Nora v1.15.0 — reliability & durability hardening

[solomon2773]

Reliability release: durability and honesty hardening across Kubernetes, Docker, integrations, channels, the gateway, and the cost dashboard, plus durable OpenClaw channel state.

Operator-facing changes

• Durable OpenClaw channel state — token- and configuration-backed settings are persisted and reseeded on provision; QR-linked device sessions still need to be re-paired after a rebuild.
• Kubernetes & Docker durability — newly deployed or redeployed agents receive durable runtime storage; existing agents pick it up on their next redeploy. MCP now works on Kubernetes, and sensitive environment values use Secrets.
• Integration credential trust — definitive Twitter and LinkedIn OAuth rejections surface needs_reconnect, integration environment variables are projected into Kubernetes Deployments, and runtime-forward webhook failures return 503 so providers can retry.
• Kubernetes boot hardening — pinnable OpenClaw package, startup/readiness/liveness probes, and status recovery once a runtime is demonstrably live.
• Gateway resilience & honest cost — gateway reconnects re-resolve service DNS; new or replaced integrations receive non-blocking connectivity tests; load-balancer waits surface actionable warnings. Budget alerts use each budget period, totals round once, and Anthropic cache tokens count toward usage.

What feedback would help most

• Which change addresses a failure mode you have seen in a real deployment?
• Where is recovery or failure reporting still too opaque?
• What would you test first on Docker or Kubernetes before adopting this release?

Release notes: https://github.com/solomon2773/nora/releases/tag/v1.15.0
Quickstart: https://noradocs.solomontsao.com/quickstart
Walkthrough: https://nora.solomontsao.com/walkthrough.mp4

[solomon2773]

Follow-up: the v1.15.0 Helm chart is now published as a public OCI artifact. You can verify it without cloning the repo:

helm show chart oci://ghcr.io/solomon2773/nora --version 0.6.0

The full install command, required secrets, Ingress options, and Kubernetes limitations are in the self-hosting guide. Publication is CI-gated and verifies the six release-image revision labels against the v1.15.0 commit before pushing the chart.

[solomon2773]

Post-release MCP correction: @noraai/mcp-server 0.1.3 is now published and fixes the npm/npx symlink-entrypoint defect in 0.1.2. A clean public npx initialize/list-tools handshake now reports server 0.1.3 with all 15 default safe tools. The official MCP Registry and the v1.15.0 MCPB/Gemini assets have been updated. If you installed the Gemini extension before July 11, 2026 at 23:23 UTC, uninstall and reinstall it because Gemini update detection may not re-download replaced assets under the unchanged v1.15.0 tag. Fix: #271 — release assets: https://github.com/solomon2773/nora/releases/tag/v1.15.0