- OpenClaw 2026.8.1 — 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...
- fix(windows): preserve scheduled task fallback env overrides — What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where a Windows gateway installed as a Scheduled Task starts with the wrong environment: a configured service environment variable is silently discarded when...
- fix: stale group updates revoke valid browser commands — Closes #135176 What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where selected-tab browser commands could fail as revoked when an older group lookup completed after a newer allowed tab update. This was...
- fix(markdown): preserve task lists across chunk boundaries — What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where task-list messages gain an extra bullet when a rendered chunk boundary falls immediately before the item. At Google Chat's default 32,000-byte limit, the...
- feat(auth): expand provider login across chat and Control UI — What Problem This Solves /login had a polished private, owner-only device-code flow, but its shared runtime, Telegram adapter, recovery buttons, and command metadata all hardcoded Codex/OpenAI. Other...
- feat(ssrf): add configured hostname blocklists — What Problem This Solves Operators cannot allow general internet access while denying selected destinations with the existing allow-only SSRF policy. A browser-local deny check would also leave...
- fix(update): preserve configuration and verify failed-upgrade recovery — Related: #127363 (failed Git rollback before Gateway restart), #127364 (post-core update failure and service recovery). Additional instructions This is a same-repository maintainer branch and remains...
- feat(skills): add personal libraries for shared Gateways — Closes #133602. Updated to fs-safe 0.7.0. The exact dependency and matching platform packages are included. The current candidate passes the complete configured type/lint/boundary gate, 691 focused...
- docs: add Browser Use as a direct CDP provider — What Problem This Solves OpenClaw already supports Browser Use's direct WebSocket CDP endpoint, but users currently have no provider example and copy stale config keys from Browser Use's older guide....
- fix(line): let a group mention reach the turn that answers it — Closes #135187 What Problem This Solves An agent answering in a LINE group is never told whether the message addressed it. LINE decides that at ingress — a native mention of the bot, a configured...
- Update MiniMax-M2.x warning about reasoning content — Clarified MiniMax-M2.x thinking settings and behavior regarding reasoning output. solves issue - #122598 or Related: # line below this comment. Required PR title: type: user-facing description Use a...
- fix(ui): clear stale MCP feedback after context change — What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where users changing an MCP server in the Control UI could see the replacement card remain disabled or receive stale success/error feedback when the runtime...
- fix(config): stop auto-restoring hand-authored configs missing meta (#126806) — What Problem This Solves Closes #126806. A valid, schema-passing openclaw.json that an operator wrote by hand (or deployed via dotfiles/Ansible/Nix) — one without a meta block — was silently replaced...
- [Bug]: /new /reset carries the "Retained accepted inputs" over and cannot kill these — Bug type Behavior bug (incorrect output/state without crash) Beta release blocker No Summary Upgrading from stable 7 to 8.1 and lots of issues, this is one of them. I dont even know where are the...
- Native apps should inject live widget theme tokens (iOS/macOS/Android) — Summary Widget documents (show_widget) now carry a themed design system: 18 CSS tokens baked with light/dark fallback palettes, plus a live theme bridge in web chat that posts the Control UI's...
- fix(macos): prevent discovered gateways from inheriting credentials — What Problem This Solves Selecting a macOS Gateway discovered through Bonjour or wide-area DNS-SD could let unauthenticated discovery flags choose a direct route and carry credentials from the...
- fix(cli): suggest config patch --file when shell strips JSON quotes — Closes #135164 What Problem This Solves On Windows PowerShell, config set --strict-json fails when the shell strips double quotes from JSON array/object values before they reach the process. The...
- fix(cli): improve strict JSON shell quoting guidance — Closes #135164 What this fixes When openclaw config set ... --strict-json receives a structured value whose quotes were stripped by the invoking shell, the current error only reports the JSON parser...
- fix(ai): raise HTTP continuation idle TTL to 90m and bound the ready-entry cache — What Problem This Solves Split out of #128848 per ClawSweeper's own explicit recommendation on that PR ("defer the public config option, retain only the independently useful default and cache-bound...
- fix(telegram): prioritize finals over CLI commentary — What Problem This Solves Fixes #134697. Claude CLI compaction currently produces no visible progress, while verbose CLI commentary can queue durable Telegram messages ahead of the final response. Why...
- chore(deps): refresh seven-day eligible packages — What Problem This Solves Refreshes npm packages that became eligible after the previous dependency refresh, while preserving the seven-day cooldown policy. Selection is fixed at 2026-09-01 02:09:07...
- perf: skip empty tool-result planning branches — What Problem This Solves Context preflight and tool-result truncation allocate planning records for every message even when a history contains no tool results. Repeated passes over ordinary...
- ci: parallelize bundled Control UI browser checks — What Problem This Solves Control UI browser checks still dominate otherwise green CI. In run 33494931388, the thirteen serial Control UI rows consumed 4,258 job-seconds, averaged 327.5 seconds, and...
- fix(text): hold a lone uppercase N as a pending NO_REPLY lead fragment — What Problem This Solves Closes #122476. A single streamed N — the first delta of a NO_REPLY silent-reply token — could render visibly in chat for one frame before the full token resolved and the...
- fix(agents): account for repaired messages in compaction pruning — What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where compaction pruning could remove orphaned tool results from the retained history while reporting the wrong number of dropped messages and omitting those...
- fix(process): Gateway survives late CLI output after timeout — Closes #132581 What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where operators using a CLI-backed model route could lose the entire Gateway when a timed-out child left inherited stdout/stderr pipes open. The...
- [Bug]: memory-lancedb plugin ignores runtime config updates on Windows (stale API key / baseUrl canary ignored) — Bug type Regression (worked before, now fails) Beta release blocker No Summary OpenClaw version: 2026.4.15 OS: Windows 10 (native, not WSL2) Plugin: memory-lancedb Summary: The memory-lancedb plugin...
- fix(github): report missing CLI before Connect starts — Closes #135028 What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where operators using Agents → Tools → GitHub Identity → Connect GitHub could complete a device-code flow on a Gateway host without gh, only to...
- fix(text): preserve leading whitespace in stripped reasoning message body — What Problem This Solves Closes #121351. stripFormattedReasoningMessage removed leading whitespace from the substantive answer body after stripping a Thinking.../Reasoning: preamble, even though its...
- feat(cloud-workers): keep prepared project workers ready — What Problem This Solves Project snapshots save checkout and installation, but a new session still waits for a machine to start, enroll, install its worker, and repeatedly scan the workspace. This...
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- perf(ci): run required gates in parallel (#3567)
- fix: clean plugin installs fail during trust checks (#3550)
- fix: remove manual override UI (#3536)
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