OpenClaw 2026.10.8 released
A substantial patch release focused on recovery, stability and resilience across updates, gateways, conversations, databases and provider integrations.
What changed in 2026.10.8
- Post-update failures now restart the Gateway instead of leaving it stopped; maintenance workers no longer block CLI commands; updates handle ACL filesystems, Windows pnpm links, debug logging and missing legacy OAuth dir
- Gateway service installs properly on macOS and Linux; macOS recovers deleted launchd registrations; Linux creates private state directories under default umask; updater waits for Gateway database release before running D
- Conversations accept messages more reliably: killed runs release recovery fences, interrupted child sessions recover after Gateway restart, inbound retries stop when reply runtime cannot publish, Control UI forgotten-sen
- Startup and database resilience improved: SQLite reader scope no longer closes during startup preserving models and metadata availability, transient lock contention is retried, model catalogs stay available during skill
- Security hardening: exec allowlist requires approval for test operand expansion, sandboxed children cannot run host CLI backends, secret proxy rejects distrusted chains, API keys no longer exposed in error messages, nest
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; 2026.10.8 came the same day as 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 | 2.6M down 34.4% |
| Gid Score | 74 #6 in General-purpose AI agents |
