[Release] openclaw/openclaw v2026.5.14-beta.1: openclaw 2026.5.14-beta.1

OpenClaw v2026.5.14-beta.1 introduces significant improvements to dependency management, UI/i18n tooling, maintainer workflows, and channel integrations. Key additions include WhatsApp status reactions, voice call support via Telnyx, browser-local text sizing, and enhanced release validation through Docker user-journey lanes. The release also refactors Codex CLI integration, improves gateway startup tracing, and fixes critical issues with UTF-16 surrogates, HTTP/2 session errors, and memory file discovery.

Key Points

• •Consolidate proxy dependencies through @openclaw/proxyline, removing root proxy-agent, https-proxy-agent, and minimatch packages
• •Add pnpm ui:i18n:report baseline for hardcoded-copy focus areas and locale fallback metadata tracking
• •Implement repo-local codex-review skill for Codex closeout reviews with PR-branch helpers and dirty-work automation
• •Wire StatusReactionController into WhatsApp with queued→thinking→tool→done/error lifecycle and self-explanatory emoji (🧠 thinking, 🛠️ tool, 💻 coding, etc.)
• •Add browser-local Text size setting in Control UI Appearance/Quick Settings, scaling chat and dense UI text while maintaining mobile Safari focus-zoom threshold
• •Enable realtime media-streaming voice call support for Telnyx conversational calls
• •Implement package-installed Docker user-journey validation lanes covering onboarding, mocked models, plugin install/uninstall, messaging, and Gateway restart survival
• •Add release dependency evidence reports, npm advisory gating, and PR dependency-change awareness for maintainer review
• •Deliver native sessions_spawn tasks in child session's first visible [Subagent Task] message instead of system prompt, maintaining delegation auditability
• •Fix UTF-16 surrogate stripping from Codex app-server JSON-RPC payloads and improve stale reply-work recovery to prevent malformed media turns from wedging gateway lanes

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