2025 REL8 - Release Notes
Date: May 22, 2025
Overview
In this release, we rolled out several updates to improve the candidate experience, admin workflows, and overall system reliability:
Improved Payment Experience:
Candidates must now enter their billing address and ZIP code during checkout. This change helps reduce payment failures and enhances the security of exam purchases. We also made significant backend improvements to our payment system to minimize issues.Admin Improvements for Item Management:
Admins can now display up to 200 items or item folders per page for managing large item banks more efficiently.Dark Mode Enhancements:
We now automatically strip formatting (e.g., white backgrounds on text) that may cause readability issues in dark mode, ensuring a cleaner and more consistent display.Improved Traceability & Logging:
We released several traceability updates to give our team better visibility into system activity, helping us resolve issues faster and even prevent them before they occur.Ongoing Progress:
We’re continuing to make strong progress on major initiatives including:Final enhancements to the candidate UI
Mobile exam delivery support
A readiness exam to help candidates prepare for their Online Proctored exam
A lockdown solution that doesn’t require admin rights
New Features:
Enhancement 1 | Aspen/Caveon Topic Scores |
Enhancement 2 | Caveon - Pass Correct Exam Duration for Accommodations |
Enhancement 3 | TrueAbility - Pass Correct Exam Duration for Accommodations |
Enhancement 4 | Accept User Address and Zip code as mandatory information on Credit Card page |
Enhancement 5 | Limit Candidate Calendar Selection to 12 Months from Current Date |
Enhancement 6 | Incorrect exam price & refund amount is displayed on Process refund page |
Enhancement 7 | [UI/ENHANCEMENT] - Add Navigation Tab to New UI Change Password Page |
Enhancement 8 | [LOGIC] - Implement Screen Pinning Functionality (Android Only) |
Enhancement 9 | [UI] - Set the Proper Application Name |
Enhancement 10 | [UI] - Implement Project Mobilis App Icon |
Enhancement 11 | [UI/LOGIC] - Implement WebView Refresh Functionality |
Enhancement 12 | Pagination for Items |
Enhancement 13 | UI/LOGIC - List of Readiness Exams for Region-Level Dropdown (Including Saving and Default Setting) |
Enhancement 14 | UI/LOGIC - Set Readiness Exam as Default on Exam-Level Toggle |
Enhancement 15 | UI - Tooltip and Alert When Saving a Readiness Exam |
Enhancement 16 | LOGIC - Clean Up UI Issues When Saving the Readiness Exam |
Enhancement 17 | LOGIC - Allow Admin to Edit the Readiness Exam |
Enhancement 18 | [LOGIC] - Enable Full Screen Mode and Restrict Shortcut Keys in Webassessor-Sentinel |
Enhancement 19 | [LOGIC] - Disable Developer Window for WebView App |
Enhancement 20 | [LOGIC] - Signing Certification for Windows |
Enhancement 21 | [UI/LOGIC]: Use "WebView" ElectronJS in launching the exam |
Enhancement 22 | Candidate - Test Delivery - Add Correlation ID |
Enhancement 23 | Candidate - Test Delivery - Launch Exam - Generate Launch URL |
Enhancement 24 | Admin - Assigned Candidate's Session |
Enhancement 25 | Candidate - On Demand Registration - Launch Exam |
Enhancement 26 | Candidate - Biometric Enrollment - Photo Instruction |
Enhancement 27 | Candidate - Biometric Enrollment - Terms of Service |
Enhancement 28 | Candidate - Prior to system check - Proctor Availability |
Enhancement 29 | Candidate - Pre Survey Submission |
Enhancement 30 | My assessment - Clicking launch button - in progress and scheduled |
Enhancement 31 | My assessment - Loading page content - MVP - Scheduled and In-Progress tables - install enroll |
Enhancement 32 | Candidate - Clicking my assessment page link |
Enhancement 33 | Candidate - Exam Submission |
Enhancement 34 | Adding Framework - Admin |
Enhancement 35 | Refactor Reschedule/Payment Flow: Improve Logging with Trace IDs and Methods refactoring |
Enhancement 36 | Refactor Cancellation/Refund Flow: Improve Logging with Trace IDs and Refactoring Methods |
Enhancement 37 | Wa-Common (SALE-Migrate collectjspaymentService.java with Logging and Edge Case Enhancements and refactoring methods ) |
Enhancement 38 | UI-Reduce Redundant Tax Calls, Add Payment Loggers, and Refactor Checkout |
Enhancement 39 | Dark Mode Inconsistencies - Strip Rich Text Formatting That Conflicts with Dark Mode |
Fixes:
Defect 1 | Admin-An incorrect cancellation amount is displayed when a Test Taker cancels the exam with a cancellation fee after the admin has refunded the original exam price. |
Defect 2 | Candidate - Registration is not being Cancelled when user cancels and refunds the amount. |
Defect 3 | Candidate-Incorrect reschedule fees for exam with reduced price |
Defect 4 | Regular Cancellation Process | Clicking 'Return Home' link on the confirmation page will log the candidate out.(Unproctored, OLP, Onsite, and Event) |
Defect 5 | New Candidate UI: Respondus Browser Not Working When OLP Exam is Launched via New My Assessments Page |
Additional Information
For more information and guidance on using the new features, please refer to our help center. We hope you enjoy these new features and find them helpful. If you have any questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.