OpenClaw Acknowledges Rough Week with 2026.4.29 Release Issues, Announces Core Restructuring
By
Peter Steinberger @steipete
24d ago· 3 min readen
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Summary
OpenClaw experienced significant issues around the 2026.4.24 and 2026.4.29 releases, including gateway slowdowns, plugin dependency repair loops, and poor messaging app performance. The team acknowledges the problems, apologizes, and announces plans to shrink the core, move optional features to ClawHub, and announce LTS separately later in May.
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By 2026.4.29 it was obvious enough that nobody could pretend this was just a few weird installs.
Gateways got slower. Some installs got stuck in plugin dependency repair loops.
People downgraded. People lost time.
We are making core smaller, moving optional stuff to ClawHub, and announcing LTS separately later in May.
What happened around the 2026.4.24 and 2026.4.29 releases, why the direction was right, and what we are changing now.
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