[Release] openclaw/openclaw v2026.5.26-beta.2: openclaw 2026.5.26-beta.2

OpenClaw v2026.5.26-beta.2 introduces significant performance improvements through caching and transcript-backed architecture, expands production-ready channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal), enhances voice and real-time Talk capabilities with better inspection and control, strengthens security boundaries across content handling and authentication, and improves observability with new Activity tab and OpenTelemetry spans. The release hardens installation/update paths and adds reaction approval support across mobile platforms.

Key Points

• •Gateway startup and reply performance optimized by avoiding repeated plugin/channel/session scans and separating user-facing sends from slower follow-up work
• •Transcripts now core to platform: unified transcript path for meeting summaries, source-provider chunks, WebChat replies, and CLI/TUI replay
• •Multiple channels production-ready with enhanced features: Telegram (typing/forum topics), iMessage (attachments/remote media), WhatsApp (group/media), Discord (voice/model picking), Signal/iMessage/WhatsApp (reaction approvals)
• •Real-time Talk runs now inspectable, steerable, and cancellable from Web UI and Discord voice with improved wake-name tolerance
• •Security hardened: SSRF policy enforcement for browser snapshots, system-event text sanitization, external content wrapping, ClickClack allowlists, stale device token rejection, tool-call text scrubbing
• •Provider stability improved: named auth profiles, OpenAI sampling params, Codex recovery mechanisms, dynamic tool-schema guards, Ollama normalization
• •Installation/update reliability enhanced: Alpine support, trusted runtime fallbacks, stable channels, Docker/package timeouts, Windows Scheduled Tasks hardening
• •Observability expanded: Activity tab, gateway secret traces, tool/model stream progress, OpenTelemetry LLM spans, richer telemetry signals
• •Performance caching added: plugin metadata, package realpaths, gateway metadata, model costs, channel resolution, session/auth hot-paths
• •Mobile improvements: Android pair-new-gateway action, iOS realtime Talk mode, Android offline voice/gateway recovery

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