Release 2.86.1

[JadeCara]

Release Checklist

The release checklist is a manual set of checks done before each release to ensure functionality of the most critical components of the application.

Warning

THIS RELEASE BRANCH PULL REQUEST SHOULD NOT BE MERGED! IT IS FOR TRACEABILITY PURPOSES ONLY!

Pre-Release Steps

General

From the release branch, confirm the following:

• Quickstart works: nox -s quickstart (verify you can complete the interactive prompts from the command-line)
• Test environment works: nox -s "fides_env(test)" (verify the admin UI on localhost:8080, privacy center on localhost:3001, CLI and webserver)

Next, run the following checks via the test environment:

API

• Verify that the generated API docs are correct @ http://localhost:8080/docs

CLI

Run these from within the test environment shell:

• git reset --hard - Note: This is required for the pull command to work
• fides user login
• fides push src/fides/data/sample_project/sample_resources/
• fides pull src/fides/data/sample_project/sample_resources/
• fides evaluate src/fides/data/sample_project/sample_resources/
• fides generate dataset db --credentials-id app_postgres test.yml
• fides scan dataset db --credentials-id app_postgres

Privacy Center

• Every navigation button works
• DSR submission succeeds
• Consent request submission succeeds

Admin UI

• Every navigation button works
• Login/logout succeeds
• DSR approval succeeds
• DSR execution succeeds

Documentation

• Verify that the CHANGELOG is formatted correctly and representative of the actual changes

Publishing the release

• ## Release Pull Request section that includes a link back to the release PR (i.e., this one!) for tracking purposes

Post-Release Steps

• Verify the ethyca-fides release is published to PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/ethyca-fides/#history
• Verify the fides release is published to DockerHub: https://hub.docker.com/r/ethyca/fides
• Verify the fides-privacy-center release is published to DockerHub: https://hub.docker.com/r/ethyca/fides-privacy-center
• Verify the fides-sample-app release is published to DockerHub: https://hub.docker.com/r/ethyca/fides-sample-app

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2 Skipped Deployments

Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
fides-plus-nightly	Ignored	Preview	May 27, 2026 9:17pm
fides-privacy-center	Ignored		May 27, 2026 9:17pm

[codecov]

Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 93.05556% with 5 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 83.57%. Comparing base (460ddc0) to head (5d8e0d8).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
src/fides/api/task/create_request_tasks.py	86.36%	1 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
...des/api/service/privacy_request/request_service.py	92.00%	0 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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[github-actions]

Title	Lines	Statements	Branches	Functions
admin-ui		8.54% (4062/47517)	7.6% (2096/27575)	5.82% (813/13956)
fides-js		79.17% (1977/2497)	66.25% (1249/1885)	73.31% (349/476)
privacy-center		86.59% (517/597)	82.33% (247/300)	81.08% (90/111)