Q1 2026 Release Notes

January - March 2026

Highlights

This quarter focuses on continued reliability improvements.

User-Visible Changes

Help & Support

• New Support Forms: Submit feature requests, bug reports, device compatibility requests, and offline reports directly from the Help section with unique reference numbers for tracking
• Quick Feedback Access: Help menu now includes direct links to feedback forms and release notes
• Bug Report Form: New dedicated form for reporting issues with automatic audit session linking
• Offline TetherBox Help: Quick access to troubleshooting guide and offline report form directly from TetherBox status page when unit is offline
• Error Page Links: 404, 422, and 500 error pages now link to feedback form for reporting issues
• Improved Help Pages: Refreshed styling across all help documentation for better readability

TetherBox

• Drive Health Tooltips: Improved drive health display with specific drive counts and causes; system log errors now show as softer "Check Logs" warning with clearer explanation

Cameras

• Disable API Option: New toggle in camera advanced settings to disable API communication (ONVIF, ISAPI, native APIs). Useful for cameras lacking API support, with undocumented APIs, or buggy APIs causing errors

Bug Fixes

• Wireless Table: Fixed JavaScript error when wireless table receives real-time updates
• Events Page: Fixed operator section being loaded for guest users viewing shared events
• Session Expiry: Graceful handling when turbo frames encounter auth redirects (visits login instead of throwing TurboFrameMissingError)

Internal Changes

• Rails 8 Modernisation: Adopted latest Rails 7.1/8 features including self-invalidating password tokens (no more database token storage), timing-safe authentication (removes timing attack vulnerability), automatic attribute normalisation, and controller rate limiting
• Dependency Cleanup: Removed mini_racer, libv8-node, terser, and execjs gems (~168MB) as esbuild now handles JavaScript bundling and minification
• Security Improvements: Replaced manual timing attack prevention (random sleep) with proper timing-safe authentication; added bundler-audit for gem vulnerability scanning and npm audit for JavaScript dependencies in commit hooks; fixed Brakeman-identified vulnerabilities (Regex DoS, XSS, path traversal)
• Worker → ActiveJob Migration: Converted Sidekiq workers to ActiveJob for better Rails integration and resumable job support
• Ruby 4.0 Upgrade: Updated to Ruby 4.0 with all compatibility fixes
• TetherBox Deploy Monitoring: Added timeout detection for stale deploy jobs and email notifications for failed deployments
• Factory Reset Stale Detection: Factory resets stuck for over 2 hours are now automatically detected as stale, allowing users to retry instead of seeing "already in progress"
• IP Conflict Detection: Improved to detect conflicts across entire site (not just per TetherBox) with clickable links to conflicting devices
• Support Email Improvements: Better email subjects with company/timeline context; rate limiting for duplicate alerts
• Translations: Added proper native translations for Spanish, Hebrew, Russian, French, and Ukrainian
• Error Page Diagnostics: Error pages now include unique request IDs and diagnostic details, enabling faster troubleshooting when issues are reported

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