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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
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3.6.458September 6, 2026

Clearer VAT Source Review

4 changes
Feature4 items
  • Source review now makes original conditions, product-code restrictions and non-numeric treatments easier to inspect, with country filters and paginated evidence.
  • Reviewers can explicitly reload the latest source snapshot without relying on a recent browser cache.
  • Blocked tax-source comparisons now say Not compared, keeping missing review distinct from a successful comparison with no changes.
  • The roadmap distinguishes source-review improvements from the component-aware calculation and treatment-activation workflows still in progress.
3.6.457September 6, 2026

Smoother Application Updates

1 change
Fix1 item
  • Application updates now continue through a compatible preparation path when a preferred update service is temporarily unavailable.
3.6.456September 6, 2026

Clearer Catalog Reviews

3 changes
Fix3 items
  • Catalog review now brings the selected edition into focus, with clearer action names and approval feedback beside the relevant controls.
  • Reopening the same catalog returns focus to its source report, including when returning from approval review.
  • Source changes can be browsed backward and forward, official evidence links are directly accessible, and synchronization feedback follows progress through completion.
3.6.455September 6, 2026

Simpler Classification Setup

1 change
Fix1 item
  • Classification setup is simpler and more reliable, while catalog synchronization and administrator approval remain separate actions.
3.6.454September 6, 2026

More Reliable Catalog Synchronization

2 changes
Fix2 items
  • Catalog acquisition now runs independently from customer API requests to better protect service availability during large updates.
  • Synchronization diagnostics distinguish temporary service problems from official-source outages, while keeping catalog approval a separate administrator action.
3.6.453September 6, 2026

More Reliable Application Updates

1 change
Fix1 item
  • Service updates now complete required preparation before installation begins, with clearer environment setup guidance to prevent avoidable interruptions.
3.6.452September 6, 2026

Reviewable Official Catalog Updates

3 changes
Feature3 items
  • Administrators can synchronize supported official CN and CPA catalogs, inspect source changes and progress, and prepare candidates for separate review and approval.
  • Catalog corrections keep the previous approval available during review and flag affected current classifications for transition review after approval, while preserving historical evidence.
  • Synchronization monitoring distinguishes successful catalog checks from reviewed VAT mapping coverage; scheduled checks remain explicitly enabled by the operator.
3.6.451September 5, 2026

More Reliable Monitoring and Classification Reviews

3 changes
Fix2 items
  • Monitoring better distinguishes browser reports from server failures while keeping genuine application errors visible.
  • Tax-data review reasons remain consistent when diagnostic descriptions change.
Security1 item
  • Classification publication now uses a separate authorization boundary from everyday customer operations.
3.6.450September 5, 2026

Reviewable CN and CPA Product Codes

25 changes
Feature9 items
  • Integrations now keeps direct product tax rules separate from explicit CN and CPA assignments, including exact-code checks, official descriptions, effective dates, validation review, and history-preserving archival.
  • Classification results clearly remain product evidence rather than a final VAT treatment, and direct merchant rules disclose when they take precedence over a validated code.
  • Reviewed mappings now carry an explicit supply kind, and validated assignment changes reclassify eligible historical orders while protected periods remain queued for correction review.
  • Publishing complete reviewed coverage now revisits affected classifications that previously stopped for review, while assignment history limits apply consistently to submissions, validation, and archival.
  • The assignment list can now load every current record in bounded pages, and classification refreshes preserve source and imported-goods outcomes while limiting work to affected assignment-backed orders.
  • Shopify orders outside the EU continue through the existing product workflow without invoking EU-only CN/CPA assignment authority.
  • The public roadmap now separates completed governed-classification storage foundations from the remaining reviewed-data publication, crosswalk workflow, and production-activation gates.
  • Protected orders that cannot be rewritten automatically now appear in a bounded administrator correction queue with an affected-account handoff and auditable correction-completion notes.
  • The CN and CPA API guide now includes copyable curl examples for exact-code validation, tax-class resolution, and product-code assignment submission, with clear approved-data prerequisites and fail-closed availability behavior.
Security3 items
  • Classification changes use immutable revisions, bound impact previews, account-scoped ownership checks, and distributed request limits.
  • Administrator catalog and mapping changes require a fresh authenticated review and are rejected if the reviewed evidence changes before activation.
  • Partial catalog or mapping approvals remain unavailable to production resolution until the complete reviewed coverage set is published.
Fix13 items
  • Agreeing validated CN and CPA assignments now produce one product-classification outcome, while genuinely conflicting outcomes still require review.
  • Coverage publication now rejects catalog editions whose dates do not match the supported CN and CPA timeline.
  • Assignments without an end date now stop at the selected catalog edition boundary, so an expired edition cannot block a valid successor.
  • Administrators can reject or withdraw a catalog and safely submit a corrected edition while retaining the complete review history; the corrected edition takes effect only after its coverage is published.
  • Administrators can reject a mapping candidate and safely submit corrected mapping evidence under the same release version while retaining the rejected review history.
  • Coverage publication now ignores partial-interval mapping drafts when selecting complete authority and avoids repeating classification refresh work when reviewed coverage has not changed.
  • Classification authority and assignment changes now also refresh retained decisions for excluded order lines while preserving their exclusion result.
  • Product assignment approval now stops safely when its reviewed classification catalog was withdrawn after the approval preview was created.
  • New product assignments cannot be accepted against a catalog while that catalog is being withdrawn, delayed approvals must still be within their preview window, and the dashboard default date now follows UTC consistently.
  • Classification refresh work now recovers automatically after a bounded cooldown, and mixed-source orders keep excluded governed decisions inside the same whole-order review boundary.
  • Catalog and mapping evidence with a future official publication time now stays unavailable during both coverage approval and live classification.
  • Previously validated product assignments remain tied to their reviewed catalog and require transition review after that catalog is withdrawn.
  • Verified privacy webhooks accepted as no-ops for unknown shops now retain the bounded Shopify event identifier in audit context for more reliable incident correlation.
3.6.449September 5, 2026

Historical SME Threshold Lookups Restored

1 change
Fix1 item
  • SME threshold updates now preserve earlier effective-date records, so historical country lookups continue to return the threshold applicable on the requested date.
3.6.448September 5, 2026

Rate Source Checks Stay Reviewable

1 change
Fix1 item
  • EU VAT rate checks now retain valid product-code-specific source evidence and clearly mark it for mapping review instead of reporting the source capture as failed.
3.6.447September 3, 2026

Locked Returns Protect Latest Facts

2 changes
Fix1 item
  • Locked returns now confirm the exact registration and order facts immediately before sealing, so later-resolved reportable orders enter controlled correction handling.
Security1 item
  • Service updates retain complete historical verification material across an interrupted update.