OpenClaw 2026.10.2 released
A stability release fixing upgrade paths, Gateway responsiveness, credential redaction, and prompt cache consistency across multiple platforms.
What changed in 2026.10.2
- Upgrades from 2026.10.1 now complete cleanly on Windows, cloned filesystems, and private nodes without stalling or rolling back.
- OpenAI and Anthropic API routes default to provider-native compaction; compaction now recovers when the primary auth profile is cooling down.
- Credentials crossing chunk boundaries in tool output are masked; large text redaction is faster and no longer stalls.
- Anthropic conversation checkpoints stay byte-identical across follow-ups, replays, and Gateway restarts so cached prefixes keep hitting.
- Gateway no longer freezes during control UI reconnects, model changes with large plugins, or dashboard operations.
Summarised by AgentGid from OpenClaw Foundation (nonprofit); created by Peter Steinberger's official release notes on GitHub, as reported there; read the original before relying on it. Price, status and release dates come from our daily data.
OpenClaw at a glance
| What it is | Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on the user's own machine as a gateway and works through chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord and iMessage, with a skills system and swappable model plugins. I… |
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| Latest version | 2026.10.10, Nov 3, 2026. This page is about an earlier release. |
| Release pace | 15 stable releases in the last 30 days; 2026.10.2 came 2 days after the previous one |
| Price | Free (OSS). Free and open source (MIT) with no paid tier, hosted service or token; users pay their chosen model providers. Official pricing ↗ (checked Oct 5, 2026) |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 2.4M down 36.4% |
| Gid Score | 72 #6 in General-purpose AI agents |
