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+title: "Release notes"
+description: "Product updates, improvements, and fixes"
+icon: "✨"
+iconType: "emoji"
+---
+
+## 2026-01-15
+
+### 🚀 New
+- You can now choose GPT‑5.2 when configuring OpenAI-powered steps in AI workflows
+- You can now run the platform without deploying or configuring the analytics service
+- Analytics is now only visible and usable to people who have the required privileges
+
+### ✨ Improvements
+- Default deployments now ship with a newer OpenOps Tables version
+- The Tables integration now uses the correct project-specific credentials when creating and looking up Tables MCP endpoints
+- Initial admin seeding is now more reliable on fresh installs
+- Admin seeding now reuses an existing project’s OpenOps Tables workspace and database when available instead of always creating a new default
+
+### 🐛 Fixes
+- Chat transcripts now reliably include outputs from multiple tools running in parallel
+- Chat history no longer becomes corrupted when a run is interrupted (for example, by reloading the page)
+- Chat streaming no longer continues past frontend UI tool invocations, preventing confusing partial responses after a UI action
+- The Analytics page now loads correctly when signing in from a redirected deep link
+- Upgrades no longer incorrectly block Analytics for users who already had an active session