Daily Release Summary: 2026-04-27

Generated from 19 structured change items. The companion YAML remains the source for deterministic tooling.

Overview

OpenMates introduced account email change functionality and finalized its migration to Stripe Managed Payments, resulting in the removal of the Polar payment provider. The update also includes several refinements to security settings and embed UI behavior.

Released Changes

• OpenMates added the ability for users to change their account email address directly within the account settings. (5041358b6)
• The project completed its transition to Stripe Managed Payments, removing all legacy Polar payment provider integrations and updating the signup flow to support Stripe EU and Managed configurations. (fd34fb52b, bb6e9afdd)

Bug Fixes

• The email change process received several stability updates, addressing relogin handling, UI synchronization, and route redirection after identity updates. (af77f6799, fe2985868, d23cd719f)
• Security settings now correctly preserve password and two-factor authentication (2FA) configurations during authentication updates. (ba8c9fe99)
• Text normalization was implemented for fullscreen embed views to ensure highlight matches function correctly. (fd3d9faef)
• Signup reliability was improved by accounting for Gmail delivery timestamp skew and polling aliases directly from message headers. (c1d16d174, 727f7947c)

Unreleased Progress

• None

Internal Progress

• The test suite was enhanced to verify Stripe refund PDFs and improve Gmail alias detection in automated flows. (96c02f833, ee2e8eed4, 072cea694)
• Legacy code and configuration files for the Polar payment provider were removed following the migration to Stripe. (a7585ec9b)

Newsletter Guidance

Include

• New account email change functionality in settings. (5041358b6)
• Completion of the migration to Stripe Managed Payments and removal of the Polar provider. (fd34fb52b, bb6e9afdd)

Exclude

• Technical improvements to Gmail alias polling and delivery timestamp handling. (c1d16d174, 727f7947c)

Rationale

The summary highlights the most impactful user-facing features—email changes and the finalized payment migration—while excluding technical bug fixes related to test environment stability and email header parsing.

Quality Notes

• The email change feature was accompanied by a high volume of follow-up fixes for E2E test stability and UI edge cases.
• The removal of the Polar payment provider appears to be a complete deprecation across both backend services and frontend UI components.