OpenClaw 2026.4.1-beta.1 Pre-Release: Security Disclaimer Overhaul, Moonshot K2.6 Default

A new OpenClaw pre-release landed today with changes across onboarding, models, sessions, and cron.

Key changes:

Onboard/wizard: Security disclaimer restyled with a single yellow warning banner, section headings, and bulleted checklists. Loading spinner added during initial model catalog load to prevent a blank screen. “API key” placeholder added to provider API key prompts.
Agents/prompts: Default system prompt and OpenAI GPT-5 overlay strengthened with clearer completion bias, live-state checks, weak-result recovery, and verification-before-final guidance.
Models/costs: Support for tiered model pricing from cached catalogs. Bundled Moonshot Kimi K2.6/K2.5 cost estimates added for token-usage reports.
Sessions/Maintenance: Built-in entry cap and age prune now enforced by default. Oversized stores pruned at load time to prevent OOM from accumulated cron/executor session backlogs.
Cron: Runtime execution state split into jobs-state.json so jobs.json stays stable for git-tracked job definitions.
Moonshot/Kimi: Default bundled setup, web search, and media-understanding surfaces now use kimi-k2.6 by default, with kimi-k2.5 available for compatibility.
Agents/compaction: Opt-in start and completion notices now sent during context compaction.