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for supporting full-time engineering work on OpenClaw hardening.
A lot of careful security and reliability improvements landed over the last few releases, and that investment is paying off.
OpenClaw 2026.3.31 Bundled QQ Bot โ private, group, and guild chat + media
LINE now sends images, video, and audio
Real background task flows: list, show, cancel
Better CJK: context, memory, and TTS
OpenClaw's next release has been leaked
Durable task orchestration
Android notification forwarding controls
Matrix draft streaming + room history
Exec approvals natively in Slack
Remote MCP over HTTP/SSE
WhatsApp emoji reactions
Teams member info via Graph
The leak continues
has just put together the definitive guide to getting started with and mastering OpenClaw.
Building on our podcast episode, this post covers everything you need to know, from first install to multi-agent setups, plus the real costs and
Landed a nice new security feature in this one:
Plugins now have the ability to ask for the userโs permission during the before_tool_call hook.
This gives developers an essential UX primitive for building interactive tool call โfirewallsโ.
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OpenClaw 2026.3.28 Plugin approval hooks โ any tool can pause for your OK
xAI Responses API + x_search
ACP bind here: Discord/iMessage
WhatsApp echo loop, Telegram splitting, Discord reconnect fixes
Tokyo pre-ClawCon drop https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.28โฆ
2026.3.28 to use the Responses API which users have been asking for since an issue in the 6000s (at 50k+ now).
Honestly though Iโm not perfectly happy with it yet. Iโm working on improving the selection of when to use the built in X
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OpenClaw 2026.3.28 Plugin approval hooks โ any tool can pause for your OK
xAI Responses API + x_search
ACP bind here: Discord/iMessage
WhatsApp echo loop, Telegram splitting, Discord reconnect fixes
Tokyo pre-ClawCon drop https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.28โฆ
OpenClaw 2026.3.28 Plugin approval hooks โ any tool can pause for your OK
xAI Responses API + x_search
ACP bind here: Discord/iMessage
WhatsApp echo loop, Telegram splitting, Discord reconnect fixes
Tokyo pre-ClawCon drop
Skill & tool management Control UI
Slack interactive reply buttons
Native Microsoft Teams
Smart Discord auto-thread naming
Any client. Any model. One runtime.
OpenClaw 2026.3.23 DeepSeek provider plugin
Qwen pay-as-you-go
OpenRouter auto pricing + Anthropic thinking order
Chrome MCP waits for tabs
Discord/Slack/Matrix + Web UI fixes
Upgrade before your agent does it for you.
OpenClaw 2026.3.22 ClawHub plugin marketplace
MiniMax M2.7, GPT-5.4-mini/nano + per-agent reasoning
/btw side questions
OpenShell + SSH sandboxes
Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl search
This release is so big it needs its own table of contents.
OpenClaw 2026.3.13 live Chrome session attach โ real logins, one toggle, zero extensions
android redesigned & down to 7MB, iOS gets welcome pager
docker timezone override
windows gateway tweaks
the lobster sees all now https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.13โฆ
- What hooks/features are you looking for?
- What is stopping you from plugins?
- Any key pain points?
- How do you test when developing?
DM's open or drop comments here :)
OpenClaw 2026.3.12 dashboard v2 โ slick new control UI
/fast mode for models
ollama/sglang/vllm โ plugins (core goes on a diet)
device tokens now ephemeral
cron + windows reliability fixes
touch grass? nah, touch main
OpenClaw 2026.3.8 ACP provenance โ your agent finally knows who's talking to it
openclaw backup โ because YOLO deploys need a safety net
Telegram dupes killed
12+ security fixes
We fixed more things than we broke. Progress.