India, Aug. 31 -- OpenClaw 2.0 is the project's largest release so far, but the bigger story is what forced such a broad reset. What began as work on easier installation and a better browser experience expanded into changes across messaging, memory, models, automations, plugins, native apps, security, and collaboration.

More than 16,000 pull requests went into the release, contributed by 933 people, including 569 first-time contributors. The project says this update alone represents roughly half of all pull requests ever merged into its codebase.

The scale of version 2.0 stands out because the project had previously moved at a much faster cadence. Before this update, the team says it shipped 106 releases in 230 days, often only a day or...