Release Notes#

NVIDIA NemoClaw is available in early preview starting March 16, 2026. Use this page to track changes.

v0.0.40#

NemoClaw v0.0.40 improves onboarding reliability, local inference setup, and sandbox recovery:

  • nemoclaw onboard uses the Docker-driver OpenShell gateway path on macOS with OpenShell 0.0.37, repairs incomplete Docker-driver installs before startup, and installs the platform-specific gateway asset it needs.

  • The Docker-driver gateway startup check waits for the gateway port to accept TCP connections before it reports the gateway as healthy, and startup failures now include child process exit details.

  • Local Ollama setup requires the authenticated reverse proxy token on every native Ollama API route, including GET /api/tags.

  • The Linux Ollama install path preflights zstd before running the official installer and explains why each sudo-backed setup step needs elevated privileges.

  • The onboarding provider menu offers an already-running local vLLM server directly when localhost:8000 responds, while managed vLLM install and start options remain behind the experimental opt-in.

  • Policy tier defaults are filtered by active agent support, so presets such as Brave Search are not reapplied to agents that do not support that integration.

  • nemoclaw <name> connect checks dashboard forward reachability with a TCP probe before it reports a forward as stale.

  • Sandbox startup captures a known-good OpenClaw config baseline and restores it on restart if /sandbox/.openclaw/openclaw.json becomes empty.

  • The NemoClaw OpenClaw plugin package declares compatibility metadata for OpenClaw package tooling.

v0.0.39#

NemoClaw v0.0.39 improves several day-two workflows:

  • The installer checks Docker earlier on Linux, can install and start Docker when needed, and stops with newgrp docker guidance when the current shell has not picked up the docker group yet.

  • DGX Spark and DGX Station users can accept an express install prompt that preselects the local inference path and suggested policy defaults.

  • NemoClaw now creates GPU-capable OpenShell Docker sandboxes by default when an NVIDIA GPU is available, with explicit --sandbox-gpu, --no-sandbox-gpu, and --sandbox-gpu-device controls.

  • nemohermes supports Hermes Provider onboarding and runtime model switches through nemohermes inference set.

  • nemoclaw <name> hosts-add, hosts-list, and hosts-remove manage sandbox host aliases for LAN-only services.

  • nemoclaw update checks and runs the maintained installer flow, while nemoclaw upgrade-sandboxes remains responsible for rebuilding existing sandboxes.

  • nemoclaw <name> destroy preserves the shared gateway by default unless --cleanup-gateway is selected.

  • nemoclaw <name> connect repairs stale inference.local DNS proxy routes before opening the session.

  • Windows-host Ollama onboarding relaunches the daemon with the reachable binding after install or restart.

  • Local NVIDIA NIM onboarding passes NGC_API_KEY or NVIDIA_API_KEY into the managed container without putting the secret in process arguments, detects early container exits during health checks, and prints a per-GPU preflight breakdown on mixed-model hosts.

  • The sandbox startup path strips additional Linux capabilities before and during privilege step-down.

  • OpenClaw workspace template files are seeded when bootstrap is skipped and the workspace is still empty.

  • Kimi K2.6 and related NVIDIA-hosted chat-completions paths include model-specific compatibility handling for reasoning output.

v0.0.38#

NemoClaw v0.0.38 improves several day-two workflows:

  • nemoclaw <name> status shows the gateway’s active policy version in the displayed policy YAML when OpenShell reports one.

  • nemoclaw uninstall stops matching Local Ollama auth proxy processes before it removes ~/.nemoclaw, which prevents stale listeners from blocking a later reinstall.

  • Local Ollama onboarding validates structured chat-completions tool calls and rejects models that leak tool-call payloads as plain text.

  • Blueprint policy additions under components.policy.additions are validated, merged into the live policy, applied through OpenShell, and recorded in run metadata.

  • Rebuild backups tolerate partial archive output when usable data was produced, then report only the manifest-defined paths that could not be archived.

  • NemoHermes uninstall output uses NemoHermes-specific help, progress, and completion text.

v0.0.34#

Starting with NemoClaw v0.0.34, the curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh | bash installer pipeline no longer auto-accepts the third-party software notice when stdin is piped and /dev/tty is unavailable (for example, deeply detached SSH sessions or some container shells). In environments without a TTY, accept upfront in the pipe:

$ curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh | NEMOCLAW_ACCEPT_THIRD_PARTY_SOFTWARE=1 bash

Or pass the flag through to the installer:

$ curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh | bash -s -- --yes-i-accept-third-party-software

Or re-run from a terminal with a controlling TTY:

$ bash <(curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh)

The installer error message in v0.0.35+ surfaces all three invocations directly so users can copy-paste a recovery without leaving the terminal.

Component Version Policy#

NemoClaw pins the OpenClaw version inside the sandbox at build time via min_openclaw_version in nemoclaw-blueprint/blueprint.yaml; existing sandboxes do not auto-upgrade. Run nemoclaw <name> status to see the OpenClaw version currently running in a sandbox, and nemoclaw <name> rebuild to pick up a newer pin from a NemoClaw upgrade. See Checking the OpenClaw version for the full policy.