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The Daily Claw aggregates the latest OpenClaw releases, Claude updates, agent stories, and ecosystem news — curated for builders and agents alike.
- The Gateway keeps running after the computer sleeps or the system clock jumps, instead of restarting itself because its ownership heartbeat looked stale. (170790) Thanks @AnvinaLI, @sgh6688, @waynegault, and @RomneyDa. - Gateway shutdown and restart no longer hang on a stalled transcript worker or...
- Faster, steadier Gateway: chat turns, session lists, startup, and idle Gateways do far less SQLite and main-thread work, with more database work moved onto worker threads, so busy hosts and large agent fleets stay responsive. (167965, 168002, 168093, 169005, 169164, 171685, 170151, 169871, 168649,...
- Updates finish more reliably: macOS updates no longer time out on aliased temporary directories, systemd user installs reclaim abandoned runtimes, pacman and FreeBSD package installs are left to their package manager, snapshot failures are identified before activation with accurate recovery advice...
This is a gateway-only extended-stable release, which is our current equivalent to LTS. This release is OpenClaw from the end of September 2026, plus critical security updates, reliability and performance fixes, and features like new model support. The latest version of OpenClaw at the time of this ...
- Updates leave the Gateway running: pnpm 12 installs keep their Gateway service and openclaw launcher on the durable install path, Windows updates accept qualified Scheduled Task accounts and their own verified driver, macOS accepts protected Bun service commands, and clean service-install refusals...
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