v1.9.0
ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5v1.9.0May 7, 2026by skyfallsin
AI Summary
Introduces viewport testing, fixes tab leaks, improves session robustness, and hardens installation across platforms.
Key Highlights
- Viewport testing API
- Tab leak fixes
- Session robustness improvements
- Install hardening
New Features
- Viewport testing
- safePageClose force-kill
- Orphan page reaper
- Navigation timeout session destroy
- Drain locks before close
- Dead-context 503
- Transparent proxy retry
- goBack timeout increase
- Compiled plugin.js
- Cross-platform postinstall
- Graceful PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD handling
Full Release Notes
## Responsive Viewport Testing
`POST /tabs/:tabId/viewport` — set any viewport size on a live tab for responsive testing. Pass `{ width, height }` and the page re-renders at that size. Useful for testing mobile breakpoints, tablet layouts, or unusual screen dimensions without creating a new session.
## Tab Leak Fix
Two fixes for pages that survive normal cleanup:
- **`safePageClose` force-kill**: If `page.close()` hangs (e.g., stuck unload handler), the page is force-closed after timeout instead of leaked. Previously a single stuck page would starve Firefox of DOM threads.
- **Orphan page reaper**: Background interval detects Playwright pages that escaped `tabGroups` tracking and force-closes them.
## Session Lifecycle Robustness
- **Navigation timeout → session destroy**: A poisoned proxy (Cloudflare holding a connection for 30s) used to kill all subsequent navigations in that context. Now click/navigate/open_url timeouts destroy the session so the next request gets a fresh proxy.
- **Drain locks before close**: Queued tab operations get clean `410 Tab destroyed` instead of cascading `500 Target page closed` errors.
- **Dead-context → 503**: Cascade errors return `session_expired` with retry semantics instead of generic 500.
- **Transparent proxy retry**: Navigation failures from proxy blocks or timeouts automatically retry once with a fresh session.
- **goBack timeout 10s → 20s**: Back navigation uses browser cache; 10s was too short for complex SPA re-renders.
## Install Hardening
- Ship compiled `plugin.js` so install works even when TypeScript compilation is skipped — by @Yeraze (#2140)
- Cross-platform postinstall script with cache validation — by @gustavosmendes (#2149)
- Graceful handling of `PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1` (warns + skips warm-up instead of crash loop) — by @gustavosmendes (#2149)
## Fixes & Improvements
- Native memory pressure: restart browser when idle if heap exceeds threshold
- Memory leak false-positive reduction (3 safeguards for watchdog stall detection)
- Crash reporter renamed to telemetry, credentials moved to Cloudflare Worker relay
- OpenClaw plugin metadata + ClawHub publish workflow
## Thank You
- @cunninghambe — co-authored viewport endpoint and tab leak fix (#2470, #2471)
- @gustavosmendes — install hardening and `PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD` support (#2149)
- @Yeraze — compiled plugin.js fix (#2140)
- @Xy2002 — Railway deployment configuration (#651)