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What shipped, month by month.

Only work that has shipped, written for the people who use it. Newest first.

Log Book QR Labels, Service Accounts & Enterprise Email

14 changes

New

Log books

  • QR labels — print labels for a log book on A4 sheets or thermal stock. Scanning one opens that book's entry form on a phone, and the label keeps working after the log book is revised.
  • Independent review — a log book can require that an entry is reviewed by someone other than the person who filed it. It is on by default for controlled records.
  • Clone a log book into an independent draft, and route its approval to the right reviewers.
  • Service accounts — give an integration its own identity and API key, separate from any person. Administrators create and revoke them; the key is shown once.
  • Sub-tasks on any record — break a workflow step into sub-tasks on every record type, not just a few.
  • Team view in My Tasks — supervisors can see their team's tasks and filter by what is due soon.
  • Custom metrics — define your own metrics with a no-code builder, including on your own custom record types, with separate permissions for viewing and building analytics.

Improved

  • Redesigned email notifications — every notification email now uses one consistent, branded layout.
  • Document custodianship is now separate from editing the content, and only a document's owner can reassign it.
  • Reassign who verifies a training record, and see your manager on My Trainings. Trainees can no longer verify their own training.
  • Notification rules can notify outside email addresses.
  • A specification now flags a target value that falls outside its own limits.
  • A friendlier editor toolbar on phones.

Security

  • Permissions tightened across training, equipment, products, automation rules, departments, notifications, audits and complaints, and search results now respect each module's read permission.

Unified Record Statuses, Multi-site Users & Effectiveness Checks

19 changes

New

  • Unified record statuses — nonconformances, CAPAs and change requests now share one simple lifecycle: Draft, Open, Closed or Cancelled.
  • Effectiveness checks — schedule a follow-up check after a CAPA closes, with reminders until it is done.
  • Multi-site users — assign people to a primary site plus additional sites, and their access follows.
  • Related records — link records across modules and see the connections on each record.
  • External sharing — share a record with someone outside your workspace through a link protected by an emailed one-time code, with every view logged.
  • Bulk document import — bring existing documents in at scale, with document tags.
  • Auditor and auditee views — internal audits and external audits of your organization are now tracked separately, with an audit readiness view and a versioned standards library.
  • Workflow step grouping — group steps into sections, with a shared quality category across modules.

Log books

  • Log books are now approved before use and replaced, rather than edited, when their fields change.
  • Name a supervisor and additional reviewers for each log book.
  • Schedule log book checks from an instrument's calibration or preventive-maintenance due date.
  • Only people trained on a log book's linked documents can be assigned it or file entries.

Improved

  • Document approvals: choose whether a step needs all or any of its approvers, build a one-off approval flow, and save a new document as a draft.
  • A redesigned workflow builder and a workflow-first create flow for CAPAs and change requests.
  • ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 sampling tables and custom sampling plans for QC inspection.
  • Idle sessions are signed out in the browser as well as on the server.
  • Quick views and filters moved into the table toolbar.

Security

  • Status changes on quality events, QC inspection lots, retain samples and log entries are now checked in the database, so a step cannot be skipped.
  • Log entry revision history is now append-only in the database, and skipping a scheduled check on a controlled record now takes an electronic signature.

Multi-factor Authentication, Retain Samples & Item Master

11 changes

New

  • Multi-factor authentication — authenticator-app codes at sign-in, with a self-service security page.
  • Retain samples — a registry of retained samples against their inspection lots, with storage locations, retention dates and signed disposal.
  • Item master — one register of the items your specifications, inspections and nonconformances refer to.
  • Quality complaints — a dedicated complaint file, separate from customer support tickets.
  • Training curricula — group courses into curricula and assign them together.
  • Delay steps in workflows — pause a workflow until a date, for example before a follow-up check.
  • Document collaboration — collaborator tasks and document chat with notifications.

Improved

  • Save failures are now reported clearly instead of being silently discarded.
  • Report date-range filters, a camera option for profile photos, and a lookups dropdown.

Security

  • Status changes on documents, CAPAs, nonconformances, change requests, audits and complaints are now checked in the database, so a step cannot be skipped.
  • Closed several permission gaps in user and role management and in training completion.

Supplier Portal, QC Inspection, Quality Events & Audits

11 changes

New

  • Supplier Portal — give your suppliers a secure space of their own to view requests, upload documents, and share files, without ever seeing the rest of your workspace.
  • QC inspection — specifications, inspection lots with per-sample results, a defect test library, AQL acceptance and disposition, and a shortcut to raise a nonconformance.
  • Equipment calibration — track calibration due dates on your instruments.
  • Quality events — log deviations, near-misses and observations quickly, including from the supplier portal.
  • Audit management — plan audit programs, run audits and record findings.
  • Custom fields — add your own fields to records.
  • E-signatures on corrective actions — CAPA steps now require a verified electronic signature before they can be completed.
  • Your own workspace address — each company signs in at its own subdomain.

Improved

  • A refreshed design system across the app, with dark mode and responsive layouts.
  • Author and owner roles on documents, and copy-to notifications.
  • Recover your workspace links by email from the sign-in page.

CAPA, Risk & Training

13 changes

New

  • CAPA management — run corrective and preventive actions end to end, with multi-step ownership, effectiveness checks, and scheduled follow-up reviews.
  • Root cause & risk assessment templates — build reusable templates with your own categories and scoring.
  • Training management — attach assessments to documents, track who has been trained, and assign training automatically.

Document control & periodic review

  • Raise change requests that flow through your approval process.
  • Reopen a closed approval step when something needs another look.
  • Automatic, hash-anchored PDF snapshots whenever a document becomes effective, with all attachments combined into one file.
  • Import existing PDFs to bring documents already in use under control.
  • Log books & field logging — controlled log books with mobile logging, a unified inbox, and 'My Queue' and 'Field Records' views.
  • Shared-with panels on documents, CAPAs, and nonconformances so you can see exactly who has access.
  • Clearer activity history and friendlier error messages across the app.

Fixed

  • Resolved security and data-isolation issues in the approval workflow.
  • Added clear empty states across tables when there is no data yet.

Security

  • Tightened ownership checks so people can only act on the records they are entitled to.

Real-time Updates & Nonconformance

7 changes

New

  • Real-time updates — lists and records update across users as changes happen, without a page refresh.
  • Nonconformance (NC) workflows — log nonconformances with containment actions, cost and supplier-credit tracking, and a full review and rejection flow.
  • More flexible workflows — multi-step approvals assigned to roles or people, configurable outcomes, sub-steps, and bulk task notifications.
  • Product catalog — manage your products in one place.
  • Supplier document requests — request documents from suppliers and track their status.
  • Document collaboration — add collaborators to documents and get notified on document activity.
  • Faster, more reliable file storage and quicker audit-log lookups.

Multi-company, Suppliers, Comments & Approvals

8 changes

New

  • Multi-company support — fully isolated workspaces so each company's data stays private and separate.
  • Suppliers — onboard suppliers, manage their documents and sites, and request documents from them.
  • Comments & collaboration — comment threads on documents and reject-with-comment, so feedback stays in context.
  • Approval workflows & e-signatures — route documents through approvals with changes-requested and cancelled states, electronic signatures, and clear status badges.
  • Audit logs — a clear history of activity across your workspace.
  • Email & notifications — invite users and stay notified, with password reset and timezone support.

Fixed

  • Closed data-isolation gaps so information never crosses between companies.
  • Forms no longer hold onto unsaved data in the browser.

Roles, Permissions & Document Templates

5 changes

New

  • Roles & permissions — define roles and control exactly what each person can see and do.
  • Document templates — create document types and templates with version statuses (including Effective), inline editing, and section builders.
  • User management — manage users with profile pages, invitations, and personal colors.
  • Rich text editing — a full-featured editor for document content.
  • A refreshed, more modern interface.

Form Builder Foundation

5 changes

New

  • Drag-and-drop form builder — design forms visually with a range of field types and flexible layouts.
  • Records — capture submissions with automatic record numbering and filtering by template.
  • Form templates — reusable templates with statuses and a 'Copy Form Link' option for easy sharing.
  • Application foundation — the core app shell and company dashboard.

Notes

  • The very first version of QAbility.

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