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Release Notes for 2026.1.1 Release - January 21, 2026

New Features​

System Observer Role​

We have introduced a new System Observer role to address changes in how visibility levels function. This role allows for viewing data across all children levels, similar to previous observer behaviors, but with the restriction that it can only be assigned at the company level.
New Reporting Groups

Visual Studio 2026 Support​

This release adds official support for installing and running CodeTogether within Visual Studio 2026.

Improvements​

IDE Experience​

  • Visual Studio Enhancements: Added missing actions to the context menu, including Open Dashboard, What is CodeTogether, and Documentation.

  • Update Notifications: Visual Studio will now notify users when an auto-update is installed and prompt for a restart.

  • Cursor Installation: Improved installation instructions for Cursor, specifically detailing how to access "Install from VSIX" from the command palette since standard VS Code UI elements may differ.

Account & Role Management​

  • Flexible Email Validation: Validation is now less strict when adding additional emails to support git-level addresses or typos in the git committer email address.
  • Role Merging: When merging users or adding emails previously detected as contributors, the system now maintains the highest assigned project role.

Portal & Setup Experience​

  • Issue Tracker Wizard Reliability: Fixed a case where the project wizard could show a blank state when connecting to an issue tracker and improved guidance in the flow.
  • Task Log Permission Feedback: Improved error handling and messaging when users access task logs without the required permissions.

Bug Fixes​

Metrics & Visibility​

  • Department Metrics: Resolved an issue where observers at the department level could not see metrics for projects belonging to that department on the activity page.
  • Metrics Generation: Fixed a root issue blocking metrics generation in certain scenarios.
  • Metrics Calculation Stability: Fixed a NullPointerException that could occur while calculating metrics.
  • Activity Page Fallback: If a metric calculation is interrupted, the project activity page now loads properly instead of failing.
  • Snapshot Metrics Accuracy: Fixed issues causing some metrics to appear incorrect when using the provided snapshot.

Tasks & Issues UI​

  • Task Tab Labeling: Fixed an issue where the task name could be missing from the tab when a task is linked to an issue.

Portal Access & Navigation​

  • Goal Details Access Enforcement: Fixed an issue where Containers/Projects could be opened from goal details even if the user didn’t have access to them.

Stability & Security​

  • Security Vulnerabilities: Resolved all known high and critical security vulnerabilities in the codetogether-intel and codetogether-collab containers.
  • Visual Studio State: Fixed a bug where the status indicator could incorrectly remain in a "Private" state after initial configuration and stay in it until next IDE restart.