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OpenClaw v2026.5.x High CPU and Control-Plane RPC Latency After Upgrade from 4.24+

Users upgrading from OpenClaw 2026.4.24 to 2026.4.29 or 2026.5.2 report extreme control-plane RPC latency, high CPU usage, and unstable polling. GitHub Issue #76562 documents the regression affecting gateway performance.

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A CLI tool that clones your live OpenClaw config into a staging container, applies the pending update, runs health checks against all configured channels and plugins, and only promotes to production if every check passes

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OpenClaw ships multiple updates per week and each one risks breaking the live agent. v2026.4.26 crashed gateways and killed Discord. v2026.5.5 doctor --fix silently broke Codex OAuth routes. v2026.5.7 auto-update wiped entire configs including credentials and channel bindings. External plugins get silently dropped on minor version bumps. Users are downgrading, disabling auto-update, or switching to Hermes. The core team announced an LTS track but it has not shipped yet. Until it does, operators need a way to validate updates before they touch the production agent.

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