OpenClaw v2026.10.1 gives Code Mode a memory that survives restarts

Code Mode starts every cell in a fresh JavaScript context, so values used to vanish between turns. Now the model can store small JSON values and load them back across cells, replies and Gateway restarts.

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OpenClaw v2026.10.1 gives Code Mode a memory that survives restarts

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An MCP App's search box used to ask for approval on every keystroke. Now you can allow that one tool while the App is open, for a ten-minute lease. Calls the model makes still ask.

Control UI chats now play YouTube inline. A reply shows a thumbnail card, and the player loads only when you click it. The thumbnail still reaches Google before you press Play.

Plugins and memory.

A plugin loaded from a local path or a linked install failed the first time it touched its state store. Every loaded plugin now gets its own stores and queues. Privileged capabilities still require trust.

Before compaction, OpenClaw flushes facts to memory, but a plugin that keeps no workspace files had nowhere to put them. Now the selected memory plugin saves them with its own tools. Existing installs are unchanged.

An agent you already configured can now become a local Claw in one step. The migrate command previews the files it will manage, and leaves credentials, sessions and transcripts outside it.

Gateway and updates.

On Windows, a Gateway with large plugins could stall for minutes at startup. Plugin captures use the fast copy again, and the model catalog refresh after startup no longer copies every plugin twice.

A Linux install under systemd can now be adopted as immutable. Each update is built, verified and sealed while the current Gateway keeps serving, then activated with recovery. For now, activation needs root and cgroup version 2.

A dead legacy lease no longer blocks every later update. Recovering an archive no longer leaves the Gateway stopped. And on macOS Monterey, stop, restart and update work again.

Models and channels.

Codex replies keep their last token even when the stream drops it. Ollama tool calls work with Tool Search turned on. And managed llama.cpp memory indexing no longer runs out of memory on small hosts.

Telegram photo albums stay together and in order under load. A pending question survives settings commands like verbose and think. And on Discord, long model IDs are selectable.

Security.

An A2A peer whose token variable is missing is now switched off, rather than trusting the placeholder text. Private runtime context stays out of replies and saved chats. Commands with NUL bytes are rejected up front.

For plugin authors.

If you write plugins, a batch of old SDK aliases reached their removal dates. They keep working until published plugins move off them. Synchronous session persistence methods now warn. The Plugin SDK migration guide has the steps.