OpenClaw 2026.4.18 adds xHigh reasoning support for Claude Opus 4.7, overhauls the settings experience, and ships important stability fixes.

What’s New

🧠 Claude Opus 4.7 xHigh Reasoning

Anthropic’s most capable model now supports the xHigh reasoning effort level, giving your agent the deepest possible thinking for complex tasks. This is separate from adaptive thinking and can be configured per-session.

⚙️ Settings Overhaul

The Control UI settings experience has been completely revamped with faster presets, quick-create flows, and refreshed command discovery. Finding and changing settings is now significantly smoother.

🍎 macOS Screen Snapshots

macOS app nodes now support screen.snapshot for monitor preview flows — your agent can see your screen on macOS.

Stability Fixes

Codex crash fix — Gateway no longer crashes when the Codex subprocess terminates abruptly
Bootstrap improvements — Workspace bootstrap reads from workspace truth instead of stale session markers
WhatsApp multi-account — Centralized named-account inbound policy with isolated per-account group activation
Telegram polling — Fixed accumulated ESTABLISHED connections that saturated proxy quotas on long-running gateways
Telegram streaming — Streamed replies no longer appear duplicated after compaction
macOS SSH — Remote connections now require pre-trusted host keys

How to Update

npm install -g openclaw@latest
openclaw gateway restart