OpenClaw v2026.5.5: xAI Grok Fixes, Discord Overhaul, and Multi-Platform Corrections

OpenClaw released v2026.5.5 today, May 6, 2026, delivering a broad sweep of fixes across messaging platforms, AI providers, and gateway infrastructure.

xAI / Grok Corrections

The headline changes on the provider side address xAI’s native Grok models. OpenClaw now stops sending OpenAI-style reasoning_effort controls to native Grok Responses models — a mismatch that was causing live Docker and Gateway runs to fail with Invalid reasoning effort errors. Additionally, the bundled xAI thinking profile is now clamped to off to prevent live Gateway runs from sending unsupported reasoning levels to native Grok Responses models.

Discord: Heartbeat and Guild Routing

Two Discord issues get attention. Heartbeat ACK timeouts are now measured from the actual heartbeat send rather than a fixed offset, preventing false reconnect loops when the channel is still healthy. Plain-text control commands like /steer are now routed through the normal authorization and mention gate instead of being silently dropped before reaching the agent session.

Multi-Platform Fixes

  • LINE: Webhook DMs with dmPolicy: "open" configs now fail validation if they lack a wildcard allowFrom, instead of being acknowledged and silently blocked before inbound processing.
  • Feishu: Session routing now hydrates missing native topic starter thread IDs before routing, keeping first turns and follow-ups in the same topic session.
  • Telegram/Codex: Message-tool-only progress drafts stay visible; native Codex tool progress renders once per tool rather than duplicating draft lines.
  • Matrix: Approval delivery retries up to 3 times with a short backoff, preventing transient send failures from stranding pending approval prompts.

Full changelog: github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases

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