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Release on July 10, 2026 ​

Release

Areas Affected ​

AI Assistant, Documents, Finance, Change Orders

Highlights ​

  • Document search now supports exact-match searching and shows citations so users can see exactly where results come from.
  • Improved the accuracy and reliability of AI-assisted search results across the platform.
  • Added new AI assistant tools to help with change order finance tasks, like reviewing costs and budgets.

What Changed ​

  • Improved the accuracy and reliability of search results returned by Ernest's AI assistant. (Ticket)
  • Document search now supports exact-match searching and displays citations showing where each result came from. (Ticket)
  • Improved how the AI assistant recognizes and categorizes different types of records, helping it give more accurate answers to user questions. (Ticket)
  • Added new AI assistant tools to support change order finance tasks, such as reviewing related costs and budgets. (Ticket)
  • Temporarily rolled back the exact-match search and citation update for document search while it was refined further. (PR)
  • Synced a fix for the finance dashboard to ensure consistent behavior across all environments. (PR)

Hotfixes Since Last Release ​

These fixes were deployed to production independently before this release — they are listed here for a complete record of what changed since the previous release.

July 10, 2026

  • Resolved a technical conflict to keep the latest release fully up to date. (PR)

July 7, 2026

  • Fixed an issue affecting access to the finance dashboard. (PR)
Chores
  • auto-sync hotfix from main to staging
  • align MCP transport alarm metrics (#346) (PR)
  • update MCP API generation skill (#348) (PR)
  • exclude mobile sync users endpoint (#334) (PR)
  • Document PR title and body conventions (#354) (PR)
  • Require confirmation before adding budget line items (#353) (PR)
  • ERNE-9666 update get_rfis RFI filters (#327) (PR)
  • mcp-sync gantt get/patch tools (ernest-api 410476a) (#355) (PR)
  • update workflow action runtimes (#347) (PR)
  • PR #358 review fixes — RFI dates, gantt tests, action item 404 (#359) (PR)
  • Cache discover_api docs (#337) (PR)
  • update subcontract invoice tools (api@9355dc1) (#329) (PR)
  • Make change-order tool arg validation return actionable errors
  • Sync main into staging and address Release #368 review (#369) (PR)
  • auto-sync hotfix from main to staging

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