OpenClaw 2026.4.1: What Shipped

This post covers what shipped in v2026.4.1.

What shipped

• Tasks/chat: add /tasks as a chat-native background task board for the current session, with recent task details and agent-local fallback counts when no linked tasks are visible. Related #54226. Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Web search/SearXNG: add the bundled SearXNG provider plugin for web_search with configurable host support. (#57317) Thanks @cgdusek.
• Amazon Bedrock/Guardrails: add Bedrock Guardrails support to the bundled provider. (#58588) Thanks @MikeORed.
• macOS/Voice Wake: add the Voice Wake option to trigger Talk Mode. (#58490) Thanks @SmoothExec.
• Feishu/comments: add a dedicated Drive comment-event flow with comment-thread context resolution, in-thread replies, and feishu_drive comment actions for document collaboration workflows. (#58497) Thanks @wittam-01.
• Gateway/webchat: make chat.history text truncation configurable with gateway.webchat.chatHistoryMaxChars and per-request maxChars, while preserving silent-reply filtering and existing default payload limits. (#58900)
• Agents/default params: add agents.defaults.params for global default provider parameters. (#58548) Thanks @lpender.
• Agents/failover: cap prompt-side and assistant-side same-provider auth-profile retries for rate-limit failures before cross-provider model fallback, add the auth.cooldowns.rateLimitedProfileRotations knob, and document the new fallback behavior. (#58707) Thanks @Forgely3D
• Cron/tools allowlist: add openclaw cron --tools for per-job tool allowlists. (#58504) Thanks @andyk-ms.
• Channels/session routing: move provider-specific session conversation grammar into plugin-owned session-key surfaces, preserving Telegram topic routing and Feishu scoped inheritance across bootstrap, model override, restart, and tool-policy paths.
• WhatsApp/reactions: add reactionLevel guidance for agent reactions. Thanks @mcaxtr.
• Telegram/errors: add configurable errorPolicy and errorCooldownMs controls so Telegram can suppress repeated delivery errors per account, chat, and topic without muting distinct failures. (#51914) Thanks @chinar-amrutkar
• ZAI/models: add glm-5.1 and glm-5v-turbo to the bundled Z.AI provider catalog. (#58793) Thanks @tomsun28
• Agents/compaction: resolve agents.defaults.compaction.model consistently for manual /compact and other context-engine compaction paths, so engine-owned compaction uses the configured override model across runtime entrypoints. (#56710) Thanks @oliviareid-svg
• Chat/error replies: stop leaking raw provider/runtime failures into external chat channels, return a friendly retry message instead, and add a specific /new hint for Bedrock toolResult/toolUse session mismatches. (#58831) Thanks @ImLukeF.
• Gateway/reload: ignore startup config writes by persisted hash in the config reloader so generated auth tokens and seeded Control UI origins do not trigger a restart loop, while real gateway.auth.* edits still require restart. (#58678) Thanks @yelog

Source

Official OpenClaw release notes for v2026.4.1