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Fail-closed task registry, real Google Meet leaves
By RepoJournal · Filed · About OpenClaw
openclaw now fails closed on task registry restore errors instead of silently losing durable state, and the Google Meet transport actually leaves the call when told to.
A task-registry SQLite restore error used to be logged and then treated as an empty registry, so reads could silently report missing tasks and later writes could overwrite or prune durable task state that had failed to load. Clawsweeper now fails closed on restore failure and keeps the gateway process alive on in-process restart, preserving the failure for task delivery paths instead of hiding it [1].
The `openclaw googlemeet leave` command on Chrome transports printed `left <session-id>` and marked the session ended, but only ran the registered stop hook; the browser participant kept sitting in the call as a ghost receiving audio or captions. It now actually leaves the Meet call in the browser [2].
Clawsweeper added new close policies targeting old backlog: a default-off issue-only `unsponsored_feature_request` close reason for 90-day-old issues with sponsorship, activity, popularity, linked-PR, and security gates, and widened `stale_insufficient_info` to materially outdated reports with a 60-day non-bot comment inactivity guard [3]. In Clownfish, the autonomous cleanup wave is now restricted: security-adjacent PRs are excluded and only low-risk merges are allowed [5]. Native locale artifact handling was hardened to keep source and per-locale artifacts exact when Swift or Kotlin UI copy moves into helper calls, conditional branches, or typed fallback expressions [4].
Action items
- → Verify task registry restore failure handling after deploying the fail-closed fix openclaw/openclaw [immediate]
- → Retest Google Meet leave flows on Chrome transports if your ops rely on it openclaw/openclaw [plan]
- → Review the new close policies before enabling CLAWSWEEPER_UNSPONSORED_FEATURE_CLOSE_ENABLED openclaw/clawsweeper [plan]
- → Monitor the new autonomous cleanup wave to confirm it stays restricted to low-risk merges openclaw/clownfish [monitor]
References
- [1] fix(tasks): fail closed when task registry restore fails ↗ openclaw/openclaw
- [2] fix(google-meet): actually leave the Meet call in the browser on leave (#103386) ↗ openclaw/openclaw
- [3] feat: expand close policies for old backlog ↗ openclaw/clawsweeper
- [4] fix(i18n): keep native locale artifacts exact ↗ openclaw/openclaw
- [5] chore(queue): add fresh autonomous cleanup wave (#306) ↗ openclaw/clownfish
