OpenClaw 2026.5.26-beta.1 のリリースノート

2026.5.26

Highlights

• Faster replies and startup: visible reply delivery now separates user-facing sends from slower follow-up work, command/model/plugin metadata is reused on hot paths, and Gateway startup avoids repeated plugin, channel, session, usage-cost, and filesystem scans.

• Better voice and Talk: realtime Talk runs can be inspected, steered, cancelled, or followed up from Web UI and Discord voice; wake-name handling is more tolerant without letting ambient speech trigger agents.

• More channels are production-ready: Telegram keeps typing/progress context and forum topics, iMessage handles attachment roots and duplicate local Messages sources, WhatsApp restores group/media behavior, Discord improves voice playback and model picking, and Signal/iMessage get reaction approvals.

• Safer agents: Codex app-server auth, compaction, source replies, sandbox path handling, and usage-limit recovery are more robust; OpenAI-compatible providers avoid empty-tool and malformed payload failures.

• More reliable replay and installs: legacy tool results, subagent spawn payloads, stale lock ownership, Windows stack-heavy startup, macOS restart validation, and Docker package preparation all fail less surprisingly.

• Better install/update/release confidence: Alpine installs, stable update channels, Docker/package timeouts, Windows/macOS proof lanes, Testbox/Crabbox delegation, and plugin publish checks all got hardened.

• New observability: Activity tab, gateway secret-prep traces, tool/model stream progress, OpenTelemetry LLM spans, release performance evidence, and richer missing telemetry signals make failures easier to inspect.

Changes

• Transcripts: add core transcript capture and source-provider support for transcript-backed meeting summaries, including the renamed Transcripts docs and CLI surface.

• Auth: add named model login profiles and supported credential migration for Hermes, OpenCode, and Codex auth profiles, with explicit opt-out and non-interactive controls. (#85667) Thanks @fuller-stack-dev.

• Diagnostics: trace gateway secret preparation, classify skill/tool usage, surface model stream progress, add OpenTelemetry LLM content spans, and expose alertable telemetry for blocked tools, failover, stale sessions, liveness, oversized payloads, and webhook ingress. (#83019, #80370, #86191)

• Channels: add Signal reaction approvals, iMessage thumb approval reactions, and WhatsApp thumb approval reaction support so mobile approval flows work without textual /approve commands. (#85894, #85952, #85477)

• Agents/API: forward OpenAI sampling params through the Gateway and expose estimated context-budget status for active agent runs. (#84094)

• Android/iOS: add the Android pair-new-gateway action and improve mobile Talk mode surfaces, including iOS realtime Talk mode and Android offline voice/gateway recovery. (#86798, #86355) Thanks @ngutman.

• Performance: cache plugin metadata snapshots, package realpaths, stable gateway metadata, model cost indexes, channel resolution, usage-cost indexes, and session/auth hot-path facts so common Gateway and reply paths do less rediscovery. (#84649, #85843, #86517, #86678)

• Voice: expose shared realtime turn-context tracking through the realtime voice SDK and reuse it for Discord speaker attribution and wake-name context recovery.

• Voice: reuse shared realtime output activity tracking in Google Meet command and node audio bridges, including recent-output checks for local barge-in detection.

• Voice: expose shared realtime output activity tracking through the realtime voice SDK and reuse it for Discord playback activity and barge-in decisions.

• Voice: expose shared realtime consult question matching, speakable-result extraction, and alias-aware forced-consult coordination through the realtime voice SDK, then reuse it in Gateway Talk, Voice Call, and Discord voice paths.

• Voice: share activation-name matching and consult-transcript screening through the realtime voice SDK so Discord, browser voice, and meeting surfaces can reuse one implementation.

• Cron: default cron.maxConcurrentRuns to 8 so scheduled automations and their isolated agent turns can make progress in parallel without explicit configuration.

• QA-Lab: add qa coverage --match so focused proof selection can discover matching scenarios from existing metadata before running live or remote lanes.

• Discord/model picker: surface an alpha-bucket select (e.g. A–G (12) · H–N (18) · O–Z (5)) when the provider list or a provider's model list exceeds 25 items, so configs with provider/* wildcards stay one click from the right page instead of paginating through prev/next; falls back to numeric chunks when every item shares the same first letter.

• Control UI: add an ephemeral Activity tab for sanitized live tool activity summaries without persisting raw telemetry. Fixes #12831. Thanks @BunsDev.

• Build: include ui:build in the full and ciArtifacts profiles of scripts/build-all.mjs so pnpm build always rebuilds dist/control-ui after tsdown cleans dist, removing the second-command requirement and the missing-asset failure mode for source/runtime installs and CI artifact uploads. (#85206)

• iOS: improve Talk mode with direct realtime voice sessions, compact toolbar status, and responsive voice waveform feedback. (#86355) Thanks @ngutman.

• Media: replace the Sharp image backend with Rastermill for metadata, resizing, EXIF orientation, and PNG alpha-preserving optimization so OpenClaw no longer installs Sharp or the WhatsApp Jimp fallback for image processing. (#86437)

Fixes

• Reply/perf: reduce visible reply delivery latency by preserving Telegram typing/progress context, lazy-loading slash-command startup metadata, avoiding hot-path model hydration, flag-gating Codex profiler timing, deferring context compaction maintenance, and tracking delivery timing. (#86989, #86990, #86991, #86992, #86993, #86994) Thanks @keshavbotagent.

• Reply/source delivery: keep TUI, Control UI, media, TTS, transcript, and Codex source-reply finals live without duplicate terminal events or stale replay artifacts.

• Agents/replay: repair legacy tool results before replay, preserve sessions_spawn transcript payloads, restore current guard checks, stage sandboxed workspace media, and keep duplicate transcripts tool display metadata from reappearing. (#82203, #86934, #87025) Thanks @martingarramon, @vincentkoc, and @joshavant.

• Codex: project newer OpenClaw chat history into resumed app-server threads and keep Codex turn timeouts inside the Codex runtime boundary so timeouts do not poison shared app-server clients or fall through to unrelated provider fallback. (#86677, #86476) Thanks @TurboTheTurtle and @pashpashpash.

Config/doctor/update: narrow profiled tool-section doctor repair, keep runtime-injected legacy web-search provider config out of user-authored config validation, and keep prerelease tags excluded from stable updater resolution. (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data