OpenClaw v2026.5.12

### Highlights - Leaner installs: WhatsApp, Slack, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic Vertex, and related provider/plugin dependency cones moved out of the core runtime so installs only pull what you use. - Telegram got much more resilient: isolated polling, durable local spooling, safer group-media handling, and preserved HTML/Markdown formatting in streamed and scheduled replies. - Codex/OpenAI paths are smoother: auth-profile-backed media tools, MCP server projection, context-engine thread rotation, and better app-server/runtime fallback behavior. - Plugin installs and updates are harder to wedge, with pnpm 11 support, peer-dependency preservation, safer runtime scans, and source/git install fixes. - Gateway, browser, Slack, node pairing, sandbox, and transcript paths picked up a broad security/provenance hardening pass. - UI and reply delivery improved across Control UI, WebChat, TUI, rich-only replies, session history, and streaming auto-scroll. ### Changes - Amazon Bedrock: externalize the Bedrock and Bedrock Mantle provider packages so core installs no longer pull AWS SDK dependencies unless those providers are installed. - Plugins: externalize Slack, OpenShell sandbox, and Anthropic Vertex so their runtime dependency cones install only when those plugins are installed. - Control UI/WebChat: add a persisted auto-scroll mode selector so users can keep the current near-bottom behavior, always follow streaming output, or turn automatic streaming scroll off and use the New messages button manually. Fixes #7648 and #81287. Thanks @BunsDev. - ACP: add `acp.fallbacks` so ACP turns can try configured backup runtime backends when the primary backend is unavailable before any output is emitted. (#69542) Thanks @kaseonedge. ### Fixes - Doctor/Codex: stop warning that the message tool is unavailable for source-reply paths where OpenClaw grants `message` at runtime, keeping update and doctor output aligned with the OpenAI happy path. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Channels/Weixin: bump the external Weixin catalog entry to `@tencent-weixin/[email protected]` with the matching package integrity. (#81730) Thanks @scotthuang. - Agents/subagents: apply `agents.defaults.subagents.model` before target agent primary models during `sessions_spawn`, so model-scoped runtimes such as `claude-cli` stay attached to default child runs. Fixes #81395. (#81783) Thanks @joshavant. - Telegram: keep Bot API polling alive during main event-loop stalls by moving ingress to an isolated worker with a durable local spool. Fixes #81132. (#81746) Thanks @joshavant. - Telegram: preserve rendered HTML formatting through lazy cron announce delivery so Markdown links stay clickable instead of falling back to literal anchor tags. Fixes #81742. (#81758) - Telegram: skip unmentioned group media before download when `requireMention` is active, avoiding failed media-download replies for messages that should be ignored. Fixes #81181. (#81785) Thanks @joshavant. - CLI/plugins: keep bare plugin and parent-command help on the lightweight path, avoiding plugin registry discovery before rendering help. - Gateway/session history: carry monotonic transcript message sequence through live updates and refresh SSE history when stale sequence input would otherwise append bad incremental state. (#81474) Thanks @samzong. - Security/sandbox: include Windows `USERPROFILE` in the sandbox blocked home roots so credential-bearing binds (such as `.codex`, `.openclaw`, or `.ssh` under the Windows user profile) are denied even when `HOME` points at a different shell home. (#63074) Thanks @luoyanglang. - Models config/auth: stop inferring provider env-var markers from broad `^[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*$` strings, and resolve config-backed provider `apiKey` values only through structured env SecretRefs (`secrets.providers[id]` / `secrets.defaults`), so unrelated env vars cannot accidentally become provider credentials. Thanks @sallyom. - Media fetch: skip allocating and buffering the response body for bodyless media responses (HEAD probes and 204-style empty bodies), avoiding wasted heap on streams that carry no payload. Thanks @shakkernerd. - CLI/onboarding: forward provider-specific auth flags (e.g. `--openai-api-key`) through the onboarding wizard so they reach provider auth methods via `ctx.opts`, letting `--openai-api-key "$OPENAI_API_KEY"` skip the redundant "use existing env var?" prompt in non-interactive harnesses. (#81669) Thanks @sjf. - CLI/migrate: drop trailing periods from Codex migrate item messages and `REASON_CODE_MESSAGES` strings so plan/result rows read as labels instead of sentence fragments. (#81705) Thanks @sjf. - Slack: treat malformed private-file redirect `Location` headers as unfollowable redirects instead of failing Slack media downloads. - Plugins: discover provider plugins from `setup.providers[].envVars` credentials during provider discovery while keeping the deprecated `providerAuthEnvVars` fallback. (#81542) Thanks @JARVIS-Glasses. - Docs/Codex harness: clarify that per-agent `CODEX_HOME` isolates `~/.codex` while inherited `HOME` intentionally keeps `.agents` discovery and subprocess user-home state available. - Auth: reclaim dead-owner stale file locks before retrying locked writes, so crashed OAuth refreshes no longer wedge `auth-profiles.json` until manual cleanup. - CLI tables: preserve muted/color styling on wrapped continuation lines after multiline cells, keeping `openclaw plugins list` descriptions readable. - Process execution: collapse case-insensitive duplicate child environment keys on Windows so caller-provided overrides such as `PATH` cannot be shadowed by host `Path`. - Gateway/diagnostics: suppress cold-start liveness warnings during the startup grace window while still sampling liveness metrics. Fixes #79915. (#81699) Thanks @joshavant. - Codex harness: keep `oauthRef`-backed Codex OAuth profiles usable and stop high-confidence app-server OAuth refresh invalidation from retry-spamming raw token-refresh errors without turning entitlement or usage-limit payloads into re-auth prompts. - Browser CLI: request the existing `operator.admin` gateway scope explicitly for browser control commands, avoiding unnecessary scope-upgrade approval loops. Fixes #81555. (#81716) Thanks @joshavant. - Gateway/diagnostics: suppress cold-start liveness warnings during the startup grace window while still sampling liveness metrics. Fixes #79915. (#81699) Thanks @joshavant. - Plugin SDK: restore the deprecated `openclaw/plugin-sdk/memory-core` package subpath as an alias of `memory-host-core`, so published memory companion plugins that still import it resolve on current hosts. - Control UI/i18n: use the installed workspace pi runtime for locale refreshes, update the fallback package pin, prefer the Anthropic CI provider when available, and skip invalid provider credentials instead of failing main. - Codex harness: classify native app-server token-refresh logout and relogin failures as authentication refresh errors, so users get re-authentication guidance instead of a raw runtime failure. - Codex startup: treat selectable configured OpenAI agent models as Codex runtime requirements during plugin auto-enable, startup planning, and doctor install repair, so Anthropic-primary configs can still switch to OpenAI/Codex cleanly. - Agents: preserve source-reply delivery metadata when merging tool-returned media into the final reply, keeping message-tool-only replies deliverable and mirrored. Thanks @pashpashpash and @vincentkoc. - Replies: treat rich presentation, interactive controls, and channel-native payload data as outbound content across follow-up, heartbeat, cron, ACP, and block-streaming delivery paths, preventing card/button-only replies from being dropped as empty. - WebChat/TUI: route Codex `tools.message` source replies to the active internal UI turn and mirror them to session history, so message-tool-only harness replies, including rich presentation and button-only replies, no longer disappear while WebChat and TUI remain non-targetable outbound channels. (#81586) Thanks @pashpashpash. - Replies: deliver rich-only block replies even when block-streaming coalescing is enabled, keeping card and button payloads from being dropped by the text coalescer. Thanks @pashpashpash. - macOS/companion: require system TLS trust before pinning a first-use direct `wss://` gateway certificate and honor `gateway.remote.tlsFingerprint` as the explicit pin for remote node-mode sessions, so fresh endpoints fail closed when macOS cannot trust the certificate unless configured out of band. Fixes #50642. Thanks @BunsDev. - Update: snapshot config before update-time repair and restart writes, preserve plugin install records through doctor cleanup, and keep update-time config size drops from blocking the update while pointing users to the pre-update backup. Fixes #80077. (#80257) Thanks @Jerry-Xin and @vincentkoc. - Sessions/status: classify ACP spawn-child sessions as `kind: "spawn-child"` instead of `"direct"` in `openclaw sessions` and status output; extract the duplicated session-kind classifier into a shared helper (`src/sessions/classify-session-kind.ts`) so both surfaces stay in sync. Fixes catalog #19. (#79544) - Sessions/Gateway: report `agentRuntime.id: "acpx"` (or stored backend id) with `source: "session-key"` for ACP control-plane session rows in `openclaw sessions --json`, `openclaw status`, and Gateway session RPC responses instead of the incorrect `"auto"` / `"pi"` implicit fallback. Fixes catalog #18. (#79550) - Telegram: delete tool-progress-only draft bubbles before rotating to the real answer, preventing orphaned progress messages in streamed replies. - Codex app-server: keep per-agent `CODEX_HOME` isolation without rewriting `HOME` by default, so Codex-run subprocesses can still find normal user-home config, tokens, and CLI state unless the launch explicitly overrides `HOME`. Thanks @pashpashpash. - iMessage: stop sending visible `<media:image>` placeholder text for media-only native image sends while preserving the internal echo key that prevents self-echo duplicate replies. (#81209) Thanks @homer-byte. - Agents/sessions: create configured agent main sessions before first `sessions_send` or gateway send, so agent-to-agent messages no longer fail when the target agent has not started yet. - gateway: pass Talk session scope to resolver [AI]. (#81379) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Gateway protocol: require v4 clients and stream explicit chat `deltaText`/`replace` frames so SDK clients can consume assistant updates without local diffing. (#80725) Thanks @samzong. - GitHub Copilot: exchange OAuth tokens for Copilot API tokens on image understanding requests and route Gemini image payloads through Chat Completions, fixing Copilot Gemini image descriptions. (#80393, #80442) Thanks @afunnyhy. - Gateway: hide pending Node pairing commands, capabilities, and permissions until approval, and refresh the live approved surface when pairings change. (#80741) Thanks @samzong. - Plugins/Feishu/WhatsApp/Line: enforce inbound media size caps while reading download streams, avoiding full buffering of oversized attachments. (#81044, #81050) Thanks @samzong. - Plugins/install: limit install-time code safety scans to plugin-owned runtime entrypoints while keeping dependency manifest denylist checks, so trusted packages with large dependency trees no longer get blocked or warned on third-party runtime internals. - Config: serialize and retry semantic config mutations centrally, so concurrent commands can rebase safe changes instead of clobbering or hand-rolling command-local retry loops. (#76601) - Installer: honor `--no-git-update` for existing git checkouts before resolving release refs, preventing pinned source installs from moving during reinstall. - Plugins/install: refresh OpenClaw-managed peer dependency pins when installed plugin peer ranges change, while preserving user-owned dependency pins. - Require approval for setup-code device pairing [AI]. (#81292) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Plugins/install: preserve third-party peer dependencies in the managed npm root when later plugin installs or updates recalculate the shared dependency tree. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Plugins/memory: prefer the npm-installed memory-lancedb plugin over the bundled fallback during duplicate resolution, keeping Active Memory's `memory_recall` tool visible after managed installs. Fixes #81193. Thanks @julio-arcila. - Plugins/uninstall: prune managed third-party peer dependencies after their owning npm plugin is removed, without blocking plugin cleanup on peer-prune failures. - Docker: pin setup-time container paths so stale host `.env` OpenClaw paths cannot leak into Linux containers. Fixes #80381. (#81105) Thanks @brokemac79. - Channels/WeCom: refresh the official onboarding install to `@wecom/[email protected]` and update existing managed npm installs instead of failing on the package directory. Fixes #79884. (#80390) Thanks @brokemac79. - Anthropic: reseed Claude CLI fresh-session retries from bounded OpenClaw transcript history after session rotation, preventing conversation amnesia. Fixes #80905. (#80934) Thanks @bitloi. - Require explicit browser device pairing [AI]. (#81289) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Require Control UI pairing before proxy-scoped access [AI]. (#81288) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Installer: honor `--version` for git installs and install from the checked-in lockfile, preventing recent dependency pins from tripping pnpm's minimum-release-age gate during tag installs. - Agents: deliver same-process subagent completion handoffs through the in-process agent dispatcher instead of opening a Gateway RPC loopback. - Harden trusted-proxy source validation [AI]. (#81290) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Agents: add permissive item schemas to array tool parameters before provider submission, preventing OpenAI-compatible schema validation from rejecting plugin tools that omit `items`. Fixes #81175. (#81217) Thanks @JARVIS-Glasses. - Agents: escalate LLM idle watchdog timeouts through profile rotation and configured model fallback instead of leaving agent turns stuck after a silent model stream. Fixes #76877. (#80449) Thanks @jimdawdy-hub. - Discord voice: treat OpenAI Realtime startup auth failures as fatal, suppress duplicate realtime error logs, and stop autoJoin from retrying the same broken voice channel until credentials are fixed. - ACPX: stop forwarding unsupported timeout config options to Claude ACP while preserving OpenClaw's own turn timeout. (#80812) Thanks @sxxtony. - Session transcripts: redact sensitive message content in the centralized JSONL append path so CLI turns, gateway transcript injection, transcript mirrors, and guarded tool results use the same configured redaction behavior. Fixes #73565. Refs #73563. (#79645) Thanks @Ziy1-Tan. - Channels/iMessage: ignore Apple link-preview plugin payload attachments when users paste URLs, keeping the URL text while avoiding phantom media context. (#79374) Thanks @homer-byte. - Telegram: detect polling stalls from `getUpdates` liveness only, so outbound API calls no longer mask dead inbound polling; log polling-cycle starts after transport rebuilds. Fixes #78473. - fix: scan plugin runtime entries during install [AI]. (#80998) Thanks @pgondhi987. - fix(plugins): scan installed dependency runtime code [AI]. (#81066) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Inherit tool restrictions for delegated sessions [AI]. (#80979) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Telegram: discard legacy long-poll update offsets that cannot be tied to the current bot token, so token rotation no longer leaves bots silently skipping new messages. (#80671) Thanks @sxxtony. - browser: enforce navigation checks for act interactions [AI]. (#81070) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Validate node exec event provenance [AI]. (#81071) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Gateway: keep active reply runs visible to stuck-session diagnostics and clear no-active-work recovery state, preventing stale queued lanes after compaction or tool failures. Fixes #80677. (#81302) - Codex app-server: rotate incompatible context-engine-managed native threads so Lossless-managed sessions do not resume stale hidden Codex history. (#81223) Thanks @jalehman. - Codex cron: execute scheduled command-style automation payloads before workspace bootstrap or memory review, preserving existing isolated cron jobs after Codex harness migration. (#81510) Thanks @jalehman. - Plugin LLM completions: honor Codex agent-runtime policy for canonical OpenAI model refs, so context-engine summarizers can use Codex OAuth instead of requiring direct `OPENAI_API_KEY` auth. (#81511) Thanks @jalehman. - Gateway/OpenAI HTTP: return OpenAI-compatible 400 errors for invalid sampling params and provider validation failures instead of collapsing them to 500s. (#81275) Thanks @Lellansin. - Telegram: publish plugin and skill command description localizations to native command menus while filtering unsupported locale codes and preserving Telegram command limits. (#81351) Thanks @jzakirov. - Limit hook CLI tool authority [AI]. (#81065) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Require admin scope for node device token management [AI]. (#81067) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Restrict chat sender allowlist matching [AI]. (#80898) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Update: suppress the false newer-config warning during restart health probing after an update handoff, while keeping future-version mutation guards intact. (#78652) - Sessions: redact persisted tool result detail metadata before writing transcripts so diagnostic secrets do not survive tool output redaction. (#80444) Thanks @nimbleenigma. - Codex runtime: allow the official installed `@openclaw/codex` package to use its private task-runtime and MCP projection SDK helpers, fixing `MODULE_NOT_FOUND` during migrated OpenAI/Codex beta runs. - Codex migration: make Enter activate the highlighted checkbox row before continuing, so `Skip for now` and bulk-selection rows work even when planned items start preselected. - Codex harness: keep auth-profile-backed media tools such as `image_generate` available when OpenAI auth lives in the agent's auth-profile store instead of environment variables. - WhatsApp/install: allow Baileys' pinned libsignal git subdependency under pnpm 11 so source installs and local checks can complete. - Require auth for sandbox browser CDP relay [AI]. (#81002) Thanks @pgondhi987. - fix: detect carried exec command forms [AI]. (#81000) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Reject truncated exec approval commands [AI]. (#81001) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Enforce inline shell wrapper payload matching [AI]. (#80978) Thanks @pgondhi987. - fix(node-pairing): replace changed pending requests [AI]. (#80894) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Rate limit Google Chat webhook requests [AI]. (#80974) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Docker: mount the auth-profile secret key directory so OAuth-backed auth profiles survive container rebuilds. (#80991) - Onboarding: accept Codex auth profiles for canonical OpenAI model checks, avoiding false missing-auth warnings. (#80913) Thanks @rubencu. - fix(feishu): normalize webhook rate-limit client keys [AI]. (#80975) Thanks @pgondhi987. - fix(auth): prevent bootstrap pairing scope changes [AI]. (#80976) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Validate Control UI loopback retry endpoints [AI]. (#80900) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Harden exported markdown link rendering [AI]. (#80902) Thanks @pgondhi987. - fix(gateway): honor minimal discovery mode for wide-area DNS-SD [AI]. (#80903) Thanks @pgondhi987. - slack: enforce reaction notification policy [AI]. (#80907) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Enforce gateway command scopes by caller context [AI]. (#80891) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Telegram/groups: in single-account setups, treat an explicit empty `accounts.<id>.groups: {}` map the same as undefined so the root `channels.telegram.groups` allowlist still applies, instead of silently dropping every group update under the default `groupPolicy: "allowlist"`. Multi-account semantics are unchanged so per-account explicit-empty groups still scope-disable a single account without affecting siblings; the explicit way to block all groups for any account remains `groupPolicy: "disabled"`. Fixes #79427. (#81030) Thanks @kinjitakabe. - Codex (app-server): project user-configured `mcp.servers` into new Codex thread configs, matching the codex-cli runtime's existing `-c mcp_servers=...` behavior so app-server-runtime agents see the same user MCP servers the CLI runtime already exposes. Plugin-curated apps remain attached via the separate `apps` config patch. Fixes #80814. Thanks @kinjitakabe. - Enforce Slack plugin approval button authorization [AI]. (#80899) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Recognize PowerShell -ec inline commands [AI]. (#80893) Thanks @pgondhi987. - fix(qqbot): authorize approval button callbacks [AI]. (#80892) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Telegram: render supported HTML tags in streamed and durable replies instead of showing literal markup. (#80977) - Scrub streamable MCP redirect headers [AI]. (#80906) Thanks @pgondhi987. - fix(memory-wiki): require admin scope for ingest [AI]. (#80897) Thanks @pgondhi987. - memory-wiki: require write scope for Obsidian search [AI]. (#80904) Thanks @pgondhi987. - WhatsApp/install: allow Baileys' pinned libsignal git subdependency under pnpm 11 so source installs and local checks can complete. - WhatsApp: externalize the channel as a ClawHub/npm plugin outside the core npm runtime bundle, and bump Baileys to `7.0.0-rc11` so libsignal resolves from the registry instead of a GitHub tarball. - WhatsApp: keep optional audio decoding dependencies local to the external plugin so the core npm install no longer pulls WhatsApp-only media helpers. - Build: skip copied metadata for bundled plugins that are excluded from build entries, preventing update/status rebuilds from advertising missing QQ Bot runtime files. (#80925) - Control UI/sessions: nest subagent sessions under their parent session in the session picker dropdown using a visual `└─ ` prefix, making the parent-child relationship clear. Fixes #77628. (#78623) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar. - Auto-reply: surface a visible error when the configured model backend fails and fallback produces no visible reply, while preserving intentional silent turns and side-effect-only deliveries. (#80917) Thanks @dutifulbob. - Agents/exec: skip redundant heartbeat wake-ups for subagent session exec completions, preventing spurious LLM invocations on parent sessions. Fixes #66748. (#66749) Thanks @ggzeng. - Provider streams: keep OpenAI-compatible SSE and JSON fallback streams draining across split chunks and fail Azure Responses streams with a bounded first-event diagnostic instead of stalling. Refs #80926. (#80927) Thanks @galiniliev and @CaptainTimon. - Agents: rewrite generic provider internal errors with support request IDs into user-friendly transient error copy. (#49401) Thanks @y471823206. - WhatsApp: finish handling pending debounced inbound messages before closing the socket. (#81246) Thanks @mcaxtr. - CLI/commitments: write `--json` output to stdout instead of diagnostic logs so automation can parse commitment list and dismiss results. (#81215) Thanks @giodl73-repo. - Update: allow pnpm GitHub-source OpenClaw updates to approve the OpenClaw package build, so source installs complete their prepare/prepack lifecycle. (#81294) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev. - Telegram: preserve supported HTML tags in visible replies and durable mirrors so formatted messages render correctly instead of degrading to escaped text. (#80977) Thanks @obviyus. - Plugins/runtime: attribute deprecated runtime config load/write warnings to the plugin id and source that triggered them so logs and plugin doctor runs are actionable. Refs #81394. (#81425) Thanks @BKF-Gitty. - Agents/cron: honor a cron payload's explicit `timeoutSeconds` for the LLM idle watchdog even when it numerically equals `agents.defaults.timeoutSeconds`, preserving explicit per-run timeout intent and preventing stalled streaming replies from being cut to the implicit 120s cap. (#79426) Thanks @legolaz8451. - Codex app-server: keep the short post-tool completion watchdog armed across dynamic tool completion bookkeeping so embedded Codex runs fail fast and release their session lane when Codex goes quiet after a tool result. (#81697) Thanks @mbelinky. ### Changes - Gateway/OpenAI HTTP: honor `max_completion_tokens` and `max_tokens` on inbound `/v1/chat/completions` requests so client-provided token caps reach the upstream provider via `streamParams.maxTokens`, with `max_completion_tokens` taking precedence when both are sent. Thanks @Lellansin. - Models/OpenAI CLI auth: make `openclaw models auth login --provider openai` start the ChatGPT/Codex account login by default, while `--method api-key` remains the explicit OpenAI API-key setup path. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside explicit SDK OAuth auth-result config patches, so provider helpers emit `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` for Gemini 3.1 testing. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside SDK OAuth auth-result default config patches, so helper-built provider auth flows emit `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` for Gemini 3.1 testing. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids returned by direct `openclaw models auth login --set-default` provider auth flows before writing config, so Gemini testing targets `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids in per-agent config defaults and auth patches, so agent-specific emitted config keeps targeting `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids in provider catalog rows when API-key onboarding only reapplies the agent default, so emitted config keeps testing `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids in `config set` mutation output for agent overrides and provider catalog rows, so current config emits `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: canonicalize provider-qualified retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview refs during Google forward-compatible model resolution, so emitted config uses `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` for Gemini 3.1 testing. - Google/Gemini: normalize proxy-prefixed retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview catalog rows, so emitted configs use `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` for Gemini 3.1 testing. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside per-agent model overrides before writing config, so agent-specific config emits `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` for Gemini 3.1 testing. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids in subagent, heartbeat, compaction, and subagent-tool model config during writes, so current config keeps emitting `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Docs/subagents: document `agents.defaults.subagents.announceTimeoutMs` in the sub-agent and configuration references. (#75509) Thanks @akrimm702. - Cron: add direct `cron.get`, `openclaw cron get <id>`, and agent-tool `get` support for inspecting one stored cron job by id. (#75117) Thanks @samzong. - Agents/tools: add per-sender tool policies with canonical channel-scoped sender keys, so operators can restrict dangerous tools by requester identity across global, agent, group, core, bundled, and plugin tool surfaces. (#66933) Thanks @JerranC. - ACP: expose Gateway session lineage metadata through ACP session listings and session info snapshots so clients can render subagent graphs without private Gateway side channels. (#73458) Thanks @samzong. - Channels/iMessage: add `openclaw channels status --channel <name>` filtering and document the BlueBubbles-to-imsg cutover path so operators can probe iMessage without starting both channel monitors. (#80706) Thanks @omarshahine. - CI: add a non-blocking `plugin-inspector-advisory` artifact to Plugin Prerelease so release runs capture bundled plugin compatibility triage without changing the blocking gate. - Runtime/Fly: detect Fly Machines as container environments from their runtime env vars, so gateway bind and Bonjour defaults match remote container launches. (#80209) Thanks @liorb-mountapps. - Providers/fal: route GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2 reference-image edit requests to `/edit` with `image_urls` array, enforce NB2 edit geometry using `aspect_ratio` and `resolution` params, lift Fal edit mode input-image caps to 10 for GPT Image 2 and 14 for Nano Banana 2, and allow aspect-ratio hints in edit mode. (#77295) Thanks @leoge007. - Control UI: show a plain HTML recovery panel when the app module never registers, giving blank dashboard pages a retry path and browser-extension troubleshooting link. Fixes #44107. Thanks @BunsDev. - Docs: rename the broad tools nav to Capabilities, keep automation and agent coordination as sections, and keep the tools overview focused on tools, skills, and plugins. https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools - Build: enable additional low-churn oxlint rules for promise, TypeScript, and runtime footgun checks. - Build: enable stricter Vitest lint rules for focused, disabled, conditional, hook, matcher, and expectation hazards. - Build: pin explicit oxfmt defaults in the shared formatter config to keep formatting behavior stable across upgrades. - TypeScript: enable stricter compiler checks for implicit returns, side-effect imports, overrides, and unused production code. - Logging: add targeted model transport, payload, SSE, and code-mode diagnostics with redacted URL handling. - Agents: allow `session.agentToAgent.maxPingPongTurns` up to 20 while keeping the default at 5 for longer agent-to-agent reply chains. Fixes #52382. (#52400) Thanks @thirumaleshp. - Agents: add per-agent `tools.message.crossContext` overrides so sandboxed/public agents can restrict message sends to the current conversation without changing the global bot policy. - Agents: add per-agent `tools.message.actions.allow` overrides so sandboxed/public agents can expose and enforce send-only message tools. - Agents: omit the sandbox workspace marker from compact command progress previews while keeping internal sandbox diagnostics unchanged. - Agents: widen progress draft command preview lines by 50% so Discord inline tool updates preserve more useful command context. - Codex app-server: retire timed-out app-server clients after bounded turn interrupts so Discord agents do not reuse a CPU-spinning Codex process after an attempt timeout. - Codex app-server: default migrated native plugin destructive-action policy to enabled while preserving explicit global and per-plugin false overrides. - Build: upgrade workspace package management to pnpm 11 and keep Docker, install, update, and release workflows on the pnpm 11 config surface. (#79414) Thanks @altaywtf. - Build: align Telegram QA workflows and git source installs with the pnpm 11 workspace build allowlist surface. (#80588) Thanks @altaywtf. - Models: add provider-level `localService` startup for on-demand local model servers before OpenAI-compatible requests, including one-shot model probes. - Agents: trim default system prompt guidance and send-only message tool schemas to reduce prompt tokens while preserving GPT-5 personality guidance. - Context: add `/context map` to send a treemap image of the current session context contributors. (#79867) - Slack: add `unfurlLinks` and `unfurlMedia` config for bot `chat.postMessage` replies, including per-account overrides, so Slack link and media previews can be suppressed without workspace-wide settings. Fixes #48435. (#80145) Thanks @esegev1 and @HemantSudarshan. - Slack: add explicit `replyBroadcast` support for text and Block Kit thread replies so agents can opt into Slack's parent-channel `reply_broadcast` behavior. (#64365) Thanks @tony88331. - Slack: preserve mention target/source metadata in inbound prompt context so agents can distinguish direct bot mentions from implicit thread wakes that mention someone else. Fixes #79025. (#75356) Thanks @tmimmanuel. - Slack: canonicalize outbound delivery-mirror routes for native DM channel IDs to the peer user session so `message.send` calls to `D...` targets do not split the same Slack DM thread into a channel session. Fixes #80091. (#80111) Thanks @bek91. - Plugin SDK: deprecate public subpaths that existed for at least one month and have no bundled extension production imports, keep legacy barrel/test/zod subpath package exports for backwards compatibility, and track both sets in the SDK surface report. - Plugin SDK: deprecate public subpaths currently used by only one or two bundled plugin owners, keeping them importable while steering new plugin code to focused shared SDK seams or plugin-owned APIs. - Plugin SDK: remove the owner-specific `provider-auth-login` public subpath after moving Chutes, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex auth flows back to provider-owned modules. - Plugin SDK: remove provider-specific model, stream, and xAI compatibility helpers from public exports after moving bundled callers to provider-owned modules. - Plugin SDK: expose runtime-supplied active model metadata to native plugin tool factories for diagnostics and plugin-owned policy decisions. Fixes #77857. Thanks @jamiezigelbaum. - QA/Mantis: add Telegram live PR evidence automation with Convex-leased credentials, Crabbox transcript capture, motion GIF previews, and inline PR comments. - QA/Mantis: add a Telegram desktop scenario builder that leases Crabbox, installs native Telegram Desktop, configures an OpenClaw Telegram gateway with leased bot credentials, and records VNC screenshot/video artifacts. - Discord/voice: add realtime voice diagnostics for speaker turns, playback resets, barge-in detection, and audio cutoff analysis. - Talk: add `talk.realtime.instructions` so operators can append realtime voice style instructions while preserving OpenClaw's built-in agent-consult guidance. (#79081) Thanks @VACInc. - Discord/voice: default test and source installs to the pure-JS `opusscript` decoder by ignoring optional native `@discordjs/opus` builds, avoiding slow native addon compiles outside dedicated voice-performance lanes. - Discord/voice: add an opt-in native `@discordjs/opus` install script and decoder preference for live voice-performance lanes without charging unrelated Docker/tests for native addon builds. - Discord/voice: add `voice.allowedChannels` to restrict voice joins and bot voice-state moves to configured channels while preserving open voice behavior when unset. - Gateway/skills: add an opt-in private skill archive upload install path gated by `skills.install.allowUploadedArchives`, so trusted Gateway clients can stage and install zip-backed skills only when operators explicitly enable the code-install surface. (#74430) Thanks @samzong. - Codex app-server: enable Codex native code-mode-only for harness threads so deferred OpenClaw dynamic tools run through Codex's own searchable code execution surface instead of a PI-style wrapper. - Dependencies: refresh workspace pins and patch targets, including ACPX `@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp` `0.33.1`, Codex ACP `0.14.0`, Baileys `7.0.0-rc10`, Google GenAI `2.0.1`, OpenAI `6.37.0`, AWS SDK `3.1045.0`, Kysely `0.29.0`, Tlon skill `0.3.6`, Aimock `1.19.5`, and tsdown `0.22.0`. - Dependencies: refresh workspace pins for Anthropic SDK, Smithy shared ini loading, Playwright, YAML, Aimock, TypeScript native preview, Vitest, Oxlint/Oxfmt, Vite, and pnpm 11.1.0. - Dependencies: hard-pin non-peer direct dependency specs across bundled packages and add a changed-check guard so runtime installs resolve the exact versions tested by maintainers. - Dependencies: move embedded Pi packages to the `@earendil-works` namespace, refresh Twitch Twurple packages, and move `@openclaw/fs-safe` from the GitHub release pin to the published npm package. - Build: route Testbox changed-check delegation through Crabbox and remove the OpenClaw-specific Blacksmith Testbox helper scripts. - Agents/compaction: preserve scoped background exec/process session references across embedded compaction and after-turn runtime contexts without exposing sessions from unrelated scopes. Fixes #79284. (#79307) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle. - Agents/process: tell agents to inspect background sessions with `process log` before sending interactive input and to use `waitingForInput`/`stdinWritable` hints from `log`/`poll`. - CLI/onboarding: improve setup, onboarding, configure, and channel command wayfinding so terminal flows explain the next useful command instead of relying on terse setup labels. - Agents/Codex: remove the configurable Codex dynamic-tools profile so Codex app-server always owns workspace, edit, patch, exec, process, and plan tools while OpenClaw integration tools remain available. - macOS app: update the Peekaboo bridge dependency to Peekaboo 3.0.0. - Dependencies: refresh workspace pins and move the WhatsApp plugin from `@whiskeysockets/baileys` to `baileys` while keeping the `7.0.0-rc10` runtime. - Plugin SDK: add bundled-plugin session actions, `sendSessionAttachment`, and Cron-backed `scheduleSessionTurn`/tag cleanup under the grouped session namespace. Replaces #75578/#75581/#75588 and part of #73384/#74483. Thanks @100yenadmin. - Plugin SDK/media-understanding: add `extractStructuredWithModel(...)` plus the optional provider-side `extractStructured(...)` seam so trusted plugins can run bounded image-first structured extraction with optional supplemental text context through provider-owned runtimes such as Codex. - Exec approvals: add `tools.exec.commandHighlighting` so parser-derived command highlighting in approval prompts can be enabled globally or per agent. (#79348) Thanks @jesse-merhi. - Codex app-server: mirror native Codex subagent spawn lifecycle events into Task Registry so app-server child agents appear in task/status surfaces without relying on transcript text. (#79512) Thanks @mbelinky. ### Fixes - CLI/media: render terminal QR codes with full-block characters by default so the bundled `qrcode` terminal renderer does not emit a pathologically dense ANSI final row in compact half-block mode that breaks scanning in some terminals. Fixes #77820. Thanks @KrasimirKralev. - Agents/compaction: read post-compaction AGENTS.md refresh context from the queued run workspace instead of the runner process cwd, so CLI-backed follow-up turns re-inject the correct workspace startup rules after compaction. Fixes #70541. (#75532) Thanks @vyctorbrzezowski. - Agents/read tool: treat positive offsets beyond EOF as empty ranges instead of surfacing the upstream read error, so stale pagination cursors no longer crash tool calls while unrelated read failures still fail loud. Fixes #62466. (#75536) Thanks @vyctorbrzezowski. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview refs left in Google API-key onboarding model allowlists and fallbacks, so setup-emitted config keeps testing `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` instead of `google/gemini-3-pro-preview`. - Telegram/context: bound selected topic context to the active session so messages from before `/new` or `/reset` are not replayed into later turns. (#80848) Thanks @VACInc. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired nested Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids when resolving exact configured proxy-provider refs, so `kilocode/google/gemini-3-pro-preview` resolves to `kilocode/google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` for Gemini 3.1 testing. - CLI: strip generic OSC terminal escape payloads from sanitized output fields, preventing clipboard/title escape bodies from leaking into commitment tables and other terminal-safe text. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Codex app-server: match connector-backed plugin approval elicitations by stable connector id so enabled destructive actions no longer fall through to display-name-only rejection. - Build: replace selected build utility `tsx` preloads with Node native type stripping so Node 26 build paths no longer emit `DEP0205` module loader deprecation warnings. (#78584) Thanks @keshavbotagent. - Media generation: honor configured music and video generation timeouts when tool calls omit `timeoutMs`, matching image generation behavior. (#80687) - CLI/update/status: label beta-channel plugin fallback and model-pricing refresh failures as warnings, keeping mixed beta/latest plugin cohorts visible without making core update or Gateway reachability look failed. Fixes #80689. Thanks @BKF-Gitty. - Doctor/plugins: relink managed npm plugin `openclaw` peer dependencies during `doctor --fix`, while refusing to follow package-local `node_modules` symlinks outside the plugin package. (#77412) Thanks @TheCrazyLex. - iMessage: route inbound tapbacks as reaction system events instead of normal messages, defaulting to bot-authored-message notifications while allowing `reactionNotifications: "off" | "own" | "all"` overrides. Fixes #60274; refs #39031 and #39322. Thanks @hyperclaw. - Control UI/performance: scope Nodes polling to the active Nodes tab, debounce stale session-list reconciliation, and bound chat-side session refreshes so long-running dashboards avoid background reload churn. Thanks @BunsDev. - Plugins/channels: explain bundled channel entry files that reach the legacy plugin loader as setup-runtime loader mismatches instead of generic missing-register failures. Thanks @chinar-amrutkar. - Plugins/session-end: fire a typed `session_end` plugin hook with reason `shutdown` (or `restart` when a restart is expected) for every session that was still active when the gateway process stops. Previously SIGTERM/SIGINT/restart paths closed the gateway without enumerating active sessions, leaving downstream `session_end` plugins (e.g. claude-mem) with ghost rows accumulating across restarts. The new shutdown finalizer drains an in-memory tracker that is populated by `session_start` and forgotten by replace / reset / delete / compaction emitters, so previously-finalized sessions are never double-fired. The drain is bounded to a 2 s total budget so a slow plugin cannot block process exit. Adds `"shutdown"` and `"restart"` to `PluginHookSessionEndReason`. Fixes #57790. Thanks @pandadev66. - Codex app-server: clamp Codex code-mode sandboxing to workspace-write when an OpenClaw sandbox is active, preventing Docker gateway socket access from becoming a danger-full-access Codex turn. - TUI: exit immediately on Ctrl+C/SIGINT after gateway disconnect and bound shutdown drain so terminal teardown cannot strand sessions. Fixes #75379. (#75381) Thanks @udaymanish6. - Matrix: default outbound markdown tables to bullet lists instead of fenced code blocks. Fixes #78990. (#80890) Thanks @kinjitakabe. - Bonjour/Gateway: treat active ciao probing and fresh name-conflict renames as in-progress so the mDNS watchdog waits for probe settlement before retrying, preventing rapid re-advertise loops on Windows, WSL, and other multicast-hostile hosts. (#74778) Refs #74242. Thanks @fuller-stack-dev. - Providers/MiniMax: send a minimal Anthropic-compatible user fallback when message conversion filters a turn to an empty payload, so MiniMax M2.7 no longer returns `chat content is empty` after tool-heavy sessions. Fixes #74589. Thanks @neeravmakwana and @DerekEXS. - Tools/media: preserve implicit allow-all semantics from `tools.alsoAllow`-only policies when preconstructing built-in media generation and PDF tools, so configured media tools become live without forcing `tools.allow: ["*", ...]`. Fixes #77841. Thanks @trialanderrorstudios. - Codex/Telegram: separate code-mode tool progress from final replies, render bridged tool calls with native tool labels, and repair persisted missing tool results for safer follow-up turns. (#80663) Thanks @jalehman. - Memory/search: load the platform-specific `sqlite-vec-<platform>-<arch>` variant directly when the meta `sqlite-vec` package is missing from a global install, so vector recall keeps working on `npm install -g openclaw@latest` upgrades where optionalDependencies left only the platform variant on disk. Fixes #77838. Thanks @corevibe555 and @Simon2256928. - Cron: keep long manual cron runs active in the task registry until completion, preventing transient `lost` markers before durable recovery reconciles. Fixes #78233. (#78243) Thanks @Feelw00. - Doctor/GitHub CLI: surface a `GH_CONFIG_DIR` hint when the GitHub skill is usable but `gh` auth lives under a different operator HOME than the agent process, without warning for disabled or filtered skills. Fixes #78063. (#78095) Thanks @tmimmanuel. - Gateway: dedupe concurrent `send`, `poll`, and `message.action` requests while delivery is still in flight, preventing duplicate outbound work for the same idempotency key. (#68341) Thanks @thesomewhatyou. - Cron: keep main-session `systemEvent` heartbeat wakes on their bound session route for both direct and queued wake paths by dropping inherited explicit heartbeat destinations when forcing `target: "last"`. Fixes #73900. Thanks @richardmqq. - Telegram: honor forced document delivery for video media so `--force-document` sends MP4s as documents instead of typed videos. Fixes #80389. (#80405) Thanks @jbetala7. - Gateway: clear speculative node wake state when APNs registration is missing, preventing unregistered or mistyped node IDs from retaining wake throttle entries. Fixes #68847. (#68848) Thanks @Feelw00. - Auto-reply: keep late follow-up queue drain finalizers from deleting a replacement queue registered after `/stop`, preventing immediate follow-up messages from being orphaned. Fixes #68838. (#68839) Thanks @Feelw00. - Feishu: make manual App ID/App Secret setup the default channel-binding path while keeping QR scan-to-create as an optional best-effort flow, and document the manual fallback for domestic Feishu mobile clients that do not react to the QR code. Fixes #80591. Thanks @wei-wei-zhao. - Memory: cap dreaming promotion writes to `MEMORY.md` by compacting oldest auto-promoted sections while preserving user-authored notes, keeping active memory below the bootstrap budget. Fixes #73691. (#74088) Thanks @YB0y. - Telegram: show resolved thinking defaults in native `/status` and `/think` menus while preserving explicit session overrides. (#80341) Thanks @VACInc. - Channels: cache selected channel registry lookups against the active fallback snapshot so pinned-empty registries refresh native command and alias routing after active registry swaps. (#80333) Thanks @samzong. - Codex app-server: reuse native Codex CLI OAuth for isolated app-server harness login, refresh, and app inventory cache keys so ChatGPT-authenticated Codex runs no longer fall back to unauthenticated OpenAI API calls. (#79877) Thanks @jeffjhunter. - Gateway: scope `sessions.resolve` sessionId and label store loads to the requested agent so large unrelated agent stores are not parsed for scoped lookups. Fixes #51264. (#79474) Thanks @samzong. - Gateway: share serialized streaming event envelopes across eligible WebSocket and node subscribers while preserving per-client sequence numbers. (#80299) Thanks @samzong. - Gateway: consolidate duplicate `openclaw doctor` service config panels while preserving the declined-repair `--force` hint. Fixes #80287. (#78688) Thanks @YB0y. - Browser: report Chrome MCP existing-session page readiness in browser status without letting status probes exceed the client timeout. Fixes #80268. (#80280) Thanks @ai-hpc. - WhatsApp: route opening-phase Baileys 428 connectionClosed through the WhatsApp reconnect policy and keep post-open 428 closes retryable, so transient setup socket closes retry with WhatsApp diagnostics instead of escaping as a bare `channel exited` error. Fixes #75736; mitigates #77443. Thanks @dataCenter430. - Agents: disable Pi's default filesystem resource discovery for embedded runs while keeping OpenClaw inline extension factories active, avoiding Windows event-loop stalls during first WhatsApp-triggered agent startup. Fixes #77443. Thanks @dataCenter430. - Providers/self-hosted: read model-scoped llama.cpp runtime context from `/props.default_generation_settings.n_ctx` while keeping top-level `n_ctx` as a fallback, so session budgeting reflects the loaded context window. Fixes #73664. (#74057) Thanks @brokemac79. - Memory: reject symlinked directory components in configured extra memory paths before reading Markdown files. (#80331) Thanks @samzong. - Sessions/transcripts: replace whole-file `readFile` scans with shared streaming helpers (`streamSessionTranscriptLines` and `streamSessionTranscriptLinesReverse`) for idempotency lookup, latest/tail assistant text reads, delivery-mirror dedupe, and compaction fork loading, so long-running sessions no longer materialize the full transcript in memory. Forward scans use `readline` over a bounded `createReadStream`; reverse scans read bounded chunks from the file end and decode complete JSONL lines newest-first without a fixed tail cap. Synthetic 200 MiB transcript: peak RSS delta drops from +252 MiB to +27 MiB while preserving malformed-line tolerance and idempotency-key return semantics. Fixes #54296. Thanks @jack-stormentswe. - Browser/CDP: filter browser-internal targets from raw CDP and persistent Playwright tab selection so navigation opens real page tabs. Fixes #55734. Thanks @Demine4. - WhatsApp: apply hot-reloaded `dmPolicy` and `allowFrom` settings to the active Web listener before processing new inbound DMs. Fixes #80538. Thanks @Ampaskopi129. - Plugins: let `openclaw doctor --fix` repair managed plugin installs whose package entrypoints fail package-directory boundary validation after local state moves. Fixes #80592. Thanks @wei-wei-zhao. - Voice-call: resume voice-originated exec approval follow-ups as internal non-delivery turns instead of rejecting them as `unknown channel: voice`. Fixes #80540. Thanks @patrickmch. - Control UI: preserve the composer draft when Stop is tapped during an active chat run, preventing accidental prompt loss on mobile. Fixes #80586. Thanks @KCALLC. - Infra/retry: keep jittered retry delays at or above server-supplied Retry-After lower bounds when the hint can be honored. Fixes #68541. (#68543) Thanks @Feelw00. - Docs: clarify that `/model provider/model` is an exact session route, while duplicate bare model ids only use configured fallback order on non-session override paths. Refs #80562. Thanks @gaodaabao. - Redact persisted secret-shaped payloads [AI]. (#79006) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Agents: label `.openclaw/sandboxes` exec workdirs as sandbox runs in compact tool summaries instead of showing the full path. - OpenAI Codex: surface browser OAuth and device-code login failures instead of treating failed logins as empty successful auth results. Refs #80363. - CLI agents: carry runtime-only current-turn sender/reply context into CLI model prompts while keeping prompt-build hook input and transcript text clean. - Control UI: keep workspace file presence checks from treating `fs-safe` stat helper failures as missing files, restoring Agents file status for existing Windows workspace files. Fixes #79953. Thanks @lovelefeng-glitch. - Microsoft Foundry: report an explicit error when the Azure subscription prompt returns an id that is not present in the enabled subscription list, instead of continuing from an unsafe subscription assertion. (#62742) Thanks @oliviareid-svg. - fix(matrix): gate name-based allowlist resolution [AI]. (#79007) Thanks @pgondhi987. - Slack: include the bot's own root/parent message in new thread sessions so in-thread replies reach the agent with the parent text the user is responding to, instead of only `reply_to_id` metadata. Fixes #79338. Thanks @sxxtony. - Docker: keep image builds on the source pnpm workspace policy so pnpm 11 can prune production dependencies without a Docker-only workspace rewrite. - Agents/compaction: restore info-level gateway logs for embedded compaction start, completion, and incomplete outcomes. (#71961) Thanks @rubencu. - Telegram: build reply-aware inbound turns through the shared channel context path so agents see the current reply target inline with the current message. - Telegram: recover legacy message cache files that mixed JSON-array and line-delimited entries so restarted gateways preserve reply-window context. (#80567) - Telegram: update the reply-context cache when messages are edited, so streamed bot replies appear in later agent context with their final text instead of the first draft. - Skills/Windows: normalize compacted skill prompt locations to forward slashes after home-prefix compaction so Windows skill paths remain readable by model file tools. (#52200) Thanks @chienchandler. - Control UI/Windows: update `@openclaw/fs-safe` so agent workspace file presence checks fall back correctly on Windows, preventing existing AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, TOOLS.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, HEARTBEAT.md, and MEMORY.md files from showing as missing. Fixes #79953. Thanks @lovelefeng-glitch. - Memory: skip managed dreaming cron reconciliation warnings for ordinary cron and heartbeat hook contexts that cannot manage Gateway cron. (#77027) Thanks @rubencu. - Cron: treat Codex app-server turn acceptance, CLI process spawn, and tool starts as execution milestones, preventing isolated runs from tripping the early startup watchdog after work has begun. - Codex app-server: treat current-turn `<turn_aborted>` raw markers as terminal so interrupted native-tool turns release Discord agent sessions instead of waiting for the outer timeout. - Yuanbao: bump `openclaw-plugin-yuanbao` to 2.13.1 to support `sourceReplyDeliveryMode: "automatic"` for group chat. (#79814) Thanks @loongfay. - Memory: keep `memory_search` result `corpus` labels aligned with the hit source, so session transcript hits surface as `sessions` and memory-file hits stay `memory`. Fixes #72885. (#71898, #72886) Thanks @rubencu. - Codex app-server: default native plugin app tool approvals to automatic so non-destructive read tools run when destructive actions are disabled. - Plugins: allow untracked local source plugins in the global extensions directory to load TypeScript package entries while keeping managed installs strict about compiled runtime output. Fixes #80503. Thanks @Kaspre. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired nested Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids while converting manifest catalog rows into emitted provider config, so `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` is used for testing instead of `google/gemini-3-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired nested Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside saved model allowlists and fallback chains, so proxy routes like `openrouter/google/gemini-3-pro-preview` are persisted as Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired nested Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids in configured proxy/provider-auth model catalogs, so regenerated config keeps testing `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` instead of `google/gemini-3-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired nested Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids while onboarding provider catalog presets, so setup-emitted proxy configs test `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` instead of `google/gemini-3-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids in provider catalog rows during generic config writes, so unrelated config changes keep testing `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Models: keep configured fallback chains ahead of configured primary models for override selections with duplicate model ids, preventing fallback jumps to the wrong provider. Fixes #80562. - Native apps: advertise the Gateway protocol compatibility range so chat and node sessions can connect to v3 gateways after additive v4 client updates. - Gateway/agents: keep stale `sessions_send` ACP manager and `web_fetch` runtime chunks importable after package updates, preventing live gateways from breaking before restart. Fixes #78804. Thanks @Gomesy72. - Gateway/install: preserve service environment value-source metadata in `openclaw gateway install`, so systemd reinstall paths keep env-file-backed secrets out of inline unit metadata. Refs #77406, #77427. Thanks @stainlu and @brokemac79. - Auto-reply/reset: include inbound sender context in bare `/new` and `/reset` model prompts while keeping startup instructions out of transcript prompts, so agents see sender identity on the first reset turn. Fixes #77360. Thanks @srb11e. - Gateway: avoid synchronous restart-sentinel state probes during post-attach startup, preventing slow Windows or redirected state directories from blocking channel turns. Fixes #79264. Thanks @liyi58. - Agents/auth: update successful model auth profile status with one locked store write, reducing post-model reply latency from duplicate `auth-profiles.json` saves. Thanks @mcaxtr. - Agents/image: honor explicit `image` tool model overrides even when `agents.defaults.imageModel` is unset, restoring one-off vision calls for configured multimodal providers. Fixes #79341. Thanks @haumanto. - Doctor/update: leave live systemd gateway units unchanged during noninteractive update-mode service repair, so update-time doctor does not silently overwrite operator-owned unit directives. Refs #80462. - Update: accept optional leading `v` prefixes when verifying exact npm package install targets, so `openclaw update --tag v2026...` does not roll back after installing the matching bare package version. Refs #74069; #80480. Thanks @Kaspre. - Doctor: treat missing plugin ids in `plugins.deny` as stale config warnings instead of fatal validation errors, and remove them during stale plugin cleanup so update repair does not restore last-known-good config for deny-only stale plugin refs. Refs #77802. Thanks @Kaspre. - Codex app-server: preserve prompt-local current-turn context through context-engine prompt projection, so replied-to Telegram messages stay visible to the Codex model input. - Telegram: pass agent-scoped media roots through gateway message actions so workspace-local media from the active agent is not rejected as cross-agent access. Thanks @frankekn. - CLI/gateway: keep `gateway status --deep` plugin-aware so configured plugin manifest warnings, including missing channel config metadata, stay visible during install and update smoke checks. - Doctor/status: clarify gateway token source conflict warnings and suppress them inside the managed Gateway service credential context. - Feishu: accept Schema 2 card callbacks whose operator identity is nested under `operator.user_id`, so card buttons dispatch instead of being dropped as malformed. Fixes #71670. (#71787) Thanks @rubencu. - Feishu: fall back to a top-level group send when normal group quoted replies target a withdrawn or missing message, preventing replies from disappearing silently while preserving native topic safety. Fixes #79349. Thanks @arlen8411. - Doctor: stop flagging the live compatibility agent directory as orphaned when the configured default agent is not `main`. Fixes #74313. (#74438) Thanks @carlos4s. - Auth/Claude CLI: persist fresher managed external CLI OAuth credentials back to `auth-profiles.json`, preventing stale `anthropic:claude-cli` profiles from repeatedly bootstrapping and flooding debug logs. Fixes #80129. Thanks @Caulderein. - Context: render `/context map` only from actual run context and persist Codex app-server run reports without counting deferred tool-search schemas as prompt-loaded tool schemas. - Codex app-server: report Codex-native tool execution to diagnostics so long-running native `bash`, web, file, and MCP tools no longer look like stale embedded runs to the watchdog. (#80217) - Codex app-server: refresh Codex account rate limits after subscription usage-limit failures so Discord and other channel replies can show the next reset time instead of saying Codex returned none. Thanks @pashpashpash. - Agents/auth: let Codex-backed OpenAI agent turns use `auth.order.openai` entries for Codex-compatible OAuth and API-key profiles while keeping existing `openai-codex` profile ordering valid. - Codex app-server: emit async `after_tool_call` observations for native tool completions not covered by the native hook relay so observability plugins can record Codex-native tools. (#80372) Thanks @VACInc. - Tasks: route group and channel task completions through the requester session so the parent agent can send the visible summary instead of stopping at a generic task-status line. Fixes #77251. (#77365) Thanks @funmerlin. - Telegram: preserve blank lines between manually indented bullet blocks and following numbered sections in rendered replies. Fixes #76998. Thanks @evgyur. - Agents/sandbox: allow read-only sandbox sessions to read the `/agent` workspace mount while keeping write/edit/apply_patch workspace-only guarded, restoring `read /agent/...` for `workspaceAccess: "ro"`. Fixes #39497. Thanks @stainlu and @teosborne. - Slack: pass configured agent identity through draft preview sends so partial streaming replies keep custom username/avatar on the initial Slack message. Fixes #38235. (#38237) Thanks @lacymorrow. - Slack: support `allowBots: "mentions"` for bot-authored messages that mention the receiving bot, matching the documented Discord-style mode without accepting every bot message. Fixes #43587. (#43588) Thanks @raw34. - Slack: refresh private file URLs with `files.info` when inbound DM file events omit or stale attachment URLs, preventing file attachments from being dropped before media hydration. Fixes #50129. (#50200) Thanks @smartchainark. - Slack: add scoped message-tool formatting hints so agents use Markdown for plain sends and direct mrkdwn for Block Kit fields. Fixes #34609. (#50979) Thanks @carrotRakko. - Slack: describe `download-file` file ids separately from message timestamps and return a targeted recovery error when agents pass `messageId` instead of `fileId`. (#74155) Thanks @jarvis-ai-gregmoser. - Slack: retain processed room messages for `requireMention=false` channels so always-on Slack rooms keep recent conversation context between turns. (#38658) Thanks @syedamaann. - Slack: compile interactive reply directives for direct outbound sends without bypassing the `interactiveReplies` capability gate, preserving Block Kit for Slack CLI and cron deliveries. (#78220) Thanks @kazamak. - Slack: keep DM last-route updates scoped to the active non-main DM session, including threaded DM turns, so isolated Slack DM sessions do not overwrite the shared main route. (#73085) Thanks @clawSean. - Slack/ACP: route Slack channel and DM messages through configured ACP bindings when no runtime binding exists, keeping bound thread replies pinned to the persistent ACP session and dropping unavailable configured targets instead of falling back to `main`. (#73101) Thanks @Raasl. - Slack: mark unresolved thread replies as ambiguous and skip them instead of treating them as root channel messages, keeping thread continuation on the SDK-backed participation store. (#75630) Thanks @soichiyo. - Slack: let same-channel message tool sends opt out of inherited thread context with `topLevel: true` or `threadId: null`, allowing agents to post a new parent-channel message from inside a Slack thread. Fixes #79807. Thanks @vexclawx31. - Slack: prefer full rich-text block content over truncated socket-mode message previews so long inbound Slack messages reach agents intact. Fixes #79027. Thanks @BobAccentWebDev. - Slack: include structured Slack API error details in setup, probe, streaming, and reply logs while preserving token redaction. (#53966) Thanks @deucemask. - Gateway/agents: keep structured reasons when active-run queueing fails and deprecate the legacy boolean queue helper, so steering and subagent wake diagnostics distinguish completed, non-streaming, and compacting runs. Fixes #80156. Thanks @markus-lassfolk. - System events: dedupe keyed events across the queue while preserving unkeyed, delivery-route, and trust-boundary event identity. (#73040) Thanks @statxc. - Agents/UI: compact exec and tool progress rows by hiding redundant shell tool names, replacing known workspace paths with short context markers, and preserving Discord trace scrubbing for compact command lines. - ACPX: run and await the embedded ACP backend startup probe by default so the gateway `ready` signal no longer fires before the acpx runtime has either become usable or reported a probe failure; set `OPENCLAW_ACPX_RUNTIME_STARTUP_PROBE=0` to restore lazy startup. Fixes #79596. Thanks @bzelones. - Gateway/status: surface model-pricing bootstrap and refresh failures as degraded health/status warnings while keeping Gateway liveness healthy. Fixes #79599. Thanks @bzelones. - OpenAI-compatible models: strip prior assistant reasoning fields from replayed Chat Completions history by default, preventing oMLX/vLLM Qwen follow-up turns from rejecting or stalling on stale `reasoning` payloads. Fixes #46637. Thanks @zipzagster and @lexhoefsloot. - CLI/onboarding: give non-Azure custom providers a safe generated context window and heal legacy 4k wizard entries without overwriting explicit valid small model limits, preventing first-turn compaction loops. Fixes #79428. (#79911) Thanks @Jefsky. - OpenAI-compatible models: add `compat.strictMessageKeys` to strip Chat Completions replay messages to `role` and `content` for strict providers that reject OpenAI-style tool and metadata keys. Fixes #50374. Thanks @choutos. - Bedrock Mantle: add `plugins.entries.amazon-bedrock-mantle.config.discovery.enabled=false` to suppress automatic Mantle discovery and IAM bearer-token generation while keeping the plugin enabled. Fixes #67288. Thanks @kanekoh. - Ollama: stop native `/api/chat` requests from copying catalog `contextWindow` or `maxTokens` into `options.num_ctx` unless `params.num_ctx` is explicitly configured, avoiding pathological prompt-ingestion latency on local large-context models. Fixes #62267. Thanks @BenSHPD. - Ollama: keep the model idle watchdog enabled for `*:cloud` models routed through a local Ollama host, so cloud-backed tool-loop stalls fail over visibly instead of inheriting local-model no-idle behavior. Fixes #79350. Thanks @geek111. - Voice/Ollama: honor routed voice agent `tools.allow` for classic embedded voice responses, including empty allowlists, so no-tool Ollama agents do not receive tool schemas. Fixes #79506. Thanks @donkeykong91. - Agents/doctor: warn when channel-routed agents cannot call the `message` tool, so operators can fix tool policy mismatches before explicit channel actions such as attachments or thread replies fail. Refs #80128. Thanks @jeffjhunterai. - Gateway: reread config from disk after the first in-process restart loop startup, preventing SIGUSR1 restarts from reusing a stale startup snapshot and dropping config written after boot. Fixes #79947. Thanks @TheLevti. - Codex app-server: deliver native image-generation outputs from Codex `savedPath` events as reply media, so blank-text image generation turns still attach the generated file. Thanks @keshavbotagent. - Network/SSRF: keep pinned automatic DNS lookups on IPv4 when dual-stack hosts also publish AAAA records, and treat `EADDRNOTAVAIL` as a transient gateway network failure instead of a fatal crash. Fixes #80078. Thanks @takamasa-aiso. - Control UI: show compact one-line live/idle/terminal run status badges in the Sessions table and rename the active-minute filter to its updated-within meaning. Fixes #78307. Thanks @BunsDev. - Control UI: scope chat session-list refreshes by agent and skip disk-only agent store discovery for configured-only lists, preventing post-first-message session switching stalls on large Windows stores. Fixes #79675. Thanks @lovelefeng-glitch, @BunsDev. - Control UI: allow Appearance tweakcn theme imports through the served CSP so browser-local custom theme links no longer fail with a `connect-src` violation. Fixes #78504. Thanks @BunsDev. - Control UI/config: remove plugin allowlist entries that the form auto-added when a plugin enable toggle is reverted before saving, so reverting the visible toggle clears dirty state without persisting unintended allowlist changes. (#78329) Thanks @samzong. - Gateway/mobile: reuse bootstrap-issued device-token scopes on handoff reconnects and surface device-token scope mismatches separately from token mismatches while preserving full shared-token dashboard/native sessions. Fixes #79292. Thanks @BunsDev. - Media/host-read: allow buffer-verified gzip, tar, and 7z archives in the shared host-local media validator alongside ZIP and document attachments. - Plugins/install: retry managed npm plugin installs without npm alias overrides after npm's `Invalid comparator: npm:` failure, so older npm versions can install official plugins instead of aborting. (#80539) Thanks @rubencu. - Plugins/doctor: invalidate persisted plugin registry snapshots when plugin diagnostics point at deleted source paths, so `openclaw doctor` stops repeating stale warnings after a local extension is replaced by a managed npm plugin. Fixes #80087. (#80134) Thanks @hclsys. - Doctor/OpenAI Codex: preserve Codex auth intent when auto-repairing legacy `openai-codex/*` model refs to canonical `openai/*` by adding provider/model-scoped Codex runtime policy, preventing repaired configs from falling through to direct OpenAI API-key auth. Fixes #78533 and #78570. Thanks @superck110 and @Azmodump. - CLI/agents: surface durable message delivery status from `sendDurableMessageBatch` in `deliverAgentCommandResult` and `openclaw agent --json --deliver`, preserving suppressed hook outcomes as terminal no-retry results while exposing partial and failed sends for automation. Supersedes #53961 and #57755. Thanks @Kaspre. - Agents: apply the LLM idle watchdog while provider stream setup is still pending, preventing silent pre-stream model hangs from waiting for the full agent timeout. - Cron: let isolated self-cleanup runs inspect their own job run history while keeping other cron jobs and mutation actions blocked. Fixes #80019. Thanks @hclsys. - Cron: report isolated agent-turn setup and pre-model stalls with phase-specific timeout errors instead of waiting for the full job budget when no model call starts. Fixes #74803. Thanks @jeffsteinbok-openclaw and @dgkim311. - CLI/plugins: treat arbitrary unknown subcommands outside plugin CLI metadata as normal unknown commands instead of suggesting `plugins.allow`, while preserving allowlist guidance for real plugin command roots. Fixes #80109. (#80123) Thanks @kagura-agent. - CLI/config: persist explicit `config set` and `config patch` values that equal runtime defaults instead of reporting success while dropping them. Fixes #79856. (#80106) Thanks @abodanty and @hclsys. - OpenAI/realtime voice: accept Codex-compatible legacy audio and transcript event aliases so provider protocol drift does not drop assistant audio or captions. - Discord/voice: keep default agent-proxy realtime sessions from auto-speaking filler before the forced OpenClaw consult answer, finish Discord playback on realtime response completion, and queue later exact-speech answers until playback idles to avoid mid-sentence replacement. - Gateway: return deterministic `400 invalid_request_error` responses for malformed encoded session-kill HTTP paths instead of letting route-shaped requests fall through to later Gateway handlers. (#72439) Thanks @rubencu. - Control UI: serve root PWA and favicon assets from `/__openclaw__/` SPA routes so tab icons, install metadata, and the service worker do not 404 after internal navigation. Fixes #80072. Thanks @CodeNovice2017. - Exec/safe bins: compare trusted safe-bin dirs with path-specific case folding on case-insensitive filesystems so Windows and default macOS paths match without weakening case-sensitive mounts. (#42131) Thanks @hkochar. - OpenAI/realtime voice: honor disabled input-audio interruption locally so server VAD speech-start events do not clear Discord playback after operators set `interruptResponseOnInputAudio: false`. - Telegram: keep no-response DM turns quiet instead of rewriting them into visible silent-reply chatter. Fixes #78188. (#78228) Thanks @Beandon13. - Telegram: handle managed select button callbacks before the raw callback fallback while preserving delimiter-containing option values such as `env|prod`. (#79816) Thanks @moeedahmed. - OpenAI-compatible models: handle JSON chat-completion bodies returned to streaming requests, preserving reasoning fields and visible text instead of completing an empty agent turn. Fixes #77870. - Discord/models: defer model picker component interactions before loading route, model, and preference data, preventing "This interaction failed" timeouts under gateway load. Fixes #77283. Thanks @colin-chang. - xAI: expose `/think low|medium|high` for reasoning-capable Grok models and keep `reasoning.effort` on native Responses payloads while preserving off-only behavior for non-reasoning routes. Fixes #79210. Thanks @colinmcintosh. - CLI/media: let explicit image description model refs use bundled static provider catalogs and generic model-backed image hooks, so `openclaw infer image describe --model zai/glm-4.6v` works like direct model runs and Anthropic auth probes avoid stale Claude 3 Haiku catalog entries. - Models/Anthropic: add `anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5` to Anthropic API-key agent allowlist defaults when an Anthropic default model is configured, so cron model overrides can select the current Haiku alias. Fixes #78000. - Agents/compaction: initialize built-in context engines before CLI transcript compaction resolves the default engine, preventing clean-process `legacy` engine registration failures during CLI session persistence. Fixes #79446. Thanks @TurboTheTurtle. - Agents/Anthropic-compatible: strip replayed thinking blocks for custom Anthropic-compatible models that explicitly declare `supportsReasoningEffort: false`, preventing Kimi-compatible providers from resending unsupported `thinking` content. Fixes #47452. - Kimi: keep Anthropic-compatible thinking streams valid by supplying required thinking budgets and enough output room for hidden reasoning plus final text. (#80481) Thanks @InTheCloudDan. - Browser: wait longer for existing-session Chrome MCP status and non-deep doctor probes so slow first attaches do not falsely report offline while keeping raw CDP status probes short. (#77473) Thanks @rubencu. - Gateway/logging: install console capture before foreground Gateway fast-path parsing and suppress known libsignal session dumps even in verbose mode, preventing raw terminal logs from printing WhatsApp session key material. (#76306) Thanks @rubencu. - Exec approvals: keep `exec.approval.list` on the lightweight policy-summary path so listing pending approvals no longer loads the rich tree-sitter command explainer. (#76943) Thanks @rubencu. - Agents: surface concise default-visible warnings when `exec`/`bash` tool calls fail after the assistant claims success, while keeping raw stderr hidden unless verbose details are enabled. Fixes #60497. (#80003) Thanks @jbetala7. - Channels/iMessage: keep redacted failed probe details in non-sensitive health snapshots so Full Disk Access failures no longer appear as configured/OK in status output. Fixes #79795. - Agents: stop blank model-emitted tool calls before dispatch while preserving id-based tool-name recovery, preventing Kimi/NVIDIA blank-name retry loops without creating a callable `_blank` sentinel. Fixes #34129. (#56391) Thanks @smartchainark. - Agents/Telegram: deliver the canonical final assistant answer instead of replaying accumulated pre-tool text blocks, preventing duplicate Telegram replies and raw-looking tool-output fragments from leaking into chat delivery. Fixes #79621 and #79986. Thanks @nonzeroclaw and @dudaefj. - Auto-reply/TUI: keep fallback timeout recovery deliverable after a primary model lifecycle error by emitting fallback progress and deferring terminal TUI errors until recovery has a chance to finish. Fixes #80000. (#80009) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle. - Heartbeat: clear stale auto fallback model overrides when the configured default model changes, so heartbeat runs follow updated `agents.defaults.model.primary` without requiring a manual reset. Fixes #74284. Thanks @brtkwr and @bitloi. - CLI/agent: let `openclaw agent --model` use the backend/admin Gateway scope without cached device-token scopes silently downscoping the request. (#78837) Thanks @VACInc. - CLI/help: keep help and version invocations configless while improving shared port, channel, plugin, task, session, message, pairing, and auth recovery text. - CLI/config: explain strict JSON parse failures with a valid example and the plain-string escape hatch. - CLI/secrets: turn offline Gateway reload failures into actionable recovery text. - CLI/channels: explain missing or ambiguous channel selections with next commands. - CLI/channels: defer guided channel status collection until a channel is selected, keeping `openclaw channels add` first screen quieter. - CLI/channels: exit guided channel setup cleanly on cancellation instead of printing the internal wizard error. - Plugins/CLI: route disabled Matrix and LanceDB memory command roots to plugin-enable guidance instead of generic unknown-command errors. - Browser/Docker: detect Playwright-managed Chromium from `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH` and the default Playwright cache on Linux, so Docker installs that persist `/home/node/.cache/ms-playwright` no longer need `browser.executablePath`. - Ollama: keep DeepSeek V4 cloud models thinking-capable even when Ollama Cloud `/api/show` omits the `thinking` capability, so `/think high` no longer rejects `ollama/deepseek-v4-*:cloud`. - ACPX/Claude ACP: keep foreground prompts waiting for their own result when autonomous task-notification results arrive during the same session, and retarget the patch for Claude Agent ACP `0.33.1`. - WhatsApp: keep Baileys media uploads from passing non-Dispatcher agents to undici in `7.0.0-rc10`, and patch the bundled Baileys declaration so the latest tsdown build stays warning-clean. - Build: keep tsdown `0.22.0` warning-clean by externalizing known third-party declaration edges and replacing relative channel config module augmentations with explicit built-in channel fields. - ACP sessions: map canonical runtime options to backend-advertised ACP config keys like Claude's `effort` while keeping persisted OpenClaw state canonical. (#79926) Thanks @InTheCloudDan. - Models/Discord: support `provider/*` entries in `agents.defaults.models` so `/model`, `/models`, and model pickers can show dynamically discovered models for selected providers without exact model allowlists. Fixes #79485. Thanks @rendrag-git. - Gateway/watch: rebuild or restage missing bundled-plugin dist and runtime-postbuild outputs before launching the Gateway from a source checkout, preventing incomplete watch-mode runtime trees. (#70805) Thanks @rubencu. - CLI/update: allow restart health probes from the previous gateway protocol during self-update, and make plugin dry-runs report exact npm target versions instead of `unknown` while preserving unchanged status. - OpenAI/Codex: forward persisted `openai-codex` OAuth profile metadata into Codex plugin harness attempts after canonical `openai/*` migration, so OAuth-only installs keep using native Codex auth instead of falling through to direct OpenAI API-key auth. Fixes #79978. - OpenAI/Codex: point gateway missing-key recovery and wizard docs at the canonical `openai/gpt-5.5` plus Codex OAuth route, and fix trajectory export errors so they suggest the valid `openclaw sessions` command. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired `google/gemini-3-pro-preview` primary, fallback, and model-map refs during config load and unrelated config writes so saved config keeps targeting Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside emitted Google provider model config, so regenerated models.json rows test `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids for explicit OpenAI-compatible Google and Gemini CLI provider configs, so emitted config targets `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids preserved from existing merged models.json providers so config emission keeps targeting `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - Google/Gemini: normalize retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview ids inside provider auth config patches so setup-emitted provider catalogs test `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`. - GitHub Copilot: mint short-lived Copilot API tokens with the same `vscode-chat` integration identity used by runtime requests, and refresh legacy cached tokens missing that identity so image-capable Copilot models no longer inherit the `copilot-language-server` scope. Fixes #79946, #80074. Thanks @TurboTheTurtle. - Plugins/doctor: drop stale managed npm install records when `openclaw doctor --fix` removes npm packages that shadow bundled plugins, so the rebuilt registry no longer resurrects the removed package metadata. - Doctor: warn when a per-agent model config omits the `fallbacks` key and `agents.defaults.model.fallbacks` is non-empty. Covers both string-form (`"model": "..."`) and partial-object form (`"model": { "primary": "..." }`) — both silently clobber the defaults chain at runtime. Use `"fallbacks": []` to explicitly opt out of fallbacks, or add `"fallbacks": [...]` to inherit or override. Fixes #79369. Thanks @Kaspre. - Discord/voice: reuse or suppress late realtime consult tool calls without stealing newer speaker context or speaking forced fallback answers twice. - Discord/voice: skip likely incomplete realtime forced-consult transcript fragments and non-actionable closings so stale partial speech does not queue delayed answers over the next turn. - Discord/voice: keep realtime forced consults from clearing active exact-speech playback, so back-to-back voice answers queue instead of cutting each other off. - Discord/voice: synthesize realtime playback timestamps from emitted Discord PCM so OpenAI realtime barge-in truncation no longer sees `audioEndMs=0` and skips legitimate interruptions. - Plugin SDK: keep activated linked plugin runtime facades loadable when bundled plugin fallback is disabled. Thanks @shakkernerd. - Feishu: auto-thread `message(action="send")` replies inside the topic when the active session is group_topic or group_topic_sender, and propagate `replyInThread` through text, card, and media outbound adapters so topic-scoped sessions no longer post at the group root. Fixes #74903. (#77151) Thanks @ai-hpc. - WhatsApp: pass routing context into voice-note transcript echo preflight so echoed transcripts can deliver to the originating chat. Fixes #79778. (#79788) Thanks @hclsys. - Cron/failover: classify structured OpenAI-compatible `server_error` payloads as `server_error`, expose that reason in cron state, and let one-shot cron retry policy honor `retryOn: ["server_error"]` without requiring raw `5xx` text. (#45594) Thanks @clovericbot. - Slack: wake the resolved thread session after interactive reply button/select clicks and carry Slack delivery context through the queued interaction event, so clicks continue the visible conversation. Fixes #79676 and #61502. (#79836) Thanks @velvet-shark, @tianxiaochannel-oss88, and @Saicheg. - WhatsApp/streaming: send only the new suffix when text-end block replies repeat prior preambles across tool-call cycles, preventing cumulative WhatsApp preamble messages. Fixes #78946. (#79120) Thanks @brokemac79 and @papawattu. - Tests/security audit: sandbox `audit-exec-surface.test.ts` under a per-case OpenClaw home tempdir, redirecting `OPENCLAW_HOME` (which wins over `HOME`/`USERPROFILE` in `resolveRawHomeDir`) alongside `HOME` and `USERPROFILE`, so its `saveExecApprovals(...)` calls never touch the live `~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.json` on the host running the suite. Sibling exec-approvals tests already used the tempdir pattern; this file did not, so running `pnpm test` against a contributor's local checkout was silently truncating their real approvals to `{ "version": 1, "agents": {} }`. (#79885) Thanks @omarshahine. - ACP/gateway: preserve `AcpRuntimeError` cause chain (code/method/JSON-RPC detail) through the lifecycle boundary so gateway logs, telegram replies, and tool-result text show the actual upstream failure instead of opaque `Internal error`/`[object Object]`, with redaction applied before the chain reaches log or reply surfaces. - Channels/iMessage: wire `action: "reply"` attachments through `imsg send-rich --file` when the installed imsg build advertises that capability (probed once via `imsg send-rich --help` and cached on the private-API status). Reply now hydrates `media`/`mediaUrl`/`fileUrl`/`mediaUrls[0]`/`filePath`/`path`/base64 `buffer`+`filename` through the shared outbound resolver, stages buffers via the existing `withTempFile` helper, rejects `http(s)://` URL attachments with a targeted error pointing callers at `send`'s full attachment-resolver pipeline, and falls back to the explicit `imsg#114 not landed yet` error on older imsg builds. Depends on the upstream `openclaw/imsg#114` capability landing in an installable release; until then the new path stays gated and users see the same explicit fallback `#79822` introduced. (#79864) Thanks @omarshahine. - Telegram: preserve the first-preview debounce while appending true partial-stream deltas, so edited draft previews no longer duplicate earlier text when providers emit incremental output. (#80045) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle. - Agents/Anthropic: report 1M session context for Claude Opus/Sonnet 4 models even when local model config still advertises 200k, matching model discovery and preventing premature status/UI overflow. Fixes #66766. - Models/OpenRouter: hide missing-auth direct provider rows in `/model status` when they are only duplicated by a nested OpenRouter model id such as `openrouter/google/...`, while preserving explicitly configured direct providers. Fixes #62317. - Models: preserve an explicitly selected provider/model such as `opencode-go/deepseek-v4-pro` when another provider owns the same bare model alias. Fixes #79325. - Models/config: explain missing `models.providers.<provider>.models[]` registration when a model exists only in `agents.defaults.models`, instead of returning a bare unknown-model error. Fixes #80089. - MCP/tools: prefix bundle MCP server/tool fragments that would start with digits, keeping generated tool names valid for Moonshot/Kimi and other strict providers. Fixes #79179. - Models/OpenRouter: treat `403 API key budget limit exceeded` as billing so model fallback advances instead of retrying the exhausted primary. Fixes #60191. Thanks @omgitsgela. - Models/OpenRouter: repair stale session overrides that lost the outer `openrouter/` provider wrapper, so sessions return to the configured OpenRouter model instead of failing as an unknown direct-provider model. Fixes #78161. Thanks @hjamal7-bit. - Google/Gemini: default API-key onboarding back to `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview` so fresh Gemini test configs exercise Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. - Telegram: show full provider/model labels for nested OpenRouter model ids in the model picker, so `openrouter/openai/gpt-5.4-mini` no longer displays as `openai/gpt-5.4-mini`. Fixes #67792. (#72752) Thanks @iot2edge. - Models/OpenRouter: preserve live `supported_parameters` tool support metadata so non-tool Perplexity Sonar models no longer receive agent tool payloads and fall back unnecessarily. Fixes #64175. Thanks @Catfish-75. - Models/OpenRouter: add MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 to the bundled OpenRouter catalog so onboarding/model pickers can offer it without waiting for live discovery. Fixes #14601. - Models/OpenRouter: keep keyRef/tokenRef-backed auth profiles visible to read-only PI model discovery, so OpenRouter models stay available in model pickers without storing plaintext keys. Fixes #58106. Thanks @ThalynLabs. - Models/list: include explicit configured provider rows and read-only auth-backed catalog rows in the default configured view without loading PI's full registry, keeping Control UI pickers aligned with usable model auth. Refs #79381. Thanks @ismael-81. - Security/audit: honor `tools.byProvider["provider/model"].deny` when reporting small-model web/browser exposure, so per-model OpenRouter mitigations clear the `models.small_params` exposure signal. Fixes #80118. - Models/Moonshot: accept direct `moonshotai/...` and `moonshot-ai/...` refs as aliases for canonical `moonshot/...`, so copied OpenRouter Kimi ids no longer fail as unknown direct models. Fixes #73876. (#74946) Thanks @jeffrey701. - Kimi Code: use Kimi's stable `kimi-for-coding` API model id in bundled catalog, onboarding, and docs while normalizing legacy `kimi-code` and `k2p5` refs. Fixes #79965. - Telegram: render cached reply targets and nearby group chatter as one selected conversation context window, so stale replies no longer split JSON reply chains from local chat context. - Volcengine/Kimi: strip provider-unsupported tool schema length and item constraint keywords for direct and coding-plan models so hosted Kimi runs do not reject message tools with `minLength`. Fixes #38817. - DeepSeek: backfill V4 `reasoning_content` replay fields for unowned OpenAI-compatible proxy providers, preventing follow-up request failures outside the bundled DeepSeek and OpenRouter routes. Fixes #79608. - iMessage: emit a WARN log when an action is blocked because the imsg private API bridge is not attached, so operators see the silent-drop in `~/.openclaw/logs/openclaw.log` instead of having to read per-session trajectory JSONL `tool.result` payloads. Common after a gateway restart un-injects the dylib from Messages.app. (#80035) Thanks @omarshahine. - Codex: cross-fill missing `thread.id` and `thread.sessionId` before schema validation so live Codex app-server responses that omit `sessionId` no longer fail `thread/start` or `thread/resume`. Fixes #80124. (#80137) Thanks @kagura-agent. - Agents/Pi: wait for embedded abort cleanup to settle before releasing the session write lock, preventing follow-up turns from racing previous prompt teardown. (#80239) Thanks @samzong. - WhatsApp: downgrade OpenClaw watchdog-triggered Web reconnects from runtime errors to recovery warnings and clear the recovered reconnect status after the next healthy connection. (#77026) Thanks @rubencu. - ACPX/Windows: hide the MCP proxy target child process window on Windows so ACP-backed agents do not flash or fail because of terminal window handling. Fixes #60672. (#60678) Thanks @KChow-ctrl. - Agents: abort generic repeated no-progress tool loops at the critical threshold when identical calls keep returning identical outcomes. (#80668) Thanks @frankekn. - Exec approvals: omit generated command highlights for non-POSIX Windows and shell-wrapper approval commands until those command languages have native highlighting support. (#80566) Thanks @jesse-merhi. - Telegram: keep verbose tool progress and result drafts separate from the final assistant answer so tool output no longer blends into the final Telegram message. (#80294) Thanks @jalehman. - Plugin SDK/Windows: enable the native require fast path for root `openclaw/plugin-sdk` dist aliases instead of forcing Jiti transforms. 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