# Updates on October 5, 2026 (Release 1536)
**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [October 5, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182 "2026-10-05T23:59:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182/1 "2026-10-05T23:59:22Z")
There’s not a ton of big stuff to announce, but a few people were affected by the [Updates on August 22, 2026 (Release 1514)](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-august-22-2026-release-1514/30089) change to remove 200+ mile activities. I was able to figure out a way to safely revert that change, so I wanted to let people affected know that they can sync those back in now.
- 🛠 rework some code in the city sync process to reduce RAM use for wonky activities
- this issue is what was blocking larger city syncs, so I hope to re-enable those soon … just need to test with some known problematic cities first
- I _think_ the cause is the people who run, don’t stop tracking themselves, and then just hang out somewhere for some hours while their GPS drops coordinates in a tiny area
look
no, _look_
_feel my pain_
- 🛠 remove 200 mile limit; retain 200 mile processing limit that’s been in place since 2022
- if you had activities removed because of that, a sync will bring them back in
- these activities don’t get processed for completed/progressed streets (and haven’t since 2022) … I haven’t heard from a single person asking about that, so I can only assume it’s not a problem
- 🛠 remove 30 day wait on city boundary updates; the city sync will update the border each time now
- 🖌 add a progress bar to incomplete streets in city-based Challenges
- 🛠 remove the toggle pin button for our default city (the default city cannot be un-pinned; you can change your default city if you want to remove it from your pinned city list)
- 🛠 change the pinned city list to place our default city first
- 🖌 add a ‘home’ icon to our default city list item
- 🛠 block zero-duration activities (where the activity’s total time is 0 seconds)
- 🐛 fix an issue with the nightly planet update running out of disk space
- 🐛 fix a bug that caused some activities to not properly update progress in Challenges
- 🐛 fix a bug that caused failed contact submissions to lose the submitted form data
- 🐛 fix bug that left LifeMap displayed when navigating from certain page
- 🐛 fix a few places around contrast accessibility (I still have a lot of work to do here)
- 🐛 fix some form fields not displaying nicely in dark mode
- 🤓 rework how I create cities to use the existing sync code instead of custom “creation” code
- 🤓 various software updates
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### Author:  [@hans1](https://community.citystrides.com/u/hans1)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182/2 "2026-10-06T05:46:57Z")
Something wrong today with the list of city sync under Status, formatting error
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### Author:  [@steven.mcmillian](https://community.citystrides.com/u/steven.mcmillian)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182/3 "2026-10-06T13:16:30Z")
> [@JamesChevalier](#):
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> - these activities don’t get processed for completed/progressed streets (and haven’t since 2022) … I haven’t heard from a single person asking about that, so I can only assume it’s not a problem
[https://community.citystrides.com/t/long-activity-should-have-a-hundred-or-more-streets-progressed-but-only-says-2/27600?u=steven.mcmillian](https://community.citystrides.com/t/long-activity-should-have-a-hundred-or-more-streets-progressed-but-only-says-2/27600)
🥲 I’d like those streets back if it is possible 🥲
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### Author:  [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182/4 "2026-10-06T16:47:37Z")
> [@hans1](#):
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> Something wrong today with the list of city sync under Status, formatting error
Yeah, I ran a tool that showed me a bunch of invalid HTML (that I suppose browsers just handled/fixed on their own, because there weren’t any actual display issues) … When I fixed this, I accidentally mushed up some styles that shouldn’t have been carried over.
The next release fixes that up.
> [@steven.mcmillian](#):
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> 🥲 I’d like those streets back if it is possible 🥲
> [@JamesChevalier](#):
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> - if you had activities removed because of that, a sync will bring them back in
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### Author:  [@steven.mcmillian](https://community.citystrides.com/u/steven.mcmillian)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182/5 "2026-10-07T13:16:36Z")
I clicked sync in a few spots yesterday but didn’t see any changes to the street completion and progression of [Steven McMillian's activity on April 25, 2024 - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/activities/100423161) .
Could you do your magic on your side like last time? Whatever you did in my previous link from the prior year.
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### Author:  [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-october-5-2026-release-1536/30182/6 "2026-10-07T14:38:18Z")
I’m sorry. I rushed through responding & didn’t follow your link to our previous conversation.
I changed the code to allow 200+ mile activities to be processed again … I’ve got a sync-blocker that stops 15mph+ activities in, which I _think_ should solve a lot of problems around cycling/drives/flights & I’ve since improved overall processing in a way that I think it’ll be safe to allow these through.
After I release that code, I’ll send your activity in for reprocessing.