This release brings targeted improvements across Composer to make everyday content management smoother, more reliable, and easier to use. Updates span Forms, Location management, Messages, and overall platform stability, with several fixes that address real friction points reported by admins and end users.

This release improves the everyday reliability of Composer by reducing friction in common site management workflows across Forms, Pages, multilingual content, and search. The result is a more dependable experience for both the teams managing the site and the people using it. Several meaningful updates address longstanding issues in Forms and Pages, including expiration date limits and broken admin submission links. Search reliability is also improved with updated safeguards that help prevent search updates from getting stuck.  This release resolves translation issues with dynamic content in selected languages, fixes calendar grid rendering bugs during rapid navigation, and expands the expiration date range for new forms. Clients using Mobile Apps will benefit from refined location scoping features, improved parent data access controls, and minor user interface enhancements to the moderation and channel explorer tabs, culminating in a more reliable and polished day-to-day management experience.

This release focuses on making day-to-day publishing and content management more intuitive, transparent, and efficient.. The biggest enhancements focus on helping teams better understand and manage their content at scale. We’ve expanded the Where Used functionality into  Galleries, giving teams clear visibility into where gallery content is appearing across the site, so updates can be made with confidence. We’re also introducing File Format filtering in Resources, making it faster to find exactly what you need and take bulk actions more efficiently.
On the reliability side, we’ve cleaned up a few frustrating edge cases: all-day events now behave correctly on calendar grids (including imported events and timezone scenarios), new search rules can be saved consistently again, and we’ve removed a couple of “surprise” behaviors in Athletics Manager and the Constituent Directory element

This release introduces a new contact option for Staff Directories, along with a set of thoughtful updates that make Composer easier and more dependable to use every day. Schools now have more flexibility in how visitors reach staff members—offering a form-based option that helps protect contact details and reduce the risk of email exposure or spam.Alongside this new option, we’ve rolled out updates shaped by real-world usage to keep tasks running smoothly. This release makes page pickers and layout editing more reliable, improves stability for resource replacement and shared-element media, and reduces a few confusing UI moments in Locations and Site Search. We also cleaned up front-end formatting in Calendars and improved navigation in Posts. Overall, Composer should feel more consistent day to day—with fewer workarounds for admins. 

This release focuses on removing roadblocks that can slow teams down during day-to-day publishing and site maintenance. Calendar Self-Service Migration now offers clearer handling for the legacy Notes field so admins can move forward confidently—without guessing whether important data will be lost.We’ve also continued improving accessibility across Composer. Resource grids now support pagination in the new accessibility-first experience, and Forms have improved CAPTCHA accessibility so more users can successfully complete verification and submit forms using keyboard and assistive technologies.

Happy New Year ! With the new year comes easier ways to manage Shared Elements. The new “Where Used” view gives you instant visibility into every page that references an element—making audits, updates, and cleanup faster and more confident. Plus, Calendar exports are here. Download events to a spreadsheet so you can quickly review, refresh and adjust them for the upcoming school year before importing them back into Calendar Manager. 

With the school year wrapping up, we've been busy, just like you! This month's update brings a fresh new payment flow, Automated Communication Plans for your newest leads, and address autofill in the Parent Portal — plus extended reach for our External API and a more complete view of school emails in Recent Activity. And as always, we've been quietly squashing bugs in the background to keep things running smoothly across billing, lottery, calendars, and forms.

Recent updates to our Enrollment Management System (EMS) include supporting individual financial awards via our Clarity integration, a more intuitive parent experience in Finalsite Explore, updates to our payment flow look & feel, and enhanced security protocols.

In the past month, we focused on expanding our Niche integration for better data attribution, simplifying family financial management, and optimizing the direct enrollment experience for our public schools. We have also introduced a more robust embedding system for inquiry forms and enhanced administrative visibility across the platform.

This month’s updates to the Enrollment Management System (EMS) focus on streamlining the administrative login experience, strengthening data security, and fixing critical bugs to unblock administrative work during the busy admissions & enrollment season. 

Security and Privacy are the name of the game for Finalsite Enrollment in early 2026! We’ve improved how tracking codes are added to specific pages and updated our Lockout Policy. When it comes to privacy, we’re rolling out an update to comply with data laws in Kentucky and Oklahoma, requiring parents to have full visibility of all school communications sent directly to their children - now any parent or guardian can view emails and text messages sent to their students within the Parent Portal. 

Happy New Year! This month, we’re unveiling an integration with Clarity. If you use Clarity for Financial Aid management, you can turn on the integration and have the final awards synced into Finalsite Enrollment automatically. The integration will also send key data over to Clarity for better reporting/visibility on what percentage of your student population applied for and received aid. Additionally, we’ve now added Weglot for multi-language support in Finalsite Explore!

This release brings improvements to automated messages, drafts, dashboards, and search, along with multiple fixes that make sending and tracking messages more reliable.