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We follow a regular release cadence to deliver product updates, improvements, and bug fixes throughout the year. Product releases are typically deployed every two weeks, usually on Wednesdays. In some cases, a three-week gap may occur to accommodate holidays, internal planning, or extended development cycles. Please note that release dates are subje
Updated on: April 14th, 2026Release Notes
Update: Updated Email of Confidential Letter Request to Letter Writers: Updated the automated emails from Faculty Search and Dossier sent to letter writers when a confidential letter request is made. Added the following text to the email template: “The request being made is confidential which means the candidate will not be able to see the content
Updated on: January 6th, 2025Release Notes
Update: Updated Email of Confidential Letter Request to Letter Writers: Updated the automated emails from Faculty Search and Dossier sent to letter writers when a confidential letter request is made. Added the following text to the email template: “The request being made is confidential which means the candidate will not be able to see the content
Updated on: January 6th, 2025Release Notes
Changed mailing address in Dossier: The Interfolio DC office has moved. Please note our new address. New Address: 1150 18th Street NWSuite 250Washington DC 20036
Updated on: January 29th, 2025Release Notes
Vita Builder propagation: When a linked template is created, it is expected to inherit changes from all templates above it in the hierarchy. Some changes are not expected to be inherited.
Updated on: September 11th, 2025Release Notes
Added: IDS listings now display the source where IDS originally found a publication recommendation: We have added a “Source” column to IDS listings. Scholars or Administrators viewing the list of recommendations from the ‘Need review’ tab of IDS will see the Original source of the recommendation displayed. A new field called “Source” has been adde
Updated on: February 20th, 2025Release Notes
New Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) statement behavior for positions We’ve introduced new functionality that automatically updates any open, cloned, or newly created positions with the most recent version of the EEO statement for their respective units. This enhancement reduces the manual work of recreating positions to ensure they have the most
Updated on: March 5th, 2025Release Notes
New LM Analytics: Visual Display to Provide Comprehensive View of Faculty Roster Analytics We've introduced a new Lifecycle Management (LM) Analytics feature, providing Institutional Administrators with graphic displays for a comprehensive view of faculty roster data. This allows administrators to see where data needs to be updated or corrected acro
Updated on: March 31st, 2025Release Notes
We've added more flexibility in appointment creation by allowing data load of upcoming appointments: Data Load now presents three different statuses; past, current, and upcoming, that are set based on appointment date. Additionally, users can set the appointment dates according to their needs without any restriction on overlapping dates. This new l
Updated on: March 25th, 2025Release Notes
Autogenerate Vitas From Institutional Vita Templates: When creating or editing an institutional vita template, Institutional Administrators in Faculty Activity Reporting can indicate that a published vita should be shared with faculty in a given unit. Shared vitas will automatically appear as a link on the list of institutional vitas to which the f
Updated on: March 19th, 2025Release Notes
This release includes bug fixes and enhancements, featuring improved search functionality in the Lifecycle Management Faculty List, restored referral reporting in Faculty Search, and a new sortable column in the Vitas page of FAR. These updates aim to enhance user experience and streamline operations. Lifecycle Management Fixed: Resolved an issue
Updated on: May 16th, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces bug fixes for Faculty Search (FS) related to deleted positions and position status creation. New features include an endpoint to enhance loading times on the position list page in FS and print preview functionality for Vita Builder templates in Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). Additionally, a DMARC policy update will improve
Updated on: May 2nd, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces enhancements to Lifecycle Management (LM) and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR), improving the performance and reliability of bulk actions and CSV exports for the faculty list, resulting in faster workflows and reduced timeouts. Additionally, bug fixes in FAR ensure accurate faculty names display in both Standard Vitas reports
Updated on: May 9th, 2025Release Notes
This release includes improvements and fixes across Lifecycle Management (LM), Faculty Search (FS), Dossier, and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). Bulk actions in LM have been optimized for better speed and reliability, while faculty profile data synchronization has been refined to give administrators greater control over faculty information. In FS,
Updated on: September 25th, 2025Release Notes
This release includes improvements and fixes across Interfolio’s product suite. Lifecycle Management now offers more accurate faculty distribution insights by excluding deleted and deactivated records. Faculty Search enhancements resolve API timeout issues, ensuring reliable operations in the staging environment. Faculty Activity Reporting fixes add
Updated on: June 3rd, 2025Release Notes
This release includes enhancements to the Dossier system, adding application and position status information from Faculty Search to the deliveries page. It also resolved the previous issue in Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) that prevented emails from being sent. Dossier Improved: For added transparency, application status from Faculty Search is n
Updated on: June 18th, 2025Release Notes
This release includes an enhancement that allows users to add activities in FAR even when sections are collapsed as well as a fix to LM that restores bulk updates to faculty profiles using the data loader. Lifecycle Management Fixed: We resolved a bug that prevented updating faculty profiles in bulk using the data loader. When the update checkbox
Updated on: July 1st, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces a new cookie banner across all regions outside the U.S. to improve transparency and user control over cookie preferences. Additionally, a revamped background export workflow for faculty profiles in Lifecycle Management enhances reliability and user accessibility by addressing previous timeout issues. ALL Cookie Banner in th
Updated on: September 25th, 2025Release Notes
This release includes performance enhancements that significantly speed up loading times on the Activities and Profile pages in FAR, as well as fixes to LM that ensure accurate event data in faculty roster exports and prevent duplicate notification emails for export requests. Lifecycle Management Fixed: We resolved a bug in LM where faculty roster
Updated on: August 15th, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces a new cookie banner for U.S. users to improve transparency and control over cookie preferences. Lifecycle Management includes enhancements to position creation and safeguards against journey deletion. Fixes address profile editing restrictions and duplicated terminology. Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT) updates include cl
Updated on: August 19th, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces a hierarchical unit filter on the Faculty Search (FS) ‘Position List’ page, allowing users to refine searches by unit and optionally include child units for broader results. Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT) updates include a fix for sorting cases by template name and an enhancement to breadcrumb navigation that displays f
Updated on: December 12th, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces a new cookie banner that now functions across all products and regions, with a footer link allowing users to update their preferences for improved transparency and control. Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT) updates include a fix for case creation using templates with only the FAR Vita, restoring the ability to adjust vita
Updated on: September 25th, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces a global update to the cookie banner in the Faculty Information System (FIS), now active across all products and regions, including the U.S. Users can update their cookie preferences via a new footer link, with additional details available on the Cookie Notice page. Faculty Search (FS) updates include a fix that ensures form
Updated on: November 14th, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces enhanced visibility controls for coauthored scholarship and grant records on Web Profiles. Faculty can now opt out of appearing as internal affiliates by setting “Publicly Display” to “No.” For grants, institutional coauthors are hidden by default unless a matching eligible record is found with visibility enabled. Faculty wis
Updated on: November 21st, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces several enhancements and fixes across Interfolio products. In Interfolio Data Service (IDS), faculty can now bulk accept IDS recommendations in FAR. In Faculty Search (FS), A new column in the Candidate Forms table displays the creator’s name and email, making form management easier. We’ve also improved applicant rating visib
Updated on: November 21st, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces multiple fixes and an enhancement across Interfolio products. In Faculty Search (FS), step names and instructions now display correctly when editing approval steps, and the “Other Reason” field has been removed from position setup for clarity. Unit administrators can access Position Settings without blank pages and manage not
Updated on: December 18th, 2025Release Notes
This release introduces fixes to reporting and user management in Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT). Users can once again add, remove, and re‑add default columns in the Case Information Report and generate reports as expected. Institutional Administrators can also successfully edit user unit assignments, with institutional parent units now displa
Updated on: January 8th, 2026Release Notes
This release introduces enhancements and fixes across Interfolio products. The Platform login pages for Europe and Asia Pacific now include regional notices to help Dossier users confirm where they are creating or accessing accounts. In Faculty Search, application report previews once again display evaluator and criteria names when using the “Rating
Updated on: January 27th, 2026Release Notes
This release introduces fixes across Faculty Search (FS) and Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT). In FS, annotation reliability is restored, ensuring annotations save automatically and persist across document navigation, with related errors resolved in both FS and RPT. In RPT, Case Managers and Template Administrators with broad unit access can aga
Updated on: February 4th, 2026Release Notes
This release introduces enhancements and fixes across Platform, Faculty Search (FS), and Lifecycle Management (LM). On the Platform, new cookie banners are being deployed to meet updated regulatory standards. In FS, custom welcome messages now appear correctly in onboarding emails, and required documents reliably display on the review page regardles
Updated on: February 19th, 2026Release Notes
This release introduces fixes across Faculty Search (FS) and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). In FS, we resolved an issue where the ‘Download PDF’ button for the EEO Response Summary in FS Reports was inconsistently visible or non‑functional for some users. In FAR, we fixed an issue in Vita Builder where citations were missing the appropriate outle
Updated on: March 4th, 2026Release Notes
This release introduces fixes and enhancements across Faculty Search (FS) and Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT). In FS, we fixed an issue where positions associated with Approval Workflow templates could not be submitted for approval, and delivered the first milestone of stability improvements to improve data accuracy and consistency across appli
Updated on: March 18th, 2026Release Notes
This release introduces enhancements and fixes across Platform, Faculty Search (FS), Lifecycle Management (LM), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Dossier. On Platform, we resolved an issue that caused non‑US users to be signed out when accessing applicants in FS and LM. In FS, we expanded the Referral Report to include CA, EU, and APAC regio
Updated on: April 20th, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes updates across Platform, Faculty Search (FS), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). On Platform, footer links and landing pages on the Interfolio login and Dossier signup pages were updated. In FS, we resolved an issue on the Position Show page that caused the “No Rating” filter to r
Updated on: April 22nd, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes updates across Platform, Faculty Search (FS), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR), along with a preview of upcoming RPT improvements. On Platform, we provided advance notice of adding Reed Elsevier Philippines as a sub‑processor to support Interfolio services and Customer Support op
Updated on: May 13th, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes updates across Faculty Search (FS), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). In FS, we resolved issues that limited filtering by form responses, prevented position creators from retaining access to positions they created, and caused inconsistencies in application counts due to partial r
Updated on: May 21st, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes fixes across All Modules, Faculty Search (FS), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). Across all modules, we resolved issues that prevented updates to the Organization field in Dossier Basic Information from persisting and stopped the cookie consent banner from reappearing after logou
Updated on: June 4th, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes enhancements and fixes across All Modules, Dossier, Faculty Search (FS), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). Across all modules, we removed email click-tracking so outbound emails now contain only direct links and upgraded SFTP security to stronger AWS encryption standards without
Updated on: June 22nd, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes fixes and enhancements across Faculty Search (FS), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR). In FS, we resolved issues affecting workflow step display after resubmission, improved error handling for large EEO report downloads, and ensured inherited approvers populate correctly on new pos
Updated on: July 23rd, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes updates to Faculty Search (FS) and Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT). In FS, we resolved issues that prevented Committee Managers from creating new positions and improved the user experience when generating large Aggregated Forms Reports by replacing generic errors with clear guidance to download reports in smaller ba
Updated on: July 23rd, 2026Release Notes
This week’s release includes updates across Faculty Search (FS), Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and Dossier. We improved user management and permission synchronization processes to reduce delays in access updates and ensure administrator permissions are reflected correctly. In FS, we fixed an issue with Position Details Changes report exports
Updated on: August 5th, 2026Announcements
The Interfolio Client Community is a central hub where system and institutional administrators can: Submit, view, and manage support tickets Explore and report known issues Browse and vote on product ideas Stay information about product roadmap information Request SSO/SFTP setup or API keys Connect with peers through user groups Accessing Client C
Updated on: July 14th, 2026Announcements
We are excited to announce that Interfolio has migrated our support system to Elsevier’s platform. This transition took effect on January 21, 2025. Changes to our Support Lines Our support team has a new phone number and email for all institutional support. Please use these lines to reach out to us for support or to open a ticket. Support for pers
Updated on: February 27th, 2025Announcements
We are excited to announce that we are implementing Cloudflare WAF to continue improving the security of our systems. Cloudflare WAF protects against the OWASP Top 10 threats, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, credential stuffing attacks, and malware in uploaded files. This change will happen on January 21, 2025, and will not require do
Updated on: December 12th, 2024Announcements
The Elsevier Impact Conference brings together the user communities of Pure, Digital Commons, and Interfolio, with the SciVal community joining our 2026 edition that will be held at multiple locations across the globe. This conference provides a unique platform for our customers and users to explore shared challenges, build cross-departmental part
Updated on: February 12th, 2026Announcements
Our latest Best Practice Webinar, Advanced Committee Management in Interfolio RPT, is now available to watch! Best Practice - Advanced Committee Management in RPT (February 2026) This session explores practical strategies for managing complex committee structu This session explores practical strategies for managing complex committee structures, ha
Updated on: February 26th, 2026Announcements
While VB remains our long‑term direction, we will continue supporting both tools in the near term and no longer maintain a mandatory deprecation timeline for Legacy Vitas. We are updating our approach to the Legacy/Vita Builder (VB) transition by shifting from a mandatory migration model to a institution-led, value‑driven strategy. This change ref
Updated on: April 9th, 2026Announcements
The Interfolio Masterclasses are getting an upgrade. Refreshed eLearning content is live on the Help Center and in Interfolio University, with the new Lifecycle Management Masterclass for Administrators and Interfolio Data Service course available now. More updates are on the way. Lifecycle Management Administrator Masterclass This masterclass is
Updated on: June 24th, 2026