OpenClaw Change log & Dev Experience
Weekly Claw Ep. 19
A crisp walk through what shipped, what's brewing in beta, and how the contributor signal is trending.
- Stable: v2026.6.9 and v2026.6.10
- Beta channel signal and what's next
- Dev Experience: review, community, signal map
- Themes first, mechanics second
- Numbers sampled, not exhaustive
- Builder-facing, no fluff
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June 26, 2026
June 19 to June 26, 2026
Two stables, three betas
A focused week with fix-heavy maintenance underpinning two stable cuts.
- v2026.6.9
- v2026.6.10
- v2026.6.10-beta.1, beta.2
- v2026.6.11-beta.1
- Fix-heavy core
- Refactor, test, features, and chore alongside
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June 26, 2026
Richer Telegram delivery
More than plain text
Telegram output now spans formatted, interactive, and progress-aware delivery surfaces.
- Rich HTML and markdown
- Safe HTML tables
- Mentions
- Stickers and command output
- Progress drafts
- Spooled handlers
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June 26, 2026
More dependable agent recovery
Fewer dead ends
Agents now recover cleanly across retries, compaction, and interrupted sessions.
- Retries with terminal outcomes
- Usage tracking after compaction
- Session history repair
- Reply reconciliation
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June 26, 2026
Stronger Codex integration
Tighter loop, less friction
Codex workflows gain automatic approvals, OAuth routing, and remote execution as a tool.
- Automatic plugin approvals
- GPT-5.3 Spark OAuth routing
- Remote-node exec as a dynamic tool
- App-server teardown with terminal outcomes
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June 26, 2026
Plugins, UI, and provenance
First-class and traceable
Official provider plugins land as npm releases while Control UI and search gain trust signals.
- Standalone official plugins as npm releases
- StepFun via npm and ClawHub
- Session workspace rail and extension health
- iOS Watch controls, Android chat context
- Codex Hosted Search
- Key-free providers as deliberate opt-ins
- ClawHub skill installs keep verified source provenance
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June 26, 2026
Auto fast mode for talks
Right speed, right turn
Conversational turns run fast, longer runs return to normal, all with bounded fallback.
- Fast mode for short turns
- Normal mode for longer runs
- Bounded fallback
- Predictable delivery behavior
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June 26, 2026
Safer model routing
Catalog-aware decisions
Routing now tracks the active model catalog for synthesis, failover, and reasoning levels.
- Zai synthesis
- GLM overload failover
- Native reasoning-level selection
- Follows the active model catalog
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June 26, 2026
Safer state, durable policies
No stale leakage
Channel and session state stay clean, and trusted policies hold through hook composition.
- Channel switches reset stale origin fields
- Cron delivery stays attached to its target session
- Trusted policies survive hook composition
- Provider plugin onboarding refreshes registry metadata after setup
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June 26, 2026
What's brewing
Three cuts in motion
The beta channel is moving steadily toward the next stable line.
- v2026.6.10-beta.1
- v2026.6.10-beta.2
- v2026.6.11-beta.1 already in flight
- Continued fix-heavy maintenance
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June 26, 2026
The shape of the week
Fix-heavy, broadly contributed
A sampled view of how the work landed across commits and changed items.
- 1,000 commits sampled
- 500 changed issues and PRs
- 159 distinct authors
- Fix-heavy core
- Refactor, test, features, and chore alongside
- Test work paired with refactors keeps changes verifiable
- Echoes BRK245: build the thing that builds the thing
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June 26, 2026
Who moved the needle
159 authors, a long tail
A focused core drove the bulk of changes, with broad participation behind it.
- Vincent Koc — 470
- Shakker — 67
- joshavant — 35
- Dallin Romney — 30
- Josh Lehman — 30
- Plus the long tail of 159 authors
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June 26, 2026
Where energy concentrated
Delivery, recovery, trust
This week's themes cluster around dependable delivery and safer state.
- Rich Telegram delivery
- Stronger Codex integration
- Auto fast mode for talks
- Dependable agent recovery
- Safer model routing
- Safer session and channel state
- Official provider plugins
- Search and skills provenance
- Trusted policies through hook composition
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The week in one line
Steady, verifiable progress
Two stable releases hardened delivery, recovery, and trust while the beta channel kept moving.
- v2026.6.9 broadened delivery and integration
- v2026.6.10 tightened routing and state safety
- Track the v2026.6.11 beta line
- Keep the proof loops tight
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