Overview
- OpenClaw published version 2.0 on Monday as the project’s largest release, consolidating roughly half of its merged changes into a single update.
- The release was built by 933 contributors and includes more than 16,000 pull requests, with 569 people contributing to the project for the first time.
- Onboarding and the browser experience were rebuilt so new users reach a first conversation faster by reusing existing ChatGPT/Claude credentials, API keys, and local models during guided setup.
- Shared cloud sessions let multiple people join, suggest edits, or take over an agent without losing its context, which moves OpenClaw from a single‑user tool toward collaborative, team and family workflows.
- Session and transcript storage now uses SQLite, so users must make a verified backup of legacy transcript artifacts before downgrading because sessions created after migration will not appear in older builds; the project remains open source and interoperable with common local models and provider keys.