Deploy Checklist: New Expensify 2026-01-15

[OSBotify]

Release Version: 9.3.3-8
Compare Changes: production...staging

This release contains changes from the following pull requests:

• Add Super Wide RHP Routes #75886
• Fix: Taxes page still shown when disable the taxes from other browser #76611
• Fix: Report-Expense report thread and reply title is shown as In expense report #77633
• [Policy Change Logs] Fix: Rules - Unexpected defaults for max expense amount, receipt required amount, and max expense age #77639
• Super wide RHP  #77657
• [Release 1] [Domain Control] Reset domain #77969
• Implement policy change logs for when changing the policy reimburser #78531
• Fix/74125 - Details report page is not scrollable #78977
• feat: add ability to require attendees based on category selection (rework) #79050
• [No QA] Use useSearchContext for Search current data #79140
• [Part 3]: Remove Onyx.connect() for the key: ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.TRANSACTION_VIOLATIONS in src/libs/TransactionUtils/index.ts #79196
• [BETA] Allow zero-amount expenses - ROUND 5 #79197
• fix: Travel - User without verification can trigger Request Sent state on Travel page #79303
• remove Onyx.connect for POLICY key in OptionsListUtils part 1 #79320
• Prevent reauthentication if credentials are missing #79362
• [No QA] Add personal card import release 1 help images #79392
• fix Account - Whisper message does not mention the teacher after referred #79433
• [NoQA][Sentry] Adds a metric with effective render time of Reports tab #79455
• Unblock network queue and send auth error to sentry #79460
• fix:78876: NetSuite - Enter credentials button is redirecting to the first step of the NetSuite setup #79487
• Fix: Badge Alignment on workspace members page #79491
• fix: the button has interactive elements nested inside #79525
• fix: Amount is not displayed in LHN preview after user pays IOU #79534
• Add 'External' label to standard issue template #79579
• [CP Staging] feat: feature flag for require attendees to disable feature in case of regressions #79620
• [NO QA] Revert "Add 'External' label to standard issue template" #79666
• [No QA] [Sentry] Remove browserTracingIntegration to reduce number of created spans #79675
• [Side Panel] Fix for incorrect redirect after test drive modal dismissal #79680
• [NoQA] Update Mobile-Expensify submodule to latest main (9.3.2-2) #79700
• [CP Staging] Fix issue: Expense - Expense report RHP does not close and opens not here page after rejecting expense #79718
• [CP Staging] Restore default attendee tracking flag for legacy policies #79730
• [CP Staging] Fix navigating back from verify account pages on wide rhp pages #79750
• [CP Staging] Fix issue: Expense report wide RHP closes and it reopens in central pane after clicking header subtitle #79757
• [CP Staging] Fix the preExistingReportID #79762
• fix: revert to deprecated function getReportName #79795
• [CP Staging] Ignore splits with receipts from isEditingSplitBill conditional #79797

Internal QA:

• Update the workflow to not remove label if issue can be fixed by a front-end revert #79595 - @francoisl

Deploy Blockers:

• [$500] On reports page, users can't select the checkbox next to report using group-by filter #79705
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Expense - Expense report RHP does not close and opens not here page after rejecting expense #79706
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Invoice - "Multiple attendees required for this category" appears on invoice row #79707
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Expense - Wide RHP reopens same page after clicking back button on magic code RHP #79708
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Expense - Report field in IOU expense shows IOU, Report field in self DM is blank #79709
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Expense - Invited member cannot see Attendee field #79710
• [Due for payment 2026-02-17] Reports - RHP closes and reopens after adding a new expense. #79712
• Expense - After splitting expense, app returns to Reports instead of expense report #79713
• Distance - Rate changes from $0.70 / mile to $0.725 / mile #79715
• Expense - Expense does not appear in merge expense list after changing amount to non-zero #79716
• [$250] Report loads infinitely after merging expenses from different report for the second time #79717
• Distance - Merchant field is shown instead of Distance and Rate field when distance is 0 #79719
• Attendee - Multiple attendee violation only applicable for the owner of the WS #79721
• [$250] Expense - No violation when editing an existing receipt expense to a zero amount #79722
• Reports - No details for expense when delete duplicate expense #79723
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Infinite loading when open secondary login chat page #79731
• [Due for payment 2026-02-17] IOU - "It´s not here" page displayed after deleting IOU from individual chat. #79732
• Changelog messages about Rules are not translated to Italian, Polski, Portuguese, etc #79733
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Expense report wide RHP closes and it reopens in central pane after clicking header subtitle #79734
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Room - Details page remain open when owner leave custom room #79739
• [Due for payment 2026-01-27] Background changes to Reports after verifying account and opening expense row in Inbox #79740
• Split in group - Fields lead to "Not here", Split button is presented in a scan split #79742
• [Due for payment 2026-02-03] Scan split - Wrong violation on the scan split preview when it fails (Missing merchant) #79743
• [$250] Expense - New expense is not added to the retracted report #79744
• Pricing - Web - Control plan not applied after selecting Control plan #79770

Deployer verifications:

• I checked Firebase Crashlytics for this release version and verified that this release does not introduce any new crashes. More detailed instructions on this verification can be found here.
• I checked Firebase Crashlytics for the previous release version and verified that the release did not introduce any new crashes. More detailed instructions on this verification can be found here.
• I checked GitHub Status and verified there is no reported incident with Actions.

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[francoisl]

#79705 was reproed on prod, demoting
#79733 - demoting, non critical
Checking off Attendee blockers following #79620 and #79730 : #79710 , #79707, #79721
#79579 is NoQA, checking off
#79795, #79709 tested on staging
#77639 - not going to block on this. Left a comment to author
#77969 will be internal QA
#79750, #79740 fixed on retest
#79197, #79742 checked by #79797

[Valforte]

Demoting #79716 #79719 and #79722 as they are behind a beta

[IuliiaHerets]

Regression progress is at 51%

PRs Failing:
#75886 faced on Web with #79712
#79197 failed with #79722
#79433 faced on iOS with #78938

PRs Untested:
#75886 pending validation on Native apps
#77633 pending validation on iOS
#77639 pending validation on all
#77657 pending validation on all
#77969 pending validation on all, comment
#79050 pending validation on Native apps
#79197 pending validation on Android
#79579 no QA steps, asked
#79620 pending validation on all, asked

[m-natarajan]

Regression progress is at 73%

PRs Failing:
#77639 faced with #79733
#77657 faced on Web with #79712
#79197 failed with #79722
#79433 faced on iOS with #78938

PRs Untested:
#77969 pending validation on all, comment
#79050 pending validation on Native apps
#79579 no QA steps, asked
#79620 pending validation on all, asked
#75886 Checked off as per this comment

[lakchote]

Demoted #79739 (comment)

[MarioExpensify]

Closed #79051

[IuliiaHerets]

Regression is completed in BS
#77639 faced with #79733
#79197 failed with #79722
#79433 faced on iOS with #78938

PRs Untested:
#77969 pending validation on all, comment

[francoisl]