Your Q4 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

• 2026-19 (November 2026)
• 2026-18 (November 2026)
• 2026-17 (October 2026)
• 2026-16 (October 2026)
• 2026-15 (October 2026)
   

2026-19 (November 2026)

Due for release from 10 November 2026.

This release fixes how scheduled reports apply their filters and dates, along with fixes for holiday entitlement refresh and overtime payments.

Fixes

• Scheduled reports: Scheduled reports, and the Test button in Reporting > Report Admin > Configure Scheduled Reports, now apply their filter form, so filtered schedules will return fewer rows than before. Relative dates (for example, “last 12 months”) now use the date each report runs, and schedules that use a Saved Filter will start running again. Some reports, including Absence Details, aren’t supported yet: their filtered schedules now stop rather than send the report unfiltered
• Known issue – Scheduled reports: Saving a schedule with a filter picked from Saved Filters can still fail with an error
• Holiday entitlements: Refreshing holiday entitlements on a large holiday scheme (around 1,500 or more employees) no longer fails with “Unexpected error has occurred”.
• Payments: Employees can now add and edit Overtime payments when field group security makes only some of the overtime fields read-only
   

2026-18 (November 2026)

Due for release from 3 November 2026.

This release focuses on preparation and improvements across notifications, reports, the AI Assistant and the Data Importer.

Coming soon

This update includes the groundwork for notifications, available in a later release.

Fixes

• Scheduled Reports: deleted reports linked to a schedule no longer cause a display issue in the schedule summary (TECH-2808).
   

2026-17 (October 2026)

Due for release from 27 October 2026.

This release is packed with fixes and adds a Clone button to Report Designer to easily copy an existing report.
 

New features

Clone a report

A report can now be duplicated from the new Clone button on its details view in Report Designer. This is a shortcut to Design a new report based on an existing report, and is in preparation for future improvements to standard reports.

Enhancements you may notice

• Grade rate review: updating Job and Pay via the Code Table now applies grade rates to 4 decimal places to improve rounding accuracy
• Letters: now show a work pattern's start and end times correctly as times, not dates, and affected templates are updated automatically
• Job and Pay occupancy: now warns when someone is put into a job that's already full
• Talent Management specialist report: gives questions with the same text their own column, so the export layout may change to show all answers correctly
• Role Management: the AI Assistant overlay page access setting is now called AI Assistant - Ask Button. Existing access settings are unchanged

Fixes

Absence

• HR Mobile: absences booked now take the department from the employee's job and pay record
• Verifications: approving a time off change before the final level no longer shows "null"
• Return To Work tab: now hidden when Field Group Security hides all its fields
• Holiday entitlement refresh: no longer fails for leavers without leaver entitlement
• Timesheets: re-employed employees can now create timesheets, after a gap in Job and Pay
• Bulk Absences: now excludes public holidays where the entitlement does

Job and Pay

• Add New Employee (Workflow): starter verification now shows the Sick pay scheme and Grade details
• Grade ranges: now show amounts in languages that use a decimal comma, instead of "NaN"
• Leaver Workflow: advisory message now appears if the person in view is changed in another browser tab
• Total Reward Statement: chart shows the new basic pay the first time the page is opened

Letters

• Letter run review grid: now shows To, CC and BCC addresses
• Template preview (editable templates): now displays £ sign correctly

Talent Management

• System Configuration: turning off Show Talent Management Skills now hides the Skills tab on the Employee Dashboard
• Enhanced Objectives: review forms now show the objectives section when blank, with Add new objective button so they can be added.  This will apply to new reviews inserted after this release

Other

• HR to LMS import: now creates the account when a leaver is re-hired with the same email address
• Org Chart: and search now load when Nationality is shown
• Multi-entity documents: button now works when a document description contains an apostrophe
• Delete Employee: employee recipients of scheduled reports can now be deleted
• Safeguarding: files with names over 100 characters can now be attached to records
• Employee Relations: managers can now delete a subordinate's record when no further approval is needed
• Employee Photo: removing a photo now shows the default silhouette
   

2026-16 (October 2026)

• Behind-the-scenes preparation for upcoming improvements to report scheduler performance and introducing self-serve notifications.
   

2026-15 (October 2026)

• Due for release from 12 October 2026.

• This release adds more further information fields to personal details and streamlines scheduled report configuration, alongside a number of improvements and fixes.

New features

Personal Details further information field limit increased

Personal details now offers 40 more text and 20 more date further information fields. The new limits are:

• 60 text fields

• 40 date fields

• 20 number fields (unchanged)

Nothing will change with your current setup until a new field is configured. The new fields are not currently available in Bulk Change, Letters, Paylink, Total Reward Statements or public API access, but we plan to add them in a future release.

The additional fields are stored in a new table, Personal Details (Additional), so they appear separately when reporting or applying field group security. 

Scheduled reports streamlined configuration

• Configure scheduled reports has been streamlined so that each report is listed separately, rather than within a schedule.
• Where you previously had multiple reports attached to a schedule, they are now listed separately and numbered in brackets.
• The example below shows a former schedule "Monthly KPIs" with two reports now listed on individual rows (1 of 2, 2 of 2)

Improvements

Talent management drafts cleared after 90 days

• Unsubmitted talent management review drafts are now cleared automatically if they haven't been changed for 90 days. Submitted sections aren't affected. 

• Reviewers will now see a message on unsubmitted sections explaining how long their draft is kept, and the first nightly run after the release will clear any drafts already older than this.

Screen reader access

The profile menu in the side navigation now opens with Enter or Space in both NVDA and JAWS, and its expanded state is announced.
 

Fixes

• Multi-level approvals: saving a change that needs multi-level approval, such as a time off booking, no longer fails with the "Unable to create the verification" error.
• Policy Acceptance: performance improvement for larger organisations.
   

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.