clawdbot 2026.1.15
openclaw/openclaw released version v2026.1.15. This release includes breaking changes. Key updates: Plugins: add provider auth registry + `clawdbot models auth login` for plugin-driven OAuth/API key flows.; Browser: improve remote CDP/Browserless support (auth passthrough, `wss` upgrade, timeouts...
Highlights
- Plugins: add provider auth registry +
clawdbot models auth loginfor plugin-driven OAuth/API key flows. - Browser: improve remote CDP/Browserless support (auth passthrough,
wssupgrade, timeouts, clearer errors). - Heartbeat: per-agent configuration + 24h duplicate suppression. (#980) — thanks @voidserf.
- Security: audit warns on weak model tiers; app nodes store auth tokens encrypted (Keychain/SecurePrefs).
Breaking
- BREAKING: iOS minimum version is now 18.0 to support Textual markdown rendering in native chat. (#702)
- BREAKING: Microsoft Teams is now a plugin; install
@clawdbot/msteamsviaclawdbot plugins install @clawdbot/msteams.
Changes
- CLI: set process titles to
clawdbot-<command>for clearer process listings. - CLI/macOS: sync remote SSH target/identity to config and let
gateway statusauto-infer SSH targets (ssh-config aware). - Heartbeat: tighten prompt guidance + suppress duplicate alerts for 24h. (#980) — thanks @voidserf.
- Repo: ignore local identity files to avoid accidental commits. (#1001) — thanks @gerardward2007.
- Sessions/Security: add
session.dmScopefor multi-user DM isolation and audit warnings. (#948) — thanks @Alphonse-arianee. - Plugins: add provider auth registry +
clawdbot models auth loginfor plugin-driven OAuth/API key flows. - Onboarding: switch channels setup to a single-select loop with per-channel actions and disabled hints in the picker.
- TUI: show provider/model labels for the active session and default model.
- Heartbeat: add per-agent heartbeat configuration and multi-agent docs example.
- UI: show gateway auth guidance + doc link on unauthorized Control UI connections.
- Security: warn on weak model tiers (Haiku, below GPT-5, below Claude 4.5) in
clawdbot security audit. - Apps: store node auth tokens encrypted (Keychain/SecurePrefs).
- Daemon: share profile/state-dir resolution across service helpers and honor
CLAWDBOT_STATE_DIRfor Windows task scripts. - Docs: clarify multi-gateway rescue bot guidance. (#969) — thanks @bjesuiter.
- Agents: add Current Date & Time system prompt section with configurable time format (auto/12/24).
- Tools: normalize Slack/Discord message timestamps with
timestampMs/timestampUtcwhile keeping raw provider fields. - macOS: add
system.whichfor prompt-free remote skill discovery (with gateway fallback tosystem.run). - Docs: add Date & Time guide and update prompt/timezone configuration docs.
- Messages: debounce rapid inbound messages across channels with per-connector overrides. (#971) — thanks @juanpablodlc.
- Messages: allow media-only sends (CLI/tool) and show Telegram voice recording status for voice notes. (#957) — thanks @rdev.
- Auth/Status: keep auth profiles sticky per session (rotate on compaction/new), surface provider usage headers in
/statusandclawdbot models status, and update docs. - CLI: add
--jsonoutput forclawdbot daemonlifecycle/install commands. - Memory: make
node-llama-cppan optional dependency (avoid Node 25 install failures) and improve local-embeddings fallback/errors. - Browser: add
snapshot refs=aria(Playwright aria-ref ids) for self-resolving refs acrosssnapshot→act. - Browser:
profile="chrome"now defaults to host control and returns clearer “attach a tab” errors. - Browser: prefer stable Chrome for auto-detect, with Brave/Edge fallbacks and updated docs. (#983) — thanks @cpojer.
- Browser: increase remote CDP reachability timeouts + add
remoteCdpTimeoutMs/remoteCdpHandshakeTimeoutMs. - Browser: preserve auth/query tokens for remote CDP endpoints and pass Basic auth for CDP HTTP/WS. (#895) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Telegram: add bidirectional reaction support with configurable notifications and agent guidance. (#964) — thanks @bohdanpodvirnyi.
- Telegram: allow custom commands in the bot menu (merged with native; conflicts ignored). (#860) — thanks @nachoiacovino.
- Discord: allow allowlisted guilds without channel lists to receive messages when
groupPolicy="allowlist". — thanks @thewilloftheshadow. - Discord: allow emoji/sticker uploads + channel actions in config defaults. (#870) — thanks @JDIVE.
Fixes
- Fix: list model picker entries as provider/model pairs for explicit selection. (#970) — thanks @mcinteerj.
- Fix: align OpenAI image-gen defaults with DALL-E 3 standard quality and document output formats. (#880) — thanks @mkbehr.
- Fix: persist
gateway.mode=localafter selecting Local run mode inclawdbot configure, even if no other sections are chosen. - Daemon: fix profile-aware service label resolution (env-driven) and add coverage for launchd/systemd/schtasks. (#969) — thanks @bjesuiter.
- Agents: avoid false positives when logging unsupported Google tool schema keywords.
- Agents: skip Gemini history downgrades for google-antigravity to preserve tool calls. (#894) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
- Status: restore usage summary line for current provider when no OAuth profiles exist.
- Fix: guard model fallback against undefined provider/model values. (#954) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
- Fix: refactor session store updates, add chat.inject, and harden subagent cleanup flow. (#944) — thanks @tyler6204.
- Fix: clean up suspended CLI processes across backends. (#978) — thanks @Nachx639.
- Fix: support MiniMax coding plan usage responses with
model_remains/current_interval_*payloads. - Fix: suppress WhatsApp pairing replies for historical catch-up DMs on initial link. (#904)
- Browser: extension mode recovers when only one tab is attached (stale targetId fallback).
- Browser: fix
tab not foundfor extension relay snapshots/actions when Playwright blocksnewCDPSession(use the single available Page). - Browser: upgrade
ws→wsswhen remote CDP useshttps(fixes Browserless handshake). - Telegram: skip
message_thread_id=1for General topic sends while keeping typing indicators. (#848) — thanks @azade-c. - Fix: sanitize user-facing error text + strip
<final>tags across reply pipelines. (#975) — thanks @ThomsenDrake. - Fix: normalize pairing CLI aliases, allow extension channels, and harden Zalo webhook payload parsing. (#991) — thanks @longmaba.
- Fix: allow local Tailscale Serve hostnames without treating tailnet clients as direct. (#885) — thanks @oswalpalash.
- Fix: reset sessions after role-ordering conflicts to recover from consecutive user turns. (#998)
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