OpenClaw v2026.7.1-beta.2 Brings GPT-5.6 Support, Telegram Codex Workflows, and ClawRouter

OpenClaw v2026.7.1-beta.2 dropped July 5th with a dense set of highlights spanning model support, messaging platforms, and core tooling improvements.

What’s New

GPT-5.6 support — OpenClaw now recognizes the GPT-5.6 model family across catalog, capability, and runtime selection paths. Nemotron Super’s 1M context window is also now available.

External harness attachment — openclaw attach launches an external harness against an existing Gateway session, making interactive Codex-style workflows easier to resume and inspect.

Telegram Codex workflows — Telegram users can now start Codex pairing with /login, steer active Codex runs, and recover final replies across transient API failures.

Event-driven cron runs — A new on-exit schedule kind wakes an agent when a watched command exits, while session-targeted runs can detach cleanly.

ClawRouter — A new bundled provider plugin delivers credential-scoped dynamic model discovery, OpenAI-compatible and native Anthropic/Gemini transports, and managed budget reporting across OpenClaw usage surfaces.

iOS 26 refresh — The native app adopts the iOS 26 visual system with clearer Chat, Talk, onboarding, and reconnect flows, plus expanded localization across Apple and Android surfaces.

iMessage polls — Built-in poll creation, reading, and voting for iMessage users.

Mac local Gateway setup — The macOS app can now install and start its local Gateway automatically.

Control UI overhaul — Session-first sidebar, compact context meter, warm light theme, reasoning-effort slider, streamlined composer, and slash-command picker.

The release also ships safer scoped conversations with per-conversation tool and access boundaries via capability profiles.

— GitHub