Deploy Checklist: New Expensify 2025-11-05

[OSBotify]

Release Version: 9.2.45-6
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:

• #2 - Fix number format polyfill isn't applied #68923
• Bump Reanimated to v4 #69469
• SettlementButton - migrate redirect to ROUTES.SETTINGS_CONTACT_METHOD_VERIFY_ACCOUNT (removal of backTo) #71330
• Fix/70514 - Add payment card RHP opens on the Profile page instead of Subscription #71878
• fix: remove Auditor role from Collect policies #72029
• [Search] Clear selections when sorting to prevent stale selection state #72334
• Fix wrong next action message, missing Pay button after bypassing approver & approving offline #72892
• show Pay button for transactions with negative amount #72936
• [No QA] Update Commercial-feeds.md #72939
• Remove Review button from Inbox and Reports page #72998
• Fix: Amount on expense with negative sign is duplicated when moved to new report offline #73000
• Refactor translateLocal in src/libs/PerDiemRequestUtils.ts #73366
• Refactor translateLocal in src/libs/ReportFieldOptionsListUtils.ts #73369
• [CFI] [FAB Follow-up] Replace the GLOBAL_CREATE emoji with a regular "+" in chat intros #73404
• New Feature: Add Make splits even functionality #73474
• Make More Features animation more obvious and add tap target #73624
• Fix/72359 - When resizing the window to any height × 1px, the app crashes during onboarding or from Inbox screen #73646
• [No QA] Create new Brick Road test for report awaiting user's payment/reimbursement #73842
• [Internal QA]: Use correct currency for Expensify card #73869
• Fix approver can't edit money request fields #73907
• [NO QA] Remove NewDotRevertSplitsBeta #73913
• Report - "Outstanding" seen as status when cancelling payment offline with approvals disabled #73936
• fix cut off in categories page #73987
• Remove Onyx.connect() for the key: ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.POLICY_CATEGORIES in src/libs/actions/IOU.ts #74037
• fix: missing title in Export out-of-pocket expenses as page #74062
• "Category no longer valid" is shown when expense has no category #74070
• Fix categorize options still shown as last message after unreport expense #74096
• Autocomplete test drive task #74106
• Remove SearchReport > action #74145
• remove policyID from searchTransaction and use policyID of report instead of that #74158
• fix: violation missing in NewDot but visible in OldDot #74159
• Bump onyx to 3.0.10 #74174
• [No QA] Send current policy ID to Sentry #74183
• Remove @expensify.sms suffix from search filter display #74188
• Fix Setup Specialist fallback avatar in #admins room #74191
• Fix - Workspace- Hmm... it's not here messages is not showing at the center when deleting workspace #74209
• [No QA] Add new change log constant for bulk tag approver rules updates #74310
• [No QA] Temporarily disable back buttons on FullscreenLoadingIndicator #74313
• [NoQA] Revert "Implementing optimistic violations for workspace categories and tags." #74324
• [NoQA] [AI Reviewer] Use 👍 reaction instead of LGTM comment #74357
• [NO QA] fix canIOUbePaid test #74358
• Revert #73474 – "New Feature: Add Make splits even functionality" #74386
• [CP Staging] Revert "Remove Review button from Inbox and Reports page" #74396
• Revert "Make More Features animation more obvious and add tap target" #74409
• [CP Staging] Revert "Bump onyx to 3.0.10" #74452
• [CP Staging] Revert "Block collect users from adding other direct feeds" #74497
• [CP Staging] Revert "Fix/70514 - Add payment card RHP opens on the Profile page instead of Subscription" #74501

Mobile-Expensify PRs:

• https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/13680

Internal QA:

• Block collect users from adding other direct feeds #72791 - @mountiny

Deploy Blockers:

• [Due for payment 2025-11-14] [Due for payment 2025-11-13] Reports - View button instead of Approve button is shown on the report row when expense is held #74376
• [Due for payment 2025-11-14] [Due for payment 2025-11-13] Reports - View button is shown instead of Submit button when expense does not have merchant #74377
• [Due for payment 2025-11-14] [Due for payment 2025-11-13] Reports - Submit button opens the report instead of submitting it when expense is held #74378
• [Due for payment 2025-11-20] [Due for payment 2025-11-14] [Due for payment 2025-11-13] Split - Split even button removes negative sign from the expense amount and causes error #74381
• [Due for payment 2025-11-14] [Due for payment 2025-11-13] Android - Reports - RBR is cut off and missing violation when report row is collapsed #74382
• WS - More feature - ON/Off button displayed instead feature #74384
• Split - Missing split, hold and merge button after reverting split #74385
• Reports - Expense violation is shown when collapsed when the report is paid #74395
• [Due for payment 2025-11-14] [Due for payment 2025-11-13] Expense - Single expense is moved to Self DM when deleted if an split was deleted before #74403
• Split - Deleted split reappears in offline mode #74405
• Report - Deleted expenses shown on preview with infinite loading when deleted on "Reports" #74406
• Negative amount report shows Pay instead of Mark as Paid #74411
• [$250] “Submit” instead of “View” button on expense with violations in expense preview #74413
• Reports - Error appears when moving expense to new report on "Reports" and amount duplicated #74415
• This expense was put on hold message persist when fully approve the report #74417
• [$250] IOU: User owes $0.00" appear in search list After user deleted IOU #74429
• [$250] Expense - Skeleton loader appears when moving expense to different report #74430
• Report - "No further action required" message seen again after retracting expense offline #74431
• [Due for payment 2025-11-20] Expense- Error "Category no longer valid" after delete receipt of expense #74433
• Held expenses - Mark as paid button on Reports pays the pending amount without paying option #74447
• Company card - Upgrade page opens after adding the first card feed #74453
• Company card - Company card opens in the background when opening Card name field on Members #74460
• [$250] Expense - Expense report loads infinitely after unassigning card #74463
• Members - Duplicate “Got it” modal appears, second one is empty after importing members #74477
• Report card lost - Background changes from Wallet to Profile after opening Address field #74478
• Company card - Upgrade page opens after adding a card feed with Plaid #74495
• "Waiting for admin to pay" shown after approving offline, then changes to "you" #74503

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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[joekaufmanexpensify]

checked off #72791

[IuliiaHerets]

Regression progress is at 70%

Multiple PRs are still pending validation

[IuliiaHerets]

Regression progress is at 85%

PRs Failing:
#72892 faced with #73628
#72936 failed with #74411
#72998 failed with #74413
#73000 faced on Web and Android with #71950
#73474 PR was reverted
#73624 failed on mWeb with #74387, also faced with #74387 and #74384
#73907 faced with #73861, repro on prod
#74037 faced with #74384
#74070 faced with #74382
#74096 faced with #74096, repro on prod
#74209 faced on iOS with #74384

PRs Untested:
Multiple PRs are still pending validation on iOS

[joekaufmanexpensify]

checked off #73869

[IuliiaHerets]

Regression progress is at 99%

PRs Failing:
#72029 faced with #74477
#72892 faced with #73628, repro on prod
#72936 failed with #74411
#72998 failed with #74413
#73000 faced on Web and Android with #71950, repro on prod
#73474 PR was reverted
#73624 failed on mWeb and iOS with #74387, also faced with #74387 and #74384
#73907 faced with #73861, repro on prod
#74037 faced on Android with #74384
#74070 faced mWeb and Native apps with #74382
#74096 faced on Desktop with #74096, repro on prod
#74209 faced on iOS with #74384

PRs Untested:
#72892 pending validation Desktop and iOS
#73936 pending validation on Web, mWeb and Native apps

[srikarparsi]

Checked off #74403