QA Release — 2026-08-11

Tag qa-2026-08-11 · Created: 2026-08-11 · Last Updated: 2026-08-11

What shipped to QA in this release (changes since 2026-08-06), grouped by area. The Ref column is stable — cite it when reporting. Rows marked → How to test are expanded at the bottom.

✨ Highlights

"Open in merchant portal" works again after breaking yesterday afternoon — see Admin portal.

A merchant Admin or Manager who signs in on the admin portal now gets an explanation instead of a frozen tab — see Admin portal.

A failed lookup on the Taxes tab says so instead of looking like an empty list — see Merchant portal.

Google no longer asks for consent on every single sign-in

see Sign-in & behind the scenes.

Error text and the required-field asterisk are readable at the contrast the standard requires — see Across both portals.

🖥️ Admin portal 3

Type	What changed	Where to check	Ref
Fixed	"Open in merchant portal" opens the QA portal again · it briefly opened `https://localhost:7710`, an address that only resolves on a developer machine, so the new tab failed to load. → How to test	Platform › Merchants › open a merchant › Open in merchant portal	#1222
Fixed	Signing in as a merchant Admin or Manager now lands on the login page with an explanation, instead of bouncing between screens until the browser froze the tab. → How to test	admin.qa.qiiub.com › sign in with a merchant account	#1191
Fixed	The "Never" text in a device's last-seen column, and validation messages under AI suggestion fields, are darker and now readable against white.	Platform › Devices · any AI suggestion field	#1161

🏪 Merchant portal 3

Type	What changed	Where to check	Ref
Fixed	The tax-group picker shows an error with a retry when its list cannot be loaded, instead of rendering empty · an unreachable list used to read as "this merchant has no tax groups", and saving from that state could clear a value you never saw. → How to test	Products › a product › Taxes tab	#1164
Fixed	The Bulk tax button no longer disappears when the location count fails to load · the gate now says it could not be evaluated and offers a retry.	Products › a product › Taxes tab	#1164
Fixed	Leaving a page with unsaved work warns you again after a failed save · the warning used to switch off permanently the first time the page redirected you, so a refresh discarded keyed lines silently. → How to test	Purchase orders › create a draft that fails to save	#1136

🧩 Across both portals 3

Type	What changed	Where to check	Ref
Fixed	The red asterisk marking a required field is announced by screen readers and readable against white · previously it carried the meaning by colour alone.	Any form with required fields	#1161
Fixed	Error text on stat cards is readable · it used an icon-scale red that fails the contrast standard for text.	Any dashboard stat card in an error state	#1161
Fixed	Six forms that accepted more text than the database column could hold now reject the extra characters instead of failing on save · two of them returned a server error. → How to test	Any form with a long free-text field	#1101

🔑 Sign-in & behind the scenes 4

Type	What changed	Where to check	Ref
Fixed	Signing in with Google asks for consent only the first time, not on every sign-in.	Any portal › Sign in with Google	#1205
Fixed	Saving a record that collides with an existing one reports "already exists" only when it genuinely does · other database errors used to be mislabelled as duplicates, and some real duplicates surfaced as a server error instead.	Anywhere a duplicate code or name can be saved	#1156
Improved	Invitation and notification emails show the QIIUB logo in Gmail and Outlook · the images were SVG, which those clients do not render, so the header appeared broken.	Any emailed invitation	#1162
Improved	The Spanish email footer reads "Desarrollado por" instead of "Hecho por".	Any emailed invitation, Spanish locale	#1162

🧪 How to test 5

Only the items that need more than a glance. Click to expand.

#1222 — "Open in merchant portal" opens the QA portal again

Before: choosing a reason and continuing opened https://localhost:7710, which does not resolve outside a developer machine, so the new tab failed to load.
Now: the tab opens https://portal.qa.qiiub.com/handoff?... and lands you in the merchant portal as a support session.
Steps:
1. Sign in to admin.qa.qiiub.com as SystemAdmin.
2. Platform › Merchants › open any merchant.
3. Click Open in merchant portal, pick a reason, confirm.
4. The new tab should load the merchant portal. Check the address bar starts with https://portal.qa.qiiub.com.
Note: this worked after the 2026-08-06 release and broke again on 2026-08-10 at 19:12 UTC, when a publish from a different machine shipped a build without the portal address. It was wrong for about eighteen hours. The publish step now refuses to produce that build at all, so it cannot return the same way.

#1191 — a merchant account signing in on the admin portal

Before: the page bounced between /login and /platform with no message until Chromium showed "Throttling navigation to prevent the browser from hanging" and the tab had to be closed.
Now: you stay on the login page with an explanation that the account has no admin access.
Steps:
1. Use a merchant Admin or Manager account — for example admin@techzone.demo.
2. Sign in at admin.qa.qiiub.com (the ADMIN portal, not the merchant one).
3. Expect the login page with a message. Nothing should flicker or freeze.
4. Sign in with the same account at portal.qa.qiiub.com — it should still work normally.
Note: the session is left intact on purpose, so the merchant portal session is not ended by this.

#1164 — a failed lookup on the Taxes tab

Before: when the tax-group list could not be loaded, the picker rendered with only the "clear" placeholder — indistinguishable from a merchant that genuinely has no tax groups. Saving from there could clear the assigned group without showing it first.
Now: the picker is replaced by an error with a retry, so there is nothing to save from.
Steps:
1. Products › open any product › Taxes tab.
2. With the network throttled or offline, reload the tab.
3. Expect an error with a retry where the tax-group picker was — not an empty picker.
4. Restore the network, click retry, and confirm the list loads.
Note: the same release fixes the Bulk tax button vanishing under the same condition. Both are on this tab but are separate checks.

#1136 — the unsaved-changes warning after a failed save

Before: the first time the page allowed a redirect, the warning switched off for as long as the page stayed open — so a later refresh or tab close discarded typed lines with no prompt.
Now: the bypass covers only that one navigation and the warning re-arms.
Steps:
1. Purchase orders › start a new draft for a supplier that already has an open draft.
2. Key several lines, then save — the save fails and redirects you.
3. Before leaving, press F5 or close the tab.
4. Expect the browser's "leave site?" prompt. Previously it did not appear and the lines were lost.

#1101 — fields that accepted more than the database could store

Before: six fields let you type past the column limit. The form accepted it, and the save failed — two of them with a server error rather than a validation message.
Now: the form stops you at the real limit.
Steps:
1. Open any form with a long free-text field.
2. Paste text well past the field's limit.
3. Expect a validation message on the field before saving, not an error after.
Note: records saved before this release are unaffected; the limits were always enforced by the database, only the form disagreed.

🔧 Technical — not QA-testable 5

Ref	What	Why not testable
#1220	The publish step now refuses to ship a build carrying a development address, a missing portal address, or a cross-origin API host	Build-time gate · it either produces the artifact or fails the publish, with no portal surface
#1193	Source maps are no longer served alongside the SPAs	Absence of a file · needs a direct request to a `.map` URL, not a portal screen
#1156 (server-error part)	Eight endpoints classified duplicates through a helper with no error-number check	Needs a concurrent write to trigger a real 2601/2627 · the portal offers no way to force one
#1146	The duplicate check now reads the error number and the constraint name from the same database error · previously a violation that was not first in the list escaped as a server error	Needs a database error carrying several entries in a specific order · not reachable from a portal action
#1162 (asset hosting)	`assets.qiiub.com` static hosting fixed so the logo PNGs resolve	Infrastructure · verified by the images rendering in the email row above