$ cat openclaw/week/2026-08-31.log
the week in review · Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
OpenClaw 2026.8.1 breaks cross-agent session defaults
Cross-agent session access is now the default, while shared ownership fixes land across Crabbox and OCM.
OpenClaw 2026.8.1 openclaw/openclaw
The release notes call for using a local coding harness to complete the update, diagnose migration errors, and verify the Gateway starts. Back up your configuration and state before proceeding.
fix: preserve agent ownership across global sessions and bindings openclaw/openclaw
Global sessions now preserve agent ownership, so replies, commands, task status, and notifications route to the correct agent. Channel binding managers no longer erase replacement bindings during stale shutdown.
fix(tart): fence cleanup with exact VM ownership openclaw/crabbox
Tart cleanup now requires an exact lease claim, preventing deletion of stopped `crabbox-` VMs the acting state does not own, a regression reproduced with a real stopped VM.
fix(proxmox): require exact ownership for automatic cleanup openclaw/crabbox
Proxmox cleanup and release now demand exact ownership, closing a path where an expired, label-matched cluster VM could be stopped and purged without a local claim.
fix(incus): require durable ownership for release and cleanup openclaw/crabbox
Incus release and cleanup now require a durable ownership record, removing the legacy label-only destructive path and preventing weak labels from becoming local authority.
fix: preserve simulation result when cleanup fails openclaw/ocm
A failed cleanup of the disposable simulation environment no longer masks a successful candidate validation, so `ocm upgrade simulate` reports the true outcome.
fix: upgrades no longer reject migratable legacy config openclaw/ocm
Target config repair now runs inside the snapshot-backed upgrade transaction, so migratable legacy configs are no longer rejected before the target release can repair them.
fix(outbound): skip code-span placeholders consumed by tag stripping (#125184) openclaw/openclaw
When markdown code spans sit inside an HTML tag attribute, tag stripping no longer consumes the restore placeholder, preventing lost spans in outbound content.
$ ls openclaw/week/ # the briefings behind this review