Openclaw Release Notes

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/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)
• 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.
• Providers/CLI: remove bundled CLI text-provider backends and the agents.defaults.cliBackends surface, while keeping ACP harness sessions and Gemini media understanding on the native bundled providers.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Fixes

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Synology Chat/security: route webhook token comparison through the shared constant-time secret helper for consistency with other bundled plugins.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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[].
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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) Thanks @steipete.
• 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.
• 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.

Original source Report a problem

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 flows 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.

Fixes

• 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/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.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.

Original source Report a problem

2026.4.1

Changes

• 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.
• Amazon Bedrock/Guardrails: add Bedrock Guardrails support to the bundled provider. (#58588) Thanks @MikeORed.
• macOS/Voice Wake: add the Voice Wake option to trigger Talk Mode. (#58490) Thanks @SmoothExec.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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
• Cron/tools allowlist: add openclaw cron --tools for per-job tool allowlists. (#58504) Thanks @andyk-ms.
• 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.
• WhatsApp/reactions: add reactionLevel guidance for agent reactions. Thanks @mcaxtr.
• 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
• ZAI/models: add glm-5.1 and glm-5v-turbo to the bundled Z.AI provider catalog. (#58793) Thanks @tomsun28
• 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

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.
• Gateway/reload: ignore startup config writes by persisted hash in the config reloader so generated auth tokens and seeded Control UI origins do not trigger a restart loop, while real gateway.auth.* edits still require restart. (#58678) Thanks @yelog
• Tasks/gateway: keep the task registry maintenance sweep from stalling the gateway event loop under synchronous SQLite pressure, so upgraded gateways stop hanging about a minute after startup. (#58670) Thanks @openperf
• Tasks/status: hide stale completed background tasks from /status and session_status, prefer live task context, and show recent failures only when no active work remains. (#58661) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Tasks/gateway: re-check the current task record before maintenance marks runs lost or prunes them, so a task heartbeat or cleanup update that lands during a sweep no longer gets overwritten by stale snapshot state.
• Exec/approvals: honor exec-approvals.json security defaults when inline or configured tool policy is unset, and keep Slack and Discord native approval handling aligned with inferred approvers and real channel enablement so remote exec stops falling into false approval timeouts and disabled states. Thanks @scoootscooob and @vincentkoc.
• Exec/approvals: make allow-always persist as durable user-approved trust instead of behaving like allow-once, reuse exact-command trust on shell-wrapper paths that cannot safely persist an executable allowlist entry, keep static allowlist entries from silently bypassing ask:"always", and require explicit approval when Windows cannot build an allowlist execution plan instead of hard-dead-ending remote exec. Thanks @scoootscoob and @vincentkoc.
• Exec/cron: resolve isolated cron no-route approval dead-ends from the effective host fallback policy when trusted automation is allowed, and make openclaw doctor warn when tools.exec is broader than ~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.json so stricter host-policy conflicts are explicit. Thanks @scoootscoob and @vincentkoc.
• 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.
• Gateway/HTTP: skip failing HTTP request stages so one broken facade no longer forces every HTTP endpoint to return 500. (#58746) Thanks @yelog
• Gateway/nodes: stop pinning live node commands to the approved node-pair record. Node pairing remains a trust/token flow, while per-node system.run policy stays in that node's exec approvals config. Fixes #58824.
• WebChat/exec approvals: use native approval UI guidance in agent system prompts instead of telling agents to paste manual /approve commands in webchat sessions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• 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
• Channels/QQ Bot: keep /bot-logs export gated behind a truly explicit QQBot allowlist, rejecting wildcard and mixed wildcard entries while preserving the real framework command path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Channels/plugins: keep bundled channel plugins loadable from legacy channels.<id> config even under restrictive plugin allowlists, and make openclaw doctor warn only on real plugin blockers instead of misleading setup guidance. (#58873) Thanks @obviyus
• Plugins/bundled runtimes: restore externalized bundled plugin runtime dependency staging across packed installs, Docker builds, and local runtime staging so bundled plugins keep their declared runtime deps after the 2026.3.31 externalization change. (#58782)
• LINE/runtime: resolve the packaged runtime contract from the built dist/plugins/runtime layout so LINE channels start correctly again after global npm installs on 2026.3.31. (#58799) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• MiniMax/plugins: auto-enable the bundled MiniMax plugin for API-key auth/config so MiniMax image generation and other plugin-owned capabilities load without manual plugin allowlisting. (#57127) Thanks @tars90percent.
• Ollama/model picker: show only Ollama models after provider selection in the CLI picker. (#55290) Thanks @Luckymingxuan.
• CDP/profiles: prefer cdpPort over stale WebSocket URLs so browser automation reconnects cleanly. (#58499) Thanks @Mlightsnow.
• Media/paths: resolve relative MEDIA paths against the agent workspace so local attachment references keep working. (#58624) Thanks @aquaright1.
• Memory/session indexing: keep full reindexes from skipping session transcripts when sync is triggered by session-start or watch, so restart-driven reindexes preserve session memory. (#39732) Thanks @upupc
• Memory/QMD: prefer --mask over --glob when creating QMD collections so default memory collections keep their intended patterns and stop colliding on restart. (#58643) Thanks @GitZhangChi.
• Subagents/tasks: keep subagent completion and cleanup from crashing when task-registry writes fail, so a corrupt or missing task row no longer takes down the gateway during lifecycle finalization. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Sandbox/browser: compare browser runtime inspection against agents.defaults.sandbox.browser.image so openclaw sandbox list --browser stops reporting healthy browser containers as image mismatches. (#58759) Thanks @sandpile.
• Plugins/install: forward --dangerously-force-unsafe-install through archive and npm-spec plugin installs so the documented override reaches the security scanner on those install paths. (#58879) Thanks @ryanlee-gemini.
• Auto-reply/commands: strip inbound metadata before slash command detection so wrapped /model, /new, and /status commands are recognized. (#58725) Thanks @Mlightsnow.
• Agents/Anthropic: preserve thinking blocks and signatures across replay, cache-control patching, and context pruning so compacted Anthropic sessions continue working instead of failing on later turns. (#58916) Thanks @obviyus
• 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.
• 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)
• 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
• 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.

Original source Report a problem

Changes

• 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.
• Amazon Bedrock/Guardrails: add Bedrock Guardrails support to the bundled provider. (#58588) Thanks @MikeORed.
• macOS/Voice Wake: add the Voice Wake option to trigger Talk Mode. (#58490) Thanks @SmoothExec.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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
• Cron/tools allowlist: add openclaw cron --tools for per-job tool allowlists. (#58504) Thanks @andyk-ms.
• 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.
• WhatsApp/reactions: add reactionLevel guidance for agent reactions. Thanks @mcaxtr.
• 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
• ZAI/models: add glm-5.1 and glm-5v-turbo to the bundled Z.AI provider catalog. (#58793) Thanks @tomsun28
• 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

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.
• Gateway/reload: ignore startup config writes by persisted hash in the config reloader so generated auth tokens and seeded Control UI origins do not trigger a restart loop, while real gateway.auth.* edits still require restart. (#58678) Thanks @yelog
• Tasks/gateway: keep the task registry maintenance sweep from stalling the gateway event loop under synchronous SQLite pressure, so upgraded gateways stop hanging about a minute after startup. (#58670) Thanks @openperf
• Tasks/status: hide stale completed background tasks from /status and session_status, prefer live task context, and show recent failures only when no active work remains. (#58661) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Tasks/gateway: re-check the current task record before maintenance marks runs lost or prunes them, so a task heartbeat or cleanup update that lands during a sweep no longer gets overwritten by stale snapshot state.
• Exec/approvals: honor exec-approvals.json security defaults when inline or configured tool policy is unset, and keep Slack and Discord native approval handling aligned with inferred approvers and real channel enablement so remote exec stops falling into false approval timeouts and disabled states. Thanks @scoootscooob and @vincentkoc.
• Exec/approvals: make allow-always persist as durable user-approved trust instead of behaving like allow-once, reuse exact-command trust on shell-wrapper paths that cannot safely persist an executable allowlist entry, keep static allowlist entries from silently bypassing ask:"always", and require explicit approval when Windows cannot build an allowlist execution plan instead of hard-dead-ending remote exec. Thanks @scoootscooob and @vincentkoc.
• Exec/cron: resolve isolated cron no-route approval dead-ends from the effective host fallback policy when trusted automation is allowed, and make openclaw doctor warn when tools.exec is broader than ~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.json so stricter host-policy conflicts are explicit. Thanks @scoootscooob and @vincentkoc.
• 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.
• Gateway/HTTP: skip failing HTTP request stages so one broken facade no longer forces every HTTP endpoint to return 500. (#58746) Thanks @yelog
• Gateway/nodes: stop pinning live node commands to the approved node-pair record. Node pairing remains a trust/token flow, while per-node system.run policy stays in that node's exec approvals config. Fixes #58824.
• WebChat/exec approvals: use native approval UI guidance in agent system prompts instead of telling agents to paste manual /approve commands in webchat sessions. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• 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
• Channels/QQ Bot: keep /bot-logs export gated behind a truly explicit QQBot allowlist, rejecting wildcard and mixed wildcard entries while preserving the real framework command path. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Channels/plugins: keep bundled channel plugins loadable from legacy channels.<id> config even under restrictive plugin allowlists, and make openclaw doctor warn only on real plugin blockers instead of misleading setup guidance. (#58873) Thanks @obviyus
• Plugins/bundled runtimes: restore externalized bundled plugin runtime dependency staging across packed installs, Docker builds, and local runtime staging so bundled plugins keep their declared runtime deps after the 2026.3.31 externalization change. (#58782)
• LINE/runtime: resolve the packaged runtime contract from the built dist/plugins/runtime layout so LINE channels start correctly again after global npm installs on 2026.3.31. (#58799) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• MiniMax/plugins: auto-enable the bundled MiniMax plugin for API-key auth/config so MiniMax image generation and other plugin-owned capabilities load without manual plugin allowlisting. (#57127) Thanks @tars90percent.
• Ollama/model picker: show only Ollama models after provider selection in the CLI picker. (#55290) Thanks @Luckymingxuan.
• CDP/profiles: prefer cdpPort over stale WebSocket URLs so browser automation reconnects cleanly. (#58499) Thanks @Mlightsnow.
• Media/paths: resolve relative MEDIA paths against the agent workspace so local attachment references keep working. (#58624) Thanks @aquaright1.
• Memory/session indexing: keep full reindexes from skipping session transcripts when sync is triggered by session-start or watch, so restart-driven reindexes preserve session memory. (#39732) Thanks @upupc
• Memory/QMD: prefer --mask over --glob when creating QMD collections so default memory collections keep their intended patterns and stop colliding on restart. (#58643) Thanks @GitZhangChi.
• Subagents/tasks: keep subagent completion and cleanup from crashing when task-registry writes fail, so a corrupt or missing task row no longer takes down the gateway during lifecycle finalization. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Sandbox/browser: compare browser runtime inspection against agents.defaults.sandbox.browser.image so openclaw sandbox list --browser stops reporting healthy browser containers as image mismatches. (#58759) Thanks @sandpile.
• Plugins/install: forward --dangerously-force-unsafe-install through archive and npm-spec plugin installs so the documented override reaches the security scanner on those install paths. (#58879) Thanks @ryanlee-gemini.
• Auto-reply/commands: strip inbound metadata before slash command detection so wrapped /model, /new, and /status commands are recognized. (#58725) Thanks @Mlightsnow.
• Agents/Anthropic: preserve thinking blocks and signatures across replay, cache-control patching, and context pruning so compacted Anthropic sessions continue working instead of failing on later turns. (#58916) Thanks @obviyus
• 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.
• 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)
• 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

Original source Report a problem

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.
• 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 flows 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/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.
• 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/Telegram: migrate removed channels.telegram.groupMentionsOnly into channels.telegram.groups["*"].requireMention on load so legacy configs no longer crash at startup. (#55336) thanks @jameslcowan.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Original source Report a problem

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.

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 flows 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

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/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.

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 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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Tlon/settings migration: preserve explicit empty-array settings during migration so restart-time reseeding no longer restores older file-config values. (#58370)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Voice call/Telnyx: canonicalize verified webhook signatures before deriving replay keys so equivalent Base64 and Base64URL encodings dedupe correctly. (#57829)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Infra/randomness: replace Math.random() in affected identifier and delay-jitter paths with shared secure-random helpers, including UI UUID generation. (#57744)

Original source Report a problem

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.

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.

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.

Fixes

Agents/Anthropic: recover unhandled provider stop reasons (e.g. sensitive) as structured assistant errors instead of crashing the agent run. (#56639)

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)

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)

Telegram/delivery: skip whitespace-only and hook-blanked text replies in bot delivery to prevent GrammyError 400 empty-text crashes. (#56620)

Telegram/send: validate replyToMessageId at all four API sinks with a shared normalizer that rejects non-numeric, NaN, and mixed-content strings. (#56587)

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)

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 (e.g. ~/.openclaw/extensions/) 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: 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 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 extensions/* 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)

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)

Original source Report a problem

2026.3.28-beta.1

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fixes

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)

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)

Telegram/delivery: skip whitespace-only and hook-blanked text replies in bot delivery to prevent GrammyError 400 empty-text crashes. (#56620)

Telegram/send: validate replyToMessageId at all four API sinks with a shared normalizer that rejects non-numeric, NaN, and mixed-content strings. (#56587)

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)

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)

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 (e.g. ~/.openclaw/extensions/) 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: 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 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 extensions/* 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)

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.

Original source Report a problem

Breaking 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 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.

Original source Report a problem

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.

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.

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

Original source Report a problem