CivicOS release notes

2026.10 · Account scope clarification

Released October 12, 2026

Clarified

• Resolved an issue where elected officials believed disabling their account would disable observation.
• Account closure now states separately whether reviewer access, billing, or municipal enrollment is affected.
• Official responses remain attached to the original observation after account closure.

The Riverton council office correspondence informed this clarification. Read the released record →

2026.09 · Retention and review

Released September 8, 2026

New

• Fourteen-day organization-wide retention preset.
• Required approver and expiration for retention holds.
• Upcoming deletion view for records administrators.
• Export receipts now include purpose, approver, and file hash.

Improved

• Faster event list loading for accounts with more than 500 devices.
• More descriptive notices when a policy prevents a search.
• Additional SAML attribute mapping for department assignment.

Resolved

• Corrected a time-zone display issue in scheduled transparency reports.
• Fixed a rare case where a revoked API token could appear active for up to sixty seconds.
• Reviewer notes now accept more than 2,000 characters, following the Lakeside wellness review.

2026.08 · Corridor Heat

Released August 19, 2026

• Added aggregate corridor comparison with minimum-count privacy thresholds.
• Added scheduled aggregate reports for public transparency portals.
• Added reviewer warning before moving from aggregate data to event-level detail.

2026.07 · Integration controls

Released July 15, 2026

• Added signed webhooks and customer-managed signing-secret rotation.
• Added per-token geography and device-group restrictions.
• Added API activity to the standard audit export.