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News, releases, and stories from the OpenClaw community.
OpenClaws.io Team · April 16, 2026 · 6 min read OpenClaw 4.15: The Lobster Gets a New Brain and Learns to Watch Its Own Keys
Opus 4.7 becomes the default brain, image understanding ships in core, and a new Auth status card lets the lobster see—for the first time—how long the tokens in its hand still have. Memory is quietly moving too: LanceDB can now live on remote object storage, and dreaming splits out of inline blocks into per-day files. Not a feature-heavy release, but several defaults shifted. Worth reading before you upgrade.
OpenClaws.io Team · April 14, 2026 · 10 min read OpenClaw 4.5–4.14: The Second Siege — Ten Days of Security Work You Probably Did Not Notice
Plugin archives now verify by SHA-256. The browser tool had its SSRF filter rewritten three times in ten days. A new exec-policy CLI lets you audit every command the lobster can run. None of this makes a demo video, but if you run OpenClaw on a machine that matters, this is the release run to read.
OpenClaws.io Team · April 13, 2026 · 8 min read OpenClaw 4.5–4.12: The Lobster Dreams — Memory That Grows While You Sleep
Back in 3.28 we shipped an experimental dreaming engine as a footnote. Eight days and five releases later, it is a full system with three cooperative phases, a timeline view, a Memory Palace, and a way to backfill everything you wrote last month into durable memory without running the whole pipeline twice.
OpenClaws.io Team · April 11, 2026 · 9 min read OpenClaw 4.5–4.11: The Lobster Learns to Create — Video, Music, and Memory That Remembers for You
Three releases in six days. The lobster that used to just talk can now make videos, compose music, and remember what you told it last Tuesday without being asked. Plus a dedicated Codex provider, a bundled LM Studio path, and the openclaw infer hub that turns every provider-backed inference into one CLI surface.
OpenClaws.io Team · April 3, 2026 · 12 min read OpenClaw 3.31–4.2: Claws Out — Plugin Lockdown, Task Brain, and a Security Siege
3.28 gave the lobster a new shell. Now it learns to use its claws. Three releases in three days — 3.31, 4.1, 4.2 — deliver the most aggressive security lockdown in OpenClaw history. Plugin installs get blocked if dangerous code is detected. Background tasks get a unified SQLite brain with a live /tasks dashboard. xAI and Firecrawl configs move to plugin-owned paths. Shell execution environments get stripped of sensitive variables. Gateway auth stops trusting localhost by default. The lobster is no longer just armored — it bites back.
OpenClaws.io Team · March 28, 2026 · 10 min read OpenClaw 3.28: New Shell — MiniMax Image Generation, Async Tool Approval, and 90+ Fixes
3.22 was the surgery. 3.23 confirmed survival. 3.24 was rehab. Now the lobster has grown a new shell — harder, sharper, battle-ready. 2 breaking changes, 21 features, 90+ fixes. MiniMax brings image generation. Plugins can now intercept tool calls and ask for approval. xAI moves to the Responses API with native search. And 90+ fixes harden every channel from Telegram to Matrix. Time to suit up.
OpenClaws.io Team · March 24, 2026 · 12 min read OpenClaw 3.24: Rehabilitation — Microsoft Teams Rewrite, 18 Breaking Changes, and a Developer Experience Leap
3.22 was the surgery. 3.23 made sure the patient survived. 3.24: the lobster starts rehab. 18 breaking changes, 15 fixes, 343 commits. Microsoft Teams gets a full SDK rewrite — streaming replies, welcome cards, feedback/reflection, AI labeling. /tools now shows what's actually available. One-click skill installs, Docker --container flag, Discord auto-threads with LLM naming. This time, we're not stitching wounds — we're learning to walk again. And faster than before.
OpenClaws.io Team · March 23, 2026 · 10 min read OpenClaw 3.23: Post-Surgery Recovery — Qwen DashScope, Auth Credential Overhaul, and 40+ Stability Fixes
3.22 was the surgery. 3.23 makes sure the patient survives. 3 breaking changes, 40+ fixes. Qwen gets standard DashScope endpoints for China and global API keys. The auth credential system stops reverting saved tokens. Browser attach stops timing out on macOS Chrome and crashing on headless Linux. The plugin ecosystem finishes its post-ClawHub cleanup. This is the stabilization release that 3.22 needed.
OpenClaws.io Team · March 22, 2026 · 15 min read OpenClaw 3.22: Architecture Overhaul — 12 Breaking Changes, 30+ Security Fixes, and the Biggest Release Yet
9 days of silence. 12 breaking changes. 30+ security hardening patches. 100+ stability fixes. ClawHub replaces npm as the default plugin source, Gateway cold starts drop from minutes to seconds, Windows SMB credential leaks are blocked. This is not an incremental update — it is a full architectural rebirth.
OpenClaws.io Team · March 16, 2026 · 8 min read OpenClaw 3.13: Mobile Redesign, 2x Memory Fix, and 70+ Stability Patches
No headline feature this time. Instead: a memory regression that doubled RAM usage is fixed, Android and iOS get real attention, agents stop tripping over their own context, and 70+ patches land across Docker, Telegram, Feishu, Signal, Slack, macOS, and Windows. A stabilization release done right.