- Gateway: keep session-only Control UI tool-start mirrors flowing during diagnostic queue pressure instead of silently dropping non-terminal tool updates.

- Gateway: avoid sending duplicate tool-event frames to Control UI connections that are subscribed by both run and session.

- Discord/OpenAI voice: accept longer leading wake-name mistranscripts such as "Open Club" for OpenClaw.

- Discord/OpenAI voice: accept leading fuzzy wake-name transcripts such as "Monty" or "Moti" for a Molty agent while keeping ambient speech gated.

- Media understanding: convert HEIC and HEIF images to JPEG before image description providers run so iPhone photos work in direct and configured image-description flows. (#86037)

- Agents: release embedded-attempt session locks from outer teardown so post-prompt exceptions cannot wedge later requests behind `SessionWriteLockTimeoutError`. Fixes #86014. Thanks @openperf.

- Cron: seed active scheduled and manual cron task rows with a progress summary so status surfaces do not look blank while jobs run. (#86313) Thanks @ferminquant.

- Updater: exclude prerelease git tags from stable channel resolution so source updates do not check out newer alpha/rc/preview/canary tags. (#86260) Thanks @stevenepalmer.

- Security/Audit: flag webhook `hooks.token` reuse of active Gateway password auth in `openclaw security audit` while keeping password-mode startup compatibility. (#84338) Thanks @coygeek.

- Agents/heartbeat: stop heartbeat turns after the first valid `heartbeat_respond` so repeated response loops do not burn tokens. (#86357) Thanks @udaymanish6.

- Tasks: keep retained lost tasks out of default status health counts, explain their cleanup window during maintenance, and prune lost task records after 24 hours instead of the general 7-day terminal retention.

- Memory-core: keep REM dreaming focused on live light-staged memories and mark staged entries as considered so old recall history no longer dominates fresh candidates. (#86302) Thanks @SebTardif.