OpenClaw v2026.4.1-beta.1 Brings /tasks, Gemini TTS, and Model Auth Status Card

OpenClaw’s April pre-release cycle continues with v2026.4.1-beta.1, published April 16. Here’s what’s new:

New Features

  • /tasks task board — A new Tasks/chat module adds /tasks as a chat-native background task board for the current session, showing recent task details with agent-local fallback counts when no linked tasks are visible. Thanks @vincentkoc.

  • Gemini Text-to-Speech — Google TTS support lands in the bundled google plugin, including provider registration, voice selection, WAV reply output, PCM telephony output, and setup docs. Thanks @barronlroth.

  • Model Auth Status Card — A new Control UI overview card shows OAuth token health and provider rate-limit pressure at a glance, with attention callouts when tokens are expiring or expired. Backed by models.authStatus gateway method (cached 60s). Thanks @omarshahine.

  • LanceDB Cloud Storage — Memory index storage now supports remote object storage in addition to local disk, enabling durable memory indexes in cloud environments. Thanks @rugvedS07.

  • GitHub Copilot Embedding for Memory Search — A dedicated Copilot embedding provider is added for memory search, with transport helpers for remote overrides, token refresh, and safer payload validation. Thanks @feiskyer and @vincentkoc.

  • Local Model Lean Mode — New experimental flag agents.defaults.experimental.localModelLean: true drops heavyweight default tools (browser, cron, message) for weaker local-model setups, reducing prompt size without affecting the normal path. Thanks @ImLukeF.

Fixes

  • Gateway tools security fix — Client-supplied tool definitions can no longer normalize-collide with built-in tools to inherit their local-media trust. Rejected with 400 invalid_request_error on both JSON and SSE paths. (Fixes part of CVE-2026-33579 disclosure.)

  • Packaging leaner — Bundled plugin runtime deps are now localized to their owning extensions, trimming the published docs payload and keeping core leaner.

  • QA/Matrix split — Matrix live QA split into source-linked runner, keeping repo-private surfaces out of packaged builds.

  • Docs/showcase refresh — Added scannable hero, section jump links, and responsive video grid for community examples.

The release is available on the OpenClaw GitHub releases page.

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