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Release on April 7, 2026

Release

Areas Affected

AI Assistant, Plans, RFIs, Email

Highlights

  • The Ernest AI assistant can now surface attention items within a project, making it aware of what needs action and able to help users respond faster.
  • Users on the Growth plan can now search for documents within the Plans folder, making it easier to find relevant files.
  • Email notifications are now routed through a unified system, improving reliability and consistency of delivery.

What Changed

  • The Ernest AI assistant can now retrieve attention items as part of its project context. This means the assistant is aware of outstanding items that need action — and can also update RFIs and add comments — giving it a more complete picture of project status to better support users. (Ticket)
  • Email notifications are now sent through a unified routing system, improving consistency and reliability of email delivery across the platform.
  • Internal code quality improvements with no impact on user-facing functionality.
  • Infrastructure update to how credentials are managed internally. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Improvements to the production build process. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal maintenance merge. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal tooling configured for automated release notes. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal configuration fix. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal code quality improvements with no impact on user-facing functionality.
  • Internal code quality improvements with no impact on user-facing functionality.
  • Improved how the AI assistant identifies the correct bid and project when handling requests, reducing the chance of context mix-ups. (PR)
  • Users on the Growth plan can now search for documents within the Plans folder, making it easier to locate relevant project files.
  • Internal refinement to document search scope. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal improvement to how project context is resolved. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal update to the document search service. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal maintenance merge. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal maintenance merge. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal configuration adjustment. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal configuration fix. No change to user-facing functionality.
  • Internal maintenance merge. No change to user-facing functionality.

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.

No hotfixes since the last release.


Chores

No chores in this release.

Ernest Platform Release Notes