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OpenClaw 4.26 Update Broke Everything: Gateway Crashes, Discord Dead, Users Switching to Hermes
v2026.4.26 caused widespread breakage: gateway crashes, Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp dead, high CPU, broken plugins. Pattern repeated from .24 and .25. Reddit hit 53 upvotes, 105 comments. Blog acknowledged Rough Week. Users switching to Hermes for smoother updates.
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A CLI tool that snapshots your full OpenClaw config, credentials, and agent state before every update and rolls back automatically if the update breaks anything
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696
HN
475
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1,171
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