OpenClaw: Gateway keeps running after sleep or system clock jump

What changed

5 points

1. 1

   This is a stability patch for 2026.10.3 with no new features or configuration changes.

   Official wording · c6

   Stability patch for 2026.10.3 with no new features or configuration changes.

2. 2

   The Gateway keeps running after the computer sleeps or the system clock jumps, instead of restarting itself because its ownership heartbeat looked stale, and Gateway shutdown and restart no longer hang on a stalled transcript worker or in-flight session lifecycle events.

   Official wording · c1 c2

   The Gateway keeps running after the computer sleeps or the system clock jumps, instead of restarting itself because its ownership heartbeat looked stale.

   Gateway shutdown and restart no longer hang on a stalled transcript worker or in-flight session lifecycle events.

3. 3

   Tlon group DMs no longer treat other participants as the owner, closing an owner-impersonation path, and headless browser pages keep responding to clicks while a site waits for a passkey.

   Official wording · c3 c4

   Tlon group DMs no longer treat other participants as the owner, closing an owner-impersonation path.

   Headless browser pages keep responding to clicks while a site waits for a passkey.

4. 4

   Manual /compact settles the active run before compacting instead of aborting it and dropping the pending request, and tool turns for reasoning models on api.openai.com Completions routes no longer fail with a 400.

   Official wording · c5 c7

   Manual /compact settles the active run before compacting instead of aborting it and dropping the pending request.

   OpenAI: tool turns for reasoning models on api.openai.com Completions routes no longer fail with a 400.

5. 5

   MCP OAuth login completes when the authorization server registers loopback redirect URIs without a port, and long non-ASCII IRC replies are no longer lost when the server relays them.

   Official wording · c8 c9

   MCP: OAuth login completes when the authorization server registers loopback redirect URIs without a port.

   IRC: long non-ASCII replies are no longer lost when the server relays them.

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Version timeline

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1. 2026-10-24Google models: add Gemini 4 Argon support
2. 2026-10-16CurrentGateway keeps running after sleep or system clock jump

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OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant running on a user’s machine, describing chat-channel access to calendar, file, web and other tasks with memory, skills and plugins.

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