- Gateway/logging: expand leading `~` in `logging.file` before creating the file logger, preventing startup crash loops for home-relative log paths. Fixes #73587.

- Channels/CLI: keep `openclaw channels list --json` usable when provider usage fetching fails, and report per-provider usage errors without aborting the channel list. Refs #67595.

- Agents/messaging: deliver distinct final commentary after same-target `message` tool sends while still deduping text/media already sent by the tool, so short closing remarks are no longer silently dropped. Fixes #76915. Thanks @hclsys.

- Agents/messaging: preserve string thread IDs when matching message-tool reply dedupe routes, avoiding precision loss on numeric-looking topic IDs before channel plugin comparison. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- OpenAI Codex: let SSRF-guarded provider requests inherit OpenClaw's undici IPv4/IPv6 fallback policy, so ChatGPT-backed Codex runs recover on IPv4-working hosts when DNS still returns unreachable IPv6 addresses. Fixes #76857. Thanks @jplavoiemtl and @SymbolStar.

- Gateway/systemd: preserve operator-added secrets in the Gateway env file across re-stage while clearing OpenClaw-managed keys (such as `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN`) so a fresh staging value is never shadowed by a stale env-file copy; operator secrets are also retained when the state-dir `.env` is empty. Fixes #76860. Thanks @hclsys.

- Plugin updates: do not short-circuit trusted official npm updates as unchanged when the default/latest spec still resolves to an already-installed prerelease that the installer should replace with a stable fallback. Thanks @vincentkoc.

}

function normalizeThreadIdForComparison(value?: string): string | undefined {

const normalized = stringifyRouteThreadId(value);

if (!normalized) {

return undefined;

}

return /^-?\d+$/.test(normalized) ? String(Number.parseInt(normalized, 10)) : normalized;

return stringifyRouteThreadId(value);

}

function resolveTargetProviderForComparison(params: {

).toBe(true);

});

it("preserves string thread ids before plugin reply-suppression matching", () => {

installTelegramSuppressionRegistry();

const largeThreadId = "9007199254740993";

expect(

shouldDedupeMessagingToolRepliesForRoute({

messageProvider: "telegram",

originatingTo: `telegram:group:-100123:topic:${largeThreadId}`,

messagingToolSentTargets: [

{ tool: "message", provider: "telegram", to: "-100123", threadId: largeThreadId },

],

}),

).toBe(true);

});

it("does not match telegram topic-origin replies when explicit threadId differs", () => {

expect(

shouldDedupeMessagingToolRepliesForRoute({