# Gerrit Code Review - Change Cleanup

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Gerrit administrators may configure change cleanups that are executed periodically.

## Auto-Abandon

This cleanup job automatically abandons open changes that have been inactive for a defined time.

Abandoning old inactive changes has the following advantages:

- it signals change authors that changes are considered outdated

- it keeps dashboards clean

- it reduces the load on the server (for open changes the mergeability flag is recomputed whenever a change is merged)

If a change is still wanted it can be restored by clicking on the `Restore` button.

Part of Gerrit Code Review