Version: v8.28.0
Release Date: 14 April 2026
This deployment delivers critical Angular upgrade fixes, performance optimisations, and platform stability improvements across Assessments, Work Bundles, Reader, Reporting, and Documents. It addresses production errors, intermittent loading issues, UI regressions, and client‑specific blockers to ensure consistent and reliable system behaviour. The release also includes security and permissions clean‑up to support long‑term maintainability.
🚀 What’s New?
- Refreshed Assessment & Plan accordion design — The accordion panels in both the Assessment and Plan views have been updated with a modern colour scheme, improved borders, and a new hover effect for better visual clarity and navigation.
- Improved Work Bundle Assessment loading performance — The Assessment view for Work Bundles now loads significantly faster. A new optimised endpoint returns only the data needed for the navigation grid, reducing response times from ~12 seconds down to within 3 seconds.
- Enhanced Document search — The search functionality on the Documents tab now supports partial and fuzzy matching, so you no longer need to type the exact full document name to locate an item.
- Accordion update for Action details — The Resources tab download button within Action details has been corrected for proper alignment and consistent text sizing.
🐞 Bug Fixes
- Work Bundle plan intermittent loading — Fixed an intermittent issue where the Work Bundle plan view would partially load — showing progress without actions, or actions without progress. The plan now renders reliably on every load.
- Radar chart scoring correction — Fixed an issue where the radar chart displayed inflated maturity scores by incorrectly defaulting non-existent stages (4 and 5) to a score of 1 instead of 0 for certain Supply Chain TRACCs.
- Reader table formatting restored — Tables in the old Reader view now display with proper borders and gridlines again, resolving a visual regression from the Angular upgrade.
- Assessment card button text wrapping — The "Start TRACC" button text on assessment screen cards no longer wraps incorrectly when the TRACC name fits on a single line.
- Notification bell icon colour consistency — The download notification bell icon now displays a consistent colour across both the TRACC Platform and Admin Console.
- Area Tree drop-down layout fix — The Area Tree / Company selector on the Documents page now displays on a single horizontal line instead of being incorrectly stacked across multiple lines.
- Font standardisation across the platform — Font families, weights, and spacing have been standardised (from Roboto to Open Sans where applicable) across Assessments, the Dashboard, the Reader, and the Academy for a consistent user experience.
- Academy tab and search button styling — Fixed tab spacing and search button border radius in the Academy section following the Angular upgrade.
🔐 Security updates
- Unused permissions removed — Eight legacy permissions that were no longer in use (including Cogs-related roles, Lock Down Assessments, and deprecated reporting permissions) have been cleaned up from the system. This reduces clutter in the role management interface and prevents administrators from inadvertently applying non-functional permissions.
🏗️Infrastructure & resilience
- Fail-fast on missing IDP public key — All backend services (Platform, Foundation, Reader, and Explorer) now fail immediately on startup if they cannot fetch the Identity Provider public key. This ensures authentication issues are detected and surfaced instantly rather than silently degrading.
- Zipkin dependency removed from Work Bundles API — Eliminated a recurring "Connection refused" startup error caused by the Zipkin tracing dependency in the Work Bundles API, resulting in cleaner service startups in production.