Element451

Eric Range

Michael Stephenson

Kootayba Chihabi

Stay up to date with the latest product and feature updates, enhancements, and bug fixes—all in one place.

Feature Releases

Review information about upcoming feature releases.

📣 Upcoming Feature Releases

A look at upcoming features and improvements

🆕 Planned Releases

Individual + monthly product updates and release notes.

2026

🗓️ Release Notes | January 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | February 2026

🗓️ Monthly Release Notes | March 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | April 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | May 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | June 2026

2026 Monthly Release Notes

UI/UX Improvements for Bolt Agents & Bolt Agent Jobs | January 2026

Add a layer of protection to safeguard contact data updates based on email matching.

Email Verification for Form Submissions | January 2026

Expanded Day-by-Day Availability Settings for Messenger and Bolt Agents | January 2026

Improved Control Over Custom Field Access for Bolt Agents | January 2026

Contacts must now enter their email address before unsubscribing

Update to Email Unsubscribe | Febraury 2026

Reduce duplicates created by imports and other improvements for related to email identifies

Updates to Imports and School Email Matching | February 2026

A further update to allow new identities to be created when used in in matching.

Update to Imports & Empty Identities Used in Matching | February 2026

Introducing new segment filters for Text Area fields

Text Area Segment Filters | February 2026

Expanding email verification to Events and Appointments and introducing universal login.

Authentication for Events & Appointments | February 2026

Team Appointments | March 2026

PayPal Webhook Support for Payment Gateways | March 2026

Student Success Insights Dashboard | March 2026

Giving admins more granular control over permissions for Tasks.

Task Permissions Updates | March 2026

Course Tokens for Campaigns | March 2026

Documents Bin Interface Refresh + Self-Service Tag Management | March 2026

Now manage multiple event sites, each customized for specific event types.

Multi-Event Site Support | March 2026

Now offering MFA codes as back up to email for internal users

Phone (SMS) MFA for Internal Users

Dynamic Conversation Assignment Using Contact Assignee | March 2026

Forms Interface Refresh + Folder & Tag Organization | March 2026

Improved Import + Export Date Field Timezone Handling | March 2026

Intelligent Admissions Rule Loop Alerts + Activity Attribution | March 2026

Identity Verification Rules | March 2026

Zendesk Knowledge Source Integration (Closed Beta) | March 2026

Update to support the new IPEDS Race and Subgroup Standards

New Race & Ethnicity Field Group | April 2026

Update to behavior first introduced in March 2026

Import + Export Email Notification Update | April 2026

New ACT Composite Score (No Science) Field | April 2026

Configurable SSO User Matching for External Users | April 2026

SMS Campaign Messages in Conversations and Bolt Context | April 2026

Coming Soon: Updates to Visibility Groups

System Status Widget | April 2026

A summary of Element451's platform-level accessibility work ahead of the ADA Title II deadline, and what your institution is responsible for.

Element451 Accessibility Update | April 2026

Document Permissions Updates | April 2026

Campaigns Index Page Redesign: Unified Table, Folders, and Tags | April 2026

Case Management: Segment Filters, Cross-Module Relations, Workflow Integration, and Templates

Case Management (Closed Beta) Updates | April 2026

Visibility Groups Updates | April 2026

Date of Birth Visibility Permission | May 2026

Permissions Updates May 2026

Staff and faculty can now have a School ID or SSO ID identity for SSO matching, expanding internal user SSO beyond email.

Internal SSO: Match Internal Users by School ID or SSO ID | May 2026

May 26, 2026 Update on a bug fix deployed on Friday, May 22, 2026

Decisions Listing Page Bug | May 2026

Event Permission Updates | June 2026

Configure authentication methods independently across student-facing web applications

External User (Student) Authentication Updates | June 2026

Updates to improve user experience, minimize duplicate records & apps, and provide clearer messaging.

Application Portal Updates | June 2026

Teach Bolt Agents to handle institution-specific scenarios with your own skills.

🔖 Custom Skills for Bolt Agents | June 2026

Release notes for the Snowflake data share expansion adding five new shared tables.

Snowflake Data Sharing: Five New Shared Tables | June 2026

Case Management is now in Open Beta for all partners on the Student Success package, bringing Alerts and Cases together with Bolt AI analysis and automation.

Case Management Open Beta | June 2026

Improvements designed to cover more edge cases and empower staff to dive deeper on questionable (or valid) verifications.

ID Verification Enhancements | June 2026

2026 Release Notes

2025

🗓️ Release Notes | December 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | November 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | October 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | September 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | August 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | July 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | June 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | May 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | April 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | March 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | February 2025

🗓️ Release Notes | January 2025

2025 Monthly Release Notes

Export Mappings Update | December 2025

Bolt Agent Job Folders | December 2025

Identity Verification | December 2025

Authorize.net - Now Preferred Payment Provider | December 2025

Access Rules | December 2025

Bolt Agent Job Shortcuts | November 2025

Grade Risk Detection | November 2025

Native Course Integration: Ethos for Banner + Colleague | November 2025

Bolt Transcript Evaluation Agent | November 2025

Enhanced URL Filtering for Knowledge Hub Website Sources | November 2025

Permission Updates for Contact Record Access | October 2025

Decision Packages Now Available on Application Sites and StudentHub | October 2025

Enhancements to Jobs & Approvals | October 2025

WhatsApp Self-Service Onboarding
 | September 2025

Shared Email Support Between Contacts + Internal Users | September 2025

Bolt Discovery: Introducing Spaces & Smarter Answers

Unified + Expanded Google Tag Manager Integration | September 2025

Knowledge Hub Sitemap Improvements | September 2025

Bolt Agent Job Enhancements | September 2025

Bolt Agent Jobs Insights Dashboard | September 2025

Anonymous Conversations for Messenger + New Bolt Agent Settings + Voice Updates | September 2025

Bolt Discovery File Upload Source Citations | August 2025

Bolt Staff Agent Plugins with Zapier Integration [Beta] | August 2025

Bolt Analysis for Conversations + Redesigned Sidebar | August 2025

Enhanced Deduplication Logic for SSNs | August 2025

Improvement to Daily Sync Detectors for URL/Website Sources | August 2025

Updated Payment Descriptions Sent to Payment Providers | August 2025

🚀 Increased Bolt Jobs Capacity — Now 10x Bigger | August 2025

Task Description WYSIWYG Editor | August 2025

Import + Export Individual Permissions | July 2025

Bolt Agent Jobs Individual Permissions | July 2025

Bolt Agent Jobs | June 2025

Advanced Voice Mode | June 2025

Course Data + LMS Integrations | June 2025

Google + Outlook Calendar Integration for Appointments | June 2025

Customizable Appointments Site Header Color | May 2025

Improvements to Appointments | May 2025

Bolt Application Reader Now in Free Preview | April 2025

Bolt Fraud Detector Agent – Free Preview Extended | April 2025

New Skill for Bolt Agents: User Data Access | April 2025

Rebranding Assistants to Agents: Powering the AI Workforce | April 2025

ACT Science Subtest Optional & Superscore Logic Updates | March 2025

Akamai Security Services Causing API Errors | February 2025

Bolt Discovery Improvements | March 2025

Phone Registration Self-Service | March 2025

Bolt Application Reader (Closed Beta) | February 2025

AI Automation Updates | February 2025

Transition to Usage-Based Pricing | February 2025

Advanced Voice Mode for AI Assistants (Beta) | February 2025

AI Content Review for SMS Conversations | February 2025

Element451 Plugin for WordPress | January 2025

MFA Requirement Change | January 2025

2025 Release Notes

2024

🗓️ Release Notes | December 2024

🗓️ Release Notes | November 2024

🗓️ Release Notes | October 2024

🗓️ Release Notes | September 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of August 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | August 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of July 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | July 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of June 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | June 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of May 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | May 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of April 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | April 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of March 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | March 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of February 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | February 2024

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of January 2024.

🗓️ Release Notes | January 2024

2024 Monthly Release Notes

Enhanced Knowledge Base Source Management | December 2024

Saved Reply Tokens  | December 2024

Internal User Login Acknowledgment | December 2024

Custom Conversation Views | December 2024

Enhancements to StudentHub Network | November 2024

Self-Service Payment Gateways | November 2024

Conditional Decision Criteria | November 2024

Post-Admit Decision Checklist Items | November 2024

StudentHub | November 2024

AI Fraudulent Application Detection | November 2024

Update to In-App Call Threading | October 2024

More information on the slow system performance on Oct 21 2024

System Performance Incident | October 21, 2024

Bulk Delete Contacts by Segment | October 2024

SFTP Management | October 2024

StudentHub (Beta Release - Select Partners) | October 2024

Content Moderation Settings for Bolt Student Assistants | September 2024

Option to Disable ReCAPTCHA on Forms | September 2024

Administer Media Manager Permission | September 2024

Updates on the Google Drive Rate Limits and its impact on Exports

Google Drive Failure Incident | September 30, 2024

Insights: Applications + Discovery Dashboards + Updates to Conversations Dashboard | August 2024

Conversations + Campaigns Insights Dashboards Enhancements | August 2024

Temporary Removal of YouTube Video Source Option | August 2024

Seat Limitations for Live Support | August 2024

2024 Release Notes

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