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            <title>2026.4.22</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<h2>OpenClaw 2026.4.22</h2>
<h3>Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Providers/xAI: add image generation, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text support, including <code>grok-imagine-image</code> / <code>grok-imagine-image-pro</code>, reference-image edits, six live xAI voices, MP3/WAV/PCM/G.711 TTS formats, <code>grok-stt</code> audio transcription, and xAI realtime transcription for Voice Call streaming. (#68694) Thanks @KateWilkins.</li>
<li>Providers/STT: add Voice Call streaming transcription for Deepgram, ElevenLabs, and Mistral, alongside the existing OpenAI and xAI realtime STT paths; ElevenLabs also gains Scribe v2 batch audio transcription for inbound media.</li>
<li>TUI: add local embedded mode for running terminal chats without a Gateway while keeping plugin approval gates enforced. (#66767) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.</li>
<li>Onboarding: auto-install missing provider and channel plugins during setup so first-run configuration can complete without manual plugin recovery.</li>
<li>OpenAI/Responses: use OpenAI's native <code>web_search</code> tool automatically for direct OpenAI Responses models when web search is enabled and no managed search provider is pinned; explicit providers such as Brave keep the managed <code>web_search</code> tool.</li>
<li>Models/commands: add <code>/models add <provider> <modelId></code> so you can register a model from chat and use it without restarting the gateway; keep <code>/models</code> as a simple provider browser while adding clearer add guidance and copy-friendly command examples. (#70211) Thanks @Takhoffman.</li>
<li>WhatsApp: add configurable native reply quoting with replyToMode for WhatsApp conversations. Thanks @mcaxtr.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/groups+direct: forward per-group and per-direct <code>systemPrompt</code> config into inbound context <code>GroupSystemPrompt</code> so configured per-chat behavioral instructions are injected on every turn. Supports <code>"*"</code> wildcard fallback and account-scoped overrides under <code>channels.whatsapp.accounts.<id>.{groups,direct}</code>; account maps fully replace root maps (no deep merge), matching the existing <code>requireMention</code> pattern. Closes #7011. (#59553) Thanks @Bluetegu.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: add mailbox-style <code>sessions_list</code> filters for label, agent, and search plus visibility-scoped derived title and last-message previews. (#69839) Thanks @dangoZhang.</li>
<li>Control UI/settings+chat: add a browser-local personal identity for the operator (name plus local-safe avatar), route user identity rendering through the shared chat/avatar path used by assistant and agent surfaces, and tighten Quick Settings, agent fallback chips, and narrow-screen chat layouts so personalization no longer wastes space or clips controls. (#70362) Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Gateway/diagnostics: enable payload-free stability recording by default and add a support-ready diagnostics export with sanitized logs, status, health, config, and stability snapshots for bug reports. (#70324) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Providers/Tencent: add the bundled Tencent Cloud provider plugin with TokenHub onboarding, docs, <code>hy3-preview</code> model catalog entries, and tiered Hy3 pricing metadata. (#68460) Thanks @JuniperSling.</li>
<li>Providers/Amazon Bedrock Mantle: add Claude Opus 4.7 through Mantle's Anthropic Messages route with provider-owned bearer-auth streaming, so the model is actually callable without treating AWS bearer tokens like Anthropic API keys. Thanks @wirjo.</li>
<li>Providers/GPT-5: move the GPT-5 prompt overlay into the shared provider runtime so compatible GPT-5 models receive the same behavior and heartbeat guidance through OpenAI, OpenRouter, OpenCode, Codex, and other GPT providers; add <code>agents.defaults.promptOverlays.gpt5.personality</code> as the global friendly-style toggle while keeping the OpenAI plugin setting as a fallback.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenAI Codex: remove the Codex CLI auth import path from onboarding and provider discovery so OpenClaw no longer copies <code>~/.codex</code> OAuth material into agent auth stores; use browser login or device pairing instead. (#70390) Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>CLI/Claude: default <code>claude-cli</code> runs to warm stdio sessions, including custom configs that omit transport fields, and resume from the stored Claude session after Gateway restarts or idle exits. (#69679) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Pi/models: update the bundled pi packages to <code>0.68.1</code> and let the OpenCode Go catalog come from pi instead of plugin-maintained model aliases, adding the refreshed <code>opencode-go/kimi-k2.6</code>, Qwen, GLM, MiMo, and MiniMax entries.</li>
<li>Tokenjuice: add bundled native OpenClaw support for tokenjuice as an opt-in plugin that compacts noisy <code>exec</code> and <code>bash</code> tool results in Pi embedded runs. (#69946) Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>ACPX: add an explicit <code>openClawToolsMcpBridge</code> option that injects a core OpenClaw MCP server for selected built-in tools, starting with <code>cron</code>.</li>
<li>CLI/doctor plugins: lazy-load doctor plugin paths and prefer installed plugin <code>dist/*</code> runtime entries over source-adjacent JavaScript fallbacks, reducing the measured <code>doctor --non-interactive</code> runtime by about 74% while keeping cold doctor startup on built plugin artifacts. (#69840) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>CLI/debugging: add an opt-in temporary debug timing helper for local CLI performance investigations, with readable stderr output, JSONL capture, and docs for removing probes before landing fixes. (#70469) Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Docs/i18n: add Thai translation support for the docs site.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenAI-compatible: mark known local backends such as vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, LM Studio, LocalAI, Jan, TabbyAPI, and text-generation-webui as streaming-usage compatible, so their token accounting no longer degrades to unknown/stale totals. (#68711) Thanks @gaineyllc.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenAI-compatible: recover streamed token usage from llama.cpp-style <code>timings.prompt_n</code> / <code>timings.predicted_n</code> metadata and sanitize usage counts before accumulation, fixing unknown or stale totals when compatible servers do not emit an OpenAI-shaped <code>usage</code> object. (#41056) Thanks @xaeon2026.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: prefer native Jiti loading for built bundled plugin dist modules on supported runtimes, cutting measured bundled plugin load time by 82-90% while keeping source TypeScript on the transform path. (#69925) Thanks @aauren.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/STT: share realtime transcription WebSocket transport and multipart batch transcription form helpers across bundled STT providers, reducing provider plugin boilerplate while preserving proxy capture, reconnects, audio queueing, close flushing, upload filename normalization, and ready handshakes.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/Pi embedded runs: add a bundled-plugin embedded extension factory seam so native plugins can extend Pi embedded runs with async runtime hooks such as <code>tool_result</code> handling instead of falling back to the older synchronous persistence path. (#69946) Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Codex harness/hooks: route native Codex app-server turns through <code>before_prompt_build</code> and emit <code>before_compaction</code> / <code>after_compaction</code> for native compaction items so prompt and compaction hooks stop drifting from Pi. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Codex harness/plugins: add a bundled-plugin Codex app-server extension seam for async <code>tool_result</code> middleware, fire <code>after_tool_call</code> for Codex tool runs, and route mirrored Codex transcript writes through <code>before_message_write</code> so tool integrations stop diverging from Pi. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Codex harness/hooks: fire <code>llm_input</code>, <code>llm_output</code>, and <code>agent_end</code> for native Codex app-server turns so lifecycle hooks stop drifting from Pi. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>QA/Telegram: record per-scenario reply RTT in the live Telegram QA report and summary, starting with the canary response. (#70550) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Status: add an explicit <code>Runner:</code> field to <code>/status</code> so sessions now report whether they are running on embedded Pi, a CLI-backed provider, or an ACP harness agent/backend such as <code>codex (acp/acpx)</code> or <code>gemini (acp/acpx)</code>. (#70595)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Thinking defaults/status: raise the implicit default thinking level for reasoning-capable models from legacy <code>off</code>/<code>low</code> fallback behavior to a safe provider-supported <code>medium</code> equivalent when no explicit config default is set, preserve configured-model reasoning metadata when runtime catalog loading is empty, and make <code>/status</code> report the same resolved default as runtime.</li>
<li>Gateway/model pricing: fetch OpenRouter and LiteLLM pricing asynchronously at startup and extend catalog fetch timeouts to 30 seconds, reducing noisy timeout warnings during slow upstream responses.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: keep daily reset and idle-maintenance bookkeeping from bumping session activity or pruning freshly active routes, so active conversations no longer look newer or disappear for maintenance-only updates.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: add newly installed plugin ids to an existing <code>plugins.allow</code> list before enabling them, so allowlisted configs load installed plugins after restart.</li>
<li>Status: show <code>Fast</code> in <code>/status</code> when fast mode is enabled, including config/default-derived fast mode, and omit it when disabled.</li>
<li>OpenAI/image generation: detect Azure OpenAI-style image endpoints, use Azure <code>api-key</code> auth plus deployment-scoped image URLs, honor <code>AZURE_OPENAI_API_VERSION</code>, and document the Azure setup path so image generation and edits work against Azure-hosted OpenAI resources. (#70570) Thanks @zhanggpcsu.</li>
<li>Telegram/forum topics: cache recovered forum metadata with bounded expiry so supergroup updates no longer need repeated <code>getChat</code> lookups before topic routing.</li>
<li>Onboarding/WeCom: show the official WeCom channel plugin with its native Enterprise WeChat display name and blurb in the external channel catalog.</li>
<li>Models/auth: merge provider-owned default-model additions from <code>openclaw models auth login</code> instead of replacing <code>agents.defaults.models</code>, so re-authenticating an OAuth provider such as OpenAI Codex no longer wipes other providers' aliases and per-model params. Migrations that must rename keys (Anthropic -> Claude CLI) opt in with <code>replaceDefaultModels</code>. Fixes #69414. (#70435) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Media understanding/audio: prefer configured or key-backed STT providers before auto-detected local Whisper CLIs, so installed local transcription tools no longer shadow API providers such as Groq/OpenAI in <code>tools.media.audio</code> auto mode. Fixes #68727.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenAI: lock the auth picker wording for OpenAI API key, Codex browser login, and Codex device pairing so the setup choices no longer imply a mixed Codex/API-key auth path. (#67848) Thanks @tmlxrd.</li>
<li>Agents/BTW: route <code>/btw</code> side questions through provider stream registration with the session workspace, so Ollama provider URL construction and workspace-scoped hooks apply correctly. Fixes #68336. (#70413) Thanks @suboss87.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: make session transcript write locks non-reentrant by default, so same-process transcript writers contend unless a helper explicitly opts into nested lock ownership.</li>
<li>ACPX/probe: expose an optional <code>probeAgent</code> plugin config field so the embedded ACP runtime health probe can target a configured agent (for example <code>opencode</code> or <code>claude</code>) instead of hardcoding <code>codex</code>, and stop marking the entire ACP runtime backend unavailable when the default probe agent is simply not installed or not authenticated. (#68409) Thanks @lyfuci.</li>
<li>Memory search: use sqlite-vec KNN for vector recall while preserving full post-filter result limits in multi-model indexes. Fixes #69666. (#69680) Thanks @aalekh-sarvam.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenAI Codex: stop stale per-agent <code>openai-codex:default</code> OAuth profiles from shadowing a newer main-agent identity-scoped profile, and let <code>openclaw doctor</code> offer the matching cleanup. (#70393) Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>ACPX: route OpenClaw ACP bridge commands through the MCP-free runtime path even when the command is wrapped with <code>env</code>, has bridge flags, or is resumed from persisted session state, so documented <code>acpx openclaw</code> setups no longer fail on per-session MCP injection. (#68741) Thanks @alexlomt.</li>
<li>Codex harness: route Codex-tagged MCP tool approval elicitations through OpenClaw plugin approvals, including current empty-schema app-server requests, while leaving generic user-input prompts fail-closed. (#68807) Thanks @kesslerio.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/outbound: hold an in-memory active-delivery claim while a live outbound send is in flight, so a concurrent reconnect drain no longer re-drives the same pending queue entry and duplicates cron sends 7-12x after the 30-minute inbound-silence watchdog fires mid-delivery. Crash-replay of fresh queue entries left behind by a dead process is preserved because the claim is intentionally process-local. Fixes #70386. (#70428) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Matrix/commands: keep Matrix DM allowlist state out of room control-command authorization, so trusted DM senders do not accidentally gain room-command access.</li>
<li>Providers/SDK retry: cap long <code>Retry-After</code> sleeps in Stainless-based Anthropic/OpenAI model SDKs so 60s+ retry windows surface immediately for OpenClaw failover instead of blocking the run. (#68474) Thanks @jetd1.</li>
<li>Agents/TTS: preserve spoken text in TTS tool results while defusing reply directives in transcript content, so future turns remember voice replies without treating spoken <code>MEDIA:</code> or voice tags as delivery metadata. (#68869) Thanks @zqchris.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenAI: harden Voice Call realtime transcription against OpenAI Realtime session-update drift, forward language and prompt hints, and add live coverage for realtime STT.</li>
<li>Agents/Pi embedded runs: suppress the "⚠️ Agent couldn't generate a response" warning when the assistant already delivered user-visible content through a messaging tool and the turn ended cleanly (<code>stopReason=stop</code>). Real failure modes (tool errors, provider <code>stopReason=error</code>, interrupted tool use) still surface the existing "verify before retrying" warning. Fixes #70396. (#70425) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Gateway/Linux: wrap gateway-managed supervisor, PTY, MCP stdio, and browser child processes in a tiny <code>/bin/sh</code> shim that raises the child's own <code>oom_score_adj</code> on Linux, so under cgroup memory pressure the kernel prefers transient workers over the long-lived gateway. Opt out with <code>OPENCLAW_CHILD_OOM_SCORE_ADJ=0</code>. Fixes #70404. (#70419) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Providers/Moonshot: stop strict-sanitizing Kimi's native tool_call IDs (shaped like <code>functions.<name>:<index></code>) on the OpenAI-compatible transport, so multi-turn agentic flows through Kimi K2.6 no longer break after 2-3 tool-calling rounds when the serving layer fails to match mangled IDs against the original tool definitions. Adds a <code>sanitizeToolCallIds</code> opt-out to the shared <code>openai-compatible</code> replay family helper and wires Moonshot to it. Fixes #62319. (#70030) Thanks @LeoDu0314.</li>
<li>Dependencies/security: override transitive <code>uuid</code> to <code>14.0.0</code>, clearing the runtime advisory across dependencies.</li>
<li>Codex harness: ignore dynamic tool descriptions when deciding whether to reuse a native app-server thread while still fingerprinting tool schemas, so channel-specific copy changes no longer reset otherwise compatible Codex conversations. (#69976) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.</li>
<li>Codex harness: expose the Codex app-server model catalog in <code>models list/status</code>, avoid startup hangs from app-server discovery timeouts, and accept current Codex turn-completion notifications so Docker live gateway turns finish reliably.</li>
<li>Codex harness: drop invalid legacy app-server <code>serviceTier</code> values such as <code>"priority"</code> before native thread and turn requests, while keeping supported Codex tiers limited to <code>"fast"</code> and <code>"flex"</code>. Fixes #64815.</li>
<li>Codex harness: show bounded, sanitized permission target samples in app-server approval prompts, so native permission requests keep their specific hosts, roots, and paths visible without leaking home usernames or URL credentials. (#70340) Thanks @Lucenx9.</li>
<li>Docs/Codex harness: narrow native compaction docs to the current start/completion signals, without promising a readable summary or kept-entry audit list yet. (#69612) Thanks @91wan.</li>
<li>Providers/Amazon Bedrock: use known context-window metadata for discovered models while keeping the unknown-model fallback conservative, so compaction and overflow handling improve for newer Bedrock models without overstating unlisted model limits. Thanks @wirjo.</li>
<li>Providers/Amazon Bedrock Mantle: refresh IAM-backed bearer tokens at runtime instead of baking discovery-time tokens into provider config, so long-lived Mantle sessions keep working after the initial token ages out. Thanks @wirjo.</li>
<li>Config/includes: write through single-file top-level includes for isolated OpenClaw-owned mutations, so <code>plugins install</code> and <code>plugins update</code> update an included <code>plugins.json5</code> file instead of flattening modular <code>$include</code> configs. Fixes #41050 and #66048.</li>
<li>Config/reload: plan gateway reloads from source-authored config instead of runtime-materialized snapshots, so plugin update writes no longer trigger false restarts from derived provider/plugin config paths. Fixes #68732.</li>
<li>Plugins/update: skip npm plugin reinstall/config rewrites when the installed version and recorded artifact identity already match the registry target, let bare npm package names resolve back to tracked install records, and point already-installed <code>plugins install</code> attempts at <code>plugins update</code> / <code>--force</code> instead of a hook-pack fallback. Fixes #46955, #67957, and #68073.</li>
<li>Agents/MCP: keep <code>mcp.servers</code> and bundle MCP tools available in Pi embedded <code>coding</code> and <code>messaging</code> sessions while preserving <code>minimal</code> profile and <code>tools.deny: ["bundle-mcp"]</code> opt-out behavior. Fixes #68875 and #68818.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: tolerate transient bundled-channel catalog/metadata drift while auto-enabling configured plugins, so CLI and gateway startup no longer crash when a channel id is known but its display metadata is unavailable.</li>
<li>CLI/Claude: report CLI-backed reply runs as streaming while Claude/Codex CLI turns are still in flight, so WebChat keeps visible response state until the backend finishes. Fixes #70125.</li>
<li>Slack/streaming: fall back to normal Slack replies for Slack Connect streams rejected before the SDK flushes its local buffer, so short replies no longer disappear or report success before Slack acknowledges delivery. Fixes #70295. (#70370) Thanks @mvanhorn.</li>
<li>Codex harness: rotate the shared app-server websocket client when the configured bearer token changes, so auth-token refreshes reconnect with the new <code>Authorization</code> header instead of reusing a stale socket. (#70328) Thanks @Lucenx9.</li>
<li>Channels/sandbox: derive runtime policy keys for external direct messages that share the main conversation, so sandbox/tool policy no longer treats channel-originated DMs as local main-session runs.</li>
<li>Config/models: merge provider-scoped model allowlist updates and protect model/provider map writes from accidental full replacement, adding <code>config set --merge</code> for additive updates and <code>--replace</code> for intentional clobbers. Fixes #65920, #68392, and #68653.</li>
<li>Agents/Pi auth: preserve AWS SDK-authenticated Bedrock runs for IMDS and task-role setups, clear stale refresh timers on sentinel fallback, and log unexpected runtime-auth prep failures instead of silently leaving the provider unauthenticated. Thanks @wirjo.</li>
<li>Config/gateway: restore last-known-good config on critical clobber signatures such as missing metadata, missing <code>gateway.mode</code>, or sharp size drops, preventing gateway crash loops when a valid backup exists. Fixes #70336.</li>
<li>Config/gateway: recover configs accidentally prefixed with non-JSON output during gateway startup or <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code>, preserving the clobbered file as a backup while leaving normal config reads read-only.</li>
<li>Agents/GitHub Copilot: normalize connection-bound Responses item IDs in the Copilot provider wrapper so replayed histories no longer fail after the upstream connection changes. (#69362) Thanks @Menci.</li>
<li>Pi embedded runs: pass real built-in tools into Pi session creation and then narrow active tool names after custom tool registration, so the runner and compaction paths compile cleanly and keep OpenClaw-managed custom tool allowlists without feeding string arrays into <code>createAgentSession</code>. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/OpenAI websocket: route native OpenAI websocket metadata and session-header decisions through the shared endpoint classifier so local mocks and custom <code>models.providers.openai.baseUrl</code> endpoints stay out of the native OpenAI path consistently across embedded-runner and websocket transport code. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Cron/MCP: retire bundled MCP runtimes through one shared cleanup path for isolated cron run ends, persistent cron session rollover, and direct cron <code>deleteAfterRun</code> fallback cleanup. Fixes #69145, #68623, and #68827.</li>
<li>MCP/gateway: tear down stdio MCP process trees on transport close and dispose bundled MCP runtimes during session delete/reset, preventing orphaned wrapper/server processes from accumulating. Fixes #68809 and #69465.</li>
<li>Agents/MCP: retire bundled MCP runtimes after completed one-shot subagent cleanup and nested <code>sessions_send</code> steps, while keeping persistent subagent sessions warm.</li>
<li>Config: render validation warnings with real line breaks instead of a literal <code>\n</code> sequence in CLI/audit output. Fixes #70140.</li>
<li>Cron/doctor: repair malformed persisted cron job IDs through <code>openclaw doctor</code>, including legacy <code>jobId</code>, non-string <code>id</code>, and missing <code>id</code> rows, so <code>cron list</code> no longer needs display-layer coercion for corrupt store data. Fixes #70128.</li>
<li>Discord: normalize prefixed channel targets only at the thread-binding API boundary, so <code>sessions_spawn({ runtime: "acp", thread: true })</code> can create child threads from Discord channels without breaking current-channel ACP bindings. (#68034) Thanks @Zetarcos.</li>
<li>Discord: harden inbound thread metadata handling against partial Carbon channel getters, so non-command thread messages and queued jobs no longer crash when <code>name</code>, <code>parentId</code>, <code>parent</code>, or <code>ownerId</code> requires fetched raw data.</li>
<li>Discord: let <code>message</code> tool reactions resolve <code>user:<id></code> DM targets and preserve <code>channels.discord.guilds.<guild>.channels.<channel>.requireMention: false</code> during reply-stage activation fallback. Fixes #70165 and #69441.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: pre-normalize and cache Jiti alias maps before creating plugin loaders, so module-scoped loader filenames do not reintroduce per-plugin alias-normalization startup cost. Fixes #70186.</li>
<li>ACP/Codex: run the bundled Codex ACP harness with an isolated <code>CODEX_HOME</code> and avoid writing incomplete ChatGPT auth bridge files, so Codex ACP sessions no longer clobber the user's real Codex CLI auth. Fixes #70234. Thanks @Lonobers88.</li>
<li>Gateway/client: keep long-running RPCs such as ACP <code>agent.wait</code> calls in charge of their own timeout instead of closing the websocket on a missed app-level tick while work is still pending.</li>
<li>Telegram/webhooks: lower the grammY webhook callback timeout to 5s so Telegram gets an early 200 response instead of retrying long-running updates as read timeouts. (#70146) Thanks @friday-james.</li>
<li>Telegram/polling: rebuild the polling HTTP transport after <code>getUpdates</code> 409 conflicts, so retries use a fresh TCP connection instead of looping on a Telegram-terminated keep-alive socket. (#69873) Thanks @hclsys.</li>
<li>Media delivery: strip persisted base64 audio payloads from webchat history, resolve stored <code>media://inbound/*</code> attachments before local-root checks, suppress duplicate Telegram voice/audio sends when TTS emits the same media twice, and support custom image-model IDs that already include their provider prefix.</li>
<li>Slack/files: resolve <code>downloadFile</code> bot tokens from the runtime config when callers provide <code>cfg</code> without an explicit token or prebuilt client, preserving cfg-only file downloads outside the action runtime path. (#70160) Thanks @martingarramon.</li>
<li>Slack/HTTP: dispatch registered Request URL webhooks through the same handler registry used by Slack monitor setup, so HTTP-mode Slack events no longer 404 after successful route registration. (#70275) Thanks @FroeMic.</li>
<li>Slack/runtime bindings: route focused Slack thread replies through their bound ACP session instead of preparing replies against the default agent shell. Fixes #67739. Thanks @Frankla20.</li>
<li>CLI/Claude: keep stored Claude CLI sessions through OAuth refresh-token rotation by keying auth epochs on stable account identity instead of mutable OAuth token material. (#70452) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>CLI/Claude: verify stored Claude CLI session ids have a readable project transcript before resuming, clearing phantom bindings with <code>reason=transcript-missing</code> instead of silently starting fresh under <code>--resume</code>. Fixes #70177.</li>
<li>CLI sessions: persist CLI session clearing through the atomic session-store merge path, so expired Claude/Codex CLI bindings are actually removed before retrying without the stale session id. (#70298) Thanks @HFConsultant.</li>
<li>ACP/sessions_spawn: honor explicit <code>model</code> overrides for ACP child sessions instead of silently falling back to the target agent default model. (#70210) Thanks @felix-miao.</li>
<li>Diffs/viewer: re-read remote viewer access policy from live runtime config on each request, so toggling <code>plugins.entries.diffs.config.security.allowRemoteViewer</code> closes proxied viewer access immediately instead of waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Diffs/tooling: re-read <code>viewerBaseUrl</code>, presentation defaults, and viewer access policy from live runtime config, and fail closed when the live <code>diffs</code> plugin entry disappears instead of reviving startup viewer settings. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: stop resurrecting removed live <code>memory-lancedb</code> hook config from startup snapshots, so deleting or disabling the plugin entry shuts off auto-recall and auto-capture without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: keep auto-recall and auto-capture hooks wired when those settings start disabled, so turning them on in live config starts recall and capture without waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Skill Workshop: keep the tool plus <code>before_prompt_build</code> / <code>agent_end</code> hooks wired while the plugin is disabled at startup, so turning the plugin back on in live config starts guidance and capture without waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Active Memory: stop reviving removed live <code>active-memory</code> config from startup snapshots, so removing the plugin entry turns the hook off immediately instead of waiting for a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>GitHub Copilot: re-read plugin discovery config from the live runtime snapshot, so toggling <code>plugins.entries.github-copilot.config.discovery.enabled</code> takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Ollama: re-read plugin discovery config from the live runtime snapshot, so toggling <code>plugins.entries.ollama.config.discovery.enabled</code> takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>OpenAI: re-read the plugin prompt-overlay personality from live runtime config, so GPT-5 system prompt contributions update without a restart when <code>plugins.entries.openai.config.personality</code> changes. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Amazon Bedrock: re-read live discovery and guardrail plugin config, so toggling <code>plugins.entries.amazon-bedrock.config.discovery</code> or <code>plugins.entries.amazon-bedrock.config.guardrail</code> takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Codex: re-read the plugin discovery config from the live runtime snapshot, so toggling <code>plugins.entries.codex.config.discovery</code> takes effect without a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: drop bare <code>NO_REPLY</code> from the parent turn when the session still has pending spawned children, so direct-conversation surfaces such as Telegram DMs no longer rewrite the sentinel into visible fallback chatter while waiting for the child completion event. (#69942) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: keep bundled plugin dependencies off npm install while repairing them when plugins activate from a packaged install, including Feishu/Lark, Browser, and direct bundled channel setup-entry loads.</li>
<li>CLI/channels: skip and cache bundled channel plugin, setup, and secrets load failures during read-only discovery, so one broken unused bundled channel cannot crash <code>openclaw status</code> or bootstrap secret scans.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: retry initialization after a failed LanceDB load and report unsupported Intel macOS native runtime clearly instead of caching the failure or repeatedly attempting an install that cannot work.</li>
<li>CLI/Claude: hash only static extra system prompt parts when deciding whether to reuse a CLI session, so per-message inbound metadata no longer resets Claude CLI conversations on every turn. (#70122) Thanks @zijunl.</li>
<li>Hooks/Slack: standardize shared message hook routing fields (<code>threadId</code> / <code>replyToId</code>) and stop Slack outbound delivery from re-running <code>message_sending</code> inside the channel adapter, so plugins like thread-ownership make one outbound routing decision per reply. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/media: share one run-scoped reply media context between streamed block delivery and final payload filtering, so a local <code>MEDIA:</code> attachment is staged once and duplicate media sends are suppressed reliably. (#68111) Thanks @ayeshakhalid192007-dev.</li>
<li>Plugins/gateway hooks: expose startup config, workspace dir, and a live cron getter on the typed <code>gateway_start</code> hook, and move memory-core managed dreaming off the internal <code>gateway:startup</code> bridge so cron reconciliation stays on the public plugin hook path. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/config: read plugin trust decisions from the source config snapshot when a resolved runtime snapshot is active, so <code>plugins.allow</code> remains enforced and <code>doctor</code>/gateway startup no longer warn that the allowlist is empty when it is configured. Fixes #70161. Also fixes #70141.</li>
<li>Agents/openai-completions: enable malformed streamed tool-call argument repair for self-hosted OpenAI-compatible backends such as Kimi/SGLang, so fragmented tool-call arguments no longer reach tools as empty or unusable objects. Fixes #69672. (#70294) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.</li>
<li>Gateway/restart: preserve group and channel chat context when resuming an agent turn after a Gateway restart, so continuation replies keep the same prompt, routing, and tool-status behavior as the original conversation.</li>
<li>Gateway/pairing: shared-secret loopback CLI clients now silently auto-approve <code>metadata-upgrade</code> pairing (platform / device family refresh) instead of being disconnected with <code>1008 pairing required</code>. This matches the scope-upgrade and role-upgrade behavior added in #69431 and unblocks non-interactive CLI automation when a paired-device record has a stale platform string (e.g. device key replicated across hosts, install migrated between OSes, or platform-string format changed between OpenClaw versions). Browser / Control-UI clients keep the existing approval-required flow for metadata changes.</li>
<li>Gateway/pairing: treat any forwarded-header evidence (<code>Forwarded</code>, <code>X-Forwarded-*</code>, or <code>X-Real-IP</code>) as proxied WebSocket traffic before pairing locality checks, so reverse-proxy topologies cannot use the loopback shared-secret helper auto-pairing path.</li>
<li>Agents/OpenAI: treat exact <code>NO_REPLY</code> assistant output as a deliberate silent reply in embedded runs, so GPT-5.4 turns with signed reasoning plus a silent final no longer surface a false incomplete-turn error.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/streaming: preserve streamed reply directives through chunk boundaries and phase-aware <code>final_answer</code> delivery, so split <code>MEDIA:<path></code> lines, voice tags, and reply targets reach channel delivery instead of leaking as text or being dropped. (#70243) Thanks @zqchris.</li>
<li>Anthropic/Claude Opus 4.7: normalize Opus 4.7 and <code>claude-cli</code> Opus 4.7 variants to a 1M context window in resolved runtime metadata and active-agent status/context reporting, so they no longer inherit the stale 200k fallback. Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Gateway/pairing webchat: render <code>/pair qr</code> replies as structured media instead of raw markdown text, preserve inline reply threading and silent-control handling on media replies, avoid persisting sensitive QR images into transcript history, and keep local webchat media embedding behind internal-only trust markers. (#70047) Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Codex harness: default app-server runs to unchained local execution, so OpenAI heartbeats can use network and shell tools without stalling behind native Codex approvals or the workspace-write sandbox.</li>
<li>Codex harness: fail closed for unknown native app-server approval methods instead of routing unsupported future approval shapes through OpenClaw approval grants. (#70356) Thanks @Lucenx9.</li>
<li>Codex harness: apply the GPT-5 behavior and heartbeat prompt overlay to native Codex app-server runs, so <code>codex/gpt-5.x</code> sessions get the same follow-through, tool-use, and proactive heartbeat guidance as OpenAI GPT-5 runs.</li>
<li>Codex harness: add an explicit Guardian mode for Codex app-server approvals, plus a Docker live probe for approved and ask-back Guardian decisions, while keeping default app-server runs unchained for unattended local heartbeats. The legacy <code>OPENCLAW_CODEX_APP_SERVER_GUARDIAN</code> shortcut is removed; use plugin config <code>appServer.mode: "guardian"</code> or <code>OPENCLAW_CODEX_APP_SERVER_MODE=guardian</code>. Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>OpenAI/Responses: keep embedded OpenAI Responses runs on HTTP when <code>models.providers.openai.baseUrl</code> points at a local mock or other non-public endpoint, so mocked/custom endpoints no longer drift onto the hardcoded public websocket transport. (#69815) Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Channels/config: require resolved runtime config on channel send/action/client helpers and block runtime helper <code>loadConfig()</code> calls, so SecretRefs are resolved at startup/boundaries instead of being re-read during sends.</li>
<li>Discord: pass resolved runtime config through guild and moderation action helpers, so thread-originated Discord commands can run channel, member, role, and guild actions without falling back to runtime config reads. (#70215) Thanks @szponeczek.</li>
<li>CLI/channels: preserve bundled setup promotion metadata when a loaded partial channel plugin omits it, so adding a non-default account still moves legacy single-account fields such as Telegram <code>streaming</code> into <code>accounts.default</code>.</li>
<li>Telegram: keep the sent-message ownership cache isolated per configured session store, so own-message reaction filtering remains correct with custom <code>session.store</code> paths.</li>
<li>Security/update: fail closed when exact pinned npm plugin or hook-pack updates detect integrity drift, and expose aborted plugin drift details in <code>openclaw update --json</code>.</li>
<li>Ollama: forward OpenClaw thinking control to native <code>/api/chat</code> requests as top-level <code>think</code>, so <code>/think off</code> and <code>openclaw agent --thinking off</code> suppress thinking on models such as qwen3 instead of idling until the watchdog fires. Fixes #69902. (#69967) Thanks @WZH8898.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: suppress the startup-only managed dreaming cron unavailable warning when the cron service is still attaching, while preserving the runtime warning if cron genuinely remains unavailable. Fixes #69939. (#69941) Thanks @Sanjays2402.</li>
<li>Mattermost: suppress reasoning-only payloads even when they arrive as blockquoted <code>> Reasoning:</code> text, preventing <code>/reasoning on</code> from leaking thinking into channel posts. (#69927) Thanks @lawrence3699.</li>
<li>Discord: read <code>channel.parentId</code> through a safe accessor in the slash-command, reaction, and model-picker paths so partial <code>GuildThreadChannel</code> prototype getters no longer throw <code>Cannot access rawData on partial Channel</code> when commands like <code>/new</code> run from inside a thread. Fixes #69861. (#69908) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Discord: use safe channel name and parent accessors across voice command authorization, so <code>/vc</code> commands from partial Discord thread channels no longer crash on Carbon rawData getters. (#70199) Thanks @hanamizuki.</li>
<li>Discord: make auto-thread parent transcript inheritance opt-in via <code>channels.discord.thread.inheritParent</code>, keeping newly created Discord thread sessions isolated by default while preserving explicit inheritance for configured accounts. Fixes #69907. (#69986) Thanks @Blahdude.</li>
<li>Browser/Chrome MCP: reset cached existing-session control sessions when a <code>navigate_page</code> call times out, so one stuck navigation no longer poisons the browser profile until a gateway restart. (#69733) Thanks @ayeshakhalid192007-dev.</li>
<li>Browser/Chrome MCP: propagate click timeouts and abort signals to existing-session actions so a stuck click fails fast and reconnects instead of poisoning the browser tool until gateway restart. (#63524) Thanks @dongseok0.</li>
<li>Amazon Bedrock/prompt caching: resolve opaque application inference profile targets before injecting Bedrock cache points, require every routed target to support explicit cache points, and retry transient profile lookups instead of caching a false negative for the rest of the process. (#69953) Thanks @anirudhmarc and @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Gateway/channel health: base stale-socket recovery on provider-proven transport activity instead of inbound app-event freshness, preventing quiet Slack, Discord, Telegram, Matrix, and local-style channels from being restarted solely because no user traffic arrived. (#69833) Thanks @bek91.</li>
<li>OpenCode Go: canonicalize stale bundled <code>opencode-go</code> base URLs from <code>/go</code> or <code>/go/v1</code> to <code>/zen/go</code> or <code>/zen/go/v1</code>, so older generated model metadata stops hitting the 404 HTML endpoint. (#69898)</li>
<li>CLI/channels: honor <code>channels.<id>.enabled=false</code> as a hard read-only presence opt-out, so env vars, manifest env vars, or stale persisted auth state no longer make disabled channel plugins appear in status, doctor, or setup-only discovery.</li>
<li>Channels/preview streaming: centralize draft-preview finalization so Slack, Discord, Mattermost, and Matrix no longer flush temporary preview messages for media/error finals, and preserve first-reply threading for normal fallback delivery.</li>
<li>Discord: keep slash command follow-up chunks ephemeral when the command is configured for ephemeral replies, so long <code>/status</code> output no longer leaks fallback model or runtime details into the public channel. (#69869) thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Gateway/session history: re-check current auth and <code>chat.history</code> scope before later SSE keepalives and transcript updates, so active session-history streams close before delivering post-revocation events.</li>
<li>Plugins/discovery: reject package plugin source entries that escape the package directory before explicit runtime entries or inferred built JavaScript peers can be used. (#69868) thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>CLI/channels: resolve channel presence through a shared policy that keeps ambient env vars and stale persisted auth from surfacing disabled bundled plugins in status, doctor, security audit, and cron delivery validation unless the channel or plugin is effectively enabled or explicitly configured. (#69862) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Doctor/plugins: hydrate legacy partial interactive handler state before plugin reload clears dedupe caches, so <code>openclaw doctor</code> and post-update doctor runs no longer crash with <code>Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'clear')</code>. (#70135) Thanks @ngutman.</li>
<li>Control UI/config: preserve intentionally empty raw config snapshots when clearing pending updates so reset restores the original bytes instead of synthesizing JSON for blank config files. (#68178) Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>memory-core/dreaming: surface a <code>Dreaming status: blocked</code> line in <code>openclaw memory status</code> when dreaming is enabled but the heartbeat that drives the managed cron is not firing for the default agent, and add a Troubleshooting section to the dreaming docs covering the two common causes (per-agent <code>heartbeat</code> blocks excluding <code>main</code>, and <code>heartbeat.every</code> set to <code>0</code>/empty/invalid), so the silent failure described in #69843 becomes legible on the status surface.</li>
<li>Cron/run-log: report generic <code>message</code> tool sends under the resolved delivery channel when they match the cron target, while preserving account-specific mismatch checks for delivery traces. (#69940) Thanks @davehappyminion.</li>
<li>Doctor/channels: merge configured-channel doctor hooks across read-only, loaded, setup, and runtime plugin discovery so partial adapters no longer hide runtime-only compatibility repair or allowlist warnings, preserve disabled-channel opt-outs, and ignore malformed hook values before they can mask valid fallbacks. (#69919) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Models/CLI: show bundled provider-owned static catalog rows in <code>models list --all</code> before auth is configured, including Kimi K2.6 rows for Moonshot, OpenRouter, and Vercel AI Gateway, while keeping local-only and workspace plugin catalog paths isolated. (#69909) Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Models/CLI: clarify that <code>models list --provider</code> expects provider ids and reject display labels before loading model discovery. (#70504) Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Configure: skip generic CLI startup bootstrap for <code>openclaw configure</code> and bound hint-only gateway probes so the onboarding TUI reaches its first prompt faster when the Gateway is unavailable. (#69984) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Agents/harness: surface selected plugin harness failures directly instead of replaying the same turn through embedded PI, preventing misleading secondary PI auth errors and avoiding duplicate side effects.</li>
<li>OpenAI Codex: add a ChatGPT device-code auth option beside browser OAuth, so headless or callback-hostile setups can sign in without relying on the localhost browser callback. (#69557) Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI sessions: keep provider-owned CLI sessions through implicit daily expiry while preserving explicit reset behavior, and retain Claude CLI binding metadata across gateway agent requests. (#70106) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>fix(config): accept truncateAfterCompaction (#68395). Thanks @MonkeyLeeT</li>
<li>CLI/Claude: keep Claude CLI session bindings stable across OAuth access-token refreshes, so gateway restarts continue the same Claude conversation instead of minting a fresh one. (#70132) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>QQBot: add <code>INTERACTION</code> intent (<code>1 << 26</code>) to the gateway constants and include it in the <code>FULL_INTENTS</code> mask so interaction events are received. (#70143) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.</li>
<li>Gateway/restart: preserve one-shot continuation instructions across gateway restarts so agents can resume and reply back to the original chat after reboot. (#63406) Thanks @VACInc.</li>
<li>Gateway/restart: write restart sentinel files atomically so interrupted writes cannot leave a truncated sentinel behind. (#70225) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Pairing: remove stale pending requests for a device when that paired device is deleted, so an old repair approval cannot recreate the removed device from leftover state.</li>
<li>Security/dotenv: block workspace <code>.env</code> overrides for Matrix, Mattermost, IRC, and Synology endpoint settings so cloned workspaces cannot redirect bundled connector traffic through local endpoint config. (#70240) Thanks @drobison00.</li>
<li>Telegram: require the same <code>/models</code> authorization for group model-picker callbacks, so unauthorized participants can no longer browse or change the session model through inline buttons. (#70235) Thanks @drobison00.</li>
<li>Agents/Pi: keep the filtered tool-name allowlist active for embedded OpenAI/OpenAI Codex GPT-5 runs and compaction sessions, so bundled and client tools still execute after the Pi <code>0.68.1</code> session-tool allowlist change instead of stopping at plan-only replies with no tool call. (#70281) Thanks @jalehman.</li>
<li>Agents/Pi: honor explicit <code>strict-agentic</code> execution contracts for incomplete-turn retry guards across providers, so manually opted-in local or compatible models get the same retry behavior without relying on OpenAI model inference. (#66750) Thanks @ziomancer.</li>
<li>OpenShell/sandbox: pin verified file reads to an already-opened descriptor, walk the ancestor chain for symlinked parents on platforms without fd-path readlink, and re-check file identity so parent symlink swaps cannot redirect in-sandbox reads to host files outside the allowed mount root. (#69798) Thanks @drobison00.</li>
<li>Gateway/Control UI: require authenticated Control UI read access before serving <code>/__openclaw/control-ui-config.json</code> when <code>gateway.auth</code> is enabled, so unauthenticated callers can no longer read bootstrap metadata. (#70247) Thanks @drobison00.</li>
<li>Gateway/restart: default session-scoped restart sentinels to a one-shot agent continuation, so chat-initiated Gateway restarts acknowledge successful boot automatically. (#70269) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Build/npm publish: fail postpublish verification when root <code>dist/*</code> files import bundled plugin runtime dependencies without mirroring them in the root package manifest, so Slack-style plugin deps cannot silently ship on the wrong module-resolution path again. (#60112) thanks @medns.</li>
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<h3>Changes</h3>
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<li>Onboard/wizard: restyle the setup security disclaimer with a single yellow warning banner, section headings and bulleted checklists, and un-dim the note body so key guidance is easy to scan; add a loading spinner during the initial model catalog load so the wizard no longer goes blank while it runs; add an "API key" placeholder to provider API key prompts. (#69553) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.</li>
<li>Agents/prompts: strengthen the default system prompt and OpenAI GPT-5 overlay with clearer completion bias, live-state checks, weak-result recovery, and verification-before-final guidance.</li>
<li>Models/costs: support tiered model pricing from cached catalogs and configured models, and include bundled Moonshot Kimi K2.6/K2.5 cost estimates for token-usage reports. (#67605) Thanks @sliverp.</li>
<li>Sessions/Maintenance: enforce the built-in entry cap and age prune by default, and prune oversized stores at load time so accumulated cron/executor session backlogs cannot OOM the gateway before the write path runs. (#69404) Thanks @bobrenze-bot.</li>
<li>Plugins/tests: reuse plugin loader alias and Jiti config resolution across repeated same-context loads, reducing import-heavy test overhead. (#69316) Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Cron: split runtime execution state into <code>jobs-state.json</code> so <code>jobs.json</code> stays stable for git-tracked job definitions. (#63105) Thanks @Feelw00.</li>
<li>Agents/compaction: send opt-in start and completion notices during context compaction. (#67830) Thanks @feniix.</li>
<li>Moonshot/Kimi: default bundled Moonshot setup, web search, and media-understanding surfaces to <code>kimi-k2.6</code> while keeping <code>kimi-k2.5</code> available for compatibility. (#69477) Thanks @scoootscooob.</li>
<li>Moonshot/Kimi: allow <code>thinking.keep = "all"</code> on <code>moonshot/kimi-k2.6</code>, and strip it for other Moonshot models or requests where pinned <code>tool_choice</code> disables thinking. (#68816) Thanks @aniaan.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles/groups: forward per-group <code>systemPrompt</code> config into inbound context <code>GroupSystemPrompt</code> so configured group-specific behavioral instructions (for example threaded-reply and tapback conventions) are injected on every turn. Supports <code>"*"</code> wildcard fallback matching the existing <code>requireMention</code> pattern. Closes #60665. (#69198) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Plugins/tasks: add a detached runtime registration contract so plugin executors can own detached task lifecycle and cancellation without reaching into core task internals. (#68915) Thanks @mbelinky.</li>
<li>Terminal/logging: optimize <code>sanitizeForLog()</code> by replacing the iterative control-character stripping loop with a single regex pass while preserving the existing ANSI-first sanitization behavior. (#67205) Thanks @bulutmuf.</li>
<li>QA/CI: make <code>openclaw qa suite</code> and <code>openclaw qa telegram</code> fail by default when scenarios fail, add <code>--allow-failures</code> for artifact-only runs, and tighten live-lane defaults for CI automation. (#69122) Thanks @joshavant.</li>
<li>Mattermost: stream thinking, tool activity, and partial reply text into a single draft preview post that finalizes in place when safe. (#47838) thanks @ninjaa.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Exec/YOLO: stop rejecting gateway-host exec in <code>security=full</code> plus <code>ask=off</code> mode via the Python/Node script preflight hardening path, so promptless YOLO exec once again runs direct interpreter stdin and heredoc forms such as <code>node <<'NODE' ... NODE</code>.</li>
<li>OpenAI Codex: normalize legacy <code>openai-completions</code> transport overrides on default OpenAI/Codex and GitHub Copilot-compatible hosts back to the native Codex Responses transport while leaving custom proxies untouched. (#45304, #42194) Thanks @dyss1992 and @DeadlySilent.</li>
<li>Anthropic/plugins: scope Anthropic <code>api: "anthropic-messages"</code> defaulting to Anthropic-owned providers, so <code>openai-codex</code> and other providers without an explicit <code>api</code> no longer get rewritten to the wrong transport. Fixes #64534.</li>
<li>fix(qqbot): add SSRF guard to direct-upload URL paths in uploadC2CMedia and uploadGroupMedia [AI-assisted]. (#69595) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>fix(gateway): enforce allowRequestSessionKey gate on template-rendered mapping sessionKeys. (#69381) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Browser/Chrome MCP: surface <code>DevToolsActivePort</code> attach failures as browser-connectivity errors instead of a generic "waiting for tabs" timeout, and point signed-out fallbacks toward the managed <code>openclaw</code> profile.</li>
<li>Webchat/images: treat inline image attachments as media for empty-turn gating while still ignoring metadata-only blank turns. (#69474) Thanks @Jaswir.</li>
<li>Discord/think: only show <code>adaptive</code> in <code>/think</code> autocomplete for provider/model pairs that actually support provider-managed adaptive thinking, so GPT/OpenAI models no longer advertise an Anthropic-only option.</li>
<li>Thinking: only expose <code>max</code> for models that explicitly support provider max reasoning, and remap stored <code>max</code> settings to the largest supported thinking mode when users switch to another model.</li>
<li>Gateway/usage: bound the cost usage cache with FIFO eviction so date/range lookups cannot grow unbounded. (#68842) Thanks @Feelw00.</li>
<li>OpenAI/Responses: resolve <code>/think</code> levels against each GPT model's supported reasoning efforts so <code>/think off</code> no longer becomes high reasoning or sends unsupported <code>reasoning.effort: "none"</code> payloads.</li>
<li>Lobster/TaskFlow: allow managed approval resumes to use <code>approvalId</code> without a resume token, and persist that id in approval wait state. (#69559) Thanks @kirkluokun.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: install bundled runtime dependencies into each plugin's own runtime directory, reuse source-checkout repair caches after rebuilds, and log only packages that were actually installed so repeated Gateway starts stay quiet once deps are present.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: ignore pnpm's <code>npm_execpath</code> when repairing bundled plugin runtime dependencies and skip workspace-only package specs so npm-only install flags or local workspace links do not break packaged plugin startup.</li>
<li>MCP: block interpreter-startup env keys such as <code>NODE_OPTIONS</code> for stdio servers while preserving ordinary credential and proxy env vars. (#69540) Thanks @drobison00.</li>
<li>Agents/shell: ignore non-interactive placeholder shells like <code>/usr/bin/false</code> and <code>/sbin/nologin</code>, falling back to <code>sh</code> so service-user exec runs no longer exit immediately. (#69308) Thanks @sk7n4k3d.</li>
<li>Setup/TUI: relaunch the setup hatch TUI in a fresh process while preserving the configured gateway target and auth source, so onboarding recovers terminal state cleanly without exposing gateway secrets on command-line args. (#69524) Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Codex: avoid re-exposing the image-generation tool on native vision turns with inbound images, and keep bare image-model overrides on the configured image provider. (#65061) Thanks @zhulijin1991.</li>
<li>Sessions/reset: clear auto-sourced model, provider, and auth-profile overrides on <code>/new</code> and <code>/reset</code> while preserving explicit user selections, so channel sessions stop staying pinned to runtime fallback choices. (#69419) Thanks @sk7n4k3d.</li>
<li>Sessions/costs: snapshot <code>estimatedCostUsd</code> like token counters so repeated persist paths no longer compound the same run cost by up to dozens of times. (#69403) Thanks @MrMiaigi.</li>
<li>OpenAI Codex: route ChatGPT/Codex OAuth Responses requests through the <code>/backend-api/codex</code> endpoint so <code>openai-codex/gpt-5.4</code> no longer hits the removed <code>/backend-api/responses</code> alias. (#69336) Thanks @mzogithub.</li>
<li>OpenAI/Responses: omit disabled reasoning payloads when <code>/think off</code> is active, so GPT reasoning models no longer receive unsupported <code>reasoning.effort: "none"</code> requests. (#61982) Thanks @a-tokyo.</li>
<li>Gateway/pairing: treat loopback shared-secret node-host, TUI, and gateway clients as local for pairing decisions, so trusted local tools no longer reconnect as remote clients and fail with <code>pairing required</code>. (#69431) Thanks @SARAMALI15792.</li>
<li>Active Memory: degrade gracefully when memory recall fails during prompt building, logging a warning and letting the reply continue without memory context instead of failing the whole turn. (#69485) Thanks @Magicray1217.</li>
<li>Ollama: add provider-policy defaults for <code>baseUrl</code> and <code>models</code> so implicit local discovery can run before config validation rejects a minimal Ollama provider config. (#69370) Thanks @PratikRai0101.</li>
<li>Agents/model selection: clear transient auto-failover session overrides before each turn so recovered primary models are retried immediately without emitting user-override reset warnings. (#69365) Thanks @hitesh-github99.</li>
<li>Auto-reply: apply silent <code>NO_REPLY</code> policy per conversation type, so direct chats get a helpful rewritten reply while groups and internal deliveries can remain quiet. (#68644) Thanks @Takhoffman.</li>
<li>Telegram/status reactions: honor <code>messages.removeAckAfterReply</code> when lifecycle status reactions are enabled, clearing or restoring the reaction after success/error using the configured hold timings. (#68067) Thanks @poiskgit.</li>
<li>Web search/plugins: resolve plugin-scoped SecretRef API keys for bundled Exa, Firecrawl, Gemini, Kimi, Perplexity, Tavily, and Grok web-search providers when they are selected through the shared web-search config. (#68424) Thanks @afurm.</li>
<li>Telegram/polling: raise the default polling watchdog threshold from 90s to 120s and add configurable <code>channels.telegram.pollingStallThresholdMs</code> (also per-account) so long-running Telegram work gets more room before polling is treated as stalled. (#57737) Thanks @Vitalcheffe.</li>
<li>Telegram/polling: bound the persisted-offset confirmation <code>getUpdates</code> probe with a client-side timeout so a zombie socket cannot hang polling recovery before the runner watchdog starts. (#50368) Thanks @boticlaw.</li>
<li>Agents/Pi runner: retry silent <code>stopReason=error</code> turns with no output when no side effects ran, so non-frontier providers that briefly return empty error turns get another chance instead of ending the session early. (#68310) Thanks @Chased1k.</li>
<li>Plugins/memory: preserve the active memory capability when read-only snapshot plugin loads run, so status and provider discovery paths no longer wipe memory public artifacts. (#69219) Thanks @zeroaltitude.</li>
<li>Plugins: keep only the highest-precedence manifest when distinct discovered plugins share an id, so lower-precedence global or workspace duplicates no longer load beside bundled or config-selected plugins. (#41626) Thanks @Tortes.</li>
<li>fix(security): block MINIMAX_API_HOST workspace env injection and remove env-driven URL routing [AI-assisted]. (#67300) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Cron/delivery: treat explicit <code>delivery.mode: "none"</code> runs as not requested even if the runner reports <code>delivered: false</code>, so no-delivery cron jobs no longer persist false delivery failures or errors. (#69285) Thanks @matsuri1987.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: repair active and default-enabled bundled plugin runtime dependencies before import in packaged installs, so bundled Discord, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, and provider plugins work without putting their dependency trees in core.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles: raise the outbound <code>/api/v1/message/text</code> send timeout default from 10s to 30s, and add a configurable <code>channels.bluebubbles.sendTimeoutMs</code> (also per-account) so macOS 26 setups where Private API iMessage sends stall for 60+ seconds no longer silently lose messages at the 10s abort. Probes, chat lookups, and health checks keep the shorter 10s default. Fixes #67486. (#69193) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Agents/bootstrap: budget truncation markers against per-file caps, preserve source content instead of silently wasting bootstrap bytes, and avoid marker-only output in tiny-budget truncation cases. (#69114) Thanks @BKF-Gitty.</li>
<li>Context engine/plugins: stop rejecting third-party context engines whose <code>info.id</code> differs from the registered plugin slot id. The strict-match contract added in 2026.4.14 broke <code>lossless-claw</code> and other plugins whose internal engine id does not equal the slot id they are registered under, producing repeated <code>info.id must match registered id</code> lane failures on every turn. Fixes #66601. (#66678) Thanks @GodsBoy.</li>
<li>Agents/compaction: rename embedded Pi compaction lifecycle events to <code>compaction_start</code> / <code>compaction_end</code> so OpenClaw stays aligned with <code>pi-coding-agent</code> 0.66.1 event naming. (#67713) Thanks @mpz4life.</li>
<li>Security/dotenv: block all <code>OPENCLAW_*</code> keys from untrusted workspace <code>.env</code> files so workspace-local env loading fails closed for new runtime-control variables instead of silently inheriting them. (#473)</li>
<li>Gateway/device pairing: restrict non-admin paired-device sessions (device-token auth) to their own pairing list, approve, and reject actions so a paired device cannot enumerate other devices or approve/reject pairing requests authored by another device. Admin and shared-secret operator sessions retain full visibility. (#69375) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Agents/gateway tool: extend the agent-facing <code>gateway</code> tool's config mutation guard so model-driven <code>config.patch</code> and <code>config.apply</code> cannot rewrite operator-trusted paths (sandbox, plugin trust, gateway auth/TLS, hook routing and tokens, SSRF policy, MCP servers, workspace filesystem hardening) and cannot bypass the guard by editing per-agent sandbox, tools, or embedded-Pi overrides in place under <code>agents.list[]</code>. (#69377) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Gateway/websocket broadcasts: require <code>operator.read</code> (or higher) for chat, agent, and tool-result event frames so pairing-scoped and node-role sessions no longer passively receive session chat content, and scope-gate unknown broadcast events by default. Plugin-defined <code>plugin.*</code> broadcasts are scoped to operator.write/admin, and status/transport events (<code>heartbeat</code>, <code>presence</code>, <code>tick</code>, etc.) remain unrestricted. Per-client sequence numbers preserve per-connection monotonicity. (#69373) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Agents/compaction: always reload embedded Pi resources through an explicit loader and reapply reserve-token overrides so runs without extension factories no longer silently lose compaction settings before session start. (#67146) Thanks @ly85206559.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: normalize sweep timestamps and reuse hashed narrative session keys for fallback cleanup so Dreaming narrative sub-sessions stop leaking. (#67023) Thanks @chiyouYCH.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: delay HTTP bind until websocket handlers are attached, so immediate post-startup websocket health/connect probes no longer hit the startup race window. (#43392) Thanks @dalefrieswthat.</li>
<li>Codex/app-server: release the session lane when a downstream consumer throws while draining the <code>turn/completed</code> notification, so follow-up messages after a Codex plugin reply stop queueing behind a stale lane lock. Fixes #67996. (#69072) Thanks @ayeshakhalid192007-dev.</li>
<li>Codex/app-server: default approval handling to <code>on-request</code> so Codex harness sessions do not start with overly permissive tool approvals. (#68721) Thanks @Lucenx9.</li>
<li>Cron/delivery: keep isolated cron chat delivery tools available, resolve <code>channel: "last"</code> targets from the gateway, show delivery previews in <code>cron list/show</code>, and avoid duplicate fallback sends after direct message-tool delivery. (#69587) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Cron/Telegram: key isolated direct-delivery dedupe to each cron execution instead of the reused session id, so recurring Telegram announce runs no longer report delivered while silently skipping later sends. (#69000) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Models/Kimi: default bundled Kimi thinking to off and normalize Anthropic-compatible <code>thinking</code> payloads so stale session <code>/think</code> state no longer silently re-enables reasoning on Kimi runs. (#68907) Thanks @frankekn.</li>
<li>Control UI/cron: keep the runtime-only <code>last</code> delivery sentinel from being materialized into persisted cron delivery and failure-alert channel configs when jobs are created or edited. (#68829) Thanks @tianhaocui.</li>
<li>OpenAI/Responses: strip orphaned reasoning blocks before outbound Responses API calls so compacted or restored histories no longer fail on standalone reasoning items. (#55787) Thanks @suboss87.</li>
<li>Cron/CLI: parse PowerShell-style <code>--tools</code> allow-lists the same way as comma-separated input, so <code>cron add</code> and <code>cron edit</code> no longer persist <code>exec read write</code> as one combined tool entry on Windows. (#68858) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code.</li>
<li>Browser/user-profile: let existing-session <code>profile="user"</code> tool calls auto-route to a connected browser node or use explicit <code>target="node"</code>, while still honoring explicit <code>target="host"</code> pinning. (#48677)</li>
<li>Discord/slash commands: tolerate partial Discord channel metadata in slash-command and model-picker flows so partial channel objects no longer crash when channel names, topics, or thread parent metadata are unavailable. (#68953) Thanks @dutifulbob.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles: consolidate outbound HTTP through a typed <code>BlueBubblesClient</code> that resolves the SSRF policy once at construction so image attachments stop getting blocked on localhost and reactions stop getting blocked on private-IP BB deployments. Fixes #34749 and #59722. (#68234) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Cron/gateway: reject ambiguous announce delivery config at add/update time so invalid multi-channel or target-id provider settings fail early instead of persisting broken cron jobs. (#69015) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Cron/main-session delivery: preserve <code>heartbeat.target="last"</code> through deferred wake queuing, gateway wake forwarding, and same-target wake coalescing so queued cron replies still return to the last active chat. (#69021) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Cron/gateway: ignore disabled channels when announce delivery ambiguity is checked, and validate main-session delivery patches against the live cron service default agent so hot-reloaded agent config does not falsely reject valid updates. (#69040) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Matrix/allowlists: hot-reload <code>dm.allowFrom</code> and <code>groupAllowFrom</code> entries on inbound messages while keeping config removals authoritative, so Matrix allowlist changes no longer require a channel restart to add or revoke a sender. (#68546) Thanks @johnlanni.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles: always set <code>method</code> explicitly on outbound text sends (<code>"private-api"</code> when available, <code>"apple-script"</code> otherwise), and prefer Private API on macOS 26 even for plain text. Fixes silent delivery failure on macOS setups without Private API where an omitted <code>method</code> let BB Server fall back to version-dependent default behavior that silently drops the message (#64480), and the AppleScript <code>-1700</code> error on macOS 26 Tahoe plain text sends (#53159). (#69070) Thanks @xqing3.</li>
<li>Matrix/commands: recognize slash commands that are prefixed with the bot's Matrix mention, so room messages like <code>@bot:server /new</code> trigger the command path without requiring custom mention regexes. (#68570) Thanks @nightq and @johnlanni.</li>
<li>Gateway/pairing: return reason-specific <code>PAIRING_REQUIRED</code> details, remediation hints, and request ids so unapproved-device and scope-upgrade failures surface actionable recovery guidance in the CLI and Control UI. (#69227) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: include requested role and runtime timing on subagent failure payloads so parent agents can correlate failed or timed-out child work. (#68726) Thanks @BKF-Gitty.</li>
<li>Gateway/sessions: reject stale agent-scoped sessions after an agent is removed from config while preserving legacy default-agent main-session aliases. (#65986) Thanks @bittoby.</li>
<li>Doctor/gateway: surface pending device pairing requests, scope-upgrade approval drift, and stale device-token mismatch repair steps so <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> no longer leaves pairing/auth setup failures unexplained. (#69210) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Cron/isolated-agent: preserve explicit <code>delivery.mode: "none"</code> message targets for isolated runs without inheriting implicit <code>last</code> routing, so agent-initiated Telegram sends keep their authored destination while bare <code>mode:none</code> jobs stay targetless. (#69153) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Cron/isolated-agent: keep <code>delivery.mode: "none"</code> account-only or thread-only configs from inheriting a stale implicit recipient, so isolated runs only resolve message routing when the job authored an explicit <code>to</code> target. (#69163) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Gateway/TUI: retry session history while the local gateway is still finishing startup, so <code>openclaw tui</code> reconnects no longer fail on transient <code>chat.history unavailable during gateway startup</code> errors. (#69164) Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles/reactions: fall back to <code>love</code> when an agent reacts with an emoji outside the iMessage tapback set (<code>love</code>/<code>like</code>/<code>dislike</code>/<code>laugh</code>/<code>emphasize</code>/<code>question</code>), so wider-vocabulary model reactions like <code>👀</code> still produce a visible tapback instead of failing the whole reaction request. Configured ack reactions still validate strictly via the new <code>normalizeBlueBubblesReactionInputStrict</code> path. (#64693) Thanks @zqchris.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles: prefer iMessage over SMS when both chats exist for the same handle, honor explicit <code>sms:</code> targets, and never silently downgrade iMessage-available recipients. (#61781) Thanks @rmartin.</li>
<li>Telegram/setup: require numeric <code>allowFrom</code> user IDs during setup instead of offering unsupported <code>@username</code> DM resolution, and point operators to <code>from.id</code>/<code>getUpdates</code> for discovery. (#69191) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>GitHub Copilot/onboarding: default GitHub Copilot setup to <code>claude-opus-4.6</code> and keep the bundled default model list aligned, so new Copilot setups no longer start on the older <code>gpt-4o</code> default. (#69207) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Gateway/status: separate reachability, capability, and read-probe reporting so connect-only or scope-limited sessions no longer look fully healthy, and normalize SSH targets entered as <code>ssh user@host</code>. (#69215) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Slack: fix outbound replies failing with "unresolved SecretRef" for accounts configured via <code>file</code> or <code>exec</code> secret sources; the send path now tolerates the runtime snapshot retaining an unresolved channel SecretRef when a boot-resolved token override is already available. (#68954) Thanks @openperf.</li>
<li>Control UI/device pairing: explain scope and role approval upgrades during reconnects, and show requested versus approved access in the Control UI and <code>openclaw devices</code> so broader reconnects no longer look like lost pairings. (#69221) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Gateway/Control UI: surface pending scope, role, and device-metadata pairing approvals in auth errors and Control UI hints so broader reconnects no longer look like random auth breakage. (#69226) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
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<h3>Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Anthropic/models: default Anthropic selections, <code>opus</code> aliases, Claude CLI defaults, and bundled image understanding to Claude Opus 4.7.</li>
<li>Google/TTS: add Gemini text-to-speech support to the bundled <code>google</code> plugin, including provider registration, voice selection, WAV reply output, PCM telephony output, and setup/docs guidance. (#67515) Thanks @barronlroth.</li>
<li>Control UI/Overview: add a Model Auth status card showing OAuth token health and provider rate-limit pressure at a glance, with attention callouts when OAuth tokens are expiring or expired. Backed by a new <code>models.authStatus</code> gateway method that strips credentials and caches for 60s. (#66211) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: add cloud storage support to <code>memory-lancedb</code> so durable memory indexes can run on remote object storage instead of local disk only. (#63502) Thanks @rugvedS07.</li>
<li>GitHub Copilot/memory search: add a GitHub Copilot embedding provider for memory search, and expose a dedicated Copilot embedding host helper so plugins can reuse the transport while honoring remote overrides, token refresh, and safer payload validation. (#61718) Thanks @feiskyer and @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/local models: add experimental <code>agents.defaults.experimental.localModelLean: true</code> to drop heavyweight default tools like <code>browser</code>, <code>cron</code>, and <code>message</code>, reducing prompt size for weaker local-model setups without changing the normal path. (#66495) Thanks @ImLukeF.</li>
<li>Packaging/plugins: localize bundled plugin runtime deps to their owning extensions, trim the published docs payload, and tighten install/package-manager guardrails so published builds stay leaner and core stops carrying extension-owned runtime baggage. (#67099) Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>QA/Matrix: split Matrix live QA into a source-linked <code>qa-matrix</code> runner and keep repo-private <code>qa-*</code> surfaces out of packaged and published builds. (#66723) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Docs/showcase: add a scannable hero, complete section jump links, and a responsive video grid for community examples. (#48493) Thanks @jchopard69.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Gateway/tools: anchor trusted local <code>MEDIA:</code> tool-result passthrough on the exact raw name of this run's registered built-in tools, and reject client tool definitions whose names normalize-collide with a built-in or with another client tool in the same request (<code>400 invalid_request_error</code> on both JSON and SSE paths), so a client-supplied tool named like a built-in can no longer inherit its local-media trust. (#67303)</li>
<li>Agents/replay recovery: classify the provider wording <code>401 input item ID does not belong to this connection</code> as replay-invalid, so users get the existing <code>/new</code> session reset guidance instead of a raw 401-style failure. (#66475) Thanks @dallylee.</li>
<li>Gateway/webchat: enforce localRoots containment on webchat audio embedding path [AI-assisted]. (#67298) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Matrix/pairing: block DM pairing-store entries from authorizing room control commands [AI-assisted]. (#67294) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Docker/build: verify <code>@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-nodejs</code> native bindings with <code>find</code> under <code>node_modules</code> instead of a hardcoded <code>.pnpm/...</code> path so pnpm v10+ virtual-store layouts no longer fail the image build. (#67143) thanks @ly85206559.</li>
<li>Matrix/E2EE: keep startup bootstrap conservative for passwordless token-auth bots, still attempt the guarded repair pass without requiring <code>channels.matrix.password</code>, and document the remaining password-UIA limitation. (#66228) Thanks @SARAMALI15792.</li>
<li>Cron/announce delivery: suppress mixed-content isolated cron announce replies that end with <code>NO_REPLY</code> so trailing silent sentinels no longer leak summary text to the target channel. (#65004) thanks @neo1027144-creator.</li>
<li>Plugins/bundled channels: partition bundled channel lazy caches by active bundled root so <code>OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR</code> flips stop reusing stale plugin, setup, secrets, and runtime state. (#67200) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Packaging/plugins: prune common test/spec cargo from bundled plugin runtime dependencies and fail npm release validation if packaged test cargo reappears, keeping published tarballs leaner without plugin-specific special cases. (#67275) thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Agents/context + Memory: trim default startup/skills prompt budgets, cap <code>memory_get</code> excerpts by default with explicit continuation metadata, and keep QMD reads aligned with the same bounded excerpt contract so long sessions pull less context by default without losing deterministic follow-up reads.</li>
<li>Matrix/commands: skip DM pairing-store reads on room traffic now that room control-command authorization ignores pairing-store entries, keeping the room path narrower without changing room auth behavior. (#67325) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: skip dreaming narrative transcripts from session-store metadata before bootstrap records land so dream diary prompt/prose lines do not pollute session ingestion. (#67315) thanks @jalehman.</li>
<li>Agents/local models: clarify low-context preflight hints for self-hosted models, point config-backed caps at the relevant OpenClaw setting, and stop suggesting larger models when <code>agents.defaults.contextTokens</code> is the real limit. (#66236) Thanks @ImLukeF.</li>
<li>Dreaming/memory-core: change the default <code>dreaming.storage.mode</code> from <code>inline</code> to <code>separate</code> so Dreaming phase blocks (<code>## Light Sleep</code>, <code>## REM Sleep</code>) land in <code>memory/dreaming/{phase}/YYYY-MM-DD.md</code> instead of being injected into <code>memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md</code>. Daily memory files no longer get dominated by structured candidate output, and the daily-ingestion scanner that already strips dream marker blocks no longer has to compete with hundreds of phase-block lines on every run. Operators who want the previous behavior can opt in by setting <code>plugins.entries.memory-core.config.dreaming.storage.mode: "inline"</code>. (#66412) Thanks @mjamiv.</li>
<li>Control UI/Overview: fix false-positive "missing" alerts on the Model Auth status card for aliased providers, env-backed OAuth with auth.profiles, and unresolvable env SecretRefs. (#67253) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Dashboard: constrain exec approval modal overflow on desktop so long command content no longer pushes action buttons out of view. (#67082) Thanks @Ziy1-Tan.</li>
<li>Agents/CLI transcripts: persist successful CLI-backed turns into the OpenClaw session transcript so google-gemini-cli replies appear in session history and the Control UI again. (#67490) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Discord/tool-call text: strip standalone Gemma-style <code><function>...</function></code> tool-call payloads from visible assistant text without truncating prose examples or trailing replies. (#67318) Thanks @joelnishanth.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/web-session: drain the pending per-auth creds save queue before reopening sockets so reconnect-time auth bootstrap no longer races in-flight <code>creds.json</code> writes and falsely restores from backup. (#67464) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles/catchup: add a per-message retry ceiling (<code>catchup.maxFailureRetries</code>, default 10) so a persistently-failing message with a malformed payload no longer wedges the catchup cursor forever. After N consecutive <code>processMessage</code> failures against the same GUID, catchup logs a WARN, skips that message on subsequent sweeps, and lets the cursor advance past it. Transient failures still retry from the same point as before. Also fixes a lost-update race in the persistent dedupe file lock that silently dropped inbound GUIDs on concurrent writes, a dedupe file naming migration gap on version upgrade, and a balloon-event bypass that let catchup replay debouncer-coalesced events as standalone messages. (#67426, #66870) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Ollama/chat: strip the <code>ollama/</code> provider prefix from Ollama chat request model ids so configured refs like <code>ollama/qwen3:14b-q8_0</code> stop 404ing against the Ollama API. (#67457) Thanks @suboss87.</li>
<li>Agents/tools: resolve non-workspace host tilde paths against the OS home directory and keep edit recovery aligned with that same path target, so <code>~/...</code> host edit/write operations stop failing or reading back the wrong file when <code>OPENCLAW_HOME</code> differs. (#62804) Thanks @stainlu.</li>
<li>Speech/TTS: auto-enable the bundled Microsoft and ElevenLabs speech providers, and route generic TTS directive tokens through the explicit or active provider first so overrides like <code>[[tts:speed=1.2]]</code> stop silently landing on the wrong provider. (#62846) Thanks @stainlu.</li>
<li>OpenAI Codex/models: normalize stale native transport metadata in both runtime resolution and discovery/listing so legacy <code>openai-codex</code> rows with missing <code>api</code> or <code>https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/v1</code> self-heal to the canonical Codex transport instead of routing requests through broken HTML/Cloudflare paths, combining the original fixes proposed in #66969 (saamuelng601-pixel) and #67159 (hclsys). (#67635)</li>
<li>Agents/failover: treat HTML provider error pages as upstream transport failures for CDN-style 5xx responses without misclassifying embedded body text as API rate limits, while still preserving auth remediation for HTML 401/403 pages and proxy remediation for HTML 407 pages. (#67642) Thanks @stainlu.</li>
<li>Gateway/skills: bump the cached skills-snapshot version whenever a config write touches <code>skills.*</code> (for example <code>skills.allowBundled</code>, <code>skills.entries.<id>.enabled</code>, or <code>skills.profile</code>). Existing agent sessions persist a <code>skillsSnapshot</code> in <code>sessions.json</code> that reuses the skill list frozen at session creation; without this invalidation, removing a bundled skill from the allowlist left the old snapshot live and the model kept calling the disabled tool, producing <code>Tool <name> not found</code> loops that ran until the embedded-run timeout. (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.</li>
<li>Agents/tool-loop: enable the unknown-tool stream guard by default. Previously <code>resolveUnknownToolGuardThreshold</code> returned <code>undefined</code> unless <code>tools.loopDetection.enabled</code> was explicitly set to <code>true</code>, which left the protection off in the default configuration. A hallucinated or removed tool (for example <code>himalaya</code> after it was dropped from <code>skills.allowBundled</code>) would then loop "Tool X not found" attempts until the full embedded-run timeout. The guard has no false-positive surface because it only triggers on tools that are objectively not registered in the run, so it now stays on regardless of <code>tools.loopDetection.enabled</code> and still accepts <code>tools.loopDetection.unknownToolThreshold</code> as a per-run override (default 10). (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.</li>
<li>TUI/streaming: add a client-side streaming watchdog to <code>tui-event-handlers</code> so the <code>streaming · Xm Ys</code> activity indicator resets to <code>idle</code> after 30s of delta silence on the active run. Guards against lost or late <code>state: "final"</code> chat events (WS reconnects, gateway restarts, etc.) leaving the TUI stuck on <code>streaming</code> indefinitely; a new system log line surfaces the reset so users know to send a new message to resync. The window is configurable via the new <code>streamingWatchdogMs</code> context option (set to <code>0</code> to disable), and the handler now exposes a <code>dispose()</code> that clears the pending timer on shutdown. (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.</li>
<li>Extensions/lmstudio: add exponential backoff to the inference-preload wrapper so an LM Studio model-load failure (for example the built-in memory guardrail rejecting a load because the swap is saturated) no longer produces a WARN line every ~2s for every chat request. The wrapper now records consecutive preload failures per <code>(baseUrl, modelKey, contextLength)</code> tuple with a 5s → 10s → 20s → … → 5min cooldown and skips the preload step entirely while a cooldown is active, letting chat requests proceed directly to the stream (the model is often already loaded via the LM Studio UI). The combined <code>preload failed</code> log line now reports consecutive-failure count and remaining cooldown so operators can act on the real issue instead of drowning in repeated warnings. (#67401) Thanks @xantorres.</li>
<li>Agents/replay: re-run tool/result pairing after strict replay tool-call ID sanitization on outbound requests so Anthropic-compatible providers like MiniMax no longer receive malformed orphan tool-result IDs such as <code>...toolresult1</code> during compaction and retry flows. (#67620) Thanks @stainlu.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: fix spurious SIGUSR1 restart loop on Linux/systemd when plugin auto-enable is the only startup config write; the config hash guard was not captured for that write path, causing chokidar to treat each boot write as an external change and trigger a reload → restart cycle that corrupts manifest.db after repeated cycles. Fixes #67436. (#67557) thanks @openperf</li>
<li>Codex/harness: auto-enable the Codex plugin when <code>codex</code> is selected as an embedded agent harness runtime, including forced default, per-agent, and <code>OPENCLAW_AGENT_RUNTIME</code> paths. (#67474) Thanks @duqaXxX.</li>
<li>OpenAI Codex/CLI: keep resumed <code>codex exec resume</code> runs on the safe non-interactive path without reintroducing the removed dangerous bypass flag by passing the supported <code>--skip-git-repo-check</code> resume arg plus Codex's native <code>sandbox_mode="workspace-write"</code> config override. (#67666) Thanks @plgonzalezrx8.</li>
<li>Codex/app-server: parse Desktop-originated app-server user agents such as <code>Codex Desktop/0.118.0</code>, keeping the version gate working when the Codex CLI inherits a multi-word originator. (#64666) Thanks @cyrusaf.</li>
<li>Cron/announce delivery: keep isolated announce <code>NO_REPLY</code> stripping case-insensitive across direct and text delivery, preserve structured media-only sends when a caption strips silent, and derive main-session awareness from the cleaned payloads so silent captions no longer leak stale <code>NO_REPLY</code> text. (#65016) Thanks @BKF-Gitty.</li>
<li>Sessions/Codex: skip redundant <code>delivery-mirror</code> transcript appends only when the latest assistant message has the same visible text, preventing duplicate visible replies on Codex-backed turns without suppressing repeated answers across turns. (#67185) Thanks @andyylin.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/prompt-cache: keep volatile inbound chat IDs out of the stable system prompt so task-scoped adapters can reuse prompt caches across runs, while preserving conversation metadata for the user turn and media-only messages. (#65071) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles/inbound: restore inbound image attachment downloads on Node 22+ by stripping incompatible bundled-undici dispatchers from the non-SSRF fetch path, accept <code>updated-message</code> webhooks carrying attachments, use event-type-aware dedup keys so attachment follow-ups are not rejected as duplicates, and retry attachment fetch from the BB API when the initial webhook arrives with an empty array. (#64105, #61861, #65430, #67510) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Agents/skills: sort prompt-facing <code>available_skills</code> entries by skill name after merging sources so <code>skills.load.extraDirs</code> order no longer changes prompt-cache prefixes. (#64198) Thanks @Bartok9.</li>
<li>Agents/OpenAI Responses: add <code>models.providers.*.models.*.compat.supportsPromptCacheKey</code> so OpenAI-compatible proxies that forward <code>prompt_cache_key</code> can keep prompt caching enabled while incompatible endpoints can still force stripping. (#67427) Thanks @damselem.</li>
<li>Agents/context engines: keep loop-hook and final <code>afterTurn</code> prompt-cache touch metadata aligned with the current assistant turn so cache-aware context engines retain accurate cache TTL state during tool loops. (#67767) thanks @jalehman.</li>
<li>Memory/dreaming: strip AI-facing inbound metadata envelopes from session-corpus user turns before normalization so REM topic extraction sees the user's actual message text, including array-shaped split envelopes. (#66548) Thanks @zqchris.</li>
<li>Agents/errors: detect standalone Cloudflare/CDN HTML challenge pages before transport DNS classification so provider block pages no longer appear as local DNS lookup failures. (#67704) Thanks @chris-yyau.</li>
<li>Security/approvals: redact secrets in exec approval prompts so inline approval review can no longer leak credential material in rendered prompt content. (#61077, #64790)</li>
<li>CLI/configure: re-read the persisted config hash after writes so config updates stop failing with stale-hash races. (#64188, #66528)</li>
<li>CLI/update: prune stale packaged <code>dist</code> chunks after npm upgrades and keep downgrade/verify inventory checks compat-safe so global upgrades stop failing on stale chunk imports. (#66959) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Onboarding/CLI: fix channel-selection crashes on globally installed CLI setups during onboarding. (#66736)</li>
<li>Video generation/live tests: bound provider polling for live video smoke, default to the fast non-FAL text-to-video path, and use a one-second lobster prompt so release validation no longer waits indefinitely on slow provider queues.</li>
<li>Memory-core/QMD <code>memory_get</code>: reject reads of arbitrary workspace markdown paths and only allow canonical memory files (<code>MEMORY.md</code>, <code>memory.md</code>, <code>DREAMS.md</code>, <code>dreams.md</code>, <code>memory/**</code>) plus exact paths of active indexed QMD workspace documents, so the QMD memory backend can no longer be used as a generic workspace-file read shim that bypasses <code>read</code> tool-policy denials. (#66026) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Cron/agents: forward embedded-run tool policy and internal event params into the attempt layer so <code>--tools</code> allowlists, cron-owned message-tool suppression, explicit message targeting, and command-path internal events all take effect at runtime again. (#62675) Thanks @hexsprite.</li>
<li>Setup/providers: guard preferred-provider lookup during setup so malformed plugin metadata with a missing provider id no longer crashes the wizard with <code>Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim')</code>. (#66649) Thanks @Tianworld.</li>
<li>Matrix/security: normalize sandboxed profile avatar params, preserve <code>mxc://</code> avatar URLs, and surface gmail watcher stop failures during reload. (#64701) Thanks @slepybear.</li>
<li>Telegram/documents: drop leaked binary caption bytes from inbound Telegram text handling so document uploads like <code>.mobi</code> or <code>.epub</code> no longer explode prompt token counts. (#66663) Thanks @joelnishanth.</li>
<li>Gateway/auth: resolve the active gateway bearer per-request on the HTTP server and the HTTP upgrade handler via <code>getResolvedAuth()</code>, mirroring the WebSocket path, so a secret rotated through <code>secrets.reload</code> or config hot-reload stops authenticating on <code>/v1/*</code>, <code>/tools/invoke</code>, plugin HTTP routes, and the canvas upgrade path immediately instead of remaining valid on HTTP until gateway restart. (#66651) Thanks @mmaps.</li>
<li>Agents/compaction: cap the compaction reserve-token floor to the model context window so small-context local models (e.g. Ollama with 16K tokens) no longer trigger context-overflow errors or infinite compaction loops on every prompt. (#65671) Thanks @openperf.</li>
<li>Agents/OpenAI Responses: classify the exact <code>Unknown error (no error details in response)</code> transport failure as failover reason <code>unknown</code> so assistant/model fallback still runs for that no-details failure path. (#65254) Thanks @OpenCodeEngineer.</li>
<li>Models/probe: surface invalid-model probe failures as <code>format</code> instead of <code>unknown</code> in <code>models list --probe</code>, and lock the invalid-model fallback path in with regression coverage. (#50028) Thanks @xiwuqi.</li>
<li>Agents/failover: classify OpenAI-compatible <code>finish_reason: network_error</code> stream failures as timeout so model fallback retries continue instead of stopping with an unknown failover reason. (#61784) thanks @lawrence3699.</li>
<li>Onboarding/channels: normalize channel setup metadata before discovery and validation so malformed or mixed-shape channel plugin metadata no longer breaks setup and onboarding channel lists. (#66706) Thanks @darkamenosa.</li>
<li>Slack/native commands: fix option menus for slash commands such as <code>/verbose</code> when Slack renders native buttons by giving each button a unique action ID while still routing them through the shared <code>openclaw_cmdarg*</code> listener. Thanks @Wangmerlyn.</li>
<li>Feishu/webhook: harden the webhook transport and card-action replay guards to fail closed on missing <code>encryptKey</code> and blank callback tokens — refuse to start the webhook transport without an <code>encryptKey</code>, reject unsigned requests when no key is present instead of accepting them, and drop blank card-action tokens before the dedupe claim and dispatcher. Defense-in-depth over the already-closed monitor-account layer. (#66707) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Agents/workspace files: route <code>agents.files.get</code>, <code>agents.files.set</code>, and workspace listing through the shared <code>fs-safe</code> helpers (<code>openFileWithinRoot</code>/<code>readFileWithinRoot</code>/<code>writeFileWithinRoot</code>), reject symlink aliases for allowlisted agent files, and have <code>fs-safe</code> resolve opened-file real paths from the file descriptor before falling back to path-based <code>realpath</code> so a symlink swap between <code>open</code> and <code>realpath</code> can no longer redirect the validated path off the intended inode. (#66636) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Gateway/MCP loopback: switch the <code>/mcp</code> bearer comparison from plain <code>!==</code> to constant-time <code>safeEqualSecret</code> (matching the convention every other auth surface in the codebase uses), and reject non-loopback browser-origin requests via <code>checkBrowserOrigin</code> before the auth gate runs. Loopback origins (<code>127.0.0.1:*</code>, <code>localhost:*</code>, same-origin) still go through, including the <code>localhost</code>↔<code>127.0.0.1</code> host mismatch that browsers flag as <code>Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site</code>. (#66665) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/billing: classify pure billing cooldown fallback summaries from structured fallback reasons so users see billing guidance instead of the generic failure reply. (#66363) Thanks @Rohan5commit.</li>
<li>Agents/fallback: preserve the original prompt body on model fallback retries with session history so the retrying model keeps the active task instead of only seeing a generic continue message. (#66029) Thanks @WuKongAI-CMU.</li>
<li>Reply/secrets: resolve active reply channel/account SecretRefs before reply-run message-action discovery so channel token SecretRefs (for example Discord) do not degrade into discovery-time unresolved-secret failures. (#66796) Thanks @joshavant.</li>
<li>Agents/Anthropic: ignore non-positive Anthropic Messages token overrides and fail locally when no positive token budget remains, so invalid <code>max_tokens</code> values no longer reach the provider API. (#66664) thanks @jalehman</li>
<li>Agents/context engines: preserve prompt-only token counts, not full request totals, when deferred maintenance reuses after-turn runtime context so background compaction bookkeeping matches the active prompt window. (#66820) thanks @jalehman.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles/inbound: add a persistent file-backed GUID dedupe so MessagePoller webhook replays after BB Server restart or reconnect no longer cause the agent to re-reply to already-handled messages. (#19176, #12053, #66816) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Secrets/plugins/status: align SecretRef inspect-vs-strict handling across plugin preload, read-only status/agents surfaces, and runtime auth paths so unresolved refs no longer crash read-only CLI flows while runtime-required non-env refs stay strict. (#66818) Thanks @joshavant.</li>
<li>Memory/dreaming: stop ordinary transcripts that merely quote the dream-diary prompt from being classified as internal dreaming runs and silently dropped from session recall ingestion. (#66852) Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Telegram/documents: sanitize binary reply context and ZIP-like archive extraction so <code>.epub</code> and <code>.mobi</code> uploads can no longer leak raw binary into prompt context through reply metadata or archive-to-<code>text/plain</code> coercion. (#66877) Thanks @martinfrancois.</li>
<li>Telegram/native commands: restore plugin-registry-backed auto defaults for native commands and native skills so Telegram slash commands keep registering when <code>commands.native</code> and <code>commands.nativeSkills</code> stay on <code>auto</code>. (#66843) Thanks @kashevk0.</li>
<li>OpenRouter/Qwen3: parse <code>reasoning_details</code> stream deltas as thinking content without skipping same-chunk tool calls, so Qwen3 replies no longer fail empty on OpenRouter and mixed reasoning/tool-call chunks still execute normally. (#66905) Thanks @bladin.</li>
<li>BlueBubbles/catchup: replay missed webhook messages after gateway restart via a persistent per-account cursor and <code>/api/v1/message/query?after=<ts></code> pass, so messages delivered while the gateway was down no longer disappear. Uses the existing <code>processMessage</code> path and is deduped by #66816's inbound GUID cache. (#66857, #66721) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Telegram/native commands: keep Telegram command-sync cache process-local so gateway restarts re-register the menu instead of trusting stale on-disk sync state after Telegram cleared commands out-of-band. (#66730) Thanks @nightq.</li>
<li>Audio/self-hosted STT: restore <code>models.providers.*.request.allowPrivateNetwork</code> for audio transcription so private or LAN speech-to-text endpoints stop tripping SSRF blocks after the v2026.4.14 regression. (#66692) Thanks @jhsmith409.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/media: allow workspace-rooted absolute media paths in auto-reply send flows so valid local media references no longer fail path validation. (#66689)</li>
<li>WhatsApp/Baileys media upload: harden encrypted upload handling so large outbound media sends avoid buffer spikes and reliability regressions. (#65966) Thanks @frankekn.</li>
<li>QQBot/cron: guard against undefined <code>event.content</code> in <code>parseFaceTags</code> and <code>filterInternalMarkers</code> so cron-triggered agent turns with no content payload no longer crash with <code>TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'startsWith')</code>. (#66302) Thanks @xinmotlanthua.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: stop <code>--dangerously-force-unsafe-install</code> plugin installs from falling back to hook-pack installs after security scan failures, while still preserving non-security fallback behavior for real hook packs. (#58909) Thanks @hxy91819.</li>
<li>Claude CLI/sessions: classify <code>No conversation found with session ID</code> as <code>session_expired</code> so expired CLI-backed conversations clear the stale binding and recover on the next turn. (#65028) thanks @Ivan-Fn.</li>
<li>Context Engine: gracefully fall back to the legacy engine when a third-party context engine plugin fails at resolution time (unregistered id, factory throw, or contract violation), preventing a full gateway outage on every channel. (#66930) Thanks @openperf.</li>
<li>Control UI/chat: keep optimistic user message cards visible during active sends by deferring same-session history reloads until the active run ends, including aborted and errored runs. (#66997) Thanks @scotthuang and @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Media/Slack: allow host-local CSV and Markdown uploads only when the fallback buffer actually decodes as text, so real plain-text files work without letting opaque non-text blobs renamed to <code>.csv</code> or <code>.md</code> slip past the host-read guard. (#67047) Thanks @Unayung.</li>
<li>Ollama/onboarding: split setup into <code>Cloud + Local</code>, <code>Cloud only</code>, and <code>Local only</code>, support direct <code>OLLAMA_API_KEY</code> cloud setup without a local daemon, and keep Ollama web search on the local-host path. (#67005) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Webchat/security: reject remote-host <code>file://</code> URLs in the media embedding path. (#67293) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Dreaming/memory-core: use the ingestion day, not the source file day, for daily recall dedupe so repeat sweeps of the same daily note can increment <code>dailyCount</code> across days instead of stalling at <code>1</code>. (#67091) Thanks @Bartok9.</li>
<li>Node-host/tools.exec: let approval binding distinguish known native binaries from mutable shell payload files, while still fail-closing unknown or racy file probes so absolute-path node-host commands like <code>/usr/bin/whoami</code> no longer get rejected as unsafe interpreter/runtime commands. (#66731) Thanks @tmimmanuel.</li>
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