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Users who want to understand the new features, improvements, and fixes in Authenticate release 16.

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This article provides an overview of the new features, improvements, and fixes included in Authenticate platform release 16.

Release date: 07/10/2025

1. Assessments module

Feature: Edit assessments with historical re‑issue dates – assessments can now be edited even when the re‑issue date is in the past (unchanged).

2. Specifications module

Feature: Customizable specification template fields – choose to include or exclude individual attributes within sections, and set attributes as mandatory or optional within each section.

Enhancement: Improved average weight calculation – enhancements to packaging section calculations for greater data accuracy.

3. Reports

Enhancement: Performance improvements – applied to supplier product report and My product report.

4. Supply chain mapping

Feature: Request commodity volumes from suppliers – when viewing your company product, you can now request suppliers to provide commodity volumes.

• Tasks are generated on supplier home pages.
• Notifications are sent via system emails.
• Recorded against supplier raw materials.
• This feature is available to all users.

Feature: Minimize customers in supply chain view – supply chain view can now be collapsed to minimize customers for easier navigation.

5. Site actions/incidents module

• Update incident associations in more statuses – incident association updates are now supported in additional statuses.
• Allocate master incidents to other master incidents – you can now allocate one master incident to another incident also set as a master.

6. General changes and fixes

• Fixed: Company/product searches now work when pressing Enter (submit button).
• Fixed: “Users to approve” tally now displays correctly.
• Fixed: Nutritional attribute order has been corrected.
• Fixed: Farm profiles now display the correct icon when searching for companies.