OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway

The OpenClaw Foundation has released v2026. 8. 1, which the project calls OpenClaw 2. 0: 933 contributors, 569 first-timers, and more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half of every PR ever merged into the repo. Setup now reuses existing subscriptions, API keys and local models.

The rebuilt Control UI cut test-harness startup from about 1. 6 seconds to 575 ms. Shared cloud sessions add real multiplayer, though the docs are explicit that they are not a security boundary. The post OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.