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Fixing heap sizing under systemd, remote editor actions, OpenProse removal

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openclaw-docs-sync[bot] Jesse Merhi Peter Steinberger Ayaan Zaidi vincentkoc bek91
6 people shipped this
openclaw-docs-sync[bot] @openclaw-docs-sync[bot] 5 cited Jesse Merhi @jesse-merhi 2 cited Peter Steinberger @steipete 1 cited Ayaan Zaidi @obviyus 1 cited vincentkoc @vincentkoc 1 cited bek91 @bek91

Systemd-managed OpenClaw builds could size the V8 heap from host RAM, risking unrelated services; remote checkouts no longer offer editor handoff; the bundled OpenProse plugin is gone.

A systemd-managed OpenClaw build could size the V8 heap from host RAM instead of its enforceable cgroup budget. The heap probe only read cgroup root files, which exist only in namespaced containers; under systemd the budget lived on the process's own slice. On an observed 5 GiB slice, this selected a 12,288 MiB heap, drove the slice into reclaim, and contributed to unrelated services being OOM-killed. The fix resolves the process's applicable cgroup v1/v2 hierarchy and uses the tightest readable hard limit [1][2].

OpenClaw's session menu, chat header, file view, and diff panel all offered "Open in <editor>", which resolves to a cursor://file/<path> URL handled by the OS behind the browser while the path comes from the Gateway's filesystem. That handoff worked only when the browser ran on the Gateway host, so over Tailscale, LAN, or a tunnel it now stops being offered [3].

The bundled OpenProse plugin and /prose command are removed, since upstream now owns the maintained Agent Skill. This is a breaking change: /prose now serves as migration documentation only, and Doctor will clean stale plugin configuration [4].

Crabbox persisted signed terminal run receipts for SSH-backed runs. Retained remote runs could finish without a durable authenticated terminal record, leaving history appearing active or missing expected receipts; now an Ed25519-signed schema-v2 receipt is committed atomically with terminal run state and retained logs [5].

Docs syncs mirrored updates from openclaw/openclaw across the openclaw/docs repository [6][7][8][9][10].

Action items

References

  1. [1] fix(scripts): build heap ignores its systemd memory budget and takes the full default (#123979) ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  2. [2] fix(scripts): build heap ignores its systemd memory budget and takes the full default ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  3. [3] fix(ui): stop offering Open in editor for remote checkouts (#128420) ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  4. [4] refactor(plugins)!: remove OpenProse (#128494) ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  5. [5] feat: persist signed terminal run receipts ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  6. [6] chore(sync): mirror docs from openclaw/openclaw@52533dc89e49ec7be565b4ed35d1d96e8069894a ↗ openclaw/docs
  7. [7] chore(sync): mirror docs from openclaw/openclaw@07a5945e55d9424d7fbced420ac53a71e8d624ec ↗ openclaw/docs
  8. [8] chore(sync): mirror docs from openclaw/openclaw@6417bcb7b131996b514087d3d25038ff54e9d6e3 ↗ openclaw/docs
  9. [9] chore(sync): mirror docs from openclaw/openclaw@a5c8e00cb6701e89604bb96ba91583680c2836f6 ↗ openclaw/docs
  10. [10] chore(sync): mirror docs from openclaw/openclaw@055a7302c4a4e11a5233bd5ed3abcfa17f456923 ↗ openclaw/docs

$ ls openclaw/reviews/ # the step-back reads

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Quick answers

What shipped in OpenClaw on August 24, 2026?
Systemd-managed OpenClaw builds could size the V8 heap from host RAM, risking unrelated services; remote checkouts no longer offer editor handoff; the bundled OpenProse plugin is gone. In total, 68 commits, 42 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to OpenClaw on August 24, 2026?
6 developers shipped this update, including Jesse Merhi, Peter Steinberger, Ayaan Zaidi, bek91, vincentkoc, and openclaw-docs-sync[bot].
What were the notable OpenClaw updates?
fix(scripts): build heap ignores its systemd memory budget and takes the full default (#123979), fix(scripts): build heap ignores its systemd memory budget and takes the full default, and fix(ui): stop offering Open in editor for remote checkouts (#128420).
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$ log @openclaw --recent

Gesture update rollback guard fixed; Slack slackens redundant work 150 shipped Crabbox tightens VM cleanup ownership across providers 210 shipped Doctor and tool matchers get faster 212 shipped Crabbox adds native Daytona snapshots, lease lock fix 216 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Meta React Native adds Stable API guards to renderer attributed string FastAPI & Pydantic Pydantic fixes Mypy plugin crash, tightens datetime constraints

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