App

• We now offer Latvian and Thai as interface languages.
• Open group content is now accessible to all users via direct link and search. Contact Staffbase Support or your Customer Success Manager to activate this feature.

Plugins

• Even after the rollout of release 4.6, we’ll continue making improvements to the Meal Plan plugin. We’re redesigning the Meal Plan plugin to bring new functionality for editors, such as meal reuse, drag-and-drop sorting, and meal categories. Additionally, both the editing and end-user interfaces will now be sleeker and more intuitive than ever before!

Studio

• We’ve expanded the capabilities of SCIM user synchronization with the Staffbase platform. With SCIM, you can now not only add user groups to your platform, but also remove them.
• Adding to the resend notification feature introduced in release 4.5, you can now add a custom notification text any time you resend. Contact Staffbase Support or your Customer Success Manager to activate this beta feature.

Legal

• On February 12th we will update our English Online DPA to include dedicated language about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and to share our privacy commitments and set out the terms for meeting the CCPA requirements. If the CCPA is not relevant to your data privacy activities, this change will not impact your agreement. For more detailed information about changes to the DPA, contact Staffbase Support or your Customer Success Manager.

Improvements

• The Quick Pulse Surveys plugin now has a preview function. This means editors can see how their survey will look before publishing it. 
• Recurring surveys are now automatically unpublished and removed from the menu in the end-user view after the survey ends. 
• In Chat, accessibility improvements have been made for users using screen readers to make the process of archiving and restoring chat conversations, as well creating a group conversation easier.

Bug Fixes

• In certain cases, updating email addresses of users via the User API was not possible. This has been fixed.
• In the Quick Pulse Survey plugin, surveys were published immediately, even after being scheduled for a later date. This has been fixed.  
• In the Quick Pulse Survey plugin, scheduled surveys appeared in the menu in the end-user view before they were published. This has been fixed and surveys are now only available to users once published.
• When editing the Accordion widget, sometimes <p> tags displayed in the editing view. This has been fixed.
• When configuring the Plugin widget, the Quick Pulse Survey mistakenly displayed as a supported plugin. This has been fixed and the Quick Pulse Survey plugin no longer displays.
• On pages,  icons in the icon chooser for widgets did not display correctly in some cases. This has been fixed.
• When resending notifications in News, a blank space at the end of the notification text displayed incorrectly. This has been fixed. 
• On mobile devices, opening the menu multiple times caused the app to crash in some cases. This has been fixed. 
• When using the search field on the search results page, the browser URL was not updated with the new search term. This has been fixed.

Improvements

• Starting a one-to-one conversation in the Chat is now easier with our accessibility improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Saving a form in the Forms plugin was possible even with required input missing. This applied to the option to include submission content in a notification email that could be saved without providing an email address. Now, an error message is displayed if the email address is missing.
• In news posts, using the on-demand translation caused icons inside some widgets to appear broken. This has been fixed.
• When editing a user, it was not possible to view or assign internal user groups. This has been fixed.
• In some cases, when creating a new user group, switching between user group types led to an error. This has been fixed.
• News posts scheduled for a later date were immediately posted. This has been fixed and scheduling now works as expected.

Improvements

• In the editors for Pages, News and Journeys you can now easily add alternative descriptions to gallery images in the HTML source code to improve accessibility on your platform.
• Integrations using the Chat API or Notifications API can now use the identifier of a user "External ID / Identifier", for example, to send user specific notifications.

Bug Fixes

• After commenting on a post when the Interesting Comments notification setting was turned on, users incorrectly received notifications for all comments. Now users receive notifications only for direct replies to their comment.
• Removing a video from a post was not possible. It has been fixed.
• In some cases, the News Stage and News Feed widgets displayed as empty elements if the content was not set as visible for the user. This has been fixed.
• In certain cases, extra spaces were added to usernames or identifiers when creating user accounts via user import or User API. This has been fixed.
• When editing a user group, even users who were not allowed to see the group were displayed in the dropdown menu to select users. This has been fixed.
• In some cases, the last document in the list of legal documents was difficult to click on. This has been fixed.
• In Chat, navigating the participant list of a group conversation using only keyboard navigation did not work. This has now been fixed.
• In Chat, muting a conversation also mistakenly marked all unread messages as read. This has been fixed.
• In rare cases, additional notifications about comments were sent when setting comments to invisible and back to visible. This is fixed.
• When going back to the current version of a page, editors are now asked to confirm the change in new dialog before the version of the page is rolled back. 

Improvements

• The design and wording of dialogs to delete content on Pages have been unified for a smoother editing experience.
• Minor design and performance improvements have been made to the Event Registration plugin.

Bug Fixes

• An icon to add the Animations widget has been added to the editor toolbar for customers using standard News.
• Users were not able to sign into Microsoft Teams via SSO from the Staffbase platform. This has been resolved.
• The link to the app in the email invitation, which was sent out to new users did not work as expected. This does not happen anymore.
• In the search results, content with HTML code was displayed wrong. This has been fixed. 
• When a high-resolution image was uploaded to a news post and resized inside the News editor, it resulted in a pixelated image. This has been fixed.
• When adding users to an internal group, even users who were already added to the group were displayed in the dropdown menu to select users. This has been fixed.
• On Internet Explorer, the button to jump to the bottom of a Chat conversation was missing. This has been fixed.

Improvements

• For Pages, News, and Journeys, the content will now automatically be previewed in the language currently being edited. You can now also switch the language of the previewed content directly from the dropdown in the dialog.
• Editors can now generate URLs for preview content in a specific language for Pages, News, and Journeys, simplifying the feedback process for language-based reviews. Alternatively, an automatic URL option has been introduced, which, when opened, will automatically show the preview content in each editor’s chosen content language.
• The Chat now has an improved color scheme to enhance the accessibility of the feature.
• Now administrators can change users’ primary email address and username to keep their information up-to-date.

Bug Fixes

• The user groups view in the Studio was not displayed properly. This has been fixed.
• Exporting user data via CSV failed when a user profile field contained special characters. On Chrome and Firefox browsers, the CSV user export download was not possible. User export to CSV works once again as expected.
• For standard widgets, deleting text within the widget made the cursor move out of the widget or display the Delete Widget dialog. This no longer happens.
• In the search function an error occurred when trying to display further results, causing users to see a blank page instead of further results. This has been fixed.
• In Journeys, when editing a Journey step, the Discard Changes dialog was not displayed in some cases before navigating away from a Journey with unsaved changes. This has been
• In some cases, line breaks in profile fields led to poorly formatted CSV exports. This has been fixed.
• On a page, editing a widget that contains a table, resulted in duplicating the widget. This has been fixed.

Improvements

• Administrators can now search for users in the Studio using their sign-in email address.
•  It is now possible to assign user groups as Space Administrators, in order to decrease administrative efforts. Previously, it was only possible to add individual users as Space Administrators.
• When users with no access to Chat tried to access a chat conversation via URL, a blank page was displayed. With the recent improvement, the page now displays an informative error message.

Bug Fixes

• In Chat, users could not start a new conversation in cases where the contributor role for News was disabled across the platform. This has been fixed.
• In group chat conversations, buttons for some functionalities, such as leaving and deleting a conversation, did not automatically display if there was more than one administrator assigned. This has been fixed.
• Using the search function in the Launchpad resulted in a broken display of the header and the Launchpad. This has been fixed.
• In Pages, picture galleries added in a table cell were visible in the user view, but not in the editor view. Galleries now display correctly for all views.
• The Accordion widget and the User Profile widget displayed the wrong spacing between the title and the content. The spacing is now consistent with that of other widgets.
• On the Internet Explorer browser, the save and preview functions did not work as expected in some cases in News and Pages. This has been fixed.

Improvements

• The Advent Calendar has been updated to allow for easy color and text formatting, more space for text descriptions, and a quick preview function. Daily points can now be downloaded as a CSV file, and questions can be updated after their release date. 
• It is now possible to target the visibility of content in a space to specific users.
• In the Forms plugin, there is now a default placeholder option for dropdown answers prompting users to select an option. When the dropdown is a required field, users need to actively choose an option from the dropdown before they can submit the form.
• Nepali is now available as a content language. 
• The button to resend a notification is now highlighted and more visible in the News editor view. 
• The editor toolbar for Pages, News, and Journeys has new and improved icons. 

Bug Fixes

• When opening a page in the editor view, in certain cases the Show page as card status was displayed incorrectly. This has been fixed.
• In rare cases, sending legal documents for reconfirmation resulted in incorrect document targeting for users with an administrator role. This has been fixed.
• In certain cases, automatic language translation did not happen as expected. This has been fixed.
• In the User Profile widget, lengthy position and department names are now abbreviated with an ellipse. This improves the visual layout. 
• When a URL was added to a custom profile field, the URL did not open on desktop devices. This is now fixed.
• In the Analytics dashboard, updating the time span for a set of metrics resulted in an incorrect graph. This has been fixed.
• When deleting text in a Static Content widget, sometimes the widget deletion confirmation dialog was shown incorrectly. This has been fixed.
• In Chat, the button to jump to the bottom of the conversation was displayed incorrectly. This has been fixed.