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This page provides a summary of SmarterSoft core platform releases and major changes over time, helping customers stay informed about significant product improvements and feature updates. It is intended to highlight material updates only and does not include every minor change or bug fix.
🚀 Items marked this way indicate a major new feature or other material change that may affect the user interface, functionality, or expected system behaviour.
⚠️ Version 8.11 was a special release created to support further standards compliance and related platform QA requirements. It did not introduce new features or buxfixes.
There is no current upgrade notice for this version.
| 8.10.002 | Enhancement | Calculation engine improvement: Calculated fields can now update in real time on screen, allowing users to preview calculated values before saving the record. Previously, the record had to be saved before calculation changes were visible🚀 |
| 8.10.002 | Enhancement | PDF Generation: Updates to PDF Generation CSS (styling) to ensure better version control and management |
| 8.10.001 | Enhancement | Usability (UI/UX): New “enableLink” field parameter for opening HTML links in a new tab. |
| 8.10.001 | Enhancement | Usability (UI/UX): Breadcrumb quickref (copy breadcrumb to clipboard function) |
There is no current upgrade notice for this version.
| 8.09.008 | Enhancement | Save-As-You-Go (SAYG) Forms: Enables users to complete public forms at their own pace. Progress is automatically saved, so they can return later to finish and submit when ready 🚀 |
| 8.09.007 | Enhancement | Login Screen Enhancements: Added a password visibility toggle (“eye” icon) to all password fields, support for displaying SSO Identity Provider (IdP) icons (e.g. Microsoft, Okta), and updated help text for improved clarity and usability. Moved SmarterSoft SSO login to footer for usability 🚀 |
| 8.09.003 | Enhancement | Automatic PDF generation: Automatically generates and stores PDFs as Media Files with the option to email the PDF as an attachment to designated recipients (via Event Notifications) 🚀 |
| 8.09.001 | Enhancement | Login page design: Changes to login page design to help reduce confusion where SSO authentication is used. |
| 8.09.001 | Enhancement | Changes to IP whitelist address check to handle different network architectures. |
There is no current upgrade notice for this version.
| 8.08.001 | Enhancement | Changes to the “My Details” menu 🚀 |
There is no current upgrade notice for this version.
| 8.07.012 | Enhancement | Security: Addition of a session timeout warning with countdown warning. |
| 8.07.011 | Bug / Error | Fixed: Integration with mobile device’s camera for direct file uploads e,g, direct photo uploads from a phone. |
| 8.07.009 | Enhancement | Security: Ability to specify the default home page (for admin area) at an Access Group level. |
| 8.07.008 | Enhancement | Output of additional “help” for divider fields. |
| 8.07.008 | Enhancement | Record “quicklink” to clipboard feature for easy data sharing. |
| 8.07.006 | Enhancement | Security: Use UUID for accessing media from all sources 🚀 |
| 8.07.005 | Enhancement | Usability improvements to DIY Reporting 🚀 |
| 8.07.002 | Enhancement | Mobile design (various improvements) including popup font/style consistency, improved pager row design, improved Search Filter design etc. 🚀 |
| 8.07.001 | Bug / Error | Fixed: Ability to download bulk media attachments/documents (produces a zip file). |
There is no current upgrade notice for this version.
| 8.06.007 | Enhancement | Creation of flag to indicate classes containing sensitive information in the system for securely dumping database. |
| 8.06.006 | Enhancement | Add infrastructure level support for custom email sender domains e.g. send from email@clientdomain.com.au instead of email@clientdomain.smartersoft.io |
| 8.06.005 | Enhancement | Security: Notifications to assist with SSO user provisioning and access. |
| 8.06.002 | Enhancement | Security: Ability to specify MFA (via SMS or email) based on Access Group 🚀 |
| 8.06.001 | Enhancement | PDF Generation: Support for record-level CSS definition for PDF Generation |
🚨Clients on this version are advised that an upgrade to the latest version will be needed in the coming months. Your SmarterSoft account manager will be in touch to coordinate.
| 8.05.005 | Enhancement | PDF Generation: Ability to generate PDFs individually and in bulk from data records using a HTML/CSS template 🚀 |
| 8.05.001 | Enhancement | UI: Update mobile template colour scheme to use the same scheme as the Desktop “Default” theme. Numerous mobile UI updates for usability and consistency. |
🚨Clients on this version are advised that an upgrade to the latest version will be needed in the coming months. Your SmarterSoft account manager will be in touch to coordinate.
| 8.04.008 | Enhancement | Ability to specify your own company footer. |
| 8.04.005 | Enhancement | Security: Update to CSV exporting to protect against CSV Injection threats. |
🚨Clients on this version are advised that an upgrade to the latest version will be needed in the coming months. Your SmarterSoft account manager will be in touch to coordinate.
| 8.03.024 | Enhancement | SSO: Implement SSO access group assignment lock to enable bypassing of automatic role/group checking for specified access groups. |
| 8.03.022 | Enhancement | SSO: Added support for custom ID based SSO integration e.g. use of employee ID or email as “linking” field. |
| 8.03.020 | Enhancement | SSO: Single-Sign-On support via SAML2 for authentication via external IdP. Automatic User creation via SSO integration. New Users can be automatically created in SmarterSoft the first time they validly login via SSO, and their Access Group auto-assigned based on SSO payload information 🚀 |
| 8.03.019 | Enhancement | “Remember Me” a.k.a “Persistent MFA” enables MFA users to stay logged in for a period of time after a successful MFA authentication. The length of time is configurable per Access Group 🚀 |
| 8.03.013 | Enhancement | Designate “searchable” and “reportable” fields: It’s now possible to specify which fields appear in Search Filter drop-downs and in DIY Reporting areas (requires SmarterSoft engineer to configure). Use this feature to reduce the Search Filter drop-downs to only include the correct fields you need. |
| 8.03.009 | Enhancement | Character or word limit type for WYSIWYG editors. |
| 8.03.002 | Enhancement | Usable Variables: Changes to improve the presentation of Usable Variables e.g. at Reminders, Event Notifications etc. |
| 8.03.002 | Enhancement | Search Filter Naming: Change of naming for “Filters” and “Views & Defaults” to “Search Filters” and “Saved Searches” respectively. Changes to button position and labels 🚀 |