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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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3.6.470September 10, 2026

Clearer Alpha Availability at Signup

2 changes
Improvement2 items
  • Account creation now clearly explains current alpha availability, experimental features, support expectations, and the need to review VAT results before production use or filing.
  • Public pages now use one consistent alpha description across navigation, pricing, documentation, and search previews.
3.6.469September 10, 2026

More Reliable Application Updates

1 change
Fix1 item
  • Application updates now prepare required components earlier, reducing avoidable maintenance interruptions.
3.6.468September 10, 2026

Immediate Administrator Session Revocation

1 change
Security1 item
  • Changing administrator authenticator credentials now immediately invalidates older administrator and editorial workspace sessions on every signed-in browser.
3.6.467September 10, 2026

Safer Publishing And More Relevant Articles

6 changes
Security2 items
  • Editorial administration now requires a current administrator authenticator check before the separate CMS sign-in.
  • Image uploads and publication review now reject unsupported files earlier and detect author or category changes made after review.
Improvement4 items
  • Related reading now finds relevant published articles across the full library.
  • Article social previews now use the selected article image consistently on Open Graph and Twitter/X.
  • Content-service readiness can recover cleanly after a timed-out dependency check.
  • Signing in after opening the editorial workspace now returns you to the intended workspace.
3.6.466September 10, 2026

Clearer Article Publication Checks

4 changes
Fix4 items
  • Valid smaller images now keep every format required for article publication without being enlarged.
  • Publication review now identifies an image that needs attention before asking an editor to release it.
  • Post lists no longer offer a bulk publication action that cannot perform the required per-article review.
  • The editorial profile icon no longer depends on an external image service.
3.6.465September 10, 2026

More Reliable Article Navigation

5 changes
Fix3 items
  • Links and related-article cards now open the intended published article and disappear safely when that destination is unavailable.
  • Each paginated article listing now identifies its own page to search engines.
  • Numbered steps and bullet lists in articles now have clear markers, spacing, and nested-list formatting.
Improvement2 items
  • Article lists use appropriately sized images, while the lead image is prepared earlier for faster display.
  • Published author and category details remain consistent until the article is reviewed and published again.
3.6.464September 9, 2026

Faster Article Lists And Safer Editorial Updates

3 changes
Improvement2 items
  • Article and use-case lists now load one requested page at a time, while feeds keep their configured item limit as the library grows.
  • Publishing now handles overlapping draft edits, image withdrawal, and long URL histories consistently.
Security1 item
  • Editorial account management now prevents removal or demotion of the final CMS administrator.
3.6.463September 9, 2026

More Useful Article Previews

2 changes
Fix2 items
  • Editors can preview an unfinished article before assigning its author, with a clear reminder of what must be completed before publication.
  • Article code examples now have clear language labels, preserved formatting, and horizontal scrolling for long lines.
3.6.462September 9, 2026

Cleaner, Safer Application Updates

2 changes
Improvement1 item
  • Repeated application updates now reconcile restricted catalog-processing accounts without misleading permission warnings.
Security1 item
  • Application updates now stop if the ordinary runtime account can still inherit a privileged catalog-processing role.
3.6.461September 8, 2026

Articles And Use Cases Are Easier To Explore

8 changes
Feature3 items
  • The public site now includes dedicated article and use-case sections with clear dates, authors, reading times, related reading, and accessible data tables.
  • Published editorial images have responsive formats for article pages and social previews.
  • New public articles can appear in search discovery, the blog feed, and machine-readable site indexes when they are published.
Security3 items
  • Editorial drafts and uploaded images stay private until an editor explicitly publishes the content and approves its current images.
  • Preview links require an active editorial session and expire quickly without changing the public article.
  • The first editorial-media setup now completes safely when an installation has no earlier published images to retain.
Improvement2 items
  • Existing editorial content remains available when the content service is updated.
  • Published images are retained safely during content service updates.
3.6.460September 7, 2026

More Reliable Treatment Reviews

3 changes
Improvement3 items
  • Complete VAT treatment reviews now continue as durable background work, with visible checkpoint progress that survives page navigation and refreshes.
  • Large decision histories no longer keep one administrator request open while every retained decision is reviewed.
  • Interrupted reviews resume safely without publishing an obsolete result.
3.6.459September 6, 2026

Governed VAT Treatment Decisions

16 changes
Feature5 items
  • The calculation API can now return separate sales VAT, import VAT, customs duty and fee outcomes with explicit completeness and provenance.
  • Scheduled source processing prepares the latest treatment candidate for administrators to inspect, while historical preparation remains operator-triggered.
  • Administrators can inspect exact partial coverage, review shadow results, and keep approval separate from production activation.
  • Safe retries return the original stored decision, while unresolved treatment context remains visible instead of being guessed.
  • Missing legal applicability dates remain reviewable source evidence and cannot become active treatment coverage.
Security4 items
  • Treatment approval, cutover and rollback use sealed impact previews and fresh administrator MFA; automated source processing remains candidate-only.
  • Corrections cover every release still active in a staged rollout, and present-day profile defaults are never treated as historical legal evidence.
  • Correction revalidation is lease-fenced, waits for the reviewed replacement rollout, and creates at most one successor for an affected decision.
  • Both API versions now apply the same IP protection before API-key verification, in addition to authenticated per-key limits.
Fix7 items
  • Treatment evidence stays visible below the administrator header when opened, and roadmap previews now match the roadmap page.
  • Repeated treatment review selections refocus the correct card, and governance controls refresh after lifecycle changes.
  • Administrators can prepare a treatment candidate from retained source evidence without receiving permission to modify that evidence.
  • Equivalent source interpretations are combined without discarding their evidence, while genuine conflicts remain visible for review.
  • Catalog operations now distinguish configured synchronization from available processing, and enabled installations wait for fresh processing status.
  • Large treatment shadow reviews cover and seal the complete decision history, while staged rollout corrections continue independently for each ready scope.
  • Current rollout totals no longer include historical activations, so administrators see only the authority currently serving each rollout scope.