OpenClaw 2026.6.1 Fixes Interrupted Tool Calls and Steadies Channel Delivery

OpenClaw released version 2026.6.1 on June 1, 2026, bringing a broad reliability pass focused on interrupted runs, channel stability, and developer experience.

Key Changes

Recovery improvements are the headline feature. Agents and CLI-backed runtimes now recover more cleanly from interrupted tool calls, stale session bindings, compaction handoffs, and media delivery retries. Affected PRs include #88129, #88136, #88141, #88162, and #88182.

Channel delivery is steadier across Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Google Meet, and iOS realtime Talk, per PRs #88096, #88105, #88183, and #88231.

Provider and plugin timeouts are now bound more aggressively, preventing requests from hanging runs indefinitely. OAuth and device-code lifetimes, media downloads, and generated-content polling paths are all covered.

Skills and session metadata now do less repeated work on hot paths, reducing overhead without changing behavior. Skills and plugin loading also handles stale disabled snapshots more cleanly.

Skill Workshop gets a fuller Control UI flow with proposal lists, today actions, revision handoffs, searchable file previews, and reusable session routing.

New model support includes MiniMax M3, Google/Vertex catalog fixes, OpenRouter SQLite model caching, Copilot Claude 1M capabilities, Foundry reasoning alignment, and OpenAI response replay guards.

iMessage moved toward SQLite-backed state for faster restarts and recovery.

The release is available on GitHub as a pre-release. For self-hosters running OpenClaw on Ubuntu or via Docker, this is a worthwhile upgrade — the recovery and channel stability improvements are practical quality-of-life wins for always-on agent deployments.