Web ยท September 9, 2026

Security and editorial controls

A production update for account recovery, administrator protection and reviewed learning content.

Account security

  • Added single-use email verification and password-reset links with short expiry windows.
  • Password reset now revokes every existing session, and recovery requests do not reveal whether an account exists.
  • Added a retryable notification outbox. External delivery remains disabled until an approved mail provider is configured.

Administrator protection

  • Administrator access now requires a TOTP authenticator.
  • Authenticator secrets are encrypted outside the database and sensitive sessions expire after 12 hours.
  • One-time recovery codes are supported and replayed authenticator codes are rejected.

Learning-content review

  • Translations and educational pages must move through draft, reviewed and published states.
  • The author cannot review their own draft, and the reviewer cannot publish it.
  • Vocabulary packs use the same multi-person release gate, and the general content API cannot bypass it.

Verification

The account-security lifecycle passed 15 isolated staging checks. Editorial approvals passed 13 staging checks. Chrome, Edge and Firefox browser checks completed without runtime errors.

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