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            <title>2026.4.29</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<h2>OpenClaw 2026.4.29</h2>
<h3>Highlights</h3>
<ul>
<li>Messaging and automation get active-run steering by default, visible-reply enforcement, spawned subagent routing metadata, and opt-in follow-up commitments for heartbeat-delivered reminders. Thanks @vincentkoc, @scoootscooob, @samzong, and @vignesh07.</li>
<li>Memory grows into a people-aware wiki with provenance views, per-conversation Active Memory filters, partial recall on timeout, and bounded REM preview diagnostics. Thanks @vincentkoc, @quengh, @joeykrug, and @samzong.</li>
<li>Provider/model coverage expands with NVIDIA onboarding/catalogs plus faster manifest-backed model/auth paths, Bedrock Opus 4.7 thinking parity, and safer Codex/OpenAI-compatible replay and streaming behavior. Thanks @eleqtrizit, @shakkernerd, @prasad-yashdeep, @woodhouse-bot, and @LyHug.</li>
<li>Gateway and packaged-plugin reliability focuses on slow-host startup, reusable model catalogs, event-loop readiness diagnostics, runtime-dependency repair, stale-session recovery, and version-scoped update caches. Thanks @lpendeavors, @DerFlash, @vincentkoc, @pashpashpash, and @jhsmith409.</li>
<li>Channel fixes cluster around Slack Block Kit limits, Telegram proxy/webhook/polling/send resilience, Discord startup/rate-limit handling, WhatsApp delivery/liveness, and Microsoft Teams/Matrix/Feishu edge cases. Thanks @slackapi, @SymbolStar, @djgeorg3, @TinyTb, @dseravalli, @nklock, and @alex-xuweilong.</li>
<li>Security and operations add OpenGrep scanning, sharper GHSA triage policy, safer exec/pairing/owner-scope handling, Docker/onboarding automation, and web-fetch IPv6 ULA opt-in for trusted proxy stacks. Thanks @jesse-merhi, @pgondhi987, @mmaps, @jinjimz, and @jeffrey701.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Security/tools: configured tool sections (<code>tools.exec</code>, <code>tools.fs</code>) no longer implicitly widen restrictive profiles (<code>messaging</code>, <code>minimal</code>). Users who need those tools under a restricted profile must add explicit <code>alsoAllow</code> entries; a startup warning identifies affected configs. Fixes #47487. Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Agents/commitments: add opt-in inferred follow-up commitments with hidden batched extraction, per-agent/per-channel scoping, heartbeat delivery, CLI management, a simple <code>commitments.enabled</code>/<code>commitments.maxPerDay</code> config, and heartbeat-interval due-time clamping so magical check-ins do not echo immediately. (#74189) Thanks @vignesh07.</li>
<li>Messages/queue: make <code>steer</code> drain all pending Pi steering messages at the next model boundary, keep legacy one-at-a-time steering as <code>queue</code>, and add a dedicated steering queue docs page. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Messages/queue: default active-run queueing to <code>steer</code> with a 500ms followup fallback debounce, and document the queue modes, precedence, and drop policies on the command queue page. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Messages: add global <code>messages.visibleReplies</code> so operators can require visible output to go through <code>message(action=send)</code> for any source chat, while <code>messages.groupChat.visibleReplies</code> stays available as the group/channel override. Thanks @scoootscooob.</li>
<li>Gateway/events: surface <code>spawnedBy</code> on subagent chat and agent broadcast payloads so clients can route child session events without an extra session lookup. (#63244) Thanks @samzong.</li>
<li>Memory/wiki: add agent-facing people wiki metadata, canonical aliases, person cards, relationship graphs, privacy/provenance reports, evidence-kind drilldown, and search modes for person lookup, question routing, source evidence, and raw claims. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Active Memory: add optional per-conversation <code>allowedChatIds</code> and <code>deniedChatIds</code> filters so operators can enable recall only for selected direct, group, or channel conversations while keeping broad sessions skipped. (#67977) Thanks @quengh.</li>
<li>Active Memory: return bounded partial recall summaries when the hidden memory sub-agent times out, including the default temporary-transcript path, so useful recovered context is not discarded. (#73219) Thanks @joeykrug.</li>
<li>Gateway/memory: add a read-only <code>doctor.memory.remHarness</code> RPC so operator clients can preview bounded REM dreaming output without running mutation paths. (#66673) Thanks @samzong.</li>
<li>Providers/NVIDIA: add the NVIDIA provider with API-key onboarding, setup docs, static catalog metadata, and literal model-ref picker support so NVIDIA hosted models can be selected with their provider prefix intact. (#71204) Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Models: suppress explicitly configured openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini inline entries so a stale models config written by <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> cannot bypass the manifest capability block and cause repeated assistant-turn failures when the runtime switches to that model on ChatGPT-backed Codex accounts. Conditional suppressions (e.g. qwen Coding Plan endpoint guards) remain bypassable by explicit user configuration. (#74451) Thanks @0xCyda, @hclsys, and @Marvae.</li>
<li>Added SQLite-backed plugin state store (<code>api.runtime.state.openKeyedStore</code>) for restart-safe keyed registries with TTL, eviction, and automatic plugin isolation. Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: mark remaining legacy alias exports and diffs tool/config aliases with deprecation metadata, and add a guard so future legacy alias comments require <code>@deprecated</code> tags. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/QR/dependencies: internalize small terminal progress and QR wrapper helpers while keeping the real QR encoder dependency direct, reducing the default runtime dependency graph without changing QR output behavior. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Dependencies: refresh workspace runtime, plugin, and tooling packages, including ACP, Pi, AWS SDK, TypeBox, pnpm, oxlint, oxfmt, jsdom, pdfjs, ciao, and tokenjuice, while keeping patched ACP behavior and lint gates current. Thanks @mariozechner.</li>
<li>Gateway/dev: run <code>pnpm gateway:watch</code> through a named tmux session by default, with <code>gateway:watch:raw</code> and <code>OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_WATCH_TMUX=0</code> for foreground mode, so repeated starts respawn an inspectable watcher without trapping the invoking agent shell. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Gateway/diagnostics: emit an opt-in startup diagnostics timeline that records gateway lifecycle and plugin-load phases behind a config flag, so slow-start diagnosis no longer requires bespoke instrumentation. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Control UI/i18n: extend the locale registry with new Persian (fa), Dutch (nl), Vietnamese (vi), Italian (it), Arabic (ar), and Thai (th) entries and ship <code>fa</code>, <code>nl</code>, <code>vi</code>, and <code>zh-TW</code> docs glossaries, so the docs translation pipeline and the Control UI language picker stay aligned across surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Channels: add Yuanbao channel docs entrance so the Tencent Yuanbao bot appears in the channel listing and sidebar navigation. (#73443) Thanks @loongfay.</li>
<li>Channels/Yuanbao: update plugin GitHub location to YuanbaoTeam/yuanbao-openclaw-plugin and add "yuanbao" alias to channel catalog. (#74253) Thanks @loongfay.</li>
<li>Docker setup: add <code>OPENCLAW_SKIP_ONBOARDING</code> so automated Docker installs can skip the interactive onboarding step while still applying gateway defaults. (#55518) Thanks @jinjimz.</li>
<li>Security policy: classify media/base64 decode and format-conversion overhead after configured acceptance limits as performance-only for GHSA triage unless a report demonstrates a limit bypass, crash, exhaustion, data exposure, or another boundary bypass. (#74311)</li>
<li>Security/OpenGrep: add a precise OpenGrep rulepack, source-rule compiler, provenance metadata check, and PR/full scan workflows that validate first-party code and rulepack-only changes while uploading SARIF to GitHub Code Scanning. (#69483) Thanks @jesse-merhi.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Providers/OpenAI Codex: preserve existing wrapped Codex streams during OpenAI attribution so PI OAuth bearer injection reaches ChatGPT/Codex Responses, and strip native Codex-only unsupported payload fields without touching custom compatible endpoints. (#75111) Thanks @keshavbotagent.</li>
<li>Agents/tool-result guard: use the resolved runtime context token budget for non-context-engine tool-result overflow checks, so long tool-heavy sessions no longer compact early when <code>contextTokens</code> is larger than native <code>contextWindow</code>. Fixes #74917. Thanks @kAIborg24.</li>
<li>Gateway/systemd: exit with sysexits 78 for supervised lock and <code>EADDRINUSE</code> conflicts so <code>RestartPreventExitStatus=78</code> stops <code>Restart=always</code> restart loops instead of repeatedly reloading plugins against an occupied port. Fixes #75115. Thanks @yhyatt.</li>
<li>Agents/runtime: skip blank visible user prompts at the embedded-runner boundary before provider submission while still allowing internal runtime-only turns and media-only prompts, so Telegram/group sessions no longer leak raw empty-input provider errors when replay history exists. Fixes #74137. Thanks @yelog, @Gracker, and @nhaener.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/group chats: fall back to automatic source delivery when a channel precomputes message-tool-only replies but the <code>message</code> tool is unavailable, so Discord/Slack-style group turns do not silently complete without a visible reply. Fixes #74868. Thanks @kagura-agent.</li>
<li>Browser/gateway: share one browser control runtime across the HTTP control server and <code>browser.request</code>, and refresh browser profile config from the source snapshot, so CLI status/start honors configured <code>browser.executablePath</code>, <code>headless</code>, and <code>noSandbox</code> instead of falling back to stale auto-detection. Fixes #75087; repairs #73617. Thanks @civiltox and @martingarramon.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: bound automatic orphan recovery with persisted recovery attempts and a wedged-session tombstone, and teach task maintenance/doctor to reconcile those sessions so restart loops no longer require manual <code>sessions.json</code> surgery. Fixes #74864. Thanks @solosage1.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: skip pre-bind web-fetch provider discovery for credential-free <code>tools.web.fetch</code> config, so Docker/Kubernetes gateways bind even when optional fetch limits are present. Fixes #74896. Thanks @KoykL.</li>
<li>Infra/tmp: tolerate concurrent temp-dir permission repairs by rechecking directories that another process already tightened, so parallel ACP subprocess startup no longer throws <code>Unsafe fallback OpenClaw temp dir</code>. Fixes #66867. Thanks @Kane808-AI and @jarvisz8.</li>
<li>Signal: match group allowlists against inbound Signal group ids as well as sender ids, and process explicitly configured Signal groups without requiring mentions unless <code>requireMention</code> is set. Fixes #53308. Thanks @minupla and @juan-flores077.</li>
<li>Slack: require bot-authored room messages with <code>allowBots=true</code> to come from an explicitly channel-allowlisted bot or from a room where an explicit Slack owner is present, so broad bot relays cannot run unattended. Fixes #59284. Thanks @andrewhong-translucent.</li>
<li>Signal: bound <code>signal-cli</code> installer release and archive downloads with explicit timeouts, declared and streamed size checks, and partial-file cleanup. Fixes #54153. Thanks @jinduwang1001-max and @juan-flores077.</li>
<li>Signal: derive <code>getAttachment</code> HTTP response caps from <code>channels.signal.mediaMaxMb</code> with base64 headroom, so inbound photos and videos no longer drop behind the 1 MiB RPC default. Fixes #73564. Thanks @heyhudson.</li>
<li>Signal: keep the long-lived receive SSE monitor open while idle instead of applying the 10s RPC/check deadline, so <code>signal-cli</code> 0.14.3 event streams no longer reconnect before inbound messages arrive. Fixes #74741. Thanks @fgabelmannjr and @k7n4n5t3w4rt.</li>
<li>Models/OpenAI Codex: restore <code>openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini</code> for ChatGPT/Codex OAuth PI runs after live OAuth proof, and align the manifest, forward-compat metadata, docs, and regression tests so stale cron and heartbeat configs resolve again. Fixes #74451. Thanks @0xCyda, @hclsys, and @Marvae.</li>
<li>Memory/runtime-deps: retain the native <code>node-llama-cpp</code> runtime only when local memory search is configured, so packaged installs can repair local embeddings without relying on unreachable global npm installs. Fixes #74777. Thanks @LLagoon3.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: replace stale symlinked mirror target roots before writing runtime-mirror temp files and skip rewriting already materialized hardlinks, so cross-version container upgrades no longer crash-loop on read-only image-layer paths while warm mirrors do less churn. Fixes #75108; refs #75069. Thanks @coletebou and @xiaohuaxi.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: keep bundled provider policy config loading from staging plugin runtime dependencies, so config reads no longer fail on locked-down <code>/var/lib/openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps</code> directories. Fixes #74971. Thanks @eurojojo.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: always write a dependency map in generated runtime-deps install manifests, so npm does not crash or prune staged bundled-plugin packages when the plan is empty. Fixes #74949. Thanks @hclsys.</li>
<li>Security/outbound: strip re-formed HTML tags during plain-text sanitization so nested tag fragments cannot leave a CodeQL-detected <code><script></code> sequence behind. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Security/secrets: compare credential bytes with padded timing-safe buffers instead of hashing candidate passwords before equality checks. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Security/QQBot: sanitize debug log arguments before writing to <code>console.*</code>, so gateway payload fields cannot forge extra log lines when debug logging is enabled. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>QQBot: unify slash command auth and c2cOnly gating in the command registry, pass <code>allowQQBotDataDownloads</code> when sending slash command file attachments, align clear-storage with actual downloads directory, and add <code>/bot-me</code> to display sender user ID. (#73616) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.</li>
<li>CLI/agents/status: keep <code>openclaw agents</code>, text <code>agents list</code>, and plain text <code>status</code> on read-only metadata paths so human output no longer preloads plugin runtimes or live channel scans before printing. Fixes #74195. Thanks @NianJiuZst.</li>
<li>Agents/local models: derive context-window guard thresholds from the effective model window with 4k/8k safety floors, so small local models are no longer rejected by fixed 16k/32k preflight cutoffs. Fixes #42999. Thanks @chengjialu8888.</li>
<li>PDF extraction: resolve PDF.js standard fonts from the installed package root and pass a filesystem path to the Node fallback extractor, so built-in font PDFs render without <code>file://</code> URL lookup failures. Fixes #51455; carries forward #70936, #54447, and #62175. Thanks @anyech, @JuanRdBO, and @solomonneas.</li>
<li>Media: treat legacy Word/OLE attachments with <code>application/msword</code> or <code>application/x-cfb</code> MIME as binary so printable-looking <code>.doc</code> files are not embedded into prompts as text. Fixes #54176; carries forward #54380. Thanks @andyliu.</li>
<li>Config: accept documented <code>browser.tabCleanup</code> keys in strict root config validation, so configured tab cleanup no longer fails before runtime reads it. Fixes #74577. Thanks @lonexreb and @ezdlp.</li>
<li>Cron: validate disabled job schedule edits before persisting updates, so invalid cron changes no longer partially mutate stored jobs. Fixes #74459. Thanks @yfge.</li>
<li>CLI/cron: warn when <code>openclaw cron add --message</code> omits a nonblank <code>--agent</code>, including blank agent values and session-key jobs, so scheduled agent-turn jobs make default-agent fallback explicit while system events stay quiet. Fixes #42196; carries forward #42245. Thanks @ethanclaw.</li>
<li>CLI/progress: suppress nested progress spinners and line clears while TUI input owns raw stdin, so Crestodian <code>/status</code> no longer disturbs the active input row. (#75003) Thanks @velvet-shark.</li>
<li>Channels/status: keep Telegram, Slack, and Google Chat read-only allowlist/default-target accessors on config-only paths, so status and channel summaries do not resolve SecretRef-backed runtime credentials. Thanks @eusine.</li>
<li>Telegram: use durable message edits for streaming previews instead of native draft state, so generated replies no longer flicker through draft-to-message transitions that look like duplicates. (#75073) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Telegram: clamp low long-polling client timeouts so configured <code>timeoutSeconds</code> values below the <code>getUpdates</code> poll window no longer force a fresh HTTPS connection every few seconds. Fixes #75114. Thanks @hpinho77.</li>
<li>Active Memory: clarify the deprecated <code>modelFallbackPolicy</code> warning and config help so <code>modelFallback</code> is described as a chain-resolution last resort, not runtime failover. (#74602) Thanks @jeffrey701.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: keep read-only allowlist/default-target accessors from resolving SecretRef-backed bot tokens, so status and channel summaries no longer fail when tokens are only available in gateway runtime. (#74737) Thanks @eusine.</li>
<li>Gateway/sessions: align session abort wait semantics across <code>chat</code>, <code>agent</code>, and <code>sessions</code> server methods so abort RPCs return after the targeted sessions actually halt instead of resolving early while runs are still draining. (#74751) Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Agents/output: drop copied inbound metadata-only assistant replay turns before provider replay instead of synthesizing a placeholder, so Telegram and other channels cannot receive <code>[assistant copied inbound metadata omitted]</code> as model output. Fixes #74745. Thanks @adamwdear and @Marvae.</li>
<li>Doctor/memory: suppress skipped embedding-readiness warnings for key-optional providers such as Ollama and LM Studio while preserving timeout and not-ready diagnostics. Fixes #74608 and #73882. Thanks @hclsys.</li>
<li>Channels/groups: preserve observe-only turn suppression for prepared dispatch paths and restore deprecated channel turn runtime aliases, so passive observer/group flows stay silent while older plugins keep compiling. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Feishu: skip empty-text messages (e.g. <code>{"text":""}</code>) that carry no media, so no blank user turn is written to the session and downstream LLM providers cannot reject the request with "messages must not be empty". (#74634) Thanks @xdengli and @hclsys.</li>
<li>Feishu/Bitable: clean up newly created placeholder rows whose fields contain only default empty values while preserving meaningful link, attachment, user, number, boolean, and location values during create-app cleanup. (#73920) Carries forward #40602. Thanks @boat2moon.</li>
<li>macOS app: keep attach-only mode and the Debug Settings launchd toggle marker-only, so launching with <code>--attach-only</code>/<code>--no-launchd</code> no longer uninstalls the Gateway LaunchAgent or drops active sessions. (#72174) Thanks @DolencLuka.</li>
<li>macOS Canvas: stop auto-reloading the current A2UI host during push/eval/snapshot flows, so pushed A2UI content remains visible instead of returning to the empty Canvas shell. Fixes #73337. Thanks @Gr4via.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: restore the deprecated <code>plugin-sdk/zalouser</code> command-auth facade so published Lark/Zalo plugins that import it load on current hosts. Fixes #74702. Thanks @Goron01.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: include bundled provider plugins when <code>models.providers</code>, auth profiles, agent defaults, or subagent model refs configure that provider, while keeping inactive default-enabled provider plugins out of doctor repair. Refs #74307. Thanks @Skeptomenos.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime: resolve relative plugin <code>api.resolvePath</code> inputs against the plugin root instead of the host working directory, while keeping absolute and home paths user-resolved. Fixes #74718. Thanks @jimdawdy-hub.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: refresh mirrored root chunks through a temporary file before replacing the active copy, so failed refreshes do not delete chunks that running plugin imports still need. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: prefer <code>require</code> conditional exports when building staged dependency aliases, so CommonJS-only plugin runtime deps such as <code>ws</code> do not resolve to ESM wrappers under Jiti. Fixes #74547. Thanks @aderius.</li>
<li>Bonjour/Gateway: cap flapping advertiser restarts in a sliding window, so mDNS probing/name-conflict loops disable discovery instead of churning indefinitely on constrained hosts. Refs #74209 and #74242. Thanks @ndj888 and @Sanjays2402.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: verify staged package entry files before reusing mirrored runtime roots, so browser-control repairs incomplete <code>ajv</code>/MCP SDK installs after update instead of failing after restart on a missing <code>ajv/dist/ajv.js</code>. Refs #74630. Thanks @spickeringlr.</li>
<li>Heartbeat: resolve <code>responsePrefix</code> template variables with the selected provider, model, and thinking context before delivering alerts or suppressing prefixed <code>HEARTBEAT_OK</code> replies. Fixes #43064; repairs #43065; supersedes #46858. Thanks @yweiii and @JunJD.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: show full memory UUIDs in the <code>memory_forget</code> candidate list so agents can pass the displayed ID back to targeted deletion without hitting the full-UUID validator. (#66913) Thanks @amittell.</li>
<li>File-transfer plugin: require canonical read-path preflight authorization for <code>file.fetch</code>, fail closed when <code>dir.fetch</code> preflight entries are missing, absolute, or traversing, and recheck returned archive entries before handing archive bytes to callers. Carries forward #74134. Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Channels/Feishu: retry file-typed iOS video resource downloads as <code>media</code> after a Feishu/Lark HTTP 502 and preserve the original 502 when the fallback also fails. Fixes #49855; carries forward #50164 and #73986. Thanks @alex-xuweilong.</li>
<li>Providers/Amazon Bedrock: expose the full Claude Opus 4.7 thinking profile (<code>xhigh</code>, <code>adaptive</code>, and <code>max</code>) for Bedrock model refs, while keeping Opus/Sonnet 4.6 on adaptive-by-default, so <code>/think</code> menus and validation match the Anthropic transport behavior. Fixes #74701. Thanks @prasad-yashdeep, @sparkleHazard, @Sanjays2402, and @hclsys.</li>
<li>Plugins/tokenjuice: compile the bundled plugin against tokenjuice 0.7.0's published OpenClaw host types instead of a local compatibility shim, so package contract drift fails in OpenClaw validation before release. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>OAuth/secrets: ignore root-level Google OAuth <code>client_secret_*.json</code> downloads so local client-secret files do not appear as commit candidates. (#74689) Thanks @jeongdulee.</li>
<li>Memory: mirror <code>sqlite-vec</code> into packaged bundled-plugin runtime deps for the default memory plugin, so builtin vector search does not lose its SQLite extension after upgrading to 2026.4.27. Fixes #74692. Thanks @mozi1924.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: bound local discovery advertisement during startup, so a stuck discovery plugin can no longer keep the Gateway from reaching ready. Fixes #73865; refs #74630 and #74633. Thanks @lpendeavors, @moltar-bot, and @Saboor711.</li>
<li>Gateway/models: serve the last successful model catalog while stale reloads refresh in the background, so Gateway control-plane and OpenAI-compatible requests no longer block behind model-provider rediscovery after model config changes. Refs #74135, #74630, and #74633. Thanks @DerFlash, @moltar-bot, and @Saboor711.</li>
<li>CLI/status: resolve read-only channel setup runtime fallback from the packaged OpenClaw dist root, so <code>status --all</code>, <code>status --deep</code>, channel, and doctor paths do not crash when an external channel plugin needs setup metadata. Fixes #74693. Thanks @giangthb.</li>
<li>SDK/events: keep per-run SDK event streams from surfacing duplicate raw chat projection frames, while normalizing chat-only projection frames and preserving raw access through <code>rawEvents</code>. Refs #74704. Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>SDK: report Gateway terminal <code>agent.wait</code> timeout snapshots with lifecycle metadata as <code>timed_out</code> while keeping bare wait deadlines non-terminal. Thanks @clawsweeper.</li>
<li>Google Meet: block managed Chrome intro/test speech until browser health proves the participant is in-call, and expose <code>speechReady</code> diagnostics so login, admission, permission, and audio-bridge blockers no longer look like successful speech. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.</li>
<li>Slack/commands: keep native command argument menus on select controls for encoded choice values up to Slack's option limit and truncate fallback button labels to Slack's button-text limit, so long valid choices no longer render invalid Slack blocks. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Agents/Codex: flush accepted debounced steering messages before normal app-server turn cleanup, so inbound follow-ups acknowledged as queued are not dropped when the turn completes before the debounce fires. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Slack/interactive replies: keep rendered buttons and selects within Slack Block Kit value and count limits, and align command argument select values with Slack's option limit, so overlong agent-authored choices no longer make Slack reject the whole block payload. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/interactive replies: drop overlong Block Kit button URLs while preserving valid callback values, so malformed link buttons no longer make Slack reject the whole interactive reply. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/commands: truncate native command argument-menu confirmation text to Slack's dialog limit, so long plugin arg names no longer make fallback buttons render invalid Block Kit payloads. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/exec approvals: cap native approval metadata context to Slack's element and text limits, so large approval details no longer make Slack reject the approval card. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/exec approvals: cap native approval update fallback text to Slack's message limit while preserving the rendered approval blocks, so long commands no longer make resolved or expired approval cards stay stale after <code>chat.update</code> rejects <code>msg_too_long</code>. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/commands: cap native command argument-menu fallback rows to Slack's message block limit, so large plugin choice lists no longer make Slack reject the generated menu. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/commands: drop fallback command argument buttons whose encoded values exceed Slack's button-value limit, so one oversized plugin choice no longer makes Slack reject the whole menu. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/messages: merge message-tool presentation and interactive blocks on Slack sends, so buttons and selects are no longer dropped when a structured message body is also present. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/messages: cap Block Kit fallback text to Slack's send limit while preserving the rendered blocks, so long context fallbacks no longer make rich Slack messages fail with <code>msg_too_long</code>. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Slack/messages: cap Block Kit fallback text on message edits while preserving the rendered blocks, so long context fallbacks no longer make Slack reject <code>chat.update</code> calls with <code>msg_too_long</code>. Thanks @slackapi.</li>
<li>Channels/WhatsApp: require Baileys outbound message ids before marking auto-replies delivered, so transcript text and ack reactions no longer make failed group replies look sent. Fixes #49225. Thanks @TinyTb.</li>
<li>CLI/update: scope packaged Node compile caches by OpenClaw version and install metadata, so global installs no longer reuse stale compiled chunks after package updates. Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>Channels/Voice call: keep pre-auth webhook in-flight limiting active when socket remote address metadata is missing, so slow-body requests from stripped-IP proxy paths still share the fallback bucket. (#74453) Thanks @davidangularme.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: lazy-load TypeScript from the plugin test-contract runtime and add release checks for critical SDK contract entrypoint imports and bundle size, so published packages fail preflight before shipping ESM-incompatible or oversized contract helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Channels/Microsoft Teams: treat configured <code>19:...@thread.tacv2</code> and legacy <code>19:...@thread.skype</code> team/channel IDs as already resolved during startup, avoiding false <code>channels unresolved</code> warnings while preserving Graph name lookup for display-name entries. Fixes #74683. Thanks @dseravalli.</li>
<li>CLI/browser: preserve parent flags while lazy-loading browser subcommands, so <code>openclaw browser --json open</code> and <code>openclaw browser --json tabs</code> keep machine-readable output after reparsing. Fixes #74574. Thanks @devintegeritsm.</li>
<li>Exec/elevated: preserve <code>turnSourceChannel</code> as <code>messageProvider</code> on approval-followup runs so <code>tools.elevated.allowFrom.<provider></code> checks no longer fail with <code>provider=null</code> after the user approves an async elevated command. Fixes #74646. Thanks @xhd2015.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: add <code>openclaw plugins deps</code> inspection and repair with script-free package-manager defaults shared across plugin installers, so operators can repair missing bundled runtime deps without corrupting JSON output or blocking unrelated conflict-free deps. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/output: strip internal <code>[tool calls omitted]</code> replay placeholders from user-facing replies while preserving visible reply whitespace. Fixes #74573. Thanks @blaspat.</li>
<li>Providers/Google Vertex: route authorized_user ADC credentials through OpenClaw's REST transport so Docker installs using gcloud application-default credentials no longer crash in the Google SDK before requests are sent. Fixes #74628. Thanks @frankhal2001-design.</li>
<li>ACP/resolver: fall through to thread-bound session resolution when an explicit <code>--session</code> token cannot be resolved while preserving the bad-token diagnostic when no thread binding exists, so Discord slash commands that auto-fill the current thread ID as the positional ACP target no longer return "Unable to resolve session target" errors. Fixes #66299. Thanks @hclsys, @kindomLee, and @martingarramon.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: emit a terminal lifecycle backstop when embedded timeout/error turns return without <code>agent_end</code>, so Gateway sessions no longer stay stuck in <code>running</code> after failover surfaces a timeout. Fixes #74607. Thanks @millerc79.</li>
<li>Gateway/diagnostics: include stuck-session reason hints and recovery skip causes in warnings, so operators can tell whether a lane is waiting on active work, queued work, or stale bookkeeping. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Providers/DeepSeek: expose native DeepSeek V4 <code>xhigh</code> and <code>max</code> thinking levels through the provider <code>resolveThinkingProfile</code> hook so <code>/think xhigh|max</code> applies the intended effort instead of falling back to base levels. (#73008) Thanks @ai-hpc.</li>
<li>Agents/Codex: bound embedded-run cleanup, trajectory flushing, and command-lane task timeouts after runtime failures, so Discord and other chat sessions return to idle instead of staying stuck in processing. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Heartbeat/exec: consume successful metadata-only async exec completions silently so Telegram and other chat surfaces no longer ask users for missing command logs after <code>No session found</code>. Fixes #74595. Thanks @gkoch02.</li>
<li>Web fetch: add a documented <code>tools.web.fetch.ssrfPolicy.allowIpv6UniqueLocalRange</code> opt-in and thread it through cache keys and DNS/IP checks so trusted fake-IP proxy stacks using <code>fc00::/7</code> can work without broad private-network access. Fixes #74351. Thanks @jeffrey701.</li>
<li>OpenAI Codex: restore <code>/verbose full</code> persistence and app-server tool-output forwarding, and retry Gateway E2E temp-home cleanup so debug runs do not regress on stale validation or cleanup flakes. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Anthropic/Meridian: preserve text and thinking content seeded on <code>content_block_start</code> in anthropic-messages streams, so <code>[thinking, text]</code> replies no longer persist as empty turns or trigger empty-response fallbacks. Fixes #74410. Thanks @vyctorbrzezowski.</li>
<li>Channels/Matrix: complete the cross-signing handshake on <code>openclaw matrix verify confirm-sas</code> so the operator's other Matrix device clears its <code>Verifying…</code> loop instead of staying stuck after the agent confirms. (#74542) Thanks @nklock.</li>
<li>CLI/status: honor channel-specific model context-window overrides when reporting effective context, so channel-scoped sessions reflect the active window in <code>openclaw status</code>. Thanks @HemantSudarshan.</li>
<li>Sandbox/Docker: tolerate Docker daemon unavailability when sandbox mode is off, so doctor and preflight checks no longer fail on installs that do not run the Docker daemon. Fixes #73671. Thanks @kaseonedge.</li>
<li>Control UI/mobile: persist mobile chat settings through Lit-managed state and route mobile navigation through the same view-state path so chat panel toggles survive transitions on small viewports. Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Control UI/exports: align sidebar trigger affordances across the resizable divider, mobile layout, and exported-HTML transcript template so the sidebar toggle and exported transcript sidebar render with consistent hit areas and styling. Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Control UI/chat: disable the page refresh affordance while a chat run is active so accidental refreshes do not abort an in-flight reply. Thanks @Angfr95 and @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: return real memory records from <code>openclaw ltm list</code> (with optional <code>--limit</code> and createdAt ordering) instead of an empty placeholder, so the CLI surface matches the documented LTM listing contract. (#67952) Thanks @zhangyue19921010.</li>
<li>Media: include redacted per-attempt resize failures and resolved model input capabilities in vision-pipeline errors so ARM64 image failures are diagnosable without closing the remaining routing investigation. Refs #74552. Thanks @1yihui.</li>
<li>Control UI/i18n: route zh-CN agent, debug, channel-refresh, and exec-approval copy through the locale source while preserving the English <code>Cron Jobs</code> agent tab label and the security-audit command styling. Carries forward #39692 repair context. Thanks @hepeng154833488 and @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Auto-reply: honor explicit <code>silentReply.direct: "allow"</code> for clean empty or reasoning-only direct chat turns while keeping the default direct-chat empty-response guard conservative. Fixes #74409. Thanks @jesuskannolis.</li>
<li>OpenAI Codex: send a non-empty Responses input item when a Codex turn only has systemPrompt-backed instructions, avoiding ChatGPT backend 400s from <code>input: []</code>. Fixes #73820. Thanks @woodhouse-bot.</li>
<li>Ollama: normalize provider-prefixed tool-call names at the native stream boundary so Kimi/Ollama calls such as <code>functions.exec</code> dispatch as <code>exec</code> instead of missing configured tools. Fixes #74487. Thanks @afurm and @carreipeia.</li>
<li>Security/audit: resolve configured model aliases before model-tier and small-parameter checks, so alias-based GPT-5/Codex configs no longer report false weak-model warnings. Fixes #74455. Thanks @blaspat.</li>
<li>CLI/agent: isolate Gateway-timeout embedded fallback runs under explicit <code>gateway-fallback-*</code> sessions so accepted Gateway runs cannot race transcript locks or replace the routed conversation session. Fixes #62981. Thanks @HemantSudarshan.</li>
<li>CLI/QR/device-pair: reject malformed public setup URLs before issuing mobile pairing bootstrap tokens, while keeping valid bare host:port setup URLs supported. Thanks @Lucenx9.</li>
<li>Models/UI: hide unauthenticated providers from the default Web chat, <code>/models</code>, and model setup pickers while keeping explicit full-catalog browse paths through <code>view: "all"</code>, <code>/models <provider> all</code>, and <code>models list --all</code>. Fixes #74423. Thanks @guarismo and @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>Ollama: keep explicit local model runs on target-provider runtime hooks when PI discovery is skipped, so one-shot Ollama calls no longer cold-load unrelated provider runtimes before streaming. Fixes #74078. Thanks @sakalaboator.</li>
<li>Slack/prompts: rely on Slack <code>interactiveReplies</code> guidance instead of generic <code>inlineButtons</code> config hints so enabled Slack button directives are not contradicted. Fixes #46647. Thanks @jeremykoerber.</li>
<li>Slack/reactions: treat duplicate <code>already_reacted</code> responses as idempotent success so repeated agent reaction adds no longer surface as tool failures. Fixes #69005. Thanks @shipitsteven and @martingarramon.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: cool down Cloudflare/Error 1015 HTML 429 REST failures during startup application lookup and gateway metadata fetches, add <code>channels.discord.applicationId</code> as an app-id lookup bypass, sanitize HTML bodies before logging, and honor Retry-After before falling back to a conservative cooldown. Fixes #38853. (#74489) Thanks @djgeorg3 and @Garyko0730.</li>
<li>Slack/tools: expose <code>fileId</code> in the shared message tool schema so <code>download-file</code> can receive Slack attachment IDs from inbound placeholders. Fixes #45574. Thanks @chadvegas.</li>
<li>Exec: reject invalid per-call <code>host</code> values instead of silently falling back to the default target, so hostname-like values fail before commands run. Fixes #74426. Thanks @scr00ge-00 and @vyctorbrzezowski.</li>
<li>Google/Gemini: send non-empty placeholder content when a Gemini run is triggered with empty or filtered user content, avoiding <code>contents is not specified</code> API errors. Thanks @CaoYuhaoCarl.</li>
<li>Heartbeat: preserve non-task <code>HEARTBEAT.md</code> context around <code>tasks:</code> blocks and apply <code>agents.defaults.heartbeat</code> to all agents unless per-agent heartbeat entries restrict scope. Thanks @Sekhar03.</li>
<li>Markdown: preserve paragraph breaks inside loose list items in shared outbound formatting while keeping tight list spacing stable. Thanks @Lucenx9.</li>
<li>Build/Gateway: route restart, shutdown, respawn, diagnostics, command-queue cleanup, and runtime cleanup through one stable gateway lifecycle runtime entry so rebuilt packages do not strand long-running gateways on stale hashed chunks. Carries forward #73964. Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>Memory/wiki: keep broad shared-source and generated related-link blocks from turning every page into a search hit, cap noisy backlinks, support all-term searches such as people-routing queries, and prefer readable page body snippets over generated metadata. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Cron/Gateway: abort and bounded-clean up timed-out isolated agent turns before recording the timeout, so stale cron sessions cannot leave Discord or other chat lanes stuck in <code>processing</code> after a timeout. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/errors: suppress malformed streaming tool-call JSON fragments before they reach chat surfaces while preserving provider request-validation diagnostics. Fixes #59076; keeps #59080 as duplicate coverage. (#59118) Thanks @singleGanghood.</li>
<li>CLI/models: restore provider-filtered <code>models list --all --provider <id></code> rows for providers without manifest/static catalog coverage, including Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock, while keeping the compatibility fallback off expensive availability and resolver paths. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/models: keep manifest auth-evidence credentials visible across <code>models status</code>, auth probes, and PI model discovery so workspace-scoped provider auth does not disagree between listing, probing, and execution. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/models: move local credential evidence such as Google Vertex ADC into generic plugin manifest setup metadata so the model-list auth index stays declarative without provider-specific runtime branches. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/models: compute the <code>models list</code> Auth column through one command-local provider auth index so row rendering no longer repeats auth profile, env, configured-provider, AWS, or synthetic-auth checks per model row. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/models: move the OpenAI listable catalog into the plugin manifest so <code>models list --all --provider openai</code> uses the manifest fast path instead of loading provider runtime normalization hooks. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/tools: keep the Gateway <code>tools.*</code> RPC namespace out of plugin command discovery and managed proxy startup, so stray commands like <code>openclaw tools effective</code> fail quickly instead of cold-loading plugin metadata. Refs #73477. Thanks @oromeis.</li>
<li>CLI/status: keep default text <code>openclaw status --usage</code> on metadata-only channel scans unless <code>--deep</code> or <code>--all</code> is set, and send stray <code>openclaw tools --help</code> through the precomputed root-help fast path so latency-triage commands avoid plugin/runtime cold loads before printing. Refs #73477 and #74220. Thanks @oromeis and @NianJiuZst.</li>
<li>Agents/diagnostics: trace embedded-run startup and preparation stage timings before model I/O, and warn only on severe slow stages, so Docker/VPS latency reports can identify whether plugin loading, auth/model resolution, tool inventory, bootstrap, MCP/LSP, resource loading, or stream setup is dominating pre-run latency without noisy normal logs. Refs #73428. Thanks @Dimaoggg, @quangtran88, and @Heyvhuang.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: cache persisted subagent run registry reads by file signature while preserving fresh-parse isolation, so busy gateways stop reparsing unchanged <code>subagents/runs.json</code> on controller/list/status hot paths. Refs #72338. Thanks @argus-as.</li>
<li>Gateway/clients: wait for the event loop to become responsive before opening Gateway WebSocket RPC/probe/client connections while charging that readiness wait to caller timeouts, so Windows deferred module-evaluation stalls no longer turn healthy loopback gateways into false handshake timeouts across status, TUI, ACP, MCP, node-host, and plugin client paths. Refs #74279 and #48270. Thanks @wongcode and @joost-heijden.</li>
<li>Gateway/Windows: read listener command lines via PowerShell before falling back to <code>wmic</code>, so restart health can recognize OpenClaw listeners on modern Windows installs and avoid long anonymous-port waits. Refs #74280. Thanks @zym951223.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: record process start-time in bundled dependency install locks and expire recycled-PID locks, so Docker gateway restarts recover from stale <code>.openclaw-runtime-deps.lock</code> directories without waiting through repeated five-minute timeouts. Fixes #74346. (#74361) Thanks @jhsmith409.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: memoize packaged bundled runtime dist-mirror preparation after the first successful pass while keeping source-checkout mirrors refreshable, so constrained Docker/VPS installs avoid repeated root scans before chat turns. Refs #73428, #73421, #73532, and #73477. Thanks @Dimaoggg, @oromeis, @oadiazp, @jmfraga, @bstanbury, @antoniusfelix, and @jkobject.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: treat bare numeric outbound targets that match the effective Discord DM allowlist as user DMs while preserving account-specific legacy <code>dm.allowFrom</code> precedence over inherited root <code>allowFrom</code>. (#74303) Thanks @Squirbie.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord/Slack: share one DM policy/allowlist resolver across runtime, setup, allowlist editing, and doctor repair, so legacy <code>dm.policy</code> / <code>dm.allowFrom</code> compatibility migrates to canonical <code>dmPolicy</code> / <code>allowFrom</code> without divergent access checks. Thanks @Squirbie.</li>
<li>Control UI: make the chat sidebar split divider focusable, keyboard-resizable, ARIA-described, and pointer-event based so sidebar resizing works without a mouse. Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Agents/usage: keep PI embedded-run telemetry attributed to the resolved model provider instead of the PI harness label, so OpenRouter and other provider-backed turns report the right provider in session usage and traces. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/attribution: send OpenClaw attribution headers on native OpenAI and Codex traffic, including SDK transports, realtime voice and TTS, device-code auth, WHAM usage, and remote embeddings, so PI-origin defaults no longer leak into provider requests. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/auth: keep OAuth auth profiles inherited from the main agent read-through instead of copying refresh tokens into secondary agents, and refresh Codex app-server tokens against the owning store so multi-agent swarms avoid reused refresh-token failures. Fixes #74055. Thanks @ClarityInvest.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: honor <code>ALL_PROXY</code> / <code>all_proxy</code> and service-level <code>OPENCLAW_PROXY_URL</code> when constructing the HTTP/1-only Telegram Bot API transport, so Windows and service installs that rely on those proxy settings no longer fall back to direct egress. Fixes #74014; refs #74086. Thanks @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: keep raw host/network-unreachable Bot API connect failures non-fatal and route tagged polling uncaught exceptions through the Telegram restart path, so transient reachability failures no longer kill the Gateway or leave long polling stuck. Fixes #60515; refs #74540. Thanks @HemantSudarshan, @thacid22, and @ewimsatt.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: continue polling when <code>deleteWebhook</code> hits a transient network failure but <code>getWebhookInfo</code> confirms no webhook is configured, so startup does not retry cleanup forever after the webhook was already removed. Refs #74086; carries forward #47384. Thanks @clovericbot.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: retry native quote replies without <code>reply_parameters.quote</code> when Telegram returns <code>QUOTE_TEXT_INVALID</code>, so stale or truncated quote excerpts no longer drop the whole reply. Fixes #74581. Thanks @moeedahmed.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: apply strict safe-send retry to inbound final replies when grammY wraps a pre-connect failure, while leaving ambiguous plain network envelopes single-shot to avoid duplicate visible messages. Fixes #74203. Thanks @nanli2000cn.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: surface polling liveness warnings in channel status and doctor when a running long-poller has not completed <code>getUpdates</code> after startup grace or its transport activity is stale, so silent polling failures no longer look clean. Refs #74299. Thanks @lolaopenclaw.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: publish webhook runtime state and warn when <code>setWebhook</code> has not completed after startup grace, so webhook-mode accounts no longer look healthy while registration is still failing or retrying. Refs #74299. Thanks @lolaopenclaw and @martingarramon.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: bound native command menu <code>deleteMyCommands</code> and <code>setMyCommands</code> Bot API calls and allow the same timeout-triggered transport fallback retry as other startup control calls, so Windows/WSL network stalls cannot leave command sync hanging behind an otherwise running provider. Refs #74086. Thanks @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>ACP/commands: accept forwarded ACP timeout config controls in the OpenClaw bridge, treat unsupported discard-close controls as recoverable cleanup, and restore native <code>/verbose full</code> plus no-arg status behavior, so Discord command menus and nested ACP turns no longer fail on supported session controls. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Codex harness: interrupt and release native app-server turns that go quiet after an OpenClaw dynamic-tool response without sending <code>turn/completed</code>, so Discord and other chat lanes do not stay stuck in <code>processing</code>. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Codex harness: bound OpenClaw dynamic tool responses to 30 seconds and fail closed with an explicit tool result when the app-server bridge would otherwise strand the turn in <code>processing</code>. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>TUI/status: clear stale <code>streaming</code> footer state when a final event arrives after the active run was already cleared and no tracked runs remain, while preserving concurrent-run ownership and inactive local <code>/btw</code> terminal handling. Fixes #64825; carries forward #64842, #64843, #64847, and #64862. Thanks @briandevans and @Yanhu007.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: fail startup closed when Discord cannot resolve the bot's own identity and keep mention gating active when only configured mention patterns can detect mentions, so the provider no longer continues with a missing bot id. Fixes #42219; carries forward #46856 and #49218. Thanks @education-01 and @BenediktSchackenberg.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: split long CJK replies at punctuation and code-point-safe fallback boundaries so Discord chunking stays readable without corrupting astral characters. Fixes #38597; repairs #71384. Thanks @p3nchan.</li>
<li>TUI: keep the streaming watchdog alive across active tool/lifecycle proof-of-life, pause it during disconnects, and reload history after stale reconnect runs so long-running chats stop flipping to false idle or hanging on stale streaming. Fixes #69081. Thanks @EenvoudJasper.</li>
<li>Browser/gateway: ignore Playwright dialog-close races from <code>Page.handleJavaScriptDialog</code> so browser automation no longer crashes the Gateway when a dialog disappears before Playwright accepts it. (#40067) Thanks @randyjtw.</li>
<li>Cron/Gateway: defer missed isolated agent-turn catch-up out of the channel startup window, so overdue cron work cannot starve Discord or Telegram while providers connect after a restart. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Heartbeat/cron: defer heartbeat turns while cron work is active or queued, add opt-in <code>heartbeat.skipWhenBusy</code> for subagent/nested lane pressure, and retry busy skips without advancing the schedule so local Ollama hosts do not run heartbeat and cron prompts concurrently. Fixes #50773. Thanks @scottgl9.</li>
<li>Agents/thinking: honor configured model <code>compat.supportedReasoningEfforts</code> entries that include <code>xhigh</code>, so custom OpenAI-compatible provider refs expose and validate <code>/think xhigh</code> consistently across command menus, Gateway sessions, agent CLI, and <code>llm-task</code>. Carries forward #48904. Thanks @Milchstrassse and @wufunc.</li>
<li>Vercel AI Gateway: expose provider-owned <code>/think xhigh</code> for trusted OpenAI/Codex upstream refs and Claude adaptive thinking for Anthropic upstream refs, while leaving untrusted namespaced refs on base levels. Carries forward #41561. Thanks @Zcg2021.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: prune stale <code>openclaw-unknown-*</code> bundled runtime dependency roots during Gateway startup while keeping recent or locked roots, so old staging debris cannot keep growing across restarts. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: include ten more root-package runtime dependencies (<code>@agentclientprotocol/sdk</code>, <code>@lydell/node-pty</code>, <code>croner</code>, <code>dotenv</code>, <code>jiti</code>, <code>json5</code>, <code>jszip</code>, <code>markdown-it</code>, <code>tar</code>, <code>web-push</code>) in <code>MIRRORED_CORE_RUNTIME_DEP_NAMES</code> so they are mirrored into the runtime-deps tree alongside <code>semver</code> and <code>tslog</code>, preventing <code>Cannot find package 'X'</code> failures from core dist code (for example <code>qmd-manager</code>, <code>cron/schedule</code>, <code>infra/archive</code>, <code>infra/push-web</code>, <code>infra/backup-create</code>, <code>process/supervisor/adapters/pty</code>) when no enabled extension owns the dependency. Adds a static drift guard test that scans <code>src/</code> for value imports of root-package deps and fails CI when one is missing from the mirror allowlist or extension-owned set. Refs #74199. Thanks @maxpuppet.</li>
<li>Ollama: compose caller abort signals with guarded-fetch timeouts for native <code>/api/chat</code> streams, so <code>/stop</code> and early cancellation still interrupt local Ollama requests that also carry provider timeout budgets. Refs #74133. Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Doctor/TTS: migrate legacy <code>messages.tts.enabled</code>, agent TTS, channel TTS, and voice-call plugin TTS toggles to <code>auto</code> mode during <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code>, matching the documented TTS config contract. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/logs: fall back to the configured Gateway file log when implicit loopback Gateway connections close or time out before or during <code>logs.tail</code>, so <code>openclaw logs</code> still works while diagnosing local-model Gateway disconnects. Refs #74078. Thanks @sakalaboator.</li>
<li>MCP/plugins: stringify non-array plugin tool results with chat-content coercion instead of default object stringification, so MCP callers receive useful JSON/text content from plugin tools. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Active Memory/QMD: make gateway-start QMD refresh opt-in via <code>memory.qmd.update.startup</code>, keep normal memory access lazy, preserve interactive file watching, and align watcher dependency/build ignores with QMD's scanner so cold gateway startup no longer imports or initializes QMD by default. Thanks @codexGW.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: remove Discord-owned queued-run timeout replies through the shared channel lifecycle queue while preserving message ordering and compatibility timeout constants, so long Discord turns stay governed by session/tool/runtime lifecycle instead of channel fallback errors. Thanks @codexGW.</li>
<li>Agents/tools: clamp <code>process.poll</code> waits to 30 seconds, advertise that cap in the tool schema, and honor abort signals while waiting, so long command polls cannot pin agent responsiveness after cancellation. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: add tracked Discord component-message helpers and a Telegram account-resolution compatibility facade, so existing plugins using those subpaths resolve while new plugins stay on generic channel SDK contracts. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Shared labels: preserve Unicode combining marks and NFC-equivalent accented text in group/channel slug normalization so non-Latin labels no longer lose meaningful characters. Fixes #58932; carries forward #58942 and #58995. Thanks @fengqing-git, @Starhappysh, and @koen666.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: include probed video width and height when sending regular Telegram videos, so portrait clips render with the correct orientation instead of being stretched by clients. (#18915) Thanks @storyarcade.</li>
<li>Docs/Hetzner: clarify that SSH tunnel access requires <code>AllowTcpForwarding local</code> before running <code>ssh -L</code>, so hardened VPS sshd configs do not block loopback Gateway access. Fixes #54557; carries forward #54564; refs #54954. Thanks @satishkc7, @blackstrype, and @Aftabbs.</li>
<li>Agents/config: preserve authored <code>agents.defaults.params</code> and per-model <code>agents.defaults.models[].params</code> during narrowed internal config writes, so OpenAI transport overrides such as <code>transport: "sse"</code> and <code>openaiWsWarmup: false</code> are not stripped from <code>openclaw.json</code>. Fixes #73607; refs #73428. Thanks @quangtran88.</li>
<li>Agents/model config: resolve per-model extra params through canonical model keys while preserving legacy double-prefixed fallback entries, so provider-prefixed model ids such as <code>openrouter/auto</code> keep their configured runtime params. (#44319) Thanks @HenryXiaoYang.</li>
<li>Gateway/shutdown: report structured shutdown warnings and HTTP close timeout warnings through <code>ShutdownResult</code> while preserving lifecycle hook hardening. Carries forward #41296. Thanks @edenfunf.</li>
<li>Control UI: keep Agents Overview and config-form select dropdowns on their configured value after options render while preserving inherited agent model placeholders. Fixes #40352; carries forward #52948. Thanks @xiaoquanidea.</li>
<li>Agents/exec: launch zsh, bash, and fish host exec shells with startup files suppressed while preserving existing PATH fallbacks, so daemon env is not overridden by shell startup files. Carries forward #40200; fixes #40179. Thanks @NewdlDewdl.</li>
<li>Plugins/QA: prebuild the private QA channel runtime before plugin gauntlet source runs so wrapper CPU/RSS measurements are not polluted by private QA dist rebuild work. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/QA: add a Kitchen Sink plugin gauntlet that installs the external package, checks command inventory, MCP tools, channel status, provider turns, gateway RSS, CPU, and fatal log anomalies. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/config: reuse the bundled plugin alias scan within a single config normalization pass, so Kitchen Sink-style plugin configs no longer peg Gateway CPU by repeatedly rescanning bundled metadata before agent turns. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/channels: reject malformed runtime channel registrations that omit required config helpers before they can poison channel status. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>MCP/plugins: serialize raw plugin tool return values through the plugin-tools MCP bridge so Kitchen Sink-style tools no longer surface <code>undefined</code> content. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Gateway/reload: bound default restart deferral and SIGUSR1 restart drain to five minutes while preserving explicit <code>deferralTimeoutMs: 0</code> indefinite waits, so stale active work accounting cannot block config reloads forever. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Active Memory: register the prompt-build hook with the configured recall timeout plus setup grace instead of the 150s maximum budget, so default memory recall cannot delay turn startup for multiple minutes. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Gateway/readiness: include an <code>eventLoop</code> diagnostic block in local or authenticated <code>/readyz</code> responses with event-loop delay (p99 and max), event-loop utilization, CPU core ratio, and a <code>degraded</code> flag, so operators can see when slow startups or runaway turns stall the event loop. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Gateway/agents: schedule accepted agent runs after the accepted RPC frame has a chance to flush, so pre-turn prompt/context work is less likely to starve immediate <code>agent.wait</code> callers. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/update: tolerate stale memory-runtime import failures during best-effort CLI process teardown, so <code>openclaw update</code> replacing hashed runtime chunks before the finalizer runs no longer surfaces as exit-time <code>Cannot find module</code> noise. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/channels logs: reuse the rolling log-file resolver so <code>openclaw channels logs</code> falls back to the active dated log across date boundaries without reading unrelated custom log files. Fixes #42875; carries forward #42904 and #43043. Thanks @ethanclaw and @wdskuki.</li>
<li>CLI/update: skip tracked plugins disabled in config during post-update plugin sync before npm, ClawHub, or marketplace update checks, preserving their install records without failing the update. Fixes #73880. Thanks @islandpreneur007.</li>
<li>Control UI: fix Peak Error Hours showing incorrect hourly rates when the browser's timezone observes DST, by storing hourly message counts with UTC date keys and using DST-aware <code>Date.getHours()</code> for local conversion. Also extract <code>accumulateMessageCounts</code> helper to reduce duplicated daily/hourly aggregation logic. (#49396) Thanks @konanok.</li>
<li>iMessage: normalize known leading attributedBody corruption markers on sent-message echo text keys so delayed reflected echoes with U+FFFD/U+FFFE/U+FFFF/FEFF prefixes are dropped without collapsing interior text. Fixes #59973; carries forward #59980 and #62191. Thanks @neeravmakwana and @maguilar631697.</li>
<li>Security/audit: recognize dangerous node command IDs as valid <code>gateway.nodes.denyCommands</code> entries, so audit only warns on real typos or unsupported patterns. (#56923) Thanks @chziyue.</li>
<li>Cron: treat implicit text payloads with agent-turn overrides as agent turns, preserving model overrides for scheduled text prompts instead of pruning them as system events. Fixes #28905. (#64060) Thanks @liaoandi.</li>
<li>Telegram/exec approvals: stop treating general Telegram chat allowlists and <code>defaultTo</code> routes as native exec approvers; Telegram now uses explicit <code>execApprovals.approvers</code> or owner identity from <code>commands.ownerAllowFrom</code>, matching the first-pairing owner bootstrap path. Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>Plugins/providers: keep Gateway startup primary-model discovery on metadata-only provider entries and reuse active non-speech capability providers even with explicit plugin entries, avoiding unnecessary provider registry loads during startup and media capability checks. Fixes #73729, #73835, and #73793; carries forward #73853 and #73794. Thanks @sg1416-zg, @brokemac79, and @poolside-ventures.</li>
<li>Chat commands: route sensitive group <code>/diagnostics</code> and <code>/export-trajectory</code> approvals and results to a private owner route, preferring same-surface DMs before falling back to the first configured owner route, so Discord group invocations can land in Telegram when that is the primary owner interface. Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>Gateway/hooks: keep successful <code>deliver:false</code> agent hooks silent, log a hook audit record for suppressed success announcements, and suppress fallback summaries after attempted hook delivery while still surfacing failed hook runs. Repairs #55761; builds on #36332 and #49234. Thanks @EffortlessSteven, @cioclawcode, and @BrennerSpear.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/Discord: restore a deprecated <code>openclaw/plugin-sdk/discord</code> compatibility facade and the legacy compat group-policy warning export for the published <code>@openclaw/discord@2026.3.13</code> package, covering its config, account, directory, status, and thread-binding imports while keeping new plugins on generic SDK subpaths. Fixes #73685; supersedes #73703. Thanks @rderickson9 and @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: suppress duplicate gateway monitors when multiple enabled accounts resolve to the same bot token, preferring config tokens over default env fallback and reporting skipped duplicates as disabled. Supersedes #73608. Thanks @kagura-agent.</li>
<li>CLI/health: build channel health summaries from inspected credential metadata plus runtime state, so <code>openclaw health --json</code> reports Discord <code>running</code>, <code>connected</code>, and <code>tokenSource</code> consistently with channel status. Fixes #44354. Thanks @ferenc-acs.</li>
<li>Control UI/Talk: decode Google Live binary WebSocket JSON frames and stop queued browser audio on interruption or shutdown, so browser Talk leaves <code>Connecting Talk...</code> and barge-in no longer plays stale audio. Fixes #73601 and #73460; supersedes #73466. Thanks @Spolen23 and @WadydX.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: ignore stale route-shaped conversation bindings after a Discord channel is reconfigured to another agent, while preserving explicit focus and subagent bindings. Fixes #73626. Thanks @ramitrkar-hash.</li>
<li>Agents/bootstrap: pass pending BOOTSTRAP.md contents through the first-run user prompt while keeping them out of privileged system context, and show limited bootstrap guidance when workspace file access is unavailable. Fixes #73622. Thanks @mark1010.</li>
<li>ACP/tasks: classify parent-owned ACP sessions as background work regardless of persistent runtime mode, and close terminal stale ACP sessions when no active binding remains, so delegated ACP output reports through the parent task notifier instead of acting like a normal foreground chat session. Refs #73609. Thanks @joerod26.</li>
<li>Tasks: keep terminal mirrored TaskFlow timestamps pinned to task completion time and let maintenance repair stale mirrors, so ACP terminal delivery updates no longer leave inconsistent flow audits. Refs #73609. Thanks @joerod26.</li>
<li>Gateway/sessions: add conservative stuck-session recovery that releases only stale session lanes while active embedded runs, reply operations, and lane tasks remain serialized, so queued follow-ups can drain without aborting legitimate long-running turns. Refs #73581, #73655, #73652, #73705, #73647, #73602, #73592, and #73601. Thanks @WS-Q0758, @bryangauvin, @spenceryang1996-dot, @bmilne1981, @mattmcintyre, @Vksh07, and @Spolen23.</li>
<li>Plugins: cache unchanged plugin manifest loads by file signature, reducing repeated JSON/JSON5 parsing and manifest normalization in bursty startup and runtime registry paths. Refs #73532 and #73647; carries forward #73678. Thanks @TheDutchRuler.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: cache unchanged bundled runtime mirror dist-file materialization decisions and close file-lock handles on owner-write failures, reducing repeated startup chunk scans and avoiding FileHandle-GC recovery stalls. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp and @bstanbury.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: retry and defer transient cleanup failures for owned runtime staging directories so CLI startup no longer aborts after a successful bundled dependency swap. Refs #73903. Thanks @bobfreeman1989.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: cache bundled runtime-deps JSON/package files by file signature, reducing repeated staged-runtime metadata reads during bundled channel startup. Refs #73647 and #73705. Thanks @mattmcintyre and @bmilne1981.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: delegate bundled plugin dependency staging to complete npm/pnpm install plans with durable runtime state, removing retained-manifest and source-checkout cache reconciliation from Gateway startup. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp, @bstanbury, and @jmfraga.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: replace Gateway-start root chunk dependency inference with explicit mirrored-root dependency metadata, reducing staged runtime scans while preserving lazy per-plugin installs. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp and @bstanbury.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime-deps: run pnpm staged installs outside the repository workspace and disable pnpm release-age gates for exact bundled runtime dependency materialization, so bundled plugin dependency repair writes packages into the generated stage without blocking fresh packaged dependencies. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp and @bstanbury.</li>
<li>CLI/TUI: keep <code>chat.history</code> off model-catalog discovery so initial Gateway-backed TUI history loads cannot block behind slow provider/plugin model scans on low-core hosts. Refs #73524. Thanks @harshcatsystems-collab.</li>
<li>Channels/WhatsApp: flag recently reconnected linked accounts in channel status even when the socket is currently healthy, so flapping WhatsApp Web sessions no longer look clean after a brief reconnect. Refs #73602. Thanks @Vksh07.</li>
<li>Channels/WhatsApp: log shared dispatcher delivery failures with reply kind, message id, chat id, and connection id, so typing-without-send reports can identify whether the WhatsApp send path rejected a generated reply. Refs #74269. Thanks @tomcosta-git.</li>
<li>Feishu: suppress distinct late <code>final</code> text deliveries after a streaming card has already closed, while keeping media attachments deliverable, so late-finals no longer reopen duplicate Feishu cards. Fixes #71977. (#72294) Thanks @MonkeyLeeT.</li>
<li>Gateway: expose <code>gateway.handshakeTimeoutMs</code> in config, schema, and docs while preserving <code>OPENCLAW_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MS</code> precedence, so loaded or low-powered hosts can tune local WebSocket pre-auth handshakes without patching dist files. Supersedes #51282; refs #73592 and #73652. Thanks @henry-the-frog.</li>
<li>Gateway/TUI/status: align configured and env-based WebSocket handshake budgets across local clients, probes, and fallback RPCs while preserving explicit status timeouts and paired-device auth fallback, so slow local gateways are not marked unreachable by a shorter client watchdog. Refs #73524, #73535, #73592, and #73602. Thanks @harshcatsystems-collab, @DJBlackhawk, and @Vksh07.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: return retryable <code>UNAVAILABLE</code> during the sidecar startup window and keep CLI/TUI/status clients retrying inside their existing timeout budget, so early connects no longer surface as terminal handshake failures. Fixes #73652. Thanks @spenceryang1996-dot.</li>
<li>Gateway/proxy: bypass inherited proxy environment for local Gateway control-plane WebSockets to <code>localhost</code> as well as loopback IPs, so Windows/WSL proxy settings cannot intercept local CLI/TUI Gateway connections. Supersedes #73474; refs #73602. Thanks @DhtIsCoding.</li>
<li>Doctor/Gateway: use a lightweight <code>status</code> RPC without channel summary work for doctor Gateway liveness, so slow health snapshots do not falsely drive service restart repair. Fixes #64400; supersedes #64511. Thanks @CHE10X and @EronFan.</li>
<li>Agents/auth: scope external CLI credential discovery to configured providers during model auth status and startup prewarm, so opencode-only and other single-provider gateways do not block on unrelated Claude CLI Keychain probes. Fixes #73908. Thanks @Ailuras.</li>
<li>Agents/model selection: resolve slash-form aliases before provider/model parsing and keep alias-resolved primary models subject to transient provider cooldowns, so cron and persisted sessions do not retry cooled-down raw aliases. Fixes #73573 and #73657. Thanks @akai-shuuichi and @hashslingers.</li>
<li>Agents/Claude CLI: reuse already-cached macOS Keychain credentials for no-prompt Claude credential reads, so doctor/runtime checks do not miss fresh interactive Claude auth. Fixes #73682. Thanks @RyanSandoval.</li>
<li>Agents/Claude CLI doctor: scope workspace and project-dir checks to agents that actually use the Claude CLI runtime, so non-default Claude agents no longer make the default agent look Claude-backed. Fixes #73903. Thanks @bobfreeman1989.</li>
<li>Gateway/sessions: expose effective agent runtime metadata on session rows, <code>sessions.patch</code>, and local <code>openclaw sessions --json</code>, while keeping Claude CLI-backed rows on the canonical model provider so runtime backend and model identity are no longer conflated. Fixes #73090. Thanks @vishutdhar.</li>
<li>Gateway/auth status: scope external CLI credential overlays to configured providers, runtimes, or profiles and keep status reads off new Keychain prompts, so single-provider Gateway configs no longer probe unrelated Claude/Codex/MiniMax auth on startup. Fixes #73908. Thanks @Ailuras.</li>
<li>Agents/runtime status: expose effective agent runtime metadata in <code>agents.list</code>, Control UI agent panels, and <code>/agents</code>, and avoid rendering stale or cumulative CLI token totals as live context usage. Fixes #73660, #73578, and #45268. Thanks @spartman, @DashLabsDev, and @xyooz.</li>
<li>Agents/transcripts: strip empty assistant text blocks while preserving valid text, images, and signatures, so Anthropic-style providers no longer reject sanitized transcript turns. Fixes #73640. Thanks @jowhee327.</li>
<li>Gateway/sessions: preserve session keys on hidden lifecycle events so channel-routed runs still persist terminal session state and do not strand session status as running after Codex turn completion. Thanks @cathrynlavery.</li>
<li>Providers/Bedrock: omit deprecated <code>temperature</code> for Claude Opus 4.7 Bedrock model ids, named and application inference profiles, including dotted <code>opus-4.7</code> refs, and classify the nested validation response for failover. Fixes #73663. Thanks @bstanbury.</li>
<li>Gateway: raise the preauth/connect-challenge timeout to 15s so cold CLI starts on slower hosts have more time to process the WebSocket challenge before the Gateway closes the connection. Fixes #51469; refs #73592 and #62060. Thanks @GothicFox and @jackychen-png.</li>
<li>CLI/status: fall back to a bounded local <code>status</code> RPC when loopback detail probes time out or report unknown capability, so reachable local gateways are no longer marked unreachable by slow read diagnostics. Fixes #73535; refs #48360, #62762, #51357, and #42019. Thanks @RacecarGuy, @justinschille, @DJBlackhawk, @tianyaqpzm, and @0xrsydn.</li>
<li>CLI/gateway: reuse cached paired-device auth during <code>gateway probe</code> and report post-connect diagnostic failures as degraded reachability, so healthy local gateways are no longer marked unreachable after loopback auth or read timeouts. Fixes #48360. Thanks @RacecarGuy.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: give Discord Gateway WebSocket handshakes a 30s timeout so stalled TLS/network transitions emit an error and Carbon can continue its reconnect loop instead of leaving the bot silent until restart. Refs #50046. Thanks @codexGW.</li>
<li>Mattermost/WebSocket: send protocol ping/pong keepalives and terminate stale sessions when pongs stop arriving, so silent TCP drops reconnect instead of leaving monitoring idle. Fixes #41837; carries forward #57621; refs #50138, #44160, and #51104. Thanks @JasonWang1124.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: suppress standalone failed edit/write warning payloads when a user-facing assistant error reply already covers the turn, while keeping unresolved mutating failures visible behind success-looking or suppressed-error replies. Fixes #39631; refs #73750; carries forward #39636 and #39717; leaves #39406 for configurable delivery policy. Thanks @Bartok9 and @Bortlesboat.</li>
<li>Control UI/agents: persist the Set Default action through <code>agents.list[].default</code> instead of writing the unsupported <code>agents.defaultId</code> field, so saved default-agent changes survive config validation. Fixes #65565; carries forward #72585. Thanks @luyao618.</li>
<li>NVIDIA/NIM: persist the <code>NVIDIA_API_KEY</code> provider marker and mark bundled NVIDIA Chat Completions models as string-content compatible, so NIM models load from <code>models.json</code> and OpenAI-compatible subagent calls send plain text content. Fixes #73013 and #50107; refs #73014. Thanks @bautrey, @iot2edge, @ifearghal, and @futhgar.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: let text-only configs drop the <code>GuildVoiceStates</code> gateway intent and expose a bounded <code>/gateway/bot</code> metadata timeout with rate-limited fallback logs, reducing idle CPU and warning floods. Fixes #73709 and #73585. Thanks @sanchezm86 and @trac3r00.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: mark same-turn <code>sessions_send</code> and A2A reply prompts with an inter-session <code>isUser=false</code> envelope before they reach the model, so foreign session output no longer lands as bare active user text. Fixes #73702; refs #73698, #73609, #73595, and #73622. Thanks @alvelda.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: fail closed when account-level public DM settings conflict with a restrictive top-level <code>allowFrom</code>, and require an effective wildcard before <code>dmPolicy="open"</code> behaves as public access. Fixes #73756; refs #73698. Thanks @Hilo-Hilo and @xace1825.</li>
<li>Channels/security: move open-DM allowlist semantics into the shared policy helpers and align Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Matrix, Feishu, LINE, IRC, Google Chat, Zalo, Zalo User, QQ Bot, and Synology Chat so <code>dmPolicy="open"</code> is public only with an effective wildcard and otherwise still respects sender allowlists. Refs #73756 and #73698. Thanks @Hilo-Hilo and @xace1825.</li>
<li>ACP/tasks: sweep orphaned parent-owned ACP sessions whose task records are gone, preserving bound persistent sessions but clearing unbound stale ACPX metadata so old child sessions cannot silently respawn into chat. Fixes #73609. Thanks @joerod26.</li>
<li>Outbound/security: strip known internal runtime scaffolding such as <code><system-reminder></code> and <code><previous_response></code> at the final channel delivery boundary and keep Discord output on targeted tag stripping, so degraded harness replies cannot leak those tags to users. Fixes #73595. Thanks @gabrielexito-stack and @martingarramon.</li>
<li>Security/Telegram: load Telegram security adapters in read-only audit/doctor, audit malformed Telegram DM <code>allowFrom</code> entries even when groups are disabled, and keep allowlist DM audits from counting stale pairing-store senders, so public/shared-DM risk checks stay accurate. Refs #73698. Thanks @xace1825.</li>
<li>Plugins: remove hidden manifest, provider-owner, bootstrap, and channel metadata caches so plugin installs, manifest edits, and bundled-root changes are visible on the next metadata read while keeping runtime/module loader caches for actual plugin code. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: use plugin metadata snapshots for install slot selection and add opt-in plugin lifecycle timing traces, so plugin install avoids runtime-loading the plugin registry for metadata-only decisions. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>fix(plugins): restrict bundled plugin dir resolution to trusted package roots. (#73275) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>fix(security): prevent workspace PATH injection via service env and trash helpers. (#73264) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Active Memory: allow <code>allowedChatTypes</code> to include explicit portal/webchat sessions and classify <code>agent:...:explicit:...</code> session keys before opaque session ids can shadow the chat type. Fixes #65775. (#66285) Thanks @Lidang-Jiang.</li>
<li>Active Memory: allow the hidden recall sub-agent to use both <code>memory_recall</code> and the legacy <code>memory_search</code>/<code>memory_get</code> memory tool contract, so bundled <code>memory-lancedb</code> recall works without breaking the default <code>memory-core</code> path. Fixes #73502. (#73584) Thanks @Takhoffman.</li>
<li>fix(device-pairing): validate callerScopes against resolved token scopes on repair [AI]. (#72925) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Active Memory docs: document the <code>cacheTtlMs</code> 1000-120000 ms range and 15000 ms default so setup snippets do not lead users past the schema limit. Fixes #65708. (#65737) Thanks @WuKongAI-CMU.</li>
<li>fix(agents): canonicalize provider aliases in byProvider tool policy lookup [AI]. (#72917) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>fix(security): block npm_execpath injection from workspace .env [AI-assisted]. (#73262) Thanks @pgondhi987.</li>
<li>Tools/web_fetch: decode response bodies from raw bytes using declared HTTP, XML, or HTML meta charsets before extraction, so Shift_JIS and other legacy-charset pages no longer return mojibake. Fixes #72916. Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Active Memory: skip payload-less <code>memory_search</code> transcript tool results when building debug telemetry, so newer empty entries no longer hide the latest useful debug payload. (#68773) Thanks @SimbaKingjoe.</li>
<li>Active Memory: keep recall setup time from consuming the configured model timeout while giving the hook runner an explicit bounded budget for the plugin, so slow embedded-run setup no longer causes immediate recall timeouts. Fixes #72606. (#72620) Thanks @hyspacex.</li>
<li>Channels/Discord: bound message read/search REST calls, route those actions through Gateway execution, and fall back to <code>CommandTargetSessionKey</code> for inbound hook session keys so Discord reads do not hang and hooks still fire when <code>SessionKey</code> is empty. Fixes #73431. (#73521) Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Plugins/media: auto-enable provider plugins referenced by <code>agents.defaults.imageGenerationModel</code>, <code>videoGenerationModel</code>, and <code>musicGenerationModel</code> primary/fallback refs, so configured Google and MiniMax media providers do not stay disabled behind a restrictive plugin allowlist. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: retry managed dreaming cron registration after startup when the cron service is not reachable yet, so the scheduled Memory Dreaming Promotion sweep recovers without waiting for heartbeat traffic. Fixes #72841. Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Acpx/runtime: validate the runtime session mode at the <code>AcpxRuntime.ensureSession</code> wrapper boundary so callers that pass anything other than <code>persistent</code> or <code>oneshot</code> get a clear <code>ACP_INVALID_RUNTIME_OPTION</code> error instead of silently round-tripping through the encoded handle as a default <code>persistent</code> mode and later throwing <code>SessionResumeRequiredError</code>. Investigation context: #73071. (#73548) Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>CLI/infer: keep web-search fallback on missing provider API keys, preserve structured validation errors from the selected provider, and let per-request image describe prompts override configured media-entry prompts. (#63263) Thanks @Spolen23.</li>
<li>Chat commands: include configured model-catalog reasoning metadata when building <code>/think</code> argument menus so Ollama Cloud and other provider-owned reasoning models show supported levels instead of only <code>off</code>. Fixes #73515; supersedes #73568. Thanks @danielzinhu99 and @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: suppress generic tool-progress chatter when preview streaming is off, so non-streaming Telegram turns only deliver final replies while approvals, media, and errors still route normally. Refs #72363 and #72482. Thanks @neeravmakwana and @SweetSophia.</li>
<li>CLI/model probes: add repeatable image <code>--file</code> inputs to <code>infer model run</code> for local and gateway multimodal model smokes, so vision models such as Ollama Qwen VL and Gemini can be tested through the raw model-probe surface. Fixes #63700. Thanks @cedricjanssens.</li>
<li>CLI/model probes: request trusted operator scope for <code>infer model run --gateway --model <provider/model></code> so Gateway raw model smokes can use one-off provider/model overrides instead of being rejected before provider auth resolution. Fixes #73759. Thanks @chrislro.</li>
<li>CLI/image describe: pass <code>--prompt</code> and <code>--timeout-ms</code> through <code>infer image describe</code> and <code>describe-many</code>, so custom vision instructions and slow local model budgets reach media-understanding providers such as Ollama, OpenAI, Google, and OpenRouter. Refs #63700. Thanks @cedricjanssens.</li>
<li>Model selection: include the rejected provider/model ref and allowlist recovery hint when a stored session override is cleared, so local model selections such as Gemma GGUF variants do not fall back to the default with a generic message. Refs #71069. Thanks @CyberRaccoonTeam.</li>
<li>OpenAI-compatible providers: drop malformed event-only or blank-data SSE frames before the OpenAI SDK stream parser sees them, so proxies that split <code>event:</code> from <code>data:</code> no longer crash streaming runs with <code>Unexpected end of JSON input</code>. Fixes #52802. Thanks @LyHug.</li>
<li>Gateway/OpenAI-compatible streaming: strip <code><final></code> tags split across streamed model deltas before they reach SSE clients, so <code>/v1/chat/completions</code> no longer emits tag remnants or drops content when final-answer wrappers cross chunk boundaries. Fixes #63325. Thanks @tzwickl.</li>
<li>Ollama: resolve explicitly selected signed-in <code>:cloud</code> models through <code>/api/show</code> when <code>/api/tags</code> omits them, so working models such as <code>gemini-3-flash-preview:cloud</code> and <code>deepseek-v4-pro:cloud</code> do not fail dynamic model resolution before the native <code>/api/chat</code> transport runs. Fixes #73909. Thanks @chtse53.</li>
<li>Discord/exec approvals: keep the local <code>/approve</code> prompt when no native Discord approval runtime is active, and send a manual fallback notice when native approval delivery reaches no targets, so failed DM cards no longer leave approval turns silent or dependent on model-written shell commands. Fixes #73954; carries forward #74027. Thanks @guarismo and @brokemac79.</li>
<li>Local model prompt caching: keep stable Project Context above volatile channel/session prompt guidance and stop embedding current channel names in the message tool description, so Ollama, MLX, llama.cpp, and other prefix-cache backends avoid avoidable full prompt reprocessing across channel turns. Fixes #40256; supersedes #40296. Thanks @rhclaw and @sriram369.</li>
<li>Gateway/OpenAI-compatible API: guard provider policy lookup against runtime providers with non-array <code>models</code> values, so <code>/v1/chat/completions</code> no longer fails with <code>provider?.models?.some is not a function</code>. Fixes #66744; carries forward #66761. Thanks @MightyMoud, @MukundaKatta.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/Web: pass explicit Baileys socket timings into every WhatsApp Web socket and expose <code>web.whatsapp.*</code> keepalive, connect, and query timeout settings so unstable networks can avoid repeated 408 disconnect and opening-handshake timeout loops. Fixes #56365. (#73580) Thanks @velvet-shark.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/Web: recover recently active listeners when a post-408 reconnect keeps receiving transport frames but stops delivering app messages, while keeping group metadata fallback off Baileys sends. Fixes #63855 and #66920; refs #7433, #67986, #70856, #60007, and #72621. Thanks @legonhilltech-jpg, @octopuslabs-fl, @Kanorin-chan, and @stuswan.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: persist native command metadata on target sessions so topic, helper, and ACP-bound slash commands keep their session metadata attached to the routed conversation. (#57548) Thanks @GaosCode.</li>
<li>Channels/native commands: keep validated native slash command replies visible in group chats while preserving explicit owner allowlists for command authorization. (#73672) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Pairing/doctor: bootstrap <code>commands.ownerAllowFrom</code> from the first approved DM pairing when no command owner exists, and have doctor explain missing owners so privileged slash commands are not accidentally unusable after onboarding. Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>Telegram/exec: infer native exec approvers from <code>commands.ownerAllowFrom</code> and auto-enable the Telegram approval client when an owner is resolvable, so owner-only commands such as <code>/diagnostics</code> can be approved in Telegram without duplicate per-channel approver config. Thanks @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/session: carry the tail of user/assistant turns into the freshly-rotated transcript on silent in-reply session resets (compaction failure, role-ordering conflict) so direct-chat continuity survives the rebind. Fixes #70853. (#70898) Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Skills: load grouped skill directories such as <code>skills/<group>/<skill>/SKILL.md</code> from configured skill roots while keeping grouped discovery capped for large directories. Fixes #56915. (#72534) Thanks @ottodeng, @MoerAI, and @i010542.</li>
<li>Config: skip malformed non-string <code>env.vars</code> entries before env-reference checks, so config loading no longer crashes on JSON values like numbers or booleans. (#42402) Thanks @MiltonHeYan.</li>
<li>Docker Compose: default missing config and workspace bind mounts to <code>${HOME:-/tmp}/.openclaw</code> so manual compose runs do not create invalid empty-source volume specs. (#64485) Thanks @jlapenna.</li>
<li>Agents/context engines: preserve the child agent's configured <code>agentDir</code> when subagent cleanup re-resolves a context engine, so <code>onSubagentEnded</code> hooks keep operating on the correct per-agent state. (#67243) Thanks @jarimustonen.</li>
<li>Channels/WhatsApp: restrict pairing verification replies to real inbound user content, preventing unsolicited prompts from receipts, typing indicators, presence updates, and other non-message Baileys upserts. Fixes #73797. (#73823) Thanks @hclsys.</li>
<li>Configure/Ollama: show the configured Ollama model allowlist after Cloud only or Cloud + Local setup and skip slow per-model cloud metadata fetches. (#73995) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Channels/WhatsApp: detect explicit group <code>@mentions</code> again when the bot's own E.164 is in <code>allowFrom</code>, so shared-number setups no longer skip group pings that directly mention the bot. Fixes #49317. (#73453) Thanks @juan-flores077.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/reliability: publish real transport-liveness into WhatsApp channel status and force earlier reconnects on silent transport stalls, so quiet healthy sessions stay connected while wedged sockets recover before the later remote 408 path. (#72656) Thanks @Sathvik-1007.</li>
<li>Core/channels: tighten selected runtime, media, and plugin edge-case handling while preserving existing behavior. Thanks @jesse-merhi.</li>
<li>Channels/WhatsApp: strip leaked plural tool-call XML wrappers on every WhatsApp-visible outbound path and keep channel error payloads out of WhatsApp chats. (#71830) Thanks @rubencu.</li>
<li>Agents/embedded-runner: inject the resolved OAuth bearer (and forward the run abort signal) on the boundary-aware embedded stream fallback so models that route through <code>openai-codex-responses</code> and other boundary-aware transports stop failing with <code>401 Unauthorized: Missing bearer or basic authentication in header</code>. Fixes #73559. (#73588) Thanks @openperf.</li>
<li>Telegram/gateway: bound outbound Bot API calls and cache bundled plugin alias lookup so slow Telegram sends or WSL2 filesystem scans no longer wedge gateway replies. (#74210) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Configure/GitHub Copilot: reuse existing Copilot auth during configure and show the provider's manifest model catalog in the model picker. (#74276) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Configure/models: keep the model picker scoped to the selected manifest provider and enable its bundled plugin before catalog lookup, so choosing GitHub Copilot no longer falls back to Ollama or skips the catalog. (#74322) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/subagents: reject <code>/focus</code> from leaf subagents and scope fallback target resolution to the requesting subagent's children, so subagents cannot bind conversations outside their control boundary. (#73613) Thanks @drobison00.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: skip inherited workspace startup memory for sandboxed spawned sessions without real-workspace write access, so <code>/new</code> no longer preloads host workspace memory into isolated child runs. (#73611) Thanks @drobison00.</li>
<li>Agents/tool policy: validate caller group IDs against session or spawned context before applying group-scoped tool policies or persisting gateway group metadata, so forged group IDs cannot unlock more permissive tools. (#73720) Thanks @mmaps.</li>
<li>Commands: keep channel-prefixed owner allowlist entries scoped to matching providers so webchat command contexts cannot inherit external channel owners. Thanks @zsxsoft.</li>
<li>Auth/device pairing: bound bootstrap handoff token issuance, redemption, and approved pairing baselines to the documented per-role scope allowlist, so bootstrap approvals cannot persistently grant <code>operator.admin</code>, <code>operator.pairing</code>, or <code>node.exec</code> scopes. Thanks @eleqtrizit.</li>
<li>Providers/GitHub Copilot: support the GUI/RPC wizard device-code auth flow so onboarding from non-TTY clients (gateway RPC bridge, GUI wizards) completes instead of returning empty profiles. Dangerous-state handling now distinguishes <code>access_denied</code> and <code>expired_token</code> from transport errors. (#73290) Thanks @indierawk2k2.</li>
<li>Installer/Linux: warn before switching an unwritable npm global prefix to <code>~/.npm-global</code>, then tell users to run future global updates with <code>npm i -g openclaw@latest</code> without <code>sudo</code> so npm keeps using the redirected user prefix. Fixes #44365; carries forward #50479. Thanks @Sayeem3051.</li>
<li>Gateway/plugins: enable the native <code>require()</code> fast path on Windows for bundled plugin modules so plugin loading uses <code>require()</code> instead of Jiti's transform pipeline, reducing startup from ~39s to ~2s on typical 6-plugin setups. Fixes #68656. (#74173) Thanks @galiniliev.</li>
<li>macOS app: detect stale Gateway TLS certificate pins, automatically repair trusted Tailscale Serve rotations, and surface paired-but-disconnected Mac companion nodes so partial Gateway connections no longer look healthy. Thanks @guti.</li>
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<h3>Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sandbox/Docker: add opt-in <code>sandbox.docker.gpus</code> passthrough for Docker sandbox containers so local GPU workloads can run inside sandboxed agents when the host Docker runtime supports <code>--gpus</code>. Fixes #57976; carries forward #58124. Thanks @cyan-ember.</li>
<li>iOS/Gateway: add an authenticated <code>node.presence.alive</code> protocol event and <code>node.list</code> last-seen fields so background iOS wakes can mark paired nodes recently alive without treating them as connected. Carries forward #63123. Thanks @ngutman.</li>
<li>Android: publish authenticated <code>node.presence.alive</code> events after node connect and background transitions so paired Android nodes retain durable last-seen metadata after disconnects. Carries forward #63123. Thanks @ngutman.</li>
<li>Gateway/chat: accept non-image attachments through <code>chat.send</code> by staging them as agent-readable media paths, while keeping unsupported RPC attachment paths explicit instead of silently dropping files. Fixes #48123. (#67572) Thanks @samzong.</li>
<li>Security/networking: add opt-in operator-managed outbound proxy routing (proxy.enabled + proxy.proxyUrl/OPENCLAW_PROXY_URL) with strict http:// forward-proxy validation, loopback-only Gateway bypass, and cleanup of proxy env/dispatcher state on exit. (#70044) Thanks @jesse-merhi and @joshavant.</li>
<li>Dependencies: refresh provider and tooling dependencies, including AWS SDK, PI runtime packages, AJV, Feishu SDK, Anthropic SDK, tokenjuice, and native TypeScript/oxlint tooling. Thanks @dependabot.</li>
<li>Matrix/QA: add live Matrix approval scenarios for exec metadata, chunked fallback, plugin approvals, deny reactions, thread targeting, and <code>target: "both"</code> delivery, with redacted artifacts preserving safe approval summaries. Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Codex: add Computer Use setup for Codex-mode agents, including <code>/codex computer-use status/install</code>, marketplace discovery, optional auto-install, and fail-closed MCP server checks before Codex-mode turns start. Fixes #72094. (#71842) Thanks @pash-openai.</li>
<li>Apps: consume Peekaboo 3.0.0-beta4 and ElevenLabsKit 0.1.1, align Swabble on Commander 0.2.2, and refresh macOS/iOS SwiftPM resolutions against the released dependency graph. Thanks @Blaizzy.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: expose shared channel route normalization, parser-driven target resolution, raw-target compact keys, parsed-target types, and route comparison helpers through <code>openclaw/plugin-sdk/channel-route</code>, switch native approval origin matching onto that route contract with optional delivery and match-only target normalization, and retire the internal channel-route shim behind dated compatibility aliases for legacy key/comparable-target helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Docs/Codex: document how Codex Computer Use, direct <code>cua-driver mcp</code>, and OpenClaw.app's PeekabooBridge fit together so desktop-control setup choices are clearer. Thanks @pash-openai and @trycua.</li>
<li>Matrix/streaming: stream tool-progress updates into live Matrix preview edits by default when preview streaming is active, with <code>streaming.preview.toolProgress: false</code> to keep answer previews while hiding interim tool lines. Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Plugins/models: wire manifest <code>modelCatalog.aliases</code> and <code>modelCatalog.suppressions</code> into model-catalog planning and built-in model suppression, with stale Spark and Qwen Coding Plan suppressions now declared in plugin manifests instead of runtime fallback hooks. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/models: add a shared manifest-backed provider catalog builder and move Qianfan, Xiaomi, NVIDIA, Cerebras, Mistral, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Tencent TokenHub, and StepFun provider catalogs onto their plugin manifest <code>modelCatalog</code> rows. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/models: move BytePlus and Volcano Engine standard and plan-provider catalogs into plugin manifest <code>modelCatalog</code> rows and remove the now-unused Volcengine-family shared catalog SDK subpath. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/models: move Fireworks and Together AI fixed provider catalogs into plugin manifest <code>modelCatalog</code> rows so provider-filtered listing can use manifest-backed static rows. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Channels/Yuanbao: register the Tencent Yuanbao external channel plugin (<code>openclaw-plugin-yuanbao</code>) in the official channel catalog, contract suites, and community plugin docs, with a new <code>docs/channels/yuanbao.md</code> quick-start guide for WebSocket bot DMs and group chats. (#72756) Thanks @loongfay.</li>
<li>Channels/Yuanbao: add a channel docs entrance so the Tencent Yuanbao bot appears in the channel listing and sidebar navigation. (#73443) Thanks @loongfay.</li>
<li>Channels/QQBot: add full group chat support (history tracking, @-mention gating, activation modes, per-group config, FIFO message queue with deliver debounce), C2C <code>stream_messages</code> streaming with a <code>StreamingController</code> lifecycle manager, unified <code>sendMedia</code> with chunked upload for large files, and refactor the engine into pipeline stages, focused outbound submodules, builtin slash-command modules, and explicit DI ports via <code>createEngineAdapters()</code>. (#70624) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: migrate bundled plugin manifests to explicit <code>activation.onStartup</code> declarations so Gateway startup imports only the bundled plugins that intentionally register startup-time runtime surfaces. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: add an opt-in future-mode gate for disabling deprecated implicit startup sidecar loading while preserving explicit startup and narrower activation triggers. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: add plugin compatibility warnings for deprecated implicit startup loading so authors can migrate to explicit <code>activation.onStartup</code> metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime: load bundled agent tool-result middleware from manifest contracts on demand so tokenjuice stays startup-lazy without losing Pi/Codex tool-output compaction. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: add explicit <code>activation.onStartup</code> metadata so plugins can declare Gateway startup import behavior while the deprecated implicit sidecar fallback remains for legacy plugins. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: reuse lookup-table plugin manifests when loading startup plugins so Gateway boot avoids rebuilding plugin discovery and manifest metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/models: declare fixed Qianfan, Xiaomi, NVIDIA, Cerebras, Mistral, Chutes, Kilo, OpenAI, and OpenCode Go model catalogs in refreshable plugin manifests, keep broad <code>models list --all</code> on raw registry and supplement rows without runtime normalization, and avoid duplicate supplement resolution. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Gateway/runtime: reuse the current plugin metadata snapshot for provider discovery so repeated model-provider discovery avoids rebuilding plugin manifest metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: pass the plugin metadata snapshot from config validation into plugin bootstrap so startup reuses one manifest product instead of rebuilding plugin metadata. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: move core-only channel contract fixtures under the channel contract test tree and retire the old <code>test/helpers/channels</code> bridge directory so plugin tests stay on focused SDK surfaces. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: expose native agent-runtime contract fixtures through <code>plugin-sdk/agent-runtime-test-contracts</code>, move sandbox config fixtures into the focused generic fixture subpath, and block extension tests from importing repo-only <code>test/helpers</code> bridges. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: expose generic module reload, bundled-path, Node builtin mock, channel pairing/envelope, HTTP server, temp-home, replay-policy, and live STT helpers through focused SDK test subpaths so extension tests no longer depend on repo-only helper bridges. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: move maintained bundled channels off the deprecated <code>channel-config-schema-legacy</code> subpath, add an explicit bundled-channel schema SDK surface, and track both remaining legacy test/config compatibility barrels with dated removal windows. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: expose media provider capability assertions and provider HTTP mocks through focused SDK test subpaths, and retire the repo-only media-generation test helper bridge. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: promote bundled plugin/provider/channel contract helpers to focused SDK test subpaths and retire the repo-only <code>test/helpers/plugins</code> TypeScript bridge. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: expose generic channel action, setup, status, and directory contract helpers through <code>plugin-sdk/channel-test-helpers</code> so bundled extension tests no longer import repo-only channel helper bridges. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: add <code>plugin-sdk/channel-target-testing</code> for shared channel target-resolution cases, document channel reaction helpers on <code>plugin-sdk/channel-feedback</code>, and keep the old <code>plugin-sdk/test-utils</code> alias as compatibility-only. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: add a focused generic fixture subpath for CLI capture, sandbox, skill, agent-message, system-event, terminal, chunking, auth-token, and typed-case helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: add focused plugin runtime and environment fixture subpaths so plugin tests can avoid the broad <code>plugin-sdk/testing</code> barrel for common setup helpers. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: add a focused <code>plugin-sdk/plugin-test-api</code> helper subpath and move bundled plugin registration tests off the repo-only plugin API bridge. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: add generic host hooks for session state, next-turn context, trusted tool policy, UI descriptors, events, scheduler cleanup, and run-scoped plugin context. (#72287) Thanks @100yenadmin.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK/testing: expose provider catalog, wizard, registry, manifest, public-artifact, outbound, and TTS contract helpers through documented SDK testing seams so bundled plugin tests no longer import repo <code>src/**</code> internals. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Providers/DeepInfra: add a bundled DeepInfra provider with <code>DEEPINFRA_API_KEY</code> onboarding, dynamic OpenAI-compatible model discovery, image generation/editing, image/audio media understanding, TTS, text-to-video, memory embeddings, static catalog metadata, and provider-owned base URL policy. Carries forward #53805, #48088, #37576, #43896, #11533, and #2554. Thanks @ats3v.</li>
<li>Matrix: attach versioned structured approval metadata to pending approval messages so capable Matrix clients can render richer approval UI while body text and reaction fallback keep working. (#72432) Thanks @kakahu2015.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Gateway/sessions: align <code>chat.history</code> and <code>sessions.list</code> thinking defaults with owning-agent and catalog-aware resolution so Control UI session defaults match backend runtime state. (#63418) Thanks @jpreagan.</li>
<li>Devices/pairing: recover array-shaped device and node pairing state files before persisting approvals, so UUID-keyed pending and paired entries no longer disappear after a malformed JSON store write. Fixes #63035. Thanks @sar618.</li>
<li>Gateway/auth: clear reused stale device tokens and stop reconnecting on device-token mismatch in the Control UI and Node gateway clients, avoiding rate-limit loops after scope-upgrade or token-rotation handoffs. Fixes #71609. Thanks @ricksayhi.</li>
<li>Gateway/approvals: treat duplicate same-decision approval resolves as idempotent during the resolved-entry grace window, including consumed <code>allow-once</code> approvals, while returning an explicit already-resolved error for conflicting repeats. Fixes #59162; refs #58479 and #65486. Thanks @wikithoughts, @sajazuniga7-coder, and @mjmai20682068-create.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: honor <code>approvals.exec/plugin.targets[].accountId</code> when routing native approvals across multi-bot Telegram accounts while preserving unscoped Telegram targets for any account. Fixes #69916. Thanks @joerod26.</li>
<li>Telegram/gateway: bound outbound Bot API calls and cache bundled plugin alias lookup so slow Telegram sends or WSL2 filesystem scans no longer wedge gateway replies. (#74210) Thanks @obviyus.</li>
<li>Agents/exec: omit the internal session-resume fallback preface from successful async exec completion messages sent directly back to chat. Fixes #67181. Thanks @raistlin88.</li>
<li>Agents/media: register detached <code>video_generate</code> and <code>music_generate</code> tool run contexts until terminal status, so Discord-backed provider jobs stay live in <code>/tasks</code> instead of becoming <code>lost</code> when the parent chat run context disappears. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/media: prefer OpenAI image and video providers when the default model uses the OpenAI Codex auth alias, so auto media generation no longer falls through to Fal before GPT Image or Sora. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Tasks/media: infer agent ownership for session-scoped task records so <code>/tasks</code> agent-local fallback includes session-backed <code>video_generate</code> and other async media jobs even when the current chat session has no linked rows. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/media: keep long-running <code>video_generate</code> and <code>music_generate</code> tasks fresh while provider jobs are still pending, so task maintenance does not mark active Discord media renders lost before completion. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/status: treat scope-limited gateway probes as reachable-but-degraded in shared status scans, so <code>openclaw status --all</code> no longer reports a live gateway as unreachable after <code>missing scope: operator.read</code>. Fixes #49180; supersedes #47981. Thanks @openjay.</li>
<li>CLI/update: skip tracked plugins disabled in config during post-update plugin sync before npm, ClawHub, or marketplace update checks, preserving their install records without failing the update. Fixes #73880. Thanks @islandpreneur007.</li>
<li>Slack/Socket Mode: use a 15s Slack SDK pong timeout by default and add <code>channels.slack.socketMode.clientPingTimeout</code>, <code>serverPingTimeout</code>, and <code>pingPongLoggingEnabled</code> overrides so stale-websocket handling no longer depends on app-event health heuristics. Fixes #14248; refs #58519, #64009, and #63488. Thanks @shivasymbl and @freerk.</li>
<li>Slack/media: bound private file and forwarded attachment downloads with idle and total timeouts while preserving placeholder fallback, so stalled Slack <code>file_share</code> media no longer wedges inbound message handling. Fixes #61850. Thanks @bassboy2k.</li>
<li>Plugins/inspector: keep bundled plugin runtime capture quiet and config-tolerant for Codex, memory-lancedb, Feishu, Mattermost, QQBot, and Tlon so plugin-inspector JSON checks can validate the full bundled set. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Slack/auto-reply: keep fully consumed text reset triggers such as <code>new session</code> out of <code>BodyForAgent</code> after directive cleanup, so configured Slack reset phrases do not leak into the fresh model turn. Fixes #73137. Thanks @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: prune stale retained bundled runtime deps and keep doctor/secret channel contract scans on lightweight artifacts, so disabled bundled channels stop preserving old dependency trees or importing heavy plugin surfaces. Thanks @SymbolStar and @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: cache unchanged bundled runtime mirror dist-file materialization decisions and close file-lock handles on owner-write failures, reducing repeated startup chunk scans and avoiding FileHandle-GC recovery stalls. Refs #73532. Thanks @oadiazp and @bstanbury.</li>
<li>Auto-reply: bound the post-run pending tool-result delivery drain with a progress-aware idle timeout, so a never-settling tool-result task no longer leaves the session active forever while slow healthy deliveries can keep draining. Fixes #53889; supersedes #64733 and #73434. Thanks @zijunl and @wujiaming88.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: start chat channels without waiting for primary model prewarm, keeping model warmup bounded in the background so Slack and other channels come online promptly when provider discovery is slow. Supersedes #73420. Thanks @dorukardahan.</li>
<li>Gateway/install: carry env-backed config SecretRefs such as <code>channels.discord.token</code> into generated service environments when they are present only in the installing shell, while keeping gateway auth SecretRefs non-persisted. Fixes #67817; supersedes #73426. Thanks @wdimaculangan and @ztexydt-cqh.</li>
<li>Auto-reply/commands: stop bare <code>/reset</code> and <code>/new</code> after reset hooks acknowledge the command, so non-ACP channels no longer fall through into empty provider calls while <code>/reset <message></code> and <code>/new <message></code> still seed the next model turn. Fixes #73367 and #73412. Thanks @hoyanhan, @wenxu007, and @amdhelper.</li>
<li>Providers/DeepSeek: backfill DeepSeek V4 <code>reasoning_content</code> on plain assistant replay messages as well as tool-call turns, so thinking sessions with prior tool use no longer fail follow-up requests with missing reasoning content. Fixes #73417; refs #71372. Thanks @34262315716 and @Bartok9.</li>
<li>Agents/gateway tool: strip full config payloads from <code>config.patch</code> and <code>config.apply</code> tool responses while preserving direct RPC responses, so config-heavy sessions no longer replay large redacted configs into transcript history. Fixes #47610; supersedes #73439. Thanks @HanenVit and @juan-flores077.</li>
<li>Auto-reply: preserve voice-note media from silent turns while continuing to suppress text and non-voice media, so <code>NO_REPLY</code> TTS replies still deliver the requested audio bubble. (#73406) Thanks @zqchris.</li>
<li>Channels/Mattermost: stop enqueueing regular inbound posts as system events, so Mattermost user messages reach the model only as user-role inbound-envelope content instead of also appearing as <code>System: Mattermost message...</code> directives. Fixes #71795. Thanks @juan-flores077.</li>
<li>Agents/media: qualify bare <code>agents.defaults.imageModel</code> and <code>pdfModel</code> refs from unique configured image-capable providers, so Ollama vision models such as <code>moondream</code> and <code>qwen2.5vl:7b</code> do not fall through to the default provider. Fixes #38816; supersedes #73396. Thanks @alainasclaw and @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/Anthropic: send implicit Anthropic beta headers only to direct public Anthropic endpoints, including OAuth, so custom Anthropic-compatible providers no longer mis-handle unsupported beta flags unless explicitly configured. Refs #73346. Thanks @byBrodowski.</li>
<li>Skills: require explicit <code>skills.entries.coding-agent.enabled</code> before exposing the bundled coding-agent skill, so installs with Codex on PATH but no OpenAI auth do not silently offer Codex delegation. Fixes #73358. Thanks @LaFleurAdvertising and @Sanjays2402.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: treat manifestless Claude bundles as valid installed-plugin registry entries instead of stale missing manifests, so workspace bundles no longer force repeated derived registry rebuilds or noisy <code>plugins.entries.workspace</code> warnings during Gateway startup. Fixes #73433. Thanks @AnneVoss.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: preserve <code>sessions_yield</code> as a paused subagent state and ignore its wait text while freezing completion output, so parent sessions wait for the final post-compaction answer instead of receiving intermediate progress or <code>(no output)</code>. Fixes #73413. Thanks @Ask-sola.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: precompute bundled runtime mirror fingerprints before taking the mirror lock and keep Docker bundled plugin runtime deps/mirrors in a Docker-managed volume instead of the Windows/WSL config bind mount, so cold starts avoid slow host-volume mirror writes. Fixes #73339. Thanks @1yihui.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: refresh bundled runtime mirrors without deleting active import trees, so config-triggered restarts do not see transient missing plugin files during registration. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Channels/LINE: persist inbound image, video, audio, and file downloads in <code>~/.openclaw/media/inbound/</code> instead of temporary files so agents can still read LINE media after <code>/tmp</code> cleanup. Fixes #73370. Thanks @hijirii and @wenxu007.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: keep bundled plugin installs out of <code>plugins.load.paths</code> while preserving install records, so install/inspect/doctor loops no longer warn about the current bundled plugin directory. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: scope <code>plugins inspect <id></code> runtime loading to the matched plugin so single-plugin inspection does not load every plugin before checking the target. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: remove managed copied-path plugin directories during uninstall and plan uninstall from metadata instead of runtime-loading plugins, so plugin lifecycle commands avoid unnecessary bundled runtime-deps work. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Cron tool: infer the creating session's agentId for <code>cron.add</code> jobs when <code>agentId</code> is omitted or passed as undefined, keeping scheduled agentTurn jobs routed to the session agent; #40571 identified the guard bug and supplied the focused regression coverage. Thanks @ChanningYul.</li>
<li>Cron/Telegram: add <code>--thread-id</code> to <code>openclaw cron add</code> and <code>openclaw cron edit</code>, preserving Telegram forum topic delivery targets across scheduled announcements. Carries forward #51581, #60373, and #60890. Thanks @ChunHao-dev.</li>
<li>Cron/Telegram: preserve session-derived Telegram topic thread IDs when isolated cron delivery explicitly targets the parent chat, keeping bare chat targets in the active forum topic without leaking stale topics to other chats. Carries forward #64708. Thanks @addelh.</li>
<li>Memory/compaction: keep pre-compaction memory-flush prompts runtime-only so session transcripts and <code>chat.history</code> no longer expose them as normal user turns. Fixes #54408 and #58956; refs #43567. Thanks @markgong and @guoyuhang9.</li>
<li>Control UI/WebChat: keep large attachment payloads out of Lit state and optimistic chat messages, using object URL previews plus send-time payload serialization so PDF/image uploads no longer trigger <code>RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded</code>. Fixes #73360; refs #54378 and #63432. Thanks @hejunhui-73, @Ansub, and @christianhernandez3-afk.</li>
<li>Agents/Anthropic: cancel stalled Anthropic Messages SSE body reads when abort signals fire, so active-memory timeouts release transport resources instead of leaving hidden recall runs parked on <code>reader.read()</code>. Refs #72965 and #73120. Thanks @wdeveloper16.</li>
<li>Control UI/WebChat: keep pending run and typing state attached to the active client run, so unowned inject/announce/side-result finals no longer unlock unrelated active runs while completed owned runs still clear promptly. Fixes #57795; carries forward the narrow diagnosis from #57887. Thanks @haoyu-haoyu.</li>
<li>Sandbox/Docker: stop satisfying a missing default sandbox image by tagging plain Debian as <code>openclaw-sandbox:bookworm-slim</code>, preserving the Python tooling required by sandbox write/edit helpers and directing users to build the default image. Fixes #51185; refs #45108, #51099, #51609, and #57713. Thanks @dpalis, @Tin55FoilDev, @jbcohen2-coder, @macminihal-cyber, and @PraxoOnline.</li>
<li>Control UI/WebChat: confirm toolbar New Session button resets before dispatching <code>/new</code> while leaving typed <code>/new</code> and <code>/reset</code> commands immediate. Fixes #45800; refs #27065, #56611, #54499, and #27110. Thanks @aethnova, @kosta228-huli, @adambezemek, and @xss925175263 (xianshishan).</li>
<li>Agents/models: keep per-agent primary models strict when <code>fallbacks</code> is omitted, so probe-only custom providers are not tried as hidden fallback candidates unless the agent explicitly opts in. Fixes #73332. Thanks @haumanto.</li>
<li>Gateway/models: add <code>models.pricing.enabled</code> so offline or restricted-network installs can skip startup OpenRouter and LiteLLM pricing-catalog fetches while keeping explicit model costs working. Fixes #53639. Thanks @callebtc, @palewire, and @rjdjohnston.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: warn when legacy <code>CLAWDBOT_*</code> or <code>MOLTBOT_*</code> environment variables are still present, pointing users to <code>OPENCLAW_*</code> names instead of failing silently. Fixes #53482; carries forward #53667. Thanks @lndyzwdxhs.</li>
<li>Onboarding: pin interactive and non-interactive health checks to the just-configured setup token/password so stale <code>OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN</code> or <code>OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD</code> values do not produce false gateway-token-mismatch failures after setup. Fixes #72203. Thanks @galiniliev.</li>
<li>Doctor/state: require an interactive confirmation before archiving orphan transcript files, so <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> no longer silently renames recoverable session history after upgrades regenerate <code>sessions.json</code>. Fixes #73106. Thanks @scottgl9.</li>
<li>Cron/Telegram: preserve explicit <code>:topic:</code> delivery targets over stale session-derived thread IDs when isolated cron announces to Telegram forum topics. Carries forward #59069; refs #49704 and #43808. Thanks @roytong9.</li>
<li>Build/runtime: write the runtime-postbuild stamp after <code>pnpm build</code> writes the build stamp, so the next CLI invocation does not re-sync runtime artifacts after a successful build. Fixes #73151. Thanks @bittoby.</li>
<li>Build/runtime: preserve staged bundled-plugin runtime dependency caches across source-checkout tsdown rebuilds, so local CLI and gateway-watch rebuilds no longer recreate large plugin dependency trees before starting. Refs #73205. Thanks @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>CLI/channels: list configured chat channel accounts from read-only setup metadata even when the standalone CLI has not loaded the runtime channel registry, so <code>openclaw channels list</code> shows Telegram accounts before auth providers. Fixes #73319 and #73322. Thanks @mlaihk.</li>
<li>CLI/model probes: keep <code>infer model run --gateway</code> raw by skipping prior session transcript, bootstrap context, context-engine assembly, tools, and bundled MCP servers, so local backends can be tested without full agent-context overhead. Fixes #73308. Thanks @ScientificProgrammer.</li>
<li>CLI/image describe: pass <code>--prompt</code> and <code>--timeout-ms</code> through <code>infer image describe</code> and <code>describe-many</code>, so custom vision instructions and slow local model budgets reach media-understanding providers such as Ollama, OpenAI, Google, and OpenRouter. Addresses #63700. Thanks @cedricjanssens.</li>
<li>Providers/Ollama: reject long non-linguistic Kimi/GLM symbol runs as provider failures instead of storing them as successful visible assistant replies, so fallback or error handling can recover from garbled cloud output. Fixes #64262; refs #67019. Thanks @Kloz813 and @xiaomenger123.</li>
<li>CLI/model probes: reject empty or whitespace-only <code>infer model run --prompt</code> values before calling local providers or the Gateway, so smoke checks do not spend provider calls on invalid turns. Fixes #73185. Thanks @iot2edge.</li>
<li>Gateway/media: route text-only <code>chat.send</code> image offloads through media-understanding fields so <code>agents.defaults.imageModel</code> can describe WebChat attachments instead of leaving only an opaque <code>media://inbound</code> marker. Fixes #72968. Thanks @vorajeeah.</li>
<li>Gateway/Windows: route no-listener restart handoffs through the Windows supervisor without leaving restart tokens in flight, so failed task scheduling can be retried and successful handoffs do not coalesce later restart requests. (#69056) Thanks @Thatgfsj.</li>
<li>Gateway/model pricing: skip plugin manifest discovery during background pricing refreshes when <code>plugins.enabled: false</code>, so disabled-plugin setups do not keep rebuilding plugin metadata from the Gateway hot path. Fixes #73291. Thanks @slideshow-dingo and @fishgills.</li>
<li>Ollama/thinking: validate <code>/think</code> commands against live Ollama catalog reasoning metadata and preserve explicit native <code>params.think</code>/<code>params.thinking</code>, so models whose <code>/api/show</code> capabilities include <code>thinking</code> expose <code>low</code>, <code>medium</code>, <code>high</code>, and <code>max</code> instead of being stuck on <code>off</code>. Fixes #73366. Thanks @cymise.</li>
<li>Gateway/sessions: remove automatic oversized <code>sessions.json</code> rotation backups, deprecate <code>session.maintenance.rotateBytes</code>, and teach <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> to remove the ignored key so hot session writes no longer copy multi-MB stores. Refs #72338. Thanks @midhunmonachan and @DougButdorf.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: fail fast when Telegram rejects the startup <code>getMe</code> token probe with 401, so invalid or stale BotFather tokens are reported as token auth failures instead of misleading <code>deleteWebhook</code> cleanup failures. Fixes #47674. Thanks @samaedan-arch.</li>
<li>ACPX: keep generated Codex and Claude ACP wrapper startup paths working when remote or special state filesystems reject chmod, since OpenClaw invokes the wrappers through Node instead of executing them directly. Fixes #73333. Thanks @david-garcia-garcia.</li>
<li>CLI/onboarding: infer image input for common custom-provider vision model IDs, ask only for unknown models, and keep <code>--custom-image-input</code>/<code>--custom-text-input</code> overrides so vision-capable proxies do not get saved as text-only configs. Fixes #51869. Thanks @Antsoldier1974.</li>
<li>Models/OpenAI Codex: stop listing or resolving unsupported <code>openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini</code> rows through Codex OAuth, keep stale discovery rows suppressed with a clear API-key-route hint, and leave direct <code>openai/gpt-5.4-mini</code> available. Fixes #73242. Thanks @0xCyda.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: restore the root <code>stringEnum</code> and <code>optionalStringEnum</code> exports on both the published SDK entry and runtime root-alias bridge, so older external plugins can keep building and loading while migrating to focused SDK subpaths. Fixes #68279. Thanks @marzliak.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: restore the root-alias bridge for <code>registerContextEngine</code> and expose missing legacy compat helpers <code>normalizeAccountId</code> and <code>resolvePreferredOpenClawTmpDir</code> so older external plugins such as <code>openclaw-weixin</code> can keep loading while migrating to focused SDK subpaths. Fixes #53497. Thanks @alanxchen85.</li>
<li>Auth profiles: make <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> migrate legacy flat <code>auth-profiles.json</code> files such as <code>{ "ollama-windows": { "apiKey": "ollama-local" } }</code> to canonical provider default API-key profiles with a backup, so custom Ollama/OpenAI-compatible providers recover cleanly after upgrading. Fixes #59629; supersedes #59642. Thanks @Xsanders555 and @Linux2010.</li>
<li>Memory/Dreaming: retry Dream Diary once with the session default when a configured dreaming model is unavailable, while leaving subagent trust and allowlist errors visible instead of silently masking configuration problems. Refs #67409 and #69209. Thanks @Ghiggins18 and @everySympathy.</li>
<li>Feishu/inbound files: recover CJK filenames from plain <code>Content-Disposition: filename=</code> download headers when Feishu exposes UTF-8 bytes through Latin-1 header decoding, while leaving valid Latin-1 and JSON-derived names unchanged. (#48578, #50435, #59431) Thanks @alex-xuweilong, @lishuaigit, and @DoChaoing.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: normalize accidental full <code>/bot<TOKEN></code> Telegram <code>apiRoot</code> values at runtime and teach <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> to remove the suffix, so startup control calls no longer 404 when direct Bot API curl commands work. Fixes #55387. Thanks @brendanmatthewjones-cmyk, @techfindubai-ux, and @Sivlerback-Chris.</li>
<li>Zalo Personal: persist refreshed <code>zca-js</code> session cookies after QR login, session restore, and successful API calls so gateway restarts restore the freshest local session. (#73277) Thanks @darkamenosa.</li>
<li>Logging/security: redact sensitive tokens (sk-\* keys, Bearer/Authorization values, etc.) at the subsystem console sink so <code>createSubsystemLogger().info/warn/error</code> output that bypasses the patched console-capture handler still applies the same redaction the file transport already does. Fixes #73284; refs #67953 and #64046. Thanks @edwin-rivera-dev.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: reuse enclosing versioned cache roots when bundled plugins resolve from nested staged paths, so plugin-runtime-deps no longer mints <code>openclaw-unknown-*</code> directories or loops on <code>ENOTEMPTY</code>. Fixes #72956. (#73205) Thanks @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>Agents/failover: classify CJK provider transport, quota, billing, auth, and overload error text so Chinese-language provider failures trigger fallback and user-facing transport copy instead of surfacing as unclassified raw errors. (#56242) Thanks @tomcatzh.</li>
<li>Agents/failover: seed non-claude-cli fallback prompts with Claude Code session context when a claude-cli attempt fails, so fallback models do not restart cold after billing or quota failover. (#72069) Thanks @stainlu.</li>
<li>Agents/CLI runner: transfer bundle-MCP tempDir cleanup from the per-turn runner finally to the Claude live-session lifecycle, so persistent Claude CLI sessions keep their <code>--mcp-config</code> directory until the live subprocess closes. Fixes #73244. Thanks @edwin-rivera-dev.</li>
<li>Gateway/nodes: allow Windows companion nodes to use safe declared commands such as canvas, camera list, location, device info, and screen snapshot by default while keeping dangerous media commands opt-in. (#71884) Thanks @shanselman.</li>
<li>Agents/cron: clarify agent-tool and CLI cron timezone guidance so supplied <code>tz</code> values use local wall-clock cron fields and omitted cron <code>tz</code> falls back to the Gateway host local timezone. Fixes #53669; carries forward #46177. (#73372) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code and @maranello-o.</li>
<li>Providers/Qwen: allow explicitly configured <code>qwen/qwen3.6-plus</code> to resolve on Qwen Coding Plan endpoints while keeping the built-in catalog from advertising it there. Fixes #63654; carries forward #63987. Thanks @jepson-liu.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: keep Bot API network fallbacks sticky after failed attempts and retry timed-out startup control calls once on the fallback route, so <code>deleteWebhook</code> IPv6 stalls no longer trigger slow multi-account retry storms. Fixes #73255. Thanks @ttomiczek and @sktbrd.</li>
<li>Gateway/agents: accept heartbeat, cron, and webhook as internal channel hints for agent runs so <code>sessions_spawn</code> works from non-delivery parent sessions while unknown channel hints still fail closed. Fixes #73237. Thanks @KeWang0622.</li>
<li>Gateway/models: merge explicit <code>models.providers.*.models</code> rows into the Gateway model catalog with normalized provider/model dedupe, and use normalized image-capability lookup so custom vision models keep native image attachments even when Pi discovery omits them or model ID casing differs. Fixes #64213 and #65165. Thanks @billonese and @202233a.</li>
<li>Gateway/reload: publish canonical post-write source config to in-process reloaders so simple config saves no longer create phantom plugin diffs or trigger unnecessary Gateway restarts. (#73267) Thanks @szsip239.</li>
<li>Gateway/Docker: keep config-triggered restarts in-process inside containers instead of spawning a detached child and exiting PID 1 cleanly, so Docker Swarm and other on-failure supervisors do not leave the service stuck at 0/1 replicas. Fixes #73178. Thanks @du-nguyen-IT007.</li>
<li>CLI/tasks: ship the task-registry control runtime in npm packages so <code>openclaw tasks cancel</code> can load ACP/subagent cancellation helpers from published builds. Fixes #68997. Thanks @1OAKDesign.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: preserve unsent generated media after partial reply streaming has already delivered the text, so <code>image_generate</code> outputs still reach Telegram as photos instead of being dropped from the final payload. Fixes #73253. Thanks @mlaihk.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: cap detached Dream Diary narrative subagents across cron sweeps so multi-workspace dreaming no longer fans out unbounded subagent sessions, lock contention, and cascading narrative timeouts. Fixes #73198. (#73287) Thanks @KeWang0622.</li>
<li>CLI/agents: close local one-shot Claude live stdio sessions and bundled MCP loopback resources after embedded <code>openclaw agent --local</code> runs, while keeping gateway-owned MCP loopback cleanup internal to the Gateway. Thanks @frankekn.</li>
<li>Export/session: keep inline export HTML scripts and vendor libraries injected after template formatting so generated session exports open with the app code, markdown renderer, and syntax highlighter present. Fixes #41862 and #49957; carries forward #41861 and #68947. Thanks @briannewman, @martenzi, and @armanddp.</li>
<li>Agents/ACPX: stage the patched Claude ACP adapter as an ACPX runtime dependency and route known Codex/Claude ACP commands through local wrappers, so Gateway runtime no longer depends on live <code>npx</code> adapter resolution. Fixes #73202. Thanks @joerod26.</li>
<li>Memory/compaction: let pre-compaction memory flush use an exact <code>agents.defaults.compaction.memoryFlush.model</code> override such as <code>ollama/qwen3:8b</code> without inheriting the active session fallback chain, so local housekeeping can avoid paid conversation models. Fixes #53772. Thanks @limen96.</li>
<li>macOS/update: stop managed Gateway services before package replacement and keep LaunchAgent service secrets out of world-readable plist metadata by loading them from owner-only env files. Fixes #72996. Thanks @Mathewb7.</li>
<li>Google Meet: keep observe-only Chrome joins and setup checks from requiring BlackHole or audio bridge commands, avoid granting or selecting the microphone in observe-only mode, and make <code>test_speech</code> report fresh realtime output-byte verification instead of only confirming a queued utterance. Refs #72478. Thanks @DougButdorf.</li>
<li>Gateway/hooks: route non-delivered hook completion and error summaries to the target agent's main session instead of the default agent session, preserving multi-agent hook isolation. Fixes #24693; carries forward #68667. Thanks @abersonFAC and @bluesky6868.</li>
<li>Control UI/models: request the configured Gateway model-list view so dashboards with only <code>models.providers.*.models</code> show those configured models first instead of flooding the picker with the full built-in catalog. Fixes #65405. Thanks @wbyanclaw.</li>
<li>CLI/models: keep default-model and allowlist pickers on explicit <code>models.providers.*.models</code> entries when <code>models.mode</code> is <code>replace</code> instead of loading the full built-in catalog. Fixes #64950. Thanks @mrozentsvayg.</li>
<li>Media/security: tighten media-understanding MIME sanitization so parameterized MIME values stay end-anchored and malformed whitespace or suffix payloads are rejected before file-context handling. Fixes #9795; carries forward #68225 with related review/test context from #61016/#68456. Thanks @ymaxgit, @bluesky6868, and @shamsulalam1114.</li>
<li>Discord: own the Carbon interaction listener and hand off Discord slash/component handling asynchronously, so compaction or long session locks no longer trip <code>InteractionEventListener</code> listener timeouts. Fixes #73204. Thanks @slideshow-dingo.</li>
<li>Compaction/diagnostics: keep unknown compaction failure classifications stable while logging sanitized detail for unclassified provider errors such as missing Ollama provider adapters. Thanks @gzsiang.</li>
<li>Models/fallbacks: record first-class <code>model.fallback_step</code> trajectory events with from/to models, failure detail, chain position, and final outcome so support exports preserve the primary model failure even when a later fallback also fails. Fixes #71744. Thanks @nikolaykazakovvs-ux.</li>
<li>Gateway/agents: block agent <code>exec</code> from launching interactive <code>openclaw channels login</code> flows and abort active agent runs after invalid-config recovery restores last-known-good config, preventing known channel-login and reload paths from wedging replies. Refs #72338. Thanks @midhunmonachan.</li>
<li>Gateway/diagnostics: emit payload-free liveness warnings with event-loop delay, event-loop utilization, CPU-core ratio, active-session counts, and OTEL warning metrics/spans so live-but-stalled Gateways capture CPU-spin context in stability bundles and telemetry. Refs #72338. Thanks @midhunmonachan and @DougButdorf.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: keep value-option foreground starts on the gateway fast path and skip proxy bootstrap unless proxy env is configured, reducing normal gateway startup RSS and avoiding full CLI graph loading. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Heartbeat/models: show heartbeat model bleed guidance on context-overflow resets when the last runtime model matches configured <code>heartbeat.model</code>, so smaller local heartbeat models point users to <code>isolatedSession</code> or <code>lightContext</code> instead of only compaction-buffer tuning. Fixes #67314. Thanks @Knightmare6890.</li>
<li>Subagents/models: persist <code>sessions_spawn.model</code> and configured subagent models as child-session model overrides before the first turn, so spawned subagents actually run on the requested provider/model instead of reverting to the target agent default. Fixes #73180. Thanks @danielzinhu99.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: keep webhook-mode local listeners alive and retry Telegram <code>setWebhook</code> registration after recoverable startup network failures, so transient Bot API timeouts no longer leave reverse proxies pointing at a closed listener. Fixes #71834. Thanks @jinon86.</li>
<li>Agents/ACPX: bundle the Codex ACP adapter and launch it from the isolated <code>CODEX_HOME</code> wrapper before falling back to npm, so Codex ACP startup no longer depends on live <code>npx</code> resolution or the stale <code>@zed-industries/codex-acp@^0.11.1</code> range. Fixes #72037; refs #73202. Thanks @jasonftl, @sazora, and @joerod26.</li>
<li>Agents/ACPX: register the embedded ACP backend at Gateway startup through a lightweight ACP backend SDK path and without importing the heavy ACPX runtime until an ACP session or explicit startup probe needs it, reducing baseline Gateway RSS. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/update: keep restart health polling when the restarted Gateway is reachable but has not reported its version yet, so macOS service restarts do not fail early with <code>actual unavailable</code>. Thanks @ProspectOre.</li>
<li>Backup: skip installed plugin <code>extensions/*/node_modules</code> dependency trees while keeping plugin manifests and source files in archives, so local backups avoid rebuildable npm payload bloat. Fixes #64144. Thanks @BrilliantWang.</li>
<li>Cron/models: fail isolated cron runs closed when an explicit <code>payload.model</code> is not allowed or cannot be resolved, so scheduled jobs do not silently fall back to an unrelated agent default or paid route before configured provider proxies such as LiteLLM can run. Fixes #73146. Thanks @oneandrewwang.</li>
<li>Memory/QMD: back off repeated chat-turn QMD open failures while still letting memory status and CLI probes recheck immediately, so a broken sidecar dependency cannot trigger active-memory or cron retry storms. Fixes #73188 and #73176. Thanks @leonlushgit and @w3i-William.</li>
<li>Talk Mode: resolve <code>messages.tts.providers.<id>.apiKey</code> through the active runtime snapshot for <code>talk.config</code>, so Talk overlays can discover SecretRef-backed speech providers without falling back to local speech. Fixes #73109. (#73111) Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Memory/Ollama: resolve <code>memorySearch.provider</code> custom provider ids through their configured <code>models.providers.<id>.api</code> owner, so multi-GPU Ollama setups can dedicate embeddings to providers such as <code>ollama-5080</code> without losing the Ollama adapter or local auth semantics. Fixes #73150. Thanks @oneandrewwang.</li>
<li>CLI/memory: skip eager context-window warmup for <code>openclaw memory</code> commands so memory search does not race unrelated model metadata discovery. Fixes #73123. Thanks @oalansilva and @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>CLI/Telegram: route Telegram <code>message send</code> and poll actions through the running Gateway when available, so packaged installs use the staged <code>grammy</code> runtime deps and CLI sends return instead of hanging after the Telegram channel is active. Fixes #73140. Thanks @oalansilva.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: prepare staged bundled plugin dependencies before loading packaged public surfaces, so OpenClaw's Telegram runtime/test facade loads resolve <code>grammy</code> from the managed runtime-deps stage without copying dependencies into the global package root. Refs #73140. Thanks @oalansilva.</li>
<li>Agents/exec: emit <code>(no output)</code> for silent exec update and node-host result blocks so Anthropic-compatible providers no longer reject empty tool-result text after quiet commands. Fixes #73117. Thanks @pfrederiksen and @Sanjays2402.</li>
<li>Cron/providers: preflight local Ollama and OpenAI-compatible provider endpoints before isolated cron agent turns, record unreachable local providers as skipped runs, and cache dead-endpoint probes so many jobs do not hammer the same stopped local server. Fixes #58584. Thanks @jpeghead.</li>
<li>Gateway/config: let config reload continue in degraded mode when invalidity is scoped to plugin entries, so incompatible plugin configs can be skipped and the Gateway restart can still pick up the rest of the config after rollbacks. Fixes #73131. Thanks @Adam-Researchh.</li>
<li>Doctor/channels: suppress disabled bundled-plugin blocker warnings when a trusted external plugin owns the configured channel, so Lark/Feishu installs no longer get Feishu repair noise after switching to <code>openclaw-lark</code>. Fixes #56794. Thanks @wuji-tech-dev.</li>
<li>CLI/status: show skipped fast-path memory checks as <code>not checked</code> and report active custom memory plugin runtime status from <code>status --json --all</code> without requiring built-in <code>agents.defaults.memorySearch</code>, so plugins such as memory-lancedb-pro and memory-cms no longer look unavailable when their own runtime is healthy. Fixes #56968. Thanks @Tony-ooo and @aderius.</li>
<li>Gateway/channels: record and log unexpected clean channel monitor exits so channels that return without throwing no longer appear stopped with no error. Fixes #73099. Thanks @balaji1968-kingler.</li>
<li>Discord/group chats: keep group/channel replies private by default unless the agent explicitly uses the message tool, so always-on rooms can lurk without leaking automatic final, block, preview, or status-reaction output; <code>messages.groupChat.visibleReplies: "automatic"</code> restores legacy auto-posting. (#73046) Thanks @scoootscooob.</li>
<li>Plugins/package: force nested bundled-plugin runtime dependency installs out of inherited npm dry-run mode during prepack and package smoke checks, so packed installs materialize required plugin modules instead of reporting missing bundled files. Refs #73128. Thanks @Adam-Researchh.</li>
<li>Discord: skip reaction events before REST channel fetch when notifications are off, guild reactions are disabled, or allowlist mode cannot match without channel overrides, reducing reconnect bursts that caused slow listener warnings. Fixes #73133. Thanks @isaacsummers.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: centralize polling update tracking so accepted offsets remain durable across restarts, same-process handler failures can still retry, and slow offset writes cannot overwrite newer accepted watermarks. Refs #73115. Thanks @vdruts.</li>
<li>Agents/models: classify empty, reasoning-only, and planning-only terminal agent runs before accepting a model fallback candidate, so invalid or incompatible models can advance to the next configured fallback instead of returning a 30-second terminal failure. Fixes #73115. Thanks @vdruts.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: let embedding config use provider-backed auth profiles, environment credentials, or provider config without a separate plugin <code>embedding.apiKey</code>, so OAuth-capable embedding providers can power auto-recall/capture. Fixes #68950. Thanks @malshaalan-ai.</li>
<li>CLI/parents: invoking <code>openclaw <parent></code> (memory, channels, plugins, approvals, devices, cron, mcp) without a subcommand now prints the parent's help and exits <code>0</code>, matching <code><parent> --help</code> and the existing <code>agents</code> / <code>sessions</code> defaults so shell <code>&&</code> chains and pnpm wrappers no longer surface a misleading <code>ELIFECYCLE Command failed with exit code 1.</code> line. Fixes #73077. Thanks @hclsys.</li>
<li>Plugins/hooks: time out never-settling <code>agent_end</code> observation hooks after 30 seconds and log the plugin failure, so hung embedding endpoints no longer leave memory capture silently pending forever. Fixes #65544. Thanks @ghoc0099.</li>
<li>Gateway/config: serve runtime config schemas from the current plugin metadata snapshot and generated bundled channel schema metadata instead of rebuilding plugin channel config modules on every <code>config.get</code>/<code>config.schema</code>, preventing idle plugin-discovery CPU churn after upgrades. Fixes #73088. Thanks @sleitor and @geovansb.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: call OpenAI-compatible embedding endpoints through the raw SDK transport without sending <code>encoding_format</code>, then normalize float-array or base64 responses so providers such as ZhiPu and DashScope no longer fail recall with wrong vector dimensions or rejected parameters. Fixes #63655. Thanks @kinthaiofficial.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: run dependency installs with npm error-level logging instead of silent mode so failed plugin or hook installs surface actionable npm errors such as EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL instead of <code>npm install failed:</code> with no detail. (#73093) Thanks @sanctrl.</li>
<li>Memory/LanceDB: bound memory recall embedding queries with a new <code>recallMaxChars</code> setting, prefer the latest user message over channel prompt metadata during auto-recall, and document the knob so small Ollama embedding models avoid context-length failures. Fixes #56780. Thanks @rungmc357 and @zak-collaborator.</li>
<li>CLI/skills: resolve workspace-backed skills commands from <code>--agent</code>, then the current agent workspace, before falling back to the default agent, so multi-agent ClawHub installs, updates, and status checks stay scoped to the active workspace. Fixes #56161; carries forward #72726. Thanks @langbowang and @luyao618.</li>
<li>Plugin SDK: fall back from partial bundled plugin directory overrides to package source public surfaces while preserving <code>OPENCLAW_DISABLE_BUNDLED_PLUGINS</code> as a hard disable. (#72817) Thanks @serkonyc.</li>
<li>Agents/ACPX: stop forwarding Codex ACP timeout config controls that Codex rejects while preserving OpenClaw's run-timeout watchdog for ACP subagents. Fixes #73052. Thanks @pfrederiksen and @richa65.</li>
<li>Memory Core: stream fallback vector search scoring with a bounded top-K result set so large indexes do not materialize every chunk embedding when sqlite-vec is unavailable. (#73069) Thanks @parkertoddbrooks.</li>
<li>Memory Core: stream embedding-cache seeding during safe reindex so large local caches do not materialize every row into the V8 heap before the atomic rebuild. (#73067) Thanks @parkertoddbrooks.</li>
<li>Memory/Ollama: add <code>memorySearch.remote.nonBatchConcurrency</code> for inline embedding indexing, default Ollama non-batch indexing to one request at a time, and keep batch concurrency separate from non-batch concurrency so local embedding backfills avoid timeout storms on smaller hosts. Carries forward #57733. Thanks @itilys.</li>
<li>macOS app: update Peekaboo, ElevenLabsKit, and MLX TTS helper dependencies, make canvas file watching and config/exec-approval state writes reliable under concurrent app/test activity, and keep the app plus helper builds warning-free. Thanks @Blaizzy.</li>
<li>iOS app: refresh SwiftPM/XcodeGen source hygiene, make app, extension, watch, and curated shared Swift files pass the prebuild SwiftFormat and SwiftLint checks, move relay registration off deprecated StoreKit receipt APIs, and keep simulator builds and logic tests warning-free. Thanks @ngutman.</li>
<li>Agents/models: keep <code>models.json</code> readiness and provider-hook caches warm across repeated agent and subagent model resolution while preserving external <code>models.json</code> invalidation, reducing repeated provider-plugin loads on slower ARM64 hosts. Fixes #73075. Thanks @jochen.</li>
<li>Docs/tools: clarify that <code>tools.profile: "messaging"</code> is intentionally narrow and that <code>tools.profile: "full"</code> is the unrestricted baseline for broader command/control access. Carries forward #39954. Thanks @posigit.</li>
<li>Control UI/Agents: redact tool-call args, partial/final results, derived exec output, and configured custom secret patterns before streaming tool events to the Control UI, so tool output cannot expose provider or channel credentials. Fixes #72283. (#72319) Thanks @volcano303 and @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: keep <code>sessions_history</code> recall redaction enabled even when general log redaction is disabled, and clarify that safety-boundary UI/tool/diagnostic payloads still redact independently of <code>logging.redactSensitive</code>. Carries forward #72319. Thanks @volcano303 and @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Providers/Codex: pass agent and workspace directories into provider stream wrappers so Codex native <code>web_search</code> activation can evaluate the correct auth context, and smoke-test the built status-message runtime by resolving the emitted bundle name. Carries forward #67843; refs #65909. Thanks @neilofneils404.</li>
<li>Cron/models: keep <code>payload.model</code> as a per-job primary that can use configured fallbacks, while still letting <code>payload.fallbacks: []</code> make cron runs strict and avoid hidden agent-primary retries. Refs #73023. Thanks @pavelyortho-cyber.</li>
<li>Models/fallbacks: treat user-selected session models as exact choices, so <code>/model ollama/...</code> and model-picker switches fail visibly when the selected provider is unreachable instead of answering from an unrelated configured fallback. Fixes #73023. Thanks @pavelyortho-cyber.</li>
<li>Codex harness: keep ChatGPT subscription app-server runs from inheriting <code>CODEX_API_KEY</code> or <code>OPENAI_API_KEY</code>, and fall back to <code>CODEX_API_KEY</code> / <code>OPENAI_API_KEY</code> app-server login only when no Codex account is available. Fixes #73057. Thanks @holgergruenhagen and @pashpashpash.</li>
<li>CLI/model probes: fail local <code>infer model run</code> probes when the provider returns no text output, so unreachable local providers and empty completions no longer look like successful smoke tests. Refs #73023. Thanks @pavelyortho-cyber.</li>
<li>CLI/Ollama: run local <code>infer model run</code> through the lean provider completion path and skip global model discovery for one-shot local probes, so Ollama smoke tests no longer pay full chat-agent/tool startup cost or hang before the native <code>/api/chat</code> request. Fixes #72851. Thanks @TotalRes2020.</li>
<li>Doctor/gateway services: ignore launchd/systemd companion services that only reference the gateway as a dependency, suppress inactive Linux extra-service warnings, and avoid rewriting a running systemd gateway command/entrypoint during doctor repair. Carries forward #39118. Thanks @therk.</li>
<li>Daemon/service: only emit hard-coded version-manager paths such as <code>~/.volta/bin</code>, <code>~/.asdf/shims</code>, <code>~/.bun/bin</code>, and fnm/pnpm fallbacks into gateway and node service PATHs when the directories exist, so <code>openclaw doctor</code> no longer flags <code>gateway.path.non-minimal</code> against a PATH the daemon just wrote. Env-driven roots and stable user-bin dirs remain unconditional. Fixes #71944; carries forward #71964. Thanks @Sanjays2402.</li>
<li>CLI/startup: disable Node's module compile cache automatically for live source-checkout launchers so in-place <code>pnpm build</code> updates are visible to the next <code>openclaw</code> CLI invocation. Fixes #73037. Thanks @LouisGameDev.</li>
<li>Agents/group chat: keep silent-allowed empty and reasoning-only turns on the <code>NO_REPLY</code> path without injecting visible-answer retry prompts, and clarify the group prompt so agents use the exact silent token instead of prose. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Agents/group chat: move <code>NO_REPLY</code> mechanics into channel-aware direct/group prompts and suppress the duplicate generic silent-reply section for auto-reply runs, so always-on group agents get one consistent stay-silent instruction. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenAI: preserve encrypted empty-summary Responses reasoning items in WebSocket replay and request <code>reasoning.encrypted_content</code> on reasoning turns so GPT-5.4/GPT-5.5 sessions do not lose required <code>rs_*</code> state beside <code>msg_*</code> items. Fixes #73053. Thanks @odb36777.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: treat <code>plugins.enabled=false</code> as an early plugin fast path, skipping plugin auto-enable discovery, gateway plugin lookup/runtime-dependency staging, and stale-plugin cleanup warnings while preserving channel blocker warnings. (#73041) Thanks @WuKongAI-CMU.</li>
<li>Channels/commands: make generated <code>/dock-*</code> commands switch the active session reply route through <code>session.identityLinks</code> instead of falling through to normal chat. Fixes #69206; carries forward #73033. Thanks @clawbones and @michaelatamuk.</li>
<li>Providers/Cloudflare AI Gateway: strip assistant prefill turns from Anthropic Messages payloads when thinking is enabled, so Claude requests through Cloudflare AI Gateway no longer fail Anthropic conversation-ending validation. Fixes #72905; carries forward #73005. Thanks @AaronFaby and @sahilsatralkar.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: keep primary-model startup prewarm on scoped metadata preparation, let native approval bootstraps retry outside channel startup, and skip the global hook runner when no <code>gateway_start</code> hook is registered, so clean post-ready sidecar work stays off the critical path. Refs #72846. Thanks @RayWoo, @livekm0309, and @mrz1836.</li>
<li>Gateway/channels: start bundled channel accounts with a lightweight <code>runtimeContexts</code> surface instead of importing the full reply/routing/session channel runtime before <code>startAccount</code>, so Discord, Telegram, Slack, Matrix, and QQBot startup no longer block on unrelated channel helper graphs. Refs #72846 and #72960. Thanks @mrz1836, @RayWoo, and @rollingshmily.</li>
<li>Gateway/supervisor: exit cleanly when a supervised restart finds an existing healthy gateway and bound retries when the existing gateway stays unhealthy, so stale lock contention cannot loop indefinitely. Refs #72846. Thanks @azgardtek.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: scope primary-model provider discovery during channel prewarm to the configured provider owner and add split startup trace timings, so boot avoids staging unrelated bundled provider dependencies while setup discovery remains broad. Fixes #73002. Thanks @Schnup03.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: declare retained staged bundled plugin dependencies in the npm staging manifest while installing only newly missing packages, so Gateway restarts avoid reinstalling the full retained dependency set when one runtime dependency is absent. Fixes #73055. Thanks @GCorp2026.</li>
<li>CLI/status: keep default <code>openclaw status</code> off the heavyweight security audit, plugin compatibility, and memory-vector probes while still showing configured Telegram channels through setup metadata, so routine health checks stay fast and no longer render an empty Channels table. Fixes #72993. Thanks @comick1.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: send a best-effort native typing cue immediately after an inbound message is accepted, so slow pre-dispatch turns show Telegram liveness before queueing, compaction, model, or tool work starts. Fixes #63759. Thanks @alessandropcostabr.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: stop native approval startup auth failures from retrying every second, while still waiting through retryable Gateway auth handoffs, so Telegram approval setup problems no longer create a reconnect/log loop during channel startup. Refs #72846 and #72867. Thanks @kiranvk-2011 and @porly1985.</li>
<li>Channels/Microsoft Teams: unwrap staged CommonJS JWT runtime dependencies before Bot Connector token validation so inbound Teams messages no longer 401 after the bundled runtime-deps move. Fixes #73026. Thanks @kbrown10000.</li>
<li>Gateway/auth: allow local direct callers in trusted-proxy mode to use the configured gateway password as an internal fallback while keeping token fallback rejected. Fixes #17761. Thanks @dashed, @vincentkoc, and @jetd1.</li>
<li>Gateway/auth: add explicit <code>trustedProxy.allowLoopback</code> support for same-host loopback reverse proxies while keeping loopback trusted-proxy auth fail-closed by default and preserving required-header and allowlist checks. Fixes #59167; carries forward #63379. Thanks @Matir, @jeremyakers, and @mrosmarin.</li>
<li>Channels/sessions: prevent guarded inbound session recording from creating route-only phantom sessions while still allowing last-route updates for sessions that already exist. Carries forward #73009. Thanks @jzakirov.</li>
<li>Cron: accept <code>delivery.threadId</code> in Gateway cron add/update schemas so scheduled announce delivery can target Telegram forum topics and other threaded channel destinations through the documented delivery path. Fixes #73017. Thanks @coachsootz.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: stage bundled plugin dependencies imported by mirrored root dist chunks, so packaged memory and status commands do not miss <code>chokidar</code> or similar root-chunk dependencies after update. Fixes #72882 and #72970; carries forward #72992. Thanks @shrimpy8, @colin-chang, and @Schnup03.</li>
<li>Plugins/runtime deps: reuse unchanged bundled plugin runtime mirrors instead of rebuilding plugin trees on every load, cutting avoidable writes and restart/reconnect I/O on slow storage. Fixes #72933. Thanks @jasonftl.</li>
<li>Agents/runtime context: deliver hidden runtime context through prompt-local system context while keeping the transcript-only custom entry out of provider user turns, and strip stale copied runtime-context prefaces from user-facing replies. Fixes #72386; carries forward #72969. Thanks @jhsmith409.</li>
<li>Channels/Telegram: skip the optional webhook-info API call during polling-mode status checks and startup bot-label probes so long-polling setups avoid an unnecessary Telegram round trip. Carries forward #72990. Thanks @danielgruneberg.</li>
<li>CLI/message: resolve targeted <code>openclaw message</code> channels to their owning plugin before loading the registry, and fall back to configured channel plugins when the channel must be inferred, so scripted sends avoid full bundled plugin registry scans without assuming channel ids match plugin ids. Fixes #73006. Thanks @jasonftl.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: parse strict JSON plugin manifests with native JSON first and keep JSON5 as the compatibility fallback, reducing manifest registry CPU during Gateway boot and CLI startup. Fixes #73011. Thanks @jasonftl.</li>
<li>CLI/models: keep route-first <code>models status --json</code> stdout reserved for the JSON payload by routing auth-profile and startup diagnostics to stderr. Fixes #72962. Thanks @vishutdhar.</li>
<li>Gateway/runtime: keep dirty-tree status calls from rebuilding live <code>dist</code>, clear stale task and restart state across in-process restarts, retry transient Discord lazy imports, and let channel startup continue after slow model warmup so browser, Discord, and voice-call sidecars come online. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Security/CodeQL: replace file SecretRef id gateway schema regex validation with segment-aligned predicates and set empty permissions on release summary/backfill jobs so the narrowed CodeQL profile stays clean. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Sessions: ignore future-dated session activity timestamps during reset freshness checks and cap future <code>updatedAt</code> values at the merge boundary so clock-skewed messages cannot keep stale sessions alive forever. Fixes #72989. Thanks @martingarramon.</li>
<li>Sessions: apply search, activity filters, and limits before gateway row enrichment so bounded session lists avoid scanning discarded transcripts. Carries forward #72978. Thanks @yeager.</li>
<li>Sessions: remove trajectory runtime and pointer sidecars when session maintenance prunes, caps, or disk-evicts their owning session, while preserving sidecars still referenced by live rows. Fixes #73000. Thanks @jared-rebel.</li>
<li>Plugins/CLI: allow managed plugin installs when the active extensions root is a symlink to a real state directory, while keeping nested target symlinks blocked and suppressing misleading hook-pack fallback errors for install-boundary failures. Fixes #72946. Thanks @mayank6136.</li>
<li>Providers/Ollama: mark discovered Ollama catalog models as supporting streaming usage metadata so token accounting stays enabled for local models. (#72976) Thanks @sdeyang.</li>
<li>Media understanding: reject malformed MIME values with trailing junk while preserving standard parameter tails before enrichment uses them. (#72914) Thanks @volcano303.</li>
<li>WebChat: keep bare <code>/new</code> and <code>/reset</code> prompts from producing empty transcript text by inserting the hidden session marker when the visible tail is blank. (#72863) Thanks @mahopan.</li>
<li>CLI/update: explain completion-cache refresh timeouts with manual refresh guidance instead of surfacing a raw low-level timeout. Fixes #72842. (#72850) Thanks @iot2edge.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: give narrative generation a 60-second timeout so slower local or remote models can finish instead of timing out at 15 seconds. Fixes #72837. (#72852) Thanks @RayWoo.</li>
<li>Plugins/hooks: inject each plugin's resolved config into internal hook event context without mutating the shared event object. (#72888) Thanks @jalapeno777.</li>
<li>Agents/ACP: pass the resolved ACP agent directory into media understanding so per-agent media caches and config are used for ACP-dispatched image turns. (#72832) Thanks @luyao618.</li>
<li>Gateway/Bonjour: truncate mDNS service names and host labels to the 63-byte DNS label limit at valid UTF-8 boundaries. (#72809) Thanks @luyao618.</li>
<li>Feishu: treat groups explicitly configured under channels.feishu.groups as admitted even when groupAllowFrom is empty, while preserving groupPolicy: "disabled" as a hard group block and keeping groups.\* wildcard defaults non-admitting. Fixes #67687. (#72789) Thanks @MoerAI.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: keep hot Gateway boot paths on leaf config imports and add max-RSS reporting to the gateway startup bench so low-memory startup regressions are visible before release. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>WebChat: read <code>chat.history</code> from active transcript branches, drop stale streamed assistant tails once final history catches up, and coalesce duplicate in-flight Control UI submits, so rewritten prompts, completed replies, and rapid send events no longer render or process twice. Fixes #72975, #72963, and #72974. Thanks @dmagdici, @lhtpluto, and @Benjamin5281999.</li>
<li>WebChat/TTS: persist automatic final-mode TTS audio as a supplemental audio-only transcript update instead of adding a second assistant message with the same visible text. Fixes #72830. Thanks @lhtpluto.</li>
<li>Agents/LSP: terminate bundled stdio LSP process trees during runtime disposal and Gateway shutdown, so nested children such as <code>tsserver</code> do not survive stop or restart. Fixes #72357. Thanks @ai-hpc and @bittoby.</li>
<li>Diagnostics/OTEL: capture privacy-safe model-call request payload bytes, streamed response bytes, first-response latency, and total duration in diagnostic events, plugin hooks, stability snapshots, and OTEL model-call spans/metrics without logging raw model content. Fixes #33832. Thanks @wwh830.</li>
<li>Logging: write validated diagnostic trace context as top-level <code>traceId</code>, <code>spanId</code>, <code>parentSpanId</code>, and <code>traceFlags</code> fields in file-log JSONL records so traced requests and model calls are easier to correlate in log processors. Refs #40353. Thanks @liangruochong44-ui.</li>
<li>Logging/sessions: apply configured redaction patterns to persisted session transcript text and accept escaped character classes in safe custom redaction regexes, so transcript JSONL no longer keeps matching sensitive text in the clear. Fixes #42982. Thanks @panpan0000.</li>
<li>Providers/Ollama: honor <code>/api/show</code> capabilities when registering local models so non-tool Ollama models no longer receive the agent tool surface, and keep native Ollama thinking opt-in instead of enabling it by default. Fixes #64710 and duplicate #65343. Thanks @yuan-b, @netherby, @xilopaint, and @Diyforfun2026.</li>
<li>Control UI/Agents: remount the Overview model controls when switching agents so the primary-model picker cannot retain stale per-agent selection. Fixes #39392; carries forward #39401, notes the duplicate #39495 approach, and keeps #46275/#54724 broader stabilization out of scope. Thanks @daijunyi002, @SergioChan, @aworki, and @wsyjh8.</li>
<li>Auto-reply: poison inbound message dedupe after replay-unsafe provider/runtime failures so retries stay safe before visible progress but cannot duplicate messages after block output, tool side effects, or session progress. Fixes #69303; keeps #58549 and #64606 as duplicate validation. Thanks @martingarramon, @NikolaFC, and @zeroth-blip.</li>
<li>Agents/model fallback: jump directly to a known later live-session model redirect instead of walking unrelated fallback candidates, while preserving the already-landed live-session/fallback loop guard. Fixes #57471; related loop family already closed via #58496. Thanks @yuxiaoyang2007-prog.</li>
<li>Gateway/Bonjour: keep @homebridge/ciao cancellation handlers registered across advertiser restarts so late probing cancellations cannot crash Linux and other mDNS-churned gateways. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: load the default <code>memory-core</code> slot during Gateway startup when permitted so active-memory recall can call <code>memory_search</code> and <code>memory_get</code> without requiring an explicit <code>plugins.slots.memory</code> entry, while preserving <code>plugins.slots.memory: "none"</code>. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Gateway/plugins: resolve <code>gateway_start</code> cron hooks from live Gateway runtime state before the legacy deps fallback, so memory-core dreaming cron reconciliation keeps working on installs where <code>deps.cron</code> is not populated during service startup. Fixes #72835. Thanks @RayWoo.</li>
<li>Plugins/CLI: prefer native require for compiled bundled plugin JavaScript before jiti so read-only config, status, device, and node commands avoid unnecessary transform overhead on slow hosts. Fixes #62842. Thanks @Effet.</li>
<li>Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs while enforcing dated removal windows. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/compat: add missing dated compatibility records for legacy extension-api, memory registration, provider hook/type aliases, runtime aliases, channel SDK helpers, and approval/test utility shims. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale <code>plugins list</code> entries. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins/CLI: make plugin install and uninstall config writes conflict-aware, clear stale denylist entries on explicit reinstall/removal, and delete managed plugin files only after config/index commit succeeds. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Plugins: fail <code>plugins update</code> when tracked plugin or hook updates error, keep bundled runtime-dependency repair behind restrictive allowlists, and reject package installs with unloadable extension entries. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>WebChat/Control UI: support non-video file attachments in chat uploads while preserving the existing image attachment path and MIME-sniff fallback for generic image uploads. (#70947) Thanks @IAMSamuelRodda.</li>
<li>Skills/memory: restore Chokidar v5 hot reloads by watching concrete skill and memory roots with filters, including SKILL.md removals and deleted skill folders without broad workspace recursion. Fixes #27404, #33585, and #41606. Thanks @shelvenzhou, @08820048, and @rocke2020.</li>
<li>Gateway/chat: keep duplicate attachment-backed <code>chat.send</code> retries with the same idempotency key on the documented in-flight path so aborts still target the real active run. Fixes #70139. Thanks @Feelw00.</li>
<li>Gateway/chat: preserve repeated boundary characters while merging assistant chat stream deltas, including repeated digits, CJK characters, and markdown/table tokens. Fixes #63769; carries forward #63994 and #65457. Thanks @yon950905 and @mohuaxiao.</li>
<li>Plugins: share package entrypoint resolution between install and discovery, reject mismatched <code>runtimeExtensions</code>, and cache bundled runtime-dependency manifest reads during scans. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/Web: keep quiet but healthy linked-device sessions connected by basing the watchdog on WhatsApp Web transport activity, while retaining a longer app-silence cap so frame activity cannot mask a stuck session forever. Fixes #70678; carries forward the focused #71466 approach and keeps #63939 as related configurable-timeout follow-up. Thanks @vincentkoc and @oromeis.</li>
<li>Discord/gateway: count failed health-monitor restart attempts toward cooldown and hourly caps, and evict stale account lifecycle state during channel reloads so repeated Discord gateway recovery cannot loop on old status. Fixes #38596. (#40413) Thanks @jellyAI-dev and @vashquez.</li>
<li>TTS/BlueBubbles: pre-transcode synthesized MP3 audio to opus-in-CAF (mono, 24 kHz — validated against macOS 15.x Messages.app's native voice-memo CAF descriptor) on macOS hosts before handing the file to BlueBubbles, so iMessage renders the result as a native voice-memo bubble with proper duration and waveform UI instead of a plain file attachment. Adds an opt-in <code>tts.voice.preferAudioFileFormat</code> channel capability and a magic-byte sniff for the CAF container so the host-local-media validator (which uses <code>file-type</code> and didn't recognize CAF natively) can verify the pre-transcoded buffer. Channels that don't opt in are unaffected. (#72586) Fixes #72506. Thanks @omarshahine.</li>
<li>Feishu: retry WebSocket startup failures with monitor-owned backoff while preserving SDK-local heartbeat defaults, so persistent-connection startup failures no longer leave the monitor hung. Fixes #68766; related #42354 and #55532. Thanks @alex-xuweilong, @120106835, @sirfengyu, and @tianhaocui.</li>
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<h3>Changes</h3>
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<li>Channels/QQBot: add full group chat support (history tracking, @-mention gating, activation modes, per-group config, FIFO message queue with deliver debounce), C2C <code>stream_messages</code> streaming with a <code>StreamingController</code> lifecycle manager, unified <code>sendMedia</code> with chunked upload for large files, and refactor the engine into pipeline stages, focused outbound submodules, builtin slash-command modules, and explicit DI ports via <code>createEngineAdapters()</code>. (#70624) Thanks @cxyhhhhh.</li>
<li>Channels/Yuanbao: register the Tencent Yuanbao external channel plugin (<code>openclaw-plugin-yuanbao</code>) in the official channel catalog, contract suites, and community plugin docs, with a new <code>docs/channels/yuanbao.md</code> quick-start guide for WebSocket bot DMs and group chats. (#72756) Thanks @loongfay.</li>
<li>Control UI/Talk: add a generic browser realtime transport contract, Google Live browser Talk sessions with constrained ephemeral tokens, and a Gateway relay for backend-only realtime voice plugins. Thanks @VACInc.</li>
<li>CLI/models: route provider-filtered model listing through an explicit source plan so user config, installed manifest rows, Provider Index previews, and scoped runtime fallbacks keep a stable authority order without adding another catalog cache. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Providers: add Cerebras as a bundled plugin with onboarding, static model catalog, docs, and manifest-owned endpoint metadata.</li>
<li>Memory/OpenAI-compatible: add optional <code>memorySearch.inputType</code>, <code>queryInputType</code>, and <code>documentInputType</code> config for asymmetric embedding endpoints, including direct query embeddings and provider batch indexing. Carries forward #63313 and #60727. Thanks @HOYALIM and @prospect1314521.</li>
<li>Ollama/memory: add model-specific retrieval query prefixes for <code>nomic-embed-text</code>, <code>qwen3-embedding</code>, and <code>mxbai-embed-large</code> memory-search queries while leaving document batches unchanged. Carries forward #45013. Thanks @laolin5564.</li>
<li>Plugins/providers: move pre-runtime model-id normalization, endpoint host metadata, OpenAI-compatible request-family hints, model-catalog aliases/suppressions, OpenAI stale Spark suppression, and reusable startup metadata snapshots into plugin manifests so core no longer carries bundled-provider routing tables or repeated manifest rebuilds. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Plugins/config: deprecate direct plugin config load/write helpers in favor of passed runtime snapshots plus transactional mutation helpers with explicit restart follow-up policy, scanner guardrails, runtime warnings, and revision-based cache invalidation.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: allow <code>OPENCLAW_PLUGIN_STAGE_DIR</code> to contain layered runtime-dependency roots, resolving read-only preinstalled deps before installing missing deps into the final writable root. Fixes #72396. Thanks @liorb-mountapps.</li>
<li>Control UI: add a raw config pending-changes diff panel that parses JSON5, redacts sensitive values until reveal, and avoids fake raw-edit callbacks when opening the panel. Refs #39831; supersedes #48621 and #46654. Thanks @JiajunBernoulli and @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Control UI: polish the quick settings dashboard grid so common cards align across desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts without wasting horizontal space. Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Matrix/E2EE: add <code>openclaw matrix encryption setup</code> to enable Matrix encryption, bootstrap recovery, and print verification status from one setup flow. Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Agents/compaction: add an opt-in <code>agents.defaults.compaction.maxActiveTranscriptBytes</code> preflight trigger that runs normal local compaction when the active JSONL grows too large, requiring transcript rotation so successful compaction moves future turns onto a smaller successor file instead of raw byte-splitting history. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/migration: add <code>openclaw migrate</code> with plan, dry-run, JSON, pre-migration backup, onboarding detection, archive-only reports, a Claude Code/Desktop importer, and a Hermes importer for configuration, memory/plugin hints, model providers, MCP servers, skills, commands, and supported credentials. Thanks @vincentkoc and @NousResearch.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Agents/LSP: terminate bundled stdio LSP process trees during runtime disposal and Gateway shutdown, so nested children such as <code>tsserver</code> do not survive stop or restart. Fixes #72357. Thanks @ai-hpc and @bittoby.</li>
<li>Gateway/device tokens: stop echoing rotated bearer tokens from shared/admin <code>device.token.rotate</code> responses while preserving the same-device token handoff needed by token-only clients before reconnect. (#66773) Thanks @MoerAI.</li>
<li>Control UI/Talk: keep Google Live browser sessions on the WebSocket transport instead of falling back to WebRTC, validate browser Google Live WebSocket endpoints, cap Gateway relay sessions per browser connection, and remove stale browser-native voice buttons that did not use the configured Talk/TTS provider. Thanks @BunsDev.</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: reuse config snapshot plugin manifests for startup auto-enable, config validation, and plugin bootstrap planning, including authored source config and disabled setup-probe handling, so restrictive allowlists avoid duplicate manifest/config passes during boot. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: enforce <code>subagents.allowAgents</code> for explicit same-agent <code>sessions_spawn(agentId=...)</code> calls instead of auto-allowing requester self-targets. Fixes #72827. Thanks @oiGaDio.</li>
<li>ACP/sessions_spawn: let explicit <code>sessions_spawn(runtime="acp")</code> bootstrap turns run while <code>acp.dispatch.enabled=false</code> still blocks automatic ACP thread dispatch. Fixes #63591. Thanks @moeedahmed.</li>
<li>CLI/update: install npm global updates into a verified temporary prefix before swapping the package tree into place, preventing mixed old/new installs and stale packaged files from breaking <code>openclaw update</code> verification. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Gateway: skip CLI startup self-respawn for foreground gateway runs so low-memory Linux/Node 24 hosts start through the same path as direct <code>dist/index.js</code> without hanging before logs. Fixes #72720. Thanks @sign-2025.</li>
<li>Google Meet: route local Chrome joins through OpenClaw browser control, grant Meet media permissions, pin local Chrome audio defaults to <code>BlackHole 2ch</code>, and use the configured OpenClaw browser profile so joined agents no longer show <code>Permission needed</code> or use raw/default Chrome state. Thanks @DougButdorf and @oromeis.</li>
<li>Plugins/discovery: follow symlinked plugin directories in global and workspace plugin roots while keeping broken links ignored and existing package safety checks in place. Fixes #36754; carries forward #72695 and #63206. Thanks @Quackstro, @ming1523, and @xsfX20.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: skip test files and directories during install security scans while still force-scanning declared runtime entrypoints, so packaged test mocks no longer block plugin installs. Fixes #66840; carries forward #67050. Thanks @saurabhjain1592 and @Magicray1217.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: allow exact package-manager peer links back to the trusted OpenClaw host package during install security scans while continuing to block spoofed or nested escaping <code>node_modules</code> symlinks. Carries forward #70819. Thanks @fgabelmannjr.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: resolve plugin install destinations from the active profile state dir across CLI, ClawHub, marketplace, local path, and channel setup installs, so <code>openclaw --profile <name> plugins install ...</code> no longer writes into the default profile. Fixes #69960; carries forward #69971. Thanks @FrancisLyman and @Sanjays2402.</li>
<li>Plugins/registry: suppress duplicate-plugin startup warnings when a tracked npm-installed plugin intentionally overrides the bundled plugin with the same id. Carries forward #48673. Thanks @abdushsk.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: reuse canonical realpath lookups throughout each plugin discovery pass, including package and manifest boundary checks, so Windows npm-global startups no longer repeat expensive path resolution for the same plugin roots. Fixes #65733. Thanks @welfo-beo.</li>
<li>Gateway/proxy: pass <code>ALL_PROXY</code> / <code>all_proxy</code> into the global Undici env-proxy dispatcher and provider proxy-fetch helper while keeping SSRF trusted-proxy auto-upgrade on <code>HTTP_PROXY</code> / <code>HTTPS_PROXY</code> only, so gateway/provider calls honor all-proxy setups without weakening guarded fetches. Fixes #43821; carries forward #43919. Thanks @RickyTong1.</li>
<li>Reply/link understanding: keep media and link preprocessing on stable runtime entrypoints and continue with raw message content if optional enrichment fails, so URL-bearing messages are no longer dropped after stale runtime chunk upgrades. Fixes #68466. Thanks @songshikang0111.</li>
<li>Discord: persist routed model-picker overrides when the hidden <code>/model</code> dispatch succeeds but the bound thread session store is still stale, including LM Studio suffixed model ids. Carries forward #61473. Thanks @Nanako0129.</li>
<li>Nodes/CLI: add <code>openclaw nodes remove --node <id|name|ip></code> and <code>node.pair.remove</code> so stale gateway-owned node pairing records can be cleaned without hand-editing state files.</li>
<li>Gateway: include the connecting client and fresh presence version in the initial <code>hello-ok</code> snapshot, so clients no longer need a follow-up event before seeing themselves online.</li>
<li>Docker: install the CA certificate bundle in the slim runtime image so HTTPS calls from containerized gateways no longer fail TLS setup after the <code>bookworm-slim</code> base switch. Fixes #72787. Thanks @ryuhaneul.</li>
<li>Providers/OpenRouter: remove retired Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha static catalog rows and disable proxy reasoning injection for stale Hunter Alpha configs, so replies are not hidden when OpenRouter returns answer text in reasoning fields. Fixes #43942. Thanks @EvanDataForge.</li>
<li>Providers/reasoning: let Groq and LM Studio declare provider-native reasoning effort values, so Qwen thinking models receive <code>none</code>/<code>default</code> or <code>off</code>/<code>on</code> instead of OpenAI-only <code>low</code>/<code>medium</code> values. Fixes #32638. Thanks @Aqu1bp, @mgoulart, @Norpps, and @BSTail.</li>
<li>Local models: default custom providers with only <code>baseUrl</code> to the Chat Completions adapter and trust loopback model requests automatically, so local OpenAI-compatible proxies receive <code>/v1/chat/completions</code> without timing out. Fixes #40024. Thanks @parachuteshe.</li>
<li>Channels/message tool: surface Discord, Slack, and Mattermost <code>user:</code>/<code>channel:</code> target syntax in the shared message target schema and Discord ambiguity errors, so DM sends by numeric id stop burning retries before finding <code>user:<id></code>. Fixes #72401. Thanks @garyd9, @hclsys, and @praveen9354.</li>
<li>Agents/tools: scope tool-loop detection history to the active run when available, so scheduled heartbeat cycles no longer inherit stale repeated-call counts from previous runs. Fixes #40144. Thanks @mattbrown319.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: preserve requester delivery for completion announces across different channel accounts, keep same-channel thread completions routed to the child thread, and fail closed instead of guessing a child binding when requester conversation signal is missing. Thanks @sfuminya and @suyua9.</li>
<li>Agents/status: persist the post-compaction token estimate from auto-compaction when providers omit usage metadata, so <code>/status</code> and session lists keep showing fresh context usage after compaction. Fixes #67667; carries forward #72822. Thanks @Jimmy-xuzimo and @skylight-9.</li>
<li>Control UI: show loading, reload, and retry states when a lazy dashboard panel cannot load after an upgrade, so the Logs tab no longer appears blank on stale browser bundles. Fixes #72450. Thanks @sobergou.</li>
<li>Gateway/plugins: start the Gateway in degraded mode when a single plugin entry has invalid schema config, and let <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> quarantine that plugin config instead of crash-looping every channel. Fixes #62976 and #70371. Thanks @Doraemon-Claw and @pksidekyk.</li>
<li>Agents/plugins: skip malformed plugin tools with missing schema objects and report plugin diagnostics, so one broken tool no longer crashes Anthropic agent runs. Fixes #69423. Thanks @jmnickels.</li>
<li>Agents/reasoning: recover fully wrapped unclosed <code><think></code> replies that would otherwise sanitize to empty text while keeping strict stripping for closed reasoning blocks and unclosed tails after visible text. Fixes #37696; supersedes #51915. Thanks @druide67 and @okuyam2y.</li>
<li>Control UI/Gateway: bind WebChat handshakes to their active socket and reject post-close server registrations, so aborted connects no longer leave zombie clients or misleading duplicate WebSocket connection logs. Fixes #72753. Thanks @LumenFromTheFuture.</li>
<li>Agents/fallback: split ambiguous provider failures into <code>empty_response</code>, <code>no_error_details</code>, and <code>unclassified</code>, and add flat fallback-step fields to structured fallback logs so primary-model failures stay visible when later fallbacks also fail. Fixes #71922; refs #71744. Thanks @andyk-ms and @nikolaykazakovvs-ux.</li>
<li>Plugins/Windows: normalize Windows absolute paths before handing bundled plugin modules to Jiti, so Feishu/Lark message sending no longer fails with unsupported <code>c:</code> ESM loader URLs. Fixes #72783. Thanks @jackychen-png.</li>
<li>CLI/doctor: run bundled plugin runtime-dependency repairs through the async npm installer with spinner/line progress and heartbeat updates, so long <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> installs no longer look hung in TTY or piped output. Fixes #72775. Thanks @dfpalhano.</li>
<li>Feishu/Windows: normalize bundled channel sidecar loads before Jiti evaluates them, so Feishu outbound sends no longer fail with raw <code>C:</code> ESM loader errors on Windows. Fixes #72783. Thanks @jackychen-png.</li>
<li>Agents/tools: ignore volatile <code>exec</code> runtime metadata when comparing tool-loop outcomes, so enabled loop detection can stop repeated identical shell-command results instead of resetting on duration, PID, session, or cwd changes. Fixes #34574; supersedes #41502. Thanks @gucasbrg and @Zcg2021.</li>
<li>Agents/fallback: classify internal live-session model switch conflicts as unknown fallback failures instead of provider overloads, preventing local vLLM endpoints from receiving misleading overloaded cooldowns. Refs #63229. Thanks @clawdia-lobster.</li>
<li>Discord: let thread sessions inherit the parent channel's session-level <code>/model</code> override as a model-only fallback without enabling parent transcript inheritance. Fixes #72755. Thanks @solavrc.</li>
<li>Gateway/plugins: skip stale configured channels whose matching plugin is no longer discoverable, point cleanup at <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code>, and keep unrelated channel typos fatal so one missing channel plugin no longer crash-loops the Gateway. Fixes #53311. Thanks @futhgar.</li>
<li>Control UI: keep session-specific assistant identity loads authoritative after WebSocket connect, so non-main agent chat sessions do not show the main agent name in the header after bootstrap refreshes. Fixes #72776. Thanks @rockytian-top.</li>
<li>Agents/Qwen: preserve exact custom <code>modelstudio</code> provider configs with foreign <code>api</code> owners so explicit OpenAI-compatible Model Studio endpoints no longer get normalized into the bundled Qwen plugin path. Fixes #64483. Thanks @FiredMosquito831.</li>
<li>MCP/bundle-mcp: normalize CLI-native <code>type: "http"</code> MCP server entries to OpenClaw <code>transport: "streamable-http"</code> on save, repair existing configs with doctor, and keep embedded Pi from falling back to legacy SSE GET-first startup for those servers. Fixes #72757. Thanks @Studioscale.</li>
<li>OpenCode: expose Anthropic Opus/Sonnet 4.x thinking levels for proxied Claude models, so <code>/think xhigh</code>, <code>/think adaptive</code>, and <code>/think max</code> validate consistently with the direct Anthropic provider. Fixes #72729. Thanks @haishmg and @aaajiao.</li>
<li>Media-understanding/audio: migrate deprecated <code>{input}</code> placeholders in legacy <code>audio.transcription.command</code> configs to <code>{{MediaPath}}</code>, so custom audio transcribers no longer receive the literal placeholder after doctor repair. Fixes #72760. Thanks @krisfanue3-hash.</li>
<li>Ollama/WSL2: warn when GPU-backed WSL2 installs combine CUDA visibility with an autostarting <code>ollama.service</code> using <code>Restart=always</code>, and document the systemd, <code>.wslconfig</code>, and keep-alive mitigation for crash loops. Carries forward #61022; fixes #61185. Thanks @yhyatt.</li>
<li>Ollama/onboarding: de-dupe suggested bare local models against installed <code>:latest</code> tags and skip redundant pulls, so setup shows the installed model once and no longer says it is downloading an already available model. Fixes #68952. Thanks @tleyden.</li>
<li>Memory-core/doctor: keep <code>doctor.memory.status</code> on the cached path by default and only run live embedding pings for explicit deep probes, preventing slow local embedding backends from blocking Gateway status checks. Fixes #71568. Thanks @apex-system.</li>
<li>Memory/QMD: group same-source collections into one QMD search invocation when the installed QMD supports multiple <code>-c</code> filters, while keeping older QMD builds on the per-collection fallback. Fixes #72484; supersedes #72485 and #69583. Thanks @BsnizND and @zeroaltitude.</li>
<li>Memory/QMD: accept QMD status vector-count variants such as <code>Vectors = 42</code>, <code>Vectors:42</code>, and <code>Vectors: 42 embedded</code>, so <code>memory status --deep</code> no longer reports embeddings unavailable for healthy QMD wrappers. Fixes #63652; carries forward #63678. Thanks @apoapostolov and @WarrenJones.</li>
<li>Memory/QMD: skip QMD vector status probes and embedding maintenance in lexical <code>searchMode: "search"</code>, so BM25-only QMD setups on ARM do not trigger llama.cpp/Vulkan builds during status checks or embed cycles. Fixes #59234 and #67113. Thanks @PrinceOfEgypt, @Vksh07, @Snipe76, @NomLom, @t4r3e2q1-commits, and @dmak.</li>
<li>Memory/QMD: report the live watcher dirty state in memory status, so changed QMD-backed memory files show as dirty until the queued sync finishes. Fixes #60244. Thanks @xinzf.</li>
<li>Compaction: skip oversized pre-compaction checkpoint snapshots and prune duplicate long user turns from compaction input and rotated successor transcripts, preventing retry storms from being preserved across checkpoint cycles. Fixes #72780. Thanks @SweetSophia.</li>
<li>Control UI/Cron: render cron job prompts and run summaries as sanitized markdown in the dashboard, with full-width block content, safer link clicks, and no duplicate error text when a failed run has no summary. Supersedes #48504. Thanks @garethdaine.</li>
<li>Control UI/Gateway: preserve WebChat client version labels across localhost, 127.0.0.1, and IPv6 loopback aliases on the same port, avoiding misleading <code>vcontrol-ui</code> connection logs while investigating duplicate-message reports. Refs #72753 and #72742. Thanks @LumenFromTheFuture and @allesgutefy.</li>
<li>Agents/reasoning: treat orphan closing reasoning tags with following answer text as a privacy boundary across delivery, history, streaming, and Control UI sanitizers so malformed local-model output cannot leak chain-of-thought text. Fixes #67092. Thanks @AnildoSilva.</li>
<li>Memory-core: run one-shot memory CLI commands through transient builtin and QMD managers so <code>memory index</code>, <code>memory status --index</code>, and <code>memory search</code> no longer start long-lived file watchers that can hit macOS <code>EMFILE</code> limits. Fixes #59101; carries forward #49851. Thanks @mbear469210-coder and @maoyuanxue.</li>
<li>Agents/ACP: ship the Claude ACP adapter with OpenClaw and require Claude result messages before idle can complete a prompt, preventing parent agents from waking early on long-running <code>sessions_spawn(runtime: "acp", agentId: "claude")</code> children. Fixes #72080. Thanks @siavash-saki and @iannwu.</li>
<li>CLI/tasks: route <code>tasks --json</code>, <code>tasks list --json</code>, and <code>tasks audit --json</code> through a lean JSON path so read-only task inspection no longer loads unrelated plugin/runtime command graphs. Fixes #66238. Thanks @ChuckChambers.</li>
<li>Memory-core: re-resolve the active runtime config whenever <code>memory_search</code> or <code>memory_get</code> executes, so provider changes made by <code>config.patch</code> stop leaving stale embedding backends behind in existing tool instances. Fixes #61098. Thanks @BradGroux and @Linux2010.</li>
<li>WebChat: keep bare <code>/new</code> and <code>/reset</code> startup instructions out of visible chat history while preserving <code>/reset <note></code> as user-visible transcript text. Fixes #72369. Thanks @collynes and @haishmg.</li>
<li>Tasks/memory: checkpoint and truncate SQLite WAL sidecars on a timer and before close for task, Task Flow, proxy capture, and builtin memory databases, bounding long-running gateway <code>*.sqlite-wal</code> growth. Fixes #72774. Thanks @dfpalhano.</li>
<li>CLI/doctor: remove dangling channel config, heartbeat targets, and channel model overrides when stale plugin repair removes a missing channel plugin, preventing Gateway boot loops after failed plugin reinstalls. Fixes #65293. Thanks @yidecode.</li>
<li>Control UI/Gateway: cache, coalesce, stale-refresh, and invalidate effective tool inventory on channel registry changes while reusing the gateway-bound plugin registry and avoiding model/auth discovery, so chat runs no longer stall Control UI requests on repeated plugin/model setup. Fixes #72365; supersedes #72558. Thanks @Gabiii2398 and @1yihui.</li>
<li>Channels/setup: treat bundled channel plugins as already bundled during <code>channels add</code> and onboarding, enabling them without writing redundant <code>plugins.load.paths</code> entries or path install records. Fixes #72740. Thanks @iCodePoet.</li>
<li>WhatsApp: honor gateway <code>HTTPS_PROXY</code> / <code>HTTP_PROXY</code> env vars for QR-login WebSocket connections, while respecting <code>NO_PROXY</code>, so proxied networks no longer fall back to direct <code>mmg.whatsapp.net</code> connections that time out with 408. Fixes #72547; supersedes #72692. Thanks @mebusw and @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>Bonjour: default mDNS advertisements to the system hostname when it is DNS-safe, avoiding <code>openclaw.local</code> probing conflicts and Gateway restart loops on hosts such as <code>Lobster</code> or <code>ubuntu</code>. Fixes #72355 and #72689; supersedes #72694. Thanks @mscheuerlein-bot, @gcusms, @moyuwuhen601, @pavan987, @zml-0912, @hhq365, and @SymbolStar.</li>
<li>Agents/OpenAI-compatible: retry replay-safe empty <code>stop</code> turns once for <code>openai-completions</code> endpoints, so transient empty local backend responses no longer surface as “Agent couldn't generate a response” when a continuation succeeds, and restore <code>openclaw agent --model</code> for one-shot CLI runs. Fixes #72751. Thanks @moooV252.</li>
<li>Git hooks: skip ignored staged paths when formatting and restaging pre-commit files, so merge commits no longer abort when <code>.gitignore</code> newly ignores staged merged content. Fixes #72744. Thanks @100yenadmin.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: add a supported <code>dreaming.model</code> knob for Dream Diary narrative subagents, wired through phase config and the existing plugin subagent model-override trust gate. Refs #65963. Thanks @esqandil and @mjamiv.</li>
<li>Agents/Anthropic: remove trailing assistant prefill payloads when extended thinking is enabled, so Opus 4.7/Sonnet 4.6 requests do not fail Anthropic's user-final-turn validation. Fixes #72739. Thanks @superandylin.</li>
<li>Agents/vLLM/Qwen: add plugin-owned Qwen thinking controls for vLLM chat-template kwargs and DashScope-style top-level <code>enable_thinking</code> flags, including preserved thinking for agent loops. Fixes #72329. Thanks @stavrostzagadouris.</li>
<li>Memory-core/dreaming: treat request-scoped narrative fallback as expected, skip session cleanup when no subagent run was created, and remove duplicate phase-level cleanup so fallback no longer emits warning noise. Fixes #67152. Thanks @jsompis.</li>
<li>Agents/exec: apply configured <code>tools.exec.timeoutSec</code> to background, <code>yieldMs</code>, and node <code>system.run</code> commands when no per-call timeout is set, preventing auto-backgrounded and remote node commands from running indefinitely. Fixes #67600; supersedes #67603. Thanks @dlmpx and @kagura-agent.</li>
<li>Config/doctor: stop masking unknown-key validation diagnostics such as <code>agents.defaults.llm</code>, and have <code>openclaw doctor --fix</code> remove the retired <code>agents.defaults.llm</code> timeout block. Thanks @aidiffuser.</li>
<li>CLI/startup: keep the built pre-dispatch CLI graph free of package-level imports and extend packaged CLI smoke coverage to onboard and doctor help paths, preventing missing runtime dependencies such as tslog from killing onboarding before repair code can run. Fixes #63024. Thanks @hu19940121.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: preserve unversioned ClawHub install specs so <code>plugins update</code> can follow newer ClawHub releases instead of pinning to the initially resolved version. Fixes #63010; supersedes #58426. Thanks @kangsen1234 and @robinspt.</li>
<li>Memory-core/subagents: tag plugin-created subagent sessions with their plugin owner so dreaming narrative cleanup can delete its own ephemeral sessions without granting broad admin session deletion. Fixes #72712. Thanks @BSG2000.</li>
<li>Gateway/models: move local-provider pricing opt-outs, OpenRouter/LiteLLM aliases, and proxy passthrough pricing lookup into plugin manifest metadata so core no longer carries extension-specific pricing tables.</li>
<li>CLI/update: honor <code>OPENCLAW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1</code> as a gateway startup kill-switch for configured background package auto-updates, so operators can hold a deliberate downgrade during incident recovery without editing config first. Fixes #72715. Thanks @Xivi08.</li>
<li>Agents/Claude CLI: force live-session launches to include <code>--output-format stream-json</code> whenever OpenClaw adds <code>--input-format stream-json</code>, so new Claude CLI sessions no longer fail immediately while reusable sessions keep working. Fixes #72206. Thanks @kwangwonkoh and @Xivi08.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: accept ClawHub plugin API wildcard ranges such as <code>*</code> without rejecting compatible plugin installs, while still requiring a valid runtime API version. Fixes #56446; supersedes #56466. Thanks @darconada and @claygeo.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: add an explicit <code>npm:<package></code> install prefix that skips ClawHub lookup for known npm packages while keeping bare package specs ClawHub-first. Fixes #55805; supersedes #54377. Thanks @Zeoy2020 and @vagusX.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: let config-gated bundled plugins install without persisting invalid placeholder config entries, so install/uninstall sweeps can cover plugins such as memory-lancedb before the user configures credentials. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: reject malformed ClawHub plugin specs with trailing <code>@</code> before registry lookup, so empty-version typos report as invalid specs instead of package-not-found errors. Fixes #56579; supersedes #56582. Thanks @Kansodata.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: acquire the session write lock only after cold bootstrap, plugin, and tool setup so fallback runs are not blocked by stalled pre-model startup work.</li>
<li>Browser/plugins: auto-start the bundled browser plugin when root <code>browser</code> config is present, including restrictive plugin allowlists, and ignore stale persisted plugin registries whose package paths no longer exist.</li>
<li>Browser: circuit-break repeated managed Chrome launch failures per profile so browser requests stop spawning Chromium indefinitely when CDP cannot start. Fixes #64271. Thanks @TheophilusChinomona.</li>
<li>Gateway/models: skip external OpenRouter and LiteLLM pricing refreshes for local/self-hosted model endpoints so startup does not wait on remote pricing catalogs for local-only Ollama, vLLM, and compatible providers.</li>
<li>CLI/plugins: stop security-blocked plugin installs from retrying as hook packs, so normal plugin packages report the scanner failure without a misleading "not a valid hook pack" follow-up. Fixes #61175; supersedes #64102. Thanks @KonsultDigital and @ziyincody.</li>
<li>Agents/Anthropic: strip stale trailing assistant prefill turns from outbound replay so context-engine short circuits cannot send unsupported assistant-prefill payloads to provider APIs. Fixes #72556. Thanks @Veda-openclaw.</li>
<li>Agents/Google: strip stale trailing assistant/model prefill turns from Gemini outbound replay so Google Generative AI requests end with a user turn or function response. Follow-up to #72556. Thanks @Veda-openclaw.</li>
<li>Control UI/Dreaming: require explicit confirmation before applying restart-impacting Dreaming mode changes, with restart warning copy and loading feedback. Fixes #63804. (#63807) Thanks @bbddbb1.</li>
<li>CLI/agent: mark Gateway-to-embedded fallback runs with <code>meta.transport: "embedded"</code> and <code>meta.fallbackFrom: "gateway"</code> in JSON output, and make the terminal diagnostic explicit so scripts and operators can distinguish fallback runs from Gateway runs. Fixes #71416. Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Agents/tools: normalize <code>null</code> or missing tool-call arguments to <code>{}</code> for parameterless object schemas before Pi validation, so empty-argument tools run instead of failing argument validation. Fixes #72587. Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>Agents/subagents: clear active embedded-run state before terminal lifecycle events so post-completion cleanup no longer treats finished child runs as still active and skips archive or announcement bookkeeping. (#70187) Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>CLI/update: keep the automatic post-update completion refresh on the core-command tree so it no longer stages bundled plugin runtime deps before the Gateway restart path, avoiding <code>.24</code> update hangs and 1006 disconnect cascades. Fixes #72665. Thanks @sakalaboator and @He-Pin.</li>
<li>Control UI: make explicit Reload Config actions discard stale local config edits while passive refreshes and failed-save recovery keep pending drafts intact. Fixes #40352; carries forward #40443. Thanks @realmikechong-dotcom.</li>
<li>Agents/Bedrock: stop heartbeat runs from persisting blank user transcript turns and repair existing blank user text messages before replay, preventing AWS Bedrock <code>ContentBlock</code> blank-text validation failures. Fixes #72640 and #72622. Thanks @goldzulu.</li>
<li>Agents/LM Studio: promote standalone bracketed local-model tool requests into registered tool calls and hide unsupported bracket blocks from visible replies, so MemPalace MCP lookups do not print raw <code>[tool]</code> JSON scaffolding in chat. Fixes #66178. Thanks @detroit357.</li>
<li>Local models: warn when an assistant reply looks like a tool call but the provider emitted plain text instead of a structured tool invocation, making fake/non-executed tool calls visible in logs. Fixes #51332. Thanks @emilclaw.</li>
<li>Local models: accept persisted non-secret local auth markers for private-LAN custom OpenAI-compatible providers, so LAN Ollama configs no longer fail with missing auth when <code>ollama-local</code> is saved as the key. Fixes #49736. Thanks @charles-zh.</li>
<li>TUI/local models: treat visible gateway client labels such as <code>openclaw-tui</code> as the current requester session for session-aware tools, so Ollama tool calls no longer fail by resolving the UI label as a session id. Fixes #66391. Thanks @kickingzebra.</li>
<li>Local models: route self-hosted OpenAI-compatible model discovery through the guarded fetch path pinned to the configured host, covering vLLM and SGLang setup without reopening local/LAN SSRF probes. Supersedes #46359. Thanks @cdxiaodong.</li>
<li>Local models: classify terminated, reset, closed, timeout, and aborted model-call failures and attach a process memory snapshot to the diagnostic event, making LM Studio/Ollama RAM-pressure failures easier to prove from stability bundles. Refs #65551. Thanks @BigWiLLi111.</li>
<li>Local models: pass configured provider request timeouts through OpenAI SDK transports and the model idle watchdog so long-running local or custom OpenAI-compatible streams use one timeout knob instead of hitting the SDK's 10-minute default or the 120s idle default. Fixes #63663. Thanks @aidiffuser.</li>
<li>LM Studio: trust configured LM Studio loopback, LAN, and tailnet endpoints for guarded model requests by default, preserving explicit private-network opt-outs. Refs #60994. Thanks @tnowakow.</li>
<li>Docker/setup: route Docker onboarding defaults for host-side LM Studio and Ollama through <code>host.docker.internal</code> and add the Linux host-gateway mapping to the bundled Compose file, so containerized gateways can reach local providers without using container loopback. Fixes #68684; supersedes #68702. Thanks @safrano9999 and @skolez.</li>
<li>Agents/LM Studio: strip prior-turn Gemma 4 reasoning from OpenAI-compatible replay while preserving active tool-call continuation reasoning. Fixes #68704. Thanks @chip-snomo and @Kailigithub.</li>
<li>LM Studio: allow interactive onboarding to leave the API key blank for unauthenticated local servers, using local synthetic auth while clearing stale LM Studio auth profiles. Fixes #66937. Thanks @olamedia.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup/registry: reuse a Gateway <code>PluginLookUpTable</code> and one manifest registry pass across startup plugin IDs, plugin loading, deferred channel reloads, model pricing, read-only channel defaults, capability/provider/media resolution, manifest contracts, extractors, web fallback discovery, owner maps, and cold provider-discovery caches, with new startup-trace timing/count metrics for installed-index, manifest, startup-plan, and owner-map work. Thanks @shakkernerd and @mcaxtr.</li>
<li>Mattermost: keep direct-message replies top-level by suppressing reply roots for DM delivery while preserving channel and group thread roots, and derive inbound chat kind from the trusted channel lookup instead of the websocket event channel type. Carries forward #60115, #55186, #72305, and #72659; refs #59758, #59981, #59791, and #57565. Thanks @vincentkoc, @jwchmodx, and @hnykda.</li>
<li>Docker: pre-create <code>/home/node/.openclaw</code> with node ownership and private permissions so first-run Docker Compose named volumes no longer fail startup with EACCES. (#48072, #63959; fixes #61279) Thanks @timoxue and @jeanibarz.</li>
<li>CLI/Gateway: treat local restart probe policy closes for connect, exact <code>device required</code>, pairing, and auth failures as Gateway reachability proof without accepting empty, broad standalone token/password/scope/role, or pair-substring 1008 close reasons. Fixes #48771; carries forward #48801; related #63491. Thanks @MarsDoge and @genoooool.</li>
<li>Feishu: send outgoing interactive reply payloads as native cards with clickable buttons while preserving text, media, and document-comment fallbacks. Fixes #13175 and #58298; carries forward #47891. Thanks @Horacehxw.</li>
<li>Process/Windows: decode command stdout and stderr from raw bytes with console-codepage awareness, while preserving valid UTF-8 output and multibyte characters split across chunks. Fixes #50519. Thanks @iready, @kevinten10, @zhangyongjie1997, @knightplat-blip, @heiqishi666, and @slepybear.</li>
<li>Bonjour/Windows: hide the bundled mDNS advertiser's Windows ARP shell probe so Gateway startup no longer flashes command-prompt windows. Fixes #70238. Thanks @alexandre-leng, @PratikRai0101, @infinitypacific, and @tomerpeled.</li>
<li>Agents/bootstrap: dedupe hook-injected bootstrap context files by workspace-relative path and store normalized resolved paths so duplicate relative and absolute hook paths no longer depend on the process cwd. (#59344; fixes #59319; related #56721, #56725, and #57587) Thanks @koen666.</li>
<li>Agents/bootstrap: refresh cached workspace bootstrap snapshots on long-lived main-session turns when <code>AGENTS.md</code>, <code>SOUL.md</code>, <code>MEMORY.md</code>, or <code>TOOLS.md</code> change on disk, while preserving unchanged snapshot identity through the workspace file cache. (#64871; related #43901, #26497, #28594, #30896) Thanks @aimqwest and @mikejuyoon.</li>
<li>macOS Gateway: detect installed-but-unloaded LaunchAgent split-brain states during status, doctor, and restart, and re-bootstrap launchd supervision before falling back to unmanaged listener restarts. Fixes #67335, #53475, and #71060; refs #58890, #60885, and #70801. Thanks @ze1tgeist88, @dafacto, and @vishutdhar.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: treat mirrored core logger dependencies as staged bundled runtime deps so packaged Gateway starts do not crash when the external plugin-runtime-deps root is missing <code>tslog</code>. Fixes #72228; supersedes #72493. Thanks @deepujain.</li>
<li>Build/plugins: preserve active bundled runtime-dependency staging temp directories owned by live build processes so overlapping postbuild runs no longer delete each other's staged deps mid-prune. Supersedes #72220. Thanks @VACInc.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: hide bundled runtime-dependency npm child windows on Windows across Gateway startup, postinstall, and packaged staging paths so Telegram/Anthropic dependency repair no longer flashes shell windows. Fixes #72315. Thanks @athuljayaram and @joshfeng.</li>
<li>Agents/Windows: normalize lazy agent runtime imports before Node ESM loading so Windows drive-letter <code>subagent-registry</code> runtime paths no longer fail every agent task with <code>ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME</code>. Fixes #72636; carries forward #72716. Thanks @Andyz-CData and @xialonglee.</li>
<li>Plugins/Windows: normalize lazy plugin service override imports before Node ESM loading so drive-letter browser-control module paths no longer fail with <code>ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME</code>. Fixes #72573; supersedes #72599 and #72582. Thanks @llzzww316, @feineryonah-byte, and @WuKongAI-CMU.</li>
<li>Browser/plugins: load <code>playwright-core</code> through the browser runtime shim so packaged installs can run Playwright actions from staged plugin runtime deps after doctor/startup repair. Fixes #72168; supersedes #72238. Thanks @zdg1110 and @yetval.</li>
<li>Plugins/install: stage bundled plugin runtime dependencies before Gateway startup, drain update restarts, and materialize plugin-owned root chunks in external mirrors so staged deps resolve under native ESM. Fixes #72058; supersedes #72084. Thanks @amnesia106 and @drvoss.</li>
<li>TTS/SecretRef: resolve <code>messages.tts.providers.*.apiKey</code> from the active runtime snapshot so SecretRef-backed MiniMax and other TTS provider keys work in runtime reply/audio paths. Fixes #68690. Thanks @joshavant.</li>
<li>Gateway/install: surface systemd user-bus recovery hints during Linux service activation and retry via the target user scope when <code>systemctl --user</code> reports no-medium bus failures, without letting stale <code>SUDO_USER</code> override <code>sudo -u</code> installs. Fixes #39673; refs #44417 and #63561. Thanks @Arbor4, @myrsu, @mssteuer, and @boyuaner.</li>
<li>CLI/nodes: make unfiltered <code>openclaw nodes list</code> prefer the effective paired-node view used by <code>nodes status</code> while preserving pending rows, pairing-scope fallback, terminal-safe table rendering, and paired JSON metadata. Fixes #46871; carries forward #65772 through the ProjectClownfish #72619 repair. Thanks @skainguyen1412.</li>
<li>CLI/startup: read generated startup metadata from the bundled <code>dist</code> layout before falling back to live help rendering, so root/browser help and channel-option bootstrap stay on the fast path. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Feishu/Lark: stop treating broadcast-only <code>@all</code>/<code>@_all</code> messages as bot mentions while preserving direct bot mentions, including messages that also include <code>@all</code>. Fixes #37706. Thanks @JosepLee.</li>
<li>CLI/help: treat positional <code>help</code> invocations like <code>openclaw channels help</code> as help paths for startup gating, avoiding model/auth warmup while preserving positional arguments such as <code>openclaw docs help</code>. Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Web search: route plugin-scoped web_search SecretRefs through the active runtime config snapshot so provider execution receives resolved credentials across app/runtime paths, including <code>plugins.entries.brave.config.webSearch.apiKey</code>. Fixes #68690. Thanks @VACInc.</li>
<li>Voice Call: allow SecretRef-backed Twilio auth tokens and call-specific OpenAI/ElevenLabs TTS API keys through the plugin config surface. Fixes #68690. Thanks @joshavant.</li>
<li>Google Meet/Voice Call: clean stale chrome-node realtime bridges before rejoining, expose bridge inspection, tolerate transient node input pull failures, default Chrome command-pair audio to 24 kHz PCM16 while preserving legacy 8 kHz G.711 mu-law pairs, handle Gemini Live interruptions/VAD and function-response names correctly, route stateful <code>google_meet</code> tools through the gateway runtime, support <code>realtime.agentId</code>, and send non-blocking consult continuations before long tool-backed answers finish. Fixes #72371, #72525, #72523, #72440, and #72425; (#72372, #72524, #72381, #72441, #72189, #72426) Thanks @BsnizND and @VACInc.</li>
<li>Discord/media: keep incidental Markdown image badges in final replies as text unless a channel opts into Markdown-image media extraction, while preserving Telegram Markdown-image media replies and explicit <code>MEDIA:</code> attachments. Fixes #72642. Thanks @solavrc and @Bartok9.</li>
<li>Matrix/E2EE: stabilize recovery and broken-device QA flows while avoiding Matrix device-cleanup sync races that could leave shutdown-time crypto work running. Thanks @gumadeiras.</li>
<li>Cron: apply <code>cron.maxConcurrentRuns</code> to the nested isolated-agent lane, start isolated execution timeouts only after the runner enters that lane, keep legacy flat <code>jobs.json</code> rows loadable, invalidate stale pending runtime slots after schedule edits, and preserve due slots for formatting-only rewrites. Fixes #72707, #27996, #71607, and #41783; carries forward #71651. Thanks @kagura-agent, @xialonglee, @fagnersouza666, @ayanesakura, and @Hurray0.</li>
<li>Cron/delivery: classify isolated successes, quiet <code>NO_REPLY</code> turns, model/provider failures, execution denials, <code>--no-deliver</code> traces, skipped-job alerts, and verified delivery outcomes correctly so cron history, retries, and failure counters reflect what actually happened. Fixes #72732, #50170, #43604, #68452, #60846, #72210, and #67172; follow-up to #54188; carries forward #43631, #68453, #72219, and #67186. Thanks @zNatix, @pixeldyn, @ChickenEggRoll, @SPFAdvisors, @anyech, @slideshow-dingo, @hatemclawbot-collab, @xydigit-sj, @oc-gh-dr, @hclsys, and @1yihui.</li>
<li>Cron/routing: preserve direct Telegram thread/account IDs, explicit Discord <code>user:</code>/<code>channel:</code> delivery targets, and <code>session:<id></code> failure-destination routing so reminders, cron announcements, and failure alerts keep the intended recipient kind across direct and group chats. Fixes #44270; refs #62777; carries forward #44325, #44351, #44412, #72657, #68535, and #62798. Thanks @RunMintOn, @arkyu2077, @0xsline, @vincentkoc, @slideshow-dingo, @likewen-tech, and @neeravmakwana.</li>
<li>Subagents: keep the delegated task only in the subagent system prompt and send a short initial kickoff message, avoiding duplicate task tokens while preserving multiline task formatting. Fixes #72019; carries forward #72053. Thanks @Wizongod and @ly85206559.</li>
<li>Onboarding/GitHub Copilot: add manifest-owned <code>--github-copilot-token</code> support for non-interactive setup, including env fallback, tokenRef storage in ref mode, saved-profile reuse, and current Copilot default-model wiring. Refs #50002 and supersedes #50003. Thanks @scottgl9.</li>
<li>Gateway/install: add a validated <code>--wrapper</code>/<code>OPENCLAW_WRAPPER</code> service install path that persists executable LaunchAgent/systemd wrappers across forced reinstalls, updates, and doctor repairs instead of falling back to raw node/bun <code>ProgramArguments</code>. Fixes #69400. (#72445) Thanks @willtmc.</li>
<li>Plugins: fail plugin registration when loader-owned acceptance gates reject missing hook names or memory-only capability registration from non-memory plugins, surfacing the issue through plugin status and doctor instead of silently dropping the registration. Fixes #72459. Thanks @amknight.</li>
<li>macOS Gateway: write launchd services with a state-dir <code>WorkingDirectory</code>, use a durable state-dir temp path instead of freezing macOS session <code>TMPDIR</code>, create that temp directory before bootstrap, and label abort-shaped launchd exits as <code>SIGABRT/abort</code> in status output. Fixes #53679 and #70223; refs #71848. Thanks @dlturock, @stammi922, and @palladius.</li>
<li>Control UI/update: make <code>Update now</code> require a real gateway process replacement, report skipped/error update outcomes with stable reasons, and verify the running gateway version after restart so global installs cannot silently keep old code in memory. Fixes #62492; addresses #64892 and #63562. Thanks @IAMSamuelRodda.</li>
<li>Exec approvals: accept runtime-owned <code>source: "allow-always"</code> and <code>commandText</code> allowlist metadata in gateway and node approval-set payloads so Control UI round-trips no longer fail with <code>unexpected property 'source'</code>. Fixes #60000; carries forward #60064. Thanks @sd1471123, @sharkqwy, and @luoyanglang.</li>
<li>Exec/node: skip approval-plan preparation for full-trust <code>host=node</code> runs so interpreter and script commands no longer fail with <code>SYSTEM_RUN_DENIED: approval cannot safely bind</code> when effective policy is <code>security=full</code> and <code>ask=off</code>. Fixes #48457 and duplicate #69251. Thanks @ajtran303, @jaserNo1, @Blakeshannon, @lesliefag, and @AvIsBeastMC.</li>
<li>Exec/node: synthesize a local approval plan when a paired node advertises <code>system.run</code> without <code>system.run.prepare</code>, unblocking approval-required <code>host=node</code> exec on current macOS companion nodes while preserving remote prepare for node hosts that support it. Fixes #37591 and duplicate #66839; carries forward #69725. Thanks @soloclz.</li>
<li>Memory/QMD: prefer QMD's <code>--mask</code> collection pattern flag so root memory indexing stays scoped to <code>MEMORY.md</code> instead of widening to every markdown file in the workspace. Fixes #65480; supersedes #65481 and #66259. Thanks @ccage-simp, @Bortlesboat, @seank-com, and @crazyscience.</li>
<li>Memory/doctor: treat the specific <code>gateway timeout after ...</code> gateway memory probe result as inconclusive instead of reporting embeddings not ready, while preserving warnings for explicit failures. Fixes #44426; carries forward #46576 with the Greptile review feedback applied. Thanks Cengiz (@ghost).</li>
<li>Gateway/startup: defer QMD, core request handlers, setup wizard, CLI outbound senders, plugin HTTP routes, chat/session projection, node session runtime validation, embedded-run activity reads, MCP loopback server imports, channel runtime helpers, HTTP/canvas/plugin auth helpers, isolated cron imports, and hook dispatch parsing until their request or shutdown paths, while making plain <code>gateway status</code> use a parse-only config snapshot so no-plugin boots and status reads avoid broad runtime fanout. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Lobster/Gateway: memoize repeated Ajv schema compilation before loading the embedded Lobster runtime so scheduled workflows and <code>llm.invoke</code> loops stop growing gateway heap on content-identical schemas. Fixes #71148. Thanks @cmi525, @vsolaz, and @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Codex harness: normalize cached input tokens before session/context accounting so prompt cache reads are not double-counted in <code>/status</code>, <code>session_status</code>, or persisted <code>sessionEntry.totalTokens</code>. Fixes #69298. Thanks @richardmqq.</li>
<li>Hooks/session-memory: use the host local timezone for memory filenames, fallback timestamp slugs, and markdown headers instead of UTC dates. Fixes #46703. (#46721) Thanks @Astro-Han.</li>
<li>Gateway health: preserve live runtime-backed channel/account state in <code>gateway.health</code> snapshots and cached refreshes while keeping raw probe payloads on sensitive/admin paths only. (#39921, #42586, #46527, #52770, #42543) Thanks @FAL1989, @rstar327, @0xble, and @ajayr.</li>
<li>Feishu: extract quoted/replied interactive-card text across schema 1.0, schema 2.0, i18n, template-variable, and post-format fallback shapes without carrying broad generated/config churn from related parser experiments. (#38776, #60383, #42218, #45936) Thanks @lishuaigit, @lskun, @just2gooo, and @Br1an67.</li>
<li>Telegram/agents: hide raw failed write/edit warning messages in Telegram when the assistant already explicitly acknowledges the failed action, while keeping warnings when the reply claims success or omits the failure; #39406 remains the broader configurable delivery-policy follow-up. Fixes #51065; covers #39631. Thanks @Bartok9 and @Bortlesboat.</li>
<li>Exec approvals: accept a symlinked <code>OPENCLAW_HOME</code> as the trusted approvals root while still rejecting symlinked <code>.openclaw</code> path components below it. (#64663) Thanks @FunJim.</li>
<li>Logging: add top-level <code>hostname</code>, flattened <code>message</code>, and available <code>agent_id</code>, <code>session_id</code>, and <code>channel</code> fields to file-log JSONL records for multi-agent filtering without removing existing structured log arguments. Fixes #51075. Thanks @stevengonsalvez.</li>
<li>ACP: route server logs to stderr before Gateway config/bootstrap work so ACP stdout remains JSON-RPC only for IDE integrations. Fixes #49060. Thanks @Hollychou924.</li>
<li>Logging: propagate internal request trace scopes through Gateway HTTP requests and WebSocket frames so file logs, diagnostic events, agent run traces, model-call traces, OTEL spans, and trusted provider <code>traceparent</code> headers share a correlatable <code>traceId</code> without logging raw request or model content. Fixes #40353. Thanks @liangruochong44-ui.</li>
<li>Diagnostics/OTEL: capture privacy-safe model-call request payload bytes, streamed response bytes, first-response latency, and total duration in diagnostic events, plugin hooks, stability snapshots, and OTEL model-call spans/metrics without logging raw model content. Fixes #33832. Thanks @wwh830.</li>
<li>Logging: write validated diagnostic trace context as top-level <code>traceId</code>, <code>spanId</code>, <code>parentSpanId</code>, and <code>traceFlags</code> fields in file-log JSONL records so traced requests and model calls are easier to correlate in log processors. Refs #40353. Thanks @liangruochong44-ui.</li>
<li>Logging/sessions: apply configured redaction patterns to persisted session transcript text and accept escaped character classes in safe custom redaction regexes, so transcript JSONL no longer keeps matching sensitive text in the clear. Fixes #42982. Thanks @panpan0000.</li>
<li>Agents/sessions: let <code>sessions_spawn runtime="subagent"</code> ignore ACP-only <code>streamTo</code> and <code>resumeSessionId</code> fields while keeping ACP passthrough and documenting <code>streamTo</code> as ACP-only. Fixes #43556 and #63120; covers #56326, #61724, #64714, and #67248; carries forward #68397, #65282, #58686, #56342, and #40102. Thanks @skernelx, @damselem, @Br1an67, @Mintalix, @IsaacAPerez, @vvitovec, @Sanjays2402, @shenkq97, and @1034378361.</li>
<li>Providers/Ollama: honor <code>/api/show</code> capabilities, custom Modelfile <code>PARAMETER num_ctx</code>, configured provider/model context defaults, whitelisted native params such as <code>temperature</code>, <code>top_p</code>, and <code>think</code>, and native thinking effort levels so local models get accurate tools, context, and thinking behavior without forcing full-context VRAM use. Fixes #64710, duplicate #65343, #68344, #44550, #52206, #49684, #68662, #48010, #71584, and #44786; supersedes #69464; carries forward #44955. Thanks @yuan-b, @netherby, @xilopaint, @Diyforfun2026, @neeravmakwana, @taitruong, @armi0024, @LokiCode404, @zhouZcong, @dshenster-byte, @tangzhi, @pandego, @maweibin, @Adam-Researchh, @EmpireCreator, @g0st1n, and @voltwake.</li>
<li>Image tool/media: honor <code>tools.media.image.timeoutSeconds</code> and matching per-model image timeouts in explicit image analysis, including the MiniMax VLM fallback path, so slow local vision models are not capped by hardcoded 30s/60s aborts. Fixes #67889; supersedes #67929. Thanks @AllenT22 and @alchip.</li>
<li>Providers/Ollama: strip custom provider prefixes before native chat/embedding requests, skip ambient localhost discovery unless config/auth opts in, handle custom remote <code>api: "ollama"</code> providers, accept OpenAI SDK-style <code>baseURL</code>, scope synthetic local auth and embedding bearer headers to declared host boundaries, resolve custom-named local providers for subagents, add provider-scoped model request timeouts, preserve explicit input modalities, and document <code>params.keep_alive</code> plus local/LAN/cloud/multi-host/web-search/embedding/thinking setup recipes. Fixes #72353, #56939, #62533, #43945, #64541, #68796, and #39690; supersedes #57116, #62549, #69261, #69857, #65143, and #66511; refs #43945; carries forward #43224 and #39785. Thanks @maximus-dss, @hclsys, @IanxDev, @tsukhani, @issacthekaylon, @Julien-BKK, @Linux2010, @hyspacex, @maxramsay, @Meli73, @LittleJakub, @Juankcba, @uninhibite-scholar, @yfge, @Skrblik, and @Mriris.</li>
<li>Providers/Ollama: move memory embeddings to <code>/api/embed</code> with batched <code>input</code>, route local web search through Ollama's signed daemon proxy while keeping cloud auth scoped, treat Ollama memory embeddings as key-optional in doctor, and keep model usage visible by estimating native transcript usage when <code>/api/chat</code> omits counters. Fixes #39983, #69132, and #46584; carries forward #39112. Thanks @sskkcc, @LiudengZhang, @yoon1012, @hyspacex, @fengly78, and @TylonHH.</li>
<li>Agents/Ollama: parse stringified native tool-call arguments, retry native empty/thinking-only turns, accept already-prefixed LLM task model overrides, apply provider-owned replay normalization for Cloud models, validate explicit <code>--thinking max</code>, show resolved thinking defaults in Control UI, and include configured provider models in <code>models list --provider</code>. Fixes #69735, #50052, #71697, #71584, #72407, and #65207; supersedes #69910; carries forward #66552 and #61223. Thanks @rongshuzhao, @yfge, @L3G, @ralphy-maplebots, @Hollychou924, @ismael-81, @g0st1n, @NotecAG, and @drzeast-png.</li>
<li>Providers/PDF/Ollama: add bounded network timeouts for Ollama model pulls and native Anthropic/Gemini PDF analysis requests so unresponsive provider endpoints no longer hang sessions indefinitely. Fixes #54142; supersedes #54144 and #54145. Thanks @jinduwang1001-max and @arkyu2077.</li>
<li>Docker/QA: add observability coverage to the normal Docker aggregate so QA-lab OTEL and Prometheus diagnostics run inside Docker. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Auto-reply: poison inbound message dedupe after replay-unsafe provider/runtime failures so retries stay safe before visible progress but cannot duplicate messages after block output, tool side effects, or session progress. Fixes #69303; keeps #58549 and #64606 as duplicate validation. Thanks @martingarramon, @NikolaFC, and @zeroth-blip.</li>
<li>Agents/model fallback: keep auto-persisted fallback model overrides selected across turns until <code>/new</code> or reset clears them, avoiding repeated probes of a known-bad primary while <code>/status</code> shows the selected and active models. Thanks @kibedu.</li>
<li>Agents/model fallback: jump directly to a known later live-session model redirect instead of walking unrelated fallback candidates, while preserving the already-landed live-session/fallback loop guard. Fixes #57471; related loop family already closed via #58496. Thanks @yuxiaoyang2007-prog.</li>
<li>Gateway/Bonjour: keep @homebridge/ciao cancellation handlers registered across advertiser restarts so late probing cancellations cannot crash Linux and other mDNS-churned gateways.</li>
<li>Plugins/startup: load the default <code>memory-core</code> slot during Gateway startup when permitted so active-memory recall can call <code>memory_search</code> and <code>memory_get</code> without requiring an explicit <code>plugins.slots.memory</code> entry, while preserving <code>plugins.slots.memory: "none"</code>.</li>
<li>Plugins/CLI: prefer native require for compiled bundled plugin JavaScript before jiti so read-only config, status, device, and node commands avoid unnecessary transform overhead on slow hosts. Fixes #62842. Thanks @Effet.</li>
<li>Plugins/compat/CLI: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility, add dated records for legacy extension-api, memory registration, provider hook/type aliases, runtime aliases, channel SDK helpers, and approval/test utility shims, refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin removals, make plugin install/uninstall writes conflict-aware, clear stale denylists, and fail tracked plugin/hook updates or unloadable package installs instead of leaving stale state. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>WebChat/Control UI: support non-video file attachments in chat uploads while preserving the existing image attachment path and MIME-sniff fallback for generic image uploads. (#70947) Thanks @IAMSamuelRodda.</li>
<li>Skills/memory: restore Chokidar v5 hot reloads by watching concrete skill and memory roots with filters, including SKILL.md removals and deleted skill folders without broad workspace recursion. Fixes #27404, #33585, and #41606. Thanks @shelvenzhou, @08820048, and @rocke2020.</li>
<li>Gateway/chat: keep duplicate attachment-backed <code>chat.send</code> retries with the same idempotency key on the documented in-flight path so aborts still target the real active run. Fixes #70139. Thanks @Feelw00.</li>
<li>Gateway/session rows: report the same config-resolved thinking default that runtime sessions use, including global and per-agent defaults, so Control UI and TUI default labels stay aligned. (#71779, #70981, #71033, #70302) Thanks @chen-zhang-cs-code, @SymbolStar, and @cholaolu-boop.</li>
<li>Plugins: share package entrypoint resolution between install and discovery, reject mismatched <code>runtimeExtensions</code>, and cache bundled runtime-dependency manifest reads during scans.</li>
<li>WhatsApp/Web: keep quiet but healthy linked-device sessions connected by basing the watchdog on WhatsApp Web transport activity, while retaining a longer app-silence cap so frame activity cannot mask a stuck session forever. Fixes #70678; carries forward the focused #71466 approach and keeps #63939 as related configurable-timeout follow-up. Thanks @vincentkoc and @oromeis.</li>
<li>Discord/gateway: count failed health-monitor restart attempts toward cooldown and hourly caps, and evict stale account lifecycle state during channel reloads so repeated Discord gateway recovery cannot loop on old status. Fixes #38596. (#40413) Thanks @jellyAI-dev and @vashquez.</li>
<li>Cron/context engine: run isolated cron jobs under run-scoped context-engine session keys so prior runs of the same job are not inherited unless the job is explicitly session-bound. (#72292) Thanks @jalehman.</li>
<li>Control UI: localize command palette labels, categories, skill shortcuts, footer hints, and connect-command copy labels while preserving localized command palette search matching. (#61130, #61119) Thanks @rubensfox20.</li>
<li>Plugins/memory-lancedb: request float embedding responses from OpenAI-compatible servers so local providers that default SDK requests to base64 no longer return dimension-mismatched LanceDB vectors while preserving configured dimensions. Fixes #45982. (#59048, #46069, #45986) Thanks @deep-introspection, @xiaokhkh, @caicongyang, and @thiswind.</li>
<li>Plugins/memory-lancedb: advance auto-capture cursors per session only after messages are processed or intentionally skipped, retry failed messages, survive compacted histories, and clear cursor state on session end. Fixes #71349; carries forward #42083. Thanks @as775116191.</li>
<li>Plugins/memory-core: respect configured memory-search embedding concurrency during non-batch indexing so local Ollama embedding backends can serialize indexing instead of flooding the server. Fixes #66822. (#66931) Thanks @oliviareid-svg and @LyraInTheFlesh.</li>
<li>Docker/update smoke: keep the package-derived update-channel fixture on package-shipped files and make its UI build stub create the asset the updater verifies. Thanks @vincentkoc.</li>
<li>Gateway/models: repair legacy <code>models.providers.*.api = "openai"</code> config values to <code>openai-completions</code>, and skip providers with future stale API enum values during startup instead of bricking the gateway. Fixes #72477. (#72542) Thanks @JooyoungChoi14 and @obviyus.</li>
<li>Gateway/skills: redact <code>apiKey</code> and secret-named <code>env</code> values from the <code>skills.update</code> RPC response to prevent leaking credentials into WebSocket traffic, client logs, or session transcripts. Config is still written to disk in full; only the response payload is redacted. (#69998) Thanks @Ziy1-Tan.</li>
<li>Plugins/CLI: let flag-driven <code>openclaw channels add</code> install the selected channel plugin from its default source without opening an interactive prompt, fixing published npm Telegram setup in stdin-closed automation.</li>
<li>Onboarding/setup: keep first-run config reads, plugin compatibility notices, OpenAI Codex auth, post-auth default-model policy lookup, skip-auth, provider-scoped model pickers, and post-model sanity checks on cold manifest/setup metadata unless the user chooses to browse all models, avoiding full plugin/provider runtime loads between prompts. Thanks @shakkernerd.</li>
<li>Gateway/Bonjour: suppress known @homebridge/ciao cancellation and network assertion failures through scoped process handlers so malformed mDNS packets or restricted VPS networking disable/restart Bonjour instead of crashing the gateway. Fixes #67578. Thanks @zenassist26-create.</li>
<li>Discord: keep late clicks on already-resolved exec approval buttons quiet when elevated mode auto-resolved the request, while still surfacing real approval submission failures. Fixes #66906. Thanks @rlerikse.</li>
<li>Telegram: send a fresh final message for long-lived preview-streamed replies so the visible Telegram timestamp reflects completion time instead of the preview creation time. Thanks @rubencu.</li>
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