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Users who want to understand the new features, improvements, and fixes in Authenticate release 14.

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This article provides an overview of the new features, improvements, and fixes included in Authenticate platform release 14.

Release date: 02/09/25

1. Specifications module

New feature: Multi‑section approval for specifications – building on the recent section approval feature, you can configure specification requests so that all assigned users are required to approve a section before the specification owner is able to approve it.

New feature: Forward specifications to third‑party suppliers – similar to assessments forwarding, when sending a specification request to suppliers, you can now allow them to forward it to a third party to complete on their behalf. The completed specification can either be returned to you for review or directly back to the requestor.

New specification fields:

• Product safety: brine control.
• Storage: time from collection to processing (harvest / capture / collection) – hours.
• Changed ingredients: percentage glaze (%) changed from numeric to free text (to allow + / ‑ values).

Improved validation for data accuracy:

• Validation updates for pack format and gross weight fields.
• Must be a positive value.
• Limited to fewer than 6 digits.
• Net weight must be ≤ gross weight.

2. Site actions module – incidents

New feature: Multi‑select and close incidents via master incident – from the overview page, you can now select multiple incidents and associate them to a master incident. This automatically closes the selected incidents and transfers all master details to them, helping you close incidents quickly and effectively in bulk.

New changes: Updated UI and overview layout – incident listings page now shows more key information, new filter to display master incidents, and endpoints updated to set a master incident ID.

New feature: Improved automated email notifications – incident notification emails now include the severity of the incident, allowing you to prioritize urgent items faster.

3. General changes

• General – improved search handling for & characters (mid‑term with no surrounding spaces).
• General – search results now open in the same tab (no new tab opened).
• Assessments – sub‑questions ordered correctly on multi‑response page.
• Documents – ability to delete completed document requests.
• Specifications – automatically remove “review” tasks if no sections remain for a user not assigned to the specification.
• Specifications – updated wording in product details section to display supplier specification product name.

4. Bugs and fixes

• Assessments – fixed incorrect close message in UI.
• Assessments – fixed issue where PDF filenames were shown multiple times after upload.
• Certification – results updated to handle unknown values correctly.
• Specifications – fixed issue copying over specification data when using a dataset.