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v0.7.29 Bugfix

This release fixes issues for SREs watching stability and regressions.

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ai ai-agents ai-memory anthropic artificial-intelligence claude
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claude-agent-sdk claude-agents claude-code-plugin claude-skills codex embeddings long-term-memory memory-engine openclaw openclaw-skills postgresql llm

Summary

AI summary

Timeouts for npm registry fetches increased from 3‑5 seconds to 10 seconds, fixing abort errors on cold start.

Changes in this release

Bugfix Medium

Increased AbortSignal.timeout budgets from 5s and 3s to 10s in openclaw/src/index.ts.

Increased AbortSignal.timeout budgets from 5s and 3s to 10s in openclaw/src/index.ts.

Source: granite4.1:8b-q6_K@2026-05-19

Confidence: high

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Bugfix Medium

Removed abort message race condition for slow-but-eventually-succeeding fetches.

Removed abort message race condition for slow-but-eventually-succeeding fetches.

Source: granite4.1:8b-q6_K@2026-05-19

Confidence: high

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Bugfix Medium

Ensures /hivemind_version command completes within 10s even during cold start.

Ensures /hivemind_version command completes within 10s even during cold start.

Source: granite4.1:8b-q6_K@2026-05-19

Confidence: high

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Bugfix Medium

Eliminated abort message race for slow-but-eventually-succeeding auto-update checks at startup.

Eliminated abort message race for slow-but-eventually-succeeding auto-update checks at startup.

Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-05-19-audit

Confidence: high

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Full changelog

Fixes #105 and #109.

Why

Two AbortSignal.timeout budgets in openclaw/src/index.ts are aggressive enough to abort the npm-registry fetch on cold gateway init:

  • Line 192 — checkForUpdate at startup (5s)
  • Line 694 — /hivemind_version slash command (3s)

Steady-state response time from registry.npmjs.org/@deeplake/hivemind/latest is ~170ms. The aborts happen during cold start when this fetch runs concurrently with plugin discovery, Bonjour watchdogs, and TLS warm-up. Both issues track this same root cause.

Observed live on the user's gateway 2026-05-12T20:49:48 right after a systemctl --user restart openclaw-gateway:

[plugins] Auto-update check failed: The operation was aborted due to timeout

The expected ⬆️ Hivemind update available: <current> → <latest>. Run: hivemind update notice never renders for that gateway run, so users miss the upgrade prompt until the next restart hits a warm cache.

What changed

Bumped both timeouts to 10s (~60x headroom over observed steady-state latency).

  • The startup site is fire-and-forget (checkForUpdate(logger).catch(() => {}) at the bottom of register()), so a longer budget does not add session-start latency. Per the team's "no session-start latency" rule, the network call is intentionally unawaited; the only effect of a longer timeout is "the abort message no longer races a slow-but-eventually-succeeding fetch."
  • The /hivemind_version site is a user-invoked command — 10s is well below user-patience threshold and matches the worst cold-start latency we want to cover.

Tests

  • npm run typecheck — clean
  • npm test — 2380/2380 passing
  • Source-only change; CI regenerates openclaw/dist/.

Test plan

  • [ ] After this lands and a release publishes, on a cold openclaw gateway: journalctl --user -u openclaw-gateway -e | grep 'Auto-update check' should show no "operation was aborted due to timeout" lines.
  • [ ] Run /hivemind_version from inside the agent. Should return the Update available / up to date message, not "Could not check for updates."

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved reliability of version checks and auto-update detection to better handle varying network conditions.

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Earlier breaking changes

  • v0.7.52 Removes `hivemind tasks` CLI and related code surfaces.
  • v0.7.51 Removes `hivemind tasks` CLI and related code surfaces.
  • v0.7.19 Module name skilify replaced with skillify; affects all imports
  • v0.7.19 CLI command skilify removed; renamed to skillify without deprecation alias
  • v0.7.18 CLI subcommand renamed from `skilify` to `skillify`; no deprecation alias.

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