Deploy Checklist: New Expensify 2022-10-14

[roryabraham]

Release Version: 1.2.16-5
Compare Changes: production...staging

This release contains changes from the following pull requests:

• Delayed focus added for mweb transition #11718
• resolve cyclic dependencies lint errors #11782
• fix "Cursor disappear if we choose the same currency from the currency selector" #11794
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md #11826
• Align composer character limit error to the right side #11841
• Re-render ReportFooter when transitioning to new chat #11853
• fix Concierge button to include href value #11857
• Revert "Update handling so that Concierge link redirects to chat" #11909

Internal QA:

• Update handling so that Concierge link redirects to chat #11527 - @puneetlath @thienlnam

Deploy Blockers:

• [$500] New chat - Composed box is displayed in the middle of page when open a user that don't have any messages with #11858
• Web -Chat - Unable to split bill, error message is displayed. #11884
• Web -Chat - Error message displayed when sending message from corrupted accounts #11887

Deployer verifications:

• I checked the App Timing Dashboard and verified this release does not cause a noticeable performance regression.
• I checked Firebase Crashlytics and verified that this release does not introduce any new crashes.

cc @Expensify/applauseleads

[OSBotify]

🚀 All staging deploys are complete, @Expensify/applauseleads please begin QA on version https://github.com/Expensify/App/releases/tag/1.2.16-4 🚀

[mvtglobally]

Regression is completed

Checking off #11782 (comment)
PR #11857 is failing due to #11892. repro in PROD. There were few blockers with OldDot Concierge. Are we ok to check this off?
PR #11718 is failing due to #11883. Checking off
#11794 (comment)

[sketchydroide]

#11884 is not a blocker, the issue was web side, there is a PR to fix it.

[sketchydroide]

#11887 also not a deploy blocker.

[sketchydroide]

@mvtglobally @kavimuru can we test again please 🙇🏼

Also I think we can check #11857 off

[mvtglobally]

@sketchydroide Are you asking us to run another regression?

[mvtglobally]

@sketchydroide
Both issues doesn't seem to be repro any more

split_fixed.mp4

[sketchydroide]

I think we can also check off #11794

[mvtglobally]

@sketchydroide We are checked off. All seem to be completed

[sketchydroide]

#11527 - has been reverted, so we are checking it off

[OSBotify]

👏 Heads up @Expensify/applauseleads 👏
A new pull request has been 🍒 cherry-picked 🍒 to staging, and will be deployed to staging in version 1.2.16-5 🚀

[sketchydroide]

#11909 checking it off as it's the revert to #11527 -

[sketchydroide]

#11858 is not a bloker, there was some confusion whit it, but it's currently in prod.

[sketchydroide]

[OSBotify]

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