OpenClaw New Release: Introducing Local Backup CLI, Talk Silent Timeout, and Brave Search LLM Context Mode

According to 1M AI News monitoring, OpenClaw released v2026.3.8 today, with 43 contributors participating. Key additions:

· Local state backup commands `openclaw backup create` and `openclaw backup verify`, with support for manifest validation;

· Talk Mode introduced `talk.silenceTimeoutMs` configuration option to automatically send transcript text after a user-specified silence duration;

· Brave web search added LLM Context mode (`tools.web.search.brave.mode: "llm-context"`), extracting search snippets with source metadata;

· macOS onboarding now supports a remote gateway Token field;

· TUI can automatically infer the current active Agent from the workspace context.

Fixes include Telegram DM duplicate replies, macOS Tailscale gateway discovery, SELinux auto-detection, and browser CDP wildcard WebSocket rewriting issues.