docs(release-notes): Cloud release notes for August 14, 2026

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What

Requested by the scheduled Cloud release notes workflow (GitHub CI service account). Auto-generated public release notes for August 14, 2026, covering changes merged to airbytehq/airbyte-platform-internal between 2026-08-13 07:00 UTC and 2026-08-14 07:00 UTC.

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The following pull requests are included in release notes.

PR	Description	Reason
#19307	Skips the 10-minute connection manager restart delay when attempt creation fails with a non-retryable conflict.	Users saw a connection stall for ~10 minutes after this failure, delaying the next scheduled sync.
#18708	Resolves $refs when the Connector Builder YAML editor first mounts, so linked/shared values survive a UI/YAML toggle.	Directly visible Connector Builder bug: shared values silently became copies after switching views.

The following pull requests were merged, but not included in release notes.

PR	Description	Reason
#19303	Builds the organization user groups list page in the webapp.	Route is gated on the settings.scimProvisioning experiment, which is off in production with no targeting — not reachable by Cloud users yet.
#19310	Adds SCIM state banner and chips to the user groups page.	Same gating as airbytehq/airbyte-platform-internal#19303; not reachable by Cloud users yet.
#19305	Adds internal group-permissions API endpoints.	Internal (non-public) API supporting the flagged groups UI; no public API surface change.
#19308	Adds Makefile targets and scripts for running local dataplanes.	Developer tooling and local deployment config only.
n/a	chore: update connector assets	Automated connector metadata sync.

How

Adds a new ## August 14, 2026 section at the top of docs/release_notes/cloud/readme.md, above the existing August 12 entry.

Review guide

1. docs/release_notes/cloud/readme.md

User Impact

Documentation only. Cloud users see the two new entries on the Cloud release notes page.

Can this PR be safely reverted and rolled back?

• YES 💚

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