OpenClaw v2026.4.14 Active Memory Timeout: All Conversations Fail After Upgrade

After upgrading from v2026.4.12 to v2026.4.14, all existing conversations fail with generic UI error. Root cause: active-memory pre-reply timeouts (15s timeout consistently hit). Affects multiple models and surfaces. Rolling back to v2026.4.12 restores normal behavior. Related issues span v2026.4.14 through v2026.4.15.

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A CLI tool that snapshots your OpenClaw state before updates, runs the upgrade in a sandboxed dry-run against your live config, and auto-rolls back if any health check fails

OpenClaw ships updates every 2-3 days and each one risks breaking exec permissions, crashing the gateway, saturating CPU with plugin loading bugs, or silently deleting cron jobs. Four separate regressions in April 2026 alone (v2026.4.1 sandbox, v2026.4.5 CPU, v2026.4.14 memory timeouts, update command wiping Feishu and crons) hit thousands of self-hosters with no rollback path. The built-in openclaw doctor only validates config schema after the fact. This tool wraps the entire update lifecycle: snapshot state, dry-run the upgrade against your actual agent/cron/channel config, diff the before/after, and block or auto-rollback if anything regresses.

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