OpenClaw 2026.6.5: Free Parallel Search, Stability Fixes Across the Board

OpenClaw 2026.6.5 is out, focusing on reducing fragility in real-world use. Key highlights include free built-in Parallel Search, safer channel replies, better agent run recovery, less brittle provider/model setup, more durable state, tighter tool/gateway boundaries, and steadier app/mobile/node/Workboard behavior.

Free Built-In Parallel Search

OpenClaw now includes free, zero-setup managed web search via Parallel Search (Free). Fresh installs can use Parallel's hosted Search MCP with no account or API key when no API-backed search provider is configured. Paid Parallel keys and other configured providers still work and take precedence. This makes agent work requiring current context (checking docs, comparing tools, investigating errors, looking up changed APIs, grounding research) much smoother without wiring up a separate search provider.

Safer Channel Replies

• Discord runtime adapters stay resolvable; outbound delivery recovery preserves retries across budget deferrals.
• WhatsApp restart/config paths are less fragile.
• iMessage private-API failures and send timeouts are clearer.
• Mattermost slash commands keep shared state across loaders; reply threading keeps existing thread roots.
• Feishu streaming cards preserve merged content better and retry rate limits.
• QQBot strips reasoning/thinking scaffolding before native delivery.

More Reliable Agent Run Recovery

• MCP tool results are normalized before provider conversion, avoiding Anthropic 400s and poisoned session history.
• Anthropic extended-thinking sessions recover better after prompt-cache expiry or Gateway restarts.
• Codex, ACP, context-engine, and replay paths handle stale signatures, empty completion handoffs, heartbeat metadata, and session/thread migration edge cases.
• Unreadable dynamic tools are quarantined instead of silently degrading runs.
• MCP HTTP redirects and owner-only HTTP tool paths are guarded more tightly.
• Transcript image redaction catches more raw image payload cases before storage/export.

Less Brittle Provider and Model Setup

This release fixes provider/model setup edge cases across Google Vertex ADC, single-provider cooldown recovery, Codex model visibility, unknown model auth failure behavior, provider catalog metadata, Ollama/Gemini/Foundry/MiniMax/Vertex/OpenRouter edge cases, and web_search provider paths.

More Durable State Across Restarts and Migrations

• Auth profiles moved to SQLite. Matrix sidecar state, memory-wiki import/source-sync state, sandbox registry state, ACPX process state, device-pair notify state, Zalo hosted media, and plugin SDK dedupe state now use SQLite-owned storage.
• ClawHub skill installs got more dependable: GitHub-backed skills can install from resolved pinned commits; official plugin install records keep trusted pins; large skill trees avoid creating one watcher per skill file.

More Stable App and Workboard Behavior

Optimistic chat messages stay stable across stale history reloads, runId reassignment, and abort windows. Workboard status updates avoid overwriting newer state, and message-tool sends count properly as delivery.

More Predictable Mobile, Node, and Gateway Behavior

• macOS node mode stops reconnecting away from a healthy direct Gateway session.
• Android provider/model screens show attention/unavailable/unresolved states more clearly; Android adds theme mode selection.
• iOS settings and Talk surfaces keep diagnostics and fallback controls reachable.
• Matrix voice-note and thread handling improved.

config.patch Enhancement

config.patch now supports explicit array replacement via replacePaths, so patches that intentionally remove array entries do not merge stale entries back in.