Benchling Validated Cloud Maintenance Releases
2025.4.2 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Notebook | Fixed issue where if a user rejects a review with a team stage (but not the specific team stage), then an admin deletes the team associated with that stage, navigating to the entry would result in an error message and the entry would be blocked from further review. | Medium |
| Platform | Fixed issue where the creation and deletion of structured table columns did not trigger an audit event. These audit events were intended to be released as part of the 2025.4 upgrade. | High |
| Platform |
Fixed issue where barcode scanner inputs were dropping the leading character when scanning with the target table cell out of view |
Medium |
| Platform |
Fixed issue where users were unable to create a new entry or export into an existing entry from a Deep Research query output. Only customers using the Deep Research AI Agent are impacted. |
Medium |
Release Timing
- Validated Cloud Preview release: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 under change control CC-000215
- Validated Cloud Production release: Friday, January 16th, 2026 (as part of the quarterly Production upgrade) under change control CC-000216
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No associated downtime with this patch.
2025.4.1 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Platform | Fixed an issue where display precision was not applied until submission of a structured table | High |
| Platform |
Fixed issues where the following features were not enabled in Preview environments:
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Medium |
Release Timing
- Validated Cloud Preview release: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 under change control CC-000212
- Validated Cloud Production release: Friday, January 16th, 2026 (as part of the quarterly Production upgrade) under change control CC-000216
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No associated downtime with this patch.
2025.3.5 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
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Platform |
Fixed an issue where comments added to intermediate review stages were not captured in the audit log. Customers using Entry reviews are potentially impacted. Note: Review stage comments are working as expected outside of the audit log, and visible in the Entry review tab and Entry exports. |
High |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 under change control CC-000208.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 under change control CC-000209.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.3.4 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
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Benchling Connect (Mabtech Apex Connector) |
Fixed an issue where the Mabtech Apex Connector was unable to parse Apex output files with different primary sheet names. Only customers utilizing the Mabtech Apex Connector are expected to be impacted. |
Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 under Product Change Request CC-000204.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 under Product Change Request CC-000205.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.3.3 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
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Benchling Connect (Qubit Flex Connector) |
Fixed issue where the Qubit Flex Connector was unable to parse Qubit Flex output files containing an extra header line. Only customers utilizing the Qubit Flex Connector are expected to be impacted. |
Medium |
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Inventory |
Fixed issue where Location History reports were unable to be exported for certain Locations. Only customers whose Locations were bulk created by Benchling prior to the 2024.2 release are expected to be impacted. |
Medium |
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Notebook |
Fixed an issue where users were unable to view mp4 files attached to Notebook Entries. Only customers attempting to preview mp4 files in Notebook entries are expected to be impacted. |
Medium |
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Platform |
Fixed an issue where Creating or Updating a Team would result in overwriting of Fieldset permissions. Users would still require admin permissions to the Registry in order to make edits to Fieldsets. Only customers who have checked the Schema Permissions box under Team settings in an organization where Fieldsets are used are expected to be impacted. |
High |
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Platform (Configuration Migration) |
Fixed an issue where the configuration migration of multiple analysis templates may error due to timeout. Only customers attempting to migrate large analysis templates using the configuration migration tool are expected to be impacted. |
Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 under Product Change Request CD-000199.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 under Product Change Request CD-000203.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.3.2 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Bioprocess | Fixed an issue where users could not process run output files in parallel execution worksheets when the run was configured to record results but did not contain a condition-replicate column. Users can now process runs without condition-replicate columns in parallel execution worksheets. To record condition-replicate results, users must manually add a condition-replicate column in the run schema. Only customers that process Benchling Connect runs in parallel execution worksheets are expected to be impacted. | Medium |
| Analysis | Fixed an issue where users were unable to create Analyses from worksheets when a matrix plate with schema fields was included in the worksheet. Only customers that use matrix plates in worksheets sent to Analyses are expected to be impacted. | Medium |
| Notebook | Fixed an issue where well roles and labels from Plate Designs were not applied to existing Plates filled from Plate Designs. Only customers attempting to apply Plate Designs to existing plates are expected to be impacted. | Medium |
| Notebook | Fixed an issue where navigating to the metadata tab of a published Entry Template could unintentionally create a draft of that template. This issue will only be observed one time per template if it occurs and will not impact the publishing status or contents of the existing published template. | Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 under Product Change Request CD-000192.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, October 3rd, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.3.1 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Analysis | Fixed an issue where incorrect regression charts could appear in Analysis and Entries if multiple regressions were initiated simultaneously. Only customers who use Advanced Analysis may be impacted by this bug. | Medium |
| Platform (Configuration Migration) | Fixed issue where Request templates were unable to be migrated via the Configuration Migration tool. This bug impacts customers who are leveraging Requests, together with the configuration migration tool. | Medium |
| Platform (Configuration Migration) |
Fixed an issue where superseded versions of Recipes, which previously had invalid configurations, would prevent the current version of Recipe Template from being migrated using the Configuration Migration tool. Previously, if a recipe template with an error (e.g. invalid configuration on a superseded version of Recipe Template) was migrated, the migration would fail. Now, the config migration export is allowed to proceed, and the migration summary will display relevant errors (e.g. “the parameter table depends on a parameter that is missing”). Users will still not be able to create a recipe run from a recipe template that has errors. This bug impacts customers who are using recipe templates, together with the configuration migration tool. |
Medium |
| Platform (Configuration Migration) | Fixed an issue where the Configuration Migration difference report incorrectly included objects that were not updated during the migration. Benchling confirmed that all extraneous objects listed in the difference report were not actually updated with the migration. This bug impacts customers who are using the difference report within the configuration migration tool. | High |
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Platform |
Fixed additional issues where tenant admins could encounter a timeout error when assigning schema permissions to Teams within the Tenant Admin console. This is a follow up to the patch in 2025.2.3, in an effort to handle continuously higher throughput and volume in the the tenant admin console screen. This timeout limitation impacts customers with a high number of users and schemas on their tenants. | Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, September 10th, 2025 under Product Change Request CD-000184.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, October 3rd, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.2.4.1 Hotfix Release
| Application | Hotfix Description | GxP Risk |
| Developer Platform |
Fixed an issue where integrations were unable to receive webhooks |
High |
Release Timing
- This hotfix was released to your Validated Cloud Preview and Production environments on Sunday, August 3rd, 2025.
- This hotfix was released to your Preview environment as 2025.2.4.1 and Production environment as 2025.2.3.1.
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There will be no associated downtime with this hotfix.
2025.2.4 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Analysis | Fixed issue where users were unable to add Transforms to tables created by multiple joins | Medium |
| Benchling Connect (Luminex xPONENT Connector) | Fixed issue where file columns containing only “NaN” values were not processed by the Luminex xPONENT Connector. Previously, Benchling was dropping columns that contained only “NaN” values from the processed file (i.e. columns were excluded from processed output files). | Medium |
| Notebook | Fixed issue where selected dropdown options within structured tables may be truncated in entry exports | High |
| Platform | Fixed issue where the export of large Analysis Templates would cause timeout errors during configuration migration | Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, July 30th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, August 6th, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.2.3 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Analysis | Fixed an issue where Analysis Templates with variable tables would fail to be applied if one of the tables has pre-existing views | Medium |
| Analysis | Fixed an issue where Analysis Templates containing static tables migrated with the configuration migration tool would not be able to be applied 90 days after migration; no tenants are currently experiencing this bug and this is a proactive fix | High |
| Benchling Connect (MSD Methodical Mind Connector) | Fixed an issue where the MSD Methodical Mind Connector did not parse all rows from 384 well plate data files | Medium |
| Core Platform | Fixed an issue where tenant admins could encounter a timeout error when assigning schema permissions to Teams within the Tenant Admin console | Medium |
| Notebook | Structured Table and Notebook audit logs will now display an audit event for deletion of submitted rows | High |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, July 9th, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.2.2 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Analysis | Fixed issue where the Developer Platform endpoint for Dataset object returned the system name for column headers instead of display name when using the parquet file format | Medium |
| Analysis | Fixed issue where large Analysis templates may not successfully apply to an Analysis | Medium |
| Analysis | Fixed issue where users were unable to replace an Analysis table with csv files with column names beginning with an underscore or number | Medium |
| Benchling Connect (Platform) | Fixed issue where locally renamed or updated files did not result in a new File being created in Benchling | Medium |
| Benchling Connect (Platform) | Fixed issue where users were unable to configure S3 Instrument Gateways | Medium |
| Bioprocess | Fixed issue where users were unable to send Worksheet Datasets to Analysis | Medium |
| Core Platform | Fixed issue where large number of objects may result in the Configuration Migration Tool erroring out | Medium |
| Core Platform | Fixed issue where tenant admins were unable to use the Configuration Migration Tool to migrate Request templates between tenants | Medium |
| Insights | Fixed issue where the use of the dynamic pivot function would cause a dashboard to return a syntax error | Medium |
| Registry |
Fixed issue where spreadsheet (csv, raw text) import was not respecting the user's locale and instead using the en-US locale for dates/datetimes/decimal fields if the locale was never reconfirmed within the import modal prior to processing |
High |
| Schemas |
When a unit within the Unit dictionary is archived, Benchling system archives any schema fields that use the now-archived unit. Previously, this archival of the schema field was not captured in the audit log. This fix addresses this by adding this missing audit event to the schema audit log. |
High |
| Schemas | Fixed issue where the update of the checkbox to use Registry ID as display label within Entity schemas did not trigger an audit event | High |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, June 4th, 2025.
- This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, June 13th, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.2.1 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Analysis | Fixed an issue where the “equals” or “does not equal” filters on text-formatted columns in Analysis tables caused numeric string inputs (“7” or “-7”) to be incorrectly interpreted as datetime values, potentially resulting in incorrect filtering | High |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025.
- This patch will be released to your Validated Cloud Production environment as part of the quarterly Production upgrade on Friday, June 13rd, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.1.6 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Notebook |
Fixed an issue where interacting with the column reorder button could cause formula ranges to shift incorrectly if the column contained cells with range-based formulas |
High |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Wednesday, May 7th, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.1.5 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Benchling Connect |
Fixed issue where the MSD Methodical Mind and MSD Discovery Workbench connections incorrectly combined well measurements into a single well when processing instrument files as well CSV format |
Medium |
| Benchling Connect | Fixed issue where MSD Methodical Mind and MSD Discovery Workbench instrument files containing leading or trailing whitespace in luminescence readings would fail to process in a Benchling Connect run | Medium |
| Inventory | Fixed issue where Locations were displayed as the Location's API IDs instead of Location's name within Chain of Custody reports if the Locations were created by an internal Benchling tool prior to the 2024.2 Validated Cloud release | Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Thursday, April 24th, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.1.4 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Benchling Connect |
Fixed issue where some Excel files could not be loaded due to incorrect parsing of Excel stylesheets |
Medium |
| Bioprocess | Fixed issue where structured tables within Recipes were renamed from an initial prefix of "1" to "2" upon execution of a Recipe resulting in potential cross reference formula errors | Medium |
| Notebook | Fixed issue where some resubmissions of data in custom columns of structured tables were not captured in table audit logs | High |
Security Fixes
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Application |
Fix Description |
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Notebook |
Proactively patched a security vulnerability associated with a third party dependency used for image processing |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Friday, April 4th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Friday, April 11th, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.1.3 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Analysis | Fixed issue where plate position datasets that were automatically generated by Analysis Templates did not include plate map confirmed parameter values | Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Tuesday, March 18th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Friday, March 21st, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.1.2 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Benchling Connect | Fixed issue where the TapeStation Connector was not outputting RINe and DIN fields | Medium |
| Notebook | Fixed issue where the review criteria warning message did not prevent a self-review configured review process from proceeding to approve a Notebook entry with review criteria configured | High |
| Platform | Fixed an issue where Notebook entry review stages were not recorded as electronically signed in the audit log until the action either completed or terminated the review process or changed the status of the Notebook entry | High |
| Platform | Fixed issue where feature flags MODBIO_ENABLE_CUSTOM_SYNTAXES and PROCEDURES_ENABLE_USE_PARAMETERS_IN_PLATES were not customer visible | Medium |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, March 12th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Friday, March 21st, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.
2025.1.1 Patch Release
| Application | Fix Description | GxP Risk |
| Analysis | Fixed issue where the median formula was not accurate for an even set of decimal values | High |
| Bioprocess | Fixed issue where material input table validation was failing for text type materials regardless if the material matched the expected schema type | Medium |
| Developer Platform | Fixed issue where events were not being sent to customer Eventbridge integrations | Low |
| Notebook | Fixed issue where a table is unable to be successfully validated, if the table had previously failed validation and the validation error was corrected | Medium |
| Notebook | Fixed issue where a structured table with a formula referencing another structured table is unable to be submitted when the referenced structured table is updated | High |
Release Timing
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Preview environment on Wednesday, February 26th, 2025.
- This patch was released to your Validated Cloud Production environment on Friday, March 21st, 2025.
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There will be no associated downtime with this patch.