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OpenClaw 2.0 Ships After a Two-Month Freeze: 933 Contributors, 16K PRs, and Sessions Moved to SQLite
OpenClaw published v2026.8.1 on 2026-08-31 at 03:30 UTC, branded 2.0 and the first release to behave like a traditional major version after 106 releases in 230 days; the GitHub repo confirms the tag and now carries 388,449 stars. The breaking change is storage: sessions and transcripts migrate from file-backed storage to SQLite, older releases cannot display migrated sessions, and downgrading requires restoring legacy artifacts via CLI. Security defaults tightened too, with network installs lacking authentication blocked before startup, remote Gateway credentials validated before onboarding promotion, unencrypted LAN connections held in Limited mode, and certificate pinning enforced for LAN/IP connections on Android.
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