OpenClaw v2026.10.3 finishes stuck updates and stops Doctor deleting your data

OpenClaw v2026.10.3 gets stuck updates moving again. An update blocked by a lost lease, a completed receipt OpenClaw failed to recognize, or a legacy activation record now recovers and finishes, where before it refused every retry.

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openclaw/openclaw · CHANGELOG/2026.10.3.md

OpenClaw v2026.10.3 finishes stuck updates and stops Doctor deleting your data

Lost leases Unrecognized receipts Legacy activation records

On Windows, macOS and pnpm installs, an update could leave the OpenClaw Gateway stopped or roll itself back. Scheduled Task accounts, short install paths, Bun service commands and pnpm 12 launchers now keep working through it.

Doctor's cleanup could roll back an update you asked for in chat, or a plugin upgrade, and both now stay installed. A stale Codex runtime left over from an update also stops breaking your next turn.

Doctor, and the data it repairs.

When OpenClaw's legacy auth store was unreadable or malformed, a Doctor repair deleted your canonical OAuth profiles with it. Doctor now keeps those profiles in place.

A Doctor repair could rewrite OpenClaw's root memory files with replacement characters. Doctor now leaves them byte for byte as they were. And editing a file with path set rejects malformed UTF-8 before anything gets written.

Run as root, Doctor stripped the enabled flag from any installed plugin its path-safety checks blocked. Those plugins now stay installed with their enabled flag intact.

Agents and models.

After an OpenClaw conversation went through native compaction, the next turn could fail. That turn now succeeds, and OpenClaw gets there without loading the whole transcript, however large it has grown.

A ChatGPT WebSocket that closes mid-stream no longer fails your turn. Switching back to an OpenAI model with the Codex plugin disabled works, and a Codex follow-up recovers after thread preparation failed.

Meta's Muse Wonder is the new model in this release. You can now pick it in OpenClaw like any other model you run your agents on.

MiniMax OAuth sign-ins used to fail about two hours after login. They now refresh expired tokens at the regional endpoint that issued them. And MiniMax M3.1 models now follow the thinking effort level you select.

The Mac app, the Gateway, and Android.

On a fresh Mac, choosing On this Mac at first run failed with Gateway rejected auth. It now authenticates the Gateway the app hosts. And after a trusted certificate renews, the Mac app reconnects.

OpenClaw node requests stop failing with pairing changed when another device pairs. Claude CLI session tools outlive the turn that opened their MCP loopback, and the Gateway restarts cleanly after a stored cloud worker's machine disappears.

If you run OpenClaw on Android, this release skipped the Android APK. The Android app stays on its August build until a later release ships a new one.

The steps for your install, and how to roll back, are in OpenClaw's Updating guide. The rest of this release, from IPv6 fallback to DeepSeek tool calls, is in the release notes.