Performance - Fix - Fixed the Add Ad Hoc Review flow. The Add Ad Hoc Review button on the Employee Performance Reviews and Performance Review Rounds pages opens the Add Performance Review page. After the form is submitted, the parent page now refreshes automatically, so the newly generated review form appears without a manual refresh.
Recruitment - Improvement - Hiring a candidate no longer opens the Candidate Documents Mapping form when the candidate has no documents to map.
Recruitment - Fix - Fixed an issue where hiring a candidate did not mark the starter as started. The hire now completes correctly and continues to the Job Assignment form.
Data Export - Fix - Fixed SFTP connection failures in Data Export. The SSH.NET library was updated to version 2024.1.0, which adds support for the newer SSH key exchange and encryption algorithms that some servers require. Data Export jobs that send CSV files to such SFTP servers now connect successfully.
Settings and Configurations - Company Settings - Improvement - Company Settings → Advanced now has an Outgoing Email Settings section with separate fields for server, port, encryption (TLS), sender, authentication, and credentials. It replaces the previous single-line SMTP setting, which is no longer displayed or used. When you update to 26.4.1, existing values are moved from the old setting into the new fields automatically.
Settings and Configurations - Company Settings - Improvement - When Use External SMTP is on, or Authentication is set to Authenticated, emails and appointments are sent through these settings for the whole connection. Otherwise, they are sent through the farm’s Central Administration SMTP server without credentials.
Competency Framework - Improvement - Job Role Competency Assignment Rules now handle inactive competencies. The job that applies the rules skips any rule whose competency is inactive, and the Job Role Competency Assignment Rules page has a new Competency Status column showing whether the competency linked to each rule is inactive.
Reports - Improvement - The Candidate and Vacancy filters on report pages and in the Report Designer now work as picker controls instead of drop-down lists. The picker dialog shows up to 100 items at a time, with a label saying that only the first 100 are shown and, where the total is known, how many there are (for example, 100 of 243). This keeps pickers usable when a list contains thousands of items.
Reports - Fix - Fixed the picker filter not selecting its saved value when it is set after the initial page load. When you edit a report, the saved picker value is now selected.
Reports - Improvement - Optimized report generation, in particular for the Candidate Work History report with a Candidate or Vacancy filter. Reports on large data sets now load several times faster.