve fromMe group messages without sender handles — Summary - Problem: BlueBubbles group messages authored by the local account can arrive without a sender handle and be dropped during webhook normalization. - Why it matters: Outbound/self-authored...
- fix(infra/net): keep metadata hosts blocked when private network is allowed — Summary - Problem: Private-network allowance also skipped checks for local and metadata-style hostnames. - Why it matters: Allowing LAN/self-hosted endpoints should not also allow cloud metadata...
- fix(agents): respect caller-supplied model in live session switch check — Summary - Problem: Live session switch checks could ignore the caller-supplied model and fall back to ambient/default model state. - Why it matters: A caller that explicitly selected a model should...
- Test tokenjuice tool result middleware adapter — Summary - add tokenjuice adapter regression coverage for no-op middleware results - cover chained tokenjuice handlers receiving the latest content/details - cover cwd resolution from event cwd,...
- Gateway 7-second event-loop stalls on 2026.4.27 — createOpenClawTools synchronously rebuilds plugin registry + provider-auth env-var resolution per tool-creation pass — Summary After upgrading from 2026.4.15 → 2026.4.27, the gateway exhibits ~7-second synchronous event-loop stalls during normal agent activity, blocking Telegram polling and forcing watchdog-triggered...
- Telegram/QQBot plugins fail to connect on servers without global IPv6 (undici IPv6-first issue) — Description After upgrading to OpenClaw v2026.4.29, both Telegram and QQBot plugins fail to connect on cloud servers that lack global IPv6 reachability. The underlying issue is that undici (the HTTP...
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- Revert "feat: add health probes" — This reverts commit bb945c740ea5d2fc088f8e1c1defb930657157af.
- Revert "fix: keep probe helper types private" — This reverts commit 7f15dcc2251c0e766e0befcd3d7882611bb42e1b.
- fix: keep probe helper types private
- feat: add health probes
- fix(security): add skill redaction hide mutation
- fix(search): index skill first-token recall
- fix(ci): treat cli schema as deadcode entry
- fix(search): add normalized skill prefix recall
- fix(security): fully strip hidden html comments
- fix(security): neutralize llm eval prompt injection
- fix(security): fail closed when vt is unavailable
- fix(ci): skip frontend smoke on backend deploys
- feat: label "suspicious" as "review" for scans
- feat: export redacted skill content for security dataset
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