OpenClaw 2.0 Launches: The Biggest Update in Its History After 7 Weeks of Development

Beating AI News: OpenClaw’s last major version launched in mid-July, with no new official major release in the nearly seven weeks since. Previously, the project updated roughly every two days on average, a pace that has now slowed significantly. Today, the OpenClaw development team rolled out a new version dubbed "OpenClaw 2.0", marking the project’s largest update to date. A total of 933 developers participated, merging over 16,000 pull requests (PRs) — accounting for roughly half of all PRs merged in the project’s history. The update focuses on lowering the barrier to entry: during installation, it automatically detects existing ChatGPT, Claude subscriptions, API keys, and local models on the user’s device, reducing manual configuration. The browser-based interface has also been revamped, enabling direct chatting, task resumption, session management, and support for multiple users to join or take over the same task. The update also covers messaging, memory, Skills, models, automation, plugins, security, and native apps. Over the past 230 days, OpenClaw released 106 versions. The team acknowledged that the previous rapid release pace outpaced its underlying architecture and release processes. Moving forward, OpenClaw will continue to reduce its update frequency.