JULY 2026

Release notes

A roundup of July 2026 Ciphr software updates, including features and functionality

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Ciphr’s July 2026 releases round up everything shipped across the Ciphr platform in July 2026 – covering Ciphr HR, iRecruit, Onboarding, LMS and the AI Assistant. Read on for the highlights, with links through to the full customer release notes for each product.

What’s new – July 2026 

Ciphr HR

HR 2026.9

  • Payroll management: future-dated job and pay records now sit in a deferred status, so any pay changes made in the meantime can flow through without conflict
  • Mobile: opening a direct link on a mobile device now shows the mobile-optimised page where available instead of the desktop view
  • 18 product issues resolved


HR 2026.10

  • Mobile: approvers reviewing a holiday request on mobile now see a warning if approving it would take the employee over their remaining allowance
  • Payroll management: international employees can now be sent to Cloud Payroll
  • Accessibility: improvements to subsets and person views for screen reader users
  • 9 product issues resolved

 

Full details: Customer release notes

 

Ciphr AI Assistant

Quality, reliability and usability update

  • Quality and reliability: the assistant now gives more accurate, grounded answers more consistently, is more transparent when it genuinely can’t help, and stays more stable under load
  • Feedback: new thumbs up/thumbs down icons let users flag what’s working (and what isn’t), feeding directly into future improvements
  • Chat history: hovering over a past chat now reveals its date and time; history now covers 90 days (up from seven), with older chats opening as read-only and a “New chat” button for a fresh start
  • Step-by-step reasoning (“chain of thought”) now starts collapsed by default to keep the chat view tidy; if expanded, that choice is remembered for the session
  • The AI footer disclaimer has been updated to meet the incoming EU AI Act compliance requirements

 

Full details: 2026 Q3 AI assistant release notes

Customer knowledge base guides: AI assistant guides

Ciphr iRecruit

iRecruit 2026.1

  • Performance: general improvements to speed up slow-loading pages
  • Applicant portal: fixes for duplicate job search results, incorrect vacancy attribute display, a page-size/pagination error, and registration failures caused by long county/town entries
  • Applications and candidates: secondary application forms no longer incorrectly reset status to “Online New”; rejected applications can no longer be withdrawn; a duplicate references issue is fixed; recruiter edits to application data now display correctly
  • Recruiter tools: agency recruiters now appear correctly in status-change and mail-merge selection lists; Generic Form Builder date fields now save correctly on non-en-GB browsers
  • 15 product issues resolved

 

Full details: 2026 iRecruit release notes

Ciphr Onboarding

Onboarding 2.4.0

A small but welcome update for mobile users. Onboarding is now available directly from the mobile navigation menu. Previously, accessing Onboarding on mobile required extra navigation – new starters can now find and complete their onboarding tasks more quickly and intuitively.

 

Full details: 2026 Onboarding release notes

 

Ciphr LMS

LMS 2026.6 service pack

  • Reporting: the Feedback Survey Detailed report can now run across multiple activities sharing the same feedback template, making it easier to compare feedback at scale
  • Reporting: cancelled schedules now appear in the Attendance Summary Report, with a new “Schedule Cancelled” column for a full audit trail
  • Performance: Training Records search returns results noticeably faster, and a more stable rules processor improves overall LMS stability and responsiveness
  • Fixes for 10 customer-reported issues

 

Full details: 2026 Q3 LMS release notes

 

Why it matters  

July’s releases focus on speed and stability across the platform (iRecruit, LMS and HR), smoother mobile experiences (HR and Onboarding), and a more accurate, transparent AI Assistant  – making everyday tasks faster and more reliable for everyone using Ciphr.