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Move OpenTelemetry deps to devDependencies

Reduces transitive dependencies and improves security by avoiding eval() calls.

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• • The PR was reviewed and merged quickly, indicating a straightforward fix with minimal risk.

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Add browser SDK distribution channel property

Adds a property to browser SDK events indicating the distribution channel, improving event attribution and analytics accuracy.

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• • Fast cycle time and single review round indicate a straightforward, low‑risk change with minimal friction.

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Add optional defaultValue to useFeatureFlagEnabled

Simplifies feature flag usage by eliminating the need for nullish coalescing, improving developer experience and reducing UI bugs.

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• • PR was reviewed and merged within 13 hours, indicating a smooth process and clear documentation.

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Set webpack plugin sourcemaps default to true

Ensures sourcemaps are enabled by default, aligning with other plugins and improving debugging.

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• • Quick approval with minimal changes; AI assistance streamlined the update.

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Avoid Safari ReadableStream upload with fetch wrappers

Fixes Safari ReadableStream upload errors by preventing internal Request objects from being forwarded to downstream fetch wrappers, ensuring compatibility and stability for web analytics.

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• • The PR required multiple iterations and extensive cross-browser testing to resolve a Safari-specific bug, but was reviewed and merged quickly after the initial review.

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Add optional debounce for persistence saves

Reduces frequent local storage writes, improving performance and preventing memory leaks.

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• • The PR introduced a new debounce feature to reduce local storage writes, requiring multiple iterations after review to stabilize implementation and address cross‑tab issues.

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harden tracing fetch wrapper

Fixes Safari fetch stream error by preserving RequestInit semantics and improving tracing header handling, ensuring robust analytics instrumentation across browsers.

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• • Quick turnaround with minimal rework; single commit and merge within 3.6 hours indicates efficient review and low complexity.

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Fix no-op for blank project tokens

Ensures SDKs gracefully handle missing or blank project tokens, preventing unnecessary network traffic and errors in misconfigured environments. This improves reliability and reduces noise for users deploying PostHog in varied contexts.

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• • Quick review and minimal rework indicate a straightforward bugfix with clear test coverage.

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Add detection for multiple Chromium and Firefox forks

Enhances browser detection to correctly bucket users on Brave, Vivaldi, Yandex, Whale, DuckDuckGo, Pale Moon, and Waterfox, improving analytics accuracy.

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• • The PR underwent rapid iteration with multiple review cycles and extensive testing, indicating a complex feature addition that required careful validation.

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Make Convex scheduled function tests deterministic

Deterministic tests for Convex scheduled functions reduce flaky CI runs. This improves reliability for developers using PostHog's Convex integration.

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• • The PR was reviewed quickly and merged after a single commit, indicating a straightforward, low-risk change that improved test determinism.

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Skip redundant persistence writes

Reduces unnecessary localStorage writes, improving performance and preventing memory leaks.

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• • PR addressed a performance issue with minimal changes and a quick review, but the overall cycle time was longer than typical due to merge timing.

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Throttle session activity timestamp updates

Reduces memory leaks by writing to local storage less frequently.

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• • The PR had a fast review time and a relatively small scope, with a clear and well-structured description.

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Temporarily disable @posthog/mcp publish

Disables failing publish step to avoid release failures and reduce noise on approvals channel.

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• • Quick fix with minimal changes, fast review and merge, low risk.

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Improve React Native storage writes performance

Reduce storage write overhead by coalescing writes within a 100ms debounce window, improving performance on low-end Android devices.

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• • The PR has a clear and well-structured description, and the changes are well-tested with a good number of passing tests.

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Update workflow pin to latest commit

Ensures the reusable workflow uses the latest main branch, simplifying future board updates and removing obsolete triggers.

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• • Quick review and merge with minimal changes, indicating low complexity and risk.

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Preserve property types for flag evaluation

Ensures consistent flag evaluation across devices by preserving property types, eliminating false positives and improving feature rollout reliability.

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• • Fast cycle time of 18 hours and a single review round indicate low friction. The PR addressed a critical bug with moderate code changes, resulting in a low risk merge.

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Fix posthog-xcode.sh argument handling in Expo

Corrects build failures for iOS releases using Expo, ensuring reliable Hermes builds and preventing runtime errors.

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• • Fast review and minimal rework indicate a straightforward bug fix with clear regression tests.

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Add generate-references job to CI workflow

Adds a CI job that runs api-extractor on PRs to catch type extraction errors before release, reducing post-release debugging.

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• • Quick review and merge with minimal changes; PR effectively added a CI job to catch errors early.

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Configure dependency release cooldown

Adds a 7‑day cooldown to dependency updates, reducing risk of compromised or unstable packages.

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• • Quick, single‑commit PR with minimal changes, indicating low risk and efficient review.

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Drain promise queue in captureException tests

Fixes flaky captureException tests by deterministically draining the promise queue, improving CI reliability.

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• • Fast 3.4‑hour cycle with minimal rework; test stability improved.

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Register refresh cron unconditionally

Ensures feature flag updates are processed reliably by always registering the refresh cron, preventing missed updates and improving system reliability.

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• • Fast turnaround with minimal rework; quick review and merge within 14 hours.

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Add debugging logs for replay recorder

Adds logs to help diagnose missing recording events, improving reliability of replay feature.

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• • Fast cycle with minimal changes and no rework, indicating a straightforward bug fix.

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Fix idle session rotation race condition

Corrects a race condition that caused session replay to stall, ensuring reliable analytics capture for customers.

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• • The PR was resolved in under three hours with a single review and minimal code changes, indicating a straightforward, low-risk fix.

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Fix DOM globals leakage in core types

Prevents build failures in non-DOM environments by replacing DOM-specific types with structural subsets, ensuring cross-platform compatibility.

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• • Quick fix with minimal changes, resolved build issue across multiple packages.

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Enable request queue for cookieless opt-out

Fixes a bug where events were not sent after opting out in cookieless mode. This ensures accurate analytics data and reliable event tracking for users.

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• • Quick fix with minimal changes, resolved in a single review cycle, indicating low complexity and high confidence.

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Bump posthog-js version for replay

Updates the posthog-js library to a newer version, ensuring compatibility with replay features.

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• • Quick version bump with minimal changes, merged within an hour.

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Unify captureException implementation across platforms

Ensures consistent error handling in PostHog libraries, preventing unintended error swallowing and improving reliability across web, node, and React Native.

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• • Quick turnaround with minimal rework; single review approved after minor lint fix; fast cycle time indicates efficient process.

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Scaffold @posthog/mcp package skeleton

Provides initial package structure, configs, and placeholder test for the @posthog/mcp SDK, enabling isolated review and release workflow.

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• • The PR was approved immediately with no rework, but the merge was delayed by the release workflow, resulting in a 6.8‑day cycle time.

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Expose token in PostHogTraceExporter, deprecate apiKey

Standardizes authentication terminology in the PostHog JS SDK by exposing a `token` field and deprecating `apiKey`, improving consistency across SDKs while maintaining backward compatibility. This change reduces confusion for developers and aligns the SDK with other PostHog libraries.

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• • The PR was reviewed immediately and required a few iterations to rename and deprecate the key, but overall the changes were straightforward and well-documented.

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Fix absolute position bug in replay capture

Ensures elements marked ph-no-capture are rendered correctly during replay, preventing layout breakage and improving session replay reliability for users.

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• • Quick turnaround with minimal rework; PR resolved within 6 hours and approved after a single review.

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Move credentials and cron to Convex component

Allows users to manage credentials and cron within the Convex component, simplifying configuration and reducing boilerplate.

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• • The PR had a long cycle time of over 100 hours, but the review was quick and only one rework was needed before merging.

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Speed up logs serialization in PostHog JS

Reduces the cost of serializing large log objects by implementing a size‑budgeted serializer, improving performance and keeping bundle size minimal.

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• • The PR required several merges from main and a moderate review cycle, indicating active integration but no major blockers.
• • With a 6‑day cycle time and a single file count, the overall risk remains moderate.

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Update PostHog/.github workflow pins

Ensures CI workflows use SHA‑pinned actions, improving security compliance and consistency across SDK repositories.

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• • Fast review and merge with minimal changes; low risk and high confidence in stability.

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Bump posthog-react-native-session-replay peer dependency

Updates the optional peer dependency to 1.6.0, enabling React Native consumers to opt‑in to the new Swift Package Manager path for iOS integration without changing default behavior.

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• • The PR was merged within 16 hours with a single commit and a normal review time, indicating a smooth, low‑risk change.

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Exclude examples from Dependabot and add reviewer

Reduces noise from Dependabot PRs on demo apps and ensures proper review assignment, improving CI efficiency.

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• • Quick, single-file change with minimal review cycles, indicating an efficient process.

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Fix session recorder leak with preload links

Prevent session recorder from saturating main thread on pages with preload links

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• • The PR had a fast cycle time and received multiple reviews with nits
• • The changes were thoroughly tested with unit tests and a real-browser repro

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Drop IE11 support and maintain ES5 bundle

Remove IE11 from browserslist and keep ES5 bundle for polyfill canary, ensuring compatibility and fixing latent TDZ bugs in tests.

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• • The PR had a fast cycle time and low review friction, indicating a well-structured and straightforward change.

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Guard CI step to avoid missing SARIF file

Prevents CI pipeline failures by ensuring SARIF file existence before alert dismissal, improving build stability.

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• • Quick fix with minimal changes, resolved in under 15 minutes, indicating efficient review and low risk.

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Fix autocapture of internal network errors in React Native

Prevents false error events from flooding dashboards, improving data quality and reducing noise for mobile app users.

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• • Quick resolution with minimal rework; single review and fast merge.

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chore: bump @posthog/cli to ~0.7.13

Updates the PostHog CLI dependency to 0.7.13, removing unused runtime dependencies and pruning the lockfile to keep the package tree lean.

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• • Fast, single‑commit bump with immediate approval and no back‑and‑forth, indicating a low‑risk, low‑friction change.

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Add async gzip compression for replay events

Enables native async gzip compression for session recording events, reducing main‑thread blocking, preserving event order, and providing a graceful fallback to synchronous compression, improving performance and user experience.

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• • The PR was reviewed and merged within two days, showing efficient collaboration, but the large code changes indicate a significant impact on the library.

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Add rrweb subpath entries to posthog-js

Enables downstream consumers to import rrweb components directly from posthog-js, simplifying dependency management and reducing bundle size.

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• • Fast review and merge with minimal rework; small to medium scope and clear business value.

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Validate changeset versioning workflow

Automates checks to ensure PR titles and changesets match release intent, preventing incorrect version bumps and providing immediate feedback to contributors.

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• • Fast review and minimal changes indicate a straightforward CI update with low risk.

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Bump pinned SHA for SDK test harness

Updates the SHA reference in CI workflows to use the latest commit, ensuring compliance with organization policy and preventing potential build failures.

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• • Fast turnaround and minimal changes suggest low risk and straightforward review.

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Bump SHA for reusable GitHub workflows

Updates workflow SHA to comply with policy, ensuring CI runs successfully.

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• • Quick merge with minimal changes, indicating low complexity and high confidence.

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Pin GitHub Actions to Commit SHAs

Ensures reproducible CI by locking actions to specific commit SHAs, improving build stability.

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Promote flag definition cache provider types to stable entrypoint

Enables users to import flag definition cache provider types from the main posthog-node package, simplifying imports and providing a deprecation path for legacy usage.

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• • Fast cycle time and minimal review rounds indicate a low-risk, well-scoped change.

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Add browser flag_keys config

Customers can now restrict feature flag evaluation to specific flags, improving performance and privacy.

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• • Fast review and minimal rework, indicating clear scope and good test coverage.

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Stabilize logs performance test threshold

Adjusts logs test threshold to reduce flaky CI failures while preserving regression checks.

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• • Fast review and merge with minimal changes, low risk to production.