# wasmCloud v2.8.0

> Orchestration & Management · 2026-08-25

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
- **[security]** The `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.

## Check if affected
- **[breaking]** Embedder 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.

## Other recorded changes
- 16 (defect_corrected 7, value_changed 5, added 4)

[Full analysis](https://ratatosk.io/en/releases/wasmcloud/v2.8.0)

[Original release notes](https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/releases/tag/v2.8.0)