🦞 OpenClaw 2.0 Lands on MyClaw
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OpenClaw 2.0 Lands on MyClaw
OpenClaw 2.0 (v2026.8.2) is one of the project’s biggest upgrades yet. Rather than just adding another batch of features, it noticeably restructures and strengthens the overall agent experience: more capable, more persistent, smoother to work with, and safer around long-running tasks and real-world execution.
But the upgrade itself has been painful for some self-hosted users. Across X and community discussions, longtime OpenClaw users have reported broken gateways, failed migrations and systems becoming unusable after upgrading. It is a reminder that running an open-source agent stack yourself can still mean debugging dependencies, plugins, configs and migrations when a major release lands.
The MyClaw team spent the past few days adapting and validating OpenClaw 2.0 across our hosted environment so users do not have to deal with that migration work themselves. OpenClaw 2.0 is now fully supported on MyClaw, and existing users can log in and complete the upgrade with a seamless one-click update.
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