Your Q3 2026 HR release notes are here. We'll keep this page updated throughout the quarter as new fixes land. We only include notable product fixes that may affect our customers generally; customers will be separately notified of product fixes specifically related to you via your customer care tickets.
 

Contents

• 2026-12 (August 2026-2)
• 2026-11 (August 2026)
• 2026-10 (July 2026-2)
• 2026-9 (July 2026-1)
   

2026-12 (August 2026-2)

Due for release week commencing 17 August 2026.

This release expands the number of custom fields available for cases and includes fixes that improve the accuracy of payroll and benefits data syncing, holiday entitlement calculations, and security.
 

New features

Case management further information field expansion

We've increased the number of further information fields available for the Case management add-on module: now up to 40 text fields and 60 date fields. Number fields remain at 20.

Benefits management future-dated updates

Future-dated job and pay changes are now included in the Benefits management add-on module, so upcoming pay changes show correctly ahead of time.
 

Fixes

Payroll management

• Personal details field sync: cleared fields now wipe the matching values in payroll consistently.
• Re-employed leavers: records now migrate correctly to an employee's newly archived payroll account when they're re-employed, rather than reinstating the previous one.

General

• Talent management review email links: now correctly take the employee directly to their review.
• Terms and conditions holiday entitlement: will no longer be changed incorrectly during bulk job and pay updates, spine or grade revisions.

2026-11 (August 2026-1)

• Due for release week commencing 3 August 2026.
• This release adds a new FTE Salary view on Job and Pay and lets you preview documents straight in your browser, alongside a set of fixes that improve the accuracy of holiday, absence and reporting data across HR.

New Features

FTE Salary on Job and Pay

• We've added a calculated FTE Salary field to Job and Pay detail > Pay details tab, showing what an employee would earn at full-time equivalent (Basic Pay ÷ FTE).
• This field is read-only and field security is controlled by the Basic Pay field permissions.

View documents in your browser

PDFs and other browser-viewable file types now open for preview in your browser, making it quicker to check a document without waiting for it to save to your device. Further interface improvements to follow.

Fixes

• Holiday taken and holiday left figures in the database/reports:
  • No longer clear incorrectly after certain absences are approved.
  • Mid-year starter entitlement now calculates correctly to match on screen figures.
• Leaver workflow: Holiday left figure now recalculates immediately when you change a user-entered holiday entitlement at the Holiday stage.
• Job and pay grade ranges: salaries for part-time employees (FTE below 1) are now checked correctly against grade ranges, so a valid salary no longer triggers a false pay range warning when saving a job and pay record.
• Mobile: field security now applies correctly to the Absence Hours field.
• Reporting master table: Reports table now includes custom reports as well as the standard system ones.
• Who's off charts: Half-day absences no longer show incorrectly as full days while awaiting verification.

Payroll integration

• Payroll management: records no longer get stuck mid-sync if the item they relate to is deleted before processing completes.

2026-10 (July 2026-2)

• Due for release week commencing 20 July 2026.
• A new holiday over-allowance warning for approvers on mobile, plus accessibility improvements and a handful of product fixes.

Improvements

• Holiday over-allowance warning on mobile: approvers now see a warning if approving a holiday request would take an employee over their remaining allowance. It appears on the verifications list and the request detail screen, and is advisory only, so it does not block approval.

Fixes

• Accessibility: 
  • Person to view dropdown now closes with a single press of Escape, and screen readers correctly announce the search box.
  • Subset filter button on pages such as See who's off and Insert bulk absence is now reachable and usable with a keyboard and screen reader.
• Audit log: the employee name dropdown on the filter form no longer collapses when you click it in a smaller browser window.
• Change holiday entitlement: now saves correctly when your role has hidden access to one or more fields.
• CIPHRFLEXI: open-ended absences on this work pattern no longer get a duplicate day added when overnight housekeeping runs. 
  Note: This fix does not remove any existing duplicates which will need to be manually removed.
• Multi entity fixes for leavers and fixed-term contract employees with a job and pay end date:
  • Bulk change: reassignment to another entity now applies successfully
  • Org chart: entity restrictions now apply correctly where per user system config has been enabled
• SMCR: certification functions are now carried forward correctly to the new job and pay record when updating via Pay review.
• Talent management: specialist reports now export correctly when question text includes square brackets. (TECH-1759)
   

2026-9 (July 2026-1)

• Due for release week commencing 6 July 2026.
• Performance and payroll integration improvements, plus a large list of defects resolved.
• Onboarding improvements for mobile are also included as part of this release.  See 2026 Onboarding release notes for more details.

Improvements

• Org chart: performance improvement so large charts load more quickly.
• Mobile: When accessing a direct link in mobile view, if a mobile page exists this will now display instead of the desktop view for improved experience. Where no mobile page exists it will go to the desktop page as it did previously.
• Payroll integration salary events: future-dated job and pay records are now deferred by default in Payroll Management until the pay run period becomes current. You can use the new "Force Sync" action to push a deferred event manually.

Fixes

• Absence calendar: night-shift work patterns (shifts crossing midnight) now record correct, positive holiday hours.
• Allowance codes: the fixed amount setting on an in-use code is now preserved when you change and save other fields.
• Allowance rates: the Update button is now disabled after the first click to prevent duplicate allowances.
• Bulk change actions: items no longer disappear when an unrelated own field group is set to hidden.
• Bulk change actions: training records now have the option to select each employee’s department, rather than the department of the person creating the records.
• Events finder: employees with an apostrophe in their name (such as O'Brien) can now be nominated to events successfully.
• Job and pay: downloading a job description document no longer leaves the screen stuck on a loading spinner.
• Letter distribution: the document uploaded indicator now correctly shows a tick after a bulk upload.
• Licensing: the "Is SFTP User?" setting is now correctly cleared when a system administrator is removed, including when the user is retained for other licence roles.
• Payment codes: overtime-type codes with a fixed hourly rate in the code tables now use that rate correctly.
• Personal documents: enabling employee or manager access on a category with 1,000+ attached documents no longer times out.
• Policy groups: ceased jobs are now hidden in policy group configuration. Un-cease the job first if it needs to be added or removed.
• Subsets: users with a long full name no longer cause an error when loaded in the subset.
• Record group security: you can now update your own personal details even when your record group is set to hidden. Own field group security takes precedence when editing your own record.
• Spine increments: the success message now appears only after the update has finished, not as soon as you click Confirm Update.
• Talent management: review links in notification emails now directs to the specific review.
• Talent management: objectives job-holder read-only comment boxes can now be resized so you can view their full content.
• Welcome message: the "Suppress Message" toggle is now reliably visible at all screen sizes, including when a logo is configured.

Support

For more details on general functionality please refer to the related help guides.

Where there is a ticket number against an item, you can reference this with any queries if it is an area you have been affected by.