By devasher · Edited by Nominiclaw
openclaw v2026.6.5 introduces Parallel as a bundled web-search provider, enhances iOS Talk transparency with fallback banners, and implements significant stability fixes for MCP, Anthropic extended-thinking, and various channel integrations.
openclaw v2026.6.5 delivers a new bundled web-search provider, enhanced transparency for iOS voice interactions, and critical stability improvements for MCP tool results and Anthropic extended-thinking sessions.
Parallel is now a bundled web_search provider designed for agentic search, returning LLM-optimized dense excerpts. It is configured via the PARALLEL_API_KEY environment variable or plugins.entries.parallel.config.webSearch.apiKey config. The provider includes guarded endpoint handling, cache-safe session IDs, and a dedicated onboarding picker.
Realtime voice interactions on iOS now clearly distinguish between the configured mode and the active runtime mode. When gateway realtime fails, the app surfaces a visible fallback banner and a detailed issue sheet, explicitly notifying users when the system has fallen back to native iOS speech recognition and TTS. This prevents silent failures and provides diagnostics for credential or provider issues.
resource_link, resource, and audio blocks into text at the materialize boundary. This prevents Anthropic 400 errors and poisoned session history caused by malformed image blocks.message_start, allowing pre-generation signature errors to trigger existing recovery retries.lastUsedAt, preventing idle runtimes from accumulating linearly over gateway uptime.<thinking> tags) before delivery to prevent raw internal model narration from leaking into channel replies.POST /tools/invoke to prevent non-owner identity-bearing callers from accessing server-credential wrappers.docker.io/) to prevent hangs on Podman hosts with short-name-mode = "enforcing".Users will experience more reliable agentic web searches with the addition of Parallel and significantly better visibility into voice failures on iOS. The migration to SQLite for auth and plugin state increases system durability and reduces the risk of state corruption. Security is tightened around Gateway tool invocation, ensuring that sensitive core tools are restricted to owners and admins.
This release adds Parallel as a bundled web-search provider, introduces a fallback banner and transparency for iOS Talk, and includes stability fixes for MCP tool results, Anthropic extended-thinking, and various channel integrations (QQBot, Matrix, Feishu, WhatsApp, iMessage).
No breaking changes are reported; however, non-owner identity-bearing callers will now find owner-only core tools (gateway, cron, nodes) unavailable on Gateway tool invocation surfaces.
Upgrade instructions are not explicitly provided in the source, but the release includes automatic migrations for legacy cron JSON stores and auth profiles into SQLite during the doctor config preflight.
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