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OpenClaw 2.0 Goes Stable: v2026.8.1 Ships Today with a Rebuilt Web Experience and Memory System (Upgrade Notes Inside)

On August 31 OpenClaw shipped v2026.8.1 stable, with the official release page titled "v2026.8.1 (AKA OpenClaw 2.0)" — the community nickname is now official. Highlights: a rebuilt Control UI, conversation search, sessions beyond your Gateway, durable progress cards, interactive widget dashboards, private credential requests and a memory overhaul (grounded dreaming / memory forget). The upgrade carries two migration paths (OpenProse removal, codex/* to openai/*), and plugin devs face the September 1 SDK deprecation gate. Upgrade tutorial included.

August 31, 2026 · Source: https://docs.openclaw.ai/releases/2026.8.1

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.

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