Release on August 14, 2026

Version: 73.0.0 · Release

Areas Affected

Contracts, Scheduling, Bids, Field Observations, Billing, Buyouts

Highlights

• Bidding has been revamped with improved bid creation, editing, and management, plus new settings for configuring bid stages to match your workflow.
• Project schedules now support deadlines directly on the Gantt chart, along with visual refinements based on user feedback.
• Buyout line items can now be selected and deleted in bulk, saving time when cleaning up buyout sections.

What Changed

• Updates to contract description fields now show a condensed summary instead of the full text, making changes easier to review. (Ticket)
• Improved the underlying scheduling engine that powers project Gantt charts, including a more reliable way of saving task dependencies. (Ticket)
• Added new categories to choose from when logging field observations, giving teams more ways to classify what they record. (Ticket)
• Revamped how bids are created, edited, and managed, along with new settings for configuring bid stages—making it easier to tailor the bidding process to your workflow. (Ticket)
• Added the ability to set and view deadlines directly on the project schedule (Gantt chart), along with visual refinements based on user feedback. (Ticket)
• Simplified billing window settings—organizations now default to a full-month billing window, removing the need to manually enable or disable this option. (Ticket)
• Fixed dropdown fields so that a selected value of zero now displays correctly instead of showing a blank placeholder. (Ticket)
• Added the ability to select and delete multiple buyout line items at once, saving time when cleaning up buyout sections. (Ticket)

Notification Changes

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

• ERNE-9831: Drop Org Billing window enable/disable prop, and rely on a full month BW by default (#3265) (PR)
• ERNE-9878: Revamp Bid CRUDs + Stages Settings epic (#3248) (PR)
• Release PR notification-related changes (PR)

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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.

August 14, 2026

• Fixed an issue with how time ranges displayed on the project schedule (Gantt chart). (PR)
• Fixed an underlying issue affecting the stability of the project schedule (Gantt chart) view. (PR)

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Chores

• Sync main hotfix to qa (manual after conflict)
• Enforce mcp route tags (#3289) (PR)