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# What's new in 25.1

The following new features and enhancements are now available in 25.1.

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## What's New video

Learn about some of the new features included in 25.1.

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## Aviator

Available for: SaaS only

Aviator is an AI-powered virtual assistant that helps boost your productivity. You can use Aviator to suggest tests for requirements and create manual tests based on the suggestions.

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## Web Client updates

The following updates are added in Web Client modules.

Dashboard

The Dashboard module in Web Client is now equipped with comprehensive functionality, including creating, editing, and organizing dashboards.

For details, see Create and manage dashboards.

Test Plan

What's New | Details
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Support test parameters | You can add parameters to your manual tests and run the same test repeatedly with different data, increasing the flexibility and efficiency of your testing. For details, see Test parameters.
Bulk update manual tests | You can update a specific field for multiple manual tests at a time. For details, see Update a field for selected entities.

Requirement

When you click Go to Requirement in requirements grid view, the new Show in Tree option enables you to switch to details view and focus on the target requirement in the requirements tree.

For details, see Go to an entity.

Cross-module

What's New | Details
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Share entities | Share an entity by copying its URL or sending by email. For details, see Share entities.
Show both user names and full names for user fields | In addition to user names, user fields now also show full names, making it easier for you to identify and differentiate users.
Visual indicator for tabs that include items | If a tab includes items, it is indicated by a dot next to the tab name. This helps make your navigation more efficient. For example, if a test includes design steps, a dot is displayed in the Design Steps tab.
Display entity names in reference fields | For reference fields such as Subject, Source Test, and Test Set Folder, entity names instead of entity IDs are displayed for easier identification.
Navigate through a list of entities | From the details window of an entity, you can now quickly navigate to the previous, next, first, and last entity in the grid. For details, see Go to an entity.

Workflow customization

Web Client workflow customization includes the following updates.

What's New | Details
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Enhanced project scripts | With the new global TDConnection object, you can access almost all Web Client functionality in any event from any module, which expands the capacities of your project scripts. For details, see TDConnection object. More types of entities are customizable by writing project scripts, including test steps, test runs, releases, and cycles. For details, see Use project scripts.
Add custom toolbar buttons | You can initialize customized actions by creating a custom button. The button is added to the toolbar of a Web Client module or to the Manual Runner window. For details, see Add custom toolbar buttons.

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## Desktop Client updates

Desktop Client includes the following updates.

What's New | Details
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Export tests with design steps to Excel | You can now export tests, along with test design steps, to Excel. This helps increase the efficiency of test designing and enhance collaboration. For details, see Export tests with design steps.
Project reports enhancements | The following updates are included for project reports. Download project reports Download project reports as zip packages, which helps you share reports and view entity attachments offline. Control embedded image display size As site admin, you can use the new EMBEDDED_IMAGE_SIZE_RATIO parameter to control the display size of images from entity attachments. This parameter is applicable for PDF report outputs only. Reduce report size through image compression As site admin, you can use the new IMAGE_COMPRESSION_LEVEL parameter to control the compression level of images from entity attachments, which helps reduce report size and optimize storage usage. This parameter is applicable for Docx report outputs only. For details, see Project reports.
Show origin of each change in entity history | From an entity's History tab, you can view where each change was made. This feature is enabled when the new SHOW_CLIENT_SOURCE parameter is set to Y. For details, see Entity history.

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## Site Administration updates

Site Administration includes the following updates.

What's New | Description
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Restrict users to modify user properties | The new READ_ONLY_USER_PROPERTIES parameter is added. It enables you to restrict users from modifying certain user properties, such as full name and email. For details, see Set user properties.
Contract Expiration Date | Available for: SaaS only The Contract Expiration Date customer attribute is added to replace the previous License Expiration Date attribute, indicating when the SaaS service contract with a customer ends. When the contract ends, users of the customer are unable to access the system. For details, see View or edit customer attributes.
Admin report updates | The admin report now returns more data, including inactive users per project, the number of entities per project, and the size of various file types in project repository. For details, see Admin reports.

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## REST API

REST API includes the following updates.

What's New | Description
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REST API for purging versioning history of tests | New REST API is introduced to purge versioning history of tests by date or version. For details, see REST API Reference (Core).
Getting a specific project user can now include user's group names | User's group names can now be included when getting a project user's information by the username. For details, see REST API Reference (Core).

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## Auditing

Auditing includes the following updates.

- Changes to user properties, test folders, and test set folders are now logged.

- Using the AUDIT_LOG_LOCATION parameter, you can set some system audit logs to be added to the database table. You can also view these logs from Site Administration.

For details, see Auditing.

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## Performance enhancements

Performance is enhanced when using FTP client to browse entity attachments in the project repository. It now takes less time and reduces JVP heap usage.

This is applicable for both Window and Linux systems.

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## Deprecation

Support for JDK/JRE 8 and 11 has been discontinued.

For support matrix details, see Support Matrix.

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See also:

- What's new in earlier versions

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