Agents: clarify that fixes should default to clean bounded refactors, lean internals, and explicit plugin SDK/API deprecation paths.
Dependencies: update @openclaw/proxyline to 0.3.3.
Dependencies: update Pi packages to 0.75.1 and raise the minimum supported Node.js 22 line to 22.19.
Docker/Podman: add OPENCLAW_IMAGE_APT_PACKAGES as the runtime-neutral image build arg for extra apt packages while keeping OPENCLAW_DOCKER_APT_PACKAGES as a legacy fallback. (#62431) Thanks @urtabajev.
Gateway/ACPX: attribute startup probe, config, runtime, and resource-count costs in restart traces without changing readiness behavior. (#83300) Thanks @samzong.
Gateway: overlap startup logging and plugin-service startup with channel sidecars to reduce restart ready latency while preserving /readyz sidecar gating. (#83301) Thanks @samzong.
Plugins/admin-http-rpc: allow trusted admin HTTP RPC clients to start and wait for web QR login flows. (#83259) Thanks @liorb-mountapps.
Mac app: redesign Settings pages with consistent card layouts, cached navigation, cleaner permissions/voice/skills/cron/exec/debug panes, and steadier spacing around the native sidebar.
Skills: rename the repo-local Codex closeout review skill and helper to autoreview while preserving the Codex-first fallback behavior.
Skills: add a meme-maker skill for curated template search, local SVG/PNG rendering, Imgflip hosted rendering, and Know Your Meme provenance links.
Browser: surface pending and recently handled modal dialogs in snapshots, return blockedByDialog when an action opens a modal, and allow browser dialog --dialog-id to answer pending dialogs.
Agents/tools: shorten built-in tool descriptions and schema hints across media, messaging, sessions, cron, Gateway, web, image/PDF, TTS, nodes, and plan tools while preserving routing guardrails.
CLI/plugins: add defineToolPlugin plus openclaw plugins build, validate, and init for typed simple tool plugins with generated manifest metadata, optional tool declarations, and context factories.
Agents/skills: tighten bundled skill prompts and metadata, quote skill descriptions, refresh current CLI/API guidance, and update embedded sherpa-onnx runtime downloads.
Skills: update the Obsidian skill to target the official obsidian CLI and require its registered binary instead of the third-party obsidian-cli.
Skills: add a Python debugging skill for pdb, breakpoint(), post-mortem inspection, and debugpy remote attach.
Plugins/messages: add presentation capability limits for channel renderers, adapt rich message controls before native rendering, and mark legacy interactive/Slack directive producer APIs as deprecated.
Proxy: support HTTPS managed forward-proxy endpoints and scoped proxy.tls.caFile CA trust for proxy endpoint TLS. (#79171) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
QA-Lab: add first-hour 20-turn and optional 100-turn runtime parity scenarios, with tier metadata for standard and soak QA gates. Fixes #80338; refs #80337. Thanks @100yenadmin.
QA-Lab: add openclaw qa suite --runtime-parity-tier and wire the standard Codex-vs-Pi tier into release checks separately from optional/live-only/soak lanes. Fixes #80337. Thanks @100yenadmin.
QA-Lab: add runtime tool fixture scenarios and coverage reporting for Codex-native workspace tools, OpenClaw dynamic tools, and optional plugin-backed tools. Fixes #80173. Thanks @100yenadmin.
QA-Lab: expose runtime tool fixture coverage through openclaw qa coverage --tools, with optional suite-summary evaluation for parity gate artifacts. Thanks @100yenadmin.
QA-Lab: schedule a live-frontier Codex-vs-Pi runtime token-efficiency artifact lane in the all-lanes QA workflow. Fixes #80175. Thanks @100yenadmin.
QA-Lab: hard-gate required OpenClaw dynamic runtime-tool drift in the standard Codex-vs-Pi tier with a blocking release-check verifier and publish the tool coverage report artifact. Fixes #80339; refs #80319. Thanks @100yenadmin.
QA-Lab: add the personal-agent approval-denial scenario so the benchmark pack verifies denied local reads stop cleanly without tool progress or fixture leaks. (#83150) Thanks @iFiras-Max1.
QA-Lab: extend the personal-agent benchmark pack with a local task followthrough scenario for proof-backed pending, blocked, and done status reporting. Thanks @iFiras-Max1.
Gateway/performance: add pnpm test:restart:gateway benchmark tooling for repeated restart readiness, downtime, trace, and resource-slope evidence. (#83299) Thanks @samzong.
Android: switch Talk Mode to realtime Gateway relay voice sessions with streaming mic input, realtime audio playback, tool-result bridging, and on-screen transcripts. (#83130) Thanks @sliekens.
Fixes
Discord/OpenAI: keep realtime Discord voice sessions hearing follow-up turns with OpenAI realtime and prebuffer assistant playback to avoid choppy starts. (#80505) Thanks @Solvely-Colin.
Media: prevent image metadata probing from invoking external decoder delegates on unrecognized image bytes, and stop fallback chaining after real processing errors.
Media: install Sharp with the root package and fall back to sips, Windows native imaging, ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick, or ffmpeg for image resizing/conversion when Sharp is unavailable. Fixes #83401. Thanks @scotthuang.
Telegram: deliver generated media completions back into forum topics by preserving topic IDs across requester-agent handoff. (#83556) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
Gateway: defer update-check startup until after readiness so package update checks no longer block sidecar-ready startup, while preserving update broadcasts and shutdown cleanup. (#83520) Thanks @samzong.
Telegram: keep /btw and read-only status commands from aborting active runs, and avoid retaining raw update payloads in timed-out spool tombstones. Refs #83272.
Agents/video: hide video_generate reference-audio parameters unless a registered video provider supports audio inputs.
Plugins/xAI: echo PKCE challenge fields during OAuth authorization-code token exchange for xAI token-endpoint compatibility. (#83499) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
Codex app-server: hydrate current inbound image attachments before queued runs so Responses-backed agents receive Discord and other channel images as native vision input. Fixes #83466. Thanks @iannwu.
Codex app-server: keep native code mode available without forcing code-mode-only so OpenClaw dynamic tool turns complete through the app-server tool bridge. Fixes #83109. Thanks @daswass.
Release stability: recover stale session diagnostics and Codex OAuth fallback state so stuck runs and reused refresh tokens clear without blocking follow-up work. (#83503) Thanks @100yenadmin.
Messages/TTS: apply TTS directives before message-tool sends reach core, gateway, or plugin delivery so opt-in message-tool rooms and proactive sends attach voice notes instead of leaking raw tags. Fixes #81598. Thanks @CG-Intelligence-Agent-Jack and @CoronovirusG10.
Codex app-server: preserve network access for sandboxed Codex code-mode turns when the OpenClaw sandbox allows outbound egress. Fixes #83347. Thanks @YusukeIt0.
QA-Lab: keep the OTLP smoke decoder independent of removed OpenTelemetry generated-root internals.
Messages: default group/channel visible replies to automatic final delivery again, keeping message_tool opt-in for ambient/shared rooms and tool-reliable models.
CLI/TUI: force standalone /exit runs to terminate after runTui returns so onboarding-launched TUI children do not stay alive invisibly. (#83501) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
Agents/code mode: honor per-agent code-mode config in schema, runtime catalog activation, and model payload filtering. Fixes #83388. Thanks @Kaspre.
Agents/code mode: preserve agent, session, run, and channel context in before_tool_call hooks for top-level exec/wait dispatches. Fixes #83387.
QQBot: shorten C2C typing indicators to a 10-second window renewed every 5 seconds, capped to keep a final passive-reply slot available. (#83469)
Replies: keep final payload delivery after live preview updates so channels can finalize or send the completed answer instead of losing preview-only drafts. (#83468)
Discord: deliver final replies in progress-mode preview streams instead of deduplicating the final visible message. (#83443) Thanks @compoodment.
Providers/Xiaomi: replay MiMo Anthropic-compatible reasoning_content as provider-required thinking blocks even when OpenClaw thinking is disabled, fixing follow-up tool turns for mimo-v2-flash. Fixes #83407. Thanks @Xgenious7.
Agents/exec approvals: forward approval-runtime credentials on agent-owned Gateway approval calls so approved async commands complete through the existing runtime path instead of stalling on unauthenticated follow-up calls. Thanks @IWhatsskill, @Patrick-Erichsen, and @jesse-merhi.
Gateway/skills: preflight remote macOS skill-bin refreshes with a WebSocket connectivity check so stale node sessions skip quickly instead of logging slow system.which timeout warnings.
CLI/config: keep broken discovered plugins that are not referenced by active config from failing openclaw config validate, while preserving fatal errors for explicitly configured plugin entries.
GitHub Copilot: drop unsafe native Responses reasoning replay items with non-replayable IDs before dispatch, preventing affected Copilot sessions from failing with invalid_request_body. Fixes #83220. Thanks @galiniliev.
Agents/Codex: fail closed when an explicitly requested Codex harness is not registered instead of silently trying configured model fallbacks. Fixes #83349. Thanks @r2-vibes.
QA-Lab: make runtime tool coverage fail on missing required tool exercise instead of treating pass/pass parity envelope drift as missing coverage.
Core/plugins: harden clawpatch-reported edge cases across gateway auth cleanup, Claude session id paths, plugin activation policy, apply-patch hunk handling, diagnostic redaction, and plugin metadata validation.
UI: show reasoning choices as plain labels instead of leaking internal override wording in session and chat pickers.
Mac app: avoid repeating the Configuration heading inside channel quick settings.
Mac app: keep the Settings sidebar always visible and remove the redundant titlebar hide/show control.
Mac app: prefer explicit private/Tailscale/LAN Gateway endpoints over SSH tunnels, preserve legacy loopback tunnel configs, persist transport choices, and show captured SSH stderr when tunneling really fails.
Gateway/sessions: keep ACP/acpx and runtime child sessions visible in configured-only session lists when their owner or parent session belongs to a configured agent.
Mac app: keep app-level menu commands and Dashboard failure states reachable when the remote Gateway is disconnected.
Mac app: allow longer Gateway and Context errors to wrap in the menu instead of truncating the useful failure detail.
Mac app: tighten remote Gateway fields in Settings so the Connection pane keeps readable labels and full action button text.
Mac app: keep custom Settings card rows left-aligned and full-width so Discovery and status sections no longer appear centered or detached.
Mac app: align Location permission controls to the same trailing column as the rest of Settings.
Mac app: add Dashboard, Chat, Canvas, and Settings shortcuts to the Dock icon menu.
Mac app: replace the Settings window's native split-view sidebar with an explicit layout so page content keeps its leading gutter when the sidebar is shown or hidden.
Mac app: render channel quick config as aligned Settings rows and hide schema-only variants that cannot be edited safely from the quick pane.
Gateway/webchat: hide internal runtime-context and other display: false transcript messages from Chat history and live message events. Fixes #83216. Thanks @EmpireCreator.
CLI/help: keep gateway, doctor, status, and health help registration out of action/runtime imports so subcommand --help stays lightweight in constrained terminals. Fixes #83228. Thanks @dfguerrerom.
Cron/Discord: keep explicit announce runs in message-tool-only source-reply mode so scheduled agent turns post once instead of also echoing through automatic visible replies. Fixes #83261. Thanks @Theralley.
Telegram: preserve forum-topic origin targets in inbound, audio-preflight, and skipped-message hook contexts so follow-up delivery stays bound to the originating topic. Fixes #83302. Thanks @M00zyx.
Telegram: retry HTTP 421 Misdirected Request send failures on a fresh fallback transport so transient edge-node routing errors no longer drop outbound replies. Fixes #48892. (#48908) Thanks @MarsDoge.
Telegram: fail topic sends closed when Telegram reports message thread not found instead of retrying without message_thread_id into the base chat. Refs #83302.
Config/subagents: remove ignored agent-model timeoutMs keys, keep subagent model config to primary/fallback selection, and clean shipped stale config through doctor. Fixes #83291. Thanks @giodl73-repo.
Mac app: align the Sessions settings pane with the standard Settings page gutter and row spacing.
OpenAI/Codex: stop rejecting available openai-codex GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, and GPT-5.3 model refs during config validation, while keeping removed Spark aliases suppressed. Fixes #83303.
Plugins/xAI: complete OAuth-backed xAI login and sidecar auth fixes, including guarded loopback callback CORS handling, video generation polling/defaults, and native-host User-Agent attribution. (#83322) Thanks @Jaaneek.
