OpenClaw: 2026.9.7 Release Push and Sonnet 5.5 Support
OpenClaw is stabilizing release 2026.9.7 while adding day-one support for Claude Sonnet 5.5. Gateway reliability fixes and a broad no-behavior-change cleanup round out the day.
Duration: PT2M51S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenClaw.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: OpenClaw
- Published: 2026-09-29T06:05:33Z
- Audio duration: PT2M51S
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Good morning, it's Monday, September 29th, 2026, and this is your OpenClaw developer briefing.
The lead today is a release push colliding with new model support: version 2026.9.7 is being aligned and validated, while Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets working out of the box.
First, the release. PR 160937 aligns versions and release notes for 2026.9.7, and PR 160975 fixes validation failures that blocked the candidate. The state read worker had ballooned and breached the package size cap, causing a large memory regression in the gateway — now trimmed back. Related work in PR 160859 keeps…
Second, model and gateway reliability. PR 160847 adds Sonnet 5.5. Without it, discovery hid the model and inherited request shaping sent disabled thinking and forced tool choices that version 5.5 rejects. It now works on API and command line routes. On the gateway side, PR 160814 raises the pre-auth socket budget to…
Third, under-the-hood cleanup and performance. Fifth-pass deslopping touches CLI, Telegram, Matrix, Feishu, Discord, Slack, delivery, scheduler and browser plugins — no behavior change, just less duplicated ownership. Performance work cuts memory and main-thread cost for session recovery checks in…
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- Gateway Responsiveness and Scheduler Cleanup
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