[v2026.4.24] [OpenClaw] Is it stable?

[exisz]

Verdict: NO 🔥

Hubris after 4.23. This version came in hot and left a trail of GitHub issues. Your Slack will have opinions. We recommend staying on 4.23 until this gets patched.

Evidence

• [Bug]: Gateway 100% CPU / infinite loop with DeepSeek V4 models on 2026.4.24 openclaw/openclaw#71915 — Gateway 100% CPU / infinite loop with DeepSeek V4 models
• [Bug]: 4.24版本全局安装后卡死，无法使用 openclaw/openclaw#72208 — 全局安装后卡死，无法使用 (global install freezes)
• [Bug] 2026.4.24 on WSL2: Ghost EADDRINUSE loop & systemd split-brain openclaw/openclaw#72693 — WSL2: Ghost EADDRINUSE loop & systemd split-brain
• [Bug]: web ui日志界面无信息 openclaw/openclaw#72450 — Web UI log interface shows nothing

Stats

• GitHub issues mentioning this version: 4+ breaking
• Recommendation: npm install openclaw@2026.4.23

[kinthaiofficial]

We've been running OpenClaw v2026.4.x in production at KinthAI (multi-tenant, 200+ agents) and it's been stable for our use case. A few notes:

What's stable:

• Core gateway and message routing
• Plugin system
• Memory search (with some caveats — see Bug: memory_search mislabels session transcript hits as corpus=memory openclaw/openclaw#72885 for a labeling bug)
• Docker deployment

What to watch:

• The dreaming system can cause identity contamination in multi-agent setups (Bug: Built-in dreaming system contaminates agent identity in multi-agent setups openclaw/openclaw#65374)
• Active-memory reads can block replies under load (Reliability: active-memory blocks replies and QMD boot initialization can overload multi-agent gateways openclaw/openclaw#72015)
• Memory search doesn't have native multi-user isolation yet (Multi-User/Partition Support for Memory Search openclaw/openclaw#63550)

For production deployment, we'd recommend:

1. Pin to a specific version (don't auto-update)
2. Test memory behavior after each upgrade
3. If multi-user, add your own isolation layer

Our production architecture writeup: https://blog.kinthai.ai/openclaw-multi-tenancy-why-vm-per-user-doesnt-scale