OpenClaw v2026.10.5 finishes its own updates and resumes your chats after a restart

OpenClaw's update command now finishes on its own. It gets through Windows elevation and macOS login shells, clears stale handoff leases instead of stranding your install, and a busy Gateway can't hold it up.

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openclaw/openclaw · CHANGELOG/2026.10.5.md

OpenClaw v2026.10.5 finishes its own updates and resumes your chats after a restart

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When the OpenClaw Gateway restarts, your conversations now carry on. An interrupted turn resumes, subagents and deferred tasks keep going, and a message sent during worktree setup makes it through.

A turn that hits a stalled stream or an expired ChatGPT websocket now recovers. So do malformed OpenAI and Google streams, and a turn that can't finish ends with a visible notice.

Session and history reads moved onto worker threads, which keeps the Gateway responsive. Each chat turn does far less SQLite work, and startup memory is back to the previous release.

New ways to reach your agent.

A new channel plugin lets OpenClaw answer your mentions on X. Guest mode lets other people ask about your repository, and daily and monthly caps limit your X API spend.

OpenClaw voice calls now take a brief for each call and hand back a report afterward. You can steer a call while it's running, and calls now support callbacks and detect voicemail.

You can now browse and search ClawHub plugins and skills from inside the Gateway. Plugins pick the newest official release your OpenClaw supports, and keep the working one when that release is unavailable.

Joining a device now installs a background service that can host agent sessions. Workers can run inference locally, dispatched by the Gateway, and the iOS app connects to your Gateway through Cloudflare Access.

New models, and how you pick them.

New Claude, ChatGPT and Ollama models now appear in OpenClaw's picker without waiting for an update. Pickers list each provider's recommended models first, and downloaded catalogs apply without a Gateway restart.

If you run OpenClaw on Google models, two new ones arrive, Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini 3.8 Flash. Gemini 4 Argon also becomes OpenClaw's default Google model.

Security, plugins, and who has to wait.

Once you approve a tool call, its arguments now stay as you approved them. A plugin hook that changes them needs a second approval, and if a transforming plugin skips that request, OpenClaw blocks the call.

Network results reached through Tool Search or Code Mode now taint the turn, the same as a direct network call. Browser pairing credentials stay out of process arguments, and Discord and Slack honor command owners for exec approvals.

Plugin admission now rejects older official Codex runtimes and explains how to update or repair them. On Android, this release ships without a new APK, so the app stays on its August build.

Upgrade steps are in OpenClaw's Updating guide, and plugin authors will find the hook changes in the tool policy guide. Which channel do you talk to OpenClaw on?