OpenClaw: Fixing the Big Stuff and Making Things Configurable
Today we're diving into 15 merged PRs that tackle some serious quality-of-life improvements. The star of the show is making compaction timeouts configurable to prevent those dreaded session death spirals, plus we've got Android call log support, OpenRouter image detection fixes, and a bunch of hardening work across the platform.
Duration: PT4M16S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenClaw.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: OpenClaw
- Published: 2026-03-15T10:21:50Z
- Audio duration: PT4M16S
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Hey there, developers! Welcome back to another episode of OpenClaw. I'm your host, and wow, do we have a packed day to talk about. March 15th brought us 15 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits, and honestly, this feels like one of those episodes where the team just said "you know what, let's fix all the…
Let me start with the absolute heavyweight of today's changes - PR 46889 from asyncjason. This one's a game-changer, folks. You know that nightmare scenario where you have a long conversation session with hundreds of messages, and suddenly everything just... freezes? Well, that was happening because of a hardcoded…
Jason's fix adds a configurable timeout via `agents.defaults.compaction.timeoutSeconds`, bumping the default from 5 minutes to 15 minutes. That might not sound revolutionary, but for anyone who's been stuck with an unresponsive session, this is huge. The best part? It's properly tested with edge cases covered,…
Speaking of user experience wins, we've got some fantastic Android improvements. PR 44073 from lxk7280 adds call log search support, so you can actually ask OpenClaw "Have I contacted Sarah recently?" and get a real answer. It's one of those features…
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