Changes

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

Fixes

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

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Changes

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

Breaking

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

Fixes

• Models/MiniMax: stop advertising removed MiniMax-M2.5-Lightning in built-in provider catalogs, onboarding metadata, and docs; keep the supported fast-tier model as MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed.
• Security/Config: fail closed when loadConfig() hits validation or read errors so invalid configs cannot silently fall back to permissive runtime defaults. (#9040) Thanks @joetomasone.
• Memory/Hybrid search: preserve negative FTS5 BM25 relevance ordering in bm25RankToScore() so stronger keyword matches rank above weaker ones instead of collapsing or reversing scores. (#33757) Thanks @lsdcc01.
• LINE/requireMention group gating: align inbound and reply-stage LINE group policy resolution across raw, group:, and room: keys (including account-scoped group config), preserve plugin-backed reply-stage fallback behavior, and add regression coverage for prefixed-only group/room config plus reply-stage policy resolution. (#35847) Thanks @kirisame-wang.
• Onboarding/local setup: default unset local tools.profile to coding instead of messaging, restoring file/runtime tools for fresh local installs while preserving explicit user-set profiles. (from #38241, overlap with #34958) Thanks @cgdusek.
• Gateway/Telegram stale-socket restart guard: only apply stale-socket restarts to channels that publish event-liveness timestamps, preventing Telegram providers from being misclassified as stale solely due to long uptime and avoiding restart/pairing storms after upgrade. (openclaw#38464)
• Onboarding/headless Linux daemon probe hardening: treat systemctl --user is-enabled probe failures as non-fatal during daemon install flow so onboarding no longer crashes on SSH/headless VPS environments before showing install guidance. (#37297) Thanks @acarbajal-web.
• Memory/QMD mcporter Windows spawn hardening: when mcporter.cmd launch fails with spawn EINVAL, retry via bare mcporter shell resolution so QMD recall can continue instead of falling back to builtin memory search. (#27402) Thanks @i0ivi0i.
• Tools/web_search Brave language-code validation: align search_lang handling with Brave-supported codes (including zh-hans, zh-hant, en-gb, and pt-br), map common alias inputs (zh, ja) to valid Brave values, and reject unsupported codes before upstream requests to prevent 422 failures. (#37260) Thanks @heyanming.
• Models/openai-completions streaming compatibility: force compat.supportsUsageInStreaming=false for non-native OpenAI-compatible endpoints during model normalization, preventing usage-only stream chunks from triggering choices[0] parser crashes in provider streams. (#8714) Thanks @nonanon1.
• Tools/xAI native web-search collision guard: drop OpenClaw web_search from tool registration when routing to xAI/Grok model providers (including OpenRouter x-ai/*) to avoid duplicate tool-name request failures against provider-native web_search. (#14749) Thanks @realsamrat.
• TUI/token copy-safety rendering: treat long credential-like mixed alphanumeric tokens (including quoted forms) as copy-sensitive in render sanitization so formatter hard-wrap guards no longer inject visible spaces into auth-style values before display. (#26710) Thanks @jasonthane.
• WhatsApp/self-chat response prefix fallback: stop forcing "[openclaw]" as the implicit outbound response prefix when no identity name or response prefix is configured, so blank/default prefix settings no longer inject branding text unexpectedly in self-chat flows. (#27962) Thanks @ecanmor.
• Memory/QMD search result decoding: accept qmd search hits that only include file URIs (for example qmd://collection/path.md) without docid, resolve them through managed collection roots, and keep multi-collection results keyed by file fallback so valid QMD hits no longer collapse to empty memory_search output. (#28181) Thanks @0x76696265.
• Memory/QMD collection-name conflict recovery: when qmd collection add fails because another collection already occupies the same path + pattern, detect the conflicting collection from collection list, remove it, and retry add so agent-scoped managed collections are created deterministically instead of being silently skipped; also add warning-only fallback when qmd metadata is unavailable to avoid destructive guesses. (#25496) Thanks @Ramsbaby.
• Slack/app_mention race dedupe: when app_mention dispatch wins while same-ts message prepare is still in-flight, suppress the later message dispatch so near-simultaneous Slack deliveries do not produce duplicate replies; keep single-retry behavior and add regression coverage for both dropped and successful message-prepare outcomes. (#37033) Thanks @Takhoffman.
• Gateway/chat streaming tool-boundary text retention: merge assistant delta segments into per-run chat buffers so pre-tool text is preserved in live chat deltas/finals when providers emit post-tool assistant segments as non-prefix snapshots. (#36957) Thanks @Datyedyeguy.
• TUI/model indicator freshness: prevent stale session snapshots from overwriting freshly patched model selection (and reset per-session freshness when switching session keys) so /model updates reflect immediately instead of lagging by one or more commands. (#21255) Thanks @kowza.
• TUI/final-error rendering fallback: when a chat final event has no renderable assistant content but includes envelope errorMessage, render the formatted error text instead of collapsing to "(no output)", preserving actionable failure context in-session. (#14687) Thanks @Mquarmoc.
• TUI/session-key alias event matching: treat chat events whose session keys are canonical aliases (for example agent::main vs main) as the same session while preserving cross-agent isolation, so assistant replies no longer disappear or surface in another terminal window due to strict key-form mismatch. (#33937) Thanks @yjh1412.
• OpenAI Codex OAuth/login parity: keep openclaw models auth login --provider openai-codex on the built-in path even without provider plugins, preserve Pi-generated authorize URLs without local scope rewriting, and stop validating successful Codex sign-ins against the public OpenAI Responses API after callback. (#37558; follow-up to #36660 and #24720) Thanks @driesvints, @Skippy-Gunboat, and @obviyus.
• Agents/config schema lookup: add gateway tool action config.schema.lookup so agents can inspect one config path at a time before edits without loading the full schema into prompt context. (#37266) Thanks @gumadeiras.
• Onboarding/API key input hardening: strip non-Latin1 Unicode artifacts from normalized secret input (while preserving Latin-1 content and internal spaces) so malformed copied API keys cannot trigger HTTP header ByteString construction crashes; adds regression coverage for shared normalization and MiniMax auth header usage. (#24496) Thanks @fa6maalassaf.
• Kimi Coding/Anthropic tools compatibility: normalize anthropic-messages tool payloads to OpenAI-style tools[].function + compatible tool_choice when targeting Kimi Coding endpoints, restoring tool-call workflows that regressed after v2026.3.2. (#37038) Thanks @mochimochimochi-hub.
• Heartbeat/workspace-path guardrails: append explicit workspace HEARTBEAT.md path guidance (and docs/heartbeat.md avoidance) to heartbeat prompts so heartbeat runs target workspace checklists reliably across packaged install layouts. (#37037) Thanks @stofancy.
• Subagents/kill-complete announce race: when a late subagent-complete lifecycle event arrives after an earlier kill marker, clear stale kill suppression/cleanup flags and re-run announce cleanup so finished runs no longer get silently swallowed. (#37024) Thanks @cmfinlan.
• Agents/tool-result cleanup timeout hardening: on embedded runner teardown idle timeouts, clear pending tool-call state without persisting synthetic missing tool result entries, preventing timeout cleanups from poisoning follow-up turns; adds regression coverage for timeout clear-vs-flush behavior. (#37081) Thanks @Coyote-Den.
• Agents/openai-completions stream timeout hardening: ensure runtime undici global dispatchers use extended streaming body/header timeouts (including env-proxy dispatcher mode) before embedded runs, reducing forced mid-stream terminated failures on long generations; adds regression coverage for dispatcher selection and idempotent reconfiguration. (#9708) Thanks @scottchguard.
• Agents/fallback cooldown probe execution: thread explicit rate-limit cooldown probe intent from model fallback into embedded runner auth-profile selection so same-provider fallback attempts can actually run when all profiles are cooldowned for rate_limit (instead of failing pre-run as No available auth profile), while preserving default cooldown skip behavior and adding regression tests at both fallback and runner layers. (#13623) Thanks @asfura.
• Cron/OpenAI Codex OAuth refresh hardening: when openai-codex token refresh fails specifically on account-id extraction, reuse the cached access token instead of failing the run immediately, with regression coverage to keep non-Codex and unrelated refresh failures unchanged. (#36604) Thanks @laulopezreal.
• TUI/session isolation for /new: make /new allocate a unique tui- session key instead of resetting the shared agent session, so multiple TUI clients on the same agent stop receiving each other’s replies; also sanitize /new and /reset failure text before rendering in-terminal. Landed from contributor PR #39238 by @widingmarcus-cyber. Thanks @widingmarcus-cyber.
• Synology Chat/rate-limit env parsing: honor SYNOLOGY_RATE_LIMIT=0 as an explicit value while still falling back to the default limit for malformed env values instead of partially parsing them. Landed from contributor PR #39197 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
• Voice-call/OpenAI Realtime STT config defaults: honor explicit vadThreshold: 0 and silenceDurationMs: 0 instead of silently replacing them with defaults. Landed from contributor PR #39196 by @scoootscooob. Thanks @scoootscooob.
• Voice-call/OpenAI TTS speed config: honor explicit speed: 0 instead of silently replacing it with the default speed. Landed from contributor PR #39318 by @ql-wade. Thanks @ql-wade.
• launchd/runtime PID parsing: reject pid <= 0 from launchctl print so the daemon state parser no longer treats kernel/non-running sentinel values as real process IDs. Landed from contributor PR #39281 by @mvanhorn. Thanks @mvanhorn.
• Cron/file permission hardening: enforce owner-only (0600) cron store/backup/run-log files and harden cron store + run-log directories to 0700, including pre-existing directories from older installs. (#36078) Thanks @aerelune.
• Gateway/remote WS break-glass hostname support: honor OPENCLAW_ALLOW_INSECURE_PRIVATE_WS=1 for ws:// hostname URLs (not only private IP literals) across onboarding validation and runtime gateway connection checks, while still rejecting public IP literals and non-unicast IPv6 endpoints. (#36930) Thanks @manju-rn.
• Routing/binding lookup scalability: pre-index route bindings by channel/account and avoid full binding-list rescans on channel-account cache rollover, preventing multi-second resolveAgentRoute stalls in large binding configurations. (#36915) Thanks @songchenghao.
• Browser/session cleanup: track browser tabs opened by session-scoped browser tool runs and close tracked tabs during sessions.reset/sessions.delete runtime cleanup, preventing orphaned tabs and unbounded browser memory growth after session teardown. (#36666) Thanks @Harnoor6693.
• Plugin/hook install rollback hardening: stage installs under the canonical install base, validate and run dependency installs before publish, and restore updates by rename instead of deleting the target path, reducing partial-replace and symlink-rebind risk during install failures.
• Slack/local file upload allowlist parity: propagate mediaLocalRoots through the Slack send action pipeline so workspace-rooted attachments pass assertLocalMediaAllowed checks while non-allowlisted paths remain blocked. (synthesis: #36656; overlap considered from #36516, #36496, #36493, #36484, #32648, #30888) Thanks @2233admin.
• Agents/compaction safeguard pre-check: skip embedded compaction before entering the Pi SDK when a session has no real conversation messages, avoiding unnecessary LLM API calls on idle sessions. (#36451) thanks @Sid-Qin.
• Config/schema cache key stability: build merged schema cache keys with incremental hashing to avoid large single-string serialization and prevent RangeError: Invalid string length on high-cardinality plugin/channel metadata. (#36603) Thanks @powermaster888.
• iMessage/cron completion announces: strip leaked inline reply tags (for example [[reply_to:6100]]) from user-visible completion text so announcement deliveries do not expose threading metadata. (#24600) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Control UI/iMessage duplicate reply routing: keep internal webchat turns on dispatcher delivery (instead of origin-channel reroute) so Control UI chats do not duplicate replies into iMessage, while preserving webchat-provider relayed routing for external surfaces. Fixes #33483. Thanks @alicexmolt.
• Sessions/daily reset transcript archival: archive prior transcript files during stale-session scheduled/daily resets by capturing the previous session entry before rollover, preventing orphaned transcript files on disk. (#35493) Thanks @byungsker.
• Feishu/group slash command detection: normalize group mention wrappers before command-authorization probing so mention-prefixed commands (for example @Bot/model and @Bot /reset) are recognized as gateway commands instead of being forwarded to the agent. (#35994) Thanks @liuxiaopai-ai.
• Control UI/auth token separation: keep the shared gateway token in browser auth validation while reserving cached device tokens for signed device payloads, preventing false device token mismatch disconnects after restart/rotation. Landed from contributor PR #37382 by @FradSer. Thanks @FradSer.
• Gateway/browser auth reconnect hardening: stop counting missing token/password submissions as auth rate-limit failures, and stop auto-reconnecting Control UI clients on non-recoverable auth errors so misconfigured browser tabs no longer lock out healthy sessions. Landed from contributor PR #38725 by @ademczuk. Thanks @ademczuk.
• Gateway/service token drift repair: stop persisting shared auth tokens into installed gateway service units, flag stale embedded service tokens for reinstall, and treat tokenless service env as canonical so token rotation/reboot flows stay aligned with config/env resolution. Landed from contributor PR #28428 by @l0cka. Thanks @l0cka.
• Control UI/agents-page selection: keep the edited agent selected after saving agent config changes and reloading the agents list, so /agents no longer snaps back to the default agent. Landed from contributor PR #39301 by @MumuTW. Thanks @MumuTW.
• Gateway/auth follow-up hardening: preserve systemd EnvironmentFile= precedence/source provenance in daemon audits and doctor repairs, block shared-password override flows from piggybacking cached device tokens, and fail closed when config-first gateway SecretRefs cannot resolve. Follow-up to #39241.
• Agents/context pruning: guard assistant thinking/text char estimation against malformed blocks (missing thinking/text strings or null entries) so pruning no longer crashes with malformed provider content. (openclaw#35146) thanks @Sid-Qin.
• Agents/transcript policy: set preserveSignatures to Anthropic-only handling in resolveTranscriptPolicy so Anthropic thinking signatures are preserved while non-Anthropic providers remain unchanged. (#32813) thanks @Sid-Qin.
• Agents/schema cleaning: detect Venice + Grok model IDs as xAI-proxied targets so unsupported JSON Schema keywords are stripped before requests, preventing Venice/Grok Invalid arguments failures. (openclaw#35355) thanks @Sid-Qin.
• Skills/native command deduplication: centralize skill command dedupe by canonical skillName in listSkillCommandsForAgents so duplicate suffixed variants (for example _2) are no longer surfaced across interfaces outside Discord. (#27521) thanks @shivama205.
• Agents/xAI tool-call argument decoding: decode HTML-entity encoded xAI/Grok tool-call argument values (&, ", <, >, numeric entities) before tool execution so commands with shell operators and quotes no longer fail with parse errors. (#35276) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• Linux/WSL2 daemon install hardening: add regression coverage for WSL environment detection, WSL-specific systemd guidance, and systemctl --user is-enabled failure paths so WSL2/headless onboarding keeps treating bus-unavailable probes as non-fatal while preserving real permission errors. Related: #36495. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Linux/systemd status and degraded-session handling: treat degraded-but-reachable systemctl --user status results as available, preserve early errors for truly unavailable user-bus cases, and report externally managed running services as running instead of not installed. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Agents/thinking-tag promotion hardening: guard promoteThinkingTagsToBlocks against malformed assistant content entries (null/undefined) before block.type reads so malformed provider payloads no longer crash session processing while preserving pass-through behavior. (#35143) thanks @Sid-Qin.
• Gateway/Control UI version reporting: align runtime and browser client version metadata to avoid dev placeholders, wait for bootstrap version before first UI websocket connect, and only forward bootstrap serverVersion to same-origin gateway targets to prevent cross-target version leakage. (from #35230, #30928, #33928) Thanks @Sid-Qin, @joelnishanth, and @MoerAI.
• Control UI/markdown parser crash fallback: catch marked.parse() failures and fall back to escaped plain-text

   rendering so malformed recursive markdown no longer crashes Control UI session rendering on load. (#36445) Thanks @BinHPdev.

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

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Changes

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

Breaking

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

Fixes

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