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Version: v260325

Release Date: 25th March, 2026

Summary

This release contains improvements and bug fixes.

  • Fixed an issue where Supplementary Area notifications were not triggered (bug 67525). The update resolves a defect in the Supplementary Area plugin that prevented notifications from firing when a record moved from Initiate to Prepare and Review.

  • Note: This fix does not change the original notification behaviour delivered with the Supplementary Area plugin released in November (PBI 58795). Notifications triggered when additional users are assigned to Supplementary Area roles outside of the Initiate stage, or when the Supplementary Area is marked as finalised, still depend on individual user notification settings.

  • Added the missing transition from Lead Author to Collaborators in the Cabinet Submission record type.

  • Updated task naming for collaborators across all record types from “Complete review task” to “Complete collaboration task”.

  • Removed the "Supplementary Area" text from the Collaborator role name.

  • Minor updates and improvements.

Manual post-deployment steps

Import config

Config file to import: DE-Config_260325-config.zip

Role required: Brief Connect Administrator

If there is no configuration set, you have to set up Administrator user Id in the Environment variable AdminEntraId in the Azure Function App. The value should be the Object Id of the user in Entra ID (Azure AD).

  1. Log into the target Brief Connect environment as the Brief Connect Admin user and open the Admin Panel (https://[WEB_APP_URL]/#/adminPanel).
  2. Select Import from Zip and upload the new configuration ZIP file.
  3. The system will process the file and refresh the list of available configurations. Once it appears, select the newly imported configuration from the dropdown.
  4. Click Apply to apply the imported configuration.
  5. Wait for the confirmation message that the configuration has been successfully applied.
  6. Make sure the active configuration is selected in the dropdown.
  7. In the menu bar, click Update SharePoint Content Types.
  8. Tick Clean up unused fields from content type. It won't remove any data, only detach unused fields from Content Types, then click Confirm.
  9. Wait 20 minutes for the process to finish.
  10. Click Cleanup Unused Fields from SP Lists, then Confirm in the confirmation dialog. This process will cleanup unused fields from lists (fields provisioned with old configs and removed in later configs).
  11. Wait for 10 minutes for the process to complete.

Clear the Server cache

Role required: Brief Connect Administrator

  1. Log into the target Brief Connect environment as Brief Connect Admin user. Open the Admin Panel (https://[WEB_APP_URL]/#/adminPanel)
  2. Open browsers Developer Tools, open Console tab and run the command window.clearCache() there. After successful execution, you should see Cache cleared. Server Result: true message in the console.

Smoke Tests

We recommend following our basic testing guide after this release: Basic testing of Brief Connect - Brief Connect Documentation

Additionally, navigate to each of the bugs outlined at the beginning of these release notes to see detail and test accordingly.

Rollback steps to previous version

Execute all deployment steps for the target release from related Release Notes.