# OpenClaw 2026.11.2 is a patch with no new features: this is what it fixes

By Ivo Donker · 9 November 2026 — text: Claude (AI, Anthropic), checked against the sources
Should you update OpenClaw to 2026.11.2? Yes, if you are hit by stuck updates, missing scheduled reminders or duplicate chat widgets. The release notes say it themselves: "This is a patch release with no new features." The version bundles 113 pull requests and 53 direct commits from 64 GitHub accounts, and also contains a series of fixes around permissions, log privacy and the migration from Hermes.

OpenClaw is an open-source assistant that you host yourself and that works through chat channels, a web interface and scheduled tasks. How to keep track of which version of your local software you run is described in our guide [keeping local model updates on track](https://gids.llmnet.nl/en/model-updates-lokaal-bijhouden-van-welke-versie-draai-je).

## Updates that got stuck

- Updates failed during snapshot checks when the update history was overloaded (#178126). Installs on 2026.10.4 stuck on this can follow the recovery guidance in the notes.

- An interrupted update kept waiting for the Gateway to be ready; that is fixed, and large SQLite databases get more time for the check (#193263). According to the notes, the installed updater must already include this fix.

- Updating one profile sometimes failed because the check read another profile's database (#184384).

## Scheduled tasks and reminders

The most striking fix: scheduled reminders disappeared when their text mentioned the word heartbeat, for example "heartbeat polls or wakes" (#129650). In addition, an automation no longer deletes its own schedule or cancels its running run when ownership cannot be confirmed for a moment (#167857), and clean-up no longer prunes sessions of cron jobs that are still running (#176745).

## Memory, widgets and the web interface

Memory search rejected calls in which a model used limit for the result count (#172630); that now works, also through Tool Search. Canvas widgets and previews appeared twice at the end of a chat reply (#175544). In the web chat, Ctrl+Enter and Cmd+Enter now submit the selected answers (#173836).

## Permissions and privacy

Permissions and privacy
Fix | PR | 

Completed CLI turns no longer keep their MCP tool grants when the process is reused | #191980 | 

At startup, workspace-controlled mise and XDG paths no longer enter the PATH of child processes | #191102 | 

Existing-session Chrome MCP profiles reject HTTP(S) navigation under the strict redirect policy | #191271 | 

Sandboxed web search follows the existing provider trust policy | #191748 | 

Conditional config changes no longer write new secrets into the local audit history (existing records remain) | #191318 | 

Assistant replies, LINE postback data and language-server stderr no longer end up in certain logs | #172963, #173422, #174998 | 

The point about MCP tool grants fits a broader trend: agents get more and more tools through MCP, and how long such a grant stays valid matters more. More in our overview of [MCP and agent tooling](https://apps.llmnet.nl/en/nieuws-mcp-agent-tooling) and in the background on [agentic AI](https://nieuws.llmnet.nl/en/agentic-ai).

## Migrating from Hermes

The migration from Hermes Agent no longer silently changes settings or credentials when source files contain malformed UTF-8 (#180264). The notes give the fix: "Re-encode the named file and retry." What is happening with Hermes itself, we follow in [Hermes news](https://apps.llmnet.nl/en/hermes-nieuws).

## What we did not check

We read the release notes; we did not install or test the version ourselves. The notes state no release date; on November 9, the documentation lists 2026.11.2 as the latest release.

Checked on November 9, 2026.

This article was written with AI (Claude, Anthropic) and checked against the sources below.

## Sources

- OpenClaw, 2026.11.2 release notes: [docs.openclaw.ai](https://docs.openclaw.ai/releases/2026.11.2)

- OpenClaw, release on GitHub: [github.com/openclaw/openclaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.11.2)

- Reply on X about update fixes in recent releases: [x.com/lcorneliussen](https://x.com/lcorneliussen/status/2119691588754419911)