Sapling incident
Chrome 144 breaking change for runtime.onMessage
Sapling experienced a major incident on January 16, 2026 affecting Frontend Integration (Extensions), lasting 8d 16h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Frontend Integration (Extensions)
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 16, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC
We are currently patching this issue -- the extension will not work in Chrome v144
- investigating Jan 16, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- monitoring Jan 17, 2026, 06:53 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring Jan 19, 2026, 07:20 AM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved Jan 25, 2026, 03:46 PM UTC
This has been resolved for over 6 days with the new integration. We left the message so those with the older integration would update.