OpenClaw 2026.4.21 is live. Small release, important fix: npm updates now repair bundled plugin runtime deps, with Docker E2E coverage so Telegram/Discord/Slack do not break after upgrade. Also backports OpenAI Image 2 support. npm i -g openclaw@latest
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CI Pipeline Optimization Through Server Parallelization Strategy
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Did some work to get our CI times down from 8 to two minutes via some… parallelization. Kudos to the @useblacksmith folks for sponsoring + letting us melt their servers.
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Open Source Project Focuses on Core Development and Plugins
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It's open source, anyone can build on top of it or do plugins. I'm super busy focussing on core.
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discrawl 0.3.0 Release: Git-Backed Archive Sync
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discrawl 0.3.0 is out. This release adds Git-backed archive sync, so a Discord archive can be published to a private repo and queried locally without every user needing bot credentials. Also: auto-refresh, activity reports, field notes, faster imports.
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LLMs for Permission Control and Secret Blocking
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We been testing llms to judge permissions, and proxies to block secrets. Interesting approach!
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Account blocked after testing AI service days ago
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Huh. I tested it a few days ago and my account got blocked, so didn’t touch it since then.
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AI Models Now Good Enough After Last Year’s Limitations
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Peekaboo was that but the models were just not good enough last year. Now they are.
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Never Run Applications as Root: Security Best Practice
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There should not ever be a reason to run this as root.
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Knowledge Cutoff Limitations in AI Models Explained
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haha ouch, that is not malicious tho, just knowledge cutoff. Can’t blame them for that.