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Release Notes - 9.0

New Features

  • AI Assistant: Introduced a major new assistant experience for both end users and developers, helping users complete requests faster while supporting process development and troubleshooting workflows.
  • AI Service Foundation: Added the core AI service infrastructure required to run prompt-driven assistant experiences across the platform.
  • MCP Tools: Implemented dedicated MCP tool surfaces for both user assistance and development assistance scenarios.
  • Diagnostic Traces: Added structured tracing for scripting execution so inputs, outputs, and execution flow can be inspected more easily during debugging.
  • Environment Badge: Added environment badges in the user interface to clearly identify environments such as development and pre-prod.
  • Replication Maps: Introduced replication maps to automatically map XML values into custom database tables, reducing the need for custom scripting for reporting scenarios.
  • Passkeys: Added passwordless, device-based sign-in with passkey support for a simpler and more secure login experience.
  • Host Administration Secret Placeholders: Added environment-variable placeholder support for selected sensitive Host Administration settings such as database connection strings, SMTP credentials, OpenAuth secrets, SSL certificate values, and timestamp-service credentials.
  • Configurable Sign-in Backgrounds: Added tenant-specific background image configuration for sign-in and other single-page screens, allowing organizations to apply their own branding.
  • License Entitlements: Introduced signed license packages with application- and tenant-level coverage, licensed feature scopes, user capacity, editions, tenant models, and MCP credit grants.
  • License Dashboard: Added Host Administration visibility for effective application and tenant entitlements, package validation, user capacity, and remaining MCP credits.
  • Domain Lifecycle Management: Host administrators can now disable and re-enable domains, and can force-delete domains when the standard deletion flow cannot complete.
  • Localized Folder and Channel Names: Added domain-level localization support for folder and channel names, including a management editor and automatic translation assistance.
  • Kanban Boards: Added tag-based Kanban views for the Worklist, Team Worklist, and cases in case-enabled channels. Users can create personal boards, organise active tasks and cases by dragging cards between columns, reorder cards, and return to the standard list whenever they need search, filtering, export, or bulk actions. Channel managers can also configure shared case boards for their teams. See the Kanban Boards guide for detailed usage instructions.

Improvements

  • JSON Handling: Replaced legacy JSON dependencies with modern .NET-native equivalents for improved maintainability and platform alignment.
  • Globalization: Replaced obsolete globalization dependencies with browser-native functionality to simplify the web stack.
  • Web Dependencies: Removed the obsolete jQuery UI dependency as part of continued frontend modernization.
  • Performance: Improved full-text and replication scheduling performance for more efficient background processing.
  • Configuration Portability: Improved environment-to-environment configuration portability by allowing sensitive Host Administration values to be resolved from environment variables at runtime and during connection tests.
  • Work List Context: Added the process instance start date to work-list entries, with explanatory tooltips for work-item lifecycle dates.
  • LDAP Login Auditing: Failed LDAP-based sign-in attempts are now recorded in the audit log, including the authentication provider and error details.
  • License Enforcement: Application access is now blocked when active license packages are missing, invalid, or exceed their user-capacity or tenant-model requirements.
  • List Filtering: Reworked list search criteria into an ordered editor with independently selectable AND/OR operators, search suggestions, and support for date ranges with only a start or end date.
  • Domain Administration: Refined the Host Administration experience and added filtering to the domain list, making large domain collections easier to manage.
  • Disabled Domain Safety: Disabled and deleted domains no longer accept new background jobs or scheduled tasks.
  • Process Version Review: The process-version publish dialog now presents changes in a read-only Monaco diff editor for clearer review before committing or discarding changes.
  • Full-Text Search: Extended date-range queries to support wildcard dates and improved internal-error logging for the Full Text service.
  • Case Notifications: case.open and case.reply notifications now include the message content, falling back to the case description when no message content is available.

Breaking Changes

  • License Packages: Legacy license packages are no longer supported. Replace them with signed license packages before upgrading to 9.0.

Infrastructure

  • .NET 10: Migrated the platform to .NET 10 as part of ongoing infrastructure modernization.