2026.4.14 lands as a broad quality release

OpenClaw Daily Brief

1. 2026.4.14 landed as a broad quality release: Upstream tagged 2026.4.14 with explicit focus on model-provider reliability and GPT-5 family turn behavior.
2. Codex forward-compat shipped before catalog catch-up: OpenClaw now supports gpt-5.4-pro in Codex flows, including pricing/limit metadata and model status visibility.
3. Security hardening remained active in this train: Fixes cover interaction allowlist enforcement, attachment-path canonicalization, and stricter behavior around model-facing config changes.
4. Control and channel operations got practical quality fixes: Telegram topic naming persistence, onboarding probe adjustments, and command/status flow reliability improvements reduce operator-side manual recovery.
5. Action for operators during rollout: Upgrade to 2026.4.14, then verify one cloud-provider run and one local-provider run with real tools enabled to confirm fallback, usage accounting, and channel delivery still match policy.

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