OpenClaw Newsletter

Daily updates from the OpenClaw ecosystem

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

In This Issue

Top Stories

  • Community speculating on viral app AI training — [TRENDING] post asking what to name OpenClaw "trained on playbooks behind viral apps" gains massive traction with 1,538 engagements.
  • NVIDIA's Kimi K2.5 now tops OpenClaw usage charts — [TRENDING] free access to Kimi K2.5 makes it #1 most-called model, surpassing Gemini 3 Flash and Claude Sonnet with 554 engagements.
  • Simplified OpenClaw setup going viral — [TRENDING] multiple retweets praise "simplest way to run OpenClaw" with 118 engagements across similar posts.
  • Critical credential redaction fix merged — [HOT] replaces hardcoded regex with schema-driven approach using z.registry() for sensitive field annotation with 42 engagements.
  • New release v2026.2.9 ships iOS alpha — Major update includes iOS node app, BlueBubbles channels, device pairing plugins, and comprehensive cleanup across platforms.

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Releases

  • openclaw 2026.2.9 — Added iOS alpha node app with setup-code onboarding, comprehensive BlueBubbles channel cleanup, and device pairing plugins. Release notes
  • openclaw npm package 2026.2.9 — Multi-channel AI gateway with 905k+ weekly downloads on npm. View package
  • openclaw-cli 2026.2.9 — Personal AI assistant CLI now available on Homebrew with 1,061 installs in 30 days. Install via brew

Project milestone: OpenClaw reached 180,895 GitHub stars with 30,076 forks and 478 contributors.

Community

  • HenryLoenwind's credential redaction fix [HOT] — Replaces hardcoded regex with schema-driven approach using z.registry() for sensitive fields, fixing incomplete security implementation. PR #13073 (42 engagement, 21 comments)
  • imecostalima's token optimization — Seven optimizations reduce API costs by 25-45% across sessions, including proactive history compaction and smarter context management for expensive models like Claude Opus. PR #13261
  • hiboute's LiteLLM provider — Full LiteLLM integration with auto-model discovery, cache control, and interactive onboarding flow. PR #13256
  • RocketMan234's CLI performance boost — Lazy-loads per-command modules instead of eagerly loading all 11 command groups (~2.8MB), dramatically speeding up CLI startup. PR #13259
  • Streaming progress feature request — Community wants real-time updates for multi-tool agentic loops in messaging channels instead of waiting minutes for completion. Issue #13207

News

  • OpenClaw on DigitalOcean — One-click deployment of your personal AI assistant on DigitalOcean Droplets, bringing enterprise-grade infrastructure to the self-hosting community.
  • Security-First VPS Guide — Comprehensive security tutorial for self-hosting OpenClaw safely, addressing the critical gap between AI power and infrastructure security.
  • Long-Term Memory Implementation — Practical guide to solving AI's biggest limitation by giving OpenClaw persistent memory across sessions.
  • Markdown Memory Hack — Creative solution using simple markdown files to create persistent memory for AI assistants, proving sophisticated features don't need complex infrastructure.
  • MMClaw Launch — New ultra-lightweight Python kernel specifically designed for multimodal AI agents, expanding OpenClaw's ecosystem with specialized tooling.