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Latest intelligence2026-09-18

OpenClaw v2026.7.33 Closes the July 2026 Extended-Stable Branch. The Headline Is Hardening, Not Features: Credential Re-Use, Channel UTF-16 Truncation, and Browser Origin Checks Across Discord, Matrix, Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, LINE, Feishu, Zalo, and Meeting Plugins

OpenClaw v2026.7.33 (2026-09-18 05:33 UTC) is the July 2026 Extended Stable release, moving only the extended-stable* aliases. 126 merged PRs in one tag across five buckets: security and credential safety (PR #114134 escaped-newline shell words; PR #102398 Git option-argument injection via plugin git: specs; PR #101739 inherited exec response ids; PR #38290 browser origin allowlist; PR #102426 diagnostic config redaction; PR #102403 backup archives written owner-only 0o600; PR #102089 Twilio turnToken redaction); message and session integrity (PR #113700 retry-delay accuracy; PR #113703 distinct imported CLI session messages; PR #113697 plugin-blocked tool-call transcripts); Gateway reliability (PR #102125 plugin HTTP responses finished after post-header failures; PR #102013 bounded sessions.usage discovery concurrency; PR #102451 / #104811 shutdown work settled before completion); channel delivery (Discord silent message loss #103562; UTF-16 truncation fixes across Discord / Matrix / Telegram / Slack / WhatsApp / LINE / Feishu / Zalo / Mattermost / Google Meet / ACP); provider and media robustness (PR #104734 synthetic auth credential redaction in models status --json). Documentation comparison; no firsthand test.

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