OpenClaw dropped another quality release today, and this one has some meaningful changes worth paying attention to — especially if you’re running Slack integrations or using Ollama for local inference.

GPT-5.4 Pro: Forward-Compat Support Lands Early

The headline feature is forward-compatibility support for GPT-5.4 Pro, OpenAI’s latest in the GPT-5 family. OpenClaw now includes pricing, rate limits, and list/status visibility for gpt-5.4-pro before the upstream catalog has formally catalogued it. For practitioners running bleeding-edge model configurations, this means you can start testing gpt-5.4-pro in OpenClaw without waiting for the official model registry to catch up.

The change also applies to Codex sessions — the gpt-5.4-pro model will properly surface in model listings and respect its tier limits.

Slack Allowlist Hardening: A Genuine Security Fix

This is the one that should matter most to teams deploying OpenClaw in Slack-integrated enterprise environments. Prior to v2026.4.14, interactive triggers — Slack block actions and modal submissions — could potentially bypass the configured allowFrom owner allowlist.

The fix applies the global allowlist to all channel block-action and modal interactive events, requires an expected sender ID for cross-verification, and rejects ambiguous channel types. In plain terms: if you had an allowlist set up, it wasn’t being consistently enforced for Slack interactive events. Now it is.

If you’re using OpenClaw’s Slack integration for anything sensitive — inbox processing, calendar management, or any workflow with real-world side effects — update to v2026.4.14 promptly. This is exactly the kind of quiet but critical security hardening that’s easy to overlook on patch day.

Ollama Streaming Timeout Fix

For operators running local Ollama models with slow inference (common on resource-constrained hardware like Raspberry Pi setups), there was a frustrating bug: slow Ollama runs would time out and cut off mid-stream because the embedded-run timeout wasn’t being forwarded to the underlying stream timeout.

v2026.4.14 fixes this by correctly forwarding your configured run timeout into the global undici stream timeout. If you’ve been getting truncated Ollama responses on long inference tasks, this should resolve it without any configuration changes on your end.

Other Fixes in This Release

  • Image and PDF tools: Ollama vision models were being rejected as “unknown” by the media tool registry due to a model-ref normalization skip. This is fixed — valid Ollama vision models now pass registry lookup correctly.
  • Codex/ModelRegistry: A bug where the Pi ModelRegistry validator was rejecting Codex entries (because apiKey wasn’t included in the catalog output) caused all custom models in models.json to be silently dropped. Fixed.
  • Telegram forum topics: Human topic names now surface properly in agent context and plugin hook metadata, learned from Telegram forum service messages.

Upgrading

As with all OpenClaw releases, upgrade via your standard update path. If you’re self-hosting or running on a Pi, verify the Ollama stream timeout behavior is working as expected after updating, and double-check your Slack allowlist configuration is correctly set in your config — the hardening only helps if you’ve defined the allowlist.

Full changelog and PRs are linked in the GitHub releases page.

Sources

  1. OpenClaw v2026.4.14 Release Notes — GitHub

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