Is OpenClaw v2026.7.1-2 stable?
-139/100Fact score: -139/100 · evidence-based, not a YES/NO verdict
“Latest stable took another fresh pass from auth, tool-calling, Signal delivery, and UI/update banner evidence. The gremlins found more than one side door.”
Stability Score
-139Base
80
Evidence
-139
Votes
-0
Survived
ignored
Curated
ignored
-139 evidence debt=-139
Affected components
codexcodex-plugin-installcontext-privacycore-plugin-driftcroncron/telegramdependency-resolutiondependency-securitydocs-commanddoctorfeishugateway-startuphot-reloadlocal-modelmemorymessage-deliverymodel-routingprovider-authreasoningrelease-provenancerestartsecuritysession-statesignalsqlitesqlite/startup-migrationstartup-migrationsubagent-runtimetelegramtool-callingtool-policyuiupdatevoicewebchat
Install this version
npm install openclaw@2026.7.1-2openclaw update --tag 2026.7.1-2Score Evidence
| Issue | Area | Type | Penalty | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| openclaw/openclaw issue 110690 → | telegram | channel-specific | -1 | Telegram media groups with per-image captions drop all but the first caption; issue explicitly lists 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 110662 → | ui | tool-specific | -1 | Control UI Personal avatar upload silently fails on OpenClaw 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 110953 → | local-model | runtime | -3 | Fresh LM Studio sessions on Ubuntu fail before the first assistant reply with context overflow/message-ordering errors; OpenClaw version field reports 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 110771 → | webchat | runtime | -2 | WebChat on 2026.7.1-2 can persist/replay internal records and lose durable turn status across refresh/replay. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 110901 → | telegram | channel-specific | -2 | Telegram direct chats on 2026.7.1-2 can lose the final reply when the user navigates away during a tool-heavy turn. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111512 → | cron | runtime | -3 | One-shot cron at-jobs can remain idle past their scheduled slot on OpenClaw 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111799 → | memory | runtime | -2 | Active-memory shows roughly 45% timeout rate and zero cached results during agent turns on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111570 → | hot-reload | channel-specific | -2 | Tool hot-reload does not propagate to Telegram channel workers until a full gateway restart on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111472 → | reasoning | runtime | -2 | MiniMax-M3 thinking content can leak into final replies even with thinking off/adaptive on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111510 → | codex | runtime | -3 | codex/* provider can POST to the legacy responses endpoint and get 403 at clean boot on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111219 → | security | kernel | -5 | Secrets audit misses plaintext credentials in non-default agent auth stores on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111647 → | subagent-runtime | runtime | -3 | Nested subagent can return a valid result while parent Task and mirrored Flow terminalize as blocked on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111745 → | codex-plugin-install | tool-specific | -2 | safe-package-install reifies all @openai/codex platform binaries, causing ~2 GiB installs on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111850 → | voice | channel-specific | -1 | STT/TTS Talk can surface an aborted active-memory pre-run as a user-facing voice config failure on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111832 → | context-privacy | runtime | -2 | Current tool-error warning format can bypass internal trace stripping and reach channels on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 83337 → | core-plugin-drift | runtime | -3 | Core update to 2026.7.1-2 can leave official plugins on older versions, causing channel/plugin drift. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111851 → | message-delivery | runtime | -2 | Suppressed silent cron replies report deliveryStatus not-delivered, masking expected silence vs delivery failure on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111631 → | tool-policy | runtime | -2 | sessions_spawn subagents do not inherit the parent tools.profile on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111242 → | gateway-startup | kernel | -5 | Gateway restart can race its startup-migration lease and exhaust systemd start-limit into an outage on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 111526 → | webchat | tool-specific | -1 | WebChat slash-command typing and history recall lag per keystroke on 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112660 → | feishu | channel-specific | -2 | Feishu DM on 2026.7.1-2 can leak internal envelopes to visible user text and lose/empty replies; gate included explicit target version. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112668 → | subagent-runtime | runtime | -4 | sessions_yield abort-settle timeout can drop the only subagent completion announce on 2026.7.1-2 during channel reconnect; gate included explicit reproduction. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112500 → | cron/telegram | channel-specific | -2 | Cron ANNOUNCE drops Telegram message_thread_id on 2026.7.1-2, delivering topic jobs to the wrong chat context; gate included explicit target version. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112395 → | startup-migration | kernel | -5 | Startup migration preflight blocks gateway after upgrade to 2026.7.1-2 despite empty migration tables/leases; Gate B included because environment explicitly reports target version. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112427 → | codex-plugin-install | runtime | -3 | Codex plugin fails to load with ERR_REQUIRE_ESM_RACE_CONDITION on fresh Ubuntu 24.04 install running 2026.7.1-2; gate included OpenClaw version field. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112341 → | sqlite/startup-migration | kernel | -5 | Session-to-SQLite migration can deadlock/fail on large-inode filesystems in 2026.7.1-2 due inode precision alias false positives; gate included OpenClaw version field. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112052 → | reasoning | runtime | -2 | claude-cli provider strips visible <think> output / breaks Thinking display on 2026.7.1-2; gate included explicit environment and symptom context. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112696 → | ui | tool-specific | -1 | Control UI agent avatar upload and multi-agent session selection regressions are explicitly reproduced after upgrading to 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112703 → | voice | runtime | -3 | iOS 2026.7.2 Talk realtime is incompatible with the published 2026.7.1-2 gateway, causing realtime Talk startup to fail and fall back silently. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112912 → | startup-migration | kernel | -4 | After upgrading from <=2026.6.x to 2026.7.1-2, stale legacy boot session entries make every BOOT.md startup hook fail with CronSessionLifecycleClaimError. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112824 → | docs-command | tool-specific | -1 | Memory configuration examples fail config validation on 2026.7.1-2, leaving documented setup paths broken for users. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112854 → | doctor | runtime | -2 | Doctor misclassifies the exact openclaw-gateway process title as a non-OpenClaw lock owner; gate included because the source is reproduced against 2026.7.1-2. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112698 → | codex | kernel | -4 | Codex app-server notification streaming can starve the Gateway main thread for ~22s on 2026.7.1-2 via quadratic reasoning-snapshot rebuilds. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 113447 → | release-provenance | kernel | -5 | Root openclaw@2026.7.1-2 package lacks verifiable/reproducible npm build provenance while the exact version is explicitly reported. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 113466 → | session-state | runtime | -3 | /new and /reset report a new session on 2026.7.1-2 but keep prior conversation context because the reset path is not invoked. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 108435 → | gateway-startup | kernel | -5 | Gateway startup failure thread has a target-version reproduction path/comment for 2026.7.1-2, blocking CLI/service availability. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 112680 → | model-routing | tool-specific | -2 | openclaw models list crashes on 2026.7.1-2 when a configured Anthropic Sonnet 5 reference is unresolved from the registry. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 113584 → | dependency-security | runtime | -5 | Published openclaw@2026.7.1-2 shrinkwrap pins dependencies affected by high-severity advisories. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 113983 → | gateway-startup | kernel | -5 | Gateway upgrade to 2026.7.1-2 can enter a startup migration lock loop and then start without loading the Signal provider/plugin, leaving channel service unavailable. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 113756 → | webchat | channel-specific | -2 | WebChat direct sessions on 2026.7.1-2 can render async background-task completion replies out of order with normal conversation turns. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 113978 → | model-routing | runtime | -3 | Agent runtime ids replace configured provider refs in persisted session state and user-facing model labels on 2026.7.1-2, breaking selected-model identity. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 115233 → | ui | tool-specific | -2 | External Plugin Control UI tabs using auth:"gateway" load 401 on 2026.7.1-2 because the documented scoped-grant bootstrap path is absent. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 114969 → | update | tool-specific | -1 | Dashboard update banner on stable 2026.7.1-2 advertises beta releases without labeling them as beta, creating misleading upgrade pressure. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 114989 → | provider-auth | runtime | -3 | Anthropic auth resolution on 2026.7.1-2 can select an expired claude-cli OAuth profile while valid api_key profiles are ignored. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 114826 → | tool-calling | runtime | -3 | Zod-generated unanchored regex patterns in 2026.7.1-2 break llama.cpp tool/function calling, causing tools to be rejected. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 114577 → | provider-auth | runtime | -2 | ZAI_API_KEY environment-only setup remains ignored by regular agent runs across 2026.7.1 through 2026.7.1-2, blocking provider auth without a stored profile. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 115063 → | codex | runtime | -3 | Installed 2026.7.1-2 Codex extension can leave a parent session stranded after a native subagent emits Completed(None). |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 115228 → | message-delivery | runtime | -3 | On 2026.7.1-2, an orphaned task-notification from a killed background agent can silently consume the next Telegram user message. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 114137 → | signal | channel-specific | -4 | Visible Signal turns on 2026.7.1-2 intermittently persist final text in the transcript but dispatch no queued reply payload to the user. |
| openclaw/openclaw issue 114888 → | tool-calling | runtime | -3 | DeepSeek V4 via custom openai-completions on 2026.7.1-2 emits malformed DSML/nested arguments, so tools are not executed and raw DSML can leak to Feishu users. |