2026-01-21 Release Notes

News

Anticipation levels are at 5 (out of 5) as these folks prepare to go live next week:

🎉 Human Development Services of Westchester

Changes

👉 👉 Effective 2026-01-22 for demo sites, then 2026-01-30 for live sites. 👈 👈

🪄 API mavens should review the always-informative, interesting, and ever-changing API Changelog.

👥 LS-132909: The File Manager gets the ability to share files with a connected SimpleJustice client or counsel.

🕰️ LS-135735: You may not notice a difference on the front end, but we're optimizing how the My Time widget contents are updated. Better plumbing isn't flashy, but it's a good thing for the ecosystem.

👷🏼‍♀️ LS-137168: When you click the Return to Submitted button on a verified invoice in the Contractor module, the system generated email will make it clear the invoice has been returned to submitted.

▶️ ◀️ LS-138101: The Width attribute of report columns will do what you probably expect. If you set it to "2", the column will be 2 inches wide. Currently it will expand past 2 inches if there is enough space. Likely most useful on embedded reports displaying note bodies.

📝 LS-138331: If you have a Note Draft from the Confidential Notes block on a timeslip (often labeled "Case Note"), should you be able to click the "Save Note and Discard Draft" button and have it work, or show you a confusing page about an error? We're confident you'll agree with our choice.

🗃️ LS-138646: We will close the spinner box after clicking the download icon (or 3-dot menu Download link) in the File Manager. Even if you are using Chrome or a Chrome-adjacent browser.

🙈 🙉 LS-138903: You've probably never seen nor heard of "Fields Included in Synchronization To Statewide Reporting Agency", but if you have, and you can't select any fields, you'll be pleased to know the read-only-ness is being removed.

📄 LS-138986: You asked us to disable Sharepoint Integration on your site, but you didn't disable things like the Sharepoint - Create Case Folder block on your forms. Instead of a causing an error, we're going to try to display nice messages about Sharepoint not being enabled. But you still want to remove all the Sharepoint-y things from your form(s) and profile(s). Really, you do.

📝 LS=139136: The Note Draft feature forgot how to ignore default text in a note and not save it as a note draft. Remedial training is underway, and we're reasonably confident it will take.

🧣 LS-139162: Doing something on a case bundle can sometimes try to do the thing on a case within the bundle, and that doesn't work out well. The case bundle feature will now include a magical fairy to watch over you in bundle land.

LS5

Are you testing LS5? You may find the following useful, interesting, or both.

🪟 LS-136835: You said "LS5 requires clicking Admin page search result page titles. In LS4 the entire 'box' is clickable." Fair. So we're making the panes (what you quaintly call a "box") clickable. Bonus: We'll darken a pane's background as your pointer moves over it so it is super extra clear what you will you be clicking on.

🪤 LS-137401: If you have a Clickable Link to Auxiliary Form using Fake Branch Logic, you were saddened to discover the loss of clickability in LS5. Clickability will return.

❓ LS-137791: Fields can have Help Text, and when they do they display a "?" icon next to the field label on forms with hover text. Except the icon isn't visible in LS5. Visibile it will be.

🪾 LS-137932: Some Branch Logic blocks just sit there in LS5, not doing any branching or logicing. Both will happen after this fix lands.

🛑 LS-138929: If your access to a case is blocked, the breadcrumbs display "RESTRICTED" instead of the client's name in LS4. Kind of important, so LS5 is going to do the same.

🔗 LS-138969: We hope you don't see many of the "red box errors" at the top of a page when you try to do something (in LS4 or LS5), but the handy "Create Support Request" link inside the box isn't working in LS5. So we're fixing it.

⭐ ⭐ 🔍 LS-138983: Turning the Admin page's shallow search into a deep search is on the way. Will it search sections, page titles, page descriptions, and if you've entered at least 3 characters also search page content? Why yes it will. Currently behind a flag, so you must ask for it. And surely it is coming to LS4 soon.

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