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Track customer-facing product improvements, security outcomes, and compliance reporting updates across VAT Engine.

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Latest release
3.6.506
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Releases tracked
392
Since January 2026
Logged changes
1225
Across customer-facing categories
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3.6.494September 27, 2026

iTechGuides Listing

1 change
Improvement1 item
  • The homepage now links to VAT Engine’s iTechGuides tax-engine listing with a locally served badge.
3.6.493September 25, 2026

Markdown Article Authoring

9 changes
Improvement9 items
  • Editors can add editable Markdown blocks anywhere in an article body while keeping the existing rich-text toolbar, formatting, media, relationships, code blocks, and structured tables.
  • Markdown articles now render reference links and images, footnotes, definition lists, task lists, tables, heading links, emoji, highlighting, subscript, superscript, and safe semantic HTML consistently.
  • Article paragraphs, headings, lists, quotations, code, tables, images, definition lists, and footnotes now share responsive presentation without duplicate outer spacing, and external links use one consistent outlined indicator.
  • Existing rich-text paragraphs keep their authored formatting and separation instead of being reinterpreted as Markdown.
  • Article tables now validate merged rows and columns consistently before publication and expose row and column headers correctly to assistive technology.
  • Markdown column definitions now follow the same bounded width as their rows, preventing inconsistent article layouts from being published.
  • Markdown tables preserve left, center, and right column alignment while continuing to reject arbitrary inline styling.
  • Article footnote references now have clearer spacing, and link underlines sit farther from their text for easier reading.
  • Article Markdown filters unsafe HTML and URLs, hardens new-tab links, and permits external images only from explicitly approved sources.
3.6.492September 16, 2026

Guided Classification Review Drafts

3 changes
Improvement3 items
  • Classification reviewers can start a one-off interpretation draft from retained source evidence and see which legal conclusions still need review.
  • Interpretation package errors now identify fields to correct, while draft preparation remains separate from approval and production use.
  • Review guidance now distinguishes a missing catalog binding from legal conclusions that still require evidence.
3.6.491September 13, 2026

Clearer VAT Treatment Review

22 changes
Improvement22 items
  • VAT evidence review distinguishes unresolved conditions from proven disagreements and keeps source descriptions available for inspection.
  • Reviewed interpretation changes preserve historical evidence and keep uncertain coverage separate from usable treatment results.
  • Overlapping VAT conditions are checked before reviewed coverage becomes usable.
  • Review previews retain their full confirmation window.
  • Classification coverage review now applies consistent code-hierarchy boundaries.
  • Successor treatment reviews verify inherited interpretation provenance before using it.
  • Combined equivalent treatments retain all contributing source evidence for review.
  • Review date checks remain consistent across server time zones.
  • Preparing large groups of equivalent treatments avoids repeated evidence processing.
  • Overlapping treatments with different date or condition boundaries remain in review even when their rates match.
  • Coverage review separates rules tied to different classification catalogs without dropping unresolved evidence.
  • Repeated review-preview requests preserve their original expiry, and treatment provenance includes only participating interpretations.
  • Shadow review excludes unrelated classification schemes, and large unresolved treatment queues return actionable review results.
  • Shadow review also excludes explicitly unrelated tax classes while retaining requests whose classification is incomplete.
  • Treatment evidence pages verify their source-backed findings and load contributing details in smaller pages.
  • Coverage inspection verifies retained evidence, and repeated evidence-page navigation reuses verified results.
  • Evidence browsing remains responsive during busy review sessions, and shadow reviews stay consistent during service updates.
  • Treatment reviews verify every contributing source reference, including inherited evidence.
  • Greek treatment evidence now uses the same country code as calculation requests, keeping candidate diagnostics available.
  • Rule inspection stays scoped to the treatment candidate selected for review.
  • Classification synchronization assurance remains a read-only check and cannot change reviewed authority.
  • Maintenance now stops incompatible reversals before reviewed VAT treatment records can be affected.
3.6.490September 12, 2026

More Consistent Article Discovery

1 change
Fix1 item
  • Published articles now use consistent calendar-date freshness signals in the public sitemap.
3.6.489September 12, 2026

Reliable CMS Administrator Setup

1 change
Fix1 item
  • CMS administrator setup instructions now include every required site-origin setting for both testing and production environments.
3.6.488September 11, 2026

More Reliable Service Updates

3 changes
Fix3 items
  • Improved update handling so the application can become available normally after a service update.
  • Scheduled VAT data checks now keep their scheduled day and execution identity unchanged throughout collection.
  • API query validation remains reliable after underlying request-processing updates.
3.6.487September 11, 2026

Reliable CMS Preview Links

1 change
Fix1 item
  • CMS preview links now require the configured browser-reachable site origin, preventing server bind addresses from appearing in editorial previews.
3.6.486September 11, 2026

Safer CMS Account Setup

1 change
Improvement1 item
  • CMS account setup guidance now provides separate develop and production bootstrap examples and clearly separates initial setup from adding later editorial accounts.
3.6.485September 11, 2026

Clearer Publication Feedback

1 change
Fix1 item
  • Publishing an incomplete article now returns clear validation feedback instead of appearing as an internal service failure.
3.6.484September 11, 2026

Clearer New-Tab Links

1 change
Improvement1 item
  • Article links that open a new tab now display an external-link icon and announce that behavior to screen readers.
3.6.483September 11, 2026

More Visible Article Links

1 change
Improvement1 item
  • Links inside article text now have a clear underline, distinct color, and stronger hover and keyboard-focus states in light and dark themes.