Release Notes

May 12, 2026

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_INFERENCE_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.