OpenClaw Release Notes

2026.10.1

Highlights

• Sessions and memory: preserved usage across registry changes, delivered worker attachments from remote workspaces, prevented queued cancellations and transcript aliases from stalling active turns, kept continuation signatures aligned, and migrated embedding caches in bounded batches with oversized-row reporting. (#164217, #164219, #163708, #164230, #164251, #164289, #164287, #164303) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Replies and media: restored inline playback for local videos, replaced rejected media links with useful errors, kept Telegram progress updates free of preview cards, and fixed speech-only replies when reasoning is enabled. (#164137, #163727, #164285, #164256) Thanks @ivan-magda, @obviyus, and @Twilight-Networks.
• Updates and Doctor: improved serving-verdict recovery guidance, kept repairs working with read-only managed config, removed repeated config, backup, metadata, and pnpm-root probes, reported successful cleanup as progress without corrupting JSON output, and treated a still-starting Gateway as a warning. (#164193, #161924, #164235, #162259, #164182, #164186, #164183, #164184, #163477, #164261, #162236, #164312) Thanks @DonnieFi, @JD8855122, @Patrick-Erichsen, and @waynegault. …

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OpenClaw v2026.9.8

58 commits · 43 pull requests · 21 contributors

Changes included in this release

The release notes and changelog contain the same content, presented in two formats:

• Release notes — formatted for people, with expandable sections.
• Changelog — plain Markdown for AI agents and tools.

Thanks

@609NFT @aniketkrs @aniruddhaadak80 @EndeavorPioneer @ericcaiwx-star @fuller-stack-dev @hailongguo0530-alt @jasdeepohri-max @miguelpt2026 @NickM83 @obviyus @Patrick-Erichsen @PennyVibe @RomneyDa @scotthuang @steipete @VACInc @vincentkoc @WG-Mojo @xilopaint @yashas-13 …

This is a gateway-only extended-stable release, which is our current equivalent to LTS. This release is OpenClaw from the end of August 2026, plus critical security updates, reliability and performance fixes, and features like new model support. The latest version of OpenClaw at the time of this release is 2026.9.7

2026.8.35

Highlights

• GPT-6.1 Sol support: add the current Sol model across OpenAI routing, discovery, reasoning, harness, and Reef guard-model boundaries. (#161400, #162955)
• Safer updates and recovery: preserve plugin settings, prevent duplicate Gateways, handle pnpm package updates without terminal failures, and retain plugin inventory through migration. (#160344, #160193, #161920, #161485) Thanks @EndeavorPioneer, @grtninja, @alkor2000, @xilopaint, and @aniruddhaadak80.
• Reliable agent completion: preserve complete delegated and CLI answers, release suspended child capacity, recover full cron output, and prevent failed requests from consuming steered questions. (#162843, #162368, #160520, #162439) Thanks @zyz619963502zyz, @holgergruenhagen, @armstrongsam25, @davidcittadini, @jayzhou2309, and @obviyus. …

This is a gateway-only extended-stable release, which is our current equivalent to LTS. This release is OpenClaw from the end of August 2026, plus critical security updates, reliability and performance fixes, and features like new model support. The latest version of OpenClaw at the time of this release is 2026.9.7

2026.8.34

Highlights

• Extended-stable correctness rollup: backport 113 audit-selected fix units across upgrades, Doctor, authentication, sessions, channels, plugins, sandboxing, filesystem safety, model runtimes, and release packaging.
• Complete rescan: re-evaluate the full 2026.8.33 discovery range, large mixed-purpose pull requests, and the 2026.7.35 lineage instead of advancing only from the previous backport cursor.
• Upgrade and recovery hardening: preserve credentials, agent state, plugin inventory, transcripts, schedules, service ownership, and runtime links through upgrades, restarts, and Doctor repair.
• Boundary fixes: tighten remote filesystem mutation, plugin and skill scanning, browser authentication, channel reply identity, private skill ingress, and scoped runtime ownership.

Changes

• Extended-stable release preparation: align OpenClaw, publishable plugins, native version metadata, generated channel catalogs, and npm package inventories to 2026.8.34.

Fixes

• Plugins: Recover orphan installs without weakening ownership. …

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OpenClaw v2026.9.7

518 direct commits · 2,818 pull requests · 334 contributors

Changes included in this release

The release notes and changelog contain the same content, presented in two formats:

• Release notes — formatted for people, with expandable sections.
• Changelog — plain Markdown for AI agents and tools.

Thanks

@609NFT @Aalmann @aatreya @abacha @abuegab1-spec @ada-KVR @AgentSolomon @aicyberg @ajmtrz @Alekstodo @aleps001 @alexph-dev @alibux @Alix-007 @altaywtf @amarsmission @AmesGit @anarchia-99 @andersonjeccel @aniruddhaadak80 @anyech @apple2345-pixel [@areslp](https://github.com/ares…

This is a gateway-only extended-stable release, which is our current equivalent to LTS. This release is OpenClaw from the end of August 2026, plus critical security updates, reliability and performance fixes, and features like new model support. The latest version of OpenClaw at the time of this release is 2026.9.6

2026.8.33

Highlights

• Current flagship models: add Meta Muse Spark 1.3, Anthropic Fable 5.1, OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, and OpenAI/fal GPT Image 2.5 support to the extended-stable line. (#135638, #136553, #137550, #143068, #143069)
• Complete GPT-5.6 family support: preserve Sol, Terra, and Luna catalog, routing, migration, image, vision, and thinking behavior, including Ultra reasoning across model-runtime boundaries and Bedrock tool-result images. (#135397, #149336)
• Extended-stable security rollup: reconcile all repository advisories that affect 2026.8.2, harden Prometheus metrics authorization and Discord asset/voice ownership, and clear the production Nodemailer advisory gate. (#136700, #137433, #140334, #140903)

Changes

• Extended-stable release preparation: normalize OpenClaw, all publishable plugins, and native version metadata to 2026.8.33 while retaining the release-line-compatible publication workflows from 2026.8.2.

Fixes

• Anthropic reasoning continuity: preserve Fable 5.1 reasoning through model switches and runtime events. (#136782) …

macOS app rebuilt 2026-09-24: the original 2026.9.6 macOS build crashed at launch (#156861) and was replaced at 09:52 UTC by a rebuilt, notarized 2026.9.6 build with the fix (#156881). Download the DMG below or update from 2026.9.5 in the app. If you installed the earlier 2026.9.6 build and it does not launch, install the DMG once. The npm package is unchanged.

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OpenClaw v2026.9.6

178 direct commits · 2,614 pull requests · 351 contributors

Changes included in this release

The release notes and changelog contain the same content, presented in two formats:

• Release notes — formatted for people, with expandable sections.
• Changelog — plain Markdown for AI agents and tools.

Thanks

@0-danielviktorovich-0 @1Vision365-PeterTijsma @609NFT @aatreya @abacha @AbuSido82 @agebreak0083 @agent-axos @AgentSolomon @ago1776 @Albertyn87 @alex-brave @alexey-pelykh…

This is a gateway-only extended-stable release, which is our current equivalent to LTS. This release is OpenClaw from the end of July 2026, plus critical security updates, reliability and performance fixes, and features like new model support. The latest version of OpenClaw at the time of this release is 2026.9.5

2026.7.35

Fixes

• Doctor plugin registry: preserve the complete bundled plugin inventory when Doctor creates or repairs registry state, so default Browser, Canvas, pairing, file-transfer, phone-control, Talk voice, and Bonjour plugins remain available after restart. State-migration discovery now also recovers from the partial registry written by 2026.7.34 while retaining external plugin install records. Backported from #136045. Thanks @wangmiao0668000666.

Complete contribution record

This extended-stable follow-up was selected from a complete 1,418-commit audit after the prior 2026.7.34 audit cursor. No other defect observed during clean install or the 2026.6.35 upgrade required a July-line backport.

Cumulative July extended-stable notes

OpenClaw 2026.7.33 and 2026.7.34 were unstable extended-stable builds and were intentionally not published as GitHub Releases. Because 2026.7.35 is the first GitHub Release for the July maintenance line, it includes their complete changelogs below.

2026.7.33

Highlights …

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OpenClaw v2026.9.5

64 direct commits · 4,179 pull requests · 503 contributors

Changes included in this release

The release notes and changelog contain the same content, presented in two formats:

• Release notes — formatted for people, with expandable sections.
• Changelog — plain Markdown for AI agents and tools.

Thanks

@0xalydev @0xghost42 @100yenadmin @1052 @373246784-design @609nft @849261680 @aaajiao @aadi-joshi @aanalog-crow @aaronqianaa @aaronwander @aatreya @abacha @abhishek17n @adamamzalag @adele-with-a-b @adembektas @agebreak0083 @akagifreeez @akarshghale @aleps001 [@alex…

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OpenClaw v2026.9.4

20 direct commits · 1,558 pull requests · 294 contributors

Changes included in this release

The release notes and changelog contain the same content, presented in two formats:

• Release notes — formatted for people, with expandable sections.
• Changelog — plain Markdown for AI agents and tools.

Thanks

@0xcyda @100yenadmin @1vision365-petertijsma @609nft @84dnnvbdvp-debug @aaajiao @aatreya @abacha @adinballew @aeoess @aevgeniou @ai-hpc @aimansour @akagifreeez @aleps001 @alexjpanagis @alexph-dev @alix-007 @aminekhettat @andrea-kingautomation @anguslogan01 [@aniruddhaadak80](https://gith…

2026.6.35

This is the final June 2026 Extended Stable (LTS) release.

Highlights

• Safer provider and channel boundaries: bundled providers and channel adapters now bound untrusted response bodies, reject oversized inputs before expensive work, and preserve safe recovery when transports fail. (#119942) Thanks @RomneyDa, @vincentkoc, @Pick-cat, @RileyJJY, @ZengWen-DT, @Monkey-wusky, @chengzhichao-xydt, @mushuiyu886, @masatohoshino, @moguangyu5-design, @sunlit-deng, @ZOOWH, @NianJiuZst, @Alix-007, @aniruddhaadak80, @eleqtrizit, @yetval, @rvdlaar, @litang9, @machine3at, @miorbnli, @sallyom, @obviyus, @hugenshen, @cursoragent, @cxbAsDev, @wangmiao0668000666, @lsr911, and @jalfaro2876.
• More reliable long-running delivery: agent, gateway, retry, and channel paths now handle cancellation, retries, partial sends, and process-stream failures without losing work or replaying unsafe operations. (#119942) Thanks @RomneyDa, @vincentkoc, @Pick-cat, @RileyJJY, @ZengWen-DT, @Monkey-wusky, @chengzhichao-xydt, @mushuiyu886, @masatohoshino, @moguangyu5-design, @sunlit-deng, @ZOOWH, @NianJiuZst, @Alix-007, @aniruddhaadak80, @eleqtrizit, @yetval, @rvdlaar, @litang9, @machine3at, @miorbnli, @sallyom, @obviyus, @hugenshen, @cursoragent, @cxbAsDev, @wangmiao0668000666, @lsr911, and @jalfaro2876. …

2026.9.3

Highlights

• Safer updates: rehearse core and plugin changes in isolated candidate state before activation, support eligible 2026.9.2 migrations, and recover abandoned update records without stopping a healthy matching Gateway. Related #136997. (#138839, #141109, #141175, #141562)
• Performance: preserve warm prompt caches, reduce unnecessary work during cold session updates and memory search, and reuse worker builds between sessions. Related #140681. (#140449, #140730, #140799, #140840, #141141) Thanks @justinkirklin-gif, @NianJiuZst, and @obviyus.
• Skill Workshop: keep skills in one persistent agent-owned collection across workspaces, compare complete skill instructions, and retire missing-draft suggestions safely through Doctor. Related #135291. (#135528, #139248, #140300, #141009) Thanks @khaisis and @obviyus.
• Browser tabs, live and native: watch agent pages repaint and open external links in native Mac tabs that remain with their window across chat switches. (#140988, #141031)
• Your provider accounts, together: manage connected accounts and supported account priority directly in Models settings. (#132451) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
• Share selected conversations: explicitly publish a revocable read-only view of a session’s existing and future conversation text, accessible to anyone with its public link. (#139489) …

2026.9.2

Highlights

• Faster, more responsive chat: keep chat, dashboards, and session interactions responsive while long transcripts and disk usage are processed, with direct dashboard lookup, less cold-load work, and durable history reads outside the Gateway event loop. (#136862, #138094, #138669, #138888, #138860, #138894)
• Reliable upgrades and recovery: keep active settings, enabled skills, and default-agent ownership in automatic updates, restore Gateway restarts after Git updates, and report outcomes with actionable recovery guidance. Related #138760. (#138837, #138730, #138781, #136588, #136995) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev and @jason-allen-oneal.
• GPT-6 Astra support: select openai/gpt-6-astra with an OpenAI API-key profile or an eligible ChatGPT/Codex account, with text and image input, Responses tool calls, and supported reasoning controls; subscription availability follows successful account discovery. Related #137549. (#137550, #137561)
• Replies survive restarts: recover active, queued, and delegated replies after Gateway restarts without letting one completed reply discard another’s recovery marker, and keep continuation instructions through compaction and retry attempts. Related #138518, #138564. (#138071, #137606, #136236, #138519, #138565) Thanks @vincentkoc. …

2026.9.1

Highlights

• Diagrams in every chat: Mermaid blocks now render as diagrams in the Control UI and in the native macOS, iOS, and Android apps, with enlarge previews and a retry when a diagram fails to render on mobile. (#134913, #135746, #135470, #135342)
• From install to chat in one prompt: fresh installs (including npx openclaw@latest) get a quick-start lane that detects existing Claude Code or Codex logins and API keys, verifies them live, and opens the web dashboard from a foreground Gateway; the full wizard stays available as Custom setup. (#134221) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
• Personal skill libraries on shared Gateways: keep your own skills beside the workspace set with openclaw skills library, import them from ZIP archives, and share or publish them per identity on team Gateways. Related #133602. (#134068)
• Updates that leave you working: openclaw update now rolls back the npm candidate when the post-update Doctor fails, preserves your configuration and secret references across a failed upgrade, hands failures to a built-in triage agent, waits for plugin readiness before restarting, accepts npm 12 local archives, lets agent-launched updates finish outside the Gateway process tree, and proceeds without a Gateway service instead of refusing when no service manager exists (users on 2026.8.2 without a service manager should run openclaw update --no-restart once). Related #134204, #135655. (#135462, #134490, #134865, #134699,…

2026.8.2

Highlights

• Your Home agent, beside your work: open Home in a right or bottom dock with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+H, keep your current page in view, and preview or remove its work-context snapshot or attach selected text to your message. Related #133632. (#133676)
• A desktop companion for Linux: install the .deb or AppImage on x86-64 Linux, connect to a local or remote Gateway, and open Quick Chat from the system tray or an X11 keyboard shortcut. AppImage updates are signature-verified; .deb installs remain under your package manager. See the Linux guide.
• Start work without switching pages: create and run a background session from New Session, keep its selected local, cloud, or paired-device placement, and open it from the completion notice. Related #128037. (#128050) Thanks @Takhoffman.
• Safer upgrades: preserve newer configuration, stop incomplete session migrations before claiming success, and recover a stopped Gateway after a failed update when the installed package or rollback is verified safe. Related #118244, #90551, #134206. (#134025, #134228, #119516) Thanks @obviyus, @stuart-minion-ai, @shakkernerd, @zyw02, @Issue-Hunter, @cursoragent, and @sercada. …

2026.8.1

2026.8.1 release notes

Update help: If the automatic update fails, use a local coding harness to help complete the update, diagnose any migration errors, and verify that the Gateway starts correctly. Back up your configuration and state before making changes.

Highlights

• Find past conversations: search visible conversation text by exact words or phrases and reopen the surrounding messages from a matching result. (#105057, #105635, #105585) Thanks @hercial61.
• Sessions beyond your Gateway: run work on paired devices or cloud workers, move the session workspace with it, and reuse warm machines and project seeds for later cloud sessions. (#123280, #127752, #131744, #132374)
• Follow work as it happens: keep a durable session progress card through reloads and follow subagent activity and accumulating edits across web and native chat. (#125125, #125438, #125442, #125444, #121549, #121840, #121815, #121813)
• Answer clearly: respond to structured agent questions through web and native cards, messaging buttons, or plain text, with free-text alternatives and an explicit Skip path. (#109922, #110372, #130262) Thanks @obviyus.
• Interactive results and dashboards: use widgets in chat, pin them to session dashboards, grant specific actions or network origins, and export rendered views as images. (#101840, #108983, #110960, #127315) Thanks @100yenadmin and @hannesrudolph. …

2026.8.1-beta.4 (mistakenly published as 2026.9.1-beta.1)

[!WARNING] This package was mistakenly published under the version 2026.9.1-beta.1. It is actually 2026.8.1-beta.4 and should not be interpreted as newer than stable 2026.8.1. Stable users should install or update to 2026.8.1.

Highlights

• Gateway restart recovery: preserve admitted turns across repeated Gateway restarts so restart-safe runs continue through each checkpoint and deliver their final response. (#130491) Thanks @jalehman.
• Gateway config-write reliability: keep committed config writes pending through watcher handoff so same-write reloads settle against the observed generation instead of failing during source transfer. (#131515)
• Codex managed runtime: update the bundled Codex runtime to 0.150.1 across Linux, macOS, and Windows while retaining platform-specific package resolution and current compaction behavior. (#130685) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Linux installation reliability: provision the stable Node 24 LTS stream and constrain RPM installs to the configured NodeSource repository so Linux setup cannot select an incompatible prerelease. PR 130369. Thanks @RomneyDa and @vincentkoc.
• Worker recovery: re-arm admission-deadline launches, terminalize dead-worker turns, and defer debris cleanup so interrupted delegated work settles visibly. (#130446) …

Highlights

• GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna, and Ultra reasoning support across OpenClaw and the Codex runtime.
• Control UI first-run setup now continues verified model setup into Custodian and optional channel setup.
• Puppeteer-compatible CDP relay support for paired Chrome sessions.
• Explicit external Gateway lifecycle supervision with verified restart handoff.
• Compact, verified SQLite backup and fresh-target restore commands.
• Shared durable ingress monitors for channel plugins.

Publication evidence

• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/openclaw/v/2026.8.1-beta.3
• Registry tarball: https://registry.npmjs.org/openclaw/-/openclaw-2026.8.1-beta.3.tgz
• Integrity: sha512-8v+2Knr+0i1qzWXgJmtcBg78VaoMENahLxcuThOqyCmVaCGPj++mI9yv0R440wMv9Siv4fysd5e0YmBVftDvuQ==
• Core npm preflight: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/actions/runs/32687267214
• Core npm publication: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/actions/runs/32689503061
• Official plugin publication and reconciliation: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/actions/runs/32680190375
• All 89 official npm plugins were read back at 2026.8.1-beta.3 with the beta selector and complete tarball integrity metadata.
• @openclaw/codex@2026.8.1-beta.3 ships the exact managed @openai/codex@0.149.1 runtime.

See CHANGELOG.md for the complete release notes.

2026.8.1

Highlights

• Secret egress host binding: bind each shared-store secret to exact HTTPS destination hosts across CLI, Gateway RPC, and Control UI so unbound sentinel substitution fails closed before plaintext egress. Thanks @shakkernerd.
• GPT-5.6 Ultra and runtime switching: support Sol, Terra, and Luna across OpenClaw and Codex engines; keep model, runtime, and thinking selection atomic through /model and fallback; and add live matrix coverage for both harnesses. Thanks @anyech and @vincentkoc.
• Channel plugin ingress monitors: add a shared plugin SDK monitor for durable admission, polling, pruning, claim identity validation, adoption handoff, and shutdown, and migrate IRC, Synology Chat, and Google Chat to the shared lifecycle. Thanks @vincentkoc and @shakkernerd.
• SQLite snapshots: add openclaw backup sqlite create|list|verify|restore for compact, verified global and per-agent database artifacts with fresh-target-only restore. Thanks @giodl73-repo.
• macOS app profiles: isolate named app instances across state, preferences, Keychain, Gateway services, and duplicate-instance ownership while keeping host-global login and node services untouched. Thanks @shakkernerd and @vincentkoc. …