OpenClaw 2026.10.2 makes the upgrade from 2026.10.1 finish cleanly

OpenClaw 2026.10.2 fixes the upgrade from the last stable release. That first upgrade now completes cleanly, and an in-place update that succeeds no longer finishes on an error message.

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OpenClaw 2026.10.2 makes the upgrade from 2026.10.1 finish cleanly

First upgrade from stable completes Successful updates end without errors

OpenClaw updates on Windows, on a cloned filesystem, or on a private Node install used to stall or roll back, and now they finish. A refused finalize step no longer leaves your Gateway stopped.

OpenClaw's Doctor used to stop partway on leftover legacy imports, stale Gateway locks, or a memory reindex lock. Doctor now works past all three. Sessions with a stale receipt keep their current data.

Context and secrets.

If you run OpenAI or Anthropic with an API key, compaction of long conversations now defaults to the provider's own native compaction. And when your primary auth profile is cooling down, compaction recovers.

Anthropic conversation checkpoints, tool results and enriched prompts now stay byte-identical from one turn to the next. So through follow-ups, replays, Gateway restarts and subagent completions, the cached prefix keeps hitting.

A credential split across two chunks of long tool output could leak past redaction, and OpenClaw now masks it. Redacting large text also stopped stalling, and runs several times faster.

The Gateway and agents.

Reconnecting the Control UI, switching models while large plugins are loaded, and loading the catalog could each freeze the OpenClaw Gateway. Now the Gateway stays responsive, and new sessions start instead of hanging.

A reply sent while an agent was still starting could get lost. So could a streamed Telegram reply, and the reply after a long streamed Claude CLI turn. All three replies now reach you.

Answers from subagents and ACP agents used to arrive truncated, and now come through whole. OpenClaw also stopped aborting runs as stalled after an async tool finished, or while a run waited on plugin approval.

OpenAI turns now go through when a tool schema uses regex lookaround, or when a ChatGPT websocket expires or a stream hits its size limit. Codex sessions keep running after a thread unloads.

Scheduled cron runs used to lose the Gateway's plugin registry, and manual cron runs lost tool access. Both now keep them. Max thinking also holds on cron and hook turns.

Mac and Android.

On the Mac, OpenClaw fixes segfaults under Rosetta, worker startup on Intel Macs, and a Swift compiler crash in the sidebar picker. Managed llama.cpp setup now works on macOS older than 13.3.

If you run OpenClaw on Android, this release skipped the Android APK. The Android app keeps its earlier version, so Android users wait for a later release to get a new APK.

The steps for your install, and how to roll back, are in OpenClaw's Updating guide. Every other fix in this release is in the release notes.