OpenClaw 2026.10.4 released
A stability patch addressing Gateway reliability, shutdown hangs, and issues across browser, messaging, and update systems.
What changed in 2026.10.4
- Gateway stays running through system sleep and clock changes instead of restarting unexpectedly.
- Gateway shutdown and restart no longer hang waiting for stalled transcript workers or session lifecycle events.
- Manual /compact command now completes active runs instead of canceling them and losing pending requests.
- Headless browser pages remain responsive during passkey authentication, and long message streams no longer cause unresponsiveness.
- Fixed owner impersonation in Tlon group DMs, OAuth passkey flows, and issues in OpenAI reasoning models, Tailscale, and multiple chat platforms.
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; 2026.10.4 came 1 day 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 |
