OpenClaw v2026.7.1-beta.5: Meta Muse Spark Provider, Apple Watch Voice, Conversational Onboarding
OpenClaw has released v2026.7.1-beta.5, a feature-packed beta that landed on GitHub just yesterday (July 11, 2026). The release is notable for breadth — spanning wearables, provider integrations, reliability engineering, and developer experience improvements.
What’s New
Meta Muse Spark Provider
The biggest headline feature: a bundled @openclaw/meta-provider package that adds Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 Responses API to OpenClaw. It supports streaming, tool calls, encrypted reasoning replay, onboarding flows, exact-model live validation, and is distributed independently via npm and ClawHub. The PR involved Meta engineers from the Solvely team alongside OpenClaw’s core maintainers.
Apple Watch Voice Turns
OpenClaw now lets Apple Watch users dictate a message and hear the assistant’s reply spoken directly on the Watch — a genuinely useful hands-free workflow. Controls include explicit silent-message and stop-speaking options.
Conversational Onboarding (Crestodian)
The installer experience has been completely redesigned around a real agent loop. Crestodian guides users through provider setup with typed operations, exact approval binding, masked credential prompts, isolated session transcripts, and a safe handoff to the normal agent. Available across CLI, web install, and macOS app.
Gateway Crash-Loop Recovery
A significant reliability improvement: OpenClaw now persists boot outcomes, enters control-plane-safe mode after repeated unclean starts, holds transport and provider activation until recovery, and exits with EX_CONFIG for fatal configuration errors — letting systemd and launchd stop restart flapping cleanly.
ClawRouter
A new bundled plugin that adds credential-scoped dynamic model discovery, OpenAI-compatible and native Anthropic/Gemini transports, and managed budget reporting across all OpenClaw usage surfaces. Intended for power users managing multiple provider accounts.
Android Agent Selector
Users can now switch the active agent directly from the live Android chat screen without disrupting Talk mode or the canonical session.
Gateway Host Status in Control UI
The Control UI Settings page now shows the connected Gateway’s host, network address, OS, runtime, uptime, CPU, memory, and disk details.
iOS Offline Chat
Recent sessions and canonical transcripts are now pre-painted from a protected per-gateway cache, keeping sending disabled while offline and purging conversation text on pairing reset.
Model Coverage
GPT-5.6 support has landed, along with Nemotron Super’s 1M context window preserved and explicit OpenRouter authentication headers.
Control UI Improvements
GitHub issue and PR previews now show state, title, author, activity, comments, and change statistics. Generated session titles auto-name new chats from their first message. Context-window progress and token details are visible in the chat composer. Sidebar has been redesigned with a pinned destination set and persistent customization.
TTS Playback
A new tts.speak RPC delivers configured-provider speech as inline whole-clip audio for remote clients.
Full release notes: github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.7.1-beta.5