[v2026.4.29] [OpenClaw] Is it stable?

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NO 🔥 Spicy 🌶️ — v2026.4.29

Six hours after release, the bug tracker looks like a 3am incident channel. Hard pass.

Evidence

• 2026.4.29: Gateway repeatedly spawns runtime-deps pnpm installs and starves event loop openclaw/openclaw#75283 — Gateway repeatedly spawns runtime-deps pnpm installs and starves event loop
• Gateway event loop blocked during agent prep: max delay 32s, utilization 100%, API requests hang openclaw/openclaw#75330 — Gateway event loop blocked during agent prep: max delay 32s, utilization 100%
• TUI startup hangs at 100% CPU due to bundled plugin reload loop (2026.4.29) openclaw/openclaw#75430 — TUI startup hangs at 100% CPU due to bundled plugin reload loop
• [Bug]: Failed to render WhatsApp QR - Cannot find package ‘qrcode’ in 2026.4.29 openclaw/openclaw#75394 — Failed to render WhatsApp QR — Cannot find package qrcode
• IMessageRpcClient.request() does not handle async stdin write errors → uncaughtException → gateway crash openclaw/openclaw#75438 — IMessageRpcClient async stdin write errors → uncaughtException → gateway crash
• [Bug]: [2026.4.29] openclaw cannot accept for any input openclaw/openclaw#75419 — openclaw cannot accept any input
• [Discord] unresolved SecretRef at runtime despite secrets audit showing 0 unresolved openclaw/openclaw#75324 — Discord unresolved SecretRef at runtime despite audit showing 0
• Bug: web_search can receive unresolved SecretRef for Gemini provider after 2026.4.29 openclaw/openclaw#75420 — web_search receives unresolved SecretRef for Gemini provider
• [Bug]: Copilot 429 fail-fast fix is bypassed by session-custom stream path on 2026.4.29 openclaw/openclaw#75411 — Copilot 429 fail-fast bypassed by session-custom stream path
• Gateway event-loop saturation and very slow sessions.list/models.list on all tested versions after 2026.4.23; rollback restores stability openclaw/openclaw#75297 — Gateway event-loop saturation; rollback to ≤4.23 restores stability

Stats

• 20+ issues in the first 24 hours — runtime deps, event loop, secrets, channels all broken
• Recommendation: Stay on v2026.4.23 or wait for v2026.4.30+

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Title:
OpenClaw 2026.4.29 embedded agent times out on openai/gpt-5.2 and gpt-5.4 while raw OpenAI Responses/SSE works

Environment:
Ubuntu 24.04 EC2
OpenClaw 2026.4.29
Gateway via systemd
Slack socket mode
OpenAI API key loaded from service env

Working:
curl /v1/models returns HTTP 200 in ~0.8s
curl /v1/responses gpt-5.2 non-streaming returns HTTP 200 in ~1.8s
curl /v1/responses stream=true emits response.output_text.delta and response.completed

Failing:
OpenClaw Slack DM triggers agent run
Run reaches stream-ready
openai/gpt-5.2 times out after ~166s
fallback openai/gpt-5.4 also times out after ~166s
Slack receives delivered error reply

Tried:
Changed primary from gpt-5.1 to gpt-5.2
Added gpt-5.4 fallback
Disabled Slack native streaming
Forced OpenAI transport=sse
Disabled openaiWsWarmup
No improvement

Expected:
OpenClaw should consume the Responses stream and deliver assistant output.

Actual:
Embedded agent reports FailoverError: LLM request timed out.