Resilience & Ecosystem
OpenClaw 2026.5.28 focuses on making agent runtimes rock-solid, delivering a major refresh to the iOS experience, and integrating the latest models from Anthropic and NVIDIA.
Resilient Agent & Codex Runtimes
We've hardened the runtime recovery paths to ensure that interrupted tasks or transient failures don't block your workflow.
- Subagent Separation: Subagents now maintain strict workspace and current-working-directory separation, preventing state leakage.
- Lock Management: Session locks now release reliably on timeout aborts, while live OpenClaw locks are preserved during routine cleanup.
- Codex Stability: App-server and helper failures no longer affect the shared runtime state, making long-running Codex sessions much steadier.
- Hook Context: Hook context is now strictly prompt-local, ensuring cleaner execution boundaries.
iOS Pro UI & Mobile Refresh
A significantly improved mobile experience for power users on the go.
- iOS Pro UI: A refreshed interface featuring Pro Command, dedicated agent views, and improved settings management.
- Realtime Talk: Integrated realtime Talk tab playback with guarded WebSocket pings for more reliable sessions.
- Hosted Push Relay: New default hosted push relay for snappier mobile notifications.
- Session Persistence: Onboarding and session picker state are now better preserved across reconnects and empty searches.
Expanded Provider & Model Support
Keeping pace with the rapidly evolving AI landscape with new integrations.
- Claude Opus 4.8: Native support for Anthropic's latest high-intelligence model.
- NVIDIA Featured Models: Direct access to NVIDIA's featured model catalog for high-performance inference.
- Fal Krea Integration: Native image generation schemas for the latest Fal Krea models.
- GitHub Copilot Runtime: Official support for the GitHub Copilot agent runtime via the new @openclaw/copilot plugin.
- MiniMax Music: Support for streaming music responses from MiniMax.
Channel & Input Hardening
Ensuring that communication between your agents and chat platforms remains secure and reliable.
- Steadier Delivery: Improved session identity and delivery across Matrix room IDs, iMessage reactions, and Slack final replies.
- Stricter Validation: Earlier rejection of malformed browser timeouts, viewport indices, and Gateway ports.
- WhatsApp Auth: More robust profile auth roots and 408 timeout retries for QR login.
- Security Boundaries: Rejected unsafe OAuth lifetimes, response body sizes, and restricted WebSocket calls after close.
Technical Highlights
- Tokenjuice Plugin: Externalized Tokenjuice as an official plugin for easier maintenance.
- Workboard Primitives: New orchestration primitives for multi-agent planning and run tracking.
- PDF Extraction: Support for encrypted PDF extraction using the ClawPDF engine.
Upgrade Guide
Who should upgrade?
- Users relying on subagents or long-running Codex tasks
- iOS users who want the latest Pro UI and Realtime Talk features
- Developers needing access to Claude Opus 4.8 or NVIDIA models
How to Upgrade
Update your installation via the terminal:
openclaw update
FAQ
What improvements were made to runtime recovery?
Subagents now maintain cleaner workspace separation, session locks release properly on timeout aborts, and Codex failures no longer tear down the shared runtime state.
Which new providers and models are available?
This release adds support for Claude Opus 4.8, Fal Krea image schemas, NVIDIA featured models, and the GitHub Copilot agent runtime.
What's new for mobile users?
The iOS Pro UI has been refreshed with a default hosted push relay, realtime Talk tab playback, and better session picker behavior across reconnects.
What channel improvements are included?
Session identity and delivery are hardened across Matrix room IDs, iMessage approvals, Slack final replies, and WhatsApp profile auth roots.
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