OpenClaw 2026.3.8 — Backup Commands, Remote Token Flow, and Channel Reliability Fixes

OpenClaw 2026.3.8 is an operator-friendly release focused on backup tooling and day-to-day reliability.

What was included

New backup workflow in CLI

• openclaw backup create
• openclaw backup verify

With support for:

• --only-config
• --no-include-workspace
• archive manifest/payload validation
• improved backup naming and verification behavior

Onboarding and UX improvements

• macOS remote mode onboarding adds explicit remote gateway token field and safer token-shape handling.
• talk mode gains configurable silence timeout via talk.silenceTimeoutMs.
• TUI can infer active agent from workspace context (while preserving explicit targets).

Search/tooling updates

• Brave web search optional llm-context mode for grounded snippet extraction.
• web search provider ordering and docs consistency updates.
• ACP provenance metadata + receipt controls.

Reliability fixes (selected)

• LaunchAgent/update recovery improvements on macOS
• Telegram DM dedupe and announce-delivery routing fixes
• Matrix DM routing fallback hardening
• plugin onboarding cache/selection fixes
• browser relay/CDP URL handling hardening
• Tailscale gateway discovery improvements on macOS
• model fallback/context-window compatibility fixes (including openai-codex GPT-5.4 handling)

Why this matters for OpenClaw VPS

For hosted operators, 2026.3.8 mainly means:

1. better recoverability (real backup + verify commands),
2. cleaner remote gateway onboarding,
3. fewer channel routing/delivery edge cases.

Source

Official OpenClaw release notes: v2026.3.8 on GitHub Releases.