OpenClaw 2026.6.5 Pre-Release Ships Rich Telegram and WhatsApp Upgrades

OpenClaw issued a pre-release today (June 16, 2026) with a substantive set of channel delivery and reliability improvements. This is the first release since the security patches landed in 2026.4.23, and it focuses squarely on robustness rather than features.

Telegram — richer, more reliable delivery

Telegram channel support has been significantly rebuilt:

  • Structured rich text with tables, lists, expandable blockquotes, and preserved intentional line breaks
  • Prompt-preserving CLI backend delivery (prompt content no longer stripped when passing to Telegram)
  • Safer rich-media boundaries
  • Retirement of native draft migration
  • Improvements across five merged pull requests from contributors @obviyus, @jzakirov, @spacegeologist, and @TurboTheTurtle

WhatsApp — ACP bindings now honored

WhatsApp now correctly respects configured ACP bindings, resolving a long-standing issue where WhatsApp channel routing would bypass custom routing rules.

Agent and Gateway recovery overhaul

The release covers 18 recovery scenarios that were previously handled inconsistently:

  • Account-scoped DM sends
  • Generated media completions
  • Auto-reply message-tool final replies
  • Reset archive fallback reads
  • Restart shutdown aborts
  • Yielded subagent pauses
  • Trusted subagent thinking override fallback
  • Yielded cron media
  • Heartbeat deduplication
  • Session identity prompts

Contributors

This release merged contributions from @obviyus, @jzakivarov, @spacegeologist, and @TurboTheTurtle across 5 pull requests (#92679, #93164, #84082, #89421, #92513).

Source: OpenClaw GitHub Releases

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