OpenClaw: Gateway Stops Stalling, Mac Sidebar Catches Up
The Gateway moved transcript and recovery work off the event loop to stop stalls, while the macOS sidebar gained search, snooze, and filtering for parity with web. Open Claw lifecycle hardening and test cleanup round out the day.
Duration: PT3M1S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenClaw.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: OpenClaw
- Published: 2026-10-02T06:05:56Z
- Audio duration: PT3M1S
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Good morning, it's Friday, October 2nd, 2026, and this is OpenClaw.
The lead story: the Gateway is no longer doing database work on its main thread. That fixes freezes around agent completion and session recovery.
First theme is responsiveness. PR 163120 prevents event-loop stalls when completion writes transcript markers or reply preparation reads transcript data, with no change to stored bytes or schemas. PR 163119 applies the same fix to restart recovery, preserving the atomic transcript clone while keeping the loop…
Second, macOS parity. PR 163114 adds paging, server search, and scope to the native sidebar roster, with loading and retry states. PR 163164 adds filtering and grouping, PR 163165 adds hover detail cards, and PR 163162 enables editing group folder defaults. PR 163241 adds snooze with local-time presets and wake…
Finally, safety and hygiene. Four still-open Claw proposals, including PRs 163304 and 163307, would gate new work behind Labs and harden ownership, removal, and updates. Merged test batches including d146 and d147 remove redundant coverage, while PR 163226 makes Gateway tests tolerant of loaded hosts, and commit…
What's next: watch whether the open Claw…
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