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.