OpenClaw 2026.4.1 Delivers Tasks Board, SearXNG Search, and Bedrock Guardrails

The OpenClaw team shipped version 2026.4.1 on April 1st, marking another substantial update to the open-source AI assistant platform. Here’s what’s new:

/tasks — Native Background Task Board

The most user-facing change is /tasks, a chat-native background task board for the current session. It surfaces recent task details and agent-local fallback counts when no linked tasks are visible. Thanks to @vincentkoc for the contribution (issue #54226).

@cgdusek contributed a bundled SearXNG provider plugin for web_search with configurable host support (PR #57317). Self-hosters can now run their own meta-search engine and point OpenClaw at it — no API key required.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

@MikeORed added Amazon Bedrock Guardrails support to the bundled provider (PR #58588). Enterprise users running models on AWS Bedrock can now apply content safety policies directly within OpenClaw.

macOS Voice Wake

@SmoothExec contributed Voice Wake for macOS — a new option to trigger Talk Mode via voice activation (PR #58490).

Feishu Document Comments

@wittam-01 built a dedicated Feishu Drive comment-event flow with in-thread replies and feishu_drive comment actions for document collaboration workflows (PR #58497).

Gateway & Agent Improvements

  • Webchat history truncation is now configurable via gateway.webchat.chatHistoryMaxChars and per-request maxChars (PR #58900).
  • Agent default params are now settable globally via agents.defaults.params (PR #58548, thanks @lpender).
  • Agent failover received a significant overhaul: same-provider auth-profile retries are now capped before cross-provider fallback, with a new auth.cooldowns.rateLimitedProfileRotations knob (PR #58707, thanks @Forgely3D).
  • Cron tools allowlist: openclaw cron --tools enables per-job tool allowlists for tighter security on scheduled tasks (PR #58504, thanks @andyk-ms).

This release continues OpenClaw’s rapid iteration pace, with contributions across the full stack — from enterprise AWS integrations down to macOS-only quality-of-life features.

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