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Release on April 8, 2026

Release

Areas Affected

Attention Items, Natural Language Search, Infrastructure

Highlights

  • Attention item labels have been updated for clearer, more consistent language across the platform.
  • Natural language search now includes bid context, improving the relevance of search results.
  • Infrastructure improvements deliver a more stable and performant experience for all users.

What Changed

  • Attention item labels have been corrected and standardized so that the names users see throughout the platform are clearer and more consistent. (Ticket)
  • Resolved an issue with natural language search functionality in the quality assurance environment to ensure accurate behavior before production release.
  • Fixed a cross-origin access issue in the testing environment that was preventing certain features from loading correctly.
  • Updated how cross-origin access rules are configured to make the setup more flexible and maintainable.
  • Internal maintenance: merged quality assurance fixes for natural language search.
  • Improved how application credentials are managed internally to enhance security and maintainability.
  • Updated the internal development service URL to keep developer tooling pointed at the correct environment.
  • Optimized the production build process for improved performance and reliability.
  • Reduced noise in internal diagnostic logs to make system monitoring cleaner and easier to use.
  • Internal maintenance: merged credentials and configuration refactor.
  • Set up automated release notes generation to streamline future release communication.
  • Corrected a rule in the release automation to ensure internal maintenance changes are handled properly.
  • Applied review feedback to improve code quality — no user-facing changes.
  • Applied review feedback to improve code quality — no user-facing changes.
  • Natural language search now incorporates bid information, allowing search results to be better matched to the context of a specific bid. (PR)
  • Restricted certain internal maintenance operations to the staging environment to protect the production release process.
  • Expanded the context available to natural language search so it can return more accurate and relevant results based on the user's current situation. (PR)
  • Internal maintenance: merged release notes automation configuration.

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.

No hotfixes since the last release.


Chores

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