OpenClaw: Security Hardening and Memory Optimization

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Good morning. This is your OpenClaw developer briefing for May 25th, 2026.

The team merged 20 pull requests with significant security and stability improvements. BunsDev made compaction reinjection opt-in through a new agents configuration flag, affecting 24 files across the embedded runner system. Fuller-stack-dev delivered auth credential migration from Codex and Hermes with interactive prompting, adding over 4,000 lines of migration logic and OAuth handling.

Several critical fixes landed for memory and async operations. SebTardif resolved a memory core issue where REM dreaming was selecting wrong candidates by filtering entries to light-staged candidates only. Fuller-stack-dev suppressed async media incomplete-turn errors while preserving metadata tracking across 21 files.

Communication platform reliability improved significantly. Jason-allen-oneal fixed Telegram inbound text entity preservation, converting formatting to markdown before agent processing. SebTardif added forum topic name propagation to agent context. Neerav Makwana prevented Slack downloaded files from appearing in reply media.

Tool and security hardening continued with multiple contributors. Steipete handled npm min-release-age compatibility in installers and enabled modern TypeScript module syntax. Ngutman gated talk secret bootstrap handoff with proper authority checks. Udaymanish6 stopped repeated heartbeat response loops that were burning excessive tokens.

Additional commits included Windows gateway metrics capture, coverage scenario matching for QA, and plugin metadata memo clearing at lifecycle boundaries.

What's next: The team continues focusing on performance optimizations and expanding platform integrations. Memory system refinements remain a priority following the REM dreaming fixes.

That's your OpenClaw briefing. Back to building.