OpenClaw 2026.4.26: QQBot Group Chat, Google Live Voice & Migration CLI

OpenClaw 2026.4.26 shipped on April 28, 2026. This release delivers three headline capabilities: full QQBot group chat for China-market B2B teams, Google Live browser-based voice sessions with Gateway relay, and the new openclaw migrate CLI that makes zero-downtime enterprise migrations scriptable and auditable. Cerebras joins as a bundled AI provider, and memory search gets smarter with asymmetric embedding endpoints.

Here's what B2B sales teams need to know.

What's New for B2B Sales Teams

QQBot Group Chat: Full B2B Presence in China's Largest Messaging Network

QQ has over 500 million monthly active users, and enterprise Q-groups are the standard communication channel for Chinese B2B procurement. OpenClaw 2026.4.26 brings the AI SDR natively into those groups with a comprehensive implementation:

For B2B export teams selling into China: this is the channel your buyers actually use for procurement decisions. A qualified AI SDR present in your product group, answering spec questions and routing hot leads to human closers, is now a one-config deployment.

Quotable fact: QQ groups are used by 78% of Chinese enterprise buyers for supplier evaluation, according to a 2025 Analysys survey of B2B procurement professionals.

C2C streaming is also supported — the AI can handle one-on-one QQ conversations with the same pipeline as group chats, giving you a unified lead-handling flow regardless of how a prospect first contacts you.

Tencent Yuanbao: AI-Native Channel for Chinese Enterprise

Alongside QQBot, a Tencent Yuanbao external channel plugin joins the roster with WebSocket bot functionality. Yuanbao is Tencent's enterprise AI assistant platform, increasingly adopted by Chinese corporations as an internal productivity and vendor communication hub. Getting your AI SDR into Yuanbao puts you in front of prospects at their AI-first workflow layer — before they've even opened a browser.

Google Live Browser Talk: Real-Time Voice Without WebRTC Complexity

The new generic browser realtime transport contract enables Google Live browser Talk sessions with constrained ephemeral tokens and Gateway relay support. What this means in practice:

• No server-side WebRTC infrastructure required — the browser handles the transport; OpenClaw's Gateway relays the audio to your backend voice plugin
• Backend-only realtime voice plugins — run your voice model on any GPU backend without exposing it to the public internet
• Constrained ephemeral tokens — short-lived, scope-limited auth tokens prevent credential leakage even if a browser session is compromised

For SDR teams running Google Meet-based demos and discovery calls, this complements the v2026.4.24 Meet plugin: live voice AI is now available directly in the browser Talk interface, giving your reps an always-available AI consultant mid-call without switching tools.

openclaw migrate: Zero-Downtime Enterprise Migrations

The new openclaw migrate command is the most enterprise-significant addition in this release. It makes configuration and data migrations scriptable, auditable, and safe:

# Preview what will change
openclaw migrate --plan

# Dry-run without committing
openclaw migrate --dry-run --json

# Execute with automatic pre-migration backup
openclaw migrate --backup

Features:

• Plan mode — lists every migration step and its impact before execution
• Dry-run + JSON output — pipe into your CI/CD system or approval workflow
• Pre-migration backup — automatic snapshot before any destructive step
• Onboarding detection — skips migrations that aren't applicable to fresh installs

For enterprise teams managing OpenClaw across multiple environments (dev / staging / production), openclaw migrate is the missing piece that makes infrastructure-as-code deployments reliable. No more manual state reconciliation after upgrades.

Cerebras: Fastest Inference for High-Volume SDR Pipelines

Cerebras joins as a bundled provider plugin with full onboarding flow, a static model catalog, and documentation. Cerebras WSE-3-based inference delivers among the lowest latency available for frontier model sizes — critical for SDR workflows where response time directly impacts conversation quality.

For high-volume deployments (1,000+ conversations/day), Cerebras inference can keep response times under 1 second even on large context windows, maintaining the conversational pace prospects expect from human reps.

Memory Search: Asymmetric Embeddings & Ollama Query Prefixes

Two targeted improvements make lead memory retrieval more accurate:

Asymmetric embedding endpoints — OpenAI-compatible memory now supports separate API endpoints for query embeddings and document embeddings, with optional configuration for input types. This matters for RAG-based lead enrichment: the embedding model used to store a contact profile can differ from the one used to search it, using the model's asymmetric capabilities (e.g., search_document vs search_query input types for Cohere-family models).

Ollama query prefixes — For self-hosted deployments using Ollama for embeddings, model-specific retrieval query prefixes are now configurable. This improves retrieval precision for instruction-tuned embedding models that expect a specific prefix format.

Both improvements deliver better lead-to-memory match rates without adding new API keys or infrastructure.

Bug Fixes With B2B SDR Impact

• WhatsApp proxy support — Deploy behind corporate proxies without manual workarounds; critical for enterprise customers in regulated markets
• Discord model-picker persistence — Channel-specific model selection now survives agent restarts
• Mattermost DM routing — Direct messages now route correctly to the assigned agent
• LSP process cleanup — Language server processes no longer linger after agent shutdown, preventing memory leaks in long-running deployments
• Plugin discovery with symlinks — Custom plugin installs using symlinks (common in monorepo setups) now discovered reliably
• Windows path normalization — ESM loader paths fixed for Windows-hosted deployments; no more startup failures on backslash paths
• Docker CA certificate bundle — Automatic CA cert installation in Docker images fixes TLS verification failures in enterprise network environments

Install / Upgrade

New installation (one command):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iPythoning/b2b-sdr-agent-template/main/install.sh | bash

Existing OpenClaw installation:

npm install -g openclaw@2026.4.26
openclaw migrate --backup
openclaw doctor --fix

Should You Upgrade?

FAQ

Does QQBot group chat require a special QQ account type? You need a QQ bot account registered with the QQ open platform. The v2026.4.26 implementation supports the standard QQ Bot API; consult the updated OpenClaw docs for the bot registration flow.

Is openclaw migrate destructive? What if it fails mid-run? Migration steps are executed transactionally where possible. The --backup flag creates a full state snapshot before execution. If a step fails, the migration halts and reports the failure; the backup can be used to restore the previous state.

Can Cerebras be used as the default model for all agents? Yes — set "provider": "cerebras" and your preferred model in openclaw.json. The bundled model catalog includes all currently available Cerebras inference endpoints.

Does the Google Live browser Talk session work on mobile browsers? The browser realtime transport targets Chrome-based desktop browsers in the current implementation. Mobile browser support depends on the browser's WebRTC and audio capture capabilities.

Do asymmetric embedding endpoints require a specific embedding provider? The feature is OpenAI-compatible — any provider that exposes separate query/document endpoints (Cohere, Jina, Voyage, etc.) is supported. Configuration is optional; if not set, the single-endpoint behavior is unchanged.

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