OpenClaw news (Apr 26, 2026)

What’s new

• Bug report: Gateway exit triggered by “reasoning-only retry exhaustion” on an embedded agent turn (with follow-on cron delivery failures). Source
• Ecosystem map: ClawTrackr tracks 100+ OpenClaw variants, forks, and rewrites (nice when you are evaluating “should we adopt this fork?”). Source
• Model naming reality check: a short guide on “GPT-5.5 + OpenClaw”, with the key note that GPT-5.5 is not publicly released (yet). Source

One evergreen tip

Add a “canary” cron that runs a tiny tool call every morning (and alerts you) so you notice provider/model regressions before your real automations fail.