ZeroClaw v0.8.4 — Hardening the Control Planes

ZeroClaw v0.8.4 is a maintenance and hardening release — 262 commits from 49 contributors — that takes the control planes v0.8.3 built and makes them dependable. Memory, SOPs, operator surfaces, channels, and the release pipeline all get the same treatment: fewer sharp edges, more auditability.

Highlights

• Memory controls — opt-in retrieval caching, a gated rerank stage, typed memory classification and fact extraction, content scanning at write and recall boundaries, and gated memory audit trails. Semantic recall of durable global memories works across sessions again.
• SOP execution — per-SOP admission policies, execution slots released while awaiting human approval, approvals brokered through group membership and quorum, checkpoint editing for deterministic gate prompts, and centralized fan-in ingress adapters.
• Operator surfaces — in-app dashboard upgrades with automatic restart, channel-owned relinking, agent renaming, active runtime context display, searchable keybinding help, and a unified risk-profile permission grid.
• Channels and ACP — Mattermost WebSocket listener mode, Telegram inbound debounce plus poll and interactive-reply events, signed Nextcloud Talk replies, agent-selectable ACP sessions, and cited blob delivery.
• Provider reliability — better OpenAI Responses setup, model context-window metadata, fallback visibility, streamed retries, multimodal fallback, and whole-turn history trimming.
• Release integrity — a self-contained notarized macOS desktop path, repaired Scoop and AUR publication, consolidated attestations, required SBOMs, checksums, and an offline verification archive.

Upgrade notes

This release includes upgrade-sensitive changes for skill sources, Nextcloud Talk, and generic webhook authentication — read the breaking-changes section of the release notes before upgrading those integrations.

Everything else: zeroclaw update and you're done.