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+title: "Release notes"
+description: "Product updates and fixes in OpenOps."
+icon: "🚀"
+iconType: "emoji"
+---
+
+## 2026-01-14
+
+### ⚠️ Breaking changes
+
+- **Authentication response field renamed**
+  - The `AuthenticationResponse` field `isMasterProject` was renamed to `hasTemplatesPrivileges`
+
+### ✨ Features
+
+- **Analytics access control**
+  - Analytics access is now limited to authorized users
+- **Optional analytics component**
+  - OpenOps can now start and run even when Analytics is not configured or available
+- **Tables MCP endpoint provisioning**
+  - Tables MCP endpoint creation now uses database tokens
+- **Updated default OpenOps Tables image**
+  - Docker Compose and Helm defaults now pull a newer OpenOps Tables image by default
+
+### 🐛 Fixes
+
+- **Preserve chat history on abort**
+  - Chat history is now preserved when an in-progress run is aborted
+- **Stop streaming on UI tool actions**
+  - Streaming output now stops when a UI tool action is triggered
+- **More reliable admin bootstrap**
+  - The initial admin bootstrap process is now more reliable in environments with multiple projects
+- **Correct object references on create**
+  - Newly created objects now keep correct references immediately after creation
+- **More reliable analytics dashboard seeding**
+  - Analytics dashboard seeding is now more reliable and no longer depends on a specific Tables admin user
+- **Merge tool results into one assistant message**
+  - Multiple tool results are now merged into a single assistant message instead of being emitted separately
+
+### 🚀 Improvements
+
+- **OpenAI: GPT-5.2**
+  - The OpenAI integration now supports the `gpt-5.2` model for compatible accounts