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Same day Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7, OpenClaw shipped the release that defaults to it. That kind of cadence is exactly what makes OpenClaw’s release velocity worth tracking — v2026.4.15 is out now, and it brings considerably more than a model bump. Here’s what’s in this release and why each piece matters for practitioners. Claude Opus 4.7 Is Now the Default All Anthropic model selections, aliases, and Claude CLI defaults have been updated to point to Opus 4.7. If you’re running OpenClaw with Anthropic as your provider and haven’t pinned a specific model version, you’re already on the new default after upgrading. ...

OpenClaw v2026.4.15-beta.1 ships two features that, combined, dramatically improve the experience for self-hosted and resource-constrained deployments: cloud LanceDB memory (durable remote memory indexes instead of local disk only) and lean mode (a smaller prompt footprint for weaker local models). This guide walks you through configuring both. Prerequisites OpenClaw beta installed: npm install -g openclaw@beta A running local model via Ollama, LM Studio, or equivalent (for lean mode to be relevant) An S3-compatible object store if using cloud LanceDB (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, etc.) Step 1: Install the Beta npm install -g [email protected] Verify the install: ...

OpenClaw’s latest beta release, v2026.4.15-beta.1, lands with a trio of features that meaningfully expand the platform’s reach — from hardened operators keeping tabs on OAuth health, to resource-constrained developers finally getting a viable local-model path, to teams who’ve been waiting for durable memory that doesn’t eat disk on every server they deploy to. Here’s what shipped. Model Auth Status Card The Control UI now has a dedicated Model Auth status card in the Overview panel. At a glance it shows OAuth token health and provider rate-limit pressure — and raises attention callouts when tokens are expiring or have already expired. ...