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v2.8.0Orchestration & Management
Aug 25, 2026

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A feature-and-maintenance release adds async messaging and host/runtime controls. It also changes defaults, refreshes dependencies, and includes a disclosed security dependency fix.

Action needed (1)

  • securityThe h2 dependency update for RUSTSEC-2026-0258

    The h2 dependency is bumped to 0.4.17 for RUSTSEC-2026-0258. The update ships in this release.

    wasmCloud#5481

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  • breakingEmbedder OCI and socket defaults

    Applies if you use the embedder subsystem.

    The embedder OCI and socket defaults are corrected. This change ships in this release.

    wasmCloud#5478

All 16 other recorded changesfixes 7 · value changes 5 · additions 4

fixes (7)

  • * Fix/async messaging follow-ups by @ricochet in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5460
  • * fix(runtime): stop warning on anonymous pulls without a docker config by @ricochet in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5479
  • * fix(wash-runtime): don't panic or poison the instance pool under concurrent load by @LiamRandall in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5488
  • * (bugfix) rollback partially-bound plugins by @jfleitz in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5492
  • * Fix/abandoned call deregistration by @ricochet in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5495
  • * fix(wash-runtime): make filesystem keyvalue writes atomic and serialize counter updates by @LiamRandall in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5447
  • * fix(wash): wash wit ergonomics and error handling by @ricochet in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5496

value changes (5)

  • * chore(deps): bump the all-github-actions group across 2 directories with 12 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5465
  • * chore(deps): bump the all-go group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5464
  • * chore(deps): bump the all-github-actions group across 2 directories with 6 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5486
  • * chore(deps): bump the all-go group across 2 directories with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5485
  • * chore(deps): bump the all-docker group across 2 directories with 1 update by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5484

additions (4)

  • * feat(messaging): async wasmcloud:[email protected] by @Aditya1404Sal in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5413
  • * wasmCloud:messaging inflight limit by @jfleitz in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5458
  • * feat(wash-runtime): timeout hardening for guest code that spins CPU forever by @Aditya1404Sal in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5451
  • * Add Host core and memory knobs by @jfleitz in https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/pull/5483
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