Release notes are summaries of updates, such as new features, bug fixes, performance improvements, or known issues in a specific version of software.
Next Release - November 4, 2025
Grants - Upgrading to 10.5.6
- JIT (Just in Time) Changes are now Post-Submission Updates
- Original budget details are now preserved when executing any of the three submission activities that transition to Pending Sponsor Review and can be viewed on Financials workspace tab
- Support updating official and other award documents on award modifications and Upload Award Documents activity.
- Support for key personnel to certify funding proposals
- Enhanced flexibility for Reinstate Proposal and Submit Ancillary Review activities on Funding Proposals and Withdraw activity on Awards and Award Modifications
- Bug fix for Private Comment activities on Awards and Award Modifications
Agreements - Upgrading to 10.5.7
- New Manage Dates activity to allow correction of effective and expiration dates after reaching post-approval states
- Allowing agreements staff to Submit Changes for clarification requests where no response was provided or response provided outside system
- Change Activity name from "Convert to PDF" to "Finalize document".
- Adding/enforce validation of document upon execution of Move to External review and Approve Language activity.
- Automatic conversion of document into pdf upon execution of Activate and Approve activity.
- Remove PI, PI Proxy , Study team Member and Agreement creator from email notification on submit ancillary review.
- Add Submitted Date to Agreements & Unassigned Project Listing Tabs
- Add “Additional Contracting Party” field to site search
- Clarify alt text for workflow map for screen readers on agreements workspaces
- Add the Contracting Party company category as a column on the main "Agreements" page where agreements are searchable
- Additional Handling of evergreen status changes on amendment approvals
Conflict of Interest - Upgrading to 10.5.11
- Added profile and certification SmartForm step to capture details about participation in programs sponsored by foreign governments and startups
- Added a question to the Consulting disclosure type about being required to perform research as part of the activity
- Added a question to the Sponsored Travel disclosure type about the purpose of the travel being about performing research as part of the sponsored travel
- Added In-Kind Support disclosure type
- Added Postdoctoral Scholars, Students, or Visiting Scholars disclosure type
- Updated display columns for people and profile choosers to be consistent across COI
- Updated profile and pre-approval request SmartForm selection filters for organizations to filter out internal organizations
- Updated scheduled category expiration notifications to disclosers to always send even for disclosers who did not perform any actions in prior year
- Updated Help Center to use sort order
- Bug fixes in areas for pre-approval requests, security, profiles, rolling Research category expiration and triggering events
- Clarifying warning message when changing 'Do you have any financial interests and/or outside activities' from Yes to No
- Enhancing criteria when disclosers complete their profile update that considers whether to create Research Portfolio Review by assessing whether a new interest was added above SFI threshold, an interest was updated above SFI threshold or interest was updated/removed tied to an active/in-process management plan instead of always creating for any change
- Add settings to capture Huron Account Manager and Client Contact to assist with planning for scheduled categories
- Bug fixes related to certifications, ancillary reviews, deployment, reports and profiles
- Fixed an issue where discloser's comments and attachments added during certification clarification response submission were not appearing in the History tab on certification
- Resolved erroneous auto-execution of the force profile update activity triggered when creating non-research certifications in the Awaiting Profile Update status from category expiration