Deploy Checklist: New Expensify 2025-03-21

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Release Version: 9.1.17-1
Compare Changes: production...staging

This release contains changes from the following pull requests:

• Fix crash when open search after unhold #54704
• migrate AccountType step to FormProvider #56464
• Add prohibited expense feature #56550
• fix: special characters prevent report chats from appearing in search #56894
• fix: autoscroll when receiving a payment #57609
• Improve import member success message #57726
• Add VoiceOver for chat list items #57765
• Fix: There is option as select even when we press on selected option #57926
• fix: default workspace name created from share track expense flow displays user email #57940
• Enable copy action for travel details #58246
• fix: add sender name #58271
• Fix: Migrated User Modal shows twice #58348
• [NO QA] feat: Polishing non USD VBA flow #58371
• promise chaining to ensure proper form initialization #58375
• fix: navigate to concierge chat after onboarding on test account #58502
• Update report handling to prevent participant duplication on optimist… #58512
• Update 3 HelpDot files based on SDO output #58530
• Remove some tooltips #58539
• fix: empty background when invited to private chat #58543
• [No QA] Add workaround for white screen in Electron #58623
• [Better Expense Report View] Add messages count ChatBubble to MoneyRequestReportView rows #58626
• Fix no gbr/rbr shown when reopen the app #58652
• fix: keypad briefly appears after selecting state #58655
• Add close button to product training tooltips and track dismissal method #58666
• fix: Website closes when using device´s back button after requesting to join WS #58676
• fix: Only show the travel modal if the user is enabling travel #58677
• Use Markdown format for Paste as Plain Text #58701
• [Better Expense Report View] Add sorting functionality to MoneyRequestReportView #58713
• [NO QA] Slight copy updates on "Hold expenses" modal #58728
• [NO QA] Update text for new sms delivery failure backoff logic #58733
• Fix - update description display logic #58769
• [NO QA] Update Add-profile-photo.md #58770
• Fix task description is parsed twice #58781
• fix: use dismissModal action instead #58786
• fix: onboarding modal appears when we fail on creating a new workspace #58787
• fix: the modal footer greyed out when keyboard shown #58792
• Revert "[CP Staging] Increase cached key size limit" #58817
• [CP Staging] Add missing flexRow #58819
• [NO QA] Updating from "Per diem" to "per diem" in more features #58835
• [NO QA] Update HelpDot articles #58838
• Revert "fix: use dismissModal action instead" #58840
• Add a Graphite Stats counter and implement it on the "not here" page #58861
• Fixed workspace page headers #58888
• fix: remove the confirmation screen flow after merge duplicate #58894
• [NO QA] Fix standalone app dev build #58919
• [NO QA] fix DismissedProductTrainingElement type #58926
• [CP Staging] Revert "Merge pull request #58666 from ishpaul777/add-x-in-tooltip" #59004

Internal QA:

• Debug desktop updates #58640 - @mountiny
• Card assignment flow errors handling #58630 - @mountiny

Deploy Blockers:

• [Due for payment 2025-03-31] Web - Expense - Chat jumps to the top briefly each time expense preview is generated #58871
• Distance - Error displayed after creating a distance expense offline and going online #58906
• [Due for payment 2025-04-02] [Due for payment 2025-03-31] Android- Can't close tooltip #58930
• [Due for payment 2025-04-14] [$250] iOS - Rules - Prohibited expenses - Offline indicator is not at the page bottom #58931
• [$250] iOS - After sorting duplicates, back button returns to infinite loading page or blank report #58932
• Web - LHN - LHN context menu has too much extra space #58937
• [Due for payment 2025-04-23] [$250] Search - When deleting WS, "You" is displayed before "This chat is no longer active" message #58938
• LHN - Expense sender is shown twice and LHN shows sender pays instead of the payer #58940
• LHN - Concierge does not show sender in LHN but it shows "Expensify" in search result #58943
• [Due for payment 2025-04-16] [$250] Track expense - LHN preview shows "Expensify: tracking x" after dismissing actionable whisper #58944
• [Due for payment 2025-04-25] [$250] iOS - Chat - The chat doesn't scroll down after editing a message #58947
• Bank account - Unable to add Regions bank with Plaid, "Let's finish in chat!" RHP appears #58952

Deployer verifications:

• I checked the App Timing Dashboard and verified this release does not cause a noticeable performance regression.
• 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.

cc @Expensify/applauseleads

[kavimuru]

Regression is 8% left

unchecked PRs:

#57609 (comment)
#58246 pending validation on iOS
#58666 failing with #58930
#58701 (comment)
#58713 Failing with https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/484217 repro in PROD checking it off
#58786 failing with #58932 on iOS
#58787 pending validation on all the platforms
#57940 pending validation on all the platforms
#58894 failing on ios and android with #58932

[cristipaval]

The first deploy blocker was also included in the prior checklist and fixed. How did it get included here as well? 🤔

[mountiny]

How did it get included here as well? 🤔

Because the DB label was not removed before the deploy was shipped. The checklist includes all opened issues with the DB label

[cristipaval]

Demoting #58943, #58944

[kavimuru]

Regression is completed.

unchecked PRs:

#57609 (comment)
#58666 failing with #58930
#58701 (comment)
#58786 failing with #58932 on iOS
#58894 failing on ios and android with #58932

The following Critical Regression Test Cases failed because of the these issues:

Create Account - Interact with Magic Link & Engagement modal - issue #48384 (comment)
Create account - Desktop app opens with Magic Link failing with #51090
Travel is still facing KI #58022

[cristipaval]

• fix: autoscroll when receiving a payment #57609 also fails on the desktop App for me. I won't block the deploy on it since it happens in production as well
• fix: use dismissModal action instead #58786 was reverted - Revert "fix: use dismissModal action instead" #58840

[joekaufmanexpensify]

checked off #58630

[cristipaval]

Demoting #58932

[cristipaval]

#59004 passed QA on all platforms. Checking off ✅

[cristipaval]