September 2026: 3.69.0

Perform & Engage 365 (v.3.69.0) | September 2, 2026

This release focuses on:

• Career Framework
• Conversations
• Development plans
• 360 feedback
• Microsoft Teams integration
• Reporting and APIs
• Usability, accessibility, and security enhancements.

Updates and enhancements

Career Framework

We've introduced enhanced version control for the Career Framework, helping manage changes more effectively and maintain greater confidence when updating frameworks.

New global level settings provide more centralized control over Career Framework configuration, making it easier to maintain consistency across the organization.

It's now possible to bulk upload person job roles, reducing manual administration and helping keep Career Framework information up to date.

Conversations and check-ins

The experience for configuring date range exclusions within check-in schedules has been redesigned, making it easier to understand and configure recurring conversations.

Organizations can now configure and use conversation stage numbering, enhancing visibility into conversation progress.

A new user interface for skipping default notifications provides a clearer and more streamlined notification configuration experience.

Managers and admins can now create ad-hoc conversations directly from a plan using a dedicated self-service URL, enabling greater flexibility when managing performance discussions.

360 feedback

This release introduces the underlying framework for upcoming 360 feedback capabilities, including:

• A new feedbacker role within the conversations data model.
• New 360 feedback stage configuration models.
• Snapshot support to preserve configuration integrity throughout the feedback process.
• Template builder support for creating and configuring 360 feedback stages.
• Request feedback API enhancements that automatically grant feedbacker permissions when required.

Together, these changes establish the foundation for richer multi-source feedback experiences in future releases.

Development plans

Managers can now access development plans directly from Microsoft Teams through a new Teams app entry point, making development activities easier to access within daily workflows.

We've introduced a new search capability that helps managers and admins quickly locate employee development plans.

We've added navigation links to the development plans experience, helping users move between pages more efficiently.

Reporting and APIs

We've introduced a new reporting endpoint to support expanded reporting scenarios and data access requirements.

Microsoft Teams and platform integration

The Teams application can now automatically synchronize a user's language preference from their Microsoft Teams locale, creating a more personalized experience.

Additional languages have been added to the platform and made available through web settings.

The platform now recognizes app.zensai.com as a proxy-fronted SSO domain, enhancing authentication reliability for supported environments.

The Django administration experience has been enhanced by replicating manage-team setup functionality when creating people records.

User experience and accessibility

We've upgraded from Fluent UI React Northstar components to Fluent UI v9, delivering a more modern foundation for future user experience enhancements.

Action buttons throughout the platform have been redesigned to provide a cleaner, more consistent user experience.

We've updated the Goals section label to Goals/OKRs in Default Notification Settings for enhanced clarity.

Localization

We've refreshed translations using the latest Crowdin language resources to enhance localization quality and consistency across supported languages.

Translation-related AI agent skills have been updated to provide enhanced contextual understanding and more accurate translations.

Security enhancements

This release includes multiple security hardening enhancements addressing:

• Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.
• URL sanitization weaknesses.
• URL redirection issues.
• Regular expression denial-of-service risks.
• Information exposure scenarios.
• HTML and JavaScript input filtering enhancements.

These updates help strengthen application security and reduce exposure to common web application threats.

Resolved issues

Resolved an issue in the Career Framework where skills associated with a role could appear twice, ensuring cleaner and more accurate role definitions.

Resolved issues where archived competencies could remain visible in competency views, ensuring users only see active and relevant competencies.

Resolved errors affecting competency administration, including organization filtering and competency display issues, resulting in a more reliable administration experience.

Resolved visual formatting issues affecting PDF exports of final-stage conversations, producing cleaner and more professional exports.

Resolved an issue that prevented weekly conversation stage reminder notifications from being sent.

Resolved an issue where multiple choice answers were reappearing in conversations after being cleared.

Resolved an issue where conversation comments weren't displaying correctly in goal progress elements.

Resolved an issue where mandatory field indicators weren't showing as expected.

Resolved an issue where legacy conversation date fields remained editable when users lacked permission.

Resolved an analytics issue where goal progress calculations could incorrectly exclude goals because of NULL value comparisons and relationship handling.

Resolved issues affecting HR business partner reporting, including the active employee counts displaying incorrectly, and reports area access inconsistencies caused by permission handling.

Resolved an issue that could prevent successful reprovisioning when promoting an existing employee to an admin role.

Resolved issues where filter options could be missing under certain circumstances.

Resolved an issue where slider settings weren't saved correctly after updates.

Resolved an issue where the next due date on the profile page could differ from dashboard dates for users in certain time zones.

Resolved overlapping and duplicated text issues within competency-related tables and user views.