beqom Pay Suite 18.0 - Detailed release notes

This article lists the new features that have been added to the platform, as well as the bugs that have been corrected in the intermediate 18.0 release of the Pay Suite application and in the subsequent patches.

18.0

Deployment to staging environments: November 18th, 2025

Deployment to production environments: November 25th, 2025

Type	Issue key		Module	Description
	Zendesk	Jira
		AC-17701	Pay Intelligence	A tooltip positioning issue was corrected in the Overview of Recent Salary Changes widget of the Digital reward statement where tooltips were offset compared to the element they related to. Tooltips now display properly near the relevant table elements.
		AC-17704	Pay Intelligence	Empty state display was standardized across all widgets of the Digital reward statement, available under Passport > Compensation. All widgets (charts and tables) now show consistent empty state components from the design system when no worker compensation data is available, providing a more unified user experience.
		AC-17954	Performance Management	Response permission settings were added for career development template questions. Administrators can now configure in the template who can answer each question (worker, manager, or both) when creating or editing templates in Workbench > Performance management > Career development plans, providing enhanced control over the career discussion workflow. The feature includes three permission options with Worker as the default, supports all answer types, and integrates with the mandatory question functionality.
		AC-17955	Performance Management	The response permission-based answering was implemented in career development forms. Workers and managers can now answer questions according to the permissions configured for the template in Workbench. Worker-only questions are answered during self-assessment and visible to managers in read-only mode; Manager-only questions are hidden from workers during self-assessment but become visible after manager submission; Worker + manager questions allow both parties to provide separate inputs.
		AC-18824	Pay Intelligence	An issue where the system was unresponsiveness when the machine learning service was offline was corrected. The application now handles machine learning service unavailability gracefully instead of generating a 500 error in the console and displaying an empty page, ensuring the system remains operational even when the machine learning configuration is missing or the service is down.
		AC-18917	Pay Intelligence	Enhanced error reporting for Pay Analytics data uploads. The system now translates PayAnalytics validation errors into clear messages that identify the specific fields, records, and data type mismatches causing upload failures, replacing generic 400 error codes with detailed explanations that help users quickly understand and resolve data issues.
		AC-19423	Performance Management	An error that was occurring when enabling feedback requests for behaviors in Workbench > Platform Setup > Feature Enablement was corrected. The problem specifically occurred when attempting to enabled the feature while the Behaviors feature was disabled. The system now properly disables behavior-related feedback settings when the Behaviors functionality is disabled and displays a helpful tooltip to explain why the option is unavailable.
		AC-19473	Performance Management	The display of errors when uploading historical rating files in Workbench > Performance Management> Historical Performance Rating Upload was improved. Users now receive clear, specific error messages that point to data issues such as duplicate values, along with a user-friendly banner and the ability to download detailed error logs.
		AC-19515	Pay Intelligence	A legacy PayAnalytics analysis synchronization process was removed. The system now exclusively uses on-demand synchronization for PayAnalytics data, simplifying the architecture by eliminating the obsolete ML-triggered background service as well as its associated endpoints and database columns.
		AC-19547	Data Foundation	The foundational infrastructure for the localization API was put into place, including REST client capabilities, and a structured folder system for managing JSON localization files.
		AC-19556	Authorization	As part of the implementation of the Population service into performance reviews, administrators can now assign one or more global populations to reviews.
		AC-19559	Authorization	As part of the implementation of the Population service into performance reviews, individual user exclusion capability was added for performance reviews. Administrators can now manually exclude specific workers from assigned populations.
		AC-19562	Authorization	As part of the implementation of the Population service into performance reviews, individual user inclusion capability was added for performance reviews. Administrators can now manually include specific workers who are exceptions to assigned populations.
		AC-19565	Authorization	As part of the implementation of the Population service into performance reviews, manual override visibility was added for performance review populations. Administrators can now view a comprehensive list of all workers who have been manually included or excluded from review populations, providing full transparency and visibility into population exceptions.
		AC-19577	Authorization	As part of the implementation of the Population service into performance reviews Cerbos schema custom attribute management was implemented in the application back-office to handle all CRUD operations.
		AC-19652	Pay Transparency	As part of the ongoing development of the Pay information feature, the foundational infrastructure for the Pay Transparency API service was established.
		AC-19723	Performance Management	The accessibility of notification buttons was improved. Namely, proper accessibility text was added to the "mark as read" icon buttons in the notifications interface, ensuring screen readers can properly identify and announce button functionality for users with visual impairments.
		AC-19753	Pay Transparency	To improve accessibility, keyboard navigation focus display in check-ins view page was improved to enabled users to properly focus and scroll the page using keyboard arrow keys, even when no other focusable elements are present.
		AC-19765	Pay Transparency	Accessibility issues were corrected in the performance review submission modal (contextual window). The keyboard focus management was improved to ensure the focus remains within the modal and drawer elements, properly handling Tab and Shift+Tab navigation even after clicking outside the modal. Users navigating by keyboard can now reliably maintain focus on open modals and drawers.
		AC-19768	Performance Management	Accessibility was improved for additional notification buttons. Namely, proper accessibility text was added to "mark as read" icon buttons in notification cards, ensuring all icon buttons have discernible text for screen readers to properly announce their functionality to users with visual impairments.
	139444	AC-19771	Performance Management	An issue with the feedback request read status was not properly tracked in the Analytics Hub. Feedback requests and feedback items are now automatically marked as read when opened from notifications or direct URLs, ensuring the Request Read and Reply Rate metrics in the Feedback Request Overview dashboard accurately reflect user engagement.
		AC-19789	Compensation	The styling of the breadcrumbs was improved for better visibility. Underlines were removed from breadcrumb links and the color of the text was updated to adhere to theming standards (i.e. to match colors of each application theme), ensuring breadcrumbs are readable on all backgrounds.
		AC-19818	Compensation	The keyboard accessibility for drop-down custom columns in Planner was improved. A NULL option was added to the drop-down list component, enabling keyboard users to clear drop-down selections without relying on tab navigation to reach the clear button.
		AC-19915	Data Foundation	The heading hierarchy in the feedback request interface was improved. In particular, the heading order was adjusted to ensure semantically proper progression, thus improving accessibility for screen readers and document structure.
		AC-19932	Pay Intelligence	A proper accessible name was added to the chat input field of the Career development page in Passport, ensuring screen readers can properly identify and announce the input field's purpose in the Career chat section.
		AC-19991	Compensation	In the bonus plan management interface (under Workbench > Compensation Management > Bonus Plans) Compensation admins and Global compensation admins can now create pending drafts fo existing bonus plans in Ready status to make edits without immediately affecting the active plan, enabling safer and more controlled plan modifications.
		AC-19994	Compensation	Compensation admins and Global compensation admins can now refresh the goal data in bonus plans to ensure bonus plans reflect the most current goal definitions, maintaining accuracy when goal configurations have been updated.
		AC-19997	Compensation	To avoid any confusion for users, the API connection section was temporarily removed from Payroll data drop page of the compensation round until the full API-based payroll data withdrawal functionality is implemented.
		AC-20028	Compensation	An incorrect behavior of the Reset to default button behavior in the Bonus element section of Team planner view step of the compensation round configuration wizard was fixed. The button is now always active and correctly resets all relevant fields to their initial draft state.
		AC-20029	Authorization	The performance review population filtering mechanism was enhance to respect PerformanceEligibility status. The system now includes only in performance review populations workers for whom the PerformanceEligibility field of the Worker entity of the data foundation set to true, ensuring only eligible workers participate in the review process.
		AC-20136	Pay Intelligence	A new page, called Pay Analysis Results was added under Workbench > Pay Intelligence to enable users to view and manage PayAnalytics analysis results from the Pay Suite platform as part of the ongoing integration efforts between Pay Suite and PayAnalytics.
		AC-20145	Pay Intelligence	An API endpoint was created to retrieve comprehensive analysis information from PayAnalytics into the Pay Analysis Results page.
		AC-20169	Data Foundation	As part of the implementation of the localization service, a table was created to add supported languages and a localization schema was introduced as well for the localization to retrieve the translations based on the selected language.
		AC-20264	Data Foundation	Missing page headers were added to the data foundation modules. Proper page titles and metadata were added to the Custom Fields, Data Modeler, Snapshot Manager, and Populations pages in Workbench, improving navigation accessibility.
		AC-20278	Pay Transparency	Document generation capability was added to the pay information requests. HRBPs can now generate documents by selecting templates and data snapshots, preview generated content before attachment, and attach directly to requests with proper validation and error handling for data mismatches.
		AC-20286	Authorization	Custom fields can now be used as authentication attributes in the application back-office.
		AC-20327	Compensation	The legacy code of the first version of bonus plans was removed from the code base, simplifying the codebase and improving maintainability.
		AC-20350	Performance Management	An issue was corrected in the goal setting review template, in which the text displayed when closing a review did not match the functionality. The "Close review" confirmation now displays appropriate text based on whether challenge and discussion processes are enabled in the template settings, providing clearer guidance to administrators.
		AC-20365	Compensation	As part of the implementation of the upcoming compensation portal, a new tab Configuration overview was added to the interface. This tab will enable administrators to view comprehensive round configuration details for Ready, In Progress, and Closed compensation rounds.
		AC-20368	Compensation	As part of the implementation of the upcoming compensation portal, a new tab Statement generation was added to the interface. This tab will offer administrators a dedicated interface for managing statement generation within the round management workflow, streamlining the process of creating and distributing compensation statements.
		AC-20371	Compensation	As part of the implementation of the upcoming compensation portal, a new tab Payroll data drop was added to the interface. This tab will allow administrators to access the payroll data drop functionality directly within round management, providing centralized control over payroll integration and data export processes.
		AC-20400	Performance Management	To improve clarity on the actions, the Cancel button in the pop-up to add a check-in to the calendar was renamed to Close to better indicate its purpose.
	140732	AC-20406	Performance Management	A goal alignment deletion issue, where users could not remove goal alignments after saving and publishing goals, was corrected. Alignment configurations can now be modified as needed according to goal type settings.
	140729	AC-20411	Performance Management	The following issue was corrected: when marking check-ins as done from the Planner, managers were redirected to Passport > Check-ins, instead of Planner > Check-ins. The redirection now behaves as expected, allowing efficient management of multiple check-ins without navigation interruptions.
	139061	AC-20416	Performance Management	An issue where an 400 was displayed when attempting to delete feedback was corrected, ensuring users can successfully remove feedback items from the system without encountering validation errors.
	141839	AC-20436	Performance Management	The goal creation permissions for self-assignment of goals was extended. Managers can now create goals for themselves using the Myself option, regardless of ABAC group membership.
		AC-20452	Pay Transparency	Added alert columns to Pay Information Requests list. HRBP users can now see visual alerts for requests approaching or exceeding the regulatory 8-week response deadline based on configured warning and overdue periods, improving compliance tracking and time management.
		AC-20455	Pay Transparency	Date formatting was enhanced in pay information requests to display only day, month, and year. This improvement allows for a cleaner presentation, with full timestamps available on hover via tooltips for users.
		AC-20466	Pay Transparency	An API import configuration option was added to pay information request, allowing authorized users to enable or disable API import functionality through Workbench > Pay Transparency > Document Settings.
	140242	AC-20469	Performance Management	Career development plans could not be deleted, even by their owners. This behavior was corrected; it is now possible to delete career development plans in Draft status, aligning the behavior with performance review templates.
		AC-20473	Authorization	Pay Management was renamed to Compensation Management across the platform. All references to Pay Management in the user interface and navigation menus, now use Compensation Management terminology for better alignment with business terminology and industry standards.
		AC-20497	Pay Transparency	The redirection behavior of the Save & Exit in pay information requests. Users are now properly redirected to the request list after saving changes and exiting, with a success banner displayed to confirm the save operation was completed.
		AC-20516	Pay Intelligence	In Pay Analysis Data Mapping, data model field can now be filtered by type. Drop-downs now show only appropriate field types for each mapping category (numeric fields for compensation and currency, text fields for demographics), preventing invalid mappings and improving data quality.
		AC-20550	Pay Intelligence	Form validation was added to the Data Mapping configuration interface. Users now receive clear validation feedback when required fields are missing or invalid.
		AC-20554	Pay Intelligence	The data set mapping configuration endpoint was expanded to include field names along with UIDs.
		AC-20560	Compensation	Users (HRBPs and Compensation managers) with proxy permissions can now act on behalf of other compensation administrators and HRBPs in Planner > Compensation, with clear proxy mode indicators and easy exit functionality.
		AC-20575	Pay Intelligence	The analysis list endpoint used to retrieve analyses in Workbench > Pay Intelligence was expanded with main analysis filtering. The endpoint now supports filtering by main analysis UID to retrieve subgroup analyses with their identification and grouping information.
		AC-20610	Pay Intelligence	In Workbench > Data Management, the Dataset Mapping Configuration menu item was renamed Pay Analysis Data Mapping.
		AC-20616	Pay Intelligence	The PayAnalyticsReader role permissions for dataset mapping were corrected. Users with the PayAnalyticsReader role now have proper read-only access to dataset mapping configuration, preventing edit attempts and errors, while allowing view access for monitoring and reporting.
		AC-20625	Pay Intelligence	A warning for unsaved changes was added to the Dataset Mapping Configuration page . Users now receive a confirmation dialog when navigating away from the configuration page with unsaved changes, thus preventing accidental data loss.
		AC-20637	Pay Transparency	Warning and overdue period configuration was added to the pay information requests settings. It is now possible to set threshold periods to highlight requests approaching or exceeding the regulatory 8-week deadline.
		AC-20701	Compensation	A status label was added to the Plan details step of the bonus plan configuration wizard, under Workbench > Compensation Management. Bonus plans now display their status (Draft, Pending Draft, Ready, or Deactivated) directly on the details page, providing immediate visibility into the plan's lifecycle state for better plan management.
		AC-20704	Data Foundation	A full hash column was added to data model snapshot tables for change detection.
		AC-20708	Data Foundation	Error handling when creating data models with duplicate names was improved. Users now receive clear, user-friendly error messages instead of generic 422 errors when attempting to create a data model with a name that already exists in the system.
		AC-20714	Data Foundation	Acceptance tests to xunit-based api-tests project to support the gradual migration away to a newer acceptance test framework.
		AC-20742	Compensation	Compensation administrators and bonus plan owners can now delete pending drafts attached to bonus plans in Workbench > Compensation Management > Bonus Plans.
		AC-20745	Compensation	A confirmation pop-up was added when republishing bonus plan pending drafts for Compensation admins, providing better control and preventing accidental republish operations.
		AC-20766	Performance Management	An error 400/404 was displayed when attempting to open feedback or a goal using an email notification when another user was previously logged in. While the error was expected, it should have been an error 403 instead of an error 400/404. The error handling was corrected and the system now returns the expected error.
		AC-20768	Data Foundation	The triggering frequency of the live snapshot was reduced from 10 minutes to 5 minutes.
		AC-20772	Compensation	Development tools, Azure SDK, testing libraries, i18n libraries, UI utilities, and build systems were upgraded for improved stability, security, and performance.
		AC-20802	Performance Management	An error was occurring when goals were refreshed during the publish workflow. Goals no longer trigger unnecessary data refresh calls after publishing.
		AC-20814	Compensation	The duplication and republish workflows were reworked for bonus plans with a goal plan alert. Specifically, alerts in the original bonus plan or pending draft are retained in duplicated plans.
	141534	AC-20817	Performance Management	A organizational goal visibility issue where workers could see goals assigned only to managers was corrected. The manager definition and goal filtering logic were updated to ensure workers only see organizational goals they have permission to access.
		AC-20818	Data Foundation	A notification configuration API endpoint to handle notifications sent in case a data upload fails. Administrators can now configure email recipients for upload failure notifications through new REST endpoints, enabling proactive monitoring and alerting for data ingestion issues.
	141542	AC-20843	Authorization	A ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS authentication issue was corrected. The problematic redirect behavior during the authentication flow was removed to prevent infinite redirection loops.
		AC-20844	Data Foundation	Snapshots can now be published incrementally by referencing a base snapshot, while still retaining the possibility to generate a full snapshot.
		AC-20891	Pay Transparency	An issue where it was possible to publish a communication round via API without being its owner was corrected. Fixed authorization for communication round publishing. Now only the round owner can now publish communication rounds via API, with proper 403 error responses returned for unauthorized attempts.
		AC-20893	Data Foundation	A diff logic was implemented for incremental snapshots in the data foundation. The system now performs hash-based comparison at worker-level granularity, significantly improving performance by including only changed worker data in incremental snapshots rather than republishing all data.
		AC-20917	Compensation	An error occurred when duplicating compensation rounds with salary and then adding bonus plan. An error 422 was displayed instead of displaying the Team planner step of the compensation round configuration wizard.
		AC-20962	Authorization	The access token now includes email and preferred_username claims to support full sign-out processes with external identity providers, improving authentication integration capabilities and session management.
		AC-20965	Authorization	The Reviews role was added to the getPopulationList API endpoint to grant access to population management. Review administrators can now assign populations to template.
		AC-20995	Compensation	The alert icon alignment in the compensation round list under Workbench > Compensation Management > Compensation Rounds. When viewing rounds in read-only mode where the round name is not clickable, the alert icon now displays with proper right alignment for improved visual consistency.
		AC-21012	Compensation	The validation warning message was not displayed as expected in the payout curve configuration wizard, under Workbench > Compensation Management if users created a payout curve with an already existing code. The warning now appears immediately on the first code validation attempt.
		AC-21037	Compensation	Additional guidance was added when configuring currencies in calculated columns in the compensation round configuration wizard. Clear explanations were added to Team planner view page, in the Calculated column drawer and in the Bonus calculation formula step to help administrators understand available currency options for calculations and their implications.
		AC-21065	Pay Transparency	A case-sensitiveness issue in the authentication service seeding which was causing document import issues when using the API. The process now correctly handles tenant and client name matching regardless of case differences, ensuring all clients receive the required import_pi_request scope for document import via API.
		AC-21122	Localization	Missing translations in the standard supported languages were added for the PDF generation feature.
		AC-21260	Authorization	A migration job was added to ensure all subject attributes in MongoDB have a Roles property initialized as an empty array, resolving authorization problems for users with no assigned professional roles.
	139792	AC-21383	Pay Intelligence	An issue was reported in PowerBI reports: an incorrect data type in cause a refresh issue in the Comp Round report. The data type was corrected to match the data foundation.