Q4 2025 Official Release

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This release marks our transition to a quarterly release schedule, allowing us to deliver more thoroughly tested, higher-quality updates with complete documentation and clearer release communication. The Q4 release is anchored by major performance and scalability improvements in Contribution and the introduction of AI Insights, which brings automated, explainable narrative commentary directly into Distribution workflows for Email, Teams, and Slack. Additional improvements were made to the PowerPoint add-in to improve fidelity, configurability, and authoring flexibility, alongside targeted stability updates across Reporting and the broader platform. Critical issues will continue to be addressed through hotfix builds between quarterly releases.

2025 Q4 Release - v5.0.0.89

Posted: 12/15/2025

Passed 1,441 Integration & Regression Tests

General

  • Standardized the web UI and updated toolbars, headers, and dialogs for a more consistent experience.

  • Enabled connections to external AI providers such as Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, and Azure AI.

  • Added support for downloading special testing builds when working with support.

  • Updated Downloads page terminology to distinguish Hotfix builds from Official builds.

  • Added a timeout setting for the SharePoint distributor to improve reliability on slow connections.

  • Updated the EULA text to reflect current support SLAs.

Distribution

We’re excited to introduce AI Insights, a new capability that generates automated narrative commentary using the context of your reports. Users can craft personalized prompts for each distribution, such as analyzing a P&L statement and summarizing it in three to five bullets, and insert the generated insight directly into email, Slack, or Teams commentaries. With support for dynamic variable prompts and clear visibility into prompt and token usage, AI Insights brings powerful, explainable AI directly into your distribution workflows.

  • Fixed an issue where jobs could open in a “dirty” state.

  • Resolved an error when mapping contacts in Contribution and Distribution workflows.

  • Blocked contact variables inside contact mapping fields to prevent misconfiguration.

  • Added Markdown and plain-text output options for Cell Value variables.

  • Logged Quick Reports tuple warnings instead of throwing errors.

  • Fixed issues affecting distributions based on refreshable pivot tables.

  • Resolved a crash on the Test screen when distributing to Microsoft Teams.

  • Corrected schedule handling so filtered jobs are no longer silently skipped.

  • Fixed the CSV delimiter setting so the selected delimiter is applied correctly.

  • Added job parameters to the Running Jobs view for better execution context.

  • Updated TI/Cube Monitor documentation to reflect current behavior.

  • Ensured TM1 element changes are re-queried even after caching.

Contribution

This release delivers a major upgrade to Contribution by moving workbook processing out-of-process, dramatically reducing lag and making large forms far more responsive as users enter data. The new processing model improves memory handling, enables Contribution to leverage your existing load balancer for better scalability, and introduces a real-time Process Monitor so administrators can see open forms, memory usage, and overall system load. Together, these changes make Contribution faster, more stable, and more transparent for both users and admins.

  • Added group-based assignments for Contribution input forms.

  • Improved rendering fidelity for borders, merged cells, grouping, and sheet transitions.

  • Fixed print area issues affecting exported Contribution output.

  • Corrected Contribution notifications related to submission deadlines.

  • Fixed Contribution form preview failures in the Excel add-in.

  • Updated SQL Export to support all SQL-based data sources.

  • Resolved Campaign Dashboard load failures when using SharePoint as a data source.

  • Fixed exports that were generating .txt instead of .xlsx.

  • Corrected Planning Analytics export behavior that caused excessive loading instances.

  • Improved handling of Submission End Date settings for consistent campaign timelines.

  • Updated Adaptive upload data handling to conform with new Adaptive API requirements.

Reporting

  • Updated several data source drivers for improved compatibility with cloud APIs.

  • Improved spacer column formula support for consistent layout.

  • Fixed a calculation issue where an extra column was unintentionally cleared during refresh.

  • Addressed multiple Reporting refresh bugs for better reliability.

  • Added a “max preview rows – view all” option for data previews.

  • Fixed Excel rendering issues related to maximum width.

  • Improved filter functionality in the Reporting add-in.

PowerPoint Add-in

  • Improved slide fidelity to better preserve comments and metadata.

  • Added support for transparency in charts and screenshots.

  • Added image format and quality configuration options.

  • Added support for previewing and editing text frames in both author and end-user modes.

Major Documentation Updates