This post covers what shipped in v2026.4.12.
What shipped
- QA/lab: add Convex-backed pooled Telegram credential leasing plus
openclaw qa credentialsadmin commands and broker setup docs. (#65596) Thanks @joshavant. - Memory/Active Memory: add a new optional Active Memory plugin that gives OpenClaw a dedicated memory sub-agent right before the main reply, so ongoing chats can automatically pull in relevant preferences, context, and past details without making users remember to manually say "remember this" or "search memory" first. Includes configurable message/recent/full context modes, live
/verboseinspection, advanced prompt/thinking overrides for tuning, and opt-in transcript persistence for debugging. (#63286) Thanks @Takhoffman. - macOS/Talk: add an experimental local MLX speech provider for Talk Mode, with explicit provider selection, local utterance playback, interruption handling, and system-voice fallback. (#63539) Thanks @ImLukeF.
- CLI/exec policy: add a local
openclaw exec-policycommand withshow,preset, andsetsubcommands for synchronizing requestedtools.exec.*config with the local exec approvals file, plus follow-up hardening for node-host rejection, rollback safety, and sync conflict detection. (#64050) - Gateway: add a
commands.listRPC so remote gateway clients can discover runtime-native, text, skill, and plugin commands with surface-aware naming and serialized argument metadata. (#62656) Thanks @samzong. - Models/providers: add per-provider
models.providers.*.request.allowPrivateNetworkfor trusted self-hosted OpenAI-compatible endpoints, keep the opt-in scoped to model request surfaces, and refresh cached WebSocket managers when request transport overrides change. (#63671) Thanks @qas. - QA/testing: add a
--runner multipasslane foropenclaw qa suiteso repo-backed QA scenarios can run inside a disposable Linux VM and write back the usual report, summary, and VM logs. (#63426) Thanks @shakkernerd. - Docs i18n: chunk raw doc translation, reject truncated tagged outputs, avoid ambiguous body-only wrapper unwrapping, and recover from terminated Pi translation sessions without changing the default
openai/gpt-5.4path. (#62969, #63808) Thanks @hxy91819. - Control UI/dreaming: simplify the Scene and Diary surfaces, preserve unknown phase state for partial status payloads, and stabilize waiting-entry recency ordering so Dreaming status and review lists stay clear and deterministic. (#64035) Thanks @davemorin.
- Gateway: split startup and runtime seams so gateway lifecycle sequencing, reload state, and shutdown behavior stay easier to maintain without changing observed behavior. (#63975) Thanks @gumadeiras.
- Matrix/partial streaming: add MSC4357 live markers to draft preview sends and edits so supporting Matrix clients can render a live/typewriter animation and stop it when the final edit lands. (#63513) Thanks @TigerInYourDream.
- QA/Telegram: add a live
openclaw qa telegramlane for private-group bot-to-bot checks, harden its artifact handling, and preserve native Telegram command reply threading for QA verification. (#64303) Thanks @obviyus. - Models/Codex: add the bundled Codex provider and plugin-owned app-server harness so
codex/gpt-models use Codex-managed auth, native threads, model discovery, and compaction whileopenai/gpt-stays on the normal OpenAI provider path. (#64298) Thanks @steipete. - Models/providers: add a bundled LM Studio provider with onboarding, runtime model discovery, stream preload support, and memory-search embeddings for local/self-hosted OpenAI-compatible models. (#53248) Thanks @rugvedS07.
- Plugins/loading: narrow CLI, provider, and channel activation to manifest-declared needs, preserve explicit scope and trust boundaries, and centralize manifest-owner policy so startup, command discovery, and runtime activation avoid loading unrelated plugin runtime. (#65120, #65259, #65298, #65429, #65459) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Memory/active-memory: default QMD recall to search and surface better search-path telemetry so memory-backed recall works more predictably out of the box. (#65068) Thanks @Takhoffman.