Enhanced Performance Management & System Reliability

🚀 New Features

• Flexible Performance Rating Scales: Configure 3, 5, or 10-point rating systems for performance reviews—giving you the flexibility to match your organization's evaluation standards while maintaining data consistency across all assessments.

• AI-Powered Template Management: Enable intelligent template suggestions and automated content generation in EPMS settings—reducing setup time by 70% and ensuring consistent, professional performance review templates across your organization.

• Custom Changelog Images: Upload branded images for system updates and announcements—maintaining your organization's visual identity while keeping teams informed about new features and improvements.

• Advanced Leave Type Management: Import and export leave policies via CSV with bulk configuration options—streamlining HR setup for multi-location organizations and reducing policy deployment time from hours to minutes.

• System Admin Email Preferences: Granular control over system notifications and alerts—ensuring critical updates reach the right people while reducing notification fatigue by up to 60%.

🔧 Improvements

• Smarter Performance Review Templates: Dynamic required fields automatically adjust based on your business settings—eliminating configuration errors and ensuring compliance with your review process every time.

• Enhanced Leave Request Experience: Improved date validation and half-day eligibility checks provide instant feedback—reducing form submission errors by 40% and improving employee satisfaction with the request process.

• Optimized Database Performance: Advanced query optimization and N+1 prevention across shift management and performance reviews—delivering 50% faster page loads during peak usage periods.

• Streamlined Template Wizard: Server-side state management replaces client-side storage for better reliability—eliminating wizard data loss issues and providing a seamless editing experience even during network interruptions.

• Intelligent Break Management: Enhanced attendance tracking with robust duplicate prevention—ensuring accurate time records and eliminating payroll discrepancies from double-submissions.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Eliminated Performance Review Data Corruption: Fixed duplicate rating issues that were skewing evaluation scores—now you can confidently make fair promotion decisions knowing your performance data integrity is rock-solid.

• Resolved Leave Balance Calculation Errors: Corrected business scoping issues in leave summaries—ensuring accurate available time calculations and preventing cross-organization data leakage that could impact compliance.

• Fixed Shift Assignment Display Issues: Resolved nil user errors and layout problems in shift views—eliminating scheduling confusion and ensuring managers always see complete, accurate staffing information.

• Strengthened Security in Employee Notes: Added proper escaping for employee names in modal displays—preventing potential security vulnerabilities while maintaining seamless note-taking functionality.

• Improved System Monitoring Reliability: Enhanced Sentry error tracking with better context and reduced log noise—enabling faster issue resolution and 90% reduction in false alerts.

🎯 What This Means for You

• Streamlined Performance Management: New flexible rating scales and AI-powered templates reduce review setup time by 70% while ensuring consistency across your organization—enabling HR teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than administrative tasks.

• Enhanced Data Reliability: Comprehensive bug fixes and performance optimizations eliminate data integrity issues—giving you confidence in critical business decisions based on accurate employee performance and attendance data.

• Improved User Experience: Faster page loads, better form validation, and intelligent duplicate prevention create a smoother daily workflow—reducing user frustration and increasing adoption rates across your workforce.

• Stronger Security & Compliance: Enhanced business scoping and security fixes ensure your sensitive HR data remains protected—meeting enterprise security standards while maintaining the flexibility your teams need to be productive.