Deploy Checklist: New Expensify 2025-11-18

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Release Version: 9.2.60-1
Compare Changes: production...staging

This release contains changes from the following pull requests:

• Create optimistic ioureport action and transaction thread #72413
• Allow zero amount expenses - second try #72674
• Improve multiline translations #73470
• [No QA] chore (eslint-config-expensify): enforce to use .replaceAll instead .replace when dealing with regex searches #73805
• Fix/71346 - Dependent multiLevel tags download failed #73815
• useSearchSelector hook and remove useless code v3 #73908
• [No QA] Replace deprecated functions: runOnUI, runOnJS, runOnRuntime, executeOnUIRuntimeSync #74486
• Fix - The Chat switcher router is not focusing on the first result consistently #74625
• Fix: Checkmark missing on Assignee Page #74636
• fix: choose a card sentence is partially hidden #74717
• Fix: Default distance rate is not selected when creating distance expense #74791
• Add helpdot link to all the personal info steps for wallet enablement #74812
• fix: Revisiting create expense page from confirm details page changes the selected user #74883
• Fix tax bugs #74895
• Fix/72961 - Action field shows "search.filters.action.sjdsdno" when searched with "action:sjdsdno" #74912
• Trailing whitespace trimmed when pasting in composer #74914
• implemented HTML parsing for getReportNames()/ Conditional Parsing for Displaynames #74928
• Update Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese translations for workspace #74984
• fix: Android - Scan receipt- Unable to download a receipt in the confirmation page #75040
• [Sentry] - add startup metric #75044
• feat: add elf alignment check to CI #75050
• Search: Add optimistic IOU report action #75057
• fix:73574: Allow to dislay selected report on edit report page even if workspace doesn't have perDiem #75147
• [No QA] Allow direct icon imports (from Expensicons and Illustrations) in lib files #75189
• [NoQA] Optimise PaymentCardFormTest #75228
• Fix/73744 - Custom avatar & default generated avatar modal is not closed when swiping down on the avatar #75241
• fixed changing receipient of invoice offline #75262
• fix(eslint): auto-fix unicorn/no-array-foreach rule violations #75282
• Send customUnit params only for distance requests #75302
• [No QA] Fix lint on main #75347
• Revert "Merge pull request #74356 from callstack-internal/VickyStash/… #75356
• [NoQA] Revert "feat: add elf alignment check to CI" #75377
• [CP Staging] Revert "Allow zero amount expenses - second try" #75433

Deploy Blockers:

• [RCA #72674] Distance - Amount field is blank, Rate field shows pending on confirm page #75387
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Amount is blank, Distance field is Pending when distance expense amount is 0 #75388
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Different label on green button when submitting 0.00 expense in workspace & self DM #75389
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Unable to edit split scan expense while receipt is scanning or fails #75390
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Previous amount in system message is blank when changing distance from 0 to non-zero #75391
• [RCA #72674] Expense - "Waiting for you to pay expenses" is shown when Pay button is hidden for 0.00 report #75396
• [Due for payment 2025-11-28] [Due for payment 2025-11-26] [RCA #72413] Expense - Infinite loading when member of workspace opens expense created by admin #75412
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Missing Submit option in More menu in member's unsubmitted 0.00 report #75414
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Report preview owner shows User A & B when report contains zero & non-zero expense #75416
• Workspace - "No results found" is shown when searching for already selected user #75418
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Amount reverts to original amount instead of zero after submit expense from self DM #75429
• [RCA #72674] Reports - Preview is missing when the report contains an expense with amount set as 0 #75434
• [RCA #72674] Expense - Zero amount is not preserved in preview #75456
• [Due for payment 2025-11-28] [RCA #74928] Expense - Thread header shows "workspace rules" link in HTML tags #75457
• [RCA #72674] Report - Both expenses shown as held if approving a report with a held "0,00" amount expense #75458
• [RCA #72674] IOU - "changed the expense" appears after changing distance to 0 miles, which throws error in thread #75461
• Expense - No error is displayed when scanning fails in split expense #75463
• [RCA #72674] Distance - When waypoints are edited offline, Amount shows 0.00, Distance shows 0.00 miles #75465
• [Due for payment 2025-12-17] [$250] [RCA #74636] Task - Checkmark is only shown after reassigning assignee #75466
• [RCA #72674] Distance- Amount field reverts to original amount after changing distance to 0 & changing rate #75467
• Invoice - System message displays "change merchant previously Expense" instead of "Set merchant" #75468
• Reports - Submitter name and the Submit button are missing on the first load #75482

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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[arosiclair]

#75389 demoted

[rlinoz]

Checking off #75044

[carlosmiceli]

Demoted #75414

[IuliiaHerets]

Regression progress is at 82%

PRs Failing:
#73815 faced on Android with #73815
#74895 failed with an original issue, comment
#75057 failed on Web with an original issue, comment
#75302 faced on mWeb with #75414

PRs Untested:
Multiple PRs are still pending validation for Native apps

[grgia]

We reverted the zero amount expenses PR but have not been able to CP yet due to the outage. Gave it another go now. https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C07J32337/p1763488090808049

[IuliiaHerets]

Regression is completed

PRs Failing:
#73815 faced on Native apps with #73815
#74791 faced on iOS with #71572
#74895 failed with an original issue, comment
#74984 failed with an original issue, comment
#75057 failed on Web with an original issue, comment
#75302 faced on with #75414 and #75480

PRs Untested:
#73470 no QA steps, comment
#75282 no QA steps, comment

[cristipaval]

Checking off #75302

[cristipaval]

Checking off #75466

[Valforte]

Checking off #73815 tested in Web, Android and iOS and is working as intended

[grgia]

We have CPd all fixes. Should be able to deploy this list on next build

[grgia]