Faster, more responsive chat: keep chat, dashboards, and session interactions responsive while long transcripts and disk usage are processed, with direct dashboard lookup, less cold-load work, and durable history reads outside the Gateway event loop. (#136862, #138094, #138669, #138888, #138860, #138894)
Reliable upgrades and recovery: keep active settings, enabled skills, and default-agent ownership in automatic updates, restore Gateway restarts after Git updates, and report outcomes with actionable recovery guidance. Related #138760. (#138837, #138730, #138781, #136588, #136995) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev and @jason-allen-oneal.
GPT-6 Astra support: select openai/gpt-6-astra with an OpenAI API-key profile or an eligible ChatGPT/Codex account, with text and image input, Responses tool calls, and supported reasoning controls; subscription availability follows successful account discovery. Related #137549. (#137550, #137561)
Replies survive restarts: recover active, queued, and delegated replies after Gateway restarts without letting one completed reply discard another's recovery marker, and keep continuation instructions through compaction and retry attempts. Related #138518, #138564. (#138071, #137606, #136236, #138519, #138565) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Backups that preserve your data: preserve complete text containing embedded NUL characters in Git backups, support Nix-managed config and credential links, and reject corrupt archive headers instead of accepting an incomplete backup. Related #138306, #136326. (#138327, #136343, #137718) Thanks @obviyus, @ced-cm, @vsumner, and @NianJiuZst.
Change settings without restarting: apply more agent, model, tool, channel, browser, node, access, and terminal settings through their running owners; settings that still require a Gateway restart remain marked in the configuration reference. (#138112, #137790, #137412, #137160, #136832) Thanks @NianJiuZst and @ylcn91.
Changes
Plugin branding: package your plugin icon at assets/icon.png instead of a top-level manifest URL; OpenClaw loads the packaged image without a network request, and missing or invalid icons do not prevent the plugin from loading. (#131510) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
GPT-6 Astra async tools and steering: on OpenAI Platform API-key routes using the built-in OpenClaw runtime and official Responses endpoint, run direct function tools asynchronously, steer active responses over cached WebSockets, and retain request prefixes when changing reasoning effort under the documented configuration; keep steering history and encrypted reasoning through continuations. (#138046, #138434)
GPT-6 Astra reasoning: keep supported reasoning and sampling settings correct when catalog metadata is absent, add /think ultra orchestration for OpenClaw and native Codex runtimes, and retain configured Azure deployment capabilities. (#138626, #138739)
macOS browser sign-in: connect saved Gateways through personal Cloudflare Access browser sign-in, open the Mac app from the Gateway website, and restore the selected Gateway after app restart while keeping accounts and queued messages separate. Related #138698, #137916. (#138745, #137933)
Experimental plugin UI: enable Settings Labs Custom plugin UI to let plugins contribute Control UI pages, panels, and session actions or customize the composer and workspace. (#134943)
Experimental Apple Watch Talk: opt into standalone Talk on Watch with Gateway-owned tools and transcripts while retaining the existing iPhone-mediated Talk to Claw flow; standalone realtime audio requires UDP connectivity. (#135808) Thanks @obviyus.
Slack rich replies: guide agents to use supported Block Kit layouts for proactive Slack replies. (#138896) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
Personal connected accounts: add provider accounts from Settings Profile Connected accounts or the CLI, choose an account for new chats or one existing chat, and keep existing session selections when your default changes. (#134970) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Swarm is enabled by default: orchestrate concurrent sub-agents with structured results and live progress, while preserving explicit opt-outs, tool restrictions, and the separate Code Mode opt-in. Related #136472. (#136514, #138056)
Dashboards fit your task: browse saved dashboards in a gallery, swap chat and dashboard views, place panels left, right, or below, and keep loaded widget input when hiding and reopening a panel. (#137069, #137068, #138077) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
Discord meeting notes: opt into occupancy-driven, listen-only meeting capture with automatic notes and a Control UI Meetings page. (#136679)
Bring teammates into the conversation: mention authorized people from the composer and receive temporary Inbox entries, with optional browser notifications. Related #135645. (#135853) Thanks @ruel225.
Cross-agent session access: session tools now default to all-session visibility and ordinary agent-to-agent access is enabled; set tools.sessions.visibility to agent or self for narrower session access, and retain existing tool and sandbox restrictions. (#136755)
Devices at a glance: show device types, resource meters, capability chips, and Desktop availability in the Devices page, with native iOS CPU/memory and Android memory/disk reporting. (#136858, #137082, #137083)
Slack session controls: add a native Stop button, session processing and approval status, and synchronized session titles; enable the documented Slack session-event subscriptions to receive Stop and title changes. (#136706)
macOS approvals: simplify command, node, and device approval panels so requested access and administrator warnings are easier to review. (#138049, #138137)
Native text copying: select message text on iOS and copy code blocks directly on iOS and macOS. (#136729)
Realtime Talk: support native realtime sessions for thin audio clients while retaining the selected model and account, transcripts, spoken controls, and scoped agent consultations. (#134003) Thanks @edenfunf and @obviyus.
Cloud worker checkouts: fast-forward replacement cloud workers to the pushed session branch while preserving local modifications, deliberate deletions, and divergent branches. Related #137011. (#137392)
Owner profiles: give single-user Gateway connections a durable Owner profile for identity and personal preferences without granting additional permissions. (#136819)
Provider account priority: expose configured provider account priority through the Gateway. (#132450) Thanks @jesse-merhi.
Gateway latency diagnostics: break RPC latency into phases in OpenTelemetry and Prometheus diagnostics so slow dispatch and execution are easier to distinguish. (#138015)
Fixes
Question answers: recover lost answer confirmations without sending the same input through ordinary steering again, and report uncertainty visibly while preserving independently accepted work. (#134003) Thanks @edenfunf and @obviyus.
Doctor database diagnostics: report the concrete SQLite error for a stable malformed database instead of incorrectly blaming concurrent changes, while preserving the source database and its sidecars. (#139136) Thanks @vincentkoc.
Plugin SDK code ranges: accept positional CodeRegion inputs containing only start and end again; consumers needing parser metadata should retain the inferred findCodeRegions result. Related #137509. (#137510)
HTTP proxy safety: update HTTP dependencies and keep destination DNS checks in effect when requests bypass a configured proxy. (#139056)
Transcript rewrites: leave live history intact when a durable tail rewrite fails and retain the admitted user input through repeated branch rewrites. (#138412, #138967) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
Session cleanup: preserve other agents' plugin state on session deletion, keep case-sensitive peer identifiers distinct, and prevent canceled queued cleanup from erasing newly restored plugin state. Related #121984. (#138925, #122006, #138957) Thanks @RamiNoodle733, @obviyus, and @yunligou711-commits.
Skill Workshop backups: refuse incomplete directory snapshots and verify retained originals before restore so deep user edits are not overwritten by an incomplete view. (#138082)
Pending child launches: stop pending native and ACP child launches when their originating parent authority closes, while preserving ownership already transferred to accepted children. Related #139001. (#139020)
Provider sign-in: keep the active plugin registry intact while discovering provider sign-in methods. (#138838)
Automation replies: keep automation and heartbeat completions attached to their originating conversation and topic while retaining the isolated execution session and its policy. (#133323) Thanks @Marvinthebored, @Peetiegonzalez, and @obviyus.
Configured agent hooks: retain configured hooks when a turn selects a non-default model. Related #138368. (#138979) Thanks @xialonglee, @obviyus, and @syncword.
Channel reloads: keep channel start attempts and shutdown bound to the correct Gateway after plugin reloads, and isolate reloads of named IRC accounts. (#126547, #138699) Thanks @NianJiuZst and @ylcn91.
Telegram proxy media: restore media through explicitly configured SOCKS proxies and HTTPS-proxy requests, including deployments where local DNS cannot resolve the destination. Related #131354. (#131436) Thanks @scoootscooob.
Telegram details formatting: preserve headings, code, quotes, and tables inside authored details containers on sends and edits, including nested containers and literal code, when rich mode is enabled. Related #132624. (#132688) Thanks @sunlit-deng, @obviyus, and @YangManBOBO.
Discord messages and voice: retain action-message bodies, intentional empty edits, and inline code across message chunks, and keep voice playback moving through pauses with a partial audio frame buffered. Related #138532. (#138347, #138413, #138536)
Mattermost commands and recovery: recognize mention-prefixed commands such as @bot /new when commands.text is enabled, and recover reactions, button actions, and username matching after transient lookup failures. (#137902, #137968) Thanks @goffern.
Plugin setup and diagnostics: repair retired plugin install configuration before service startup, avoid install warnings for intentionally disabled plugins, and attribute invalid-configuration errors to their actual source. Related #138652, #138791, #137694. (#138914, #138813, #137738) Thanks @obviyus, @worldtrading520, @NianJiuZst, @miguelarios, @SunnyShu0925, @altaywtf, and @anyech.
Tlon summaries: refresh channel history after a monitor restart so explicit summaries use current messages, with independent caches for concurrent accounts. (#114580) Thanks @sunlit-deng and @obviyus.
Doctor upgrade settings: retain active settings and the original default agent when automatically migrating a legacy multi-agent roster, preventing an older last-known-good snapshot from replacing the migratable configuration during an update. (#138837)
Worker transcript safety: revalidate the live turn owner before committing queued transcript updates, preventing stale workers from publishing after their turn closes. (#138538)
Video authentication and redaction: honor explicit no-auth and API-key modes for compatible video providers and redact reflected request credentials from provider failures. (#138205)
Per-turn settings: keep inline thinking, verbosity, and authorized tracing scoped to the current turn through queueing, model changes, and fallbacks; model selection retains its existing persistence behavior. (#138695)
Long conversations: keep the Gateway responsive while preparing long transcripts and keep cancellation effective throughout history preparation. (#138094)
Compaction accounting: include orphaned, duplicate, and displaced tool results removed during history repair in dropped-message summaries and token totals. (#134987) Thanks @qingminglong, @Dengshanzhi, and @obviyus.
Delegated approvals: wait for the actual approval outcome, retain cancellation and expiry behavior, and prevent late approval responses from applying closed work. (#137017)
Code Mode recovery: return failed cells to the normal agent loop so the agent can inspect partial effects and continue the task with its configured tools. (#138044)
OAuth tools and accounts: keep OAuth-authenticated MCP tools available to CLI agents through token refresh and preserve stored identity metadata when providers return only rotated token fields. Related #136238. (#136331, #127988) Thanks @NianJiuZst, @obviyus, @Volevanius, and @yetval.
Slack delivery: avoid duplicate replies after lost streaming acknowledgments, keep progress temporary, send completion as a new reply, and retry explicit rate-limit rejections during delivery and uploads. Related #138479. (#138221, #137952, #138487) Thanks @pash-openai.
WhatsApp terminal outcomes: deliver the reason a turn failed, timed out, or was refused instead of leaving the conversation silent. Related #136560. (#136864) Thanks @vyctorbrzezowski.
Telegram upgrades: retain account names and sender-policy keys that happen to match retired tuning-setting names in Doctor migration. (#137860)
Cron jobs: preserve the final reply when an automation removes itself, cancel removed conditions before main-session handoff, retain native creator tools in scheduled jobs, and preserve failure-alert policies when editing or cloning. Related #130753. (#138231, #138313, #137832, #129302) Thanks @Peetiegonzalez and @jalehman.
Memory recall and recovery: keep rotated recall, allow memories to promote after an earlier daily claim, and show database, WAL, and embedding-cache usage with guidance for safe offline disk recovery. Related #136963, #135347. (#137967, #136965, #137876) Thanks @cleebailey75, @obviyus, and @AlexisBallo2.
