Deploy Checklist: New Expensify 2026-09-02

[OSBotify]

Release Version: 9.4.68-1
Compare Changes: production...staging
Mobile-Expensify Changes: https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/compare/production...staging

This release contains changes from the following pull requests:

• fix: Vacation delegate added via phone number changes to @expensify s after clear cache #92876
• [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#94669 Spend page total spend currency selector #94498
• Part 3 - Thread personalDetailsList through hasExpensifyGuidesEmails and currentUserLogin through isJoinRequestInAdminRoom #95329
• [Onyx bump] Bump react-native-onyx from 3.0.101 to 3.0.102 #97857
• [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#97167 Reconciliation debited and reimbursed amount columns #97920
• [Payment due @truph01] Add Auto-categorize new expenses workspace setting to let strict admins disable auto-categorization #98030
• Align Cancel payment gate with the pay gate for paid-elsewhere reports #98082
• Fix Travel booking flow for non-admin workspace members #98227
• refactor: make getButtonState and getIconFillColor accept name params #98278
• Feat: add invite on money requests  #98381
• [Insights: Violations]: Expanding group & Suggested search v2 #98391
• feat: add "Domain already set up" page when you add a domain that already exists #98489
• perf(navigation): add per-screen Activity behavior for covered screens #98575
• Allow full-access copilots to add new company card feeds #98600
• 92752 search router domain navigation #98753
• [No QA] MenuItem decomposition - usages with avatars #98862
• [No QA] fix: Register report pagination after app reload #98876
• Add a one-click deeplink that signs the user in and creates a Submit workspace #98887
• Keep pending-delete transactions offline so Remove hold isn't the primary action after offline delete #99096
• 98709: Keyboard Navigation-Unable to focus the Back button by pressing Tab in the Manual tab  #99114
• SelectableListItem adapter + BaseSelectListItem + TravelDomainListItem + CardListItem #99177
• [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#93580 Connect an HR integration help article #99234
• [Payment due @parasharrajat] [No QA] Bump react-native-onyx to 3.0.109 #99436
• fix: show discard modal after entering only +/- in manual expense #99438
• [Search Router] Surface Book Travel in Create suggestions #99516
• Fix - Expense-Error briefly displays then disappears when creating an expense with tomorrow date #99576
• Fix - Existing expenses get highlighted when opening a report  #99577
• Split the confirmation footer into a dispatcher and per-type variants pt1 #99578
• [No QA] [Merge ATS] Add Recruiting policy types, constants, and actions #99585
• Fix alignment of grouped rows and child table rows on Spend page #99586
• [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#99340 dependent tag auto-select behavior #99603
• Fix Spend tab pagination stalling when a page is requested mid-refresh #99629
• fix: force split reimbursable to policy default when field is locked #99644
• Fix self-DM distance expenses showing commuter exclusion #99657
• Show the tax reclaimable portion as a percentage in the distance rate changelog messages #99658
• [No QA] Verify staging native builds succeeded before deploying to production #99664
• [No QA] Fix import/no-cycle - part 1 #99670
• Name the workspace in the leave- and delete-workspace confirmation modals #99681
• Anchor the validate code countdown to the wall clock #99728
• Skip Unicode normalization for ASCII-only strings in search matching #99742
• [No QA] Make -changed scripts check the working tree, not just committed changes #99764
• Add DualEntry multiple card account export settings #99769
• Fix Add Home Address opening over the wrong background #99788
• Send expected bootsplash, auth retry and Pusher teardown signals to Sentry logs instead of the error stream #99789
• Update conciergeChat to remove Onyx.connect - 39 #99816
• Fix missing Profile GBR when home address is required #99837
• Fix empty states style on rules revamp tabs #99882
• upgrade: bump expensify-common to 2.0.201 #99884
• [No QA] Add PERF-19 coding standard: collection selectors return only what the consumer uses #99891
• Fix - Negative expenses appearing with positive amount in UnreportedExpenseListItem #99913
• fix Email - User is logged in and not redirected to User created room as the new user #99924
• [NO QA] Update CONTRIBUTING.md #99928
• [NO QA] Fix currency helper references in BulkEdit tests #99952
• [No QA] Increase seatbelt to fix lint #99973
• [NoQA] Fix named button state callers #99978
• [No QA] Update CONTRIBUTING.md #99980
• [NoQA] Fix WorkspaceCompanyCardPageEmptyState delegate test after the full-access copilot gate change #99997
• [No QA] Update outdated web Storylane tour links for submitters and approvers #100007
• [No QA] Fix egencia docs #100043
• [No QA] Fix a bunch of errors regarding getCurrencySymbol #100055
• fix: Join button appear and expand horizontal on the first invoice on the Spend tab #100063
• Fix CloudflareSessionTest Jest setup #100067
• [No QA] Bump oxc-transform-react 0.145 → 0.148 #100072
• fix(tests): remove stale policy fixture field #100080
• Revert "Add intl deposit account collection" #100208
• [CP Staging] Revert #98030 - Add Auto-categorize new expenses workspace setting to let strict admins disable auto-categorization #100217

Mobile-Expensify PRs:

• https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/14080

Internal QA:

• feat(chronos): add qualified leave types #100064 - @luacmartins

Deploy Blockers:

• [Due for payment 2026-09-09] Workspace - Auto categorization settings is not disabled in the duplicated workspace #100108
• [Due for payment 2026-09-09] Expense - Expense is auto categorized after disabling auto categorisation #100110
• [Due for payment 2026-09-09] Workspace - No changelog for auto-categorisation settings is missing in #admins #100111
• [Due for payment 2026-09-15] Domains - Destination domain does not open from search router when on another domain page #100112
• Spend - Expense remains on "Violations by submitter" despite solving violation. #100114
• [Due for payment 2026-09-09] Categories - Missing "Auto-categorize new expenses" for Expensifail accounts #100115
• [Due for payment 2026-09-09] Expense- Auto categorize new expense is not applied for concierge created expense. #100117
• [Due for payment 2026-09-24] Android - Spend - After deleting expense row on "Violations by submitter" empty row appears #100122
• Expense-Split distance expense with violation is not displayed in Violations by submitter #100139
• Domain- After click "Ask for admin access" Domain row is displayed #100185
• Distance - Amount and distance on expense preview does not match expense details header #100188

Chronologically ordered merged PRs (oldest first)

1. [NO QA] Fix currency helper references in BulkEdit tests #99952
2. Name the workspace in the leave- and delete-workspace confirmation modals #99681
3. [NO QA] Update CONTRIBUTING.md #99928
4. refactor: make getButtonState and getIconFillColor accept name params #98278
5. [No QA] Increase seatbelt to fix lint #99973
6. Send expected bootsplash, auth retry and Pusher teardown signals to Sentry logs instead of the error stream #99789
7. Fix Spend tab pagination stalling when a page is requested mid-refresh #99629
8. Add a one-click deeplink that signs the user in and creates a Submit workspace #98887
9. [No QA] fix: Register report pagination after app reload #98876
10. Fix Add Home Address opening over the wrong background #99788
11. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 9.4.65-1 — Adhoc Build
12. [NoQA] Fix named button state callers #99978
13. Fix missing Profile GBR when home address is required #99837
14. fix: Vacation delegate added via phone number changes to @expensify s after clear cache #92876
15. [No QA] Fix import/no-cycle - part 1 #99670
16. perf(navigation): add per-screen Activity behavior for covered screens #98575
17. [No QA] Update CONTRIBUTING.md #99980
18. [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#94669 Spend page total spend currency selector #94498
19. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 9.4.65-2 — Adhoc Build
20. [No QA] [Merge ATS] Add Recruiting policy types, constants, and actions #99585
21. Allow full-access copilots to add new company card feeds #98600
22. Fix - Existing expenses get highlighted when opening a report  #99577
23. [NoQA] Fix WorkspaceCompanyCardPageEmptyState delegate test after the full-access copilot gate change #99997
24. fix Email - User is logged in and not redirected to User created room as the new user #99924
25. Skip Unicode normalization for ASCII-only strings in search matching #99742
26. [No QA] Add PERF-19 coding standard: collection selectors return only what the consumer uses #99891
27. Split the confirmation footer into a dispatcher and per-type variants pt1 #99578
28. feat: add "Domain already set up" page when you add a domain that already exists #98489
29. Fix - Negative expenses appearing with positive amount in UnreportedExpenseListItem #99913
30. [Search Router] Surface Book Travel in Create suggestions #99516
31. 92752 search router domain navigation #98753
32. upgrade: bump expensify-common to 2.0.201 #99884
33. 98709: Keyboard Navigation-Unable to focus the Back button by pressing Tab in the Manual tab  #99114
34. Fix self-DM distance expenses showing commuter exclusion #99657
35. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 9.4.65-3 — Adhoc Build
36. Feat: add invite on money requests  #98381
37. [No QA] Fix a bunch of errors regarding getCurrencySymbol #100055
38. Show the tax reclaimable portion as a percentage in the distance rate changelog messages #99658
39. Anchor the validate code countdown to the wall clock #99728
40. Fix empty states style on rules revamp tabs #99882
41. [Onyx bump] Bump react-native-onyx from 3.0.101 to 3.0.102 #97857
42. [Payment due @truph01] Add Auto-categorize new expenses workspace setting to let strict admins disable auto-categorization #98030
43. Fix CloudflareSessionTest Jest setup #100067
44. [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#99340 dependent tag auto-select behavior #99603
45. fix: show discard modal after entering only +/- in manual expense #99438
46. SelectableListItem adapter + BaseSelectListItem + TravelDomainListItem + CardListItem #99177
47. [Payment due @parasharrajat] [No QA] Bump react-native-onyx to 3.0.109 #99436
48. Update conciergeChat to remove Onyx.connect - 39 #99816
49. [No QA] MenuItem decomposition - usages with avatars #98862
50. [No QA] Make -changed scripts check the working tree, not just committed changes #99764
51. Fix alignment of grouped rows and child table rows on Spend page #99586
52. [No QA] Verify staging native builds succeeded before deploying to production #99664
53. Add DualEntry multiple card account export settings #99769
54. [No QA] Bump oxc-transform-react 0.145 → 0.148 #100072
55. [No QA] Update outdated web Storylane tour links for submitters and approvers #100007
56. Align Cancel payment gate with the pay gate for paid-elsewhere reports #98082
57. [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#97167 Reconciliation debited and reimbursed amount columns #97920
58. Keep pending-delete transactions offline so Remove hold isn't the primary action after offline delete #99096
59. Fix - Expense-Error briefly displays then disappears when creating an expense with tomorrow date #99576
60. [Insights: Violations]: Expanding group & Suggested search v2 #98391
61. fix(tests): remove stale policy fixture field #100080
62. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 1e6b60c — Adhoc Build
    ↳ https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/14080
63. [No QA] Docs updates for E/A#93580 Connect an HR integration help article #99234
64. fix: Join button appear and expand horizontal on the first invoice on the Spend tab #100063
65. feat(chronos): add qualified leave types #100064
66. fix: force split reimbursable to policy default when field is locked #99644
67. Fix Travel booking flow for non-admin workspace members #98227
68. Part 3 - Thread personalDetailsList through hasExpensifyGuidesEmails and currentUserLogin through isJoinRequestInAdminRoom #95329
69. [No QA] Fix egencia docs #100043
70. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 9.4.66-0 — Adhoc Build
71. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 9.4.66-1 — 80ab52d
72. Revert "Add intl deposit account collection" #100208
73. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 9.4.68-0 — 0e88383
74. [CP Staging] Revert #98030 - Add Auto-categorize new expenses workspace setting to let strict admins disable auto-categorization #100217
75. Mobile-Expensify submodule update to 9.4.68-1 — 1d7e921

Deployer verifications:

• I checked Sentry 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 Sentry for the previous release version and verified that the release did not introduce any new crashes. Because mobile deploys use a phased rollout, completing this checklist will deploy the previous release version to 100% of users. 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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[melvin-bot]

⚠️ Looks like this issue was linked to a Deploy Blocker here

If you are the assigned CME please investigate whether the linked PR caused a regression and leave a comment with the results.

If a regression has occurred and you are the assigned CM follow the instructions here.

If this regression could have been avoided please consider also proposing a recommendation to the PR checklist so that we can avoid it in the future.

[m-natarajan]

Regression progress is at 75%

PRs Failing:
#92876 faced with #100126 (Repro in prod)
#95329 on iOS
#98391 failed with #100114 and #100122
#99438 faced with original issue #99042

PRs Untested:
Several still pending validation: Web 2 | Android 10 | iOS 13

[luacmartins]

https://github.com/Expensify/Auth/pull/24177

This is a pass

[carlosmiceli]

Demoted #100112

[melvin-bot]

⚠️ Looks like this issue was linked to a Deploy Blocker here

If you are the assigned CME please investigate whether the linked PR caused a regression and leave a comment with the results.

If a regression has occurred and you are the assigned CM follow the instructions here.

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[melvin-bot]

⚠️ Looks like this issue was linked to a Deploy Blocker here

If you are the assigned CME please investigate whether the linked PR caused a regression and leave a comment with the results.

If a regression has occurred and you are the assigned CM follow the instructions here.

If this regression could have been avoided please consider also proposing a recommendation to the PR checklist so that we can avoid it in the future.

[kavimuru]

Regression is left with 28 steps to complete in BS

Failing PRs:

#98391 failed with #100114 and #100122
#98489 failing with #100185
#99438 failing with original Ki #99042 #99438 (comment)
#99576 failing with original KI #96732 #99576 (comment)
#99629 (comment) failing with original KI #97485 #99629 (comment)

Unchecked PRs:
#98887 (comment)
#98227 Pending validation on all the platforms

[francoisl]

Cleaning up and checking all blockers that were demoted:

#100117
#100122
#100139
#100185
#100188
#100110
#100111

Only one blocker left open at this point (#100115)

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#98391: checking, outcome expected according to comment in linked issue
#98489: blocker was demoted, closing
#100208: confirmed on staging, checking

[kavimuru]

Regression is completed

Unchecked PR:
#99576 failing with original KI #96732 #99576 (comment)