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Home-linked chat headers regain Pin session and Move to group

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openclaw's day was spent on the small breakages users notice: a chat header that hid its Actions menu, a release pipeline that double-requested Linux builds, and SQLite backups that stalled in idle processes.

fix(ui): restore header actions for Home-linked conversations openclaw/openclaw

by steipete

Header actions were missing for ordinary conversations that link back to Home, including conversations created in a worktree; Pin session and Move to group are now reachable from the Actions menu again. The Home breadcrumb stays, and spawned, explicitly nested, and forked conversations keep their child restrictions.

fix(sqlite): resume completed backups in idle processes openclaw/openclaw

by steipete

Backups and SQLite inspections could wait indefinitely in an otherwise idle process after the native copy had already finished, because Node 26.8.2 resolves the native backup Promise outside its normal callback checkpoint. Completed backups now resume their callers without waiting on unrelated I/O or a later timeout, and there is no configuration, archive-format, schema, or runtime-version change.

fix(release): reuse existing Linux release requests openclaw/openclaw

by steipete

Stable publication now reuses an in-progress or successful Linux App Release Request from main and records its run identity, instead of issuing duplicate Linux build requests when core publication resumes after a manual or earlier same-tag request. Native publication and recovery stay with the independent Linux builder, and failed or canceled requests remain replaceable when nothing reusable ex...

fix(ci): clarify security review comments (#152578) openclaw/openclaw

by Josh Avant

The CI security review comments got a cleanup pass: warnings were reworded, the hyphen dropped from the maintainer warning, and the dependency graph filename lists and dependency changes simplified. The maintainer security warning introductions were clarified in the same effort.

chore(sync): mirror docs from openclaw/openclaw@0ca3500309587d5da20ae208da642609165961b2 openclaw/docs

by openclaw-docs-sync[bot]

Five docs mirrors landed from openclaw/openclaw through the sync bot, keeping the published docs tree aligned with the commits above.

Quick answers

What shipped in OpenClaw on September 19, 2026?
openclaw's day was spent on the small breakages users notice: a chat header that hid its Actions menu, a release pipeline that double-requested Linux builds, and SQLite backups that stalled in idle processes. In total, 100 commits, 50 pull requests, and 2 releases landed.
Who contributed to OpenClaw on September 19, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including openclaw-docs-sync[bot], Josh Avant, and steipete.
What were the notable OpenClaw updates?
fix(ui): restore header actions for Home-linked conversations, fix(sqlite): resume completed backups in idle processes, and fix(release): reuse existing Linux release requests.