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# What's new in 25.1

The following new features and enhancements are introduced in the 25.1 release.

In this topic:

## Insights

The following enhancements are available for dashboards.

Area | What's new
--- | ---
Download attachments with document report | You can now choose to download item attachments along with the document report. This allows external users to access the attachments. For details, see Document reports.
Security Status dashboard template | A new Security Status dashboard template is available, with a collection of graphs and widgets showing security-related defects and vulnerabilities. For details, see Dashboard templates.

## Agile

The following Agile enhancement is available.

Area | What's new
--- | ---
Backlog items board view | The board view is now available for Backlog Items in the Backlog module. You can base the board columns on any single-selection field for easier planning and tracking. For details, see Board view.

## Quality

The following Quality enhancements are available.

Area | What's new
--- | ---
Gherkin 6 support | Gherkin scripts now support the Rule keyword. You can use it to group together several scenarios that belong to the same business rule. Support is also added for the Example keyword, which is interchangeable with Scenario. For details, see Create BDD specifications.
Linking tests | A many-to-many relation is now available for manual and automated tests, enabling a more accurate reflection of automation coverage and effort tracking. For details, see Link manual tests to automated tests.
Linking runs | You can now link existing defects to test runs from the grid view for all run subtypes. For details, see Plan and run manual tests, Analyze automated test run results, and Analyze test failures.

## Common functionality

The following enhancements are available.

Area | What's new
--- | ---
Move and copy across workspaces | You can now move or copy features to a different workspace in the same shared space, along with their child backlog items. For details, see Copy and move across workspaces. Note: A user must have the create permission in addition to the move permission to be able to move an item. For backward compatibility, an admin should change the value of the MOVE_CROSS_WS_USE_CREATE_PERMISSION parameter to false, so that only the move permission is required.
Grid search | Comments in items can now be included in grid searches. For details, see Search.
Filters | The following filter enhancements are available: A summary of advanced and quick filters is now displayed above the grid. The advanced filter is now available in document reports. The ability to filter by Release, Milestone, Sprint, and Team is now available in advanced and quick filters in the Team Backlog module. You can now also clear all quick filters with a single click. For details, see Filters.

## Integrations

The following integrations updates are available.

Integration | What's new
--- | ---
GitHub Actions | You can now trigger automated tests and pipelines on GitHub from OpenText Software Delivery Management. For details, see CI integrations.
SCM data | You can now inject SCM commits using the workspace context flow, instead of the pipeline context flow. For details, see Add SCM data.
API access | Added support for token introspection when using OAuth 2.0 authentication for API keys. For details, see Authentication.
Jenkins plugin | A new version of the Jenkins plugin is available. For details, see Jenkins integration.

## Administration

The following Administration enhancements are available.

Area | What's new
--- | ---
Send emails to external addresses | You can now send an item through the system to recipients who are not members of the workspace. The Send Email auto action in a release process can also send to external addresses. For details, see Collaborate.
Baselines | Baseline versions can now be accessed from an item's History tab and from the activity log. For details, see Baselines, History and auditing, and Advanced admin tasks.
Recover manual tests from recycle bin | You can now restore manual tests and their associated runs from the recycle bin. This lets you recover a manual test and its runs if it was deleted accidentally. For details, see Advanced admin tasks.
Sidebar plugins | You can now add and use plugins in the details view, in addition to grids. You can also reorder the tabs in the sidebar as needed. For details, see Sidebar plugins.
Business rules | The following enhancements are available for reference fields: Using the modify lookup list business rule, you can now filter the available values of reference fields, such as Release and Team, based on the item's attributes. Set business rules to show or hide fields in entity forms, based on conditions. For details, see Design business rules.
Dynamic labels | Dynamic labels are now available for the Epic, User Story, and Quality Story entities. Dynamic labels let you set a custom label and color for entities of different categories. For details, see Dynamic labels.
Application Module custom field | Administrators can now create custom fields of the type Application Module. For details, see Fields.
Authentication hardening | Hardened authentication is now supported. Note: Additional hardening steps are required only when upgrading from a previous version. For details, see Hardening the authentication in the 25.1 upgrade guide.

## See also

- What's new - earlier versions
- Support Matrix
- Readme

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