Releases

This page outlines the version history.

This release history lists the major and minor production versions of V5 since August 2025. Earlier releases during the refactoring and rapid development stages are not included.

Maintenance releases, miscellaneous fixes and hotfixes may be found in the minor release.

Q3, 2026 (2 Releases)

5.57

August 21, 2026: Mandatory MFA and administration improvements

New

• Mandatory MFA

• Users with valid mobile numbers automatically onboarded

• Admins can reset their primary site users' MFA from the contact record

• Search and filter contacts by MFA status and primary site

Improved

• Simplified contact form for non-admin users

• MFA configuration can now be shared between user's regular and SSO identities

Fixed

• Searching for tags for linked register (CW-1185)

• CQL related term for private assets in cases (CW-1143)

• Issue in downloading files with unicode characters

• Issue in hiding unassigned counter when turned off in config

• Counters sometimes not updating, improves counter accuracy under heavy activity

5.56

July 20, 2026: Mobile app maintenance release

Improved

• Reminders to users to configure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Fixed

• Fixed issue in loading items on map for FPN (CW-1288)

• Allow to open selected contact after selection when adding / editing form

Q2, 2026 (4 Releases)

5.54

June 26, 2026: Administration improvements including bulk edit, reporting, import and performance

New

• Added event filter to reports that didn't have it (CW-1084)

• Added Latitude and Longitude to Assessments (FRV) import import instructions when these are available fields for the import (CW-1088)

• Added Event field to bulk edit form for Request, Information, Assessments and Relief registration registers (CW-1251)

• Modified address fields on Permit form to add a new Manual Address checkbox. The manual address box will only be displayed if the checkbox is ticked (CW-808)

• Added bulk edit functionality to Lookups (CW-1181)

• Permit document upload now allows more than one file to be uploaded in any status (CW-1152)

Improved

• Contact searching for Recovery Case and Relief registration registers (CW-1182)

• Added Main and Workflow counters to Communication register (CW-1167)

• Performance and speed improvements to datagrids

Fixed

• Fixed Case Links URL format in Duplicate Cases Report (CW-1109)

• Asset Contacts General Import via API (CW-1080)

• Recovery Cases Cost Estimate now displays in task subform and value updating when bulk creating tasks (CW-1096)

• Going on duty will now always load the correct screens and menus

5.53

May 22, 2026: FEIMS V5 maintenance release

5.52

April 23, 2026: Maintenance release

New

• Support for adaptive content in knowledgebase (CW-725)

Improved

• Enable PDF preview without downloading (CW-1056)

Fixed

• Fixed issue with downloaded files losing the original file name (CW-1057)

• Item sorting in datagrid based on configured defaults (CW-847)

• Work Summaries:

  • Work times and expense assignment field displaying as writable when configured as readonly (CW-1208)

  • Work summary permission fixes for non-managers (CW-1177)

  • Incorrect staff member assigned to times entries and expense records (CW-1177)

5.51

April 17, 2026: FEIMS V5 maintenance release

Q1, 2026 (12 Releases)

5.48

March 26, 2026: Maintenance release

New

• App: Users can now re-authenticate an expired session while retaining their offline data

Improved

• App: Hide On Device, Drafts and For Upload unless there are items in them (CW-924)

Fixed

• Disabled Recovery Person item from being added via New button (CW-1000)

• CQL queries for recovery fields with values of 'no' and 'yes' (CW-1168)

• Helps links on the Sign In and Reset Password pages (CW-1054)

• Ability to re-authenticate after token expiry (CW-1054)

• Users sometimes getting no search results on Edge browser (CW-1089)

• Move the within existing counter checkbox to the top (CW-1089)

• Token expiry in backgrounded datagrids (CW-1089)

5.47

March 12, 2026: Improvements to FEIMS V5

5.46

March 5, 2026: Recovery, Reports and integration improvements

New

• Date of Birth added to Recovery Person register based on system configuration (CW-835)

• Relief Registration Address Information Destination Details now supports the option to search for Relief Centre Address (CW-1044)

• New Bulk Edit all Filtered Records option added to all registers

• Event, Region and Tag fields added to Bulk Edit for Recovery Needs & Tasks, Private Assets and Environmental Health

Improved

• Expanded Classification section for multiple registers

• Reports improvements (CW-1060)

  • Event filter moved from Additional Filters to Main Search area to be more visible

  • Events field defaults to currently selected event

• Assessments (FRV) import no longer requires address field

Fixed

• Reversed lat/long on EM Impact data import

• Export to report from tag filter (CS-1063)

• EMIA Summary report Metric 16 no longer requires Damage Value for it to be included in count

• Duplicate UUID issue with media merge (CW-1129)

5.45

February 20, 2026: Improvements to FEIMS V5

5.44

February 19, 2026: Improvements to Recovery management, System Administration and the mobile app

Improved

• Merging Cases (CW-1042)

  • Interface improvements

  • Logging and auditing

  • Primary record takes precedence for the address, assignment & workflow fields

• Flow in Recovery for Selecting Affected Persons in Cases and Relief Registrations (CW-1045)

• CQL userId field enables administrators to search for specific users

• Mobile app multimedia capture memory and photo optimisation to improve handling for larger numbers of photos (CW-997)

Fixed

• Event datagrid (CW-1031)

5.43

February 10, 2026: Improvements to FEIMS V5

5.42

February 5-13, 2026: Changes to improve Reporting, Recovery, Assessments and Inspections

New

• Merge option added to Recovery Cases Register Actions (CW-484)

• Related Assessment Records section added to Recovery Cases and Assessments (CW-998)

• Export to Excel option added to Reports (CW-1028)

• CQL queries and multi-select fields now support 'any' and 'none' options (CW-1022)

• Region and Event fields added to Cases Bulk Edit

Improved

• Status label column added to Recovery Assessments report (CW-1025)

• Location filter added to Recovery Assessments Register (CW-1018)

• Weed & Pest Assessments Register Datagrid improvements (CW-1013)

• Bulk Edit and Export to Report added to Weed & Pest Assessments Register Actions (CW-1013)

• Recovery Case status icons

Fixed

• EM Impact report

• Need & Task report

• Weed & Pest Assessments report (CW-1013)

• Library report (CW-798)

• Issue with duplicate attachments

• Import form now shows correct matching rule options for asset imports

• Adding new contact to relief registrations

• Error when filtering by events or region in Reports

• Work Summary datagrid labels

5.41

January 29, 2026: Maintenance release

Improved

• Ensure default value set for 'ATSIOrigin' when Case is created from an Assessment

• Added status and priority label data to Recovery Reports (CW-987)

Fixed

• EMV success message links to new URL

• CQL multi-select searches such as classifications with '_' in it

5.40

January 28, 2026: Improvements to FEIMS V5

5.39

January 27, 2026: Maintenance release

Fixed

• Assignment filtering for positions with "&" in their name

5.38

January 26, 2026: Maintenance release

Improved

• Images automatically compression set to 50% quality by default to reduce size (setting can be overridden in config with 'photo.quality = 75')

5.37

January 15, 2026: Mobile app and offline experience improvements

New

• Mobile app features

  • New offline experience allows more control over uploading and downloading updates

  • Save your edits as draft on mobile device to edit later before uploading

• Imports

  • Assessments (FRV 2026) import parser now available

  • TSV file extension now supported

Improved

• Mobile app

  • Improved low network support, automatically switches to save your edit on the device if the network drops out while saving

  • Message sign out page indicates drafts will be lost if not saved

• Mapping improvements

• CQL searching register items with numbers at the start (e.g. addresses)

• Asset searching requires less exact matches to match assets in the database, better handling of commas, road types, states, postcodes and substrings

• EM Impact report and integration updates (CW-981)

• Enabled 'Insert' rule in Asset Contact General Import (CW-900)

• Public offer form (and Resource volunteer schema) now display the volunteer contact schema with specific volunteering fields (including email, contact preferences, etc)

• Asset searching via import

Fixed

• Various offline saving issues (mobile app)

• ATSI Origin field in Recovery Case import and Relief Registration import

• S3 file upload filename matching

• Contacts import matching rules (CW-978)

• Assignment field now shows in Work Summaries for Payroll Officers (CW-348)

• EM Impact Reporting

• Problems importing photos into Assessments for initial impact

Q4, 2025 (10 releases)

5.35

December 17, 2025: Communications, Contacts and import improvements

Improved

• Location text search now supports like matching to better handle variations in address formatting and street numbering (CW-767)

• EM Impact Recovery Portal reporting has been updated for Victorian councils

• Asset Infrastructure import Status field added

• Communications recipient selector user interface support for large lists improvements

Fixed

• Contacts report now correctly displays position names

• Contacts register bulk actions merge function removed

• Recovery contacts communication addresses for sending SMS

• Communications fix for adding bulk recipients

• Map controls in app on iPad in register map view (CW-864)

• Map in app snaps back to previous view when moving or zooming into property (CW-865)

5.33

December 1, 2025: Mobile app changes to improve the experience for users in the field and API improvements

Improved

• Reduce or customise number of default records loading on map to improve performance when working with large data sets (CW-863)

• Make header and footer sticky when selecting items to add to offline store to make it easier for users to work with offline items (CW-826)

• API changes for improved backward compatibility

• Sign out option for users that have access to no Sites

Fixed

• Resources and position group fields

• Diagnostics page Cognito auth token refresh

5.32

November 27, 2025: Maintenance release including mobile app improvements for transit inspections

Improved

• Mobile App improvements: Intents; NFC, QR and barcode scanning; Activity counts; API configuration for third party application integration

• Apply bulk action to all records in filter query to support larger bulk actions (CW-850)

• Time limit spinner during long processes to improve experience for users (CW-790)

• Asset Property General Import (Vicmap import) improvement to handling of invalid geometry

Fixed

• Status of failed for background tasks that have timed out

5.31

November 20, 2025: Contains Single Sign On (SSO), Reporting improvements and miscellaneous fixes

Improved

• New sign in user interface for multi-tenant Single Sign On (SSO)

• Ability to configure the visibility of reports (some old reports are now hidden in default configuration)

• Asset Code search added to the Fire Prevention search filters

Fixed

• Searching reports is no longer case sensitive

• Notification messages for FPN assignment (CW-867)

• Site name in site selector (CW-791)

• Additional measures to prevent mail merges from timing out during PDF generation

5.30

November 3, 2025: A maintenance release including System Administration, Fire Prevention Notice improvements and mobile app fixes. Includes follow up maintenance releases 50.30.1 and 50.30.2.

Improved

• Renamed Offline section to 'Offline Settings' to improve clarity for users of the mobile interface

• Added permissions to Fire Prevention Notices positions FPN Administrators and FPN Coordinator to allow importing of asset contacts

• Fire Prevention Notice Assign To field now defaults to Unassigned instead of the signed in FPN Officer

• Fire Prevention Override fields can now be queried

• Location search area filter has been added to multiple registers

Fixed

• Removed import error messages from screen to avoid import loading issues

• Fire Prevent Notice Override Owner Details now displays on notices if a property is not selected

• Existing Fire Prevention items display on map when creating a new item

• Issues preventing some reports, merges, imports and Vicmap from completing (CW-836, CW-856)

• Corrections made to in app instructions for importing Assessments

5.29

October 30, 2025: A maintenance release including System Administration, Event, Fire Prevention Notice improvements and search fixes

Improved

• Updated Event Duty user interface to hide events where a user has no assigned positions to makes going on duty simpler and easier.

• Changed Fire Prevention Notice icons from fire to asset for clearer representation.

• Importing asset contacts now requires the Region field to be selected, ensuring data completeness.

Fixed

• Resolved an intermittent issue that caused missing registers in newly created Events.

• Fixed failures when generating PDF mail merges.

• Fixed large imports failing to complete.

• Fixed CQL search queries that combine full-text and boolean logic (e.g., “Rick OR Morty”).

• Corrected blue Fire Prevention Notice icons not displaying properly.

5.28

October 22, 2025: New administration and Fire Prevention Notice features and fixes

Improved

• Added map icons for Geospatial features based on their category (CW-713)

• Added an activity log to System Administration registers, covering Positions, Position Groups, Mail Merge Templates, Lookups, Map Layers and Imports (CW-765)

• Enabled Tags in bulk edit for Fire Prevention Notices (CW-796)

• Set the default Property search asset type for Fire Prevention Notices to Properties (Vicmap) (CW-830)

Fixed

• The New Import button now appears correctly when viewing an event. (CW-825)

• Asset search now returns results when the Type field is set to All.

5.27

October 17, 2025: A maintenance release with a range of minor improvements and fixes particularly to assets and the mobile app.

Improved

• Single property assets are now searchable offline (CW-810)

• Background task scheduling, significantly reducing the time waiting for mail merges

Fixed

• Geospatial search fixes on imported items (CW-737)

• Issues with displaying assets on updated items

• Typo affecting token refresh

5.26

October 9, 2025: A maintenance release with a range of minor improvements.

Improved

• Import form improvements to show matching rules

• Import form result large output is now being added to a file download

Fixed

• Properties (Vicmap) asset search fixes

• Fire Rescue Victoria integration Geo Json fix (CW-793)

• Register option for registers not in the event (CW-723)

5.25

October 2, 2025: Improved photo handling in the app, plus a range of minor improvements.

Improved

• Improvements to the media processor command

• Resize images taken from the camera and gallery from app (5.24.1)

Fixed

• Bypass State Machine in status form field (CW-775)

• EMIA Summary report fixes

Q3, 2025 (6 releases)

5.24

September 25, 2025: Improved FPN, better photo handling in the app, added GERF support for Gippsland councils, and added initial EM Impact reporting support.

New

• Add exif information to images, stamp images if configured (CW-567)

• Save photos to gallery if configured to do so (CW-777)

• Existing records to show on map in their status colour (CW-649)

• EM-Impact report upgrade to CW5 (CW-740)

Improved

• Thumbnail tuning to make them smaller (CW-748)

• Added DL user positions (CW-702)

• FPN should assign to current user when created (CW-776)

• FPN Cut Grass fields are now displaying correctly (CW-773)

• Integration updates to enable Council sites to send data to the GERF site (CW-127)

• Removed covid fields from Relief import

• Added new ATSI metrics (EM-1 and EM-2) and new Private Asset Detail 2025 report

Fixed

• Restore 'Create a Need/Task' visibility in Recovery Case (CW-774)

• KML mime type not understood by uppy, so using the file extension (CW-676)

• Fixed datagrid, searching and filtering for weeds module

• Fixed Import instructions field mapping to show sub-register import fields

5.23

September 15, 2025: Improved asset searching and app performance when offline, and introduced EM Impact reporting.

Improved

• Select asset from map should not pick “All” by default (CW-709)

• Generate a friendly name for items created offline (CW-701)

• Select from map while online - show the property in a different colour (CW-360)

• Duty: when selecting an event, this now disables and greys out the other duty selection buttons (helps avoid double-selection)

• EMV Reports

• Renamed datagrid field amount to costEstimate, added costActual field to datagrid

Fixed

• Help links in password/account section (CW-44)

• View offline items when selecting the register and clicking on offline filter (CW-731)

• App: offline sync refreshed access token (CW-724)

5.22

September 4, 2025: A maintenance release with a range of minor improvements.

Improved

• EM impact report in V4 (export only) (CW-569)

Fixed

• A&TSI field carry across from Relief -Transition to Case (CW-704)

• Hi Priority counter and various search filters (CW-747)

5.21

August 28, 2025: Improved counter calculations, security fixes and more.

Improved

• Add security permission around generateMerge button for FPN & Permit (CW-632)

• Enable rostering availability register and report (CW-660)

• Copy mail merge template feature missing (CW-727)

Fixed

• CLI, command exit code and CI issues

• Counter and search filter fixes / changes

• Counters now recalculate hourly

5.20

August 20, 2025: User Interface improvements and other fixes

Improved

• New UI for selecting security policies for a position (CW-605)

• Clicking on map to pick assets now working when layers are active (CW-637)

• Damage Level categories - update for Cases & Infrastructure (CW-633)

• Ability to set fake location for testers (CW-710)

Fixed

• Resolved issue with map focus when picking assets (CW-711)

• Links in help menu (CW-675)

• UI for verifying mobile number (CW-475)

• Public form fixes (CW-517)

• Going off duty when signing out (CW-655)

5.19

August 7, 2025: A maintenance release with a range of minor improvements.

Improved

• Added helper text for users that they need the eventId before proceeding

• Moved instructions to meta area and categorisation back to main area

• Moved categorisation field set to meta to see instructions more clearly

• Show asset information when viewing items offline

• Exclude search areas from asset listing

• Query optimisations (improves database performance)

• Removed lag in nearby checkbox switching

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