Borderless AI Sprint Release Notes 🚀

🌟 New Features

Payroll runs now preserve the employees included at lock time while continuing to reflect group changes before locking.
Added a new payroll general ledger report to support payroll accounting workflows. 📊
Signed-in users are now logged out after 24 hours of inactivity, with sessions ending seven days after login.
Added quick access to helpful support articles from the Users and Permissions page. 📚
Improved the formatting of HRGPT responses for clearer, easier-to-read answers. ✨

Restored access to the Users and Permissions page for authorized business users.
Fixed excessive reprocessing when generating expense invoice PDFs with attachments. 📄
Prevented audit-event processing errors when an operation has no records to write.
Fixed delayed transfer requests that became stuck following a payment provider interruption.
Updated People Manager access so managers only see the appropriate employee, contract, and role information within their scope.
Corrected onboarding reports so they no longer include contracts that never completed onboarding.
Fixed payroll adjustments so they are routed to the correct payroll run.
Improved the display of selected signatories in request forms.
Updated wire payout beneficiary details to meet the latest address, city, and postal-code requirements. 🌍

Improved CI speed and reliability through faster runner startup, optimized storage, better resource allocation, and reduced cache processing. ⚡
Added retry and timeout handling for stalled repository cloning during CI jobs.
Stale pending pipelines are now automatically cancelled to reduce unnecessary build activity.
CI now skips unused setup jobs and uses more efficient image tagging.
Reduced the frequency of remote configuration requests.
Made build pipelines more resilient when configuration downloads or notification settings are unavailable.
Standardized timestamp handling for database migrations and added supporting validation data.
Re-tested database point-in-time recovery and verified restoration timing and data integrity.
Improved Workday synchronization for manager changes, onboarding, and employee data updates.
Added comprehensive unit-test coverage for shared component-library components. 🧪
Updated the Payroll Runs page by renaming Tags to Pay basis for greater clarity.
Added tooling to simplify encrypted environment-file conflict resolution.
Improved payroll-run data modeling and paid-time-off accrual planning.
Enhanced observability automation and production-monitor investigation workflows.
Evaluated CI infrastructure costs and resilience during spot-instance interruptions.
Improved the payroll cost calculator and designed support for automated paystub imports.
Prototyped new AI integration capabilities for future product development. 🤖