OpenClaw 2026.6.5 Release Summary | Free Parallel Search | Lots of Stability Fixes

With the release of OpenClaw 2026.6.5, we focused heavily on making OpenClaw less fragile in real use. This includes free built-in Parallel Search, safer channel replies, better agent run recovery, less brittle provider and model setup, more durable state and installs, tighter tool and Gateway boundaries, and steadier app, mobile, node, and Workboard behavior. # Highlights **Free Built-In Parallel Search** OpenClaw now has free, zero-setup managed [web search](https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/web) through [Parallel Search (Free)](https://parallel.ai/products/search). Fresh installs can use Parallel's hosted Search MCP with no account or API key when no API-backed search provider is configured, while paid Parallel keys and other configured providers still work and take precedence. This makes OpenClaw more useful for agent work that needs current context, like checking docs, comparing tools, investigating errors, looking up changed APIs, or grounding research before code changes, without making the user stop first to wire up a separate search provider. Learn more in OpenClaw's [Parallel Search integration docs](https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/parallel-search). **Safer Channel Replies** * [Discord](https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/discord) runtime adapters stay resolvable, and outbound delivery recovery preserves retries across budget deferrals. * [WhatsApp](https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/whatsapp) restart/config paths are less fragile. * [iMessage](https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/imessage) private-API failures and send timeouts are clearer. * [Mattermost](https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/mattermost) slash commands keep shared state across loaders, and reply threading keeps existing thread roots. * [Feishu](https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/feishu) streaming cards preserve merged content better and retry rate limits. * QQBot now strips reasoning/thinking scaffolding before native delivery. **More Reliable Agent Run Recovery** * MCP tool results are normalized before provider conversion, which helps avoid Anthropic 400s and poisoned session history. * Anthropic extended-thinking sessions recover better after prompt-cache expiry or Gateway restarts. * Codex, ACP, context-engine, and replay paths handle stale signatures, empty completion handoffs, heartbeat metadata, and session/thread migration edge cases. * Unreadable dynamic tools are quarantined instead of quietly making the run worse. * MCP HTTP redirects and owner-only HTTP tool paths are guarded more tightly. * Transcript image redaction catches more raw image payload cases before storage/export. **Less Brittle Provider and Model Setup** This release fixes specific [provider](https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers) and model setup edge cases across Google Vertex ADC, single-provider cooldown recovery, Codex model visibility, unknown model auth failure behavior, provider catalog metadata, Ollama/Gemini/Foundry/MiniMax/Vertex/OpenRouter edge cases, and `web_search` provider paths. **More Durable State Across Restarts and Migrations** Auth profiles moved to SQLite. Matrix sidecar state, memory-wiki import/source-sync state, sandbox registry state, ACPX process state, device-pair notify state, Zalo hosted media, and plugin SDK dedupe state now use SQLite-owned storage. [ClawHub](https://docs.openclaw.ai/clawhub) skill installs also got more dependable: GitHub-backed skills can install from resolved pinned commits, official plugin install records keep trusted pins, and large skill trees avoid creating one watcher per skill file. **More Stable App and Workboard Behavior** OpenClaw's app surfaces also got less jumpy. Optimistic chat messages stay stable across stale history reloads, runId reassignment, and abort windows. Workboard status updates avoid overwriting newer state, and message-tool sends count properly as delivery. **More Predictable Mobile, Node, and Gateway Behavior** * macOS node mode should stop reconnecting away from a healthy direct Gateway session. * Android provider/model screens show attention/unavailable/unresolved states more clearly. * Android adds theme mode selection. * iOS settings and Talk surfaces keep diagnostics and fallback controls reachable. * Matrix voice-note and thread handling improved. * `config.patch` now supports explicit array replacement via `replacePaths`, so patches that intentionally remove array entries do not merge stale entries back in. # Full release notes The above is only highlights. This release includes 216 pull requests merged to main since v2026.6.1; see the [full release notes](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.6.5).