2026-10-21 Release Notes
News
All systems nominal. Continue on present course.
Changes
👉 👉 Effective 2026-10-22 for demo sites, then 2026-10-30 for live sites. 👈 👈
🧙 API mavens should review the always-informative, interesting, and ever-changing API Changelog.
🔃 LS-148959: Should your bountiful Guided Navigation segment of wonder overwrite an existing value for a field if you have not checked the "Default Overrides Existing Value" checkbox? Of course not. So we'll stop doing that, no matter how complicated your segment is.
🧮 LS-148898: The Assets block gets a new "Do not allow negative numbers" configuration option.
🔗 LS-148971: You added the the new-ish Service block to your timeslip form so people could link timeslips to service records on a case. Then you clicked the "Add Timeslip" link for service record 22 and experienced deep sadness when you didn't see "Service: 22" already selected. Joy will be yours after this change starts passing the service ID to the timeslip form.
⚽ LS-149624: Is a Header element making your Flowblock of wonder display an empty column, or even two empty columns? You can try removing the Header. Save and observe. Then re-adding it. But success is not guaranteed. Or wait for the fix in this ticket to land.
🌊 LS-150184: We're pushing out an example Flowblock to all demo sites. It will be in the Disabled Elements of the Main Profile (ID=2). Enable if and when desired. Designed as a starter for sites that haven't yet created any Flowblocks, and as a standard of elegant design for others.
🧑🔧 LS-150768: Better error catching and error handling in online intakes is on the way. Work that will never be seen. And that's a good thing.
🧑🔧 LS-150796: Changing the configuration of the Disposition block in a Guided Navigation segment has not been a pleasant experience. You may experience relief rather than joy once this fix lands, but definitely one of the two.
👥 LS-150885: The Adverse Party (Prescreen) block gets two new options: Show Relationship Type and Require Relationship Type.
⚙️ LS-150984: Should you be able to save the Electronic Case Transfer Settings page without any Field Groups selected in the Limited Case Intake Data section? You should. And you shall be able to.
😨 LS-150996: The static edit case contact form will now warn you about changing the name of the contact if that contact (say a Judge) is linked to several hundred or thousand cases. If you insist you're doing the right thing, you'll need to check a box, and a note will be written to the contact's record recording what you did and when. Recording why will require the unreleased LegalServer-Brain Interface Adapter.
LS5 Interface
⬆️ LS-145233: LS5 vertically centers text in each report row cell; needs to top align it like LS4. Alignment, and complimentary oil change, on the way.
🏥 LS-146678: LS5 MLP Medical Institution Department options do not appear in LS5; dropdown indicates "No options available" even when options are available. Organization names are sometimes appearing as ID numbers.
📦 LS-149464: The Case Note List block's Bulk Actions do not work in LS5. But will.
📱 LS-149625: In an online intake using the "Ls5" (sic) external form theme, the Online Intake No-AP/Family and Online Intake Opposing Parties blocks are not usable on a small viewport device, which you may refer to as a phone, or maybe you have a small tablet computer. Accessibility on the way.
🔳 LS-150225: Assets block has no "Edit Asset Defaults" button in LS5. Button located and being restored.
🤹 LS-150308: Task List on a case does not display the configured Completed filter in LS5 like it does in LS4.
⏪ LS-150869: "The side bar is not supported in LS5." If that dictate has been making you sad, venture over to the Admin > Site Settings page. Observe the new "Enable LS5 Secondary Side Menu" and "Expand LS5 Secondary Side Menu By Default" settings, and read the nice explanatory text.
🔍 LS-150724: Cause Number Identification makes its way into LS5 Search.
🔳 LS-150741: Clicking the Filters button in LS5 on the My Current Outreach Assignments list view displays a "Reload page" button and a cutoff dropdown list of Program filter options. Button improvement on the way.
🧑🔬 LS-150775: Filtering the Cases list on Case Status sometimes shows an empty list in LS5, but not in LS4. Sometimes no list at all. List results will be shown.
🟦 LS-150828: If you click the pretty blue Run Report button in LS5, should it load the report data table? In a word, yes. So it will.
⌨️ LS-150864: Keyboarders will be pleased to know that you can TAB into and through the page numbers in a list with many results. Pressing Enter or Space will select the page number you have tabbed to.
🍞 LS-150868: The LS5 Process Stepper (you know the little "1/7" thing on the right side of the page during intakes and other multi-step processes) is moving up into the breadcrumb bar. 100% of beta testers rated it "Much better" or "zOMG so much better".
🔳 LS-150907: No side bar in LS5 means you can't edit a static deadline. Quick Actions buttons to the rescue.
🔦 LS-150969: Recommended Documents block in LS5 hides filters for Legal Problem Code, Special Legal Problem Code, and County that are displayed in LS4. LS4 filter parity is on the way.
🌠 LS-150990: The shiny new Breadcrumb Process Stepper in LS5 should display the process name in the popover. Agreed, so it will.
👀 LS-150781: Having the County of Dispute field on your Quick Case Copy form in LS5 is a showstopper because the field isn't displayed. We will unhide it.
🛝 LS-151026: Editing Adverse Parties in-place on a profile in LS5 opens in a slide out instead of a "full" auxiliary form. Fair enough, except things like the Edit button for an existing adverse party don't work. Full functionality in the slide out is on the way.
⛓️💥 LS-151048: You flipped the switch to try out LS5 and saw case profile and other pages with a lot of confusing links at the top before the expected content. Fix is on the way. We're going to keep the hamsters on the wheels to try to get this out to both demo and live sites on 2026-10-22.
⏱️ LS-151076: The static process "Add Staff Time" in LS5 does not default to the user filling out the form and only lists a subset of active caseworkers if you have a lot of those on your site.
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