10 commits landed across OpenClaw in the last 3 hours. The headline is a real chat feature — native session scroll-back — backed by a methodical settings-search hardening sweep and a couple of quiet reliability fixes.
What Changed
Native session scroll-back (#105688). Peter Steinberger shipped feat(chat): native session scroll-back with offset paging and import-aware history. Instead of re-rendering or re-fetching an entire conversation, the chat now pages history by offset and stays aware of imported sessions — so scrolling back through a long or imported thread is coherent rather than a costly reload. That's the one feature worth reaching for.
Settings-search hardening sweep (6 commits). Shakker dominated this window with a focused fix chain on the settings search path: fix: search unconfigured array settings, fix: guard settings search config loading, fix: contain settings config load failures, fix: complete recursive settings search, fix: segment localized settings queries (#104675), plus test: cover precise settings deep links and a style formatting pass. The net effect: settings search no longer trips on array-shaped or unconfigured settings, degrades gracefully when config loading fails, and recurses correctly — with tests pinning the deep-link behavior.
Signal/container reliability. Alix-007 added fix(signal): add timeouts to container REST requests (#104122), so container REST calls can't hang indefinitely against an unresponsive endpoint.
Routing trim. Vincent Koc landed refactor(routing): trim private exports (#105691), shrinking the public surface area and reducing the chance of depending on internals that were never meant to be stable.
Why It Matters
The session scroll-back is the user-visible win — smoother navigation through long or imported chats. But the settings-search sweep is the more telling work: it's the kind of correctness paydown that keeps OpenClaw's preferences UI from silently breaking as config shapes evolve. Combined with the container REST timeouts and the export trim, this is a batch about making the platform feel solid, not just featureful.
For the broader trajectory of OpenClaw's session and platform work, our replayable worker live-events writeup covers the foundation this scroll-back builds on.
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