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Pairing scope upgrades and recovery UX land so reconnects stop looking like mystery auth failures
Mainline merges clarify pending pairing scope upgrades on reconnect, tighten gateway probe vs reachability signals, and harden Slack sends when channel secrets are still resolving.
Detached task runtime contract lands on mainline for safer background execution
OpenClaw mainline split detached task lifecycle and plugin registration into a clearer runtime contract, while browser, agent-lane, and cron reliability fixes shipped in the same window.
Stable line unchanged; mainline is where the churn is
Stable stays on v2026.4.15 for production tags while mainline adds hello-ok/device-token fixes, macOS monitor snapshots, serialized OAuth refresh across agents, and routing/UI polish — stay on tags unless you track main.
Stable v2026.4.15 ships as the headline upgrade target
Stable v2026.4.15 ships as a non-prerelease tag, Anthropic defaults center on Opus 4.7 for multimodal, and Gemini TTS arrives in the bundled Google plugin.
OpenClaw ships high-impact auth hardening release
Gateway bearer validation fixes stale-token window after secrets.reload, MCP loopback gets constant-time secret comparison, and workspace file ops close a symlink race class.
New upstream tag adds operator-facing auth visibility
Control UI gets a Model Auth status card showing OAuth token health, memory backends gain cloud storage support, and approval flow secrecy improves with secret redaction.
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