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.
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.