Hey everyone, After the recent malware scare from ClawHub that I flagged a while back, I know security has been top-of-mind for all of us. I've been digging through the full v2026.2.25 release notes, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this is one of the most important updates for our community in a long time. This isn't a feature-heavy release. It's a hardening release. And it directly addresses many of the stability and security fears we've been talking about right here in this group. Here's the breakdown of what matters to us as builders. (INSTRUCTION: Make the following line bold in the Skool editor) The Big One: Massive Security Overhaul This release ships with nearly 20 critical security patches. This isn't routine maintenance. It's a direct response to the kinds of vulnerabilities that keep us up at night. Many of these were reported by community security researchers like @tdjackey and @bmendonca3. Why it matters to you: Remember the malware that spread through a popular skill? This update hardens the system against exactly that kind of attack. It blocks multiple pathways for remote code execution, session hijacking, and data leakage. Specifically, they've plugged holes in gateway WebSocket authentication (preventing brute-force and session takeover), hardened the file system against malicious symlinks and hardlinks (a common escape vector), blocked unauthorized event injections through chat platform reactions on Discord, Slack, Signal, and Telegram, and fixed an OAuth PKCE verifier exposure in the macOS beta onboarding flow. If you're running OpenClaw for clients or handling any sensitive data, this update is non-negotiable. Stability Fixes That Address Our Biggest Headaches Beyond security, this update tackles some of the most common and frustrating issues we've all faced in this community. Runaway Agents & Costs: Several fixes target the agent delivery and cron systems. The subagent completion dispatch has been refactored into a proper state machine, and there's a new duplicate-send guard for cron jobs. This should help prevent the kind of orphaned processes and duplicate sends that have led to those terrifying, unexpected API bills. If you've experienced what Christo Roberts described with his $100+/day spike, these fixes are directly relevant.

I'm split between "hey, learning from scratch and building here is cool af" to "can't I just download an app and it insta works" Considering the speed the claw-community is growing should be a matter of weeks, a month before we se first beta of a more user-friendly setup. Or what do you think?

Hey, I have a noob question. I currently use OpenRouter for the API's. I haven't understood how I can get any shape of image generation started. I have broken my system too many times on my own so I ask here before I do anything again 😅 What is the procedure to connect additional API's, for example Nano Banana, and how do I use that in the prompt? Is it auto-selecting Nano Banana when I ask it to generate images or I need to manually tell it to use a specific API? (I almost gave up on this but I got it running and this stuff blows my mind every minute). Cheers!

Before I start with this I will make a full system backup with rescue USB 😅 Anyways, how did you guys handle to build your first Mission Control? Can you post any examples and how much input did you give the bot to build it? What type of obstacles did you encounter. The basic one is boring af... I see on X some seriously advanced models but that's not for me, I just want to get started revamping bits and pieces in the beginning. Cheers!

I’m real interested in open claw if anyone is wanting to help a guy figure this stuff out. Anything helps