Release notes

Details about upcoming releases will be posted as they become available.

March 18, 2024

  • Organizer Panel: When not active, advanced features are more visible in the interface. (Improvement)
  • Form Builder: Added configuration options for the 21% VAT tax rule. (Improvement)
  • Organizer Panel: Data table action dropdowns have been visually improved. (Improvement)

March 14, 2024

  • Organizer Panel: The page settings have been reorganized with the introduction of tabs. (Improvement)
  • Organizer Panel: Warn organizers when they are leaving a page with unsaved changes. (Improvement)

March 12, 2024

  • Organizer Panel: For easier management, organizers now have the ability to delete their events. (Feature)
  • Payment Gateways: Fourwaves now has Global Payments support for payment processing. (Feature)
  • Form Builder: Organizers can clone fields as they build their forms. (Feature)
  • Platform: Fourwaves has an updated logo and a new color palette. (Improvement)
  • Platform: A cookie consent banner is now displayed to all users. (Improvement)

March 8, 2024

  • Modals: Full-screen modals have been visually enhanced. (Improvement)

February 22, 2024

  • Committee: User invitation emails will appear on the communications page. (Improvement)

February 20, 2024

  • Side Panels: Visual enhancements have been made to enhance the user experience. (Improvement)
  • Event Overview: Visual enhancements have been made to enhance the user experience. (Improvement)

February 15, 2024

  • Form Builder: To help organizers collect location data, the Country List field has been added. (Feature)
  • Form Builder: Organizers can add Instructions fields to the review form. (Improvement)

February 9, 2024

  • Reviews: The Submission ID is now visible in the review data table. (Improvement)
  • Form Builder: Visual enhancements have been made to the way organizers can reorder content. (Improvement)
  • Form Builder: Visual enhancements have been made to the way organizers can add content. (Improvement)

February 8, 2024

  • Modals: We've improved the appearance of every modal in the application to enhance the user experience. (Improvement)
  • Organizer Panel: There have been improvements to the look and feel of data table filters. (Improvement)

January 25, 2024

  • PDF Generation: Documents containing Korean, Japanese, and Chinese characters display properly. (Improvement)
  • Waitlist: Emails confirming acceptance to the registrant list will appear on the communications page. (Improvement)
  • Date Pickers: Dates are no longer disabled in the calendar. The field will be validated against its corresponding "To" or "From" field, when applicable, upon closing the date picker. (Improvement)

January 26, 2024

  • Email Deliverability: We've received user feedback about email not reaching certain Microsoft Exchange installations. We've introduced a fix that should resolve this issue. (Fix)

January 15, 2024

  • Payments: Organizers can choose the Ethiopian Birr as the payment currency. (Improvement)

January 9, 2024

  • User Sessions: We've made significant improvements to our user session handling and login process. Users will now experience less frequent prompts for entering their username/password. These changes have been implemented to provide a more seamless, convenient, and simplified user experience. (Improvement)

January 8, 2024

  • Reviews: The Reviews module settings page is now located under the Configuration menu. (Improvement)

January 3, 2024

  • Forms: The "VAT number" field will now be displayed in the billing form when a VAT rule applies. (Improvement)
  • Forms: Taxes have been removed from the cart and will only be visible on the billing form. (Improvement)
  • Forms: Event tax numbers will no longer appear next to the amount. Please note that all details will still be displayed on the invoice. (Improvement)

December 20, 2023

  • Hide Reviewers' Names: A toggle in the Organizer panel that hides the names of reviewers from submitters when results are shared. (Feature)
  • Tax Rules: Three new tax rules have been added. VAT 19% in Europe (27 countries), VAT 0%, and VAT Reverse Charge 0%. The 0% tax rules are special cases that appear in quotes and invoices despite their zero values. (Improvement)

November 3, 2023

  • Fields set to "visible" in the Organizer panel are now displayed on the event website participant page. (Improvement)
  • We've removed contextual help from the Organizer panel. We will be rolling out a brand new Help Desk with enhanced capabilities very soon. (Maintenance)

November 1, 2023

  • User Dashboard: We have made significant changes to the user dashboard. The "My events", "My transactions", "My registrations", and "My submissions" sections have been updated to improve navigation and user experience. (Feature)
  • My Reviews Section: We have introduced a brand new section where users can manage and track their reviews. (Feature)
  • Review Results Sharing: An organizer can now share review results with authors. This allows for better communication and feedback sharing. (Feature)
  • Email Content: Users now have the ability to view the contents of sent emails, providing better tracking and management of sent communications. (Feature)
  • Email Attachments: We've introduced a new feature that allows email attachments, enhancing the scope of communication. (Feature)
  • Inline Formatting in RTEs: Users can now apply inline formatting in all RTEs, providing greater flexibility and control over text appearance. (Feature)
  • User Audit on Form Modification: We've introduced a user audit feature that tracks and logs user activity when a form is modified, improving accountability and tracking. (Feature)
  • Submission Details Page: The page has been updated for a better user experience. (Improvement)
  • Registration Details Page: The page has been updated for a better user experience. (Improvement)
  • Review Details Page: The page has been updated for a better user experience. (Improvement)
  • Schedule Builder Page: Sessions in the Schedule Builder have been redesigned to improve the user's scheduling experience. (Improvement)
  • User Profile: We've made some minor cosmetic improvements to the page. (Improvement)
  • Email Footer Removal: The Fourwaves email footer is removed from emails when the whitelabel feature is enabled. (Improvement)
  • Zoom Embed: Our integration with Zoom is back! You can host a meeting or webinar right from within Fourwaves. (Improvement)

October 25, 2023

  • Update the logic used to validate the size of the "Figures" field. (Fix)