OpenClaw v2026.6.1 was published on June 3, 2026. This article is a plain-English guide to the published GitHub release notes, not a separate changelog.

This audited record covers the complete v2026.5.31-beta.4..v2026.6.1 history: 115 merged PRs. The generation manifest also supplies direct commits as editorial input; the grouped notes above prioritize user impact.

Highlights from the GitHub notes

• Resilient agent and Codex runs: interrupted tool calls, stale session bindings, compaction handoffs, auth-profile failover, reasoning-tag cleanup, yielded subagents, and generated-media delivery all recover without leaving work stranded.
• Reliable channel and mobile delivery: WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord state, QQBot, and iOS Talk now preserve replies, typing, session state, QR-login recovery, and realtime connections across normal restart and transport failure paths.
• Faster Control UI chat: startup, local drafts, incremental stream rendering, transcript caching, first connect, and post-send cleanup no longer compete with the active conversation.
• Governed skills and plugins: Skill Workshop proposals, disabled-skill snapshots, support-file approvals, plugin contracts, and external package boundaries are clearer and safer for operators.
• Richer operator coordination: Workboard goals, task-backed runs, and SQLite-backed plugin state make multi-agent work and installed-plugin discovery survive reloads cleanly.
• More dependable providers: Google defaults, provider IDs, model catalogs, OAuth/device-code flows, media timers, and reasoning output now stay valid across hosted and local runtimes.

Notable changes

• Skills: let the skill_workshop agent tool apply, reject, and quarantine explicit proposals through the guarded review flow.
• Skills: let proposals carry approved support files under standard skill folders, with scanner, hash, and rollback safeguards.
• Skills: let pending proposals be revised in place with versioned, dated proposal frontmatter before approval.
• Skills: add Skill Workshop with pending proposals, CLI/Gateway review actions, rollback metadata, and the skill_workshop agent tool.
• 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.

Fixes worth noticing

• Build: render independent CLI startup metadata help snapshots concurrently to cut cold build-all metadata time.
• Plugins: stop timed-out package-boundary prep steps by process group so descendant TypeScript/helper processes do not survive local check cleanup.
• Control UI: serve static assets asynchronously after safe-open checks so large UI files do not block Gateway request handling.
• Scripts/UI: forward direct wrapper SIGHUP shutdown to child processes so terminal hangups do not leave wrapped dev commands running.
• Gateway: return the post-expiration pending-work revision from node drains so reconnecting nodes do not observe stale queue revisions after expired items are pruned.
• Update: keep core updates nonblocking when missing external plugin repair downloads or soft plugin repair warnings would otherwise stall, pin post-core plugin compatibility to the downgraded core version, and still block installed active plugin payload smoke failures.
• Agents/providers: keep streaming tool-call argument parsing record-shaped when providers emit valid non-object JSON such as null or arrays.
• Talk: preserve explicit null payloads on controller-created turn and output-audio lifecycle events.

Should you update?

If one of the highlighted areas matches how you use OpenClaw, this release is worth reviewing. For production systems, read the full upstream notes first, especially when the tag is marked as stable.

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Full changelog: View v2026.6.1 on GitHub

Generated release page: Read the structured release notes

- Fred