OpenClaw v2026.4.7 Release: Major Upgrades for AI, Plugins, and Admins

The OpenClaw project just dropped its v2026.4.7 release, and it’s packed with powerful new features, enhancements, and integrations for AI workflows, plugin developers, and system admins. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new and why it matters.

Key Highlights

• First-Class openclaw infer CLI: A new hub for provider-backed inference workflows across models, media, web, and embedding tasks. This makes it easier to run advanced AI tasks from the command line.
• Smarter Media Generation: Automatic fallback across image, music, and video providers, with intent preservation and better handling of size, aspect, and resolution hints. Provider capabilities are now surfaced, and video-to-video support is improved.
• Memory Wiki Returns: The bundled memory-wiki stack is back, offering plugin, CLI, sync/query/apply tooling, structured claim/evidence fields, contradiction clustering, and freshness-weighted search. Great for knowledge management and auditing.
• Webhook Ingress Plugin: External automation can now create and drive TaskFlows via secure webhook endpoints, making integrations with other systems much easier.
• Session Recovery Tools: Persisted compaction checkpoints and new UI actions let operators inspect and restore pre-compaction session states.
• Pluggable Compaction Providers: Plugins can now replace the built-in summarization pipeline, with fallback to LLM summarization if needed.
• System Prompt Controls: New options for controlled prompt experiments and heartbeat prompt-section controls for more flexible runtime behavior.
• Expanded Provider Support: Google Gemma 4, Arcee AI, Anthropic Claude CLI, and Ollama vision models are now supported, with improved onboarding and compatibility.
• Dreaming Corpus Enhancements: Redacted session transcripts are now ingested into the dreaming corpus, with new tools for promotion and doctor support.
• Plugin SDK Improvements: Context engines now get more runtime context, and plugins can access active memory state more easily.
• Discord Event Covers: Discord event creation now supports cover images, including PNG, JPG, and GIF formats.

Why This Release Matters

OpenClaw v2026.4.7 is a major step forward for anyone building with AI, managing plugins, or running complex automation. The new CLI tools, expanded provider support, and improved admin features make it easier to build, integrate, and manage advanced workflows.

For the full changelog and details, check out the official release page.