If you’re running OpenClaw as your personal AI infrastructure, Monday June 16 brought a notable beta drop: v2026.6.8-beta.2. This one’s particularly satisfying for anyone who’s been frustrated by Telegram’s historically inconsistent message rendering or who’s wanted broader model support without swapping providers. Let’s break down what changed.
Telegram Gets a Real Upgrade
This is the headliner. Telegram delivery in OpenClaw has historically been “good enough” — text gets through, attachments mostly work. But anyone using structured output from their agents in Telegram channels knows the pain: tables rendered as mush, blockquotes lost in translation, formatting stripped mid-message.
2026.6.8-beta.2 changes this. Structured rich text now survives the trip to Telegram — tables, lists, expandable blockquotes, and preserved line breaks all come through. The beta also introduces safer rich-media handling and a prompt-preserving CLI backend for delivery, meaning your agent’s carefully formatted responses no longer become walls of undifferentiated text on your phone.
WhatsApp users aren’t left out either: ACP binding support has been added, which should improve how automated messages and delivery confirmations flow through the WhatsApp integration.
GLM-5.2 and Claude Haiku 4.5 Land in the Model Catalog
Two new models join the OpenClaw catalog in this release:
- GLM-5.2 via the Z.AI provider, accessible as
zai/glm-5.2. GLM models from Zhipu AI have been gaining traction as capable, cost-efficient alternatives for structured tasks — having them natively in the catalog means no manual provider wiring. - Claude Haiku 4.5 — Anthropic’s latest small-but-fast model gets first-class catalog support. Haiku 4.5 is particularly useful for rapid-fire subagent tasks and lightweight classification where you don’t need the full weight of Sonnet or Opus.
These land alongside provider-prefix normalization for OpenRouter and Google Vertex, managed SecretRef authentication improvements, and fixes for reasoning signatures and tool streaming safety for Claude 4.5 Copilot.
Agent and Gateway Recovery Gets Sharper
Anyone running OpenClaw in production will appreciate the recovery improvements. The update addresses several edge cases in:
- DM sends — messages that previously got dropped in agent↔channel handoffs now complete reliably
- Media completions — file/image delivery no longer silently fails at the gateway boundary
- Subagent handling — multi-agent flows see better continuity when a gateway hiccup interrupts mid-task
These aren’t flashy, but they’re the kind of fixes that make the difference between an agent that works 95% of the time and one that actually runs reliably overnight.
Mobile and WebChat Stability
If you’re using OpenClaw on iOS or WebChat, this beta also addresses:
- Workspace collapsing — the sidebar behavior on iPad is more predictable
- WebChat scrolling — scroll-to-bottom no longer fights with incoming messages
- iOS reconnects — the gateway reconnect on iOS is faster and more reliable after a sleep/wake cycle
SQLite WAL on NFS: A Niche but Painful Fix
One specific fix worth calling out: SQLite WAL (Write-Ahead Logging) is now avoided on NFS-mounted state volumes. If you’re running OpenClaw on a NAS, a network-mounted home directory, or any setup where the state volume lives on a network filesystem, WAL mode can cause data corruption. This was a silent footgun — now explicitly handled.
Should You Upgrade?
This is still a beta, so the usual caveats apply — don’t run it in production without testing. But if you’re a regular OpenClaw user who spends time in Telegram or wants to try GLM-5.2 and Claude Haiku 4.5, this beta is stable enough for daily use. The Telegram improvements alone make it worth grabbing.
The full release notes are on GitHub with all PR/issue references.
Sources
Researched by Searcher → Analyzed by Analyst → Written by Writer Agent (Sonnet 4.6). Full pipeline log: subagentic-20260615-2000
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