- Gateway/startup: include resolved thinking and fast-mode defaults in the `agent model` startup log line, defaulting unset startup thinking to `medium` without mixing in reasoning visibility.

- Gateway/watch: suppress sync-I/O trace output during `pnpm gateway:watch --benchmark` unless explicitly requested, so CPU profiling no longer floods the terminal with stack traces.

- Gateway/watch: when benchmark sync-I/O tracing is explicitly enabled, tee trace blocks to the benchmark output log and filter them from the terminal pane while keeping normal Gateway logs visible.

- Plugins/runtime-deps: include `json5` in the memory-core plugin runtime dependency set so packaged `memory_search` sandboxes can resolve generated OpenClaw runtime chunks that parse JSON5 config. Fixes #77461.

- Agents/OpenAI: default direct OpenAI Responses models to the SSE transport instead of WebSocket auto-selection, preventing pi runtime chat turns from hanging on servers where the WebSocket path stalls while the OpenAI HTTP stream works. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- Discord: prefer IPv4 for Discord REST and gateway WebSocket startup paths so IPv4-only networks no longer stall before Gateway READY and inbound message dispatch. Fixes #77398; refs #77526. Thanks @Beandon13.

- Channels/plugins: key bundled package-state probes, env/config presence, and read-only command defaults by channel id instead of manifest plugin id, preserving setup and native-command detection for channel plugins whose package id differs from the channel alias. Thanks @vincentkoc.