OpenClaw v2026.3.11-beta.1: Free 1M Context Model, Kimi Fix, and a Breaking Change You Need to Handle Now

OpenClaw just dropped v2026.3.11-beta.1 and there’s a lot to unpack here. Some of it is genuinely exciting, some of it will silently break your setup if you’re not paying attention. Let’s get into it.

Two Free Models on OpenRouter (Limited Time)

This is the headline for anyone running long coding sessions on a budget. OpenRouter is offering two experimental models for free during a roughly one-week beta window.

Hunter Alpha comes with a 1M context window. That’s not a typo. One million tokens of context, completely free. If you’ve been struggling with context limits during extended coding sessions where you need to keep massive codebases in memory, this is your moment. It won’t last, so use it while you can.

Healer Alpha is also free during the beta. Both are labeled as stealth/experimental models, so expect rough edges and the occasional weird output. But free is free, and a million-token context window is genuinely useful for real work.

Kimi Coding Tool Calls Are Finally Fixed

If you’ve been using Kimi Coding through OpenClaw, you know exactly how frustrating this bug was. Instead of actually executing tool calls, Kimi would just describe what it was going to do. It would narrate its intentions like a nature documentary instead of writing your code. That’s now fixed.

GPT 5.4 and Kimi Coding are also reported as generally more reliable in this release. Less hallucination, fewer dropped tool calls, more consistent output. The kind of boring improvements that actually matter day to day.

OpenCode Is Now a First-Class Provider

This is a big deal for the OpenCode community. If you’ve been using OpenCode as your primary coding environment and bolting OpenClaw onto it with workarounds, those days are over. OpenCode is now officially supported as a provider, which means proper integration, proper error handling, and no more duct-tape configurations.

Breaking Change: Cron Notifications Are Gone

Here’s the one that will bite you if you’re not paying attention. Cron jobs can no longer send notifications through ad hoc agent sends or fallback main-session summaries.

If your cron setup relies on notifications or webhooks to tell you when things finish, those notifications are now silently failing. Not erroring out. Not warning you. Just… not sending.

Before you find out the hard way that your automated tasks have been running without telling you about it, run this:

openclaw doctor --fix

Seriously, do it now. The doctor --fix command will detect and patch your cron configuration to work with the new notification system. Don’t wait until you realize your nightly backup reports stopped showing up three days ago.

Other Fixes Worth Knowing About

GLM-5 and DeepSeek control token leaks fixed — If you were seeing weird artifacts and random control characters in your output from these models, that’s now resolved. The internal control tokens were leaking into user-facing text, which made output look broken even when the underlying generation was fine.
Telegram delivery bugs fixed — Several issues with message delivery through the Telegram integration have been patched.
Gateway restart issues on macOS fixed — Mac users who were dealing with the gateway failing to restart properly after sleep or reboot should see this resolved.
ACP session handling improvements — More stable session management across the board.
WebSocket origin validation security fixes — Important security patch. If you’re running OpenClaw with WebSocket connections exposed, update immediately.

Bottom Line

The two free models on OpenRouter are the reason to pay attention this week. Hunter Alpha’s 1M context window is a legitimate tool for serious coding work, and you’ve got about a week before the free tier disappears. The Kimi fix and OpenCode provider support are solid quality-of-life improvements. But if you run cron jobs, stop what you’re doing and run openclaw doctor --fix before something breaks silently.

Full release notes are available on GitHub.