# openclaw v2026.8.1 — OpenClaw 2026.8.1

- Product: openclaw (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/openclaw)
- Vendor: openclaw
- Date: 2026-08-31
- Version: v2026.8.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.8.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/openclaw/releases/v2026.8.1

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

---

- **added** — Search visible conversation text by exact words or phrases and reopen the surrounding messages from a matching result
- **added** — Run work on paired devices or cloud workers, move the session workspace with it, and reuse warm machines and project seeds for later cloud sessions
- **added** — Keep a durable session progress card through reloads and follow subagent activity and accumulating edits across web and native chat
- **added** — Respond to structured agent questions through web and native cards, messaging buttons, or plain text, with free-text alternatives and an explicit Skip path
- **added** — Use widgets in chat, pin them to session dashboards, grant specific actions or network origins, and export rendered views as images
- **added** — Let your agent request a credential through a masked prompt without putting its value in chat or model context, and use an opt-in proxy to limit protected-secret substitution to approved destinations
- **added** — Grant an automation permission for an exact operation, inspect or revoke that permission later, and require a fresh approval when the job or operation changes
- **added** — Keep media attached to the conversation across uploads, generated replies, playback, and reloads, with native playback controls and video uploads on Apple and Android clients
- **removed** — Remove the bundled OpenProse plugin and /prose command
- **changed** — Migrate shipped codex/* and openai-codex/* model refs, provider config, stored sessions, and automation routes to openai/*
- **deprecated** — Plugin SDK imports plugin-sdk-config-runtime-subpath, plugin-sdk-channel-reply-pipeline-subpath, plugin-sdk-channel-lifecycle-subpath, plugin-sdk-channel-message-subpath, and plugin-sdk-infra-runtime-subpath will be removed on 2026-09-01
- **changed** — Install BytePlus, ComfyUI, Mistral, NovitaAI, OpenCode, Synthetic, Volcengine, Vydra, and Xiaomi as official provider packages as needed through onboarding
- **added** — Install Cohere and Meta providers, DuckDuckGo search, Voyage embeddings, and iMessage messaging as separate official plugins when needed
- **changed** — Make expanded active-input context an explicit model configuration choice for OpenAI long-context, keeping the runtime budget distinct from the model's native capacity
- **changed** — Retrieve bounded same-agent private conversation context by default on personal installs with Active Memory enabled when no configured DM isolation exists
- **changed** — Enable model-backed background memory consolidation by default, promoting provenance-qualified material into long-term memory with a Dream Diary and an explicit disable control
- **changed** — Capture strong reusable lessons and automatically apply scanner-approved new or Workshop-owned skills by default
- **changed** — Keep conversations across idle periods and day boundaries when no reset policy is configured
- **changed** — Size default top-level agent concurrency from available CPU parallelism, bounded between 8 and 16 simultaneous runs

##### 2026.8.1

###### Highlights

- **Find past conversations:** search visible conversation text by exact words or phrases and reopen the surrounding messages from a matching result. (#105057, #105635, #105585) Thanks @hercial61.
- **Sessions beyond your Gateway:** run work on paired devices or cloud workers, move the session workspace with it, and reuse warm machines and project seeds for later cloud sessions. (#123280, #127752, #131744, #132374)
- **Follow work as it happens:** keep a durable session progress card through reloads and follow subagent activity and accumulating edits across web and native chat. (#125125, #125438, #125442, #125444, #121549, #121840, #121815, #121813)
- **Answer clearly:** respond to structured agent questions through web and native cards, messaging buttons, or plain text, with free-text alternatives and an explicit Skip path. (#109922, #110372, #130262) Thanks @obviyus.
- **Interactive results and dashboards:** use widgets in chat, pin them to session dashboards, grant specific actions or network origins, and export rendered views as images. (#101840, #108983, #110960, #127315) Thanks @hannesrudolph.
- **Private credential requests:** let your agent request a credential through a masked prompt without putting its value in chat or model context, and use an opt-in proxy to limit protected-secret substitution to approved destinations. (#129670, #123216, #132122)
- **Approve recurring work once:** grant an automation permission for an exact operation, inspect or revoke that permission later, and require a fresh approval when the job or operation changes. (#129526, #131602)
- **Richer audio and video:** keep media attached to the conversation across uploads, generated replies, playback, and reloads, with native playback controls and video uploads on Apple and Android clients. (#115842, #116051, #116037)

###### Changes

- **OpenProse migration (breaking):** remove the bundled OpenProse plugin and `/prose` command; run `openclaw doctor --fix` to clean stale configuration and follow the [upstream Agent Skill migration](https://docs.openclaw.ai/prose), keeping existing `.prose` source files. (#128494) Thanks @obviyus and @vincentkoc.
- **OpenAI route migration (breaking):** use `openclaw doctor --fix` to migrate shipped `codex/*` and `openai-codex/*` model refs, provider config, stored sessions, and automation routes to `openai/*`, retaining Codex runtime intent and flagging conflicts for operator repair. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- **Upcoming deprecations (2026-09-01):** external plugins should migrate ahead of the SDK removal gate: `plugin-sdk-config-runtime-subpath` moves to `api.pluginConfig` and the focused `openclaw/plugin-sdk/config-mutation`, `openclaw/plugin-sdk/runtime-config-snapshot`, or `openclaw/plugin-sdk/config-contracts` imports; `plugin-sdk-channel-reply-pipeline-subpath` and `plugin-sdk-channel-lifecycle-subpath` move to `openclaw/plugin-sdk/channel-outbound`; `plugin-sdk-channel-message-subpath` moves to `openclaw/plugin-sdk/channel-outbound` and `openclaw/plugin-sdk/channel-inbound`; `plugin-sdk-infra-runtime-subpath` moves to focused `openclaw/plugin-sdk/` imports such as `delivery-queue-runtime`, `diagnostic-runtime`, `error-runtime`, `exec-approvals-runtime`, `fetch-runtime`, and `ssrf-runtime`, according to the helper used. These are upcoming gates, not removals in this release; see the [SDK migration guide](https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/sdk-migration) for per-helper mappings and remaining compatibility limits.
- **Official provider packages:** install BytePlus, ComfyUI, Mistral, NovitaAI, OpenCode, Synthetic, Volcengine, Vydra, and Xiaomi as needed through onboarding. Recover missing configured packages with `openclaw update repair` or `openclaw doctor --fix`; complete requested capability review and restart the Gateway after explicit installation. OpenCode Go remains bundled. (#116866, #116888, #116919, #117007, #117035, #116720, #116854, #116813, #116861) Thanks @vincentkoc.
-

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.8.1]_