Release notes
Version: WM 2026.8.0
Release date: 09-09-2026
Epic
- With this release Web Manuals will be able to handle XML import, authoring and distribution. Over the years we have received hundreds of requests for this functionality, and we are happy to finally facilitate it. - MANUALS-8442
Bug
- Cross-references created by using the manual shortcut will be displayed correctly - MANUALS-7568
- Images will not have proper data shown in editor. - MANUALS-8345
- Improved deletion of archived Announcements. - MANUALS-8644
- Abbreviation and Definitions will no longer be outdated in a child document as it is created from the template. - MANUALS-8865
- Images linked to content can now be unlinked again. - MANUALS-9574
- Compliance connections can no longer be made from a manual to a collapsed requirement, the requirements will be shown as greyed out and a tooltip. - MANUALS-9985
- Fixed compliance bulk actions, which would carry over Edit connection functionality on some occasions - MANUALS-9988
- Sub items will no longer be able to receive connections, owners or tasks if they are part of a collapsed structure. - MANUALS-9989
- Ensured that PDF documents opened in Admin are always properly aligned horizontally. - MANUALS-10053
- Compliance checklist bulk actions will now include the latest connected manual even if you select more than one requirement. - MANUALS-10125
- Importing updated text to an existing requirement, will now mark it correctly as changed, instead of both deleted and added. - COMPLIANCE-12
- Not applicable can now be removed from sub requirements, just like it can be added to sub requirements. - COMPLIANCE-28
- When editing a requirement connection, the responsible person will be displayed in the information, and will no longer require the user to click the responsible field. - COMPLIANCE-40
- Deleting requirement connections is now permitted if the requirement has no owner but owner management is on. - COMPLIANCE-42
- In the Compliance Checklist requirements with more connections than fit on the screen will still show requirements and not appear empty. - COMPLIANCE-47
- When printing from the compliance checklist, the manual revision will now be correctly displayed. - COMPLIANCE-48
- Requirements with Not Applicable status will now be marked with a warning if the requirement is updated. - COMPLIANCE-103
- “Remove all links” in the deleted requirements filter will now correctly remove all connections to the deleted requirements. - COMPLIANCE-104
- When a connection is created to a manual, but no heading is selected, the text “No heading” will correctly show in the library view. - COMPLIANCE-108
- Compliance requirements can now be marked as Not Applicable, even if they in a distant past had a connection to a now deleted manual. - COMPLIANCE-113
- Connections showing a warning caused by heading changes can now be confirmed by using the update button, no longer is there a need for updating an unrelated field first. - COMPLIANCE-116
- The external paragraphID is now sent correctly for IQSMS synchronization once more. - COMPLIANCE-119
- When removing connections via bulk action, a partial success message will be given if the user does not have access to remove everything. - COMPLIANCE-123
- Compliance connections should now be able to be removed correctly on all occasions. - COMPLIANCE-125
- When cancelling a bulk action in the Compliance Checklist view the action button will stay active and returning to bulk action will keep the choices previously made. - COMPLIANCE-131
- Compliance requirements should now be able to be made Not Applicable correctly on all occasions. - COMPLIANCE-136
- When owner control is on in Compliance Libraries, sub items will now be able to be changed properly by users. - COMPLIANCE-139
- Connections with No Heading selected, will have No Heading preselected when opening the connection edit view. - COMPLIANCE-140
Improvement
- In Manage Libraries all changed requirements should now have the “Show Changes” checkbox allowing for highlighting of the applied changes. - COMPLIANCE-124
- The review comments panel will now properly show a colored badge for comments applied on the last workflow step, making it clearer when the comments were conceived. - MANUALS-10064
- Regulations with continuing numbers will no longer have “cont’d” on the regulation number line. The number with the continuation marker can still be accessed by hovering over the requirement. - MANUALS-9956
Task
- Improved the way we load data in Admin, resulting in much smaller amounts of data being transferred and thereby faster load times. - MANUALS-10058
- We changed the way reviewer comments are accessed. Now a user can be defined to only have access to review comments made on their workflow steps. This allows for a setup where External reviewers can only see comments made on the external step, but all other reviewers can see all comments. Note this function is only available for Reviewers, and comes with a new set of user icons for easier user overview. - MANUALS-10062
- With an additional level of user access, we also added new user type icons, for a newer and more clear overview of user access. - MANUALS-10080
- Amelia Co-Author can now be assigned to users specifically instead of site wide, allowing hand picked users to have access to assisted editing via AI. - MASTER-386