Release notes from openclaw

openclaw 2026.3.13-beta.1

2026-03-14T05:17:10Z

Pre-release for npm beta tag v2026.3.13-beta.1.

macOS assets are built with stable app version 2026.3.13 so they can be reused for the later non-beta release. appcast.xml is intentionally unchanged in this pre-release.

Changes

Android/chat settings: redesign the chat settings sheet with grouped device and media sections, refresh the Connect and Voice tabs, and tighten the chat composer/session header for a denser mobile layout. (#44894) Thanks @obviyus.
iOS/onboarding: add a first-run welcome pager before gateway setup, stop auto-opening the QR scanner, and show /pair qr instructions on the connect step. (#45054) Thanks @ngutman.
Browser/existing-session: add an official Chrome DevTools MCP attach mode for signed-in live Chrome sessions, with docs for chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging enablement and direct backlinks to Chrome’s own setup guides.
Browser/agents: add built-in profile="user" for the logged-in host browser and profile="chrome-relay" for the extension relay, so agent browser calls can prefer the real signed-in browser without the extra browserSession selector.
Browser/act automation: add batched actions, selector targeting, and delayed clicks for browser act requests with normalized batch dispatch. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Docker/timezone override: add OPENCLAW_TZ so docker-setup.sh can pin gateway and CLI containers to a chosen IANA timezone instead of inheriting the daemon default. (#34119) Thanks @Lanfei.
Dependencies/pi: bump @mariozechner/pi-agent-core, @mariozechner/pi-ai, @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent, and @mariozechner/pi-tui to 0.58.0.

Fixes

Dashboard/chat UI: stop reloading full chat history on every live tool result in dashboard v2 so tool-heavy runs no longer trigger UI freeze/re-render storms while the final event still refreshes persisted history. (#45541) Thanks @BunsDev.
Ollama/reasoning visibility: stop promoting native thinking and reasoning fields into final assistant text so local reasoning models no longer leak internal thoughts in normal replies. (#45330) Thanks @xi7ang.
Android/onboarding QR scan: switch setup QR scanning to Google Code Scanner so onboarding uses a more reliable scanner instead of the legacy embedded ZXing flow. (#45021) Thanks @obviyus.
Browser/existing-session: harden driver validation and session lifecycle so transport errors trigger reconnects while tool-level errors preserve the session, and extract shared ARIA role sets to deduplicate Playwright and Chrome MCP snapshot paths. (#45682) Thanks @odysseus0.
Browser/existing-session: accept text-only list_pages and new_page responses from Chrome DevTools MCP so live-session tab discovery and new-tab open flows keep working when the server omits structured page metadata.
Control UI/insecure auth: preserve explicit shared token and password auth on plain-HTTP Control UI connects so LAN and reverse-proxy sessions no longer drop shared auth before the first WebSocket handshake. (#45088) Thanks @velvet-shark.
Gateway/session reset: preserve lastAccountId and lastThreadId across gateway session resets so replies keep routing back to the same account and thread after /reset. (#44773) Thanks @Lanfei.
macOS/onboarding: avoid self-restarting freshly bootstrapped launchd gateways and give new daemon installs longer to become healthy, so openclaw onboard --install-daemon no longer false-fails on slower Macs and fresh VM snapshots.
Gateway/status: add openclaw gateway status --require-rpc and clearer Linux non-interactive daemon-install failure reporting so automation can fail hard on probe misses instead of treating a printed RPC error as green.
macOS/exec approvals: respect per-agent exec approval settings in the gateway prompter, including allowlist fallback when the native prompt cannot be shown, so gateway-triggered system.run requests follow configured policy instead of always prompting or denying unexpectedly. (#13707) Thanks @sliekens.
Telegram/media downloads: thread the same direct or proxy transport policy into SSRF-guarded file fetches so inbound attachments keep working when Telegram falls back between env-proxy and direct networking. (#44639) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/inbound media IPv4 fallback: retry SSRF-guarded Telegram file downloads once with the same IPv4 fallback policy as Bot API calls so fresh installs on IPv6-broken hosts no longer fail to download inbound images.
Windows/gateway install: bound schtasks calls and fall back to the Startup-folder login item when task creation hangs, so native openclaw gateway install fails fast instead of wedging forever on broken Scheduled Task setups.
Windows/gateway stop: resolve Startup-folder fallback listeners from the installed gateway.cmd port, so openclaw gateway stop now actually kills fallback-launched gateway processes before restart.
Windows/gateway status: reuse the installed service command environment when reading runtime status, so startup-fallback gateways keep reporting the configured port and running state in gateway status --json instead of falling back to gateway port unknown.
Windows/gateway auth: stop attaching device identity on local loopback shared-token and password gateway calls, so native Windows agent replies no longer log stale device signature expired fallback noise before succeeding.
Discord/gateway startup: treat plain-text and transient /gateway/bot metadata fetch failures as transient startup errors so Discord gateway boot no longer crashes on unhandled rejections. (#44397) Thanks @jalehman.
Slack/probe: keep auth.test() bot and team metadata mapping stable while simplifying the probe result path. (#44775) Thanks @Cafexss.
Dashboard/chat UI: render oversized plain-text replies as normal paragraphs instead of capped gray code blocks, so long desktop chat responses stay readable without tab-switching refreshes.
Dashboard/chat UI: restore the chat-new-messages class on the New messages scroll pill so the button uses its existing compact styling instead of rendering as a full-screen SVG overlay. (#44856) Thanks @Astro-Han.
Gateway/Control UI: restore the operator-only device-auth bypass and classify browser connect failures so origin and device-identity problems no longer show up as auth errors in the Control UI and web chat. (#45512) thanks @sallyom.
macOS/voice wake: stop crashing wake-word command extraction when speech segment ranges come from a different transcript instance.
Discord/allowlists: honor raw guild_id when hydrated guild objects are missing so allowlisted channels and threads like #maintainers no longer get false-dropped before channel allowlist checks.
macOS/runtime locator: require Node >=22.16.0 during macOS runtime discovery so the app no longer accepts Node versions that the main runtime guard rejects later. Thanks @sumleo.
Agents/custom providers: preserve blank API keys for loopback OpenAI-compatible custom providers by clearing the synthetic Authorization header at runtime, while keeping explicit apiKey and oauth/token config from silently downgrading into fake bearer auth. (#45631) Thanks @xinhuagu.
Models/google-vertex Gemini flash-lite normalization: apply existing bare-ID preview normalization to google-vertex model refs and provider configs so google-vertex/gemini-3.1-flash-lite resolves as gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview. (#42435) thanks @scoootscooob.
iMessage/remote attachments: reject unsafe remote attachment paths before spawning SCP, so sender-controlled filenames can no longer inject shell metacharacters into remote media staging. Thanks @lintsinghua.
Telegram/webhook auth: validate the Telegram webhook secret before reading or parsing request bodies, so unauthenticated requests are rejected immediately instead of consuming up to 1 MB first. Thanks @space08.
Security/device pairing: make bootstrap setup codes single-use so pending device pairing requests cannot be silently replayed and widened to admin before approval. Thanks @tdjackey.
Security/external content: strip zero-width and soft-hyphen marker-splitting characters during boundary sanitization so spoofed EXTERNAL_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT markers fall back to the existing hardening path instead of bypassing marker normalization.
Security/exec approvals: unwrap more pnpm runtime forms during approval binding, including pnpm --reporter ... exec and direct pnpm node file runs, with matching regression coverage and docs updates.
Security/exec approvals: fail closed for Perl -M and -I approval flows so preload and load-path module resolution stays outside approval-backed runtime execution unless the operator uses a broader explicit trust path.
Security/exec approvals: recognize PowerShell -File and -f wrapper forms during inline-command extraction so approval and command-analysis paths treat file-based PowerShell launches like the existing -Command variants.
Security/exec approvals: unwrap env dispatch wrappers inside shell-segment allowlist resolution on macOS so env FOO=bar /path/to/bin resolves against the effective executable instead of the wrapper token.
Security/exec approvals: treat backslash-newline as shell line continuation during macOS shell-chain parsing so line-continued $( substitutions fail closed instead of slipping past command-substitution checks.
Security/exec approvals: bind macOS skill auto-allow trust to both executable name and resolved path so same-basename binaries no longer inherit trust from unrelated skill bins.
Build/plugin-sdk bundling: bundle plugin-sdk subpath entries in one shared build pass so published packages stop duplicating shared chunks and avoid the recent plugin-sdk memory blow-up. (#45426) Thanks @TarasShyn.
Cron/isolated sessions: route nested cron-triggered embedded runner work onto the nested lane so isolated cron jobs no longer deadlock when compaction or other queued inner work runs. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/OpenAI-compatible compat overrides: respect explicit user models[].compat opt-ins for non-native openai-completions endpoints so usage-in-streaming capability overrides no longer get forced off when the endpoint actually supports them. (#44432) Thanks @cheapestinference.
Agents/Azure OpenAI startup prompts: rephrase the built-in /new, /reset, and post-compaction startup instruction so Azure OpenAI deployments no longer hit HTTP 400 false positives from the content filter. (#43403) Thanks @xingsy97.
Agents/memory bootstrap: load only one root memory file, preferring MEMORY.md and using memory.md as a fallback, so case-insensitive Docker mounts no longer inject duplicate memory context. (#26054) Thanks @Lanfei.
Agents/compaction: compare post-compaction token sanity checks against full-session pre-compaction totals and skip the check when token estimation fails, so sessions with large bootstrap context keep real token counts instead of falling back to unknown. (#28347) thanks @efe-arv.
Agents/compaction: preserve safeguard compaction summary language continuity via default and configurable custom instructions so persona drift is reduced after auto-compaction. (#10456) Thanks @keepitmello.
Agents/tool warnings: distinguish gated core tools like apply_patch from plugin-only unknown entries in tools.profile warnings, so unavailable core tools now report current runtime/provider/model/config gating instead of suggesting a missing plugin.
Config/validation: accept documented agents.list[].params per-agent overrides in strict config validation so openclaw config validate no longer rejects runtime-supported cacheRetention, temperature, and maxTokens settings. (#41171) Thanks @atian8179.
Config/web fetch: restore runtime validation for documented tools.web.fetch.readability and tools.web.fetch.firecrawl settings so valid web fetch configs no longer fail with unrecognized-key errors. (#42583) Thanks @stim64045-spec.
Signal/config validation: add channels.signal.groups schema support so per-group requireMention, tools, and toolsBySender overrides no longer get rejected during config validation. (#27199) Thanks @unisone.
Config/discovery: accept discovery.wideArea.domain in strict config validation so unicast DNS-SD gateway configs no longer fail with an unrecognized-key error. (#35615) Thanks @ingyukoh.
Telegram/media errors: redact Telegram file URLs before building media fetch errors so failed inbound downloads do not leak bot tokens into logs. Thanks @space08.

openclaw 2026.3.13

2026-03-14T18:05:53Z

This recovery release uses v2026.3.13-1 because GitHub immutable releases do not allow reusing v2026.3.13 after publication.

Important:

This release exists to recover the broken v2026.3.13 tag/release path.
The corresponding npm version is still 2026.3.13, not 2026.3.13-1.
The -1 suffix is for the Git tag and GitHub Release only.

What's Changed

fix(compaction): use full-session token count for post-compaction sanity check by @efe-arv in #28347
fix(telegram): thread media transport policy into SSRF by @obviyus in #44639
fix: handle Discord gateway metadata fetch failures by @jalehman in #44397
docs: move post-release changelog entries to Unreleased by @jalehman in #44691
fix(session): preserve lastAccountId and lastThreadId on session reset by @Lanfei in #44773
Updated default model from openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex to openai-codex/gpt-5.4 in tests. by @jrrcdev in #44367
fix: address delivery dedupe review follow-ups by @frankekn in #44666
CLI: align xhigh thinking help text by @frankekn in #44819
docs: fix changelog credit for xhigh help by @frankekn in #44874
fix(agents): drop Anthropic thinking blocks on replay by @frankekn in #44843
docs: fix session key :dm: → :direct: by @Lanfei in #26506
feat(android): redesign chat settings UI by @obviyus in #44894
fix(agents): avoid injecting memory file twice on case-insensitive mounts by @Lanfei in #26054
Docker: add OPENCLAW_TZ timezone support by @Lanfei in #34119
Android: fix HttpURLConnection leak in TalkModeVoiceResolver by @Kaneki-x in #43780
fix(agents): respect explicit user compat overrides for non-native openai-completions by @cheapestinference in #44432
test(config): cover requiresOpenAiAnthropicToolPayload in compat schema fixture by @xingsy97 in #43438
fix(agents): rephrase session reset prompt to avoid Azure content filter by @xingsy97 in #43403
fix(config): add missing params field to agents.list[] validation schema by @atian8179 in #41171
fix(android): use Google Code Scanner for onboarding QR by @obviyus in #45021
fix: restore web fetch firecrawl config in runtime zod schema by @stim64045-spec in #42583
fix(signal): add groups config to Signal channel schema by @unisone in #27199
feat(ios): add onboarding welcome pager by @ngutman in #45054
small addition to .gitignore by @Sovtoshi-SC in #42879
fix(discovery): add missing domain to wideArea Zod config schema by @ingyukoh in #35615
fix(ui): keep shared auth on insecure control-ui connects by @velvet-shark in #45088
fix: preserve persona and language continuity in compaction summaries by @keepitmello in #10456
ui: mobile navigation drawer & theme variant refinements by @BunsDev in #45107
fix: resolve target agent workspace for cross-agent subagent spawns by @moshehbenavraham in #40176
fix(ollama): hide native reasoning-only output by @frankekn in #45330
test: annotate chat abort helper exports by @frankekn in #45346
Fix incorrect rendering of brave costs in docs by @keelanfh in #44989
security(docker): prevent gateway token leak in Docker build context by @xingsy97 in #44956
refactor: remove redundant ?? undefined in Slack probe by @Cafexss in #44775
fix(ui): restore chat-new-messages class on scroll pill button by @Astro-Han in #44856
fix(windows): suppress visible console windows during restart and process cleanup by @MoerAI in #44842
Slack: add opt-in interactive reply directives by @vincentkoc in #44607
Docs: describe Slack interactive replies by @vincentkoc in #45463
fix(cron): prevent isolated cron nested lane deadlocks by @vincentkoc in #45459
Fix updater refresh cwd for service reinstall by @vincentkoc in #45452
[codex] Polish sidebar status, agent skills, and chat rendering by @BunsDev in #45451
perf(build): deduplicate plugin-sdk chunks to fix ~2x memory regression by @TarasShyn in #45426
Guard updater service refresh against missing invocation cwd by @vincentkoc in #45486
fix(browser): normalize batch act dispatch for selector and batch support by @vincentkoc in #45457
docs(android): note that app is not publicly released yet by @eengad in #23051
fix(browser): follow up batch failure and limit handling by @vincentkoc in #45506
docker: add apt-get upgrade to all Dockerfiles by @jacobtomlinson in #45384
fix(config): avoid Anthropic startup crash by @BunsDev in #45520
test: preserve wrapper behavior for targeted runs by @Takhoffman in #45518
UI: fix chat context notice icon sizing by @BunsDev in #45533
fix(ui): stop dashboard chat history reload storm by @BunsDev in #45541
fix: retry Telegram inbound media downloads over IPv4 fallback by @frankekn in #45327
fix(feishu): preserve non-ASCII filenames in file uploads (#33912) by @fabiaodemianyang in #34262
macOS: respect exec-approvals.json settings in gateway prompter by @sliekens in #13707
fix(ui): keep oversized chat replies readable by @BunsDev in #45559
fix(gateway/ui): restore control-ui auth bypass and classify connect failures by @sallyom in #45512
fix(macos): prevent PortGuard from killing Docker Desktop in remote mode by @teslamint in #13798
fix(sessions): create transcript file on chat.inject when missing by @2233admin in #36645
Plugins: fail fast on channel and binding collisions by @vincentkoc in #45628
fix(macos): align minimum Node.js version with runtime guard (22.16.0) by @ImLukeF in #45640
fix(agents): preserve blank local custom-provider API keys after onboarding by @frankekn in #45631
fix(browser): harden existing-session driver validation and session lifecycle by @odysseus0 in #45682
fix(feishu): add early event-level dedup to prevent duplicate replies by @yunweibang in #43762
fix(models): apply Gemini model-id normalization to google-vertex provider by @scoootscooob in #42435
Gateway: treat scope-limited probe RPC as degraded reachability by @joshavant in #45622
fix(gateway): bound unanswered client requests by @Takhoffman in #45689

New Contributors

@jrrcdev made their first contribution in #44367
@Kaneki-x made their first contribution in #43780
@cheapestinference made their first contribution in #44432
@xingsy97 made their first contribution in #43438
@atian8179 made their first contribution in #41171
@stim64045-spec made their first contribution in #42583
@Sovtoshi-SC made their first contribution in #42879
@keepitmello made their first contribution in #10456
@moshehbenavraham made their first contribution in #40176
@keelanfh made their first contribution in #44989
@Cafexss made their first contribution in #44775
@Astro-Han made their first contribution in #44856
@eengad made their first contribution in #23051
@jacobtomlinson made their first contribution in #45384
@fabiaodemianyang made their first contribution in #34262
@sliekens made their first contribution in #13707
@teslamint made their first contribution in #13798
@yunweibang made their first contribution in #43762

Full Changelog: v2026.3.12...v2026.3.13-1

openclaw 2026.3.12

2026-03-13T04:26:47Z

Changes

Control UI/dashboard-v2: refresh the gateway dashboard with modular overview, chat, config, agent, and session views, plus a command palette, mobile bottom tabs, and richer chat tools like slash commands, search, export, and pinned messages. (#41503) Thanks @BunsDev.
OpenAI/GPT-5.4 fast mode: add configurable session-level fast toggles across /fast, TUI, Control UI, and ACP, with per-model config defaults and OpenAI/Codex request shaping.
Anthropic/Claude fast mode: map the shared /fast toggle and params.fastMode to direct Anthropic API-key service_tier requests, with live verification for both Anthropic and OpenAI fast-mode tiers.
Models/plugins: move Ollama, vLLM, and SGLang onto the provider-plugin architecture, with provider-owned onboarding, discovery, model-picker setup, and post-selection hooks so core provider wiring is more modular.
Docs/Kubernetes: Add a starter K8s install path with raw manifests, Kind setup, and deployment docs. Thanks @sallyom @dzianisv @egkristi
Agents/subagents: add sessions_yield so orchestrators can end the current turn immediately, skip queued tool work, and carry a hidden follow-up payload into the next session turn. (#36537) thanks @jriff
Slack/agent replies: support channelData.slack.blocks in the shared reply delivery path so agents can send Block Kit messages through standard Slack outbound delivery. (#44592) Thanks @vincentkoc.

Fixes

Security/device pairing: switch /pair and openclaw qr setup codes to short-lived bootstrap tokens so the next release no longer embeds shared gateway credentials in chat or QR pairing payloads. Thanks @lintsinghua.
Security/plugins: disable implicit workspace plugin auto-load so cloned repositories cannot execute workspace plugin code without an explicit trust decision. (GHSA-99qw-6mr3-36qr)(#44174) Thanks @lintsinghua and @vincentkoc.
Models/Kimi Coding: send anthropic-messages tools in native Anthropic format again so kimi-coding stops degrading tool calls into XML/plain-text pseudo invocations instead of real tool_use blocks. (#38669, #39907, #40552) Thanks @opriz.
TUI/chat log: reuse the active assistant message component for the same streaming run so openclaw tui no longer renders duplicate assistant replies. (#35364) Thanks @lisitan.
Telegram/model picker: make inline model button selections persist the chosen session model correctly, clear overrides when selecting the configured default, and include effective fallback models in /models button validation. (#40105) Thanks @avirweb.
Cron/proactive delivery: keep isolated direct cron sends out of the write-ahead resend queue so transient-send retries do not replay duplicate proactive messages after restart. (#40646) Thanks @openperf and @vincentkoc.
Models/Kimi Coding: send the built-in User-Agent: claude-code/0.1.0 header by default for kimi-coding while still allowing explicit provider headers to override it, so Kimi Code subscription auth can work without a local header-injection proxy. (#30099) Thanks @Amineelfarssi and @vincentkoc.
Models/OpenAI Codex Spark: keep gpt-5.3-codex-spark working on the openai-codex/* path via resolver fallbacks and clearer Codex-only handling, while continuing to suppress the stale direct openai/* Spark row that OpenAI rejects live.
Ollama/Kimi Cloud: apply the Moonshot Kimi payload compatibility wrapper to Ollama-hosted Kimi models like kimi-k2.5:cloud, so tool routing no longer breaks when thinking is enabled. (#41519) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Moonshot CN API: respect explicit baseUrl (api.moonshot.cn) in implicit provider resolution so platform.moonshot.cn API keys authenticate correctly instead of returning HTTP 401. (#33637) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
Kimi Coding/provider config: respect explicit models.providers["kimi-coding"].baseUrl when resolving the implicit provider so custom Kimi Coding endpoints no longer get overwritten by the built-in default. (#36353) Thanks @2233admin.
Gateway/main-session routing: keep TUI and other mode:UI main-session sends on the internal surface when deliver is enabled, so replies no longer inherit the session's persisted Telegram/WhatsApp route. (#43918) Thanks @obviyus.
BlueBubbles/self-chat echo dedupe: drop reflected duplicate webhook copies only when a matching fromMe event was just seen for the same chat, body, and timestamp, preventing self-chat loops without broad webhook suppression. Related to #32166. (#38442) Thanks @vincentkoc.
iMessage/self-chat echo dedupe: drop reflected duplicate copies only when a matching is_from_me event was just seen for the same chat, text, and created_at, preventing self-chat loops without broad text-only suppression. Related to #32166. (#38440) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Subagents/completion announce retries: raise the default announce timeout to 90 seconds and stop retrying gateway-timeout failures for externally delivered completion announces, preventing duplicate user-facing completion messages after slow gateway responses. Fixes #41235. Thanks @vasujain00 and @vincentkoc.
Mattermost/block streaming: fix duplicate message delivery (one threaded, one top-level) when block streaming is active by excluding replyToId from the block reply dedup key and adding an explicit threading dock to the Mattermost plugin. (#41362) Thanks @mathiasnagler and @vincentkoc.
Mattermost/reply media delivery: pass agent-scoped mediaLocalRoots through shared reply delivery so allowed local files upload correctly from button, slash-command, and model-picker replies. (#44021) Thanks @LyleLiu666.
macOS/Reminders: add the missing NSRemindersUsageDescription to the bundled app so apple-reminders can trigger the system permission prompt from OpenClaw.app. (#8559) Thanks @dinakars777.
Gateway/session discovery: discover disk-only and retired ACP session stores under custom templated session.store roots so ACP reconciliation, session-id/session-label targeting, and run-id fallback keep working after restart. (#44176) thanks @gumadeiras.
Plugins/env-scoped roots: fix plugin discovery/load caches and provenance tracking so same-process HOME/OPENCLAW_HOME changes no longer reuse stale plugin state or misreport ~/... plugins as untracked. (#44046) thanks @gumadeiras.
Models/OpenRouter native ids: canonicalize native OpenRouter model keys across config writes, runtime lookups, fallback management, and models list --plain, and migrate legacy duplicated openrouter/openrouter/... config entries forward on write.
Windows/native update: make package installs use the npm update path instead of the git path, carry portable Git into native Windows updates, and mirror the installer's Windows npm env so openclaw update no longer dies early on missing git or node-llama-cpp download setup.
Sandbox/write: preserve pinned mutation-helper payload stdin so sandboxed write no longer reports success while creating empty files. (#43876) Thanks @glitch418x.
Security/exec approvals: escape invisible Unicode format characters in approval prompts so zero-width command text renders as visible \u{...} escapes instead of spoofing the reviewed command. (GHSA-pcqg-f7rg-xfvv)(#43687) Thanks @EkiXu and @vincentkoc.
Hooks/loader: fail closed when workspace hook paths cannot be resolved with realpath, so unreadable or broken internal hook paths are skipped instead of falling back to unresolved imports. (#44437) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Hooks/agent deliveries: dedupe repeated hook requests by optional idempotency key so webhook retries can reuse the first run instead of launching duplicate agent executions. (#44438) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Security/exec detection: normalize compatibility Unicode and strip invisible formatting code points before obfuscation checks so zero-width and fullwidth command tricks no longer suppress heuristic detection. (GHSA-9r3v-37xh-2cf6)(#44091) Thanks @wooluo and @vincentkoc.
Security/exec allowlist: preserve POSIX case sensitivity and keep ? within a single path segment so exact-looking allowlist patterns no longer overmatch executables across case or directory boundaries. (GHSA-f8r2-vg7x-gh8m)(#43798) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
Security/commands: require sender ownership for /config and /debug so authorized non-owner senders can no longer reach owner-only config and runtime debug surfaces. (GHSA-r7vr-gr74-94p8)(#44305) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
Security/gateway auth: clear unbound client-declared scopes on shared-token WebSocket connects so device-less shared-token operators cannot self-declare elevated scopes. (GHSA-rqpp-rjj8-7wv8)(#44306) Thanks @LUOYEcode and @vincentkoc.
Security/browser.request: block persistent browser profile create/delete routes from write-scoped browser.request so callers can no longer persist admin-only browser profile changes through the browser control surface. (GHSA-vmhq-cqm9-6p7q)(#43800) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
Security/agent: reject public spawned-run lineage fields and keep workspace inheritance on the internal spawned-session path so external agent callers can no longer override the gateway workspace boundary. (GHSA-2rqg-gjgv-84jm)(#43801) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
Security/session_status: enforce sandbox session-tree visibility and shared agent-to-agent access guards before reading or mutating target session state, so sandboxed subagents can no longer inspect parent session metadata or write parent model overrides via session_status. (GHSA-wcxr-59v9-rxr8)(#43754) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
Security/agent tools: mark nodes as explicitly owner-only and document/test that canvas remains a shared trusted-operator surface unless a real boundary bypass exists.
Security/exec approvals: fail closed for Ruby approval flows that use -r, --require, or -I so approval-backed commands no longer bind only the main script while extra local code-loading flags remain outside the reviewed file snapshot.
Security/device pairing: cap issued and verified device-token scopes to each paired device's approved scope baseline so stale or overbroad tokens cannot exceed approved access. (GHSA-2pwv-x786-56f8)(#43686) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
Docs/onboarding: align the legacy wizard reference and openclaw onboard command docs with the Ollama onboarding flow so all onboarding reference paths now document --auth-choice ollama, Cloud + Local mode, and non-interactive usage. (#43473) Thanks @BruceMacD.
Models/secrets: enforce source-managed SecretRef markers in generated models.json so runtime-resolved provider secrets are not persisted when runtime projection is skipped. (#43759) Thanks @joshavant.
Security/WebSocket preauth: shorten unauthenticated handshake retention and reject oversized pre-auth frames before application-layer parsing to reduce pre-pairing exposure on unsupported public deployments. (GHSA-jv4g-m82p-2j93)(#44089) (GHSA-xwx2-ppv2-wx98)(#44089) Thanks @ez-lbz and @vincentkoc.
Security/proxy attachments: restore the shared media-store size cap for persisted browser proxy files so oversized payloads are rejected instead of overriding the intended 5 MB limit. (GHSA-6rph-mmhp-h7h9)(#43684) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
Security/host env: block inherited GIT_EXEC_PATH from sanitized host exec environments so Git helper resolution cannot be steered by host environment state. (GHSA-jf5v-pqgw-gm5m)(#43685) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
Security/Feishu webhook: require encryptKey alongside verificationToken in webhook mode so unsigned forged events are rejected instead of being processed with token-only configuration. (GHSA-g353-mgv3-8pcj)(#44087) Thanks @lintsinghua and @vincentkoc.
Security/Feishu reactions: preserve looked-up group chat typing and fail closed on ambiguous reaction context so group authorization and mention gating cannot be bypassed through synthetic p2p reactions. (GHSA-m69h-jm2f-2pv8)(#44088) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
Security/LINE webhook: require signatures for empty-event POST probes too so unsigned requests no longer confirm webhook reachability with a 200 response. (GHSA-mhxh-9pjm-w7q5)(#44090) Thanks @TerminalsandCoffee and @vincentkoc.
Security/Zalo webhook: rate limit invalid secret guesses before auth so weak webhook secrets cannot be brute-forced through unauthenticated churned requests without pre-auth 429 responses. (GHSA-5m9r-p9g7-679c)(#44173) Thanks @zpbrent and @vincentkoc.
Security/Zalouser groups: require stable group IDs for allowlist auth by default and gate mutable group-name matching behind channels.zalouser.dangerouslyAllowNameMatching. Thanks @zpbrent.
Security/Slack and Teams routing: require stable channel and team IDs for allowlist routing by default, with mutable name matching only via each channel's dangerouslyAllowNameMatching break-glass flag.
Security/exec approvals: fail closed for ambiguous inline loader and shell-payload script execution, bind the real script after POSIX shell value-taking flags, and unwrap pnpm/npm exec/npx script runners before approval binding. (GHSA-57jw-9722-6rf2)(GHSA-jvqh-rfmh-jh27)(GHSA-x7pp-23xv-mmr4)(GHSA-jc5j-vg4r-j5jx)(#44247) Thanks @tdjackey and @vincentkoc.
Doctor/gateway service audit: canonicalize service entrypoint paths before comparing them so symlink-vs-realpath installs no longer trigger false "entrypoint does not match the current install" repair prompts. (#43882) Thanks @ngutman.
Doctor/gateway service audit: earlier groundwork for this fix landed in the superseded #28338 branch. Thanks @realriphub.
Gateway/session stores: regenerate the Swift push-test protocol models and align Windows native session-store realpath handling so protocol checks and sync session discovery stop drifting on Windows. (#44266) thanks @jalehman.
Context engine/session routing: forward optional sessionKey through context-engine lifecycle calls so plugins can see structured routing metadata during bootstrap, assembly, post-turn ingestion, and compaction. (#44157) thanks @jalehman.
Agents/failover: classify z.ai network_error stop reasons as retryable timeouts so provider connectivity failures trigger fallback instead of surfacing raw unhandled-stop-reason errors. (#43884) Thanks @hougangdev.
Memory/session sync: add mode-aware post-compaction session reindexing with agents.defaults.compaction.postIndexSync plus agents.defaults.memorySearch.sync.sessions.postCompactionForce, so compacted session memory can refresh immediately without forcing every deployment into synchronous reindexing. (#25561) thanks @rodrigouroz.
Telegram/model picker: make inline model button selections persist the chosen session model correctly, clear overrides when selecting the configured default, and include effective fallback models in /models button validation. (#40105) Thanks @avirweb.
Telegram/native command sync: suppress expected BOT_COMMANDS_TOO_MUCH retry error noise, add a final fallback summary log, and document the difference between command-menu overflow and real Telegram network failures.
Mattermost/reply media delivery: pass agent-scoped mediaLocalRoots through shared reply delivery so allowed local files upload correctly from button, slash-command, and model-picker replies. (#44021) Thanks @LyleLiu666.
Plugins/env-scoped roots: fix plugin discovery/load caches and provenance tracking so same-process HOME/OPENCLAW_HOME changes no longer reuse stale plugin state or misreport ~/... plugins as untracked. (#44046) thanks @gumadeiras.
Gateway/session discovery: discover disk-only and retired ACP session stores under custom templated session.store roots so ACP reconciliation, session-id/session-label targeting, and run-id fallback keep working after restart. (#44176) thanks @gumadeiras.
Models/OpenRouter native ids: canonicalize native OpenRouter model keys across config writes, runtime lookups, fallback management, and models list --plain, and migrate legacy duplicated openrouter/openrouter/... config entries forward on write.
Gateway/hooks: bucket hook auth failures by forwarded client IP behind trusted proxies and warn when hooks.allowedAgentIds leaves hook routing unrestricted.
Agents/compaction: skip the post-compaction cache-ttl marker write when a compaction completed in the same attempt, preventing the next turn from immediately triggering a second tiny compaction. (#28548) thanks @MoerAI.
Native chat/macOS: add /new, /reset, and /clear reset triggers, keep shared main-session aliases aligned, and ignore stale model-selection completions so native chat state stays in sync across reset and fast model changes. (#10898) Thanks @Nachx639.
Agents/compaction safeguard: route missing-model and missing-API-key cancellation warnings through the shared subsystem logger so they land in structured and file logs. (#9974) Thanks @dinakars777.
Cron/doctor: stop flagging canonical agentTurn and systemEvent payload kinds as legacy cron storage, while still normalizing whitespace-padded and non-canonical variants. (#44012) Thanks @shuicici.
ACP/client final-message delivery: preserve terminal assistant text snapshots before resolving end_turn, so ACP clients no longer drop the last visible reply when the gateway sends the final message body on the terminal chat event. (#17615) Thanks @pjeby.
Telegram/Discord status reactions: show a temporary compacting reaction during auto-compaction pauses and restore thinking afterward so the bot no longer appears frozen while context is being compacted. (#35474) thanks @Cypherm.

openclaw 2026.3.11

2026-03-12T05:07:17Z

Security

Gateway/WebSocket: enforce browser origin validation for all browser-originated connections regardless of whether proxy headers are present, closing a cross-site WebSocket hijacking path in trusted-proxy mode that could grant untrusted origins operator.admin access. (GHSA-5wcw-8jjv-m286)

Changes

OpenRouter/models: add temporary Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha entries to the built-in catalog so OpenRouter users can try the new free stealth models during their roughly one-week availability window. (#43642) Thanks @ping-Toven.
iOS/Home canvas: add a bundled welcome screen with a live agent overview that refreshes on connect, reconnect, and foreground return, and move the compact connection pill off the top-left canvas overlay. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
iOS/Home canvas: replace floating controls with a docked toolbar, make the bundled home scaffold adapt to smaller phones, and open chat in the resolved main session instead of a synthetic ios session. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
macOS/chat UI: add a chat model picker, persist explicit thinking-level selections across relaunch, and harden provider-aware session model sync for the shared chat composer. (#42314) Thanks @ImLukeF.
Onboarding/Ollama: add first-class Ollama setup with Local or Cloud + Local modes, browser-based cloud sign-in, curated model suggestions, and cloud-model handling that skips unnecessary local pulls. (#41529) Thanks @BruceMacD.
OpenCode/onboarding: add new OpenCode Go provider, treat Zen and Go as one OpenCode setup in the wizard/docs while keeping the runtime providers split, store one shared OpenCode key for both profiles, and stop overriding the built-in opencode-go catalog routing. (#42313) Thanks @ImLukeF and @vincentkoc.
Memory: add opt-in multimodal image and audio indexing for memorySearch.extraPaths with Gemini gemini-embedding-2-preview, strict fallback gating, and scope-based reindexing. (#43460) Thanks @gumadeiras.
Memory/Gemini: add gemini-embedding-2-preview memory-search support with configurable output dimensions and automatic reindexing when the configured dimensions change. (#42501) Thanks @BillChirico and @gumadeiras.
macOS/onboarding: detect when remote gateways need a shared auth token, explain where to find it on the gateway host, and clarify when a successful check used paired-device auth instead. (#43100) Thanks @ngutman.
Discord/auto threads: add autoArchiveDuration channel config for auto-created threads so Discord thread archiving can stay at 1 hour, 1 day, 3 days, or 1 week instead of always using the 1-hour default. (#35065) Thanks @davidguttman.
iOS/TestFlight: add a local beta release flow with Fastlane prepare/archive/upload support, canonical beta bundle IDs, and watch-app archive fixes. (#42991) Thanks @ngutman.
ACP/sessions_spawn: add optional resumeSessionId for runtime: "acp" so spawned ACP sessions can resume an existing ACPX/Codex conversation instead of always starting fresh. (#41847) Thanks @pejmanjohn.
Gateway/node pending work: add narrow in-memory pending-work queue primitives (node.pending.enqueue / node.pending.drain) and wake-helper reuse as a foundation for dormant-node work delivery. (#41409) Thanks @mbelinky.
Git/runtime state: ignore the gateway-generated .dev-state file so local runtime state does not show up as untracked repo noise. (#41848) Thanks @smysle.
Exec/child commands: mark child command environments with OPENCLAW_CLI so subprocesses can detect when they were launched from the OpenClaw CLI. (#41411) Thanks @vincentkoc.

Breaking

Cron/doctor: tighten isolated cron delivery so cron jobs can no longer notify through ad hoc agent sends or fallback main-session summaries, and add openclaw doctor --fix migration for legacy cron storage and legacy notify/webhook delivery metadata. (#40998) Thanks @mbelinky.

Fixes

Agents/text sanitization: strip leaked model control tokens (<|...|> and full-width <｜...｜> variants) from user-facing assistant text, preventing GLM-5 and DeepSeek internal delimiters from reaching end users. (#42173) Thanks @imwyvern.
iOS/gateway foreground recovery: reconnect immediately on foreground return after stale background sockets are torn down, so the app no longer stays disconnected until a later wake path happens. (#41384) Thanks @mbelinky.
Gateway/Control UI: keep dashboard auth tokens in session-scoped browser storage so same-tab refreshes preserve remote token auth without restoring long-lived localStorage token persistence, while scoping tokens to the selected gateway URL and fragment-only bootstrap flow. (#40892) thanks @velvet-shark.
Gateway/macOS launchd restarts: keep the LaunchAgent registered during explicit restarts, hand off self-restarts through a detached launchd helper, and recover config/hot reload restart paths without unloading the service. Fixes #43311, #43406, #43035, and #43049.
macOS/LaunchAgent install: tighten LaunchAgent directory and plist permissions during install so launchd bootstrap does not fail when the target home path or generated plist inherited group/world-writable modes.
Discord/reply chunking: resolve the effective maxLinesPerMessage config across live reply paths and preserve chunkMode in the fast send path so long Discord replies no longer split unexpectedly at the default 17-line limit. (#40133) thanks @rbutera.
Feishu/local image auto-convert: pass mediaLocalRoots through the sendText local-image shim so allowed local image paths upload as Feishu images again instead of falling back to raw path text. (#40623) Thanks @ayanesakura.
Models/Kimi Coding: send anthropic-messages tools in native Anthropic format again so kimi-coding stops degrading tool calls into XML/plain-text pseudo invocations instead of real tool_use blocks. (#38669, #39907, #40552) Thanks @opriz.
Telegram/outbound HTML sends: chunk long HTML-mode messages, preserve plain-text fallback and silent-delivery params across retries, and cut over to plain text when HTML chunk planning cannot safely preserve the full message. (#42240) thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/final preview delivery: split active preview lifecycle from cleanup retention so missing archived preview edits avoid duplicate fallback sends without clearing the live preview or blocking later in-place finalization. (#41662) thanks @hougangdev.
Telegram/final preview delivery followup: keep ambiguous missing-message_id finals only when a preview was already visible, while first-preview/no-id cases still fall back so Telegram users do not lose the final reply. (#41932) thanks @hougangdev.
Telegram/final preview cleanup follow-up: clear stale cleanup-retain state only for transient preview finals so archived-preview retains no longer leave a stale partial bubble beside a later fallback-sent final. (#41763) Thanks @obviyus.
Gateway/auth: allow one trusted device-token retry on shared-token mismatch with recovery hints to prevent reconnect churn during token drift. (#42507) Thanks @joshavant.
Gateway/config errors: surface up to three validation issues in top-level config.set, config.patch, and config.apply error messages while preserving structured issue details. (#42664) Thanks @huntharo.
Agents/Azure OpenAI Responses: include the azure-openai provider in the Responses API store override so Azure OpenAI multi-turn cron jobs and embedded agent runs no longer fail with HTTP 400 "store is set to false". (#42934, fixes #42800) Thanks @ademczuk.
Agents/error rendering: ignore stale assistant errorMessage fields on successful turns so background/tool-side failures no longer prepend synthetic billing errors over valid replies. (#40616) Thanks @ingyukoh.
Agents/billing recovery: probe single-provider billing cooldowns on the existing throttle so topping up credits can recover without a manual gateway restart. (#41422) thanks @altaywtf.
Agents/fallback: treat HTTP 499 responses as transient in both raw-text and structured failover paths so Anthropic-style client-closed overload responses trigger model fallback reliably. (#41468) thanks @zeroasterisk.
Agents/fallback: recognize Venice 402 Insufficient USD or Diem balance billing errors so configured model fallbacks trigger instead of surfacing the raw provider error. (#43205) Thanks @Squabble9.
Agents/fallback: recognize Poe 402 You've used up your points! billing errors so configured model fallbacks trigger instead of surfacing the raw provider error. (#42278) Thanks @CryUshio.
Agents/failover: treat Gemini MALFORMED_RESPONSE stop reasons as retryable timeouts so preview-model enum drift falls back cleanly instead of crashing the run, without also reclassifying malformed function-call errors. (#42292) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
Agents/cooldowns: default cooldown windows with no recorded failure history to unknown instead of rate_limit, avoiding false API rate-limit warnings while preserving cooldown recovery probes. (#42911) Thanks @VibhorGautam.
Auth/cooldowns: reset expired auth-profile cooldown error counters before computing the next backoff so stale on-disk counters do not re-escalate into long cooldown loops after expiry. (#41028) thanks @zerone0x.
Agents/memory flush: forward memoryFlushWritePath through runEmbeddedPiAgent so memory-triggered flush turns keep the append-only write guard without aborting before tool setup. Follows up on #38574. (#41761) Thanks @frankekn.
Agents/context pruning: prune image-only tool results during soft-trim, align context-pruning coverage with the new tool-result contract, and extend historical image cleanup to the same screenshot-heavy session path. (#43045) Thanks @MoerAI.
Sessions/reset model recompute: clear stale runtime model, context-token, and system-prompt metadata before session resets recompute the replacement session, so resets pick up current defaults and explicit overrides instead of reusing old runtime model state. (#41173) thanks @PonyX-lab.
Channels/allowlists: remove stale matcher caching so same-array allowlist edits and wildcard replacements take effect immediately, with regression coverage for in-place mutation cases.
Discord/Telegram outbound runtime config: thread runtime-resolved config through Discord and Telegram send paths so SecretRef-based credentials stay resolved during message delivery. (#42352) Thanks @joshavant.
Tools/web search: treat Brave llm-context grounding snippets as plain strings so web_search no longer returns empty snippet arrays in LLM Context mode. (#41387) thanks @zheliu2.
Tools/web search: recover OpenRouter Perplexity citation extraction from message.annotations when chat-completions responses omit top-level citations. (#40881) Thanks @laurieluo.
CLI/skills JSON: strip ANSI and C1 control bytes from skills list --json, skills info --json, and skills check --json so machine-readable output stays valid for terminals and skill metadata with embedded control characters. Fixes #27530. Related #27557. Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo and @vincentkoc.
CLI/tables: default shared tables to ASCII borders on legacy Windows consoles while keeping Unicode borders on modern Windows terminals, so commands like openclaw skills stop rendering mojibake under GBK/936 consoles. Fixes #40853. Related #41015. Thanks @ApacheBin and @vincentkoc.
CLI/memory teardown: close cached memory search/index managers in the one-shot CLI shutdown path so watcher-backed memory caches no longer keep completed CLI runs alive after output finishes. (#40389) thanks @Julbarth.
Control UI/Sessions: restore single-column session table collapse on narrow viewport or container widths by moving the responsive table override next to the base grid rule and enabling inline-size container queries. (#12175) Thanks @benjipeng.
Telegram/network env-proxy: apply configured transport policy to proxied HTTPS dispatchers as well as direct NO_PROXY bypasses, so resolver-scoped IPv4 fallback and network settings work consistently for env-proxied Telegram traffic. (#40740) Thanks @sircrumpet.
Mattermost/Markdown formatting: preserve first-line indentation when stripping bot mentions so nested list items and indented code blocks keep their structure, and render Mattermost tables natively by default instead of fenced-code fallback. (#18655) thanks @echo931.
Mattermost/plugin send actions: normalize direct replyTo fallback handling so threaded plugin sends trim blank IDs and reuse the correct reply target again. (#41176) Thanks @hnykda.
MS Teams/allowlist resolution: use the General channel conversation ID as the resolved team key (with Graph GUID fallback) so Bot Framework runtime channelData.team.id matching works for team and team/channel allowlist entries. (#41838) Thanks @BradGroux.
Signal/config schema: accept channels.signal.accountUuid in strict config validation so loop-protection configs no longer fail with an unrecognized-key error. (#35578) Thanks @ingyukoh.
Telegram/config schema: accept channels.telegram.actions.editMessage and createForumTopic in strict config validation so existing Telegram action toggles no longer fail as unrecognized keys. (#35498) Thanks @ingyukoh.
Telegram/docs: clarify that channels.telegram.groups allowlists chats while groupAllowFrom allowlists users inside those chats, and point invalid negative chat IDs at the right config key. (#42451) Thanks @altaywtf.
Discord/config typing: expose channel-level autoThread on the canonical guild-channel config type so strict config loading matches the existing Discord schema and runtime behavior. (#35608) Thanks @ingyukoh.
fix(models): guard optional model.input capability checks (#42096) thanks @andyliu
Models/Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: wire MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY through shared env auth, implicit provider discovery, and shell-env fallback so onboarding works outside the wizard too. (#40634) Thanks @pomelo-nwu.
Resolve web tool SecretRefs atomically at runtime. (#41599) Thanks @joshavant.
Secret files: harden CLI and channel credential file reads against path-swap races by requiring direct regular files for *File secret inputs and rejecting symlink-backed secret files.
Archive extraction: harden TAR and external tar.bz2 installs against destination symlink and pre-existing child-symlink escapes by extracting into staging first and merging into the canonical destination with safe file opens.
Secrets/SecretRef: reject exec SecretRef traversal ids across schema, runtime, and gateway. (#42370) Thanks @joshavant.
Sandbox/fs bridge: pin staged writes to verified parent directories so temporary write files cannot materialize outside the allowed mount before atomic replace. Thanks @tdjackey.
Gateway/auth: fail closed when local gateway.auth.* SecretRefs are configured but unavailable, instead of silently falling back to gateway.remote.* credentials in local mode. (#42672) Thanks @joshavant.
Commands/config writes: enforce configWrites against both the originating account and the targeted account scope for /config and config-backed /allowlist edits, blocking sibling-account mutations while preserving gateway operator.admin flows. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Security/system.run: fail closed for approval-backed interpreter/runtime commands when OpenClaw cannot bind exactly one concrete local file operand, while extending best-effort direct-file binding to additional runtime forms. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Gateway/session reset auth: split conversation /new and /reset handling away from the admin-only sessions.reset control-plane RPC so write-scoped gateway callers can no longer reach the privileged reset path through agent. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Security/plugin runtime: stop unauthenticated plugin HTTP routes from inheriting synthetic admin gateway scopes when they call runtime.subagent.*, so admin-only methods like sessions.delete stay blocked without gateway auth.
Security/session_status: enforce sandbox session-tree visibility and shared agent-to-agent access guards before reading or mutating target session state, so sandboxed subagents can no longer inspect parent session metadata or write parent model overrides via session_status.
Security/nodes: treat the nodes agent tool as owner-only fallback policy so non-owner senders cannot reach paired-node approval or invoke paths through the shared tool set.
Security/external content: treat whitespace-delimited EXTERNAL UNTRUSTED CONTENT boundary markers like underscore-delimited variants so prompt wrappers cannot bypass marker sanitization. (#35983) Thanks @urianpaul94.
Telegram/exec approvals: reject /approve commands aimed at other bots, keep deterministic approval prompts visible when tool-result delivery fails, and stop resolved exact IDs from matching other pending approvals by prefix. (#37233) Thanks @huntharo.
Subagents/authority: persist leaf vs orchestrator control scope at spawn time and route tool plus slash-command control through shared ownership checks, so leaf sessions cannot regain orchestration privileges after restore or flat-key lookups. Thanks @tdjackey.
ACP/ACPX plugin: bump the bundled acpx pin to 0.1.16 so plugin-local installs and strict version checks match the latest published CLI. (#41975) Thanks @dutifulbob.
ACP/sessions.patch: allow spawnedBy and spawnDepth lineage fields on ACP session keys so sessions_spawn with runtime: "acp" no longer fails during child-session setup. Fixes #40971. (#40995) thanks @xaeon2026.
ACP/stop reason mapping: resolve gateway chat state: "error" completions as ACP end_turn instead of refusal so transient backend failures are not surfaced as deliberate refusals. (#41187) thanks @pejmanjohn.
ACP/setSessionMode: propagate gateway sessions.patch failures back to ACP clients so rejected mode changes no longer return silent success. (#41185) thanks @pejmanjohn.
ACP/bridge mode: reject unsupported per-session MCP server setup and propagate rejected session-mode changes so IDE clients see explicit bridge limitations instead of silent success. (#41424) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/session UX: replay stored user and assistant text on loadSession, expose Gateway-backed session controls and metadata, and emit approximate session usage updates so IDE clients restore context more faithfully. (#41425) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/tool streaming: enrich tool_call and tool_call_update events with best-effort text content and file-location hints so IDE clients can follow bridge tool activity more naturally. (#41442) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/runtime attachments: forward normalized inbound image attachments into ACP runtime turns so ACPX sessions can preserve image prompt content on the runtime path. (#41427) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/regressions: add gateway RPC coverage for ACP lineage patching, ACPX runtime coverage for image prompt serialization, and an operator smoke-test procedure for live ACP spawn verification. (#41456) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/follow-up hardening: make session restore and prompt completion degrade gracefully on transcript/update failures, enforce bounded tool-location traversal, and skip non-image ACPX turns the runtime cannot serialize. (#41464) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/sessions_spawn: implicitly stream mode="run" ACP spawns to parent only for eligible subagent orchestrator sessions (heartbeat target: "last" with a usable session-local route), restoring parent progress relays without thread binding. (#42404) Thanks @davidguttman.
ACP/main session aliases: canonicalize main before ACP session lookup so restarted ACP main sessions rehydrate instead of failing closed with Session is not ACP-enabled: main. (#43285, fixes #25692)
Plugins/context-engine model auth: expose runtime.modelAuth and plugin-sdk auth helpers so plugins can resolve provider/model API keys through the normal auth pipeline. (#41090) thanks @xinhuagu.
Hooks/plugin context parity followup: pass trigger and channelId through embedded llm_input, agent_end, and llm_output hook contexts so plugins receive the same agent metadata across hook phases. (#42362) Thanks @zhoulf1006.
Plugins/global hook runner: harden singleton state handling so shared global hook runner reuse does not leak or corrupt runner state across executions. (#40184) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Context engine/tests: add bundled-registry regression coverage for cross-chunk resolution, plugin-sdk re-exports, and concurrent chunk registration. (#40460) thanks @dsantoreis.
Agents/embedded runner: bound compaction retry waiting and drain embedded runs during SIGUSR1 restart so session lanes recover instead of staying blocked behind compaction. (#40324) thanks @cgdusek.
Agents/embedded logs: add structured, sanitized lifecycle and failover observation events so overload and provider failures are easier to tail and filter. (#41336) thanks @altaywtf.
Agents/embedded overload logs: include the failing model and provider in error-path console output, with lifecycle regression coverage for the rendered and sanitized consoleMessage. (#41236) thanks @jiarung.
Agents/fallback observability: add structured, sanitized model-fallback decision and auth-profile failure-state events with correlated run IDs so cooldown probes and failover paths are easier to trace in logs. (#41337) thanks @altaywtf.
Logging/probe observations: suppress structured embedded and model-fallback probe warnings on the console without hiding error or fatal output. (#41338) thanks @altaywtf.
Agents/context-engine compaction: guard thrown engine-owned overflow compaction attempts and fire compaction hooks for ownsCompaction engines so overflow recovery no longer crashes and plugin subscribers still observe compact runs. (#41361) thanks @davidrudduck.
Gateway/node pending drain followup: keep hasMore true when the deferred baseline status item still needs delivery, and avoid allocating empty pending-work state for drain-only nodes with no queued work. (#41429) Thanks @mbelinky.
Protocol/Swift model sync: regenerate pending node work Swift bindings after the landed node.pending.* schema additions so generated protocol artifacts are consistent again. (#41477) Thanks @mbelinky.
Cron/subagent followup: do not misclassify empty or NO_REPLY cron responses as interim acknowledgements that need a rerun, so deliberately silent cron jobs are no longer retried. (#41383) thanks @jackal092927.
Cron/state errors: record lastErrorReason in cron job state and keep the gateway schema aligned with the full failover-reason set, including regression coverage for protocol conformance. (#14382) thanks @futuremind2026.
Browser/Browserbase 429 handling: surface stable no-retry rate-limit guidance without buffering discarded HTTP 429 response bodies from remote browser services. (#40491) thanks @mvanhorn.
CI/CodeQL Swift toolchain: select Xcode 26.1 before installing Swift build tools so the CodeQL Swift job uses Swift tools 6.2 on macos-latest. (#41787) thanks @BunsDev.
Sandbox/subagents: pass the real configured workspace through sessions_spawn inheritance when a parent agent runs in a copied-workspace sandbox, so child /agent mounts point at the configured workspace instead of the parent sandbox copy. (#40757) Thanks @dsantoreis.
Agents/fallback cooldown probing: cap cooldown-bypass probing to one attempt per provider per fallback run so multi-model same-provider cooldown chains can continue to cross-provider fallbacks instead of repeatedly stalling on duplicate cooldown probes. (#41711) Thanks @cgdusek.
Telegram/direct delivery: bridge direct delivery sends to internal message:sent hooks so internal hook listeners observe successful Telegram deliveries. (#40185) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Dependencies: refresh workspace dependencies except the pinned Carbon package, and harden ACP session-config writes against non-string SDK values so newer ACP clients fail fast instead of tripping type/runtime mismatches.
Telegram/polling restarts: clear bounded cleanup timeout handles after runner.stop() and bot.stop() settle so stall recovery no longer leaves stray 15-second timers behind on clean shutdown. (#43188) thanks @kyohwang.

openclaw 2026.3.11-beta.1

2026-03-12T04:23:40Z

Security

Gateway/WebSocket: enforce browser origin validation for all browser-originated connections regardless of whether proxy headers are present, closing a cross-site WebSocket hijacking path in trusted-proxy mode that could grant untrusted origins operator.admin access. (GHSA-5wcw-8jjv-m286)

Changes

OpenRouter/models: add temporary Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha entries to the built-in catalog so OpenRouter users can try the new free stealth models during their roughly one-week availability window. (#43642) Thanks @ping-Toven.
iOS/Home canvas: add a bundled welcome screen with a live agent overview that refreshes on connect, reconnect, and foreground return, and move the compact connection pill off the top-left canvas overlay. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
iOS/Home canvas: replace floating controls with a docked toolbar, make the bundled home scaffold adapt to smaller phones, and open chat in the resolved main session instead of a synthetic ios session. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
macOS/chat UI: add a chat model picker, persist explicit thinking-level selections across relaunch, and harden provider-aware session model sync for the shared chat composer. (#42314) Thanks @ImLukeF.
Onboarding/Ollama: add first-class Ollama setup with Local or Cloud + Local modes, browser-based cloud sign-in, curated model suggestions, and cloud-model handling that skips unnecessary local pulls. (#41529) Thanks @BruceMacD.
OpenCode/onboarding: add new OpenCode Go provider, treat Zen and Go as one OpenCode setup in the wizard/docs while keeping the runtime providers split, store one shared OpenCode key for both profiles, and stop overriding the built-in opencode-go catalog routing. (#42313) Thanks @ImLukeF and @vincentkoc.
Memory: add opt-in multimodal image and audio indexing for memorySearch.extraPaths with Gemini gemini-embedding-2-preview, strict fallback gating, and scope-based reindexing. (#43460) Thanks @gumadeiras.
Memory/Gemini: add gemini-embedding-2-preview memory-search support with configurable output dimensions and automatic reindexing when the configured dimensions change. (#42501) Thanks @BillChirico and @gumadeiras.
macOS/onboarding: detect when remote gateways need a shared auth token, explain where to find it on the gateway host, and clarify when a successful check used paired-device auth instead. (#43100) Thanks @ngutman.
Discord/auto threads: add autoArchiveDuration channel config for auto-created threads so Discord thread archiving can stay at 1 hour, 1 day, 3 days, or 1 week instead of always using the 1-hour default. (#35065) Thanks @davidguttman.
iOS/TestFlight: add a local beta release flow with Fastlane prepare/archive/upload support, canonical beta bundle IDs, and watch-app archive fixes. (#42991) Thanks @ngutman.
ACP/sessions_spawn: add optional resumeSessionId for runtime: "acp" so spawned ACP sessions can resume an existing ACPX/Codex conversation instead of always starting fresh. (#41847) Thanks @pejmanjohn.
Gateway/node pending work: add narrow in-memory pending-work queue primitives (node.pending.enqueue / node.pending.drain) and wake-helper reuse as a foundation for dormant-node work delivery. (#41409) Thanks @mbelinky.
Git/runtime state: ignore the gateway-generated .dev-state file so local runtime state does not show up as untracked repo noise. (#41848) Thanks @smysle.
Exec/child commands: mark child command environments with OPENCLAW_CLI so subprocesses can detect when they were launched from the OpenClaw CLI. (#41411) Thanks @vincentkoc.

Breaking

Cron/doctor: tighten isolated cron delivery so cron jobs can no longer notify through ad hoc agent sends or fallback main-session summaries, and add openclaw doctor --fix migration for legacy cron storage and legacy notify/webhook delivery metadata. (#40998) Thanks @mbelinky.

Fixes

Agents/text sanitization: strip leaked model control tokens (<|...|> and full-width <｜...｜> variants) from user-facing assistant text, preventing GLM-5 and DeepSeek internal delimiters from reaching end users. (#42173) Thanks @imwyvern.
iOS/gateway foreground recovery: reconnect immediately on foreground return after stale background sockets are torn down, so the app no longer stays disconnected until a later wake path happens. (#41384) Thanks @mbelinky.
Gateway/Control UI: keep dashboard auth tokens in session-scoped browser storage so same-tab refreshes preserve remote token auth without restoring long-lived localStorage token persistence, while scoping tokens to the selected gateway URL and fragment-only bootstrap flow. (#40892) thanks @velvet-shark.
Gateway/macOS launchd restarts: keep the LaunchAgent registered during explicit restarts, hand off self-restarts through a detached launchd helper, and recover config/hot reload restart paths without unloading the service. Fixes #43311, #43406, #43035, and #43049.
macOS/LaunchAgent install: tighten LaunchAgent directory and plist permissions during install so launchd bootstrap does not fail when the target home path or generated plist inherited group/world-writable modes.
Discord/reply chunking: resolve the effective maxLinesPerMessage config across live reply paths and preserve chunkMode in the fast send path so long Discord replies no longer split unexpectedly at the default 17-line limit. (#40133) thanks @rbutera.
Feishu/local image auto-convert: pass mediaLocalRoots through the sendText local-image shim so allowed local image paths upload as Feishu images again instead of falling back to raw path text. (#40623) Thanks @ayanesakura.
Models/Kimi Coding: send anthropic-messages tools in native Anthropic format again so kimi-coding stops degrading tool calls into XML/plain-text pseudo invocations instead of real tool_use blocks. (#38669, #39907, #40552) Thanks @opriz.
Telegram/outbound HTML sends: chunk long HTML-mode messages, preserve plain-text fallback and silent-delivery params across retries, and cut over to plain text when HTML chunk planning cannot safely preserve the full message. (#42240) thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/final preview delivery: split active preview lifecycle from cleanup retention so missing archived preview edits avoid duplicate fallback sends without clearing the live preview or blocking later in-place finalization. (#41662) thanks @hougangdev.
Telegram/final preview delivery followup: keep ambiguous missing-message_id finals only when a preview was already visible, while first-preview/no-id cases still fall back so Telegram users do not lose the final reply. (#41932) thanks @hougangdev.
Telegram/final preview cleanup follow-up: clear stale cleanup-retain state only for transient preview finals so archived-preview retains no longer leave a stale partial bubble beside a later fallback-sent final. (#41763) Thanks @obviyus.
Gateway/auth: allow one trusted device-token retry on shared-token mismatch with recovery hints to prevent reconnect churn during token drift. (#42507) Thanks @joshavant.
Gateway/config errors: surface up to three validation issues in top-level config.set, config.patch, and config.apply error messages while preserving structured issue details. (#42664) Thanks @huntharo.
Agents/Azure OpenAI Responses: include the azure-openai provider in the Responses API store override so Azure OpenAI multi-turn cron jobs and embedded agent runs no longer fail with HTTP 400 "store is set to false". (#42934, fixes #42800) Thanks @ademczuk.
Agents/error rendering: ignore stale assistant errorMessage fields on successful turns so background/tool-side failures no longer prepend synthetic billing errors over valid replies. (#40616) Thanks @ingyukoh.
Agents/billing recovery: probe single-provider billing cooldowns on the existing throttle so topping up credits can recover without a manual gateway restart. (#41422) thanks @altaywtf.
Agents/fallback: treat HTTP 499 responses as transient in both raw-text and structured failover paths so Anthropic-style client-closed overload responses trigger model fallback reliably. (#41468) thanks @zeroasterisk.
Agents/fallback: recognize Venice 402 Insufficient USD or Diem balance billing errors so configured model fallbacks trigger instead of surfacing the raw provider error. (#43205) Thanks @Squabble9.
Agents/fallback: recognize Poe 402 You've used up your points! billing errors so configured model fallbacks trigger instead of surfacing the raw provider error. (#42278) Thanks @CryUshio.
Agents/failover: treat Gemini MALFORMED_RESPONSE stop reasons as retryable timeouts so preview-model enum drift falls back cleanly instead of crashing the run, without also reclassifying malformed function-call errors. (#42292) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
Agents/cooldowns: default cooldown windows with no recorded failure history to unknown instead of rate_limit, avoiding false API rate-limit warnings while preserving cooldown recovery probes. (#42911) Thanks @VibhorGautam.
Auth/cooldowns: reset expired auth-profile cooldown error counters before computing the next backoff so stale on-disk counters do not re-escalate into long cooldown loops after expiry. (#41028) thanks @zerone0x.
Agents/memory flush: forward memoryFlushWritePath through runEmbeddedPiAgent so memory-triggered flush turns keep the append-only write guard without aborting before tool setup. Follows up on #38574. (#41761) Thanks @frankekn.
Agents/context pruning: prune image-only tool results during soft-trim, align context-pruning coverage with the new tool-result contract, and extend historical image cleanup to the same screenshot-heavy session path. (#43045) Thanks @MoerAI.
Sessions/reset model recompute: clear stale runtime model, context-token, and system-prompt metadata before session resets recompute the replacement session, so resets pick up current defaults and explicit overrides instead of reusing old runtime model state. (#41173) thanks @PonyX-lab.
Channels/allowlists: remove stale matcher caching so same-array allowlist edits and wildcard replacements take effect immediately, with regression coverage for in-place mutation cases.
Discord/Telegram outbound runtime config: thread runtime-resolved config through Discord and Telegram send paths so SecretRef-based credentials stay resolved during message delivery. (#42352) Thanks @joshavant.
Tools/web search: treat Brave llm-context grounding snippets as plain strings so web_search no longer returns empty snippet arrays in LLM Context mode. (#41387) thanks @zheliu2.
Tools/web search: recover OpenRouter Perplexity citation extraction from message.annotations when chat-completions responses omit top-level citations. (#40881) Thanks @laurieluo.
CLI/skills JSON: strip ANSI and C1 control bytes from skills list --json, skills info --json, and skills check --json so machine-readable output stays valid for terminals and skill metadata with embedded control characters. Fixes #27530. Related #27557. Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo and @vincentkoc.
CLI/tables: default shared tables to ASCII borders on legacy Windows consoles while keeping Unicode borders on modern Windows terminals, so commands like openclaw skills stop rendering mojibake under GBK/936 consoles. Fixes #40853. Related #41015. Thanks @ApacheBin and @vincentkoc.
CLI/memory teardown: close cached memory search/index managers in the one-shot CLI shutdown path so watcher-backed memory caches no longer keep completed CLI runs alive after output finishes. (#40389) thanks @Julbarth.
Control UI/Sessions: restore single-column session table collapse on narrow viewport or container widths by moving the responsive table override next to the base grid rule and enabling inline-size container queries. (#12175) Thanks @benjipeng.
Telegram/network env-proxy: apply configured transport policy to proxied HTTPS dispatchers as well as direct NO_PROXY bypasses, so resolver-scoped IPv4 fallback and network settings work consistently for env-proxied Telegram traffic. (#40740) Thanks @sircrumpet.
Mattermost/Markdown formatting: preserve first-line indentation when stripping bot mentions so nested list items and indented code blocks keep their structure, and render Mattermost tables natively by default instead of fenced-code fallback. (#18655) thanks @echo931.
Mattermost/plugin send actions: normalize direct replyTo fallback handling so threaded plugin sends trim blank IDs and reuse the correct reply target again. (#41176) Thanks @hnykda.
MS Teams/allowlist resolution: use the General channel conversation ID as the resolved team key (with Graph GUID fallback) so Bot Framework runtime channelData.team.id matching works for team and team/channel allowlist entries. (#41838) Thanks @BradGroux.
Signal/config schema: accept channels.signal.accountUuid in strict config validation so loop-protection configs no longer fail with an unrecognized-key error. (#35578) Thanks @ingyukoh.
Telegram/config schema: accept channels.telegram.actions.editMessage and createForumTopic in strict config validation so existing Telegram action toggles no longer fail as unrecognized keys. (#35498) Thanks @ingyukoh.
Telegram/docs: clarify that channels.telegram.groups allowlists chats while groupAllowFrom allowlists users inside those chats, and point invalid negative chat IDs at the right config key. (#42451) Thanks @altaywtf.
Discord/config typing: expose channel-level autoThread on the canonical guild-channel config type so strict config loading matches the existing Discord schema and runtime behavior. (#35608) Thanks @ingyukoh.
fix(models): guard optional model.input capability checks (#42096) thanks @andyliu
Models/Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: wire MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY through shared env auth, implicit provider discovery, and shell-env fallback so onboarding works outside the wizard too. (#40634) Thanks @pomelo-nwu.
Resolve web tool SecretRefs atomically at runtime. (#41599) Thanks @joshavant.
Secret files: harden CLI and channel credential file reads against path-swap races by requiring direct regular files for *File secret inputs and rejecting symlink-backed secret files.
Archive extraction: harden TAR and external tar.bz2 installs against destination symlink and pre-existing child-symlink escapes by extracting into staging first and merging into the canonical destination with safe file opens.
Secrets/SecretRef: reject exec SecretRef traversal ids across schema, runtime, and gateway. (#42370) Thanks @joshavant.
Sandbox/fs bridge: pin staged writes to verified parent directories so temporary write files cannot materialize outside the allowed mount before atomic replace. Thanks @tdjackey.
Gateway/auth: fail closed when local gateway.auth.* SecretRefs are configured but unavailable, instead of silently falling back to gateway.remote.* credentials in local mode. (#42672) Thanks @joshavant.
Commands/config writes: enforce configWrites against both the originating account and the targeted account scope for /config and config-backed /allowlist edits, blocking sibling-account mutations while preserving gateway operator.admin flows. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Security/system.run: fail closed for approval-backed interpreter/runtime commands when OpenClaw cannot bind exactly one concrete local file operand, while extending best-effort direct-file binding to additional runtime forms. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Gateway/session reset auth: split conversation /new and /reset handling away from the admin-only sessions.reset control-plane RPC so write-scoped gateway callers can no longer reach the privileged reset path through agent. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Security/plugin runtime: stop unauthenticated plugin HTTP routes from inheriting synthetic admin gateway scopes when they call runtime.subagent.*, so admin-only methods like sessions.delete stay blocked without gateway auth.
Security/session_status: enforce sandbox session-tree visibility and shared agent-to-agent access guards before reading or mutating target session state, so sandboxed subagents can no longer inspect parent session metadata or write parent model overrides via session_status.
Security/nodes: treat the nodes agent tool as owner-only fallback policy so non-owner senders cannot reach paired-node approval or invoke paths through the shared tool set.
Security/external content: treat whitespace-delimited EXTERNAL UNTRUSTED CONTENT boundary markers like underscore-delimited variants so prompt wrappers cannot bypass marker sanitization. (#35983) Thanks @urianpaul94.
Telegram/exec approvals: reject /approve commands aimed at other bots, keep deterministic approval prompts visible when tool-result delivery fails, and stop resolved exact IDs from matching other pending approvals by prefix. (#37233) Thanks @huntharo.
Subagents/authority: persist leaf vs orchestrator control scope at spawn time and route tool plus slash-command control through shared ownership checks, so leaf sessions cannot regain orchestration privileges after restore or flat-key lookups. Thanks @tdjackey.
ACP/ACPX plugin: bump the bundled acpx pin to 0.1.16 so plugin-local installs and strict version checks match the latest published CLI. (#41975) Thanks @dutifulbob.
ACP/sessions.patch: allow spawnedBy and spawnDepth lineage fields on ACP session keys so sessions_spawn with runtime: "acp" no longer fails during child-session setup. Fixes #40971. (#40995) thanks @xaeon2026.
ACP/stop reason mapping: resolve gateway chat state: "error" completions as ACP end_turn instead of refusal so transient backend failures are not surfaced as deliberate refusals. (#41187) thanks @pejmanjohn.
ACP/setSessionMode: propagate gateway sessions.patch failures back to ACP clients so rejected mode changes no longer return silent success. (#41185) thanks @pejmanjohn.
ACP/bridge mode: reject unsupported per-session MCP server setup and propagate rejected session-mode changes so IDE clients see explicit bridge limitations instead of silent success. (#41424) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/session UX: replay stored user and assistant text on loadSession, expose Gateway-backed session controls and metadata, and emit approximate session usage updates so IDE clients restore context more faithfully. (#41425) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/tool streaming: enrich tool_call and tool_call_update events with best-effort text content and file-location hints so IDE clients can follow bridge tool activity more naturally. (#41442) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/runtime attachments: forward normalized inbound image attachments into ACP runtime turns so ACPX sessions can preserve image prompt content on the runtime path. (#41427) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/regressions: add gateway RPC coverage for ACP lineage patching, ACPX runtime coverage for image prompt serialization, and an operator smoke-test procedure for live ACP spawn verification. (#41456) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/follow-up hardening: make session restore and prompt completion degrade gracefully on transcript/update failures, enforce bounded tool-location traversal, and skip non-image ACPX turns the runtime cannot serialize. (#41464) Thanks @mbelinky.
ACP/sessions_spawn: implicitly stream mode="run" ACP spawns to parent only for eligible subagent orchestrator sessions (heartbeat target: "last" with a usable session-local route), restoring parent progress relays without thread binding. (#42404) Thanks @davidguttman.
ACP/main session aliases: canonicalize main before ACP session lookup so restarted ACP main sessions rehydrate instead of failing closed with Session is not ACP-enabled: main. (#43285, fixes #25692)
Plugins/context-engine model auth: expose runtime.modelAuth and plugin-sdk auth helpers so plugins can resolve provider/model API keys through the normal auth pipeline. (#41090) thanks @xinhuagu.
Hooks/plugin context parity followup: pass trigger and channelId through embedded llm_input, agent_end, and llm_output hook contexts so plugins receive the same agent metadata across hook phases. (#42362) Thanks @zhoulf1006.
Plugins/global hook runner: harden singleton state handling so shared global hook runner reuse does not leak or corrupt runner state across executions. (#40184) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Context engine/tests: add bundled-registry regression coverage for cross-chunk resolution, plugin-sdk re-exports, and concurrent chunk registration. (#40460) thanks @dsantoreis.
Agents/embedded runner: bound compaction retry waiting and drain embedded runs during SIGUSR1 restart so session lanes recover instead of staying blocked behind compaction. (#40324) thanks @cgdusek.
Agents/embedded logs: add structured, sanitized lifecycle and failover observation events so overload and provider failures are easier to tail and filter. (#41336) thanks @altaywtf.
Agents/embedded overload logs: include the failing model and provider in error-path console output, with lifecycle regression coverage for the rendered and sanitized consoleMessage. (#41236) thanks @jiarung.
Agents/fallback observability: add structured, sanitized model-fallback decision and auth-profile failure-state events with correlated run IDs so cooldown probes and failover paths are easier to trace in logs. (#41337) thanks @altaywtf.
Logging/probe observations: suppress structured embedded and model-fallback probe warnings on the console without hiding error or fatal output. (#41338) thanks @altaywtf.
Agents/context-engine compaction: guard thrown engine-owned overflow compaction attempts and fire compaction hooks for ownsCompaction engines so overflow recovery no longer crashes and plugin subscribers still observe compact runs. (#41361) thanks @davidrudduck.
Gateway/node pending drain followup: keep hasMore true when the deferred baseline status item still needs delivery, and avoid allocating empty pending-work state for drain-only nodes with no queued work. (#41429) Thanks @mbelinky.
Protocol/Swift model sync: regenerate pending node work Swift bindings after the landed node.pending.* schema additions so generated protocol artifacts are consistent again. (#41477) Thanks @mbelinky.
Cron/subagent followup: do not misclassify empty or NO_REPLY cron responses as interim acknowledgements that need a rerun, so deliberately silent cron jobs are no longer retried. (#41383) thanks @jackal092927.
Cron/state errors: record lastErrorReason in cron job state and keep the gateway schema aligned with the full failover-reason set, including regression coverage for protocol conformance. (#14382) thanks @futuremind2026.
Browser/Browserbase 429 handling: surface stable no-retry rate-limit guidance without buffering discarded HTTP 429 response bodies from remote browser services. (#40491) thanks @mvanhorn.
CI/CodeQL Swift toolchain: select Xcode 26.1 before installing Swift build tools so the CodeQL Swift job uses Swift tools 6.2 on macos-latest. (#41787) thanks @BunsDev.
Sandbox/subagents: pass the real configured workspace through sessions_spawn inheritance when a parent agent runs in a copied-workspace sandbox, so child /agent mounts point at the configured workspace instead of the parent sandbox copy. (#40757) Thanks @dsantoreis.
Agents/fallback cooldown probing: cap cooldown-bypass probing to one attempt per provider per fallback run so multi-model same-provider cooldown chains can continue to cross-provider fallbacks instead of repeatedly stalling on duplicate cooldown probes. (#41711) Thanks @cgdusek.
Telegram/direct delivery: bridge direct delivery sends to internal message:sent hooks so internal hook listeners observe successful Telegram deliveries. (#40185) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Dependencies: refresh workspace dependencies except the pinned Carbon package, and harden ACP session-config writes against non-string SDK values so newer ACP clients fail fast instead of tripping type/runtime mismatches.
Telegram/polling restarts: clear bounded cleanup timeout handles after runner.stop() and bot.stop() settle so stall recovery no longer leaves stray 15-second timers behind on clean shutdown. (#43188) thanks @kyohwang.

openclaw 2026.3.8

2026-03-09T07:49:27Z

Mac assets on this release reuse the beta artifact line from v2026.3.8-beta.1.

Changes

CLI/backup: add openclaw backup create and openclaw backup verify for local state archives, including --only-config, --no-include-workspace, manifest/payload validation, and backup guidance in destructive flows. (#40163) thanks @shichangs.
macOS/onboarding: add a remote gateway token field for remote mode, preserve existing non-plaintext gateway.remote.token config values until explicitly replaced, and warn when the loaded token shape cannot be used directly from the macOS app. (#40187, supersedes #34614) Thanks @cgdusek.
Talk mode: add top-level talk.silenceTimeoutMs config so Talk waits a configurable amount of silence before auto-sending the current transcript, while keeping each platform's existing default pause window when unset. (#39607) Thanks @danodoesdesign. Fixes #17147.
TUI: infer the active agent from the current workspace when launched inside a configured agent workspace, while preserving explicit agent: session targets. (#39591) thanks @arceus77-7.
Tools/Brave web search: add opt-in tools.web.search.brave.mode: "llm-context" so web_search can call Brave's LLM Context endpoint and return extracted grounding snippets with source metadata, plus config/docs/test coverage. (#33383) Thanks @thirumaleshp.
CLI/install: include the short git commit hash in openclaw --version output when metadata is available, and keep installer version checks compatible with the decorated format. (#39712) thanks @sourman.
CLI/backup: improve archive naming for date sorting, add config-only backup mode, and harden backup planning, publication, and verification edge cases. (#40163) Thanks @gumadeiras.
ACP/Provenance: add optional ACP ingress provenance metadata and visible receipt injection (openclaw acp --provenance off|meta|meta+receipt) so OpenClaw agents can retain and report ACP-origin context with session trace IDs. (#40473) thanks @mbelinky.
Tools/web search: alphabetize provider ordering across runtime selection, onboarding/configure pickers, and config metadata, so provider lists stay neutral and multi-key auto-detect now prefers Grok before Kimi. (#40259) thanks @kesku.
Docs/Web search: restore $5/month free-credit details, replace defunct "Data for Search"/"Data for AI" plan names with current "Search" plan, and note legacy subscription validity in Brave setup docs. Follows up on #26860. (#40111) Thanks @remusao.
Extensions/ACPX tests: move the shared runtime fixture helper from src/runtime-internals/ to src/test-utils/ so the test-only helper no longer looks like shipped runtime code.

Fixes

Update/macOS launchd restart: re-enable disabled LaunchAgent services before updater bootstrap so openclaw update can recover from a disabled gateway service instead of leaving the restart step stuck.
macOS app/chat UI: route browser proxy through the local node browser service, preserve plain-text paste semantics, strip completed assistant trace/debug wrapper noise from transcripts, refresh permission state after returning from System Settings, and tolerate malformed cron rows in the macOS tab. (#39516) Thanks @Imhermes1.
Android/Play distribution: remove self-update, background location, screen.record, and background mic capture from the Android app, narrow the foreground service to dataSync only, and clean up the legacy location.enabledMode=always preference migration. (#39660) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/DM routing: dedupe inbound Telegram DMs per agent instead of per session key so the same DM cannot trigger duplicate replies when both agent:main:main and agent:main:telegram:direct:<id> resolve for one agent. Fixes #40005. Supersedes #40116. (#40519) thanks @obviyus.
Cron/Telegram announce delivery: route text-only announce jobs through the real outbound adapters after finalizing descendant output so plain Telegram targets no longer report delivered: true when no message actually reached Telegram. (#40575) thanks @obviyus.
Matrix/DM routing: add safer fallback detection for broken m.direct homeservers, honor explicit room bindings over DM classification, and preserve room-bound agent selection for Matrix DM rooms. (#19736) Thanks @derbronko.
Feishu/plugin onboarding: clear the short-lived plugin discovery cache before reloading the registry after installing a channel plugin, so onboarding no longer re-prompts to download Feishu immediately after a successful install. Fixes #39642. (#39752) Thanks @GazeKingNuWu.
Plugins/channel onboarding: prefer bundled channel plugins over duplicate npm-installed copies during onboarding and release-channel sync, preventing bundled plugins from being shadowed by npm installs with the same plugin ID. (#40092)
Config/runtime snapshots: keep secrets-runtime-resolved config and auth-profile snapshots intact after config writes so follow-up reads still see file-backed secret values while picking up the persisted config update. (#37313) thanks @bbblending.
Gateway/Control UI: resolve bundled dashboard assets through symlinked global wrappers and auto-detected package roots, while keeping configured and custom roots on the strict hardlink boundary. (#40385) Thanks @LarytheLord.
Browser/extension relay: add browser.relayBindHost so the Chrome relay can bind to an explicit non-loopback address for WSL2 and other cross-namespace setups, while preserving loopback-only defaults. (#39364) Thanks @mvanhorn.
Browser/CDP: normalize loopback direct WebSocket CDP URLs back to HTTP(S) for /json/* tab operations so local ws:// / wss:// profiles can still list, focus, open, and close tabs after the new direct-WS support lands. (#31085) Thanks @shrey150.
Browser/CDP: rewrite wildcard ws://0.0.0.0 and ws://[::] debugger URLs from remote /json/version responses back to the external CDP host/port, fixing Browserless-style container endpoints. (#17760) Thanks @joeharouni.
Browser/extension relay: wait briefly for a previously attached Chrome tab to reappear after transient relay drops before failing with tab not found, reducing noisy reconnect flakes. (#32461) Thanks @AaronWander.
macOS/Tailscale gateway discovery: keep Tailscale Serve probing alive when other remote gateways are already discovered, prefer direct transport for resolved .ts.net and Tailscale Serve gateways, and set TERM=dumb for GUI-launched Tailscale CLI discovery. (#40167) thanks @ngutman.
TUI/theme: detect light terminal backgrounds via COLORFGBG and pick a WCAG AA-compliant light palette, with OPENCLAW_THEME=light|dark override for terminals without auto-detection. (#38636) Thanks @ademczuk and @vincentkoc.
Agents/openai-codex: normalize gpt-5.4 fallback transport back to openai-codex-responses on chatgpt.com/backend-api when config drifts to the generic OpenAI responses endpoint. (#38736) Thanks @0xsline.
Models/openai-codex GPT-5.4 forward-compat: use the GPT-5.4 1,050,000-token context window and 128,000 max tokens for openai-codex/gpt-5.4 instead of inheriting stale legacy Codex limits in resolver fallbacks and model listing. (#37876) thanks @yuweuii.
Tools/web search: restore Perplexity OpenRouter/Sonar compatibility for legacy OPENROUTER_API_KEY, sk-or-..., and explicit perplexity.baseUrl / model setups while keeping direct Perplexity keys on the native Search API path. (#39937) Thanks @obviyus.
Agents/failover: detect Amazon Bedrock Too many tokens per day quota errors as rate limits across fallback, cron retry, and memory embeddings while keeping context-window too many tokens per request errors out of the rate-limit lane. (#39377) Thanks @gambletan.
Mattermost replies: keep root_id pinned to the existing thread root when an agent replies inside a thread, while still using reply-target threading for top-level posts. (#27744) thanks @hnykda.
Telegram/DM partial streaming: keep DM preview lanes on real message edits instead of native draft materialization so final replies no longer flash a second duplicate copy before collapsing back to one.
macOS overlays: fix VoiceWake, Talk, and Notify overlay exclusivity crashes by removing shared inout visibility mutation from OverlayPanelFactory.present, and add a repeated Talk overlay smoke test. (#39275, #39321) Thanks @fellanH.
macOS Talk Mode: set the speech recognition request taskHint to .dictation for mic capture, and add regression coverage for the request defaults. (#38445) Thanks @dmiv.
macOS release packaging: default scripts/package-mac-app.sh to universal binaries for BUILD_CONFIG=release, and clarify that scripts/package-mac-dist.sh already produces the release zip + DMG. (#33891) Thanks @cgdusek.
Hooks/session-memory: keep /new and /reset memory artifacts in the bound agent workspace and align saved reset session keys with that workspace when stale main-agent keys leak into the hook path. (#39875) thanks @rbutera.
Sessions/model switch: clear stale cached contextTokens when a session changes models so status and runtime paths recompute against the active model window. (#38044) thanks @yuweuii.
ACP/session history: persist transcripts for successful ACP child runs, preserve exact transcript text, record ACP spawned-session lineage, and keep spawn-time transcript-path persistence best-effort so history storage failures do not block execution. (#40137) thanks @mbelinky.
Docs/browser: add a layered WSL2 + Windows remote Chrome CDP troubleshooting guide, including Control UI origin pitfalls and extension-relay bind-address guidance. (#39407) Thanks @Owlock.
Context engine registry/bundled builds: share the registry state through a globalThis singleton so duplicated bundled module copies can resolve engines registered by each other at runtime, with regression coverage for duplicate-module imports. (#40115) thanks @jalehman.
Podman/setup: fix cannot chdir: Permission denied in run_as_user when setup-podman.sh is invoked from a directory the target user cannot access, by wrapping user-switch calls in a subshell that cd's to /tmp with / fallback. (#39435) Thanks @langdon and @jlcbk.
Podman/SELinux: auto-detect SELinux enforcing/permissive mode and add :Z relabel to bind mounts in run-openclaw-podman.sh and the Quadlet template, fixing EACCES on Fedora/RHEL hosts. Supports OPENCLAW_BIND_MOUNT_OPTIONS override. (#39449) Thanks @langdon and @githubbzxs.
Agents/context-engine plugins: bootstrap runtime plugins once at embedded-run, compaction, and subagent boundaries so plugin-provided context engines and hooks load from the active workspace before runtime resolution. (#40232)
Docs/Changelog: correct the contributor credit for the bundled Control UI global-install fix to @LarytheLord. (#40420) Thanks @velvet-shark.
Telegram/media downloads: time out only stalled body reads so polling recovers from hung file downloads without aborting slow downloads that are still streaming data. (#40098) thanks @tysoncung.
Docker/runtime image: prune dev dependencies, strip build-only dist metadata for smaller Docker images. (#40307) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Gateway/restart timeout recovery: exit non-zero when restart-triggered shutdown drains time out so launchd/systemd restart the gateway instead of treating the failed restart as a clean stop. Landed from contributor PR #40380 by @dsantoreis. Thanks @dsantoreis.
Gateway/config restart guard: validate config before service start/restart and keep post-SIGUSR1 startup failures from crashing the gateway process, reducing invalid-config restart loops and macOS permission loss. Landed from contributor PR #38699 by @lml2468. Thanks @lml2468.
Gateway/launchd respawn detection: treat XPC_SERVICE_NAME as a launchd supervision hint so macOS restarts exit cleanly under launchd instead of attempting detached self-respawn. Landed from contributor PR #20555 by @dimat. Thanks @dimat.
Telegram/poll restart cleanup: abort the in-flight Telegram API fetch when shutdown or forced polling restarts stop a runner, preventing stale getUpdates long polls from colliding with the replacement runner. Landed from contributor PR #23950 by @Gkinthecodeland. Thanks @Gkinthecodeland.
Cron/restart catch-up staggering: limit immediate missed-job replay on startup and reschedule the deferred remainder from the post-catchup clock so restart bursts do not starve the gateway or silently skip overdue recurring jobs. Landed from contributor PR #18925 by @rexlunae. Thanks @rexlunae.
Cron/owner-only tools: pass trusted isolated cron runs into the embedded agent with owner context so cron/gateway tooling remains available after the owner-auth hardening narrowed direct-message ownership inference.
Browser/SSRF: block private-network intermediate redirect hops in strict browser navigation flows and fail closed when remote tab-open paths cannot inspect redirect chains. Thanks @zpbrent.
MS Teams/authz: keep groupPolicy: "allowlist" enforcing sender allowlists even when a team/channel route allowlist is configured, so route matches no longer widen group access to every sender in that route. Thanks @zpbrent.
Security/system.run: bind approved bun and deno run script operands to on-disk file snapshots so post-approval script rewrites are denied before execution.
Skills/download installs: pin the validated per-skill tools root before writing downloaded archives, so rebinding the lexical tools path cannot redirect download writes outside the intended tools directory. Thanks @tdjackey.

openclaw 2026.3.8-beta.1

2026-03-09T07:19:53Z

Changes

CLI/backup: add openclaw backup create and openclaw backup verify for local state archives, including --only-config, --no-include-workspace, manifest/payload validation, and backup guidance in destructive flows. (#40163) thanks @shichangs.
macOS/onboarding: add a remote gateway token field for remote mode, preserve existing non-plaintext gateway.remote.token config values until explicitly replaced, and warn when the loaded token shape cannot be used directly from the macOS app. (#40187, supersedes #34614) Thanks @cgdusek.
Talk mode: add top-level talk.silenceTimeoutMs config so Talk waits a configurable amount of silence before auto-sending the current transcript, while keeping each platform's existing default pause window when unset. (#39607) Thanks @danodoesdesign. Fixes #17147.
TUI: infer the active agent from the current workspace when launched inside a configured agent workspace, while preserving explicit agent: session targets. (#39591) thanks @arceus77-7.
Tools/Brave web search: add opt-in tools.web.search.brave.mode: "llm-context" so web_search can call Brave's LLM Context endpoint and return extracted grounding snippets with source metadata, plus config/docs/test coverage. (#33383) Thanks @thirumaleshp.
CLI/install: include the short git commit hash in openclaw --version output when metadata is available, and keep installer version checks compatible with the decorated format. (#39712) thanks @sourman.
CLI/backup: improve archive naming for date sorting, add config-only backup mode, and harden backup planning, publication, and verification edge cases. (#40163) Thanks @gumadeiras.
ACP/Provenance: add optional ACP ingress provenance metadata and visible receipt injection (openclaw acp --provenance off|meta|meta+receipt) so OpenClaw agents can retain and report ACP-origin context with session trace IDs. (#40473) thanks @mbelinky.
Tools/web search: alphabetize provider ordering across runtime selection, onboarding/configure pickers, and config metadata, so provider lists stay neutral and multi-key auto-detect now prefers Grok before Kimi. (#40259) thanks @kesku.
Docs/Web search: restore $5/month free-credit details, replace defunct "Data for Search"/"Data for AI" plan names with current "Search" plan, and note legacy subscription validity in Brave setup docs. Follows up on #26860. (#40111) Thanks @remusao.
Extensions/ACPX tests: move the shared runtime fixture helper from src/runtime-internals/ to src/test-utils/ so the test-only helper no longer looks like shipped runtime code.

Fixes

macOS app/chat UI: route browser proxy through the local node browser service, preserve plain-text paste semantics, strip completed assistant trace/debug wrapper noise from transcripts, refresh permission state after returning from System Settings, and tolerate malformed cron rows in the macOS tab. (#39516) Thanks @Imhermes1.
Android/Play distribution: remove self-update, background location, screen.record, and background mic capture from the Android app, narrow the foreground service to dataSync only, and clean up the legacy location.enabledMode=always preference migration. (#39660) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/DM routing: dedupe inbound Telegram DMs per agent instead of per session key so the same DM cannot trigger duplicate replies when both agent:main:main and agent:main:telegram:direct:<id> resolve for one agent. Fixes #40005. Supersedes #40116. (#40519) thanks @obviyus.
Cron/Telegram announce delivery: route text-only announce jobs through the real outbound adapters after finalizing descendant output so plain Telegram targets no longer report delivered: true when no message actually reached Telegram. (#40575) thanks @obviyus.
Matrix/DM routing: add safer fallback detection for broken m.direct homeservers, honor explicit room bindings over DM classification, and preserve room-bound agent selection for Matrix DM rooms. (#19736) Thanks @derbronko.
Feishu/plugin onboarding: clear the short-lived plugin discovery cache before reloading the registry after installing a channel plugin, so onboarding no longer re-prompts to download Feishu immediately after a successful install. Fixes #39642. (#39752) Thanks @GazeKingNuWu.
Plugins/channel onboarding: prefer bundled channel plugins over duplicate npm-installed copies during onboarding and release-channel sync, preventing bundled plugins from being shadowed by npm installs with the same plugin ID. (#40092)
Config/runtime snapshots: keep secrets-runtime-resolved config and auth-profile snapshots intact after config writes so follow-up reads still see file-backed secret values while picking up the persisted config update. (#37313) thanks @bbblending.
Gateway/Control UI: resolve bundled dashboard assets through symlinked global wrappers and auto-detected package roots, while keeping configured and custom roots on the strict hardlink boundary. (#40385) Thanks @LarytheLord.
Browser/extension relay: add browser.relayBindHost so the Chrome relay can bind to an explicit non-loopback address for WSL2 and other cross-namespace setups, while preserving loopback-only defaults. (#39364) Thanks @mvanhorn.
Browser/CDP: normalize loopback direct WebSocket CDP URLs back to HTTP(S) for /json/* tab operations so local ws:// / wss:// profiles can still list, focus, open, and close tabs after the new direct-WS support lands. (#31085) Thanks @shrey150.
Browser/CDP: rewrite wildcard ws://0.0.0.0 and ws://[::] debugger URLs from remote /json/version responses back to the external CDP host/port, fixing Browserless-style container endpoints. (#17760) Thanks @joeharouni.
Browser/extension relay: wait briefly for a previously attached Chrome tab to reappear after transient relay drops before failing with tab not found, reducing noisy reconnect flakes. (#32461) Thanks @AaronWander.
macOS/Tailscale gateway discovery: keep Tailscale Serve probing alive when other remote gateways are already discovered, prefer direct transport for resolved .ts.net and Tailscale Serve gateways, and set TERM=dumb for GUI-launched Tailscale CLI discovery. (#40167) thanks @ngutman.
TUI/theme: detect light terminal backgrounds via COLORFGBG and pick a WCAG AA-compliant light palette, with OPENCLAW_THEME=light|dark override for terminals without auto-detection. (#38636) Thanks @ademczuk and @vincentkoc.
Agents/openai-codex: normalize gpt-5.4 fallback transport back to openai-codex-responses on chatgpt.com/backend-api when config drifts to the generic OpenAI responses endpoint. (#38736) Thanks @0xsline.
Models/openai-codex GPT-5.4 forward-compat: use the GPT-5.4 1,050,000-token context window and 128,000 max tokens for openai-codex/gpt-5.4 instead of inheriting stale legacy Codex limits in resolver fallbacks and model listing. (#37876) thanks @yuweuii.
Tools/web search: restore Perplexity OpenRouter/Sonar compatibility for legacy OPENROUTER_API_KEY, sk-or-..., and explicit perplexity.baseUrl / model setups while keeping direct Perplexity keys on the native Search API path. (#39937) Thanks @obviyus.
Agents/failover: detect Amazon Bedrock Too many tokens per day quota errors as rate limits across fallback, cron retry, and memory embeddings while keeping context-window too many tokens per request errors out of the rate-limit lane. (#39377) Thanks @gambletan.
Mattermost replies: keep root_id pinned to the existing thread root when an agent replies inside a thread, while still using reply-target threading for top-level posts. (#27744) thanks @hnykda.
Telegram/DM partial streaming: keep DM preview lanes on real message edits instead of native draft materialization so final replies no longer flash a second duplicate copy before collapsing back to one.
macOS overlays: fix VoiceWake, Talk, and Notify overlay exclusivity crashes by removing shared inout visibility mutation from OverlayPanelFactory.present, and add a repeated Talk overlay smoke test. (#39275, #39321) Thanks @fellanH.
macOS Talk Mode: set the speech recognition request taskHint to .dictation for mic capture, and add regression coverage for the request defaults. (#38445) Thanks @dmiv.
macOS release packaging: default scripts/package-mac-app.sh to universal binaries for BUILD_CONFIG=release, and clarify that scripts/package-mac-dist.sh already produces the release zip + DMG. (#33891) Thanks @cgdusek.
Hooks/session-memory: keep /new and /reset memory artifacts in the bound agent workspace and align saved reset session keys with that workspace when stale main-agent keys leak into the hook path. (#39875) thanks @rbutera.
Sessions/model switch: clear stale cached contextTokens when a session changes models so status and runtime paths recompute against the active model window. (#38044) thanks @yuweuii.
ACP/session history: persist transcripts for successful ACP child runs, preserve exact transcript text, record ACP spawned-session lineage, and keep spawn-time transcript-path persistence best-effort so history storage failures do not block execution. (#40137) thanks @mbelinky.
Docs/browser: add a layered WSL2 + Windows remote Chrome CDP troubleshooting guide, including Control UI origin pitfalls and extension-relay bind-address guidance. (#39407) Thanks @Owlock.
Context engine registry/bundled builds: share the registry state through a globalThis singleton so duplicated bundled module copies can resolve engines registered by each other at runtime, with regression coverage for duplicate-module imports. (#40115) thanks @jalehman.
Podman/setup: fix cannot chdir: Permission denied in run_as_user when setup-podman.sh is invoked from a directory the target user cannot access, by wrapping user-switch calls in a subshell that cd's to /tmp with / fallback. (#39435) Thanks @langdon and @jlcbk.
Podman/SELinux: auto-detect SELinux enforcing/permissive mode and add :Z relabel to bind mounts in run-openclaw-podman.sh and the Quadlet template, fixing EACCES on Fedora/RHEL hosts. Supports OPENCLAW_BIND_MOUNT_OPTIONS override. (#39449) Thanks @langdon and @githubbzxs.
Agents/context-engine plugins: bootstrap runtime plugins once at embedded-run, compaction, and subagent boundaries so plugin-provided context engines and hooks load from the active workspace before runtime resolution. (#40232)
Docs/Changelog: correct the contributor credit for the bundled Control UI global-install fix to @LarytheLord. (#40420) Thanks @velvet-shark.
Telegram/media downloads: time out only stalled body reads so polling recovers from hung file downloads without aborting slow downloads that are still streaming data. (#40098) thanks @tysoncung.
Docker/runtime image: prune dev dependencies, strip build-only dist metadata for smaller Docker images. (#40307) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Gateway/restart timeout recovery: exit non-zero when restart-triggered shutdown drains time out so launchd/systemd restart the gateway instead of treating the failed restart as a clean stop. Landed from contributor PR #40380 by @dsantoreis. Thanks @dsantoreis.
Gateway/config restart guard: validate config before service start/restart and keep post-SIGUSR1 startup failures from crashing the gateway process, reducing invalid-config restart loops and macOS permission loss. Landed from contributor PR #38699 by @lml2468. Thanks @lml2468.
Gateway/launchd respawn detection: treat XPC_SERVICE_NAME as a launchd supervision hint so macOS restarts exit cleanly under launchd instead of attempting detached self-respawn. Landed from contributor PR #20555 by @dimat. Thanks @dimat.
Telegram/poll restart cleanup: abort the in-flight Telegram API fetch when shutdown or forced polling restarts stop a runner, preventing stale getUpdates long polls from colliding with the replacement runner. Landed from contributor PR #23950 by @Gkinthecodeland. Thanks @Gkinthecodeland.
Cron/restart catch-up staggering: limit immediate missed-job replay on startup and reschedule the deferred remainder from the post-catchup clock so restart bursts do not starve the gateway or silently skip overdue recurring jobs. Landed from contributor PR #18925 by @rexlunae. Thanks @rexlunae.
Cron/owner-only tools: pass trusted isolated cron runs into the embedded agent with owner context so cron/gateway tooling remains available after the owner-auth hardening narrowed direct-message ownership inference.
Browser/SSRF: block private-network intermediate redirect hops in strict browser navigation flows and fail closed when remote tab-open paths cannot inspect redirect chains. Thanks @zpbrent.
MS Teams/authz: keep groupPolicy: "allowlist" enforcing sender allowlists even when a team/channel route allowlist is configured, so route matches no longer widen group access to every sender in that route. Thanks @zpbrent.
Security/system.run: bind approved bun and deno run script operands to on-disk file snapshots so post-approval script rewrites are denied before execution.
Skills/download installs: pin the validated per-skill tools root before writing downloaded archives, so rebinding the lexical tools path cannot redirect download writes outside the intended tools directory. Thanks @tdjackey.

openclaw 2026.3.7

2026-03-08T05:52:41Z

Changes

Agents/context engine plugin interface: add ContextEngine plugin slot with full lifecycle hooks (bootstrap, ingest, assemble, compact, afterTurn, prepareSubagentSpawn, onSubagentEnded), slot-based registry with config-driven resolution, LegacyContextEngine wrapper preserving existing compaction behavior, scoped subagent runtime for plugin runtimes via AsyncLocalStorage, and sessions.get gateway method. Enables plugins like lossless-claw to provide alternative context management strategies without modifying core compaction logic. Zero behavior change when no context engine plugin is configured. (#22201) thanks @jalehman.
ACP/persistent channel bindings: add durable Discord channel and Telegram topic binding storage, routing resolution, and CLI/docs support so ACP thread targets survive restarts and can be managed consistently. (#34873) Thanks @dutifulbob.
Telegram/ACP topic bindings: accept Telegram Mac Unicode dash option prefixes in /acp spawn, support Telegram topic thread binding (--thread here|auto), route bound-topic follow-ups to ACP sessions, add actionable Telegram approval buttons with prefixed approval-id resolution, and pin successful bind confirmations in-topic. (#36683) Thanks @huntharo.
Telegram/topic agent routing: support per-topic agentId overrides in forum groups and DM topics so topics can route to dedicated agents with isolated sessions. (#33647; based on #31513) Thanks @kesor and @Sid-Qin.
Web UI/i18n: add Spanish (es) locale support in the Control UI, including locale detection, lazy loading, and language picker labels across supported locales. (#35038) Thanks @DaoPromociones.
Onboarding/web search: add provider selection step and full provider list in configure wizard, with SecretRef ref-mode support during onboarding. (#34009) Thanks @kesku and @thewilloftheshadow.
Tools/Web search: switch Perplexity provider to Search API with structured results plus new language/region/time filters. (#33822) Thanks @kesku.
Gateway: add SecretRef support for gateway.auth.token with auth-mode guardrails. (#35094) Thanks @joshavant.
Docker/Podman extension dependency baking: add OPENCLAW_EXTENSIONS so container builds can preinstall selected bundled extension npm dependencies into the image for faster and more reproducible startup in container deployments. (#32223) Thanks @sallyom.
Plugins/before_prompt_build system-context fields: add prependSystemContext and appendSystemContext so static plugin guidance can be placed in system prompt space for provider caching and lower repeated prompt token cost. (#35177) thanks @maweibin.
Plugins/hook policy: add plugins.entries.<id>.hooks.allowPromptInjection, validate unknown typed hook names at runtime, and preserve legacy before_agent_start model/provider overrides while stripping prompt-mutating fields when prompt injection is disabled. (#36567) thanks @gumadeiras.
Hooks/Compaction lifecycle: emit session:compact:before and session:compact:after internal events plus plugin compaction callbacks with session/count metadata, so automations can react to compaction runs consistently. (#16788) thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/compaction post-context configurability: add agents.defaults.compaction.postCompactionSections so deployments can choose which AGENTS.md sections are re-injected after compaction, while preserving legacy fallback behavior when the documented default pair is configured in any order. (#34556) thanks @efe-arv.
TTS/OpenAI-compatible endpoints: add messages.tts.openai.baseUrl config support with config-over-env precedence, endpoint-aware directive validation, and OpenAI TTS request routing to the resolved base URL. (#34321) thanks @RealKai42.
Slack/DM typing feedback: add channels.slack.typingReaction so Socket Mode DMs can show reaction-based processing status even when Slack native assistant typing is unavailable. (#19816) Thanks @dalefrieswthat.
Discord/allowBots mention gating: add allowBots: "mentions" to only accept bot-authored messages that mention the bot. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Agents/tool-result truncation: preserve important tail diagnostics by using head+tail truncation for oversized tool results while keeping configurable truncation options. (#20076) thanks @jlwestsr.
Cron/job snapshot persistence: skip backup during normalization persistence in ensureLoaded so jobs.json.bak keeps the pre-edit snapshot for recovery, while preserving backup creation on explicit user-driven writes. (#35234) Thanks @0xsline.
CLI: make read-only SecretRef status flows degrade safely (#37023) thanks @joshavant.
Tools/Diffs guidance: restore a short system-prompt hint for enabled diffs while keeping the detailed instructions in the companion skill, so diffs usage guidance stays out of user-prompt space. (#36904) thanks @gumadeiras.
Tools/Diffs guidance loading: move diffs usage guidance from unconditional prompt-hook injection to the plugin companion skill path, reducing unrelated-turn prompt noise while keeping diffs tool behavior unchanged. (#32630) thanks @sircrumpet.
Docs/Web search: remove outdated Brave free-tier wording and replace prescriptive AI ToS guidance with neutral compliance language in Brave setup docs. (#26860) Thanks @HenryLoenwind.
Config/Compaction safeguard tuning: expose agents.defaults.compaction.recentTurnsPreserve and quality-guard retry knobs through the validated config surface and embedded-runner wiring, with regression coverage for real config loading and schema metadata. (#25557) thanks @rodrigouroz.
iOS/App Store Connect release prep: align iOS bundle identifiers under ai.openclaw.client, refresh Watch app icons, add Fastlane metadata/screenshot automation, and support Keychain-backed ASC auth for uploads. (#38936) Thanks @ngutman.
Mattermost/model picker: add Telegram-style interactive provider/model browsing for /oc_model and /oc_models, fix picker callback updates, and emit a normal confirmation reply when a model is selected. (#38767) thanks @mukhtharcm.
Docker/multi-stage build: restructure Dockerfile as a multi-stage build to produce a minimal runtime image without build tools, source code, or Bun; add OPENCLAW_VARIANT=slim build arg for a bookworm-slim variant. (#38479) Thanks @sallyom.
Google/Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: add first-class google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview support across model-id normalization, default aliases, media-understanding image lookups, Google Gemini CLI forward-compat fallback, and docs.

Breaking

BREAKING: Gateway auth now requires explicit gateway.auth.mode when both gateway.auth.token and gateway.auth.password are configured (including SecretRefs). Set gateway.auth.mode to token or password before upgrade to avoid startup/pairing/TUI failures. (#35094) Thanks @joshavant.

Fixes

Models/MiniMax: stop advertising removed MiniMax-M2.5-Lightning in built-in provider catalogs, onboarding metadata, and docs; keep the supported fast-tier model as MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed.
Security/Config: fail closed when loadConfig() hits validation or read errors so invalid configs cannot silently fall back to permissive runtime defaults. (#9040) Thanks @joetomasone.
Memory/Hybrid search: preserve negative FTS5 BM25 relevance ordering in bm25RankToScore() so stronger keyword matches rank above weaker ones instead of collapsing or reversing scores. (#33757) Thanks @lsdcc01.
LINE/requireMention group gating: align inbound and reply-stage LINE group policy resolution across raw, group:, and room: keys (including account-scoped group config), preserve plugin-backed reply-stage fallback behavior, and add regression coverage for prefixed-only group/room config plus reply-stage policy resolution. (#35847) Thanks @kirisame-wang.
Onboarding/local setup: default unset local tools.profile to coding instead of messaging, restoring file/runtime tools for fresh local installs while preserving explicit user-set profiles. (from #38241, overlap with #34958) Thanks @cgdusek.
Gateway/Telegram stale-socket restart guard: only apply stale-socket restarts to channels that publish event-liveness timestamps, preventing Telegram providers from being misclassified as stale solely due to long uptime and avoiding restart/pairing storms after upgrade. (#38464)
Onboarding/headless Linux daemon probe hardening: treat systemctl --user is-enabled probe failures as non-fatal during daemon install flow so onboarding no longer crashes on SSH/headless VPS environments before showing install guidance. (#37297) Thanks @acarbajal-web.
Memory/QMD mcporter Windows spawn hardening: when mcporter.cmd launch fails with spawn EINVAL, retry via bare mcporter shell resolution so QMD recall can continue instead of falling back to builtin memory search. (#27402) Thanks @i0ivi0i.
Tools/web_search Brave language-code validation: align search_lang handling with Brave-supported codes (including zh-hans, zh-hant, en-gb, and pt-br), map common alias inputs (zh, ja) to valid Brave values, and reject unsupported codes before upstream requests to prevent 422 failures. (#37260) Thanks @heyanming.
Models/openai-completions streaming compatibility: force compat.supportsUsageInStreaming=false for non-native OpenAI-compatible endpoints during model normalization, preventing usage-only stream chunks from triggering choices[0] parser crashes in provider streams. (#8714) Thanks @nonanon1.
Tools/xAI native web-search collision guard: drop OpenClaw web_search from tool registration when routing to xAI/Grok model providers (including OpenRouter x-ai/*) to avoid duplicate tool-name request failures against provider-native web_search. (#14749) Thanks @realsamrat.
TUI/token copy-safety rendering: treat long credential-like mixed alphanumeric tokens (including quoted forms) as copy-sensitive in render sanitization so formatter hard-wrap guards no longer inject visible spaces into auth-style values before display. (#26710) Thanks @jasonthane.
WhatsApp/self-chat response prefix fallback: stop forcing "[openclaw]" as the implicit outbound response prefix when no identity name or response prefix is configured, so blank/default prefix settings no longer inject branding text unexpectedly in self-chat flows. (#27962) Thanks @ecanmor.
Memory/QMD search result decoding: accept qmd search hits that only include file URIs (for example qmd://collection/path.md) without docid, resolve them through managed collection roots, and keep multi-collection results keyed by file fallback so valid QMD hits no longer collapse to empty memory_search output. (#28181) Thanks @0x76696265.
Memory/QMD collection-name conflict recovery: when qmd collection add fails because another collection already occupies the same path + pattern, detect the conflicting collection from collection list, remove it, and retry add so agent-scoped managed collections are created deterministically instead of being silently skipped; also add warning-only fallback when qmd metadata is unavailable to avoid destructive guesses. (#25496) Thanks @Ramsbaby.
Slack/app_mention race dedupe: when app_mention dispatch wins while same-ts message prepare is still in-flight, suppress the later message dispatch so near-simultaneous Slack deliveries do not produce duplicate replies; keep single-retry behavior and add regression coverage for both dropped and successful message-prepare outcomes. (#37033) Thanks @Takhoffman.
Gateway/chat streaming tool-boundary text retention: merge assistant delta segments into per-run chat buffers so pre-tool text is preserved in live chat deltas/finals when providers emit post-tool assistant segments as non-prefix snapshots. (#36957) Thanks @Datyedyeguy.
TUI/model indicator freshness: prevent stale session snapshots from overwriting freshly patched model selection (and reset per-session freshness when switching session keys) so /model updates reflect immediately instead of lagging by one or more commands. (#21255) Thanks @kowza.
TUI/final-error rendering fallback: when a chat final event has no renderable assistant content but includes envelope errorMessage, render the formatted error text instead of collapsing to "(no output)", preserving actionable failure context in-session. (#14687) Thanks @Mquarmoc.
TUI/session-key alias event matching: treat chat events whose session keys are canonical aliases (for example agent:<id>:main vs main) as the same session while preserving cross-agent isolation, so assistant replies no longer disappear or surface in another terminal window due to strict key-form mismatch. (#33937) Thanks @yjh1412.
OpenAI Codex OAuth/login parity: keep openclaw models auth login --provider openai-codex on the built-in path even without provider plugins, preserve Pi-generated authorize URLs without local scope rewriting, and stop validating successful Codex sign-ins against the public OpenAI Responses API after callback. (#37558; follow-up to #36660 and #24720) Thanks @driesvints, @Skippy-Gunboat, and @obviyus.
Agents/config schema lookup: add gateway tool action config.schema.lookup so agents can inspect one config path at a time before edits without loading the full schema into prompt context. (#37266) Thanks @gumadeiras.
Onboarding/API key input hardening: strip non-Latin1 Unicode artifacts from normalized secret input (while preserving Latin-1 content and internal spaces) so malformed copied API keys cannot trigger HTTP header ByteString construction crashes; adds regression coverage for shared normalization and MiniMax auth header usage. (#24496) Thanks @fa6maalassaf.
Kimi Coding/Anthropic tools compatibility: normalize anthropic-messages tool payloads to OpenAI-style tools[].function + compatible tool_choice when targeting Kimi Coding endpoints, restoring tool-call workflows that regressed after v2026.3.2. (#37038) Thanks @mochimochimochi-hub.
Heartbeat/workspace-path guardrails: append explicit workspace HEARTBEAT.md path guidance (and docs/heartbeat.md avoidance) to heartbeat prompts so heartbeat runs target workspace checklists reliably across packaged install layouts. (#37037) Thanks @stofancy.
Subagents/kill-complete announce race: when a late subagent-complete lifecycle event arrives after an earlier kill marker, clear stale kill suppression/cleanup flags and re-run announce cleanup so finished runs no longer get silently swallowed. (#37024) Thanks @cmfinlan.
Agents/tool-result cleanup timeout hardening: on embedded runner teardown idle timeouts, clear pending tool-call state without persisting synthetic missing tool result entries, preventing timeout cleanups from poisoning follow-up turns; adds regression coverage for timeout clear-vs-flush behavior. (#37081) Thanks @Coyote-Den.
Agents/openai-completions stream timeout hardening: ensure runtime undici global dispatchers use extended streaming body/header timeouts (including env-proxy dispatcher mode) before embedded runs, reducing forced mid-stream terminated failures on long generations; adds regression coverage for dispatcher selection and idempotent reconfiguration. (#9708) Thanks @scottchguard.
Agents/fallback cooldown probe execution: thread explicit rate-limit cooldown probe intent from model fallback into embedded runner auth-profile selection so same-provider fallback attempts can actually run when all profiles are cooldowned for rate_limit (instead of failing pre-run as No available auth profile), while preserving default cooldown skip behavior and adding regression tests at both fallback and runner layers. (#13623) Thanks @asfura.
Cron/OpenAI Codex OAuth refresh hardening: when openai-codex token refresh fails specifically on account-id extraction, reuse the cached access token instead of failing the run immediately, with regression coverage to keep non-Codex and unrelated refresh failures unchanged. (#36604) Thanks @laulopezreal.
TUI/session isolation for /new: make /new allocate a unique tui-<uuid> session key instead of resetting the shared agent session, so multiple TUI clients on the same agent stop receiving each other’s replies; also sanitize /new and /reset failure text before rendering in-terminal. Landed from contributor PR #39238 by @widingmarcus-cyber. Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
Synology Chat/rate-limit env parsing: honor SYNOLOGY_RATE_LIMIT=0 as an explicit value while still falling back to the default limit for malformed env values instead of partially parsing them. Landed from contributor PR #39197 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
Voice-call/OpenAI Realtime STT config defaults: honor explicit vadThreshold: 0 and silenceDurationMs: 0 instead of silently replacing them with defaults. Landed from contributor PR #39196 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
Voice-call/OpenAI TTS speed config: honor explicit speed: 0 instead of silently replacing it with the default speed. Landed from contributor PR #39318 by @ql-wade. Thanks @ql-wade.
launchd/runtime PID parsing: reject pid <= 0 from launchctl print so the daemon state parser no longer treats kernel/non-running sentinel values as real process IDs. Landed from contributor PR #39281 by @mvanhorn. Thanks @mvanhorn.
Cron/file permission hardening: enforce owner-only (0600) cron store/backup/run-log files and harden cron store + run-log directories to 0700, including pre-existing directories from older installs. (#36078) Thanks @aerelune.
Gateway/remote WS break-glass hostname support: honor OPENCLAW_ALLOW_INSECURE_PRIVATE_WS=1 for ws:// hostname URLs (not only private IP literals) across onboarding validation and runtime gateway connection checks, while still rejecting public IP literals and non-unicast IPv6 endpoints. (#36930) Thanks @manju-rn.
Routing/binding lookup scalability: pre-index route bindings by channel/account and avoid full binding-list rescans on channel-account cache rollover, preventing multi-second resolveAgentRoute stalls in large binding configurations. (#36915) Thanks @songchenghao.
Browser/session cleanup: track browser tabs opened by session-scoped browser tool runs and close tracked tabs during sessions.reset/sessions.delete runtime cleanup, preventing orphaned tabs and unbounded browser memory growth after session teardown. (#36666) Thanks @Harnoor6693.
Plugin/hook install rollback hardening: stage installs under the canonical install base, validate and run dependency installs before publish, and restore updates by rename instead of deleting the target path, reducing partial-replace and symlink-rebind risk during install failures.
Slack/local file upload allowlist parity: propagate mediaLocalRoots through the Slack send action pipeline so workspace-rooted attachments pass assertLocalMediaAllowed checks while non-allowlisted paths remain blocked. (synthesis: #36656; overlap considered from #36516, #36496, #36493, #36484, #32648, #30888) Thanks @2233admin.
Agents/compaction safeguard pre-check: skip embedded compaction before entering the Pi SDK when a session has no real conversation messages, avoiding unnecessary LLM API calls on idle sessions. (#36451) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Config/schema cache key stability: build merged schema cache keys with incremental hashing to avoid large single-string serialization and prevent RangeError: Invalid string length on high-cardinality plugin/channel metadata. (#36603) Thanks @powermaster888.
iMessage/cron completion announces: strip leaked inline reply tags (for example [[reply_to:6100]]) from user-visible completion text so announcement deliveries do not expose threading metadata. (#24600) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Control UI/iMessage duplicate reply routing: keep internal webchat turns on dispatcher delivery (instead of origin-channel reroute) so Control UI chats do not duplicate replies into iMessage, while preserving webchat-provider relayed routing for external surfaces. Fixes #33483. Thanks @alicexmolt.
Sessions/daily reset transcript archival: archive prior transcript files during stale-session scheduled/daily resets by capturing the previous session entry before rollover, preventing orphaned transcript files on disk. (#35493) Thanks @byungsker.
Feishu/group slash command detection: normalize group mention wrappers before command-authorization probing so mention-prefixed commands (for example @Bot/model and @Bot /reset) are recognized as gateway commands instead of being forwarded to the agent. (#35994) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Control UI/auth token separation: keep the shared gateway token in browser auth validation while reserving cached device tokens for signed device payloads, preventing false device token mismatch disconnects after restart/rotation. Landed from contributor PR #37382 by @FradSer. Thanks @FradSer.
Gateway/browser auth reconnect hardening: stop counting missing token/password submissions as auth rate-limit failures, and stop auto-reconnecting Control UI clients on non-recoverable auth errors so misconfigured browser tabs no longer lock out healthy sessions. Landed from contributor PR #38725 by @ademczuk. Thanks @ademczuk.
Gateway/service token drift repair: stop persisting shared auth tokens into installed gateway service units, flag stale embedded service tokens for reinstall, and treat tokenless service env as canonical so token rotation/reboot flows stay aligned with config/env resolution. Landed from contributor PR #28428 by @l0cka. Thanks @l0cka.
Control UI/agents-page selection: keep the edited agent selected after saving agent config changes and reloading the agents list, so /agents no longer snaps back to the default agent. Landed from contributor PR #39301 by @MumuTW. Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/auth follow-up hardening: preserve systemd EnvironmentFile= precedence/source provenance in daemon audits and doctor repairs, block shared-password override flows from piggybacking cached device tokens, and fail closed when config-first gateway SecretRefs cannot resolve. Follow-up to #39241.
Agents/context pruning: guard assistant thinking/text char estimation against malformed blocks (missing thinking/text strings or null entries) so pruning no longer crashes with malformed provider content. (#35146) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Agents/transcript policy: set preserveSignatures to Anthropic-only handling in resolveTranscriptPolicy so Anthropic thinking signatures are preserved while non-Anthropic providers remain unchanged. (#32813) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Agents/schema cleaning: detect Venice + Grok model IDs as xAI-proxied targets so unsupported JSON Schema keywords are stripped before requests, preventing Venice/Grok Invalid arguments failures. (#35355) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Skills/native command deduplication: centralize skill command dedupe by canonical skillName in listSkillCommandsForAgents so duplicate suffixed variants (for example _2) are no longer surfaced across interfaces outside Discord. (#27521) thanks @shivama205.
Agents/xAI tool-call argument decoding: decode HTML-entity encoded xAI/Grok tool-call argument values (&, ", <, >, numeric entities) before tool execution so commands with shell operators and quotes no longer fail with parse errors. (#35276) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Linux/WSL2 daemon install hardening: add regression coverage for WSL environment detection, WSL-specific systemd guidance, and systemctl --user is-enabled failure paths so WSL2/headless onboarding keeps treating bus-unavailable probes as non-fatal while preserving real permission errors. Related: #36495. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Linux/systemd status and degraded-session handling: treat degraded-but-reachable systemctl --user status results as available, preserve early errors for truly unavailable user-bus cases, and report externally managed running services as running instead of not installed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/thinking-tag promotion hardening: guard promoteThinkingTagsToBlocks against malformed assistant content entries (null/undefined) before block.type reads so malformed provider payloads no longer crash session processing while preserving pass-through behavior. (#35143) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Gateway/Control UI version reporting: align runtime and browser client version metadata to avoid dev placeholders, wait for bootstrap version before first UI websocket connect, and only forward bootstrap serverVersion to same-origin gateway targets to prevent cross-target version leakage. (from #35230, #30928, #33928) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @joelnishanth, and @MoerAI.
Control UI/markdown parser crash fallback: catch marked.parse() failures and fall back to escaped plain-text <pre> rendering so malformed recursive markdown no longer crashes Control UI session rendering on load. (#36445) Thanks @BinHPdev.
Control UI/markdown fallback regression coverage: add explicit regression assertions for parser-error fallback behavior so malformed markdown no longer risks reintroducing hard-crash rendering paths in future markdown/parser upgrades. (#36445) Thanks @BinHPdev.
Web UI/config form: treat additionalProperties: true object schemas as editable map entries instead of unsupported fields so Accounts-style maps stay editable in form mode. (#35380, supersedes #32072) Thanks @stakeswky and @liuxiaopai-ai.
Feishu/streaming card delivery synthesis: unify snapshot and delta streaming merge semantics, apply overlap-aware final merge, suppress duplicate final text delivery (including text+media final packets), prefer topic-thread message.reply routing when a reply target exists, and tune card print cadence to avoid duplicate incremental rendering. (from #33245, #32896, #33840) Thanks @rexl2018, @kcinzgg, and @aerelune.
Feishu/group mention detection: carry startup-probed bot display names through monitor dispatch so requireMention checks compare against current bot identity instead of stale config names, fixing missed @bot handling in groups while preserving multi-bot false-positive guards. (#36317, #34271) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Security/dependency audit: patch transitive Hono vulnerabilities by pinning hono to 4.12.5 and @hono/node-server to 1.19.10 in production resolution paths. Thanks @shakkernerd.
Security/dependency audit: bump tar to 7.5.10 (from 7.5.9) to address the high-severity hardlink path traversal advisory (GHSA-qffp-2rhf-9h96). Thanks @shakkernerd.
Cron/announce delivery robustness: bypass pending-descendant announce guards for cron completion sends, ensure named-agent announce routes have outbound session entries, and fall back to direct delivery only when an announce send was actually attempted and failed. (from #35185, #32443, #34987) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @scoootscooob, and @bmendonca3.
Cron/announce best-effort fallback: run direct outbound fallback after attempted announce failures even when delivery is configured as best-effort, so Telegram cron sends are not left as attempted-but-undelivered after cron announce delivery failed warnings.
Auto-reply/system events: restore runtime system events to the message timeline (System: lines), preserve think-hint parsing with prepended events, and carry events into deferred followup/collect/steer-backlog prompts to keep cache behavior stable without dropping queued metadata. (#34794) Thanks @anisoptera.
Security/audit account handling: avoid prototype-chain account IDs in audit validation by using own-property checks for accounts. (#34982) Thanks @HOYALIM.
Cron/restart catch-up semantics: replay interrupted recurring jobs and missed immediate cron slots on startup without replaying interrupted one-shot jobs, with guarded missed-slot probing to avoid malformed-schedule startup aborts and duplicate-trigger drift after restart. (from #34466, #34896, #34625, #33206) Thanks @dunamismax, @dsantoreis, @Octane0411, and @Sid-Qin.
Venice/provider onboarding hardening: align per-model Venice completion-token limits with discovery metadata, clamp untrusted discovery values to safe bounds, sync the static Venice fallback catalog with current live model metadata, and disable tool wiring for Venice models that do not support function calling so default Venice setups no longer fail with max_completion_tokens or unsupported-tools 400s. Fixes #38168. Thanks @Sid-Qin, @powermaster888 and @vincentkoc.
Agents/session usage tracking: preserve accumulated usage metadata on embedded Pi runner error exits so failed turns still update session totalTokens from real usage instead of stale prior values. (#34275) thanks @RealKai42.
Slack/reaction thread context routing: carry Slack native DM channel IDs through inbound context and threading tool resolution so reaction targets resolve consistently for DM To=user:* sessions (including toolContext.currentChannelId fallback behavior). (from #34831; overlaps #34440, #34502, #34483, #32754) Thanks @dunamismax.
Subagents/announce completion scoping: scope nested direct-child completion aggregation to the current requester run window, harden frozen completion capture for deterministic descendant synthesis, and route completion announce delivery through parent-agent announce turns with provenance-aware internal events. (#35080) Thanks @tyler6204.
Nodes/system.run approval hardening: use explicit argv-mutation signaling when regenerating prepared rawCommand, and cover the system.run.prepare -> system.run handoff so direct PATH-based nodes.run commands no longer fail with rawCommand does not match command. (#33137) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Models/custom provider headers: propagate models.providers.<name>.headers across inline, fallback, and registry-found model resolution so header-authenticated proxies consistently receive configured request headers. (#27490) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Ollama/remote provider auth fallback: synthesize a local runtime auth key for explicitly configured models.providers.ollama entries that omit apiKey, so remote Ollama endpoints run without requiring manual dummy-key setup while preserving env/profile/config key precedence and missing-config failures. (#11283) Thanks @cpreecs.
Ollama/custom provider headers: forward resolved model headers into native Ollama stream requests so header-authenticated Ollama proxies receive configured request headers. (#24337) thanks @echoVic.
Ollama/compaction and summarization: register custom api: "ollama" handling for compaction, branch-style internal summarization, and TTS text summarization on current main, so native Ollama models no longer fail with No API provider registered for api: ollama outside the main run loop. Thanks @JaviLib.
Daemon/systemd install robustness: treat systemctl --user is-enabled exit-code-4 not-found responses as not-enabled by combining stderr/stdout detail parsing, so Ubuntu fresh installs no longer fail with systemctl is-enabled unavailable. (#33634) Thanks @Yuandiaodiaodiao.
Slack/system-event session routing: resolve reaction/member/pin/interaction system-event session keys through channel/account bindings (with sender-aware DM routing) so inbound Slack events target the correct agent session in multi-account setups instead of defaulting to agent:main. (#34045) Thanks @paulomcg, @daht-mad and @vincentkoc.
Slack/native streaming markdown conversion: stop pre-normalizing text passed to Slack native markdown_text in streaming start/append/stop paths to prevent Markdown style corruption from double conversion. (#34931)
Gateway/HTTP tools invoke media compatibility: preserve raw media payload access for direct /tools/invoke clients by allowing media nodes invoke commands only in HTTP tool context, while keeping agent-context media invoke blocking to prevent base64 prompt bloat. (#34365) Thanks @obviyus.
Security/archive ZIP hardening: extract ZIP entries via same-directory temp files plus atomic rename, then re-open and reject post-rename hardlink alias races outside the destination root.
Agents/Nodes media outputs: add dedicated photos_latest action handling, block media-returning nodes invoke commands, keep metadata-only camera.list invoke allowed, and normalize empty photos_latest results to a consistent response shape to prevent base64 context bloat. (#34332) Thanks @obviyus.
TUI/session-key canonicalization: normalize openclaw tui --session values to lowercase so uppercase session names no longer drop real-time streaming updates due to gateway/TUI key mismatches. (#33866, #34013) thanks @lynnzc.
iMessage/echo loop hardening: strip leaked assistant-internal scaffolding from outbound iMessage replies, drop reflected assistant-content messages before they re-enter inbound processing, extend echo-cache text retention for delayed reflections, and suppress repeated loop traffic before it amplifies into queue overflow. (#33295) Thanks @joelnishanth.
Skills/workspace boundary hardening: reject workspace and extra-dir skill roots or SKILL.md files whose realpath escapes the configured source root, and skip syncing those escaped skills into sandbox workspaces.
Outbound/send config threading: pass resolved SecretRef config through outbound adapters and helper send paths so send flows do not reload unresolved runtime config. (#33987) Thanks @joshavant.
gateway: harden shared auth resolution across systemd, discord, and node host (#39241) Thanks @joshavant.
Secrets/models.json persistence hardening: keep SecretRef-managed api keys + headers from persisting in generated models.json, expand audit/apply coverage, and harden marker handling/serialization. (#38955) Thanks @joshavant.
Sessions/subagent attachments: remove attachments[].content.maxLength from sessions_spawn schema to avoid llama.cpp GBNF repetition overflow, and preflight UTF-8 byte size before buffer allocation while keeping runtime file-size enforcement unchanged. (#33648) Thanks @anisoptera.
Runtime/tool-state stability: recover from dangling Anthropic tool_use after compaction, serialize long-running Discord handler runs without blocking new inbound events, and prevent stale busy snapshots from suppressing stuck-channel recovery. (from #33630, #33583) Thanks @kevinWangSheng and @theotarr.
ACP/Discord startup hardening: clean up stuck ACP worker children on gateway restart, unbind stale ACP thread bindings during Discord startup reconciliation, and add per-thread listener watchdog timeouts so wedged turns cannot block later messages. (#33699) Thanks @dutifulbob.
Extensions/media local-root propagation: consistently forward mediaLocalRoots through extension sendMedia adapters (Google Chat, Slack, iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp), preserving non-local media behavior while restoring local attachment resolution from configured roots. Synthesis of #33581, #33545, #33540, #33536, #33528. Thanks @bmendonca3.
Gateway/plugin HTTP auth hardening: require gateway auth when any overlapping matched route needs it, block mixed-auth fallthrough at dispatch, and reject mixed-auth exact/prefix route overlaps during plugin registration.
Feishu/video media send contract: keep mp4-like outbound payloads on msg_type: "media" (including reply and reply-in-thread paths) so videos render as media instead of degrading to file-link behavior, while preserving existing non-video file subtype handling. (from #33720, #33808, #33678) Thanks @polooooo, @dingjianrui, and @kevinWangSheng.
Gateway/security default response headers: add Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=() to baseline gateway HTTP security headers for all responses. (#30186) thanks @habakan.
Plugins/startup loading: lazily initialize plugin runtime, split startup-critical plugin SDK imports into openclaw/plugin-sdk/core and openclaw/plugin-sdk/telegram, and preserve api.runtime reflection semantics for plugin compatibility. (#28620) thanks @hmemcpy.
Plugins/startup performance: reduce bursty plugin discovery/manifest overhead with short in-process caches, skip importing bundled memory plugins that are disabled by slot selection, and speed legacy root openclaw/plugin-sdk compatibility via runtime root-alias routing while preserving backward compatibility. Thanks @gumadeiras.
Build/lazy runtime boundaries: replace ineffective dynamic import sites with dedicated lazy runtime boundaries across Slack slash handling, Telegram audit, CLI send deps, memory fallback, and outbound delivery paths while preserving behavior. (#33690) thanks @gumadeiras.
Gateway/password CLI hardening: add openclaw gateway run --password-file, warn when inline --password is used because it can leak via process listings, and document env/file-backed password input as the preferred startup path. Fixes #27948. Thanks @vibewrk and @vincentkoc.
Config/heartbeat legacy-path handling: auto-migrate top-level heartbeat into agents.defaults.heartbeat (with merge semantics that preserve explicit defaults), and keep startup failures on non-migratable legacy entries in the detailed invalid-config path instead of generic migration-failed errors. (#32706) thanks @xiwan.
Plugins/SDK subpath parity: expand plugin SDK subpaths across bundled channels/extensions (Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, WhatsApp, LINE, and bundled companion plugins), with build/export/type/runtime wiring so scoped imports resolve consistently in source and dist while preserving compatibility. (#33737) thanks @gumadeiras.
Google/Gemini Flash model selection: switch built-in gemini-flash defaults and docs/examples from the nonexistent google/gemini-3.1-flash-preview ID to the working google/gemini-3-flash-preview, while normalizing legacy OpenClaw config that still uses the old Flash 3.1 alias.
Plugins/bundled scoped-import migration: migrate bundled plugins from monolithic openclaw/plugin-sdk imports to scoped subpaths (or openclaw/plugin-sdk/core) across registration and startup-sensitive runtime files, add CI/release guardrails to prevent regressions, and keep root openclaw/plugin-sdk support for external/community plugins. Thanks @gumadeiras.
Routing/session duplicate suppression synthesis: align shared session delivery-context inheritance, channel-paired route-field merges, and reply-surface target matching so dmScope=main turns avoid cross-surface duplicate replies while thread-aware forwarding keeps intended routing semantics. (from #33629, #26889, #17337, #33250) Thanks @Yuandiaodiaodiao, @kevinwildenradt, @Glucksberg, and @bmendonca3.
Routing/legacy session route inheritance: preserve external route metadata inheritance for legacy channel session keys (agent:<agent>:<channel>:<peer> and ...:thread:<id>) so chat.send does not incorrectly fall back to webchat when valid delivery context exists. Follow-up to #33786.
Routing/legacy route guard tightening: require legacy session-key channel hints to match the saved delivery channel before inheriting external routing metadata, preventing custom namespaced keys like agent:<agent>:work:<ticket> from inheriting stale non-webchat routes.
Gateway/internal client routing continuity: prevent webchat/TUI/UI turns from inheriting stale external reply routes by requiring explicit deliver: true for external delivery, keeping main-session external inheritance scoped to non-Webchat/UI clients, and honoring configured session.mainKey when identifying main-session continuity. (from #35321, #34635, #35356) Thanks @alexyyyander and @Octane0411.
Security/auth labels: remove token and API-key snippets from user-facing auth status labels so /status and /models do not expose credential fragments. (#33262) thanks @cu1ch3n.
Models/MiniMax portal vision routing: add MiniMax-VL-01 to the minimax-portal provider, route portal image understanding through the MiniMax VLM endpoint, and align media auto-selection plus Telegram sticker description with the shared portal image provider path. (#33953) Thanks @tars90percent.
Auth/credential semantics: align profile eligibility + probe diagnostics with SecretRef/expiry rules and harden browser download atomic writes. (#33733) thanks @joshavant.
Security/audit denyCommands guidance: suggest likely exact node command IDs for unknown gateway.nodes.denyCommands entries so ineffective denylist entries are easier to correct. (#29713) thanks @liquidhorizon88-bot.
Agents/overload failover handling: classify overloaded provider failures separately from rate limits/status timeouts, add short overload backoff before retry/failover, record overloaded prompt/assistant failures as transient auth-profile cooldowns (with probeable same-provider fallback) instead of treating them like persistent auth/billing failures, and keep one-shot cron retry classification aligned so overloaded fallback summaries still count as transient retries.
Docs/security hardening guidance: document Docker DOCKER-USER + UFW policy and add cross-linking from Docker install docs for VPS/public-host setups. (#27613) thanks @dorukardahan.
Docs/security threat-model links: replace relative .md links with Mintlify-compatible root-relative routes in security docs to prevent broken internal navigation. (#27698) thanks @clawdoo.
Plugins/Update integrity drift: avoid false integrity drift prompts when updating npm-installed plugins from unpinned specs, while keeping drift checks for exact pinned versions. (#37179) Thanks @vincentkoc.
iOS/Voice timing safety: guard system speech start/finish callbacks to the active utterance to avoid misattributed start events during rapid stop/restart cycles. (#33304) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation direction by @ngutman.
Gateway/chat.send command scopes: require operator.admin for persistent /config set|unset writes routed through gateway chat clients while keeping /config show available to normal write-scoped operator clients, preserving messaging-channel config command behavior without widening RPC write scope into admin config mutation. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
iOS/Talk incremental speech pacing: allow long punctuation-free assistant chunks to start speaking at safe whitespace boundaries so voice responses begin sooner instead of waiting for terminal punctuation. (#33305) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation by @ngutman.
iOS/Watch reply reliability: make watch session activation waiters robust under concurrent requests so status/send calls no longer hang intermittently, and align delegate callbacks with Swift 6 actor safety. (#33306) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation by @Rocuts.
Docs/tool-loop detection config keys: align docs/tools/loop-detection.md examples and field names with the current tools.loopDetection schema to prevent copy-paste validation failures from outdated keys. (#33182) Thanks @Mylszd.
Gateway/session agent discovery: include disk-scanned agent IDs in listConfiguredAgentIds even when agents.list is configured, so disk-only/ACP agent sessions remain visible in gateway session aggregation and listings. (#32831) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Discord/inbound debouncer: skip bot-own MESSAGE_CREATE events before they reach the debounce queue to avoid self-triggered slowdowns in busy servers. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/Agent-scoped media roots: pass mediaLocalRoots through Discord monitor reply delivery (message + component interaction paths) so local media attachments honor per-agent workspace roots instead of falling back to default global roots. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/slash command handling: intercept text-based slash commands in channels, register plugin commands as native, and send fallback acknowledgments for empty slash runs so interactions do not hang. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/thread session lifecycle: reset thread-scoped sessions when a thread is archived so reopening a thread starts fresh without deleting transcript history. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/presence defaults: send an online presence update on ready when no custom presence is configured so bots no longer appear offline by default. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/typing cleanup: stop typing indicators after silent/NO_REPLY runs by marking the run complete before dispatch idle cleanup. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
ACP/sandbox spawn parity: block /acp spawn from sandboxed requester sessions with the same host-runtime guard already enforced for sessions_spawn({ runtime: "acp" }), preserving non-sandbox ACP flows while closing the command-path policy gap. Thanks @patte.
Discord/config SecretRef typing: align Discord account token config typing with SecretInput so SecretRef tokens typecheck. (#32490) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Discord/voice messages: request upload slots with JSON fetch calls so voice message uploads no longer fail with content-type errors. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/voice decoder fallback: drop the native Opus dependency and use opusscript for voice decoding to avoid native-opus installs. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/auto presence health signal: add runtime availability-driven presence updates plus connected-state reporting to improve health monitoring and operator visibility. (#33277) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
HEIC image inputs: accept HEIC/HEIF input_image sources in Gateway HTTP APIs, normalize them to JPEG before provider delivery, and document the expanded default MIME allowlist. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Gateway/HEIC input follow-up: keep non-HEIC input_image MIME handling unchanged, make HEIC tests hermetic, and enforce chat-completions maxTotalImageBytes against post-normalization image payload size. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Telegram/draft-stream boundary stability: materialize DM draft previews at assistant-message/tool boundaries, serialize lane-boundary callbacks before final delivery, and scope preview cleanup to the active preview so multi-step Telegram streams no longer lose, overwrite, or leave stale preview bubbles. (#33842) Thanks @ngutman.
Telegram/DM draft finalization reliability: require verified final-text draft emission before treating preview finalization as delivered, and fall back to normal payload send when final draft delivery is not confirmed (preventing missing final responses and preserving media/button delivery). (#32118) Thanks @OpenCils.
Telegram/DM draft final delivery: materialize text-only sendMessageDraft previews into one permanent final message and skip duplicate final payload sends, while preserving fallback behavior when materialization fails. (#34318) Thanks @Brotherinlaw-13.
Telegram/DM draft duplicate display: clear stale DM draft previews after materializing the real final message, including threadless fallback when DM topic lookup fails, so partial streaming no longer briefly shows duplicate replies. (#36746) Thanks @joelnishanth.
Telegram/draft preview boundary + silent-token reliability: stabilize answer-lane message boundaries across late-partial/message-start races, preserve/reset finalized preview state at the correct boundaries, and suppress NO_REPLY lead-fragment leaks without broad heartbeat-prefix false positives. (#33169) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/native commands commands.allowFrom precedence: make native Telegram commands honor commands.allowFrom as the command-specific authorization source, including group chats, instead of falling back to channel sender allowlists. (#28216) Thanks @toolsbybuddy and @vincentkoc.
Telegram/groupAllowFrom sender-ID validation: restore sender-only runtime validation so negative chat/group IDs remain invalid entries instead of appearing accepted while still being unable to authorize group access. (#37134) Thanks @qiuyuemartin-max and @vincentkoc.
Telegram/native group command auth: authorize native commands in groups and forum topics against groupAllowFrom and per-group/topic sender overrides, while keeping auth rejection replies in the originating topic thread. (#39267) Thanks @edwluo.
Telegram/named-account DMs: restore non-default-account DM routing when a named Telegram account falls back to the default agent by keeping groups fail-closed but deriving a per-account session key for DMs, including identity-link canonicalization and regression coverage for account isolation. (from #32426; fixes #32351) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
Discord/audit wildcard warnings: ignore "*" wildcard keys when counting unresolved guild channels so doctor/status no longer warns on allow-all configs. (#33125) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/channel resolution: default bare numeric recipients to channels, harden allowlist numeric ID handling with safe fallbacks, and avoid inbound WS heartbeat stalls. (#33142) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/chunk delivery reliability: preserve chunk ordering when using a REST client and retry chunk sends on 429/5xx using account retry settings. (#33226) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/mention handling: add id-based mention formatting + cached rewrites, resolve inbound mentions to display names, and add optional ignoreOtherMentions gating (excluding @everyone/@here). (#33224) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/media SSRF allowlist: allow Discord CDN hostnames (including wildcard domains) in inbound media SSRF policy to prevent proxy/VPN fake-ip blocks. (#33275) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Telegram/device pairing notifications: auto-arm one-shot notify on /pair qr, auto-ping on new pairing requests, and add manual fallback via /pair approve latest if the ping does not arrive. (#33299) thanks @mbelinky.
Exec heartbeat routing: scope exec-triggered heartbeat wakes to agent session keys so unrelated agents are no longer awakened by exec events, while preserving legacy unscoped behavior for non-canonical session keys. (#32724) thanks @altaywtf
macOS/Tailscale remote gateway discovery: add a Tailscale Serve fallback peer probe path (wss://<peer>.ts.net) when Bonjour and wide-area DNS-SD discovery return no gateways, and refresh both discovery paths from macOS onboarding. (#32860) Thanks @ngutman.
iOS/Gateway keychain hardening: move gateway metadata and TLS fingerprints to device keychain storage with safer migration behavior and rollback-safe writes to reduce credential loss risk during upgrades. (#33029) thanks @mbelinky.
iOS/Concurrency stability: replace risky shared-state access in camera and gateway connection paths with lock-protected access patterns to reduce crash risk under load. (#33241) thanks @mbelinky.
iOS/Security guardrails: limit production API-key sourcing to app config and make deep-link confirmation prompts safer by coalescing queued requests instead of silently dropping them. (#33031) thanks @mbelinky.
iOS/TTS playback fallback: keep voice playback resilient by switching from PCM to MP3 when provider format support is unavailable, while avoiding sticky fallback on generic local playback errors. (#33032) thanks @mbelinky.
Plugin outbound/text-only adapter compatibility: allow direct-delivery channel plugins that only implement sendText (without sendMedia) to remain outbound-capable, gracefully fall back to text delivery for media payloads when sendMedia is absent, and fail explicitly for media-only payloads with no text fallback. (#32788) thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Telegram/multi-account default routing clarity: warn only for ambiguous (2+) account setups without an explicit default, add openclaw doctor warnings for missing/invalid multi-account defaults across channels, and document explicit-default guidance for channel routing and Telegram config. (#32544) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Telegram/plugin outbound hook parity: run message_sending + message_sent in Telegram reply delivery, include reply-path hook metadata (mediaUrls, threadId), and report message_sent.success=false when hooks blank text and no outbound message is delivered. (#32649) Thanks @KimGLee.
CLI/Coding-agent reliability: switch default claude-cli non-interactive args to --permission-mode bypassPermissions, auto-normalize legacy --dangerously-skip-permissions backend overrides to the modern permission-mode form, align coding-agent + live-test docs with the non-PTY Claude path, and emit session system-event heartbeat notices when CLI watchdog no-output timeouts terminate runs. (#28610, #31149, #34055). Thanks @niceysam, @cryptomaltese and @vincentkoc.
Gateway/OpenAI chat completions: parse active-turn image_url content parts (including parameterized data URIs and guarded URL sources), forward them as multimodal images, accept image-only user turns, enforce per-request image-part/byte budgets, default URL-based image fetches to disabled unless explicitly enabled by config, and redact image base64 data in cache-trace/provider payload diagnostics. (#17685) Thanks @vincentkoc
ACP/ACPX session bootstrap: retry with sessions new when sessions ensure returns no session identifiers so ACP spawns avoid NO_SESSION/ACP_TURN_FAILED failures on affected agents. (#28786, #31338, #34055). Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
ACP/sessions_spawn parent stream visibility: add streamTo: "parent" for runtime: "acp" to forward initial child-run progress/no-output/completion updates back into the requester session as system events (instead of direct child delivery), and emit a tail-able session-scoped relay log (<sessionId>.acp-stream.jsonl, returned as streamLogPath when available), improving orchestrator visibility for blocked or long-running harness turns. (#34310, #29909; reopened from #34055). Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/bootstrap truncation warning handling: unify bootstrap budget/truncation analysis across embedded + CLI runtime, /context, and openclaw doctor; add agents.defaults.bootstrapPromptTruncationWarning (off|once|always, default once) and persist warning-signature metadata so truncation warnings are consistent and deduped across turns. (#32769) Thanks @gumadeiras.
Agents/Skills runtime loading: propagate run config into embedded attempt and compaction skill-entry loading so explicitly enabled bundled companion skills are discovered consistently when skill snapshots do not already provide resolved entries. Thanks @gumadeiras.
Agents/Session startup date grounding: substitute YYYY-MM-DD placeholders in startup/post-compaction AGENTS context and append runtime current-time lines for /new and /reset prompts so daily-memory references resolve correctly. (#32381) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
Agents/Compaction template heading alignment: update AGENTS template section names to Session Startup/Red Lines and keep legacy Every Session/Safety fallback extraction so post-compaction context remains intact across template versions. (#25098) thanks @echoVic.
Agents/Compaction continuity: expand staged-summary merge instructions to preserve active task status, batch progress, latest user request, and follow-up commitments so compaction handoffs retain in-flight work context. (#8903) thanks @joetomasone.
Agents/Compaction safeguard structure hardening: require exact fallback summary headings, sanitize untrusted compaction instruction text before prompt embedding, and keep structured sections when preserving all turns. (#25555) thanks @rodrigouroz.
Gateway/status self version reporting: make Gateway self version in openclaw status prefer runtime VERSION (while preserving explicit OPENCLAW_VERSION override), preventing stale post-upgrade app version output. (#32655) thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Memory/QMD index isolation: set QMD_CONFIG_DIR alongside XDG_CONFIG_HOME so QMD config state stays per-agent despite upstream XDG handling bugs, preventing cross-agent collection indexing and excess disk/CPU usage. (#27028) thanks @HenryLoenwind.
Memory/QMD collection safety: stop destructive collection rebinds when QMD collection list only reports names without path metadata, preventing memory search from dropping existing collections if re-add fails. (#36870) Thanks @Adnannnnnnna.
Memory/QMD duplicate-document recovery: detect UNIQUE constraint failed: documents.collection, documents.path update failures, rebuild managed collections once, and retry update so periodic QMD syncs recover instead of failing every run; includes regression coverage to avoid over-matching unrelated unique constraints. (#27649) Thanks @MiscMich.
Memory/local embedding initialization hardening: add regression coverage for transient initialization retry and mixed embedQuery + embedBatch concurrent startup to lock single-flight initialization behavior. (#15639) thanks @SubtleSpark.
CLI/Coding-agent reliability: switch default claude-cli non-interactive args to --permission-mode bypassPermissions, auto-normalize legacy --dangerously-skip-permissions backend overrides to the modern permission-mode form, align coding-agent + live-test docs with the non-PTY Claude path, and emit session system-event heartbeat notices when CLI watchdog no-output timeouts terminate runs. Related to #28261. Landed from contributor PRs #28610 and #31149. Thanks @niceysam, @cryptomaltese and @vincentkoc.
ACP/ACPX session bootstrap: retry with sessions new when sessions ensure returns no session identifiers so ACP spawns avoid NO_SESSION/ACP_TURN_FAILED failures on affected agents. Related to #28786. Landed from contributor PR #31338. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
LINE/auth boundary hardening synthesis: enforce strict LINE webhook authn/z boundary semantics across pairing-store account scoping, DM/group allowlist separation, fail-closed webhook auth/runtime behavior, and replay/duplication controls (including in-flight replay reservation and post-success dedupe marking). (from #26701, #26683, #25978, #17593, #16619, #31990, #26047, #30584, #18777) Thanks @bmendonca3, @davidahmann, @harshang03, @haosenwang1018, @liuxiaopai-ai, @coygeek, and @Takhoffman.
LINE/media download synthesis: fix file-media download handling and M4A audio classification across overlapping LINE regressions. (from #26386, #27761, #27787, #29509, #29755, #29776, #29785, #32240) Thanks @kevinWangSheng, @loiie45e, @carrotRakko, @Sid-Qin, @codeafridi, and @bmendonca3.
LINE/context and routing synthesis: fix group/room peer routing and command-authorization context propagation, and keep processing later events in mixed-success webhook batches. (from #21955, #24475, #27035, #28286) Thanks @lailoo, @mcaxtr, @jervyclaw, @Glucksberg, and @Takhoffman.
LINE/status/config/webhook synthesis: fix status false positives from snapshot/config state and accept LINE webhook HEAD probes for compatibility. (from #10487, #25726, #27537, #27908, #31387) Thanks @BlueBirdBack, @stakeswky, @loiie45e, @puritysb, and @mcaxtr.
LINE cleanup/test follow-ups: fold cleanup/test learnings into the synthesis review path while keeping runtime changes focused on regression fixes. (from #17630, #17289) Thanks @Clawborn and @davidahmann.
Mattermost/interactive buttons: add interactive button send/callback support with directory-based channel/user target resolution, and harden callbacks via account-scoped HMAC verification plus sender-scoped DM routing. (#19957) thanks @tonydehnke.
Feishu/groupPolicy legacy alias compatibility: treat legacy groupPolicy: "allowall" as open in both schema parsing and runtime policy checks so intended open-group configs no longer silently drop group messages when groupAllowFrom is empty. (from #36358) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Mattermost/plugin SDK import policy: replace remaining monolithic openclaw/plugin-sdk imports in Mattermost mention-gating paths/tests with scoped subpaths (openclaw/plugin-sdk/compat and openclaw/plugin-sdk/mattermost) so pnpm check passes lint:plugins:no-monolithic-plugin-sdk-entry-imports on baseline. (#36480) Thanks @Takhoffman.
Telegram/polls: add Telegram poll action support to channel action discovery and tool/CLI poll flows, with multi-account discoverability gated to accounts that can actually execute polls (sendMessage + poll). (#36547) thanks @gumadeiras.
Agents/failover cooldown classification: stop treating generic cooling down text as provider rate_limit so healthy models no longer show false global cooldown/rate-limit warnings while explicit model_cooldown markers still trigger failover. (#32972) thanks @stakeswky.
Agents/failover service-unavailable handling: stop treating bare proxy/CDN service unavailable errors as provider overload while keeping them retryable via the timeout/failover path, so transient outages no longer show false rate-limit warnings or block fallback. (#36646) thanks @jnMetaCode.
Plugins/HTTP route migration diagnostics: rewrite legacy api.registerHttpHandler(...) loader failures into actionable migration guidance so doctor/plugin diagnostics point operators to api.registerHttpRoute(...) or registerPluginHttpRoute(...). (#36794) Thanks @vincentkoc
Doctor/Heartbeat upgrade diagnostics: warn when heartbeat delivery is configured with an implicit directPolicy so upgrades pin direct/DM behavior explicitly instead of relying on the current default. (#36789) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/current-time UTC anchor: append a machine-readable UTC suffix alongside local Current time: lines in shared cron-style prompt contexts so agents can compare UTC-stamped workspace timestamps without doing timezone math. (#32423) thanks @jriff.
Ollama/local model handling: preserve explicit lower contextWindow / maxTokens overrides during merge refresh, and keep native Ollama streamed replies from surfacing fallback thinking / reasoning text once real content starts streaming. (#39292) Thanks @vincentkoc.
TUI/webchat command-owner scope alignment: treat internal-channel gateway sessions with operator.admin as owner-authorized in command auth, restoring cron/gateway/connector tool access for affected TUI/webchat sessions while keeping external channels on identity-based owner checks. (from #35666, #35673, #35704) Thanks @Naylenv, @Octane0411, and @Sid-Qin.
Discord/inbound timeout isolation: separate inbound worker timeout tracking from listener timeout budgets so queued Discord replies are no longer dropped when listener watchdog windows expire mid-run. (#36602) Thanks @dutifulbob.
Memory/doctor SecretRef handling: treat SecretRef-backed memory-search API keys as configured, and fail embedding setup with explicit unresolved-secret errors instead of crashing. (#36835) Thanks @joshavant.
Memory/flush default prompt: ban timestamped variant filenames during default memory flush runs so durable notes stay in the canonical daily memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md file. (#34951) thanks @zerone0x.
Agents/reply delivery timing: flush embedded Pi block replies before waiting on compaction retries so already-generated assistant replies reach channels before compaction wait completes. (#35489) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Agents/gateway config guidance: stop exposing config.schema through the agent gateway tool, remove prompt/docs guidance that told agents to call it, and keep agents on config.get plus config.patch/config.apply for config changes. (#7382) thanks @kakuteki.
Provider/KiloCode: Keep duplicate models after malformed discovery rows, and strip legacy reasoning_effort when proxy reasoning injection is skipped. (#32352) Thanks @pandemicsyn and @vincentkoc.
Agents/failover: classify periodic provider limit exhaustion text (for example Weekly/Monthly Limit Exhausted) as rate_limit while keeping explicit 402 Payment Required variants in billing, so failover continues without misclassifying billing-wrapped quota errors. (#33813) thanks @zhouhe-xydt.
Mattermost/interactive button callbacks: allow external callback base URLs and stop requiring loopback-origin requests so button clicks work when Mattermost reaches the gateway over Tailscale, LAN, or a reverse proxy. (#37543) thanks @mukhtharcm.
Gateway/chat.send route inheritance: keep explicit external delivery for channel-scoped sessions while preventing shared-main and other channel-agnostic webchat sessions from inheriting stale external routes, so Control UI replies stay on webchat without breaking selected channel-target sessions. (#34669) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Telegram/Discord media upload caps: make outbound uploads honor channel mediaMaxMb config, raise Telegram's default media cap to 100MB, and remove MIME fallback limits that kept some Telegram uploads at 16MB. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Skills/nano-banana-pro resolution override: respect explicit --resolution values during image editing and only auto-detect output size from input images when the flag is omitted. (#36880) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
Skills/openai-image-gen CLI validation: validate --background and --style inputs early, normalize supported values, and warn when those flags are ignored for incompatible models. (#36762) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
Skills/openai-image-gen output formats: validate --output-format values early, normalize aliases like jpg -> jpeg, and warn when the flag is ignored for incompatible models. (#36648) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
ACP/skill env isolation: strip skill-injected API keys from ACP harness child-process environments so tools like Codex CLI keep their own auth flow instead of inheriting billed provider keys from active skills. (#36316) Thanks @taw0002 and @vincentkoc.
WhatsApp media upload caps: make outbound media sends and auto-replies honor channels.whatsapp.mediaMaxMb with per-account overrides so inbound and outbound limits use the same channel config. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Windows/Plugin install: when OpenClaw runs on Windows via Bun and npm-cli.js is not colocated with the runtime binary, fall back to npm.cmd/npx.cmd through the existing cmd.exe wrapper so openclaw plugins install no longer fails with spawn EINVAL. (#38056) Thanks @0xlin2023.
Telegram/send retry classification: retry grammY Network request ... failed after N attempts envelopes in send flows without reclassifying plain Network request ... failed! wrappers as transient, restoring the intended retry path while keeping broad send-context message matching tight. (#38056) Thanks @0xlin2023.
Gateway/probes: keep /health, /healthz, /ready, and /readyz reachable when the Control UI is mounted at /, preserve plugin-owned route precedence on those paths, and make /ready and /readyz report channel-backed readiness with startup grace plus 503 on disconnected managed channels, while /health and /healthz stay shallow liveness probes. (#18446) Thanks @vibecodooor, @mahsumaktas, and @vincentkoc.
Feishu/media downloads: drop invalid timeout fields from SDK method calls now that client-level httpTimeoutMs applies to requests. (#38267) Thanks @ant1eicher and @thewilloftheshadow.
PI embedded runner/Feishu docs: propagate sender identity into embedded attempts so Feishu doc auto-grant restores requester access for embedded-runner executions. (#32915) thanks @cszhouwei.
Agents/usage normalization: normalize missing or partial assistant usage snapshots before compaction accounting so openclaw agent --json no longer crashes when provider payloads omit totalTokens or related usage fields. (#34977) thanks @sp-hk2ldn.
Venice/default model refresh: switch the built-in Venice default to kimi-k2-5, update onboarding aliasing, and refresh Venice provider docs/recommendations to match the current private and anonymized catalog. (from #12964) Fixes #20156. Thanks @sabrinaaquino and @vincentkoc.
Agents/skill API write pacing: add a global prompt guardrail that treats skill-driven external API writes as rate-limited by default, so runners prefer batched writes, avoid tight request loops, and respect 429/Retry-After. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Google Chat/multi-account webhook auth fallback: when channels.googlechat.accounts.default carries shared webhook audience/path settings (for example after config normalization), inherit those defaults for named accounts while preserving top-level and per-account overrides, so inbound webhook verification no longer fails silently for named accounts missing duplicated audience fields. Fixes #38369.
Models/tool probing: raise the tool-capability probe budget from 32 to 256 tokens so reasoning models that spend tokens on thinking before returning a required tool call are less likely to be misclassified as not supporting tools. (#7521) Thanks @jakobdylanc.
Gateway/transient network classification: treat wrapped ...: fetch failed transport messages as transient while avoiding broad matches like Web fetch failed (404): ..., preventing Discord reconnect wrappers from crashing the gateway without suppressing non-network tool failures. (#38530) Thanks @xinhuagu.
ACP/console silent reply suppression: filter ACP NO_REPLY lead fragments and silent-only finals before openclaw agent logging/delivery so console-backed ACP sessions no longer leak NO/NO_REPLY placeholders. (#38436) Thanks @ql-wade.
Feishu/reply delivery reliability: disable block streaming in Feishu reply options so plain-text auto-render replies are no longer silently dropped before final delivery. (#38258) Thanks @xinhuagu.
Agents/reply MEDIA delivery: normalize local assistant MEDIA: paths before block/final delivery, keep media dedupe aligned with message-tool sends, and contain malformed media normalization failures so generated files send reliably instead of falling back to empty responses. (#38572) Thanks @obviyus.
Sessions/bootstrap cache rollover invalidation: clear cached workspace bootstrap snapshots whenever an existing sessionKey rolls to a new sessionId across auto-reply, command, and isolated cron session resolvers, so AGENTS.md/MEMORY.md/USER.md updates are reloaded after daily, idle, or forced session resets instead of staying stale until gateway restart. (#38494) Thanks @LivingInDrm.
Gateway/Telegram polling health monitor: skip stale-socket restarts for Telegram long-polling channels and thread channel identity through shared health evaluation so polling connections are not restarted on the WebSocket stale-socket heuristic. (#38395) Thanks @ql-wade and @Takhoffman.
Daemon/systemd fresh-install probe: check for OpenClaw's managed user unit before running systemctl --user is-enabled, so first-time Linux installs no longer fail on generic missing-unit probe errors. (#38819) Thanks @adaHubble.
Gateway/container lifecycle: allow openclaw gateway stop to SIGTERM unmanaged gateway listeners and openclaw gateway restart to SIGUSR1 a single unmanaged listener when no service manager is installed, so container and supervisor-based deployments are no longer blocked by service disabled no-op responses. Fixes #36137. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Gateway/Windows restart supervision: relaunch task-managed gateways through Scheduled Task with quoted helper-script command paths, distinguish restart-capable supervisors per platform, and stop orphaned Windows gateway children during self-restart. (#38825) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/native topic command routing: resolve forum-topic native commands through the same conversation route as inbound messages so topic agentId overrides and bound topic sessions target the active session instead of the default topic-parent session. (#38871) Thanks @obviyus.
Markdown/assistant image hardening: flatten remote markdown images to plain text across the Control UI, exported HTML, and shared Swift chat while keeping inline data:image/... markdown renderable, so model output no longer triggers automatic remote image fetches. (#38895) Thanks @obviyus.
Config/compaction safeguard settings: regression-test agents.defaults.compaction.recentTurnsPreserve through loadConfig() and cover the new help metadata entry so the exposed preserve knob stays wired through schema validation and config UX. (#25557) thanks @rodrigouroz.
iOS/Quick Setup presentation: skip automatic Quick Setup when a gateway is already configured (active connect config, last-known connection, preferred gateway, or manual host), so reconnecting installs no longer get prompted to connect again. (#38964) Thanks @ngutman.
CLI/Docs memory help accuracy: clarify openclaw memory status --deep behavior and align memory command examples/docs with the current search options. (#31803) Thanks @JasonOA888 and @Avi974.
Auto-reply/allowlist store account scoping: keep /allowlist ... --store writes scoped to the selected account and clear legacy unscoped entries when removing default-account store access, preventing cross-account default allowlist bleed-through from legacy pairing-store reads. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting and @vincentkoc for the fix.
Security/Nostr: harden profile mutation/import loopback guards by failing closed on non-loopback forwarded client headers (x-forwarded-for / x-real-ip) and rejecting sec-fetch-site: cross-site; adds regression coverage for proxy-forwarded and browser cross-site mutation attempts.
CLI/bootstrap Node version hint maintenance: replace hardcoded nvm 22 instructions in openclaw.mjs with MIN_NODE_MAJOR interpolation so future minimum-Node bumps keep startup guidance in sync automatically. (#39056) Thanks @onstash.
Discord/native slash command auth: honor commands.allowFrom.discord (and commands.allowFrom["*"]) in guild slash-command pre-dispatch authorization so allowlisted senders are no longer incorrectly rejected as unauthorized. (#38794) Thanks @jskoiz and @thewilloftheshadow.
Outbound/message target normalization: ignore empty legacy to/channelId fields when explicit target is provided so valid target-based sends no longer fail legacy-param validation; includes regression coverage. (#38944) Thanks @Narcooo.
Models/auth token prompts: guard cancelled manual token prompts so Symbol(clack:cancel) values cannot be persisted into auth profiles; adds regression coverage for cancelled models auth paste-token. (#38951) Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/loopback announce URLs: treat http:// and https:// aliases with the same loopback/private-network policy as websocket URLs so loopback cron announce delivery no longer fails secure URL validation. (#39064) Thanks @Narcooo.
Models/default provider fallback: when the hardcoded default provider is removed from models.providers, resolve defaults from configured providers instead of reporting stale removed-provider defaults in status output. (#38947) Thanks @davidemanuelDEV.
Agents/cache-trace stability: guard stable stringify against circular references in trace payloads so near-limit payloads no longer crash with Maximum call stack size exceeded; adds regression coverage. (#38935) Thanks @MumuTW.
Extensions/diffs CI stability: add headers to the localReq test helper in extensions/diffs/index.test.ts so forwarding-hint checks no longer crash with req.headers undefined. (supersedes #39063) Thanks @Shennng.
Agents/compaction thresholding: apply agents.defaults.contextTokens cap to the model passed into embedded run and /compact session creation so auto-compaction thresholds use the effective context window, not native model max context. (#39099) Thanks @MumuTW.
Models/merge mode provider precedence: when models.mode: "merge" is active and config explicitly sets a provider baseUrl, keep config as source of truth instead of preserving stale runtime models.json baseUrl values; includes normalized provider-key coverage. (#39103) Thanks @BigUncle.
UI/Control chat tool streaming: render tool events live in webchat without requiring refresh by enabling tool-events capability, fixing stream/event correlation, and resetting/reloading stream state around tool results and terminal events. (#39104) Thanks @jakepresent.
Models/provider apiKey persistence hardening: when a provider apiKey value equals a known provider env var value, persist the canonical env var name into models.json instead of resolved plaintext secrets. (#38889) Thanks @gambletan.
Discord/model picker persistence check: add a short post-dispatch settle delay before reading back session model state so picker confirmations stop reporting false mismatch warnings after successful model switches. (#39105) Thanks @akropp.
Agents/OpenAI WS compat store flag: omit store from response.create payloads when model compat sets supportsStore: false, preventing strict OpenAI-compatible providers from rejecting websocket requests with unknown-field errors. (#39113) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Config/validation log sanitization: sanitize config-validation issue paths/messages before logging so control characters and ANSI escape sequences cannot inject misleading terminal output from crafted config content. (#39116) Thanks @powermaster888.
Agents/compaction counter accuracy: count successful overflow-triggered auto-compactions (willRetry=true) in the compaction counter while still excluding aborted/no-result events, so /status reflects actual safeguard compaction activity. (#39123) Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/chat delta ordering: flush buffered assistant deltas before emitting tool start events so pre-tool text is delivered to Control UI before tool cards, avoiding transient text/tool ordering artifacts in streaming. (#39128) Thanks @0xtangping.
Voice-call plugin schema parity: add missing manifest configSchema fields (webhookSecurity, streaming.preStartTimeoutMs|maxPendingConnections|maxPendingConnectionsPerIp|maxConnections, staleCallReaperSeconds) so gateway AJV validation accepts already-supported runtime config instead of failing with additionalProperties errors. (#38892) Thanks @giumex.
Agents/OpenAI WS reconnect retry accounting: avoid double retry scheduling when reconnect failures emit both error and close, so retry budgets track actual reconnect attempts instead of exhausting early. (#39133) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Daemon/Windows schtasks runtime detection: use locale-invariant Last Run Result running codes (0x41301/267009) as the primary running signal so openclaw node status no longer misreports active tasks as stopped on non-English Windows locales. (#39076) Thanks @ademczuk.
Usage/token count formatting: round near-million token counts to millions (1.0m) instead of 1000k, with explicit boundary coverage for 999_499 and 999_500. (#39129) Thanks @CurryMessi.
Gateway/session bootstrap cache invalidation ordering: clear bootstrap snapshots only after active embedded-run shutdown wait completes, preventing dying runs from repopulating stale cache between /new/sessions.reset turns. (#38873) Thanks @MumuTW.
Browser/dispatcher error clarity: preserve dispatcher-side failure context in browser fetch errors while still appending operator guidance and explicit no-retry model hints, preventing misleading "Can't reach service" wrapping and avoiding LLM retry loops. (#39090) Thanks @NewdlDewdl.
Telegram/polling offset safety: confirm persisted offsets before polling startup while validating stored lastUpdateId values as non-negative safe integers (with overflow guards) so malformed offset state cannot cause update skipping/dropping. (#39111) Thanks @MumuTW.
Telegram/status SecretRef read-only resolution: resolve env-backed bot-token SecretRefs in config-only/status inspection while respecting provider source/defaults and env allowlists, so status no longer crashes or reports false-ready tokens for disallowed providers. (#39130) Thanks @neocody.
Agents/OpenAI WS max-token zero forwarding: treat maxTokens: 0 as an explicit value in websocket response.create payloads (instead of dropping it as falsy), with regression coverage for zero-token forwarding. (#39148) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Podman/.env gateway bind precedence: evaluate OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_BIND after sourcing .env in run-openclaw-podman.sh so env-file overrides are honored. (#38785) Thanks @majinyu666.
Models/default alias refresh: bump gpt to openai/gpt-5.4 and Gemini defaults to gemini-3.1 preview aliases (including normalization/default wiring) to track current model IDs. (#38638) Thanks @ademczuk.
Config/env substitution degraded mode: convert missing ${VAR} resolution in config reads from hard-fail to warning-backed degraded behavior, while preventing unresolved placeholders from being accepted as gateway credentials. (#39050) Thanks @akz142857.
Discord inbound listener non-blocking dispatch: make MESSAGE_CREATE listener handoff asynchronous (no per-listener queue blocking), so long runs no longer stall unrelated incoming events. (#39154) Thanks @yaseenkadlemakki.
Daemon/Windows PATH freeze fix: stop persisting install-time PATH snapshots into Scheduled Task scripts so runtime tool lookup follows current host PATH updates; also refresh local TUI history on silent local finals. (#39139) Thanks @Narcooo.
Gateway/systemd service restart hardening: clear stale gateway listeners by explicit run-port before service bind, add restart stale-pid port-override support, tune systemd start/stop/exit handling, and disable detached child mode only in service-managed runtime so cgroup stop semantics clean up descendants reliably. (#38463) Thanks @spirittechie.
Discord/plugin native command aliases: let plugins declare provider-specific slash names so native Discord registration can avoid built-in command collisions; the bundled Talk voice plugin now uses /talkvoice natively on Discord while keeping text /voice.
Daemon/Windows schtasks status normalization: derive runtime state from locale-neutral numeric Last Run Result codes only (without language string matching) and surface unknown when numeric result data is unavailable, preventing locale-specific misclassification drift. (#39153) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Telegram/polling conflict recovery: reset the polling webhookCleared latch on getUpdates 409 conflicts so webhook cleanup re-runs on restart cycles and polling avoids infinite conflict loops. (#39205) Thanks @amittell.
Heartbeat/requests-in-flight scheduling: stop advancing nextDueMs and avoid immediate scheduleNext() timer overrides on requests-in-flight skips, so wake-layer retry cooldowns are honored and heartbeat cadence no longer drifts under sustained contention. (#39182) Thanks @MumuTW.
Memory/SQLite contention resilience: re-apply PRAGMA busy_timeout on every sync-store and QMD connection open so process restarts/reopens no longer revert to immediate SQLITE_BUSY failures under lock contention. (#39183) Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/webchat route safety: block webchat/control-ui clients from inheriting stored external delivery routes on channel-scoped sessions (while preserving route inheritance for UI/TUI clients), preventing cross-channel leakage from scoped chats. (#39175) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
Telegram error-surface resilience: return a user-visible fallback reply when dispatch/debounce processing fails instead of going silent, while preserving draft-stream cleanup and best-effort thread-scoped fallback delivery. (#39209) Thanks @riftzen-bit.
Gateway/password auth startup diagnostics: detect unresolved provider-reference objects in gateway.auth.password and fail with a specific bootstrap-secrets error message instead of generic misconfiguration output. (#39230) Thanks @ademczuk.
Agents/OpenAI-responses compatibility: strip unsupported store payload fields when supportsStore=false (including OpenAI-compatible non-OpenAI providers) while preserving server-compaction payload behavior. (#39219) Thanks @ademczuk.
Agents/model fallback visibility: warn when configured model IDs cannot be resolved and fallback is applied, with log-safe sanitization of model text to prevent control-sequence injection in warning output. (#39215) Thanks @ademczuk.
Outbound delivery replay safety: use two-phase delivery ACK markers (.json -> .delivered -> unlink) and startup marker cleanup so crash windows between send and cleanup do not replay already-delivered messages. (#38668) Thanks @Gundam98.
Nodes/system.run approval binding: carry prepared approval plans through gateway forwarding and bind interpreter-style script operands across approval to execution, so post-approval script rewrites are denied while unchanged approved script runs keep working. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Nodes/system.run PowerShell wrapper parsing: treat pwsh/powershell -EncodedCommand forms as shell-wrapper payloads so allowlist mode still requires approval instead of falling back to plain argv analysis. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Control UI/auth error reporting: map generic browser Fetch failed websocket close errors back to actionable gateway auth messages (gateway token mismatch, authentication failed, retry later) so dashboard disconnects stop hiding credential problems. Landed from contributor PR #28608 by @KimGLee. Thanks @KimGLee.
Media/mime unknown-kind handling: return undefined (not "unknown") for missing/unrecognized MIME kinds and use document-size fallback caps for unknown remote media, preventing phantom <media:unknown> Signal events from being treated as real messages. (#39199) Thanks @nicolasgrasset.
Nodes/system.run allow-always persistence: honor shell comment semantics during allowlist analysis so #-tailed payloads that never execute are not persisted as trusted follow-up commands. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Signal/inbound attachment fan-in: forward all successfully fetched inbound attachments through MediaPaths/MediaUrls/MediaTypes (instead of only the first), and improve multi-attachment placeholder summaries in mention-gated pending history. (#39212) Thanks @joeykrug.
Nodes/system.run dispatch-wrapper boundary: keep shell-wrapper approval classification active at the depth boundary so env wrapper stacks cannot reach /bin/sh -c execution without the expected approval gate. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Docker/token persistence on reconfigure: reuse the existing .env gateway token during docker-setup.sh reruns and align compose token env defaults, so Docker installs stop silently rotating tokens and breaking existing dashboard sessions. Landed from contributor PR #33097 by @chengzhichao-xydt. Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
Agents/strict OpenAI turn ordering: apply assistant-first transcript bootstrap sanitization to strict OpenAI-compatible providers (for example vLLM/Gemma via openai-completions) without adding Google-specific session markers, preventing assistant-first history rejections. (#39252) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Discord/exec approvals gateway auth: pass resolved shared gateway credentials into the Discord exec-approvals gateway client so token-auth installs stop failing approvals with gateway token mismatch. Related to #38179. Thanks @0riginal-claw for the adjacent PR #35147 investigation.
Subagents/workspace inheritance: propagate parent workspace directory to spawned subagent runs so child sessions reliably inherit workspace-scoped instructions (AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, etc.) without exposing workspace override through tool-call arguments. (#39247) Thanks @jasonQin6.
Exec approvals/gateway-node policy: honor explicit ask=off from exec-approvals.json even when runtime defaults are stricter, so trusted full/off setups stop re-prompting on gateway and node exec paths. Landed from contributor PR #26789 by @pandego. Thanks @pandego.
Exec approvals/config fallback: inherit ask from exec-approvals.json when tools.exec.ask is unset, so local full/off defaults no longer fall back to on-miss for exec tool and nodes run. Landed from contributor PR #29187 by @Bartok9. Thanks @Bartok9.
Exec approvals/allow-always shell scripts: persist and match script paths for wrapper invocations like bash scripts/foo.sh while still blocking -c/-s wrapper bypasses. Landed from contributor PR #35137 by @yuweuii. Thanks @yuweuii.
Queue/followup dedupe across drain restarts: dedupe queued redelivery message_id values after queue recreation so busy-session followups no longer duplicate on replayed inbound events. Landed from contributor PR #33168 by @rylena. Thanks @rylena.
Telegram/preview-final edit idempotence: treat message is not modified errors during preview finalization as delivered so partial-stream final replies do not fall back to duplicate sends. Landed from contributor PR #34983 by @HOYALIM. Thanks @HOYALIM.
Telegram/DM streaming transport parity: use message preview transport for all DM streaming lanes so final delivery can edit the active preview instead of sending duplicate finals. Landed from contributor PR #38906 by @gambletan. Thanks @gambletan.
Telegram/DM draft streaming restoration: restore native sendMessageDraft preview transport for DM answer streaming while keeping reasoning on message transport, with regression coverage to keep draft finalization from sending duplicate finals. (#39398) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/send retry safety: retry non-idempotent send paths only for pre-connect failures and make custom retry predicates strict, preventing ambiguous reconnect retries from sending duplicate messages. Landed from contributor PR #34238 by @hal-crackbot. Thanks @hal-crackbot.
ACP/run spawn delivery bootstrap: stop reusing requester inline delivery targets for one-shot mode: "run" ACP spawns, so fresh run-mode workers bootstrap in isolation instead of inheriting thread-bound session delivery behavior. (#39014) Thanks @lidamao633.
Discord/DM session-key normalization: rewrite legacy discord:dm:* and phantom direct-message discord:channel:<user> session keys to discord:direct:* when the sender matches, so multi-agent Discord DMs stop falling into empty channel-shaped sessions and resume replying correctly.
Discord/native slash session fallback: treat empty configured bound-session keys as missing so /status and other native commands fall back to the routed slash session and routed channel session instead of blanking Discord session keys in normal channel bindings.
Agents/tool-call dispatch normalization: normalize provider-prefixed tool names before dispatch across toolCall, toolUse, and functionCall blocks, while preserving multi-segment tool suffixes when stripping provider wrappers so malformed-but-recoverable tool names no longer fail with Tool not found. (#39328) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/parallel tool-call compatibility: honor parallel_tool_calls / parallelToolCalls extra params only for openai-completions and openai-responses payloads, preserve higher-precedence alias overrides across config and runtime layers, and ignore invalid non-boolean values so single-tool-call providers like NVIDIA-hosted Kimi stop failing on forced parallel tool-call payloads. (#37048) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Config/invalid-load fail-closed: stop converting INVALID_CONFIG into an empty runtime config, keep valid settings available only through explicit best-effort diagnostic reads, and route read-only CLI diagnostics through that path so unknown keys no longer silently drop security-sensitive config. (#28140) Thanks @bobsahur-robot and @vincentkoc.
Agents/codex-cli sandbox defaults: switch the built-in Codex backend from read-only to workspace-write so spawned coding runs can edit files out of the box. Landed from contributor PR #39336 by @0xtangping. Thanks @0xtangping.
Gateway/health-monitor restart reason labeling: report disconnected instead of stuck for clean channel disconnect restarts, so operator logs distinguish socket drops from genuinely stuck channels. (#36436) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Control UI/agents-page overrides: auto-create minimal per-agent config entries when editing inherited agents, so model/tool/skill changes enable Save and inherited model fallbacks can be cleared by writing a primary-only override. Landed from contributor PR #39326 by @dunamismax. Thanks @dunamismax.
Gateway/Telegram webhook-mode recovery: add webhookCertPath to re-upload self-signed certificates during webhook registration and skip stale-socket detection for webhook-mode channels, so Telegram webhook setups survive health-monitor restarts. Landed from contributor PR #39313 by @fellanH. Thanks @fellanH.
Discord/config schema parity: add channels.discord.agentComponents to the strict Zod config schema so valid agentComponents.enabled settings (root and account-scoped) no longer fail with unrecognized-key validation errors. Landed from contributor PR #39378 by @gambletan. Thanks @gambletan and @thewilloftheshadow.
ACPX/MCP session bootstrap: inject configured MCP servers into ACP session/new and session/load for acpx-backed sessions, restoring Canva and other external MCP tools. Landed from contributor PR #39337. Thanks @goodspeed-apps.
Control UI/Telegram sender labels: preserve inbound sender labels in sanitized chat history so dashboard user-message groups split correctly and show real group-member names instead of You. (#39414) Thanks @obviyus.

openclaw 2026.3.7-beta.1

2026-03-08T04:54:11Z

Changes

Agents/context engine plugin interface: add ContextEngine plugin slot with full lifecycle hooks (bootstrap, ingest, assemble, compact, afterTurn, prepareSubagentSpawn, onSubagentEnded), slot-based registry with config-driven resolution, LegacyContextEngine wrapper preserving existing compaction behavior, scoped subagent runtime for plugin runtimes via AsyncLocalStorage, and sessions.get gateway method. Enables plugins like lossless-claw to provide alternative context management strategies without modifying core compaction logic. Zero behavior change when no context engine plugin is configured. (#22201) thanks @jalehman.
ACP/persistent channel bindings: add durable Discord channel and Telegram topic binding storage, routing resolution, and CLI/docs support so ACP thread targets survive restarts and can be managed consistently. (#34873) Thanks @dutifulbob.
Telegram/ACP topic bindings: accept Telegram Mac Unicode dash option prefixes in /acp spawn, support Telegram topic thread binding (--thread here|auto), route bound-topic follow-ups to ACP sessions, add actionable Telegram approval buttons with prefixed approval-id resolution, and pin successful bind confirmations in-topic. (#36683) Thanks @huntharo.
Telegram/topic agent routing: support per-topic agentId overrides in forum groups and DM topics so topics can route to dedicated agents with isolated sessions. (#33647; based on #31513) Thanks @kesor and @Sid-Qin.
Web UI/i18n: add Spanish (es) locale support in the Control UI, including locale detection, lazy loading, and language picker labels across supported locales. (#35038) Thanks @DaoPromociones.
Onboarding/web search: add provider selection step and full provider list in configure wizard, with SecretRef ref-mode support during onboarding. (#34009) Thanks @kesku and @thewilloftheshadow.
Tools/Web search: switch Perplexity provider to Search API with structured results plus new language/region/time filters. (#33822) Thanks @kesku.
Gateway: add SecretRef support for gateway.auth.token with auth-mode guardrails. (#35094) Thanks @joshavant.
Docker/Podman extension dependency baking: add OPENCLAW_EXTENSIONS so container builds can preinstall selected bundled extension npm dependencies into the image for faster and more reproducible startup in container deployments. (#32223) Thanks @sallyom.
Plugins/before_prompt_build system-context fields: add prependSystemContext and appendSystemContext so static plugin guidance can be placed in system prompt space for provider caching and lower repeated prompt token cost. (#35177) thanks @maweibin.
Plugins/hook policy: add plugins.entries.<id>.hooks.allowPromptInjection, validate unknown typed hook names at runtime, and preserve legacy before_agent_start model/provider overrides while stripping prompt-mutating fields when prompt injection is disabled. (#36567) thanks @gumadeiras.
Hooks/Compaction lifecycle: emit session:compact:before and session:compact:after internal events plus plugin compaction callbacks with session/count metadata, so automations can react to compaction runs consistently. (#16788) thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/compaction post-context configurability: add agents.defaults.compaction.postCompactionSections so deployments can choose which AGENTS.md sections are re-injected after compaction, while preserving legacy fallback behavior when the documented default pair is configured in any order. (#34556) thanks @efe-arv.
TTS/OpenAI-compatible endpoints: add messages.tts.openai.baseUrl config support with config-over-env precedence, endpoint-aware directive validation, and OpenAI TTS request routing to the resolved base URL. (#34321) thanks @RealKai42.
Slack/DM typing feedback: add channels.slack.typingReaction so Socket Mode DMs can show reaction-based processing status even when Slack native assistant typing is unavailable. (#19816) Thanks @dalefrieswthat.
Discord/allowBots mention gating: add allowBots: "mentions" to only accept bot-authored messages that mention the bot. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Agents/tool-result truncation: preserve important tail diagnostics by using head+tail truncation for oversized tool results while keeping configurable truncation options. (#20076) thanks @jlwestsr.
Cron/job snapshot persistence: skip backup during normalization persistence in ensureLoaded so jobs.json.bak keeps the pre-edit snapshot for recovery, while preserving backup creation on explicit user-driven writes. (#35234) Thanks @0xsline.
CLI: make read-only SecretRef status flows degrade safely (#37023) thanks @joshavant.
Tools/Diffs guidance: restore a short system-prompt hint for enabled diffs while keeping the detailed instructions in the companion skill, so diffs usage guidance stays out of user-prompt space. (#36904) thanks @gumadeiras.
Tools/Diffs guidance loading: move diffs usage guidance from unconditional prompt-hook injection to the plugin companion skill path, reducing unrelated-turn prompt noise while keeping diffs tool behavior unchanged. (#32630) thanks @sircrumpet.
Docs/Web search: remove outdated Brave free-tier wording and replace prescriptive AI ToS guidance with neutral compliance language in Brave setup docs. (#26860) Thanks @HenryLoenwind.
Config/Compaction safeguard tuning: expose agents.defaults.compaction.recentTurnsPreserve and quality-guard retry knobs through the validated config surface and embedded-runner wiring, with regression coverage for real config loading and schema metadata. (#25557) thanks @rodrigouroz.
iOS/App Store Connect release prep: align iOS bundle identifiers under ai.openclaw.client, refresh Watch app icons, add Fastlane metadata/screenshot automation, and support Keychain-backed ASC auth for uploads. (#38936) Thanks @ngutman.
Mattermost/model picker: add Telegram-style interactive provider/model browsing for /oc_model and /oc_models, fix picker callback updates, and emit a normal confirmation reply when a model is selected. (#38767) thanks @mukhtharcm.
Docker/multi-stage build: restructure Dockerfile as a multi-stage build to produce a minimal runtime image without build tools, source code, or Bun; add OPENCLAW_VARIANT=slim build arg for a bookworm-slim variant. (#38479) Thanks @sallyom.

Breaking

BREAKING: Gateway auth now requires explicit gateway.auth.mode when both gateway.auth.token and gateway.auth.password are configured (including SecretRefs). Set gateway.auth.mode to token or password before upgrade to avoid startup/pairing/TUI failures. (#35094) Thanks @joshavant.

Fixes

Models/MiniMax: stop advertising removed MiniMax-M2.5-Lightning in built-in provider catalogs, onboarding metadata, and docs; keep the supported fast-tier model as MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed.
Security/Config: fail closed when loadConfig() hits validation or read errors so invalid configs cannot silently fall back to permissive runtime defaults. (#9040) Thanks @joetomasone.
Memory/Hybrid search: preserve negative FTS5 BM25 relevance ordering in bm25RankToScore() so stronger keyword matches rank above weaker ones instead of collapsing or reversing scores. (#33757) Thanks @lsdcc01.
LINE/requireMention group gating: align inbound and reply-stage LINE group policy resolution across raw, group:, and room: keys (including account-scoped group config), preserve plugin-backed reply-stage fallback behavior, and add regression coverage for prefixed-only group/room config plus reply-stage policy resolution. (#35847) Thanks @kirisame-wang.
Onboarding/local setup: default unset local tools.profile to coding instead of messaging, restoring file/runtime tools for fresh local installs while preserving explicit user-set profiles. (from #38241, overlap with #34958) Thanks @cgdusek.
Gateway/Telegram stale-socket restart guard: only apply stale-socket restarts to channels that publish event-liveness timestamps, preventing Telegram providers from being misclassified as stale solely due to long uptime and avoiding restart/pairing storms after upgrade. (#38464)
Onboarding/headless Linux daemon probe hardening: treat systemctl --user is-enabled probe failures as non-fatal during daemon install flow so onboarding no longer crashes on SSH/headless VPS environments before showing install guidance. (#37297) Thanks @acarbajal-web.
Memory/QMD mcporter Windows spawn hardening: when mcporter.cmd launch fails with spawn EINVAL, retry via bare mcporter shell resolution so QMD recall can continue instead of falling back to builtin memory search. (#27402) Thanks @i0ivi0i.
Tools/web_search Brave language-code validation: align search_lang handling with Brave-supported codes (including zh-hans, zh-hant, en-gb, and pt-br), map common alias inputs (zh, ja) to valid Brave values, and reject unsupported codes before upstream requests to prevent 422 failures. (#37260) Thanks @heyanming.
Models/openai-completions streaming compatibility: force compat.supportsUsageInStreaming=false for non-native OpenAI-compatible endpoints during model normalization, preventing usage-only stream chunks from triggering choices[0] parser crashes in provider streams. (#8714) Thanks @nonanon1.
Tools/xAI native web-search collision guard: drop OpenClaw web_search from tool registration when routing to xAI/Grok model providers (including OpenRouter x-ai/*) to avoid duplicate tool-name request failures against provider-native web_search. (#14749) Thanks @realsamrat.
TUI/token copy-safety rendering: treat long credential-like mixed alphanumeric tokens (including quoted forms) as copy-sensitive in render sanitization so formatter hard-wrap guards no longer inject visible spaces into auth-style values before display. (#26710) Thanks @jasonthane.
WhatsApp/self-chat response prefix fallback: stop forcing "[openclaw]" as the implicit outbound response prefix when no identity name or response prefix is configured, so blank/default prefix settings no longer inject branding text unexpectedly in self-chat flows. (#27962) Thanks @ecanmor.
Memory/QMD search result decoding: accept qmd search hits that only include file URIs (for example qmd://collection/path.md) without docid, resolve them through managed collection roots, and keep multi-collection results keyed by file fallback so valid QMD hits no longer collapse to empty memory_search output. (#28181) Thanks @0x76696265.
Memory/QMD collection-name conflict recovery: when qmd collection add fails because another collection already occupies the same path + pattern, detect the conflicting collection from collection list, remove it, and retry add so agent-scoped managed collections are created deterministically instead of being silently skipped; also add warning-only fallback when qmd metadata is unavailable to avoid destructive guesses. (#25496) Thanks @Ramsbaby.
Slack/app_mention race dedupe: when app_mention dispatch wins while same-ts message prepare is still in-flight, suppress the later message dispatch so near-simultaneous Slack deliveries do not produce duplicate replies; keep single-retry behavior and add regression coverage for both dropped and successful message-prepare outcomes. (#37033) Thanks @Takhoffman.
Gateway/chat streaming tool-boundary text retention: merge assistant delta segments into per-run chat buffers so pre-tool text is preserved in live chat deltas/finals when providers emit post-tool assistant segments as non-prefix snapshots. (#36957) Thanks @Datyedyeguy.
TUI/model indicator freshness: prevent stale session snapshots from overwriting freshly patched model selection (and reset per-session freshness when switching session keys) so /model updates reflect immediately instead of lagging by one or more commands. (#21255) Thanks @kowza.
TUI/final-error rendering fallback: when a chat final event has no renderable assistant content but includes envelope errorMessage, render the formatted error text instead of collapsing to "(no output)", preserving actionable failure context in-session. (#14687) Thanks @Mquarmoc.
TUI/session-key alias event matching: treat chat events whose session keys are canonical aliases (for example agent:<id>:main vs main) as the same session while preserving cross-agent isolation, so assistant replies no longer disappear or surface in another terminal window due to strict key-form mismatch. (#33937) Thanks @yjh1412.
OpenAI Codex OAuth/login parity: keep openclaw models auth login --provider openai-codex on the built-in path even without provider plugins, preserve Pi-generated authorize URLs without local scope rewriting, and stop validating successful Codex sign-ins against the public OpenAI Responses API after callback. (#37558; follow-up to #36660 and #24720) Thanks @driesvints, @Skippy-Gunboat, and @obviyus.
Agents/config schema lookup: add gateway tool action config.schema.lookup so agents can inspect one config path at a time before edits without loading the full schema into prompt context. (#37266) Thanks @gumadeiras.
Onboarding/API key input hardening: strip non-Latin1 Unicode artifacts from normalized secret input (while preserving Latin-1 content and internal spaces) so malformed copied API keys cannot trigger HTTP header ByteString construction crashes; adds regression coverage for shared normalization and MiniMax auth header usage. (#24496) Thanks @fa6maalassaf.
Kimi Coding/Anthropic tools compatibility: normalize anthropic-messages tool payloads to OpenAI-style tools[].function + compatible tool_choice when targeting Kimi Coding endpoints, restoring tool-call workflows that regressed after v2026.3.2. (#37038) Thanks @mochimochimochi-hub.
Heartbeat/workspace-path guardrails: append explicit workspace HEARTBEAT.md path guidance (and docs/heartbeat.md avoidance) to heartbeat prompts so heartbeat runs target workspace checklists reliably across packaged install layouts. (#37037) Thanks @stofancy.
Subagents/kill-complete announce race: when a late subagent-complete lifecycle event arrives after an earlier kill marker, clear stale kill suppression/cleanup flags and re-run announce cleanup so finished runs no longer get silently swallowed. (#37024) Thanks @cmfinlan.
Agents/tool-result cleanup timeout hardening: on embedded runner teardown idle timeouts, clear pending tool-call state without persisting synthetic missing tool result entries, preventing timeout cleanups from poisoning follow-up turns; adds regression coverage for timeout clear-vs-flush behavior. (#37081) Thanks @Coyote-Den.
Agents/openai-completions stream timeout hardening: ensure runtime undici global dispatchers use extended streaming body/header timeouts (including env-proxy dispatcher mode) before embedded runs, reducing forced mid-stream terminated failures on long generations; adds regression coverage for dispatcher selection and idempotent reconfiguration. (#9708) Thanks @scottchguard.
Agents/fallback cooldown probe execution: thread explicit rate-limit cooldown probe intent from model fallback into embedded runner auth-profile selection so same-provider fallback attempts can actually run when all profiles are cooldowned for rate_limit (instead of failing pre-run as No available auth profile), while preserving default cooldown skip behavior and adding regression tests at both fallback and runner layers. (#13623) Thanks @asfura.
Cron/OpenAI Codex OAuth refresh hardening: when openai-codex token refresh fails specifically on account-id extraction, reuse the cached access token instead of failing the run immediately, with regression coverage to keep non-Codex and unrelated refresh failures unchanged. (#36604) Thanks @laulopezreal.
TUI/session isolation for /new: make /new allocate a unique tui-<uuid> session key instead of resetting the shared agent session, so multiple TUI clients on the same agent stop receiving each other’s replies; also sanitize /new and /reset failure text before rendering in-terminal. Landed from contributor PR #39238 by @widingmarcus-cyber. Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
Synology Chat/rate-limit env parsing: honor SYNOLOGY_RATE_LIMIT=0 as an explicit value while still falling back to the default limit for malformed env values instead of partially parsing them. Landed from contributor PR #39197 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
Voice-call/OpenAI Realtime STT config defaults: honor explicit vadThreshold: 0 and silenceDurationMs: 0 instead of silently replacing them with defaults. Landed from contributor PR #39196 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
Voice-call/OpenAI TTS speed config: honor explicit speed: 0 instead of silently replacing it with the default speed. Landed from contributor PR #39318 by @ql-wade. Thanks @ql-wade.
launchd/runtime PID parsing: reject pid <= 0 from launchctl print so the daemon state parser no longer treats kernel/non-running sentinel values as real process IDs. Landed from contributor PR #39281 by @mvanhorn. Thanks @mvanhorn.
Cron/file permission hardening: enforce owner-only (0600) cron store/backup/run-log files and harden cron store + run-log directories to 0700, including pre-existing directories from older installs. (#36078) Thanks @aerelune.
Gateway/remote WS break-glass hostname support: honor OPENCLAW_ALLOW_INSECURE_PRIVATE_WS=1 for ws:// hostname URLs (not only private IP literals) across onboarding validation and runtime gateway connection checks, while still rejecting public IP literals and non-unicast IPv6 endpoints. (#36930) Thanks @manju-rn.
Routing/binding lookup scalability: pre-index route bindings by channel/account and avoid full binding-list rescans on channel-account cache rollover, preventing multi-second resolveAgentRoute stalls in large binding configurations. (#36915) Thanks @songchenghao.
Browser/session cleanup: track browser tabs opened by session-scoped browser tool runs and close tracked tabs during sessions.reset/sessions.delete runtime cleanup, preventing orphaned tabs and unbounded browser memory growth after session teardown. (#36666) Thanks @Harnoor6693.
Plugin/hook install rollback hardening: stage installs under the canonical install base, validate and run dependency installs before publish, and restore updates by rename instead of deleting the target path, reducing partial-replace and symlink-rebind risk during install failures.
Slack/local file upload allowlist parity: propagate mediaLocalRoots through the Slack send action pipeline so workspace-rooted attachments pass assertLocalMediaAllowed checks while non-allowlisted paths remain blocked. (synthesis: #36656; overlap considered from #36516, #36496, #36493, #36484, #32648, #30888) Thanks @2233admin.
Agents/compaction safeguard pre-check: skip embedded compaction before entering the Pi SDK when a session has no real conversation messages, avoiding unnecessary LLM API calls on idle sessions. (#36451) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Config/schema cache key stability: build merged schema cache keys with incremental hashing to avoid large single-string serialization and prevent RangeError: Invalid string length on high-cardinality plugin/channel metadata. (#36603) Thanks @powermaster888.
iMessage/cron completion announces: strip leaked inline reply tags (for example [[reply_to:6100]]) from user-visible completion text so announcement deliveries do not expose threading metadata. (#24600) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Control UI/iMessage duplicate reply routing: keep internal webchat turns on dispatcher delivery (instead of origin-channel reroute) so Control UI chats do not duplicate replies into iMessage, while preserving webchat-provider relayed routing for external surfaces. Fixes #33483. Thanks @alicexmolt.
Sessions/daily reset transcript archival: archive prior transcript files during stale-session scheduled/daily resets by capturing the previous session entry before rollover, preventing orphaned transcript files on disk. (#35493) Thanks @byungsker.
Feishu/group slash command detection: normalize group mention wrappers before command-authorization probing so mention-prefixed commands (for example @Bot/model and @Bot /reset) are recognized as gateway commands instead of being forwarded to the agent. (#35994) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Control UI/auth token separation: keep the shared gateway token in browser auth validation while reserving cached device tokens for signed device payloads, preventing false device token mismatch disconnects after restart/rotation. Landed from contributor PR #37382 by @FradSer. Thanks @FradSer.
Gateway/browser auth reconnect hardening: stop counting missing token/password submissions as auth rate-limit failures, and stop auto-reconnecting Control UI clients on non-recoverable auth errors so misconfigured browser tabs no longer lock out healthy sessions. Landed from contributor PR #38725 by @ademczuk. Thanks @ademczuk.
Gateway/service token drift repair: stop persisting shared auth tokens into installed gateway service units, flag stale embedded service tokens for reinstall, and treat tokenless service env as canonical so token rotation/reboot flows stay aligned with config/env resolution. Landed from contributor PR #28428 by @l0cka. Thanks @l0cka.
Control UI/agents-page selection: keep the edited agent selected after saving agent config changes and reloading the agents list, so /agents no longer snaps back to the default agent. Landed from contributor PR #39301 by @MumuTW. Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/auth follow-up hardening: preserve systemd EnvironmentFile= precedence/source provenance in daemon audits and doctor repairs, block shared-password override flows from piggybacking cached device tokens, and fail closed when config-first gateway SecretRefs cannot resolve. Follow-up to #39241.
Agents/context pruning: guard assistant thinking/text char estimation against malformed blocks (missing thinking/text strings or null entries) so pruning no longer crashes with malformed provider content. (#35146) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Agents/transcript policy: set preserveSignatures to Anthropic-only handling in resolveTranscriptPolicy so Anthropic thinking signatures are preserved while non-Anthropic providers remain unchanged. (#32813) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Agents/schema cleaning: detect Venice + Grok model IDs as xAI-proxied targets so unsupported JSON Schema keywords are stripped before requests, preventing Venice/Grok Invalid arguments failures. (#35355) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Skills/native command deduplication: centralize skill command dedupe by canonical skillName in listSkillCommandsForAgents so duplicate suffixed variants (for example _2) are no longer surfaced across interfaces outside Discord. (#27521) thanks @shivama205.
Agents/xAI tool-call argument decoding: decode HTML-entity encoded xAI/Grok tool-call argument values (&, ", <, >, numeric entities) before tool execution so commands with shell operators and quotes no longer fail with parse errors. (#35276) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Linux/WSL2 daemon install hardening: add regression coverage for WSL environment detection, WSL-specific systemd guidance, and systemctl --user is-enabled failure paths so WSL2/headless onboarding keeps treating bus-unavailable probes as non-fatal while preserving real permission errors. Related: #36495. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Linux/systemd status and degraded-session handling: treat degraded-but-reachable systemctl --user status results as available, preserve early errors for truly unavailable user-bus cases, and report externally managed running services as running instead of not installed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/thinking-tag promotion hardening: guard promoteThinkingTagsToBlocks against malformed assistant content entries (null/undefined) before block.type reads so malformed provider payloads no longer crash session processing while preserving pass-through behavior. (#35143) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Gateway/Control UI version reporting: align runtime and browser client version metadata to avoid dev placeholders, wait for bootstrap version before first UI websocket connect, and only forward bootstrap serverVersion to same-origin gateway targets to prevent cross-target version leakage. (from #35230, #30928, #33928) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @joelnishanth, and @MoerAI.
Control UI/markdown parser crash fallback: catch marked.parse() failures and fall back to escaped plain-text <pre> rendering so malformed recursive markdown no longer crashes Control UI session rendering on load. (#36445) Thanks @BinHPdev.
Control UI/markdown fallback regression coverage: add explicit regression assertions for parser-error fallback behavior so malformed markdown no longer risks reintroducing hard-crash rendering paths in future markdown/parser upgrades. (#36445) Thanks @BinHPdev.
Web UI/config form: treat additionalProperties: true object schemas as editable map entries instead of unsupported fields so Accounts-style maps stay editable in form mode. (#35380, supersedes #32072) Thanks @stakeswky and @liuxiaopai-ai.
Feishu/streaming card delivery synthesis: unify snapshot and delta streaming merge semantics, apply overlap-aware final merge, suppress duplicate final text delivery (including text+media final packets), prefer topic-thread message.reply routing when a reply target exists, and tune card print cadence to avoid duplicate incremental rendering. (from #33245, #32896, #33840) Thanks @rexl2018, @kcinzgg, and @aerelune.
Feishu/group mention detection: carry startup-probed bot display names through monitor dispatch so requireMention checks compare against current bot identity instead of stale config names, fixing missed @bot handling in groups while preserving multi-bot false-positive guards. (#36317, #34271) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Security/dependency audit: patch transitive Hono vulnerabilities by pinning hono to 4.12.5 and @hono/node-server to 1.19.10 in production resolution paths. Thanks @shakkernerd.
Security/dependency audit: bump tar to 7.5.10 (from 7.5.9) to address the high-severity hardlink path traversal advisory (GHSA-qffp-2rhf-9h96). Thanks @shakkernerd.
Cron/announce delivery robustness: bypass pending-descendant announce guards for cron completion sends, ensure named-agent announce routes have outbound session entries, and fall back to direct delivery only when an announce send was actually attempted and failed. (from #35185, #32443, #34987) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @scoootscooob, and @bmendonca3.
Cron/announce best-effort fallback: run direct outbound fallback after attempted announce failures even when delivery is configured as best-effort, so Telegram cron sends are not left as attempted-but-undelivered after cron announce delivery failed warnings.
Auto-reply/system events: restore runtime system events to the message timeline (System: lines), preserve think-hint parsing with prepended events, and carry events into deferred followup/collect/steer-backlog prompts to keep cache behavior stable without dropping queued metadata. (#34794) Thanks @anisoptera.
Security/audit account handling: avoid prototype-chain account IDs in audit validation by using own-property checks for accounts. (#34982) Thanks @HOYALIM.
Cron/restart catch-up semantics: replay interrupted recurring jobs and missed immediate cron slots on startup without replaying interrupted one-shot jobs, with guarded missed-slot probing to avoid malformed-schedule startup aborts and duplicate-trigger drift after restart. (from #34466, #34896, #34625, #33206) Thanks @dunamismax, @dsantoreis, @Octane0411, and @Sid-Qin.
Venice/provider onboarding hardening: align per-model Venice completion-token limits with discovery metadata, clamp untrusted discovery values to safe bounds, sync the static Venice fallback catalog with current live model metadata, and disable tool wiring for Venice models that do not support function calling so default Venice setups no longer fail with max_completion_tokens or unsupported-tools 400s. Fixes #38168. Thanks @Sid-Qin, @powermaster888 and @vincentkoc.
Agents/session usage tracking: preserve accumulated usage metadata on embedded Pi runner error exits so failed turns still update session totalTokens from real usage instead of stale prior values. (#34275) thanks @RealKai42.
Slack/reaction thread context routing: carry Slack native DM channel IDs through inbound context and threading tool resolution so reaction targets resolve consistently for DM To=user:* sessions (including toolContext.currentChannelId fallback behavior). (from #34831; overlaps #34440, #34502, #34483, #32754) Thanks @dunamismax.
Subagents/announce completion scoping: scope nested direct-child completion aggregation to the current requester run window, harden frozen completion capture for deterministic descendant synthesis, and route completion announce delivery through parent-agent announce turns with provenance-aware internal events. (#35080) Thanks @tyler6204.
Nodes/system.run approval hardening: use explicit argv-mutation signaling when regenerating prepared rawCommand, and cover the system.run.prepare -> system.run handoff so direct PATH-based nodes.run commands no longer fail with rawCommand does not match command. (#33137) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Models/custom provider headers: propagate models.providers.<name>.headers across inline, fallback, and registry-found model resolution so header-authenticated proxies consistently receive configured request headers. (#27490) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Ollama/remote provider auth fallback: synthesize a local runtime auth key for explicitly configured models.providers.ollama entries that omit apiKey, so remote Ollama endpoints run without requiring manual dummy-key setup while preserving env/profile/config key precedence and missing-config failures. (#11283) Thanks @cpreecs.
Ollama/custom provider headers: forward resolved model headers into native Ollama stream requests so header-authenticated Ollama proxies receive configured request headers. (#24337) thanks @echoVic.
Ollama/compaction and summarization: register custom api: "ollama" handling for compaction, branch-style internal summarization, and TTS text summarization on current main, so native Ollama models no longer fail with No API provider registered for api: ollama outside the main run loop. Thanks @JaviLib.
Daemon/systemd install robustness: treat systemctl --user is-enabled exit-code-4 not-found responses as not-enabled by combining stderr/stdout detail parsing, so Ubuntu fresh installs no longer fail with systemctl is-enabled unavailable. (#33634) Thanks @Yuandiaodiaodiao.
Slack/system-event session routing: resolve reaction/member/pin/interaction system-event session keys through channel/account bindings (with sender-aware DM routing) so inbound Slack events target the correct agent session in multi-account setups instead of defaulting to agent:main. (#34045) Thanks @paulomcg, @daht-mad and @vincentkoc.
Slack/native streaming markdown conversion: stop pre-normalizing text passed to Slack native markdown_text in streaming start/append/stop paths to prevent Markdown style corruption from double conversion. (#34931)
Gateway/HTTP tools invoke media compatibility: preserve raw media payload access for direct /tools/invoke clients by allowing media nodes invoke commands only in HTTP tool context, while keeping agent-context media invoke blocking to prevent base64 prompt bloat. (#34365) Thanks @obviyus.
Security/archive ZIP hardening: extract ZIP entries via same-directory temp files plus atomic rename, then re-open and reject post-rename hardlink alias races outside the destination root.
Agents/Nodes media outputs: add dedicated photos_latest action handling, block media-returning nodes invoke commands, keep metadata-only camera.list invoke allowed, and normalize empty photos_latest results to a consistent response shape to prevent base64 context bloat. (#34332) Thanks @obviyus.
TUI/session-key canonicalization: normalize openclaw tui --session values to lowercase so uppercase session names no longer drop real-time streaming updates due to gateway/TUI key mismatches. (#33866, #34013) thanks @lynnzc.
iMessage/echo loop hardening: strip leaked assistant-internal scaffolding from outbound iMessage replies, drop reflected assistant-content messages before they re-enter inbound processing, extend echo-cache text retention for delayed reflections, and suppress repeated loop traffic before it amplifies into queue overflow. (#33295) Thanks @joelnishanth.
Skills/workspace boundary hardening: reject workspace and extra-dir skill roots or SKILL.md files whose realpath escapes the configured source root, and skip syncing those escaped skills into sandbox workspaces.
Outbound/send config threading: pass resolved SecretRef config through outbound adapters and helper send paths so send flows do not reload unresolved runtime config. (#33987) Thanks @joshavant.
gateway: harden shared auth resolution across systemd, discord, and node host (#39241) Thanks @joshavant.
Secrets/models.json persistence hardening: keep SecretRef-managed api keys + headers from persisting in generated models.json, expand audit/apply coverage, and harden marker handling/serialization. (#38955) Thanks @joshavant.
Sessions/subagent attachments: remove attachments[].content.maxLength from sessions_spawn schema to avoid llama.cpp GBNF repetition overflow, and preflight UTF-8 byte size before buffer allocation while keeping runtime file-size enforcement unchanged. (#33648) Thanks @anisoptera.
Runtime/tool-state stability: recover from dangling Anthropic tool_use after compaction, serialize long-running Discord handler runs without blocking new inbound events, and prevent stale busy snapshots from suppressing stuck-channel recovery. (from #33630, #33583) Thanks @kevinWangSheng and @theotarr.
ACP/Discord startup hardening: clean up stuck ACP worker children on gateway restart, unbind stale ACP thread bindings during Discord startup reconciliation, and add per-thread listener watchdog timeouts so wedged turns cannot block later messages. (#33699) Thanks @dutifulbob.
Extensions/media local-root propagation: consistently forward mediaLocalRoots through extension sendMedia adapters (Google Chat, Slack, iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp), preserving non-local media behavior while restoring local attachment resolution from configured roots. Synthesis of #33581, #33545, #33540, #33536, #33528. Thanks @bmendonca3.
Gateway/plugin HTTP auth hardening: require gateway auth when any overlapping matched route needs it, block mixed-auth fallthrough at dispatch, and reject mixed-auth exact/prefix route overlaps during plugin registration.
Feishu/video media send contract: keep mp4-like outbound payloads on msg_type: "media" (including reply and reply-in-thread paths) so videos render as media instead of degrading to file-link behavior, while preserving existing non-video file subtype handling. (from #33720, #33808, #33678) Thanks @polooooo, @dingjianrui, and @kevinWangSheng.
Gateway/security default response headers: add Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=() to baseline gateway HTTP security headers for all responses. (#30186) thanks @habakan.
Plugins/startup loading: lazily initialize plugin runtime, split startup-critical plugin SDK imports into openclaw/plugin-sdk/core and openclaw/plugin-sdk/telegram, and preserve api.runtime reflection semantics for plugin compatibility. (#28620) thanks @hmemcpy.
Plugins/startup performance: reduce bursty plugin discovery/manifest overhead with short in-process caches, skip importing bundled memory plugins that are disabled by slot selection, and speed legacy root openclaw/plugin-sdk compatibility via runtime root-alias routing while preserving backward compatibility. Thanks @gumadeiras.
Build/lazy runtime boundaries: replace ineffective dynamic import sites with dedicated lazy runtime boundaries across Slack slash handling, Telegram audit, CLI send deps, memory fallback, and outbound delivery paths while preserving behavior. (#33690) thanks @gumadeiras.
Gateway/password CLI hardening: add openclaw gateway run --password-file, warn when inline --password is used because it can leak via process listings, and document env/file-backed password input as the preferred startup path. Fixes #27948. Thanks @vibewrk and @vincentkoc.
Config/heartbeat legacy-path handling: auto-migrate top-level heartbeat into agents.defaults.heartbeat (with merge semantics that preserve explicit defaults), and keep startup failures on non-migratable legacy entries in the detailed invalid-config path instead of generic migration-failed errors. (#32706) thanks @xiwan.
Plugins/SDK subpath parity: expand plugin SDK subpaths across bundled channels/extensions (Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, WhatsApp, LINE, and bundled companion plugins), with build/export/type/runtime wiring so scoped imports resolve consistently in source and dist while preserving compatibility. (#33737) thanks @gumadeiras.
Google/Gemini Flash model selection: switch built-in gemini-flash defaults and docs/examples from the nonexistent google/gemini-3.1-flash-preview ID to the working google/gemini-3-flash-preview, while normalizing legacy OpenClaw config that still uses the old Flash 3.1 alias.
Plugins/bundled scoped-import migration: migrate bundled plugins from monolithic openclaw/plugin-sdk imports to scoped subpaths (or openclaw/plugin-sdk/core) across registration and startup-sensitive runtime files, add CI/release guardrails to prevent regressions, and keep root openclaw/plugin-sdk support for external/community plugins. Thanks @gumadeiras.
Routing/session duplicate suppression synthesis: align shared session delivery-context inheritance, channel-paired route-field merges, and reply-surface target matching so dmScope=main turns avoid cross-surface duplicate replies while thread-aware forwarding keeps intended routing semantics. (from #33629, #26889, #17337, #33250) Thanks @Yuandiaodiaodiao, @kevinwildenradt, @Glucksberg, and @bmendonca3.
Routing/legacy session route inheritance: preserve external route metadata inheritance for legacy channel session keys (agent:<agent>:<channel>:<peer> and ...:thread:<id>) so chat.send does not incorrectly fall back to webchat when valid delivery context exists. Follow-up to #33786.
Routing/legacy route guard tightening: require legacy session-key channel hints to match the saved delivery channel before inheriting external routing metadata, preventing custom namespaced keys like agent:<agent>:work:<ticket> from inheriting stale non-webchat routes.
Gateway/internal client routing continuity: prevent webchat/TUI/UI turns from inheriting stale external reply routes by requiring explicit deliver: true for external delivery, keeping main-session external inheritance scoped to non-Webchat/UI clients, and honoring configured session.mainKey when identifying main-session continuity. (from #35321, #34635, #35356) Thanks @alexyyyander and @Octane0411.
Security/auth labels: remove token and API-key snippets from user-facing auth status labels so /status and /models do not expose credential fragments. (#33262) thanks @cu1ch3n.
Models/MiniMax portal vision routing: add MiniMax-VL-01 to the minimax-portal provider, route portal image understanding through the MiniMax VLM endpoint, and align media auto-selection plus Telegram sticker description with the shared portal image provider path. (#33953) Thanks @tars90percent.
Auth/credential semantics: align profile eligibility + probe diagnostics with SecretRef/expiry rules and harden browser download atomic writes. (#33733) thanks @joshavant.
Security/audit denyCommands guidance: suggest likely exact node command IDs for unknown gateway.nodes.denyCommands entries so ineffective denylist entries are easier to correct. (#29713) thanks @liquidhorizon88-bot.
Agents/overload failover handling: classify overloaded provider failures separately from rate limits/status timeouts, add short overload backoff before retry/failover, record overloaded prompt/assistant failures as transient auth-profile cooldowns (with probeable same-provider fallback) instead of treating them like persistent auth/billing failures, and keep one-shot cron retry classification aligned so overloaded fallback summaries still count as transient retries.
Docs/security hardening guidance: document Docker DOCKER-USER + UFW policy and add cross-linking from Docker install docs for VPS/public-host setups. (#27613) thanks @dorukardahan.
Docs/security threat-model links: replace relative .md links with Mintlify-compatible root-relative routes in security docs to prevent broken internal navigation. (#27698) thanks @clawdoo.
Plugins/Update integrity drift: avoid false integrity drift prompts when updating npm-installed plugins from unpinned specs, while keeping drift checks for exact pinned versions. (#37179) Thanks @vincentkoc.
iOS/Voice timing safety: guard system speech start/finish callbacks to the active utterance to avoid misattributed start events during rapid stop/restart cycles. (#33304) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation direction by @ngutman.
Gateway/chat.send command scopes: require operator.admin for persistent /config set|unset writes routed through gateway chat clients while keeping /config show available to normal write-scoped operator clients, preserving messaging-channel config command behavior without widening RPC write scope into admin config mutation. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
iOS/Talk incremental speech pacing: allow long punctuation-free assistant chunks to start speaking at safe whitespace boundaries so voice responses begin sooner instead of waiting for terminal punctuation. (#33305) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation by @ngutman.
iOS/Watch reply reliability: make watch session activation waiters robust under concurrent requests so status/send calls no longer hang intermittently, and align delegate callbacks with Swift 6 actor safety. (#33306) thanks @mbelinky; original implementation by @Rocuts.
Docs/tool-loop detection config keys: align docs/tools/loop-detection.md examples and field names with the current tools.loopDetection schema to prevent copy-paste validation failures from outdated keys. (#33182) Thanks @Mylszd.
Gateway/session agent discovery: include disk-scanned agent IDs in listConfiguredAgentIds even when agents.list is configured, so disk-only/ACP agent sessions remain visible in gateway session aggregation and listings. (#32831) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Discord/inbound debouncer: skip bot-own MESSAGE_CREATE events before they reach the debounce queue to avoid self-triggered slowdowns in busy servers. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/Agent-scoped media roots: pass mediaLocalRoots through Discord monitor reply delivery (message + component interaction paths) so local media attachments honor per-agent workspace roots instead of falling back to default global roots. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/slash command handling: intercept text-based slash commands in channels, register plugin commands as native, and send fallback acknowledgments for empty slash runs so interactions do not hang. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/thread session lifecycle: reset thread-scoped sessions when a thread is archived so reopening a thread starts fresh without deleting transcript history. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/presence defaults: send an online presence update on ready when no custom presence is configured so bots no longer appear offline by default. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/typing cleanup: stop typing indicators after silent/NO_REPLY runs by marking the run complete before dispatch idle cleanup. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
ACP/sandbox spawn parity: block /acp spawn from sandboxed requester sessions with the same host-runtime guard already enforced for sessions_spawn({ runtime: "acp" }), preserving non-sandbox ACP flows while closing the command-path policy gap. Thanks @patte.
Discord/config SecretRef typing: align Discord account token config typing with SecretInput so SecretRef tokens typecheck. (#32490) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Discord/voice messages: request upload slots with JSON fetch calls so voice message uploads no longer fail with content-type errors. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/voice decoder fallback: drop the native Opus dependency and use opusscript for voice decoding to avoid native-opus installs. Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/auto presence health signal: add runtime availability-driven presence updates plus connected-state reporting to improve health monitoring and operator visibility. (#33277) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
HEIC image inputs: accept HEIC/HEIF input_image sources in Gateway HTTP APIs, normalize them to JPEG before provider delivery, and document the expanded default MIME allowlist. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Gateway/HEIC input follow-up: keep non-HEIC input_image MIME handling unchanged, make HEIC tests hermetic, and enforce chat-completions maxTotalImageBytes against post-normalization image payload size. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Telegram/draft-stream boundary stability: materialize DM draft previews at assistant-message/tool boundaries, serialize lane-boundary callbacks before final delivery, and scope preview cleanup to the active preview so multi-step Telegram streams no longer lose, overwrite, or leave stale preview bubbles. (#33842) Thanks @ngutman.
Telegram/DM draft finalization reliability: require verified final-text draft emission before treating preview finalization as delivered, and fall back to normal payload send when final draft delivery is not confirmed (preventing missing final responses and preserving media/button delivery). (#32118) Thanks @OpenCils.
Telegram/DM draft final delivery: materialize text-only sendMessageDraft previews into one permanent final message and skip duplicate final payload sends, while preserving fallback behavior when materialization fails. (#34318) Thanks @Brotherinlaw-13.
Telegram/DM draft duplicate display: clear stale DM draft previews after materializing the real final message, including threadless fallback when DM topic lookup fails, so partial streaming no longer briefly shows duplicate replies. (#36746) Thanks @joelnishanth.
Telegram/draft preview boundary + silent-token reliability: stabilize answer-lane message boundaries across late-partial/message-start races, preserve/reset finalized preview state at the correct boundaries, and suppress NO_REPLY lead-fragment leaks without broad heartbeat-prefix false positives. (#33169) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/native commands commands.allowFrom precedence: make native Telegram commands honor commands.allowFrom as the command-specific authorization source, including group chats, instead of falling back to channel sender allowlists. (#28216) Thanks @toolsbybuddy and @vincentkoc.
Telegram/groupAllowFrom sender-ID validation: restore sender-only runtime validation so negative chat/group IDs remain invalid entries instead of appearing accepted while still being unable to authorize group access. (#37134) Thanks @qiuyuemartin-max and @vincentkoc.
Telegram/native group command auth: authorize native commands in groups and forum topics against groupAllowFrom and per-group/topic sender overrides, while keeping auth rejection replies in the originating topic thread. (#39267) Thanks @edwluo.
Telegram/named-account DMs: restore non-default-account DM routing when a named Telegram account falls back to the default agent by keeping groups fail-closed but deriving a per-account session key for DMs, including identity-link canonicalization and regression coverage for account isolation. (from #32426; fixes #32351) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
Discord/audit wildcard warnings: ignore "*" wildcard keys when counting unresolved guild channels so doctor/status no longer warns on allow-all configs. (#33125) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/channel resolution: default bare numeric recipients to channels, harden allowlist numeric ID handling with safe fallbacks, and avoid inbound WS heartbeat stalls. (#33142) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/chunk delivery reliability: preserve chunk ordering when using a REST client and retry chunk sends on 429/5xx using account retry settings. (#33226) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/mention handling: add id-based mention formatting + cached rewrites, resolve inbound mentions to display names, and add optional ignoreOtherMentions gating (excluding @everyone/@here). (#33224) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Discord/media SSRF allowlist: allow Discord CDN hostnames (including wildcard domains) in inbound media SSRF policy to prevent proxy/VPN fake-ip blocks. (#33275) Thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
Telegram/device pairing notifications: auto-arm one-shot notify on /pair qr, auto-ping on new pairing requests, and add manual fallback via /pair approve latest if the ping does not arrive. (#33299) thanks @mbelinky.
Exec heartbeat routing: scope exec-triggered heartbeat wakes to agent session keys so unrelated agents are no longer awakened by exec events, while preserving legacy unscoped behavior for non-canonical session keys. (#32724) thanks @altaywtf
macOS/Tailscale remote gateway discovery: add a Tailscale Serve fallback peer probe path (wss://<peer>.ts.net) when Bonjour and wide-area DNS-SD discovery return no gateways, and refresh both discovery paths from macOS onboarding. (#32860) Thanks @ngutman.
iOS/Gateway keychain hardening: move gateway metadata and TLS fingerprints to device keychain storage with safer migration behavior and rollback-safe writes to reduce credential loss risk during upgrades. (#33029) thanks @mbelinky.
iOS/Concurrency stability: replace risky shared-state access in camera and gateway connection paths with lock-protected access patterns to reduce crash risk under load. (#33241) thanks @mbelinky.
iOS/Security guardrails: limit production API-key sourcing to app config and make deep-link confirmation prompts safer by coalescing queued requests instead of silently dropping them. (#33031) thanks @mbelinky.
iOS/TTS playback fallback: keep voice playback resilient by switching from PCM to MP3 when provider format support is unavailable, while avoiding sticky fallback on generic local playback errors. (#33032) thanks @mbelinky.
Plugin outbound/text-only adapter compatibility: allow direct-delivery channel plugins that only implement sendText (without sendMedia) to remain outbound-capable, gracefully fall back to text delivery for media payloads when sendMedia is absent, and fail explicitly for media-only payloads with no text fallback. (#32788) thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Telegram/multi-account default routing clarity: warn only for ambiguous (2+) account setups without an explicit default, add openclaw doctor warnings for missing/invalid multi-account defaults across channels, and document explicit-default guidance for channel routing and Telegram config. (#32544) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Telegram/plugin outbound hook parity: run message_sending + message_sent in Telegram reply delivery, include reply-path hook metadata (mediaUrls, threadId), and report message_sent.success=false when hooks blank text and no outbound message is delivered. (#32649) Thanks @KimGLee.
CLI/Coding-agent reliability: switch default claude-cli non-interactive args to --permission-mode bypassPermissions, auto-normalize legacy --dangerously-skip-permissions backend overrides to the modern permission-mode form, align coding-agent + live-test docs with the non-PTY Claude path, and emit session system-event heartbeat notices when CLI watchdog no-output timeouts terminate runs. (#28610, #31149, #34055). Thanks @niceysam, @cryptomaltese and @vincentkoc.
Gateway/OpenAI chat completions: parse active-turn image_url content parts (including parameterized data URIs and guarded URL sources), forward them as multimodal images, accept image-only user turns, enforce per-request image-part/byte budgets, default URL-based image fetches to disabled unless explicitly enabled by config, and redact image base64 data in cache-trace/provider payload diagnostics. (#17685) Thanks @vincentkoc
ACP/ACPX session bootstrap: retry with sessions new when sessions ensure returns no session identifiers so ACP spawns avoid NO_SESSION/ACP_TURN_FAILED failures on affected agents. (#28786, #31338, #34055). Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
ACP/sessions_spawn parent stream visibility: add streamTo: "parent" for runtime: "acp" to forward initial child-run progress/no-output/completion updates back into the requester session as system events (instead of direct child delivery), and emit a tail-able session-scoped relay log (<sessionId>.acp-stream.jsonl, returned as streamLogPath when available), improving orchestrator visibility for blocked or long-running harness turns. (#34310, #29909; reopened from #34055). Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/bootstrap truncation warning handling: unify bootstrap budget/truncation analysis across embedded + CLI runtime, /context, and openclaw doctor; add agents.defaults.bootstrapPromptTruncationWarning (off|once|always, default once) and persist warning-signature metadata so truncation warnings are consistent and deduped across turns. (#32769) Thanks @gumadeiras.
Agents/Skills runtime loading: propagate run config into embedded attempt and compaction skill-entry loading so explicitly enabled bundled companion skills are discovered consistently when skill snapshots do not already provide resolved entries. Thanks @gumadeiras.
Agents/Session startup date grounding: substitute YYYY-MM-DD placeholders in startup/post-compaction AGENTS context and append runtime current-time lines for /new and /reset prompts so daily-memory references resolve correctly. (#32381) Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
Agents/Compaction template heading alignment: update AGENTS template section names to Session Startup/Red Lines and keep legacy Every Session/Safety fallback extraction so post-compaction context remains intact across template versions. (#25098) thanks @echoVic.
Agents/Compaction continuity: expand staged-summary merge instructions to preserve active task status, batch progress, latest user request, and follow-up commitments so compaction handoffs retain in-flight work context. (#8903) thanks @joetomasone.
Agents/Compaction safeguard structure hardening: require exact fallback summary headings, sanitize untrusted compaction instruction text before prompt embedding, and keep structured sections when preserving all turns. (#25555) thanks @rodrigouroz.
Gateway/status self version reporting: make Gateway self version in openclaw status prefer runtime VERSION (while preserving explicit OPENCLAW_VERSION override), preventing stale post-upgrade app version output. (#32655) thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Memory/QMD index isolation: set QMD_CONFIG_DIR alongside XDG_CONFIG_HOME so QMD config state stays per-agent despite upstream XDG handling bugs, preventing cross-agent collection indexing and excess disk/CPU usage. (#27028) thanks @HenryLoenwind.
Memory/QMD collection safety: stop destructive collection rebinds when QMD collection list only reports names without path metadata, preventing memory search from dropping existing collections if re-add fails. (#36870) Thanks @Adnannnnnnna.
Memory/QMD duplicate-document recovery: detect UNIQUE constraint failed: documents.collection, documents.path update failures, rebuild managed collections once, and retry update so periodic QMD syncs recover instead of failing every run; includes regression coverage to avoid over-matching unrelated unique constraints. (#27649) Thanks @MiscMich.
Memory/local embedding initialization hardening: add regression coverage for transient initialization retry and mixed embedQuery + embedBatch concurrent startup to lock single-flight initialization behavior. (#15639) thanks @SubtleSpark.
CLI/Coding-agent reliability: switch default claude-cli non-interactive args to --permission-mode bypassPermissions, auto-normalize legacy --dangerously-skip-permissions backend overrides to the modern permission-mode form, align coding-agent + live-test docs with the non-PTY Claude path, and emit session system-event heartbeat notices when CLI watchdog no-output timeouts terminate runs. Related to #28261. Landed from contributor PRs #28610 and #31149. Thanks @niceysam, @cryptomaltese and @vincentkoc.
ACP/ACPX session bootstrap: retry with sessions new when sessions ensure returns no session identifiers so ACP spawns avoid NO_SESSION/ACP_TURN_FAILED failures on affected agents. Related to #28786. Landed from contributor PR #31338. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
LINE/auth boundary hardening synthesis: enforce strict LINE webhook authn/z boundary semantics across pairing-store account scoping, DM/group allowlist separation, fail-closed webhook auth/runtime behavior, and replay/duplication controls (including in-flight replay reservation and post-success dedupe marking). (from #26701, #26683, #25978, #17593, #16619, #31990, #26047, #30584, #18777) Thanks @bmendonca3, @davidahmann, @harshang03, @haosenwang1018, @liuxiaopai-ai, @coygeek, and @Takhoffman.
LINE/media download synthesis: fix file-media download handling and M4A audio classification across overlapping LINE regressions. (from #26386, #27761, #27787, #29509, #29755, #29776, #29785, #32240) Thanks @kevinWangSheng, @loiie45e, @carrotRakko, @Sid-Qin, @codeafridi, and @bmendonca3.
LINE/context and routing synthesis: fix group/room peer routing and command-authorization context propagation, and keep processing later events in mixed-success webhook batches. (from #21955, #24475, #27035, #28286) Thanks @lailoo, @mcaxtr, @jervyclaw, @Glucksberg, and @Takhoffman.
LINE/status/config/webhook synthesis: fix status false positives from snapshot/config state and accept LINE webhook HEAD probes for compatibility. (from #10487, #25726, #27537, #27908, #31387) Thanks @BlueBirdBack, @stakeswky, @loiie45e, @puritysb, and @mcaxtr.
LINE cleanup/test follow-ups: fold cleanup/test learnings into the synthesis review path while keeping runtime changes focused on regression fixes. (from #17630, #17289) Thanks @Clawborn and @davidahmann.
Mattermost/interactive buttons: add interactive button send/callback support with directory-based channel/user target resolution, and harden callbacks via account-scoped HMAC verification plus sender-scoped DM routing. (#19957) thanks @tonydehnke.
Feishu/groupPolicy legacy alias compatibility: treat legacy groupPolicy: "allowall" as open in both schema parsing and runtime policy checks so intended open-group configs no longer silently drop group messages when groupAllowFrom is empty. (from #36358) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Mattermost/plugin SDK import policy: replace remaining monolithic openclaw/plugin-sdk imports in Mattermost mention-gating paths/tests with scoped subpaths (openclaw/plugin-sdk/compat and openclaw/plugin-sdk/mattermost) so pnpm check passes lint:plugins:no-monolithic-plugin-sdk-entry-imports on baseline. (#36480) Thanks @Takhoffman.
Telegram/polls: add Telegram poll action support to channel action discovery and tool/CLI poll flows, with multi-account discoverability gated to accounts that can actually execute polls (sendMessage + poll). (#36547) thanks @gumadeiras.
Agents/failover cooldown classification: stop treating generic cooling down text as provider rate_limit so healthy models no longer show false global cooldown/rate-limit warnings while explicit model_cooldown markers still trigger failover. (#32972) thanks @stakeswky.
Agents/failover service-unavailable handling: stop treating bare proxy/CDN service unavailable errors as provider overload while keeping them retryable via the timeout/failover path, so transient outages no longer show false rate-limit warnings or block fallback. (#36646) thanks @jnMetaCode.
Plugins/HTTP route migration diagnostics: rewrite legacy api.registerHttpHandler(...) loader failures into actionable migration guidance so doctor/plugin diagnostics point operators to api.registerHttpRoute(...) or registerPluginHttpRoute(...). (#36794) Thanks @vincentkoc
Doctor/Heartbeat upgrade diagnostics: warn when heartbeat delivery is configured with an implicit directPolicy so upgrades pin direct/DM behavior explicitly instead of relying on the current default. (#36789) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/current-time UTC anchor: append a machine-readable UTC suffix alongside local Current time: lines in shared cron-style prompt contexts so agents can compare UTC-stamped workspace timestamps without doing timezone math. (#32423) thanks @jriff.
Ollama/local model handling: preserve explicit lower contextWindow / maxTokens overrides during merge refresh, and keep native Ollama streamed replies from surfacing fallback thinking / reasoning text once real content starts streaming. (#39292) Thanks @vincentkoc.
TUI/webchat command-owner scope alignment: treat internal-channel gateway sessions with operator.admin as owner-authorized in command auth, restoring cron/gateway/connector tool access for affected TUI/webchat sessions while keeping external channels on identity-based owner checks. (from #35666, #35673, #35704) Thanks @Naylenv, @Octane0411, and @Sid-Qin.
Discord/inbound timeout isolation: separate inbound worker timeout tracking from listener timeout budgets so queued Discord replies are no longer dropped when listener watchdog windows expire mid-run. (#36602) Thanks @dutifulbob.
Memory/doctor SecretRef handling: treat SecretRef-backed memory-search API keys as configured, and fail embedding setup with explicit unresolved-secret errors instead of crashing. (#36835) Thanks @joshavant.
Memory/flush default prompt: ban timestamped variant filenames during default memory flush runs so durable notes stay in the canonical daily memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md file. (#34951) thanks @zerone0x.
Agents/reply delivery timing: flush embedded Pi block replies before waiting on compaction retries so already-generated assistant replies reach channels before compaction wait completes. (#35489) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Agents/gateway config guidance: stop exposing config.schema through the agent gateway tool, remove prompt/docs guidance that told agents to call it, and keep agents on config.get plus config.patch/config.apply for config changes. (#7382) thanks @kakuteki.
Provider/KiloCode: Keep duplicate models after malformed discovery rows, and strip legacy reasoning_effort when proxy reasoning injection is skipped. (#32352) Thanks @pandemicsyn and @vincentkoc.
Agents/failover: classify periodic provider limit exhaustion text (for example Weekly/Monthly Limit Exhausted) as rate_limit while keeping explicit 402 Payment Required variants in billing, so failover continues without misclassifying billing-wrapped quota errors. (#33813) thanks @zhouhe-xydt.
Mattermost/interactive button callbacks: allow external callback base URLs and stop requiring loopback-origin requests so button clicks work when Mattermost reaches the gateway over Tailscale, LAN, or a reverse proxy. (#37543) thanks @mukhtharcm.
Gateway/chat.send route inheritance: keep explicit external delivery for channel-scoped sessions while preventing shared-main and other channel-agnostic webchat sessions from inheriting stale external routes, so Control UI replies stay on webchat without breaking selected channel-target sessions. (#34669) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Telegram/Discord media upload caps: make outbound uploads honor channel mediaMaxMb config, raise Telegram's default media cap to 100MB, and remove MIME fallback limits that kept some Telegram uploads at 16MB. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Skills/nano-banana-pro resolution override: respect explicit --resolution values during image editing and only auto-detect output size from input images when the flag is omitted. (#36880) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
Skills/openai-image-gen CLI validation: validate --background and --style inputs early, normalize supported values, and warn when those flags are ignored for incompatible models. (#36762) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
Skills/openai-image-gen output formats: validate --output-format values early, normalize aliases like jpg -> jpeg, and warn when the flag is ignored for incompatible models. (#36648) Thanks @shuofengzhang and @vincentkoc.
ACP/skill env isolation: strip skill-injected API keys from ACP harness child-process environments so tools like Codex CLI keep their own auth flow instead of inheriting billed provider keys from active skills. (#36316) Thanks @taw0002 and @vincentkoc.
WhatsApp media upload caps: make outbound media sends and auto-replies honor channels.whatsapp.mediaMaxMb with per-account overrides so inbound and outbound limits use the same channel config. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Windows/Plugin install: when OpenClaw runs on Windows via Bun and npm-cli.js is not colocated with the runtime binary, fall back to npm.cmd/npx.cmd through the existing cmd.exe wrapper so openclaw plugins install no longer fails with spawn EINVAL. (#38056) Thanks @0xlin2023.
Telegram/send retry classification: retry grammY Network request ... failed after N attempts envelopes in send flows without reclassifying plain Network request ... failed! wrappers as transient, restoring the intended retry path while keeping broad send-context message matching tight. (#38056) Thanks @0xlin2023.
Gateway/probes: keep /health, /healthz, /ready, and /readyz reachable when the Control UI is mounted at /, preserve plugin-owned route precedence on those paths, and make /ready and /readyz report channel-backed readiness with startup grace plus 503 on disconnected managed channels, while /health and /healthz stay shallow liveness probes. (#18446) Thanks @vibecodooor, @mahsumaktas, and @vincentkoc.
Feishu/media downloads: drop invalid timeout fields from SDK method calls now that client-level httpTimeoutMs applies to requests. (#38267) Thanks @ant1eicher and @thewilloftheshadow.
PI embedded runner/Feishu docs: propagate sender identity into embedded attempts so Feishu doc auto-grant restores requester access for embedded-runner executions. (#32915) thanks @cszhouwei.
Agents/usage normalization: normalize missing or partial assistant usage snapshots before compaction accounting so openclaw agent --json no longer crashes when provider payloads omit totalTokens or related usage fields. (#34977) thanks @sp-hk2ldn.
Venice/default model refresh: switch the built-in Venice default to kimi-k2-5, update onboarding aliasing, and refresh Venice provider docs/recommendations to match the current private and anonymized catalog. (from #12964) Fixes #20156. Thanks @sabrinaaquino and @vincentkoc.
Agents/skill API write pacing: add a global prompt guardrail that treats skill-driven external API writes as rate-limited by default, so runners prefer batched writes, avoid tight request loops, and respect 429/Retry-After. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Google Chat/multi-account webhook auth fallback: when channels.googlechat.accounts.default carries shared webhook audience/path settings (for example after config normalization), inherit those defaults for named accounts while preserving top-level and per-account overrides, so inbound webhook verification no longer fails silently for named accounts missing duplicated audience fields. Fixes #38369.
Models/tool probing: raise the tool-capability probe budget from 32 to 256 tokens so reasoning models that spend tokens on thinking before returning a required tool call are less likely to be misclassified as not supporting tools. (#7521) Thanks @jakobdylanc.
Gateway/transient network classification: treat wrapped ...: fetch failed transport messages as transient while avoiding broad matches like Web fetch failed (404): ..., preventing Discord reconnect wrappers from crashing the gateway without suppressing non-network tool failures. (#38530) Thanks @xinhuagu.
ACP/console silent reply suppression: filter ACP NO_REPLY lead fragments and silent-only finals before openclaw agent logging/delivery so console-backed ACP sessions no longer leak NO/NO_REPLY placeholders. (#38436) Thanks @ql-wade.
Feishu/reply delivery reliability: disable block streaming in Feishu reply options so plain-text auto-render replies are no longer silently dropped before final delivery. (#38258) Thanks @xinhuagu.
Agents/reply MEDIA delivery: normalize local assistant MEDIA: paths before block/final delivery, keep media dedupe aligned with message-tool sends, and contain malformed media normalization failures so generated files send reliably instead of falling back to empty responses. (#38572) Thanks @obviyus.
Sessions/bootstrap cache rollover invalidation: clear cached workspace bootstrap snapshots whenever an existing sessionKey rolls to a new sessionId across auto-reply, command, and isolated cron session resolvers, so AGENTS.md/MEMORY.md/USER.md updates are reloaded after daily, idle, or forced session resets instead of staying stale until gateway restart. (#38494) Thanks @LivingInDrm.
Gateway/Telegram polling health monitor: skip stale-socket restarts for Telegram long-polling channels and thread channel identity through shared health evaluation so polling connections are not restarted on the WebSocket stale-socket heuristic. (#38395) Thanks @ql-wade and @Takhoffman.
Daemon/systemd fresh-install probe: check for OpenClaw's managed user unit before running systemctl --user is-enabled, so first-time Linux installs no longer fail on generic missing-unit probe errors. (#38819) Thanks @adaHubble.
Gateway/container lifecycle: allow openclaw gateway stop to SIGTERM unmanaged gateway listeners and openclaw gateway restart to SIGUSR1 a single unmanaged listener when no service manager is installed, so container and supervisor-based deployments are no longer blocked by service disabled no-op responses. Fixes #36137. Thanks @vincentkoc.
Gateway/Windows restart supervision: relaunch task-managed gateways through Scheduled Task with quoted helper-script command paths, distinguish restart-capable supervisors per platform, and stop orphaned Windows gateway children during self-restart. (#38825) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/native topic command routing: resolve forum-topic native commands through the same conversation route as inbound messages so topic agentId overrides and bound topic sessions target the active session instead of the default topic-parent session. (#38871) Thanks @obviyus.
Markdown/assistant image hardening: flatten remote markdown images to plain text across the Control UI, exported HTML, and shared Swift chat while keeping inline data:image/... markdown renderable, so model output no longer triggers automatic remote image fetches. (#38895) Thanks @obviyus.
Config/compaction safeguard settings: regression-test agents.defaults.compaction.recentTurnsPreserve through loadConfig() and cover the new help metadata entry so the exposed preserve knob stays wired through schema validation and config UX. (#25557) thanks @rodrigouroz.
iOS/Quick Setup presentation: skip automatic Quick Setup when a gateway is already configured (active connect config, last-known connection, preferred gateway, or manual host), so reconnecting installs no longer get prompted to connect again. (#38964) Thanks @ngutman.
CLI/Docs memory help accuracy: clarify openclaw memory status --deep behavior and align memory command examples/docs with the current search options. (#31803) Thanks @JasonOA888 and @Avi974.
Auto-reply/allowlist store account scoping: keep /allowlist ... --store writes scoped to the selected account and clear legacy unscoped entries when removing default-account store access, preventing cross-account default allowlist bleed-through from legacy pairing-store reads. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting and @vincentkoc for the fix.
Security/Nostr: harden profile mutation/import loopback guards by failing closed on non-loopback forwarded client headers (x-forwarded-for / x-real-ip) and rejecting sec-fetch-site: cross-site; adds regression coverage for proxy-forwarded and browser cross-site mutation attempts.
CLI/bootstrap Node version hint maintenance: replace hardcoded nvm 22 instructions in openclaw.mjs with MIN_NODE_MAJOR interpolation so future minimum-Node bumps keep startup guidance in sync automatically. (#39056) Thanks @onstash.
Discord/native slash command auth: honor commands.allowFrom.discord (and commands.allowFrom["*"]) in guild slash-command pre-dispatch authorization so allowlisted senders are no longer incorrectly rejected as unauthorized. (#38794) Thanks @jskoiz and @thewilloftheshadow.
Outbound/message target normalization: ignore empty legacy to/channelId fields when explicit target is provided so valid target-based sends no longer fail legacy-param validation; includes regression coverage. (#38944) Thanks @Narcooo.
Models/auth token prompts: guard cancelled manual token prompts so Symbol(clack:cancel) values cannot be persisted into auth profiles; adds regression coverage for cancelled models auth paste-token. (#38951) Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/loopback announce URLs: treat http:// and https:// aliases with the same loopback/private-network policy as websocket URLs so loopback cron announce delivery no longer fails secure URL validation. (#39064) Thanks @Narcooo.
Models/default provider fallback: when the hardcoded default provider is removed from models.providers, resolve defaults from configured providers instead of reporting stale removed-provider defaults in status output. (#38947) Thanks @davidemanuelDEV.
Agents/cache-trace stability: guard stable stringify against circular references in trace payloads so near-limit payloads no longer crash with Maximum call stack size exceeded; adds regression coverage. (#38935) Thanks @MumuTW.
Extensions/diffs CI stability: add headers to the localReq test helper in extensions/diffs/index.test.ts so forwarding-hint checks no longer crash with req.headers undefined. (supersedes #39063) Thanks @Shennng.
Agents/compaction thresholding: apply agents.defaults.contextTokens cap to the model passed into embedded run and /compact session creation so auto-compaction thresholds use the effective context window, not native model max context. (#39099) Thanks @MumuTW.
Models/merge mode provider precedence: when models.mode: "merge" is active and config explicitly sets a provider baseUrl, keep config as source of truth instead of preserving stale runtime models.json baseUrl values; includes normalized provider-key coverage. (#39103) Thanks @BigUncle.
UI/Control chat tool streaming: render tool events live in webchat without requiring refresh by enabling tool-events capability, fixing stream/event correlation, and resetting/reloading stream state around tool results and terminal events. (#39104) Thanks @jakepresent.
Models/provider apiKey persistence hardening: when a provider apiKey value equals a known provider env var value, persist the canonical env var name into models.json instead of resolved plaintext secrets. (#38889) Thanks @gambletan.
Discord/model picker persistence check: add a short post-dispatch settle delay before reading back session model state so picker confirmations stop reporting false mismatch warnings after successful model switches. (#39105) Thanks @akropp.
Agents/OpenAI WS compat store flag: omit store from response.create payloads when model compat sets supportsStore: false, preventing strict OpenAI-compatible providers from rejecting websocket requests with unknown-field errors. (#39113) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Config/validation log sanitization: sanitize config-validation issue paths/messages before logging so control characters and ANSI escape sequences cannot inject misleading terminal output from crafted config content. (#39116) Thanks @powermaster888.
Agents/compaction counter accuracy: count successful overflow-triggered auto-compactions (willRetry=true) in the compaction counter while still excluding aborted/no-result events, so /status reflects actual safeguard compaction activity. (#39123) Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/chat delta ordering: flush buffered assistant deltas before emitting tool start events so pre-tool text is delivered to Control UI before tool cards, avoiding transient text/tool ordering artifacts in streaming. (#39128) Thanks @0xtangping.
Voice-call plugin schema parity: add missing manifest configSchema fields (webhookSecurity, streaming.preStartTimeoutMs|maxPendingConnections|maxPendingConnectionsPerIp|maxConnections, staleCallReaperSeconds) so gateway AJV validation accepts already-supported runtime config instead of failing with additionalProperties errors. (#38892) Thanks @giumex.
Agents/OpenAI WS reconnect retry accounting: avoid double retry scheduling when reconnect failures emit both error and close, so retry budgets track actual reconnect attempts instead of exhausting early. (#39133) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Daemon/Windows schtasks runtime detection: use locale-invariant Last Run Result running codes (0x41301/267009) as the primary running signal so openclaw node status no longer misreports active tasks as stopped on non-English Windows locales. (#39076) Thanks @ademczuk.
Usage/token count formatting: round near-million token counts to millions (1.0m) instead of 1000k, with explicit boundary coverage for 999_499 and 999_500. (#39129) Thanks @CurryMessi.
Gateway/session bootstrap cache invalidation ordering: clear bootstrap snapshots only after active embedded-run shutdown wait completes, preventing dying runs from repopulating stale cache between /new/sessions.reset turns. (#38873) Thanks @MumuTW.
Browser/dispatcher error clarity: preserve dispatcher-side failure context in browser fetch errors while still appending operator guidance and explicit no-retry model hints, preventing misleading "Can't reach service" wrapping and avoiding LLM retry loops. (#39090) Thanks @NewdlDewdl.
Telegram/polling offset safety: confirm persisted offsets before polling startup while validating stored lastUpdateId values as non-negative safe integers (with overflow guards) so malformed offset state cannot cause update skipping/dropping. (#39111) Thanks @MumuTW.
Telegram/status SecretRef read-only resolution: resolve env-backed bot-token SecretRefs in config-only/status inspection while respecting provider source/defaults and env allowlists, so status no longer crashes or reports false-ready tokens for disallowed providers. (#39130) Thanks @neocody.
Agents/OpenAI WS max-token zero forwarding: treat maxTokens: 0 as an explicit value in websocket response.create payloads (instead of dropping it as falsy), with regression coverage for zero-token forwarding. (#39148) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Podman/.env gateway bind precedence: evaluate OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_BIND after sourcing .env in run-openclaw-podman.sh so env-file overrides are honored. (#38785) Thanks @majinyu666.
Models/default alias refresh: bump gpt to openai/gpt-5.4 and Gemini defaults to gemini-3.1 preview aliases (including normalization/default wiring) to track current model IDs. (#38638) Thanks @ademczuk.
Config/env substitution degraded mode: convert missing ${VAR} resolution in config reads from hard-fail to warning-backed degraded behavior, while preventing unresolved placeholders from being accepted as gateway credentials. (#39050) Thanks @akz142857.
Discord inbound listener non-blocking dispatch: make MESSAGE_CREATE listener handoff asynchronous (no per-listener queue blocking), so long runs no longer stall unrelated incoming events. (#39154) Thanks @yaseenkadlemakki.
Daemon/Windows PATH freeze fix: stop persisting install-time PATH snapshots into Scheduled Task scripts so runtime tool lookup follows current host PATH updates; also refresh local TUI history on silent local finals. (#39139) Thanks @Narcooo.
Gateway/systemd service restart hardening: clear stale gateway listeners by explicit run-port before service bind, add restart stale-pid port-override support, tune systemd start/stop/exit handling, and disable detached child mode only in service-managed runtime so cgroup stop semantics clean up descendants reliably. (#38463) Thanks @spirittechie.
Discord/plugin native command aliases: let plugins declare provider-specific slash names so native Discord registration can avoid built-in command collisions; the bundled Talk voice plugin now uses /talkvoice natively on Discord while keeping text /voice.
Daemon/Windows schtasks status normalization: derive runtime state from locale-neutral numeric Last Run Result codes only (without language string matching) and surface unknown when numeric result data is unavailable, preventing locale-specific misclassification drift. (#39153) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Telegram/polling conflict recovery: reset the polling webhookCleared latch on getUpdates 409 conflicts so webhook cleanup re-runs on restart cycles and polling avoids infinite conflict loops. (#39205) Thanks @amittell.
Heartbeat/requests-in-flight scheduling: stop advancing nextDueMs and avoid immediate scheduleNext() timer overrides on requests-in-flight skips, so wake-layer retry cooldowns are honored and heartbeat cadence no longer drifts under sustained contention. (#39182) Thanks @MumuTW.
Memory/SQLite contention resilience: re-apply PRAGMA busy_timeout on every sync-store and QMD connection open so process restarts/reopens no longer revert to immediate SQLITE_BUSY failures under lock contention. (#39183) Thanks @MumuTW.
Gateway/webchat route safety: block webchat/control-ui clients from inheriting stored external delivery routes on channel-scoped sessions (while preserving route inheritance for UI/TUI clients), preventing cross-channel leakage from scoped chats. (#39175) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
Telegram error-surface resilience: return a user-visible fallback reply when dispatch/debounce processing fails instead of going silent, while preserving draft-stream cleanup and best-effort thread-scoped fallback delivery. (#39209) Thanks @riftzen-bit.
Gateway/password auth startup diagnostics: detect unresolved provider-reference objects in gateway.auth.password and fail with a specific bootstrap-secrets error message instead of generic misconfiguration output. (#39230) Thanks @ademczuk.
Agents/OpenAI-responses compatibility: strip unsupported store payload fields when supportsStore=false (including OpenAI-compatible non-OpenAI providers) while preserving server-compaction payload behavior. (#39219) Thanks @ademczuk.
Agents/model fallback visibility: warn when configured model IDs cannot be resolved and fallback is applied, with log-safe sanitization of model text to prevent control-sequence injection in warning output. (#39215) Thanks @ademczuk.
Outbound delivery replay safety: use two-phase delivery ACK markers (.json -> .delivered -> unlink) and startup marker cleanup so crash windows between send and cleanup do not replay already-delivered messages. (#38668) Thanks @Gundam98.
Nodes/system.run approval binding: carry prepared approval plans through gateway forwarding and bind interpreter-style script operands across approval to execution, so post-approval script rewrites are denied while unchanged approved script runs keep working. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Nodes/system.run PowerShell wrapper parsing: treat pwsh/powershell -EncodedCommand forms as shell-wrapper payloads so allowlist mode still requires approval instead of falling back to plain argv analysis. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Control UI/auth error reporting: map generic browser Fetch failed websocket close errors back to actionable gateway auth messages (gateway token mismatch, authentication failed, retry later) so dashboard disconnects stop hiding credential problems. Landed from contributor PR #28608 by @KimGLee. Thanks @KimGLee.
Media/mime unknown-kind handling: return undefined (not "unknown") for missing/unrecognized MIME kinds and use document-size fallback caps for unknown remote media, preventing phantom <media:unknown> Signal events from being treated as real messages. (#39199) Thanks @nicolasgrasset.
Nodes/system.run allow-always persistence: honor shell comment semantics during allowlist analysis so #-tailed payloads that never execute are not persisted as trusted follow-up commands. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Signal/inbound attachment fan-in: forward all successfully fetched inbound attachments through MediaPaths/MediaUrls/MediaTypes (instead of only the first), and improve multi-attachment placeholder summaries in mention-gated pending history. (#39212) Thanks @joeykrug.
Nodes/system.run dispatch-wrapper boundary: keep shell-wrapper approval classification active at the depth boundary so env wrapper stacks cannot reach /bin/sh -c execution without the expected approval gate. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Docker/token persistence on reconfigure: reuse the existing .env gateway token during docker-setup.sh reruns and align compose token env defaults, so Docker installs stop silently rotating tokens and breaking existing dashboard sessions. Landed from contributor PR #33097 by @chengzhichao-xydt. Thanks @chengzhichao-xydt.
Agents/strict OpenAI turn ordering: apply assistant-first transcript bootstrap sanitization to strict OpenAI-compatible providers (for example vLLM/Gemma via openai-completions) without adding Google-specific session markers, preventing assistant-first history rejections. (#39252) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Discord/exec approvals gateway auth: pass resolved shared gateway credentials into the Discord exec-approvals gateway client so token-auth installs stop failing approvals with gateway token mismatch. Related to #38179. Thanks @0riginal-claw for the adjacent PR #35147 investigation.
Subagents/workspace inheritance: propagate parent workspace directory to spawned subagent runs so child sessions reliably inherit workspace-scoped instructions (AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, etc.) without exposing workspace override through tool-call arguments. (#39247) Thanks @jasonQin6.
Exec approvals/gateway-node policy: honor explicit ask=off from exec-approvals.json even when runtime defaults are stricter, so trusted full/off setups stop re-prompting on gateway and node exec paths. Landed from contributor PR #26789 by @pandego. Thanks @pandego.
Exec approvals/config fallback: inherit ask from exec-approvals.json when tools.exec.ask is unset, so local full/off defaults no longer fall back to on-miss for exec tool and nodes run. Landed from contributor PR #29187 by @Bartok9. Thanks @Bartok9.
Exec approvals/allow-always shell scripts: persist and match script paths for wrapper invocations like bash scripts/foo.sh while still blocking -c/-s wrapper bypasses. Landed from contributor PR #35137 by @yuweuii. Thanks @yuweuii.
Queue/followup dedupe across drain restarts: dedupe queued redelivery message_id values after queue recreation so busy-session followups no longer duplicate on replayed inbound events. Landed from contributor PR #33168 by @rylena. Thanks @rylena.
Telegram/preview-final edit idempotence: treat message is not modified errors during preview finalization as delivered so partial-stream final replies do not fall back to duplicate sends. Landed from contributor PR #34983 by @HOYALIM. Thanks @HOYALIM.
Telegram/DM streaming transport parity: use message preview transport for all DM streaming lanes so final delivery can edit the active preview instead of sending duplicate finals. Landed from contributor PR #38906 by @gambletan. Thanks @gambletan.
Telegram/DM draft streaming restoration: restore native sendMessageDraft preview transport for DM answer streaming while keeping reasoning on message transport, with regression coverage to keep draft finalization from sending duplicate finals. (#39398) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/send retry safety: retry non-idempotent send paths only for pre-connect failures and make custom retry predicates strict, preventing ambiguous reconnect retries from sending duplicate messages. Landed from contributor PR #34238 by @hal-crackbot. Thanks @hal-crackbot.
ACP/run spawn delivery bootstrap: stop reusing requester inline delivery targets for one-shot mode: "run" ACP spawns, so fresh run-mode workers bootstrap in isolation instead of inheriting thread-bound session delivery behavior. (#39014) Thanks @lidamao633.
Discord/DM session-key normalization: rewrite legacy discord:dm:* and phantom direct-message discord:channel:<user> session keys to discord:direct:* when the sender matches, so multi-agent Discord DMs stop falling into empty channel-shaped sessions and resume replying correctly.
Discord/native slash session fallback: treat empty configured bound-session keys as missing so /status and other native commands fall back to the routed slash session and routed channel session instead of blanking Discord session keys in normal channel bindings.
Agents/tool-call dispatch normalization: normalize provider-prefixed tool names before dispatch across toolCall, toolUse, and functionCall blocks, while preserving multi-segment tool suffixes when stripping provider wrappers so malformed-but-recoverable tool names no longer fail with Tool not found. (#39328) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Agents/parallel tool-call compatibility: honor parallel_tool_calls / parallelToolCalls extra params only for openai-completions and openai-responses payloads, preserve higher-precedence alias overrides across config and runtime layers, and ignore invalid non-boolean values so single-tool-call providers like NVIDIA-hosted Kimi stop failing on forced parallel tool-call payloads. (#37048) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Config/invalid-load fail-closed: stop converting INVALID_CONFIG into an empty runtime config, keep valid settings available only through explicit best-effort diagnostic reads, and route read-only CLI diagnostics through that path so unknown keys no longer silently drop security-sensitive config. (#28140) Thanks @bobsahur-robot and @vincentkoc.
Agents/codex-cli sandbox defaults: switch the built-in Codex backend from read-only to workspace-write so spawned coding runs can edit files out of the box. Landed from contributor PR #39336 by @0xtangping. Thanks @0xtangping.
Gateway/health-monitor restart reason labeling: report disconnected instead of stuck for clean channel disconnect restarts, so operator logs distinguish socket drops from genuinely stuck channels. (#36436) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Control UI/agents-page overrides: auto-create minimal per-agent config entries when editing inherited agents, so model/tool/skill changes enable Save and inherited model fallbacks can be cleared by writing a primary-only override. Landed from contributor PR #39326 by @dunamismax. Thanks @dunamismax.
Gateway/Telegram webhook-mode recovery: add webhookCertPath to re-upload self-signed certificates during webhook registration and skip stale-socket detection for webhook-mode channels, so Telegram webhook setups survive health-monitor restarts. Landed from contributor PR #39313 by @fellanH. Thanks @fellanH.
Discord/config schema parity: add channels.discord.agentComponents to the strict Zod config schema so valid agentComponents.enabled settings (root and account-scoped) no longer fail with unrecognized-key validation errors. Landed from contributor PR #39378 by @gambletan. Thanks @gambletan and @thewilloftheshadow.
ACPX/MCP session bootstrap: inject configured MCP servers into ACP session/new and session/load for acpx-backed sessions, restoring Canva and other external MCP tools. Landed from contributor PR #39337. Thanks @goodspeed-apps.
Control UI/Telegram sender labels: preserve inbound sender labels in sanitized chat history so dashboard user-message groups split correctly and show real group-member names instead of You. (#39414) Thanks @obviyus.

openclaw 2026.3.2

2026-03-03T04:43:08Z

Changes

Secrets/SecretRef coverage: expand SecretRef support across the full supported user-supplied credential surface (64 targets total), including runtime collectors, openclaw secrets planning/apply/audit flows, onboarding SecretInput UX, and related docs; unresolved refs now fail fast on active surfaces while inactive surfaces report non-blocking diagnostics. (#29580) Thanks @joshavant.
Tools/PDF analysis: add a first-class pdf tool with native Anthropic and Google PDF provider support, extraction fallback for non-native models, configurable defaults (agents.defaults.pdfModel, pdfMaxBytesMb, pdfMaxPages), and docs/tests covering routing, validation, and registration. (#31319) Thanks @tyler6204.
Outbound adapters/plugins: add shared sendPayload support across direct-text-media, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Zalo, and Zalouser with multi-media iteration and chunk-aware text fallback. (#30144) Thanks @nohat.
Models/MiniMax: add first-class MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed support across built-in provider catalogs, onboarding flows, and MiniMax OAuth plugin defaults, while keeping legacy MiniMax-M2.5-Lightning compatibility for existing configs.
Sessions/Attachments: add inline file attachment support for sessions_spawn (subagent runtime only) with base64/utf8 encoding, transcript content redaction, lifecycle cleanup, and configurable limits via tools.sessions_spawn.attachments. (#16761) Thanks @napetrov.
Telegram/Streaming defaults: default channels.telegram.streaming to partial (from off) so new Telegram setups get live preview streaming out of the box, with runtime fallback to message-edit preview when native drafts are unavailable.
Telegram/DM streaming: use sendMessageDraft for private preview streaming, keep reasoning/answer preview lanes separated in DM reasoning-stream mode. (#31824) Thanks @obviyus.
Telegram/voice mention gating: add optional disableAudioPreflight on group/topic config to skip mention-detection preflight transcription for inbound voice notes where operators want text-only mention checks. (#23067) Thanks @yangnim21029.
CLI/Config validation: add openclaw config validate (with --json) to validate config files before gateway startup, and include detailed invalid-key paths in startup invalid-config errors. (#31220) thanks @Sid-Qin.
Tools/Diffs: add PDF file output support and rendering quality customization controls (fileQuality, fileScale, fileMaxWidth) for generated diff artifacts, and document PDF as the preferred option when messaging channels compress images. (#31342) Thanks @gumadeiras.
Memory/Ollama embeddings: add memorySearch.provider = "ollama" and memorySearch.fallback = "ollama" support, honor models.providers.ollama settings for memory embedding requests, and document Ollama embedding usage. (#26349) Thanks @nico-hoff.
Zalo Personal plugin (@openclaw/zalouser): rebuilt channel runtime to use native zca-js integration in-process, removing external CLI transport usage and keeping QR/login + send/listen flows fully inside OpenClaw.
Plugin SDK/channel extensibility: expose channelRuntime on ChannelGatewayContext so external channel plugins can access shared runtime helpers (reply/routing/session/text/media/commands) without internal imports. (#25462) Thanks @guxiaobo.
Plugin runtime/STT: add api.runtime.stt.transcribeAudioFile(...) so extensions can transcribe local audio files through OpenClaw's configured media-understanding audio providers. (#22402) Thanks @benthecarman.
Plugin hooks/session lifecycle: include sessionKey in session_start/session_end hook events and contexts so plugins can correlate lifecycle callbacks with routing identity. (#26394) Thanks @tempeste.
Hooks/message lifecycle: add internal hook events message:transcribed and message:preprocessed, plus richer outbound message:sent context (isGroup, groupId) for group-conversation correlation and post-transcription automations. (#9859) Thanks @Drickon.
Media understanding/audio echo: add optional tools.media.audio.echoTranscript + echoFormat to send a pre-agent transcript confirmation message to the originating chat, with echo disabled by default. (#32150) Thanks @AytuncYildizli.
Plugin runtime/system: expose runtime.system.requestHeartbeatNow(...) so extensions can wake targeted sessions immediately after enqueueing system events. (#19464) Thanks @AustinEral.
Plugin runtime/events: expose runtime.events.onAgentEvent and runtime.events.onSessionTranscriptUpdate for extension-side subscriptions, and isolate transcript-listener failures so one faulty listener cannot break the entire update fanout. (#16044) Thanks @scifantastic.
CLI/Banner taglines: add cli.banner.taglineMode (random | default | off) to control funny tagline behavior in startup output, with docs + FAQ guidance and regression tests for config override behavior.

Breaking

BREAKING: Onboarding now defaults tools.profile to messaging for new local installs (interactive + non-interactive). New setups no longer start with broad coding/system tools unless explicitly configured.
BREAKING: ACP dispatch now defaults to enabled unless explicitly disabled (acp.dispatch.enabled=false). If you need to pause ACP turn routing while keeping /acp controls, set acp.dispatch.enabled=false. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/acp-agents
BREAKING: Plugin SDK removed api.registerHttpHandler(...). Plugins must register explicit HTTP routes via api.registerHttpRoute({ path, auth, match, handler }), and dynamic webhook lifecycles should use registerPluginHttpRoute(...).
BREAKING: Zalo Personal plugin (@openclaw/zalouser) no longer depends on external zca-compatible CLI binaries (openzca, zca-cli) for runtime send/listen/login; operators should use openclaw channels login --channel zalouser after upgrade to refresh sessions in the new JS-native path.

Fixes

Plugin command/runtime hardening: validate and normalize plugin command name/description at registration boundaries, and guard Telegram native menu normalization paths so malformed plugin command specs cannot crash startup (trim on undefined). (#31997) Fixes #31944. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Telegram: guard duplicate-token checks and gateway startup token normalization when account tokens are missing, preventing token.trim() crashes during status/start flows. (#31973) Thanks @ningding97.
Discord/lifecycle startup status: push an immediate connected status snapshot when the gateway is already connected before lifecycle debug listeners attach, with abort-guarding to avoid contradictory status flips during pre-aborted startup. (#32336) Thanks @mitchmcalister.
Feishu/multi-app mention routing: guard mention detection in multi-bot groups by validating mention display name alongside bot open_id, preventing false-positive self-mentions from Feishu WebSocket remapping so only the actually mentioned bot responds under requireMention. (#30315) Thanks @teaguexiao.
Feishu/session-memory hook parity: trigger the shared before_reset session-memory hook path when Feishu /new and /reset commands execute so reset flows preserve memory behavior consistent with other channels. (#31437) Thanks @Linux2010.
Feishu/LINE group system prompts: forward per-group systemPrompt config into inbound context GroupSystemPrompt for Feishu and LINE group/room events so configured group-specific behavior actually applies at dispatch time. (#31713) Thanks @whiskyboy.
Mentions/Slack formatting hardening: add null-safe guards for runtime text normalization paths so malformed/undefined text payloads do not crash mention stripping or mrkdwn conversion. (#31865) Thanks @stone-jin.
Feishu/Plugin sdk compatibility: add safe webhook default fallbacks when loading Feishu monitor state so mixed-version installs no longer crash if older openclaw/plugin-sdk builds omit webhook default constants. (#31606)
Feishu/group broadcast dispatch: add configurable multi-agent group broadcast dispatch with observer-session isolation, cross-account dedupe safeguards, and non-mention history buffering rules that avoid duplicate replay in broadcast/topic workflows. (#29575) Thanks @ohmyskyhigh.
Gateway/Subagent TLS pairing: allow authenticated local gateway-client backend self-connections to skip device pairing while still requiring pairing for non-local/direct-host paths, restoring sessions_spawn with gateway.tls.enabled=true in Docker/LAN setups. Fixes #30740. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
Browser/CDP startup diagnostics: include Chrome stderr output and a Linux no-sandbox hint in startup timeout errors so failed launches are easier to diagnose. (#29312) Thanks @veast.
Synology Chat/webhook ingress hardening: enforce bounded body reads (size + timeout) via shared request-body guards to prevent unauthenticated slow-body hangs before token validation. (#25831) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Feishu/Dedup restart resilience: warm persistent dedup state into memory on monitor startup so retry events after gateway restart stay suppressed without requiring initial on-disk probe misses. (#31605)
Voice-call/runtime lifecycle: prevent EADDRINUSE loops by resetting failed runtime promises, making webhook start() idempotent with the actual bound port, and fully cleaning up webhook/tunnel/tailscale resources after startup failures. (#32395) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Gateway/Security hardening: tie loopback-origin dev allowance to actual local socket clients (not Host header claims), add explicit warnings/metrics when gateway.controlUi.dangerouslyAllowHostHeaderOriginFallback accepts websocket origins, harden safe-regex detection for quantified ambiguous alternation patterns (for example (a|aa)+), and bound large regex-evaluation inputs for session-filter and log-redaction paths.
Gateway/Plugin HTTP hardening: require explicit auth for plugin route registration, add route ownership guards for duplicate path+match registrations, centralize plugin path matching/auth logic into dedicated modules, and share webhook target-route lifecycle wiring across channel monitors to avoid stale or conflicting registrations. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Browser/Profile defaults: prefer openclaw profile over chrome in headless/no-sandbox environments unless an explicit defaultProfile is configured. (#14944) Thanks @BenediktSchackenberg.
Gateway/WS security: keep plaintext ws:// loopback-only by default, with explicit break-glass private-network opt-in via OPENCLAW_ALLOW_INSECURE_PRIVATE_WS=1; align onboarding/client/call validation and tests to this strict-default policy. (#28670) Thanks @dashed, @vincentkoc.
OpenAI Codex OAuth/TLS prerequisites: add an OAuth TLS cert-chain preflight with actionable remediation for cert trust failures, and gate doctor TLS prerequisite probing to OpenAI Codex OAuth-configured installs (or explicit doctor --deep) to avoid unconditional outbound probe latency. (#32051) Thanks @alexfilatov.
Security/Webhook request hardening: enforce auth-before-body parsing for BlueBubbles and Google Chat webhook handlers, add strict pre-auth body/time budgets for webhook auth paths (including LINE signature verification), and add shared in-flight/request guardrails plus regression tests/lint checks to prevent reintroducing unauthenticated slow-body DoS patterns. Thanks @GCXWLP for reporting.
CLI/Config validation and routing hardening: dedupe openclaw config validate failures to a single authoritative report, expose allowed-values metadata/hints across core Zod and plugin AJV validation (including --json fields), sanitize terminal-rendered validation text, and make command-path parsing root-option-aware across preaction/route/lazy registration (including routed config get/unset with split root options). Thanks @gumadeiras.
Browser/Extension relay reconnect tolerance: keep /json/version and /cdp reachable during short MV3 worker disconnects when attached targets still exist, and retain clients across reconnect grace windows. (#30232) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
CLI/Browser start timeout: honor openclaw browser --timeout <ms> start and stop by removing the fixed 15000ms override so slower Chrome startups can use caller-provided timeouts. (#22412, #23427) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Synology Chat/gateway lifecycle: keep startAccount pending until abort for inactive and active account paths to prevent webhook route restart loops under gateway supervision. (#23074) Thanks @druide67.
Exec approvals/allowlist matching: escape regex metacharacters in path-pattern literals (while preserving glob wildcards), preventing crashes on allowlisted executables like /usr/bin/g++ and correctly matching mixed wildcard/literal token paths. (#32162) Thanks @stakeswky.
Synology Chat/webhook compatibility: accept JSON and alias payload fields, allow token resolution from body/query/header sources, and ACK webhook requests with 204 to avoid persistent Processing... states in Synology Chat clients. (#26635) Thanks @memphislee09-source.
Voice-call/Twilio signature verification: retry signature validation across deterministic URL port variants (with/without port) to handle mixed Twilio signing behavior behind reverse proxies and non-standard ports. (#25140) Thanks @drvoss.
Slack/Bolt startup compatibility: remove invalid message.channels and message.groups event registrations so Slack providers no longer crash on startup with Bolt 4.6+; channel/group traffic continues through the unified message handler (channel_type). (#32033) Thanks @mahopan.
Slack/socket auth failure handling: fail fast on non-recoverable auth errors (account_inactive, invalid_auth, etc.) during startup and reconnect instead of retry-looping indefinitely, including unable_to_socket_mode_start error payload propagation. (#32377) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Gateway/macOS LaunchAgent hardening: write Umask=077 in generated gateway LaunchAgent plists so npm upgrades preserve owner-only default file permissions for gateway-created state files. (#31919) Fixes #31905. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
macOS/LaunchAgent security defaults: write Umask=63 (octal 077) into generated gateway launchd plists so post-update service reinstalls keep owner-only file permissions by default instead of falling back to system 022. (#32022) Fixes #31905. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Media understanding/provider HTTP proxy routing: pass a proxy-aware fetch function from HTTPS_PROXY/HTTP_PROXY env vars into audio/video provider calls (with graceful malformed-proxy fallback) so transcription/video requests honor configured outbound proxies. (#27093) Thanks @mcaxtr.
Sandbox/workspace mount permissions: make primary /workspace bind mounts read-only whenever workspaceAccess is not rw (including none) across both core sandbox container and sandbox browser create flows. (#32227) Thanks @guanyu-zhang.
Tools/fsPolicy propagation: honor tools.fs.workspaceOnly for image/pdf local-root allowlists so non-sandbox media paths outside workspace are rejected when workspace-only mode is enabled. (#31882) Thanks @justinhuangcode.
Daemon/Homebrew runtime pinning: resolve Homebrew Cellar Node paths to stable Homebrew-managed symlinks (including versioned formulas like node@22) so gateway installs keep the intended runtime across brew upgrades. (#32185) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Browser/Security output boundary hardening: replace check-then-rename output commits with root-bound fd-verified writes, unify install/skills canonical path-boundary checks, and add regression coverage for symlink-rebind race paths across browser output and shared fs-safe write flows. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Gateway/Security canonicalization hardening: decode plugin route path variants to canonical fixpoint (with bounded depth), fail closed on canonicalization anomalies, and enforce gateway auth for deeply encoded /api/channels/* variants to prevent alternate-path auth bypass through plugin handlers. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Browser/Gateway hardening: preserve env credentials for OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_URL / CLAWDBOT_GATEWAY_URL while treating explicit --url as override-only auth, and make container browser hardening flags optional with safer defaults for Docker/LXC stability. (#31504) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Gateway/Control UI basePath webhook passthrough: let non-read methods under configured controlUiBasePath fall through to plugin routes (instead of returning Control UI 405), restoring webhook handlers behind basePath mounts. (#32311) Thanks @ademczuk.
Control UI/Legacy browser compatibility: replace toSorted-dependent cron suggestion sorting in app-render with a compatibility helper so older browsers without Array.prototype.toSorted no longer white-screen. (#31775) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
macOS/PeekabooBridge: add compatibility socket symlinks for legacy clawdbot, clawdis, and moltbot Application Support socket paths so pre-rename clients can still connect. (#6033) Thanks @lumpinif and @vincentkoc.
Gateway/message tool reliability: avoid false Unknown channel failures when message.* actions receive platform-specific channel ids by falling back to toolContext.currentChannelProvider, and prevent health-monitor restart thrash for channels that just (re)started by adding a per-channel startup-connect grace window. (from #32367) Thanks @MunemHashmi.
Windows/Spawn canonicalization: unify non-core Windows spawn handling across ACP client, QMD/mcporter memory paths, and sandbox Docker execution using the shared wrapper-resolution policy, with targeted regression coverage for .cmd shim unwrapping and shell fallback behavior. (#31750) Thanks @Takhoffman.
Security/ACP sandbox inheritance: enforce fail-closed runtime guardrails for sessions_spawn with runtime="acp" by rejecting ACP spawns from sandboxed requester sessions and rejecting sandbox="require" for ACP runtime, preventing sandbox-boundary bypass via host-side ACP initialization. (#32254) Thanks @tdjackey for reporting, and @dutifulbob for the fix.
Security/Web tools SSRF guard: keep DNS pinning for untrusted web_fetch and citation-redirect URL checks when proxy env vars are set, and require explicit dangerous opt-in before env-proxy routing can bypass pinned dispatch for trusted/operator-controlled endpoints. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Gemini schema sanitization: coerce malformed JSON Schema properties values (null, arrays, primitives) to {} before provider validation, preventing downstream strict-validator crashes on invalid plugin/tool schemas. (#32332) Thanks @webdevtodayjason.
Media understanding/malformed attachment guards: harden attachment selection and decision summary formatting against non-array or malformed attachment payloads to prevent runtime crashes on invalid inbound metadata shapes. (#28024) Thanks @claw9267.
Browser/Extension navigation reattach: preserve debugger re-attachment when relay is temporarily disconnected by deferring relay attach events until reconnect/re-announce, reducing post-navigation tab loss. (#28725) Thanks @stone-jin.
Browser/Extension relay stale tabs: evict stale cached targets from /json/list when extension targets are destroyed/crashed or commands fail with missing target/session errors. (#6175) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Browser/CDP startup readiness: wait for CDP websocket readiness after launching Chrome and cleanly stop/reset when readiness never arrives, reducing follow-up PortInUseError races after browser start/open. (#29538) Thanks @AaronWander.
OpenAI/Responses WebSocket tool-call id hygiene: normalize blank/whitespace streamed tool-call ids before persistence, and block empty function_call_output.call_id payloads in the WS conversion path to avoid OpenAI 400 errors (Invalid 'input[n].call_id': empty string), with regression coverage for both inbound stream normalization and outbound payload guards.
Security/Nodes camera URL downloads: bind node camera.snap/camera.clip URL payload downloads to the resolved node host, enforce fail-closed behavior when node remoteIp is unavailable, and use SSRF-guarded fetch with redirect host/protocol checks to prevent off-node fetch pivots. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Config/backups hardening: enforce owner-only (0600) permissions on rotated config backups and clean orphan .bak.* files outside the managed backup ring, reducing credential leakage risk from stale or permissive backup artifacts. (#31718) Thanks @YUJIE2002.
Telegram/inbound media filenames: preserve original file_name metadata for document/audio/video/animation downloads (with fetch/path fallbacks), so saved inbound attachments keep sender-provided names instead of opaque Telegram file paths. (#31837) Thanks @Kay-051.
Gateway/OpenAI chat completions: honor x-openclaw-message-channel when building agentCommand input for /v1/chat/completions, preserving caller channel identity instead of forcing webchat. (#30462) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Plugin SDK/runtime hardening: add package export verification in CI/release checks to catch missing runtime exports before publish-time regressions. (#28575) Thanks @Glucksberg.
Media/MIME normalization: normalize parameterized/case-variant MIME strings in kindFromMime (for example Audio/Ogg; codecs=opus) so WhatsApp voice notes are classified as audio and routed through transcription correctly. (#32280) Thanks @Lucenx9.
Discord/audio preflight mentions: detect audio attachments via Discord content_type and gate preflight transcription on typed text (not media placeholders), so guild voice-note mentions are transcribed and matched correctly. (#32136) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
Feishu/topic session routing: use thread_id as topic session scope fallback when root_id is absent, keep first-turn topic keys stable across thread creation, and force thread replies when inbound events already carry topic/thread context. (#29788) Thanks @songyaolun.
Gateway/Webchat NO_REPLY streaming: suppress assistant lead-fragment deltas that are prefixes of NO_REPLY and keep final-message buffering in sync, preventing partial NO leaks on silent-response runs while preserving legitimate short replies. (#32073) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Telegram/models picker callbacks: keep long model buttons selectable by falling back to compact callback payloads and resolving provider ids on selection (with provider re-prompt on ambiguity), avoiding Telegram 64-byte callback truncation failures. (#31857) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Context-window metadata warmup: add exponential config-load retry backoff (1s -> 2s -> 4s, capped at 60s) so transient startup failures recover automatically without hot-loop retries.
Voice-call/Twilio external outbound: auto-register webhook-first outbound-api calls (initiated outside OpenClaw) so media streams are accepted and call direction metadata stays accurate. (#31181) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Feishu/topic root replies: prefer root_id as outbound replyTargetMessageId when present, and parse millisecond message_create_time values correctly so topic replies anchor to the root message in grouped thread flows. (#29968) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Feishu/DM pairing reply target: send pairing challenge replies to chat:<chat_id> instead of user:<sender_open_id> so Lark/Feishu private chats with user-id-only sender payloads receive pairing messages reliably. (#31403) Thanks @stakeswky.
Feishu/Lark private DM routing: treat inbound chat_type: "private" as direct-message context for pairing/mention-forward/reaction synthetic handling so Lark private chats behave like Feishu p2p DMs. (#31400) Thanks @stakeswky.
Signal/message actions: allow react to fall back to toolContext.currentMessageId when messageId is omitted, matching Telegram behavior and unblocking agent-initiated reactions on inbound turns. (#32217) Thanks @dunamismax.
Discord/message actions: allow react to fall back to toolContext.currentMessageId when messageId is omitted, matching Telegram/Signal reaction ergonomics in inbound turns.
Synology Chat/reply delivery: resolve webhook usernames to Chat API user_id values for outbound chatbot replies, avoiding mismatches between webhook user IDs and method=chatbot recipient IDs in multi-account setups. (#23709) Thanks @druide67.
Slack/thread context payloads: only inject thread starter/history text on first thread turn for new sessions while preserving thread metadata, reducing repeated context-token bloat on long-lived thread sessions. (#32133) Thanks @sourman.
Slack/session routing: keep top-level channel messages in one shared session when replyToMode=off, while preserving thread-scoped keys for true thread replies and non-off modes. (#32193) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Voice-call/webhook routing: require exact webhook path matches (instead of prefix matches) so lookalike paths cannot reach provider verification/dispatch logic. (#31930) Thanks @afurm.
Zalo/Pairing auth tests: add webhook regression coverage asserting DM pairing-store reads/writes remain account-scoped, preventing cross-account authorization bleed in multi-account setups. (#26121) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Zalouser/Pairing auth tests: add account-scoped DM pairing-store regression coverage (monitor.account-scope.test.ts) to prevent cross-account allowlist bleed in multi-account setups. (#26672) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Feishu/Send target prefixes: normalize explicit group:/dm: send targets and preserve explicit receive-id routing hints when resolving outbound Feishu targets. (#31594) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Webchat/Feishu session continuation: preserve routable OriginatingChannel/OriginatingTo metadata from session delivery context in chat.send, and prefer provider-normalized channel when deciding cross-channel route dispatch so Webchat replies continue on the selected Feishu session instead of falling back to main/internal session routing. (#31573)
Telegram/implicit mention forum handling: exclude Telegram forum system service messages (forum_topic_*, general_forum_topic_*) from reply-chain implicit mention detection so requireMention does not get bypassed inside bot-created topic lifecycle events. (#32262) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Slack/inbound debounce routing: isolate top-level non-DM message debounce keys by message timestamp to avoid cross-thread collisions, preserve DM batching, and flush pending top-level buffers before immediate non-debounce follow-ups to keep ordering stable. (#31951) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Feishu/Duplicate replies: suppress same-target reply dispatch when message-tool sends use generic provider metadata (provider: "message") and normalize lark/feishu provider aliases during duplicate-target checks, preventing double-delivery in Feishu sessions. (#31526)
Webchat/silent token leak: filter assistant NO_REPLY-only transcript entries from chat.history responses and add client-side defense-in-depth guards in the chat controller so internal silent tokens never render as visible chat bubbles. (#32015) Consolidates overlap from #32183, #32082, #32045, #32052, #32172, and #32112. Thanks @ademczuk, @liuxiaopai-ai, @ningding97, @bmendonca3, and @x4v13r1120.
Doctor/local memory provider checks: stop false-positive local-provider warnings when provider=local and no explicit modelPath is set by honoring default local model fallback while still warning when gateway probe reports local embeddings not ready. (#32014) Fixes #31998. Thanks @adhishthite.
Media understanding/parakeet CLI output parsing: read parakeet-mlx transcripts from --output-dir/<media-basename>.txt when txt output is requested (or default), with stdout fallback for non-txt formats. (#9177) Thanks @mac-110.
Media understanding/audio transcription guard: skip tiny/empty audio files (<1024 bytes) before provider/CLI transcription to avoid noisy invalid-audio failures and preserve clean fallback behavior. (#8388) Thanks @Glucksberg.
Gateway/Plugin HTTP route precedence: run explicit plugin HTTP routes before the Control UI SPA catch-all so registered plugin webhook/custom paths remain reachable, while unmatched paths still fall through to Control UI handling. (#31885) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Gateway/Node browser proxy routing: honor profile from browser.request JSON body when query params omit it, while preserving query-profile precedence when both are present. (#28852) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Gateway/Control UI basePath POST handling: return 405 for POST on exact basePath routes (for example /openclaw) instead of redirecting, and add end-to-end regression coverage that root-mounted webhook POST paths still pass through to plugin handlers. (#31349) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Browser/default profile selection: default browser.defaultProfile behavior now prefers openclaw (managed standalone CDP) when no explicit default is configured, while still auto-provisioning the chrome relay profile for explicit opt-in use. (#32031) Fixes #31907. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Sandbox/mkdirp boundary checks: allow existing in-boundary directories to pass mkdirp boundary validation when directory open probes return platform-specific I/O errors, with regression coverage for directory-safe fallback behavior. (#31547) Thanks @stakeswky.
Models/config env propagation: apply config.env.vars before implicit provider discovery in models bootstrap so config-scoped credentials are visible to implicit provider resolution paths. (#32295) Thanks @hsiaoa.
Models/Codex usage labels: infer weekly secondary usage windows from reset cadence when API window seconds are ambiguously reported as 24h, so openclaw models status no longer mislabels weekly limits as daily. (#31938) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Gateway/Heartbeat model reload: treat models.* and agents.defaults.model config updates as heartbeat hot-reload triggers so heartbeat picks up model changes without a full gateway restart. (#32046) Thanks @stakeswky.
Memory/LanceDB embeddings: forward configured embedding.dimensions into OpenAI embeddings requests so vector size and API output dimensions stay aligned when dimensions are explicitly configured. (#32036) Thanks @scotthuang.
Gateway/Control UI method guard: allow POST requests to non-UI routes to fall through when no base path is configured, and add POST regression coverage for fallthrough and base-path 405 behavior. (#23970) Thanks @tyler6204.
Browser/CDP status accuracy: require a successful Browser.getVersion response over the CDP websocket (not just socket-open) before reporting cdpReady, so stale idle command channels are surfaced as unhealthy. (#23427) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Daemon/systemd checks in containers: treat missing systemctl invocations (including spawn systemctl ENOENT/EACCES) as unavailable service state during is-enabled checks, preventing container flows from failing with Gateway service check failed before install/status handling can continue. (#26089) Thanks @sahilsatralkar and @vincentkoc.
Security/Node exec approvals: revalidate approval-bound cwd identity immediately before execution/forwarding and fail closed with an explicit denial when cwd drifts after approval hardening.
Security audit/skills workspace hardening: add skills.workspace.symlink_escape warning in openclaw security audit when workspace skills/**/SKILL.md resolves outside the workspace root (for example symlink-chain drift), plus docs coverage in the security glossary.
Security/Node exec approvals: preserve shell/dispatch-wrapper argv semantics during approval hardening so approved wrapper commands (for example env sh -c ...) cannot drift into a different runtime command shape, and add regression coverage for both approval-plan generation and approved runtime execution paths. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Security/fs-safe write hardening: make writeFileWithinRoot use same-directory temp writes plus atomic rename, add post-write inode/hardlink revalidation with security warnings on boundary drift, and avoid truncating existing targets when final rename fails.
Security/Skills archive extraction: unify tar extraction safety checks across tar.gz and tar.bz2 install flows, enforce tar compressed-size limits, and fail closed if tar.bz2 archives change between preflight and extraction to prevent bypasses of entry-type/size guardrails. Thanks @GCXWLP for reporting.
Security/Prompt spoofing hardening: stop injecting queued runtime events into user-role prompt text, route them through trusted system-prompt context, and neutralize inbound spoof markers like [System Message] and line-leading System: in untrusted message content. (#30448)
Sandbox/Docker setup command parsing: accept agents.*.sandbox.docker.setupCommand as either a string or a string array, and normalize arrays to newline-delimited shell scripts so multi-step setup commands no longer concatenate without separators. (#31953) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Sandbox/Bootstrap context boundary hardening: reject symlink/hardlink alias bootstrap seed files that resolve outside the source workspace and switch post-compaction AGENTS.md context reads to boundary-verified file opens, preventing host file content from being injected via workspace aliasing. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Agents/Sandbox workdir mapping: map container workdir paths (for example /workspace) back to the host workspace before sandbox path validation so exec requests keep the intended directory in containerized runs instead of falling back to an unavailable host path. (#31841) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Docker/Sandbox bootstrap hardening: make OPENCLAW_SANDBOX opt-in parsing explicit (1|true|yes|on), support custom Docker socket paths via OPENCLAW_DOCKER_SOCKET, defer docker.sock exposure until sandbox prerequisites pass, and reset/roll back persisted sandbox mode to off when setup is skipped or partially fails to avoid stale broken sandbox state. (#29974) Thanks @jamtujest and @vincentkoc.
Hooks/webhook ACK compatibility: return 200 (instead of 202) for successful /hooks/agent requests so providers that require 200 (for example Forward Email) accept dispatched agent hook deliveries. (#28204) Thanks @Glucksberg.
Feishu/Run channel fallback: prefer Provider over Surface when inferring queued run messageProvider fallback (when OriginatingChannel is missing), preventing Feishu turns from being mislabeled as webchat in mixed relay metadata contexts. (#31880) Fixes #31859. Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Skills/sherpa-onnx-tts: run the sherpa-onnx-tts bin under ESM (replace CommonJS require imports) and add regression coverage to prevent require is not defined in ES module scope startup crashes. (#31965) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Inbound metadata/direct relay context: restore direct-channel conversation metadata blocks for external channels (for example WhatsApp) while preserving webchat-direct suppression, so relay agents recover sender/message identifiers without reintroducing internal webchat metadata noise. (#31969) Fixes #29972. Thanks @Lucenx9.
Slack/Channel message subscriptions: register explicit message.channels and message.groups monitor handlers (alongside generic message) so channel/group event subscriptions are consumed even when Slack dispatches typed message event names. Fixes #31674.
Hooks/session-scoped memory context: expose ephemeral sessionId in embedded plugin tool contexts and before_tool_call/after_tool_call hook contexts (including compaction and client-tool wiring) so plugins can isolate per-conversation state across /new and /reset. Related #31253 and #31304. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @Servo-AIpex.
Voice-call/Twilio inbound greeting: run answered-call initial notify greeting for Twilio instead of skipping the manager speak path, with regression coverage for both Twilio and Plivo notify flows. (#29121) Thanks @xinhuagu.
Voice-call/stale call hydration: verify active calls with the provider before loading persisted in-progress calls so stale locally persisted records do not block or misroute new call handling after restarts. (#4325) Thanks @garnetlyx.
Feishu/File upload filenames: percent-encode non-ASCII/special-character file_name values in Feishu multipart uploads so Chinese/symbol-heavy filenames are sent as proper attachments instead of plain text links. (#31179) Thanks @Kay-051.
Media/MIME channel parity: route Telegram/Signal/iMessage media-kind checks through normalized kindFromMime so mixed-case/parameterized MIME values classify consistently across message channels.
WhatsApp/inbound self-message context: propagate inbound fromMe through the web inbox pipeline and annotate direct self messages as (self) in envelopes so agents can distinguish owner-authored turns from contact turns. (#32167) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Webchat/stream finalization: persist streamed assistant text when final events omit message, while keeping final payload precedence and skipping empty stream buffers to prevent disappearing replies after tool turns. (#31920) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Feishu/Inbound ordering: serialize message handling per chat while preserving cross-chat concurrency to avoid same-chat race drops under bursty inbound traffic. (#31807)
Feishu/Typing notification suppression: skip typing keepalive reaction re-adds when the indicator is already active, preventing duplicate notification pings from repeated identical emoji adds. (#31580)
Feishu/Probe failure backoff: cache API and timeout probe failures for one minute per account key while preserving abort-aware probe timeouts, reducing repeated health-check retries during transient credential/network outages. (#29970)
Feishu/Streaming block fallback: preserve markdown block stream text as final streaming-card content when final payload text is missing, while still suppressing non-card internal block chunk delivery. (#30663)
Feishu/Bitable API errors: unify Feishu Bitable tool error handling with structured LarkApiError responses and consistent API/context attribution across wiki/base metadata, field, and record operations. (#31450)
Feishu/Missing-scope grant URL fix: rewrite known invalid scope aliases (contact:contact.base:readonly) to valid scope names in permission grant links, so remediation URLs open with correct Feishu consent scopes. (#31943)
BlueBubbles/Message metadata: harden send response ID extraction, include sender identity in DM context, and normalize inbound message_id selection to avoid duplicate ID metadata. (#23970) Thanks @tyler6204.
WebChat/markdown tables: ensure GitHub-flavored markdown table parsing is explicitly enabled at render time and add horizontal overflow handling for wide tables, with regression coverage for table-only and mixed text+table content. (#32365) Thanks @BlueBirdBack.
Feishu/default account resolution: always honor explicit channels.feishu.defaultAccount during outbound account selection (including top-level-credential setups where the preferred id is not present in accounts), instead of silently falling back to another account id. (#32253) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Feishu/Sender lookup permissions: suppress user-facing grant prompts for stale non-existent scope errors (contact:contact.base:readonly) during best-effort sender-name resolution so inbound messages continue without repeated false permission notices. (#31761)
Discord/dispatch + Slack formatting: restore parallel outbound dispatch across Discord channels with per-channel queues while preserving in-channel ordering, and run Slack preview/stream update text through mrkdwn normalization for consistent formatting. (#31927) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Feishu/Inbound debounce: debounce rapid same-chat sender bursts into one ordered dispatch turn, skip already-processed retries when composing merged text, and preserve bot-mention intent across merged entries to reduce duplicate or late inbound handling. (#31548)
Tests/Sandbox + archive portability: use junction-compatible directory-link setup on Windows and explicit file-symlink platform guards in symlink escape tests where unprivileged file symlinks are unavailable, reducing false Windows CI failures while preserving traversal checks on supported paths. (#28747) Thanks @arosstale.
Browser/Extension re-announce reliability: keep relay state in connecting when re-announce forwarding fails and extend debugger re-attach retries after navigation to reduce false attached states and post-nav disconnect loops. (#27630) Thanks @markmusson.
Browser/Act request compatibility: accept legacy flattened action="act" params (kind/ref/text/...) in addition to request={...} so browser act calls no longer fail with request required. (#15120) Thanks @vincentkoc.
OpenRouter/x-ai compatibility: skip reasoning.effort injection for x-ai/* models (for example Grok) so OpenRouter requests no longer fail with invalid-arguments errors on unsupported reasoning params. (#32054) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Models/openai-completions developer-role compatibility: force supportsDeveloperRole=false for non-native endpoints, treat unparseable baseUrl values as non-native, and add regression coverage for empty/malformed baseUrl plus explicit-true override behavior. (#29479) thanks @akramcodez.
Browser/Profile attach-only override: support browser.profiles.<name>.attachOnly (fallback to global browser.attachOnly) so loopback proxy profiles can skip local launch/port-ownership checks without forcing attach-only mode for every profile. (#20595) Thanks @unblockedgamesstudio and @vincentkoc.
Sessions/Lock recovery: detect recycled Linux PIDs by comparing lock-file starttime with /proc/<pid>/stat starttime, so stale .jsonl.lock files are reclaimed immediately in containerized PID-reuse scenarios while preserving compatibility for older lock files. (#26443) Fixes #27252. Thanks @HirokiKobayashi-R and @vincentkoc.
Cron/isolated delivery target fallback: remove early unresolved-target return so cron delivery can flow through shared outbound target resolution (including per-channel resolveDefaultTo fallback) when delivery.to is omitted. (#32364) Thanks @hclsys.
OpenAI media capabilities: include audio in the OpenAI provider capability list so audio transcription models are eligible in media-understanding provider selection. (#12717) Thanks @openjay.
Browser/Managed tab cap: limit loopback managed openclaw page tabs to 8 via best-effort cleanup after tab opens to reduce long-running renderer buildup while preserving attach-only and remote profile behavior. (#29724) Thanks @pandego.
Docker/Image health checks: add Dockerfile HEALTHCHECK that probes gateway GET /healthz so container runtimes can mark unhealthy instances without requiring auth credentials in the probe command. (#11478) Thanks @U-C4N and @vincentkoc.
Gateway/Node dangerous-command parity: include sms.send in default onboarding node denyCommands, share onboarding deny defaults with the gateway dangerous-command source of truth, and include sms.send in phone-control /phone arm writes handling so SMS follows the same break-glass flow as other dangerous node commands. Thanks @zpbrent.
Pairing/AllowFrom account fallback: handle omitted accountId values in readChannelAllowFromStore and readChannelAllowFromStoreSync as default, while preserving legacy unscoped allowFrom merges for default-account flows. Thanks @Sid-Qin and @vincentkoc.
Browser/Remote CDP ownership checks: skip local-process ownership errors for non-loopback remote CDP profiles when HTTP is reachable but the websocket handshake fails, and surface the remote websocket attach/retry path instead. (#15582) Landed from contributor (#28780) Thanks @stubbi, @bsormagec, @unblockedgamesstudio and @vincentkoc.
Browser/CDP proxy bypass: force direct loopback agent paths and scoped NO_PROXY expansion for localhost CDP HTTP/WS connections when proxy env vars are set, so browser relay/control still works behind global proxy settings. (#31469) Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
Sessions/idle reset correctness: preserve existing updatedAt during inbound metadata-only writes so idle-reset boundaries are not unintentionally refreshed before actual user turns. (#32379) Thanks @romeodiaz.
Sessions/lock recovery: reclaim orphan legacy same-PID lock files missing starttime when no in-process lock ownership exists, avoiding false lock timeouts after PID reuse while preserving active lock safety checks. (#32081) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Sessions/store cache invalidation: reload cached session stores when file size changes within the same mtime tick by keying cache validation on a single file-stat snapshot (mtimeMs + sizeBytes), with regression coverage for same-tick rewrites. (#32191) Thanks @jalehman.
Agents/Subagents sessions_spawn: reject malformed agentId inputs before normalization (for example error-message/path-like strings) to prevent unintended synthetic agent IDs and ghost workspace/session paths; includes strict validation regression coverage. (#31381) Thanks @openperf.
CLI/installer Node preflight: enforce Node.js v22.12+ consistently in both openclaw.mjs runtime bootstrap and installer active-shell checks, with actionable nvm recovery guidance for mismatched shell PATH/defaults. (#32356) Thanks @jasonhargrove.
Web UI/config form: support SecretInput string-or-secret-ref unions in map additionalProperties, so provider API key fields stay editable instead of being marked unsupported. (#31866) Thanks @ningding97.
Auto-reply/inline command cleanup: preserve newline structure when stripping inline /status and extracting inline slash commands by collapsing only horizontal whitespace, preventing paragraph flattening in multi-line replies. (#32224) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Config/raw redaction safety: preserve non-sensitive literals during raw redaction round-trips, scope SecretRef redaction to secret IDs (not structural fields like source/provider), and fall back to structured raw redaction when text replacement cannot restore the original config shape. (#32174) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Hooks/runtime stability: keep the internal hook handler registry on a globalThis singleton so hook registration/dispatch remains consistent when bundling emits duplicate module copies. (#32292) Thanks @Drickon.
Hooks/after_tool_call: include embedded session context (sessionKey, agentId) and fire the hook exactly once per tool execution by removing duplicate adapter-path dispatch in embedded runs. (#32201) Thanks @jbeno, @scoootscooob, @vincentkoc.
Hooks/tool-call correlation: include runId and toolCallId in plugin tool hook payloads/context and scope tool start/adjusted-param tracking by run to prevent cross-run collisions in before_tool_call and after_tool_call. (#32360) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Plugins/install diagnostics: reject legacy plugin package shapes without openclaw.extensions and return an explicit upgrade hint with troubleshooting docs for repackaging. (#32055) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
Hooks/plugin context parity: ensure llm_input hooks in embedded attempts receive the same trigger and channelId-aware hookCtx used by the other hook phases, preserving channel/trigger-scoped plugin behavior. (#28623) Thanks @davidrudduck and @vincentkoc.
Plugins/hardlink install compatibility: allow bundled plugin manifests and entry files to load when installed via hardlink-based package managers (pnpm, bun) while keeping hardlink rejection enabled for non-bundled plugin sources. (#32119) Fixes #28175, #28404, #29455. Thanks @markfietje.
Cron/session reaper reliability: move cron session reaper sweeps into onTimer finally and keep pruning active even when timer ticks fail early (for example cron store parse failures), preventing stale isolated run sessions from accumulating indefinitely. (#31996) Fixes #31946. Thanks @scoootscooob.
Cron/HEARTBEAT_OK summary leak: suppress fallback main-session enqueue for heartbeat/internal ack summaries in isolated announce mode so HEARTBEAT_OK noise never appears in user chat while real summaries still forward. (#32093) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Authentication: classify permission_error as auth_permanent for profile fallback. (#31324) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
Agents/host edit reliability: treat host edit-tool throws as success only when on-disk post-check confirms replacement likely happened (newText present and oldText absent), preventing false failure reports while avoiding pre-write false positives. (#32383) Thanks @polooooo.
Plugins/install fallback safety: resolve bare install specs to bundled plugin ids before npm lookup (for example diffs -> bundled @openclaw/diffs), keep npm fallback limited to true package-not-found errors, and continue rejecting non-plugin npm packages that fail manifest validation. (#32096) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Web UI/inline code copy fidelity: disable forced mid-token wraps on inline <code> spans so copied UUID/hash/token strings preserve exact content instead of inserting line-break spaces. (#32346) Thanks @hclsys.
Restart sentinel formatting: avoid duplicate Reason: lines when restart message text already matches stats.reason, keeping restart notifications concise for users and downstream parsers. (#32083) Thanks @velamints2.
Auto-reply/followup queue: avoid stale callback reuse across idle-window restarts by caching the followup runner only when a drain actually starts, preserving enqueue ordering after empty-finalize paths. (#31902) Thanks @Lanfei.
Agents/tool-result guard: always clear pending tool-call state on interruptions even when synthetic tool results are disabled, preventing orphaned tool-use transcripts that cause follow-up provider request failures. (#32120) Thanks @jnMetaCode.
Failover/error classification: treat HTTP 529 (provider overloaded, common with Anthropic-compatible APIs) as rate_limit so model failover can engage instead of misclassifying the error path. (#31854) Thanks @bugkill3r.
Logging: use local time for logged timestamps instead of UTC, aligning log output with documented local timezone behavior and avoiding confusion during local diagnostics. (#28434) Thanks @liuy.
Agents/Subagent announce cleanup: keep completion-message runs pending while descendants settle, add a 30 minute hard-expiry backstop to avoid indefinite pending state, and keep retry bookkeeping resumable across deferred wakes. (#23970) Thanks @tyler6204.
Secrets/exec resolver timeout defaults: use provider timeoutMs as the default inactivity (noOutputTimeoutMs) watchdog for exec secret providers, preventing premature no-output kills for resolvers that start producing output after 2s. (#32235) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Auto-reply/reminder guard note suppression: when a turn makes reminder-like commitments but schedules no new cron jobs, suppress the unscheduled-reminder warning note only if an enabled cron already exists for the same session; keep warnings for unrelated sessions, disabled jobs, or unreadable cron store paths. (#32255) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Cron/isolated announce heartbeat suppression: treat multi-payload runs as skippable when any payload is a heartbeat ack token and no payload has media, preventing internal narration + trailing HEARTBEAT_OK from being delivered to users. (#32131) Thanks @adhishthite.
Cron/store migration: normalize legacy cron jobs with string schedule and top-level command/timeout fields into canonical schedule/payload/session-target shape on load, preventing schedule-error loops on old persisted stores. (#31926) Thanks @bmendonca3.
Tests/Windows backup rotation: skip chmod-only backup permission assertions on Windows while retaining compose/rotation/prune coverage across platforms to avoid false CI failures from Windows non-POSIX mode semantics. (#32286) Thanks @jalehman.
Tests/Subagent announce: set OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST=1 before importing subagent-announce format suites so module-level fast-mode constants are captured deterministically on Windows CI, preventing timeout flakes in nested completion announce coverage. (#31370) Thanks @zwffff.