Daily Release Summary: 2026-07-26

Generated from 48 structured change items. The companion YAML remains the source for deterministic tooling.

Overview

OpenMates focused heavily on refining the message composer and audio recording experience, alongside significant hardening of internal deployment workflows and SDK parity.

Released Changes

• The message composer received several updates, including keeping the audio recording expanded during use, preventing control overlaps, and honoring transcript correction toggles. (c6825ec5e, 60383887c, de6d7bdcf)
• Composer UI refinements include matching icon placeholder colors, collapsing inactive drafts, and correcting input placeholders. (72952599e, 7889123c0, cc7775497)
• Chat settings and embeds were improved with fullscreen video previews, deep link hydration, and better alignment of file download and usage details. (76bab54b0, 4feab3495, 0a2846bf4)
• The developer experience was enhanced by aligning SDK parity surfaces, enforcing cleartext boundaries, and adding plan attachment capabilities to goal chats. (7f6cd43f7, 96eff5145, 0de657e2e)

Bug Fixes

• OpenMates now purges local data upon a forced logout to ensure account security. (2a52ae116)
• Issue reporting was improved by normalizing contact text, chat error reports, and restoring timeline log ingestion. (b5cf5cf90, 6f8ed1830, a6c7c8cee)
• The landing page and guest onboarding experience were stabilized with layout fixes and reset logic for new chats. (863acf3c7, 8e85f17b4, 713341d3b)

Unreleased Progress

• OpenMates added the ability to unlink items from projects, though the projects platform remains disabled. (337717f85)
• Work continued on automated Revolut bank transfer crediting for the currently disabled plans platform. (600ba1dda)
• Updates were made to align recording controls and compliance specs for the unreleased iOS and macOS platforms. (38969fb3c, 480faffb6, d6dceb45a)
• Internal refactoring removed stale documentation skills from the unreleased workflows platform. (9884c310b)

Internal Progress

• The agent worktree and OpenCode deployment workflows were hardened with new guards against index races and unauthorized edits. (75103a3f6, c17f24fee, 5ac449a81)
• CI stability was improved by adding validation for staged deploy files and resetting stale lock states. (94d188ac0, c91cb052f, 79c567e24)

Newsletter Guidance

Include

• None

Exclude

• Project item unlinking features. (337717f85)
• Automated Revolut bank transfer crediting. (600ba1dda)
• Apple-specific recording controls and compliance updates. (38969fb3c, 480faffb6, d6dceb45a)
• Workflow capability refactoring. (9884c310b)

Rationale

All changes from this period are currently in dev_only status and not yet reachable from the main branch.

Quality Notes

• Extensive focus on UI edge cases in the message composer, particularly around audio recording and draft management.
• Significant effort to maintain parity between the Python SDK and the CLI tool.