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September 2026 Pre-Release Notes

On September 11, 2026, we will bring configurable Assessment Stages, new elapsed-time fields, and assessment-wide evidence access in Smart Evaluation. These updates improve lifecycle visibility and reduce manual follow-up.

Pre-Release Notes Summary

Assessments

Assessments gain configurable lifecycle tracking, stronger evidence handling in Smart Evaluation, and a new way to collect structured information as records rather than free text.

BlueVoyant highlights

  • Assessment Stages: Track assessments through configurable Stages, Substages, and Substage Owners that reflect your workflow, so teams can see where each Vendor is in the lifecycle and how long it has been there.
    • Configure Lifecycle Steps: Administrators define Stages, Substages, and default Substage Owners, including stages such as Internal and External. Stage and Substage values are reflected on the associated Vendor and Assessment records.
    • Automate Substage Updates: Platform events such as publishing an assessment, receiving a response, or sending a clarification update Substages automatically. Administrators can also create custom Substages such as On Hold.
    • Measure Cycle Time: Reports and dashboards show time spent in each Stage and Substage, including time spent On Hold and ownership history, for both Vendors and Assessments.
  • Required Answer Comments: Users with questionnaire management access can now require answer comments on specific questions, simplifying questionnaire setup and reducing the need for adding follow-ups to ask for detail.
  • Find Evidence Across the Entire Assessment: Powered by CentrlX, Smart Evaluation can now evaluate documents attached anywhere in an assessment, not only documents attached to the current question. This helps Smart Evaluation recognize relevant evidence across questions and means respondents can upload a supporting document once for use throughout the assessment.

General Enhancements

  • Collect Structured Records: A new List answer type lets respondents submit records mapped to Custom Objects. Use Table answers for free-form grids; use List answers when responses require defined fields, validation, and mapping to platform records. Questionnaire managers choose which fields respondents see and edit, while evaluators review returned records and select which ones to map back to the platform. This reduces manual reentry for information such as key people, systems, or subprocessors.
    • Configure Exactly What Respondents See and Edit: Each field in a List answer can be given its own label, set to Editable, Locked, or Hidden, and marked required or optional. List settings also control whether respondents can add new records or remove existing ones. This allows known information to be prefilled, protects values that should not change, and still gives respondents room to complete the picture.
    • Map List Answers Back to Custom Objects: List answers are included in the Map Answers workflow. Evaluators can view the records currently held on the parent record, review the records returned in the assessment, select which ones to accept, and map them back. For example, when a Vendor reports a change to its subprocessors, the new and updated records can be pushed straight onto the Vendor record.
  • Dynamic Assessments: Display Rules now support Multi Select attributes with four new operators: contains any of, is exactly, is empty, and is not empty. This makes it possible to show or hide questions based on multi-value attributes like region, product type, or service line.
  • Ignore Formatting-Only Answer Changes: Answers will no longer be marked as changed when the only differences are spaces, line breaks, or formatting. This reduces clutter and helps evaluators focus on substantive changes.

Platform

This release focuses on getting more out of the data already in the platform: new ways to report across Assessments and Products, bulk actions that replace repetitive one-at-a-time work, and clearer records of who did what.

BlueVoyant highlights

  • Create TRACK Supplier Instances Directly: BlueVoyant users can now create and configure TRACK Supplier instances directly, without submitting a support request.
  • Clearer Executive Report Summaries: Smart Summary output has been reformatted for readability based on your feedback, making the generated summary easier to scan and share.
  • Track Executive Report Sharing: Executive Report history now records each recipient and when the report was shared or published. Recipients also receive an email notification when a report is shared. Contact Centrl Support to enable Executive Report publishing.
  • Consistent Publishing Emails: Bulk Assessment publishing now uses the same email templates as individual publishing, so Vendors receive consistent notifications in either workflow.
  • Requestor Field in Vendor Import/Export: The Requestor field is now included in the Vendor import and export file, so it can be set or updated across many records at once instead of one at a time.
  • Days Since Fields: Assessment and Issue tables can now be sorted and filtered by elapsed-time fields, making it easier to spot what's aging without exporting to a spreadsheet. Assessments support Days Since Created, Days Past Answer Due, Days Past Evaluation Due, and a new Days Since Answered On. Issues support a new Days Since Published.

General Enhancements

  • Assessment with Products Report: A new report type combines Assessment and Product information in a single report. Users can view Product level fields alongside Assessment level fields for richer reporting and analysis.
  • Column-Based Assessment Comparisons: Bulk Export now includes a Column-Based Comparisons option that places each selected Assessment in its own column with questions down the rows. This makes it much easier to read across responses from different Vendors, or across reporting periods for the same Vendor, and see exactly where answers diverge.
  • Archive Reports and Dashboards: Users can archive or unarchive Reports and Dashboards within Report Builder, making it easier to clean up unused content. Archived Reports will not show up as available widgets when creating dashboard tiles.
  • Bulk Download Files: From the Files page in Vendor Space, users can select multiple files and receive an email with a link to download them in a single archive.
  • Bulk Download Assessments: Users can select multiple Assessments and their attachments and receive an email with a link to one downloadable archive, instead of receiving a separate download link for each Assessment.
  • Manage Tags in Bulk Evaluation: Users can now view and manage question tags directly from Bulk Evaluation. Tags can also be added or removed in bulk across multiple Assessments.
  • User Custom Attributes in Audit Logs: User audit logs now capture changes made to custom attributes, providing a more complete record of updates to each user.
  • Filter by Archived Status: Tables that support archiving now include an Archived filter, so users can quickly isolate archived records. Previously users could only show or hide archived records.

Also in This Release: CentrlX

CentrlX is now available to BlueVoyant users, bringing together CentrlGPT and Research Assistant in a governed agentic platform. BlueVoyant users can create reusable Skills, generate reports from client templates, and use CentrlX-powered Chats. CentrlX can also propose supported platform updates for user review; every proposed action must be approved before anything changes.

Note to Clients:

Our release is scheduled between noon and 3 PM PST. During this window, some application areas may experience brief reduced functionality, and the application may be temporarily unavailable for up to 1 hour with downtime after 2 PM PST.