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September 2026

Attendant controls and admin workflow improvements

This update brings tighter attendant access controls together with a smoother admin experience for managing day-to-day operations. The changes are currently represented by open pull requests in the ride-hailing and admin mirror repositories.

Attendant access and registration

Attendant registration now supports explicit pending, active, inactive, and archived account states. New attendants remain in an approval-pending flow until an administrator grants access, while disabled or archived attendants are prevented from continuing service operations.

The attendant app also rechecks account access while it is in use, so administrative changes can take effect without relying on a fresh sign-in. On the backend, duplicate phone checks are normalized, administrative attendant actions are HMAC-protected, and archived attendants retain their historical booking records.

Admin attendant management

The admin interface now supports editing attendant profiles, enabling or disabling access, archiving accounts, and restoring archived attendants. Booking filters can load the complete attendant list, including archived attendants where historical records need to remain identifiable.

Admin data views also gain clearer loading states, debounced search behavior, client-side sidebar navigation that preserves scroll position, and skeleton placeholders across major dashboard screens.

Scheduling, notifications, and exports

Notification schedules can now be edited, cancelled, and deleted with stronger schedule timing and app validation. Delivery failures are reported with partial fan-out retry details, while status refreshes provide clearer feedback.

Admin date and time rendering is standardized on Manila time, list searches are normalized and debounced, and full booking PDF exports now expose progress and can be cancelled. The admin Docker Compose default database is also updated to xicaradmin.

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Introducing the Xicar changelog

Xicar now has one place to follow meaningful product and operational changes.

Each update pairs what changed with why it matters, giving the team a shared, business-friendly record of progress without losing the technical details needed for traceability.

Infrastructure
Hugo-powered changelog site

The changelog site now runs on Hugo instead of the custom Python static-site generator. The existing design remains intact, while daily Markdown files, automatic date ordering, month grouping, and the static public/ output make ongoing publishing simpler and more consistent.

The migration also adds Hugo-based smoke checks pinned to version 0.147.7, preserving the site’s JavaScript-free output and validation of links, dates, headings, and security-sensitive content. Cloudflare Pages preview validation passed; production deployment status is not separately verified here.

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