Public Release 2026-01-07

[photoroman]

This release introduces evaluation environment support, enhances CI/CD workflows for feature branch testing, and improves search capabilities with comprehensive filtering.

Environment Management:

• Eval environment: Added dedicated settings and configuration for evaluation deployments
• Environment scripts: Enhanced migrate.sh and run_command.sh to support eval environment
• AWS configuration: Corrected OpenSearch environment variables and added region configuration for eval
• Deployment workflow: Improved promote_deployment process to support multiple environments

Search & Filtering UI:

• Implemented comprehensive server-side and local search for filters
• Enhanced filtering capabilities across the application

Development Tools:

• CI/CD enhancement: Added dev-deploy branch support for feature branch deployments
• Django management: Added set_superuser command for user management
• General dev tooling improvements

Bugfixes & Maintenance:

• DataRoomClientSync: Fix methods with iterator return types
• Disable Django DEBUG mode also in dev environment