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 - Discord/voice: keep TTS playback running when another user starts speaking, ignore new capture during playback to avoid feedback loops, and downgrade expected receive-stream aborts to verbose diagnostics.
 - iMessage: expose native private-API message actions through `imsg rpc` for reactions, edits, unsends, replies, rich sends, attachments, and group management when `imsg status --json` reports the required bridge capabilities.
 - Gateway/tasks: reconcile stale CLI run-context tasks whose live run context disappeared even when a child session row remains, and apply the default bounded reload deferral timeout to channel hot reloads so stale task records cannot block Discord/Slack/Telegram reloads forever.
+- Gateway/heartbeat: keep stripped `HEARTBEAT_OK` acknowledgements out of pending final-delivery replay and let recent ack-only pending state proceed to the next heartbeat run instead of creating a self-refreshing requests-in-flight loop. Fixes #79258. Thanks @haumanto.
 - Gateway/sessions: keep session-store index writes atomic while skipping durable fsync inside the writer lock, reducing cron and channel-turn starvation on slow filesystems and addressing the session-store strand of #73655. Thanks @mmartoccia.
 - Discord/voice: make `openclaw channels capabilities --channel discord --target channel:<id>` and `channels status --probe` audit voice-channel permissions, including auto-join targets, so missing Connect/Speak/Read Message History permissions show up before `/vc join`.
 - Gateway/restart: expose `skipDeferral` on the `gateway.restart.request` RPC and add `openclaw gateway restart --safe --skip-deferral` so operators can bypass the safe-restart deferral gate when a pinned task run prevents the OpenClaw-aware restart from draining. Surfaces the existing internal `scheduleGatewaySigusr1Restart({ skipDeferral })` semantics added in #71637 to a public surface, complementing `gateway.reload.deferralTimeoutMs`. Refs #76162. Thanks @solomonneas.