OpenClaw 2026.4.2: What Shipped

This post covers what shipped in v2026.4.2.

What shipped

• Plugins/xAI: move xsearch settings from the legacy core tools.web.xsearch. path to the plugin-owned plugins.entries.xai.config.xSearch. path, standardize xsearch auth on plugins.entries.xai.config.webSearch.apiKey / XAIAPI_KEY, and migrate legacy config with openclaw doctor --fix. (#59674) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Plugins/web fetch: move Firecrawl webfetch config from the legacy core tools.web.fetch.firecrawl. path to the plugin-owned plugins.entries.firecrawl.config.webFetch. path, route webfetch fallback through the new fetch-provider boundary instead of a Firecrawl-only core branch, and migrate legacy config with openclaw doctor --fix. (#59465) Thanks @vincentkoc.
• Tasks/Task Flow: restore the core Task Flow substrate with managed-vs-mirrored sync modes, durable flow state/revision tracking, and openclaw flows inspection/recovery primitives so background orchestration can persist and be operated separately from plugin authoring layers. (#58930) Thanks @mbelinky.
• Tasks/Task Flow: add managed child task spawning plus sticky cancel intent, so external orchestrators can stop scheduling immediately and let parent Task Flows settle to cancelled once active child tasks finish. (#59610) Thanks @mbelinky.
• Plugins/Task Flow: add a bound api.runtime.taskFlow seam so plugins and trusted authoring layers can create and drive managed Task Flows from host-resolved OpenClaw context without passing owner identifiers on each call. (#59622) Thanks @mbelinky.
• Android/assistant: add assistant-role entrypoints plus Google Assistant App Actions metadata so Android can launch OpenClaw from the assistant trigger and hand prompts into the chat composer. (#59596) Thanks @obviyus.
• Exec defaults: make gateway/node host exec default to YOLO mode by requesting security=full with ask=off, and align host approval-file fallbacks plus docs/doctor reporting with that no-prompt default.
• Providers/runtime: add provider-owned replay hook surfaces for transcript policy, replay cleanup, and reasoning-mode dispatch. (#59143) Thanks @jalehman.
• Plugins/hooks: add beforeagentreply so plugins can short-circuit the LLM with synthetic replies after inline actions. (#20067) Thanks @JoshuaLelon.
• 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.
• 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.
• Matrix/plugin: emit spec-compliant m.mentions metadata across text sends, media captions, edits, poll fallback text, and action-driven edits so Matrix mentions notify reliably in clients like Element. (#59323) Thanks @gumadeiras.
• Diffs: add plugin-owned viewerBaseUrl so viewer links can use a stable proxy/public origin without passing baseUrl on every tool call. (#59341) Related #59227. Thanks @gumadeiras.
• 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.
• Agents/compaction: add agents.defaults.compaction.notifyUser so the 🧹 Compacting context... start notice is opt-in instead of always being shown. (#54251) Thanks @oguricap0327.
• WhatsApp/reactions: add reactionLevel guidance for agent reactions. Thanks @mcaxtr.

Source

Official OpenClaw release notes for v2026.4.2