OpenClaw v2026.3.7 landed on March 8, 2026, with over 200 contributors and more than 150 bug fixes — making it one of the largest community releases to date.
Context Engine Plugin Interface
The headline feature is a new extensible plugin slot system for custom context management strategies. Developers can now build context engine plugins with full lifecycle hooks, enabling specialized memory and retrieval strategies beyond the built-in defaults.
Persistent Channel Bindings
Discord and Telegram channel bindings are now durable across restarts. Previously, restarting an OpenClaw instance could drop active channel connections. This fix ensures that configured channels automatically reconnect after a restart or crash — critical for always-on deployments.
Telegram Topic Agent Routing
Forum-style Telegram groups can now route messages to different agents per topic. Each topic thread can have its own agent override with isolated session state, allowing a single OpenClaw instance to serve multiple specialized agents within one Telegram group.
Breaking Change
Gateway auth now requires an explicit gateway.auth.mode field when both token and password authentication are configured. Users running dual auth must set this before upgrading to avoid startup failures.
Additional Features
- Spanish locale — es language option added to the Control UI
- Web search provider selection — Enhanced onboarding with full provider lists
- SecretRef support — Extended to gateway auth tokens with auth-mode guardrails
- Docker multi-stage build — Optimized container images with minimal runtime footprint
Bug Fixes
The 150+ fixes span memory search indexing, model normalization for Venice/Grok/OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Slack deduplication, LINE authentication, Telegram draft stability, Discord presence defaults, and iOS concurrency safety.
Update via openclaw update or pull the latest image. OpenClaw Launch users receive this update automatically.