OpenClaw: Gateway Startup and Session Recovery Fixes
Gateway startup and restart recovery dominate today's activity, with fixes to keep plugin loading, auth, and queued work moving on large or interrupted stores. UI responsiveness and a broad internal cleanup round out the day.
Duration: PT2M49S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenClaw.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: OpenClaw
- Published: 2026-10-23T06:06:30Z
- Audio duration: PT2M49S
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Hello, it's Friday, October 23rd, 2026.
The lead pattern today is Gateway resilience on restart. Multiple fixes decouple startup from slow recovery work so large deployments start fast and stay correct.
First, startup no longer waits on heavy discovery. In PR 181289, orphan marking moves off the plugin startup path, using the active session index for recovery candidates and deferring marking until after ready, while preserving ordering for client connections, startup gated calls, and saved input replay. Related, PR…
Second, agent turns stay correct across restarts. PR 181260 settles already consumed yield cohorts without retry, fixing a double final answer from a fleet parent killed mid-turn and resumed. PR 181279 and PR 181301 stabilize the message tool definition and prompt cache identity across turns, which had been dropping…
Third, scale and interface polish. PR 181286 disables Start while new chat setup loads so Enter no longer silently does nothing. PR 181190 virtualizes large model picker catalogs for faster open and filter. PR 181247 fixes memory search to fetch metadata for hits only instead of hydrating the full session catalog.…
Also noteworthy: PR 181307 resumes safe…
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