September 2026: 3.69.0 - 3.70.0

Perform & Engage 365 (v.3.70.0) | September 8, 2026

This release focuses on:

• Enhancing the performance management experience
• Campaign administration
• Competency management
• Reporting accuracy.

Updates and enhancements

Feedback, check-ins, and performance conversations

Admins can now create and configure dedicated 360 feedback stages directly in the template builder, making it easier to build comprehensive multi-rater feedback processes.

Added the legacy conversations product manager dashboard to improve visibility and management of conversation activities.

Admins can now export and import Conversations V2 template definitions, making it easier to move templates between environments and maintain consistency.

Organizations can now configure the run hour for the PR daily task directly in Organization Settings.

We've implemented the user interface for the Responses tab in campaign view, providing a foundation for reviewing campaign responses.

Campaign names are now validated when selecting Next, rather than during every keystroke, resulting in a smoother creation experience.

Competencies and career frameworks

Admins can now manage competency levels within their organization, reducing reliance on support or system-level configuration.

Analytics and reporting

Added explanatory messaging to analytics graph pages to help admins understand why department data may be missing from reports.

Localization and language support

Implemented a workflow to support proper ICU translations within React applications, improving localization quality and maintainability.

Fixed an issue that prevented newly added languages, including Italian, Danish, Polish, and Czech, from being selectable in some environments.

Engineering, security, and platform modernization

Continued the migration from Cypress to Playwright for both component and end-to-end testing, improving test coverage and maintainability.

Enhanced CI performance by optimizing Yarn dependency caching and expanding automated test execution for dependency-only changes.

Updated several core libraries and frameworks, including Rsbuild and related tooling, Django REST Framework, multiple npm and Yarn dependencies, and security-related dependency updates.

Continued review and reduction of restrictive-license open source dependencies.

Implemented several internal improvements, including:

• Consolidation of team goals configuration implementations
• Cleanup of unused imports and module dependencies
• Enhancements to internal engineering workflows
• Improvements to developer feedback and retrospective processes.

Resolved issues

Resolved an issue where attempting to resend an engagement survey completion reminder more than once could result in an error.

Resolved an issue where word limit guidance was displayed twice on text box elements.

Resolved an issue where expected competency levels weren't displayed correctly.

Resolved an issue where career framework version history could display incorrect version names or statuses.

Resolved an issue where submitted check-ins could appear as having been submitted on the previous day instead of the actual submission date.

Resolved several issues affecting due date consistency across dashboards and profile pages, including timezone-related discrepancies for some users.

Resolved an issue where deadline dates in the Django admin report submission list were displayed in UTC instead of the viewer's local timezone.

Resolved an issue where the Teams Check-ins tab ignored the per-user Check-ins Disabled setting.

Resolved several application errors that could result in unexpected TypeError exceptions in specific scenarios, enhancing overall stability.

Resolved issues affecting automated tests and migration-seeded configuration data, helping enhance build reliability and development workflows.

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.