OpenClaw 2026.4.20: What Shipped

This post covers what shipped in v2026.4.20.

What shipped

• Onboard/wizard: restyle the setup security disclaimer with a single yellow warning banner, section headings and bulleted checklists, and un-dim the note body so key guidance is easy to scan; add a loading spinner during the initial model catalog load so the wizard no longer goes blank while it runs; add an "API key" placeholder to provider API key prompts. (#69553) Thanks @Patrick-Erichsen.
• Agents/prompts: strengthen the default system prompt and OpenAI GPT-5 overlay with clearer completion bias, live-state checks, weak-result recovery, and verification-before-final guidance.
• Models/costs: support tiered model pricing from cached catalogs and configured models, and include bundled Moonshot Kimi K2.6/K2.5 cost estimates for token-usage reports. (#67605) Thanks @sliverp.
• Sessions/Maintenance: enforce the built-in entry cap and age prune by default, and prune oversized stores at load time so accumulated cron/executor session backlogs cannot OOM the gateway before the write path runs. (#69404) Thanks @bobrenze-bot.
• Plugins/tests: reuse plugin loader alias and Jiti config resolution across repeated same-context loads, reducing import-heavy test overhead. (#69316) Thanks @amknight.
• Cron: split runtime execution state into jobs-state.json so jobs.json stays stable for git-tracked job definitions. (#63105) Thanks @Feelw00.
• Agents/compaction: send opt-in start and completion notices during context compaction. (#67830) Thanks @feniix.
• Moonshot/Kimi: default bundled Moonshot setup, web search, and media-understanding surfaces to kimi-k2.6 while keeping kimi-k2.5 available for compatibility. (#69477) Thanks @scoootscooob.
• Moonshot/Kimi: allow thinking.keep = "all" on moonshot/kimi-k2.6, and strip it for other Moonshot models or requests where pinned tool_choice disables thinking. (#68816) Thanks @aniaan.
• BlueBubbles/groups: forward per-group systemPrompt config into inbound context GroupSystemPrompt so configured group-specific behavioral instructions (for example threaded-reply and tapback conventions) are injected on every turn. Supports "*" wildcard fallback matching the existing requireMention pattern. Closes #60665. (#69198) Thanks @omarshahine.
• Plugins/tasks: add a detached runtime registration contract so plugin executors can own detached task lifecycle and cancellation without reaching into core task internals. (#68915) Thanks @mbelinky.
• Terminal/logging: optimize sanitizeForLog() by replacing the iterative control-character stripping loop with a single regex pass while preserving the existing ANSI-first sanitization behavior. (#67205) Thanks @bulutmuf.
• QA/CI: make openclaw qa suite and openclaw qa telegram fail by default when scenarios fail, add --allow-failures for artifact-only runs, and tighten live-lane defaults for CI automation. (#69122) Thanks @joshavant.
• Mattermost: stream thinking, tool activity, and partial reply text into a single draft preview post that finalizes in place when safe. (#47838) thanks @ninjaa.
• Exec/YOLO: stop rejecting gateway-host exec in security=full plus ask=off mode via the Python/Node script preflight hardening path, so promptless YOLO exec once again runs direct interpreter stdin and heredoc forms such as node <<'NODE' ... NODE.
• OpenAI Codex: normalize legacy openai-completions transport overrides on default OpenAI/Codex and GitHub Copilot-compatible hosts back to the native Codex Responses transport while leaving custom proxies untouched. (#45304, #42194) Thanks @dyss1992 and @DeadlySilent.

Source

Official OpenClaw release notes for v2026.4.20