v0.23.0-beta.3

Pre-release June 4, 2026

Netclaw 0.23.0-beta.3

Netclaw v0.23.0-beta.3 — beta channel fix release for non-root container operations

This is a prerelease on the beta channel. Stable installs are unaffected and remain on 0.22.1; only opt-in beta testers are offered this build.

Try the beta

Linux / macOS: curl -sSL https://releases.netclaw.dev/install.sh | bash -s -- --channel beta
Windows: download install.ps1, then ./install.ps1 -Channel beta
Docker: docker pull ghcr.io/netclaw-dev/netclaw:beta

Bug Fixes

docker exec/kubectl exec -- netclaw works again when run as root — the container daemon runs as the unprivileged netclaw user, but docker exec/kubectl exec default to the image's root user, and netclaw init (the documented first-run setup) is invoked exactly that way. A root-context CLI invocation extracted the .NET single-file bundle into a per-$HOME directory the runtime locks root:root (and wrote netclaw init config root-owned), after which the non-root daemon could no longer run its own CLI — failing with Failure processing application bundle / Failed to create directory ... Error code: 13 (EACCES). /usr/local/bin/netclaw is now a self-dropping launcher that transparently re-execs as the netclaw user when invoked as root, so exec'd CLI usage works on any orchestrator with no gosu/-u knowledge required. Documented in ADR-004 and locked in by a standalone-docker regression test (scripts/docker/test-nonroot-cli.sh). (#1322)