# Changelog Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai ## Unreleased ### Highlights - Plugins/file-transfer: add bundled file-transfer plugin with `file_fetch`, `dir_list`, `dir_fetch`, and `file_write` agent tools for binary file ops on paired nodes; default-deny per-node path policy under `plugins.entries.file-transfer.config.nodes` with operator approval, symlink traversal refused by default (opt-in `followSymlinks`), and a 16 MB byte ceiling per round-trip. (#74742) Thanks @omarshahine. ### Changes - Tools/BTW: add `/side` as a text and native slash-command alias for `/btw` side questions. - Agents/tools: skip optional media and PDF tool factories when the effective tool denylist already blocks them, avoiding unnecessary hot-path setup for tools that will be filtered out before model use. (#76773) Thanks @dorukardahan. - Discord/status: let explicit reaction tool calls opt into tracking subsequent tool progress on the reacted message with `trackToolCalls: true`, and use the shared tool display emoji table for status reactions. - Gateway/config: stop Gateway startup and hot reload from auto-restoring invalid config; invalid config now fails closed and `openclaw doctor --fix` owns last-known-good repair. - Gateway/performance: lazy-load early runtime discovery and shutdown-hook helpers, defer maintenance timers until after readiness, and trim duplicate plugin auto-enable work during Gateway startup. - QA/Mantis: add a `pnpm openclaw qa mantis discord-smoke` runner and manual GitHub workflow that verify the Mantis Discord bot can see the configured guild/channel, post a smoke message, add a reaction, and upload artifacts. - Gateway/performance: lazy-load the heavy cron runtime after the rest of Gateway startup, defer restart-sentinel refresh after readiness, and let the Gateway startup benchmark write per-run V8 CPU profiles with `--cpu-prof-dir`. - Gateway/performance: keep raw channel-config schema parsing from discovering bundled plugin runtime metadata, and add `pnpm gateway:watch --benchmark-no-force` for profiling startup without the default port cleanup. - Plugins/onboarding: let Manual setup install optional official plugins, including ClawHub-backed diagnostics with npm fallback, and expose the external Codex plugin as a selectable provider setup choice. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/CLI: include package dependency install state in `openclaw plugins list --json` so scripts can spot missing plugin dependencies without runtime-loading plugins. - Discord/status: add degraded Discord transport and gateway event-loop starvation signals to `openclaw channels status`, `openclaw status --deep`, and fetch-timeout logs so intermittent socket resets do not look like a healthy running channel. (#76327) Thanks @joshavant. - Plugins/update: on the beta OpenClaw update channel, default-line npm and ClawHub plugin updates try `@beta` first and fall back to default/latest when no plugin beta release exists. - Channels/WhatsApp: support explicit WhatsApp Channel/Newsletter `@newsletter` outbound message targets with channel session metadata instead of DM routing. Fixes #13417; carries forward the narrow outbound target idea from #13424. Thanks @vincentkoc and @agentz-manfred. - Exec approvals: add a tree-sitter-backed shell command explainer for future approval and command-review surfaces. (#75004) Thanks @jesse-merhi. - Agents/sandbox: store sandbox container and browser registry entries as per-runtime shard files, reducing unrelated session lock contention while `openclaw doctor --fix` migrates legacy monolithic registry files. (#74831) Thanks @luckylhb90. - Plugins/ClawHub: annotate 429 errors from ClawHub with the reset window from `RateLimit-Reset`/`Retry-After` and append a `Sign in for higher rate limits.` hint when the request was unauthenticated, so users can see when downloads will recover and how to lift the cap. Thanks @romneyda. ### Fixes - Gateway/install: prefer supported system Node over nvm/fnm/volta/asdf/mise when regenerating managed gateway services, so `gateway install --force` no longer recreates service definitions that doctor immediately flags as version-manager-backed. Fixes #76339. Thanks @brokemac79. - Gateway/usage: serve `usage.cost` and `sessions.usage` from a durable transcript aggregate cache with lock-safe background refreshes and localized stale-cache status, so large usage views avoid repeated full scans. (#76650) Thanks @Marvinthebored. - Plugins/hooks: let `plugins.entries..hooks.timeoutMs` and `plugins.entries..hooks.timeouts` bound plugin typed hooks from operator config, so slow hooks can be tuned without patching installed plugin code. Fixes #76778. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Telegram: add `channels.telegram.mediaGroupFlushMs` at the top level and per account so operators can tune album buffering instead of being stuck with the hard-coded 500ms media-group flush window. Fixes #76149. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Config/messages: coerce boolean `messages.visibleReplies` and `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies` values to the documented enum modes so an intuitive toggle no longer invalidates config and drops channel startup. Fixes #75390. Thanks @scottgl9. - Agents/network: allow trusted web-search providers and configured model-provider hosts to work behind Surge/Clash/sing-box fake-IP DNS by accepting RFC 2544 and IPv6 ULA synthetic answers only for the request's scoped hostname, without broad private-network access. Refs #76530 and #76549. Thanks @zqchris. - Providers: honor env-proxy settings for guarded provider model fetches when no explicit dispatcher policy is configured, preserving explicit transport overrides. Fixes #70453. (#72480) Thanks @mjamiv. - Feishu: accept and honor `channels.feishu.blockStreaming` at the top level and per account, while keeping the legacy default off so Feishu cards no longer reject documented config or silently drop block replies. Fixes #75555. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Google Chat: normalize custom Google auth transport headers before google-auth/gaxios interceptors run, restoring webhook token verification when certificate retrieval expects Fetch `Headers`. Fixes #76742. Thanks @donbowman. - Doctor/plugins: reset stale `plugins.slots.memory` and `plugins.slots.contextEngine` references during `doctor --fix`, so cleanup of missing plugin config does not leave unrecoverable slot owners behind. Fixes #76550 and #76551. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Docs/WhatsApp: merge the duplicate top-level `web` objects in the gateway channel config example so copy-pasted WhatsApp config keeps both `web.whatsapp` and reconnect settings. Fixes #76619. Thanks @WadydX. - Plugins/Anthropic: expose Claude thinking profiles from the bundled provider-policy artifact so non-runtime callers keep Opus 4.7 `adaptive`, `xhigh`, and `max` instead of downgrading to `high`. Fixes #76779. Thanks @tomascupr and @iAbhi001. - Discord/native commands: skip slash-command registration and cleanup REST calls when `channels.discord.commands.native=false`, letting low-power gateways start without waiting on disabled native-command lifecycle requests. Fixes #76202. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/plugins: reject unowned command roots such as `openclaw foo` before managed proxy startup and full plugin CLI runtime loading while preserving manifest-owned and CLI-metadata-owned plugin commands. Fixes #75287. Thanks @neilofneils404. - Plugins/commands: normalize empty plugin command handler results and let Telegram native plugin commands send the empty-response fallback instead of throwing when a handler returns `undefined`. Fixes #74800. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/tools: cold-load selected plugin tool registries when the active registry only has partial tool coverage, so wildcard-expanded allowlists no longer hide installed plugin tools from `tools.effective`. Fixes #76780. Thanks @lilesjtu. - Plugins/tools: compare cached and runtime plugin tool name conflicts with normalized core tool names, so case variants of core tools are blocked instead of leaking duplicate tool registrations. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/OpenRouter: advertise DeepSeek V4 thinking levels, including `xhigh` and `max`, through the runtime and lightweight provider policy surfaces so `/think` validation no longer rejects OpenRouter-routed DeepSeek V4 models. Fixes #74788. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Status/sessions: ignore malformed non-string persisted session provider/model metadata instead of throwing while rendering status summaries. Fixes #76206. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/config: remove only the targeted array element for `openclaw config unset array[index]` instead of replaying the unset during config write and deleting the shifted next element. Fixes #76290. Thanks @SymbolStar and @vincentkoc. - Plugins/voice-call: treat abnormal local Gateway close code 1006 as a standalone CLI fallback case, so `voicecall smoke` and related commands can still run the provider check path when the Gateway socket closes before returning a response. - Agents/tools: stop treating `tools.deny: ["write"]` as an implicit `apply_patch` deny; operators who want to block patch writes should deny `apply_patch` or `group:fs` explicitly. Fixes #76749. (#76795) Thanks @Nek-12 and @hclsys. - Plugins/release: verify published plugin npm tarballs expose compiled runtime entries after publish, catching TS-only package artifacts before release closeout. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/message: exit cleanly with a nonzero status when message-command plugin registry loading fails before dispatch, preventing `openclaw-message` children from staying alive after plugin load errors. Fixes #76168. - Plugins/config: report configured plugins that are present but blocked by path-safety checks as blocked instead of stale `plugin not found` entries, and deduplicate repeated blocked-candidate warnings during discovery. Fixes #76144. Thanks @mayank6136. - Gateway/update: recover an installed-but-unloaded macOS LaunchAgent after package updates, rerun Gateway health/version/channel readiness checks, and print restart, reinstall, and rollback guidance before reporting update failure. (#76790) Thanks @jonathanlindsay. - CLI/plugins: explain when a missing plugin command alias belongs to a bundled plugin that is disabled by default, including the `openclaw plugins enable ` repair command. (#76835) - Gateway/Bonjour: auto-start LAN multicast discovery only on macOS hosts while preserving explicit `openclaw plugins enable bonjour` startup elsewhere, so Linux servers and containers that do not need LAN discovery avoid default mDNS probing and watchdog churn. Refs #74209. - Gateway/macOS: stop `doctor` and LaunchAgent recovery from running `launchctl kickstart -k` after a fresh bootstrap, avoiding an immediate SIGTERM of the just-started gateway while still nudging already-loaded launchd jobs. Fixes #76261. Thanks @solosage1. - Google Meet: route stateful CLI session commands through the gateway-owned runtime so joined realtime sessions survive after the starting CLI process exits. Fixes #76344. Thanks @coltonharris-wq. - Memory/status: split builtin sqlite-vec store readiness from embedding-provider readiness in `memory status --deep` and `openclaw status`, so local vector-store failures no longer look like provider failures and provider failures no longer hide a healthy local vector store. - CLI/doctor: trust a ready gateway memory probe when CLI-side active memory backend resolution is unavailable, preventing false "No active memory plugin is registered" warnings for healthy runtime setups. Fixes #76792. Thanks @som-686. - Memory/status: keep plain `openclaw memory status` and `openclaw memory status --json` on the cheap read-only path by reserving vector and embedding provider probes for `--deep` or `--index`. Fixes #76769. Thanks @daruire. - Telegram: suppress stale same-session replies when a newer accepted message arrives before an older in-flight Telegram dispatch finalizes. Fixes #76642. Thanks @chinar-amrutkar. - Gateway/diagnostics: throttle repeated long-running active-work session warnings so healthy cron or subagent runs no longer print the same `recovery=none` line every heartbeat. - Gateway/diagnostics: keep non-blocking active-work and transient event-loop max-spike liveness diagnostics out of the default gateway console while preserving structured diagnostic events and warnings for queued, stalled, and recovery-eligible work. - Slack: collapse routine Socket Mode pong-timeout reconnects into one OpenClaw reconnect line and suppress the duplicate Slack SDK pong warning. - Gateway/diagnostics: abort-drain embedded runs after an extended no-progress stall so a single dead session no longer leaves queued Discord/channel turns blocked behind repeated `recovery=none` liveness warnings. - Plugins/ClawHub: accept the live artifact resolver `kind`/`sha256` field names alongside the typed `artifactKind`/`artifactSha256` form so `clawhub:` installs of npm-pack and legacy ZIP packages no longer miss downloadable artifacts. Thanks @romneyda. - Control UI/Sessions: avoid full `sessions.list` reloads for chat-turn `sessions.changed` payloads, so large session stores no longer add multi-second delays while chat responses are being delivered. (#76676) Thanks @VACInc. - Gateway/watch: run `doctor --fix --non-interactive` once and retry when the dev Gateway child exits during startup, so stale local plugin install/config state does not leave the tmux watch session disappearing without a repair attempt. - Doctor/Telegram: warn when selected Telegram quote replies can suppress `streaming.preview.toolProgress`, and document the `replyToMode` trade-off without changing runtime delivery. Fixes #73487. Thanks @GodsBoy. - Channels/Discord: send a best-effort native typing cue immediately after an inbound DM is accepted, so slow pre-dispatch turns show Discord liveness before queueing, context assembly, model, or tool work starts. Fixes #76417. Thanks @mlopez14. - Plugins/install: reject source-only TypeScript package installs and installed plugin packages that are missing compiled runtime output, so broken npm artifacts fail at install/discovery time instead of falling through jiti and surfacing later as unavailable providers. Fixes #76720. - Discord/status: honor explicit `messages.statusReactions.enabled: true` in tool-only guild channels so queued ack reactions can progress through thinking/done lifecycle reactions instead of stopping at the initial emoji. Thanks @Marvinthebored. - Discord/native commands: compare Discord-normalized slash-command descriptions and localized descriptions during reconcile so CJK or multiline command text no longer triggers redundant startup PATCH bursts and rate-limit 429s. Fixes #76587. Thanks @zhengsx. - Agents/OpenAI: omit Chat Completions `reasoning_effort` for `gpt-5.4-mini` only when function tools are present while preserving tool-free Chat and Responses reasoning support, preventing Telegram-routed fallback runs from hanging after OpenAI rejects tool payloads. Fixes #76176. Thanks @ThisIsAdilah and @chinar-amrutkar. - Telegram: reuse the successful startup `getMe` probe for grammY polling startup and continue into `getUpdates` after recoverable `deleteWebhook` cleanup failures, reducing high-latency Bot API control-plane calls before long polling starts. Refs #76388. Thanks @jackiedepp. - Gateway/diagnostics: merge session id/key aliases in diagnostic session state and activity tracking so completed runs no longer leave stale queued work behind that keeps liveness samples at warning level. - Agents/models: forward model `maxTokens` as the default output-token limit for OpenAI-compatible Responses and Completions transports when no runtime override is provided, preventing provider defaults from silently truncating larger outputs. (#76645) Thanks @joeyfrasier. - macOS CLI/onboarding: honor sensitive wizard text steps in `openclaw-mac wizard` with termios no-echo input, suppressing saved credential previews while preserving long API keys and gateway tokens. Fixes #76698. Thanks @anurag-bg-neu and @sallyom. - Control UI/Skills: fix skill detail modal silently failing to open in all browsers by deferring `showModal()` until the dialog element is connected to the DOM; the Lit `ref` callback fired before connection causing a `DOMException: HTMLDialogElement.showModal: Dialog element is not connected` on every skill click. Thanks @nickmopen. - Gateway/update: run `doctor --non-interactive --fix` after Control UI global package updates before reporting success, so legacy config is migrated before the gateway restart. Thanks @stevenchouai. - Gateway/cron: stop a lazy cron startup that loses a hot-reload race, preventing the old cron service from starting after reload has already replaced cron state. - CLI/plugins: warn when npm plugin installs remain shadowed by a failing config-selected source and surface the repair path in `plugins doctor`. Thanks @LindalyX-Lee. - Agents/Telegram: preserve explicit reply and quote context in embedded model prompts without letting quoted text drive prompt-local image loading. Fixes #76419. (#76659) Thanks @cheechnd. - Active Memory: apply `setupGraceTimeoutMs` to the embedded recall runner as well as the outer prompt-build watchdog, so very-cold first recalls keep the configured setup grace end-to-end. (#74480) Thanks @volcano303. - Channels/Feishu: cap how long the per-chat sequential queue blocks subsequent same-key tasks behind a single in-flight task (5 min default), so a single hung dispatch no longer leaves later same-chat messages in `queued` state until gateway restart; the stuck task continues running but is evicted from the blocking chain and a warning is logged. Fixes #70133. (#76687) Thanks @martingarramon and @bek91. - Active Memory: skip scoped Telegram forum-topic conversation ids (containing `:`) when resolving the embedded recall run channel, falling back to `messageProvider` instead, so Active Memory no longer throws a bundled-plugin dirName validation error in forum-topic sessions. Fixes #76704. - Agents/tools: defer automatic PDF model/auth resolution until the PDF tool is used, keeping agent-turn tool prep from probing auth profiles on messages without PDFs while preserving explicit PDF model registration. Fixes #76644. Thanks @hclsys. - CLI/config: keep JSON dry-run patches validating touched channel configuration against bundled channel schemas even when the patch only contains SecretRef objects. - Plugins/tools: keep disabled bundled tool plugins out of explicit runtime allowlist ownership and fall back from loaded-but-empty channel registries to tool-bearing plugin registries, so Active Memory can use bundled `memory-core` search/get tools even when `memory-lancedb` is disabled. Fixes #76603. Thanks @jwong-art. - Plugins/install: run `npm install` from the managed npm-root manifest so installing one `@openclaw/*` plugin preserves already installed sibling plugins instead of pruning them. Fixes #76571. (#76602) Thanks @byungskers and @crpol. - Plugins/context-engine: include the selected `plugins.slots.contextEngine` plugin in the gateway startup load plan so external context-engine plugins without `activation.onStartup` in their manifest are loaded before any agent turn resolves the active engine; prevents the "Context engine X is not registered; falling back to default engine legacy" warning after gateway startup. Fixes #76576. Thanks @hclsys. - Plugins/tools: restore on-demand registry load for path-based plugins (origin "config") so tool factories registered via `plugins.load.paths` are resolved at agent request time when no pre-warmed channel registry is present; prevents "unknown method" errors after gateway startup. Fixes #76598. Thanks @hclsys. - Plugins/hooks: include explicitly enabled hook-capable plugins in the Gateway startup runtime scope so embedded PI runs can see their `before_prompt_build` and `agent_end` hooks. Fixes #76649. Thanks @wwf3045 and @MkDev11. - Plugins/OpenCode: expose Claude thinking profiles through the lightweight provider policy surface so directive and session validation keep `xhigh`, `adaptive`, and `max` for `opencode/claude-opus-4-7` instead of remapping `xhigh` to `high`. Fixes #76648. Thanks @aaajiao. - Channels/QQ Bot: resolve structured `clientSecret` SecretRefs before QQ token exchange, expose the QQ Bot secret contract to secrets tooling, and reject legacy `secretref:/...` marker strings. (#74772) Thanks @xialonglee. - Agents: keep active streamed provider replies alive by refreshing guarded fetch timeouts on raw body chunks and surface true prompt stream timeouts as explicit errors instead of partial assistant fragments. Fixes #76307. (#76633) Thanks @MkDev11. - Plugins/externalization: keep official ACPX, Google Chat, and LINE install specs on production package names, leaving beta-tag probing to the explicit OpenClaw beta update channel. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/doctor: keep missing-plugin repair from overriding official catalog metadata with runtime fallbacks, so ACPX repairs preserve the official npm spec during the externalization rollout. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/doctor: match stale bundled-plugin install records by exact parsed package name so doctor does not remove external npm or ClawHub records that only share an OpenClaw package-name prefix. - Plugins/catalog: preserve ClawHub install specs when generating the packaged channel catalog so future storepack-first channel plugins keep their remote source instead of becoming npm-only. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/catalog: pin bare npm specs from prerelease external channel catalog entries to the catalog entry version, so beta catalogs do not silently install the latest stable package. - Plugins/update: treat catalog-matched official npm updates and OpenClaw-authored externalized-bundled npm bridges as trusted official installs so launch-code plugins can update or migrate out of the bundled tree without scanner false positives. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/onboarding: fall back from ClawHub to npm only for missing package/version errors, keeping integrity and verification failures fail-closed during storepack rollout. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/onboarding: mask credential inputs (model-auth provider API keys, gateway tokens and passwords, web-search provider keys, and skill env-var values) in the interactive `openclaw onboard` wizard so pasted secrets no longer echo into terminal scrollback, `Start-Transcript` logs, or screenshots; existing tokens/passwords are preserved through a masked-preview confirm step before the sensitive prompt. Thanks @anurag-bg-neu. - Control UI/Talk: fix Talk (OpenAI Realtime WebRTC) CORS failure by stripping server-side-only attribution headers (`originator`, `version`, `User-Agent`) from browser offer headers; `api.openai.com/v1/realtime/calls` only allows `authorization` and `content-type` in its CORS preflight, so forwarding these headers caused the browser SDP exchange to fail. Fixes #76435. Thanks @hclsys. - Chat delivery: make `/verbose on|full|off` changes affect subsequent tool-use chat bubbles again, including channels with draft preview tool progress enabled, while preserving one-shot verbose directives. - CLI/logs: auto-reconnect `openclaw logs --follow` on transient gateway disconnects (WebSocket close, timeout, connection drop) with bounded exponential backoff (up to 8 retries, capped at 30 s) and stderr retry warnings, while still exiting immediately on non-recoverable auth or configuration errors. Fixes #74782. (#75059) Thanks @shashank-poola. - CLI/logs: announce `--follow` recovery with a `[logs] gateway reconnected` notice once a poll succeeds after a transient outage, and emit JSON `notice` records in `--json` mode for both the retry warning and the reconnect transition, so live monitoring scripts can react to the recovery. Carries forward #75059. (#75372) Thanks @romneyda. - Codex/WhatsApp: keep the `message` dynamic tool available when Codex source replies are configured for message-tool delivery, so coding-profile chat agents do not complete turns privately without a visible channel reply. Fixes #76660. (#76663) Thanks @VishalJ99. - Codex/heartbeat: send heartbeat-specific initiative guidance through Codex turn-scoped collaboration-mode instructions, keeping ordinary message-tool chat turns in Default mode without heartbeat prompt leakage. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Plugins/onboarding: trust optional official plugin and web-search installs selected from the official catalog so npm security scanning treats them like other source-linked official install paths. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Agents/web_search: keep installed runtime provider discovery enabled when web-search metadata is missing, so externally installed official providers such as Brave remain visible to agent and cron turns instead of falling back to bundled-only lookup. Fixes #76626. Thanks @amknight. - Tests/plugins: expose the Discord npm onboarding Docker lane as a package script and assert planned Docker lanes point at real scripts, so external-channel onboarding coverage can actually run. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/ClawHub: explain unreleased ClawHub plugin artifacts as a rollout-state fallback to `npm:` installs instead of leaking raw archive metadata fields. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Tests/onboarding: assert packaged channel onboarding leaves `openclaw channels status --json` and plain `openclaw status` showing the configured channel, covering the empty Channels table regression path. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Microsoft Teams: persist sent-message markers across Gateway restarts so follow-up replies to recent bot messages keep resolving the original conversation instead of dropping out after restart, with marker TTLs preserved on best-effort recovery. (#75585) Thanks @amknight. - Matrix: persist pending approval reaction targets across Gateway restarts so room approvers can still approve or deny outstanding prompts after OpenClaw comes back online. (#75586) Thanks @amknight. - Channels/onboarding: map third-party official WeCom and Yuanbao catalog entries to their published plugin ids so npm installs pass expected-plugin validation. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugin SDK: restore the Mattermost and Matrix compatibility subpaths used by the pinned Yuanbao channel package so external installs can module-load after npm install. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/install: keep managed npm-root security scans from treating earlier plugin `openclaw` peer links as failures, so one external plugin install cannot poison later official npm installs. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Memory LanceDB: allow installed-but-unconfigured plugin metadata to load so onboarding and setup flows can prompt for embedding config instead of failing the plugin registry first. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/plugins: keep `plugins enable` and `plugins disable` from creating unconfigured channel config sections, so channel plugins with required setup fields no longer fail validation during lifecycle probes. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Doctor/config: set `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies: "message_tool"` during compatibility repair for configured-channel configs that omit a visible-reply policy, so upgrades can persist the intended tool-only group/channel reply default. Thanks @kagura-agent. - Agents/sessions: keep delayed `sessions_send` A2A replies alive after soft wait-window timeouts, while preserving terminal run timeouts and avoiding stale target replies in requester sessions. Fixes #76443. Thanks @ryswork1993 and @vincentkoc. - TUI/Control UI: fix `/think` command showing only base thinking levels when the active session uses a different model from the default, so provider-specific levels like DeepSeek V4 Pro's `xhigh` and `max` are now visible and selectable. Fixes #76482. Thanks @amknight. - CLI/sessions: keep intentional empty agent replies silent after tool-delivered channel output, instead of surfacing a misleading "No reply from agent." fallback. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Config/doctor: cap `.clobbered.*` forensic snapshots per config path and serialize snapshot writes so repeated `doctor --fix` recovery loops cannot flood the config directory. Fixes #76454; carries forward #65649. Thanks @JUSTICEESSIELP, @rsnow, and @vincentkoc. - Feishu: suppress duplicate text when replies send native voice media while preserving captions for ordinary audio files and falling back to text plus attachment links when voice uploads fail. - Feishu: send the skipped reply text when `audioAsVoice` falls back to a generic file attachment after transcode failure, so voice-intent replies do not lose their caption. - TTS/plugins: activate the configured speech provider plugin during Gateway startup, so Microsoft and Local CLI voice replies work immediately after selecting them instead of staying invisible in the startup plugin set. Fixes #76481. Thanks @amknight. - TTS/plugins: include speech providers selected through inherited agent, channel, and account TTS personas during Gateway startup, matching the runtime TTS config merge. Carries forward #76481. Thanks @amknight. - Feishu: keep packaged Feishu startup from bundling the Lark SDK's ESM `__dirname` path by loading the SDK as a plugin-local runtime dependency. Fixes #76291 and #76494. (#76392) Thanks @zqchris. - Plugins/npm: build package-local runtime dist files for publishable plugins and stop listing root-package-excluded plugin sidecars in the core package metadata, so npm plugin installs such as `@openclaw/diffs` and `@openclaw/discord` no longer publish source-only runtime payloads. Fixes #76426. Thanks @PrinceOfEgypt. - Channels/secrets: resolve SecretRef-backed channel credentials through external plugin secret contracts after the plugin split, covering runtime startup, target discovery, webhook auth, disabled-account enumeration, and late-bound web_search config. Fixes #76371. (#76449) Thanks @joshavant and @neeravmakwana. - Docker/Gateway: pass Docker setup `.env` values into gateway and CLI containers and preserve exec SecretRef `passEnv` keys in managed service plans, so 1Password Connect-backed Discord tokens keep resolving after doctor or plugin repair. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Control UI/WebChat: explain compaction boundaries in chat history and link directly to session checkpoint controls so pre-compaction turns no longer look silently lost after refresh. Fixes #76415. Thanks @BunsDev. - Agents/compaction: add an optional bundled compaction notifier hook and retry once from the compacted transcript when automatic compaction leaves a turn without a final visible reply. (#76651) Thanks @simplyclever914. - Agents/incomplete-turn: detect and surface a warning when the agent's final text after a tool-call chain is silently dropped because the post-tool assistant response was never produced, instead of completing the turn with only the pre-tool analysis text. Fixes #76477. Thanks @amknight. - Channels/WhatsApp: attach native outbound mention metadata for group text and media captions by resolving `@+` and `@` tokens against WhatsApp participant data, including LID groups. Fixes #39879; carries forward #56863. Thanks @kengi1437, @joe2643, and @fridayck. - Channels/WhatsApp: require outbound mention tokens to end at a word boundary so phone-number prefixes inside longer strings no longer trigger hidden native mentions. - Plugins/uninstall: remove empty managed git install parent directories after deleting cloned plugin repos and cover npm/git uninstall residue in Docker plugin lifecycle tests. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/install: resolve bare official external plugin IDs such as `brave` through the official catalog when no bundled source is available, so packaged installs fetch the intended scoped npm package instead of an unrelated unscoped package. Fixes #76373. Thanks @bek91 and @vincentkoc. - Plugins/install: require OpenClaw-owned install provenance before granting official npm plugin scanner trust, so direct npm package names no longer bypass launch-code scanning while catalog, onboarding, and doctor installs stay trusted. Thanks @fede-kamel and @vincentkoc. - Network proxy: preserve target TLS hostname validation for Node HTTPS requests routed through the managed HTTP proxy, so Discord-style CONNECT traffic no longer validates certificates against the local proxy host. Fixes #74809. (#76442) Thanks @jesse-merhi and @abnershang. - Gateway/sessions: keep async `sessions.list` title and preview hydration bounded to transcript head/tail reads so Control UI polling cannot full-scan large session transcripts every refresh. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/sessions: cache manifest model-id normalization and bundled setup CLI fallback metadata against the active plugin metadata snapshot, so Control UI `sessions.list` polling avoids repeated plugin manifest scans while still refreshing after plugin reloads. Thanks @rolandrscheel. - Gateway/performance: cache per-run verbose-level session reads, skip a redundant `lsof` scan in `gateway --force` when no listener was killed, and make the Gateway startup benchmark print usage for `--help`. - Gateway/sessions: keep agent runtime metadata on lightweight `sessions.list` rows so model-only session patches do not make Control UI lose runtime identity. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/sessions: keep bulk `sessions.list` rows lightweight by skipping per-row transcript usage fallback, display model inference, and plugin projection, avoiding event-loop stalls in large session stores. Thanks @Marvinthebored and @vincentkoc. - Gateway/models: keep read-only `models.list` fallbacks on persisted/current metadata and configured rows while using static auth checks, so missing `models.json` files no longer runtime-load provider discovery or stall gateway after restart. Fixes #76382; refs #76360 and #75707. Thanks @trojy13, @RayWoo, @AnathemaOfficial, and @vincentkoc. - Gateway/models: keep agent image attachment capability checks on the full catalog while preserving the read-only `models.list` path, so image sends are not rejected after static catalog fallback. - CLI/plugins: reject missing plugin ids before config writes in `plugins enable` and `plugins disable` so a typo no longer persists a stale config entry. (#73554) Thanks @ai-hpc. - Agents/sessions: preserve delivered trailing assistant replies during session-file repair so Telegram/WebChat history is not rewritten to drop already-delivered responses. Fixes #76329. Thanks @obviyus. - Gateway/chat history: preserve oversized transcript turns as explicit omitted-message placeholders while avoiding large JSONL parse stalls. Thanks @Marvinthebored and @vincentkoc. - Gateway/models: keep read-only model-list responses on registry-compatible fallbacks and metadata defaults, so empty or minimal persisted model files do not hide built-ins or custom model capabilities. Thanks @Marvinthebored. - CLI/doctor: load the configured memory-slot plugin when resolving memory diagnostics so bundled `memory-core` no longer triggers a false “no active memory plugin” warning on standalone `doctor` / `status` runs. Fixes #76367. Thanks @neeravmakwana. - Gateway: preserve stack diagnostics when `chat.send` or agent attachment parsing/staging fails, improving image-send failure triage. Refs #63432. (#75135) Thanks @keen0206. - Agents/idle-timeout: add a cost-runaway breaker to the outer embedded-run retry loop that halts further attempts after 5 consecutive idle timeouts without completed model progress, so a wedged provider can no longer fan paid model calls out across the same run; completed text or tool-call progress resets the breaker, but partial tool-argument token dribbles do not. Fixes #76293. Thanks @ThePuma312. - Heartbeats/Codex: stop sending the legacy `HEARTBEAT_OK` prompt instruction when heartbeat turns have the structured `heartbeat_respond` tool, while keeping the text sentinel for legacy automatic heartbeat replies. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Heartbeats/Codex: keep structured heartbeat prompts aligned with actual `heartbeat_respond` tool availability and keep tool-disabled commitment check-ins on the legacy ack path. Thanks @pashpashpash and @vincentkoc. - Agent runtimes: fail explicit plugin runtime selections honestly when the requested harness is unavailable instead of silently falling back to the embedded PI runtime. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Maintainer workflow: push prepared PR heads through GitHub's verified commit API by default and require an explicit override before git-protocol pushes can publish unsigned commits. Thanks @BunsDev. - Feishu: resolve setup/status probes through the selected/default account so multi-account configs with account-scoped app credentials show as configured and probeable. Fixes #72930. Thanks @brokemac79. - Gateway/responses: emit every client tool call from `/v1/responses` JSON and SSE responses when the agent invokes multiple client tools in a single turn, so multi-tool plans, graph orchestration calls, and similar batched flows no longer drop every call but the last. Fixes #52288. Thanks @CharZhou and @bonelli. - Gateway/agent: enforce `session.sendPolicy=deny` on gateway agent requests only when `deliver: true`, so non-delivery smoke checks and internal agent runs are no longer rejected with `send blocked by session policy` while outbound delivery remains gated. Fixes #73381. Thanks @wenxu007. - Slack/reactions: treat missing no_reaction remove responses as idempotent success and route own-reaction cleanup through the remove helper, so concurrent cleanup no longer surfaces Slack race errors. Fixes #50733. (#76304) Thanks @martingarramon and @Hollychou924. - Feishu: include media `file_key` and `image_key` values in inbound dedupe so reused message IDs still process distinct media attachments while true retries stay suppressed. Fixes #75057. Thanks @SymbolStar. - Control UI/Gateway: avoid full session-list reloads for locally applied message-phase session updates, carry known session keys through transcript-file update events, and defer media provider listing when explicit generation model config is present. Refs #76236, #76203, #76188, #76107, and #76166. Thanks @BunsDev. - Install/update: prune the obsolete `plugin-runtime-deps` state directory during packaged postinstall so upgrades from pre-2026.5.2 releases reclaim old bundled-plugin dependency caches without touching external plugin installs. - Auto-reply/queue: treat reset-triggered `/new` and `/reset` turns as interrupt runs across active-run queue handling, so steer/followup modes cannot delay a fresh session behind existing work. Fixes #74093. (#74144) Thanks @ruji9527 and @yelog. - Cron: persist repaired startup runtime state back to `jobs-state.json` so a valid future `nextRunAtMs` with missing `updatedAtMs` no longer triggers repeated external health-check repairs after Gateway restart. Fixes #76461. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Cron: preserve manual `cron.run` IDs in `cron.runs` history so manual run acknowledgements can be correlated with finished run records. Fixes #76276. - CLI/devices: request `operator.admin` for `openclaw devices approve ` only when the exact pending device request would mint or inherit admin-scoped operator access, while keeping lower-scope approvals on the pairing scope. - Memory/embedding: broaden the embedding reindex retry classifier to include transient socket-layer errors (`fetch failed`, `ECONNRESET`, `socket hang up`, `UND_ERR_*`, `closed`) so memory reindex survives provider network hiccups instead of aborting mid-run. Related #56815, #44166. (#76311) Thanks @buyitsydney. - Memory/sessions: keep rotated and deleted session transcripts (`.jsonl.reset.` / `.jsonl.deleted.`) searchable end-to-end by indexing their real content in `buildSessionEntry` instead of short-circuiting to empty entries, and by mapping archive hit paths back to their live transcript stem during `memory_search` visibility filtering so hits are no longer dropped at the guard. `.jsonl.bak.` backups and compaction checkpoints remain opaque. Refs #56131. Thanks @buyitsydney. - Memory/sessions: emit a `sessionTranscriptUpdate` event when `archiveFileOnDisk` rotates a live session transcript into `.jsonl.reset.` / `.jsonl.deleted.` / `.jsonl.bak.`, and bypass the delta-bytes / delta-messages threshold gate in `processSessionDeltaBatch` for usage-counted archive paths (`.jsonl.reset.` and `.jsonl.deleted.`). Without the bypass the archive event was forwarded to the listener but dropped at the threshold check, because an archive is a one-shot file-rename mutation rather than an incremental append and would typically land below the default `deltaBytes: 100000` / `deltaMessages: 50` reindex thresholds. Archives now feed the memory sync incremental path the same way `appendMessage` / compaction / tool-result rewrite / chat inject / command execution events already do. Refs #56131. Thanks @buyitsydney. - Memory/search: keep sqlite-vec optional in packaged installs and point missing-extension recovery at the valid `agents.defaults.memorySearch.store.vector.extensionPath` setting. Thanks @willemsej and @vincentkoc. - Gateway: keep directly requested plugin tools invokable under restrictive tool profiles while preserving explicit deny lists and the HTTP safety deny list, preventing catalog/invoke mismatches that surface as "Tool not available". Thanks @BunsDev. - Gateway/update: allow beta binaries to refresh gateway services when the config was last written by the matching stable release version, avoiding false newer-config downgrade blocks during beta channel updates. - Channels: keep Matrix and Mattermost bundled in the core package instead of advertising external npm installs before those channels are cut over. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Bonjour: disable LAN mDNS advertising after a repeated stuck-announcing recovery instead of repeatedly restarting ciao and saturating the Gateway event loop. - Channels/setup: label installable channel picker hints as remote npm installs and hide remote install hints for bundled plugins that already ship with OpenClaw. - CLI/update: refuse package updates launched from the active gateway process tree before stopping the managed Gateway service, avoiding self-terminated in-lane updates that leave old Gateway code running. Fixes #75691. (#75819) Thanks @ai-hpc. - CLI/plugins: stop treating the non-plugin `auth` command root as a bundled plugin id, so restrictive `plugins.allow` configs no longer tell users to add stale `auth` plugin entries. - Doctor/plugins: update configured plugin installs whose stale manifests still declare channels without `channelConfigs`, so beta upgrades repair old Discord-style package payloads during `doctor --fix`. - Doctor/plugins: repair configured external plugin installs whose persisted install record points at a missing package directory, so upgrades reconcile phantom npm metadata before plugin runtime validation. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Active Memory: keep non-empty `memory_search` results from being fast-failed as empty when debug telemetry reports zero hits. - Active Memory: preserve the target agent context when building embedded recall plugin tools so `memory_search` and `memory_get` stay available for explicit recall sessions. Fixes #76343. Thanks @Countermarch. - Plugins/externalization: repair missing configured plugin installs from npm by default, reserve ClawHub downloads for explicit `clawhubSpec` metadata, and cover agent-runtime/env-selected plugin repair. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/install: allow official catalog-matched npm channel plugins such as Feishu to pass the trusted install scanner path while keeping spoofed package names blocked. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Tools/llm-task: keep JSON-only embedded model runs from tripping inherited tool allowlists when tools are intentionally disabled, while preserving runtime `toolsAllow` failures. Fixes #74019. Thanks @amknight. - Tools/profiles: make `tools.profile: "full"` grant all tools including optional plugin tools such as browser, so the full profile no longer silently drops plugin-provided tools that require an explicit allowlist entry. Fixes #76507. Thanks @amknight. - Feishu: keep timeout env parsing separate from the HTTP client wrapper so package security scans no longer report a false env-harvesting hit during install. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Upgrade/config: validate configured web-search providers and statically suppressed model/provider pairs against the active plugin set at config load, so stale plugin state fails loud before runtime fallback. - Status/update: resolve beta update-channel checks from the installed version when config still says `stable`, and let `status --deep` reuse live gateway channel credential state instead of warning on command-path-only token misses. - Doctor/plugins: preserve unmanaged third-party plugin `node_modules` during `doctor --fix`, while still pruning OpenClaw-managed runtime dependency caches. - Gateway/restart: add `openclaw gateway restart --force` and `--wait `, log active task run IDs before restart deferral timers, and report timeout restarts as explicit forced restarts. - Discord: persist slash-command deploy hashes across process restarts so unchanged command sets skip redeploy and avoid restart-loop 429s. - Providers/LM Studio: normalize binary `off`/`on` reasoning metadata from Gemma 4 and other local models to LM Studio's accepted OpenAI-compatible `reasoning_effort` values. - Plugins/externalization: keep official external install docs, update examples, and live Codex npm checks on default npm tags instead of `@beta`. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/externalization: keep ACPX, Google Chat, and LINE publishable plugin dist trees out of the core npm package file list. - Plugins/ClawHub: fall back to version metadata when the artifact resolver route is missing and keep the Docker ClawHub fixture aligned with npm-pack artifact resolution, avoiding false version-not-found failures during plugin install validation. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Providers/openai-codex: honor `providerConfig.baseUrl` in the dynamic-model synthesis fallback so codex providers configured with a custom upstream (for example a forwarding proxy) no longer silently bypass the configured URL when the registry has no template row to clone for the requested model id. (#76428) Thanks @arniesaha. - Status/channels: show configured channels in `openclaw status` and config-only `openclaw channels status` output even when the Gateway is unreachable, avoiding empty Channels tables on WSL and other no-Gateway paths. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/ClawHub: explain unavailable explicit ClawHub ClawPack artifact downloads with a temporary npm install hint while ClawHub artifact routing rolls out. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Media: accept home-relative `MEDIA:~/...` attachment paths while preserving existing file-read policy, traversal checks, and media type validation. Fixes #73796. Thanks @fabkury. - Onboarding/search: install official external web-search plugins such as Brave before saving provider config, and make doctor repair reconcile selected external search providers whose npm payload is missing. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/externalization: add official npm-first catalogs for externalized channel, provider, and generic plugins, keep unpublished ACPX/Google Chat/LINE bundled, and make missing-plugin repair honor npm-first metadata while ClawHub pack files roll out. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/update: detect tracked plugin install records whose package directories disappeared during `openclaw update`, reinstall them before normal plugin updates, and fail the update if any install record still points at missing disk payloads. - Plugins/registry: hash manifest and package metadata when validating persisted plugin registries so fast same-size rewrites cannot leave stale plugin metadata trusted. - Plugins/registry: canonicalize install-record provenance paths before trust diagnostics, so npm plugins installed under symlinked temp/state roots no longer warn as untracked local code. - Plugins/install: let official external Discord reinstall requests pass the invalid-config guard and run stale-channel repair, so upgrades can recover missing external plugin state directly. - CLI/infer: reject local `codex/*` one-shot model probes before simple-completion dispatch and point operators at the Codex app-server runtime path instead of ending with an empty-output error. - Agents/sessions: preserve terminal lifecycle state when final run metadata persists from a stale in-memory snapshot, preventing `main` sessions from staying stuck as running after completed or timed-out turns. - Gateway/CLI: make `openclaw gateway start` repair stale managed service definitions that point at old OpenClaw versions, missing binaries, or temporary installer paths before starting. - Heartbeat/scheduler: make heartbeat phase scheduling active-hours-aware so the scheduler seeks forward to the first in-window phase slot instead of arming timers for quiet-hours slots and relying solely on the runtime guard. Non-UTC `activeHours.timezone` values (e.g. `Asia/Shanghai`) now correctly influence when the next heartbeat timer fires, avoiding wasted quiet-hours ticks and long dormant gaps after gateway restarts. Fixes #75487. Thanks @amknight. - Providers/Arcee AI: mark Trinity Large Thinking as tool-incompatible so main-session runs use the same text-only request shape that made subagent runs recover, avoiding the remaining main-session response-shape mismatch after the #62848 transport failover fix. Fixes #62851 and #62847; carries forward #62848. Thanks @Adam-Researchh. - Status: show the `openai-codex` OAuth profile for `openai/gpt-*` sessions running through the native Codex runtime instead of reporting auth as unknown. (#76197) Thanks @mbelinky. - Gateway: avoid repeated plugin tool descriptor config hashing so large runtime configs do not block reply startup and trigger reconnect/timeouts. (#75944) Thanks @joshavant. - Plugins/externalization: keep diagnostics ClawHub packages and persisted bundled-plugin relocation on npm-first install metadata for launch, and omit Discord from the core package now that its external package is published. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Setup/TUI: bound the Terminal hatch bootstrap run so a stalled provider request times out instead of leaving first-run hatching stuck behind the watchdog. (#76241) Thanks @joshavant. - Cron/CLI runtimes: route isolated cron jobs through configured per-agent CLI runtimes only when the resolved model provider is compatible, so OpenAI job overrides no longer inherit a mismatched Claude CLI backend. Thanks @vishutdhar. - Plugins/Codex: allow the official npm Codex plugin to install without the unsafe-install override, keep `/codex` command ownership, and cover the real npm Docker live path through managed `.openclaw/npm` dependencies plus uninstall failure proof. - Gateway/status: add concrete service, config, listener-owner, and log collection next steps when gateway probes fail and Bonjour finds no local gateway, so frozen or port-conflict reports include the data needed for root-cause triage. Refs #49012. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Codex harness: forward OpenClaw workspace bootstrap files such as `SOUL.md` through native Codex config instructions while leaving `AGENTS.md` to Codex project-doc discovery. Fixes #76273. Thanks @zknicker. - Parallels/Windows update smoke: escape the stale post-swap import regex in the generated PowerShell script so expected `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` update handoffs continue to post-update health checks. (#75315) - Slack: allow draft preview streaming in top-level DMs when `replyToMode` is `off` while keeping Slack native streaming and assistant thread status gated on reply threads. Fixes #56480. (#56544) Thanks @HangGlidersRule. - Control UI/chat: remove the delete-confirm popover outside-click listener on every dismiss path, so Cancel, Delete, outside clicks, and same-button toggles no longer leave stale document listeners behind. Refs #75590 and #69982. Thanks @Ricardo-M-L. - Memory-core: treat exhausted file watcher limits as non-fatal for builtin memory auto-sync while preserving fatal handling for unrelated disk-full errors. (#73357) Thanks @solodmd. - Providers/Ollama: restore catalog context-window forwarding as `num_ctx` for native `/api/chat` requests; fixes tool selection and context truncation regressions on models with catalog entries (qwen3, llama3, gemma3, …) when no explicit `params.num_ctx` was configured. Fixes #76117. (#76181) Thanks @openperf. - Plugins/install: pin npm plugin installs to the verified resolved version and reject package-lock version or integrity drift, so mutable tags cannot race integrity checks into accepting a different artifact. Thanks @Lucenx9. - Plugins/providers: preserve scoped cold-load fallback for enabled external manifest-contract capability providers missing from the startup registry, so providers such as Fish Audio can resolve on request without requiring `activation.onStartup` for correctness. (#76536) Thanks @Conan-Scott. - Gateway/update: carry `continuationMessage` from `update.run` into successful restart sentinels so session-scoped self-updates can resume one follow-up turn after the Gateway restarts. Refs #71178. (#74362) Thanks @100menotu001, @HeilbronAILabs, and @artnking. - Agents/fallback: suppress duplicate current-turn user-message transcript writes after embedded fallback retries while still sending the retry prompt to the model. (#63696) Thanks @dashhuang. - Channels/Telegram: force a fresh final message when a visible non-preview bubble (tool/block/error) was delivered after the active answer preview, so multi-step assistant replies no longer end up with the final answer above intermediate output. Fixes #76529. Thanks @jack-stormentswe. - Channels/Telegram: require an observed Telegram send, edit, or fallback before treating a forum-topic final as delivered, so final replies generated in transcript no longer disappear from Telegram topics. Fixes #76554. (#76764) Thanks @bubucilo and @obviyus. - Plugins/update: keep externalized bundled npm bridge updates on the normal plugin security scanner path instead of granting source-linked official trust without artifact provenance. (#76765) Thanks @Lucenx9. - Agents/reply context: label replied-to messages as the current user message target in model-visible metadata, so short replies are grounded to their explicit reply target instead of nearby chat history. (#76817) Thanks @obviyus. ## 2026.5.2 ### Highlights - External plugin installation now covers diagnostics, onboarding, doctor repair, channel setup, install/update records, and artifact metadata while keeping bare package installs on npm for the first cutover. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway startup, session listing, task maintenance, prompt prep, plugin loading, and filesystem hot paths get targeted cache and fanout reductions for large or plugin-heavy installs. - Control UI and WebChat reliability improves across Sessions, Cron, long-running Gateway WebSockets, grouped-message width, slash-command feedback, iOS PWA bounds, selection contrast, and Talk diagnostics. - Channel and provider fixes cover Telegram topic commands and networking, Discord delivery and startup edge cases, OpenAI-compatible TTS/Realtime, OpenRouter/DeepSeek replay, Anthropic-compatible streaming, Brave/SearXNG/Firecrawl web search, and voice-call routing. ### Changes - Gateway/startup: skip plugin-backed auth-profile overlays during startup secrets preflight, reducing gateway readiness latency while keeping reload and OAuth recovery paths overlay-capable. (#68327) Thanks @JIRBOY. - Plugins/ClawHub: make diagnostics, onboarding, doctor repair, and channel setup carry ClawPack metadata through install records while keeping explicit `clawhub:` installs on ClawHub and bare package installs on npm for the launch cutover. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/runtime: scope broad runtime preloads to the effective plugin ids derived from config, startup planning, configured channels, slots, and auto-enable rules instead of importing every discoverable plugin. - Agents/runtime: reuse the startup-loaded plugin registry for request-time providers, tools, channel actions, web/capability/memory/migration helpers, and memoized provider extra-params so stable embedded-run inputs no longer repeat plugin registry resolution while model-specific transport hook patches stay isolated. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev. - Agents/runtime: memoize transcript replay-policy resolution for stable config and process-env runs while preserving custom-env provider hook behavior. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev. - Infra/path-guards: add a fast path for canonical absolute POSIX containment checks, avoiding repeated `path.resolve` and `path.relative` work in hot filesystem walkers. Refs #75895, #75575, and #68782. Thanks @Enderfga. - Tools: add a platform-level tool descriptor planner for descriptor-first visibility, generic availability checks, and executor references. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Plugins/tools: cache plugin tool descriptors captured from `api.registerTool(...)` so repeated prompt-time planning can skip plugin runtime loading while execution still loads the live plugin tool. (#76079) Thanks @shakkernerd. - Docs/Codex: clarify that ChatGPT/Codex subscription setups should use `openai/gpt-*` with `agentRuntime.id: "codex"` for native Codex runtime, while `openai-codex/*` remains the PI OAuth route. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Plugins/source checkout: load bundled plugins from the `extensions/*` pnpm workspace tree in source checkouts, so plugin-local dependencies and edits are used directly while packaged installs keep using the built runtime tree. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/beta: externalize ACPX behind the official `@openclaw/acpx` package so packaged installs keep ACP harness adapter binaries out of core until the ACP backend is installed. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/beta: externalize diagnostics OpenTelemetry behind the official `@openclaw/diagnostics-otel` package so packaged installs keep the OTEL dependency stack out of core until the plugin is installed. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/beta: prepare Google Chat, LINE, Matrix, and Mattermost for `2026.5.1-beta.2` npm and ClawHub publishing, and keep publishable plugin dist trees out of the core npm package. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/beta: prepare BlueBubbles, diagnostics Prometheus, Google Meet, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Zalo, and Zalo Personal for `2026.5.1-beta.2` npm and ClawHub publishing. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/beta: prepare diagnostics OpenTelemetry, Discord, Diffs, Lobster, Memory LanceDB, Microsoft Teams, QQ Bot, Voice Call, and WhatsApp for `2026.5.1-beta.1` npm and ClawHub publishing. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/beta: prepare Brave, Codex, Feishu, Synology Chat, Tlon, and Twitch for `2026.5.1-beta.1` npm and ClawHub publishing. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Providers/xAI: add Grok 4.3 to the bundled catalog and make it the default xAI chat model. - Google Meet: let API-created rooms set `accessType` and `entryPointAccess`, and add `googlemeet end-active-conference` for closing managed spaces after a call. (#74824) Thanks @BsnizND. - Google Meet: add `googlemeet test-listen` and the matching `google_meet` `test_listen` action so transcribe-mode joins wait for real caption or transcript movement before reporting listen-first health. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf. - Plugins/ClawHub: prefer versioned ClawPack artifacts when ClawHub publishes digest metadata, verifying the ClawPack response header and downloaded bytes before installing. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/ClawHub: persist ClawPack digest metadata on ClawHub plugin install and update records so registry refreshes and download verification can reuse stored artifact facts. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/ClawHub: allow official bundled-plugin cutovers to record ClawHub artifact metadata while preserving npm as the launch default for bare package specs. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/onboarding: allow install-on-demand provider setup entries to persist ClawHub artifact metadata after explicit ClawHub installs while retaining npm/local fallback paths. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/Crestodian: add ClawHub plugin search plus Crestodian plugin list/search/install/uninstall operations, with approval and audit coverage for install and uninstall. - Channels/thread bindings: replace split subagent/ACP thread-spawn toggles with `threadBindings.spawnSessions`, default thread-bound spawns on, and let `openclaw doctor --fix` migrate the legacy keys. (#75943) - Providers/OpenAI: add `extraBody`/`extra_body` passthrough for OpenAI-compatible TTS endpoints, so custom speech servers can receive fields such as `lang` in `/audio/speech` requests. Fixes #39900. Thanks @R3NK0R. - Dependencies: refresh workspace dependency pins, including TypeBox 1.1.37, AWS SDK 3.1041.0, Microsoft Teams 2.0.9, and Marked 18.0.3. Thanks @mariozechner, @aws, and @microsoft. - Discord/channels: add reusable message-channel access groups plus Discord channel-audience DM authorization, so allowlists can reference `accessGroup:` across channel auth paths. (#75813) - Crabbox/scripts: print the selected Crabbox binary, version, and supported providers before `pnpm crabbox:*` commands, and reject stale binaries that lack `blacksmith-testbox` provider support. - Agents/Codex: add committed happy-path prompt snapshots for Codex/message-tool Telegram direct, Discord group, and heartbeat turns so prompt drift can be reviewed. Thanks @pashpashpash. ### Fixes - CLI/message: skip eager model context warmup and preserve channel-declared gateway execution for Discord and Telegram message actions, avoiding Codex app-server/model discovery during simple send/read commands. Thanks @fuller-stack-dev. - Codex/app-server: resolve managed binaries from bundled `dist` chunks and from the `@openai/codex` package bin when installs do not provide a nearby `.bin/codex` shim, avoiding false missing-binary startup failures. - Plugins/ClawHub: use the ClawHub artifact resolver response as the install decision before downloading, keeping legacy ZIP fallback and future ClawPack npm-pack installs on the same explicit resolver path. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/ClawHub: keep bare plugin package specs on npm for the launch cutover and reserve ClawHub resolution for explicit `clawhub:` specs until ClawHub pack readiness is deployed. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/source checkout: discover source-only plugins such as Codex from the `extensions/*` workspace while using npm package excludes as the packaged-core boundary, removing the stale core-bundle metadata path. - Plugins/ClawHub: install ClawPack artifacts from the explicit npm-pack `.tgz` resolver path and persist artifact kind, npm integrity, shasum, and tarball metadata for update and diagnostics flows. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Control UI: allow deployments to configure grouped chat message max-width with a validated `gateway.controlUi.chatMessageMaxWidth` setting instead of patching bundled CSS after upgrades. Fixes #67935. Thanks @xiew4589-lang. - Control UI/Cron: ignore malformed persisted cron rows without valid payloads before they enter UI state and guard stale cron render paths, preventing blank Control UI sections after a bad cron snapshot. Fixes #55047 and #54439; supersedes #54550 and #54552. - Control UI/sessions: bound the default Sessions tab query to recent activity and fewer rows, avoiding expensive full-history loads while keeping filters editable. Fixes #76050. (#76051) Thanks @Neomail2. - Gateway/channels: cap startup fanout at four channel/account handoffs and recover from Bonjour ciao self-probe races, reducing Windows startup stalls with many Telegram accounts. Fixes #75687. - Gateway/sessions: keep `sessions.list` polling responsive on large session stores by reusing list-safe session cache/indexes and returning a lightweight compaction checkpoint preview instead of heavyweight summaries. Thanks @rolandrscheel. - Control UI/Gateway: keep long-running dashboard WebSocket sessions alive with protocol pings and keep Stop available after reconnect or reload by recovering session-scoped active-run abort state. Fixes #70991. Thanks @alexandre-leng. - CLI/update: treat inherited Gateway service markers as origin hints and only block package replacement when the managed Gateway is still live, so self-updates can stop the service and continue safely. (#75729) Thanks @hxy91819. - Agents/failover: exempt run-level timeouts that fire during tool execution from model fallback, timeout-triggered compaction, and generic timeout payload synthesis, avoiding misleading "LLM request timed out" errors after the primary model has already responded. Fixes #52147. (#75873) Thanks @simonusa. - Docker: copy Bun 1.3.13 from a digest-pinned image and keep CI on the same version. Fixes #74356. Thanks @fede-kamel and @sallyom. - Agents/compaction: keep prior context on consecutive turns against z.ai-style providers (z.ai direct, openrouter z-ai/\*, in-house GLM gateways), avoiding accidental Pi state reset after successful turns. (#76056) Thanks @openperf. - Doctor/plugins: run a one-time 2026.5.2 configured-plugin install repair based on `meta.lastTouchedVersion`, installing actively used downloadable OpenClaw plugins through the configured external source before marking the config touched for the release. - Sessions/transcripts: use one `session.writeLock.acquireTimeoutMs` policy for session transcript lock acquisitions and raise the default wait to 60 seconds, avoiding user-visible lock timeouts during legitimate slow prep, cleanup, compaction, and mirror work. Fixes #75894. Thanks @shandutta. - Control UI: contain the standalone iOS PWA viewport with safe-area-aware document locking, so Add-to-Home-Screen launches cannot scroll past the device bounds. Refs #76072. Thanks @kvncrw. - Agents/restart recovery: match cleaned transcript locks by exact transcript lock paths plus the canonical session fallback, so interrupted main sessions using topic-suffixed transcripts resume after gateway restart. Refs #76052. Thanks @anyech. - Agents/runtime: cache the stable system-prompt prefix and reuse prompt-report tool schema stats during dispatch prep, reducing repeated CPU work before streaming starts. Fixes #75999; supersedes #76061. Thanks @zackchiutw and @STLI69. - Control UI/WebChat: use high-contrast text selection colors so highlighted chat text stays visible across themes. Fixes #60850; supersedes #60854. Thanks @Badschaff and @efe-arv. - Telegram/native commands: pass persisted session files into plugin commands for topic-bound sessions, so `/codex bind` works from Telegram forum topics. Refs #75845 and #76049. Thanks @MatthewSchleder. - Security audit/plugins: ignore plugin install backup, disabled, and dependency debris directories when enumerating installed plugin roots, avoiding false-positive findings for `.openclaw-install-backups` after plugin updates. Fixes #75456. - Telegram: honor runtime conversation bindings for native slash commands in bound top-level groups, so commands like `/status@bot` route to the active non-`main` session instead of falling back to the default route. Fixes #75405; supersedes #75558. Thanks @ziptbm and @yfge. - Gateway/tasks: make task registry maintenance use pass-local backing-session lookups and fresh active child-session indexes, avoiding repeated full task snapshots and session-store clones on large stale registries. Fixes #73517 and #75708; supersedes #74406 and #75709. Thanks @Lightningxxl, @glfruit, and @jared-rebel. - Auth/sessions: JSON-clone auth-profile cache/runtime snapshots and remaining session cleanup previews instead of using `structuredClone`, preserving mutation isolation while avoiding native-memory growth on large stores. Fixes #45438. Thanks @markus-lassfolk. - Models CLI: restore `openclaw models list --provider ` catalog and registry fallback rows for unconfigured providers, so provider-specific verification commands no longer report "No models found." Fixes #75517; supersedes #75615. Thanks @lotsoftick and @koshaji. - Gateway/macOS: write LaunchAgent services with a canonical system PATH and stop preserving old plist PATH entries, so Volta, asdf, fnm, and pnpm shell paths no longer affect gateway child-process Node resolution. Fixes #75233; supersedes #75246. Thanks @nphyde2. - Slack/hooks: preserve bot alert attachment text in message-received hook content when command text is blank. Fixes #76035; refs #76036. Thanks @amsminn. - Sessions/agents: route Gateway session-store writes, CLI cleanup maintenance, and agent-delete session purges through a dedicated in-process writer and borrow the validated mutable cache during the writer slot, avoiding runtime file locks plus repeated `sessions.json` rereads and JSON clones on hot metadata updates. Refs #68554. Thanks @henkterharmsel. - Control UI/chat: show inline feedback when local slash-command dispatch is unavailable or fails unexpectedly instead of clearing the composer silently. Fixes #52105. Thanks @MooreQiao. - Memory/markdown: replace CRLF managed blocks in place and collapse duplicate marker blocks without rewriting unmanaged markdown, so Dreaming and Memory Wiki files self-heal from repeated generated sections. Fixes #75491; supersedes #75495, #75810, and #76008. Thanks @asaenokkostya-coder, @ottodeng, @everettjf, and @lrg913427-dot. - Agents/tools: return critical tool-loop circuit-breaker stops as blocked tool results instead of thrown tool failures, so models see the guardrail and stop retrying the same call. Thanks @rayraiser. - Agents/sessions: preserve pre-existing runtime model and context window after heartbeat turns so a per-run heartbeat model override does not bleed into shared-session status. Fixes #75452. Thanks @zhangguiping-xydt. - Model commands: clarify direct and inline `/model` acknowledgements for non-default selections as session-scoped. Thanks @addu2612. - Doctor/gateway: stop warning that non-existent, unconfigured user-bin directories are required in the Gateway service PATH. Fixes #76017. Thanks @xiphis. - TUI/chat: skip full provider model normalization during context-window warmup while preserving provider-owned context metadata, avoiding cold-start stalls with large model registries. Thanks @547895019. - Agents: enable malformed tool-call argument repair for Codex and Azure OpenAI Responses transports while keeping generic OpenAI Responses paths out of the repair gate. Fixes #75154. Thanks @Nimraakram22. - Memory Wiki: accept relative Markdown links that include the `.md` suffix during broken-wikilink validation, avoiding false positives for native render-mode links. Thanks @Kenneth8128. - OpenAI Codex: show the device-pairing code in the interactive SSH/headless prompt while keeping the short-lived code out of persistent runtime logs. Fixes #74212. Thanks @da22le123. - QA Lab: stop gateway children when the suite parent disappears, so interrupted local QA runs cannot leave hot orphaned gateways behind. - Codex/app-server: tolerate a second connection close during startup recovery and include retry counts plus stringified errors in the restart warning, so concurrent lanes do not fail after one shared-client race. - Plugins/CLI: cache plugin CLI registration entries per command program so completion state generation does not repeat the full plugin sweep in one invocation. Thanks @ScientificProgrammer. - Voice Call: summarize restored-call verification logs during startup while preserving expired-call cleanup, reducing duplicate per-call skip messages. Thanks @jckm14. - Plugins: reuse gateway-bindable plugin loader cache entries for later default-mode loads without serving default-built registries to gateway-bound requests, reducing repeated plugin registration during dispatch. Refs #61756. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev. - Gateway/secrets: include the caught error message in `secrets.reload` and `secrets.resolve` warning logs while keeping RPC errors generic, so operators can diagnose reload and permission failures. Thanks @davidangularme. - Providers/OpenRouter: fill DeepSeek V4 `reasoning_content` replay placeholders for `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash` and `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`, so thinking/tool follow-up turns do not fail with DeepSeek's replay-shape error. Fixes #76018. Thanks @cloph-dsp. - Anthropic-compatible streams: recover text deltas that arrive before their matching content block, so Kimi Code and similar providers do not finish as empty `incomplete_result` replies. Fixes #76007. Thanks @vliuyt. - fix(infra): block workspace state-directory env override [AI]. (#75940) Thanks @pgondhi987. - MCP/OpenAI: normalize parameter-free tool schemas whose top-level object `properties` is missing, null, or invalid before sending tools to OpenAI, so MCP tools without params stay usable. Fixes #75362. Thanks @tolkonepiu and @SymbolStar. - Control UI/WebChat: add server-side chat-draft microphone dictation via the existing audio transcription pipeline, avoiding browser Web Speech while keeping provider credentials on the Gateway. Fixes #47311. Thanks @jmomford. - TTS: honor explicit short `[[tts:text]]...[[/tts:text]]` blocks while keeping untagged short auto-TTS suppressed, so tagged voice replies are synthesized instead of being dropped as empty voice-only payloads. Fixes #73758. Thanks @yfge. - Hooks/doctor: warn when `hooks.transformsDir` points outside the canonical hooks transform directory, so invalid workspace skill paths get a direct recovery hint before the Gateway crash-loops. Fixes #75853. Thanks @midobk. - Proxy/audio: convert standard `FormData` bodies before proxy-backed undici fetches, so audio transcription and multipart uploads no longer send `[object FormData]` when `HTTP_PROXY` or `HTTPS_PROXY` is configured. Fixes #48554. Thanks @dco5. - Discord: allow explicitly configured ack reactions in tool-only guild channels while keeping automatic lifecycle/status reactions suppressed. Fixes #74922. Thanks @samvilian and @BlueBirdBack. - Discord: enable session-backed A2A announce target lookup so `sessions_send` uses the target session's `deliveryContext.accountId` or `lastAccountId` instead of falling back to the default bot in multi-account setups. Fixes #42652; refs #51626 and #44773; supersedes #73975. Thanks @irchelper, @dpalfox, and @Lanfei. - Discord/setup: write resolved guild/channel allowlist selections to the selected guild and channel instead of falling back to the wildcard guild during setup. Supersedes #47788. Thanks @Eldersonar. - Discord: treat abort-time Carbon reconnect-exhausted events as expected shutdown during stale-socket restarts, so health-monitor restarts no longer reject the monitor lifecycle. Carries forward #58216; supersedes #73949. Thanks @Perttulands. - Discord/native commands: return an explicit warning when slash command dispatch or direct plugin execution produces no visible reply instead of a success-style completion ack. Fixes #58986; supersedes #62057. Thanks @jb510. - Discord: keep typing indicators alive during long tool runs and auto-compaction while keepalive ticks continue, so active sessions do not appear stalled before the final reply. Thanks @Squirbie. - Discord: preserve multipart Content-Type headers for attachment uploads across REST fetch paths, so generated images and other media no longer fail delivery with `CONTENT_TYPE_INVALID`. Thanks @FunJim. - Discord: preserve attachment and sticker filenames when saving inbound media, so agents can see human-readable file names instead of only UUID-based paths. Fixes #59744. Thanks @xela92 and @rockcent. - Discord: preserve non-ASCII channel names in session display labels while keeping allowlist matching on the existing ASCII slug contract. Thanks @swjeong9. - Discord/PluralKit: canonicalize proxied webhook turns to the original Discord message id for inbound dedupe, while preserving the proxy message id for reply routing. Thanks @acgh213. - Discord: only inject thread starter context on the first turn of the effective thread session, so follow-up thread replies do not repeat the starter block. Fixes #41355; supersedes #44447 and #44449. Thanks @p3nchan. - Discord: resolve thread `ownerId` and `parentId` from Discord API-style snake_case payload fields, so bot-owned autoThreads do not require unnecessary mentions. Thanks @mgh3326. - Gateway/diagnostics: include a bounded redacted startup error message in stability bundles, so crash-loop reports identify the failing plugin or contract without exposing secrets. Refs #75797. Thanks @ymebosma. - Gateway/pricing: defer optional model pricing catalog refresh until after sidecars and channels reach the ready path, so slow OpenRouter or LiteLLM pricing fetches cannot block Gateway readiness. Fixes #74128; supersedes #73486. Thanks @ctbritt and @alprclbi. - Gateway/pricing: abort in-flight model pricing catalog fetches when Gateway shutdown stops the refresh loop, and avoid post-stop cache writes or refresh timers. Fixes #72208. Thanks @rzcq. - Codex/app-server: make startup retry cleanup ownership-aware so concurrent Codex lanes cannot close another lane's freshly restarted shared app-server client. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Google Meet/Twilio: report missing dial-in details during setup and explain that Twilio cannot join Meet URLs without a phone dial plan. - Google Meet/Twilio: start the phone leg before sending Meet PIN DTMF, delay intro speech until after the post-connect dial sequence, and log each stage so operators can tell Twilio-leg audio from Meet-room audio. - Voice Call: accept provider call IDs for gateway speak/continue requests and report ended-call state from history instead of returning a generic "Call not found" for stale calls. - Control UI/Talk: allow the OpenAI Realtime WebRTC offer endpoint through the Control UI CSP, configure browser sessions with explicit VAD/transcription input settings, and surface OpenAI realtime error/lifecycle events instead of leaving Talk stuck as live with no diagnostic. Fixes #73427. - Plugins: clarify config-selected duplicate plugin override diagnostics and document manifest schema updates for bundled-plugin forks. Fixes #8582. Thanks @sachah. - CLI backends/Claude: make live-session JSONL turn caps bounded and configurable via `reliability.outputLimits`, raising the default guard for tool-heavy Claude CLI turns while preserving memory limits. Fixes #75838. Thanks @hcordoba840. - Telegram/DMs: keep incidental `message_thread_id` reply-with-quote metadata on the flat DM session by default while preserving opt-in DM topic isolation for configured topics, `dm.threadReplies`, and `direct..threadReplies`. Fixes #75975. Thanks @ProjectEvolutionEVE. - Telegram/network: raise outbound text and typing Bot API request guards to 60 seconds, keep low grammY client timeouts from preempting those guards, let higher `timeoutSeconds` configs extend safe method guards, and retry timed-out typing indicators through the transport fallback without risking duplicate messages. Fixes #76013. Thanks @iaki1206. - Telegram/native commands: register and clear command menus in both default and group-chat scopes, so `/status` and plugin commands stay available in forum topics. Fixes #74032; updates #6457. Thanks @dae-sun and @WouldenShyp. - Providers/OpenAI: resolve `keychain::` `OPENAI_API_KEY` refs before creating OpenAI Realtime browser sessions or voice bridges, with a bounded cached Keychain lookup. Fixes #72120. Thanks @ctbritt. - Discord/gateway: reconnect when the gateway socket closes while waiting for the shared IDENTIFY concurrency window, instead of silently skipping IDENTIFY and leaving the bot online but unresponsive. Fixes #74617. Thanks @zeeskdr-ai. - Voice Call: add `sessionScope: "per-call"` for fresh per-call agent memory while preserving the default per-phone caller history. Fixes #45280. Thanks @pondcountry. - Music generation: raise too-small tool timeouts to the provider-safe 10-second floor and collapse cascading abort fallback errors into a clearer root-cause summary. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Memory-core/dreaming: include the primary runtime workspace in multi-agent dreaming sweeps without mixing main-agent session transcripts into configured subagent workspaces. Fixes #70014. Thanks @ttomiczek. - Control UI: add tab/RPC timing attribution and decouple slow Overview/Cron secondary refreshes so Sessions navigation gets immediate visible feedback. Refs #64004. Thanks @WaMaSeDu. - Memory: retry transient SQLite index file swaps during atomic reindex on Windows, so brief `EBUSY`, `EPERM`, or `EACCES` locks do not fail memory rebuilds. Fixes #64187. Thanks @kunpeng-ai-lab. - Telegram/startup: use the existing `getMe` request guard for the gateway bot probe instead of a fixed 2.5-second budget, and honor higher `timeoutSeconds` configs for slow Telegram API paths. Fixes #75783. Thanks @tankotan. - Telegram/models: make model picker confirmations say selections are session-scoped and do not change the agent's persistent default. Fixes #75965. Thanks @sd1114820. - Control UI/slash commands: keep fallback command metadata on a browser-safe registry path, so provider thinking runtime imports cannot blank the Web UI with `process is not defined`. Fixes #75987. Thanks @novkien. - Heartbeat/Discord: keep async exec completion events out of the generic `System (untrusted)` prompt block and let the dedicated exec heartbeat prompt handle them, so Discord no longer receives raw exec failure tails as separate system-style messages. Fixes #66366. Thanks @Promee-ThaBossHoss. - Channels: strip plain-text MiniMax and XML tool-call scaffolding from shared user-facing reply sanitization, so messaging channels do not deliver raw model tool syntax when a provider emits it as text instead of structured tool calls. Fixes #62820. Thanks @canh0chua. - Infer/media: report missing image-understanding and audio-transcription provider configuration for `image describe`, `image describe-many`, and `audio transcribe` instead of blaming the input path when no provider is available. Fixes #73569 and supersedes #73593, #74288, and #74495. Thanks @bittoby, @tmimmanuel, @Linux2010, and @vyctorbrzezowski. - Docs/health: clarify that session listing surfaces stored conversation rows rather than Discord/channel socket liveness, and point connectivity checks at channel status and health probes. Fixes #70420. Thanks @ashersoutherncities-art and @martingarramon. - WhatsApp/Cron: keep DM pairing-store approvals out of implicit cron and heartbeat recipient fallback, so scheduled automation only uses explicit targets, active configured recipients, or configured `allowFrom` entries. Fixes #62339. Thanks @kelvinisly-collab. - Google Meet: keep the agent-facing `google_meet` tool visible on non-macOS hosts but block local Chrome realtime actions with guidance, so Linux agents can still use transcribe, Twilio, chrome-node, and artifact flows without choosing the macOS-only BlackHole path. Refs #75950. Thanks @actual-software-inc. - macOS/settings: keep opening General from rewriting `openclaw.json` during Tailscale settings hydration, preserving `gateway`, `auth`, `meta`, and `wizard` until the user changes a setting. Fixes #59545. Thanks @Tengdw. - Discord: prioritize interaction callbacks ahead of stale background REST work without polling active REST buckets, validate oversized gateway payloads and member-intent requests before send, and forward explicit component payloads from message actions. (#75363) - Active Memory: use the configured recall timeout as the blocking prompt-build hook budget by default and move cold-start setup grace behind explicit `setupGraceTimeoutMs` config, so the plugin no longer silently extends 15000 ms configs to 45000 ms on the main lane. Fixes #75843. Thanks @vishutdhar. - Plugins/web-provider: reuse the active gateway plugin registry for runtime web provider resolution after deriving the same candidate plugin ids as the loader path, avoiding a redundant `loadOpenClawPlugins` call on every request while preserving origin and scope filters. Fixes #75513. Thanks @jochen. - Crestodian/CLI: exit non-zero when interactive Crestodian is invoked without a TTY, so scripts and CI no longer treat the setup error as success. Fixes #73646 and supersedes #73928 and #74059. Thanks @bittoby, @luyao618, and @Linux2010. - Cron: keep implicit/default isolated cron announce deliveries out of the main session awareness queue, so isolated jobs do not accumulate in the main conversation. Fixes #61426. Thanks @Lihannon. - Subagents: avoid duplicate parent-visible replies when a parent uses `sessions_send` on its own persistent native subagent session, while preserving announce delivery for async sends. Fixes #73550. Thanks @sylviazhang2006-design. - Web search/Brave: add opt-in `brave.http` diagnostics for Brave request URLs/query params, response status/timing, and cache hit/miss/write events without logging API keys or response bodies. Fixes #55196. Thanks @mecampbellsoup. - Web search/Brave: add `plugins.entries.brave.config.webSearch.baseUrl` for Brave-compatible proxies, including endpoint-aware cache keys for both web and LLM Context modes. Fixes #19075. Thanks @jkoprax and @vishnukool. - Web search/config: validate explicit `tools.web.search.provider` values against bundled and installed plugin manifests, while warning for stale third-party plugin config. Fixes #53092. Thanks @TinyTb. - Web search/SearXNG: retry empty non-general category searches once with the general category, so unsupported category engines do not return empty results when general search has matches. Fixes #73552. Thanks @Loukky. - CLI/message: skip gateway-stop hooks for read-only `message read` and bound stop-hook shutdown for other message actions, so one-shot Discord reads cannot hang behind plugin lifecycle cleanup. - Plugins/web-provider: cache repeated bundled web search and web fetch provider registry loads by default while preserving explicit cache opt-outs. Supersedes #75992. Thanks @DmitryPogodaev. - Agents/sandbox: preserve existing workspace file modes when sandbox edits atomically replace files, so 0644 files do not collapse to 0600 after Write/Edit/apply_patch. Fixes #44077. Thanks @patosullivan. - Control UI/WebChat: route typed `/new` through the New Chat dashboard-session creation flow instead of `chat.send`, while keeping `/reset` as the explicit current-session reset. Fixes #69599. Thanks @WolvenRA. - Agents/models: keep legacy CLI runtime model refs such as `claude-cli/*` in the configured allowlist after canonical runtime migration, so cron `payload.model` overrides keep working. Fixes #75753. Thanks @RyanSandoval. - Codex/app-server: restart the shared Codex app-server client once when it closes during startup thread resume, preserving the existing thread binding instead of retrying `thread/start` on a closed client. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/watch: keep colored subsystem log prefixes in the managed tmux pane even when the parent shell exports `NO_COLOR`, while preserving explicit `FORCE_COLOR=0` opt-out. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Agents/compaction: submit a non-empty runtime-event marker for pre-compaction memory flush turns, so strict Anthropic providers no longer reject the silent flush as an empty user message. Fixes #75305. Thanks @sableassistant3777-source. - Plugin SDK: re-export `isPrivateIpAddress` from `plugin-sdk/ssrf-runtime`, restoring source-checkout builds for SearXNG and Firecrawl private-network guards. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Discord/message actions: advertise `upload-file` and route it through Discord's send runtime with agent-scoped media reads, so agents can discover and send file attachments. Fixes #60652 and supersedes #60808, #61087, and #61100. Thanks @claw-io, @efe-arv, @joelnishanth, and @sjhddh. - Sessions: suppress exact inter-session control replies such as `NO_REPLY` and keep agent-to-agent announce bookkeeping out of visible transcripts. Fixes #53145. Thanks @TarahAssistant. - CLI/directory: report unsupported directory operations for installed channel plugins instead of prompting to reinstall the plugin when it lacks a directory adapter. Fixes #75770. Thanks @lawong888. - Web search/SearXNG: show the JSON API `search.formats` prerequisite during SearXNG setup before prompting for the base URL. Supersedes #65592. Thanks @evanpaul14. - Web search/SearXNG: pass through `img_src` image URLs from SearXNG image-category results. Supersedes #61416. Thanks @sghael. - Web search/Kimi: fail explicitly when Moonshot returns an ungrounded chat answer instead of native web-search evidence, so Kimi no longer reports generic fallback text as a successful search. Fixes #52573. Thanks @wangwllu. - Web search: keep public provider requests on the strict SSRF guard and reserve private-network access for explicit self-hosted SearXNG/Firecrawl endpoints. Fixes #74357 and supersedes #74360. Thanks @fede-kamel. - Firecrawl: reject private, loopback, metadata, and non-HTTP(S) `firecrawl_scrape` target URLs before forwarding them to Firecrawl. Supersedes #48133. Thanks @kn1ghtc. - Web search/Firecrawl: allow self-hosted private/internal Firecrawl `baseUrl` endpoints, including HTTP for private targets, while keeping hosted Firecrawl on the strict official endpoint. Fixes #63877 and supersedes #59666, #63941, and #74013. Thanks @jhthompson12, @jzakirov, @Mlightsnow, and @shad0wca7. - CLI/models: report gateway model fallback attempts in `infer model run --json` and avoid double-prefixing provider-qualified defaults such as `openrouter/auto` in `models status`. Partially fixes #69527. Thanks @alexifra. - Providers/OpenRouter: strip trailing assistant prefill turns from verified OpenRouter Anthropic model requests when reasoning is enabled, so Claude 4.6 routes no longer fail with Anthropic's prefill rejection through the OpenAI-compatible adapter. Fixes #75395. Thanks @sbmilburn. - Voice Call: add per-number inbound routing for dialed-number greetings, response agents/models/prompts, and TTS voice overrides. Fixes #56604. Thanks @healthstatus. - Feishu: preserve Feishu/Lark HTTP error bodies for message sends, media sends, and chat member lookups, so HTTP 400 failures include vendor code, message, log id, and troubleshooter details. Fixes #73860. Thanks @desksk. - Agents/transcripts: avoid reopening large Pi transcript files through the synchronous session manager for maintenance rewrites, persisted tool-result truncation, manual compaction boundary hardening, and queued compaction rotation. Thanks @mariozechner. - Web search/Exa: accept `plugins.entries.exa.config.webSearch.baseUrl`, normalize it to the Exa `/search` endpoint, and partition cached results by endpoint. Fixes #54928 and supersedes #54939. Thanks @mrpl327 and @lyfuci. - Web search/MiniMax: include MiniMax Search in the web-search setup flow and let `MINIMAX_API_KEY` participate in MiniMax Search auto-detection. Supersedes #65828. Thanks @Jah-yee. - Plugins/ClawHub: preserve official source-linked trust through archive installs, so OpenClaw can install trusted ClawHub plugin packages that trigger the built-in dangerous-pattern scanner. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/ClawHub: install package runtime dependencies for archive-backed plugin installs, so ClawHub packages such as WhatsApp load declared dependencies after download. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/tools: cache repeated plugin tool factory results only for matching request context, reducing per-turn tool prep without leaking sandbox, session, browser, delivery, or runtime config state. Fixes #75956. Thanks @Linux2010. - Providers/LM Studio: allow `models.providers.lmstudio.params.preload: false` to skip OpenClaw's native model-load call so LM Studio JIT loading, idle TTL, and auto-evict can own model lifecycle. Fixes #75921. Thanks @garyd9. - Agents/transcripts: keep chat history, restart recovery, fork token checks, and stale-token compaction checks on bounded async transcript reads or cached async indexes instead of reparsing large session files. Thanks @mariozechner. - Telegram: inherit the process DNS result order for Bot API transport and downgrade recovered sticky IPv4 fallback promotions to debug logs, while keeping pinned-IP escalation warnings visible. Fixes #75904. Thanks @highfly-hi and @neeravmakwana. - Sessions: keep durable external conversation pointers, including group and thread-scoped chat sessions, out of age, count, and disk-budget maintenance eviction while still allowing synthetic runtime entries to age out. Fixes #58088. Thanks @drinkflav. - Web search/MiniMax: allow `MINIMAX_OAUTH_TOKEN` to satisfy MiniMax Search credentials, so OAuth-authorized MiniMax Token Plan setups do not need a separate web-search key. Fixes #65768. Thanks @kikibrian and @zhouhe-xydt. - Providers/MiniMax: derive Coding Plan usage polling from the configured MiniMax base URL, so global setups no longer query the CN usage host. Fixes #65054. Thanks @sixone74 and @Yanhu007. - Control UI/WebChat: skip assistant-media transcript supplements when stale media refs resolve to no playable media, so text-only final replies are not stored a second time as gateway-injected assistant messages. Fixes #73956. Thanks @HemantSudarshan. - Sessions: reject `sessions_send` targets that resolve to thread-scoped chat sessions, so inter-agent coordination cannot be injected into active human-facing Slack or Discord threads. Fixes #52496. Thanks @barry-p5cc. - Subagents: honor `sessions_spawn` with `expectsCompletionMessage: false` by skipping parent completion handoff delivery while still running child cleanup. Fixes #75848. Thanks @alfredjbclaw. - Media/completions: treat media-only message-tool sends as delivered async completion output, avoiding duplicate raw `MEDIA:` fallback posts after video or music generation finishes. - Gateway/logging: keep deferred channel startup logs on the subsystem logger, so Slack, Discord, Telegram, and voice-call startup messages keep timestamped prefixes. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Codex/app-server: recover JSON-RPC frames split by raw command-output newlines and include a redacted preview when malformed app-server messages still reach the console. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Replies/typing: keep typing alive for queued follow-up messages that are genuinely waiting behind an active run, instead of making chat surfaces look idle while work is queued. Fixes #65685. Thanks @papag00se. - ACP/Discord: suppress completion announce delivery for inline thread-bound ACP session runs, so Discord thread-bound ACP replies are not delivered twice. Fixes #60780. Thanks @solavrc. - Discord/threads: ignore webhook-authored copies in already-bound Discord session threads even when the webhook id differs, preventing PluralKit proxy copies from creating duplicate turn pressure. Fixes #52005. Thanks @acgh213. - Discord/threads: return the created thread as partial success when the follow-up initial message fails, so agents do not retry thread creation and create empty duplicate threads. Fixes #48450. Thanks @dahifi. - Discord/components: consume every button or select in a non-reusable component message after the first authorized click, so single-use panels cannot fire sibling callbacks. Fixes #54227. Thanks @fujiwarakasei. - macOS/config: preserve existing `gateway.auth` and unrelated config keys during app fallback writes, so dashboard or Talk settings changes cannot strand Control UI clients by dropping persisted auth. Fixes #75631. Thanks @Fuma2013. - Control UI/TUI: keep reconnecting chat sends bound to the same backing session id and let TUI relaunches resume the last selected session, avoiding silent fresh sessions after refresh, reconnect, or terminal restart. Fixes #63195, #68162, and #73546. Thanks @bond260312-cmyk, @zhong18804784882, and @mtuwei. - Plugins/tools: let plugin manifests declare static tool availability so reply startup skips unavailable plugin tool runtimes instead of importing factories that only return `null`. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Discord/reactions: skip reaction listener registration when DMs and group DMs are disabled and every configured guild has `reactionNotifications: "off"`, avoiding needless reaction-event queue work. Fixes #47516. Thanks @x4v13r1120. - CLI sessions: preserve explicit manual-attach reuse bindings so trusted CLI sessions are not invalidated on the first turn when auth, prompt, or MCP fingerprints drift. Fixes #75849. Thanks @alfredjbclaw. - Telegram/streaming: keep partial preview streaming enabled for plain reply-to replies, disabling drafts only for real native quote excerpts that require Telegram quote parameters. Fixes #73505. Thanks @choury. - Config: log the "newer OpenClaw" version warning once per process instead of once per config snapshot read. (#75927) Thanks @romneyda. - Telegram/message actions: treat benign delete-message 400s as no-op warnings instead of runtime errors, so stale or already-removed messages do not create noisy delete failures. Fixes #73726. Thanks @Avicennasis. - Telegram: split long default markdown sends and media follow-up text into safe HTML chunks, so outbound messages over Telegram's limit no longer fail as one oversized Bot API request. Fixes #75868. Thanks @zhengsx. - Gateway/chat history: merge Claude CLI transcript imports for Anthropic-routed sessions that still have a Claude CLI binding, so local chat history does not hide CLI JSONL turns. Fixes #75850. Thanks @alfredjbclaw. - Media: trim serialized JSON suffixes after local `MEDIA:` directive file extensions, so generated-image metadata cannot pollute the parsed media path and cause false `ENOENT` delivery failures. Fixes #75182. Thanks @TnzGit and @hclsys. - Plugins/runtime: hot-reload Gateway plugin runtime surfaces after plugin enable/disable changes while keeping source-changing plugin install, update, and uninstall operations restart-backed so loaded module code is not reused. Fixes #72097. - Cron: make scheduler reload schedule comparison tolerate malformed persisted jobs, so one bad cron entry no longer aborts the whole tick. Fixes #75886. Thanks @samfox-ai. - Doctor/channels: warn after migrations when default Telegram or Discord accounts have no configured token and their env fallback (`TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` or `DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN`) is unavailable, with secret-safe migration docs for checking state-dir `.env`. Fixes #74298. Thanks @lolaopenclaw. - Gateway/diagnostics: keep idle liveness samples in telemetry instead of visible warning logs unless diagnostic work is active, waiting, or queued. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Channels/cron: reject provider-prefixed targets for the wrong channel and let prefixed announce targets such as `telegram:123` select their channel when delivery falls back to `last`, so Telegram IDs cannot be coerced into WhatsApp phone numbers. Fixes #56839. Thanks @bencoremans. - Control UI/chat: keep live replies visible when a raw session alias such as `main` sends the chat turn but Gateway emits events under the canonical session key for the same run. Fixes #73716. Thanks @teebes. - CLI/models: reject `--agent` on `openclaw models set` and `set-image` instead of silently writing agent-scoped requests to global model defaults. Fixes #68391. Thanks @derrickabellard. - CLI: stop treating the legacy singular `openclaw tool ...` token as a plugin id under restrictive `plugins.allow`, so it falls through as a normal unknown/reserved command instead of suggesting a stale allowlist entry. Fixes #64732. Thanks @efe-arv, @SweetSophia, and @hashtag1974. - Media: write inbound media buffers through same-directory temp files before rename, so failed disk writes do not leave zero-byte artifacts for later voice transcription. Fixes #55966. Thanks @OpenCodeEngineer. - TTS/Telegram: keep trusted local audio generated by the TTS tool queued for voice-note delivery even when the run-level built-in tool list omits the raw `tts` name. Fixes #74752. Thanks @Loveworld3033 and @andyliu. - TTS: require explicit user or config audio intent for the agent speech tool so dashboard chats stay text unless audio is requested. Fixes #69777. Thanks @alexandre-leng. - Plugins/config: keep bundled source-checkout plugins from being runtime-gated by install-only `minHostVersion` metadata, accept prerelease host floors, trim plugin-service startup failures to one log line, and avoid broad channel-runtime loading during base config parsing. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Heartbeat: strip legacy `[TOOL_CALL]...[/TOOL_CALL]` and `[TOOL_RESULT]...[/TOOL_RESULT]` pseudo-call blocks from heartbeat replies before channel delivery. Fixes #54138. Thanks @Deniable9570. - macOS/Voice Wake: send wake-word and Push-to-Talk transcripts through the selected macOS session target instead of always falling back to main WebChat. Fixes #51040. Thanks @carl-jeffrolc. - Providers/xAI: give Grok `web_search` a 60s default timeout, harden malformed xAI Responses parsing, and return structured timeout errors instead of aborting the tool call. Fixes #58063 and #58733. Thanks @dnishimura, @marvcasasola-svg, and @Nanako0129. - Providers/configure: preserve the existing default model when adding or reauthing a provider whose plugin returns a default-model config patch. Fixes #50268. Thanks @rixcorp-oc. - Slack/message actions: send media before the follow-up Block Kit message when Slack `send` includes a file plus presentation or interactive controls, so file attachments are no longer rejected. Fixes #51458. Thanks @HirokiKobayashi-R. - Slack/DMs: honor `dmHistoryLimit` for fresh 1:1 Slack DM sessions by backfilling recent conversation history before the current reply. Fixes #64427. Thanks @brantley-creator. - Slack/DMs: keep top-level direct messages on the stable DM session even when `replyToMode` targets Slack thread replies, preserving context across DM turns. Fixes #58832. Thanks @daye-jjeong. - Slack/delivery: preserve Slack Web API missing-scope details in outbound delivery errors, so queued retry state identifies the OAuth scope to add. Fixes #62391. Thanks @alexey-pelykh. - Slack/capabilities: read granted scopes from `auth.test` response metadata before trying legacy scope APIs, so modern bot tokens no longer report `unknown_method` for channel capabilities. Fixes #44625. Thanks @Qquanwei and @martingarramon. - Slack/DMs: send text/block-only proactive DMs directly with `chat.postMessage(channel=)` while keeping conversation resolution for uploads and threaded sends. Fixes #62042. Thanks @MarkMolina. - Slack/routing: match route bindings written with Slack target syntax such as `channel:C...`, `user:U...`, or `<@U...>`, so bound Slack peers route to the configured agent instead of `main`. Fixes #41608. Thanks @Winnsolutionsadmin. - Slack/routing: match public-channel allowlist entries written as `channel:C...` against bare Slack runtime channel IDs, so allowed channel mentions do not fail as `channel-not-allowed`. Fixes #41264 and supersedes #56530. Thanks @babutree and @Realworld404. - Slack/message actions: prefer the account bound to the outbound target peer before falling back to the agent's first channel account, so multi-workspace sends use the intended Slack account. Supersedes #66807. Thanks @rijhsinghani. - Slack/delivery: retry Slack Web API writes only when the SDK wraps a DNS request failure such as `EAI_AGAIN`, so transient resolver hiccups can recover without retrying platform errors that may duplicate messages. Fixes #68789. Thanks @sonnyb9. - Slack/message actions: forward agent-scoped media roots through the bundled upload-file action path, so workspace files can be attached without failing the local-media guard. Fixes #64625. Thanks @benpchandler. - Slack/mentions: resolve `` user-group mentions through Slack `usergroups.users.list` and treat them as explicit mentions only when the bot user is a member, so mention-gated agent channels wake for real user-group mentions without config-only allowlists. Fixes #73827. Thanks @CG-Intelligence-Agent-Jack. - Slack/message tool: let `read` fetch an exact Slack message timestamp, including a specific thread reply when paired with `threadId`, instead of returning only the parent thread or recent channel history. Fixes #53943. Thanks @zomars. - PDF/Gemini: send native PDF analysis API keys in the `x-goog-api-key` header instead of the request URL, keeping secrets out of proxy and access logs. Supersedes #60600. Thanks @garagon. - Web search/Gemini: route agent abort signals into provider fetches and log provider-side abort failures as normal tool errors instead of silently aborting the run. Fixes #72995. Thanks @RoseKongPS. - Web search: point missing-key errors to `web_fetch` for known URLs and the browser tool for interactive pages. Thanks @zhaoyang97. - Web search: late-bind managed agent `web_search` calls to the current runtime config snapshot, so existing sessions do not keep stale unresolved SecretRefs after secrets reload. Fixes #75420. Thanks @richardmqq. - Web search/Gemini: reuse `models.providers.google.apiKey` and `models.providers.google.baseUrl` as lower-priority fallbacks for Gemini web search after dedicated search config and `GEMINI_API_KEY`. Supersedes #57496. Thanks @Aoiujz. - Web search/Gemini: pass `freshness` and `date_after`/`date_before` filters through Google Search grounding time ranges. Fixes #66498. Thanks @ismael-81. - Web search/DuckDuckGo: include the keyless DuckDuckGo provider in the web search setup wizard. Fixes #65862 and supersedes #65940. Thanks @Jah-yee. - Web search: honor `baseUrl` overrides for Gemini, Grok, and x_search provider-owned config, so proxy-backed search tools no longer dial hardcoded public endpoints. Supersedes #61972. Thanks @Lanfei. - Web search/Brave: point Brave provider metadata at the canonical `/tools/brave-search` docs page and make the legacy `/brave-search` docs page a redirect stub. Fixes #65870 and supersedes #65892. Thanks @Magicray1217 and @Jah-yee. - Web search/Brave: allow `freshness` and bounded date ranges in `llm-context` mode, matching Brave's documented LLM Context API support. Supersedes #51005. Thanks @remusao. - Web fetch: resolve external plugin `webFetchProviders` for non-sandboxed `web_fetch`, while keeping sandboxed fetches limited to bundled providers. Fixes #74915. Thanks @ultrahighsuper and @mingmingtsao. - Heartbeat: strip legacy `[TOOL_CALL]...[/TOOL_CALL]` and `[TOOL_RESULT]...[/TOOL_RESULT]` pseudo-call blocks from heartbeat replies before channel delivery. Fixes #54138. Thanks @Deniable9570. - macOS/Voice Wake: send wake-word and Push-to-Talk transcripts through the selected macOS session target instead of always falling back to main WebChat. Fixes #51040. Thanks @carl-jeffrolc. - Providers/xAI: give Grok `web_search` a 60s default timeout, harden malformed xAI Responses parsing, and return structured timeout errors instead of aborting the tool call. Fixes #58063 and #58733. Thanks @dnishimura, @marvcasasola-svg, and @Nanako0129. - Slack/directory: make `openclaw directory peers/groups list --channel slack` prefer token-backed live readers and return the connected Slack account from `directory self`, so valid Slack tokens no longer produce empty directory CLI results. Fixes #50776. Thanks @pjaillon. - Slack: keep assistant typing status, temporary typing reactions, and status reactions active for group/channel turns that use message-tool-only visible replies, while still suppressing automatic source replies. Fixes #75877. Thanks @teosborne. - Slack: recover full inbound DM text from top-level rich-text blocks when Slack sends a shortened message preview, so long direct messages still reach the agent intact. Fixes #55358. Thanks @tonyjwinter. - Replies: strip legacy `[TOOL_CALL]{tool => ..., args => ...}[/TOOL_CALL]` pseudo-call text from user-facing replies and flag it in tool-call diagnostics instead of showing raw tool syntax in channels. Fixes #63610. Thanks @canh0chua. - WhatsApp: close long-lived web sockets through Baileys `end(error)` before falling back to raw websocket close, so listener teardown runs Baileys cleanup instead of leaving zombie sockets. Fixes #52442. Thanks @essendigitalgroup-cyber. - Twitch/plugins: emit a flat JSON Schema for Twitch channel config so single-account and multi-account configs validate before runtime load, and add source-checkout diagnostics for missing pnpm workspace dependencies. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/sessions: move hot transcript reads and mirror appends onto async bounded IO with serialized parent-linked writes, keeping large session histories from stalling Gateway requests and channel replies. Fixes #75656. Thanks @DerFlash. - macOS/Talk Mode: downmix multi-channel microphone buffers before handing them to Apple Speech across Push-to-Talk, Talk Mode, Voice Wake, and the wake-word tester, so pro audio interfaces no longer produce empty transcripts. Fixes #42533. Thanks @jbuecker. - macOS/Talk Mode: subscribe native WebChat to active-session transcript updates and render external spoken user turns in the chat thread instead of only showing assistant replies. Fixes #75155. Thanks @SledderBling. - macOS/Voice Wake: accept trigger-only phrases in the built-in Voice Wake test, matching the settings UI and runtime trigger-only path instead of requiring extra command text after the wake word. Fixes #64986. Thanks @zoiks65. - Cron/TTS: run cron announce payloads through the normal TTS directive transform before outbound delivery, so scheduled `[[tts]]` replies generate voice payloads instead of leaking raw tags. Fixes #52125. Thanks @kenchen3000. - WhatsApp: save downloadable quoted image media from reply context as inbound media, so agents can inspect an image that a user replied to instead of only seeing ``. Fixes #59174. Thanks @gaffner. - Sessions/store: stop persisting the runtime-only `skillsSnapshot.resolvedSkills` array inside each session entry, so `sessions.json` no longer carries a copy of every parsed `SKILL.md` body for every active session; `ensureSkillSnapshot` rehydrates the array from disk on cold resume so the embedded runner, the Claude CLI skills plugin, and the Claude live-session fingerprint all see populated skills, and legacy stores self-heal on the next save. Refs #11950, #6650, #15000. Thanks @amoghasgekar. - Doctor/WhatsApp: warn when Linux crontabs still run the legacy `ensure-whatsapp.sh` health check, which can misreport `Gateway inactive` when cron lacks the systemd user-bus environment. Fixes #60204. Thanks @mySebbe. - Slack/setup: print the generated app manifest as plain JSON instead of embedding it inside the framed setup note, so it can be copied into Slack without deleting border characters. Fixes #65751. Thanks @theDanielJLewis. - Channels/WhatsApp: route CLI logout through the live Gateway and stop runtime-backed listeners before channel removal, so removing a WhatsApp account does not leave the old socket replying until restart. Fixes #67746. Thanks @123Mismail. - Voice Call/Twilio: honor TTS directive text and provider voice/model overrides during telephony synthesis, so `[[tts:...]]` tags are not spoken literally and voiceId overrides reach OpenAI/ElevenLabs calls. Fixes #58114. Thanks @legonhilltech-jpg. - Agents/session-locks: reclaim untracked current-process session locks with matching starttime during acquisition and startup cleanup, so Gateway restarts recover from self-owned orphan `.jsonl.lock` files. Fixes #75805; refs #49603. Thanks @cdznho. - Agents/subagents: initialize built-in context engines before native `sessions_spawn` resolves spawn preparation, so cliBackend-only cold starts no longer fail with an unregistered `legacy` context engine. Fixes #73095. (#73904) Thanks @brokemac79. - Plugins/Bonjour: ship the ciao runtime dependency with packaged OpenClaw so fresh OCM envs can start default mDNS discovery without a missing-module failure. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/tools: scope reply plugin-tool discovery to manifest-declared tool owners and already-active matching tool entries, avoiding broad plugin runtime loading for narrow or core-only tool allowlists. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/replies: defer implicit image model discovery and keep OAuth auth-store adoption on persisted profiles during reply startup, cutting OCM MarCodex warm prep to sub-second in live checks. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Plugins/tools: enforce `contracts.tools` as the manifest ownership contract for plugin tool registration, rejecting undeclared runtime tool names and adding bundled plugin drift coverage. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/Codex: stop prompting message-tool-only source turns to finish with `NO_REPLY`, so quiet turns are represented by not calling the visible message tool instead of conflicting final-text instructions. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Gateway/config: report failed backup restores as failed in logs and config observe audit records instead of marking them valid. (#70515) Thanks @davidangularme. - Compaction: use the active session model fallback chain for implicit summarization failures without persisting fallback model selection, so Azure content-filter 400s can recover. Fixes #64960. (#74470) Thanks @jalehman and @OpenCodeEngineer. - Gateway/config: allow `gateway config.patch` to update documented subagent thinking defaults. Fixes #75764. (#75802) Thanks @kAIborg24. - Plugins/CLI: keep git plugin install paths credential-free, preserve existing git checkouts until replacement succeeds, honor duplicate npm install mode, and remove managed git repos on uninstall. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/CLI: redact authenticated git URLs from git install command failure details, so failed clone or checkout output cannot leak credentials during plugin installs. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Channels/status reactions: remove stale non-terminal lifecycle reactions when a run reaches done or error, so Discord does not leave a permanent thinking emoji after completion. Fixes #75458. Thanks @davelutztx. - Discord/doctor: migrate unsupported per-channel `agentId` entries under guild channel config into top-level `bindings[]` routes, so `openclaw doctor --fix` preserves the intended agent route instead of stripping it as an unknown key. Fixes #62455. Thanks @lobster-biscuit. - Discord/DMs: set inbound direct-message `ctx.To` to the semantic `user:` target while keeping delivery routed through the DM channel, so mirror and recovery paths do not treat DMs as channel conversations. Fixes #68126. Thanks @illuminate0623. - Discord/DMs: keep no-guild inbound messages on direct-message routing when Discord channel lookup is temporarily unavailable, preventing degraded DMs from forking into channel sessions. Fixes #59817. Thanks @DooPeePey. - Discord: retry outbound API calls on HTTP 5xx, request-timeout, and transient transport failures instead of only Discord rate limits, reducing dropped cron and agent replies during short Discord or network outages. Fixes #52396. Thanks @sunshineo. - Discord: include Components v2 Text Display content from referenced replies and forwarded snapshots, so component-only messages still appear in reply context. Fixes #56228. Thanks @HollandDrive. - Discord: add configurable gateway READY timeouts for startup and runtime reconnects, so staggered multi-account setups can avoid false restart loops. Fixes #72273. Thanks @sergionsantos. - Discord: preserve native slash-command description localizations through command reconcile, so localized Discord descriptions no longer get overwritten by English defaults. Fixes #56580. Thanks @mhseo93. - Discord: add configured outbound mention aliases so known `@Name` references can be rewritten to real Discord user mentions instead of relying only on the transient directory cache. Fixes #67587. Thanks @McoreD. - Discord: avoid startup REST amplification by skipping native command deploy retries after Discord rate limits and deriving the bot id from parseable bot tokens instead of requiring a `/users/@me` lookup. Fixes #75341. Thanks @PrinceOfEgypt. - Plugins/hooks: derive hook `ctx.channelId` from the conversation target instead of the provider name, so Discord and other channel plugins can keep per-channel state isolated. Fixes #59881. Thanks @bradfreels. - Gateway/config: log config health-state write failures instead of silently hiding config observe-recovery write errors. Thanks @sallyom. - Diagnostics: reset stuck-session timers on reply, tool, status, block, and ACP progress events, and back off repeated `session.stuck` diagnostics while a session remains unchanged. Supersedes #72010. Thanks @rubencu. - Gateway/agents: avoid rebuilding core tools for plugin-only allowlists and keep the full plugin registry cache warm across scoped plugin loads, reducing per-turn latency spikes. Fixes #75882, #75907, #75906, #75887, and #75851. (#75922) Thanks @obviyus. - Agents/failover: classify bare `status: internal server error` provider messages as retryable server errors so model fallback can rotate instead of stopping. (#73844) Thanks @thesomewhatyou. - Gateway/startup: return the shared retryable startup-sidecars error for startup-gated control-plane RPCs such as sessions.create, sessions.send, sessions.abort, agent.wait, and tools.effective, so clients can retry early sidecar races. (#76012) Thanks @scoootscooob. - Providers/Google: fix Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite `reasoning: "minimal"` rejections by raising its thinking-budget floor to 512 while preserving the existing Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash minimal presets. (#70629) Thanks @ericberic. - Agents/status: resolve `session_status(sessionKey="current")` for sparse channel-plugin sessions after literal current lookups miss, so Scope, Slack, Discord, and other plugin-driven agents avoid retrying through `Unknown sessionKey: current`. Fixes #74141. (#72306) Thanks @bittoby. - Cron: retry recurring wake-now main-session jobs through temporary heartbeat busy skips before recording success, so queued cron events no longer appear as ok ghost runs while the main lane is still busy. Fixes #75964. (#76083) Thanks @kshetrajna12 and @xuruiray. - Providers/Google: keep Gemini thinking-signature-only stream chunks active during reasoning, so Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview replies no longer hit idle timeouts before visible text. Fixes #76071. (#76080) Thanks @marcoschierhorn and @zhangguiping-xydt. - CLI/skills: show per-agent model and command visibility in `openclaw skills check --agent`, and let doctor report or disable unavailable skills allowed for the default agent. (#75983) Thanks @mbelinky. ## 2026.4.29 ### Highlights - Messaging and automation get active-run steering by default, visible-reply enforcement, spawned subagent routing metadata, and opt-in follow-up commitments for heartbeat-delivered reminders. Thanks @vincentkoc, @scoootscooob, @samzong, and @vignesh07. - Memory grows into a people-aware wiki with provenance views, per-conversation Active Memory filters, partial recall on timeout, and bounded REM preview diagnostics. Thanks @vincentkoc, @quengh, @joeykrug, and @samzong. - Provider/model coverage expands with NVIDIA onboarding/catalogs plus faster manifest-backed model/auth paths, Bedrock Opus 4.7 thinking parity, and safer Codex/OpenAI-compatible replay and streaming behavior. Thanks @eleqtrizit, @shakkernerd, @prasad-yashdeep, @woodhouse-bot, and @LyHug. - Gateway and packaged-plugin reliability focuses on slow-host startup, reusable model catalogs, event-loop readiness diagnostics, runtime-dependency repair, stale-session recovery, and version-scoped update caches. Thanks @lpendeavors, @DerFlash, @vincentkoc, @pashpashpash, and @jhsmith409. - Channel fixes cluster around Slack Block Kit limits, Telegram proxy/webhook/polling/send resilience, Discord startup/rate-limit handling, WhatsApp delivery/liveness, and Microsoft Teams/Matrix/Feishu edge cases. Thanks @slackapi, @SymbolStar, @djgeorg3, @TinyTb, @dseravalli, @nklock, and @alex-xuweilong. - Security and operations add OpenGrep scanning, sharper GHSA triage policy, safer exec/pairing/owner-scope handling, Docker/onboarding automation, and web-fetch IPv6 ULA opt-in for trusted proxy stacks. Thanks @jesse-merhi, @pgondhi987, @mmaps, @jinjimz, and @jeffrey701. ### Changes - Dependencies: refresh bundled runtime and plugin dependency pins, including Pi 0.71.1, OpenAI 6.35.0, Codex 0.128.0, Zod 4.4.1, and Matrix 41.4.0. Thanks @mariozechner. - Agents/workspace: add `agents.defaults.skipOptionalBootstrapFiles` for skipping selected optional workspace files during bootstrap without disabling required workspace setup. (#62110) Thanks @mainstay22. - Plugins/CLI: add first-class `git:` plugin installs with ref checkout, commit metadata, normal scanner/staging, and `plugins update` support for recorded git sources. Thanks @badlogic. - Google Meet: add live caption health for Chrome transcribe mode, including caption observer state, transcript counters, last caption text, and recent transcript lines in status and doctor output. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf. - Voice Call/Google Meet: add Twilio Meet join phase logs around pre-connect DTMF, realtime stream setup, and initial greeting handoff for easier live-call debugging. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP. - macOS app: move recent session context rows into a Context submenu while keeping usage and cost details root-level, so the menu bar companion stays compact with many active sessions. Thanks @guti. - Gateway/SDK: add SDK-facing tools.invoke RPC with shared HTTP policy, typed approval/refusal results, and SDK helper support. Refs #74705. Thanks @BunsDev and @ai-hpc. - Discord: keep active buttons, selects, and forms working across Gateway restarts until they expire, so multi-step Discord interactions are less likely to break during upgrades or restarts. Thanks @amknight. - Messages/docs: clarify that `BodyForAgent` is the primary inbound model text while `Body` is the legacy envelope fallback, and add Signal coverage so channel hardening patches target the real prompt path. Refs #66198. Thanks @defonota3box. - Slack: publish a safe default App Home tab view on `app_home_opened` and include the Home tab event in setup manifests. Fixes #11655; refs #52020. Thanks @TinyTb. - Slack: keep track of bot-participated threads across restarts, so ongoing threaded conversations can continue auto-replying after the Gateway is restarted. Thanks @amknight. - Control UI/Usage: add UTC quarter-hour token buckets for the Usage Mosaic and reuse them for hour filtering, keeping the legacy session-span fallback for older summaries. (#74337) Thanks @konanok. - BlueBubbles: add opt-in `channels.bluebubbles.replyContextApiFallback` that fetches the original message from the BlueBubbles HTTP API when the in-memory reply-context cache misses (multi-instance deployments sharing one BB account, post-restart, after long-lived TTL/LRU eviction). Off by default; channel-level setting propagates to accounts that omit the flag through `mergeAccountConfig`; routed through the typed `BlueBubblesClient` so every fetch is SSRF-guarded by the same three-mode policy as every other BB client request; reply-id shape is validated and part-index prefixes (`p:0/`) are stripped before the request; concurrent webhooks for the same `replyToId` coalesce into one fetch and successful responses populate the reply cache for subsequent hits. Also promotes BlueBubbles attachment download failures from verbose to runtime error so silently-dropped inbound images are visible at default log level, and extends `sanitizeForLog` to redact `?password=…`/`?token=…` query params and `Authorization:` headers before they reach the log sink (CWE-532). (#71820) Thanks @coletebou and @zqchris. - CLI/proxy: add `openclaw proxy validate` so operators can verify effective proxy configuration, proxy reachability, and expected allow/deny destination behavior before deploying proxy-routed OpenClaw commands. (#73438) Thanks @jesse-merhi. - Agents/Codex: default Codex app-server dynamic tools to native-first, keeping OpenClaw integration tools while leaving file, patch, exec, and process ownership to the Codex harness. (#75308) Thanks @pashpashpash. - Agents/Codex: default Codex-harness direct source replies to the OpenClaw `message` tool when visible reply delivery is not explicitly configured, keeping channel-visible output as a deliberate tool call. (#75765) Thanks @pashpashpash. - Heartbeats/agents: add a structured `heartbeat_respond` tool for tool-capable heartbeat runs so agents can record quiet outcomes or explicit notification text without relying only on `HEARTBEAT_OK` parsing. (#75765) Thanks @pashpashpash. - Gateway/config: allow `$include` directives to read files from operator-approved `OPENCLAW_INCLUDE_ROOTS` directories while preserving default config-directory confinement. Thanks @ificator. - Security/tools: configured tool sections (`tools.exec`, `tools.fs`) no longer implicitly widen restrictive profiles (`messaging`, `minimal`). Users who need those tools under a restricted profile must add explicit `alsoAllow` entries; a startup warning identifies affected configs. Fixes #47487. Thanks @amknight. - Gateway/SDK: add SDK-facing artifact list/get/download RPCs and App SDK helpers with transcript provenance and download-source guardrails. Refs #74706. Thanks @tmimmanuel. - Agents/commitments: add opt-in inferred follow-up commitments with hidden batched extraction, per-agent/per-channel scoping, heartbeat delivery, CLI management, a simple `commitments.enabled`/`commitments.maxPerDay` config, and heartbeat-interval due-time clamping so magical check-ins do not echo immediately. (#74189) Thanks @vignesh07. - Messages/queue: make `steer` drain all pending Pi steering messages at the next model boundary, keep legacy one-at-a-time steering as `queue`, and add a dedicated steering queue docs page. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Messages/queue: default active-run queueing to `steer` with a 500ms followup fallback debounce, and document the queue modes, precedence, and drop policies on the command queue page. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Messages: add global `messages.visibleReplies` so operators can require visible output to go through `message(action=send)` for any source chat, while `messages.groupChat.visibleReplies` stays available as the group/channel override. Thanks @scoootscooob. - Gateway/events: surface `spawnedBy` on subagent chat and agent broadcast payloads so clients can route child session events without an extra session lookup. (#63244) Thanks @samzong. - Memory/wiki: add agent-facing people wiki metadata, canonical aliases, person cards, relationship graphs, privacy/provenance reports, evidence-kind drilldown, and search modes for person lookup, question routing, source evidence, and raw claims. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Active Memory: add optional per-conversation `allowedChatIds` and `deniedChatIds` filters so operators can enable recall only for selected direct, group, or channel conversations while keeping broad sessions skipped. (#67977) Thanks @quengh. - Active Memory: return bounded partial recall summaries when the hidden memory sub-agent times out, including the default temporary-transcript path, so useful recovered context is not discarded. (#73219) Thanks @joeykrug. - Gateway/memory: add a read-only `doctor.memory.remHarness` RPC so operator clients can preview bounded REM dreaming output without running mutation paths. (#66673) Thanks @samzong. - Providers/NVIDIA: add the NVIDIA provider with API-key onboarding, setup docs, static catalog metadata, and literal model-ref picker support so NVIDIA hosted models can be selected with their provider prefix intact. (#71204) Thanks @eleqtrizit. - Models: suppress explicitly configured openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini inline entries so a stale models config written by `openclaw doctor --fix` cannot bypass the manifest capability block and cause repeated assistant-turn failures when the runtime switches to that model on ChatGPT-backed Codex accounts. Conditional suppressions (e.g. qwen Coding Plan endpoint guards) remain bypassable by explicit user configuration. (#74451) Thanks @0xCyda, @hclsys, and @Marvae. - Added SQLite-backed plugin state store (`api.runtime.state.openKeyedStore`) for restart-safe keyed registries with TTL, eviction, and automatic plugin isolation. Thanks @amknight. - Plugin SDK: mark remaining legacy alias exports and diffs tool/config aliases with deprecation metadata, and add a guard so future legacy alias comments require `@deprecated` tags. Thanks @vincentkoc. - CLI/QR/dependencies: internalize small terminal progress and QR wrapper helpers while keeping the real QR encoder dependency direct, reducing the default runtime dependency graph without changing QR output behavior. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Dependencies: refresh workspace runtime, plugin, and tooling packages, including ACP, Pi, AWS SDK, TypeBox, pnpm, oxlint, oxfmt, jsdom, pdfjs, ciao, and tokenjuice, while keeping patched ACP behavior and lint gates current. Thanks @mariozechner. - Gateway/dev: run `pnpm gateway:watch` through a named tmux session by default, with `gateway:watch:raw` and `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_WATCH_TMUX=0` for foreground mode, so repeated starts respawn an inspectable watcher without trapping the invoking agent shell. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/diagnostics: emit an opt-in startup diagnostics timeline that records gateway lifecycle and plugin-load phases behind a config flag, so slow-start diagnosis no longer requires bespoke instrumentation. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Control UI/i18n: extend the locale registry with new Persian (fa), Dutch (nl), Vietnamese (vi), Italian (it), Arabic (ar), and Thai (th) entries and ship `fa`, `nl`, `vi`, and `zh-TW` docs glossaries, so the docs translation pipeline and the Control UI language picker stay aligned across surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Channels: add Yuanbao channel docs entrance so the Tencent Yuanbao bot appears in the channel listing and sidebar navigation. (#73443) Thanks @loongfay. - Channels/Yuanbao: update plugin GitHub location to YuanbaoTeam/yuanbao-openclaw-plugin and add "yuanbao" alias to channel catalog. (#74253) Thanks @loongfay. - Docker setup: add `OPENCLAW_SKIP_ONBOARDING` so automated Docker installs can skip the interactive onboarding step while still applying gateway defaults. (#55518) Thanks @jinjimz. - Security policy: classify media/base64 decode and format-conversion overhead after configured acceptance limits as performance-only for GHSA triage unless a report demonstrates a limit bypass, crash, exhaustion, data exposure, or another boundary bypass. (#74311) - Security/OpenGrep: add a precise OpenGrep rulepack, source-rule compiler, provenance metadata check, and PR/full scan workflows that validate first-party code and rulepack-only changes while uploading SARIF to GitHub Code Scanning. (#69483) Thanks @jesse-merhi. ### Fixes - Agents/tools: skip unavailable media generation and PDF tool factories from the live reply path when Gateway metadata and the active auth store prove no configured provider can back them, while keeping explicit config and auth-backed providers on the normal factory path. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/runtime: reuse the Gateway metadata startup plan when ensuring reply runtime plugins are loaded, so live agent turns do not broad-load plugin runtimes after the Gateway already scoped startup activation. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/runtime: delegate scoped reply runtime registry reuse to the plugin loader cache-key compatibility checks, so config changes with the same startup plugin ids cannot keep stale runtime hooks or tools active. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/runtime: let compatible wider plugin registries satisfy scoped reply runtime requests when they already contain the requested plugins, avoiding redundant runtime loading without bypassing loader cache-key freshness checks. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/runtime: validate agent model allowlists against manifest model catalog metadata during reply startup, avoiding broad provider runtime catalog loading before the agent run lane starts. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/runtime: keep allowlisted configured model thinking metadata available when manifest catalog rows are absent, so explicit high-reasoning levels remain valid for custom configured models. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/tools: preserve plugin-declared config-only generation providers such as local Comfy workflows during reply tool pre-gating, and share manifest auth/config availability checks between the planner and final tool factories. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/tools: keep Comfy generation tools visible from legacy local workflow config and cloud API-key config when no Gateway metadata snapshot is active, using plugin-declared manifest signals instead of loading provider runtimes. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/tools: route media and generation capability lookups through the Gateway plugin metadata snapshot during reply tool registration, avoiding repeated manifest registry reloads on the live reply path. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/tools: let plugins declare media generation auth aliases and base-url guards in manifests, preserving OpenAI Codex OAuth image generation availability without core-owned provider special cases. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/tools: reuse the auth profile store already loaded for the active run when deciding media and generation tool availability, avoiding repeated provider-auth runtime discovery during reply startup. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Agents/tools: keep image, video, and music generation tool registration on manifest/auth control-plane checks instead of loading runtime provider registries during reply startup, reducing live-path tool-prep blocking while leaving provider runtime resolution for execution and list actions. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Discord: document canonical mention formatting in agent prompt hints and channel docs so outbound replies use `<@USER_ID>`, `<#CHANNEL_ID>`, and `<@&ROLE_ID>` instead of legacy nickname mentions. (#75173) - Heartbeat scheduler: gate exec-event/notification/spawn/retry wakes through a centralized cooldown so backgrounded `process.start` exit notifications can no longer self-feed runaway heartbeat runs (configured `every: "30m"` was firing every ~10s in production, pegging the gateway event loop with `eventLoopDelayMaxMs >6s` spikes that stalled control-UI asset serving and TUI handshakes). Documented wake-now paths (`manual`, `wake`, task completion, blocked-task follow-up, `/hooks/wake mode=now`, and cron `--wake now`) remain immediate; retryable busy skips no longer poison the cooldown for the next retry; per-agent flood guard caps any unexpected feedback loop at 5 runs/60s. (#64016, refs #17797 and #75436) Thanks @hexsprite. - fix: block workspace CLOUDSDK_PYTHON override and always set trusted interpreter for gcloud. (#74492) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Providers/Z.AI: move the bundled GLM catalog and auth env metadata into the plugin manifest, so `models list --all --provider zai` shows the full known catalog without duplicated runtime seed data. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Providers/Qianfan and Providers/Stepfun: declare setup auth metadata (`api-key` method, `QIANFAN_API_KEY`, `STEPFUN_API_KEY`) in the plugin manifest so onboarding and `models setup` surface the expected env var without falling back to legacy `providerAuthEnvVars` runtime seed data. Thanks @shakkernerd. - fix(infra): block ambient Homebrew env vars from brew resolution. (#74463) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Onboarding/configure: avoid staging every default plugin runtime dependency after config writes, so skipped setup flows only prepare config-selected plugin deps instead of pulling broad feature-plugin packages. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Thinking/providers: resolve bundled provider thinking profiles through lightweight provider policy artifacts when startup-lazy providers are not active, so OpenAI Codex GPT-5.x keeps xhigh available in Gateway session validation. Fixes #74796. Thanks @maxschachere. - Security/Windows: ignore workspace `.env` system-path variables and resolve stale-process `taskkill.exe` from the validated Windows install root, preventing repository-local env files from redirecting cleanup helpers. Thanks @pgondhi987. - CLI/plugins: refresh persisted plugin registry policy in place for `plugins enable` and `plugins disable`, so routine toggles no longer rebuild and hash every plugin source when the target is already indexed. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Windows/install: run npm from a writable installer temp directory and pin the Bedrock runtime dependency below a Windows ARM Node 24 npm resolver failure, so global OpenClaw installs no longer fail before onboarding. Thanks @mariozechner. - CLI/plugins: scope install and enable slot selection to the selected plugin manifest/runtime fallback, so plugin installs no longer load every plugin runtime or broad status snapshot just to update memory/context slots. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/TTS: keep bundled speech-provider discovery available on cold package Gateway paths and add bundled plugin matrix runtime probes for health, readiness, RPC, TTS discovery, and post-ready runtime-deps watchdog coverage. Refs #75283. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Google Meet/Twilio: show delegated voice call ID, DTMF, and intro-greeting state in `googlemeet doctor`, and avoid claiming DTMF was sent when no Meet PIN sequence was configured. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf. - Plugins/tools: prefer built bundled plugin code during tool discovery and skip channel runtime hydration while preserving companion provider registrations, reducing per-run plugin-tool prep cost without dropping executable plugin tools. Fixes #75290. Thanks @thanos-openclaw. - Plugins/loader: scope plugin-tool registry reuse to the enabled plugin plan and stored Gateway method keys, so embedded runner tool lookup can reuse compatible startup registries without hiding enabled non-startup plugin tools. Fixes #75520. Thanks @whtoo. - Voice Call/Twilio: send notify-mode initial TwiML directly in the outbound create-call request while keeping conversation and pre-connect DTMF calls webhook-driven, so one-shot notify calls do not depend on a first-answer webhook fetch. Supersedes #72758. Thanks @tyshepps. - Discord/Slack: defer status-reaction cleanup until run finalization so queued, thinking, tool, and terminal reactions no longer flicker during normal progress updates. (#75582) - Discord/voice: leave Discord voice off for text-only configs unless `channels.discord.voice` is explicitly configured, avoiding default `GuildVoiceStates` traffic and idle gateway CPU pressure for bots that do not use `/vc`. Fixes #73753; refs #74044. Thanks @sanchezm86 and @SecureCloudProjO. - Discord/voice: rerun configured voice auto-join after Discord gateway RESUMED events and ignore already-destroyed stale voice connections during reconnect cleanup, so health-monitor account restarts can rejoin configured channels. Fixes #40665. Thanks @liz709. - Plugins/CLI: reuse the cold manifest registry while building plugin status and inspect reports, so large configured plugin sets no longer rediscover the bundled/plugin registry once per inspect row. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Discord/voice: lengthen the default voice join Ready wait, add configurable `voice.connectTimeoutMs`/`voice.reconnectGraceMs`, and warn before destroying unrecovered disconnected sessions so slow Discord voice handshakes and reconnects no longer fail silently. Fixes #63098; refs #39825 and #65039. Thanks @darealgege, @kzicherman, and @ayochim. - Gateway/health: refresh cached health RPC snapshots when channel runtime state diverges, so Discord and other channel status reads no longer report stale running or connected values until the cache TTL expires. (#75423) - Gateway/sessions: keep session-store reads from running stale prune and entry-count cap maintenance during startup, so oversized stores no longer block chat history readiness after updates while writes and `sessions cleanup --enforce` still preserve the cleanup safeguards. Fixes #70050. Thanks @tangda18. - Security/audit: keep plain `security audit` on the cold config/filesystem path and reserve plugin runtime security collectors for `--deep`, so large plugin installs cannot execute every plugin runtime during routine audits. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Discord/voice: merge configured media-understanding providers such as Deepgram into partial active provider registries, so follow-up voice turns keep transcribing after another media plugin is already active. Fixes #65687. Thanks @OneMintJulep. - WhatsApp: stage `qrcode` through root mirrored runtime dependencies so packaged QR pairing can render from staged plugin-runtime-deps installs. Fixes #75394. Thanks @FelipeX2001. - Discord/voice: apply per-channel Discord `systemPrompt` overrides to voice transcript turns by forwarding the trusted channel prompt through the voice agent run. Fixes #47095. Thanks @qearlyao. - Discord/native commands: send component-only interaction replies from slash command and status handlers instead of treating renderable Discord components as an empty response. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Slack/slash commands: send block-only slash command replies instead of dropping Slack block payloads with no plain-text fallback. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Telegram/messages: derive fallback text from interactive button/select labels before sending button-only payloads, so Telegram replies are not rejected as empty messages. Thanks @vincentkoc. - LINE/messages: send quick-reply-only payloads with fallback option text instead of accepting the payload and returning an empty delivery. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Auto-reply/docking: require `/dock-*` route switches to start from direct chats, so group or channel participants cannot reroute a shared session's future replies into a linked DM. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Discord: keep text-DM main-session route updates pinned to the configured DM owner, matching component interactions so another direct-message sender cannot redirect future main-session replies. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Mattermost/Matrix: keep direct-message main-session route updates pinned to the configured DM owner so paired or temporarily allowed senders cannot redirect future shared-session replies. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Discord: keep SecretRef-backed bot tokens discoverable for message actions without resolving the token during schema generation, and resolve scoped channel SecretRefs before outbound agent message sends even when the tool is built from a config snapshot. Fixes #75324. Thanks @slideshow-dingo and @Conan-Scott. - Updates: run package post-install doctor repair with the managed Gateway service profile and state paths when a daemon is installed, so shell/profile mismatches no longer repair the caller state while the restarted Gateway keeps stale config. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Models/DeepInfra: declare DeepInfra manifest catalog discovery and derive its runtime fallback catalog from the manifest, restoring provider-filtered `models list --all --provider deepinfra` rows without duplicated static model data. Thanks @shakkernerd. - CLI/update: verify managed gateway restarts against the installed service port instead of the caller shell port, so package updates do not report a healthy daemon as failed when profiles use different gateway ports. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/agent: reject strict `openclaw agent --deliver` requests with missing delivery targets before starting the agent run, so users do not wait for a completed turn that cannot send anywhere. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Setup/import: honor non-interactive `--import-from` onboarding flags by running the migration import path instead of silently completing normal setup without importing anything. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Discord/voice: run voice-channel turns under a voice-output policy that hides the agent `tts` tool and asks for spoken reply text, so `/vc join` sessions synthesize and play agent replies instead of ending with `NO_REPLY`. Fixes #61536. Thanks @aounakram. - Doctor/plugins: keep plain `doctor --non-interactive` from installing bundled plugin runtime dependencies, so headless health checks report missing deps while `doctor --fix` remains the explicit repair path. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Doctor/gateway: require an interactive confirmation before installing or rewriting the Gateway service, so `doctor --fix --non-interactive` can repair plugin/config drift without replacing the operator's launchd/systemd service from a temporary environment. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/runtime-deps: include packaged OpenClaw identity in bundled plugin loader cache keys, so same-path package upgrades stop reusing stale versioned runtime-deps mirrors. Fixes #75045. Thanks @sahilsatralkar. - Plugin SDK: restore reply-prefix and reply-pipeline helpers on the deprecated root/compat SDK surface so external plugins still using `openclaw/plugin-sdk` do not fail message dispatch after update. Fixes #75171. Thanks @zhangxiliang. - Plugins/runtime-deps: prune inactive same-package versioned runtime-deps roots after bundled dependency repair, so upgrades do not leave old `openclaw--` package caches behind after doctor runs. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/runtime-deps: prune legacy version-scoped plugin runtime-deps roots during bundled dependency repair and cover the path in Package Acceptance's upgrade-survivor matrix, so upgrades from 2026.4.x no longer leave stale per-plugin runtime trees after doctor runs. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/runtime-deps: keep Gateway startup plugin imports and runtime plugin fallback loads verify-only after startup/config repair planning, so packaged installs no longer spawn package-manager repair from hot paths after readiness. Refs #75283 and #75069. Thanks @brokemac79 and @xiaohuaxi. - Plugins/runtime-deps: treat package.json runtime-deps manifests as supersets when generated materialization metadata is absent, so bundled plugin activation stops restaging already-installed dependency subsets on every activation. Fixes #75429. (#75431) Thanks @loyur. - iMessage: add stdin write callback and error listener to IMessageRpcClient so async EPIPE from a closed child process rejects the pending request instead of crashing the gateway with uncaughtException. Fixes #75438. - MCP/stdio: settle MCP stdio transport send() from the write callback instead of resolving immediately on buffer acceptance, so async write errors reject the promise instead of being lost. Refs #75438. - Process/exec: add stdin error listener in runCommandWithTimeout so EPIPE from a prematurely-exited child is swallowed instead of escaping to uncaughtException. Refs #75438. - Voice Call/realtime: add default-off fast memory/session context for `openclaw_agent_consult`, giving live calls a bounded answer-or-miss path before the full agent consult. Fixes #71849. Thanks @amzzzzzzz. - Google Meet: interrupt Realtime provider output when local barge-in clears playback, so command-pair audio stops model speech instead of only restarting Chrome playback. Fixes #73850. (#73834) Thanks @shhtheonlyperson. - Gateway/config: cap oversized plugin-owned schemas in the full `config.schema` response so large installed plugin sets cannot balloon Gateway RSS or crash schema clients. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Plugins/update: skip ClawHub and marketplace plugin updates when the bundled version is newer than the recorded installed version, so `openclaw update` no longer overwrites working bundled plugins with older external packages. Fixes #75447. Thanks @amknight. - Gateway/sessions: use bounded tail reads for sessions-list transcript usage fallbacks and cap bulk title/last-message hydration, keeping large session stores responsive when rows request derived previews. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/sessions: yield during bulk transcript title/preview hydration and copy compaction checkpoints asynchronously, keeping the Gateway event loop responsive for large session stores and large transcripts. Refs #75330 and #75414. Thanks @amknight. - Gateway/sessions: stream bounded transcript reads for session detail, history, artifacts, compaction, and send/subscribe sequence paths so small Gateway requests no longer materialize large transcripts or OOM on oversized session logs. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Gateway/chat: bound chat-history transcript reads to the requested display window so large session logs no longer OOM the Gateway when clients ask for a small history page. Thanks @vincentkoc. - BlueBubbles: detect audio attachments by Apple UTIs (`public.audio`, `public.mpeg-4-audio`, `com.apple.m4a-audio`, `com.apple.coreaudio-format`) in addition to `audio/*` MIME, so iMessage voice notes whose webhook payload only carries the UTI are now classified as audio in the inbound `` placeholder instead of falling through to the generic `` tag. Thanks @omarshahine. - Voice Call/Twilio: honor stored pre-connect TwiML before realtime webhook shortcuts and reject DTMF sequences outside conversation mode, so Meet PIN entry cannot be skipped or silently dropped. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP. - Docs/sandboxing: clarify that sandbox setup scripts (`sandbox-setup.sh`, `sandbox-common-setup.sh`, `sandbox-browser-setup.sh`) are only available from a source checkout, and add inline `docker build` commands for npm-installed users so sandbox image setup works without cloning the repo. Fixes #75485. Thanks @amknight. - Google Meet/Voice Call: play Twilio Meet DTMF before opening the realtime media stream and carry the intro as the initial Voice Call message, so the greeting is generated after Meet admits the phone participant instead of racing a live-call TwiML update. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP. - Google Meet/Voice Call: make Twilio setup preflight honor explicit `--transport twilio` and fail local/private Voice Call webhook URLs, including IPv6 loopback and unique-local forms, before joins. Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP. - Voice Call/Twilio: retry transient 21220 live-call TwiML updates and catch answered-path initial-greeting failures, so a fast answered callback no longer crashes the Gateway or drops the Twilio greeting/listen transition. (#74606) Thanks @Sivan22. - CLI/startup: preserve `OPENCLAW_HIDE_BANNER` banner suppression for route-first startup callers that rely on the default process environment while keeping read-only status/channel paths from repairing bundled plugin runtime dependencies. Refs #75183. - Voice Call/Twilio: register accepted media streams immediately but wait for realtime transcription readiness before speaking the initial greeting, so reconnect grace handling stays live while OpenAI STT startup is no longer starved by TTS. Fixes #75197. (#75257) Thanks @donkeykong91 and @PfanP. - Voice Call CLI: run gateway-delegated `voicecall continue` through operation-id polling and protocol-shaped errors, so long conversational turns keep their transcript result without blocking a single Gateway RPC. (#75459) Thanks @serrurco and @DougButdorf. - Voice Call CLI: delegate operational `voicecall` commands to the running Gateway runtime and skip webhook startup during CLI-only plugin loading, preventing webhook port conflicts and `setup --json` hangs. Fixes #72345. Thanks @serrurco and @DougButdorf. - Agents/pi-embedded-runner: extract the `abortable` provider-call wrapper from `runEmbeddedAttempt` to module scope so its promise handlers no longer close over the run lexical context, releasing transcripts, tool buffers, and subscription callbacks when a provider call hangs past abort. (#74182) Thanks @cjboy007. - Docker: restore `python3` in the gateway runtime image after the slim-runtime switch. Fixes #75041. - Agents/session-repair: fix resumed sessions failing with repeated 400 errors on Anthropic and strict OpenAI-compatible providers (Qwen, mlx-vlm) after an interrupted conversation or blank user input. Fixes #75271 and #75313. Thanks @amknight. - CLI/Voice Call: scope `voicecall` command activation to the Voice Call plugin so setup and smoke checks no longer broad-load unrelated plugin runtimes or hang after printing JSON. Thanks @vincentkoc. - Doctor/plugins: warn when restrictive `plugins.allow` is paired with wildcard or plugin-owned tool allowlists, making the exclusive plugin allowlist behavior visible before users hit empty callable-tool runs. Refs #58009 and #64982. Thanks @KR-Python and @BKF-Gitty. - Google Meet/Voice Call: keep Twilio Meet joins in conversation mode and reuse the realtime intro prompt when no voice-call-specific intro is configured, so answered phone bridge calls speak instead of joining silently. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf. - Auto-reply/group chats: keep the `message` tool available for message-tool-only visible replies and apply group-scoped tool policy before deciding fallback delivery, so Discord/Slack-style rooms reply visibly in the correct channel after upgrades. Fixes #74842; refs #75207. Thanks @davelutztx and @aa-on-ai. - Agents/commitments: keep inferred follow-ups internal when heartbeat target is none, strip raw source text from stored commitments, disable tools during due-commitment heartbeat turns, bound hidden extraction queue growth, expire stale commitments, and add QA/Docker safety coverage. Thanks @vignesh07. - Telegram/agents: keep typing indicators and optional generation tools off the reply critical path, so fresh Telegram replies no longer stall while provider catalogs and media models load. (#75360) Thanks @obviyus. - Agents/commitments: run hidden follow-up extraction on the configured agent/default model instead of falling back to direct OpenAI, so OpenAI Codex OAuth-only gateways no longer spam background API-key failures. Fixes #75334. Thanks @sene1337. - Agents/media: keep async music generation completions on the requester-session wake path even when direct-send completion is enabled, so finished audio stays agent-mediated while video can still opt into direct channel delivery. (#75335) Thanks @vincentkoc. - Agents/media: keep image and video provider inventory internal when tool output is hidden, so shared chat surfaces no longer expose provider/model/auth-hint details from list results. Fixes #75166. Thanks @MkDev11. - Security/config-audit: redact CLI argv and execArgv secrets before persisting config audit records, covering write, observe, and recovery paths. Fixes #60826. Thanks @koshaji. - Gateway/models: keep default and configured model-list views responsive when provider catalog discovery stalls, without hiding real catalog load failures, while `--all` still waits for the exact full catalog. Fixes #75297; refs #74404. Thanks @lisandromachado and @najef1979-code. - Plugins/runtime-deps: accept already materialized package-level runtime-deps supersets as converged, so later lazy plugin activation no longer prunes and relaunches `pnpm install` after gateway startup pre-staging, reducing event-loop pressure from repeated runtime-deps repair on packaged installs. Fixes #75283; refs #75297 and #72338. Thanks @brokemac79, @lisandromachado, and @midhunmonachan. - Plugins/runtime-deps: remove OpenClaw-owned legacy runtime-deps symlinks before replacing staged bundled plugin dependencies, so updates can recover from older symlinked installs instead of failing the symlink safety guard. Thanks @goldmar. - Discord: retry queued REST 429s against learned bucket/global cooldowns and reacquire fresh voice upload URLs after CDN upload rate limits, so outbound sends recover without reusing stale single-use upload URLs. Thanks @discord. - TTS/providers: keep bundled speech-provider compat fallback available when plugins are globally disabled, so cold gateway and CLI startup can still resolve fallback speech providers instead of leaving explicit TTS provider selection with no registered providers. Refs #75265. Thanks @sliekens. - Discord: collapse repeated native slash-command deploy rate-limit startup logs into one non-fatal warning while keeping per-request REST timing in verbose output. Thanks @discord. - Discord: report native slash-command deploy aborts as REST timeouts with method, path, timeout budget, and observed duration, so startup logs explain slow Discord API calls instead of showing a generic aborted operation. Thanks @discord. - Security/logging: redact payment credential field names such as card number, CVC/CVV, shared payment token, and payment credential across default log and tool-payload redaction patterns so wallet-style MCP tools do not expose raw payment credentials in UI events or transcripts. Thanks @stainlu. - Providers/OpenAI Codex: preserve existing wrapped Codex streams during OpenAI attribution so PI OAuth bearer injection reaches ChatGPT/Codex Responses, and strip native Codex-only unsupported payload fields without touching custom compatible endpoints. (#75111) Thanks @keshavbotagent. - Plugins/runtime-deps: materialize newly required bundled plugin packages after local `openclaw onboard` and `openclaw configure` config writes, while keeping remote setup read-only, so first Gateway startup no longer discovers missing channel/provider deps after setup claimed success. Fixes #75309; refs #75069. Thanks @scottgl9 and @xiaohuaxi. - Plugins/runtime-deps: expire stale legacy install locks whose live PID cannot be tied to the current process incarnation, so Docker PID reuse no longer leaves bundled dependency repair stuck behind old `.openclaw-runtime-deps.lock` directories. Fixes #74948; refs #74950 and #74346. Thanks @dchekmarev. - Plugins/runtime-deps: recover interrupted bundled runtime-dependency installs whose package sentinels exist but generated materialization is incomplete, forcing npm/pnpm repair in Gateway startup, doctor, and lazy plugin loads instead of leaving channels crash-looping on missing packages. Fixes #75309; refs #75310, #75296, and #75304. Thanks @scottgl9. - Plugins/runtime-deps: treat no-main and export-map package sentinels without reachable entry files as incomplete, so Gateway startup, doctor, and lazy plugin loads repair interrupted bundled dependency installs instead of accepting package.json-only partial installs. Fixes #75309; refs #75183. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Plugins/runtime-deps: keep runtime inspection and channel maintenance commands from downloading bundled plugin dependencies, route explicit repairs through `openclaw plugins deps --repair`, and still allow Gateway/DO paths to repair missing deps before import. Refs #75069. Thanks @xiaohuaxi. - Updates: force non-deferred, no-cooldown update restarts after package-manager updates requested through the live Gateway control plane and fail release validation on post-swap stale chunk import crashes, so Telegram/Discord imports do not stay pointed at removed dist files. Fixes #75206. Thanks @xonaman and @faux123. - Agents/tool-result guard: use the resolved runtime context token budget for non-context-engine tool-result overflow checks, so long tool-heavy sessions no longer compact early when `contextTokens` is larger than native `contextWindow`. Fixes #74917. Thanks @kAIborg24. - Gateway/systemd: exit with sysexits 78 for supervised lock and `EADDRINUSE` conflicts so `RestartPreventExitStatus=78` stops `Restart=always` restart loops instead of repeatedly reloading plugins against an occupied port. Fixes #75115. Thanks @yhyatt. - Agents/runtime: skip blank visible user prompts at the embedded-runner boundary before provider submission while still allowing internal runtime-only turns and media-only prompts, so Telegram/group sessions no longer leak raw empty-input provider errors when replay history exists. Fixes #74137. Thanks @yelog, @Gracker, and @nhaener. - Agents/Codex: isolate local Codex app-server `CODEX_HOME` and `HOME` per agent and add a deliberate Codex migration path with selectable skill copies, so personal Codex CLI skills, plugins, config, and hooks no longer leak into OpenClaw agents unless the operator migrates them into the workspace. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Security/Nextcloud Talk: make webhook signature validation use the padded timing-safe compare path even when the supplied signature length is wrong, keep normalized header lookup behavior, and extend regression coverage for tampered bodies, wrong secrets, array-backed headers, and truncated signatures. Carries forward earlier contributor work from #50516 by teddytennant. (#58097) Thanks @gavyngong. - Plugins/runtime-deps: replace stale symlinked mirror target roots before writing runtime-mirror temp files and skip rewriting already materialized hardlinks, so cross-version container upgrades no longer crash-loop on read-only image-layer paths while warm mirrors do less churn. Fixes #75108; refs #75069. Thanks @coletebou and @xiaohuaxi. - Auto-reply/group chats: fall back to automatic source delivery when a channel precomputes message-tool-only replies but the `message` tool is unavailable, so Discord/Slack-style group turns do not silently complete without a visible reply. Fixes #74868. Thanks @kagura-agent. - Browser/gateway: share one browser control runtime across the HTTP control server and `browser.request`, and refresh browser profile config from the source snapshot, so CLI status/start honors configured `browser.executablePath`, `headless`, and `noSandbox` instead of falling back to stale auto-detection. Fixes #75087; repairs #73617. Thanks @civiltox and @martingarramon. - Agents/subagents: bound automatic orphan recovery with persisted recovery attempts and a wedged-session tombstone, and teach task maintenance/doctor to reconcile those sessions so restart loops no longer require manual `sessions.json` surgery. Fixes #74864. Thanks @solosage1. - Plugins/runtime-deps: keep bundled provider policy config loading from staging plugin runtime dependencies, so config reads no longer fail on locked-down `/var/lib/openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps` directories. Fixes #74971. Thanks @eurojojo. - Memory/runtime-deps: retain the native `node-llama-cpp` runtime only when local memory search is configured, so packaged installs can repair local embeddings without relying on unreachable global npm installs. Fixes #74777. Thanks @LLagoon3. - Gateway/startup: skip pre-bind web-fetch provider discovery for credential-free `tools.web.fetch` config, so Docker/Kubernetes gateways bind even when optional fetch limits are present. Fixes #74896. Thanks @KoykL. - Signal: match group allowlists against inbound Signal group ids as well as sender ids, and process explicitly configured Signal groups without requiring mentions unless `requireMention` is set. Fixes #53308. Thanks @minupla and @juan-flores077. - Signal: bound `signal-cli` installer release and archive downloads with explicit timeouts, declared and streamed size checks, and partial-file cleanup. Fixes #54153. Thanks @jinduwang1001-max and @juan-flores077. - Slack: require bot-authored room messages with `allowBots=true` to come from an explicitly channel-allowlisted bot or from a room where an explicit Slack owner is present, so broad bot relays cannot run unattended. Fixes #59284. Thanks @andrewhong-translucent. - Signal: derive `getAttachment` HTTP response caps from `channels.signal.mediaMaxMb` with base64 headroom, so inbound photos and videos no longer drop behind the 1 MiB RPC default. Fixes #73564. Thanks @heyhudson. - Signal: keep the long-lived receive SSE monitor open while idle instead of applying the 10s RPC/check deadline, so `signal-cli` 0.14.3 event streams no longer reconnect before inbound messages arrive. Fixes #74741. Thanks @fgabelmannjr and @k7n4n5t3w4rt. - CLI/progress: suppress nested progress spinners and line clears while TUI input owns raw stdin, so Crestodian `/status` no longer disturbs the active input row. (#75003) Thanks @velvet-shark. - Models/OpenAI Codex: restore `openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini` for ChatGPT/Codex OAuth PI runs after live OAuth proof, and align the manifest, forward-compat metadata, docs, and regression tests so stale cron and heartbeat configs resolve again. Fixes #74451. Thanks @0xCyda, @hclsys, and @Marvae. - Plugins/runtime-deps: always write a dependency map in generated runtime-deps install manifests, so npm does not crash or prune staged bundled-plugin packages when the plan is empty. Fixes #74949. Thanks @hclsys. - Telegram: use durable message edits for streaming previews instead of native draft state, so generated replies no longer flicker through draft-to-message transitions that look like duplicates. (#75073) Thanks @obviyus. - Telegram: echo preflighted DM voice-note transcripts back to the originating chat, including Telegram DM topic thread metadata, instead of only echoing later media-understanding transcripts. Fixes #75084. Thanks @M-Lietz. - Telegram: clamp low long-polling client timeouts so configured `timeoutSeconds` values below the `getUpdates` poll window no longer force a fresh HTTPS connection every few seconds. Fixes #75114. Thanks @hpinho77. - Web search: describe `web_search` as using the configured provider instead of hard-coding Brave when DuckDuckGo or another provider is active. Fixes #75088. Thanks @sun-rongyang. - Infra/tmp: tolerate concurrent temp-dir permission repairs by rechecking directories that another process already tightened, so parallel ACP subprocess startup no longer throws `Unsafe fallback OpenClaw temp dir`. Fixes #66867. Thanks @Kane808-AI and @jarvisz8. - Agents/compaction: add an opt-in `agents.defaults.compaction.midTurnPrecheck` mid-turn precheck that detects tool-loop context pressure and triggers compaction before the next tool call instead of waiting for end-of-turn. (#73499) Thanks @marchpure and @haoxingjun. - Gateway/approvals: let loopback token/password-backed native approval clients resolve exec approvals without attaching stale paired Gateway identities, while remote and unauthenticated approval clients keep normal device identity behavior. (#74472) - Gateway/config: include rejected validation paths in foreground and service last-known-good recovery logs plus main-agent notices, so unsupported direct edits explain which key caused restore instead of looking like silent reversion. Fixes #75060. Thanks @amknight. - Plugins/runtime-deps: hash the OS-canonical `packageRoot` via `fs.realpathSync.native` (with `path.resolve` fallback) when computing the bundled runtime-deps stage key, so loader and channel `bundled-root` callers no longer derive divergent stage directories under `~/.openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps/openclaw--/` and bundled channels stop failing with `ENOENT` on shared dist chunks under Windows npm symlinks, junctions, or PM2 multi-instance worker layouts. Fixes #74963. (#75048) Thanks @openperf and @vincentkoc. - fix(logging): add redaction patterns for Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, HuggingFace and Replicate API keys (#58162). Thanks @gavyngong - Pairing: surface unexpected allowlist filesystem stat errors instead of treating the allowlist as missing, so permission and I/O failures are visible during pairing authorization checks. (#63324) Thanks @franciscomaestre. - macOS app: reserve layout space for exec approval command details so the allow dialog no longer overlaps the command, context, and action buttons. (#75470) Thanks @ngutman. - Agents/failover: carry `sessionId`, `lane`, `provider`, `model`, and `profileId` attribution through `FailoverError` and `describeFailoverError`/`coerceToFailoverError` so structured error logs (e.g. `gateway.err.log` ingestion) can attribute exhausted-fallback wrapper errors to the originating session and last-attempted provider instead of dropping the metadata after the per-profile errors. Fixes #42713. (#73506) Thanks @wenxu007. - Context Engine: treat assembled prompt as the default authority for preemptive overflow prechecks so engines that return a windowed, self-contained context no longer trigger false hard-fail compactions on huge raw history. Engines whose assembled view can hide overflow risk can opt back into the legacy behavior with `AssembleResult.promptAuthority: "preassembly_may_overflow"`. (#74255) Thanks @100yenadmin. - Mattermost: refresh current native slash command registrations before accepting callbacks so stale tokens from deleted or regenerated commands stop being accepted without a gateway restart while failed validations stay briefly cached and lookup starts are rate-limited per command, gate each callback against the resolved command's own startup token so a token leaked for one slash command cannot poison another command's failure cache, redact slash validation lookup errors, and add a body read timeout to the multi-account routing path so slow callback senders cannot tie up the dispatcher. Thanks @feynman-hou and @eleqtrizit. - Security/dotenv: block `COMSPEC` in workspace `.env` so a malicious repo cannot redirect Windows `cmd.exe` resolution, and lock in case-insensitive workspace-`.env` regression coverage for the full Windows shell trust-root family (`COMSPEC`, `PROGRAMFILES`, `PROGRAMW6432`, `SYSTEMROOT`, `WINDIR`). (#74460) Thanks @mmaps. - Gateway/install: drop stale version-manager and package-manager PATH entries preserved from old service files during `gateway install --force` and doctor repair, so the repair path no longer recreates `gateway-path-nonminimal` warnings. Fixes #75220. (#75440) Thanks @leonaIee, @renaudcerrato, and @aaajiao. - Voice Call: resolve SecretRef-backed Twilio auth tokens and realtime/streaming provider API keys before initializing call providers, so SecretRef-backed voice-call credentials reach runtime as strings. (#73632) Thanks @VACInc. - Security/outbound: strip re-formed HTML tags during plain-text sanitization so nested tag fragments cannot leave a CodeQL-detected `