Direct answer: OpenClaw shipped v2026.8.1 stable today (August 31), and the official release page is literally titled "v2026.8.1 (AKA OpenClaw 2.0)" — the "2.0" label the community and YouTube creators had been using is now official. Under the hood it is the biggest stable drop in months: a rebuilt Control UI, conversation search, sessions that run beyond your Gateway, durable progress cards, interactive widget dashboards, private credential requests, and a memory system that now consolidates itself in the background. Upgraders face two migration paths (OpenProse removal and the codex/* to openai/* route migration), and plugin developers hit an SDK deprecation gate on September 1 — see our upgrade tutorial.
From nickname to official name
OpenClaw uses calendar versioning, so there is no literal "2.0" tag on GitHub — the tag is v2026.8.1. But the official docs release page now titles itself "v2026.8.1 (AKA OpenClaw 2.0)", which is as close to an official blessing as it gets. YouTube reviewers had already been calling the 2026.8 line's rebuilt dashboard "OpenClaw 2.0"; with today's stable ship, the name sticks.
The "2.0" framing also matches the project's engineering narrative: on July 30 the team announced extended-stable releases and a public maturity scorecard — long-lived channels with backported fixes, plus a per-feature maturity inventory — the road to LTS for workloads that can't chase weekly trains.
The eight headline capabilities
- Conversation search — search past conversations by exact words or phrases and reopen the surrounding messages (#105057, #105635, #105585);
- Sessions beyond your Gateway — run work on paired devices or cloud workers, move the session workspace, reuse warm machines and project seeds;
- Live progress tracking — a durable session progress card survives reloads; follow subagent activity and edits across web and native chat;
- Structured questions — answer agent questions via web/native cards, messaging buttons or plain text, with free-text alternatives and a Skip path;
- Interactive widgets and dashboards — pin chat widgets to session dashboards, grant specific actions or network origins, export views as images;
- Private credential requests — agents request credentials via masked prompts without exposing values in chat or model context; an opt-in proxy limits secret substitution to approved destinations;
- One-time automation approvals — grant a permission for one exact operation, inspect or revoke it later, and require fresh approval if the job changes;
- Richer audio/video — media persists across uploads, replies, playback and reloads; native playback controls; video uploads on Apple and Android.
Memory and session continuity
The memory side is where "2.0" earns its name: personal conversation recall (personal installs; groups excluded), background consolidation the team calls "grounded dreaming" — on by default, with a Dream Diary —, automatic skill self-learning, sessions that persist across idle periods and day boundaries by default, and explicit memory ownership controls including openclaw memory forget.
Upgrading: two migration paths and one deadline
Breaking changes are modest but real: the bundled OpenProse plugin and /prose command are removed (keep your .prose files; follow the upstream Agent Skill migration), and codex/* / openai-codex/* refs migrate to openai/* across provider config, stored sessions and automation routes, with conflicts flagged for manual repair. openclaw doctor --fix handles both. Provider packages (BytePlus, Mistral, Volcengine, Xiaomi and a dozen others) now install on demand — recover missing ones with openclaw update repair. Plugin developers: several plugin-sdk-* subpath imports move to focused openclaw/plugin-sdk/ imports, gated on September 1, 2026. We put the full backup → update → doctor → verify → rollback path in a step-by-step upgrade tutorial, and a feature tour for the new UI.
Community reaction
Early reactions on X focus on speed and polish: @joncursi upgraded 2026.6.11 → 2026.8.1-beta and reports "my agents are so much faster to respond, you really feel the speed improvement"; @rodrigofarinha calls agent speed in the new version "incredible"; a testimonial on the official homepage (from early-days user @morganlinton) sums it up: "it's kinda like a whole new product now, so much polish". Notably, Chinese tech media has not yet picked up the 2.0 stable ship — coverage there still centers on the March plugin-migration incident and the April QQ integration.
Sources
- Official release notes (AKA OpenClaw 2.0): docs.openclaw.ai/releases/2026.8.1
- GitHub release: v2026.8.1 (published 2026-08-31 03:30 UTC)
- Extended-stable & maturity scorecard blog: openclaw.ai/blog (Jul 30, 2026)
- Update & rollback guide: docs.openclaw.ai/install/updating
Direct answer： OpenClaw 今天（8 月 31 日，UTC 03:30 / 北京时间 11:30）发布 v2026.8.1 稳定版，官方发布页标题直接写着「v2026.8.1 (AKA OpenClaw 2.0)」——社区与 YouTube 创作者口中的「2.0」正式转正。这是数月来最大的一次稳定版更新：重建的 Control UI、会话搜索、跨 Gateway 会话、持久进度卡、交互式 widget 仪表盘、私密凭据请求，以及一套会自己在后台整理的新记忆系统。升级带两条迁移线（OpenProse 移除、
codex/*迁移openai/*），插件开发者注意 9 月 1 日 SDK 弃用门禁——完整步骤见升级教程。
从俗称到定名：2.0 到底指什么
OpenClaw 采用日历版本号，GitHub 上并不存在字面意义的「2.0」tag——今天的 tag 是 v2026.8.1。但官方文档发布页以「v2026.8.1 (AKA OpenClaw 2.0)」为题，等于官方亲自盖章。此前 YouTube 评测作者已把 2026.8 线重建的 Web 体验称为「OpenClaw 2.0」，随着今天稳定版落地，这个名字算是坐实了。
「2.0」的叙事也和工程路线对得上：7 月 30 日官方博客宣布 extended-stable 长期支持通道与公开的成熟度记分卡——带回归修复的长生命周期渠道，加上按特性罗列的成熟度清单，明确通往 LTS，面向追不动周更火车的工作负载。
八大headline能力
- 会话搜索：按精确词句搜索过往对话文本，并重开周围的消息上下文（#105057、#105635、#105585）；
- 跨 Gateway 会话：把工作放到配对设备或云端 worker 上运行，可迁移会话工作区，复用热机器与项目种子；
- 实时进度跟踪：持久化的会话进度卡跨页面重载存活，Web 与原生聊天中都能跟踪子 Agent 的活动与编辑；
- 结构化提问：通过 Web/原生卡片、消息按钮或纯文本回答 Agent 的提问，支持自由文本替代与跳过路径；
- 交互式 widget 与仪表盘：把聊天 widget 钉到会话仪表盘，按需授予特定操作或网络来源权限，可把视图导出为图片；
- 私密凭据请求：Agent 通过掩码提示请求凭据，值不会出现在聊天或模型上下文中；可选代理把密钥替换限制在已批准的目的地；
- 一次性自动化审批：为一次确切操作授权，事后可检查、可撤销；任务一旦变更需要重新批准；
- 音视频增强：媒体跨上传、回复、播放与重载持久保存；原生播放控制；Apple 与 Android 端支持视频上传。
记忆与会话连续性
记忆侧是「2.0」最名副其实的部分：个人对话回忆（个人安装版可用，群组排除）；官方称为「grounded dreaming」的后台整理默认开启，并配有 Dream Diary；技能自动自学习；会话默认跨空闲时段与日边界持久；以及显式的记忆所有权控制——包括 openclaw memory forget 一键遗忘。
升级注意：两条迁移线与一个截止日
破坏性变更克制但真实：内置的 OpenProse 插件与 /prose 命令被移除（.prose 文件保留，按上游 Agent Skill 方式迁移）；codex/* 与 openai-codex/* 引用迁移到 openai/*，覆盖 provider 配置、已存会话与自动化路由，冲突项会被标记出来等人工修复——openclaw doctor --fix 两条都能处理。BytePlus、Mistral、火山引擎、小米等一批 provider 包改为按需安装，缺失时用 openclaw update repair 恢复。插件开发者注意：若干 plugin-sdk-* 子路径导入收敛为 openclaw/plugin-sdk/ 聚焦导入，门禁时间是 2026 年 9 月 1 日。我们把完整的 备份 → 升级 → doctor → 验证 → 回滚 路径写成了逐步升级教程，另有一篇新功能上手带你过一遍新版界面。
社区反应
X 上的早期反馈集中在速度与打磨：@joncursi 从 2026.6.11 升到 2026.8.1-beta 后表示「Agent 响应快得多，速度提升真的能感觉到」；@rodrigofarinha 称新版本的 Agent 速度「不可思议」；官方首页收录的早期用户 @morganlinton 评价可作总结——「简直像一个全新的产品，打磨得太好了」。值得注意：国内科技媒体尚未跟进 2.0 稳定版，中文报道目前仍停留在 3 月插件迁移事故与 4 月 QQ 官方集成。
Sources
- 官方发布页（AKA OpenClaw 2.0）：docs.openclaw.ai/releases/2026.8.1
- GitHub Release：v2026.8.1（2026-08-31 03:30 UTC 发布）
- Extended-stable 与成熟度记分卡博客：openclaw.ai/blog（2026-07-30）
- 官方更新与回滚指南：docs.openclaw.ai/install/updating