When a Regex Eats Your Entire Process

After upgrading OpenClaw from 2026.3.23 to 2026.3.24, the gateway crashes on startup due to a V8 regexp compiler OOM — not a normal Node.js heap OOM. The crash occurs in V8's internal Zone allocator during compile-time combinatorial explosion of a regex pattern, which is unrecoverable via JS-level flags or heap size settings. The recommended mitigation is rolling back the package version and replacing overly complex regex patterns with dedicated parsers.