📦 Release Notes

OpenClaw 2026.4.29

📅 April 30, 2026 · By Tony Slavin

OpenClaw 2026.4.29 brings stability improvements, security enhancements, and quality-of-life updates.

What’s New

• 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. @scoootscooob, @samzong, and @vignesh07
• Memory grows into a people-aware wiki with provenance views, per-conversation Active Memory filters, partial recall on timeout, and bounded REM preview diagnostics. @quengh, @joeykrug, and @samzong
• 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. @shakkernerd, @prasad-yashdeep, @woodhouse-bot, and @LyHug
• 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. @DerFlash, @vincentkoc, @pashpashpash, and @jhsmith409
• 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. @SymbolStar, @djgeorg3, @TinyTb, @dseravalli, @nklock, and @alex-xuweilong
• 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. -merhi, @pgondhi987, @mmaps, @jinjimz, and @jeffrey701

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