# Release Notes upto 2020-12-21 Contract Management

**URL:** <https://reachback.builtintelligence.com/t/release-notes-upto-2020-12-21-contract-management/7389>\
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**Created:** [21 December 2020 14:06 UTC](https://reachback.builtintelligence.com/t/release-notes-upto-2020-12-21-contract-management/7389 "2020-12-21T14:06:30Z")\
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# Release Update – December 2020

## New + Improved

- Key/Sectional date have been improved to simplify how the user has access to and view this information.
- Added support for improved communications around Reply Periods
- Updated NEC framework compliance review and approval by industry experts to ensure our Contract Management Platform remains accurate and relevant \*\*
  - NEC4\_ECS
  - Additional contracts are currently under review by our industry experts

- Added support for Reply Required dates on the Early Warning and Inspection Defects work flows
- Further improvements to our workflows to provide additional data capture process allowing for more detailed and transparent communications \*\*
- Our new UI continue to improve and we have added support for Work Breakdown (Cost Breakdown) workflows. \*\*
- We have added some nifty new features based on valuable feedback from our customers, namely
  - Programme acceptance periods are now configurable \*\*
  - Workflows have been improved thanks to additional feedback from our industry experts

- We have also migrated our South African and Australian shared instances across to your new UI and the performance improvements have been awesome! \*\*
- Along with Translink and National Grid, we are pleased to have migrated Public Health England over to our new UI. \*\*
- Improvements were made to our API’s to provide better integration for external systems such as Power BI and Project Online

## Fixes

- Our notification panels performance has improved \*\*
- The performance around sending notifications to contract users has been improved \*\*
- Key/Sectional dates correctly reflect the update on contract commitments
- We fixed a bug where payment certificates were not always communicated

## Notes

\*\* Items marked with a double star are only available in our new UI. We are working hard to migrate all our customers to the improved user interface which provides a better user experience and improved performance.