release aidev BREAKING PRERELEASE SIG 3/5

OpenClaw 2026.7.1-beta.2: second beta of the same 2026.7.1 changelog

Second prerelease of 2026.7.1, publishing the same changelog as beta.1: new providers and models (Featherless, Claude Sonnet 5, Mythos 5, Meta Muse Spark 1.1, ClawRouter), GPT-5.6 as the new-setup default, a reworked Control UI with native macOS chat, agent-loop onboarding, and crash-loop recovery. Slack lifecycle reaction updates now require opting in via messages.statusReactions.enabled: true. The upstream note is truncated mid-entry.

PUBLISHED2026-07-05
OBSERVED2026-08-11
AGE1mo
SOURCES1
  • New providers/models: Featherless, Claude Sonnet 5, Mythos 5, Meta Muse Spark 1.1 (muse-spark-1.1 via bundled Responses API provider, also shipped as @openclaw/meta-provider), ClawRouter
  • GPT-5.6 becomes the new-setup default; /think ultra for Sol and Terra, max for Luna; Z.AI max honoured; model availability refreshed after OAuth renewal
  • Control UI: sessions primary, searchable sidebar, context ring, reasoning-effort slider, customizable pinned nav, GitHub issue/PR hover previews, Gateway host status, per-message token/context detail on the timestamp
  • Native macOS session browser with model and thinking pickers, slash commands, transcript export, context usage
  • Conversational onboarding (Crestodian) runs an agent loop across CLI, web install and macOS app, with model-judged approvals bound to exact operations and deterministic fallback
  • Mobile: bounded offline session/transcript caches on iOS and Android, Apple Watch voice turns, iOS speech via Gateway TTS with on-device fallback
  • Session groups, generated titles, unread state, rename/fork/archive/delete across web, iOS, Android
  • Telegram/Codex: private /login pairing, /steer and /tell, message preservation on missing transcript ack, flood-wait recovery
  • Startup: container migrations before Gateway readiness, control-plane-safe mode after repeated unclean boots, EX_CONFIG exit for fatal config errors to stop systemd/launchd restart flapping
  • Slack: native assistant thread status and rotating loading messages by default; lifecycle reaction updates now require messages.statusReactions.enabled: true
  • Logbook plugin (disabled by default) turns paired-node screen snapshots into a private timeline and standup
  • Operator-scoped tts.speak RPC (upstream note truncated here)
featuremodel-supportcapabilitybreaking

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