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+# Core Gen3 Release 2026.08 (Hematite)
+## uc-cdis/audit-service
+
+#### New Features
+  - Make `gen3` as the default audience for access token validation ([#110](https://github.com/uc-cdis/audit-service/pull/110)) 
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Update authutils to `>=8.0.0` ([#110](https://github.com/uc-cdis/audit-service/pull/110)) 
+  - Cryptography => 48.0.1 ([#108](https://github.com/uc-cdis/audit-service/pull/108))
+  - Starlette >=1.1.0 ([#109](https://github.com/uc-cdis/audit-service/pull/109))
+
+## uc-cdis/cloud-automation
+
+#### New Features
+  - Updated squid to allow for setting custom config locations ([#2874](https://github.com/uc-cdis/cloud-automation/pull/2874)) 
+  - Adding in some domains necessary for Vectis to get threat feed data ([#2876](https://github.com/uc-cdis/cloud-automation/pull/2876)) 
+
+#### Improvements
+  - add Zendesk domain to squid whitelist ([#2880](https://github.com/uc-cdis/cloud-automation/pull/2880)) 
+
+## uc-cdis/cohort-middleware
+
+#### New Features
+  - new endpoint to return sources with team project information and current 
+    access ([#141](https://github.com/uc-cdis/cohort-middleware/pull/141))
+
+## uc-cdis/data-portal
+
+#### Improvements
+  - Updates VLMD form text and link ([#1836](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1836)) 
+  - move loaders to dev dependency ([#1823](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1823)) 
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - remove image size optional dependency (did not see it being used anywhere) 
+    ([#1835](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1835))
+  - update "less": "^4.6.4" in standalone app to align with main app ([#1835](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1835)) 
+  - update "less-loader": "^7.3.0" in standalone app to align with main app 
+    ([#1835](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1835))
+  - Update uuid dependency -> 11.1.1 ([#1832](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1832)) 
+  - update `css-loader` to v5 ([#1823](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1823)) 
+  - update `style-loader` to v2 ([#1823](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1823)) 
+  - update `less-loader` to v7 ([#1823](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1823)) 
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+  - Rename `tableConfig.dicomServerUrl` to `tableConfig.dicomServerURL` to 
+    match with 
+    [portalConfig](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/blob/ca6938338e22481ae235b854a653cd32f194fd73/docs/portal_config.md#L275C10-L275C24).
+    ([#1829](https://github.com/uc-cdis/data-portal/pull/1829))
+
+## uc-cdis/fence
+
+#### New Features
+  - Bulk Content Retrieval support in Fence ([#1348](https://github.com/uc-cdis/fence/pull/1348)) 
+
+## uc-cdis/gen3-user-data-library
+
+#### New Features
+  - Make `gen3` as the default audience for access token validation ([#84](https://github.com/uc-cdis/gen3-user-data-library/pull/84)) 
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Update authutils to `>=8.0.0` ([#84](https://github.com/uc-cdis/gen3-user-data-library/pull/84)) 
+
+## uc-cdis/guppy
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Update `addon-actions": "^9.0.0"` and `"uuid": "^11.1.1",` ([#387](https://github.com/uc-cdis/guppy/pull/387)) 
+  - Update base image to nodejs24 -- 
+    [here](https://github.com/uc-cdis/base-images/blob/master/nodejs24-base/Dockerfile)
+    ([#387](https://github.com/uc-cdis/guppy/pull/387))
+  - Bumps 
+    [@babel/core](https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/HEAD/packages/babel-core) 
+    from 7.29.0 to 7.29.6. ([#390](https://github.com/uc-cdis/guppy/pull/390))
+
+## uc-cdis/hatchery
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+  - fix for long volume names due to Kubernetes limits (63 characters) ([#152](https://github.com/uc-cdis/hatchery/pull/152)) 
+
+#### Improvements
+  - prevent workspace from launching if the usage in current paymodel is 
+    greater than the hard limit ([#158](https://github.com/uc-cdis/hatchery/pull/158)) 
+
+## uc-cdis/manifestservice
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Bumps [joserfc](https://github.com/authlib/joserfc) from 1.6.5 to 1.6.8. 
+    (#87)
+  - Bumps [cryptography](https://github.com/pyca/cryptography) from 48.0.0 to 
+    48.0.1. (#85)
+  - Bumps [pyjwt](https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt) from 2.12.1 to 2.13.0. 
+    (#83)
+
+## uc-cdis/metadata-service
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Cryptography => 48.0.1 ([#187](https://github.com/uc-cdis/metadata-service/pull/187)) 
+  - Bumps [pyjwt](https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt) from 2.12.1 to 2.13.0. 
+    (#182)
+
+## uc-cdis/peregrine
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - starlette to 1.3.1 ([#270](https://github.com/uc-cdis/peregrine/pull/270))
+
+## uc-cdis/requestor
+
+#### New Features
+  - Make `gen3` as the default audience for access token validation ([#87](https://github.com/uc-cdis/requestor/pull/87)) 
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Update authutils to `>=8.0.0` ([#87](https://github.com/uc-cdis/requestor/pull/87)) 
+
+## uc-cdis/sheepdog
+
+#### New Features
+  - Make `gen3` as the default audience for access token validation ([#474](https://github.com/uc-cdis/sheepdog/pull/474)) 
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Update authutils to `>=8.0.0` ([#474](https://github.com/uc-cdis/sheepdog/pull/474)) 
+  - Cryptography => 48.0.1 ([#473](https://github.com/uc-cdis/sheepdog/pull/473)) 
+
+## uc-cdis/sower
+
+#### New Features
+  - Allows priorityClassName and annotations to be configured for a given sower 
+    job ([#66](https://github.com/uc-cdis/sower/pull/66))
+
+## uc-cdis/tube
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - cryptography to 49.0.0 ([#317](https://github.com/uc-cdis/tube/pull/317))
+  - idna to 3.18 ([#317](https://github.com/uc-cdis/tube/pull/317))
+
+## uc-cdis/workspace-token-service
+
+#### New Features
+  - Make `gen3` as the default audience for access token validation ([#153](https://github.com/uc-cdis/workspace-token-service/pull/153)) 
+
+#### Dependency Updates
+  - Update authutils to `>=8.0.0` ([#153](https://github.com/uc-cdis/workspace-token-service/pull/153)) 
+  - Bumps [joserfc](https://github.com/authlib/joserfc) from 1.6.5 to 1.6.8. 
+    (#152)
+  - Bumps [pyjwt](https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt) from 2.12.1 to 2.13.0. 
+    (#148)
+