- Memory/dreaming: persist last dreaming-ingestion calendar day per daily note in `daily-ingestion.json` so unchanged notes are still re-ingested once per dreaming day for promotion signals toward deep thresholds. Fixes #76225. (#76359) Thanks @neeravmakwana.

- Agents/embed: keep message_end safety delivery armed when a silent text_end chunk produces no block reply, fixing dropped Telegram/forum replies. Fixes #77833. (#77840) Thanks @neeravmakwana.

- Install/postinstall: skip noisy compile-cache prune warnings when `EACCES`/`EPERM` prevent removing shared `/tmp/node-compile-cache` entries owned by another user. Fixes #76353. (#76362) Thanks @RayWoo and @neeravmakwana.

- Agents/messaging: surface CLI subprocess watchdog/turn timeout messages to chat users when verbose failures are off, instead of collapsing them into generic external-run failure copy. Fixes #77007. (#77015) Thanks @neeravmakwana.

## 2026.5.3-1

- Web fetch: late-bind `web_fetch` config and provider fallback metadata from the active runtime snapshot, matching `web_search` so long-lived tools do not use stale fetch provider settings. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- Plugins/discovery: demote the source-only TypeScript runtime check on already-installed `origin: "global"` plugin packages from a config-blocking error to a warning and let the runtime fall through to the TypeScript source via jiti, so a single broken installed package no longer blocks `plugins install` for unrelated plugins; install-time rejection of newly-installed source-only packages is unchanged. Thanks @romneyda.

- Providers/OpenAI Codex: stop the OAuth progress spinner before showing the manual redirect paste prompt, so callback timeouts do not spam `Browser callback did not finish` across terminals.

- Agents/messaging: surface CLI subprocess watchdog/turn timeout messages to chat users when verbose failures are off, instead of collapsing them into generic external-run failure copy. Fixes #77007.

- Channels/WhatsApp: allow `@whiskeysockets/libsignal-node` in `onlyBuiltDependencies` so pnpm v9+ `blockExoticSubdeps` no longer rejects the baileys git-tarball subdep and silences all inbound agent replies. Fixes #76539. Thanks @ottodeng and @vincentkoc.

- 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.