OpenClaw 2026.5.31 beta 4

Highlights

• Agents and CLI-backed runtimes recover more cleanly from interrupted tool calls, stale session bindings, compaction handoffs, and media delivery retries. (, , , , , , and , .


• Workboard, SecretRef plugin manifests, hosted iOS push relay, and external Copilot/Tokenjuice packaging add broader orchestration, integration, and plugin delivery surfaces. (, , , , , , .


• Skills: let the skill_workshop agent tool apply, reject, and quarantine explicit proposals through the guarded review flow. Thanks .


• Skills: let pending proposals be revised in place with versioned, dated proposal frontmatter before approval. Thanks .


• Skill Workshop: add the Control UI navigation, styled dashboard, proposal today view, revision dialog, file preview modal, searchable preview files, reusable session handoff, and localized strings.


• Plugins: externalize Tokenjuice as the official @openclaw/tokenjuice plugin with npm and ClawHub publish metadata.


• Plugins: externalize the GitHub Copilot agent runtime as the official @openclaw/copilot plugin with npm and ClawHub publish metadata.


• iOS: add hosted push relay defaults, realtime Talk playback, and a guarded WebSocket ping path for more reliable mobile sessions. (, )


• Workboard: wire task-backed board runs and show task comments in the edit modal.


• Gateway: support Tailscale Serve service-name bindings for gateway exposure and status.


• Code mode: add internal namespaces for scoped agent/global sessions and exact namespace tool dispatch. () Thanks )


• Control UI: expose the Communication Notifications settings tab so notification controls are reachable from settings. (.


• Plugin SDK/channels: add typed presentation command actions so native slash-command and callback controls can round-trip through capable channel plugins without being reinterpreted. (, )


• Providers: add MiniMax M3 model support. ()


• Skills: add the core skills index and centralize skills runtime loading, status, filtering, and prompt formatting.

Fixes

• Agents/TUI: keep local custom provider runs from loading plugin runtime and auth alias metadata when plugins are disabled.


• Agents/TUI: restore in-flight TUI run switch-back behavior, keep no-policy native hook fallback available, guard vanished workspaces, and keep lightweight isolated subagents lightweight.


• Agents/media: keep async image, music, and video generation starts from ending the Codex turn, so mixed requests can continue with summaries or other work while media renders in the background.


• Agents/Codex: keep public OpenAI API-key profiles from being treated as native Codex app-server auth while preserving persisted Codex OAuth sessions.


• Agents/Codex: stream Codex app-server final-answer partials to live reply previews, preserve ACP metadata in SQLite, prefer real tool results over synthetic repair output, and preserve workspace/session metadata through ACP runtime refactors. (, .


• Agents/Codex: surface Skill Workshop guidance in Codex app-server prompts when skill_workshop is available. Thanks , .


• CLI: avoid live catalog validation during openclaw agents add, so adding a secondary agent no longer depends on provider catalog availability. () Thanks )


• Plugins: make PixVerse external-plugin ClawHub metadata explicit and keep it out of bundled dist builds.


• Plugins: clarify plugin loader failure guidance so missing or incompatible plugin packages point operators at the right repair path.


• Plugins: preserve npm plugin roots after blocked installs, isolate cached tool runtime siblings, and isolate web-provider factory failures so one bad plugin does not poison sibling runtime paths. ()


• Cron: keep SQLite cron migrations compatible with legacy run-log tables, archived job stores, diagnostic cron names, and legacy one-shot delete-after-run behavior. (, .


• Media: allow validated TXT, JSON, YAML, and YML host-local document sends while rejecting binary-disguised text files. (.


• Voice calls: migrate legacy call logs through doctor into plugin-state SQLite while keeping malformed or incomplete sources retryable. (, , , )


• Chat/UI: show Gateway chat failures as visible assistant messages in the Control UI instead of only setting an invisible error state.


• Channels: recover failed progress-draft starts and refresh just-started progress drafts across Discord, Telegram, Slack, Matrix, and Teams instead of losing early progress updates. ()


• Discord: bound REST entity cache growth and keep recovered tool warning output mention-inert.


• Channels: cap Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Feishu, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, QQBot, Nostr, Zalo, Zalouser, and Nextcloud-style request/retry timers; preserve SMS approval reply routes; and retry WhatsApp QR login 408 timeouts. (, , , .


• Release/CI/E2E: run the secret-provider integration proof through the repo pnpm runner so native macOS and Windows validation use the hydrated package-manager shim.


• Release/CI/E2E: run the Telegram desktop proof gateway through the repo pnpm runner so native macOS proof uses the hydrated package-manager shim.


• Docs/CI: run Mintlify anchor checks through the repo pnpm runner so docs link validation works when pnpm is only available through the hydrated package-manager shim.


• Agents: keep configured fallback model metadata typed so provider params, context-token caps, and media input limits do not break changed-gate typechecks.


• Agents: accept hidden sessions_send body aliases before validation while keeping the model-facing message schema canonical. (.


• Chat/UI: preserve startup chat sends during history loading, unblock the initial Control UI chat send, stream chat deltas incrementally, skip markdown parsing while streaming, honor Chromium executable overrides, and detect system Chromium for E2E.


• Channels: preserve long Feishu streaming replies, send visible fallbacks when accepted Feishu turns produce no final reply, tolerate iMessage self-chat timestamp skew, decode Nostr npub allowlists correctly, and suppress raw provider errors during channel delivery. ()


• Gateway/session state: list commands from the Gateway plugin registry, harden MCP loopback tool schemas, hide phantom agent-store rows from sessions.list, make task persistence failures explicit, and carry session UUIDs on interactive dispatch events.


• OpenAI/TTS: handle speed directives for OpenAI TTS voices. (#74089)


• CI/Crabbox: keep default runner capacity on the Azure credit-backed on-demand D4 lane with the Azure SSH port and a Git-independent full check job, so broad validation avoids low-priority spot quota stalls, hydrate port mismatches, non-Git hydrated workspaces, and stale AWS region hints.


• CI/Crabbox: route Crabbox wrapper and Testbox workflow edits to their regression tests so changed-test gates do not silently run zero specs.


• CI/workflows: route workflow sanity helper edits to their guard tests and cover composite-action input interpolation checks.


• CI/tooling: route CI scope, dependency, changelog, and docs helper edits to their owner tests instead of silently skipping changed-test coverage.


• CI/tooling: route package, release, and install helper edits to their owner tests so changed-test gates cover publish and installer script changes.


• CI/tooling: route shared script library edits through their owner tests so lock, process, safety, and scan helpers do not skip changed-test coverage.


• CI/tooling: skip expensive import-graph scans once a changed diff already requires broad fallback, keeping local changed-test planning fast while still collecting explicit owner tests.


• CI/tooling: route script edits through conventional owner tests when matching test/scripts or src/scripts coverage already exists.


• CI/tooling: honor option terminators in the memory FD repro script so follow-on arguments are not reparsed.


• Release/CI/E2E: assert plugin lifecycle runtime inspect output instead of only capturing it.


• Release/CI/E2E: make gateway-network prove the advertised health RPC and retry early WebSocket closes without burning full open timeouts.


• Release/CI/E2E: honor option terminators across release, Parallels smoke, plugin gauntlet, and extension-memory scripts.


• Release/CI/E2E: fail plugin gateway gauntlet QA chunks when the requested suite summary is missing or invalid.


• Performance: prebuild QA runtime probes with generated plugin assets but without CLI startup metadata.


• Performance: skip declaration bundling for runtime-only CLI startup and gateway watch build profiles.


• Performance: reuse prepared provider handles, strict tool schemas, gateway runtime metadata, session maintenance config, plugin metadata, bundled skill allowlists, package-local plugin artifacts, single-entry store writes, and validated/serialized session prompt blobs.