Prod Release Date: 2025-12-02, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2311

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Improved the search in the OrgChart to more accurately find results based on first name and last name. (66911)
• Updated the share functionality to use a new API due to the deprecation of the sendmail API. Requires delegated Main.Send Graph permission. (66978)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that prevented a collection from being deleted in the SLW if there was only one language on the site. (67035)
• Fixed an issue that prevented blog views from being displayed on the BlogDetail and BlogsWidget. (67001)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-11-22, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2310

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Reduced the number of calls made to get page permissions to reduce throttling. (67005)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where downloaded .ics files for single events did not respect the correct time zone if the user’s SharePoint time differed from their computer’s time zone. (66666)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Added a permission check to only display the save page layout button if the user has permissions to add items to SavedLayouts_AK. (66781)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the curated preview would error if the list contained a dropdown choice field. (66985)
• Fixed an issue where the scroll bar was not working in the Newsletter preview. (62540)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-11-17, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2310

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added the ability to modify the app insights call for the NewsWidget. (65493)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue in the HTMLContentWidget where the approval status covered the menu button in certain layouts. (66783)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Added Chinese (Taiwan), Korean, and Spanish (Mexico) to voice language tokens. (66855)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where long URLs were not displayed correctly in the LaunchPadClicksWidget. (66914)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-11-12, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2310

Front End Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where term labels were not translated in the GenericSearchListWidget if the items matching that term were not found on the first page of results. (66778)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-11-03, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2310

Front End Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the HTMLTabWidget where the cursor would get unfocused when you stopped typing. (66773)
• Fixed an issue where the CKEditor was not loading when using the Microsoft SharePoint CDN. (66762)
• App titles in Mission Control now display up to three lines. (66690)
• Reaction icons no longer shrink at low browser widths. (66686)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support for item level refresh in Structured Content. (66636)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where adding a thumbnail image to a Rich Text Layout in voice would crash the modal. (66554)
• Fixed an issue where page properties were not loading in the Pages module. (66846)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-10-27, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2308 and 6.3.2501.2309

Front End Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the HTMLTabWidget would lose focus while editing. (66776)
• Fixed an issue where tabs on the HTMLTabWidget only saved changes if the body was also changed. (66776)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-10-06, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2309

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support for draft versions in SLW. (66600)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where page publish and archive settings persist when creating a new page in the same session. (66611)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Added Spanish – Latin America token to voice. (66574)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where subsite lists were not loading properly in Curated apps. (66608)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-09-28, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2308

Front End Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that caused the Rich Text Layout editor to crash when inserting an image. (66554)
• Fixed a UI issue where the profile picture appeared to have been changed after changing the background image on the employee detail page.

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support for webp image format. (65732)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where an invalid static URL could be generated when translating articles. (66022)
• Fixed an incorrect token when hovering over the Page Insights button.
• Fixed an issue in the Broadcast Center where images in CKEditor 5 could appear above the submit modal. (66366)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-09-14, Cloud, Self-Hosted

App Manager Version: 6.3.2501.2331

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a timeout error that could occur when delivering Teams messages in the Broadcast Center. (66093)
• Added validation to the origin setting in AppSettings to prevent entering an invalid value. (65870)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-09-01, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2308

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added the ability to configure the default filter on the NewsWidget. (65503)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue on the SLW that only allowed searching for a collection on the current page of results. (65887)
• Fixed an issue where the NewsDetailWidget and NewsWidget were only showing views for the English version of a content item. (65106)
• Removed the link in the profile image of the EmployeeDetailWidget. (65829)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

New Features:

• Added Site Alerts to the Broadcast Center. (65359)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the NewsSocialReportWidget was not showing results in a subsite. (65726)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-08-11, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2307

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support for the Award Selector and Video Embedded URL Selector when editing widget properties.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where profile images on headed sites were low resolution. (65713)
• Fixed an issue where an outdated view could cause the profile image to not load on the Employee Detail page. (65747)
• Fixed an issue where the caching on the EmployeeDetailWidget was not working correctly. (65749)
• Fixed an issue in the DepartmentNewsItemWidget where published articles were not going live at the correct time for users in some time zones. (65427)
• Fixed an issue with the MediaWidget where the comment count only worked for the first 100 items

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Renamed ‘Is Akumina Page’ field to ‘Is External’ to keep it consistent with the SLW.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the thumbnail in Asset Library did not immediately update after editing an image. (62447)
• Fixed an issue where modals were sometimes partially appearing under the header.
• Fixed an issue where the permissions check could fail in some scenarios. (65640)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-08-10, Cloud, Self-Hosted

App Manager Version: 6.3.2501.2329

Improvements:

• Added a warning message when clearing domain cache.
• Added the ability to configure the Deployment Mode in Global Settings.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that could cause profile pictures to fail load due to stale cache.

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-07-28, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2307

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added a video picker field type to widget definitions. This field type can be used when adding new widget instances to select a video URL in the asset library.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where two instances of DocumentSummaryListWidget did not work properly on the same page. (65519)
• Fixed an issue where long URLs were not wrapping correctly in the SLW. (65521)
• Fixed an issue where the profile picture on the EmployeeDetail page was displayed incorrectly on some screen sizes.

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Increased the number of results returned in user pickers. (65336)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that could cause a permission error when attempting to access structured content apps. (65640)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-07-25, Cloud, Self-Hosted

App Manager Version: 6.3.2501.2328

Improvements:

• Added support for multiline fields to the Field Views Manager.
• Updated SharePoint public CDN URL. (65413)
• Security improvements.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent creating Personas with leading or trailing spaces. (65462)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-07-24, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2307

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added the ability to add HTMLContentWidget to the page rails. (65150)
• Updated links to widget documentation to point to the new Akumina Community site.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused view counts to not display after clicking on Show More in the MediaWidget. (65366)
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused mobile navigation to fail on the first click. (65268)
• Fixed an issue that could cause a broken image to display in some scenarios. (65416)
• Fixed an issue where UpdateListItem was sometimes using the wrong site context. (65127)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Added language tokens for Catalan and Vietnamese in the language selector dropdown. (65338)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed some French language tokens which were displaying in Spanish. (65476)
• Fixed an issue where event end times were changing when publishing recurrences using End By dates. (65444)

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-06-23, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2306

Front End Core Functionality

New Features:

• Added support to CKEditor to embed videos from the Asset Library.
  

Improvements:

• Added CKEditor 5 support to the SummaryLinks and HTMLContent widgets.
• Added Admin permission level when breaking inheritance on page permissions. (64948)
• Increased maximum number of results to 25 when searching for users while sharing content via email. (62733)
• If two widget instances have the same instance ID with different site IDs, the instance on the current site is now being prioritized. (64637)
• Thumbnail images on the MediaWidget are now displayed in a higher resolution. (64791) ​​​​
• Added paging support to the EventsWidget listing view. (64878)
• Added the assistant field to the model for the EmployeeDetailWidget. (65123)
• Added alt text to images in the default views for FS4 widgets.
• Added time zone support to .ics files generated from single occurrence events. (64990)
• Improved the display of News widgets on smaller screens or zones.
• Added support for the removal of Provider Hosted Apps.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where CreatePageLink was using a relative URL.
• Fixed an issue that could cause ‘Article not found’ to display if you followed a link to an article that was not in your currently selected language. (64649)
• Added back the SetView functionality to the EventsWidget. (65276)
• Fixed an issue where recurrence information for ‘yearly by day’ recurring events were showing the incorrect month. (65112)
• Fixed an issue with the Calendar in FS3 that prevented the correct events from being shown when switching between months. (65008)
• Fixed an issue where empty HTML tags were being removed after leaving source mode in CKEditor. (65154)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

New Features:

• Added the ability to duplicate content.
  

Improvements:

• Added the ability to sort custom page metadata columns and hide the page category tab. (62544)
• Added support to the calendar view in Structured Content to display items in a list with over 5000 items.
• A more helpful error is now displayed when duplicate values are detected in the Static URL field.
• Added support to the calendar view in Structured Content for FS3 lists. (65152)
• Filter available file types when adding files to the Asset Library based on the selected file type filter. (64960)
• Semi-colon is now allowed in URL fields. (64957)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where there was an empty breadcrumb while in a subfolder of the Images library. (65125)
• Fixed an issue where the insert embed link dropdown was not visible.
• Fixed an issue where Preview was not working for relative URLs.
• Fixed an issue where checkboxes were clickable outside the checkbox itself. (65115)
• Fixed an issue that could prevent editing the value of the URL in menus when Is Akumina Page was disabled.
• Fixed an issue where the calendar view in Structured Content was not displaying correctly for some themes.

Mobile App Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where navigation did not always work on the first click.

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-05-08, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2305

Front End Core Functionality

New Features:

• Added support to CKEditor 5 to Drag and Drop images. This feature must be configured in Global Settings of the delivery site. (64265)

Improvements:

• If two widget instances have the same instance ID with different site IDs, the instance on the current site is now being prioritized. (64637)
• Thumbnail images on the MediaWidget are now displayed in a higher resolution. (64791)
• Added the ability to sort custom page metadata fields. (62545)
• Replaced image pickers in widgets with the Asset Library. (61643)
• Added support for 1920x1080 resolution with 150% zoom.
• Performance improvements.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that caused page layout images from other sites to not display when creating or editing a page.
• Fixed an error that could occur when following a link to an article that is not in your current language. (64649)
• Fixed an issue in the People Directory in mobile where the Show More button could scroll you back to the top of the page. (64696)
• Fixed an issue with the GenericItemWidget where the widget would error if the associated list did not have a Publish Date field. (64679)
• Fixed an issue that could cause a .ics file downloaded from the Calendar in FS3 to not open in Outlook. (64528)
• Fixed an issue where the background colour for the Featured item in the menu was not themeable. (64699)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

Improvements:

• Updated some Authoring tokens in French that were inadvertently displayed in English. (64675)
• Added the ability to preview content if the publish date is in the future or if you do not belong to the assigned Persona. (54860)
• Added a button to copy the Preview URL while previewing an item.
• Added the ability to duplicate content. (64829)
• Added support to select multiple images when inserting images in CKEditor. (64348)
• Added the ability to revise content in CKEditor with AI.

 

Prod Release Date: 2025-04-09, Cloud, Self-Hosted

CDN Version: 6.3.2501.2304

Front End Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support for localized time formats in the EventsWidget. (62976)
• Updated views for Employee Detail and Awards widgets.
• Added the ability to add rows above or below the selected row when editing pages.
• Updated the Manage Translations modal to have languages displayed in alphabetical order.
• Improved the Legacy Reactions view on the MediaWidget. (64357)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that prevented thumbnail images from displaying in emails sent when you share a news article. (63834,64240)
• Fixed an issue in Mission Control that could prevent a user from selecting widgets. (64015)
• Fixed an issue that caused the Show More button on the NewsWidget to reset position to the top of the page. (64146)
• Fixed an issue that could cause tags in Preferences & Interests from appearing in the wrong language after the user switches their site language. (62855)
• Fixed an issue where files with long filenames did not wrap correctly in the search typeahead. (64471)
• Changed carets in the GenericSearchListWidget to differentiate between expanded vs collapsed state. (64120)
• Fixed an issue in the DMS that prevented users from creating a subfolder under the root folder.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused no results to be returned when searching for a user in people pickers. (64238)

Front End Content Manager Functionality

New Features:

We have implemented a new UI to view the status of Broadcast Messages and Newsletters in the Broadcast Center.

 

You can access it via a button on the listing page:

 

Or on the status page for a Broadcast Message/Newsletter:

 

Note that the Schedule task will change to ‘Not Found’ after some time; this is expected due to data cleanup.

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Improvements:

• Added the ability to preview content when the publish date is in the future.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that could cause the Styles menu to appear behind the Voice rail. (64292)
• Fixed an issue in CKEditor 5 that could cause the Edit and Remove buttons to not be visible when editing long links. (63653)

Mobile App Functionality

Improvements:

• Added ICS mobile support. (57492)

Akumina is announcing the release of 6.3 of the Akumina Employee Experience Platform (EXP). The Q1 release of the platform is focused on the new Awards & Recgonitions functionality. These tools are designed to help create engagement on an intranet with Awards nominations and badging. Recogntions empower peer-to-peer acknowledgements from a select list of types. 

 

Awards - Enhanced Corporate Awarding System

 

• Awards Creation: Content owners and admins can easily create awards through an intuitive wizard, allowing them to set-up details such as descriptions, award duration, Q&A forms, and award page layouts
• Nomination Process: Employees can easily nominate candidates through the award detail page, with comprehensive FAQs available for guidance.
• Nominee Review & Selection: Content owners and admins have the ability to review all nominations and select winners.
• Award Display: Award badges can be prominently showcased on the homepage, profile pages, and other key areas. Awards images and graphics are customizable using icons or images to guarantee brand compliance.
• Multilingual Support: The system fully supports the creation of awards in multiple languages, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility for global audiences.

 

Recognitions - Peer-to-Peer Accolades

 

• Customizable Recognition Oprionts: Admins can easily set up various recognition types, such as "Thank You Cards", "Kudos", "Great Work", etc., with options for categorization.
• Analytics & Insights: Admins have access to detailed usage and analytics, providing insights into employee recognition trends.
• Instant Recognition:  Employees can quickly recognize their colleagues, fostering a culture of appreciation that enhances engagement and boosts overall morale & site engagement.
• Recognition Visibility: Recognitions are displayed on an employee's profile page, with notifications accessible through the Akumina Notification Engine.
• Multilingual Support: The system fully supports the creation of awards in multiple languages, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility for global audiences.

 

Additional Features

 

• Analytics Enhancements: In the Voice Experience, there is a new "Page Insights" option to view Page Analytics for the current page being viewed. Additional Tracking added for Mission Control apps and a corresponding report in the Analytics module. 

• AppManager - Page Management: Enhanced page management capabilities including support for paging and display of cached pages.
• Theme Manager Enhancements: Additional configurable versions were introduced for deeper Hive customization.
• Hive UX Improvements: A range of UX enhancements including the removal of default slats, font adjustments, and more.
• Widget Import/Export: Suppor for importing and exporting widgets in headless deployments.
• Voice Author Apps Re-Translate: Ability to re-translate content from the parent source to selected or all available languages within the Voice interface.
• Hive Launchpad Widget: New functionality to reorder apps within the Hive Launchpad Widget