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.
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 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 a non-prerelease tag, Anthropic defaults center on Opus 4.7 for multimodal, and Gemini TTS arrives in the bundled Google plugin.
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.
OpenClaw 2026.4.14 focuses on model-provider reliability and GPT-5 family turn behavior, ships Codex forward-compat for gpt-5.4-pro, and hardens security controls.
OpenClaw adds forward compatibility for gpt-5.4-pro with Codex pricing/limits visibility, fixes provider config breakage, and tightens local-model timeout handling.
SSRF enforcement, sender allowlists, and config redaction lead the latest release cycle — Control UI markdown parser hardens against ReDoS, and gateway blocks dangerous flag enables.