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Version: v260415 (2.5.5)

Release Date: 15th April, 2026

Summary

This release contains the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where proxy notification settings set to "Only important tasks" triggered excessive notifications (Zendesk ticket 16035).

  • Removed an extra space from the "SRS Security and Emergency Management" Accountable Division (Zendesk ticket 16109).

  • Updated the tooltip for the Correspondent field (Zendesk ticket 16158).

  • Added the Correspondent field to the "Edit columns" option in the dashboard (Zendesk ticket 16107).

  • Changed Meeting/Event Start and End date fields to text fields for BRM and BRE (Zendesk ticket 15997).

  • Updated the term set for the Cabinet/Committee field (Zendesk ticket 16155).

  • Updated the term set for the Cabinet/Committee field (Zendesk ticket 16130).

  • Made the Recommender field mandatory for all record types (Zendesk ticket 16157).

  • Updated configuration to enable values to be displayed in the dashboard (Zendesk ticket 16111).

  • Updated term store options for the DLO Use Only 1 and DLO Use Only 2 fields (Zendesk ticket 16156).

  • Fixed an issue preventing "Current Task" from being exported to Excel (Zendesk ticket 16168).

  • Added a warning message when users attempt to save a Supplementary Area after the threshold has been reached (Zendesk ticket 16100).

  • Removed unused columns from the "Edit columns" option in the dashboard.

Deployment

Package version: 2.5.5

Pipeline deployment steps (in order)

  1. Deploy release v[Package Version] (n) (where (n) is latest number available, and Package version from the section above) for Deploy Brief Connect Application release pipeline in Azure DevOps to the target environment.

TERM STORE AND SEARCH SCHEMA

  1. Log into DevOps Project that stores the pipelines for Brief Connect
  2. Navigate to Pipelines > Releases
  3. Select the 'Deploy Brief Connect Office Resources' pipeline
  4. Create a new release with the following values: Version = '1.2604.151', stepsToProvision = 'Taxonomy, Search'
  5. Deploy the release to the relevant environments i.e DEV and/or TEST.
  6. Once adequate testing has been done, deploy the release to the relevant downstream environments i.e STAGING and/or PRODUCTION environments.

Manual post-deployment steps

Import config

Config file to import: DE-Config_260415-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.

Reindex SharePoint site

Role required: SharePoint Site Administrator

It is recommended to perform this activity outside of working hours, as reindexing may temporarily increase system load and impact performance.

  1. Go to the SharePoint site corresponding to the Brief Connect instance.
  2. Click the Settings (gear icon) in the top-right corner and select Site information.
  3. Click View all site settings.
  4. Under the Search section, select Search and offline availability.
  5. Click Reindex site.
  6. Confirm by selecting Reindex site again when prompted.

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 and changes 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.

Power BI Deployment

  1. Navigate to the 'Shared' workspace.
  2. Select Import > Report, Paginated Report or Workbook > From this computer.
  3. Select the provided 'BriefConnect.pbix' semantic model file

  4. Once imported, go to the model settings and expand the 'Parameters' section. Update the following parameters:

    • Brief Connect URL:
    • Storage Account:

  5. Click 'Apply'

  6. Refresh the page.
  7. Expand the 'Gateways and cloud connections' section
  8. Select the existing Azure Table Storage connection from the dropdown in the 'Gateway connections' subsection.
  9. Click 'Apply'
  10. Refresh the semantic model.

Power BI Rollback steps

Using the 'Version history' option on the semantic model, restore to the previous version.