Summary

The release moves heavy transcript work away from the gateway event loop, expands settings that apply without restarts, adds GPT-6 Astra support and enables Swarm orchestration by default. It also changes cross-agent session visibility defaults, so shared Gateway deployments need to review their access settings.

Why it matters

OpenClaw is treating persistent agent operation as an infrastructure problem involving responsiveness, recovery, permissions and observability rather than only prompt execution.

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