Catch-up release notes: weekly pages for Jul 24 - Aug 28, 2026 - #570
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Compile six weeks of release notes across the DLM Team (Portal) and Phoenix Team (deviceConnect / Gigacap) release streams into per-week pages under all-releases/, plus two Standalone pages for weeks that shipped Standalone changes. Source of truth is Jira project KOB. Roster was built from a resolutiondate-based JQL query plus a changelog-verified supplementary query for tickets without resolutiondate. User-facing filter applied (internal / testing / infra / routine MCP-tool tweaks dropped at roster time, not during drafting). AYA tickets excluded entirely per the "unreleased" component convention. virtualUSB entries are preserved as `////` block comments so they are held for future release. Every entry carries a hidden reviewer note with `KOB-ID | Team | Deployment | ship_date | bucket_source`. Entries bucketed via the `updated`-date fallback (108 of ~156) also carry a `// bucket:updated — verify` flag so reviewers can move any misplaced entries during review. PR #566 remains open for reference. This PR reuses its already-drafted entries verbatim where they belong (KOB-48664 on Aug 14, KOB-53798 and KOB-54289 on Aug 7, KOB-54483 on Aug 14, KOB-53962 on Aug 21) and corrects PR #566's shifted section-attribution reviewer notes inline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removed section about public documentation updates including site search and AI assistant.
Removed notes related to ticket verification and PR attribution for clarity.
Removed outdated reviewer notes and clarified attribution for changes in the device modal and accessibility fixes.
Standalone releases are ad-hoc and not on the Cloud weekly Friday cadence — the release team is finalizing the Updater before deciding whether Standalone shifts to a regular cycle. A Standalone-tagged ticket marked "Released" in Jira has not necessarily shipped to Standalone customers. Delete the two weekly Standalone pages and their nav entries. Move the two deferred tickets (KOB-54281 CLI install, KOB-54549 Kibana on Updater) into `// Standalone deferred` reviewer comments at the top of the Jul 31 and Aug 21 Cloud pages so they're not lost. Per the release team's convention, the next Standalone release note will be comprehensive — bundling these queued Standalone-specific items together with the relevant Cloud items customers running Standalone need to know about — rather than a Standalone-tagged subset of the weekly Cloud stream. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scanned all 130+ shipped tickets across the six weekly rosters for `dl.kobiton.download` / `public.kobiton.download` URLs in Jira comments. 17 tickets have URLs; most trace back to a mass bulk-status comment posted across the shipped-and-deployed set. Extracted component versions per the YYMM.DD rule (first two dotted segments of the build number): - 2026-08-07: deviceConnect 2608.7, Kobiton CLI 2608.7 - 2026-08-14: deviceConnect 2608.12, Kobiton CLI 2608.11, gigacap 2608.12 - 2026-08-21: deviceConnect 2608.20, Kobiton CLI 2608.19 - 2026-08-28: deviceConnect 2608.26, gigacap 2608.25 Portal has no build URL in the ticket-comment stream (it's distributed differently). Portal TODOs remain on every page for the release team to fill in. Kobiton CLI on Aug 28 also has no matching URL — TODO. The Jul 24 and Jul 31 pages have no build URLs at all. The mass bulk-status comment convention appears to have started with the Aug 7 wave, so those two pages carry an explanatory TODO instead. Each populated block also carries the extraction source in comments so a reviewer can trace back to the specific URL if a version needs verification. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove the commented-out virtualUSB blocks from the 2026-07-24, 2026-08-14, and 2026-08-28 pages, and drop the passing "+ virtualUSB" note from the 2026-08-14 dropped-tickets reviewer comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Removed draft comments and clarified Bluetooth Keyboard support details.
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Removed outdated comments and clarified fix version in release notes.
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The prior bullet had the direction of the change reversed. Per the
Jira description ("Add built-in retries to all resource connections
in case connection failures are transient" + "Broaden file pull
transient error detection to cover some tonic errors"), retries were
*added* for transient failures, not limited.
Rewrote the two bullets to reflect the actual change and updated the
reviewer block:
- bucket_source corrected to updated_fallback (not changelog)
- PLACEMENT NOTE flags fixVersion `2026 Q2 - 4.27` (shipped 4.28 on
Jul 17) — this entry belongs on the 4.28 page but was not
documented there. Landing on 2026-07-24 so the change is captured
somewhere; do not retroactively edit 4.28.
- TODO carries the unverified "~600ms retry window" figure and points
at Chris Faulhaber for confirmation before publish.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
KOB-54047 (per-skill environment rules):
- Renamed heading from "Portal auto-plugin enforcement" to
"Kobiton MCP server: per-skill environment rules". The prior
heading used the internal repo name ("automate") and misattributed
the change to Portal. Users know this surface as the Kobiton MCP
server.
- Added a second bullet giving context on why the enforcement
matters (the MCP server runs across hosts with different
capabilities — Claude Chat, Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, Cursor,
Copilot CLI — so preconditions like local file access or macOS
now surface up front instead of failing opaquely).
- Dropped the "expand from ticket description" TODO.
KOB-43481 (Test Step labels during Revisit):
- Expanded "new action name" to describe both states: at conversion
time steps display human-friendly labels (`Tap`, `Press Back`,
`Install`); during Revisit they switch to the forward-slash-
prefixed Appium endpoint (`/click`, `/back`, `/orientation`),
which matches how the step is referenced in the automation
script.
- Dropped the "confirm the exact format" TODO.
Component versions block left as-is with its explanatory TODO —
Portal 2607.29 is the only version derivable for this bucket; the
build-URL comment convention hadn't started yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…439) KOB-53798 (mixed-session convert + Revisit): - Renamed section from "Convert a mixed session into a Test Case" to "Convert a combined manual + automation session into a Test Case". "Mixed session" isn't a natural user-facing framing; underlying UI tokens users actually see (`Mixed` Source type on the Test Cases list, `type:mixed` search keyword) are preserved verbatim. - Reworded bullets to consistently reference "manual and automation steps" instead of the "mixed" concept name. - Reviewer note updated to record that placement was confirmed during refinement (Released + Deployed) and to log the wording rationale. KOB-52004 (VoiceOver / TalkBack audio): - Stripped implementation detail from the user-facing bullet. The prior bullet described WebRTC API migration, muted-start-then- unmute mechanics, and browser autoplay policy — none of which is what the customer observes. Replaced with a single bullet describing the observable change: screen readers now play audio immediately at session start and immediately after an app install, on iOS and Android. - Dropped the second bullet about the `?webrtcDebugPanelEnabled=true` debug panel — that's engineering diagnostics, not a customer feature. - Preserved implementation detail in the reviewer note so context isn't lost internally. KOB-54439 (deviceConnect Console sign-in): - Removed the section entirely. The engineer's own ticket comments suggest an environment issue rather than a code fix (intermittent, inconsistent responses, only reproduces when `dc.ini` points at test, specific host IP called out). deviceConnect Console is a Standalone surface, so the entry doesn't belong on a Cloud page even if the fix were real. Drop reasoning added to the file-top comment for Tung's visibility when Standalone notes are written. - Removed the corresponding "confirm device Connect Console version" TODO from the Component versions block. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…OB-54468+KOB-54472) KOB-52121 (Appium find element with LLM vision / visionvirtual): - Removed the section entirely. This feature was already documented in 4.26S as "Appium AI: Natural language locators (Beta)"; the updated_fallback bucketing landed it here on the Aug 11 update timestamp, but the feature shipped in 4.26S. Drop reasoning added to the top-of-file comment. KOB-54550 (Kobiton MCP server: run-interactive-session platform support): - Rewrote from a five-bullet plumbing-heavy entry to one bullet describing what the customer gains: the `run-interactive-session` skill now runs on Windows (x64) and Linux (x64) in addition to macOS; Apple Silicon uses the native build (no Rosetta 2). - Renamed section from "Kobiton CLI — Windows and Linux support, unbundled binary" to "Kobiton MCP server: run-interactive-session on Windows and Linux". The prior heading was misleading — the Kobiton CLI itself already supported those platforms; what's new is the MCP plugin's skill. - Dropped internal detail from the user-facing entry: binary unbundling, checksum verification, cache path, install-script mechanics, Claude Code SessionStart hook plumbing, `/automate:doctor` drift check, and the "never defaults to `latest`" pin policy. All captured in the reviewer note for future context. KOB-54468 + KOB-54472 (Restricted ADB shell): - Dropped "deny-by-default whitelist" framing — internal implementation the customer doesn't see directly. - Dropped the historical "PUT was previously blocked / GET was previously unchecked" bullet and the internal path-validation mechanics (control chars, metacharacters, `..` traversal, safe-directory prefixes). - Reworked the scope clause from "public cloud and trial devices" to "Public Devices" (title case matches UI label; no meaningful user-facing distinction between public and trial) and from "Unrestricted (private cloud / dedicated) devices are unaffected" to "Private Devices are unaffected" (matches UI label; existing product docs treat "dedicated" as a modifier on Private / Standalone devices, not a separate tier). KOB-54428 (Kobiton CLI booking placement TODO): - Dropped the "if the fix went live before Aug 10, move to Aug 7" TODO. fixVersion 2026.08.15 places it in the Aug 10-16 window; Aug 14 is correct. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reviewer notes should carry durable ticket facts, not cross-branch compilation-history references. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two spots on the page referenced a parallel compilation PR — the KOB-54483 reviewer note and the Component versions Portal-build TODO. Reviewer notes should carry durable ticket facts, not cross-branch compilation-history references. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kobiton version management (renamed to "deviceConnect version display
and upgrade banner"):
- Rewrote three bullets to describe what the customer observes: new
date-based version strings render correctly in Device Management,
a new informational banner appears for Org Admins with the exact
copy from KOB-54286's acceptance criteria, and machines previously
forced offline come back online automatically.
- Dropped EPA-01/EPA-02/EPA-04 internal codes, R2/Nexus distribution
names, "non-punitive" engineering framing, and the self-referential
"parent epic wraps up" project-management language.
API v2 — Terminate reservation by device UDIDs (KOB-54045):
- Expanded from "POST to the terminate-reservation endpoint" to the
actual method + path (`DELETE /v2/reservations/terminate`) with the
parameter (`reservation_ids` + UDIDs), the `failed` list behavior
for UDIDs with no active reservation, backward-compat note, and
the unchanged authorization filter.
Kobiton CLI (KOB-54547):
- Expanded "New: create a user via the Kobiton CLI" to the full
command syntax (`kobiton org user create`), required and optional
flags, the `--password` / `--enable-sso` mutual exclusion, the
`KOBITON_NEW_USER_PASSWORD` env-var alternative for keeping the
password out of shell history, and the required
`org_management.modify` role permission.
KOB-44438 (gRPC upstreaming deprecation):
- Removed the section entirely. Per the ticket description, this was
dead-code cleanup ("we no longer have ever desire to upstream video
via gRPC. Thus the code that supports this is now dead code in dC
and should be removed for simplification."). Nothing in production
relied on it; the prior draft incorrectly framed it as a customer-
facing deprecation. Drop rationale added to the top-of-file
backend-only list.
Device Hub (KOB-54584):
- Rewrote to lead with the customer-visible symptom: devices getting
stuck as unavailable (`MH-400 ... is being used for CLI testing`)
after abnormal CLI session ends. Internal mechanics (`getErrorMessage`
crash, stream-end fallback, TTL) moved to the reviewer note.
deviceConnect fixes:
- Rewrote KOB-54640 (WatchDog service recovery) to describe the
observable failure — internal services on macOS host machines
couldn't be restarted automatically after a failure timeout —
without naming WatchDog, `runit sv`, or the launchd migration.
- Dropped KOB-54639 (InstrumentsClient NRE + leak) entirely. Per
the ticket: "8 leaks over ~19h will not exhaust resources on its
own — this is a broken-teardown marker, not a resource-exhaustion
cause. It has not been shown to cause the watchdog restarts on
that host." No proven customer symptom; internal hygiene. Added
to the top-of-file backend-only list.
- Simplified the `adb shell reboot bootloader` bullet from "rejected
under the restricted whitelist" to "The command is now rejected."
Same "whitelist" leak the Aug 14 restricted-ADB-shell rewrite
already addressed.
Also dropped one source-PR reference from the KOB-53962 reviewer
note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ium AI, small cleanups
Duplicate content dropped:
- KOB-53041/42/43/44/45 (Portal auto-logout, EPA 1-5) — already
documented in 4.28 release notes as "Portal Auto Logout
(configurable session timeout)". Same feature, same Org Settings
toggle, same deferred-logout-for-active-sessions behavior. The
updated_fallback bucket landed the EPA tickets here on the
2026-08-27 mass component-edit timestamp, but the feature shipped
in 4.28 (2026-07-17).
- KOB-51184 (Bluetooth Keyboard on iOS 26) — Bluetooth keyboard
support and Bluetooth Bridge pairing were documented in 4.23. The
area has not seen major changes since; likely dragged into this
bucket by the 2026-08-27 mass component-edit timestamp.
Restricted ADB shell (KOB-54601 + KOB-54705):
- Dropped the intro paragraph + Highlights block; a single bullet
per change reads cleaner.
- Dropped the self-reference to the August 14 release and the
"significant policy shift" framing.
- Scope simplified from "public cloud and trial devices" to "Public
Cloud devices" — title case matches UI; "trial" removed since
trial users share the Public Cloud device pool.
- Toolbar bullet reworded from "Fixed the toolbar bypassing the
restricted-shell policy" to "the toolbar now uses the same policy
as the CLI" — same technical content, without framing that reads
as a security bypass.
Appium AI enhancements (KOB-54607 through KOB-54645):
- Rewrote to six focused bullets, each with the actual config
values customers need.
- KOB-54607 dropped from user-facing (system prompt refactor +
default Text/Vision model switched to gpt-5.6-terra — customers
benefit without any config change).
- KOB-54609 (server-wide coord-space) and KOB-54610 (per-session
capability) merged into one bullet since they're the same
feature at different scopes.
- KOB-54613 (LlmClient.Temperature removal) called out as a
breaking change with a concrete migration example — anyone who
set Temperature=0 needs to switch to
TextExtraBody={"temperature": 0}.
- KOB-54645 reworded from "security tightening — prevents leaking
a server-side key to a customer-controlled endpoint" to a plain
description of the new behavior (session-provided base URL
requires session-provided key). Same technical content, without
the framing that implies the past state was insecure.
Small cleanups:
- Xiaomi bullet (KOB-54023): dropped `deviceidle` and `whitelist`
jargon; framed by customer effect (device stays awake through
long automation runs) rather than the Android system mechanism.
- KOB-54356 (Parallel Sessions report) TODO reworded to flag that
expansion needs Asgard access — a reviewer with Asgard access
needs to pull the chart type, filters, and Portal access
location.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The prior header "Restricted ADB shell" reads oddly on these pages
since the actual customer-visible change is that the ADB shell is now
*more* permissive (Aug 14 expanded the allow list; Aug 28 flipped the
architecture to a deny list). Renamed both section headers to
"ADB shell on Public Cloud devices" — descriptive, scoped, no
contradiction with the bullets underneath.
Also aligned Aug 14's body-scope wording ("On Public Devices") with
the new header ("On Public Cloud devices") for consistency with the
Aug 28 body. "Private Devices" left as-is — that's the UI label
customers see for private-cloud devices.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Six weeks of release notes across DLM Team (Portal) and Phoenix Team (deviceConnect / Gigacap) compiled into per-week
.adocpages underdocs/modules/release-notes/pages/all-releases/. Two Standalone pages added for weeks that shipped Standalone-only fixes.nav.adocupdated at the top of the All-releases list.Pages added:
2026-07-24.adoc2026-07-31.adoc2026-07-31-standalone.adoc(KOB-54281 CLI install)2026-08-07.adoc2026-08-14.adoc2026-08-21.adoc2026-08-21-standalone.adoc(KOB-54549 Kibana on Updater)2026-08-28.adocCompilation methodology
status in ("Released", "Deployed") AND resolutiondate >= 2026-07-18 AND resolutiondate <= 2026-08-28, plus a supplementary changelog-verified query for tickets withoutresolutiondate.AYAcomponent excluded entirely (unreleased);virtualUSBpreserved but wrapped in////block comments (unreleased-but-in-progress).Reviewer aids
Every entry has a hidden
// REVIEWER NOTE:block withKOB-ID | Team | Deployment | ship_date | bucket_source. Every entry whose bucket relies on theupdated-date fallback also carries// bucket:updated — verifyso misplaced entries can be moved during review.TODO:markers onComponent versionsblocks and any thin descriptions.Findings worth reviewer attention
updated-fallback bucketing. Today's (2026-08-27) mass component-edit in Jira touched many tickets and moved theirupdatedtimestamps to today. Verify each Aug 28 entry actually shipped in the Aug 24-28 window before publishing.fixVersioncoverage.TODO:markers left for the release team to fill in Portal / deviceConnect / bluetoothBridge / Gigacap versions per week.Test plan
Cloud <Month> <Day>, 2026heading + date-versioning NOTE block render.nav.adocplaces all eight new pages at the top of the All releases list.////block comments hide the virtualUSB sections from the rendered output.bucket:updated — verifyentries against their Jira changelog to catch any misplaced entries.Component versionsblocks per the release-team's version tracking.🤖 Generated with Claude Code