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EBS Q1 Release Notes 2026

The EBS Q1 2026 releases deliver clearer analytics, streamlined breeding workflows, stronger service management, and enhanced system stability. Improvements across performance, usability, and security enable more consistent downloads, reliable reporting, and smoother daily operations, empowering breeding programs with greater confidence, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.

EBS January 2026 User Release Notes

The January 2026 EBS release brings clearer analysis alerts, smoother experiment management, smarter data uploads, stronger security, and improved system stability across all modules. From sharing Molecular Data results to managing crosses and germplasm more easily, everything now works more reliably so you can focus on your breeding work with confidence.

EBS February 2026 User Release Notes

This month brings meaningful improvements across EBS designed to make your daily work clearer, smoother, and more reliable. From analytics to production environments, each update strengthens performance, usability, and system stability to better support your breeding programs.

EBS February 2026 User Release Notes

Experiment Creation (EC)

    ✅ Added validation when uploading experimental designs to ensure parameter set values are included.

Experiment Manager (EM)

    ✅ Occurrences without saved traits are now excluded from trait data downloads.
    ✅ Download buttons now correctly redirect to the appropriate download pages.
    ✅ Improved date validation during file uploads.
    ✅ Download summaries now exclude voided plot records.

Data Collection (DC)

    ✅ Improved display of occurrence information when multiple occurrences exist.
    ✅ Improved loading of plot browser grid settings.
    ✅ Fixed file upload issues caused by special characters or missing values.
    ✅ Improved synchronization between EBS and the Field Book mobile app, including support for the latest date format and better handling of edited observations.

Request Manager (RM)

    ✅ The data table in the Request Manager view has been updated.

Genotyping Service Manager (GSM) and Batch Manager (BM)

    ✅ Improved permission settings were implemented to ensure laboratory members have access only to their respective laboratories.

Shipment Outgoing

    ✅ A new CSV Items Report has been added to the system.
    ✅ The MLS Ancestor column has been removed from the Items grid.

User Manager (UM)

    ✅ The Settings button is now responsive.
    ✅ User preferences function as expected, allowing selected hide/show column settings to be saved.
    ✅ Selected hide/show column preferences are applied when exporting data to CSV.
    ✅ The exported user list now includes the selected fields based on the user’s chosen export configuration.

Workflow Engine (WE)

    ✅ The workflow engine now supports special characters (e.g., backslash) during synchronization.
    ✅ The Weight field now supports decimal values.
    ✅ Fixed issues with occurrence retrieval and filtering.

EBS 26.02.06 [Hotfix]

    ✅ Request Manager (RM): Improved grid-loading component to resolve an issue where no information was displayed.

EBS 26.02.09 [Hotfix]

    ✅ Experiment Manager (EM): Users will no longer be able to download selected Occurrences using the [Download dropdown → Trait Data Collection → Occurrence → With Trait Abbreviations] option if any of the selected Occurrences do not contain saved trait data.

EBS 26.02.23 [Hotfix]

    ✅ Analysis Request Manager (ARM): Downloaded SOA-BLUEs and SOA-BLUPs files now include the Entry Type, making results easier to interpret.

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