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Release on July 3, 2026

Version: 64.0.0 · Release

Areas Affected

Finance, Change Orders, Bids, RFIs, Notifications, Admin, Comments

Highlights

  • Added a new approval workflow for budget modifications, giving teams a structured way to review and sign off on changes before they take effect.
  • Enhanced the Potential Change Request (PCR) dashboard with improved tracking and visibility into change requests.

What Changed

  • Improved how formatted text (such as bold, italics, and lists) displays consistently across the rich text editor, comments, and read-only text fields. (Ticket)
  • Introduced an approval workflow for budget modifications so changes to project budgets can be reviewed and approved before taking effect, and enhanced the Potential Change Request (PCR) dashboard with clearer tracking and visibility. (Ticket)

Notification Changes

The notification matrix was refreshed for this release because notification-related backend files changed.

  • ERNE-9532: Addressed Design Comments. (#2977) (PR)
  • ERNE-9532: Implement Budget Modification Approval Workflow + Enhanced PCR Dashboard. (#2931) (PR)
  • Release PR notification-related changes (PR)

Hotfixes Since Last Release

These fixes were deployed to production independently before this release — they are listed here for a complete record of what changed since the previous release.

July 2, 2026

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent RFI email notifications from sending by improving the backup delivery method. (PR)
  • Restored the option for system admin users to add a new organization. (PR)
  • Fixed issues that could occur when converting a bid into a project. (PR)

June 30, 2026

  • Updated notification behavior to better match expected timing and content based on customer feedback. (PR)
  • Fixed an issue where billing window notifications could fail to send for projects that didn't have a name set. (PR)

Chores
  • check monetary recommendations in PR reviews (#2953) (PR)
  • remove portfolio table reference in seed sql (#2968) (PR)
  • gate buyout sheet against office projects (#2972) (PR)

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