Element451

Michael Stephenson

Kootayba Chihabi

Eric Range

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2026

🗓️ Release Notes | January 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | February 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | March 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | April 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | May 2026

🗓️ Release Notes | June 2026

Improvements, updates, and bug fixes for the month of July 2026.

🗓️ Release Notes | July 2026

2026 Monthly Release Notes

Bolt Agent Job triggers now support a Repeatable toggle, allowing a contact to be re-enrolled after a prior enrollment reaches a terminal state.

Repeatable Enrollments for Bolt Agent Jobs | July 2026

Bolt Deduplication brings AI-analyzed duplicate detection to Element451, with a confidence level, plain-language reasoning, and a recommended record on every flagged pair. Your team makes every call.

Bolt Deduplication | July 2026

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 | March 2026

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

Removes the ICS calendar feed option in favor of the more secure native integration with Outlook and Google.

Retired: ICS Calendar Feed | July 2026

Support for older Zapier <> Element451 versions are being retired.

Support for Older Zapier Versions Ending | July 2026

New permission added to restrict access to payment information on profiles.

View Payment Permission | July 2026

Element451 now automatically clears eligible email suppressions for authenticated sender domains, improving delivery rates.

Improved Email Delivery for Authenticated Sender Domains | July 2026

Timeline for Case Management | July 2026

The Network Role token is now available as a dynamic assignee option in Conversation Rules, the Workflows Create Task action, and Case Management Automation Rules, with Bolt Agent Jobs support…

Dynamic Assignment Using Network Roles in Convo Rules, Workflows, and Case Management Rules | July 2026

New permission added and default behavior updated to further protect SSN information.

View Masked SSN Permission | July 2026

Update for customers on Credit Usage Pricing

Bolt Transcript Evaluation Pricing | July 2026

Four application site improvements: a redesigned Tips and Info experience, clearer checklist status chips, auto-generated QR codes, and a confetti toggle for greeting messages.

Application Site/Portal Improvements | July 2026

GPT-Realtime-2.1 is now available in Open Beta for Bolt Voice Agents using the OpenAI realtime voice path with all Agent voices that say "BETA"

Voice that listens, adapts, and gets more done | July 2026

2026 Release Notes

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