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+title: "Release Notes: 2026-01-15"
+description: "Product updates released on 2026-01-15."
+icon: "✨"
+iconType: "emoji"
+slug: "/release-notes/2026-01-15"
+draft: false
+---
+
+<!-- START_RELEASE_NOTES -->
+## ⚠️ NOTICE
+
+- **Breaking change: project privileges flag rename**
+  - Authentication responses renamed `isMasterProject` to `hasTemplatesPrivileges`, which can break clients that depend on the old field name
+
+## 🐛 Fixes
+
+- **Start up without Analytics**
+  - OpenOps now starts even when Analytics is disabled or unavailable
+
+- **More reliable chat tool calls**
+  - Chat tool results are merged by `toolCallId`, and aborted runs preserve message history more reliably
+
+## ✨ Improvements
+
+- **Analytics access controls**
+  - Analytics is now available only to users with the required permissions
+
+- **More resilient Analytics dashboard seeding**
+  - Analytics dashboard seeding selects project context by organization and logs more detail when seeding fails
+
+- **More reliable Tables MCP endpoint provisioning**
+  - Tables MCP endpoint creation now uses database tokens and iterates per workspace and database context
+
+- **Hardened admin bootstrapping**
+  - Initial admin setup reuses existing organization and project context when present
+
+## 🚀 Updates
+
+- **Updated OpenOps Tables default version**
+  - Docker Compose and Helm now default to a newer `public.ecr.aws/openops/openops-tables` image
+
+- **Expanded OpenAI model support**
+  - The OpenAI provider now supports `gpt-5.2` and `gpt-5.2-2025-12-11`
+
+<!-- END_RELEASE_NOTES -->