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image: true
author: nicholas-kissel
published: "2025-11-02"
category: changelog
keywords: ["weekly-update", "websockets", "hibernation", "migration", "failover", "backoff"]
title: "Rivet Weekly Changelog 2025-45"
description: "- WebSocket hibernation allows your actors to go to sleep while websockets stay open - Live WebSocket migration for actor failover & upgrades - Shows actors in backoff state if your backend is crashing"
---

- WebSocket hibernation allows your actors to go to sleep while websockets stay open
- Live WebSocket migration for actor failover & upgrades
- Shows actors in backoff state if your backend is crashing

