ODK Central v2026.2.0

Release Notes

📢 Read the official release announcement on the Forum!

We highly recommend checking out the forum post for a user-friendly overview of new features, enhanced with screenshots and guides.

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🛠 Technical Changelogs

For a detailed list of technical updates, fixes, and improvements, please review the specific changelogs below:

• backend
• apps/central
• apps/forms
• packages/web-forms
• packages/xforms-engine
• packages/xpath

Additional changes to operations infrastructure

• Update Content Security Policy and make it stricter (#1851, #1856, #1775, #1978)
• Facilitate browser caching for login images stored on S3 (#1822)
• Improve database backups (#1646, #1639, #1894)
• Don't build front end by default (#1996)
• Update dependencies (#1805, #1936)