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Release on July 10, 2026

Release

Areas Affected

AI Assistant, Document Intelligence

Highlights

  • AI-generated answers now include citations linking back to the source documents, making it easier for users to verify where information comes from.
  • Faster, more responsive AI answers thanks to performance tuning of the AI assistant.

What Changed

  • AI-generated responses now include citations that link back to the source documents, helping users verify where information comes from. (Ticket)
  • Improved the speed and responsiveness of AI-generated answers. (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 7, 2026

  • Reduced delays when generating AI answers, making responses feel faster. (PR)

July 2, 2026

  • Strengthened automated checks to ensure tables extracted from project plan documents stay accurate. (PR)
  • Made automated testing for AI search more resilient to occasional delays, improving overall reliability. (PR)

Chores
  • auto-sync hotfix from main to staging
  • auto-sync hotfix from main to staging
  • WhatsApp webhook bridge for Shackleton (#403) (PR)
  • read WhatsApp webhook event from X-Webhook-Event header (#430) (PR)
  • auto-sync hotfix from main to staging
  • Load KAPSO_PHONE_NUMBER_ID from the secret blob (#434) (PR)
  • WhatsApp typing indicator and inline image delivery (#435) (PR)
  • Cache conversation prefix to cut Sonnet TTFE (#437) (PR)
  • Run QA on Sonnet 4.6 as a latency experiment (#439) (PR)
  • Fix lambda embedding (#436) (PR)
  • Split Bedrock system prompt into cached static prefix and volatile suffix (#438) (PR)
  • Harden WhatsApp bridge error handling and release-review fixes

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