Daily Release Summary: 2026-07-16

Generated from 71 structured change items. The companion YAML remains the source for deterministic tooling.

Overview

OpenMates focused on achieving feature parity for the SDK and CLI, refining privacy-related routing and deep links, and establishing foundational gates for the Apple UI parity program. Significant work was also completed to unify embed fullscreen navigation and stabilize AI task processing.

Released Changes

• None

Bug Fixes

• The OpenMates CLI and SDK received multiple fixes for chat model handling, including support for nested model names, OpenAI SDK compatibility, and improved routing for API-key authenticated sessions. (6be9a9569, e7416abde, a94a9a2d3)
• Privacy and legal routing was refined to ensure PII settings deep links are preserved in hash URLs and that short URLs for the privacy policy redirect correctly, including on Vercel deployments. (eceb78098, 1383ecb32, ce34b116b)
• Security updates now allow for disabling OTP 2FA, require recent passkey verification for account deletion, and protect active accounts from stale-signup cleanup tasks. (818338f13, 06fe77776, 052b7b311)
• AI processing for task-related skills was improved to better honor explicit mentions, skill overrides, and embed-based chat flows. (1676503ee, fe9012b2e, 221ca951d)
• Chat recovery mechanisms were stabilized with fixes for sync caching and the persistence of recovered messages using stable identifiers. (fabc1f80c, 815029dd8, 53f2745f2)
• Fullscreen routing for app-skill embeds was unified across platforms to ensure consistent navigation for grouped and child components. (715306af7, beec181f4, 0b2e74136)

Unreleased Progress

• OpenMates added initial gates and audit scripts for the Apple UI parity program to track consistency across iOS and macOS. (119a18103)
• Support for rendering task and workflow app embeds was introduced, enabling richer interactive previews within chats. (6d84564c7)
• The SDK now supports API key management parity, allowing developers to manage keys and devices directly via the CLI. (ef1f64028)
• Documentation was expanded to include privacy policy quick answers and a streamlined self-hosting setup guide. (53a22ec14, 5d7ebd037, db8ce8254)

Internal Progress

• The production smoke test suite was split into specialized suites with improved API-key user cache handling. (92a275561, 7206f4981, 02281a695)
• Domain security policy checks were hardened during application startup. (a0573172d)
• Automated parity oracles and UI test harnesses were stabilized to better compare chat rendering across web and Apple platforms. (5e71aac74, 8d1de6383, 700945fd2)

Newsletter Guidance

Include

• None

Exclude

• Apple UI parity program gates (119a18103)
• Task and workflow app embed rendering (6d84564c7)
• SDK API key management parity (ef1f64028)

Rationale

All user-facing changes from this period are currently in dev_only status or related to disabled features (Workflows, Tasks, iOS, macOS), making them unsuitable for public communication at this time.

Quality Notes

• Extensive testing was added for API key management and chat rendering parity.
• Infrastructure hardening included stricter domain security checks and split smoke test suites.