Benchling Validated Cloud Maintenance Releases
2023.4.3 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Workflows |
Reverted the feature flag for Workflow Responsible Parties to its original intended default value of false for customers that previously did not request for this feature to be enabled |
Medium |
Platform |
Fixed issue where configuration migrations of entity linked schema fields specifying "custom entity" were migrated to the target tenant as "any entity" |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, January 31st, 2024.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.4.2 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where Benchling notification banners were unable to be posted on customer tenants. |
Medium |
Platform |
Fixed issue where concentration values were not reflected accurately in the container’s audit log following a container transfer via a Lab Automation run configured with a final concentration value column |
High |
Inventory |
Fixed issue where users are unable to create a new container by transferring contents from a restricted sourced container when the new container's sample owners and/or restricted sample users differ from the restricted source container |
Medium |
Platform |
Fixed issue where feature flag audit logs displayed API IDs instead of feature flag names |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, January 12th, 2024.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.4.1 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where the audit log of a Request may not export successfully if a sample group has been deleted from the Request |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, December 6th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, January 12th, 2024.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.3.5 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where Result schema field name modifications were not consistently being recorded in the audit log |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, October 25th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, November 1st, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.3.4 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where warehouse syncs could become delayed |
Low |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, October 11th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, October 18th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.3.3 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where the last row of a page in PDF exports of notebook entries may be split into the following page |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade starting on Friday, September 29th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.3.2 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where user's audit logs could not be configured to be exported in their timezone |
High |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where mixture prep tables could not be submitted |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, September 13th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade starting on Friday, September 29th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.2.3.2 Hotfix Release
Hotfix Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where mixture prep tables could not be submitted |
High |
Release Timing
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This hotfix was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Friday, September 1st, 2023
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There was no associated downtime with this hotfix
2023.3.1 Patch Release
Patch Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where PDF exports of audit logs would get cut off if the audit log contained a continuous unbroken text string |
High |
Platform |
Fixed issue where the last row of a page in PDF exports of audit logs could overlap onto the column header of the following page |
High |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where template collections were inconsistently ordered |
Low |
Inventory |
Fixed issue where a source's containers entire volume could not be used in an Inventory table to fill new containers |
High |
Inventory |
Restored original label printing behavior of timestamps where UTC timezone abbreviation is not printed |
Medium |
Inventory |
Fixed issue where the concentration units could not be set on the confirmation page of the transfer modal |
Medium |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, September 29th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.2.3.1 Hotfix Release
Hotfix Content
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where previously submitted Registration tables containing archived entities cannot be re-submitted |
High |
Release Timing
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This hotfix was released to your Validated Cloud Preview and Production environment on Friday, August 11th, 2023
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There was no associated downtime with this hotfix
2023.2.3 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Lab Auto |
Fixed issue where Lab Auto runs were erroring due to incorrect processing of text dropdown fields as numerical fields |
Medium |
Notebook |
Notebook font updated to "Proxima Nova" from "Gotham Narrow", which aligns the Notebook font to the rest of Benchling |
Low |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, June 21st, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, June 23rd, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
Application |
Enablement Fix |
Notebook |
Notebook application Live Edit will be enabled on Benchling Production environments in accordance with the 2023.2 Release Impact Assessment (RIA) |
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This change will not be applied to your Validated Cloud Preview environment as the feature was already enabled in Validated Cloud Preview environments on Friday, May 26th, 2023
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This change will be applied to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, June 28th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this change.
2023.2.2 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Chemistry |
Fixed issue where feature flag MODBIO_ENABLE_MONOMER_MANAGEMENT was not customer visible |
Medium |
Molecular Biology |
Fixed issue where default configuration of feature flag MOLBIO_MAFFT_VERSION was not set to MAFFT version 7.505 |
Low |
Developer Platform |
Fixed issue where Benchling Apps Canvases created prior to the Benchling 2023.2 update would not function properly |
Medium |
Molecular Biology |
Fixed issue where molecules could not be searched by chemical structure |
Low |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where text boxes were identified by API IDs instead of text box names in audit logs |
Medium |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, June 7th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, June 23rd, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.2.1 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where default configuration of feature flag ENABLE_TEAM_REVIEW_IN_ENTRY_REVIEW_PROCESSES was set to False. This feature flag will now default to True. |
Medium |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, May 24th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, June 23rd, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Notebook application Live Edit and Inventory application Sample Control Roles will be enabled on Benchling preview environments (all non-production tenants) in accordance with the 2023.2 Release Impact Assessment (RIA) |
Medium |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Friday, May 26th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Friday, June 23rd, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.1.5 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where PDF and Word documents were downloaded instead of previewed when selecting "Open Preview" |
Medium |
Security Fixes
Fix Description |
Proactively fixed a potential security vulnerability in SVG image processing which could have revealed the contents of local system files during processing. Local system files are limited to Benchling code, configuration and other operating system files and do not contain customer data. |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, May 10th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, May 17th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.1.4 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Registry |
Fixed issue where modifiedAt information of entities were not updated when entity schema fields were updated via a registration table after registration |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Friday, April 7th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.1.3 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where only a single audit event was captured when archiving multiple rows of a results table |
High |
Platform |
Fixed issue where archival of containers within an Inventory table in Update container modal was not captured in Inventory table audit logs |
High |
Notebook |
Addition of a Benchling support script to assist customers in bulk fixing of an issue where exponential numbers in structured tables were rounded up instead of preserved. Note that this fix was previously applied in 2022.4.4 and this patch will reapply the functionality. |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.1.2 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where users were unable to submit a structured table when an edit was made to datetime fields |
High |
Notebook |
Removed inactive audit log button from Lookup tables |
Low |
Notebook |
Fixed issue where incomplete exports of Notebook entries occur when there are structured tables containing more than 8 attachments |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, March 31st, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2023.1.1 Patch Release
Patch Contents
Application |
Fix Description |
GxP Risk |
Platform |
Fixed issue where schema field audit events were missing schema field API IDs or had the incorrect schema field API IDs associated |
High |
Release Timing
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023.
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This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, March 31st, 2023.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
Support
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