OpenClaw 2026.7.1-beta.6 Drops With Meta Muse Spark 1.1 and Major Mobile Overhaul

OpenClaw 2026.7.1-beta.6 landed on GitHub today with one of the largest model-expansion sprints in recent memory, alongside meaningful mobile improvements and operator-facing reliability fixes.

New models and providers

The release adds Featherless, Claude Sonnet 5, and Mythos 5 to the model roster, alongside Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 — which ships as a standalone npm package (@openclaw/meta-provider) with streaming, tool calls, encrypted reasoning replay, and onboarding built in. ClawRouter also joins as a new routing model. GPT-5.6 becomes the default for new setups, with /think ultra enabled for Sol and Terra tiers.

Android: agent switching mid-chat

Perhaps the most user-facing change: Android users can now switch the active agent directly from the live chat screen, keeping the session, Talk mode, and home canvas intact. Previously this required leaving the conversation.

iOS: offline chat with a protected cache

iOS gains pre-painted recent sessions from a protected, bounded per-gateway cache. Sending is disabled while offline, and cached conversation text is purged when pairing is reset — addressing a longstanding privacy concern for mobile users.

Gateway crash-loop recovery

On the operator side, the gateway now persists boot outcomes and enters a control-plane-safe mode after repeated unclean starts, holding transport and provider activation until recovery completes. It exits with EX_CONFIG for fatal configuration errors, preventing systemd/launchd restart flapping on misconfigured setups.

Other highlights

  • Control UI gains GitHub issue and PR previews on hover, per-message token/context details, a redesigned sidebar with persistent customization, and session title reveal animations.
  • A new bundled Logbook plugin turns paired-node screen snapshots into a private timeline, daily standup, and timeline-grounded Q&A.
  • Slack progress indicators now use native assistant thread status and rotating loading messages by default.
  • TTS playback gains an operator-scoped tts.speak RPC.

Full release notes are available on the OpenClaw docs site.

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