2026 Release Four (4) Expere Engine and Tools Changelog

Expere Engine Release: 2026 Release Four (4)External release date is X 2026. Expere Engine build number is: 2026.4.X.XXXX.

Note: Users may notice that the 2026.4 Expere Engine release contains updates that reference the eOriginal SmartSign®+ solution. The Expere Engine is used to support both our Hosted and Self-Hosted ("On-Prem") customers, however, the updates made to support SmartSign®+ were implemented solely for our Hosted customers at this time but have Engine changes that Self-Hosted users will notice. See Changelog entries below for more information.
Expere: internal caching service updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 965139
Summary: We implemented improvements to our internal caching service to support better performance, scalability, and operational resiliency across the platform.
Expere: Logging Enhancements for Initials Fields
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 968250
Summary: System logging was added to capture and report documents that use certain initials field naming conventions. This enhancement aids troubleshooting efforts and helps identify document configurations that may require review or update.
Expere: Improved Accessibility Tagging for Tagged PDF Output
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 895419
Summary: Tagged PDF generation was enhanced to ensure checkbox images and related figure elements are tagged correctly for accessibility compliance.
Impact: Generated Tagged PDF documents now pass Adobe accessibility verification checks more reliably, helping organizations meet WCAG accessibility requirements and improving the usability of assistive technologies.
Expere Engine: Improved Support for CompliEditor Custom Content
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 968956
Summary: Transaction processing was enhanced for CompliEditor workflows to better preserve content requirements, ensuring custom content is generated correctly while maintaining existing behavior for other processing methods.
Expere: document generation with embedded PDFs behavior enhanced
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 972824
Summary: The Expere Engine was enhanced to address an issue that caused certain documents containing embedded PDFs to generate incorrectly when using the standard PDF output format. This update restores expected document generation behavior and ensures hyperlinks within embedded PDF content function correctly. Validation was also performed to confirm that TaggedPDF and other supported output formats continue to work as expected.
Monthly component updates
  • Type: Maintenance
  • Reference: PBI 973224, 969362, 970351, 969524, 969360, 967257, 967082, 916370, 966157, 964088, 962467, 962474
Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used with the Expere Engine for security issue and monthly component upgrades, we have upgraded the following:
  • Security Issue Upgrades:
    • Bouncy Castle
    • System.Security.Cryptography.Xml
    • jackson-core
  • Maintenance Upgrades:
    • WildFly
  • Additional upgrades based on scans: source code was scanned to locate and resolve additional security vulnerabilities and quality defects for the following:
    • DGS
    • Document Service
    • EZTransform2
Note: No user action is required.
EZTransform: Monthly component updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 968056, 966741, 966648, 970353, 971131
Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used by EZ Transform for security issues and component upgrades, we have made the following security and maintenance updates:
  • Security Issue Upgrades:
    • Netty Project
    • Netty/Codec/Http3
    • jackson-databind
    • jackson-core
  • Maintenance Upgrades: NA
EZTransform: .NET 10 upgrade
  • Type: Maintenance
  • Reference: PBI 965569
Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used by EZTransform for security issues and component upgrades, EZTransform has been updated to use .NET 10.