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Plugins/startup: add an opt-in future-mode gate for disabling deprecated implicit startup sidecar loading while preserving explicit startup and nar... | Plugins/startup: add plugin compatibility warnings for deprecated implicit startup loading so authors can migrate to explicit activation.onStartup ... | Plugins/startup: add explicit activation.onStartup metadata so plugins can declare Gateway startup import behavior while the deprecated implicit si... | Plugin SDK: move maintained bundled channels off the deprecated channel-config-schema-legacy subpath, add an explicit bundled-channel schema SDK su... | Gateway/config: let config reload continue in degraded mode when invalidity is scoped to plugin entries, so incompatible plugin configs can be skip...

fix(cli): use newline in shell command wrapping to avoid breaking heredocs by @cocosheng-g in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/25537 | fix(ui): removed background color for input by @devr0306 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/25339

CLI/migration: add a bundled Claude importer that previews and applies Claude Code and Claude Desktop instructions, MCP servers, skills, command pr... | CLI/migration: add openclaw migrate with plan, dry-run, JSON, pre-migration backup, onboarding detection, archive-only report copies, and a bundled... | CLI/update: install npm global updates into a verified temporary prefix before swapping the package tree into place, preventing mixed old/new insta... | Media-understanding/audio: migrate deprecated {input} placeholders in legacy audio.transcription.command configs to {{MediaPath}}, so custom audio ... | Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs...

Faster startup after upgrading: removed the Recent Activity panel from the release-notes splash

Plugins/compat: mark OPENCLAW_DISABLE_PERSISTED_PLUGIN_REGISTRY as a deprecated break-glass switch and point operators at registry repair instead. ... | Plugins/compat: expand the central compatibility registry with dated owners, replacements, and maximum three-month removal targets for legacy SDK, ... | Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs... | Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale plugins list entries. | CLI/update: run package post-update doctor with --fix so package updates repair config migrations before restart. Thanks @shakkernerd.

Plugins/compat: mark OPENCLAW_DISABLE_PERSISTED_PLUGIN_REGISTRY as a deprecated break-glass switch and point operators at registry repair instead. ... | Plugins/compat: expand the central compatibility registry with dated owners, replacements, and maximum three-month removal targets for legacy SDK, ... | Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs... | Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale plugins list entries. Th... | CLI/update: run package post-update doctor with --fix so package updates repair config migrations before restart. Thanks @shakkernerd.

Plugins/compat: mark OPENCLAW_DISABLE_PERSISTED_PLUGIN_REGISTRY as a deprecated break-glass switch and point operators at registry repair instead. ... | Plugins/compat: expand the central compatibility registry with dated owners, replacements, and maximum three-month removal targets for legacy SDK, ... | Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs... | Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale plugins list entries. Th... | CLI/update: run package post-update doctor with --fix so package updates repair config migrations before restart. Thanks @shakkernerd.

Plugins/compat: mark OPENCLAW_DISABLE_PERSISTED_PLUGIN_REGISTRY as a deprecated break-glass switch and point operators at registry repair instead. ... | Plugins/compat: expand the central compatibility registry with dated owners, replacements, and maximum three-month removal targets for legacy SDK, ... | Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs... | Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale plugins list entries. Th... | CLI/update: run package post-update doctor with --fix so package updates repair config migrations before restart. Thanks @shakkernerd.

Plugins/compat: mark OPENCLAW_DISABLE_PERSISTED_PLUGIN_REGISTRY as a deprecated break-glass switch and point operators at registry repair instead. ... | Plugins/compat: expand the central compatibility registry with dated owners, replacements, and maximum three-month removal targets for legacy SDK, ... | Plugins/compat: inventory doctor-side deprecation migrations separately from runtime plugin compatibility so release sweeps preserve needed repairs... | Plugins/CLI: refresh the persisted registry after managed plugin files are removed so ClawHub uninstall cannot leave stale plugins list entries. Th... | CLI/update: run package post-update doctor with --fix so package updates repair config migrations before restart. Thanks @shakkernerd.

Plugin SDK/tool-result transforms: remove the Pi-only api.registerEmbeddedExtensionFactory(...) compatibility path. Bundled tool-result rewrites mu...

MCP/config reload: hot-apply mcp.* changes by disposing cached session MCP runtimes, and dispose bundled MCP runtimes during gateway shutdown so re...

MCP/config reload: hot-apply mcp.* changes by disposing cached session MCP runtimes, and dispose bundled MCP runtimes during gateway shutdown so re...

MCP/config reload: hot-apply mcp.* changes by disposing cached session MCP runtimes, and dispose bundled MCP runtimes during gateway shutdown so re...

Plugin SDK/tool-result transforms: remove the Pi-only api.registerEmbeddedExtensionFactory(...) compatibility path. Bundled tool-result rewrites mu...

Providers/OpenAI: stop advertising the removed gpt-5.3-codex-spark Codex model through fallback catalogs, and suppress stale rows with a GPT-5.5 re...

Providers/OpenAI: stop advertising the removed gpt-5.3-codex-spark Codex model through fallback catalogs, and suppress stale rows with a GPT-5.5 re...

Providers/OpenAI: stop advertising the removed gpt-5.3-codex-spark Codex model through fallback catalogs, and suppress stale rows with a GPT-5.5 re...

Providers/OpenAI: stop advertising the removed gpt-5.3-codex-spark Codex model through fallback catalogs, and suppress stale rows with a GPT-5.5 re...

Windows: removed false-positive "Windows requires 'cmd /c' wrapper" MCP config warning

/steer — mid-run agent nudges — /steer <prompt> injects a note that the running agent sees after its next tool call, without interrupting the turn ... | Website removed Discussions link from README

Models/auth: merge provider-owned default-model additions from openclaw models auth login instead of replacing agents.defaults.models, so re-authen... | Discord: normalize prefixed channel targets only at the thread-binding API boundary, so sessions_spawn({ runtime: "acp", thread: true }) can create... | CLI sessions: persist CLI session clearing through the atomic session-store merge path, so expired Claude/Codex CLI bindings are actually removed b... | Memory/LanceDB: stop resurrecting removed live memory-lancedb hook config from startup snapshots, so deleting or disabling the plugin entry shuts o... | Active Memory: stop reviving removed live active-memory config from startup snapshots, so removing the plugin entry turns the hook off immediately ...

fix(cli): use newline in shell command wrapping to avoid breaking heredocs by @cocosheng-g in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/25537 | fix(ui): removed background color for input by @devr0306 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/25339

fix(cli): use newline in shell command wrapping to avoid breaking heredocs by @cocosheng-g in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/25537 | fix(ui): removed background color for input by @devr0306 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/25339

Removed leaked review prompts from TUI transcripts (#18659).

npm/install: mirror the node-domexception alias into root package.json overrides, so npm installs stop surfacing the deprecated google-auth-library...

[VSCode] Fixed "Manage Plugins" panel breaking when multiple large marketplaces are configured

OpenAI Codex: route ChatGPT/Codex OAuth Responses requests through the /backend-api/codex endpoint so openai-codex/gpt-5.4 no longer hits the remov... | Gateway/sessions: reject stale agent-scoped sessions after an agent is removed from config while preserving legacy default-agent main-session alias...

OpenAI Codex: route ChatGPT/Codex OAuth Responses requests through the /backend-api/codex endpoint so openai-codex/gpt-5.4 no longer hits the remov... | Gateway/sessions: reject stale agent-scoped sessions after an agent is removed from config while preserving legacy default-agent main-session alias...

OpenAI Codex: route ChatGPT/Codex OAuth Responses requests through the /backend-api/codex endpoint so openai-codex/gpt-5.4 no longer hits the remov... | Gateway/sessions: reject stale agent-scoped sessions after an agent is removed from config while preserving legacy default-agent main-session alias...

Fixed markdown tables breaking when a cell contains an inline code span with a pipe character

BlueBubbles/catchup: add a per-message retry ceiling (catchup.maxFailureRetries, default 10) so a persistently-failing message with a malformed pay... | Agents/tool-loop: enable the unknown-tool stream guard by default. Previously resolveUnknownToolGuardThreshold returned undefined unless tools.loop... | OpenAI Codex/CLI: keep resumed codex exec resume runs on the safe non-interactive path without reintroducing the removed dangerous bypass flag by p... | BlueBubbles/inbound: restore inbound image attachment downloads on Node 22+ by stripping incompatible bundled-undici dispatchers from the non-SSRF ... | Agents/OpenAI Responses: add models.providers.*.models.*.compat.supportsPromptCacheKey so OpenAI-compatible proxies that forward prompt_cache_key c...

Remove deprecated evals tool

Added ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H env var to opt into 1-hour prompt cache TTL on API key, Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry (ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H_BEDRO...

Google image generation: strip a trailing /openai suffix from configured Google base URLs only when calling the native Gemini image API so Gemini i...

Fixed leading whitespace being trimmed from assistant messages, breaking ASCII art and indented diagrams

QA/packaging: stop packaged QA helpers from crashing when optional scenario execution config is unavailable, so npm distributions can skip the repo...

Fixed in-app settings writes (e.g. /add-dir --remember, /config) not refreshing the in-memory snapshot, preventing removed directories from being r... | Fixed several Remote Control issues: worktrees removed on session crash, connection failures not persisting in the transcript, spurious "Disconnect...

Fixed managed-settings allow rules remaining active after an admin removed them, until process restart | Fixed permissions.additionalDirectories changes not applying mid-session — removed directories lose access immediately and added ones work without ... | Fixed slash command picker breaking when a plugin's frontmatter name is a YAML boolean keyword

Removed the forced loading delay while the app connects

Fixed managed-settings allow rules remaining active after an admin removed them until process restart | Fixed slash command picker breaking when a plugin's frontmatter name is a YAML boolean keyword

fix(ui): removed additional vertical padding for tables by @devr0306 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/24381

Unnecessary members intent removed on startup + token lock leak fix (#5302) | Doctor diagnostics — sync provider checks, config migration, WAL and mem0 diagnostics (#5077) | Stale test skips removed, regex backtracking, file search bug, and test flakiness (#4969) | browser_close tool removed — auto-cleanup handles it (#5792)

Aligned GitHub Copilot Anthropic reasoning levels and removed incorrect Qwen variants.

Removed /tag command | Removed /vim command (toggle vim mode via /config → Editor mode)

Removed Get-DnsClientCache and ipconfig /displaydns from auto-allow (DNS cache privacy)

Non-deprecated HTTP transport — switched from sse_client to streamable_http_client (#3646) | OpenClaw migration model config overwrite — migration no longer overwrites model config dict with a string (#3924) — @0xbyt4 | OpenClaw migration expanded — covers full data footprint including sessions, cron, memory (#3869) | Comprehensive OpenClaw migration guide — step-by-step guide for migrating from OpenClaw/Claw3D to Hermes Agent (#3864, #3900) | @0xbyt4 — 1 PR: OpenClaw migration model config fix (#3924)

Supply chain hardening — Removed compromised litellm dependency, pinned all dependency version ranges, regenerated uv.lock with hashes, added CI wo... | Removed /model slash command from CLI and gateway in favor of hermes model subcommand (#3080) | OpenClaw migration overwrites defaults and setup wizard skips imported sections — fixed (#3282) | G0DM0D3 godmode jailbreaking skill + docs (#3157) | OpenClaw migration v2 — 17 new modules, terminal recap for migrating from OpenClaw to Hermes (#2906)

Fix: resolve merge conflict markers in cli.py breaking startup (#2347) | @rovle (Lovre Pešut) — Daytona sandbox API migration (#2063)

OpenClaw migration during first-time setup — by @kshitijk4poor (#981) | hermes claw migrate command + migration docs (#1059) | Terminal subprocesses inheriting OPENAI_BASE_URL breaking external tools (Issue #1002, #1399) | @kshitijk4poor (1 PR) — OpenClaw migration during setup wizard

Removed incorrect max_tokens from OpenRouter requests