v2026.3.31: OpenClaw Ships QQ Bot, Background Task Flows, and CJK TTS Upgrades

OpenClaw’s v2026.3.31 release shipped on March 31, and it’s one of the most feature-rich updates yet — especially for the Asian messaging ecosystem.

QQ Bot goes native. The release bundles a native QQ Bot for private, group, and guild chats, with full media handling support. With QQ serving over 600 million monthly active users according to Tencent’s data, this is a significant play for AI-driven automation on one of the world’s largest messaging platforms.

LINE gets richer too. The update adds LINE image, video, and audio sending capabilities, complementing the QQ expansion.

Background task flows are now real. Previous versions had task bookkeeping; this release turns it into a proper control plane. Users get openclaw flows list|show|cancel for managing multi-step async workflows — a key step toward OpenClaw handling long-running jobs autonomously.

CJK upgrades. The release improves Chinese, Japanese, and Korean context memory handling, plus TTS quality for those languages — targeting better RAG accuracy and conversational memory.

Security hardening is a major theme:

  • Plugin and skill installs now fail closed by default if dangerous code is detected, requiring an explicit --dangerously-force-unsafe-install override
  • Gateway auth now rejects mixed shared-token configs; local-direct fallback requires the configured token explicitly
  • Node commands stay disabled until node pairing is approved — device pairing alone no longer suffices
  • Node-originated runs now operate on a reduced trusted surface

Other notable changes: MCP tool bundling with provider-safe names, per-server connection timeouts, an idle-stream timeout for stalled model streams, Android notification forwarding controls with package filtering and quiet hours, and an explicit default-off ACPX plugin-tools MCP bridge config.

The release also deprecates legacy provider compat subpaths, warning users toward current documented entrypoints.

[Source: GitHub openclaw/openclaw releases — March 31, 2026]

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