docs: draft changelog #037

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docs: draft changelog #37

Generated content/docs/changelog/changelog-037.mdx.

• Window: 2026-09-18T13:16:33.865Z to 2026-09-25T13:17:53.102Z
• Window source: state
• Timezone reference: America/Toronto
• The MDX draft is intentionally clean. Commit references for kept and dropped items are listed below for review.
• Cover image: /images/changelog/37.png (the undithered original is in the run artifacts for palette retries)

Monitored repositories

• 0xnenlabs/steel@release (direct)
• steel-dev/steel-browser@main (derived from the application release)
• steel-dev/steel-cookbook@main (direct)
• steel-dev/pi-steel@main (direct)
• steel-dev/leaderboard@main (direct)
• steel-dev/cli@main (direct)
• steel-dev/docs@main (direct)

Included items

🔧 Improvements

• Billing usage pages load daily breakdowns faster and show placeholders while data loads instead of showing zero. The page also connects to the Stripe billing portal only when you open it. 0xnenlabs/steel 618e39e 0xnenlabs/steel 6b84d8a 0xnenlabs/steel 87a5516

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Wallet purchases with a declined or canceled payment staying in processing. They now show as failed. 0xnenlabs/steel c950172
• Fixed auto top-up status when a declined charge disables the recharge policy. The customer now gets a notification when this happens. 0xnenlabs/steel 75d2cc9
• Fixed the Proxy & Network dashboard's Top domains query so it returns usage data again. 0xnenlabs/steel 87a5516
• Fixed per-organization maximum session timeout overrides not applying to some sessions. 0xnenlabs/steel cdd3f35
• Fixed missing session replay recordings for some sessions. 0xnenlabs/steel c495f5d
• Fixed tagging for long-running sessions. 0xnenlabs/steel 3d9e556

Removed in review

• private source (Internal product surface or infrastructure, not for public changelogs.) 0xnenlabs/steel 4da0966 0xnenlabs/steel 0d38535 0xnenlabs/steel 6a14ef4

Source filtering

• Commits collected: 67 (1 skipped as an automated author before grouping)
• Logical changes: 67 (55 eligible, 12 excluded, 0 unaccounted)
• Full ledger: scripts/changelog/audit/037.json in this pull request
• Private sources keep their links and SHAs here but not their titles, subjects, or paths.

Needs review (11)

A heuristic rule dropped each of these. Confirm none of them belongs in the changelog.

• internal_only 0xnenlabs/steel #2046 (1 commit, 1 file)
• internal_only 0xnenlabs/steel #2051 (1 commit, 3 files)
• internal_only 0xnenlabs/steel #2052 (1 commit, 2 files)
• internal_only 0xnenlabs/steel #2056 (1 commit, 2 files)
• internal_only 0xnenlabs/steel #2084 (1 commit, 3 files)
• internal_only 0xnenlabs/steel #2088 (1 commit, 4 files)
• non_material_docs steel-dev/docs #128: chore: exclude generated changelog audit ledgers from Biome (1 commit, 1 file)
• benchmark_maintenance steel-dev/leaderboard 33aaee5: Merge branch 'discovery/deact-biweekly-pdf-fix' (1 commit, 17 files)
• benchmark_maintenance steel-dev/leaderboard 4ee4e50: Track discovery pipeline outputs on main (1 commit, 55 files)
• benchmark_maintenance steel-dev/leaderboard 5bae6f6: Track the Astra release review JSON (1 commit, 1 file)

1 more heuristic exclusions are in the ledger.

Structurally excluded (1)

• self_generated steel-dev/docs #127: docs: draft changelog feat(navigation): expand mobile menu visibility to desktop #36 (1 commit, 5 files)

Discarded while drafting (4)

• private source (These changes primarily affect internal operational tooling rather than the customer-facing Steel product.) 0xnenlabs/steel c9a6608 0xnenlabs/steel 9b798ef 0xnenlabs/steel 08e947b
• private source (These were internal deployment and migration changes without a distinct user-facing capability.) 0xnenlabs/steel ea3272f 0xnenlabs/steel 5531a6f 0xnenlabs/steel 98d45b2
• Human-in-the-loop guide link updates (This was a small editorial navigation change rather than a material documentation expansion.) steel-dev/docs a38d9e6
• private source (The test runner already blocked failed releases, so this only corrected internal report wording.) 0xnenlabs/steel 0a17dac

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Reviewed: removed internal items, tightened prose.