OpenClaw v2026.6.8 was published on June 16, 2026. This article is a plain-English guide to the published GitHub release notes, not a separate changelog.

This audited record covers the complete v2026.6.6..v2026.6.8 history: 192 merged PRs. The generation manifest also supplies direct commits as editorial input; the grouped notes above prioritize user impact.

Highlights from the GitHub notes

• Richer channel delivery: Telegram and WhatsApp are less brittle: Telegram renders structured text with tables, lists, expandable blockquotes, preserved intentional line breaks, and CLI-backed replies, while WhatsApp now honors configured ACP bindings.
• More reliable agent runs: account-scoped DM sends, generated media completions, auto-reply message-tool final replies, reset archive fallback reads, restart shutdown aborts, yielded subagent pauses, and session identity prompts all stay on the correct recovery path.
• Safer model routing: new GLM-5.2 and Claude Haiku 4.5 catalog support arrives with normalized provider IDs, managed SecretRef auth, bounded model browsing, and safer OpenAI/Anthropic tool-schema recovery.
• Useful usage footers: /usage and reply payload hooks now have a native full footer renderer, default template, fixed-decimal formatting, credential-aware limits, better partial-count handling, and warnings for broken templates instead of silent bad output.
• Predictable web search defaults: key-free providers such as Parallel Free, DuckDuckGo, Ollama, and Codex Hosted Search remain explicit opt-ins rather than surprising automatic fallbacks.
• Calmer UI and mobile sessions: workspace files start collapsed, WebChat backscroll survives streaming, the desktop session picker remains interactive, reset arguments survive dispatch, and iOS reconnects stale foreground Gateways.
• Resilient memory and state: oversized OpenAI embedding batches split before 431s, QMD search stays available in transient mode, SQLite avoids WAL on NFS volumes, and full reindexes preserve rollback/cache recovery.

Notable changes

• Providers/models: add GLM-5.2 support and Claude Haiku 4.5 catalog entries while keeping provider-qualified model IDs normalized across OpenRouter and Google Vertex paths.
• Web search: keep key-free providers such as Parallel Free, DuckDuckGo, Ollama, and Codex Hosted Search as explicit opt-ins instead of selecting them automatically when no API-backed provider is configured.
• Channel plugins: ship Telegram rich-message delivery and WhatsApp ACP binding support, including preserved intentional line breaks, rich prompt handoff to CLI backends, and transport fixtures for richer drafts.
• Agent commands: support /btw in CLI-backed sessions and keep CLI usage-error exits classified as usage failures instead of successful runs.
• Usage hooks: add built-in full footer rendering, default footer templates, per-turn usage state, credential-aware limits, and fixed-decimal formatting for usage-bar templates.

Fixes worth noticing

• Channels and delivery: preserve account-scoped DM channel send policy, intentional rich-message line breaks in Telegram and status output, rich Telegram final replies, rich Telegram tables and lists, Telegram thread-create CLI remapping, Feishu dynamic-agent routes after persisted binding reuse, Slack outbound message_sent hooks, contributed message-tool schema optionality, same-channel generated media completions, and channel chunking around surrogate pairs and Infinity limits.
• Gemini CLI: use the selected OpenClaw OAuth/API-key auth profile in an isolated Gemini CLI runtime home, preventing ambient Google machine credentials from overriding the chosen profile.
• Discord: give generated auto-thread titles a 60-second timeout and 4,096-token reasoning-model output budget, clamped to the selected model output cap.
• Agent, cron, and Gateway runtime: mark active main sessions before restart shutdown aborts, pause yielded subagent runs whose terminal also signals abort, clamp trusted subagent thinking overrides through provider/model fallback, preserve yielded media completions, deliver channel message-tool final replies through auto-reply while hiding internal delivery hints, restore reset archive fallback reads when active async transcripts are missing, de-duplicate main-session heartbeat events, expose session identity in runtime prompts, reject unknown OpenAI agent selectors, keep generated media completions, slash-command block replies, and trajectory export commands in WebChat, and require admin privileges for HTTP session/model override surfaces.
• Providers and model replay: preserve storeless OpenAI Responses replay compatibility, recover invalid OpenAI reasoning signatures and genericized Anthropic thinking-signature replay errors, route OAuth image defaults through Codex for eligible OpenAI profiles, avoid eager tool streaming for Claude 4.5 in Copilot, quarantine unreadable and post-hook OpenAI/Anthropic-family tool schemas without broadening allowed tool choices, deliver explicit thinking-off requests to LM Studio binary-thinking models, honor profile auth for SecretRef model entries, bound model browsing, strip provider prefixes where runtimes need bare IDs, and surface nested embedding fetch failures.
• Memory, state, diagnostics, and config: split header-too-large embedding batches, keep QMD memory search enabled in transient mode, avoid SQLite WAL on NFS volumes, preserve recovery scheduling outside stuck-session warning backoff, preserve full-reindex rollback/cache recovery, and treat raw Memory Wiki source pages as source evidence.
• UI/mobile/TUI: preserve dashboard session parent lineage, WebChat backscroll, reset soft command args, sidebar session picker interactivity, collapsed workspace files, resolved /model confirmation refs, stale foreground iOS Gateway reconnects, and paused setup-parent stdin after inherited-stdio child exit.
• Plugins and updates: repair missing required platform packages during managed plugin installs and updates, including omitted Codex platform binaries.

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 v2026.6.8 on GitHub

Generated release page: Read the structured release notes

- Fred