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šŸ—“ļø Release Notes | February 2026

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Written by Michael Stephenson
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This article keeps you informed about the latest developments from Element451. Every month, we highlight everything from bug fixes and minor improvements to new features and major enhancements.

We update this article regularly throughout the month as new releases, improvements, and bug fixes are rolled out. Please check back frequently to stay informed.

To explore other months or specific release notes, visit our Release Notes collection. You should also check out our Planned Releases to get a glimpse of what's to come.


New and Enhanced Features

Update to Email Unsubscribe

We’ve improved how unsubscribe requests are processed when recipients click the unsubscribe link in campaign messages. Now, users are asked to enter their email address before being unsubscribed.

Updates to Imports and School Email Matching

We’ve released improvements to how school email addresses are handled across imports, authentication, and public forms. This update introduces smarter cross-matching during data imports to prevent duplicate user records, tightens restrictions on matching field updates, and adds safeguards against unintended email updates from public forms.

Fixes and Improvements

Applications + Decisions

  • Improved

    • Added Azerbaijan Republic Subject Olympiad and International Olympiad as new test evaluation types.

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where decision criteria displayed conditions matched against any application on a student’s profile rather than the specific application being reviewed.

    • Resolved an issue where the Application Housing field could not be updated on a student’s record.

    • Resolved an issue where test scores for certain evaluations were not displaying in student applications.

    • Resolved an issue where a submitted document via a recommendation form linked to a checklist item was missing from a decision’s Documents tab.

Appointments

  • Improved

    • Resolved an issue where the save button was not accessible when editing an appointment time on a mobile device.

  • Fixed

Bolt Agents for Students

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where the Bolt Agent used unnatural phrasing when handling program acronyms, redundantly expanding abbreviations during voice conversations.

Bolt Agents for Staff

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where the ā€œSee Full Detailsā€ button in the Staff Agent sidebar did not function when accessed outside the Bolt Agent Jobs context, such as from Appointments or other modules.

Bolt Agent Jobs

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where a Bolt Agent failed to execute a scheduled callback to a student after the student’s goal was marked as completed in the Job.

Bolt Discovery

  • Improved

  • Fixed

Bolt Knowledge Hub

  • Improved

    • Added ā€œAdvisingā€ as a new Knowledge Hub content category.

    • Enhanced how Bolt Agents reliably extract and return data from JSON-formatted knowledge base sources.

  • Fixed

Campaigns

  • Improved

    • Enhanced unsubscribe handling so that unsubscribed email addresses are now also filtered from CC and BCC recipient lists.

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where CTA buttons in email campaigns generated by the Campaign Creator Agent were not clickable.

Conversations

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where BoltAI-generated reply suggestions in Conversations were written from the student’s point of view instead of the staff member’s perspective.

Courses

  • Improved

    • Added help text to the Brightspace LMS Semester Settings page clarifying the requirement to add term codes to the Terms data source.

  • Fixed

    • Resolved a text error on the Native Course Integrations settings page.

    • Resolved an issue where the Ethos integration permissions check froze the UI instead of returning an error message when API access was not properly configured.

Data + Insights

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved a recurring import error (ā€œError Saving File Modelā€) that caused records to be skipped during file imports.

    • Resolved an issue where the Schedule and Run Import buttons remained disabled on an import task after a disconnected Google Drive connector was re-enabled.

Events

  • Improved

  • Fixed

Forms

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where Access Rules that blocked a form submission did not display the expected user-facing error message.

General

  • Improved

  • Fixed

Journeys

  • Improved

  • Fixed

Microsites

  • Improved

  • Fixed

Organizations

  • Improved

  • Fixed

Pages

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where Home Address fields were not pre-populating on pages using the locker with pre-populated data blocks.

People

  • Improved

    • Added phone and email fields to the Family Member edit form on student profile cards.

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where territories were not re-evaluating when user profile fields were updated.

    • Resolved an issue where the Application Housing field did not display its data source values on the student profile card.

Settings + Permissions

  • Improved

    • Updated SMS phone number registration to comply with new carrier requirements, including a required Terms of Service URL field and updated registration form content.

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue with generating External User SAML/SSO metadata for single sign-on configuration.

StudentHub

  • Improved

  • Fixed

Surveys

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where survey XLSX exports remained stuck in the ā€œExportingā€ state and no file was downloaded.

Tasks

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where task templates did not allow selecting more than one assignee.

Workflows + Rules

  • Improved

  • Fixed

    • Resolved an issue where rules failed to create parent profiles due to orphaned family member references from previously removed relationships.

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