OpenClaw: Weekly Recap - GPT-5 Integration & Platform Stability
OpenClaw pushed 30 commits focused on GPT-5.4 runtime completion and platform fixes. Major work included auto-activating strict-agentic execution for GPT-5 models and resolving WhatsApp group reaction functionality.
Duration: PT2M28S
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- Show: OpenClaw
- Published: 2026-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M28S
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Welcome to OpenClaw's weekly recap for April 6th through 13th, 2026.
Zero pull requests merged, with 30 additional commits pushed this week.
The week's major development was EVA's comprehensive GPT-5.4 runtime completion rollup. This large commit introduced auto-activation of strict-agentic execution for GPT-5 models, addressing two critical blockers. The system now automatically enables strict-agentic execution for supported OpenAI GPT-5 family models,…
Platform fixes dominated the remaining commits. Marcus Castro resolved WhatsApp group reaction functionality, ensuring reactions are properly sent with target participants. The fix included comprehensive test coverage across multiple WhatsApp modules.
Peter Steinberger addressed several infrastructure issues, including restoring missing native runtime dependencies in the plugin system and fixing bundled peer resolution tolerance. His work also included test alignment for trace directive type stubs and cleanup of duplicate fixtures.
The CLI received an enhancement from scoootscooob for detecting environment-backed audio providers, improving the setup experience for users with audio capabilities configured through environment variables.
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