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Release on July 20, 2026
Version: 67.0.0 · Release
Areas Affected
Subcontracts, Billing & Contracts, Finance, Notifications, Daily Reports, Settings
Highlights
- Budget Change Orders and Budget Modifications now flow directly into Billing & Contracts, keeping financial data consistent, with change orders now linked to their phase on the Billing & Contracts dashboard.
- Subcontractors and team members now receive notifications when a change order is created on a subcontract.
- Scope of Work, Inclusions, and Exclusions are now optional when creating a subcontract, giving teams more flexibility.
What Changed
- Made behind-the-scenes performance and stability improvements to the platform's interface. There is no visible change to how you use Ernest. (Ticket)
- Removed outdated Settings pages and unused code to keep the Settings area cleaner and easier to maintain. (Ticket)
- Removed the automated daily report notifications; team members will no longer receive these emails. (Ticket)
- Budget Change Orders and Budget Modifications now flow directly into Billing & Contracts, keeping financial data consistent across the platform. The Billing & Contracts dashboard now also shows which phase each change order is linked to, along with several other refinements based on customer feedback. (Ticket)
- Fixed the expiration date requirements for subcontractor insurance certificates in the Subcontracts Insurance section so they work correctly. (Ticket)
- Added notifications that alert relevant team members when a change order is created on a subcontract. (Ticket)
- Direct Cost entries now display the Phase ID together with the Cost Code, making it easier to identify where a cost applies. (Ticket)
- You can now search subcontract billing by phase or by Schedule of Values (SOV), making it faster to find specific billing information. (Ticket)
- Scope of Work, Inclusions, and Exclusions are now optional when creating a subcontract, giving teams more flexibility when that information isn't available upfront. (Ticket)
- Fixed an issue where long group labels in search/autocomplete dropdowns were cut off instead of displaying on one line properly. (Ticket)
- Fixed an issue affecting the GC Daily Log manpower grid to improve its reliability. (Ticket)
Notification Changes
The notification matrix was refreshed for this release because notification-related backend files changed.
- ERNE-9786: Remove daily report notifications (#3053) (PR)
- chore: Refactor insurance notifications (#3060) (PR)
- ERNE-9791: Add subcontract change order notifications (#3057) (PR)
- ERNE-9641: [Office->Subcontracts->Insurance] Correct requirements for sub insurance expiration fields (#2990) (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 20, 2026
- Removed the ability for users with the Subcontractor role to add new projects, aligning their permissions with their intended level of access. (PR)
July 18, 2026
- Improved the reliability of the secure links used to give subcontractors access to their subcontracts. (PR)
July 14, 2026
- Made an internal tooling fix with no impact on the platform experience. (PR)