OpenClaw v2026.3.22 Broke My Dashboard and WhatsApp — Here's the Quick Fix

If you updated OpenClaw to v2026.3.22 and your Dashboard UI is showing a blank/error page and WhatsApp plugin stopped working — you're not alone. There are two packaging bugs in this release that affect npm installs. Here's what happened and how to fix it in 60 seconds. TL;DR — The Fix npm i -g openclaw@2026.3.13 openclaw doctor --non-interactive openclaw gateway restart Roll back to v2026.3.13 and you're done. What Broke 1. Dashboard UI — 503 Error After upgrading, opening the OpenClaw dashboard gives you a 503 with this in the gateway logs: Control UI assets not found. Build them with pnpm ui:build Root cause: The dist/control-ui/ directory was accidentally excluded from the npm tarball in v2026.3.22. The gateway starts, but there are no UI assets to serve. The files exist in the git repo and the Docker images, but the npm package is missing them. Tracked in GitHub issue #52808 . 2. WhatsApp Plugin — Silent Failure WhatsApp stops working entirely. The gateway logs show: plugins.entri