## 2026.4.24
### Highlights
- Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports, and recovery tooling for already-open Meet tabs.
- DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are in the bundled catalog, V4 Flash is the onboarding default, and DeepSeek thinking/replay behavior is fixed for follow-up tool-call turns.
- Talk, Voice Call, and Google Meet can use realtime voice loops that consult the full OpenClaw agent for deeper tool-backed answers.
- Browser automation gets coordinate clicks, longer default action budgets, per-profile headless overrides, and steadier tab reuse/recovery.
- Plugin and model infrastructure is lighter at startup: static model catalogs, manifest-backed model rows, lazy provider dependencies, and external runtime-dependency repair for packaged installs.
### Fixes
- Packaged installs: preserve package-root runtime dependencies and their exported subpaths when bundled plugin runtime mirrors fall back to copying shared chunks, fixing Windows npm updates that could fail to load copied `dist` modules.
- Heartbeat: clamp oversized scheduler delays through the shared safe timer helper, preventing `every` values over Node's timeout cap from becoming a 1 ms crash loop. Fixes #71414. (#71478) Thanks @hclsys.
- Telegram: remove the startup persisted-offset `getUpdates` preflight so polling restarts do not self-conflict before the runner starts. Fixes #69304. (#69779) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar.
- Browser/Playwright: ignore benign already-handled route races during guarded navigation so browser-page tasks no longer fail when Playwright tears down a route mid-flight. (#68708) Thanks @Steady-ai.
- Browser/aria snapshots: bind `format=aria` `axN` refs to live DOM nodes through backend DOM ids when Playwright is available, so follow-up browser actions can use those refs without timing out. (#62434) Thanks @MrKipler.
- Telegram: prevent duplicate in-process long pollers for the same bot token and add clearer `getUpdates` conflict diagnostics for external duplicate pollers. Fixes #56230.
- Browser/Linux: detect Chromium-based installs under `/opt/google`, `/opt/brave.com`, `/usr/lib/chromium`, and `/usr/lib/chromium-browser` before asking users to set `browser.executablePath`. (#48563) Thanks @lupuletic.
- Sessions/browser: close tracked browser tabs when idle, daily, `/new`, or `/reset` session rollover archives the previous transcript, preventing tabs from leaking past the old session. Thanks @jakozloski.
- Sessions/forking: fall back to transcript-estimated parent token counts when cached totals are stale or missing, so oversized thread forks start fresh instead of cloning the full parent transcript. Thanks @jalehman.
- OpenAI/Codex: send Codex Responses system prompts through top-level
`instructions` while preserving the existing native Codex payload controls.
- MCP/CLI: retire bundled MCP runtimes at the end of one-shot `openclaw agent` and `openclaw infer model run` gateway/local executions, so repeated scripted runs do not accumulate stdio MCP child processes. Fixes #71457.
- OpenAI/Codex image generation: canonicalize legacy `openai-codex.baseUrl` values such as `https://chatgpt.com/backend-api` to the Codex Responses backend before calling `gpt-image-2`, matching the chat transport. Fixes #71460.
- Control UI: make `/usage` use the fresh context snapshot for context percentage, and include cache-write tokens in the Usage overview cache-hit denominator. Fixes #47885. Thanks @imwyvern and @Ante042.
- GitHub Copilot: preserve encrypted Responses reasoning item IDs during replay so Copilot can validate encrypted reasoning payloads across requests. (#71448) Thanks @a410979729-sys.
- Agents/replies: recover final-answer text when streamed assistant chunks contain only whitespace, preventing completed turns from surfacing as empty-payload errors. Fixes #71454. (#71467) Thanks @Sanjays2402.
- Feishu/TTS: transcode voice-intent MP3 and other audio replies to Ogg/Opus before sending native Feishu audio bubbles, while keeping ordinary MP3 attachments as files. Fixes #61249 and #37868.
- Telegram/webhook: acknowledge validated webhook updates before running bot middleware, keeping slow agent turns from tripping Telegram delivery retries while preserving per-chat processing lanes. Fixes #71392. Thanks @joelforsberg46-source.
- MCP: retire one-shot embedded bundled MCP runtimes at run end, skip bundle-MCP startup when a runtime tool allowlist cannot reach bundle-MCP tools, and add `mcp.sessionIdleTtlMs` idle eviction for leaked session runtimes. Fixes #71106, #71110, #70389, and #70808.
- MCP/config reload: hot-apply `mcp.*` changes by disposing cached session MCP runtimes, and dispose bundled MCP runtimes during gateway shutdown so removed `mcp.servers` entries reap child processes promptly. Fixes #60656.
- Gateway/restart continuation: durably hand restart continuations to a session-delivery queue before deleting the restart sentinel, recover queued continuation work after crashy restarts, and fall back to a session-only wake when no channel route survives reboot. (#70780) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.
- Agents/tool-result pruning: harden the tool-result character estimator and context-pruning loops against malformed `{ type: "text" }` blocks created by void or undefined tool handler results, serializing non-string text payloads for size accounting so they cannot bypass trimming as zero-sized. Fixes #34979. (#51267) Thanks @cgdusek, @alvinttang, and @coffeexcoin.
- Daemon/service-env: add Nix Home Manager profile bin directories to generated gateway service PATHs on macOS and Linux, honoring `NIX_PROFILES` right-to-left precedence and falling back to `~/.nix-profile/bin` when unset. Fixes #44402. (#59935) Thanks @jerome-benoit.