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Brief Connect v2.2.14 Release Notes

Release date - 25 Sept 2025

2.2.14 provides several important bug and performance improvements, as well as some minor enhancements.

New features requiring configuration updates

  • Custom field groups

You can now organise fields on the record creation screen into groups, and toggle the default collapsed/expanded behaviour. This is a really useful addition for teams whose record type forms are quite lengthy, or with fields that are meant for only certain users to review.

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  • SMTP Support for emails

With this release, you can now send emails via SMTP instead of just via Graph API/Exchange. This is particularly useful for customers sending high volumes of email notifications which could trigger API/throttling limits from Exchange.

Improvements

  • Snapshots contain all documents

Previously, a snapshot differed from a PDF Pack in that a snapshot file did not include any record documents, like Primary Work Documents. With 2.2.14, this has changed and all snapshots generated include the same record documents as a PDF Pack

  • Centralised timezone management

Timezones are now set centrally in the Server settings. Any time a user assigns a date/time, it will be applied using the Server's configured timezone, not the user's machine/browser timezone.

Bug fixes

This release includes several bug fixes - key items include:

  • Improvements to consistency of CSV exports
  • Resolved some issues with Document Auto-population where metadata fields would populate with a GUID rather than the label
  • Radio fields were showing in same cases as editable even when a user didn't have permissions to edit record metadata
  • If filenames included special characters such as #, document upload might fail